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Head Coach Bob Lynch
Give to Golf
Atlantic 10 Golf
Andrew Jaskel
Bensalem, Pa.
Second amongst returning golfers in scoring average at 80.3 strokes per round...Won the Philadelphia Junior Tour - College Series event at Medford Village Country Club this past summer.
2010-11: One of just three Hawks to compete in all 12 events...Finished fourth on the team in scoring average (80.3 strokes-per-round)...Posted a career-best and finished tied for the top performance on the team with a tie for 12th place at the Navy Fall Invitational (72-74/146)...Placed 51st at Atlantic 10 Championships...Competed in a career-best 28 rounds.
2009-10: Tied for 52nd at the Atlantic 10 Championships (84-84-79/250)...Finished 66th at the Georgetown Hoya Invitational... Averaged 81.9 strokes-per-round over a then career-best 20 rounds...Competed in eight tournaments.
2008-09: Tied for 70th at Old Dominion/Seascape Invitational...Tied for 45th place at the Navy Spring Invitational...Shot a season-best 77 in the opening round of the event.
High School/Personal: Won the 2007 Junior Kerwin Cup championship...Played in both the 2008 U.S. Open Local Qualifier and the 2008 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship...Born January 8, 1990...Majoring in business.
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The World of Whisky 15th April 2016
Life in a rural village in the West Highlands rightly has the community at its heart and this involves all the individuals, groups and clubs that work to make the community what it is.
A couple of weeks back, a number of us had a fun evening with some great craic during the dinner for the Taynuilt Highland Games. For the last few years, I have enjoyed being on the committee that organise our Games and – alarmingly perhaps – I now appear to be the current Chairman !
Some of those on the committee worked on ideas for the evening’s format and the outcome was a great success. We approached two lovely friends to help put the event together ; firstly Clare Gilbert who produced a wonderful menu all beautifully presented on the night and secondly Deirdre Henderson who came up with a carefully selected list of single malt whisky options to go with the different courses of meal. I am not a regular when it comes to taking a dram and only have a vague notion of some of those “powerful peaty Islay malts”. Well, I am happy to report that I learned quite a bit from the whole experience and those others at the dinner who were also not die-hard whisky drinkers all had at least a sniff if not a taste or two of the different malts.
I think that in rounding this off, the best I can do is to layout the menu for you to feast your eyes on and to get your taste-buds going so please enjoy……
Smoked Trout & Lime Roulade
OBAN LITTLE BAY (Flavour led) West Highland Single Malt
Goats Cheese with Caramelised Apple & Walnuts / Puy Lentil & Bacon Soup
CAOL ILA 12 yr old Islay Single Malt
MIXED BERRY SORBET
DALWHINNIE D.E. secondary maturation in Oloroso Cask (Chilled)
Lamb Shank (slow cooked) with Lemon & Thyme / Baked Cod with Citrus Herb Crust
CRAGGANMORE 12 yr old Speyside Single Malt
Rich Dark Chocolate Mousse served with Crushed Roasted Coffee Beans
LAGAVULIN D.E. secondary maturation in Pedro Ximenez Sherry Cask
I HOPE THAT HAS WHETTED YOUR APPETITES TO TRY ANOTHER MALT OR TWO NEXT TIME IT’S OFFERED.
PERSONALLY, THE LAGAVULIN AFTER A MOUTHFUL OF THE MOUSSE WAS A REVELATION !
Hope Springeth Eternal 17th March 2016
In recent days, the view across Loch Etive to the peaks of Ben Cruachan, Ben Starav and others has looked truly wonderful. There IS always hope and Spring is really showing signs of really taking hold. Almost got a bit too hot tackling the brambles and burning all the ivy I pulled off the garden wall yesterday – well we’re not used to it here in the West Highlands !
As Spring arrives it traditionally heralds the start of the touring season; and I was out on the road looking after a guest who takes a regular short cruise at this time of year on the Hebridean Princess. I dusted off the ‘chauffeur’s cap’ and visited the car wash and was all set.
I have worked with the Hebridean Princess for several years and look forward to continuing that relationship. Like the Princess, The Royal Scotsman has a parallel reputation for being a wonderful way to travel. I have always loved train travel so it was exciting news that the restoration of the Flying Scotsman was complete and this world famous steam locomotive would be running a series of trips up the East coast mainline between London’s King Cross station north to York and also right up to Edinburgh. Suffice to say that there are so many folk out there who are hugely nostalgic about it that almost all the advertised trips were quickly fully booked !
If you are planning a visit to Scotland this year, whether or not a cruise or a romantic rail journey is on your wish list, I shall be delighted to help you plan it.
Happy New Year 4th January 2016
After the festive gatherings of family and friends, many of the normal routines are being resumed and in a couple of days the tinsel and other decorations will be packed away for another year. Some of you may be engaging in one more celebration, burning your Christmas trees on 12th Night – I gather they’re quite keen on this in the Philippines. There are a whole variety of traditions associated with this time of year, some that have been around for centuries and some more recent. (And personally, I hope the daft retail behaviour associated with ‘Black Friday’ will NOT become a fixed event in our calendar !). I have always been a sucker for carols and love the world famous traditional service of Nine Lessons & Carols broadcast every year from Kings College in Cambridge.
Here in Scotland it is Hogmanay, the celebrations associated with the turn of the year, which we make the most of. The roots of this festival are a bit lost in the mists of time and of course have evolved but in large part it’s due to the influence of the Vikings who held sway in the North of Scotland, particularly in the Hebrides and the Shetland Islands, when they arrived in the 8th and 9th centuries. Our celebrations over the New Year are derived from their marking of the Winter Solstice or Yule. Christmas as a festival was not celebrated in Presbyterian Scotland and indeed was not recognised as a holiday until the late 1950s / early 1960s. However, now children in Scotland look forward to the arrival of Santa Claus as much as children from anywhere. Part and parcel of Hogmanay of course is the tradition of ‘ First-Footing ‘; in being the first visitor of the year to your neighbour you were to bring various gifts, including perhaps a silver coin to bless the household with prosperity and a lump of coal to put on the fire, not forgetting your whisky to share a dram. This is certainly still something you can witness, especially in rural Highland communities.
So, here’s to a healthy, prosperous and peaceful year in 2016 !
INDIAN SUMMER 29th September 2015
Well, now we are enjoying a wonderful spell of balmy, sunny days and clear, starry nights – making up for our disappointing summer. I have only a few tours left for this season, with a few months ahead, planning and reading in preparation for next year.
I had a lovely road trip yesterday, crossing part of the Trossachs via the ascents and descents of the Duke Pass and on to Loch Lomond before skirting round Glasgow and heading south-west through Ayrshire to an unusual destination in the shape of the Corsewall Lighthouse, perched on the edge of the Galloway coast, beyond Stranraer, looking towards Ireland.
On my return home to Argyll, the view below greeted me as the sun began to sink across Loch Etive. Not a bad spot to be able to call home……!
Highland Games – dates for your diary this summer 16th July 2015
The summer months see a succession of Highland Games staged throughout Scotland. These colourful festivals are a showcase for some very traditional events, which play an important role in the life of the Highlands and whose origins are rooted in the history of Clan folklore and culture.
The Games offer a unique opportunity to witness the skill of the dancers and ‘ heavies ‘ on the one hand or to hear piping of the highest order. These three aspects all of course share one thing in common from the earliest times; they are about demonstrating the prowess of the individual and indeed their Clan who was put forward by their Clan chief to compete against the champion dancers, pipers and athletes of a rival, neighbouring clan.
The ‘Heavies’ – the strong men of the games who participate in the field athletics – certainly draw the crowds, keen to watch those ready to compete in the ‘prize event’ of Tossing the Caber (a length of larch measuring just over 19 ft and weighing some 175 lb) !
The dancing and piping also evolved as a strong part of the traditional life in the Highland Regiments. The Marching tunes being an obvious example, a rallying cry leading men off to battle. At one time teams of dancers from many Highland Regiments were regular competitors at the major Games but this particular tradition is no longer a core part of regimental training and nowadays the ladies have firmly taken over in the dancing events. The athletic precision of those dancing the Sword Dance, for instance, is remarkable.
Of course most of the Highland Games offer plenty of opportunity for amateurs and visitors of all ages to have a go at running a race or competing in a variety of novelty events…… entering a team for the tug-of-war perhaps ?
Dates for your diary :
TAYNUILT HIGHLAND GAMES SAT 18TH JULY
INVERARAY HIGHLAND GAMES TUES 21ST JULY
LOCHEARNHEAD HIGHLAND GAMES SAT 25TH JULY
MULL HIGHLAND GAMES THURS 23RD JULY
ISLE OF SKYE WED 5TH AUGUST
PERTH HIGHLAND GAMES SUN 9TH AUGUST
THE ARGYLLSHIRE GATHERING (OBAN) THURS 27TH AUGUST
And rounding off the whole season is the famous Braemar Gathering, usually on the first Saturday in September, which since the Victorian period has always seen members of the Royal Family in attendance, toward the end of their summer break in residence at Balmoral on Royal Deeside.
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Kangaroos are one of Australia's major tourist attractions and are marsupials. There are around 50 species of kangaroos; Mentioned here are some of the species: Grey Kangaroo, Red Kangaroo, Wallaroo, Parma Wallaby, Whiptail Wallaby, Brush-Tailed Rock Wallaby, Red-Necked Pademelon, Quokka, Tree Kangaroo, Eastern Grey Kangaroo, Western Grey Kangaroo, and the Musky Rat Kangaroo.
The smallest kangaroo is the Musky Rat Kangaroo weighing 0.5kg, the largest is the Red Kangaroo weighing up to an average of 90kg. The males of the larger species are bigger than the females. Kangaroos mainly eat grasses, low-growing plants and shoots of bushes, can live up to 20 years in the wild and 28 years in captivity.
The Red Kangaroo can jump up to 12.8 metres. Some species of kangaroos are threatened by extinction. The Grey Kangaroos can travel at around 50kph in jumps of up to 4m. The young are called joeys. Kangaroos have powerful hind legs and a strong tail which helps to keep their balance when moving and is also used as a prop when kicking with their hind legs.
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“isunray” makes storyteller pop using real and synthetic instruments, incorporating electronic atmospheres & delicious jazzy textures.
Jay Hay AKA isunray is from Wellington, New Zealand. After years working the pub and club circuit Jay learnt a simple truth, that playing other peoples songs wasn’t anywhere near as satisfying as writing his own. “I’d always thought of myself as a player who wrote a bit, but I finally realised that most people who play music don’t write and I wanted to bring something new to the world. At heart I’m a writer who plays a bit.”
With the arrival of computer based recording at affordable prices Jay could finally put music together the way he heard it in his heart, and isunray was born.
With a Mac running Logic and Reason, Isunray was able to refine his own music then record, arrange, mix, produce and master it all.
Eventually the studio got bigger, but the idea always remains the same… “ Now I am a writer who plays a bit…” and make new music that resonates to the call of his heart.
isunray’s musical highlights include:
Two mini-albums:
“Balance” 2007 - written, arranged and produced by isunray
From “Balance” comes the piece “Icebergs Off The Coast” of which Future Music Magazine said “… a great sound and we look forward to more!.”
“Deliciously diverse, crossing a remarkable range of genres” - Groove Guide
“Balancing Act” 2014 - written by isunray and produced by Ron Thaler
“(isunray) can really have a strong effect and a strong impact internationally, the music is that good.” Ron Thaler – 3 time Grammy Awarded & 11-time #1 Billboard Music Producer & Multi-Instrumentalist.
#1 on InMusik “You Live For Your Jones” Global Music Chart from “Balancing Act”.
Recorded the vocals for Anita Prime’s “Complicated” a #3 US Billboard Hot Dance Play hit.
Remix highlights include:
“Run” by Stereospread - iTunes release 2015 “Oh wow!, this is incredible” - Stereospread.
“Can’t Do This Again” by Agency - featured on the legendary Rusty Egan’s synth pop show.
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Southern Cross Inc. has been a leader in utility field services since its founding in 1946. The aim of our company is to partner with natural gas, electric, water, and oil utilities to ensure mutual success with our partnerships. We offer a wide range of utility services, professional services and advanced technology solutions.
We at Southern Cross are proud to work with utilities across North America, and we would love to join your team. We provide the utility industry with many routine field services, including leak detection, AMI/AMR installation and maintenance, standard meter services, routine field services, pipeline integrity and related services.
Southern Cross manufactures the Flame Pack 400 Flame Ionization unit and the 46’ Hawk laser-based unit at our headquarters just outside of Atlanta, Georgia. We also sell and repair equipment across the gas industry offering our customers a wide range of solutions for their next gas service project.
We partner with our customers and employees to protect lives, property, and client infrastructure, while making projects wildly successful through our delivery of high-quality services. We add value to the process by integrating innovation and technology into everything we do while challenging the status quo.
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Rich Summers is the President and CEO leading all activities for Southern Cross, NAFS, Spear Group.
Sean’s experience with leading accounting and finance teams in previous positions makes him a natural fit to be the CFO of Southern Cross. Sean was CFO of an ENR 200 contracting and real estate development firm based in Atlanta, and an audit manager with Price Waterhouse in New York and Washington DC. Sean earned his MBA from the University of Chicago and his BSBA from Georgetown University. He is a Certified Public Accountant. Sean leads the accounting, finance, human resource, and contract management functions for Southern Cross and has been with the company since 2002. He is a member of the Board of Directors and functions as a strategic business partner to the senior leadership team.
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Frank is a seasoned and trusted executive with senior management experience at Nortel Networks, ThyssenKrupp and, most recently, at the private equity firm Madison Industries, where he was instrumental in driving effective strategic prioritization and operational execution. Frank is responsible for field operations, NAFS, manufacturing, engineering, training, and safety functions. Frank will be working with our broader teams to help us develop our strategic roadmap and rigorous operational processes that will take Southern Cross to the next level of profitable growth.
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Jody’s career path has taken him from Corporate Account Executive at YRC Freight (formerly Roadway Express) to the Southern Cross family. He spent 15 years with the national transportation company working in all aspects from operations to corporate sales, with a focus on the retail client vertical. Jody has now been with Southern Cross for 9 years, serving as a sales director and now Vice President of Business Development for sales and marketing. His experience allows him to work with all departments, internally and externally. Identify and secure new clients, as well as foster relationships with current clients.
He graduated from Appalachian State University with a BS in Public Relations and Marketing. He was a 4-year letterman playing Division 1 baseball at ASU as well as a short stint of professional baseball after college. Jody brings that same spirit of competition as we continue to grow in the industry, as well as a sense of teamwork across all departments within Southern Cross.
Southern Cross was founded shortly after World War II by James Chaisson, who volunteered for the Marines and fought in the Pacific theater, earning the Navy Cross, Bronze Star, and a Purple Heart for extraordinary heroism in the Battle of Sugar Loaf Hill on Okinawa. While navigating the south Pacific, the young Marine could always locate a constant point of reference in the sky — the Southern Cross Constellation.
Prior to the war, Chaisson had worked in the utility industry clearing rights of way for natural gas pipelines. He discovered it was possible to locate leaks by noting changes in the vegetation along the pipeline. When he returned after the war, Chaisson applied his careful observations to invent leak detection technology as a tool for pipeline safety. Chaisson named his company Southern Cross after the constellation he had relied upon in the South Pacific. We proudly retain the constellation logo in honor of our founder.
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Police Beat for Friday, July 12th, 2019
July 12, 2019 | by Toby Gullion
A 39-year-old Centralia woman has been arrested by Centralia Police for possession of methamphetamine and possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. Lashana Lyons of West Noleman was arrested during a traffic stop in which she was a passenger. Lyons was taken to the Marion County Jail.
Marion County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested 43-year-old Douglas Griggs of Wright Drive in Centralia for criminal trespass to a residence. He reportedly went to a home on South Madison in Kinmundy where he had earlier been told not to return and allegedly tried to start a fight.
29-year-old Eric Thompson of North Hickory in Centralia was arrested by Centralia Police for domestic battery.
Two others remained in custody on outstanding warrants. 26-year-old Marie Anderson-Hernandez of Centralia, who told Centralia Police she was homeless, was arrested for failure to appear in court on a possession of controlled substance charge. Bond is set at $5,000. 47-year-old Matthew Woods of South Maple in Centralia was arrested by Centralia Police on an outstanding traffic warrant.
Two others posted bond after being arrested on a driving on suspended license charge. 29-year-old Ali Malone of Chicago and 67-year-old Robert Julius of Kinmundy both posted $250 bond and were released.
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The Customer Edge
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Not all marketers are created equal
First published in AdNews
by Pippa Chambers
http://www.adnews.com.au/news/not-all-marketers-are-created-equal#0ZgcDs3DpomxdzxE.03
Not all marketers are created equal and that's something the Australian Marketing Institute (AMI) is on a mission to address.
After a rocky year or so when the business fell into red, its new chairman Andrew Thornton now tells AdNews that the AMI is back, stronger than ever, and is on a three step quest to ultimate success and sustainability.
Thornton, who has worked in marketing roles for more than two decades at the likes of Optus, AMP and St George before launching his own consultancy, is brimming with passion and enthusiasm for not only the AMI and its goals, but the expanding and rapidly shifting path the modern day marketer is moving along.
Thornton has an initial trio of core priorities; raising the profile of the AMI; building its member base and strengthening its financial health. He added the AMI is also keen to increase the recognition and the importance of the professional marketing benchmark, the ‘Certified Practising Marketer’ (CPM) qualification.
“The CPM qualification in the workplace is a differentiator for marketing professionals - it’s a bit like a CPA for the accountants as they have this view that not all accountants are created equal. Well, that should also apply in the marketing space,” Thornton said.
"Not all marketers are created equal."
He says the CPM shows you are a professional marketer, recognised by peers for extensive experience and formal qualifications. It also means you have made a commitment to ongoing professional development to maintain a competitive advantage.
"Our real priority is to continue to raise the profile and the status of the AMI as a big body for marketers in Australia,” Thornton says.
"There are some patchy misconceptions around the AMI so we need to make sure that we lift the awareness of what we stand for."
Thornton says there can be a low awareness among even some members, so it needs to strengthen and promote that.
"We do have a strategy and certainly raising the awareness is important so that is not just running ads, it’s also about increasing the engagement with the members.
"An interesting comment that was made through the research is that members wanted more exposure to the board and the leadership in the AMI. They wanted us to be more visible,” he says.
The lifeblood
The profile raising leads into its second priority which is to build its members.
"Members are the lifeblood of any professional body," he adds, saying to engage and have members there, it’s about the relevance, value proposition and understanding what the members value and how the AMI makes sure it's relevant.
Thornton also says the AMI is not in competition with any other organisations and that it's keen to co-work with others.
“At the end of the day the AMI is the only body that takes a holistic view of marketing,” Thornton says – adding that it actually makes sense for the AMI to have greater engagement with other industry bodies.
“We’re not about competing with those other more specialist streams within the market – we’re really about engaging and working with these bodies. In that sort of cooperative space not only should it strengthen those bodies but also strengthen the AMI. I think that is a really good point of differentiation for us.”
Due diligence and a catalyst for change
The AMI’s final goal is to strengthen and maintain the financial side of the business.
Thornton, who says he did all his due diligence before taking on the top spot, says the financial and governance issues have been ironed out by the recent and current board and it's taken great steps to strengthen its financial management processes.
"The really important thing is that as the current board and management, we’re absolutely focused on ensuring that this situation won’t happen again - we can’t afford to have it happen again,” Thornton says.
"Going through a period like that can do one or two things. It can destroy you or it could make you stronger and more focused. So for us, we’ve had the positive experiences - saying 'ok we’ve dealt with that we know we’re not going to go down that pathway again. In fact, crisis are often quite good as a catalyst for change.”
In February the AMI, which has more 6000 members, welcomed five new members to its board. Thornton’s chairman spot had been held by founder and CEO of TrinityP3 marketing management consultants, Darren Woolley, who was elected as chairman in January 2015.
At the time of the changes CEO Lee Tonitto, who joined as the AMI head in September 2014, admitted the AMI was “a massive turnaround story” following “everyone pulling together and a great team culture” plus a spate of new initiatives and tools. It had previously fallen into more than $300k of debt.
Tonitto also revealed it was also set undertake four quarterly pieces of research as well as launch new award categories for the Australian Marketing Institute Awards for Marketing Excellence
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Volunteer Roles and Responsibilities
The roles and responsibilities of the CASA volunteer are clearly communicated through written policies, job descriptions and training, and are reinforced through the supervisory process.
The CASA program maintains a current manual of volunteer policies and procedures.
Each volunteer receives a copy of the volunteer policies and procedures and provides signed acknowledgement of reading and understanding the policies.
The CASA program volunteer policies and procedures specify the role of the CASA volunteer, developed with the input and approval of the court (if not already determined by statute).
Written roles and responsibilities should include the following. The volunteer will:
Obtain first hand a clear understanding of the needs and situation of the child by reviewing all relevant documents and records and interviewing the child, parents, social workers, teachers and other persons to determine the facts and circumstances of the child’s situation.
Identify and advocate for the best interest of the child.
Seek cooperative solutions by acting as a facilitator among parties.
Provide at every hearing reports which include findings and recommendations.
Appear at all hearings to advocate for the child’s best interests and provide testimony when necessary.
Have regular and sufficient in-person contact with the child to ensure in-depth knowledge of the case and make fact-based recommendations to the court. The CASA volunteer shall meet in-person with the child once every thirty (30) days at a minimum. An exception may be granted at the discretion of program staff; however, the justification and reasons for a decision to permit less frequent in-person contact must be documented.
An exception may be granted in the discretion of the CASA program staff; however, the decision to permit a less frequent in person contact shall be documented as to the justification for and reasonableness of the exception.
Make recommendations for specific appropriate services for the child and, when appropriate, the child’s family.
Determine if a permanent plan has been created for the child.
Monitor implementation of service plans and court orders assuring that court-ordered services are implemented in a timely manner and that review hearings are held in accordance with the law.
Inform the court promptly of important developments in the case through appropriate means as determined by court rules or statute.
Advocate for the child’s best interests in the community by interfacing with mental health, educational and other community systems to assure that the child’s needs in these areas are met.
Participate in all scheduled case conferences with supervisory staff.
Participate in in-service training.
Maintain complete records about the case, including appointments, interviews and information gathered about the child and the child’s life circumstances.
Return case files to the program after the case is closed
6. A volunteer will not be assigned more than two cases at a time. An exception may be granted in the discretion of the CASA program staff; however, the decision to permit a higher caseload shall be documented as to the justification for and reasonableness of the exception. Under the exception, a volunteer will not be assigned to more than five cases.
7. The CASA program’s volunteer policies and procedures include but are not limited to the following:
a. The CASA volunteer reports any incident of child abuse or neglect, or any situation in which the CASA volunteer has reason to believe that a child is in imminent danger to the CASA supervisor and appropriate authorities, following state legal requirements for mandated reporting.
b. The CASA volunteer does not engage in the following activities:
Taking a child to the volunteer’s home or any home other than the child’s.
Giving legal advice or therapeutic counseling.
Making placement arrangements for the child.
Giving money or expensive gifts to the child, the child’s family or caregiver.
c. The CASA volunteer discusses all recommendations concerning the case with the program supervisor prior to submitting recommendations to the court.
d. CASA program supervisors do not alter reports or recommendations without the knowledge and agreement of the CASA volunteer.
e. The CASA program has a clear policy to resolve conflicts between a volunteer and the program supervisor regarding the handling of a case, reporting of information or the recommendations to be included in a report to the court.
f. A CASA volunteer should not be related to any parties involved in the case or be employed in a position or with an agency that might result in a conflict of interest.
8. When the CASA program has made the decision to allow volunteers to provide transportation to children, it has the necessary liability insurance to cover the program. In addition it has policies and procedures which assure the CASA volunteer:
a. Has passed a motor vehicles division record check.
b. Provides annually to the program a copy of a valid current driver’s license, a safe driving record and adequate personal automobile insurance.
c. Obtains permission of the supervisor or director.
d. Obtains permission of the child’s legal guardian or custodial agency.
e. Is knowledgeable of the potential personal risk of liability.
f. Chooses to accept the responsibility.
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For Whom Does Bishop Tobin Speak?
Posted: Thursday, July 12, 2018 12:00 am
At a recent pro-abortion rally, the words “Bishop Tobin does not speak for Rhode Island” were projected onto the façade of the Rhode Island State House. Our diocesan shepherd, because of his consistent and untiring advocacy for the unborn, is seen as a threat by those who wish to ensure the legality of abortion in our state. As pro-abortion politicians continue to reel from Justice Kennedy’s retirement and the announcement of Judge Brett Kavanaugh as President Trump’s nominee to replace him, Rhode Island lawmakers are sounding alarm bells as well.
According to the Providence Journal, Rep. Edith Ajello and Sen. Gayle Goldin have vowed to reintroduce the Reproductive Health Care Act during the next legislative season, a bill that never ended up reaching the floor this past year. Governor Raimondo has even called for a special legislative session to consider how legislators might ensure the legality of abortion in Rhode Island should Roe v. Wade be overturned. Nothing seems more effective in our contemporary political climate than manufacturing a disaster and fomenting mania over hypotheticals. Pro-abortion activists have been doing that for decades, and have successfully distracted many from the real issue at hand, which is the intentional destruction of an innocent human life. We cannot allow hysteria to carry this moment, however.
While we continue to work and pray for an eventual solution to Roe v. Wade, we must take concrete steps at the local level to oppose whatever measures are introduced to advance abortion rights in our own state. We do well to follow Bishop Tobin’s lead in that regard. It is true that Bishop Tobin does not speak for all Rhode Islanders, but he speaks for the unborn who have no voice. He speaks for those whose voices will never be heard because their lives will be cut short under the insidious guise of so-called reproductive rights. Bishop Tobin, thank you for speaking so loudly for them and for lending your voice to their cause.
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The Royal Forums > Reigning Houses > British Royals > Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh
Queen Elizabeth II's 80th Birthday Celebrations: 2006
purple_platinum
Since the Queen will celebrate her 80th birthday this year, 2006, with several celebration events, i think this require a special thread to post all the news & pictures...
Buckingham Palace press releases
THE QUEEN'S 80TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS 2006
THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT IS ISSUED BY THE PRESS SECRETARY TO THE QUEEN
Buckingham Palace is planning a number of events to celebrate The Queen's 80th birthday in 2006, both around Her Majesty's actual birthday on 21 April and her official birthday on 17 June.
Events are being planned to take place at both Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle and will combine private family celebrations with more public occasions.
The Queen will spend her actual birthday, 21 April, at Windsor Castle as usual, and the official birthday will be marked by the annual Trooping the Colour on 17 June. Other events planned around these two dates will include:
80th birthday reception and lunch - London
On 19 April 2006, The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh will host a reception and lunch at Buckingham Palace for some of those people who will also be celebrating their 80th birthday on 21 April 2006.
The Prince of Wales will host a family dinner for The Queen on the evening of 21 April 2006.
Family Service of Thanksgiving - Windsor
On Sunday, 23 April 2006, Members of The Royal Family will attend a special Service of Thanksgiving at St George's Chapel, Windsor, to celebrate The Queen's 80th birthday.
National Service of Thanksgiving - London
On 15 June 2006, The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh will attend a National Service of Thanksgiving at St Paul's Cathedral followed by a Lunch given by the Lord Mayor and the Corporation of London.
Children's Garden Party - London
On 25 June 2006, The Queen will host a "birthday" Garden Party at Buckingham Palace for children from all over the UK.
Special travelling exhibition of works by Leonardo da Vinci
Ten of the Royal Collection's finest drawings by Leonardo da Vinci will travel to museums and galleries in Exeter, Aberdeen, Leeds and Cardiff in 2006 to mark The Queen's 80th birthday.
(source : royal.gov.uk )
mandyy
Location: , Canada
Stamps to mark Queen's 80th birthday
A set of stamps celebrating the Queen's life is to be issued to mark her 80th birthday.
The Isle of Man Post has produced a collection which includes photographs of the monarch as a child, on her Golden Jubilee tour and with grandson Prince William.
The first of four 20p stamps in the set of eight shows the young Princess Elizabeth pictured with her baby sister Princess Margaret alongside their father and mother, then the Duke and Duchess of York, in January 1931.
The other 20p stamps use photographs of her in her Auxiliary Territorial Service uniform at the wheel of a truck during the Second World War, in a tiara around the time of her accession in 1952, and with the Duke of Edinburgh and their four children in 1972.
The relaxed family portrait was taken by the Queen`s first cousin once removed, Lord Lichfield, who died in November..................
http://u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=68859&pt=n
Photos from ANP
A selection of the postage stamps issued by the Isle of Man in the United Kingdom to mark the 80th birthday anniversary of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on April 21st this year. The Isle of Man, situated in the Irish Sea between England and Ireland, has its own postal service separate from the Royal Mail. The stamps highlight memorable moments from the monarch's life.
Mahoogie
Just been wondering why the Queen has two birthdays,..can u tell me why?..and why is June 17 became her official birthday?...any significance of June 17 to her?
i would loveeee to have two b'dyas.....more is merrier :p
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I notice the Isle of Man's stamp issue bears the 'motto' "Eighty Years of Duty and Service". Anyone have any idea if the official 80th celebrations will have such a theme?
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I notice the Isle of Man's stamp issue bears the 'motto' "Eighty Years of Duty and Service".
I hear the slurping noises from here. Whoever came up with this claim counted the baby and toddler years as duty and service.
Location: -In some dark place-, Argentina
I have a quetion, why in the stamps it has a photo of the ''old'' family and not a photo with the ''new'' family. for example, the queen with her sons and grandchildren
Today the world has embraced new royal Princesses in the form of Mary of Denmark and Maxima of the Netherlands. But it's questionable whether even these hugely popular, increasingly glamorous future Queens will ever capture the world's imagination in the same way as Diana.
As Mario acknowledges: "She really was a true Princess".
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HMQueenElizabethII
Location: Ryde, Australia
Originally Posted by Mahoogie
As far as i know like the previous Monarchs, The Queen also has two birthdays, one is her actual birthday, and the other one is the Sovereign's Birthday which often helds on a certain second Saturday in June when the weather is good.
Thanks for this thread, purple_platinum, i'm sure how wonderful it will be with lots and lots of pics of Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Elizabeth II with her coming 80th birthday wish all the best wishes for her and her family.:)
"God save our Gracious Queen,
Long live our Noble Queen,
God save The Queen"
God save Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
ElisaR
Location: ., Italy
Nice stamps. :)
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
HRH Princess Elizabeth, Cape Town, 21st April 1947
GrandDuchess
Location: Somwhere, Sweden
Originally Posted by mandyy
The Isle of Man, situated in the Irish Sea between England and Ireland, has its own postal service separate from the Royal Mail. The stamps highlight memorable moments from the monarch's life.
Interesting, I didn't know this. Also today I learned something new! :)
Does anyone know anything about foreign guests yet? I know that it's too early to know much, but I was just wondering if it's known to which events foreign royals and dignitaries will come (or if at all)?
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Skydragon
Location: London and Highlands, United Kingdom
This link answers your question I think It all started with Edward VII, she seems to have different official birthdays in different countries.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/...000/367004.stm
Location: North Little Rock, United States
what about non-royals attend for HM Queen's 80th birthday include Norway,Belgium,Dutch,Denmark,etc if have lists for her 80th birthday?
but its nice stamps,mandy if you have more different stamps of her childhood till adult
i cant wait see HM Queen's birthday im really happy about it god bless HM Queen
Originally Posted by sara1981
Not any more information has been released yet,sara,but we hope that maybe at the National Thanksgiving Service for Her Majesty's birthday on 15th June, there will be some European Royals like at the Queen Mother's 100th birthday National thanksgiving Service in 2000, we saw King Constantine and Queen AM, The King and Queen of Belgium together with Grand Duke Jean and Grand Duchess Josephine-Charlotte.
I found out on Majesty magazine stores about HM Queen's 80th birthday books its so amazing of her life they're talking about her childhood till she become Queen,mother,grandmother.
http://shop.majestymagazine.com/imag...91abeba7ba.jpg
books is cost by $19.99 in USA if you in England residence would buy in UK price you can paid for that books and also in Canada residence you can buy that books also!
Royal Fan
Location: Monterey, United States
I Cant wait I Want that book lol :) Long Live the Queen !!!!!!!
Location: Newfoundland, Canada
Canada has issued a stamp for the Queen's 80th Birthday it came out couple weeks ago.
I found out on Majesty magazine stores about HM Queen's 80th birthday books
Thanks for information about the upcoming book from Majesty Magazine, sara.I'm sure it'd be really wonderful and must-read book.Hopefully there will be some more Videos and DVD about Her Majesty will be realeased this year as well.
Aussie Princess
Location: n/a, Australia
I love that there is a garden party for children, that sounds really cute. will a lot of members from other royal families be travelling to London for these dinners? 80 is a big deal, so I hope it's a huge, international family celebration!:)
Location: Somewhere in, United States
What a great stamp! I need to check out the list of events...it might be time for a trip to Great Britian!
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DOCUMENT: Revolting, Crime
Guilty Plea On Tap In Tainted Yogurt Case
Feds: Clerk put semen in sample given to woman
Yogurt Adulteration
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/yogurt-adulteration
SEPTEMBER 29--The New Mexico supermarket employee busted for giving a female shopper a yogurt sample tainted with his semen will plead guilty to federal charges stemming from the repulsive incident, according to court records.
Anthony Garcia, 32, is scheduled to appear next Thursday in U.S. District Court in Albuquerque for a change of plea hearing before a federal magistrate. In mid-July, Garcia was named in a two-count felony indictment charging him with adulterating food and lying to federal investigators.
Garcia, pictured in the above mug shot, pleaded not guilty to both counts at his July 15 arraignment. He is being held without bail, and faces a maximum of five years in prison on the false statements count and a maximum of three years for adulterating the yogurt. Garcia’s lawyer, John Van Butcher, declined to discuss details of his client’s plea agreement in advance of the October 6 court appearance.
As detailed in an Albuquerque Police Department report, the female victim, 29, told cops that she was shopping with her daughter at the Sunflower Farmers Market on January 25 when a “pushy” Garcia approached her offering the yogurt sample. After ingesting the yogurt, the woman immediately thought the sample tasted “gross and disgusting.” And, as police reported, she “said it tasted like ‘semen.’”
In a handwritten statement, the woman recalled, “I spit it out on the floor many times cuz I was upset.” She also recalled that a supermarket manager told her the sample "was a Greek yoghurt. People love it has lot of protein on it.”
Along with his criminal case, Garcia has been sued by three women, including the victim in the January incident, for allegedly providing them with semen-tainted food samples. Each of the personal injury complaints names Sunflower Markets, a 40-store chain, as a codefendant.
Earlier this month, the woman who originally reported the yogurt tainting to cops sued Garcia, Sunflower Markets, and the natural food firm’s founder, Michael Gilliland, in Santa Fe District Court. She is listed as “Jane Doe” in court records. (5 pages)
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Ramzan: criss-crossing of culture and friendships continue
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BY ADITI CHOWDHURY
I am always intensely thankful that the Assam we grew up in provided us with the rich legacy of a multi-faith tradition to live in. My childhood, spent in the tea town of Jorhat in Upper Assam, imbued me with an amazingly layered and textured upbringing. It is difficult to envisage that a small pocket in the backwaters of Assam could foster such an eclectic mixture of influences. But we were truly blessed to have grown up in an ambience where so many different strands of culture and ethnicity fused into a harmonious whole.
Jorhat has been the ancestral home for some of the oldest Muslim families of Assam. Our interactions with many of them had always been at a very close personal level. Eid was as much awaited for with great expectations as was Magh Bihu. Maybe because both these festivals were specially geared to please our gastronomical appetites!
My father’s best friend and business partner was a Muslim and I remember the happy times during Eid, when we were invited formally to their house. We were always awe struck by the lavish spread laid out perfectly on the table. It was at their place that I made my first acquaintance with exotic dishes like Hyderabadi Biryani, Nargis Kofta, Haleem and Roganjosh. To my inexperienced eyes, their house seemed to epitomise the highest standards of gracious living.
What strikes me so markedly in retrospect is the fact that in all those cherished memories of the past, we never felt any reverberations about our religious beliefs. The fabric of our lives then, was woven, not with threads of discrimination or differences, but with common cultural affinities and mutual respect and love. More premium was attached to being an Assamese rather than being a Hindu or a Muslim. Our religions and our ethnicity were wonderfully enmeshed. Faith was definitely an integral part of life, as familiar perhaps as our skins. But nobody wore religion overtly on their sleeves. Festivals from both religions were times for celebration, often together. Times for simple pleasures like buying new clothes and gorging on glorious food. In every sphere of community life, there was a gentle coalescence, a caring and sharing.
I remember my mother’s close association with the three extremely accomplished ‘Islam Aunties’ as we called them — Razia, Shireen and Meena. All of them made Jorhat their temporary home when their husbands served a stint of their government service there. The celebration of Eid in those three households was an experience never to be forgotten. My mother was no mean cook herself, but I remember her waxing eloquent about how these ladies honed their craft to perfection. My father’s favourite way to needle my mother was to say that the meat he ate on Eid day or any other day in his Muslim friends’ houses, could never be replicated in look, taste and flavour in our house.
There were other lasting ways in which I benefited from my father’s many Muslim friends. In fact, my initiation into the world of Ghalib, ghazals and even Rumi started in those fun filled evenings spent in my father’s friends’ houses in Jorhat where Iftar was followed by the strains of music.
This criss-crossing of culture and friendships continued even after I got married. My father-in-law had close Muslim friends and my husband grew up with so many of them. The nuances of Ramzan and Eid continued to resonate in our lives. And the points of convergence have not diminished with passing years.
While I was still working, it had become a favourite pastime during the month of Ramzan to talk to a young colleague and friend of mine about how misleading interpretations about religion could very effectively colour our perceptions. I learnt so much from her about the true presentation of the Quran. She explained to me in depth about the significance of the fasting and feasting and also how many of the rituals were formulated to facilitate the nomadic lifestyles of the early Islamic believers. She opened my eyes to so many similarities and parallels between her holy text and our own Hindu texts. This realisation led me to believe firmly that the actual starting point of all great religions is the same — that God is one, merciful and compassionate.
Therefore, after tracing my own long association with the spiritual and aesthetic refinement of spirit that illuminates and energises the observation of Ramadan, I am happy when my daughter shows respect to the spirit of the faith she is surrounded by, cooking meals for Iftar for her friends and co workers in distant Sudan, even though her constant demand for recipes tires me out!
To the common Indian, life and beliefs continue to be the same as it was when we were young. Mistrust and doubts infest only a handful of minds. The ordinary Indian on the street will celebrate Eid with the same joyous gusto as we did during our childhood years. India has always had a mighty heart. So many disparate elements come together in this great country of ours and commingle effortlessly. In the holy month of Ramzan, 2016, let us shun discord and root for harmony and love. Ramzan Mubarak to all my friends.
Aditi Chowdhury retired as Associate Professor, Department of English, Handique Girl’s College, Guwahati.
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5.1 HF10 (2017 Sept MDOP Rollup)
10Version: Service Pack HotFix Date Server Seq Client WD Client RDS Notes
Sept, 2017
Multiple fixes.
Annoucement Article: Here
Changes include ( comments in Italics are my own):
Fix: "Duplicated handles are not managed correctly and cause the virtual application to crash." This is believed to be a client fix, affecting both the Windows Desktop and RDS Clients. I have no information on what application(s) may have been affected.
Fix: "The life cycle of the effective group registry entries are not maintained correctly." This also sounds like a client side fix, this time involving Connection Groups.,
But wait, there's more?
While these are the only changes identified by Microsoft, we do have new builds for the sequencer and the server. I am guessing that these are just automatic rebuilds at this point. In all likelihood nothing has changed except that it has been rebuilt. But we really don't know.
Sequencer: The sequencer is always released as a full installer, never with an updater. To install you should really start with a clean image (yes, it will work if you first uninstall the old sequencer, reboot, and then install the new. But you really shouldn't do that!). No changes in functionality or fixes have been detected in this build to date.
Server: The binary files for all three server components (management, publishing, and reporting) are updated. Some of the dependent components not written by the App-V team remain with their old dates. Database Schema version remains at 2 for the Management database and "5.1.85.0" for the Reporting database. No changes in functionality have been detected in this build to date.
This hotfix is a direct download of the components that you are interested in, including other MDOP components. No email required on this one!
Note: Windows 10 version 1607 and above, and Server 2016 and above, clients do not install these hotfixes as standalone installers any more. The fixes would be applied to, and delivered by, operating system updates delivered via normal channels (e.g. "Windows Update"). Microsoft tells us that fixes should generally appear first in the 10/2016 branches before releasing the 5.1 branch;
NOTE: App-V Hotfixes always include prior fixes on the same release. In other words, you only need to apply the 5.1 RTM plus the latest hotfix (5.1 HF9 in this case) and it includes other prior hotfices (5.1 HF1 through HF8 in this case).
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tv Fast Money Halftime Report CNBC October 19, 2015 12:00pm-1:01pm EDT
thing though. that must just be a handle. otherwise the wipeouts would be classic. >> bring it on set. ride around the trading floor. >> i'll do almost anything on tv. >> that does it for us here. dow's down about 12 points. let's get over to headquarters, sco scott wapner and the half. >> all right, welcome to the halftime show. pete here along with josh brown, joe terra nova and mr. steven weis. the markets reacting ton those softening china gdp numbers. some numbers from morgan stanley that were a miss. let's talk about that right now. josh brown, so what's your take? we got the softening china gdp numbers. market doesn't seem to be reacting to quite heavily. morgan stanley was a miss though. you also have some pretty good analyst notes out today that are moving some stocks around. >> i'll give you the sunny side of things.
market doesn't believe chinese gdp data one way or the other. actually if you take a look at the source of so much investor consternation, it's up 19% off its lows. let's take a look at u.s. morgan stanley down 5.5%. investors are not taking that negative quarter and extrapolating it any further into the rest. that's a good sign. one other positive sign, the nasdaq has record highs. stocks like google, facebook, amazon, within a couple percent of making record highs. these are leadership names. people are watching them starting to break above the 50 day. all positive developments today despite anything on the china front. which it's better to not talk about. because it's really not so great. >> how do you assess it? >> october is going to lend itself to being appreciative
overall. what i like today is names like amazon come back again once again. the bio tech names. they're coming back once again. you're seeing a little bit of pullback in energy. i think that's okay. i think that's healthy. u.s. dollar is strong. i think ultimately where this ends after october will be a challenge to unchange for the s&p 500. >> it's tough to disagree. >> that's why we all think this market is -- this rally, this three-week winning streak, whatever i said, is going to keep going. because you think we're going to -- you still think we're overvalued. you think we could retest. josh's sentiment has clearly changed to more positive from where he was. >> first, chinese numbers, i don't believe any of them either. but there's a benchmark. while they were bad, they weren't as bad as what expectations were. so that has been pretty well --
people know it, so there's no surprise there. where my concern lies is that we're going to get into the heart of earnings season now. and once we get there, we've got to see what companies are going to say about going forward. emerging markets have not been a great story. china's market rising, that's not indicative of their economy, how their economy bleeds into europe and other economies. now, the underlying european economy is actually five emerging markets. so the base case for me was that 40% of earnings in the s&p 500 come from emerging markets and outside the u.s. so i still think we're in trading range. unlikely we'll break out big to the upside. >> a reminder how tough the environment from a trading standpoint at least has been for the banks. there's some other issues there. a stock that people have loved for a while now. >> morgan stanley had a nice move to the upside into this. they're giving all of it right
back. when you look at the trading volumes, yes, that was a problem. i think people expected, i being one of them, would expect they do much better in that particular field. take a look at the airlines. take a look at the broader picture. the financials themselves continue to trade well. look at delta, over 50, at ten-month highs. you can look at different parts of the market. october 1st, we were 25. the next day, we break underneath the moving average. now we've broken under the 2 hushths-dthe 200 day moving average. they have to understand, with volatility, when we're trading in the 20s, that means a 1.5% move every single day. and if not, that volatility's going to come out. that's exactly what's happening. we're seeing less movement in the market. volatility is coming out very, very rapidly. that's the opportunity once again. there was an opportunity to buy stocks, sell that high premium. now it's an opportunity to buy
protection. >> i still wonder, guys what apple's lack of participation in this recent move says about where that stock is. a positive note today. he calls it the top pij. >> i'm sure he told you how great apple is. >> she's talking about this cycle of the refresh. that's going to be big. think that's not priced into the stock yet. i think that will be one of the elements. >> why hasn't the stock participated? >> that's a great point. it's gigantic. it's so big. it's nothing new. the phone is out. the watch, you know, it's sort of like a bust. so what are people going to buy into? they know the story too well. money's coming to the market -- >> is it because a lot of money had come out of apple, you know, as people ringing the register on where the market was and it's just found a home elsewhere? >> right, value investors have an opportunity with apple.
i still think longer term it's a great story. you've got other exciting names. you've got amazon. alphabet. google, face book. if money is going to come into the market in that space, they're going to look for momentum and momentum is not with apple. >> we have the debate about value versus growth. our next guest. tom lee, the head of research. good to see you. are we at an inflection point with between value and growth? where value is back in favor to stay? or is this just a momentary thing we're going to look back and say growth is still the place to be? >> you haven't really seen value do well since mid12 to mid13. a few things have happened that really build the case that we're in like a 6 to 12 month period where value will beat growth. things like the yield curve steepened. it's a really reliable six-month lead time. the dollar reversing, right, because, remember, the dollar
peaked early this year. that leads value versus growth by six months. in health care historically, it's pretty much a poster child for growth. as health care starts to lose its leadership, five of five times since 1990, value -- >> are you reassessing the target for where you're going to be the end of the year? maybe you already have. 23, 25? >> it's a big number. >> you still believe? >> yes, i do. i'm not betting my limbs on this number. >> because other straight jichts have -- >> how about 100 bucks? >> how about $100? you want to bet 100? i don't want someone to think i'm a gambling addict. i'll bet 100 off camera. the reason i think so is i think the dollar effect on earnings is a bit of a mir raj. as the dollar was strong it wiped out 10 bucks out of earnings this year. already a third of that is coming back next year. but, remember, petro currencies are going to start to stabilize.
qe was the reason why euro, japan and the pound weakens. i think you can make a case the dollar could be weakening. that would reverse a lot of that. >> you're legitimately looking for nearly 300 more s&p points? >> yes, i think you have to remember, the market has a massive synthetic short position. hedge funds have negative data. we've been talking to a ton. the last 50 days have been brutal. they've derisked. their beta. the last time you saw hedge fund, at this beta and mutual fund was october '11. look at the return, 13% to 20%. >> the only sectors relative to the s&p actually doing well during this growth better than value period, you have consumer discretionary, consumer stables for some reason. >> it's a growth sector. >> outside of that, if you're going to say, this is a regime change, we go into value, you
have to kind of be bullish on global cyclicals, on energy, on all the stuff that, quite frankly is not seeing any bump to the upside in earnings. how do you bridge that gap and make that leap of faith? >> one, there's a really well-known and strong correlation. we've written about it. weakening dollar, always good for industrials. i think it leads by six months. you're seeing with ge. you can find value in health care. >> you've got an activist in ge too. and one that may not be the most active of positions within ge. but that has sort of reignited the stock more so than maybe changing fundamentals, wouldn't you agree? >> but that is a flow of capital too. that's really what gets people to rethink value stocks. >> does the weak dollar though do anything for the real problem with industrials which is slack demand all over the world? >> you know, it's not going to come -- you know, the one big change, and i think i hear this every time, and i don't have a great answer, but china was a big end market for many years.
just like japan was, into '89. you have to remember, japan literally hit a wall. like 0% in two years. u.s. growth really picked up the slack. i just think that's the transition. >> if u.s. growth does pick up the slack, which means the dollar -- i think the dollar eventually is going to strengthen again. we're the only major central bank that's tightening. so right now you've got a pause because the tightening probably won't happen in october and december's a question. once it happens, okay, shouldn't the dollar reverse? this is kind of tenuous to hang your investment case on a weakening dollar. >> i'm going to tell you, i'm not a currency strategist. you can say -- if i make a forecast for a dollar, you know, not high conviction. but the u.s. has pent-up demand. look, housing. we're building 1 million 1 starts. that's where we were 1990. that's literally 500,000 below
just organic growth so massive pent-up demand. nonrisk construction still the low nest like 50 years. remember, cap ex, stinks. the u.s. has literally got $1 trillion a year of pent-up demand. >> if you were in your 30s in 1990, you were buying your first house or you just did, if you're 30 years old now, seriously think about starting a family, the house is like number eight on the list of your top ten priorities, and you're much more comfortable continuing to rent. why should we expect the housing market of the late 20-teens to look anything like the housing market -- >> before you answer sort of what is a more macro question, you pick lenair within the stocks you like. why? because maybe that will help answer josh's question. >> it's a paradoxical thing. you have to watch the home builders. if we're midcycle, the home builders will literally move with housing starts.
and that's what they've been doing this year. i mean, housing, home builders telling us we're only midcycle in housing. i disagree, the market's telling us something differently. but in terms of house, it's a really great question. in 1990, you were coming off a decade of double digit unemployment inflation. nobody thought about long-term spending. because we were in a -- falling inflation period. but once that stabilized, you got big cap-ex boom. you know what, you're right, the mentality is just not there. social media, smart phones. but eventually, as those needs and hierarchy needs are met -- >> toll brothers is building in the city. they're not interested in single family housing like they were, you know, that's -- >> just remember, for a young person, especially living in new york, you know living in a city is more, expensive than living in suburbs. >> thanks for coming out here.
>> you got anymore? >> one of the smartest guys. we could talk to him all day. >> we could but we only have so many minutes. >> i'm all set. >> tom, thanks for coming out. coming up, it may be an all-time high. one stock says one name in particular is only going higher. not only will it double, it will be the next big global jugger nut. he'll going to join us head. oprah known for making her audience very happy on her show. >> you get a car! you get a car! everybody gets a car! everybody gets a car! >> okay, so whose day is she making now? we're going to tell you next. in panama, which is a city of roughly 2 million people, we are having 5,000 new cars being sold every month. this is a very big problem for us with respect to fast and efficient transportation.
it's kind of a losing proposition to keep going this way. we are trying to tackle the problem with several different modes. one of them is the brand new metro. we had a modest forecast: 110,000 passengers per day in the first line. we are already over 200,000. our collaboration with citi has been very important from the very beginning. citi was our biggest supporter and our only private bank. we are not only being efficient in the way we are moving people now, we are also more amicable to the environment. people have more time for the family and it's been one of the most rewarding experiences to hear people saying: "the metro has really changed my life."
it's time for our trader blitz. deutsche banc announcing a restructuring. top execs also getting removed in that process. >> well, they're finally looking at the capital requirements that have been placed on them by regulators. u.s. banks have done this in years prior. expect credit swiss to follow.
u.s. banks are still the favored banks. >> you spoke about mattel last week. this is down 7%. >> mattel popped a little bit on that. look, basically, these companies, they did well because of the movie tie-ins. you can buy toys so many places. and there's so many other options for kids. such as video games. so i think it's appropriate the stock's down. >> josh mcdonalds, credit suiss loves this stock. feels like sentiment has changed around this name. i don't know if it's all day breakfast. maybe a better feeling about where they're going to take this company. you tell me. what was fairly negative consistently for months, has it changed? >> i'm going to keep it real with you, scott. >> you usually do. >> sentiment has shifted because stock price has shifted. this is like sell side 101. everyone that's now covered by
credit suisse. it broke through on a gap up and has not stopped even to take a breath ever since. you got to have a buy on it now. now everyone wants to have a buy. here's what's really going on. all day breakfast is a hit. momentum has shifted. people are coming to the stores. whether or not that will last more than a quarter, we don't know. >> what about the real estate idea? that's what got you something last week too. >> first of all, even when it happens, it's not great. they've been talking about that at mcdonald's for more than ten years. >> momentum's changed clearly. i'm still there. i still think it will move upside. it is the all day breakfast driving it. if real estate happen, it could be a been nus and pop to the stock. >> you might get a retest of that. i would say don't chase it.
if it retests 100 and holds this is a strong stock that's going higher. >> are you kidding me, nearly 100% gain. >> yeah, nearly a 100% gain. this is a company that has nothing. when you look at earnings, when the stock started to plummet, that's been the problem. now she's going to not only be a member, she's going to be a board member. and obviously this ownership position. i'm not so sure you want to chase this thing right now. certainly she has the kind of cloud, the kind of power that actually not only is going to move it because of her 10% stake, but because she's involved the way she is, i would not want to be shorting the stock. >> proven obviously to have a tremendous effect on book sales. she comes out and says, i like a book. the next thing, the book sells off the charts. >> the whole celebrity thing to weight watchers -- >> can it make that much of a difference -- >> when it's oprah, the answer's yes. >> there's no one else on the
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oil prices falling more than 2% today on concerns over growth in china. bertha coombs at the ins. >> china's gdp, also the prospect of iron perhaps putting more oil on the market sooner rather than later. that's all weighing on oil today. anthony joins me here at the
nym nymex. what are you looking at? >> you hit the two main points of what's driving oil lower this morning. it's china, iranian sanctions being lifted. you also have refinery turnarounds in the u.s. crude oil isn't being refined right now into product. it's building supply. so with all that weighing on the market, i think we see a 30 handle again before we see a 50 handle by the end of the year. >> it seems as though this is a supply story. we are starting to hear from suppliers. from the drillers. that maybe it's time to start throwing in the towel and cut back. >> yeah, you are hearing that a little bit. to me, that's a surprise call right there, $30 a barrel. i don't think that happens. when you look at the range in oil now. you're looking basically 44 1/2 to 50 has been the rank. when you look at the oil volatility index, it's making lower highs. in other words, things are calming down. the fear is coming out of the market. i think you continue to play
that range. 44 1/2 up to 50. i think we'll see that range for quite some time. equilibrium has now been met. i think we'll see that range. if you get long, just keep a tight stop and play. if we break 44 1/2, you can play to the downside. until then, that range is going to continue for the next couple of months. >> for more, of course, head over to futures now.cnbc.com and of course we'll be back with a live show tomorrow. back to you. >> bertha, thanks so much. now it's time for a little unusual activity. pete at the telestrator with what he's seen today. >> one of the big names. we don't oftentimes go to that. really, the performance, not all that much, but you can see that movement and volatility. huge buyers of next week, next week's expiring october 30th, they're looking at the 49 and the 50 calls.
the interesting thing is a lot of the time you're look at a spread. that's not what happened here. they bought 20,000 of the 49 calls. we call this a call stupid. you're buying and buying. you're not buying and spreading it off. somebody's awfully bullish about these earnings. that's going to be on the 22nd. >> you in it? >> i am. i immediately pounced on it. i wanted the excuse to get back in. >> you like the fundamentals as well as what the option activity is telling you? a quick trade but not a real belief in the company? >> i have a belief in the company. i was one of the guys out there the in front saying he is the guy. i believe he's the guy. i love the direction. they actually have some growth. we understand, it's going to take a little time before that cloud's going to be as big as we want it to be in terms of microsoft. but they're moving in the right direction. they hired the right ceo. i think everything's moving. 15 forward pe. these guys give the money back. they're shareholder friendly.
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hello, everyone. here your cnbc news update. texas is cutting off medicaid funding to planned parenthood clinics across the state. they received the news in a letter today. the move is in response to undercover videos released by an anti-abortion group. cnn says federal authorities are investigating whether cia director john brennan's personal e-mail was hacked. the attack reportedly targeted brennan's aol account.
it's unclear if any classified information was accessed. amazon continuing its crackdown on fake reviews. the company filing suit against more than 1,000 individuals for selling reviews for as little as $5. the online retailer filed a similar suit against websites back in april. well, the movie may be far, far away, but tickets for star wars, the force awakens, goes on sale in just a few hours. once the final trailer airs, fans can go online and buy their seats. the film hits theaters december 18th. that's the cnbc news update. back to you, scotty. can't wait. >> the yield on the 10-year note right at 2% today. dipped below that level last week as worries over global growth remain front and center. our guest is a fixed income institutional portfolio manager at franklin temple tol overseeing $770 billion. thank you for being here.
where do you think yields are headed? we've got under 2. going much lower? >> in the way the 10-year normally runs is off off macro economic factors. clearly, there's a lot of concern still about the divergent global expansion and the lack of inflation particularly in the united states. >> that tells me you think they're going lower. >> not necessarily. i think there's still a lot of demand out there from this divergent policy and growth that's led to a lot of lower long-term rates around the globe giving demand to u.s. treasuries. part of it is a risk offtrade we've been seeing true the summer months. >> when do you think the fed moves finally? >> we think they have a window of opportunity to make the move. clearly, a lot of commentary out of the september meeting. the fed themselves still expect a move this year. we would be in the camp of hoping that happens. >> why so? >> zero interest rates are not reflective of current policy or current economic growth. anit's emergency situation. and we tonigdon't think we're t
anymore. >> what about the risks front and center all around the world? frankly, we don't know quite how bad they really are. >> you saw that out of the commentary. the fed citing global factors now as something they're watching. we still think the u.s. economy's stroke enough on its own to withstand a rate move. and that the strength of the labor market is a good support for the initial move. plus, they're going to be very dovish we think. >> you think fear is in high yield. which is the principal reason you're here today. to talk about high yield. you think it's overblown. let's listen to what carl icahn said to me the last time he was on. >> the high yields for many reasons are very vulnerable. too many companies borrowed against. some will not be able to pay back. they have very poor covenants. there really is -- this is the real fair part, there's no liquid for them and people think
there is. >> true, no? >> we've seen a lot of price volatility, particularly around oil volatility. we would expect continued volatility, particularly on the price side. we think the market is aggressively pricing in the downside. that's created some longer-term risk/reward potential opportunities. >> would you look at that in the energy space or looking at other high-yield sectors that have been pulled down because of the energy resources? >> as energy's done, the broader high yield market has done. you've seen that contagion spread through. we still like energy. we think there are companies within the energy space, particularly those that have a more diversified balance sheet that can weather the price volatility. we could see a marginal trend of companies needing to restructure. but dough thnt think what is being pricinged in is reflective of the broader fundamentals. >> you think some energy high yields attractive? >> we think there are some particular names within that space that can weather the volatility. >> you talk names or not talk
names? >> no, not names. >> what's the historic yield been on the high yield sectors over the last 15, 20 years, versus what it is now? that's why a lot are seeing that, you know, it's not cheap. >> absolutely. we've seen a lot of volatility in this year. blew out to around six. if you take the sub sectors of energy or mining, there are over 1,000. we've come in a little bit. we came to a period where we had a lot of repair in the high yield spread through tight, yieldings were low. that's part of the reason we think we've had great buying. the energy sectors have created broader sector volatility. >> if you x energy out, what's the spread over treasures? >> still in the 500 to 600. >> still historically expenseive? >> we still think if you look at the -- so yes, outside of energy and the metals and mining sectors, it's pretty name
specific. we think the broader fundamentals of an improving moderate growth environment supports corporate assets and can be a good buying opportunity for the next part of the cycle. >> it's interesting you say the fed still has a window. you'd like to see them move. but yet doesn't a fed move trigger potentially a run for the exits in high yield? >> we don't think that's the case. we do still think it's the path, not necessarily the initial move, and that they will remain in a very accommodative policy stance. on the back of an improving growth environment in the united states, which we think benefits corporate america. >> it's good to have you here. thanks for coming in. thanks of course to christine. coming up, this week, packed with earnings, ibm set to report after the close tonight. we've got an alert on the stock. which way are the traders leaning? you're watching cnbc, first in business worldwide.
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morgan stanley wrapping up the financial earnings. now to the biggest sector. tech. what investors need to know. plus, the big business of flu. the pharma stocks that may get a boost. should companies be made to disclose the health of their top execs to investors? we'll debate that. it's an interesting topic. very timely. back over to you. >> thanks, we'll see you in just a bit. nike shares up more than 38% this year. it's the best performing dow stock. one analyst thinks it could double in the near future. that's why it's our call of the day. the analyst over at ever core. it's good to see you. you know how to write a
headline. the next mega cap jugger nut. you say nike is the best story you've ever seen. why? >> well, listen, obviously, it's a great brand. it's been around for a long time. has had tremendous success. we really see a change in nike in how they run their business, how the consumer views the category and how that feeds through the eighal ga rhythm. they discovered massive amounts of pricing power in the last couple of years. especially after decades of deflation driven by low-cost manufacturing in china. that's fantastic for their p & l and shareholder also as well. >> a growth of 7 bucks in earnings and double in the stock prices. what period? >> we think, i mean, if you run through from top to bottom line, accelerator profiler, even some unintended levels, we think the company can get to 7 in the next two or three years. so the stock looks a little
expensive on near-term earnings. looks cheap if you look out a few years. >> i got a quick question. you talk about innovation in your piece. can you speak to that? why that's so important as to why this is potentially a $200 stock? >> yes, for so many different reasons. number one, the way nike changed the way it approaches consumers. segmenting the different sports categories. and then sub segmenting those categories. nike is now able to develop sport specific innovations and technologies that really speak to the consumer. and that's part of the reason they're able to charge higher prices. for essentially better products that have more innovation, more quality, more technical attributes. again, flows through the p & l in such a dynamic way. >> close your eyes and one can hear you making the case for apple. you're talking about them in the same sort of perspective. >> essentially, yeah. i think nike for years -- it's obviously a high profile
consumer discretionary stock. leading apparel and footwear maker for sure. the market perception of this stock and this company is transitioning from that old category of cohorts to the apples and googles and facebooks and april zomazons of the world. i don't see why this can't be a 200 or 300 some day. when you think about the fact that margins really could almost double from here in a very reasonable way, in addition to the sales profile, it's unbelievable. >> omar, scott mentioned apple. if you think what apple did over the last couple of years to its competition and its pieers in te sector, what does this tell you about what could happen potentially to underarmer? does underarmor have the appreciation you expect for nike? or basically obliterate the performance we've seen there? >> we follow underarmor. we love underarmor as a stock as
well. i think they're much more complementary than sub lamentry. underarmor, i mean, nike's growth last year was an entire underarmor. what nike's doing is growing the market category and the size substantially. in almost some ways they don't fall on each other's radar screen. when i look at underarm, the number one valuation dynamic that i consider looking at underarmor stock essentially nike's market stock. underarmor's clearly emerging, at least in the u.s., in north america, which is the number two -- the number one sposhts market in the world. underarmor's emerging as the clear number two player. if nicotike continues to do wel that's beneficial to underarmor which is continuing to merge as the number two brand. >> i'm beyond eawondering about timing of note and how it relates to the most recent commentary we got from the company about its sales and business over in china and whether it's not by accident
given what they said at a time of great concern over what's happening in the chinese economy that now you've put this note out. >> i follow the luxury good stocks as well which have had a lot more difficulty in china. i think nike and the athletic sector in general went through its difficult moment in china following the beijing olympics where there was a ton of growth. inventory's built up too big. nike's reset their position in that market place and rebuilding it in a much more sophisticated way. that's why you're seeing this reacceleration in the chinese business. it's not about the luxury consumer, it's about the mass market consumer as well. >> that's part of my point as well. maybe we shouldn't be surprised. if you hear from blackstone, all the malls they own there, they talk very positively about mall traffic. for that very reason for why you may like nike more. >> absolutely. i think they've gone through the pain in china and positioning in the marketplace is more sustainable with the rising middle class.
every part of nike's business is accelerating, driven by higher asps, the global acceptance of health and fitness and rising margins. it's not just the china story. nike's business growth market the last few years continues to be north america which you or i could have looked at and say, hey, this business has more than doubled since then. >> i'm wondering if we're making this apple comparison, is it a little bit of a cautionary tale. apple has 100% of the profit of the smart phone market. they own almost vertical they compete in. yet it's a ten multiple. even if nike becomes as dominant as apple, at a certain point, doesn't it get stuck in this situation? >> so, i mean, what's apple's cap? 500, 600? when they get to 900 -- >> so not too big yet? >> it's a long ways off. >> the law of large numbers that can get a lot, lot, lot larger if you're right.
thanks a lot. appreciate you coming on. a lot of people talking about it today certainly. omar over at overcore. >> i like the stock. i don't really do price targets. it's going up. people want to own it. it's under accumulation. they continue to surprise to the upside. and there really isn't any competitor of the same side and size and scale. i don't know about 200. >> it's an iconic brand. there are very few of them out there. that happens to be one of them. i own lulu. it's a depressed stock. it's now gotten new management. i don't know. pete and i were talking about it. because now they're cutting into it. >> i didn't know they made lulu kids. >> that's just not right. >> no, but they're -- >> it's great. >> it is interesting when you look at the market cap and you see nike at 100 billion, as he said. some of the stocks that should be in its universe. whether it's apple, 600-plus
billion. google's about three, four times. >> category of brand. >> we talk about brands all the time. i would put nike as that category. when you look at what they're doing with underarmor. yes, there's competition, but they absolutely dominant the space. if they can have that expansion, then it makes some sense, why he's putting that type of move on the stock. and actually fit noolgs a lower multiple than people think. >> the economic evidence is overwhelmingly strong. look at the future orders in china. last quarter, reported 30%. look at the e-commerce, the ability and narrative to grow it from 1 billion to 7 billion. and the revenue target. all those things put together, strong margins, acceleration. >> ferrari revving up for its public debut. is it too early to buy the stock? plus, with more than 100 s&p companies set to report this week, we dive into the names that should be on your radar. a lot of big ones, as you see on
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we're back. iconic carmaker ferrari getting set for its ipo. phil lebeau is in chicago with the details. >> hey, scott. earlier today we heard from ferrari when they released or fiat chrysler released the latest s-1 before we have pricing tomorrow. 17.2 million shares coming in between $48 and $52. that's the expectation.
a lot of people are saying what's in this for fiat chrysler and what's sergio's grand play? they're going to raise $5 billion of this for fiat chrysler from this ipo. that's partially going to help pay for the $55 billion expansion that fiat chrysler is undergoing over the next four years. the target by 2018-2019, $7 million in annual vehicle sales worldwide. jeep is a big part of that. look how much jeep has grown under sergio's leadership. when they took over back in 2009, primarily a north american brand, just 276,000 were sold, up to more than 1 million last year, and the target is to reach 1.9 million by 2018. part of the way they're going to do that is by adding plants and production overseas. some are being built in italy. the first one rolled off the line in china. remember, 75% of jeep sales for fiat chrysler are here in north
america. so the world is their oyster so to speak in terms of demand for a brand that should do very well overseas and that's why we need to take a look at shares of fiat and chrysler. there's a lot of speculation about how much it's going to benefit because of this ferrari ipo and you see the stock up once again today, but don't forget, at the end of the day, sergio wants this to be part of the grand play which is to grow fiat chrysler on a global scale. he needs to fund that expansion. it's self-funded by the way over the next four years. >> phil, going to be exciting just given the name alone and the timing and all that. phil, thank you so much. what do you think here? want a piece of it or no? >> i don't hate it, but i think it's very, very much contingent on how the market is doing because i think this is just a traditional wealth brand, luxury brand, and i think so if around -- >> you're talking about their business, not so much the ipo. >> yeah, both. the business is great business
because they have scarcity, but i think generally speaking how is this ipo going to be received? tell me how the market is doing, tell me where the vix is, tell me what the latest calamity out of asia is. >> kind of a precarious time to go public, right? >> yeah. >> i think it also gets lumped into overall the auto industry and you look at the auto industry and fundamentally it looks very strong but yet you look at the performance of a gm or a ford and the performance is not there. well, enter a new dynamic which is a far more complicated auto model to understand and for me that makes you want to have pause, look at the name, and completely avoid it for multiple quarters. >> that being fiat or ferrari? >> i would say both of them at this point. >> coming up, we'll go under the radar, steve weiss looking at a health care stock hitting the tape and we'll game plan a super sized week of earnings straight ahead.
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time for second half trades. there you go with a look at some of the big names reporting. ibm after the bell today. and then a whole reason through of major names. no one on the desk likes ibm, right? >> right. >> nobody? >> no. >> crickets? >> jim is not here. >> well, right, jim had it in his portfolio. i think he owns it personally. we'll hear from him in the days ahead on what the results are. i want to take people through some of these names that are coming out the rest of the week. there you go. steve weiss, you're up first. look at the board and pick one. >> hog will be coming out tomorrow. i think it's a great story and i think stock is going to do well. from what i'm reading sales are picking up. it's a unique brand again. i think it will do quite well. i'm looking for better action from some of the consumer companies domestically than some of the non-u.s. companies where
there's non-u.s. exposure. >> somebody give me some amazon. >> that's exactly what i wanted to talk about. is amazon 578ish trading today? pete mentioned before microsoft and the $50 level. last earnings time around i thought we got above $50. i think we get above it now. you will see a similar type of reaction post-earnings for amazon that could take that stock 625, 650. >> yahoo!? >> so i would say not from an investment standpoint but purely for entertainment purposes, that is the call of the week. what are they possibly going to say? every week is another high-profile executive leaving. i doubt there's much business momentum there. stock price certainly isn't telling you there is. in the meantime, they try to save money on taxes by not selling alibaba. stock has been cut in half since then. i can't imagine what the tone of the call is going to be or what the latest innovation or initiative is going to be that they think is going to get people positive. >> close of the week is going to be american. >> but i'd focus on two other
names as well. i'd look at eli lilly and look at biogen. pharma and big cap biotech. we've seen a little bit of a rally recently. can that continue? >> look at valeant today? >> good stuff. we'll see you tomorrow. "power" begins now. good afternoon, everybody. welcome to "power lunch." thanks for joining us. along with mandy drury, i'm tyler mathisen. financials out of the way. now to earnings from the biggest sector of all, technology. the fourth best performer this year. we'll tell you what investors need to know. united airlines giving no details on the health of its ceo after he suffered a heart attack, but will decide today on its governance process. should companies be made to disclose the thealth of their tp executives to investors? and do you own a drone? if you do, there will be new government rules affeg.
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good morning. a country and city and world recovering and welcome to "morning joe." we're going to be talking about that and a awful lot of politics to cover. it appears that donald trump has banned the washington post from from covering the campaign. the bible has banned and then allowing math to be taught there and major league base bought not using bats. it's a good thang he has grown.
yesterday, people thinking that obama was in there. it reminded me when a will the of scum bags said that george bush had nothing do with 9/11. that was ton internet. to have the stan daubd barrier the republican party candidate saying that barack obama may have been in the skilling of americans is -- >> yeah, who he said yesterday on tv earlier in the morning is intakely a disequal er of the president of the yiechlts he
accused president obama in an act. people cannot believe that president bam is abouting the way that he acts. there's something going on. there's something going on. >> right. >> and -- >> that's a disqualifier. >> then he goes on another show and says he does not know what he is doing or he may know exactly. then when asked, her does what he does. >> there are a lot of politics to cover and mike would you say and former communication
director george w. bush and richard joining us this morning and at last check 49 of the patients rush in the wake of the attacks and reinane there this morning. the hospital says that all current patients appear to be improving. the white house says that president t obama will travel to orlando on thursday to meet with the victims families and stand in solidarity with the community. let's bring in nbc chris and live in orlando. multiple reports that the shooter went to the night club often before the attacks. >> reporter: yeah, we're learning more about this and right now the fbi is looking into if he had visited the pulse night club many times. four people that they talked to
went to the club and said that they have seen them there. sometimes he gould in the corner and sit and drink by himself. other times he was loud. another man that goes to the club say that is he recognized him from other places as well. >> i recognize him, and i blocked him immediately. >> from a gay date. >> yeah you i recognized him off grinder. >> one of the questions that's been out there is why wasn't he under some sort of surveillance?
mantee was investigated after telling family workers that he had family withqaeda. that did not produce enough evidence to arrest him. >> he admitted what the coworkers reported, but he did it in anger because he thought that the wo ork ers were teasing him. our work is very challenging. we're look for needles in a nationwided hay stack and also called upon can which pieces of hay maybe needles. that's hard work. if we can find a way do that better, we will.
this was inspiring and 7,500 people came out on a steamy night here in orlando and say that there's still a lot of fear, but they had to be here. it's a little chilling for some of the folks that this guy was in the presence at the night club down the street and gone there before. >> nbc, thank you. we will be checking back with you you tloutd the morning. don o don is dabbling in theories gain and suggesting that president obama has hidden motives for the balt of terrorism in multiple interviews yesterday. listen. >> he does not get it or he gets it better than anybody understands. we're led by a man that's not
tough, not smart or he has something else in mind. people cannot believe it. people cannot believe that president obama is acting the way that he acts and can't even mention the words radical islamic terrorism. there's something going on. there's something going on. whether there are a lot of people they he does not want to get it or know about it. i happen to think that he does not know what he is doing. >> what did you mean by that? >> i will let people figure that out themselves. there's not a lot of anger or passion when he demand for' r--
there's not a will the of passion. we will let people figure it out. >> he said -- donald trump said that the president of the united states and he know what is me is doing. there's something else in his mind going on. there's something going on. there's something going on. maybe he knows exactly what he is doing and when pressed on these theories, and when pressed after the washington post and others said that he is suthding that president bam is come poli -- in the killings, he can figure it out. >> blooif that there's a swift reaction a, right? what would that reaction be? >> well, i would never have endorsed him in the first place. i said that. >> if you did, you probably
would have revoked it now. >> with the indiana judge and the race for the indiana judge. this guy is bad news my fellow republicans and washington. it only gets worse. i tried to help you last week and this week. save our party. speak truth to the power. why aren't republicans will be to stand up and be counted? this is a time of crisis not only for you and the conservative moment but the country. stand and be counted. this is getting worse by the day. our republican party now lead by a man who implied all day yesterday that obama was come police sit and he knows what he
is doing. i will let people figure out for themselves what he is doing. what do you do? >> scott brown that was in attendance in the speech. listen, a lot of people feel in line after the stunning achievement of sweeping the republican primary, and then they all have to answer and not just to the party but to their wives and children. i mean this is a. >> out how does this make you feel as a republican? >> listen, i have been in the ten step program since december. >> this is not about donald trump now. this is about paul ryan. this is about mitch mcconal, congresswoman and senators. >> it makes approximate me proud
that the governor that i work for said that he would not vote. i think that some have taken a stand and have a lot of gut for in the moment. it looks like they came out. i would say that as a political tactici tactician, yesterday i watched a don donald trump communication activity. they as a campaign work withed on a speech that was delivered in the tell prompter and that was the planned message of the day. i am told that he refuses to step back at all from doing these kind of interviews with the theories. there was a message of the day. >> riddled as you said with and
actual problems. one problem after another and you go through it late rally and you define the guy and shoters and afghan. >> yeah, born 27 years ago. >> someone needs to help him out. get him o out and you did it with sarah palin. someone needs to get them out and put them in front of donald trump and first of all explain the difference between indiana and mexico. now i guess we're going to have to figure out the difference between afghanistan and queens. when the sun line hits it just right -- >> yeah, you got a killing there and then it cuts right there kabul. here is donald trump yesterday not telling the truth.
the name i will not say. the only reason he was there in the first place is that we allowed -- >> stop. stop. stop. >> he did the same. >> we don't know how to analyze. >> when he said last week the judge is mexican and i don't remember who it was and it was jake. had he was born in indiana. here he is saying well he was born in afghanistan -- he was born in afghan. >> he was born in queens, new york. >> we're sorry but we have --
>> i know that you talk about it, but why don't we talk about what you and donald trump doesn't know what it is. why don't we talk about ask this deepens and this crisis deepens just how bad the world leader see this. >> well, around the world it's dramatically at odds and then the tradition of respect for us. they can not understand where they are if answer is not to
shut down and these are not caused by immigrants. we have got to have the individuals not get radicalized and the key here is the buy in. you have the have the buy in from muslim americans and you have to have the buy in from mosque and where people believe that they're part of the american fabric like you and me. that's the problem with muslim
band. >> alex, do we have the part of the speech that makes sense? >> now, many years people were saying that i was right to do so. although the pause is temporary, we have to find outs what is going on. it will be lifted when and as the nation we're in a position to properly and purposely. >> i think that he is tweeting it. >> we talk act the muslim man and san bernardino. >> then we have what happened in orlando. what he is talking about has nothing to do with orlando.
had this guy was born in new york and lived in florida. he is talking about his muslim family. this guy is about second generation thing with him. are we going go to deporting now? >> he mentioned sanbernardino. one of the ask prepects is that4 united states senators a majority of them voted not to extend -- voted to turn down a proposal that would have allowed the fbi to check on people on a terrorist watch list that wanted to buy a gun. they voted against him. nerd, you can be on the watch list and be on the long gun, a handgun. >> was this guy on the watch list? >> no, it was on and taken off. >> yes. >> on and off. >> we're going to have more.
>> 54 united states senators and they have a moment of prayer yesterday: >> yes, it's in sanity. >> so you want to know what in sanity looks like? we're going to hear from the gun shop owner that sold the gunman in orlando two weapons and then a gun shop owner that's selling the sort of semiweapons that are being used and they're selling like hot cakes now. and the commissioner of the new york city police department is here on set. first, a check on the forecast with bill. how does it look? >> well, we're not expecting a huge tornado outbreak but yesterday amazing pictures in texas. six is tornados reported yesterday and then the cycle was ama afoot age there. it was over oakland field and that's where we like for it to be. we're not watching any damage
with that storm yesterday. as far as what we're dealing with it, now we're shifting from texas and the plans the right now the maximum is pretty clear. 7 million people at risk today. tomorrow we have major population centers from chicago to indianapolis to cleveland. 48 million people at ricks tomorrow as it goes to the east. the other story is the heat in the soilth east. yesterday atlanta was 97 and today 9 4. it's only going to get worse. a major heat wave and areas in texas and 100 to 120 degrees in arizona. a beautiful start to the day. we will be right back.
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in an hour that he does a day. why. why would they run out and get that? >> there's a fear among gun owner that they're going to be taken off the market, so you want to get one before you think wrongly that congress may ban the sell of them. >> again i grew up in were georgia around hunters and moved to rural mississippi are where people would go out and shoot at trees and target practice out in the woods. i grew up in meridian,
mississippi. that's rural mississippi. lived in tuscaloosa, alabama and fla and surround issby people t took their kids hunting, and i have to say that i was born, bred and raise in that culture, the guys that i all knew growing up and guys that i have known for 53 years they get rifles and shotguns. >> sure. >> they shoot at beer. they hu they shoot. i'm sorry. this is not of you living in a bubble. i know that your brothers and families have guns all over the place. >> they hunt. they have some guns. >> they say it's for one thing and one thing only killing
people. >> you know what ronald reagan said, ban it. >> it's been an hour for one story. >> wha do you need thisfor? >> reagan was not a real conservative. he also supported background checks. >> and amnesty. >> it's weak. still ahead over night reports on attack of french police officers -- >> by the way, why do the people always embrace ronald reagan but ignore. >> it's very hypocritical. >> you should not be allow today say shining hill. just stop that. >> the same people that are busting the fbi for investigating this guy a couple of times and temporarily putting him on a terror watch list and not being aggressive are the same people that voted against
people being able to get guns ton terror watch it. think about that. we live in a country where if you're on a terror watch list, you can go in and buy a military assault style weapon and it's unbelievable. >> a lot of these people voted against the thing that is the nsa could do. we have to rethink the balance for collective security and individual privacy, or we're unsafe as a society. >> that's a big key. it's so right. >> all right. so we will cover the attack on french police officers in paris and more claims of isis backing. is this the latest radical incident in europe? we're live in france. hillary clinton in direct contract responds to the attacks in orlando. we will be right back. 's how yoy connected to each other
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42-year-old police commander was outside of his home and approached by a man and attacked with a knife. the man went inside of the police officer's home and took hostage the police officer's partner and a 3-year-old boy. this lasted for hours and police swat team were on the scene and they tried to cooperate with him and the s.w.a.t. team moved in. they found the partner dead and the 3-year-old boy was unharmed. police have named the president as larossi abballa who was 25 years old and known as a radical. he also served a six month jail sen is tense. he was sentenced to the three years for being part of a jihad network. there's no question this is terrorism. the threat everywhere is very
high. an isis news agency said that this man was one of their fighters. there are reports that he posted a 13 minute video on facebook during the attacks in which he said that he had answered i sis's call. this is an attack and the investigators want to know was this linked to or inspired by the massacre in orlando that's horrified everybody here. >> bill, thank you very much. earlier we heard from the latest in the orlando shooting investigati investigating. shawn, did they miss some signs here? >> i don't think that they did. everything that i have seen with the investigation and i have
talked to folks with the fbi and the investigation going back to a couple of years ago and comments from two coworkers and the fbi conducted a thorough investigation. they used a source that they ran up against him and used monitoring to monitor some of the communications and they did surveillance. this went on for a period of ten months. what we have to look at is the totality of the situation and the number of people that have come up on the fbi's radar. the fbi does not have the resource to follow 24/7 hundreds of thousands of people. that's not the case. when they do this investigation, they're look at a snapshot in time. whatever caused this guy his switch to flip and move from the comments and ask aspirations and sboog into the club to kill 50
people, you don't know the switch. >> shawn, can you give us a rough idea of numbers in terms of the agents working the terror squads and numbers of people and specifically we're going to have the commissioner on in a while ne here in new york. fbi terror task force and numbers and agents to terror suspects. >> i don't want to go into specific numbers. i don't know that the fbi released that. i can tell you that they're daunting and that the number of people that have come up on their radar screen that have made these type of statements have democrated and let me be clear here. a lot of the comments are are fr protected speech. that's protected and it requires someone to take a look, brut it's overwhelming what the fbi and the u.s. intelligence community is facing now.
the risk is high and the capability and resources are limited. >> okay. shawn, thank you very much. we have new polling approximate in the presidential race and seems that the last two weeks it's taken toll on donald trump. clinton with a seven percent lead from trump. that's up from a four point lead last week and a tied race nearly two weeks ago. 54 percent to 40 percent for trump and the numbers were 47 to 46 just two weeks ago. in a multicandidate race, clinton is ahead 42 and trump 38 and while gary johnson takes nine percent and the green party candidate is at nine percent. i was wondering and some think that it's going to go e higher. i think that the numbers are going to drop.
>> you see a seven point drop here and where he was tied or ahead in a lot of polls. it's been a rough week. we will see. he always thinks that terror attacks help him in the polls. we will see if that's miserable. >> i think that it's lost a lot of credibility. >> then you need to look at the event that he had in richmond on friday. maybe 1,500 people there. a largely -- again, it was about 1,500 or so people there and a lot of complaints and there are actually suggestions. >> a lot of empty seats. >> they have been suggestions that they're now going to move from those events to now smaller events because apparently he was
surprised. i mean we showed all of the people that were there there was a massive auditorium. >> he said that he is going to do rallies. >> he said that and i think there's some recognition that delivering the speeches is something that he has to show that he is capable of doing. what they did yesterday is something that they plan to continue, but, you know, as with we talked about earlier in the hour if you do not bracket your own speech with a consistent message, you might as well have not delivered the speech. if you go on fox and friends and talk about the president as an accomplish to terror, you may as well have not. writing any speech is a time consuming endeavor and prepping for a rally in front of thousands of fans. >> what would the instinct be? you have been up there with the campaigns and what is the
instinct whose message is ne negative and dark and filed with the be very afraid and the message? >> listen, you all know where i come down on the message of trump and the speaking to the more sinister and the fear of americas. he did prevail in a republican primary on what you described and what is pluzzling. there are people that are terri terrified and he the opportunity to do that. >> going back here and here is a shot overall of the trump rally. that's something that you would not have seen at any point. >> i remember alabama and some states he was able to get 10,000 people at the trop of a hat. it was o organized in 48 hours
and it's a massive crowd showing up. >> look at that. that looks like an accident braves baseball game that i used to go to o when there was a foul ball to the first baseline and then be behind catcher and all the way to the right field fence and bob warn er and be able to hit the bauchlt i mean look at those pictures again. something is happening out there. it's not the campaign's fault but he just simply refuses to raise the games. >> i predicted that they would go down and the bigger question is that they go down in the wake of what we have seen in orlando. >> i doubt that. i think there will be a bump. >> your question is about raising the game and we have been asking this for months and
why is not improving? >> i have a question of why isn't he getting better but why is he getting worse? why is he getting worse? >> my guess is that donald trump is being the person that got him to where he is in life and got him to where he is in the republican primary and continuing the same thing. what would be questioned is what served him up until now and continues to serve in a totally different condition zpex the general election and then it does not seem to be. that's what we're seeing. he made get a temporary one out of the last 24 or 48 hours, but things are going really bad because clinton is turning this into a referendum on donald trump. if that's the way that this plays out over the next five months, he is not going to lose but lose badly. >> it's not like we have not been saying every day on the show that every single day he has five weeks to turn it
around. four weeks to turn it around. he has to make the shift. he has three weeks. he told you that he is going to make the turn. he is not listening to the people around him or the family members. i will say it again. after getting in wisconsin he showed the discipline for two weeks and was rewarded in the polls in a massive way. now that he has the nomination and it's connected to the fact that everybody in washington just bowed down. they scrapped him and said why can't i do it like i want to. i am going to pay no price for it. >> yes, he did say that he was going to pivot and you expect to see that in general happens when they win. you expect to see that. i also thought possibly and we have all seen it before when someone rises to the level of winning the nomination, the magnitude of the moment causes them to rise up and really think for the country and think beyond
themselves and they really get taken in by the moment. they become bigger than themselves, and he is smaller. much smaller than himself if not worse. >> i i talked to someone and they helped to set up a corporation that he was ceo of his atlantic city and his atlantic city and all of the facilities down there. he said what was remarkable was that he could never figure out when he was ceo that it was not just his money. that he could not just do whatever he wanted to do with it. the guy complained about this for years. he did not understand that he had a duty to the shareholders. nobody could break through to him and suggest that this is not just about you. i said that's really a perfect analo
analogy, isn't it. >> he asked a friend why can't -- >> he has a duty for the people that vote for him, conservatives, republicans and the people of the country. it's not just about him. >> if this did not happen i think that it was really detailed and the reporting over the weekend and small business owner that lost the companies because what you described there's an interaction with them and, i donyou know, there was n in trump. >> still ahead -- it just gets so ridiculous. i feel that we're the onion. donald trump bars the washington post from covering the campaign events and we will bring in gene washington. is that his name?
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immigration problems by seeing unemployment go up and tax revenues go down and those are all risks that we should not take. i say don't risk it. >> that was british prime minister. one of the people not to vote to exit the eu. >> yeah. >> new polls out of the uk suggest that they're on board to do just that. a new poming and that's found for leadings and the leave camp upping up a six point advantage over remain and showing a growing momentum. richard, you say the implications and the far reachings of this can't be measured right now and say not only does it end the eu, but it ends the united kingdom. >> yeah the uk is going to be
the disunited because scott land is going to say that we want to split off. i don't know what whales would do or northern ireland, this is the end and beginning of the end. also polls another threat out of the sweet er and europe was the least stable part of the world for the 20th century and then the two world wars and then the eu is a massive map of political and economic stability. this is a dangerous threat and then it's a weaker countries. i don't know given the problems what happens in europe. >> so let's talk about great britain and let's talk about what happens politically there. david cameron you you have to step on down. is is that the next prime minister? >> yeah, he has a good shot. i don't know how jeffrey osbourne can succeed that. it two goes to someone that's probe -- >> now, johnson is a bright man,
why does he support leaving? >> well, he would say for the economic reasons. he is unpoplar and then this became -- he is sensing the tide in the country and he saw this as a real opportunity to accelerate the political fortunes in the country. it's as a result if i am right and then we have borromeo riss johnson leading the conservative and republican party. this is equivalent to donald trump and sanders leading the two major parties. >> i'm sorry -- >> no you. >> what's the major factor on the ground to get out of the ta deal? >> i they it's fear and immigration and i see what's going on here. it's prolonging economic growth. plus, it was interesting they did a poll in other day and
there were zero ideas of the facts. they thought that massive amounts were there and that the immigrants were swamping and most of the people that were voting have a distant appreciation of the facts. >> can i ask you of the demographi demographics. who makes up the lead and the stay in term of the demographics? >> it crosses party lines. young people that tend to be more probe are coming out to vote and the voters turn out. they have the working class and older people and they can be voting more and a lot of fear on pensions. that's what is interesting for us and it shows thei pop limp, and we fear that it's happening over there. this is something to take notice of. there are some messages on what is happening in britain for us. last night thousands took to
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agree on everything. it's free thinking believing or not in what you choose. i as a new father and thinking what do i tell my kids. what do i tell them about this? what can we learn from this? what if my kids are gay? what do i tell them? maybe there's a lesson in all of this this. a lesson in tolerance. we need to get back to being brave enough that we have different opinions. that's okay. we're all miamericans this was just one bad guy here. 49 good people and one bad guy. there will always be more good than evil. keep loving each other and respecting each other and keep on dancing. >> welcome back to "morning joe" and it's tuesday, june 14th. >> you know the thing is is
sadly it's more than one bad guy here. we have focused for a very long time on isis. >> right. >> and islamic radicalism. we have always focused more on the hatred of the political leader. the hatred of woman. the fact that they treat woman like animals. we have read the stories how they rape the young woman and pass them around like dogs. there's always been persecution for those in the mists that are gay. it's something that for some reason this country is not focused on enough. this is not a random act that the guy went in and said that i hate gay people. this was not an attack just against the gay people.
this was an attack by isis and striking out and killing people for not thinking like they do and believing like they do and not living like they do. it is sadly much bigger than one bad person going in to a night club. this is a clash of civilizations and not the west verses islam, but the west and islam verses a small subset of radicalism. it's a war that we're going to be fighting for some time. it's a war that we got to fight not with just comes and bullets, but it's a fight that we went inside of the country and we were talking about it before by actually engaging muslim americans. and making muslim -- as i said yesterday making muslim
americans believe as they do that they have every much a stake in the future of this country and the great republic and bought into the american dream as you and me. and when the 300 million muslim americans in the country believe that, and most of them do believe that despite what donald trump says, then we win the fight against isis. >> absolutely. the fight is to discourage the young man. by the time that they join isis and by the guns, the only way to stop them is to kill them. we want to prevent from making that a career choice. we want them not to be radical or terrorists. there are not enough fbi in the world to deal with tens of thousands of people that are radicalized.
the key here has to be to prevent the process. that means looking at the schools and what is said in the mosque and it's much more of a -- we have to work with people. not just do things to people. >> that's the next fro tentier the recruiting, they don't have go go anywhere. they can be recruit in the basement. also during the conversation we have steve and in washington -- >> i thought he was banned. sn. >> yeah, i thought the credentials were polled. >> still here. >> associate editor of the washington post gene robinson. >> i am thinking if there's an editor that i want to cross, gene may not be the top of my list. >> no, he would not be at the top of my list either. i would not mess with him personally. >> mike, talk about when marty
went to washington. >> yeah, he went from the miami harold and an outsider and a market and at that point in time. >> by the way we're tacking of donald trump barring the washington post from being at campaign events because he did not like the story yesterday. marty worked for the washington post and the man least that you want to piss off. >> he was there at the globe and there for a short period of time and noticed that there were several stories written briefly having to do with the clergy abuse and priest abusing chirin children. it was muted. marty being marty said boy, that's a hell of a story, and we don't care. >> marty took on the catholic
church and that was across boston and the country and in no small part because of f marty. he has faced a lot tough er components than donald trump. >> yeah. >> also with us national correspondent if for the atlantic. >> yeah. >> going around the desk right now. >> okay. so jeffrey we have not talked to him in a little bit and give us your take on what you have been seeing over the past several days? first of all as it comes to national security and then the state of the political cities? >> let me start with the sorry state. i want to jump on something that you just said. the clash of generalization and i have been thinkingov of this. if you want to break it down, you have a candidate that
believes that we're in a clash of civilization. the west verses the islam. you have a president and then the presidential campaign that believe that is we're not talking about a clash of civilization, but a clash within the civilization of islam and forces of medieval and the forces of that dearnty. if you have that view, you say that we can not defeat isis without muslims, therefore we're not going to demonize them and make them feel that we hate the religion. it's us verses all of islam and there are a billion and a half. billion and a half muslims in the world, so that's not exactly a war that the united states could win. there's no way to fight that war. isis is only defeated by muslims. once we get our heads around that it's not a complicated factor. once we get our heads around
that -- >> let me repeat what we're seeing for months now. jeffrey is right, we don't win the war against isis until we win it here at home with muz preliminary americans and here is the great thing about america. we have done an extraordinary job being the world's melting pot. we also have. we have brought in the irish. we have brought in the germans and we have brought in people from all four corners of the globe seamlessly. we have done it with muslim americans again and then talking about how the muslim americans maybe one percent of the population, but they make up as many of ten percent of temporary total disability -- scientists come from the muslim community, and it needs to continue. we have a candidate that's trying to actually break that
line. >> they're saying that president obama has hidden motives when it comes to terrorists during multiple interviews yesterday. >> he just whether anybody understands. we're led by a man that's either not tough, not smart or he's got something else in mind. the something else in mind, people cannot believe it. they can not believe that president obama is acting the twa that he acts and cannot even mention the words radical islamic. there's something going on. it's unconceivable. something is going on. whether a lot of people think that they does not want to get it or want to know about it. i happen to think that he just
does not know what me is doing. there are people that think that he does not want to get it or see what is happening. >> what did you mean by that? >> well, i will let people think of that for themselves. to be honest with you, there's not a lot of anger or passion when he -- when we want to demand what happened over the weekend. there's certainly not a lot of passion. there's not a lot of anger, so we will let people figure it out. >> what? that's stupid. >> yeah, marching firmly through the swamps. >> there's no president in history who is killed more
muslim terrorists than barack obama. he has killed themselves throughout the presidency and eight different countries and so if he is isis operative, than he is is really bad of it because he is trying to kill them. this is not an endorsement right away. >> yeah, it's so deep that he is acting against the interest. this is not an endorsement by the way of the tactics. there are things to be done and look, if i believe that you invoke in the magical radical terrorisms and if if i believed that would stop it, then i would endorse that. i feel that it might have the opposite affect. what you don't want do is make the muslims that you're talking about and the millions that we're talking about who love the religion and don't go out and kill people. >> by the way jeffrey, love --
they will hear the world and feel that they're blaming it as a whole rather than organizations that are taking the messages in the islam and doing the terror. >> clinton on the show said yes, she can call radical islam by
name and going to address the war and she is going work to make sure that muslim americans know that they're every bit of part of the society and culture as we. >> most of the people agree on the presidential candidate. i want to say two things. the sfirs what reminds me of in 20 o 08 when we went into the financial crisis and you saw the difference in how president obama thought about it. it was a turning point in the campaign. >> yesterday's speeching were -- >> oh my gosh. >> i think we're in the same zone where the american people say we have one this way. let me say one other thing and in the risk of dabbling in the area and that's jeffrey said that barack obama has killed more terrorists than anybody
else. we have had almost 16 years of presidents that were focused on this threat and yes there are a billion and a half muslims that do not want any part of this and there are ten thes of thousands that want us to be dead and we have not yet fig yoored out how to stop that. it's a mix of what we do for the foreign policy and then the whole domestic policy of it and all of the actions. >> clinton talked about those things and that's important if you want to move forward and trump talked about something going on. >> well, we also not so long ago we had political leader that could do both and talk about hard you power. we're going to hunt i sis down
and then the resources way from them and then the weapons away from them and then going to capture and kill them. then we're going to work aggressively inside of the country to make sure that muslim americans buy into the american dream like they bought into the american dream. it's not like muslims just started the come to america in 1979. they have been in the country since the foundation of this country. you read the founding documents and they talk about the muslims in america. >> yeah, the only thing is to think about this and the disease. yes, you want to go after them and we also have to do things that's not acceptable and that's where the muslim community is. we want to have an entier range
of o policies to protection and going after people that are already made the decision to kill you. i thought what you said in clinton's speech yesterday was the range and combination of the sbel skbrens the social integration and muslim americans and gun control. >> yeah, there's something going on and clinton that did not mention clinton's name once yesterday. and recognizing that the u.s. cannot contain it to the middle east. she called for the gun restrictions across the government and communities. here is some of hillary clinton
the's speech. >> we have to stem the flow of jihad from europe to america, iraq, syria, after kban stan and then back gain. the only way is to work with the partners and strengthen the alliances and not weaken them or walk away from them. >> hillary clinton for months and so many attacks refused to even say the word radical islam until i challenged her yesterday, and guess what? she will probably say them. she has said them. she is in total denial and it broadcasts weakness aacross the entire world. true weakness. >> if the fbi is watching you for suspected terrorists links,
you should not be able to just go by a gun with no questions asked. and you should not be be able to exploit loopholes and evade criminal background checks by buying online or at a gun show. >> and yes, if you're too dangerous to get on a plane, you're too dangerous to buy a gun in america. >> we have to make it harder for people who should not have those weapons of war, and that may not stop every shooting or every terrorists attack, but it will stop some, and it will save lives. >> her plan is to disarm law abiding americans and embellishing the second amendment and leaving only the bad guys and terrorists with guns. she wants the take away the
americans gun and then admit the very people that want to slaughter us. >> i remember how it felt ochb the day after 9/11. we had each other's backs. i was a senator from new york. there was a republican president, a arepublican governor, and a republican ma r mayor. we did not attack each other. we worked with each other to protect the country and rebuild our city. >> having learned nothing from the attacks, she plans to massively increase admissions without a screening plan including a 500 percent increase in the syrian refuges and tell me. tell me how stupid is that? >> wait a minute. the statements are extraordinary. >> i mean talking about a
flooding and how many? >> less than 3,000. >> 2,800. >> less than 3,000. >> he was completely in correct and inflated in the statements. >> and also the comment that hillary clinton wants to take away the second amendment. >> that's a lie. >> the washington post is the third paragraph of the news story starts and says in a speech and falsely exaggerations. >> he is in the campaign and gene -- >> this is what donald trump said not long ago. i support the ban on assault weapons and i also support a longer waiting period to purchase guns. i think he said that back in 2000. >> wait. >> gene, give us a verbal column with the two candidates that you just saw. >> well, you know you have a
reasonable thoughtful mentor candidate for the highest office in the nation who laid out a plan who called for americans as we do to come together in the face of a common threat, and you have a raving lunatic on the other side whose, you know, it was just a string of lies. the thing about it these days is is that it's just lie after lie after lie. it's falsehood and that's kind of going for it and the flat out lies that he tells all of the time. it's frustrating in that sense to cover them, but you know what the washington post is going to continue to cover donald trump even if we cannot ride with them on the plane and god will miss that. >> i'm sure that he will. >> i think that we're going to hold this piece of it.
>> mike, can i get the copy? >> talk about a tail of two candidates yesterday. one practicing the con conspiracy erie and then a multilayered approach. even if if you disagree with the things that clinton suggested, it was a series of the policy speech and not a speech that was packed with the lies. one of the candidates is issuing policy papers and trying to lay out plans that have sophistication and the other is just winging it.
there's no policy. there's just spleen. there's just executive and there's mischaracterizations of the opponents and no awareness of the impact of his words. >> jeffrey, how sad sa on what he said with with the syrian refuges that we have brought in and just following up with that's stupid. the number is closer to 28. what did he say? >> he said thousands. he said 500 percent increase and then 2,800. >> the whole thing is a nonsense because the guy that did this that prompted the speech and where don was off the board. >> yeah, he is is from queens. >> yeah, final thought and it's gene in washington. i may give you donald trump's
name. when the beetles were found, that only made them more poplar. now that you're band, it's going to be huge with the kids. >> it's a badge of honor. my final thought is i guess that i hope that steve is right. i hope that this is a moment like the moment of the financial crisis in 2008 when people look at the two candidates and do the two reactions and then the conclusions about who should be the commander in chief and the figure and then who should confront the threat of isis and then if it is that kind of moment, i think that it's certainly going to play in clinton's favor. >> jeffrey, thank you very much. thank you as well. >> thank you. >> until a week from thursday. still ahead we will go live to orlando for the latest there
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it's 28 past the hour and right now the fbi is looking into whether mateen -- four people that frequent the club said that they have seen him there before. sometimes he would go over in the corner and sit and drink by himself, and other times he would get so drunk that he was loud. let's bring this in chris and chris this morning we're learning of the 49 people that were there and having fun and having a night out when they were gunned down. >> yeah, you know the number of
victims just that number is stagg staggering. in a snap chat video one of the victims 25 kbre-year-old amanda captures the moment that the gunman opened fire in the club. >> i'm at the club! >> reporter: just imagine that you're hiding and hear gunshots. he communicated that he got separated and she was in the bathroom and she has been confirmed as one of the 49 victims killed inside of that night club that's just behind
me. nbc news spoke to her brother last night. >> watching that video you can clearly see my sister look up and kind of realize that's going on and then drop the phone and run. it's heart breaking and the fear in her eyes, you want to be there. you can't to be there immediately and getting this, you know, almost 24 hours later were knowing there's nothing that you can do is heart breaking. >> meantime a survivor still hospitalized after being shot several times. this video of his family shared with us shows him having fun and him dressed up as a teenage mutant ninja turtle. he talks about inside the club. >> i did not lose it.
everything was happening so fast i did not have a chance to try or be scared. i remember the cops asking are you alive is anybody is alive, put your hand up. apparently the guy was making it like he was a victim also, so he was on the floor too. the cops did not know who they were looking at because the guy played that he was a victim too. >> reporter: and last night about 7,500 people turned out for a candle light vig yule and at one point they called for everybody to hug who was against them and this is a community trying to come to gris ps with what happened here in america. >> chris, thank you so much. joining us now commissioner of the new york city and police officer bill and the washington
post and msnbc contribute er. good to have you both with us. >> we're hearing that new york is beefing up on security. >> yeah, the last two years that we have been in new york and 1,300 additional police officers and then in america e i have a lot of resources here and we have and then the task force. it's very necessary and the idea of the intelligence and then the ability approximate if yof the . >> also you have been very
aggressive of building within the muslim community and how many muslim police officers do you have in nypd. >> we have that in the department and then it's ironically and in the building. >> we have close to 900 of the muslims that live in new york city, so that's what new york is all about and new york city police department is all about. it's the gay community and then a large amount of gay officers in the department also. >> go on. >> so we have talked a lot on the show of dealing with the terrorists threat of going back to the roots and isis and all of that. at the end of the day, aren't we going have to problems of perhaps one or two or three individuals that happens and becomes radicalized if they're home grown or not? how do you think about that and try to present that from
happening? >> well, interview bid the fbi two or three times several years ago and that's going to a person that would want a full time surveillance going forward. what triggered now two years later the actions that we're responsible for and that's the limited resources and they're stretched thin in new york and almost a thousand police officers assigned to counter terrorism along with over a hundred assigned to the fbi to work on the cases. surveillance of one individual can can take upwards to 18 to 24 officers a day. it's on one individual we have a number of others that we're watching closely.
it's active in the koint erie. >> on december 3rd 2014 in the massacre, 54 members of the united states senate voted against a bill that would have aloved people in the terror watch list to be prohibited from purchasing a gun. that was defeated. >> shame on them. shame on them and they prostitute themselves in front of the nra. it's the own political careers and that of the nra ahead of the american people. presidential candidate in the clip that you just showed talked about the idea of the watch list and you can go and buy a gun. no fly list, go and buy a gun.
if you're under vins kbags by the fbi for terrorism activity, you're concluded from getting a gun. with this congress, e i would not hold my breathe. that's a privilege in 94 and 95 and where assault weapons are there for ten years. just the symbolism of that was really significant at that time. so the idea and we talked about this this morning. who goes hunting with an assault weapon. if you're a hunting looking for meat, it's again. >> again, it's not like i have grown up here. i spent four decades in rural mississippi, georgia and florida. we had a gun culture and they were shotguns, rifles and locked up in a house and it was a way
of life. you taught your kids to go out and hunt and sometimes five or six and you taught them to do it responsibly. >> you talked about his position on this and the republican party and it's in the sense that he talked about tearing down the walls and we talk about the building walls and then we build it to keep them up and then to keep them in. that's the next thing. >> jump in. >> yeah, just in terms of orlando in general, it's been the -- i have been blown away by the way that the story is covered in the country and blown away in a gooded way. imagine a slaughter of people in
a gay night club and happening ten years ago and 20 years ago and what's the tone and the conversation of what the news coverage is. what we're seeing is is a rallying around the country because once again we're faced and that was a specific community for a long time was the target of abuse for lack of a better word. we're seeing the candle light vigils and then the su suprepre court and then the silver lining and that i can find. >> you know commissioner it's
not been a city and it's never been a secrete and then the gay america and then gay people anywhere in the planet and to be enemies of their set. so the feel and then probably some what and in the history of the city. and it does feel special because of the international threat and then targets many others. so it's something that we're mindful of and the idea of solidarity for that. >> it's the hatred and then
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personally don't think that there's any need for that in the schools and around america. i believe that we have got to take a serious look. i understand everybody's desire to have it, but we have to protect the children. we have to protect the police and population. i think that we have to take a mature look at that. >> that was retired general stanley crystal on "morning joe" back in 2013. joining us now is nbc special
reporter tom. >> well, no one knows the air power and designed for that and for killing people. now it's part of the landscape of america. here is a guy that's been interviewed twice by the fbi maybe three times and going into a gunshot and then donald trump has one and then they can protect themselves and take it into a concert and into a disco club and we did have a ban on it and then it was taken away from a gun owner and then for the life. the fact is is that it's a resent addition to the arsenal and then it's for a long time and i do not have the authority, but i think that this sunday should be a natural day of mourning. it should begin in the morning with a pause o cross tacross th
to reflect on what happened, and i would hope that it would kick off a dialogue that it's from the ground up and then the mosques and churches or whatever people gather they begin to talk to each other. i was reminded yesterday that him and pete did a piece on gun control for example and says that it only works if it's bipartisan. if you get people to come together, i think the country is feeling left out in many ways by the over heated social media stuff that's going on on both sides. when trump talks for example of the president does not get it or he has a hidden agenda, donald trump never said that he was wrong about muslim's celebrating in new jersey for example. we have to know the facts here and take a deep breathe and
decide where to go from here. i said as early as that, that isil was a great threat and it was the last part of the administration and it was that. we need administration. i know there are those who say we've got to step up our bombing program, like we did in kosovo that will bring people -- they hope they will bring more of the islamic nation into all of this. we haven't heard from saudi arabia. we haven't occurred from qatar or united arab emirates. these are islamic nations that ought to be in on it as well. >> there's so much to pick apart here. we'll start with the gun angle on this because it's unbelievable. we heard from a gun store owner that we played a sound bite of earlier that said that exact weapon used in the shoot, gun sales just skyrocketed yesterday. people scarfing them up. i don't know why. >> and this happens. >> they think they're going to be banned.
>> they need them for self-defense? >> it happened after sandy hook. >> yeah, well, tom is right. we spoke about this earlier. people rush to the gun store thinking that donald trump's rhetoric is right. that hillary clinton or any democrat wants to come and take your weapon. >> specifically wants to ban second amendment which -- >> as if the president of the united states has that right. >> can't do that. >> the other side of what tom said when you said people feel left out, i also think that people feel unheard. and that was in high relief after newtown. how is it that a gunman can go into a school, kill schoolchildren and still nothing happens. polls come out and though more than 80% of the country wants at a minimum background checks and nothing happens. i agree with you. should be a national day of mourning, and that it should begin a push so the people who feel left out, unheard of
finally heard. >> let's remember also dear friend of yours and mike's, eight years later, the great tim russert. >> it was a long day yesterday. mike and i were just talking about it. that was one of the more stunning personal developments in my life here. i've been here 50 years. and that day will be forever imprinted in my own mind. i was getting ready to go to saudi arabia that afternoon and waiting to talk to tim who had just gotten back from rome. the first call was that tim has collapsed in the newsroom. i said, is he okay? they said, no, he's gone. i just couldn't believe it. and then we had obviously the next several days, the nation mourned, and they came together. i talked to luke yesterday briefly. he's doing fine. and there is a kind of legacy of tim russert. he reinvented "meet the press" and held people accountable. we miss him right now. i think that chuck todd is doing
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colleen came running up and said tim collapsed. went to the hospital. he was pronounced. i can remember every single second vividly of that day, and you are absolutely right, joe. no matter where you go today for nbc, someone will mention tim russert. someone will mention they miss tim russert because he had something that comes across -- like an x-ray machine, mri machine for tv and it comes across that tim was a good guy. it came across every single week. >> one of his favorite phrases was, this is wild! and i can only imagine what he'd be saying about this year. if this is wild. by the way, i didn't not believe it until mike call me from the hospital and confirmed it at that point. we were kind of the three amigos. it was a big loss. big loss for the country as well. let me say one more thing about what we're going through right now. when oklahoma city happened and timothy mcveigh, an altar boy created the greatest crime in the country against the federal
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baseball, not using baseball bats. seriously. it's a good thing he's grown, mike. it's a good thing he's grown. it gets worse by the day on the campaign trail. yesterday a suggestion -- a suggestion on several channels that barack obama was somehow implicated in -- implicated in these terror attacks. and then saying, well, i'll let people just try to figure out what i said. reminds me when a lot of scumbags said that george w. bush had something to do with 9/11. but to have those on the internet, to have the standard bearer, ball r-- paul ryan's candidate, mitch mcconnell's candidate saying that barack obama may have been complicit in the killings of americans is beyond breathtaking. >> joe, yesterday what he said
on tv early in the morning is basically a disqualifier to be president of the united states because he accused the sitting president of the united states, barack obama, of a treasonous act. we're led by a man who is -- look, we're led by a man that is not tough, not smart or has something else in mind. the something else in mind, people knts believe, they cannot believe that president obama is acting the way he is and can't even mention the words radical islamic terrorism. there's something going on. it's inconceivable. there's something going on. >> and there's -- >> that's a disqualifier. >> and then he goes on another show and he says he doesn't know what he's doing or actually, he may know exactly what he's doing. and then when asked to clarify later in the day he does what he always does. he refuses to clarify so the conspiracy theorists hear the
dog whistle and go to him. >> all right. we'll get more on this in a moment because there's a lot of politics to cover given what's happened. mike barnicle is with us, also former communications director for george w. bush, nicolle wallace, and the president on the council on foreign relations, richard haas joins us this morning. at last check, 29 of the 44 patients rushed to the orlando regional medical center in the wake of the attack remain there this morning. the hospital says all current patients have a, quote, positive prognosis and appear to be improving. last night in downtown orlando, thousands gathered at an emotional candlelight vigil. and the white house says president obama will travel to orlando on thursday to meet with the victims' families and to stand in solidarity with the community. let's bring in nbc news correspondent chris jansing live in orlando. multiple reports that the shooter went to the pulse nightclub often before the attacks? >> we're learning more and more
about this, mika, and the gunman omar mateen. right now the fbi is looking into whether he had previously visited the pulse nightclub many times. according to the "orlando sentinel," four people they talked to say they've seen him there before. one man was quoted as saying, sometimes he'd go over in the corner and drink by himself. other times he'd get so drunk he was loud and belligerent. another man recognized mateen from other places as well. >> i recognize him from one of the apps. but he was like very creepy in his messages. i blocked him immediately. but my other friend -- >> gay dating app? >> yeah. i recognize him off grinder. >> and one of the questions that's been out there is why wasn't he under some sort of surveillance while fbi director
jim comey shed more information on the fbi's contact with mateen. mateen was investigated between may of 2013 and march of 2014 after telling co-workers he had family connections with al qaeda and was a member of hezbollah. he was put under surveillance, placed on the terror watch list, but that investigation did not produce enough evidence to arrest him. >> he admitted making the statements his co-workers reported but explained he did it in anger because he thought his co-workers were discriminating against him and teasing him because he was muslim. our work is very challenging. we are looking for needles in a nationwide haystack, but we're also called upon to figure out which pieces of hay might some day become needles. that is hard work. if we can find a way to do that better, we will. >> the fbi revealed yesterday in one 911 call, mateen made a
reference to the tsarnaev brothers, calling the boston bombers his homeboys. and i also want to tell you that last night, spending the time with folks from this community, particularly members of the lgbt community was inspiring, frankly. 7,500 people came out on a steamy night here in orlando. they say that there is still a lot of fear, but they had to be there because they wanted to show love to each other, support to each other, and it is a little chilling for many of the folks to think that, frankly, joe and mika, this guy was in their presence at that nightclub down the street and had gone there many times before. >> it's terrible. >> chris jansing, thanks very much. we'll be checking back with you throughout the morning. donald trump is doubabbling conspiracy theories. this time suggesting president obama has hidden motives when it comes to the battle against terrorism during multiple interviews yesterday.
listen. >> he doesn't get it, or he gets it better than anybody understands. it's one or the other. and either one is unacceptable. we're led by a man that either is not tough, not smart or he's got something else in mind. and the something else in mind, people can't believe it. people cannot believe that president obama is acting the way he acts and can't even mention the words radical islamic terrorism. there's something going on. it's inconceivable. there's something going on. whether a lot of people think that maybe he doesn't want to get it. a lot of people think maybe he doesn't want to know about it. i happen to think that he just doesn't know what he's doing, but there are many people that think maybe he doesn't want to get it. he doesn't want to see what's really happening. >> what did you mean by that? >> well, you know, let people figure that out for themselves. to be honest with you, there certainly doesn't seem to be a lot of anger or passion when
he -- when we want to demand retribution for what happened over the weekend. there was certainly not a lot of passion. not a lot of anger. so, you know, i'll let that -- we'll let people figure it out. >> so he said, donald trump said the president of the united states and islamic terror, he knows exactly what he's doing. there's something else in his mind going on. there's something going on. there's something going on. maybe he knows exactly what he's doing. and when pressed on these conspiracy theories, when pressed after "the washington post" and others had said he is suggesting that barack obama is complicit in these killings, all he would say is, i'll let people figure that out for themselves. >> so i'm sure in washington, especially given all the
leadership we've seen over the past few weeks there will be a swift reaction, right? what would that reaction be if it were you? >> i would have never endorsed him in the first place. i've said that. >> if you did, you would have probably revoked your endorsement by now. >> the racism for the indiana judge. this man is bad news, my fellow republicans in washington. this only gets worse. i tried to help you last week. tried to help you again this week. save your party. save our party and speak truth to power. speak truth to -- why aren't more republicans willing to stand up and be counted. this is a time of crisis, not only for you, not only for your conservative movement but also for your country. stand and be counted. this is getting worse by the day. nicolle, our republican party now led by a man who implied all
day yesterday that barack obama was complicit in one way or the other. conspired. one way or the other with islamic radicals and knows exactly what he's doing, and i'll let people figure out for themselves what i'm saying. if you're paul ryan, how do you not withdraw your endorsement today? if you are mitch mcconnell who suggested he might. he said i'm going to give this guy a couple of weeks to straighten it out. i can see mitch mcconnell doing it today. >> scott brown in attendance at his speech in new hampshire. listen, a lot of people fell in line after his sort of stunning political achievement of sweeping the republican primaries, and they all have to answer. not just to their party and constituents but to their wives and children. i mean, this is -- this is a colossal -- >> how does this make you feel as a republican? >> listen, i've been in the ten-step program since december. >> i know, but this isn't about
trump now. this is about paul ryan. this is about mitch mcconnell. this is about congressmen, congresswomen, senators. >> it makes me proud that the president i worked for said he wouldn't go to the convention. i think some have taken a stand but it certainly looks like they came out on the right side of history. just as a political tactician. yesterday i made a point of watching a day in donald trump's communications activity because i wanted to sort of understand it. they as a campaign worked on a speech for which there was a prepared text that was distributed, and the speech was delivered on a teleprompter riddled with its own problems of racism toward muslims and religious intolerance. but that was the planned message of the day. so i'm befuddled by what it is they are trying to communicate.
i'm told he refuses to step back at all from doing these kinds of interviews where he trots out his conspiracy theories. there was a message of the day from -- >>riddled as you said with problems, factual problems. you go through it, literally. identify this guy as -- >> the shooter is an afghan. >> born in new york 27 years ago. >> somebody really needs to help him out. get a map. i hear you guys did it with sarah palin. somebody needs to get a map. put it in front of donald trump and, first of all, explain the difference between indiana and mexico. and now i guess we're going to have to figure out the difference between afghanistan and queens. because astoria, when the sunlight hits it just right it looks a lot like kabul. you go in there. i think there's an "l" that cuts right through kabul.
here's donald trump yesterday not telling the truth. wow. >> the killer, whose name i will not use or ever say, was born in afghan, of afghan parents who emigrated to the united states. his father published support for the afghan taliban. the only reason the killer was in america in the first place was because we allowed -- >> stop, stop, stop. don't even play any more. >> now richard haas, he did the same -- >> we don't even know how to ask you too you to analyze. >> last week he said the judge is mexican. and jake said, no, he was born in indiana. a total lie. he had no problem lying. and here he's going, well, he's born in afghanistan. no, he was born --
>> he was born in afghan? he was born in queens, new york. right by the -- >> we are sorry you have to -- >> i know you'd rather talk about brexit. why don't we -- which by the way, donald trump doesn't know what brexit is. why don't we talk about as this deepens, as this crisis deepens, just how bad do world leaders see this development in american democracy? >> well, around the world, people are looking at us, and this is, shall we say drarks , t dramatically at odds. they can't understand why we are where we are. what we said yesterday, besides the insinuations which you've been talking about quite properly was the speech. and the speech essentially cast the entire issue as one of immigration. large numbers were coming in. they weren't being screened.
and what we needed to do was shut down immigration. we do a lot of screening. the number coming in as refugees are a trickle. and the answer is not to shut down immigration. the answer is to better integrate those who are already here. these are not problems caused by immigrants. the issues we have are individuals. we don't know what degree of emotional disturbance or political agenda. how do we build ties to these communities? >> these communities self-police. there's no way the fbi and law enforcement can solve this problem for us. you have 3 million americans. we'll not have 3 million fbi agents on these people. we've got to have individuals, first of all, not get radicalized. >> the key here is the buy-in. you have to have the buy-in from muslim americans. you have to have a buy-in from mosques. you have to have a buy-in where people believe they are part of the american fabric every bit as
much as you and me. and that's the problem with muslim bans. that's the problem with the demonization. and it makes the fbi's challenge a lot more difficult, mika. >> alex, do we have a part of his speech that makes sense? here's -- we'll try again. >> -- for a ban after san bernardino and was met with great scorn and anger. but now many years, and i have to say many years, but many are saying, that i was right to do so. and although the pause is temporary, we must find out what is going on. we have to do it. it will be lifted, this ban, when and as a nation we're in a position to properly and perfectly -- >> hold on a second. here's a problem, though. he's talking about the muslim ban. san bernardino? american citizen.
and now here we have, of course, what happened in orlando, an american citizen. what he's talking about has absolutely nothing to do with orlando. this guy was born in new york. lived in florida. and he's talking about -- >> his parents came here in 1980. his parents are -- >> it's about a second generation thing with him. are we talking about deporting now? >> he mentioned san bernardino. one of the key aspects of san bernardino is the day after the san bernardino massacre, december rd, 2014, 54 united states senators, a majority of them, voted not to extend -- voted to turn down a proposal that would have allowed the fbi to check on people on the terrorist watch list who wanted to buy a gun. >> right. >> they voted against it. you can be on the terrorist watch list, you can go in and buy a long gun, hand gun.
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clinton wants to allow radical islamic terrorists to pour into our country. they enslave women and murder gays. i don't want them in our country. >> i remember how it felt on the day after 9/11. we had each other's backs. i was a senator from new york. there was a republican president, a republican governor and a republican mayor. we did not attack each other. we worked with each other to protect our country and to rebuild our city.
>> 26 past the hour. contrasting messages from hillary clinton and donald trump. mike barnicle and steve rattner back at the table and joining us, katy tur covering the trump campaign. you were at trump's speech yesterday and have been fact checking. >> there were a number of inaccuracies in that speech and a number of accuracies. he talked about hillary clinton wanting to get rid of the second amendment. this is something he says all the time. that's not entirely true. she's for more restrictions on guns but never said i want to get rid of the second amendment. in terms of immigration, he talked about how there's no checks and balances on that. that's not true. there are checks and balances. and he also talked about the shooter being born in afghan, which seemed to be a misspeak but it's one they did not correct, even in subsequent tweets or questions for a correction. the guy was born in queens, just
a few miles from where donald trump was born in queens. so -- >> very far from afghanistan, just like the judge was born in indiana. >> yeah. well, the speech was a lot of red meat. a lot of dog whistling for folks that might be scared about what's going on in terms of radical terror and it was a lot of blaming muslims for what's going on and casting doubts on whether they are really american and whether they are on the side of this country or if they're secretly fighting for somebody else or letting others go and commit mass murder. >> so mika, sometimes some tactics worked in the primary that we said wouldn't work in the general election. a couple of polls suggest this line of attack not working. a shocking poll, one of the more shocking polls, but it shouldn't be shocking because people have been telling me it was going to be this way for a long time.
a poll that's come out now has actually donald trump and hillary clinton tied at 35%. that is utah, one of the reddest states in america tied at 35% between donald trump and hillary clinton. also, of course, mike barnicle, a national poll that has hillary clinton up seven points. that is quite a change. not so long ago, donald trump, a month ago, was actually ahead. >> the utah number is -- that's almost lethal. >> utah. >> but i think in utah there's a set of slightly special circumstances in that the utah people really have a problem -- mormons really have a problem with donald over the family values and social issues and things like that. but nonetheless, the polls are very striking. >> something that can become a drag in the fall if this continues in the deep south as well. you remember george w. bush on
friday. news came out that he had a dui arrest back in the 1970s. the bush team calculated, because he was ahead three points or so over gore on that friday going into the weekend. calculated that cost him hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of evangelical votes. so we'll see if that's happening in utah right now is just a sign of things to come. >> you seem almost like you can't even -- you don't know how to characterize these statements he's making. >> yesterday was -- felt like a marathon at the end of the day. felt like you've been running for the entire day. and after it all, you department quite know what to say. >> you feel like there's a change in trump's temperament that it's always been volatile? what we have sensed knowing him for as long as we've known him
is that over the past couple of weeks, there has been a change in temperament. a short fuse has gotten even shorter. yesterday banning "the washington post." sticking to this mexican judge argument. and then a lot of this bizarre -- it seems like things are getting more bizarre. >> an empty rally in richmond. >> and i will say we've seen smaller crowds at his rallies for the past three or four that we've been to, which is unusual, which makes me wonder if this is just the primaries are over and people are in their summer lag or if there does seem to be less of an excitement about donald trump than there were during the primaries. i think we have to wait and see how that pans out. i do think there's been a change. i think the campaign and the candidate himss frelf from conversations i've been having, they don't feel they're being treated fairly or given the amount of recognition they should have been given for winning on such a shoe string budget, with such a small team
and in such a surprising way. >> they feel that right now? >> they feel they aren't getting enough credit for that. i don't believe that they fully understood, and this is the same thing that operatives behind the scenes tell me what it is like to be in a general election and what it is like to become the presumptive nominee. suddenly there aren't other candidates out there with reporters following every one of those candidates. all of the reporters are following two folks. and one of them is hillary clinton and the other is donald trump. >> a victory lap. they want a victory lap. you don't get a chance to get a victory lap when you are elected president of the united states. in fact, every president, democratic and republican, that's why barack obama who get the most fawning press in 2008 got elected and then was shocked when the press woke up and started to do their job when he became president. for donald trump to wonder why people didn't give him a victory
lap. everybody said it's nothing short of amazing. now it really is nothing short of amazing. and yet they knew, steve rattner. they knew they had to make the turn. the family knew he needed to make the turn. manafort knew he needed to make the turn. lewandowski knew he needed to make the turn but nobody can control donald trump. it all comes down to donald trump. >> totally. manafort as recently as sunday on one of the sunday shows i heard him say he's got to make the turn. i hope and i believe he will. but he hasn't. whether he believes this has got him where it got him to and there's no need to make the turn, you can just continue to play this game or what. >> i was speaking to operatives, and they are -- i said this before. they're pulling their hair out. when is that turn going to happen? there's very little faith at this point it's going to happen. one told me yesterday that donald trump, that extreme
rhetoric, he's preaching to the choir. the choir isn't enough to get him elected. >> the choir is smaller. >> he's preaching to the choir, and the choir is getting smaller. >> we have never seen, none of us have ever seen, ever witnessed a campaign for president of the united states where the candidate for president is so self-absorbed. >> i think the candidate is getting smaller. >> the level of self-absorption in his campaign, all about him, is stunning. >> i looked back at all of his tweets after tragedies. specifically after terrorist attacks. and there's a definitive pattern. there's a definite pattern there. the first thing he does, often before he offers any condolences is to kong gratulate himself, pat himself on the back -- >> after a terror attack. >> then he casts doubt on muslims and then extends that doubt to barack obama or then goes on to attack his opponents. in one of the circumstances, the brussels attack, that night is
when he brought up heidi cruz and said he was going to spill the beans on her. that very night was when that happened. >> katy tur, thank you very much. still ahead -- >> good luck. >> -- we'll look at the ar-15 rifle. one of the weapons used in the world shooting. the primary season officially ends today as democrats in dc head to the polls. no matter what happens, bernie sanders is set to meet today with hillary clinton. we'll talk to the man who was sanders' lone supporter in the senate, jeff merkley, as he acknowledged hillary clinton is now the nominee.
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especially in the gun battle? times like this. >> it's like you noted, we had a tragic situation at the community college in oregon, and these events happen with regularity. but this is the worst of the worst. and my heart just goes out to the people of orlando, the lgbt community there and nationwide. this type of vicious hate crime. >> the thing, it seems to me, that we're not talking about taking away the second amendment. obviously, i would be the most conservative on gun issues, but there are some 80/20, 90/10 issues that can't even pass congress. background checks that would stop domestic abusers from being able to get guns. background checks that would stop people convicted of hate crimes from getting automatic weapons -- semiautomatic
weapons. background checks that would stop people on the terror watch list, the no-fly list from getting -- from being able to go out and buy military style semiautomatic weapons. this is something the overwhelming majority of americans, including republicans, support. why can't there even be an honest debate in congress? >> absolutely, you're right. and my home state is a state where the gun culture is very strong. we hunt. we target practice. we compete. but we also are a state where the citizen s voted to extend background checks in a statewide initiative. it's also a state where the state legislature filled in the craigslist loophole. we know that background checks may not have stopped this event. it may not stop a lot of events, but it will stop some and doing them in an effective, comprehensive manner, including
craigslist sales or sales through gun shows makes a lot of sense. so does restricting the size of magazines. the magazines are restricted to something like three shells for duck hunting and at least when somebody is changing a magazine in a terrible situation, there's perhaps an interruption, perhaps a chance for the person to be overpowered. >> before we go, on quinnipiac poll out shows 90% of americans support background checks, increased background checks. almost 6 in 10 americans, and i'm not even talking about this, support a ban on assault-style weapons. i'm sorry. go ahead. >> that's a great segue to my question. so senator, obviously as we've talked about this has not passed. it's never even gotten close to passing and we've had tragedy after tragedy. here with the biggest tragedy
since 9/11. is there any possibility, particularly that we're in an election year that congress might actually do something, anything on these various pieces of the puzzle that moft americans support fixing? >> well, i must say i've been here long enough now, not to be optimistic. we had a push by -- in a bipartisan fashion that joe mentioned ee eed -- manchin wa involved in. but the votes appear to be there. it should be debated. it should be fully discussed. and we also, if i can pivot down to florida, it's important for folks to realize that the type of hate and prejudice that motivated this individual is still fed by the discrimination we have in so many states. in florida you can be fired from your job because you are gay or lesbian. you can be kicked out of a
restaurant or theater. you can be kicked out of rental housing. we need to end discrimination around this country. fully embrace our constitutional vision of opportunity for every single american, and maybe that will do at least something to send the message to virtually everyone that that's our culture is to embrace opportunity for all. >> so mike barnicle, this is a cbs poll out in october of the latest one they took of this. 92% of americans favor background checks. republicans, 87% of republicans support background checks. 87%. this is a 9 in 10 issue for even republicans. >> it's not a 90/10 issue in the united states senate. 54 senators voted against the right for the fbi to arrest people who are on the watchlist trying to buy a gun. rejected it two years ago. so before we let you go on
another topic, later today your guy, bernie sanders, is scheduled to meet with secretary clinton. you seem to have a particularly vulnerable republican opponent making himself more vulnerable each and every day. what are the odds of senator sanders just landing his plane now and getting on as a joint effort against donald trump? >> he said he'd run his campaign through the d.c. primary. that primary is today. there are memos being exchanged between the parties. the conversations are under way. and they need each other for the big ideas that bernie sanders put forward that resonated so powerfully in the grassroots. to be advanced they need to be woven into the dna of the party and the presidential campaign. and for hillary clinton to benefit from the grassroots energy of those individuals, she needs to pull them in. so i'm really optimistic about the conversation between the two of them. there's a lot of mutual
advantage in working closely together. they both have to reach out to make that happen. >> jeff merkley, thank you for being on the show. up next on "morning joe," -- >> normally we might sell three or four a day. but we've been selling about ten an hour and right around lunchtime about 15 an hour. >> sales of rifles like the ar-15 like the one in orlando and newtown, connecticut. how it became known as america's most popular rifle. keep it right here on "morning joe."
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this is my rifle. >> the ar-15 was once exclusive to colt. >> there are many like it, but this one is mine. >> but today the name refers to a general style of gun. that's allowed dozens of u.s. manufacturers to get into the game. helping make the ar, usually priced between one and two grand, one of the best selling firearms in america. >> that was from cnbc's documentary from three years ago on the ar-15. an ar-15 style rifle was one of the guns used in the orlando nightclub massacre and has also been the murder weapon in other mass shootings in the u.s. we'll get to the host of that cnbc documentary in a minute but first let's go to tom costello live at a gun range in chantilly, virginia. talk about the popularity of this weapon with gun owners.
>> absolutely. blue ridge arsenal here in chantilly. very nice people here. they make the point this ar-15 style weapon is a semiautomatic gun. it is not a machine gun. that means you have to pull the trigger for each individual round you fire. they call this america's most popular rifle, and it is very popular for target practice like this. it's also a favorite target for gun control advocates. it is powerful and precise. and like any gun, deadly. the bullets that tore through the pulse nightclub came from an ar-15 style weapon. now itself a target. >> they're designed to kill as many people as possible. it is not a hunting gun. it is not a gun that needs to be on our streets. >> but the ar-15 is also one of america's most popular guns used mostly for hunting and target shooting. >> all i have to do is take the magazine out, put another magazine and i'm ready.
>> that takes you three seconds. >> if that. >> katie meyers is a former police officer who teaches gun safety. the bullets used in an ar-15 are usually smaller than those in a .45 caliber handgun. >> i can create more damage using a handgun. the bullet holes from the .45 are this top target here. the bullet holes from the 223 are here. >> reporter: what can make it so deadly is it can hold much more ammunition in the magazine. >> all the magazines for an ar-15, 30, 60, 100, just the same as buying a loaf of bread in the u.s. no restruction on the magazine. >> selling for $250 to $2,000 each, ar-15 sales took off after the assault weapons ban was lifted in 2004. today americans own 5 million to 10 million of them but they've been used in 14 mass murders including aurora, sandy hook,
roseberg, oregon, san bernardino, and now orlando. just six states restrict or prohibit them. buyers must show three thunderstorms of i.forms of i.d. and pass a background check. >> do you ever have someone coming in that you think shouldn't be buying a weapon like this? >> we turn people down all the time. we say, i'm sorry, but we can't sell you a weapon. >> reporter: omar mateen had to wait three days to legally purchase the weapon but there was no waiting for the ar-15. you hear a lot of responsible gun owners say they enjoy this gun for target practice. they enjoy teaching their kids to responsibly fire a gun. to handle a gun. and there's an awful lot of anger and resentment that this weapon which they enjoy has been used for mass murder yet again. >> tom costello, thank you. let's bring in cnbc's brian sullivan. that's an incredible piece tom just put together.
it's chilling. >> so tell us what you learned. >> we did the documentary a couple of years ago. the size of the ownership of this gun. ar-15 is a type of gun. people think ar stands for assault rifle. it stands for armalight, the gun that invented it. there's hundreds of different manufacturers, which is why the price point is so different. 5 million to 10 million homes owned. the sales of this gun doubled from 2008 to 2010. >> why? >> they doubled. >> barack obama's election? >> perhaps. also a financial crisis. people got scared. we don't know. but it was a type of a gun. and it is exceptionally widely owned and exceptionally easy to customize and it's light. >> every time there's a fear of a ban, a false fear of like saying the government coming after guns or the second amendment being abolished as donald trump falsely claimed yesterday, hillary clinton
wanted to do, there's always a surge. >> well, yeah. and that's connected whenever there's always one of these events. people think there's a mass murder, there's going to be a ban on them and they rush out and buy them. >> smith & wesson's stock grew 7% yesterday. a lot of talk about gun control. understand that. in our documentary we showed a guy making ar-15 parts with a 3d printer. if congress wants to get ahead of this issue, it's not just about the purchasing of the guns. it will be because of technology, about the making -- i shot an ar-15 that was assembled with 3d printed parts three years ago. i fired it myself. and it works. >> oh, my gosh. >> didn't work well, but it worked. why buy them if you can make them at home? >> and you said if congress gets ahead of -- congress is not interested in getting ahead of anything. >> good luck. >> they're really in touch with the american people. >> thank you so much, brian. we'll be right back with more "morning joe." (man) oh, looks like we missed
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forth with. >> president bush went to a muslim community center just six days after the attacks to send a message of unity and solidarity. to anyone who wanted to take out their anger on our muslim neighbors and fellow citizens, he said that should not and that will not stand in america. it is time to get back to the spirit of those days. the spirit of 9/12. >> time to talk about what we learned today. >> hillary clinton has never sounded better. i'll leave it there. >> you said yesterday pitch perfect. she seems to be finding her voice. >> the majority of gun crime is committed with illegally bought guns but the mass killings with
legally bought. >> donald trump doesn't seem to get it in terms of how to be a presidential candidate and where the country is at the this moment. >> i learned from new york police commissioner bill bratton the 54 united states senators who made it impossible for anyone on the terror watch list to be precluded from buying a gun, that he could make a case against them for aiding and abetting terrorism. >> all right. >> well, that would be interesting. n he should do it. >> if it's way too early, it's "morning joe." but stick around. chris jansing picks up the coverage live from orlando right now. good morning from orlando. a city still shattered by what happened here just over 48 hours ago. the shooting that left 49 people dead and an entire nation searching for answers. president obama is expected to address the shooting when he speaks just before noon today following a meet with the national security council. he is also scheduled a trip to
this city on thursday to pay respects to the victims' families and show solidarity with this community. meantime, the investigation continues. later today, fbi director james comey and homeland security secretary jeh johnson will brief house members on what they know so far. but here's johnson from this morning on the "today" show. >> it is barely more than 48 hours after the attack. it's still early. we're learning a lot right now. the fbi is aggressively investigating this right now in florida. i suspect we'll know a lot more in the coming days and hours. >> this morning we're learning more about the gunman. 29-year-old omar mateen. the fbi says he was radicalized. but his motives for the shooting are still unclear. and the fbi says while it is aware of reports that mateen had been to pulse before, many times, and he had reached
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what comes next. and, the man everyone came to see was nowhere to be found. news at 11:00 starts right now. >> live from the abc 7 broadcast centers, this is abc 7 news at 11:00, on your side. >> new developments in the crisis in iraq. the u.s. military has carried out for more airstrikes using jets and drones to hammer militants. officials say it believes -- it appears a strike succeeded in destroying armored vehicles firing on civilians in northern iraq. this is the third round of airstrikes against isil since they were authorized. the growing crisis is hitting home. a number of iraq hes who -- iraqis who left their country now live in our area. for them, the response to the situation is very personal. robert lyles is live in southwest washington with their
side of the story. >> from inside a small restaurant in alexandria, iraqi-americans have been following all the details thousands of miles away. they watched the president's press conference today, so they are hoping tonight the oval office and congress will do more than airstrikes. >> i'm not going to give a particular timetable. >> president obama told the world u.s. airstrikes will continue as long as u.s. personnel and religious minorities are at risk. it is news he has been waiting to hear. >> it was a very good idea from the president to do the airstrike, but was a late act from them because we believe isis is like a virus inside the body. it has contaminated. >> through an arabic translator, the co-owner of sin that restaurant -- sindbad restaurant says his restaurant has been
holding desperate conversations by iraqi expatriates how islam state, also known as isis, has spread its brand of islam. >> where they are coming from, who was behind them? >> it comes with a heaping side of fear for those left in iraq. >> i have a lot of fear for my family. my brother, my sister. >> genocide is what they call it. diners sayese iraqi they never thought -- they pray for more than airstrikes from the u.s. he is even prepared to take -- put down his carving knife and fight. >> to protect iraq. the president went on to say the u.s. cannot intervene in
every world crisis, but in this case the u.s. cannot look away. in that casens say there is no shame in u.s. troops going back to iraq. >> we moved to another crisis the president is dealing with, international calls for a cease-fire in the middle east. britain, germany, and france issued a joint declaration urging israel and hamas to stop firing rockets across each other's borders. but so far, no word on any movement toward making that happen. medical crews in gaza data through the rubble of a mosque and retrieved bodies. the mosque was leveled by an israeli airstrike. the crisis overseas has triggered an investigation in montgomery county. benny fisher says he received death threats after hanging an israeli flag outside his restaurant.
police are now going through his phone records. the suspect could be charged with a hate crime. police in prince george's county had to cut a man from his car after a bad wreck in bowie. earlier tonight along route 50 and 301. a man was taken to the hospital with serious injuries also right now in prince george's county, a man fights for his life after being hit by a car. police tell us the man was trying to cross university boulevard at new hampshire avenue at 6:00 this evening. this was in langley park. the driver of the vehicle remained on the scene. police are not sure whether the man was in the crosswalk at the time. d.c. police are investigating why a driver crashed into the side of a building in southeast. this is near marlboro pike. you see the lincoln town car ended up almost entirely inside the building. no word on the driver's condition. new developments on breaking
news we brought to you at 6:00. turns out there were no injuries following a three alarm fire at fort belvoir. the fire was in a commercial building late today. investigators have not said how the fire started or the extent of damages. a live look outside right now. there are some clouds and a few spotty showers throughout the day. let's go to the weather center. >> it is still just a few isolated showers. we start with live doppler to show you where they are, moving through fairfax, kind of right along the river here. ,ust to the south of lorton around the woodbridge area. but overall things are looking pretty quiet elsewhere, with mostly cloudy skies across the region. temperatures have fallen into lower 70's, now 68 in frederick. overnight tonight, partly to mostly cloudy skies. .3 to 69 the range
some areas that's our rain earlier, maybe some patchy fog developing, but overall tomorrow is kind of a repeat of today. a few stray showers possible, but highly isolated. more rain coming monday and tuesday of next week in advance of our next cold front. i share that with you, coming up in a few minutes. >> i know you have been following the tropical systems on the west coast, or at least in the pacific. things are slowly returning to normal tonight in hawaii. tourists are getting back to their vacations after tropical storm iselle soaked the island but did not have a lasting impact. thousands of people on the big island have spent more than 24 hours without electricity, however. right eye and iselle -- right behind iselle, hurricane julio is still churning. it is stronger, but it is expected to skirt the islands to the north early tomorrow.
following a story in prince george's county, where a church has fallen victim to copper thieves, leaving parishioners feeling the heat. richard reeve is live in hyattsville to tell us all about it. >> what a tough week for this church. trashedbecause vandals the air-conditioning system in the pursuit of copper. night. hot august at shiloh house of god in hyattsville-- >> it is hot. fans,d bottled water and handheld and electric. the only relief from a 90-degree indoor temperature. >> to me, it is disgusting. this is summertime. we have over -- old people, children. >> look behind the church and you will see why.
between last saturday and tuesday, someone vandalized the church's giant a.c. units. >> they jumped over the fence and took the unit out of the building pretty methodically. >> they opened the housings and stole four condenser units like this, filled with copper tubing. >> they took the copper parts and sold it. >> now joining hundreds of homes and businesses and utilities nationwide hit by copper thieves. metal theft, 95% of the copper, is now a $1 billion business. >> the furniture -- >> copper is now worth about two dollars a pound. it is on a hot streak among thieves, even from a church. >> it is sad that they had to do this. to sell copper to get money from a church. --this is a cemetery in sabbatarian church, meeting on
saturdays. they hope to meet with insurance on sunday -- monday and possibly get some surveillance cameras. >> police in washington state arrested a teenager in the death of a six-year-old girl. the 17-year-old was taken into custody this afternoon in a seattle suburb were both of them lived. he is accused of raping and killing janice wright. investigators collected dna cheek swabs from dozens of people after wright disappeared one week ago. a somber ceremony in st. mary's county, honoring a man who tried to save his friend. lost his lifealey in 2011 when his friend was towning and he jumped in rescue him.
nded ofboth men ednd drowning. the dedication took place at his firehouse. fairfax county is welcoming new search and rescue k-9 units. the dogs just finished one year of training in southern california, and have been partnered up with firefighters. coming up, a made-for-tv motorcade draws big crowds, but "house of cards" fans missed out on maybe the biggest attraction. we will explain. >> and if the supermoon wasn't cool enough, wait until you hear what happens tomorrow night. another look at your forecast.
>> you are watching abc 7 news at 11:00 -- on your side. >> a motorcade is nothing new in d.c., but one near the national mall today was a little different. a crew was shooting scenes for the upcoming season of "house of card."
street closures were in effect for most of the day. .eople stopped to watch >> "house of cards" is shooting, so we thought we would come down and look. >> they were hoping to catch a glimpse of the stars -- they were out of luck. ightn spacey and robin wr were not in town. netflix has not announced when season three will premiere. we will not see any presidential motorcade in d.c. for a while. president obama and the first family left this morning for martha's vineyard.less than one hour after arriving, he was on the golf course. the will return before vacation of two weeks. martha's vacationed in vineyard every year they have been in office except in 2012. up late tomorrow
night, you are in for a really cool show. >> that's right. it will be the supermoon, and also the perseid meteor shower. this video was taken last night. the full moon occurs tomorrow. it is called a supermoon because the moon is that lunar 40%gee, meaning it appears bigger and 30% brighter. more about to hear the meteor shower, i have a blog on wjla.com. back here on the ground, looking at quiet conditions. lapse show you a time from earlier today. we had a few showers that moved through earlier. very hit or miss today. some spots saw heavy downpours. look at manassas, va. 72 degrees now.
with all the rain, there may be some fog developing overnight. in d.c., few sprinkles, but that was about it. temperatures are in the upper 60's to lower 70's. it's muggy. the dew point temperature in manassas, 72 degrees, very steamy. fog could develop overnight. we still have cloud cover out there, but maybe tomorrow night we will see some breaks and then rather cloudy monday and tuesday, but still it right -0- a bright moon and the meteor shower through the middle of the work week. ,outheasterly breeze offshore giving us a lift for showers to develop. tomorrow will be similar. the futurecast starting tomorrow at 6:00 a.m.
sunshine through the early morning hours. midday, clouds beginning to build and a few pop up showers, but on the futurecast, hard to pick up because it will be highly isolated. just keep an eye. live super doppler so you can keep abreast of that tomorrow. more widely scattered showers and some storms as the cold front fights through. 63 to 69 overnight tonight. tomorrow, low to mid 80's and a 20% chance of a shower where you are. but showers become more numerous, especially on tuesday with the advancing cold front. behind the cold front again, we enjoyed another middle and end of the workweek with sunshine, low humidity and slightly below average temperatures. >> it has been a very nice summer. >> it has been great. we needed that, after the winter that we had. has released its
annual list of the most memorable sports cities. atlanta tops the list -- miserable, not memorable. [laughter] atlanta tops the list. its teams have won just one title since the 1960's. phoenix's -- phoenix is second. years mostst miserable city, did not make the list after the seahawks won the super bowl. >> cool also voided the list? else avoided-who a list? >> because of our major team, the kastles? [laughter] i knew you figured that out. >> the caps put us over the top. i was being sarcastic. et's talk about the pga championship, shall we?
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>> now, the toyota sports desk, brought to you by your local toyota dealers. >> the nationals finally started after a three and a half hour rain delay in atlanta. right now, no score in the second inning. national start the night with a 3.5-game lead over the braves. the orioles have the biggest lead of any first-place team and -- in baseball. nelson cruz, number 32 him. orioles now have a six-game lead on the yankees and blue jays. the redskins have a few more days in richmond and then go back to the day-to-day reality of practice. feeling good about the first preseason game. deshawn jackson had an ankle issue, missing practice.
throwing this to santana moss. there you go. for me? yesterday, theff redskins went back to work knowing the win was nice, but there is a long way to go. >> there's not a phase of the game -- we were far from perfect. we always strive for perfection, but we will sure as hell try. as long as they know every day is a workday, and we have a long way to go before we go to houston, we will be in a good shape. >> jason hatcher is finally on the field. he left the cowboys & with the redskins, but spent the last two months rehabbing from knee surgery. today he was cleared for practice, but still not 100%. me, seeng the pads on
how i respond to that. they're trying to progress me along to next week. i see how i feel, how respond. >> look who it is, johnny football. ziel,y manziel, money man first preseason game as a cleveland brown. to former redskins anthony and strong. yards.pes the tackle, 16 63 yards. browns still lost 13-12. when you are i play golf and you lose a ball, you just kind of throw it down, but if you're in the pga championship it is different. he hit over some water and the deep rough. they paddle up -- i found the
ball, play it from there. player would have taken 10 shots to get out of there. he got it out and pared the hole. one shot back. bernd wiesberger, 170 yards back 170 yards to a couple inches. one shot back behind the leader, ringneck or right. -- rory mcilroy. a1-shot lead going into the final round. --. united up right now, losing in the second half. i was in cleveland watching some games. every place you go,, nothing but manziel shirts. a hot seller. >> and this is the weekend
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World News Now : WJLA : January 14, 2016 3:30am-4:01am EST
is true. and we're now nearly halfway through january. gio benitez, abc news, new york. >>> a navy investigation is under way to how those two -- how those ten u.s. say areas ended up in iranian captivity. after being released, the sai r sailors are now back with the american fleet. a military official says this video of an apology was staged in order to keep the crew safe. john kerry credits a critical role of diplomacy in ending the crisis peacefully. >> these are always situations which as everybody here knows, have an ability if not properly guided to get out of control. and i'm appreciative for the quick and appropriate response of the iranian authorities. >> as for the nuclear deal with iran, the international atomic energy agency is expected to announce tomorrow that all conditions have been met. that means a decades of sanctions on iran could be lifted as early as this weekend. >> and speaking about that incident, two republican presidential hopefuls are outraged over the entire encounter with iran. new jersey governor chris christie says the sailors temporary detention sho
is true. and we're now nearly halfway through january. gio benitez, abc news, new york. >>> a navy investigation is under way to how those two -- how those ten u.s. say areas ended up in iranian captivity. after being released, the sai r sailors are now back with the american fleet. a military official says this video of an apology was staged in order to keep the crew safe. john kerry credits a critical role of diplomacy in ending the crisis peacefully. >> these are always...
World News Now : WJLA : January 6, 2016 2:37am-3:01am EST
, telling wall street that greed is not good. in a fiery speech in new york he promised to break up the big banks during the first year of his presidency. abc's cecilia vega was there. >> reporter: senator bernie sanders, the democratic socialist from vermont, drawing those massive crowds and twice as many donors as president obama had at this stage in 2008, also beating clinton in the polls in his own back yard, new hampshire. in new york sanders bringing his fight against corporate america directly to wall street's front door. >> if a bank is too big to fail, it is too big to exist. >> reporter: sanders pledging to dismantle the nation's biggest firms and financial banks within the first year in office. we met up with the senator. [ applause ] >> thank you. >> reporter: the mob of supporters there every step of the way. you sound like you despite corporate america. you sounded angry. >> what i despise is the greed, is the contempt. >> reporter: so i asked about that pledge to break up those banks deemed too big to fail. >> a lot of people are going to hear this promise from you to
, telling wall street that greed is not good. in a fiery speech in new york he promised to break up the big banks during the first year of his presidency. abc's cecilia vega was there. >> reporter: senator bernie sanders, the democratic socialist from vermont, drawing those massive crowds and twice as many donors as president obama had at this stage in 2008, also beating clinton in the polls in his own back yard, new hampshire. in new york sanders bringing his fight against corporate...
ingredient, cheese. we'll follow kendis into one of new york's best spots to make mozzarella. >> mozzarella! >> okay. on this wednesday, january 20th. say cheese lovers day. >> why are you talking like that? >> announcer: from abc news this is "world news now." >>> we're really excited about the cheese thing. good morning, everyone. i'm reena ninan. >> good morning. i'm kendis gibson. we would smother ourselves with cheese in f. it was socially acceptable. in some places it probably is. >> speak for yourself. i just saw you pull out the cheese from your backpack that we're supposed to eat later. i'm a little bit concerned about this. >> should be. are you supposed to refrigerate it? >> yes, you are supposed to refrigerate it, especially fresh mozzarella. >> because i've had it in the bag since yesterday. >> oh, boy. >> see what sort of impact it has. >> speaking of impact. >> yes. let's talk about this. a lot of people are saying this might be a game changer. talking about politics. in the heated republican race in iowa donald trump getting that key endorsement from sarah pal
ingredient, cheese. we'll follow kendis into one of new york's best spots to make mozzarella. >> mozzarella! >> okay. on this wednesday, january 20th. say cheese lovers day. >> why are you talking like that? >> announcer: from abc news this is "world news now." >>> we're really excited about the cheese thing. good morning, everyone. i'm reena ninan. >> good morning. i'm kendis gibson. we would smother ourselves with cheese in f. it was socially...
pilgrim, abc news new york. >> that's frightening for many parents and anybody traveling. it's been mild and only causes symptoms in one in five people. >> but it's so -- it's one of those fears you have when you're pregnant that something could go wrong like that. apparently disease specialists in brazil are saying this virus can cause a surge in another condition called gill oneon-buchlt it can paralyze some patients, forcing them to go on life support. a very serious condition. >>> coming up in the next half hour, the hollywood a-lister what will smith told our own robin roberts about why the movie industry itself is to blame. >>> first, an update on the accusations leveled against amy schumer that she stole other comic's jokes. what one of her accusers is saying now on "world news now." >> annou >>> they looked at what you google. do you know what you googled the most? he said is it me? no. by far what you google the most is, can i drink on these antibiotics? and do these antibiotics make my birth control worthless? >> comedianxheed xheed comedian amy shum other "snl" accused of stea
pilgrim, abc news new york. >> that's frightening for many parents and anybody traveling. it's been mild and only causes symptoms in one in five people. >> but it's so -- it's one of those fears you have when you're pregnant that something could go wrong like that. apparently disease specialists in brazil are saying this virus can cause a surge in another condition called gill oneon-buchlt it can paralyze some patients, forcing them to go on life support. a very serious condition....
. but in new york city, roads in manhattan are mostly clear but other boroughs and suburbs still need work causing tempers to flair. >> this is not right. they're not doing anything. >> i didn't think it was going to be this bad. no transportation, really? not everybody has a car. >> it may be days before all public transportation is roing again. warmer temperatures over the next few days may help the cause there. >>> so air travel is still a mess after the storm. hundreds of flights already canceled for today and more than 16 flights were canceled yesterday and 2,000 delayed. united airlines has the most headaches. it has hubs in newark and washington dulles airport. the problems in the east affect flights all across the country as planes and crews are stuck in the wrong places. >> there's a new ruling in the legal battle between detroit and its teachers. teachers protested outside the croom where a judge denied the request for a restraining order. strikes are illegal but teachers have staged several sickouts to draw attention to poor cans low pay. a new hearing is set for february.
. but in new york city, roads in manhattan are mostly clear but other boroughs and suburbs still need work causing tempers to flair. >> this is not right. they're not doing anything. >> i didn't think it was going to be this bad. no transportation, really? not everybody has a car. >> it may be days before all public transportation is roing again. warmer temperatures over the next few days may help the cause there. >>> so air travel is still a mess after the storm....
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World News Now : WFTS : January 21, 2016 2:35am-4:00am EST
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speaking. rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. >> the now infamous drug executive martin shkreli has been subpoenaed to testify before a house committee. >> he hiked the price of a life saving drug. celly tweeting whining to reporters about me appearing for their chitchat next week. haven't decided yet, should i? >> maybe he's still playing his guitar. >> i guess so. well, police says that a man upset over asus pended driver's license drove his rv into a utah municipal building. authorities in taylorsville say the driver then shot himself but somehow managed to survive. no one in that building was hurt. >>> okay, so you may have to relearn everything you thought you knew about the planets. astronomers have discovered new evidence of a possible ninth planet at the far edge of the solar system well beyond pluto. they say it's huge. >> huge. >> huge. about ten times the size of earth and it orbits the sun once every 20,000 years. >> sorry, i didn't take your bait there. >> i fail all the time on than. >>> the vatican has offered a place to stay to a homeless woman who gave birth near st
speaking. rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. >> the now infamous drug executive martin shkreli has been subpoenaed to testify before a house committee. >> he hiked the price of a life saving drug. celly tweeting whining to reporters about me appearing for their chitchat next week. haven't decided yet, should i? >> maybe he's still playing his guitar. >> i guess so. well, police says that a man upset over asus pended driver's license drove his rv into a utah municipal...
World News Now : KMGH : January 21, 2016 2:36am-4:00am MST
to the yard >>> crowds in new york seem to they're waiting in line in the cold weather as much as two hours to buy one of these. they're foot tall. >> oh, my goodness. >> they do cost $15. time. sometimes a seasonal flavor. interest exploded when the owner posted pics on instagram. they look great. >> of course. oh, my gosh, when we were talking about this before and i heard $15 a thought that's kind of ridiculous. that's a lot more than a milkshake. that's a work of art. >> take me to the yard. that song is about something else. that song is about something else. we could take this conversation a whole other direction but we'll just move on. >>> there are major changes coming to more than 50 prominent colleges and universities. >> as any recent college graduate or college student knows, the application process, of course, can be overwhelmingly stressful but the tide is about to turn. abc's juju chang explains. >> reporter: it's no secret, applications seem scarier than ever. i recent study showing teens even more stressed out than adults. a new report released by the caring common is
to the yard >>> crowds in new york seem to they're waiting in line in the cold weather as much as two hours to buy one of these. they're foot tall. >> oh, my goodness. >> they do cost $15. time. sometimes a seasonal flavor. interest exploded when the owner posted pics on instagram. they look great. >> of course. oh, my gosh, when we were talking about this before and i heard $15 a thought that's kind of ridiculous. that's a lot more than a milkshake. that's a work of...
. marci gonzalez, abc news, new york. >> an honor for the late david bowie. for the first time one of his albums has reaped the top of the charts. "black star" was released two days before his death. it sold the equivalent of 181,000 albums knocking adele off the top spot. bowie died earlier this month after battling cancer for 18 months. >> congratulations to david bowie there. >> we said this would probably be a big hit, right? >> yeah, absolutely. apparently it's critically a very, very good album, as well. >>> here's a guy who really and i mean like really knows how to get some attention for himself. we're talking about will forte. one of the stars on the fox show "the last man on earth." >> one of his most recognizable features is his long hair and bushy beard. guess what, not anymore. >> now his most recognizable feature is the fact that half his head has been shaved completely, hair, mustache, beard even his right eyebrow gone. he debuted the new look at a network friday night and getting strange looks ever since. >> what's the deal? why did he do it. >> i have no idea. it answ
. marci gonzalez, abc news, new york. >> an honor for the late david bowie. for the first time one of his albums has reaped the top of the charts. "black star" was released two days before his death. it sold the equivalent of 181,000 albums knocking adele off the top spot. bowie died earlier this month after battling cancer for 18 months. >> congratulations to david bowie there. >> we said this would probably be a big hit, right? >> yeah, absolutely. apparently...
World News Now : WCVB : January 21, 2016 2:37am-4:00am EST
i woke up from a treem but it wasn't a dream you know. >> t.j. holmes, abc news, new york. >> he was in a coma for 15 days after that but doctors were shocked because he woke up without any signs of brain damage. >> amazing. he's making a recovery. >>> coming up, getting back into shape can't wait for this one. >> i caught up with staun teal who told me how even insomniacs can have a ball getting in shape. next on "world news now." i am just out of rhythm there. >> there? ge test text1 underline test text1 italics >> that's what we went with? >> we're going to show video. sexy and you know it, we're awkward and we know it. this guy we were talking about here is shawn t. after tearing it up with his insanity workouts he's taking on a new challenge right here on abc on thursday nights with his new show "my diet is better than yours." >> let's they're address at elephant in the room. >> don't say it. >> we have two blue balls. i recent recently caught up with him at the new york racket club for some workout strategies that even insomniacs can love. >> the first time i ever saw you was w
i woke up from a treem but it wasn't a dream you know. >> t.j. holmes, abc news, new york. >> he was in a coma for 15 days after that but doctors were shocked because he woke up without any signs of brain damage. >> amazing. he's making a recovery. >>> coming up, getting back into shape can't wait for this one. >> i caught up with staun teal who told me how even insomniacs can have a ball getting in shape. next on "world news now." i am just out of...
said than done for nervous stockholders. marci gonzales, abc news, new york. >>> another vital gauge of the economy is last month's jobless rate. it was released this morning. could be encouraging. analysts predict there were 210,000 hires during the holiday rush in december and the unemployment rate fell to around 4.9%. so just last week, applications for unemployment fell by 10,000 showing the job market is strong. >> i should point out the asian markets had a volatile morning so far. so things could be rough on wall street, as well. >>> we turn now to politics and donald trump upping the ante in the green mountain state. his rally yesterday in burlington, vermont, drew hundreds of protesters but thousands of supporters as he unleashed a new attack ad on hillary clinton. abc's kenneth moton with more. >> reporter: in one of the most liberal cities in the country, hundreds of supporters stood in line and in the cold for hours to see gop presidential contender donald trump. >> we can't get them in. so you are very, very lucky tonight, i hope, right? >> reporter: trump filled a 1400 seat
said than done for nervous stockholders. marci gonzales, abc news, new york. >>> another vital gauge of the economy is last month's jobless rate. it was released this morning. could be encouraging. analysts predict there were 210,000 hires during the holiday rush in december and the unemployment rate fell to around 4.9%. so just last week, applications for unemployment fell by 10,000 showing the job market is strong. >> i should point out the asian markets had a volatile morning...
. >> reporter: the art of the deal meets the ultimate reality show. i'm david wright in new york. >> on the democratic side, the race is tightening between bernie sanders and hillary clinton three days before the iowa caucuses. the latest puts sanders just four points ahead of clinton in iowa. which candidate will president obama back on the campaign trail, clinton has been playing the obama card, but off the trail, sanders met privately with the man he's hoping to replace. >> the president and i discussed this morning a number of issues, foreign policy issues, domestic issues, occasionally a little bit of politics. >> the meeting comes just after the president seemed to tilt towards hillary clinton in an interview with politico but sanders dismissed suggestions that president obama was leaning towards his former secretary of state. >> what should have been a routine traffic stop along a busy atlanta area highway turned deadly. a georgia state trooper tried stopping a speeding pickup truck but the driver took off triggering a ten-mile chase and a traffic backup. when the truck finally s
. >> reporter: the art of the deal meets the ultimate reality show. i'm david wright in new york. >> on the democratic side, the race is tightening between bernie sanders and hillary clinton three days before the iowa caucuses. the latest puts sanders just four points ahead of clinton in iowa. which candidate will president obama back on the campaign trail, clinton has been playing the obama card, but off the trail, sanders met privately with the man he's hoping to replace. >>...
, i e-mailed you on friday night saying, you should really take happen 24 hours in new york. >> it's always there for you. >> they shut down the city including transportation including the pizza guy. >> i didn't anticipate that. that was tough. >> this really was the blizzard of 2016. >> it was a really, really big deal. government offices of course, and many public schools and in d.c. will still be closed today after this massive snowstorm. up the road in baltimore, a snow emergency actually still in effect. with only half the streets cleared so far, the clean-up in the region is expected to take days. >> and it will take awhile to get the nation's air travel system back up to speed because so many airlines use east coast airlines as hubs. nearly 1200 are already crossed off for too today. the jersey shore, man, it wasn't the snow but also the flooding. we're talking high tides, strong winds. they brought extra water ashore. chunks of ice. you could see them floating down residential streets. helped out of their homes and many furnishings. complete loss for these folks. >> that's go
, i e-mailed you on friday night saying, you should really take happen 24 hours in new york. >> it's always there for you. >> they shut down the city including transportation including the pizza guy. >> i didn't anticipate that. that was tough. >> this really was the blizzard of 2016. >> it was a really, really big deal. government offices of course, and many public schools and in d.c. will still be closed today after this massive snowstorm. up the road in...
World News Now : WMUR : January 25, 2016 3:05am-4:30am EST
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northeast particularly here in new york. the bad news, the melting of all the snow that may cause flooding and refreezing temperatures with overnight temperatures dropping. city schools here in new york will be open. as you mentioned before, many schools across the northeast still remain closed. kendis and reena, back to you. >> ray, it looks like the wall between east and west germany there behind you. it's pretty high bank. >> absolutely. >> you know, we know there's a bit of city to city controversy amounts. >> yeah, absolutely. you know, it was first predicted that washington, d.c. our nation's capital and baltimore was going to be the bull's eye of the storm. but they actually wound up getting a little less snow than we got up here. new york broke records. it was the second snowiest snowstorm on record near in the we were .1 inch from breaking the all-time record. it seems like the storm was fit and made for new york city as we got the brunt of this massive and epic blizzard of 2016. >> ray, leave it up to to you to tear down that wall, my friend. >> break it down. >> you got
northeast particularly here in new york. the bad news, the melting of all the snow that may cause flooding and refreezing temperatures with overnight temperatures dropping. city schools here in new york will be open. as you mentioned before, many schools across the northeast still remain closed. kendis and reena, back to you. >> ray, it looks like the wall between east and west germany there behind you. it's pretty high bank. >> absolutely. >> you know, we know there's a bit...
. >> private vehicle travel is restricted and limited mass transit service. new york and philadelphia doing much better by the way. to recap, all federal offices in today. schools in the d.c., baltimore and philadelphia areas and many surrounding communities also have a snow day. amtrak is running today but on a modified schedule. and if you're hoping to fly somewhere, call your airline check the flight status. >> it's too early to assess the full economic impact of the storm but estimates put it at $500 million to $850 million in lost productivity. leisure businesses like hotels and restaurants, even tourist attractions completely lost the weekend. retailers did, too. but may have made up some of the difference as people prepared for the storm. state and local governments are spending almost millions of dollars just on the clean-up alone. >>> so there were a number of building collapses caused by the heavy snow and high winds redskins practice facility in northern virginia. it deflated. the team says it will reinflate the facility when conditions improve. we're going to get more now
. >> private vehicle travel is restricted and limited mass transit service. new york and philadelphia doing much better by the way. to recap, all federal offices in today. schools in the d.c., baltimore and philadelphia areas and many surrounding communities also have a snow day. amtrak is running today but on a modified schedule. and if you're hoping to fly somewhere, call your airline check the flight status. >> it's too early to assess the full economic impact of the storm but...
how he deflected by hitting "the new york times" and also hitting the moderator for even asking about it. of course, this was the big story today. of course, they were going to ask about it. good debate. trump and cruz weren't the only candidates at it. at one point, rubio and christie also went at it. take a look. >> i like chris christie but we cannot afford to have a president of the united states that supports common core. we cannot afford to have a president of the united states that supports gun control. >> i like marco, too, and two years ago, called me a conservative reformer that new jersey needed. that was before he was running against me. now that he is, he's changed his tune. >> you know, it was interesting to see this because chris christie really kind of tried to turn marco rubio's hit on its head by saying in debate you told jeb bush not to attack you because we were all on the same team. marco rubio didn't have a good response to that. christie was right. in a lighter moment the christie campaign took advantage of this and tweeted out a graphic that said hello marco, l
how he deflected by hitting "the new york times" and also hitting the moderator for even asking about it. of course, this was the big story today. of course, they were going to ask about it. good debate. trump and cruz weren't the only candidates at it. at one point, rubio and christie also went at it. take a look. >> i like chris christie but we cannot afford to have a president of the united states that supports common core. we cannot afford to have a president of the united...
wright for "nightline" in new york. >>> so the prozac worked. >> you think so? >> i have no problems with that. the problem was when she put him on viagra. that's where you cross the line, don't you think? >> what do you think of that? >> i think he needs a good farm, a little running around. maybe a mate. >> yeah, or learning how to -- everyone loves the way dark clothes make them feel. and no one wants that feeling to fade. that's why there's woolite darks. it's free of harsh ingredients, keeping dark clothes looking like new for 30 washes so your love for dark clothes will never fade. woolite darks. (coughing) coughing dispts everyone's life. that's why there's delsym. delsym's advanced time release formula helps silence coughs for a full 12 hours. all night... or all day. it's not always as easy for me as it is for him... it's easy for me cause look at her. aw... it enhances my body's natural moisture so i can get into the swing of it a bit quicker. and when i know she's feeling like that, it makes me feel like we're both... when she enjoys it, we enjoy it even more. and
wright for "nightline" in new york. >>> so the prozac worked. >> you think so? >> i have no problems with that. the problem was when she put him on viagra. that's where you cross the line, don't you think? >> what do you think of that? >> i think he needs a good farm, a little running around. maybe a mate. >> yeah, or learning how to -- everyone loves the way dark clothes make them feel. and no one wants that feeling to fade. that's why there's...
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World News Now : WEWS : January 25, 2016 2:30am-4:00am EST
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home after they were buried inside. >> happyyeah. >> reporter: and in new york, a ghost town at one of the city's busiest transportation hubs. penn station almost empty.r the boards. >> i do not remember it ever looking this empty. i just took a picture of it myself because i want to remember how empty it is. >> reporter: so the good news,re expecting temperatures to rise here throughout the northeast. but the bad news is, that means all the snow will be melting which can cause flooding and lack rice on the roadways when the temperature drops at night. we do know schools here in new york city are expected to be open on monday morning but many other schools across remain closed. >> our thanks to ray there. we'll turn our focus to another story we're following this morning, a southern california. a manhunt under way after three dangerous inmates escaped from jail. the orange county sheriff's department says the three men managed to get tools and cut through steel got to the roof and repelled down. the mother of the youngest inmate, jonathan thieu appealed to her son to turn himself in. m
home after they were buried inside. >> happyyeah. >> reporter: and in new york, a ghost town at one of the city's busiest transportation hubs. penn station almost empty.r the boards. >> i do not remember it ever looking this empty. i just took a picture of it myself because i want to remember how empty it is. >> reporter: so the good news,re expecting temperatures to rise here throughout the northeast. but the bad news is, that means all the snow will be melting which...
the water is still not safe to drink. elizabeth hur, abc news, new york. >>> well, donald trump is celebrating a major endorsement this morning saying he's honored that conservative favorite sarah palin has thrown her support his way. palin made her announcement last night in iowa, where trump has been locked in a dead heat with ted cruz. her speech was classic palin, marked by slams at the obama administration and the republican establishment. >> are you ready to stump for trump? i'm here to support the next president of the united states, donald trump! >> because a weak-kneed capitulator in chief has decided that america will lead from behind. and he who would negotiate deals kind of with the skills of a community organizer maybe organizing a neighborhood tea, we're paying for. some of their squirmishes that have been going on for centuries where they're fighting each other and yelling allah akbar calling jihad on each other's heads forever and ever. like i've said before, let them duke it out and let allah sort it out. this election is more than just your basic abcs, anybody but
the water is still not safe to drink. elizabeth hur, abc news, new york. >>> well, donald trump is celebrating a major endorsement this morning saying he's honored that conservative favorite sarah palin has thrown her support his way. palin made her announcement last night in iowa, where trump has been locked in a dead heat with ted cruz. her speech was classic palin, marked by slams at the obama administration and the republican establishment. >> are you ready to stump for...
. so the two men in that now famous video may face off again in court. ron claiborne, abc news, new york. >> call the police. >> what you don't see on video is actually the uber driver was able to use pepper spray to eventually get away from this whole situation. >> just imagine how much he he would sue if he found out the uber driver only gave him a one star rate. it's important, the star ratings. >> they are important, right. >> for drivers and for clients, as well. got to make fun of a really serious situation there. >> oh. >> coming up, what a target cashier did that's going viral. >> and the martin luther king day a cappella tribute about the mix" up next. enough pressure in here for ya? ugh. my sinuses are killing me. yeah...just wait 'til we hit ten thousand feet. i'm gonna take mucinex sinus-max. too late, we're about to take off. these dissolve fast. they're new liquid gels. and you're coming with me... wait, what?! you realize i have gold status? do i still get the miles? new mucinex sinus-max liquid gels. dissolves fast to unleash max strength medicine. start the relief. ditch the mise
. so the two men in that now famous video may face off again in court. ron claiborne, abc news, new york. >> call the police. >> what you don't see on video is actually the uber driver was able to use pepper spray to eventually get away from this whole situation. >> just imagine how much he he would sue if he found out the uber driver only gave him a one star rate. it's important, the star ratings. >> they are important, right. >> for drivers and for clients, as...
gio benitez. >> reporter: in new york city, even the snowplows, reeling from that record breaking snow. >> we have to finish this job today and get it done. >> reporter: streets in queens still buried two days later. >> i don't know why they forgot about us. >> reporter: 80 million people in all impacted by the winter storm. baltimore seeing its biggest storm on record. west virginia blasted with 42 inches. nearby martinsburg, 40 inches. in newark, new jersey, a record breaking 28.1 inches fell. >> this is not right. they're not cleaning the streets they're not doing anything. >> reporter: the heavy snow caving in roofs, like this church in chester county, pennsylvania. this apartment complex in virginia. and in new york city, five people died while shoveling a warning many are taking seriously. >> and you stop for rest so you >> flow, not at my age. >> hundreds of accidents since saturday's storm hit. that 85-mile stretch of pennsylvania turn people finally reopened after more than 500 cars got stuck for hours. this church group making due snow. and the problem here, just take a
gio benitez. >> reporter: in new york city, even the snowplows, reeling from that record breaking snow. >> we have to finish this job today and get it done. >> reporter: streets in queens still buried two days later. >> i don't know why they forgot about us. >> reporter: 80 million people in all impacted by the winter storm. baltimore seeing its biggest storm on record. west virginia blasted with 42 inches. nearby martinsburg, 40 inches. in newark, new jersey, a...
to chise buyers for nearly double thet of the ticket. linsey davis, an abc news, new york. >>> can you imagine? at least three people across this country right now. >> raining money. >> yeah, it is. literally. like show you the scene inside the homes. it's raining. >> was that all that you won over the past three years? >> that was all of my earnings from abc in the lyear. >> uh-oh. >> taking this back. >> coming up in our next half hour, oscar 're waiting for the rease later this morning of the list of the 2016 oscar nominees and with no clear front-runner, it could end up being 7:00 leonardo dicaprio versus matt damon. >> first simbaack with a baby. 22 years after the lion king comes the lion guard. we're behind the scenes of disney's latest tv series. i guess we could go to flash dance after this. >> announcer: "world news now" >> i loved that movie. >> it was great. >> more than two decades since lion king roared onto the big screen delighting fans with that loveable lion cub who couldn't wait to be king. >> yes, and now we're feeling the love once again inside. but this time w
to chise buyers for nearly double thet of the ticket. linsey davis, an abc news, new york. >>> can you imagine? at least three people across this country right now. >> raining money. >> yeah, it is. literally. like show you the scene inside the homes. it's raining. >> was that all that you won over the past three years? >> that was all of my earnings from abc in the lyear. >> uh-oh. >> taking this back. >> coming up in our next half hour,...
with cancer 18 months in l.a., new york and london, fans are in shock paying tribute and grieving. >> i just loved his music. i loved him. >> reporter: he was born david jones, and took the stage name "bowie," because the davey jones of the monkees got there first. his first big hit -- "space oddity." this is ground control to major tom >> reporter: inspired by the apollo space program. influenced by andy warhol, bowie came up with the concept for ziggy stardust, a rock band from outer space. that other worldly, androgynous look, positioning him as the now ziggy played guitar >> i felt really comfortable going on stage as somebody else. and it seemed a rational decision to keep on doing that. ch-ch-changes >> reporter: like his anthem "changes," bowie was famously hard to pin down. constantly changing. that chameleon persona in turn performers from kiss to kanye to lady gaga. madonna posted, "david life forever." fame >> reporter: bowie co-wrote and "under pressure" with freddie mercury of queen. pressure >> reporter: mick jagger bowie "an inspiration and a true original." his fin
with cancer 18 months in l.a., new york and london, fans are in shock paying tribute and grieving. >> i just loved his music. i loved him. >> reporter: he was born david jones, and took the stage name "bowie," because the davey jones of the monkees got there first. his first big hit -- "space oddity." this is ground control to major tom >> reporter: inspired by the apollo space program. influenced by andy warhol, bowie came up with the concept for ziggy...
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as well as l.a. bowie lived in new york and london and they're expressing their sorrow there. he died of cancer yesterday at the able of 69. abc's elizabeth hur with more. >> reporter: for decades, legendary musician david bowie entertained audiences around the world. >> with favorites including "young americans" and his first hit "changes." >> he was a renaissance man. he was a superstar. and i truly believe that david bowie's death will be on a par with jfk's, with elvis's. >> reporter: his biographer says the singer was magnificent. david cameron calling him a master of reinvention. >> today we're mourning the loss of an immense british talent. i mean, geniuses are overused word. creatively, artis likely, he was a genius. >> reporter: born david jones in south london, his unique sound and style inspired and influenced generations of musicians from mick jagger to duran duran to madonna, from singing to acting, he did it all. starring in movies like "the hunger" and "the man who fell to earth." just last friday on his 69th birthday, he released his 25th and final album "rock sta
as well as l.a. bowie lived in new york and london and they're expressing their sorrow there. he died of cancer yesterday at the able of 69. abc's elizabeth hur with more. >> reporter: for decades, legendary musician david bowie entertained audiences around the world. >> with favorites including "young americans" and his first hit "changes." >> he was a renaissance man. he was a superstar. and i truly believe that david bowie's death will be on a par with...
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as to other targets that were possible or other people who were involved. brian ross, abc news, new york. >>> also to politics now. and donald trump's latest the gop front-runner reprising his double-barreled attack on the clintons, saying that once again hillary lacks stamina while denying that that was a subtle suggestion that she is a member of the weaker sex. as for her husband, trump said bill clinton if he has any different -- if he's any different than bill cosby. >> he was impeached. he wasn't allowed to practice law. he settled for a tremendous amount of money. i mean, there's a lot of things >> well, trump also attacked fellow republican ted cruz, saying his canadian birth was a precarious issue. cruz is challenging trump in the polls, now neck and neck with him in california. >>> as for the democrats, bernie sanders blasted wall street in a fiery speech on monday saying the industry's business model is flawed. he said that if a bank is too big to fail it's too big to exist, and he promised to break sanders also said that his rival, hillary clinton, is too close to the financial industry
as to other targets that were possible or other people who were involved. brian ross, abc news, new york. >>> also to politics now. and donald trump's latest the gop front-runner reprising his double-barreled attack on the clintons, saying that once again hillary lacks stamina while denying that that was a subtle suggestion that she is a member of the weaker sex. as for her husband, trump said bill clinton if he has any different -- if he's any different than bill cosby. >> he...
good-bye. the song now rising up the charts after bowie is gone. david wright, abc news, new york. >>> so many when someone of his stature passes you learn so much you didn't realize before. i forgot he had played florida pontius pilate in the "last temptation of christ." i didn't remember that either. >> there are so many variables to him. many fans are paying tribute. his new album that was just released is probably going to be number one in the uk and probably here in the states, as well this week. >> you know, he got into a fight with his friend george underwood. one of his eyes permanently dilated because he was punch there had. >> i was wondering about that. >> coming up, we'll continue to pay tribute to him, of course. coming up in our next half hour, out on bond. the mother of the so-called affluenza teen ethan couch set to be released. her bail drastically reduced. the latest on the case sparking outrage across the country. >> but first powerball pipe dreams. the jackpot keeps ticking. so with all that money, how could you handle holding a winning ticket. we'll explain. you're wa
good-bye. the song now rising up the charts after bowie is gone. david wright, abc news, new york. >>> so many when someone of his stature passes you learn so much you didn't realize before. i forgot he had played florida pontius pilate in the "last temptation of christ." i didn't remember that either. >> there are so many variables to him. many fans are paying tribute. his new album that was just released is probably going to be number one in the uk and probably here...
. >> it really was. >> he was arrested at ross chester, a new york hotel for marijuana possession. >> someone else arrested with bowie in that incident, iggy pop, the godfather of punk rock and one of the many influential artists who was influenced by bowie. they collaborated together with iggy cowriting the song "tonight" from bowie's 1984 album of the same name. >> bowie's performance of that song with tina turner, the lyrics holding even deeper meaning now. ♪ ♪ i will love you till i reach the end ♪ >> and there are many fans who are paying tribute all over the world with memorials popping up everywhere. a testament to the many lives of david bowie. >> they say this album was in many ways a gift to all of his fans. >>> making news in america this morning, democratic rivalry. hillary clinton, bernie sanders on stage throwing jabs at each other overnight as donald trump makes a late night appearance. >>> wicked weather. bitter cold well below zero in some areas right now plus people in parts of the northeast getting their first taste of snow. >>> medicine recall. a children
. >> it really was. >> he was arrested at ross chester, a new york hotel for marijuana possession. >> someone else arrested with bowie in that incident, iggy pop, the godfather of punk rock and one of the many influential artists who was influenced by bowie. they collaborated together with iggy cowriting the song "tonight" from bowie's 1984 album of the same name. >> bowie's performance of that song with tina turner, the lyrics holding even deeper meaning now....
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thought for all of us. juju chang, abc news, new york. i love that she's owning up to it. my good friend went through a similar thing last year when she yelled at a tro truck operator. >> from espn. we worked together years ago. where she got a lot of threats as a result of it, a lot of people calling her a brat. some of it wasn't deserved. >> these twos different uber attacks, the one with the former taco bell executive and this doctor, two very different responses, one person is suing the male is suing and she came up on "good morning america," "nightline" and apologized. >> let's point out he apologized, as well and then lawyers got involved and he decided to sue. let's give her a week and see how it plays out into it didn't seem like she's going to go down that route. >> coming up, the newest star of the super bowl. >> meet mac, the baby clydesdale who is sure to steal the show with the commercials. tt2watw( i4 bt@q> , tt2watw( i4 "a@q.,h tt4watw( i4 " dztq cth tt4watw( i4 " entq 3p( tt4watw( i4 " gzt& *wp tt4watw( i4 " hnt& :y< tt4watw( i4 " iztq p0d tt4watw( i4 " jntq b@$ tt
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, not a crime." linzie janis, abc news, new york. >> incredible. she'll be in court next month. could face up to 20 years in prison if she's convicted. >> it's such a horrible story. i've read all of the text messages exchanged between the two of them. and for many to say that she was not an enabler is very, very difficult after you read those messages. it was just so sad because she kept going at him to do it. >> what would motivate someone to do that? it's pretty remarkable. well, coming up, the first ever diagnosed case of autism. >> it was a diagnosis that changed one person's life. and the course of medical history and the mother who started it all. you're watching "world news test text1 underline test text1 italics tt0w!tw((i! el@-8!8 tt0w!tw((i! ed@->#\ tt0w!tw((i% )8h-^] tt0w!tw((i% kzh-c2\ tt0w!tw((i% n-h-6[p tt0w!tw((i% 0ph-(>> it's estimated more than 3 1/2 million americans live with the autism spectrum disorder. >> and those numbers are on the rise. but all of that stems from one diagnosis that changed the fo
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coming in thursday, friday, and saturday. rob marciano, abc news, new york. >>> and breaking news this morning. north korea claims it has tested its own hydrogen bomb. there's no confirmation from other countries, but a strong seismic event was detected korean nuclear test site. an hour later north korean state tv announced the test, saying it needs to protect itself from the evil threat of america. the national security council says the u.s. cannot accept north korea as a nuclear state. >>> another highly controversial move by president obama is threatening to further divide the nation over gun control. making an impassioned plea for a national sense of urgency, the president broke into tears while recalling mass shootings including newtown, connecticut. his plan bypasses congress. he says it will make it harder for criminals to get their hands on guns. >> and from every family who never imagined that their loved one would be taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun, kids it gets me mad. >> the national rifle association responded in a statement saying the president's proposals wou
coming in thursday, friday, and saturday. rob marciano, abc news, new york. >>> and breaking news this morning. north korea claims it has tested its own hydrogen bomb. there's no confirmation from other countries, but a strong seismic event was detected korean nuclear test site. an hour later north korean state tv announced the test, saying it needs to protect itself from the evil threat of america. the national security council says the u.s. cannot accept north korea as a nuclear...
could be lifted. carla, abc news, new york. >> three americans on a humanitarian mission to hoon dur ras killed in a bus crash. two scrims were students at columbia university in new york. the other was a nurse practitioner at the university as well as a student. the bus was taking them back to the airport when it veered off the road down a va reen. images after the crash show the bus's tires appearing to be very worn. >>> to flint, michigan now where residents are getting clean drinking water but there are new health concerns. the national guard is now going door to door offering residents bottled water or filters for their tap water. the city water supply has unsafe amounts of lead. however, that may also be responsible for an outbreak of legionnaires disease last year that killed ten people. >>> the mexican actress who brokered sean penn's interview the messages show kate del can castillo had been communicating with kehl chapo for some time even flirting them. she will thanked fans for their support and not to believe everything they read. they'll be sharing her story very soon. >
could be lifted. carla, abc news, new york. >> three americans on a humanitarian mission to hoon dur ras killed in a bus crash. two scrims were students at columbia university in new york. the other was a nurse practitioner at the university as well as a student. the bus was taking them back to the airport when it veered off the road down a va reen. images after the crash show the bus's tires appearing to be very worn. >>> to flint, michigan now where residents are getting clean...
streets of new york city did more than a few double-takes when necessity queens. >> the runaway bovine -- yeah -- doom. police managed to corral it inside a parking garage but not before taking an nypd selfie. >> oh, i hope he escaped. i hope he doesn't have to -- >> that he's not dinner yet. poor guy. >> maybe he just didn't have enough milk for the snowmageddon this weekend. >> but how about that selfie? >>> a slightly more dangerous critter rattling a florida family waking up to find a crocodile in their swimming pool. >> what's wrong with that? >> so, the homeowners had just moved from -- south from pennsylvania, not realizing they had a squatter. it languished in the pool until wildlife workers came to remove it and return it to its native habitat. >> it's a crocodile. us florida folks, they just came just keep a healthy distance, that's all. >> i would be moving back maedly. >> it is scary but it happens very often in florida, i will say as a resident floridan all my life. >> a whole lot of crazy stuff happens in florida. >> i know. you like to make fun of me for my home state. i
streets of new york city did more than a few double-takes when necessity queens. >> the runaway bovine -- yeah -- doom. police managed to corral it inside a parking garage but not before taking an nypd selfie. >> oh, i hope he escaped. i hope he doesn't have to -- >> that he's not dinner yet. poor guy. >> maybe he just didn't have enough milk for the snowmageddon this weekend. >> but how about that selfie? >>> a slightly more dangerous critter rattling a...
. >> that's because so many streets are still not plowed and travel is limited. new york city schools will be open again. outside manhattan driving can also be a problem. mass transit is resuming but is still fairly limited. >> federal government offices are closed again today in washington. more than 40 deaths have been blamed on the storm from accidents, snow shoveling, heart attacks even carbon monoxide and hundreds of flights have already been canceled today. >> the problem for the airlines is that planes and crews that are needed in unaffected parts of the country may be stranded here. the hardest hit airline is united which has two hubs in the region, newark and washington dulles airport. washington is having trouble de-icing or digging out rather. more from abc's david kerley. >> reporter: after the blizzard, front end loaders, trucks, even a rail yard plow are still working to reopen the capital. >> we are still in a snow emergency. >> reporter: washington looking like a ghost town. some highways, single-lane trenches. in the suburbs, officials say it could be wednesday before resi
. >> that's because so many streets are still not plowed and travel is limited. new york city schools will be open again. outside manhattan driving can also be a problem. mass transit is resuming but is still fairly limited. >> federal government offices are closed again today in washington. more than 40 deaths have been blamed on the storm from accidents, snow shoveling, heart attacks even carbon monoxide and hundreds of flights have already been canceled today. >> the...
knows how to have a good time. i'm hoping he knows what that means>> juju chang, abc news, new york. >> kendis is still ghouling what that song was. >> let's hope he learns from that. . >> the direct remember spike lee lash. >> he's call the whole controversy a misdirection play as members of the academy take racist. here's abc's linsey davis. now controversial oscar votes. access pennel leeann miller saying to imply that this is because all of us are racists is extremely offensive. but quincy jones says all-white nominees for the second year in a row is another embarrassing hollywood sequel. >> got to find a solution to fix it because it's been going on too long. >> reporter: oscar winner lupita nyong'o says it has her thinking about unconscious prejudice. and what merits prestige in our culture. while many suggest the academy's 93% white membership plays a role, others suggest looking at the big picture. >> it goes further than the academy awards. it goes back to the gatekeepers. >> the studios. >> yes. what we're making, what we're not making. >> reporter: on monday, the academy president s
knows how to have a good time. i'm hoping he knows what that means>> juju chang, abc news, new york. >> kendis is still ghouling what that song was. >> let's hope he learns from that. . >> the direct remember spike lee lash. >> he's call the whole controversy a misdirection play as members of the academy take racist. here's abc's linsey davis. now controversial oscar votes. access pennel leeann miller saying to imply that this is because all of us are racists is...
, just take a look. some treats here in new york still haven't been plowed. many people here say they've never seen this much snow. gio benitez, abc news, queens, new york. >> with no school, no work and not much else open in washington, d.c., the nation's capital is turning to its most regloved resident. >> giant pan dap tian-tian. not disappointing anyone. a sequel to his viral video over the weekend. look at that. the national zoo still closed though. but there's always the panda cam and videos like this one. the earlier video got more than 55 million views on facebook. that's what everybody was doing >> it's calming. > i don't know if it's because in china they're not used to the snow, right? pandas, it's hot. bamboo. oh toin toin is like what is up with this, right? it's colder? >> okay. >> they are used to snow. >> the florida girl misspoke. >> we just found out from our beijing bureau. bob woodruff is over there. >> coming up, getting out of debt. for so many americans it can feel like a daunting challenge. rebecca jarvis will talk with one expert who's been there and done that. >
, just take a look. some treats here in new york still haven't been plowed. many people here say they've never seen this much snow. gio benitez, abc news, queens, new york. >> with no school, no work and not much else open in washington, d.c., the nation's capital is turning to its most regloved resident. >> giant pan dap tian-tian. not disappointing anyone. a sequel to his viral video over the weekend. look at that. the national zoo still closed though. but there's always the panda...
planned finale a parting gift to his fans. elizabeth hur, abc news, new york. last known survivor of the 1906 san francisco earthquake has died. william del monte was 3 months old when the quake struck. remembered his dramatic escape from the burning city. his family grabs a horse drawn wagon and made its way out of the city william was still working as a stockbroker then and he was just days away from turning 110 years old. >> well, there's no question some areas east of lake erie, look at these pictures. >> whoa. >> of nearly two feet of snow on the ground and more is on the way today. that car. arctic air is reacting with the warm water producing lake-effect snow. there could be as much as four feet of snow by tomorrow night. and, of course, it's going to be accompanied by gusty winds. okay, so here's the rest of today's forecast. in the meantime, snow from the ohio valley to northern new england. below zero windchills in minneapolis and chicago. freeze warnings along the gulf coast. heavy rain and up to a foot and a half of mountain snow in the west. >> 4 degrees in minneapoli
planned finale a parting gift to his fans. elizabeth hur, abc news, new york. last known survivor of the 1906 san francisco earthquake has died. william del monte was 3 months old when the quake struck. remembered his dramatic escape from the burning city. his family grabs a horse drawn wagon and made its way out of the city william was still working as a stockbroker then and he was just days away from turning 110 years old. >> well, there's no question some areas east of lake erie, look...
attempted armed carjacking and eluding police. gio benitez, abc news, new york. >> terrifying. one was as young as 17 years old. one of the tips, park in the station. around. as a mom, i hope that i would have instincts. people say you shouldn't do this. your kids are in the back seat, >> she ran on instincts. one of the suspects has been released from jail. a frightening encounter indeed there. do you leave your kid in the car when you go inside? >> i never do that. no. i don't go at night, too. just a personal thing. but they also happen during the day so. >> never know. >> coming up in our next half hour, the emergency playing out on the west coast. take a look at these cliffside houses teetering on the brink in danger of falling over the edge at any moment. where police have been going door to door telling residents to leave before it's too late. >> first, what's being called the super bowl for the ages. the young star up against an all-time favorite. will there be a fairy tale ending? >>> so while the panthers and broncos practice for super bowl 50, san francisco drivers are p
attempted armed carjacking and eluding police. gio benitez, abc news, new york. >> terrifying. one was as young as 17 years old. one of the tips, park in the station. around. as a mom, i hope that i would have instincts. people say you shouldn't do this. your kids are in the back seat, >> she ran on instincts. one of the suspects has been released from jail. a frightening encounter indeed there. do you leave your kid in the car when you go inside? >> i never do that. no. i...
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KOLO 8 News : KOLO : January 30, 2016 8:00pm-8:30pm PST
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through the morning with snow mixing with rain possible across western nevada valleys. be prepared for travel impacts in the sierra and western nevada throughout the weekend and possibly into early next week. short term... the main core of the atmospheric river moisture plume is currently pushing its way across the sierra and into western nevada. heavy rainfall accumulations have been reported along the west slopes of the sierra so far this morning with some sizable shadowing along the east slopes. right along and just to the east of the crest, rainfall accumulations in the 1 to 3 inch range have been reported thus far and a few tenths to about half an inch of rain across western spillover precipitation will increase through the morning as a front drops south across the region. along with the front will come a sharp drop in snow level which currently is falling below 7,000. caltrans webcams show snowfall rapidly accumulating along i-80 through the sierra with chain controls in effect. expecting about 6-12" of accumulations between 8,000-7,000 feet with more in the 3-6" range below
through the morning with snow mixing with rain possible across western nevada valleys. be prepared for travel impacts in the sierra and western nevada throughout the weekend and possibly into early next week. short term... the main core of the atmospheric river moisture plume is currently pushing its way across the sierra and into western nevada. heavy rainfall accumulations have been reported along the west slopes of the sierra so far this morning with some sizable shadowing along the east...
KOLO 8 Midday @ 11am : KOLO : January 8, 2016 11:00am-12:00pm PST
light snow possible across western nevada. a couple more weak storms are possible next week with temperatures remaining below normal. current ir satellite imagery showing a widespread area of low stratus across much of western nevada. some of the decks have through the carson valley this morning with visibility at the minden airport having already dipped near 1/4 mile. some clearing is evident across lassen trafficking- a carson city man accused of human trafficking in north dakota has plead not guilty. kevin fleming... is accused of offering a 14-year-old girl for prostitution. in court yesterday flemings attorney argued that state lawmakers repealed the human trafficking portion of state law under which fleming is charged... and that a new law didn't take effect until after the alleged crime. prosecutors called the argument ludicrous. another person from las vegas also charged with human trafficking in the case plead not guilty. police found the teenage girl at a hotel in mynot in april of last year.. after receiving a report about her from her mother in las vegas. an investiga
light snow possible across western nevada. a couple more weak storms are possible next week with temperatures remaining below normal. current ir satellite imagery showing a widespread area of low stratus across much of western nevada. some of the decks have through the carson valley this morning with visibility at the minden airport having already dipped near 1/4 mile. some clearing is evident across lassen trafficking- a carson city man accused of human trafficking in north dakota has plead...
Good Morning Reno 6am : KOLO : January 26, 2016 6:00am-7:00am PST
across western nevada. the keeton" from the "koh radio" traffic center. how's traffic looking so far? smoothly. no major delays on reno area highways. no major delays on highways in northern california. studio. thanks very much mike. an officer involved shooting left one man dead near the meadowood mall. the shooting happened yesterday around 5: 30 p-m after a car crash on mccarran. reno police say several cars were involved in the accident but everyone walked away with non-life threatening injuries -- police say started acting erratically shortly after the crash. witnesses from marinello school of beauty - just two buildings down from the incident - say the the man pulled out a gun. that's when two reno police officers shot and killed him. "anytime we have multiple crime scenes, an officer involved shooting and an accident, you have two separate crimes involved in one incident, so it's going to take a while to piece together what happened this evening. reno police say the harmed but will be placed on administrative leave while the investigation continues. the investigation will now
across western nevada. the keeton" from the "koh radio" traffic center. how's traffic looking so far? smoothly. no major delays on reno area highways. no major delays on highways in northern california. studio. thanks very much mike. an officer involved shooting left one man dead near the meadowood mall. the shooting happened yesterday around 5: 30 p-m after a car crash on mccarran. reno police say several cars were involved in the accident but everyone walked away with non-life...
Good Morning Reno 5:30am : KOLO : January 29, 2016 5:30am-6:00am PST
saturday. be prepared for travel impacts in the sierra and western nevada throughout the weekend and possibly into early next week. little change in forecast reasoning over the last 24 hours. a winter storm with a deep moisture plume moving into northern sierra south today and tonight. a with strong winds, rain, and high elevation snow. a cold front will bring lowering snow levels tonight and saturday. be prepared for travel impacts in the sierra and western nevada throughout the weekend and possibly into early next week. little change in forecast reasoning over the last 24 hours. a winter storm with a deep moisture plume moving into northern sierra and northeast california will spread south today and tonight. a cold front tracking from north to south will drop snow levels from 8000-9000 feet to 4000-5500 feet this evening and tonight. main impacts today will be periods of heavy rain california and in the northern sierra along with strong winds across much of western nevada and the eastern sierra. impacts for tonight will transition to heavy snow in the sierra and rain changing to sn
saturday. be prepared for travel impacts in the sierra and western nevada throughout the weekend and possibly into early next week. little change in forecast reasoning over the last 24 hours. a winter storm with a deep moisture plume moving into northern sierra south today and tonight. a with strong winds, rain, and high elevation snow. a cold front will bring lowering snow levels tonight and saturday. be prepared for travel impacts in the sierra and western nevada throughout the weekend and...
wednesday as surface inversions develop across western nevada. the next system moves into the region early friday bringing rain, snow and gusty winds into the weekend. high pressure will pass over the sierra and western nevada today, then flatten on wednesday as a strong pacific jet noses toward 130 west longitude. for today, fog in the 10am with afternoon highs approaching 50 in the nevada valleys with 40s for the sierra. afternoon highs will warm a few additional degrees for wednesday with mid 50s possible for the lower valleys and mid 40s to low 50s in the sierra. as the ridge breaks down wednesday, warm air advection will bring increased cloud cover with virga and a few sprinkles north of i-80 late wednesday night and thursday. we're less than a week away from the iowa caucuses -- and the race for the number one spot is heating up. on the republican side it's trump versus cruz. and for the democrats... it's clinton versus sanders. the campaigns are striking hard-- trying to capture those final votes-- and win in the first contest for the presidency. abc's lana zak has the latest
wednesday as surface inversions develop across western nevada. the next system moves into the region early friday bringing rain, snow and gusty winds into the weekend. high pressure will pass over the sierra and western nevada today, then flatten on wednesday as a strong pacific jet noses toward 130 west longitude. for today, fog in the 10am with afternoon highs approaching 50 in the nevada valleys with 40s for the sierra. afternoon highs will warm a few additional degrees for wednesday with...
KOLO 8 News Now @ 11PM : KOLO : January 30, 2016 11:00pm-11:35pm PST
through the morning with snow mixing with rain possible across western nevada valleys. be prepared for travel western nevada weekend and possibly short term... the main core of the atmospheric river moisture plume is currently pushing its way across the sierra and into western nevada. heavy rainfall accumulations have been reported along west slopes of the sierra so far this morning with some shadowing along the east slopes. right along and just to the east accumulations in the 1 to 3 inch range have been reported thus far and a few tenths to about half an inch of rain across western nevada. spillover precipitation will increase through the morning as a front drops south across the region. along with the front will come a sharp drop in snow level which currently is falling below 7,000. caltrans webcams show snowfall rapidly accumulating along i-80 through the sierra with chain controls in effect. expecting about 6-12" of accumulations between 8,000-7,000 feet with more in the 3-6" range below about 7,000. travel impacts will continue through the morning before diminishing in intensity
through the morning with snow mixing with rain possible across western nevada valleys. be prepared for travel western nevada weekend and possibly short term... the main core of the atmospheric river moisture plume is currently pushing its way across the sierra and into western nevada. heavy rainfall accumulations have been reported along west slopes of the sierra so far this morning with some shadowing along the east slopes. right along and just to the east accumulations in the 1 to 3 inch...
Good Morning Reno 6am : KOLO : January 8, 2016 6:00am-7:00am PST
the sierra and light snow possible across western nevada. a couple more weak storms are possible next week with temperatures remaining below normal. current ir satellite imagery showing a widespread area of low stratus across much of western nevada. some of the decks have lowered to the surface across carson city and through the carson valley this morning with visibility at the minden airport having already dipped near 1/4 mile. some clearing is evident across lassen police believe a driver who crashed his s-u-v into a local 7-eleven was drunk. "oh, please man. don't do this. please." 44-year-old andre for d-u-i, reckless driving, driving with a suspended license-- and child abuse or neglect. police say two young children ages 9 and 10 were in the s-u-v at the time of the crash. turns out, it was just hours after he was released from jail for a previous d-u-i. the crash took out the front door, along with several slot machines at the location at 2nd street and wells. turning now to a serious crime in stead. thieves pried open a community mail box and stole mail. now people in the neig
the sierra and light snow possible across western nevada. a couple more weak storms are possible next week with temperatures remaining below normal. current ir satellite imagery showing a widespread area of low stratus across much of western nevada. some of the decks have lowered to the surface across carson city and through the carson valley this morning with visibility at the minden airport having already dipped near 1/4 mile. some clearing is evident across lassen police believe a driver...
inversions develop across western nevada. the an officer involved shooting left one man dead near the meadowood mall. the shooting happened yesterday around 5: 30 p-m after a car crash on mccarran. reno police say several cars were involved in the accident but everyone walked away with non-life threatening injuries -- except one man who police say started acting erratically shortly after the crash. witnesses from marinello school of beauty - just two buildings down from the incident - say the the man pulled out a gun. that's when two reno police officers shot and killed him. "anytime we have multiple crime scenes, an officer involved shooting and an accident, you have two separate crimes involved in one incident, so it's going to take a while to piece together what happened this evening. reno police say the officers involved in the shooting were not harmed but will be placed on administrative leave while the investigation continues. the investigation will now be led by sparks two more people have been arrested in connection with the carson city shooting that left an 18-year-old man de
inversions develop across western nevada. the an officer involved shooting left one man dead near the meadowood mall. the shooting happened yesterday around 5: 30 p-m after a car crash on mccarran. reno police say several cars were involved in the accident but everyone walked away with non-life threatening injuries -- except one man who police say started acting erratically shortly after the crash. witnesses from marinello school of beauty - just two buildings down from the incident - say the...
KOLO 8 News Now @ 11PM : KOLO : January 3, 2016 11:00pm-11:35pm PST
systems expected to impact the sierra and western nevada. travel impacts are likely in the sierra this week and possibly for portions of western nevada as well. && .short term... warm air advection is producing light snow showers for locations about to get your answer. a hydrologist from the natural resources conservation service will be at the mount rose summit tomorrow to measure the snowpack. that will give us an idea where we stand for the year - and what we can expect for the region's water supply for the coming year. 65 people were evacuated from heavenly's "north bowl" chairlift -after an unoccupied chair fell off just before eleven this morning. this is video from lara miller who was on the ski lift when it happened. the resort stopped operating the chair lift immediately and sent ski patrol to safely evacuate everone who was on it. it may have been unnerving for some, but no one was injured in the incident. heavenly's lift maintenance team is conducting a complete investigation into the cause of the chair's fall. no word yet on what may have led to the problem. ice skaters are
systems expected to impact the sierra and western nevada. travel impacts are likely in the sierra this week and possibly for portions of western nevada as well. && .short term... warm air advection is producing light snow showers for locations about to get your answer. a hydrologist from the natural resources conservation service will be at the mount rose summit tomorrow to measure the snowpack. that will give us an idea where we stand for the year - and what we can expect for the...
KOLO 8 News Now @ 5PM : KOLO : January 24, 2016 5:00pm-5:29pm PST
into western nevada. as such, the previous forecast largely remains intact with the best chances of precipitation north of interstate 80. generally up to an inch of snow will be possible mainly above 4500 feet if this system moves into western nevada by early evening. however, models are beginning to shift some of the timing suggesting a later arrival of the primary front more towards early monday morning. this would promote lower snow levels down to 4000 feet encompassing most western nevada valley floors. there is a growing concern that this system may not be quite as benign as the models are leading us to believe as there are some afternoon. police were called to the star of reno motel at fourth and arlington around two this afternoon. officers arrived, to find a woman with stab wounds to her back and stomach. she was taken to renown for treatment of those injuries. based on the information we received, information was given to other officers, they were able to locate the suspect a couple of blocks away and reno officers are talking to her now. at this time... reno police say the
into western nevada. as such, the previous forecast largely remains intact with the best chances of precipitation north of interstate 80. generally up to an inch of snow will be possible mainly above 4500 feet if this system moves into western nevada by early evening. however, models are beginning to shift some of the timing suggesting a later arrival of the primary front more towards early monday morning. this would promote lower snow levels down to 4000 feet encompassing most western nevada...
KOLO 8 News Now @ 6:30PM : KOLO : January 3, 2016 6:30pm-7:00pm PST
establishes this week with multiple systems expected to impact the sierra and western nevada. travel impacts are likely in the sierra possibly for portions of western nevada as well. && .short term... warm air advection is producing light snow showers for locations north of susanville and gerlach this morning. light accumulations will be possible so early morning commuters should be prepared for potentially slick roads in those areas. the light showers will begin to dissipate this afternoon as the upper low continues to lift north out of the region. temperatures continue to be tricky early this morning. cloud cover along with some breezy winds are keeping temperatures warmer than yesterday evening in some locations, while other locations remain very cold with strong die down later today as the gradient relaxes with the upper low exiting the region. the splitting trough encounters the sierra and western nevada late tonight into monday bringing increased chances for precipitation. best chances for showers will be as the trough axis moves into the sierra on monday. a few inches of snow
establishes this week with multiple systems expected to impact the sierra and western nevada. travel impacts are likely in the sierra possibly for portions of western nevada as well. && .short term... warm air advection is producing light snow showers for locations north of susanville and gerlach this morning. light accumulations will be possible so early morning commuters should be prepared for potentially slick roads in those areas. the light showers will begin to dissipate this...
KOLO 8 News Now @ 6:30PM : KOLO : January 24, 2016 6:30pm-7:00pm PST
slider-type wave moving across the sierra into western nevada. as such, the previous forecast largely remains intact with the best chances of precipitation north of interstate 80. generally up to an inch of snow will be possible mainly above 4500 feet if this system moves into western nevada by early evening. however, models are beginning to shift some of the timing suggesting a later arrival of the primary front more towards early monday morning. this would promote lower snow levels down to 4000 feet encompassing most western nevada valley floors. there is a growing concern that this system may not be quite as benign as the models are leading us to believe as there are some subtle signals that are showing up. the later and subsequently colder arrival of the front, weak forcing aloft with surface the nevada interior suggest the possibility of more significant impacts from this system. based on this guidance and past experience with these sneakier systems, 2 inches of accumulation around the reno metro area would be possible if the variables line up reasonably well allowing a snow band
slider-type wave moving across the sierra into western nevada. as such, the previous forecast largely remains intact with the best chances of precipitation north of interstate 80. generally up to an inch of snow will be possible mainly above 4500 feet if this system moves into western nevada by early evening. however, models are beginning to shift some of the timing suggesting a later arrival of the primary front more towards early monday morning. this would promote lower snow levels down to...
bring lowering snow levels tonight and saturday. be prepared for travel impacts western nevada throughout the weekend and possibly into early next week. little change in forecast reasoning over the last 24 hours. a winter storm with a deep moisture plume man walked into a laundromat on wells avenue and 2nd street with a gunshot wound to his leg. police say the shooting actually happened on east fourth street, near sage street. he was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. morning. police say they found richard bleak-ney of sparks in pyramid lake after a 10-hour search this is a picture of the washoe county sheriff's hasty team, performing a deep water dive. bleak-ney was reported missing in october after falling from a fishing boat. scary moments for a man at the sparks marina after his boat capsized prompting a water rescue. it happened around 2-30 according to reports, the man was sailing in the marina when his boat flipped. he was able to climb on top of the capsized boat and wait for emergency responders. the man was eventually rescued fortunately, he was not injure
bring lowering snow levels tonight and saturday. be prepared for travel impacts western nevada throughout the weekend and possibly into early next week. little change in forecast reasoning over the last 24 hours. a winter storm with a deep moisture plume man walked into a laundromat on wells avenue and 2nd street with a gunshot wound to his leg. police say the shooting actually happened on east fourth street, near sage street. he was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries....
morning as a couple of winter storms move into the sierra and western nevada. the first is already impacting northeast california and the sierra and will continue to move into the region through today, while the second system will push in wednesday. both systems will bring snow to the sierra and northeastern ca with travel impacts anticipated, so be prepared for winter driving conditions. travel impacts for far western nevada are more uncertain as snow levels will be hovering near the 4500 foot mark. be prepared for a potentially slow, slick commute today and for wednesday. snow has already begun to move into northeast california with snow vicinity of highway 44 near bogard rest area just west of susanville. snow coverage is expected to become widespread in the sierra and northeastern california through the morning hours with impacts for the morning commute. leave plenty of time to reach your destination this morning as sierra passes will be impacted by snowfall. the snow level forecast for western nevada remains tricky this morning with the potential for a few inches to fall if sn
morning as a couple of winter storms move into the sierra and western nevada. the first is already impacting northeast california and the sierra and will continue to move into the region through today, while the second system will push in wednesday. both systems will bring snow to the sierra and northeastern ca with travel impacts anticipated, so be prepared for winter driving conditions. travel impacts for far western nevada are more uncertain as snow levels will be hovering near the 4500...
. a cold front will bring lowering snow levels tonight and in the sierra and western nevada throughout the weekend and possibly into early next week. little change in forecast reasoning over the last 24 hours. a winter storm with a deep moisture plume moving into northern sierra and northeast california will spread south today and tonight. a man walked into a laundromat on wells avenue and 2nd street with a gunshot wound to his leg. police say the shooting actually happened on east fourth street, near sage street. he was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. sad news to report this morning. police say they found the body of 68-year-old richard bleak-ney of sparks in pyramid lake after a 10-hour search yesterday. this is a picture of the washoe county sheriff's hasty team, performing a deep water dive. bleak-ney was reported missing in october after falling from a fishing boat. man at the sparks marina after his boat capsized prompting a water rescue. it happened around 2-30 yesterday afternoon. according to reports, the man was sailing in the marina when his boat fl
. a cold front will bring lowering snow levels tonight and in the sierra and western nevada throughout the weekend and possibly into early next week. little change in forecast reasoning over the last 24 hours. a winter storm with a deep moisture plume moving into northern sierra and northeast california will spread south today and tonight. a man walked into a laundromat on wells avenue and 2nd street with a gunshot wound to his leg. police say the shooting actually happened on east fourth...
surface inversions develop across western nevada. the next system moves into the region early friday bringing rain, snow and gusty winds into the weekend. &&.short term... high pressure will pass over the sierra and western nevada today, then flatten on wednesday as a strong pacific jet noses toward 130 west longitude. for today, fog in the northern sierra valleys will burn off by 10am with afternoon highs approaching 50 in the nevada valleys with 40s for the sierra. one man is dead after an officer involved shooting near meadowood mall. as kolo 8 news now's catherine van explains... elle: you can tell he was upset that he was hit, being in the accident, a common reaction for many people who have been involved in car crash... but when police arrived 5 pm... witnesses say... this man took it too far. elle: he pulled out a gun. and that's when two reno police officers opened fire and killed him. elle: i didn't hear the crash but the gunshots happened...very quickly after that. inside the marinello school of beauty just two buildings down from the incident was elle glenn along wi
surface inversions develop across western nevada. the next system moves into the region early friday bringing rain, snow and gusty winds into the weekend. &&.short term... high pressure will pass over the sierra and western nevada today, then flatten on wednesday as a strong pacific jet noses toward 130 west longitude. for today, fog in the northern sierra valleys will burn off by 10am with afternoon highs approaching 50 in the nevada valleys with 40s for the sierra. one man is dead...
KOLO 8 News Now @ 5PM : KOLO : January 3, 2016 5:00pm-5:30pm PST
nevada. travel impacts are likely in the sierra this week and possibly for portions of western nevada as well. && .short term... warm air advection is producing light snow showers for locations north of susanville and light accumulations will be possible so early morning commuters should be prepared for potentially slick roads in those areas. the light showers will begin to dissipate this afternoon as the upper low continues to lift north out of the region. temperatures continue to be tricky early this morning. cloud cover along with some breezy winds are keeping temperatures warmer than yesterday evening in some locations, while other locations remain very cold with strong inversions in place. winds will begin to die down later today as the gradient relaxes less than a month away. and today, new finger pointing. a terrorism recruiting video has surfaced, featuring donald trump. campaign trail? abc's mary bruce is in washington with more. nats "?woman shouting at hrc?" hillary clinton standing up to a heckler. nats "you are very rude and i'm not ever going to call on you." as she comes u
nevada. travel impacts are likely in the sierra this week and possibly for portions of western nevada as well. && .short term... warm air advection is producing light snow showers for locations north of susanville and light accumulations will be possible so early morning commuters should be prepared for potentially slick roads in those areas. the light showers will begin to dissipate this afternoon as the upper low continues to lift north out of the region. temperatures continue to be...
Good Morning Reno 5:30am : KOLO : January 5, 2016 5:30am-6:00am PST
this morning as a couple of winter storms move into the sierra and western nevada. the first is already impacting northeast california and the sierra and will continue to move into the region through today, while the second system will push in wednesday. both systems will bring snow to the sierra and northeastern ca with travel impacts anticipated, so be prepared for winter driving conditions. travel impacts for far western nevada are more uncertain as snow levels will be hovering near the 4500 foot mark. potentially slow, slick commute today and for wednesday. snow has already begun to move into northeast california with snow covered roads in the vicinity of highway 44 near bogard rest area just west of susanville. snow coverage is expectt to become widespread in the sierra and northeastern california through the morning hours with impacts for the morning commute. leave plenty of time to reach your destination this morning as sierra passes will be impacted by snowfall. the snow level forecast for western nevada remains tricky this morning with the potential for a few inches to
this morning as a couple of winter storms move into the sierra and western nevada. the first is already impacting northeast california and the sierra and will continue to move into the region through today, while the second system will push in wednesday. both systems will bring snow to the sierra and northeastern ca with travel impacts anticipated, so be prepared for winter driving conditions. travel impacts for far western nevada are more uncertain as snow levels will be hovering near the...
moving across the sierra into western nevada. as such, the previous forecast largely remains intact with the best chances of precipitation north of interstate 80. generally up to an inch of snow will be possible mainly above 4500 feet if this system moves into western nevada by early evening. however, models are beginning to shift some of the timing suggesting a later arrival of the primary front more towards early monday morning. this would promote lower snow levels down to 4000 feet encompassing most western nevada valley floors. there is a growing concern that this system may not be quite as benign as the models are leading us to believe as there are some subtle signals that are showing up. the later and subsequently colder arrival of the front, weak forcing aloft with surface convergence, and moisture penetrating the possibility of more and snowboard school finally kicked off their season today. about 14-hundred students hitting the slopes. kolo 8 news nows chris buckley has the story. "i love snowboarding" "hows the snow? good." about 14-hundred kids took to the slopes at sky t
moving across the sierra into western nevada. as such, the previous forecast largely remains intact with the best chances of precipitation north of interstate 80. generally up to an inch of snow will be possible mainly above 4500 feet if this system moves into western nevada by early evening. however, models are beginning to shift some of the timing suggesting a later arrival of the primary front more towards early monday morning. this would promote lower snow levels down to 4000 feet...
the sierra and light snow possible across western nevada. a couple more weak storms are possible next week with temperatures .short term... current ir satellite imagery showing a widespread area of low stratus across much of western nevada. some of the decks have lowered to the surface across carson city and through the carson valley this morning with visibility at the minden airport having already dipped near 1/4 mile. some clearing is evident across lassen county through the tahoe basin which may promote some patchy areas of freezing fog for the truckee area and the sierra valley this morning. areas of low clouds will prevail through the day with quiet conditions and light winds expected ahead of the next chance for some sierra snowfall by saturday morning. although snowfall sierra standards it will still create travel hazards, likely chain controls, and slow downs for motorists weak pacific storm moves through late tonight into saturday with accumulating snowfall expected across the sierra and light snow possible across western nevada. a couple more weak storms are possible ne
the sierra and light snow possible across western nevada. a couple more weak storms are possible next week with temperatures .short term... current ir satellite imagery showing a widespread area of low stratus across much of western nevada. some of the decks have lowered to the surface across carson city and through the carson valley this morning with visibility at the minden airport having already dipped near 1/4 mile. some clearing is evident across lassen county through the tahoe basin...
possible across western nevada. a couple more weak storms are possible next week with temperatures remaining below normal. current ir satellite imagery showing a widespread area of low stratus across much of western nevada. some of the decks have weak pacific storm moves through late tonight into saturday with accumulating snowfall expected across the sierra and light snow possible across western nevada. a couple more weak storms are possible next week with temperatures remaining below normal. current ir satellite imagery showing a widespread area of low of the decks have across carson city and through the carson valley this morning with visibility at the minden airport having already dipped near 1/4 evident across lassen county through the tahoe basin which may promote some patchy areas of freezing fog for the truckee area and the sierra valley this morning. areas of low clouds will prevail through the day with quiet winds expected ahead of the next chance for some sierra snowfall although snowfall accumulations will be rather unimpressive by sierra standards it will still create
possible across western nevada. a couple more weak storms are possible next week with temperatures remaining below normal. current ir satellite imagery showing a widespread area of low stratus across much of western nevada. some of the decks have weak pacific storm moves through late tonight into saturday with accumulating snowfall expected across the sierra and light snow possible across western nevada. a couple more weak storms are possible next week with temperatures remaining below normal....
News 4---Today : KRNV : January 5, 2016 5:00am-7:00am PST
by KRNV
good chance of spillover snow into western nevada. a bit of a breeze...with stronger winds at higher elevations.on doppler radar this morning...snow is arriving in the sierra with a few snow showers already surviving into parts of western nevada. here's a look around the area.seasonably chilly temperatures across the area. expect seasonably chilly temperatures throughout the day as well.right now...air quality is moderate with a green burn code.7 day 3 (samantha)>> staying with local weather .. nevada's first snow survey of the year is in ... and the numbers are nothing but encouraging ....after four years of drought. hydrologists with the natural resources conservation service measured 54 inches of snow depth yesterday morning. that equals fifteen point nine inches of water content at the mount rose summit.hydrologists say those numbers make our snowpack one-hundred and ten percent of normal for this time of year. a year ago ... snowpack in the area was nearly half of what it is now ... at just 60 percent of normal.however ... hydroglogists say we'll need a lot more snow to help our
good chance of spillover snow into western nevada. a bit of a breeze...with stronger winds at higher elevations.on doppler radar this morning...snow is arriving in the sierra with a few snow showers already surviving into parts of western nevada. here's a look around the area.seasonably chilly temperatures across the area. expect seasonably chilly temperatures throughout the day as well.right now...air quality is moderate with a green burn code.7 day 3 (samantha)>> staying with local...
KOLO 8 Midday @ 11am : KOLO : January 15, 2016 11:00am-12:00pm PST
in the valleys of western nevada today...even with decreased sky cover. clouds begin to increase the system moving into the region late tonight and saturday. most recent forecast model guidance shows this system to be a little wetter than previously thought...so we may have to issue an advisory for the tahoe basin again tonight but that will be worked out later this morning or early this afternoon. there are also snow level issues showing up in the forecast models with any precipitation that makes its way into western nevada saturday morning. reno police have arrested a suspect who they say shot at a group of people at an apartment complex on brinkby avenue. police say they recieved a call about shot-fired near the sherwood forest apartments around 5-30 last night. they say the shooter fired shots at a group of people, but no one was hurt. after a search of the complex, officers arrested a suspect. the shooting remains under investigation. the fourth suspect who was arrested in connection with the murder of a carson city man. 19-year-old jacob huttman is now facing charges of acc
in the valleys of western nevada today...even with decreased sky cover. clouds begin to increase the system moving into the region late tonight and saturday. most recent forecast model guidance shows this system to be a little wetter than previously thought...so we may have to issue an advisory for the tahoe basin again tonight but that will be worked out later this morning or early this afternoon. there are also snow level issues showing up in the forecast models with any precipitation that...
. expect travel impacts in the sierra and western nevada throughout the weekend and possibly into early next week. main changes to the forecast for this morning were to increase snow totals above 8000 feet / issue a winter sierra friday night and saturday, and increase the wind gust potential across western nevada and the eastern sierra friday afternoon. some light rain will occur today pressure shifts to the east today. the next storm will impact the region starting friday with strong winds, rain, and high elevation snow. a cold front will bring lowering snow levels friday night and saturday. expect travel impacts in the sierra and western nevada throughout the weekend and possibly into early next week. main changes to the increase snow totals above 8000 feet / issue a winter storm watch for the sierra friday night and saturday, and increase the wind gust potential across western nevada and the eastern sierra friday afternoon. some light rain will occur today along and north of i-80 as a bit of warm air advection crosses the region. the storm remains on track with the jet pushing
. expect travel impacts in the sierra and western nevada throughout the weekend and possibly into early next week. main changes to the forecast for this morning were to increase snow totals above 8000 feet / issue a winter sierra friday night and saturday, and increase the wind gust potential across western nevada and the eastern sierra friday afternoon. some light rain will occur today pressure shifts to the east today. the next storm will impact the region starting friday with strong winds,...
changes made to the forecast this winter storms move into the sierra and western nevada. the first is already impacting northeast california and the sierra and will continue to move into the region through today, while the second system will push in wednesday. both systems will bring snow to the sierra and northeastern ca with were injured in a crash yesterday afternoon. it happened around 4 o'clock in the northbound lanes just north of queen way. the crash backed up traffic for about 3- hours. no word yet on the extent of injuries or what triggered the crash. turning now to a developing story. the 16 year old shot in the head at pat baker park last week died over the weekend. now the 15 year old accused of pulling the trigger is charged with murder. as an adult, the district attorney's office will have to tred new legal ground. kolo 8 news now's ed pearce explains. 00-:25 :25-:36 :36-1:23 last tuesday a fight at pat baker park in northeast reno ends in gunfire. shots fired into a car strike a 16 year old in the head. saturday he died of those wounds and a 15 year old arrested days ea
changes made to the forecast this winter storms move into the sierra and western nevada. the first is already impacting northeast california and the sierra and will continue to move into the region through today, while the second system will push in wednesday. both systems will bring snow to the sierra and northeastern ca with were injured in a crash yesterday afternoon. it happened around 4 o'clock in the northbound lanes just north of queen way. the crash backed up traffic for about 3-...
impacts in the sierra and western nevada throughout the weekend and possibly into early next week. && .short term... main changes to the forecast for this morning were to increase snow totals above 8000 feet / issue a winter storm watch for the sierra friday night and saturday, and increase u-n-r student who says she was robbed at gun point. police at the university are now investigating the robbery. they say it happened yesterday afternoon near lawlor events center and the west stadium parking garage. the victim says she was robbed by two white men wearing jeans and masks. police say the robbers were last seen heading northbound away from campus. a shed explosion in after fire crews say they found it engulfed in flames. it happened yesterday on "tomahawk way". crews from truckee meadows fire say the shed was used as a garage and contained oil and propane tanks. fortunately, no one was hurt as a result of the explosion. new developments this morning over the fire lawsuit between the reno city council and truckee meadows fire protection district. the city council voted to accept th
impacts in the sierra and western nevada throughout the weekend and possibly into early next week. && .short term... main changes to the forecast for this morning were to increase snow totals above 8000 feet / issue a winter storm watch for the sierra friday night and saturday, and increase u-n-r student who says she was robbed at gun point. police at the university are now investigating the robbery. they say it happened yesterday afternoon near lawlor events center and the west...
News 4 at Four : KRNV : January 14, 2016 4:00pm-4:30pm PST
western nevada. right now we're seeing snow in the sierra and it is kind of skipping over the reno-sparks area and turning to rain as it hits fallin. we're going to continue to see the chance for showers overnight tonight into early tomorrow morning. with that we have a winter storm warning. mainly the county is going to see six to 12 inches of snow possible. advisory in effect for war western nevada. we could see one to four inches of snow below 5,000 feet, and then we also have a wind advisory in effect for far western november unf with gusts upwards of 65 miles per hour in wind prone areas. a lot of weather to talk about and we're going to talk much more about the seven-day forecast coming up in your full forecast. >>> thank you so much, madison. >>> tonight the remaining gop field of seven takes a stage in north charleston, south carolina. the under card debate happening right now. less than three weeks from the iowa caucuses. news 4 is reporting live from the washoe county republican watch party. a lot at stake here. >> reporter: yes, definitely. after tonight there will be on
western nevada. right now we're seeing snow in the sierra and it is kind of skipping over the reno-sparks area and turning to rain as it hits fallin. we're going to continue to see the chance for showers overnight tonight into early tomorrow morning. with that we have a winter storm warning. mainly the county is going to see six to 12 inches of snow possible. advisory in effect for war western nevada. we could see one to four inches of snow below 5,000 feet, and then we also have a wind...
averages. high temperatures will remain in the low to mid 40s for much of western nevada with upper 30s to now to the race for the white house. g-o-p candidate donald trump campaigning in reno-- just 6 weeks before nevada's republican presidential caucuses. his message to supporters? get out and vote. over here in this state we are way ahead. but you have to go register otherwise they are not going to let you vote. butt with lindsay velianoff/trump supporter; i think he will be the nominee and i actually do think he will be the next president of the united states scott blumenthal/trump supporter: so totally on the trump band wagon, so totally against the politically elite, that i just love it. more than 2-thousand people gathered for the rally yesterday at the reno ballroom. trump talked immigration and his plan to build a wall to keep illegal immigrants out of the united states. question rival candidate's ted cruz's citizenship. little football. "you used to see these tackles and it was incredible to watch, right. now they tackle, oh, head on head collision, 15 yards. the white flash "
averages. high temperatures will remain in the low to mid 40s for much of western nevada with upper 30s to now to the race for the white house. g-o-p candidate donald trump campaigning in reno-- just 6 weeks before nevada's republican presidential caucuses. his message to supporters? get out and vote. over here in this state we are way ahead. but you have to go register otherwise they are not going to let you vote. butt with lindsay velianoff/trump supporter; i think he will be the nominee and...
snow possible across western nevada. a couple more weak storms are possible next week with temperatures && .short term... current ir satellite imagery showing a widespread area of low stratus across much of western nevada. some of the decks have lowered to the surface across carson city and through the carson valley this morning with visibility at the minden airport having already dipped near 1/4 mile. some clearing is evident across lassen county through the tahoe basin which may promote some patchy areas of freezing fog for the who crashed his s-u-v into a local 7-eleven was drunk. "oh, please man. don't do this. please." 44-year-old andre dawson was arrested for d-u-i, reckless driving, driving with a suspended license-- and child abuse or neglect. were in the s-u-v at the time of the crash. turns out, it was just hours after he was released from jail for a previous d-u-i. the crash took out the front door, along with several slot machines at the location at 2nd street and wells. turning now to a serious crime in stead. thieves pried open a community mail box and stole m
snow possible across western nevada. a couple more weak storms are possible next week with temperatures && .short term... current ir satellite imagery showing a widespread area of low stratus across much of western nevada. some of the decks have lowered to the surface across carson city and through the carson valley this morning with visibility at the minden airport having already dipped near 1/4 mile. some clearing is evident across lassen county through the tahoe basin which may...
sierra and western nevada throughout the weekend and possibly into early next week. little change in forecast reasoning over the last 24 hours. a the pundits are busy dissecting the debate performance of the republican candidates for president and the impact that donald trump's decision not to participate may have on his results in the iowa caucus. abc's lana zak is it was the final debate before the first votes are cast...and the national front runner was not there. megyn kelly, "let's address the elephant not in the room?" still donald trump's influence was felt. cruz sot everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly //?now that we have the donald trump portion out of the way but cruz's jokes soon turned tense? cruz i would note that the last four questions had been rand, please attack ted, jeb, please attack ted -- let me just say this. chris wallace it is a debate, sir. cruz sot if you guys ask one more mean question, i may have to leave the stage. setting marco rubio up for the first of several applause lines?. rubio sot "i'm not going to leave the stage no matter what you a
sierra and western nevada throughout the weekend and possibly into early next week. little change in forecast reasoning over the last 24 hours. a the pundits are busy dissecting the debate performance of the republican candidates for president and the impact that donald trump's decision not to participate may have on his results in the iowa caucus. abc's lana zak is it was the final debate before the first votes are cast...and the national front runner was not there. megyn kelly, "let's...
sierra and western nevada until 10 pm. gusty wind will continue, with power outages, tree and fence damage, and blowing dust and debris all possible through the evening. winter storm warning for the sierra, including the tahoe snow totals of 1-3 feet above 8000' are possible, with 4-8" down to lake tahoe. expect controls and winter driving conditions, especially after 10 pm as snow levels fall. winter weather advisory for plumas and lassen counties from 10 pm friday until 10 am saturday. several inches of snow and winter driving conditions are expected as the cold air arrives and snow levels fall early saturday morning. flood advisory for the sierra through saturday morning due to heavy, high elevation rains, and snow melt. flooding is expected primarily on smaller creeks and streams, but main stem rivers above reservoirs may also quickly rise. winter storm watch for sunday for western nevada. a second winter storm will bring occasional snow, with winter driving conditions possible on valley floors. stormy weather will continue through the weekend. snow levels will be high to start,
sierra and western nevada until 10 pm. gusty wind will continue, with power outages, tree and fence damage, and blowing dust and debris all possible through the evening. winter storm warning for the sierra, including the tahoe snow totals of 1-3 feet above 8000' are possible, with 4-8" down to lake tahoe. expect controls and winter driving conditions, especially after 10 pm as snow levels fall. winter weather advisory for plumas and lassen counties from 10 pm friday until 10 am saturday....
News 4 at Eleven : KRNV : January 4, 2016 11:00pm-11:34pm PST
, things are quiet for far western nevada but if you look at the california coast they're getting hit with rainfall and this storm system will hit the sierra as snow and then spill over to western nevada by t tomorrow. we could see 1-4 inches of snow on the valley floors and more above 5,000 feet and really the foothills are going to get hit hard but the possibility of seeing issues on our roadways as well. the winter storm warning, that pink, that takes effect or excuse me is in effect as of now and will remain until 10:00 p.m. tomorrow night. we can see 10-16 inches possible. ski resorts get that snow that reno is 31 right now and relative humidity at 76%. here's a quick look across northern nevada. it's in to the 30s and we'll take a closer look at this storm system and how the rest of your 7-day forecast is shaping up in just a if you minutes. >>> and staying with weather, nevada's first snow survey is in and the numbers are encouraging after four years of drought. this morning hydrologists measured 54 inches of snow depth, which equals water content. they make our snowpack 110% of nor
, things are quiet for far western nevada but if you look at the california coast they're getting hit with rainfall and this storm system will hit the sierra as snow and then spill over to western nevada by t tomorrow. we could see 1-4 inches of snow on the valley floors and more above 5,000 feet and really the foothills are going to get hit hard but the possibility of seeing issues on our roadways as well. the winter storm warning, that pink, that takes effect or excuse me is in effect as of...
of northeastern california and western nevada . the region will be impacted by a few systems through midweek. the first makes its way into the sierra later this afternoon, the second on tuesday, and the third on wednesday. first system...shower coverage will increase today as a weak affect the evening commute today so allow for extra time on your drive home. spillover with this initial system will occur later this afternoon for a brief period of time with light accumulations possible for far western nevada and the basin and range. otherwise, snowfall between 2 to 5 inches will be possible along the sierra crest, with an inch or 2 at lake level and along the highway 395 corridor through mono county. foothill locations from carson city northward to susanville could also see around a couple of inches with this initial system. it was a close call at heavenly ski resort after a chair fell off the north bowl lift yesterday morning. kolo 8 viewer lara miller sent us this video. she was on the ski lift when it happened. the resort stopped operating the chair lift immediately. ski patrol was
of northeastern california and western nevada . the region will be impacted by a few systems through midweek. the first makes its way into the sierra later this afternoon, the second on tuesday, and the third on wednesday. first system...shower coverage will increase today as a weak affect the evening commute today so allow for extra time on your drive home. spillover with this initial system will occur later this afternoon for a brief period of time with light accumulations possible for far...
News 4---Today : KRNV : January 14, 2016 5:00am-7:00am PST
advance, they're moving through california, moving toward western nevada right now. behind that the moisture makes its arrival again, and that will bring snow by this afternoon into the mountains and during the evening and overnight hours, it will start to spill over towards western nevada in rain and snow showers. teens and 20s, and it's 14 in around around average for this time of the year. most of the seven-day is and the high temperatures. it's a busy day as far as moisture is concerned. we'll talk about that in a bit. back to you. >>> juveniles are behind bars after burglarsizing a home. a geld invalley homeowner called police after seeing their house ransacked and the male suspect is still inside. there was a brief fight according to investigators and then the suspect ran away. they captured him after finding out his whereabouts, the suspect is being held at the juvenile detention facility. if you have any more information on this burglary, please call the sheriff's office, the number listed on your screen. 328-3350. >>> a third person is behind bars in connection to the shoot
advance, they're moving through california, moving toward western nevada right now. behind that the moisture makes its arrival again, and that will bring snow by this afternoon into the mountains and during the evening and overnight hours, it will start to spill over towards western nevada in rain and snow showers. teens and 20s, and it's 14 in around around average for this time of the year. most of the seven-day is and the high temperatures. it's a busy day as far as moisture is concerned....
tonight and monday morning. for mono county and western nevada, the main period of precipitation looks to be after midnight tonight and monday morning as an upper disturbance moves overhead with the moisture feed in the area. lower elevations should see a decent light rainfall, with between 0.10" and 0.30" possible over a widespread area of western nevada. also, winds will be on the gusty side ahead of the rain this afternoon and evening with local gusts to 55 mph possible in wind prone areas. for the higher elevations in mono county, a burst of heavier snowfall is progged for monday morning as the upper disturbance nears. still, amounts for the mono county crest look to be about half of what is residence time of deep moisture and stronger orographic enhancement for tahoe. monday night will bring a break in precipitation before the next system in the storm train arrives tuesday. good warm air advection is shown in models for a period of good spillover rain into western nevada valleys. winds will kick up once again for western nevada by tuesday afternoon as the warm air advection precipita
tonight and monday morning. for mono county and western nevada, the main period of precipitation looks to be after midnight tonight and monday morning as an upper disturbance moves overhead with the moisture feed in the area. lower elevations should see a decent light rainfall, with between 0.10" and 0.30" possible over a widespread area of western nevada. also, winds will be on the gusty side ahead of the rain this afternoon and evening with local gusts to 55 mph possible in wind...
western nevada tonight with a few snow showers. high pressure will build along the west coast sunday and last into tuesday. it will be dry except for a few showers possible near the oregon border monday. the next area of low pressure will approach wednesday with the next decent chance of precipitation. && .short term... few changes made to this evening. the weak upper low over southwest oregon is still expected to move southeast across western nevada tonight. the nam is now dry, but the gfs continues to show a weak band developing. have left the current forecast as is since the gfs/ec continue to hint at the band. any snow amounts in the band will be light and generally less than one inch. the focus would most likely be within 50 miles of a portola to austin line. after the low moves through, clearing is expected sunday as high pressure strengthens along the west coast. kicking a carson city sheriff deputy. they say andrew james hettrick refused after he was asked to leave a north carson bar. hettrick allegedly began kicking at officers, striking one of used to subdue him. he is bein
western nevada tonight with a few snow showers. high pressure will build along the west coast sunday and last into tuesday. it will be dry except for a few showers possible near the oregon border monday. the next area of low pressure will approach wednesday with the next decent chance of precipitation. && .short term... few changes made to this evening. the weak upper low over southwest oregon is still expected to move southeast across western nevada tonight. the nam is now dry, but...
inches of snow possible above 4,000 feet that is going to spill over into far western nevada tomorrow as well. quite a bit of weather still making its way in tonight and tomorrow. live doppler radar things are quiet elko seeing snow showers tonight local viewing area last hour we've seen some isolated storms to the east of fallon. we're expecting that to be clear for the night but we do have more moving in early tomorrow morning. here's a quick look at that freezing mark right now in reno. no win to speak of relative humidity at 92%. that freezing fog sticking look at your full forecast coming up in a few moments. >>> a tour bus slid off a national park. the crash occurred on high 41 at the bus was exiting the park heading for los angeles. there were 54 passengers onboard. one person suffered a minor injury but everyone else did make it off the bus safely. >>> north korea is putting the rest of the world on edge tonight with word of a nuclear test that was strong enough to cause a slice myck event. the televised north korean statement confirmed it was a hydrogen bomb test. the u.s. ge
inches of snow possible above 4,000 feet that is going to spill over into far western nevada tomorrow as well. quite a bit of weather still making its way in tonight and tomorrow. live doppler radar things are quiet elko seeing snow showers tonight local viewing area last hour we've seen some isolated storms to the east of fallon. we're expecting that to be clear for the night but we do have more moving in early tomorrow morning. here's a quick look at that freezing mark right now in reno. no...
move through western nevada tonight with a few snow showers. high pressure will build along the west coast sunday and last into tuesday. it will be dry except for a few showers possible near the oregon border low pressure will approach wednesday with the next decent chance of precipitation. && .short term... few changes made to the going forecast for this evening. the weak upper low over southwest oregon is still expected to move southeast across western nevada tonight. the nam is now dry, but the gfs continues to show a weak band developing. have left the current forecast as is since the gfs/ec continue to hint at the band. any snow amounts in the band will be light and generally less than one inch. the focus would most likely be within 50 miles of a portola to austin line. after the low moves through, clearing is expected sunday as high pressure strengthens along the west coast. tournament is back in reno one last time.... giving young boxers a chance at their dream. kolo 8 news now's catherine van takes a look at how this is just the start to olympic gold. czarina: when you first
move through western nevada tonight with a few snow showers. high pressure will build along the west coast sunday and last into tuesday. it will be dry except for a few showers possible near the oregon border low pressure will approach wednesday with the next decent chance of precipitation. && .short term... few changes made to the going forecast for this evening. the weak upper low over southwest oregon is still expected to move southeast across western nevada tonight. the nam is now...
continues to provide light snow showers across the sierra and western nevada this morning. accumulations have been generally less than an inch since last night but still enough to cover roadways and likely create travel impacts for the morning commute. an additional few inches is possible across the sierra through the morning but with the bulk of the activity over with, will allow the winter weather advisories to expire as scheduled. the best potential for snow showers will shift eastward this afternoon with some deformation on the backside of the departing low. accumulations of 1 to 2 inches are favored across far eastern pershing, churchill, and mineral counties today. most shower keeton" from the "koh radio" traffic center. how's traffic looking so far? traffic running smoothly. reno area highways. no major delays on highways in northern california. back to you in the studio. thanks very much mike. highways in northern california. back to you in the studio. thanks very much mike. new this morning... police in winnemucca need your help finding a 15 year old runaway. basil lee hooper ju
continues to provide light snow showers across the sierra and western nevada this morning. accumulations have been generally less than an inch since last night but still enough to cover roadways and likely create travel impacts for the morning commute. an additional few inches is possible across the sierra through the morning but with the bulk of the activity over with, will allow the winter weather advisories to expire as scheduled. the best potential for snow showers will shift eastward this...
at the forecast. a series of storm systems will impact the sierra and western nevada through next week with periods of gusty winds...mountain the next storm will bring moderate amounts of snowfall to northeast california, northwest nevada and the lake tahoe region this afternoon through late tonight. there are at least three winners in the 1- point-6-billion dollar powerball jackpot. the winning numbers were drawn last night. here's abc's lauren lyster. wspowerballdrawingwed nats 'can you believe it america, a world record jackpot coming to you right now' or 'tonight's jackpot is approaching $1.6 billion dollars' it was the more than billion dollar moment people across the u-s were waiting for? and that moment undoubtedly changing the life of the lucky powerball players who bought one of the winning tickets here - at this chino hills, california 7- eleven...crowds of people showing up last night after it sot: "it's almost like we won, even though we didn't cause our community won" call it a sign of powerball fever sweeping the nation -- tickets ahead of the drawing selling at a fr
at the forecast. a series of storm systems will impact the sierra and western nevada through next week with periods of gusty winds...mountain the next storm will bring moderate amounts of snowfall to northeast california, northwest nevada and the lake tahoe region this afternoon through late tonight. there are at least three winners in the 1- point-6-billion dollar powerball jackpot. the winning numbers were drawn last night. here's abc's lauren lyster. wspowerballdrawingwed nats 'can you...
western nevada today...but they remain possible.7 day 3 (sam)let's take a look at the roadways this morning with trooper duncan dauber from the nevada highway patrol ...good morning trooper duncan ... 3 (bill)>> freezing fog moved into the area quickly yesterday... causing hazardous driving conditions.the fog is lingering this morning... leaving roads dangerous for drivers.news 4's alex cannito is live with a look at what you need to know before 3 (alex - live) 3 roads are icyhard to seedrive 3 (alex - live)reporting live, alex cannito. back to you. 3 (bill)3 >> we have just learned that three schools are on a 2- hour delay due to the fog... they are saint 3 albert's, little flower and lady of the snow catholic schools.. 3 (samantha)>> it was a long night for reno police... besides dealing with all the crashes... they are invesigating a reported stabbing at the "desert sunset motel" on east 4th street.. that happened around midnight... police say one victim was taken to the hospital with unknown injuries... we will keep you posted on any new developments. 3 (bill)>> also on the crim
western nevada today...but they remain possible.7 day 3 (sam)let's take a look at the roadways this morning with trooper duncan dauber from the nevada highway patrol ...good morning trooper duncan ... 3 (bill)>> freezing fog moved into the area quickly yesterday... causing hazardous driving conditions.the fog is lingering this morning... leaving roads dangerous for drivers.news 4's alex cannito is live with a look at what you need to know before 3 (alex - live) 3 roads are icyhard to...
continues to provide light snow showers across the sierra and western nevada this morning. accumulations have been generally less than an inch since last night but still enough to cover roadways and likely create travel impacts morning commute. an additional few inches is possible across the sierra through the morning but with the bulk of the activity over getting hit with more flooding and mudslides. all from a series of storms clobbering the west coast. abc's kendis gibson has a look at the destruction. script: el nino - slamming drought parched california. "i've lived here about a year and this is as crazy as it's gotten overnight, the pounding surf in san francisco.. causing concern in the high tide. raging water surrounding a van in north of los angeles. a man in tractor trailer.. coming to the rescue. pulling two women to safety through the window! this morning in pasendena.. a large home.. on the verge of disaster. beneath it.. giving way, as mud slides down the hillside. sot homeowner: we are alrady prepeared ro leave incase we have to leave.. and there is more rai
continues to provide light snow showers across the sierra and western nevada this morning. accumulations have been generally less than an inch since last night but still enough to cover roadways and likely create travel impacts morning commute. an additional few inches is possible across the sierra through the morning but with the bulk of the activity over getting hit with more flooding and mudslides. all from a series of storms clobbering the west coast. abc's kendis gibson has a look at the...
News 4 at Six : KRNV : January 4, 2016 6:00pm-7:00pm PST
western nevada and parts of the sierra and will remain in effect all day tomorrow. we could see 1 to 4" of snow on the valley floors and 2 to 5" possible above 5000 feet. we see look at the winter storm warning in the pink-shaded area, that will start at 10:00 tonight and we are expecting 12 to 16" possible. so quite a bit of weather on your way for tuesday. outside right now, cloudy skies and 34 degrees. we have reduced air quality, a moderate air quality reading for the reno-sparks area but with the cold temperatures, we'll have more on when the snow expected to hit in the full forecast. back to you. >>> speaking of weather and snow, mef -- nevada's first numbers are in. and the numbers are encouraging. and snowpack is vital for our supply. jamie hayden has more. >> very happy with the results in time of year. we're still a long ways from the end of winter. >> reporter: on monday morning, hydrologists measures 54" of snow depth, 15.9" of water content making the snowpack at 1 10% of normal. >> it looks like we have just continued the same pattern. but this year, we're above >> report
western nevada and parts of the sierra and will remain in effect all day tomorrow. we could see 1 to 4" of snow on the valley floors and 2 to 5" possible above 5000 feet. we see look at the winter storm warning in the pink-shaded area, that will start at 10:00 tonight and we are expecting 12 to 16" possible. so quite a bit of weather on your way for tuesday. outside right now, cloudy skies and 34 degrees. we have reduced air quality, a moderate air quality reading for the...
encounter slick or slushy road conditions. sierra and western nevada through next week with periods of gusty winds...mountain snow and valley rain. a weak storm brings light snow and rain late tonight and saturday, then a storm system arrives sunday. this storm could linger through mid week and produce substantial snow for the sierra, but details remain uncertain at this time. && .short term... the back edge of the current storm system is resembling characteristics of an inside slider, as bands of snow and rain the republican presidential field has narrowed -- with the contenders growing increasingly combative as the iowa caucuses draw nearer. the g-o-p "in-fighting" was front and center at last night's debate. reid binion reports. and then there were seven: still, a big g-o-p primary field by historical standards... ...but smaller than previous debates. trump and cruz took center stage... literally carolina. they've been mostly friendly so far this primary season... ...but last night, the gloves came off, with the donald taking bare- natural-born citizenship status and presidential
encounter slick or slushy road conditions. sierra and western nevada through next week with periods of gusty winds...mountain snow and valley rain. a weak storm brings light snow and rain late tonight and saturday, then a storm system arrives sunday. this storm could linger through mid week and produce substantial snow for the sierra, but details remain uncertain at this time. && .short term... the back edge of the current storm system is resembling characteristics of an inside slider,...
. expect travel impacts in the sierra and western nevada throughout the weekend and possibly into early next week. main changes to the forecast for this morning were to increase snow totals above 8000 turning now to that daring jail break out of southern california. people in connection with the escape of 3 dangerous inmates. the fugitives were all awaiting trial for violent crimes when they broke out last friday. 1:30 - 1:45 sheriff sandra hutchens/orange county, ca "it's every sheriff's nightmare, you never wanna have an escape. you don't want maximum security prisoners to get out of your jail." authorities believe they had outside help since the tools used in the escape were not prison-made. a 200-thousand dollar reward has been offered for information that leads to the arrest of the inmates. and more arrests are expected. the leader of the armed group occupying the wildlife refuge in oregon wants his followers to stand down. ammon bundy's plea for an end to the standoff came a day after he and several followers were arrested-- and another was shot and killed by police. reid bi
. expect travel impacts in the sierra and western nevada throughout the weekend and possibly into early next week. main changes to the forecast for this morning were to increase snow totals above 8000 turning now to that daring jail break out of southern california. people in connection with the escape of 3 dangerous inmates. the fugitives were all awaiting trial for violent crimes when they broke out last friday. 1:30 - 1:45 sheriff sandra hutchens/orange county, ca "it's every sheriff's...
. weak low pressure will move through western nevada tonight with a few snow showers. high pressure will build along the west coast sunday and last into tuesday. it will be dry except for a few monday. the next area of low pressure will approach wednesday with the next decent chance of precipitation. && .short term... few changes made to the going forecast for this evening. the weak upper low over southwest oregon is still expected to move southeast across western nevada tonight. the nam is now dry, but the gfs continues to show a weak band developing. have left the current forecast as is since the gfs/ec continue to hint at the band. any snow amounts in the band will be light and generally less than one inch. the about the wild animals we see in our area on a daily basis.. and how to make sure this wildlife... stays wild. kolo 8 news nows chris buckley has more. just minutes from downtown reno ... the area at the end of dickerson road. it's 22 acres of protected land. river meadow, riparian vegetation." the area is home to many species of wildlife.. "hawks, quail, songbirds, heron,
. weak low pressure will move through western nevada tonight with a few snow showers. high pressure will build along the west coast sunday and last into tuesday. it will be dry except for a few monday. the next area of low pressure will approach wednesday with the next decent chance of precipitation. && .short term... few changes made to the going forecast for this evening. the weak upper low over southwest oregon is still expected to move southeast across western nevada tonight. the...
look at the forecast. a series of storm systems will impact the sierra and western nevada through next week with periods of gusty winds...mountain snow and valley rain. a weak and saturday, then a milder and wetter storm system arrives sunday. this storm could linger through mid week and produce substantial snow for the sierra, but details remain uncertain at this time. && .short term... the back edge of the current storm system is reno police have arrested a suspect who they say shot at a group of people at an apartment complex on brinkby avenue. police say they recieved a call about shot-fired near the sherwood forest apartments around 5-30 last night. they say the shooter fired shots at a group of people, but no one was hurt. after a search of the complex, officers arrested a suspect. the shooting remains here's another reminder why it's so important to stay off frozen lakes or ponds. police say a man and his dog fell through the ice at manzanita lake after the dog ran from its owner and onto the ice, chasing ducks. trt:15 commander todd renwick, unr police department " we had one o
look at the forecast. a series of storm systems will impact the sierra and western nevada through next week with periods of gusty winds...mountain snow and valley rain. a weak and saturday, then a milder and wetter storm system arrives sunday. this storm could linger through mid week and produce substantial snow for the sierra, but details remain uncertain at this time. && .short term... the back edge of the current storm system is reno police have arrested a suspect who they say shot...
. precipitation will spread over northeast california, the northern sierra and western nevada this morning. the main precipitation today will be warm air advection /warm frontal with no cold air behind the system for california/western nevada, although the sierra will see a brief period of orographically- enhanced precip this afternoon and early evening. the back edge of the waa is evident in satellite via sharp warming just off the northern california coast. finally, snow levels are currently around 5500 feet, plus or minus a few hundred feet, over northeast california and western nevada. snow levels should remain fairly steady this morning with the warm air advection precipitation. however, snow levels should jump 500 to 1000 feet by early to mid afternoon as the precipitation from the sierra crest where orographically- enhanced precipitation does not hold down snowfall amounts above 5500-6000 feet today, they remain on track with up to around 6 inches of "sierra cement" expected near the crest with much lighter amounts down to 5500- 6000 feet. some of us use bikes to get to work
. precipitation will spread over northeast california, the northern sierra and western nevada this morning. the main precipitation today will be warm air advection /warm frontal with no cold air behind the system for california/western nevada, although the sierra will see a brief period of orographically- enhanced precip this afternoon and early evening. the back edge of the waa is evident in satellite via sharp warming just off the northern california coast. finally, snow levels are currently...
series of storm systems will impact the sierra and western nevada through next week with periods of gusty winds...mountain snow and valley rain. the next storm will bring moderate amounts of snowfall to northeast california, northwest nevada and the lake tahoe region this afternoon through late tonight. the storm parade continues with the next low pressure moving inland across the later today and tonight. the let's get back to the oscar nominations... now to a developing story in indonesia. explosions and gunfire rocking the country's capital... after suicide bombers target a starbucks. the streets of jakarta flooded with police as they try to find the suspects and help the wounded. here's abc's stephanie ramos. blown out windows?smoke billowing into the sky?debris scattered across the busy downtown streets of indonesia's capital. at least 3 suicide bombers ?detonated their packs?exploding themselves in a starbucks cafe in jakarta .... while gunmen attacked a police station nearby. at least one police officer is dead but the death toll could be much higher. after the first explosion
series of storm systems will impact the sierra and western nevada through next week with periods of gusty winds...mountain snow and valley rain. the next storm will bring moderate amounts of snowfall to northeast california, northwest nevada and the lake tahoe region this afternoon through late tonight. the storm parade continues with the next low pressure moving inland across the later today and tonight. the let's get back to the oscar nominations... now to a developing story in indonesia....
afternoon and evening...then across western nevada by late monday afternoon. gusty winds this evening should drop off during the overnight hours. a lake wind advisory remains in effect for lake tahoe early this evening. localized are possible on pyramid lake late this afternoon...but these should drop by sunset. with decreasing winds and a period of partly cloudy skies tonight...some valleys could see patchy fog where snow remains. temperatures in the colder sierra valleys will drop below freezing allowing freezing fog to form which could create slick spots on roads near foggy areas by sunday morning. wind gusts will increase again sunday ahead of the next system...close to what occurred today. gusts up to 45 mph are likely east of the sierra with less in the sierra valleys. wind prone areas east of the sierra may gusts to near 55 mph at times. winds will also increase again on pyramid lake for sunday from the a lake wind advisory there for the day time hours sunday...but we will let subsequent shifts take a look at this situation. the increased winds will also increase mixing and all
afternoon and evening...then across western nevada by late monday afternoon. gusty winds this evening should drop off during the overnight hours. a lake wind advisory remains in effect for lake tahoe early this evening. localized are possible on pyramid lake late this afternoon...but these should drop by sunset. with decreasing winds and a period of partly cloudy skies tonight...some valleys could see patchy fog where snow remains. temperatures in the colder sierra valleys will drop below...
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Vaccine: A Psychedelic Vaccination
I’m not sure you’ve been soaking your musical brain–buds into an appropriate amount of weird unless you’ve been tripping to the twisted beats of the Twisted Records tripster family. Shpongle, Younger Brother, Hallucinogen, Prometheus, The Zap!—these are, without a marginal doubt, the trippiest possible music-group configurations of this music generation. Involving three pillar-like shamanic figures of the psychedelic trance community, Simon Posford, Benji Vaughan and Raja Ram are continuously producing, and in so doing, proving, their alchemical sound-scape prominence.
Two of the three maestros, Simon Posford and Benji Vaughan, (the Younger Brother puppet masters) are looking to shoot their fans up with a suspicious-sounding musical vaccine this March. The name of this vaccination? Vaccine. (Their latest music album.) Now, you may be scratching your head wondering why they would name their album Vaccine; because I admit, I couldn’t follow their Shpongle-y logic either. In all actuality, I was kind of repulsed by their new album’s moniker. The word “vaccine”, in-and-of-itself, gives off a phonetically unappealing type of vibe; I didn’t understand what they were going for with this overly-sanitized medical title. I remember thinking: what kind of weird shit are these psychos getting themselves into, this time?
The repulsion grew when I noticed they were forming some sort of guitar-based, singer-led band. It seemed as if they were undergoing a repugnant alien transformation; going from the truest form of unclassifiably psyched-out, Goa-rooted trance to an electronically popped-out, vocal-based sham. Then when I first saw their video, “Night Lead Me Astray,” I began to lose all hope. It seemed as if Simon and Benji were both recklessly balance beaming over washed-up land. My first impression might’ve been wrong, but check out the video below.
Night Lead Me Astray
If you go back and listen to some of the Younger Brother classics, you’ll hear what I mean. In their first group album, A Flock of Beeps, you have an album full of Maya-ripping, laser-lucid space sounds. It’s so magnificently weird that you’ll Trip just by listening to it. Trust me. Decades from now, this particular Younger Brother album will be remembered as a true psychedelic relic. So do yourself a favor; jump into that 4-Dimensional Flock of Beeps.
A Flock of Beeps
Weird on a Monday Night
The Receptive
Evil & Harm
Crumblenaut
Even Dwarves Start Small
The Finger
Younger Brother- Weird on a Monday Night
In their second album, Last Days of Gravity, the masters went at it again. This time, incorporating acoustical elements to their expansive range of sounds. Although, the album was slightly schizophrenic in identity, the experimental warping of electronic and acoustical realms managed to somehow pick apart the laws of physics. And, after ingesting their second album, those familiar days of gravity, indeed, seemed to have been a rule of a game in the past.
Last Days of Gravity
Happy Pills
Elephant Machine
Your Friends Are Scary
I Am A Freak
Ribbon On A Branch
Sleepwalker Part 1
Younger Brother- All I Want
So back to Vaccine. How does Younger Brother go from producing A Flock of Beeps and Last Days of Gravityto a boy-band-manufactured album like Vaccine? I didn’t understand the direction they were headed in.
Fortunately, my shifting suspicions began to subside when they released the interview-video below.
YOUNGER BROTHER - VACCINE VIDEO
Simon and Benji shed an enormous amount of light on their situation when they explained their logic behind the album’s title. It put me at ease by revamping the level of trust and faith I have in their craftsmanship. And it also reminded me of how unwaveringly faithful they are to the psychedelic experience.
As Simon and Benji both point out, the word “vaccine” projects a negative medical vibe in today’s overly suspicious environment. But the word, in-and-of-itself, is packed with a squiggly notion of riddling-intrigue.
Consider Benji Vaughan’s take on the word “vaccine” (09:11):
It’s become a strange word, the way people react to it. Something that fundamentally is designed to do you good, to protect you, has become something that people are scared of. And the notion of a vaccine is something where you’re given a small amount of poison, or a small amount of something negative, that in the long run does you good. So it’s quite a strange notion, the idea of a vaccine.
Or as Simon Posford ‘punfully’ puts it (08:08): “the basic concept I really like: a little bit of poison or something that’s maybe not good for your “consciousness”… or immune system, actually is for the Greater God, er… for the greater good. Maybe explain how if you expand the allegory, you can ‘expand your consciousness.’”
It’s quite interesting to make the connection between psychedelics and vaccines. In fact, the more you play with the idea, the more profound the comparison becomes.
When has the idea of a consciousness vaccination ever been seriously considered? A vaccine, not only committed to matters of immunology, but now expanding its etymological properties into the horizons of the psyche (cows and smallpox aside). I can go on and talk about how psychedelic-related studies have proven to mitigate the level of anxiety and fear of death in terminally-ill cancer patients. Or how 70% of subjects in a Johns Hopkins psilocybin study have reported to have a full-blown mystical experience and considered the experience to be in the top five most important moments of their lives. Or even how research indicates that traumatized soldiers suffering from severe PTSD may greatly benefit from MDMA-assisted psycho-therapy. But I'll spare you the long-winded detail.
Instead, I pose this question over to you. Do you think the notion of a psychedelic vaccination is beyond the realm of reason? Is it realistic to ponder these substances as a type of psycho-spiritual vaccination? (Again, vaccine, in the truest sense of the word.) Let’s take “Bad Trips,” for example. “Bad Trips” are generally temporary negative experiences that may help reveal repressed faults, flaws and weaknesses of the individual. In the ideal case, these negative experiences force the individual to want to change for the betterment and development of their selves. In so many words, a “Bad Trip” is a “small amount of something negative that in the long run does you good.” Hm…
But going back to the original matter at hand: The new Younger Brother album, Vaccine. Simon goes on to take us through the Shpongel-y Younger Brother thought process by drawing out the parallels between the notional definition of the word vaccine and the album (09:47):
And we see a parallel of that with the album because the album is a little bit different from what we’ve done in the past. Fans might be a little shocked by it, it might be sort of a little injection of something a little bit different into their system. But I think over time, the end-result will be positive, because it’s a great album. It should bear up to many, many years of listening.
That being said, here is another echo from the future hinting at what’s to come.
I've been listening to this "Shine" track non-stop for about a week, now. Even the video of "Night Lead Me Astray" has swallowed me into its Void. It was produced by Benji Vaughan himself. So when you study the video with a psychedelic glimmer, you'll realize how trip-filled the video is. And take a look at the track-listing below. Trippy, trippy, trippy (Spinning Into Place and Tetris in particular). So, summing it all up, it’s more than safe to say—I'm really looking forward to getting vaccinated… (Puns intended?)
Younger Brother - Shine
1. ‘Crystalline’
2. ‘Shine’
3. ‘Pound A Rhythm’
4. ‘Safety In Numbers’
5. ‘Night Lead Me Astray’
6. ‘Train’
7. ‘Spinning Into Place’
8. ‘System 700’
9. ‘Tetris’
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Commandeur Award to Erol Gelenbe
Award of the honour of Commandeur de l’Ordre National du Merite to Erol Gelenbe.
Interview with Rosalind L Smyth
Read the interview with Professor Rosalind L Smyth, Director and Professor of Child Health UCL Great Ormond St Institute of Child Health
Donald Bruce Dingwell
VIP Career Achievement Award to Donald B. Dingwell, the Vice-President of Academia Europaea, by the Geological Association of Canada (CAC).
Mission Boards
A call by the European Commision for experts to join ‘Mission Boards’.
Deadline: 11 June 2019.
Tbilisi Regional Knowledge Hub
Academia Europaea and the Young Academy of Europe formally launch a new Regional Knowledge Hub in Tbilisi (Republic of Georgia) on 24 April 2019.
Adam Kondorosi Academia Europaea Award for Advanced Research
Call for nominations for the Adam Kondorosi Academia Europaea Award for Advanced Research.
Deadline for nominations: June 1st 2019.
Ewald R. Weibel
Ewald R. Weibel (1929 – 2019)
Post-doctoral researchers hired
The Université de Nantes, the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Università di Napoli l’Orientale, the University of Kent and the University of Amersterdam are hiring post-doctoral researchers for the project “The European Qur’an: Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion (1150-1850)” (EuQu).
Application deadline: April 1st, 2019.
Doctoral Scholarships on the Qur’an
Doctoral candidates for work on the project “The European Qur’an: Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion (1150-1850)” (EuQu) recruited.
Application deadline: April 1, 2019.
Lord Martin Rees
Interview with Astronomer Royal Professor Martin Rees on occassion of the publication of his latest book On the Future: Prospects for Humanity.
Nomination cycle 2018-2019
The nomination period 2018/2019 opened on 1 December 2018 and will close on 31 March, 2019.
Hungarian Academy
Statement on the situation of HAS.
The Academia Europaea expresses its anxiety at the restrictions now forced upon the operations of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
2019 Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize
Call for Nominations.
Deadline for Submission: 1 March 2019.
EASAC report on Decarbonisation of Transport
Public launch of the EASAC report on Decarbonisation of Transport: Options and Challenges
Wednesday 20 March 2019, 12:00 – 14:00, Brussels
Jean Bourgain (1954 - 2018)
Jean Bourgain, a member of the Mathematics section of Academia Europaea and a recipient of the Fields Medal, died December 22 at the age of 64.
Letter from the Honorary Treasurer
Newsletter from the new Honorary Treasurer Veljko Milutinovic concerning present and future strategic plans.
Barcelona Hypatia European Science Prize
The Barcelona Hypatia European Science Prize awarded to Dr. László Lovász, AE member and current President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
New SAPEA Report
Handover of new SAPEA report to the Group of Chief Scientific Advisors
Establishment of a new regional Academia Europaea Knowledge Hub in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Award to Marja Makarow
Award of the Chevalier dans l’ordre de la Légion d’honneur to Professor Marja Makarow.
Sierd Cloetingh Royal Astronomical Society
Professor Sierd Cloetingh made Honorary Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society
Insignificant
A popularization project of 3D animation movie about the place of humanity in the universe and the environment.
Academia Europaea 2018
Academia Euroapea thanks its members, patrons, institutional sponsors and partners and all visitors of its web site for a fruitful 2018.
Holiday closure of AE headquarters, Knowledge Hubs and the Graz Information Centre.
Genoveva Marti
Professor Genoveva Marti elected Vice President of Academia Europaea
Veljko Milutinovic
Professor Veljko Milutinovic elected Honorary Treasurer of Academia Europaea.
André Mischke
André Mischke (1972-2018)
30 years Academia Europaea
Academia Europaea publishes an anniversary brochure in celebration of its 30th anniversary.
BREXIT NATIONALITY AND UNION CITIZENSHIP
BREXIT, NATIONALITY AND UNION CITIZENSHIP: BOTTOM UP
An article by Prof. Hans Ulrich Jessurun d’Oliveira.
Presented at the History & Archaeology Section first bi-annual workshop
in the Wrocław Knowledge Hub, 3-4 September 2018.
Academia Europaea 30th Anniversary celebration
On Monday 24th September, more than 80 members of Academia Europaea (MAEs) gathered at the Royal Society in London to mark the Academia Europaea’s 30th anniversary.
THE BARCELONA 'HYPATIA' EUROPEAN SCIENCE PRIZE
Call for Nominations for the first edition of the Barcelona Hypatia European Science Prize.
Deadline for nominations: October 31, 2018 at 5 pm.
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Thus speaking she seized the curving rail and started into
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the lily pond. Lu Bu caught her in his
strong arms and wept as he held her close.
“I knew it： I always knew your heart,” he sobbed. “Only we never had a chance to speak.”
She threw her arms about Lu Bu.
“If I cannot be your wife in this life, I will in the ages to come,” she whispered.
“If I do not marry you in this life, I am no hero,” said he.
“Every day is a year long. O pity me！ Rescue me！ My lord！”
“I have only stolen away for a brief moment, and I am afraid that old rebel will suspect something, so I must not stay too long,” said Lu Bu.
Diao Chan clung to his robe, saying, “If you fear the old thief so much, I shall never see another sunrise.”
Lu Bu stopped.
“Give me a little time to think,” said he.
And he picked up his halberd to go.
“In the deep seclusion of the harem, I heard the stories of your prowess. You were the one man who excelled all others. Little did I think that you of all heroes would rest content under the dominion of another.”
And tears rained again！
A wave of shame flooded his face. Leaning his halberd against the railing, he turned and clasped the girl to his breast, soothing her with fond words. The lovers held each other close, swaying to and fro with emotion. They could not bring themselves to say farewell.
In the meantime Dong Zhuo missed his henchman, and doubt filled his heart. Hastily taking leave of the Emperor, he mounted his chariot and returned to his palace. There at the gate stood Lu Bu’s well known steed Red Hare, riderless. Dong Zhuo questioned the doorkeepers, and they told him the General was within. He sent away his attendants and went alone to the private apartments. Lu Bu was not there. He called Diao Chan, but there was no reply. He asked where she was, and the waiting maids told him she was in the garden among the flowers.
So Dong Zhuo went into the garden, and there he saw the lovers in the pavilion in most tender talk. Lu Bu’s trident halberd was leaning on the railing beside him.
A howl of rage escaped Dong Zhuo and startled the lovers. Lu Bu turned, saw who it was, and ran away. Dong Zhuo caught up the halberd and ran in pursuit. But Lu Bu was fleet of foot while his master was very stout. Seeing no hope of catching the runaway, Dong Zhuo hurled the halberd. Lu Bu fended it off and it fell to the ground. Dong Zhuo picked it up and ran on. But by this time Lu Bu was far ahead. Just as Dong Zhuo was running out at the garden gate, he dashed full tilt against another man running in, and down he went.
[hip, hip, hip] Surged up his wrath within him as
the billows heavenward leap. Crashed his unwieldy body
to earth in a shapeless heap. [yip, yip, yip]
We shall presently see who the other runner was
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He angrily rebuked his son, saying, “Dare you make love to my beauty？”
He told the servants to turn Lu Bu out, shouting, “Never let him enter here again！”
Lu Bu went off home very wrath. Meeting Li Ru, he told Li Ru the cause of his anger.
the adviser hastened to see his master and said, “Sir, you aspire to be ruler of the empire. Why then for a small fault do you blame the General？ If he turns against you, it is all over.”
“then what can I do？” said Dong Zhuo.
“Recall him tomorrow； treat him well； overwhelm him with gifts and fair words； and all will be well.”
So Dong Zhuo did so. He sent for Lu Bu and was very gracious and said, “I was irritable and hasty yesterday owing to my illness and I wronged you, I know. Forgive me.”
He gave Lu Bu three hundred ounces of gold and twenty rolls of brocade. And so the quarrel was made up. But though Lu Bu’s body was with his adopted father Dong Zhuo, his heart was with his promised bride Diao Chan.
Dong Zhuo having quite recovered went to court again, and Lu Bu followed him as usual. Seeing Dong Zhuo deep in conversation with the Emperor, Lu Bu, armed as he was, went out of the Palace and rode off to his chief’s residence. He tied up his steed at the entrance and, halberd in hand, went to the private apartment to seek his love. He found Diao Chan, and she told him to go out into the garden where she would join him soon. He went, taking his halberd with him, and he leaned against the rail of the Phoenix Pavilion to wait for Diao Chan.
After a long time she appeared, swaying gracefully as she made her way under the drooping willows and parting the flowers as she passed. She was exquisite, a perfect fairy from the Palace of the Moon.
Tears were in her eyes as she came up and said, “Though I am not the Minister’s real daughter, yet he treated me as his own child. The desire of my life was fulfilled when he plighted me to you. But oh！ to think of the wickedness of the Prime Minister, stealing my poor self as he did. I suffered so much. I longed to die,
only that I had not told you the real truth. So I lived on,
bearing my shame as best as I could but feeling it mean still to live.
Now that I have seen you, I can end it all. My poor sullied body is
no longer fit to serve a hero. I can die before your eyes and so prove how true I am！”
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“Of course you do not understand. Yesterday when I was at court
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“Of course you do not understand. Yesterday when I was at court, the Prime Minister told me he had something to talk to me about in my own house. So naturally I prepared for his coming, and while we were at dinner he said, ‘I have heard something of a girl named Diao Chan whom you have promised to my son Lu Bu. I thought it was mere rumor so I wanted to ask if it was true. Beside I should like to see her.’ I could not say no, so she came in and made her bow to the lord of lords. Then he said that it was a lucky day and he would take her away with him and betroth her to you. Just think, Sir： When the Prime Minister had come himself, could I stop him？”
“You were not so very wrong,” said Lu Bu. “But for a time I had misunderstood you. I owe you an apology.”
“the girl has a small trousseau, which I will send as soon as she has gone over to your dwelling.”
Lu Bu thanked him and went away. Next day he went into the palace to find out the truth, but could hear nothing. Then he made his way into the private quarters and questioned the maids. Presently one told him that the Prime Minister had brought home a new bedfellow the night before and was not up yet. Lu Bu was very angry. Next he crept round behind his master’s sleeping apartment.
By this time Diao Chan had risen and was dressing her hair at the window. Looking out she saw a long shadow fall across the little lake. She recognized the headdress, and peeping around she saw it was indeed no other than Lu Bu. Thereupon she contracted her eyebrows, simulating the deepest grief, and with her dainty handkerchief she wiped her eyes again and again. Lu Bu stood watching her a long time.
Soon after he went in to give morning GREeting. Dong Zhuo was sitting in the reception room. Seeing his henchman, Dong Zhuo asked if there was anything new.
“Nothing,” was the reply.
Lu Bu waited while Dong Zhuo took his morning meal. As he stood beside his master, he glanced over at the curtain and saw a woman there behind the screen showing a half face from time to time and throwing amorous glances at him. He felt it was his beloved, and his thoughts flew to her. Presently Dong Zhuo noticed his expression and began to feel suspicious.
“If there is nothing, you may go,” said Dong Zhuo.
Lu Bu sulkily withdrew.
Dong Zhuo now thought of nothing but his new mistress and for more than a month neglected all affairs, devoting himself entirely to pleasure. Once he was a little indisposed, and Diao Chan was constantly at his side, never even undressing to show her solicitude. She gratified his every whim. Dong Zhuo GREw more and more fond of her.
One day Lu Bu went to inquire after his father’s health.
Dong Zhuo was asleep, and Diao Chan was sitting at the head of
his couch. Leaning forward she gazed at the visitor, with one hand
pointed to her heart, the other at Dong Zhuo asleep, and her tears fell.
Lu Bu felt heartbroken. Dong Zhuo drowsily opened his eyes；
and seeing his son’s gaze fixed on something behind him, he turned over and saw who it was.
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You stand, a dainty maiden, Your cherry lips so bright, Your teeth so
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pearly white, Your fragrant breath love-laden；Yet is your tongue a sword；Cold death is the reward Of loving thee, O maiden. [yip, yip, yip]
Dong Zhuo was delighted and praised her warmly. She was told to present a goblet of wine to the guest which he took from her hands and then asked her age.
She replied, “Thy unworthy handmaid is twenty-one.”
“A perfect little fairy！” said Dong Zhuo.
then Wang Yun rose and said, “If the Prime Minister would not mind, I should like to offer him this little maid.”
“How could I be grateful enough for such a kindness！”
“She would be most fortunate if she could be your servant,” said Wang Yun.
Dong Zhuo thanked his host warmly.
then the orders were given to prepare a closed carriage and convey Diao Chan to the Prime Minister’s palace.
Soon after Dong Zhuo took his leave, and Wang Yun accompanied him the whole way.
After he had taken leave, Wang Yun mounted to ride homeward. Half way he met two lines of guards with red lamps who were escorting Lu Bu who was on horseback and armed with his trident halberd.
Seeing Wang Yun, Lu Bu at once reined in, stopped, seized him by the sleeve, and said angrily, “You promised Diao Chan to me, and now you have given her to the Prime Minister： What foolery is this？”
Wang Yun checked him, saying, “This is no place to talk； I pray you come to my house.”
So they went together, and Wang Yun led Lu Bu into a private room.
After the usual exchange of polite GREetings,
Wang Yun said, “Why do you find fault with me, General？”
“Somebody told me that you had sent Diao
Chan to the Prime Minister’s palace in a covered carriage： What does it mean？”
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“How dare I expect this？” said Dong Zhuo.
“From the days of old, those who walk in the way have replaced those who deviate therefrom； those who lack virtue have fallen before those who possess it. Can one escape fate？”
“If indeed the decree of Heaven devolves on me, you shall be held the first in merit！” said Dong Zhuo.
Wang Yun bowed. then lights were brought in and all the attendants were dismissed, save the serving maids to hand the wine. So the evening went on.
Presently Wang Yun said, “the music of these everyday musicians is too commonplace for your ear, but there happens to be in the house a little maid that might please you.”
“Excellent！” said the guest.
then a curtain was lowered. The shrill tones of reed instruments rang through the room, and presently some attendants led forward Diao Chan, who then danced on the outside of the curtain.
A poem praises her：
[hip, hip, hip] For a palace this maiden was born, So timid,
so graceful, so slender, Like a tiny bird flitting at morn Over the
dew-laden lily buds tender. Were this exquisite maid only mine, For never a mansion I’d pine. [yip, yip, yip]
Another poem runs thus：
[hip, hip, hip] the music falls, the dancer comes, a swallow gliding in, A dainty little damsel, soft as silk；Her beauty captivates the guest yet saddens him within, For he must soon depart and leave her there. She smiles； no gold could buy that smile, no other smiled so, No need to deck her form with jewels rare. But when the dance is over and coy glances come and go, Then who shall be the chosen of the fair？
[yip, yip, yip]
the dance ended. Dong Zhuo bade them lead the maiden in, and she came, bowing low as she approached him. He was much taken with her beauty and modest grace.
“Who is she？” said Dong Zhuo.
“A singing girl. Her name is Diao Chan.”
“then can she sing？”
the master bade her sing, and she did so to the accompaniment of castanets. There is a measure describing her youthful beauty：
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Some few days later when Wang Yun was at court and Lu Bu was
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Some few days later when Wang Yun was at court and Lu Bu was absent, Wang Yun bowed low before Dong Zhuo and said, “I wish that you would deign to come to dine at my lowly cottage： Could your noble thought bend that way？”
“Should you invite me, I would certainly hasten,” was the reply.
Wang Yun thanked him. then Wang Yun went home and prepared in the reception hall a feast in which figured every delicacy from land and sea. Beautiful embroideries surrounded the chief seat in the center, and elegant curtains were hung within and without. At noon next day, when the Prime Minister arrived, Wang Yun met him at the gate in full court costume. Wang Yun stood by while Dong Zhuo stepped out of his chariot, and Dong Zhuo and a host of one hundred armed guards crowded into the hall. Dong Zhuo took his seat at the top, his suite fell into two lines right and left, while Wang Yun stood humbly at the lower end. Dong Zhuo bade his people conduct Wang Yun to a place beside himself.
[e] Yi Yin was was helper and prime minister of King Tang, the founder of Shang Dynasty. After King Tang’s death, Yi Yin served his sons and grandson. Soon after Tai Jia, King Tang’s grandson, ascended the throne, he committed many faults, and Yi Yin, acting as regent, exiled Tai Jia to Tong Palace——the burial place of King Tang. After three years Yi Yin returned him the throne. Tai Jia eventually became an enlightened emperor. Shang Dynasty lasted for 650 years （BC 1700-1050）。 It was this act of Yi Yin rather than his services in building up an empire that has made him immortal. Whether he did right in temporarily dethroning the king was open to question, until a final verdict was rendered by Mencius who thought that his ends amply justified his means. This historical event attests the extent of the power exercised by a prime minister in those days. ……
[e] Duke of Zhou was brother of King Wu, who was the founder of Zhou Dynasty. After King Wu’s death, the Duke of Zhou served his young son as regent. The Duke of Zhou completely ended the Shang domination, and he helped establish the Zhou administrative framework, which served as a model for future Chinese dynasties. Zhou Dynasty lasted for 800 years （BC 1050-221）。 ……
[e] King Yao, King Shun, and King Yu （BC 2400-2200） were the three ideal rulers in ancient China. They ascended the throne by their virtues and merits, and not by heritage. King Yu was also the founder of the Xia Dynasty. ……
Said Wang Yun, “the GREat Prime Minister’s abundant virtue is as the high mountains. Neither the ancient sages——Yi Yin* and the Duke of Zhou*——could attain thereto.”
Dong Zhuo smiled. they bore in the dishes and the wine, and the music began. Wang Yun plied his guest with assiduous flattery and studied deference. When it GREw late and the wine had done its work, Dong Zhuo was invited to the inner chamber. So he sent away his guards and went.
Here the host raised a goblet and drank to his guest, saying, “From my youth up I have understood something of astrology and have been studying the aspect of the heavens. I read that the days of Han are numbered, and that the GREat Prime Minister’s merits command the regard of
all the world, as when King Shun succeeded King Yao,
and King Yu continued the work of King Shun*,
all by the strength of their own merits
, conforming to the mind of Heaven and the desire of people.”
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Lu Bu said, “I am but a simple officer in the palace of a minister
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Lu Bu said, “I am but a simple officer in the palace of a minister. You are an exalted officer of state. Why am I treated thus？”
“Because in the whole land there is no hero your equal. Poor Wang Yun bows not to an officer’s rank； poor Wang Yun bows to his ability ”
This gratified Lu Bu mightily, and his host continued to praise and flatter and ply him with wine and to talk of the virtues of the Prime Minister and his henchman.
Lu Bu laughed and drank huge goblets.
Presently most of the attendants were sent away, only a few kept to press the guest to drink.
When the guest was very mellow, Wang Yun suddenly said, “Let her come in！”
Soon appeared two attendants, dressed in white, leading between them the exquisite and fascinating Diao Chan.
“Who is this？” said Lu Bu startled into sobriety.
“This is my little girl, Diao Chan. You will not be annoyed at my familiarity, will you？ But you have been so very friendly, I thought you would like to see her.”
Wang Yun bade Diao Chan present a goblet of wine, and her eyes met those of the warrior.
Wang Yun feigning intoxication said, “My little child begs you, General, to take a cup or two. We all depend upon you, all our house.”
Lu Bu begged Diao Chan to sit down. She pretended to wish to retire. Her master pressed her to remain, saying that she might do so since the guest was a dear friend. So she took a seat modestly near her master.
Lu Bu kept his gaze fixed upon the maid, while he swallowed cup after cup of wine.
“I should like to present her to you as a handmaid： Would you accept？” said Wang Yun.
the guest started up.
“If that is so, you may rely upon my abject gratitude,” said Lu Bu.
“We will choose a propitious day ere long and send her to the palace.”
Lu Bu was overjoyed. He could not keep his eyes off Diao Chan, and loving glances FLASHed from her liquid eyes.
However the time came for the guest to leave, and Wang Yun said,
“I would ask you to remain the night, but the Prime Minister might suspect something.”
Lu Bu thanked him again and again and departed.
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And the girl said, “Thy handmaid has been the recipient
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And the girl said, “Thy handmaid has been the recipient of bountiful kindness. She has been taught to sing and dance and been treated so kindly that were she torn in pieces for her lord’s sake, it would not repay a thousandth part. She has noticed lately that her lord’s brows have been knit in distress and knows it is on account of the state troubles. But she has not dared to ask. This evening he seemed sadder than ever, and she was miserable on her lord’s account. But she did not know she would be seen. Could she be of any use she would not shrink from a myriad deaths.”
A sudden idea came to Wang Yun, and he stuck the ground with his staff. And he said, “Who would think that the fate of Han lay on your palm？ Come with me！”
the girl followed him into the house. Then he dismissed all the waiting attendants, placed Diao Chan on a chair and bowed before her. She was frightened and threw herself on the ground, asking in terror what it all meant.
Said Wang Yun, “You can sympathize with the people of Han,” and the fount of his tears opened afresh.
“My lord, as thy handmaid said just now, use her in any way： Thy handmaid will never shrink,” said the girl.
Wang Yun knelt, saying, “the people are on the brink of destruction, the prince and his officers are in jeopardy, and you, you are the only savior. That wretch Dong Zhuo wants to depose the Emperor, and not a person among us can find means to stop him. Now he has a son, a bold warrior it is true, but both father and son have a weakness for beauty, and I am going to use what I may call the ‘chaining’ plan. I shall first propose you in marriage to Lu Bu and then, after you are betrothed, I shall present you to Dong Zhuo, and you will take every opportunity to force them asunder and turn sway their countenances from each other, cause the son to kill his adopted father and so put an end to the GREat evil. Thus you may restore the altars of the land that it may live again. All this lies within your power： Will you do it？”
“Thy handmaid has promised not to recoil from death itself. You may use my poor self in any way, and I must do my best.”
“But if this gets abroad then we are all lost！”
“Fear not,” said she. “If thy handmaid does not show gratitude, may she perish beneath a myriad swords！”
“Thank you, thank you！” said Wang Yun.
then Wang Yun took from the family treasury many pearls
and bade a cunning jeweler make therewith a fine golden
headdress, which was sent as a present to Lu Bu. He was
delighted and came to thank the donor. When Lu Bu arrived,
he was met at the gate by Wang Yun himself and within found a
table full of dainties for his delectation. He was conducted into
the private apartments and placed in the seat of honor.
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On one occasion Dong Zhuo spread a GREat feast for all
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On one occasion Dong Zhuo spread a GREat feast for all those assembled to witness his departure； and while it was in progress, there arrived a large number of rebels from the north who had voluntarily surrendered. The tyrant had them brought before him as he sat at table and meted out to them wanton cruelties. The hands of this one were lopped off, the feet of that； one had his eyes gouged out； another lost his tongue. Some were boiled to death. Shrieks of agony arose to the very heavens, and the courtiers were faint with terror. But the author of the misery ate and drank, chatted and smiled as if nothing was going on.
Another day Dong Zhuo was presiding at a GREat gathering of officers who were seated in two long rows. After the wine had gone up and down several times, Lu Bu entered and whispered a few words in his master’s ear.
Dong Zhuo smiled and said, “He was always so. Take Minister Zhang Wan outside.”
the others all turned pale. In a little time a serving man brought the head of their fellow guest on a red dish and showed it to their host. They nearly died with fright.
“Do not fear,” said Dong Zhuo smiling. “Minister Zhang Wan was in league with Yuan Shu to assassinate me. A letter he wrote fell by mistake into the hands of my son, so I have had him put to death. You gentlemen, who have no reason, need have no fear.”
the officials hastened to disperse. One of them, Minister of the Interior Wang Yun, who had witnessed all this, returned to his palace very pensive and much distressed. The same evening, a bright moonlight night, he took his staff and went strolling in his private garden. Standing near one of the creeper trellises, he gazed up at the sky and the tears rolled down his cheeks. Suddenly he heard a rustle in the Peony Pavilion and someone sighing deeply. Stealthily creeping near, he saw there one of the household singing girls named Diao Chan.
This maiden had been brought up in his palace, where she had been taught to sing and dance. At twenty-one, she was then just bursting into womanhood, a pretty and clever girl whom Wang Yun regarded more as a daughter than a dependant.
After listening for some time, Wang Yun suddenly called out, “What mischief are you up to there, you naughty girl？”
the maiden dropped on her knees in terror, saying,
“Would thy unworthy handmaid dare to do anything wrong？”
“then what are you sighing about out here in the darkness？”
“May thy handmaid speak from the bottom of her heart？”
“Tell me the whole truth. Do not conceal anything.”
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This is what Kuai Liang said, “Sun Jian is now gone
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This is what Kuai Liang said, “Sun Jian is now gone, and his children are but youths. Seize this moment of weakness to break into Changsha, and it is yours in one beat of the drum. If you return the corpse and make peace, you give them time to grow powerful, and evil will ensue to Jingzhou.”
“How can I leave Huang Zu in their hands？” said Liu Biao.
“Why not sacrifice this blundering warrior for a region？”
“But he is my dear friend and to abandon him is wrong.”
So Huan Ji was allowed to return to his own side with the understanding that Sun Jian’s dead body should be given in exchange. Sun Ce freed his prisoner, brought away his father’s coffin, and the fighting ceased. Sun Jian was interred in the plains of Que. When the ceremonies were over, Sun Ce led his army home again.
[e] the Yangtze or Yangzi river, which flows from west to east to the Pacific at Shanghai.
In Changsha, the southern territory of the GREat River*, Sun Ce set himself to the task of ruling well. Being humble and generous, he invited to his side humans of wisdom and valor and so bore himself that all the best and bravest of the country gathered about him.
Meanwhile, Dong Zhuo at Capital Changan, when he heard of the death of the turbulent Sun Jian, said, “An evil that pressed hard upon my heart has been removed！”
He asked what children Sun Jian had left, and when they told him the eldest was but seventeen, he dismissed all anxiety from his thoughts.
From this time forward his arrogance and domineering spirit waxed worse and worse. He styled himself “Imperial Rector,” a name full of honor, and in all his behavior aped imperial state. He created his younger brother, Dong Min, Lord of Huazhou and made him Commander of the Left Army. A nephew, Dong Huang, was made Court Counselor and placed in command of the Palace Guard, and everyone of his clan, young or old, was ennobled. Eighty miles from the capital Dong Zhuo laid out a city called Meiwo, an exact replica of Changan, with its palaces, granaries, treasuries, and magazines, and employed a quarter of a million people to build it. Here he accumulated supplies sufficient for twenty years. He selected eight hundred of the most beautiful maidens and sent them to dwell in his new city. The stores of wealth in every form were incalculable. All his family and retainers found quarters in this new city.
Dong Zhuo visited his city at intervals of a month or so,
and every visit was like an imperial proGREss,
with booths by the roadside to refresh the officials and courtiers who
attended him to the northwest Royal Gate and saw him start.
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Posted by Stitchy McYarnpants On December - 21 - 2006 ShareThis
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Jon just called me at work to tell me that he was listening to 1430am, which is Boston Progressive Talk. Then, all of a sudden at noon, they started speaking Spanish and playing Latino music. He said, and I quote, “I’ve been listening for two hours and I like the music. I don’t know what they’re saying, but it sounds like they’re having fun.” But he was still hoping it was some kind of mix-up. It ain’t. it’s switched formats and is now called‚ “Rumba”.
But . . . but . . .‚ but . . . what about my Stephanie Miller fix in the morning? It makes my hour+ commute bearable.‚ I love her. How can they do this to me? And Al Franken? He was such good company when I worked from home. And Ed Schultz. Well, I was really warming up to him. I always thought he was what Chi-Chi would be like if he were a radio host. And could talk. And had thumbs. And Randi Rhodes – sure she can be kind of yelly, but she was perfect to listen to in the kitchen while I was cooking or doing dishes in the evening. And how can I forget Rachel Maddow? LOVE her.
Seriously, I’m a little despondent over this. There is almost always a radio on in the house with Progressive Radio on it. Usually in the kitchen. I’m so bummed. I know Stephanie Miller is on Sirius radio in the evenings, but the sound quality is awful, it sounds like‚ she’s in a tin can. And she has podcasts, but still – it’s just not the same.
~sigh~ What a bummer.
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Ed Schultz is on Sirius, too.
Wow, January 2005 I was listening to the legendary WHFS 99.1 out of DC and right around Noon they went off the air for 5 minutes. Total dead-air. Then one of the DJs came back on and signed off. That was it. The station immediately launched into Spanish music, it was now El Zol 99.1FM.
I’m in Madison, WI…and we had the highest rated Air America station in the whole US…and now…it is sports! Thank you, Clear Channel. Revenge for the November elections?????
Joyce Riedesel says:
Air America filed for bankruptcy last month. It is holding on here in Minnesota where it is headquartered, but we no longer get to hear Al Franken live, even tho the show originates here. I guess “they” were right about progressive talk not being supported by listeners.
what?what? what???? did he try 1230? becasue that’s where i’ve been listening to progressive radio. tell him to try 1230.
i mean 1200 — and yep … i just checked. it’s gone.
boston is the most progressive area of the entire country and we don’t even have something to listen to.
fuckers….
Bueno, si necesitas lecciones para aprender español, quizás podemos arreglar algo.
I remember when that happened to 99.1 HFS – that station *was* legendary. It’s back now due to popular demand though, on another station number. Hopefully the same will happen to 1430.
Hilari says:
oh no! I haven’t listened in a week or so – I’m going to have to check and see if it’s still on here in southern CA
Great news everyone! This morning’s paper announced that Clear Channel, the company that owns the Air America station here in Madison, WI is REVERSING THEIR DECISION!!!! Of course, the petition, the endorsement of the mayor, and the marches to the Clear Channel station certainly helped Clear Channel’s decision making process. You can do the same thing…just get out there and organize.
Al Franken is in Iraq with the USO over Christmas. As far as I know he is deciding whether or not to come back, or run for the US Senate from MN. Personally, I hope he runs. He would be my senator.
Beth G. says:
I’m so glad I wasn’t the only one to notice!! I am going through withdrawl!! Bring me back Air America NOW!!! I’ll just have to suffer and knit in silence.
Air America is still on XM including Al and Randi Rhodes. In DC our local Clear Channel “Progressive” station replaced Randi with Ed Schultz because, you know, she is shrill or something. But Stephanie and a few others are still on.
Moby Knit says:
You can listen online at http://www.airamerica.com
Ack! Poor Mike! Poor you and your holiday prices! They are in the business of helping animals, aren’t they? Holy cow. Removing a penis and making a new pee hole ought to be a fun enough way to spend your New Year. Who has better New Year’s conversation than that???
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Scarred For Life Vol 1 – the 1970s
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Life means life, so when you read Scarred for Life volume one: the 1970s – Growing up in the dark side of the decade, a celebration of everything that scared you rigid in the 70s, from public information films (PFI) to TV programmes, that’s exactly what you get…scarred.
Over the years those scars may have become feint distant memories but they come screaming back to haunt you as you eagerly explore its 740 pages.
Like secondary schools at the time it’s comprehensive, not in the Grange Hill way you understand – which is also featured in the book along with its still nightmare inducing swimming pool incident – no wonder its authors, Stephen Brotherstone and Dave Lawrence admit ‘it is fairly huge.’
Exhaustive is putting it mildly as chapters wise it covers everything from the afore-mentioned TV to PIF to board games and ice-lollies to comics, all in glorious detail with numerous images to help return the things that you spent the last 30-40 years trying to forget.
It really is a delicious dystopian sweetshop of the 1970s, with it hard to know what section to consume next. Answer, all of them.
Engrossing, informative and entertaining beyond belief it successfully wrestles the 70s away from those programmes that just take the piss with inserts of ‘comedians’ doing vox pops and showing how the 70s was oh so un pc.
Just scrolling through the content is enough to whet your appetite and demonstrates their true love for the cultural touch points this decade produced, whether it be TV show, advert or toy. It really is all here. Even down to the Fleetway Annual homage on the front cover, what’s not to love.
I’ve not felt this excitement and giddiness about devouring the contents page(s) – all five, count ‘em – since reading Kim Newman’s Nightmare Movies when it was first released in 1987. The book sets the scene perfectly, it may as well be me laid on the carpet, head propped in my hands. The Amityville Horror, Bigfoot, The Bermuda Triangle, Watership Down, The Pan Book of Horror and the Usborne Book of the Unexplained – that IS my childhood and it is all gloriously revisited.
You are hooked from the off. Obviously if you were born in that decade, felt its cultural ripples or grew up in the 70s you’ll get the most out of with instant recollections of I remember that, I had that and remembering moments from childhood that were long forgotten but smash back into your conscience as if they never left.
That intro is so evocative at transporting you back to that time in your house, it’s almost like time travel itself, regressing like Christopher Reeve in Somewhere in Time as the words wash over you or seeing the decades and décor roll back like Rod Taylor in The Time Machine watch the constantly changing shop window.
Each entry even provides suggested viewing and suggested further reading; this is very clearly written by fans for fans. I’ve had to keep a note book alongside me as a read it so that I can just keep track of my future viewings and reads. My Amazon account is going to take something of a bashing.
We also get regular appearances by ‘the art of the title sequence’ breaking down some of TVs greatest every opening credits. These are the shows we want on our Netflix, Amazon Prime, ITV Player and BBC iPlayer, or even BFI player.
Essential, it’s damn near perfection. The ‘I did not know that’ facts come thick and fast as well, such as the creator of Shadows, a supernatural anthology series for children was from the same person that created Rainbow.
The chapters are like longer versions of features from TV Zone, SFX or the – all too short lived – Cult TV magazines, a spin off from SFX. It’s refreshing long form writing that never out stays it’s welcome.
It’s absorbing and makes you want to consume it in one, or certainly as few sittings as possible, but is also designed as such that you can easily dip in out of chapters or subjects that interest you. I guess the only shame is a lack of an index, but minor quibbles aside the contents pages are in plenty of detail in that regard.
Brimming with programmes I’d seen (Grange Hill, Blake’s 7, Worzel Gummidge), those I knew of and had read about (The Tomorrow People, Doomwatch, The Stone Tapes) and those I’d not (Beasts and 1990) it’s an interesting and a great package bursting with familiar, heard of and new delights aplenty. You can’t help but read it (crossed legged on the floor of course) and smile.
As well as all the television moments, the highlights for me were evoking vivid memories of The Doctor Who Exhibition in Blackpool; I never even met anyone else who went! The still-scare-the- bejusus-out-of-you public information films, particularly the Lonely Water, which, complete with full horror tropes, plays out like a 70s version of It Follows, and the escalators one with the red wellies ripped to shreds. Shudder!
It gives you one of those joyous crick necks where you’ve just been staring down for such a long period of time, like when you just read through The Guinness Book of Records. You could easily lose yourself in it pages for days on end.
A celebration of the odd, strange and macabre that hit our screens, shops, book shelves and magazine racks. And even if you didn’t it effortlessly captures that period’s output and shows us that it wasn’t just as is oft portrayed, as just about wearing flares and disco dancing.
Today is often referred to as a golden period of television and writing for television, something which is said to only recently herald from the States, but this volume clearly shows that writing and content was king not just in dramatic output but children’s dramatic output. Windy Miller, we aren’t in Camberwick Green anymore. And everything else, from 2000AD to Roy of the Rovers tackling hooligans, is just as rich.
Doctor Who and hiding behind the sofa is just the tip of the ice-berg. An assault on the senses, it doesn’t just capture my childhood, it is it. Observations are just so spot-on, it’s a landmark dissection of this period and all the great and frankly demented things it had to offer.
If volume two, which focuses on the 80s – my mouth is watering already – is of the same standard, length an fun to read – and with the likes of Blake’s 7’s ending, Adric dying in Doctor Who, The Adventure Game and Mr Noseybonk to name but four things I’m expecting to make an appearance – these two encyclopaedic volumes could well be The Godfather Parts 1 and 2 of books about popular culture. If you were a child of the seventies or grew up in that decade it is an offer you can’t refuse. A definite a must buy.
Available soon from Lulu.com for £16.99, that’s great value at just over £1.69 a year!
19902000ADBeastsBigfootBlake's 7Christopher ReeveCult TVDave LawrenceDoctor WhoDoomwatchFleetway AnnualGrange HillIt FollowsKim NewmanNightmare MoviesRainbowRod TaylorRoy of the RoversScarred For Life Vol 1 - The 1970sSFXShadowsSomewhere In TimeStephen BrotherstoneThe Amityville HorrorThe Bermuda TriangleThe Doctor Who ExhibitionThe Lonely WaterThe Pan Book of HorrorThe Stone TapesThe Time MachineThe Tomorrow PeopleTV ZoneUsborne Book of the UnexplainedWatership DownWorzel Gummidge
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Selena Gomez Reveals She Doesn’t Have Instagram on Her Phone: ‘It would make me Depressed’
The Dead Don’t Die star has previously spoken regarding why “taking breaks” from social media is vital for mental health.
Selena Gomez might have millions of Instagram followers; however she keeps the app off of her own phone.
Speaking with Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest on live with Kelly and Ryan on Wednesday, the pop star revealed that she keeps her Instagram account on someone else’s phone and only logs in periodically.
“I used to a lot, however i think it’s just become really unhealthy, I feel personally, for young people including myself, to spend all of their time fixating on all these comments and letting this stuff in, and it was affecting me,” Gomez, 26, told Ripa, 48, and Seacrest, 44, after they asked if she interacts with her 152 million followers online.
“It would make me depressed,” the “Back to You” singer continued. “It would make me feel not good concerning myself, and look at my body differently, and all kinds of stuff.”
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Facebook temporarily suspends Candace Owens over post about ‘liberal supremacy’
Facebook temporarily suspended Conservative commentator Candace Owens for violating its Community Standards, in line with Facebook.
Facebook temporarily suspended – then restored — conservative commentator Candace Owens’s account this week when she posted about the “liberal supremacy” threat to black Americans.
In a statement to Fox News, Facebook said they reinstated her account a day later after determining the post wasn’t in violation of community standards.
“We’ve restored Ms. Owens’ post and removed the block on her account after confirming that the content didn’t violate our policies,” a Facebook spokesperson said Friday.
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publisher: Canadian Scholars' Press Inc.
Designs for Disciplines, Second Edition
A Guide to Academic Writing
edited by Pamela den Ouden, by Steven Roe
rhetoric, grammar & punctuation
Crafting a well-written academic paper is often a challenge for college and university students. With this updated edition of Designs for Disciplines, students will learn the ins and outs of academic writing and develop the skills necessary for producing sophisticated research papers across a wide range of subject areas. The second edition of Designs for Disciplines takes an innovative approach to scholarly writing through its grounding in genre theory, which establishes the importance of context to effective communication. The authors introduce students to the many rhetorical features of academic writing and cover an array of topics including research, documentation, the articulation of a topic, and the drafting of a proposal, while also providing an in-depth examination of how to write strong introductions, core paragraphs, and conclusions. New to this edition is an expanded discussion on plagiarism, suggestions for compiling a research notebook, and many new examples drawn from both student papers and published articles. The text also follows the progress of a first-year student as she drafts and completes her research paper while receiving feedback from instructors. These rich pedagogical features and clear step-by-step instructions make this book an ideal resource for students to strengthen their academic writing skills.
Pamela den Ouden
Pamela H. den Ouden, a former newspaper editor, is the Coordinator of the International Education Program at Northern Lights College.
Steven Roe
Steven C. Roe taught English for twenty years and is Dean of Academic and Vocational Programs at Northern Lights College.
Steven C. Roe taught English for twenty years and is currently Dean of Academic and Vocational Programs at Northern Lights College. Pamela H. den Ouden, a former newspaper editor, is the current Coordinator of the International Education Program at Northern Lights College.
"Designs for Disciplines will provide students and instructors alike with an engaging, readable, highly usable composition text, which brings the authors’ wealth of practical experience to bear on the writing process. One of the most beneficial aspects of the book is that it takes readers incrementally through the writing process, ‘stepping’ students all the way from planning through to drafting, researching, outlining, revising, and editing. The authors do an excellent job of demystifying and simplifying the demands of academic writing in a clear, easy-to-follow way. In short, readers will find the book to bring a richly-textured approach to the teaching of academic writing."—?Monika Rydygier Smith, Department of English, University of Victoria
"Writers, new and experienced, will be inspired by this text, which illuminates the challenges of scholarly writing, with a focus on both the features and the processes involved in the practice. The lively discussion and timely examples taken from across the disciplines make this a welcome addition to any academic classroom."—?Jan Duerden, Department of English and Modern Languages, Thompson Rivers University
"Designs for Disciplines’ Roe and den Ouden address the question of how to write well in a witty and refreshingly modern manner. Roe and den Ouden have done an excellent job of addressing the age old question of what makes good writing great. This text will certainly find its way on to book shelves of both the novice and experienced writer who seek the answers to questions of grammar, rhetoric, and research in an accessible yet informative package."—?Viktoria Jovanovic-Krstic, Writing and Rhetoric Program, University of Toronto
"Designs for Disciplines is a lively, accessible text. Informed by recent thinking in rhetoric and composition studies, the book demonstrates in clear terms how students can participate in scholarly communities of practice. It provides countless models of academic writing inspired by popular culture, contemporary media, and questions of social import. The revised edition is rhetorically attuned: it sets out to inspire students to generate their own ideas, provides structures of organization, clarifies the expectations of scholarly readers, and offers invaluable insight into how other students navigate the process. A rich pedagogical resource!"—?Tracy Whalen, Department of Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications, University of Winnipeg
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An Introduction to Academic Writing
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The Complete Guide
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Religion is about emotion regulation, and it’s very good at it
Stephen T Asma
Photo by Ted Spiegel/National Geographic/Getty
is professor of philosophy at Columbia College Chicago. He is the author of 10 books, including The Evolution of Imagination (2017) and his latest, Why We Need Religion (2018).
Edited by Brigid Hains
Religion does not help us to explain nature. It did what it could in pre-scientific times, but that job was properly unseated by science. Most religious laypeople and even clergy agree: Pope John Paul II declared in 1996 that evolution is a fact and Catholics should get over it. No doubt some extreme anti-scientific thinking lives on in such places as Ken Ham’s Creation Museum in Kentucky, but it has become a fringe position. Most mainstream religious people accept a version of Galileo’s division of labour: ‘The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes.’
Maybe, then, the heart of religion is not its ability to explain nature, but its moral power? Sigmund Freud, who referred to himself as a ‘godless Jew’, saw religion as delusional, but helpfully so. He argued that we humans are naturally awful creatures – aggressive, narcissistic wolves. Left to our own devices, we would rape, pillage and burn our way through life. Thankfully, we have the civilising influence of religion to steer us toward charity, compassion and cooperation by a system of carrots and sticks, otherwise known as heaven and hell.
The French sociologist Émile Durkheim, on the other hand, argued in The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (1912) that the heart of religion was not its belief system or even its moral code, but its ability to generate collective effervescence: intense, shared experiences that unify individuals into cooperative social groups. Religion, Durkheim argued, is a kind of social glue, a view confirmed by recent interdisciplinary research.
While Freud and Durkheim were right about the important functions of religion, its true value lies in its therapeutic power, particularly its power to manage our emotions. How we feel is as important to our survival as how we think. Our species comes equipped with adaptive emotions, such as fear, rage, lust and so on: religion was (and is) the cultural system that dials these feelings and behaviours up or down. We see this clearly if we look at mainstream religion, rather than the deleterious forms of extremism. Mainstream religion reduces anxiety, stress and depression. It provides existential meaning and hope. It focuses aggression and fear against enemies. It domesticates lust, and it strengthens filial connections. Through story, it trains feelings of empathy and compassion for others. And it provides consolation for suffering.
Emotional therapy is the animating heart of religion. Social bonding happens not only when we agree to worship the same totems, but when we feel affection for each other. An affective community of mutual care emerges when groups share rituals, liturgy, song, dance, eating, grieving, comforting, tales of saints and heroes, hardships such as fasting and sacrifice. Theological beliefs are bloodless abstractions by comparison.
Emotional management is important because life is hard. The Buddha said: ‘All life is suffering’ and most of us past a certain age can only agree. Religion evolved to handle what I call the ‘vulnerability problem’. When we’re sick, we go to the doctor, not the priest. But when our child dies, or we lose our home in a fire, or we’re diagnosed with Stage-4 cancer, then religion is helpful because it provides some relief and some strength. It also gives us something to do, when there’s nothing we can do.
Consider how religion helps people after a death. Social mammals who have suffered separation distress are restored to health by touch, collective meals and grooming. Human grieving customs involve these same soothing prosocial mechanisms. We comfort-touch and embrace a person who has lost a loved one. Our bodies give ancient comfort directly to the grieving body. We provide the bereaved with food and drink, and we break bread with them (think of the Jewish tradition of shiva, or the visitation tradition of wakes in many cultures). We share stories about the loved one, and help the bereaved reframe their pain in larger optimistic narratives. Even music, in the form of consoling melodies and collective singing, helps to express shared sorrow and also transforms it from an unbearable and lonely experience to a bearable communal one. Social involvement from the community after a death can act as an antidepressant, boosting adaptive emotional changes in the bereaved.
Religion also helps to manage sorrow with something I’ll call ‘existential shaping’ or more precisely ‘existential debt’. It is common for Westerners to think of themselves as individuals first and as members of a community second, but our ideology of the lone protagonist fulfilling an individual destiny is more fiction than fact. Losing someone reminds us of our dependence on others and our deep vulnerability, and at such moments religion turns us toward the web of relations rather than away from it. Long after your parents have died, for example, religion helps you memorialise them and acknowledge your existential debt to them. Formalising the memory of the dead person, through funerary rites, or tomb-sweeping (Qingming) festivals in Asia, or the Day of the Dead in Mexico, or annual honorary masses in Catholicism, is important because it keeps reminding us, even through the sorrow, of the meaningful influence of these deceased loved ones. This is not a self-deception about the unreality of death, but an artful way of learning to live with it. The grief becomes transformed in the sincere acknowledgment of the value of the loved one, and religious rituals help people to set aside time and mental space for that acknowledgment.
An emotion such as grief has many ingredients. The physiological arousal of grief is accompanied by cognitive evaluations: ‘I will never see my friend again’; ‘I could have done something to prevent this’; ‘She was the love of my life’; and so on. Religions try to give the bereaved an alternative appraisal that reframes their tragedy as something more than just misery. Emotional appraisals are proactive, according to the psychologists Phoebe Ellsworth at the University of Michigan and Klaus Scherer at the University of Geneva, going beyond the immediate disaster to envision the possible solutions or responses. This is called ‘secondary appraisal’. After the primary appraisal (‘This is very sad’), the secondary appraisal assesses our ability to deal with the situation: ‘This is too much for me’ – or, positively: ‘I will survive this.’ Part of our ability to cope with suffering is our sense of power or agency: more power generally means better coping ability. If I acknowledge my own limitations when faced with unavoidable loss, but I feel that a powerful ally, God, is part of my agency or power, then I can be more resilient.
Because religious actions are often accompanied by magical thinking or supernatural beliefs, Christopher Hitchens argued in God Is not Great (2007) that religion is ‘false consolation’. Many critics of religion echo his condemnation. But there is no such thing as false consolation. Hitchens and fellow critics are making a category mistake, like saying: ‘The colour green is sleepy.’ Consolation or comfort is a feeling, and it can be weak or strong, but it can’t be false or true. You can be false in your judgment of why you’re feeling better, but feeling better is neither true nor false. True and false applies only if we’re evaluating whether our propositions correspond with reality. And no doubt many factual claims of religion are false in that way – the world was not created in six days.
Religion is real consolation in the same way that music is real consolation. No one thinks that the pleasure of Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute is ‘false pleasure’ because singing flutes don’t really exist. It doesn’t need to correspond to reality. It’s true that some religious devotees, unlike music devotees, pin their consolation to additional metaphysical claims, but why should we trust them to know how religion works? Such believers do not recognise that their unthinking religious rituals and social activities are the true sources of their therapeutic healing. Meanwhile, Hitchens and other critics confuse the factual disappointments of religion with the value of religion generally, and thereby miss the heart of it.
‘Why We Need Religion: An Agnostic Celebration of Spiritual Emotions’ by Stephen Asma © 2018 is published by Oxford University Press.
Stephen Asma
Philosophy of religion Religion Ethics
‘Where is it that we are?’ A poet conjures a journey along the waters of the afterlife
Logic and probability
How ad hominem arguments can demolish appeals to authority
Moti Mizrahi
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Terrestrial based tracking using the time difference of arrival to calculate position. Should give high positional accuracy during most phases of flight, but position errors can sometimes occur. The ground speed is calculated and can sometimes be incorrect, especially during turns and at low altitudes. Vertical speed is also calculated, so errors can sometimes occur. Altitude data come from the transponder and should be correct. Read more
The first new airliner ordered by Imperial Airways, was the Handley Page W8f City of Washington, delivered on 3 November 1924.[15] In the first year of operation the company carried 11,395 passengers and 212,380 letters. In April 1925, the film The Lost World became the first film to be screened for passengers on a scheduled airliner flight when it was shown on the London-Paris route.
Where to stay in Patmos: Archontariki is a gorgeous, five-suite hideaway in Chora. If money is no object and privacy is paramount, Serendipity has the most exclusive villas. . Petra, an 11-suite resort overlooking Grikos bay, is run by a charming local family who treat guests like friends (plying them freshly baked sweet cheese pies). It’s where Jean-Paul Gaultier prefers to stay.
On 25 August 1919, the company used DH.16s to pioneer a regular service from Hounslow Heath Aerodrome to Le Bourget, the first regular international service in the world. The airline soon gained a reputation for reliability, despite problems with bad weather, and began to attract European competition. In November 1919, it won the first British civil airmail contract. Six Royal Air Force Airco DH.9A aircraft were lent to the company, to operate the airmail service between Hawkinge and Cologne. In 1920, they were returned to the Royal Air Force.[7]
Where to stay in Crete: A 300-year-old hamlet surrounded by olive groves, Kapsaliana Village Hotel exudes peaceful authenticity. On a sandy bay just beyond Chania, Ammos Hotel smartly combines Scandi chic with a child-friendly vibe. Blue Palace Resort & Spa beats the (stiff) competition in Elounda with its spiral stone Isola Beach Club, thalassotherapy spa, and boat trips to Spinalonga island, a national monument just across Mirabello Bay.
Chania is a great choice. A wonderful charming town. Elounda is great for a quiet laid back stop, Agios Nikolaos has a more interesting vibe and is more of a real town. Also very charming. I prefer Ag Nik but Elounda has more luxurious hotels. (Crete hotels.) Naxos has lots to see in the interior so if you didn’t explore then certainly consider that. Folegandros and Milos are both incredible. Folegandros is more suited to walking and relaxing (and has some top notch restaurants and hotels). On Milos you need to do a tour and get out and actively explore to do it justice. Geologically Milos is stunning. A little like Santorini but with better beaches.
Hi! I have fallen in love with the cyklades and have visited Santorini, Ios, Naxos and Folegandros in late june. Folegandros was the best, a fantastic island. We are now thinking about going to Paros the last week in September. Naoussa seem to be a great place. What’s the weather like in late September? Is it still quite warm? I also wonder about the sea conditions. May the sea be rough at that time of the year? I don’t like wavy ferry rides 😨 Thank you for a good sight!
Private jet is the best new way for VIPs to travel south: Casa Marina, A Waldorf Astoria Resort, now offers direct seaplane air service with Key West Seaplanes from Florida airports to the property’s private beach pier. Slightly farther north on Key Largo, Playa Largo Resort & Spa debuted last summer with signature Sunshine State coral reefs and sea glass, plus 144 rooms and suites, 10 secluded bungalows and a standalone luxury guesthouse.
Mykonos had gay clubs and sunrise parties long before rave culture was even invented. Its bohemian allure hasn’t faded since the 1960s, although the once naked beaches now have nail bars, personal trainers and house music pumping out all hours. The influx of supermodels and superyachts has inspired hot new hotels and restaurants. The hippest place to show off your abs is Scorpios, a louche beach bar that puts Ibiza's finest in the shade (book a cabana to watch the sunset). After hours, it's always Astra, where you might find Keith Richards chatting up Karolina Kurkova. The gay crowd has dwindled, but drag queens and oiled bodybuilders make a splash at Jackie O, overlooking Super Paradise bay.
I loved you website, congratulations. Me, my wife and a couple of friends are traveling to Greece in march/2018 (I know it’s not the best time of the year to visit Greece, but it’s the time we have available). We are in our late 30’s and are looking forward to some beautiful views, chill out time and good food. We’re not after huge parties but some local music wouldn’t be bad. We have 13 days in our hands, so by reading your texts I’m considering spending some 2 days in Athens, 3 days in Mykonos, 4 days in Santorini, 4 days in Chania.
Where to stay in Zante: Porto Zante, eight villas with five-star facilities, set above a pristine bay of finely raked sand, is kitted out for kids of all ages: there's a playground, mini-golf, and every water-sport under the sun. The sociable Peligoni Club is especially good for toddlers and teens: the crèche is run by qualified nannies and over-13s have their own bar, serving milkshakes and mocktails. Zante Maris Suites, as well as the new Olea All Suite Hotel just next door, are both squarely aimed at adults, with a haute hippie vibe. Kids over 12 are welcome.
Those are 3 great islands. Corfu is much more green than Crete and Santorini and does have a different feel (more Italian but it’s no where near Turkey). The trouble with doing all 3 is that Corfu is on the opposite side of Greece from Crete and Santorini so you’d need to fly via Athens. It’s better for most people to visit another Cycladic island (Naxos, Paros, Milos, Folegandros) instead of splitting up their trip between the two sides of the country.
My sister (32 years young) and myself (28 years young) are traveling to Greece from 22nd Aug – 6th Sept 2017. This will be the first visit for my sister and my second visit so I am trying to show her my favourite places as well as visit new ones myself (i have only ever been to mykonos and santorini). Our trip starts in Athens for 2 days, Mykonos for 6 days, Santorini for 5 days and leaving us with 3 days to spare at the end of the trip. (4th Sept – 7th Sept) We fly out of Athens in the am on the 7th Sept so need to be back in Athens prior to this.
Less than two hours from Athens, Hydra fills up with chic Greeks at weekends. . They come to disconnect and slow down, but also to see and be seen. Wily cats and weary donkeys patrol the back alleys, but all the action happens along the waterfront. Oh look! There's Olivia Palermo at The Pirate Bar and Chloë Sevigny shaking her tail feather at Hydronetta beach bar. Who cares if there are barely any beaches? You can always find a slab of sun-baked rock from which to leap rock from which to dive into the clearest water in the world.
Between Nydri and the next main tourism centre is the little port and beach of Mikros Gialos (small bay) that is a great little base for individual travellers for a day or three. The port village of Vasiliki on the southern underbelly of Lefkada is a haven for windsurfers: see this page or this one for more information. The little village is very pretty and is a good base for general holiday-making (as are the two other places). From Vasiliki there is a regular local ferry that runs to Fiskardo on Kefallonia (via Ithaca/Ithaki).
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political correctness makes you stupid
Naomi Wolf, on modernity and tribe
Via Vox Popoli.
Many lower-income women in Western Europe today – often single parents working pink-collar ghetto jobs that leave them exhausted and without realistic hope of advancement – can reasonably enough feel a sense of nostalgia for past values and certainties. For them, the idealized vision of an earlier age, one in which social roles were intact and women’s traditional contribution supposedly valued, can be highly compelling.
And, of course, parties that promote such a vision promise women – including those habituated to second-class status at work and the bulk of the labor at home – that they are not just faceless atoms in the postmodern mass. Rather, you, the lowly clerical worker, are a “true” Danish, Norwegian, or French woman. You are an heiress to a noble heritage, and thus not only better than the mass of immigrants, but also part of something larger and more compelling than is implied by the cog status that a multiracial, secular society offers you.
The attraction of right-wing parties to women should be examined, not merely condemned. If a society does not offer individuals a community life that takes them beyond themselves, values only production and the bottom line, and opens itself to immigrants without asserting and cherishing what is special and valuable about Danish, Norwegian, or French culture, it is asking for trouble. For example, upholding the heritage of the Enlightenment and progressive social ideals does not require racism or pejorative treatment of other cultures; but politically correct curricula no longer even make the attempt to do so.
It seems like even Naomi Wolf is beginning to realize what an absolute hash she and her ilk have made of things. As Vox points out, where do the multi-cultists think "diversity" comes from? Shifting borders and peoples does not mean less ethnicities; it means more.
Roissy has some thoughts on this as well. "Diversity" is good for building a shallow, secular society of atomized people who are polite to each other, but it does not foster community.
Labels: lies and the lying liars who tell them multiculturalism political correctness makes you stupid
Julian O'Dea said…
Interesting quote. Quite a good analysis. Of course, she is basically a journalist, and maybe looking for the next faux trend to write about.
Journalists know that any statement with "race" or "skin color" in it is an attention-grabber.
Her job these days seems to be to break gently to the base that stuff really isn't that simple, that nuance cuts a lot of ways, and that what the base has to offer is often pretty thin gruel.
you, the lowly clerical worker, are a “true” Danish, Norwegian, or French woman. You are an heiress to a noble heritage, and thus not only better than the mass of immigrants, but also part of something larger and more compelling than is implied by the cog status that a multiracial, secular society offers you.
This is, obviously, exactly right. Though AG, without suffering to read the piece itself, is it correct to assume that she meant the above passage disparagingly?
You know, I actually did click thru and it's a pretty terse essay. Not sure what's going through Miz Wolf's head.
And, I also feel compelled to add, a Morroccan should feel exactly the same way about tourists or do-gooders traipsing thru her ancient and storied homelands.
"Like living in a big family house." That's how people should feel in their (in every sense) homeland. And if we've scrambled all those ties that bind thru our pathological modernity and conquest, then it's time to make amends.
How it's done, I don't know. I have some ideas but I'm sure there are better thinkers than me who can take it from there.
I thought the quotes around "true" Danish seemed indicative of a position that the continuity of blood and a people were contrived. Otherwise, simply true Danish would suffice as a description. But I'm assuming malice where it only exists in 99% portions.
And I agree about the Morroccan's equal claim, though I highly doubt their Dutch brigades would accede to its principled application on their choice of residence.
And that's an area we need to clarify. Our granting of principled accommodations to others is reciprocated exactly ZERO. And I, for one, am done with the exercise.
I want us to survive as a people. Once that's been secured, I'll leave it to more charitable personalities to ensure that those who would grant us nothing are granted their due.
The rise of UKIP support and anti-EU sentiment has the British left spooked. Couple that with an economic recovery that nobody thinks is a recovery and you have a recipe for discord.
Northern Refugee said…
http://news.yahoo.com/condoms-rebranded-south-africa-hiv-infections-rise-184810873.html;_ylt=AwrBJR_nsD1TVUAA083QtDMD
The above article is in reference to a common theme of yours: what happens when a society is completely overwhelmed by the r-selected. South Africa has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world, roughly 12% of the population. Despite massive public health campaigns, condom use and HIV infection are on the rise. Of course, this means:
" millions of people placed on a vast state-sponsored treatment programme."
paid for by an ever dwindling productive sector. What can you do with people that can't even be bothered to save their own lives, while demanding the latest Western technology and medicine as their birthright?
Rev. Right said…
"What can you do with people that can't even be bothered to save their own lives, while demanding the latest Western technology and medicine as their birthright?"
Just what we've been doing - spending billions on medicines and food technology for tropical regions, and sending food aid every time there's a famine in the great century long quest to produce 2 billion sub-Saharan Africans (we're almost there -one more generation). Oh, and accepting ever more refugees and immigrants into Western countries. That goes without saying.
It's just the right thing to do, right? Even though more people in dysfunctional countries will mean more suffering. Even though there is no way this demographic explosion doesn't blow back across our shores. Noble intentions that will quite likely result in problems on a horrific scale are still noble intentions.
Can you imagine the public debate premised on the position that maybe it would be more humane in the long run to find some other, more 'sustainable' outlet for our need to do good?
No, that would be racist. So proceed we must.
Contemplationist said…
But, dude! Cass Sunstein told us that bowling leagues and PTA and all that community stuff can breed NAZIS! Nazis you hear!
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2013-07-30/could-bowling-leagues-and-the-pta-breed-nazis-
Maniocracy
Bright Week
Recruiting, not reproducing
"This is conservative?"
More busywork in the fields of the Lord
Not actually as bad as Pat thinks
The Evil Empire
At busy-work in the fields of the Lord
Is Mexico really that bad?
Wisdom. Attend.
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Jason Chaffetz
The Latest: Utah’s Curtis becomes newest GOP House member
FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 13, 2017, file photo, Republican John Curtis, walks on stage during Utah's 3rd Congressional District debate, in a race to replace Jason Chaffetz in the U.S. House of Representatives, in Sandy, Utah. Congress gets its newest member on Monday as House Speaker Paul Ryan is set to swear in Republican John Curtis of Utah amid an intense push by GOP leadership to score a major legislative victory before the end of the year. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Utah Republican John Curtis’ swearing in (all times local):
Congress got its newest member when Republican John Curtis of Utah received the oath of office from House Speaker Paul Ryan.
His swearing in comes amid a full-court press by the GOP leadership to pass tax overhaul legislation by the end of the year.
Curtis was the mayor of Provo, Utah, when he was elected last week. His letter of resignation from the mayor’s post took effect when he was sworn in.
He handily won a special election to replace Jason Chaffetz. He’ll fill the final year of Chaffetz’s term before facing re-election.
Curtis has signaled he intends to be a unifier in a deeply polarized Congress. To do that, he’ll have to find the balance between supporting President Donald Trump and distancing himself from controversies surrounding the president.
Republican John Curtis is set to become Utah’s newest member of Congress amid an intense push by GOP leadership to score a major legislative victory before the end of the year.
Speaker Paul Ryan will swear in Curtis on Monday during votes on the House floor.
Curtis is mayor of the Mormon stronghold of Provo. His resignation from the post goes into effect when he takes the oath of office.
He easily won a special election to replace Rep. Jason Chaffetz in a heavily Republican district.
Curtis will have to quickly learn to navigate a divided Congress aiming to pass tax overhaul legislation.
The 57-year-old has pledged to be a unifier. Curtis has acknowledged voters are worried about gun violence, the direction of the country and a “lack of civility.”
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Electronic Arts' Real Racing 3 updated with new cars, next-level multiplayer and more
Amid all of the app and game updates that have been pushed for iOS 8, Electronic Arts has come out with an update to Real Racing 3 that’s not necessarily released for the new operating system.
The latest update to the popular racing game is dubbed the Classic Lamborghini update because it sees the arrival of a couple of classic Lamborghini sports cars, the Countach and the Miura.
The update also introduces a new Clash of the Classics series that features a battle among three legendary manufacturers. Moreover, it brings a new racing school where you can win a BMW Z4 sDrive35is.
The new version of Real Racing 3 also boasts enhanced race replays done “in true TV style, including aerial and wheel cameras.” It also includes a revamped main menu that offers streamlined navigation and clear display of career progress.
Last but certainly not the least, the newly updated Real Racing 3 features the next level of its multiplayer mode, which offers eight-player, cross-platform, real-time racing with drafting.
Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, Real Racing 3 is available on the App Store as a free-to-play title.
The game’s previous major update arrived last month, most notably introducing the Speedrush TV precision driving challenge.
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Boom Bap/Nineties
Disquera: RBC Records
Without question one of the sickest emcees in the game, Harlem's Big L was on the verge of major stardom when gunned down in 1999. This album, his second solo LP, dropped after his death; it features some of his classics as well as posthumous collaborations. Appearances from various D.I.T.C. heads, plus Tupac and Kane. Peep his street-slang epic "Ebonics."
Brolin Winning
Acerca de este álbum
The Big Picture (Intro)
Ebonics (Criminal Slang)
Size 'Em Up
Deadly Combination (feat. 2Pac)
Holdin' It Down (feat. A.G., Miss Jones & Stan Spit)
The Enemy (feat. Fat Joe)
Fall Back (feat. Kool G Rap)
Casualties of a Dice Game
Platinum Plus (feat. Big Daddy Kane)
Who You Slidin' Wit (feat. Stan Spit)
Games (feat. Guru & Sadat X)
The Heist Revisitied
The Triboro (feat. Fat Joe, O.C. & Remy Ma)
Los álbumes más recientes de Big L
Return of the Devil's Son (Deluxe Edition)
L Corleone
The Danger Zone: Deluxe Edition
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Laws About Pea Fowl in Florida
By Jamie Rankin | Updated November 01, 2017
peacock image by PP from Fotolia.com
Peafowl, often called peacocks after the more colorful male of the species, are a favorite among many bird lovers because of their colorful plumage and distinctive calls. But in states such as Florida, where the large birds run wild in many areas, peafowl have their share of both fans and detractors. While tourists and some locals find peafowl fascinating, others believe they're a nuisance. Laws about peafowl in Florida can be vague with regard to removal or relocation.
Blue peafowl, the most common type of the bird and the one which is most commonly seen roaming Florida neighborhoods, are not considered wildlife. Rather they are classified by state law as domestic livestock, the same classification that applies, for example, to chickens. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, that means the state has no authority to regulate the birds. Instead, the task of making and enforcing laws about peafowl is up to individual communities. Each community may have its own rules regarding what a resident is permitted to do to remove or eliminate nuisance peafowl from the area. However, peafowl may find some protection under Florida's state animal cruelty laws.
Peafowl fans and animal lovers of all types can rest assured that, in most cases, the exotic birds are safe from physical harm at the hands of unhappy neighbors. Florida state law prohibits the use of poison to kill animals without a permit. In some counties, residents may shoot peafowl that roam onto their property, but this measure is forbidden in areas such as Sunny Lawn Estates, an unincorporated area near St. Petersburg where dozens of peafowl wander.
An ordinance in Miami-Dade County states that property owners may remove peafowl from their own land as long as they do not physically harm the birds. It is also illegal to hunt or kill peafowl in that part of Florida, as well as to harm the birds' eggs or nests. And in Longboat Key, near Sarasota, an ordinance adopted in 1969 forbids purposely harming or killing a peafowl.
Trap and Release
Laws about peafowl in most parts of Florida do not prohibit capture or trapping. But property owners who take this measure in the hopes of releasing the peafowl in a more desirable location should beware: Releasing the large birds into the wild is a crime. Another problem with trapping peafowl is that animal control won't be much help. In communities that are especially overrun with peacocks and peahens, many animal control organizations don't have the manpower or equipment to handle such a task.
The good news for Florida property owners who want to reduce or eliminate the peafowl populations in their areas is that the birds can be released, as long as they are transferred to a location that is not in the wild, such as an animal sanctuary or the property or farmland of a willing owner.
Outdoors Network: Free Roaming Blue Peafowl Are Not Exactly Wildlife
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Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
Based outside Pittsburgh, Jamie Rankin began her career as a professional writer as a news and sports journalist with the "Daily Courier," a subsidiary of the "Pittsburgh Tribune-Review." Her work has appeared in both publications. Rankin, who holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism and communications from Point Park University, has been writing sports and pet-related articles online since 2004.
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Summaries for Patients |2 January 2001
Brain Lesions in Scuba Divers
The summary below is from the full report titled “Relation between Directly Detected Patent Foramen Ovale and Ischemic Brain Lesions in Sport Divers.” It is in the 2 January 2001 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine (volume 134, pages 21-24). The authors are M Schwerzmann, C Seiler, E Lipp, R Guzman, KO Lövblad, M Kraus, and N Kucher.
Summaries for Patients are presented for informational purposes only. These summaries are not a substitute for advice from your own medical provider. If you have questions about this material, or need medical advice about your own health or situation, please contact your physician.
A known risk of scuba diving is decompression illness, commonly known as “the bends.” The brain can be injured in decompression illness because small gas bubbles that form in the blood as a diver rises to the surface can block circulation to the brain. The symptoms of decompression illness include skin changes, joint pain, confusion, and other transient or lasting neurologic symptoms. Brain imaging tests in divers who have previously had decompression illness show areas that have been injured as a result of getting too little oxygen (ischemic brain lesions). A recent study suggested that these brain lesions also occur in divers who have never had symptoms of decompression illness. It is believed that these lesions may be more common in divers who have an abnormality of the heart called a patent foramen ovale. A patent foramen ovale is an abnormal hole in the wall between chambers of the heart, which could allow more bubbles to get into the brain circulation.
To find out whether ischemic brain lesions in scuba divers are associated with symptomatic decompression illness and patent foramen ovale.
The study included 52 divers who had completed at least 200 scuba dives and 52 healthy adults who had never dived (controls).
The researchers asked the divers detailed questions about previous symptoms of decompression illness. The divers and nondiving controls all had ultrasound tests of the heart (echocardiograms) to look for patent foramen ovale and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tests of the brain to look for ischemic lesions.
Divers with patent foramen ovale were at least four times more likely to report decompression illness and had more brain lesions than divers without patent foramen ovale. However, divers had more ischemic brain lesions than nondivers, regardless of whether they had experienced decompression illness or had a patent foramen ovale.
This study was small and relied on divers' reports on whether they had ever had decompression illness, rather on than actual examination at the time of the illness. Divers who felt ill after a dive may have been more likely to participate in the study than divers who had not felt ill. The study does not tell us whether the presence of ischemic brain lesions is associated with any health consequences.
Scuba diving is associated with ischemic brain lesions, regardless of whether a diver has a patent foramen ovale. Divers with a patent foramen ovale have an increased number of ischemic brain lesions.
Brain Lesions in Scuba Divers. Ann Intern Med. 2001;134:I–67. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-134-1-200101020-00005
Published: Ann Intern Med. 2001;134(1):I-67.
Relation between Directly Detected Patent Foramen Ovale and Ischemic Brain Lesions in Sport Divers
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Vitamin O: “Martin Luther King, an Interpretation”
March 2, 2017 by Katie Murray
By Alicia Stemper/Vitamin O
“Each group sees the same thing, but they see it in a different way” says actor John Ivey about Martin Luther King, an Interpretation. Ira Knight is the playwright, producer, and director of the one-man show. Inspiration for the piece came 8 or 9 years ago as Knight listened to a recording of King’s final speech in Memphis and tried to imagine living under a death sentence the way King did. Although short at 30 minutes, an audience dialogue with Knight and Ivey immediately follows each performance of the play. This intimate session adds to the power of the piece. Knight notes, “This is never the same play twice because audience participation shapes the next performance.”
Initially performed during a three night run last November, an audience member anonymously underwrote a 2017 performance residency at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro; the play will now run one Saturday night through June. This pleases Knight who feels Martin Luther King’s story deserves attention more than only during Black History month; he does not want the man to be reduced to a seasonal icon.
Upcoming shows are March 18, April 29, May 27, and June 24. Tickets and information about booking a private performance for schools, organizations, or other groups is available at www.IraKnight.org. Recently performed at Chapel Hill High School, Ivey said about the 400+ students in that audience, “They got it.” There are elements of the play’s portrayal of King that “anyone can identify with” but Knight’s writing and Ivey’s performance both challenge the audience to go deeper and ponder the pressures and the idolatry King faced. “I love being this character,” Ivey said, but he confesses that after the emotional rigor of each show, “Sleep is not far away.”
Filed Under: Vitamin O Tagged With: Ira Knight, performing arts, The ArtsCenter, theater, vitamin o
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Raptors earn pivotal double-OT win over Bucks TORONTO -- The Toronto Raptors knew they needed to play tougher than they had in losing the first two games to the Milwaukee Bucks in the Eastern Conf...
Raptors vs. Bucks: How Toronto improved its chances It’s all knotted up at two wins apiece in the NBA Eastern Conference Finals heading into Thursday’s pivotal Game 5 (TNT, 8:30 p.m.). Toronto is still ...
Leonard scores 36, Raptors beat Bucks 118-112 in 2 OTs Leonard scores 36, Siakam has 25 as Raptors beat Bucks 118-112 in double OT, cut conference finals deficit to 2-1 ...
Bucks vow not to fold facing elimination against Raptors What I'm Hearing: Matt Velazquez of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel discusses the Bucks' collective mindset as they head back to Toronto faci...
Bucks vs. Raptors: Milwaukee money train could run dry Will the Milwaukee money train continue rumbling through the Eastern Conference bracket now that the Toronto Raptors are standing on the track? The an...
Bucks finish with a flourish, rally to top Raptors 108-100 MILWAUKEE (AP) — Brook Lopez scored 13 of his 29 points in the fourth quarter, Giannis Antetokounmpo added 24 and the Milwaukee Bucks rallied in the f...
Bucks vs. Raptors: Don’t wager on a Milwaukee letdown The NBA’s Eastern Conference finals move to Toronto for Sunday’s Game 3 with the Raptors trailing 2-0 in the series, but posted as 3-point favorites o...
Bruins rout Hurricanes, prove they're on a different level through two games of Eastern Conference Final Boston is on a different level than the Hurricanes right now, with the latest example being a 6-2 rout in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference Final. ...
Hurricanes showing strong signs as they sweep Islanders to reach Eastern Conference final The Carolina Hurricanes, who reached the playoffs for first time in 10 years, have gone to the conference final in last four postseason appearances. ...
Bucks vs. Raptors: 5 things to know, series schedule, how to watch The Milwaukee Bucks and the Toronto Raptors will meet in the Eastern Conference Finals. Here are some things to know about the series before it tips o...
Leonard scores 35, Raptors beat Bucks 105-99 for 3-2 lead Kawhi Leonard scored 35 points, and the Toronto Raptors beat the Milwaukee Bucks 105-99 Thursday night to grab a 3-2 lead in the Eastern Conference fi...
Raptors earn pivotal double-overtime win over Bucks TORONTO -- Kawhi Leonard scored 36 points -- including two important field goals late in the second overtime -- and grabbed nine rebounds as the Toron...
Silly Drake prop bets taking over Raptors-Bucks He never shuts up and is in everyone’s face. Think 1990s Spike Lee on the Knicks’ sidelines, cranked up by a million, so much so that Las ...
Giannis Antetokounmpo is an MVP finalist. The Bucks’ thumping of Raptors shows why he should win. The Milwaukee Bucks blitzed the Toronto Raptors in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals, making a strong case that MVP finalist Giannis Antetokounm...
Giannis Antetokounmpo, Bucks throttle Raptors to grab 2-0 lead MILWAUKEE — Giannis Antetokounmpo started the game with an emphatic dunk. The next possession, a sprawling block to deny Marc Gasol. The next possessi...
Kawhi Leonard pours in 35 as Raptors nip Bucks to take series lead MILWAUKEE — Kawhi Leonard scored 35 points and the Raptors beat the Bucks 105-99 on Thursday night to take a 3-2 lead in the Eastern Conference finals...
Kawhi Leonard Helps the Raptors Control of Their Series With the Bucks Leonard scored 35 points and showed no obvious signs of the leg soreness that bothered him in Toronto’s wins in the previous two games. He hit the 30-...
Opinion: Bucks, Raptors battling to be served as fodder for the Warriors The Eastern Conference finals between the Bucks and Raptors have evolved into something really good. But is it going to matter in the end? ...
Opinion: Bucks, Warriors sweeps would set stage for ultimate NBA Finals battle Both NBA conference finals have the potential to turn into blowouts, with the possibility of a pair of sweeps still on the table. &...
NBA playoffs: Raptors strike back against Bucks in double-overtime thriller Milwaukee lead Eastern Conference finals 2-1 despite lossBrilliant Kawhi Leonard leads way for Toronto with 36 pointsKawhi Leonard scored 36 points, i...
Brook Lopez Leads The Bucks Over Kyle Lowry And The Raptors, Just As We All Saw Coming In an epic matchup of global basketball superstars, Brook Lopez led his top-seeded Milwaukee Bucks over Kyle Lowry and the second-seeded Toronto Rapto...
Giannis, Milwaukee Bucks dominate Toronto Raptors for 2-0 series lead Giannis Antetokounmpo dropped 30 points and 17 rebounds as the Milwaukee Bucks raced past the Toronto Raptors for a 2-0 series lead in the Eastern Con...
Look: Bucks' owner's daughter trolls Drake, Raptors with Pusha T shirt Mallory Edens, the daughter of Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Wes Edens, wore a shirt featuring the rapper Pusha T, hoping to troll rapper and Raptors ambas...
Bucks locker room stays positive after season ends in East finals What I'm Hearing: Matt Velazquez of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel describes the somber but upbeat mood in the Bucks locker room after being elim...
Drake’s music banned by Milwaukee radio station during Raptors-Bucks series Hosts of morning show Riggs and Alley announced this week they've put a temporary ban on playing the Toronto rapper's music over their airwaves as his...
Milwaukee radio station bans Drake’s music during Bucks-Raptors series A Wisconsin radio station announced Tuesday that it will push the mute button on Canadian rapper Drake during the NBA playoffs series between the Milw...
Milwaukee radio station bans Drake music for Bucks-Raptors series Grammy-winning rapper and Toronto Raptors ambassador Drake is one of the most popular musicians on the planet, but right now, that means nothing. ...
Watch: Toronto Raptors' Kawhi Leonard dunks on Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo Toronto Raptors forward Kawhi Leonard shrugged off contact from Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo for a poster dunk in the second half Tuesda...
Three players to watch in the NHL Conference Finals SportsPulse: USA TODAY Sports' Kevin Allen breaks down three players who we should be paying attention to in the NHL's Conference Finals. &...
Giannis Antetokunmpo, Bucks hope East finals collapse serves as learning experience Milwaukee dominated the first two rounds of the playoffs and took a 2-0 lead on Toronto in the Eastern Conference finals before the wheels fell off. ...
Watch: Milwaukee Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo nets vicious dunk on Toronto Raptors Milwaukee Bucks star forward Giannis Antetokounmpo went airborne for a ferocious one-handed dunk in the first quarter of Game 4 against the Toronto Ra...
Watch: Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo rejects Raptors' Marc Gasol with powerful block Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo showed why he was named a finalist for the NBA's Defensive Player of the Year Award with a thunderous block...
Which was worse: Aaron Rodgers’s beer-chugging debacle or Bucks’ home loss to Raptors? In attendance at Game 5 of the NBA playoff series in Milwaukee, the Packers quarterback was shown up by not just one of his offensive linemen but also...
Warriors vs. Raptors: Best of the NBA Finals The festivities surrounding the 2019 NBA Finals between the Toronto Raptors and Golden State Warriors are underway. &#...
Warriors move to conference finals despite missing Durant The Golden State Warriors get past Houston Rockets without Kevin Durant to continue quest for third straight title ...
Raptors rally to take 3-1 stranglehold on NBA Finals The Toronto Raptors produced a strong third quarter to defeat the Golden State Warriors 105-92 in Oakland on Friday to take a 3-1 lead in the Finals a...
Ranking the top 30 Warriors and Raptors in the NBA Finals Steph or Kawhi? Klay or Lowry? And where should sidelined stars Kevin Durant and DeMarcus Cousins check in? We're ranking the top 30 players in the Fi...
The Raptors Won But Finals Chaos Still Reigns It’s cheap to say that the Raptors beat the Gldn Stae Warors (which is to say, 63 percent of the Golden State Warriors) in Game 3 of the NBA Finals; i...
How the underdog Raptors have taken control of the Finals The only Canadian team in the NBA is one game away from winning its first league championship when the Toronto Raptors host the Golden State Warriors ...
Give This One to the Raptors, but the N.B.A. Finals Aren’t Over What is the significance of a victory over a Warriors team that had lost to injury two probable Hall of Fame players — Klay Thompson and Kevin Durant?...
2019 NBA Finals: Price is right on the Raptors “Pascal Siakam won’t be able to shoot 14-of-17 from the floor again.” It’s the phrase shouted by pundits and Golden State backers after Game 1 went to...
N.B.A. Finals: Warriors Tie Series With Raptors A starting lineup change and a huge third quarter helped Golden State beat Toronto, but the win came with injuries to Klay Thompson and Kevon Looney....
Warriors beat Raptors 109-104 to even NBA Finals Klay Thompson scored 25 points before leaving with a hamstring injury, Stephen Curry had 23 and the Golden State Warriors ran off the first 18 points ...
Trail Blazers' cohesiveness helped them to conference finals The Portland Trail Blazers faced a number of challenges on the journey to their first Western Conference finals in 19 years &...
NBA Conference finals: Curry brothers face off as Antetokounmpo waits It’s Golden State v Portland in the West, and Toronto v Milwaukee in the East. We look at the factors that will decide the teams for the NBA finalsAft...
NBA playoff schedule: Conference finals matchups, dates and TV times The long regular season is over and it's finally playoff time. The quest for the Larry O'Brien Trophy and the NBA championship is on. ...
Kevin Durant to miss Games 3, 4 of Western Conference finals OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Warriors star Kevin Durant will miss the upcoming Games 3 and 4 of the Western Conference finals for Golden State in Portland a...
Warriors Durant, Cousins may miss Western Conference Finals OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Kevin Durant and DeMarcus Cousins won’t necessarily return from injuries in time to play for the Golden State Warriors du...
The Raptors are going to the NBA Finals and Toronto fans are going nuts Ontario's capital city was ecstatic after Saturday night's 100-94 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks sent the Raptors to their first NBA Finals appearan...
NBA Finals: Raptors, Warriors players ranked LeBron James isn't playing in the NBA Finals for the first time in eight years, but fear not: there's still an overwhelming amount of talent...
Leonard, Raptors rally, move within one win of Finals Kawhi Leonard scored 35 points -- 15 in the fourth quarter -- and added seven rebounds and nine assists as the visiting Toronto Raptors defeated the M...
Warriors heavy favorites over Raptors for Finals Toronto opened as a +260 underdog at Caesars Sportsbook in the series. In the past eight NBA Finals, only last season's Cavaliers were larger underdog...
| Warriors set for emotional NBA Finals showdown with Raptors Playing for injured star Kevin Durant in a farewell to the arena when they became a dynasty, the Golden State Warriors are set for an emotional NBA Fi...
Raptors take NBA Finals opener, beat Warriors 118-109 TORONTO (AP) — Pascal Siakam scored a playoff career-high 32 points and the Toronto Raptors won the first NBA Finals game played outside the U.S., bea...
Warriors heavily favored over Raptors in NBA Finals The Golden State Warriors are favored in the NBA Finals for the fifth consecutive year, as they opened as heavy favorites against the Toronto Raptors ...
Warriors vs. Raptors: Why the NBA Finals lines are going crazy Betting-market makers must act conservatively with game and series prices in the NBA Finals right now because of question marks involving key Golden S...
NBA Finals: Warriors vs. Raptors schedule and TV times It all comes down to this. The long playoff journey has arrived at the NBA Finals. It's the Warriors and Raptors for the Larry O'Brien Troph...
Raptors rip Warriors to take commanding 3-1 NBA Finals lead OAKLAND, Calif. — It may now all be up to Kevin Durant and the state of his calf strain to save the Warriors from doom. Before Friday’s Game 4 of the ...
Raptors braced for big response from Warriors in NBA Finals The Toronto Raptors scored an impressive win over the two-times defending champion Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals opener and are now preparin...
Warriors outlast Raptors to square NBA Finals at 1-1 The two-time defending champion Golden State Warriors used a massive third quarter to overcame a sluggish start and secure a 109-104 win over the Toro...
Leonard scores 27, Raptors advance to first NBA Finals TORONTO (AP) — Kawhi Leonard had 27 points and 17 rebounds to lead the Toronto Raptors into the NBA Finals for the first time with a 100-94 victory ov...
Warriors thrash 'terrible' Blazers in NBA Western Conference finals opener Portland Trail Blazers 94-116 Golden State WarriorsSteph Curry finds shooting touch and scores 36 pointsWarriors win easily despite continued absence ...
Pavelski leads Sharks past Avalanche and into Western Conference finals Captain Joe Pavelski made a triumphant return from a gruesome head injury by posting a goal and an assist in the first period that sent the San Jose S...
'Hurt' DeRozan: Raptors not in Finals without my years of sacrifice Kawhi Leonard carried the Toronto Raptors to the NBA Finals, but DeMar DeRozan claims the team wouldn't be there without his years of sacrifice buildi...
Raptors beat Warriors in landmark NBA Finals opener The Toronto Raptors, with the support of an entire nation behind them, won the first NBA Finals game played outside the United States with a thrilling...
Toronto Raptors take NBA Finals opener, beat Warriors 118-109 Pascal Siakam scored a playoff career-high 32 points and the Raptors made a smashing NBA Finals debut, beating the Golden State Warriors 118-109 on Th...
Warriors stun Raptors to keep NBA Finals hopes alive TORONTO — Kevin Durant’s presence and subsequent absence spurred the Warriors to somehow keep alive their season in a 106-105 Game 5 triumph Monday ov...
Opinion: How the Raptors turned the series around to reach the NBA Finals After falling behind 2-0, Raptors coach Nick Nurse made a series of adjustments that sparked a turnaround and led Toronto to the NBA Finals. &#...
NBA Finals: Expert picks to win Raptors-Warriors series, MVP We make our picks for the NBA Finals, which begin tonight when the Warriors head to Scotiabank Arena for Game 1 against the Raptors. ...
2019 NBA Finals: The case for picking the Raptors or Warriors Finally! The 2019 NBA Finals begin Thursday night with heavy series favorite Golden State visiting surprise entry Toronto (ABC, 9 p.m.). Bettors have ...
Raptors' gamble on Leonard pays off with trip to NBA Finals The Toronto Raptors' gamble to acquire Kawhi Leonard has paid off in the form of maiden trip to the NBA Finals but now comes perhaps the hardest part,...
'Level' Kawhi puts Raptors on cusp of first Finals Behind their even-keeled superstar, the Raptors rallied from an early 14-point deficit to defeat the Bucks 105-99 and move within one win of the franc...
NBA Playoffs: Kawhi, Raptors clinch first NBA Finals appearance The Toronto Raptors are headed to the NBA Finals for the first time in franchise history after a thrilling 100-94 win over the Milwaukee Bucks in Game...
Kawhi trade pays off with Raptors' Finals berth As he has been throughout the playoffs, Kawhi Leonard was the difference-maker for the Raptors in Saturday night's Game 6, prompting president of bask...
Raptors beat shorthanded Warriors, take 2-1 Finals lead The Toronto Raptors defeated a shorthanded Golden State Warriors squad 123-109 in Oakland on Wednesday to take a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven NBA Fin...
Toronto ready to take center stage with Raptors in NBA Finals With the Raptors in the NBA Finals for the first time, Toronto and Canada's growing basketball culture are prepared to seize the spotlight. ...
NBA Finals 2019: Raptors have big edge in one ‘inside’ stat It was the shout heard ’round the world. From bettors who had taken the Toronto Raptors to cover the point spread in Monday night’s Game 6 … fro...
Steph and Seth Curry shared a special moment after the Western Conference finals Stephen Curry and Seth Curry exchanged jerseys and a hug after Steph's Warriors completed the sweep of the Trail Blazers. ...
The Nationals’ Gerardo Parra has 8,000 reasons to root for the Raptors in the NBA Finals Parra can thank his former San Francisco Giants teammates for talking him into joining their clubhouse pool before he was designated for assignment an...
Raptors not letting Warriors' injuries change their focus in NBA Finals The Toronto Raptors may have a prime opportunity to jump ahead in the NBA Finals given the whack of injuries that have plagued the Golden State Warrio...
Raptors executive accused of hitting police officer after NBA Finals win A police officer was allegedly pushed and hit in the face by a Raptors executive after Game 6 of the NBA Finals at Oracle Arena on Thursday. &#...
Turkish TV station refuses to air Western Conference Finals over Trail Blazers' Enes Kanter Portland Trail Blazers center Enes Kanter is by far Turkey’s best basketball player in the NBA and even though he is playing in the Western Conference...
Sharks vs Blues NHL live stream: how to watch the 2019 Western Conference Finals online So who's it going to be: the San Jose Sharks or the St. Louis Blues that go to the 2019 Stanley Cup? The Western Conference Finals side of the NH...
Kevin Durant a game-time decision for Warriors in NBA Finals Game 5 Golden State's Kevin Durant – for the first time in NBA Finals – is a game-time decision for Game 5 against Toronto on Monday. ...
Warriors vs Raptors live stream: how to watch the 2019 NBA Finals online from anywhere The 2019 NBA Finals lineup is set and the Golden State Warriors will take on the Toronto Raptors in a best-of-seven series to see which team will be t...
Watch: Warriors fan shoves Raptors' Kyle Lowry, gets ejected from NBA Finals A Golden State Warriors fan was ejected after shoving Toronto Raptors star Kyle Lowry while he was sitting courtside during Game 3 of the NBA Finals....
Raptors' Leonard joins elite company by winning Finals MVP award Toronto Raptors forward Kawhi Leonard joined elite company on Thursday by winning the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player award for the second time after ...
Kawhi Leonard shines as Raptors take commanding 3-1 lead on Warriors in NBA Finals With Kawhi Leonard leading the way, the Toronto Raptors took a commanding 3-1 lead on the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Finals. ...
Golden State Warriors had a longer break than the Raptors before the finals. Does it matter? Toronto will be on their fifth day off and the Warriors on their 10th before they play Game 1 at Scotiabank Arena on Thursday night. Does that make a ...
Trail Blazers vs Warriors live stream: how to watch 2019 NBA Western Conference Finals online Another year, another NBA Western Conference Finals appearance for the Golden State Warriors. This makes it four in a row, and they haven't faile...
Look: Dell, Sonya Curry wear matching Blazers-Warriors jackets to Western Conference Finals Dell and Sonya Curry, the parents of Warriors star Stephen Curry and Portland's Seth Curry, wore matching jackets with both teams' logos to Game 4 of ...
'Our DNA shows up': Steph Curry reacts after Warriors beat Raptors to tie NBA finals – video Steph Curry has said that the Golden State Warriors’ mantra of strength in numbers is ‘not just marketing stuff’ and ‘showed up in our DNA’ after his ...
NBA Finals: Warriors stars criticize Raptors fans after Kevin Durant's injury Golden State Warriors stars DeMarcus Cousins and Klay Thompson criticized Toronto Raptors fans who cheered when Warriors forward Kevin Durant was inju...
NBA Finals odds: Golden State Warriors heavy favorites over Toronto Raptors The Golden State Warriors opened as favorites in the NBA Finals for a fifth straight year despite the murky status of superstar forward Kevin Durant....
Finals-bound Raptors channel Kawhi Leonard’s focus as Warriors await Kyle Lowry couldn’t wipe the smile off his face. Kawhi Leonard accepted a hug from Drake. But the Raptors' collective focus remained on their upcoming...
Kevin Durant exits NBA Finals return with leg injury as Raptors fans mock TORONTO – After a strong first quarter, Kevin Durant left Game 5 of the NBA Finals with 9:46 left in the half with what appeared to be a re-injury of ...
NBA Finals: Ranking Raptors and Warriors players, from Kevin Durant to Norman Powell LeBron James isn't playing in the NBA Finals for the first time in eight years, but fear not: there's still an overwhelming amount of talent...
Raptors executive Masai Ujiri accused of hitting police officer after NBA Finals win A police officer was allegedly pushed and hit in the face by a Raptors executive after Game 6 of the NBA Finals at Oracle Arena on Thursday. &#...
‘We don’t really know these guys’: Toronto Raptors, Golden State Warriors speak at NBA Finals media day The Raptors took the two regular-season games between the teams but fast forward to Game 1 of the NBA Finals, and you have two very different lineups ...
No women are refereeing the Toronto Raptors finals. A look at females in male-dominated leagues There are currently three female referees in the NBA but not one is officiating the finals. However, the number of female referees on the court could ...
Western Conference Finals Preview: Hungry for Its Own Title, Portland Aims to Dent Golden State’s Dynasty The Trail Blazers have run into the Warriors’ buzz saw in two of the previous three seasons, but led by Damian Lillard and C.J. McCollum they believe ...
Lopez's big 4th quarter rescues Bucks in Game 1 Brook Lopez scored 13 of his career-playoff-high 29 points in the fourth quarter to lead a Bucks comeback in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals W...
Antetokounmpo has 32, Bucks beat Celtics 123-116 in Game 3 BOSTON (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo had 32 points and 13 rebounds, George Hill finished with 21 points and the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Boston Celtics...
Inside Kawhi Leonard's historic buzzer-beater that lifted Raptors into East finals Kawhi Leonard got the ultimate shooter's roll and hit the first game-winning, buzzer-beating shot in the history of NBA playoff Game 7s. &...
Opinion: Raptors deserve celebration, but Warriors' injuries denied NBA fans classic Finals This will be remembered as one of the saddest finals we’ve seen. Because of what it could have been. Because we watched so many stars get injure...
Winning numbers drawn in ‘Quick Bucks’ game LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday evening’s drawing of the Kentucky Lottery’s “Quick Bucks” game were: 11...
Hobbled Giannis: Bucks will be back in Milwaukee for Game 7 Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks went from a 2-0 series lead to a 3-2 deficit and face elimination Saturday in Toronto. The MVP candidate...
Rodgers, Yelich join in on chugs at Bucks game Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich joined Packers lineman David Bakhtiari in beer chugs at the Bucks game Thurs...
Bucks Owner Is in the Best Bind: His Soccer Team Also Has a Big Game It could be a crazy weekend for Wes Edens, who owns the N.B.A. Eastern Conference finalists and soccer’s Aston Villa, which will play for Premier Leag...
Bucks respond in Game 2, rout Celtics to tie NBA playoff series 1-1 The Bucks sank a franchise playoff record 20 three-pointers and ended the third quarter on a 24-2 run that effectively ended the game. &#...
Brew-haha: Yelich, Rodgers chug at Bucks game Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich joined Packers lineman David Bakhtiari in beer chugs at the Bucks game Thurs...
Opinion: Celtics look like title-caliber team in Game 1 win against Bucks Boston could not have asked for a better start to the Eastern Conference semifinals. On the road in Game 1, the Celtics defeated Milwaukee 112-90. &#...
Milwaukee Bucks bounce Boston Celtics from NBA playoffs with Game 5 rout Milwaukee advanced to the Eastern Conference finals for the first time since 2001. The Bucks will meet either the 76ers or Raptors. ...
Amazing story, amazing game: Raptors' Pascal Siakam plays the hero in Game 1 win Pascal Siakam's amazing story has carried him from Cameroon and a Basketball Without Borders camp to hero status in a Game 1 win in the NBA Final...
Mallory Edens throws shade at Drake with Pusha-T shirt at Bucks game The Bucks might have just found their answer to Drake. The Toronto-born rapper has made himself plenty of enemies during the second round of the NBA p...
'People gravitate toward him': How first-year coach Nick Nurse has Raptors in NBA Finals Nick Nurse did it his way, getting head-coaching experience in far-flung places. Now, he's coaching the Toronto Raptors in their first NBA Finals...
DeMar DeRozan feels like 'sacrificial lamb' for Raptors, says he helped lay groundwork for NBA Finals run DeMar DeRozan said he's rooting for Raptors in NBA Finals — even though his former team left him feeling in some ways like the "sacrificial...
Milwaukee Bucks fan buys Danica Patrick's drink in front of Aaron Rodgers during playoff game Danica Patrick and her Green Bay Packers star boyfriend Aaron Rodgers took in Game 5 between the Milwaukee Bucks and Boston Celtics courtside Wednesda...
The Raptors win Game 4 and we now have a series SportsPulse: The Raptors were dominant in their Game 4 victory over the Bucks and much of the credit deserves to go to the Toronto bench. USA TODAY S...
Warriors take Game 5 with 106-105 win against Raptors Stephen Curry has 23 points, Klay Thompson scored 12 and the Golden State Warriors lead the Toronto Raptors 62-56 at halftime of Game 5 of the NBA Fin...
Giannis: Raptors not like C's; Game 1 a must-win Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo said his team was "fine" after going down 1-0 to the Celtics, but it is far more critical to win Game 1 against the R...
Rockets audited '18 Game 7, say Finals bid taken The Rockets believe they should have advanced to last year's NBA Finals, not the Warriors, citing their own audit of 81 potential missed calls in thei...
Kevin Durant out for Game 3 of NBA Finals OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Kevin Durant still isn’t ready to return for the Golden State Warriors as he works back from a strained right calf he suf...
How the Warriors Survived Game 5 of the N.B.A. Finals The Warriors avoided elimination Monday night against the Raptors but lost Kevin Durant to an Achilles’ tendon injury that could keep him out through ...
Raptors say OG Anunoby will be active for Game 2 TORONTO (AP) — The Toronto Raptors might be getting some bench help for Game 2 of the NBA Finals. Raptors coach Nick Nurse says OG Anunoby will be ava...
Fan shoves Raptors' Lowry during Game 3 A man sitting courtside at Game 3 of the NBA Finals in Oakland, Calif., was ejected Wednesday for shoving Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry after the p...
Raptors confident ahead of do-or-die Game 7 Kyle Lowry had a massive Game 7 against the Miami Heat in 2016, scoring 35 points and flirting with a triple-double to carry the Raptors to their firs...
NBA Finals: Warriors' DeMarcus Cousins 'pain-free' and could play against Raptors Golden State coach Steve Kerr said DeMarcus Cousins has been practicing, but he isn't sure when - or if - time will be right to use him in NBA Fi...
Report: Durant out for Game 1 of West finals Golden State Warriors star Kevin Durant will miss Game 1 of the Western Conference finals against the visiting Portland Trail Blazers on Tuesday due t...
2019 NBA Finals: Tip-off time, TV, streaming and everything else to know about Game 3 With the NBA Finals shifting to Oakland and the series tied 1-1 between the Raptors and Warriors, here's all the info you need to watch Game 3. ...
How to Stream Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals Tonight The St. Louis Blues are taking on the Boston Bruins tonight in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals, with the winner of tonight’s game taking home the cup...
N.B.A. Finals Game 6 Preview: What You Need to Know About Kevin Durant Durant is out with an Achilles’ injury, but he looms over what may be the Golden State Warriors’ last game of the season, and the Raptors’ championshi...
Raptors say Pascal Siakam is doubtful for Game 4 Raptors say forward Pascal Siakam is doubtful for Sunday's Game 4 against Philadelphia with a right calf injury &...
Raptors come up short as Warriors take Game 2, even the series Klay Thompson scored 25 points before leaving with a hamstring injury, Stephen Curry had 23 and the Golden State Warriors ran off the first 18 points ...
Sixers come through to force decisive Game 7 against Raptors SportsPulse: USA TODAY Sports' Jeff Zillgitt breaks down the 76ers' win over the Raptors and looks ahead to Game 7, where Philadelphia will ...
Raptors say Siakam (calf) is doubtful for Game 4 The Toronto Raptors say forward Pascal Siakam is doubtful for Sunday's Game 4 of their Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Philadelphia 76...
Raptors list Anunoby as questionable for Game 1 Toronto Raptors forward OG Anunoby, who underwent an emergency appendectomy April 12, was surprisingly listed as questionable for Game 1 of the NBA Fi...
The Latest: Raptors leading 60-52 at halftime of Game 3 OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Latest from Wednesday’s Game 3 of the NBA Finals (all times local): 7:20 p.m. Kyle Lowry has 15 points, Pascal Siakam...
Leonard carries Raptors over 76ers in Game 4 Kawhi Leonard had 39 points and 14 rebounds and the second-seeded Toronto Raptors defeated the host Philadelphia 76ers 101-96 on Sunday to even the Ea...
Raptors regroup after Game 2 loss to Sixers The Toronto Raptors regrouped Tuesday after an off-night in Game 2 blunted the momentum from a dominant opening performance in their second-round seri...
The Latest: Barack Obama in Toronto for Game 2 of NBA Finals TORONTO (AP) — The Latest from Sunday’s Game 2 of the NBA Finals (all times local): 7:45 p.m. The 44th President of the United States —and noted...
NBA Finals: Warriors rule out Kevin Durant for Game 2 Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant, who is recovering from a right calf strain, has been ruled out for Game 2 of the NBA Finals, head coach St...
NBA Finals 2019: Kevin Durant will sit again for Warriors in Game 4 Golden State will be without two-time NBA Finals MVP Kevin Durant for the ninth consecutive game. Klay Thompson is expected to play Friday night. ...
Kevin Durant won’t return in time for Game 1 of NBA Finals OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Kevin Durant is yet to progress to on-court work in his recovery from a strained right calf and won’t be ready to return ...
Warriors hang on to stay alive, win Game 5 of NBA Finals Stephen Curry scored 31 points, Klay Thompson added 26 and they led a season-saving surge that gave the Golden State Warriors a 106-105 victory over t...
Bruins beat Blues in game 1 of NHL Stanley Cup Finals on NBC BOSTON (AP) – Forty-nine years after Boston’s Bobby Orr flew through the air following his Stanley Cup-clinching goal against St. Louis, B...
Report: Durant (calf) out for Game 2 of West finals Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant will not play in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals Thursday night due to a calf strain, Yahoo Sports ...
Kevin Durant will play for Warriors in NBA Finals Game 5 Kevin Durant, listed as a game-time decision for Game 5, will play Monday night, Warriors coach Steve Kerr told reporters pregame. ...
Warriors’ Kevin Durant will miss Game 1 of the NBA Finals OAKLAND, Calif. — Kevin Durant won’t be ready to play in time for Game 1 of the NBA Finals on May 30. The two-time reigning finals MVP has yet to retu...
Watch: Giannis Antetokounmpo storms out of postgame press conference after Game 6 loss Milwaukee star forward Giannis Antetokounmpo stormed out of his news conference after the Bucks' Game 6 loss to the Toronto Raptors on Saturday night....
GameDev.World pulls off a historic global online game conference in 8 languages GameDev.World demystified the art of game development just a little bit in the past three days, with 24 hours of talks from a diverse group of experts...
St. Louis Blues win Game 2 of Western Conference final, even up series vs. San Jose Sharks Vince Dunn and Robert Bortuzzo scored second-period goals that helped the St. Louis Blues overcome another big game from San Jose’s Logan Coutur...
Raptors vs. Warriors: Why Vegas isn’t running away from Toronto in Game 2 Pascal’s wager: Bet on Toronto and hope Siakam plays like a god. That worked for Raptors backers in Thursday night’s series opener in the NBA Finals a...
Leonard scores 21, Raptors rout 76ers 125-89 to win Game 5 TORONTO (AP) — Kawhi Leonard had 21 points and 13 rebounds, Pascal Siakam scored 25 points and the Toronto Raptors used a huge second quarter to rout ...
Raptors capture first NBA title, beat Warriors in Game 6 OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Kawhi Leonard and the Toronto Raptors captured Canada’s first NBA championship with their most remarkable road win yet in...
Strength in numbers: The Raptors beat the Warriors at their own game The Warriors' blueprint was to make things tough on Kawhi Leonard. It worked. But Golden State wasn't prepared for Pascal Siakam and Toronto's band of...
Raptors’ Fred VanVleet is battered but ready for Game 5 TORONTO — It was only fitting Raptors backup point guard Fred VanVleet sat at his podium Sunday at Scotiabank Arena with a taped-up cut under his eye ...
Toronto Raptors’ Game 6 broke Canadian TV records Bell Media says a Canadian TV NBA record average audience of 7.7 million viewers watched the Raptors win the NBA title in Game 6 of the Finals on Thur...
Kevin Durant plans to play for Warriors in NBA Finals Game 5 Golden State's Kevin Durant is listed as a game-time decision for Game 5, but a person with knowledge of the situation says he plans to play. &#...
Former President Barack Obama attends Game 2 of the NBA Finals in Toronto Former President Barack Obama was in attendance for Game 2 of the NBA Finals between the Raptors and Warriors in Toronto. ...
Kevin Durant exits Game 5 of NBA Finals with apparent leg injury Warriors star Kevin Durant limped off the floor and to the locker room after appearing to suffer a right-leg injury in the second quarter of Game 5. ...
Warriors expect Kevin Durant back for Game 4 of NBA Finals The Warriors looked like they were missing Kevin Durant for the first time on Thursday night, and now they have a sense for when he could be back. Yah...
Kevin Durant forced to leave Game 5 of NBA Finals with injury Durant, who had been out since May 8 with a calf strain, returned to the starting lineup with his team down 3-1 in the series against the Toronto Rapt...
Blues, Stars meet again in Game 7 for spot in West finals The Blues and Stars are set for Game 7 in a second-round series again, three years after St. Louis dominated a winner-take-all matchup in Dallas for a...
Drake showed up at Jurassic Park to watch Game 6 of the NBA Finals Rather than travel to Oracle Arena to take in the game in person, Drake chose to watch alongside the Raptors faithful in Toronto. &...
Drake and Draymond Green have heated exchange after NBA Finals game Drake couldn’t help himself. The famous rapper and infamous Toronto sports superfan started Game 1 of the NBA Final by trolling the Warriors by wearin...
Metallica rocks national anthem for NBA Finals Game 3 as Beyonce, Jay-Z look on Heavy metals titans James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett of Metallica rocked the "Star-Spangled Banner" before Game 3 of the NBA finals. ...
Warriors make it official: Kevin Durant out for Game 1 of NBA Finals Golden State Warriors forward Kevin Durant will not play in Game 1 of the NBA Finals on Thursday and he might not travel with the team to Toronto due ...
Kevin Durant exits Game 5 of NBA Finals with Achilles injury Warriors star Kevin Durant limped off the floor with an Achilles injury and is scheduled to have an MRI exam on Tuesday. ...
Bruins rout Blues 5-1 to force Game 7 of Stanley Cup Finals Boston Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask makes 27 saves to deny the St. Louis Blues a chance to win their first Stanley Cup title at home. ...
Kyle Lowry got pushed by Warriors fan after diving into first row during NBA Finals Game 3 Kyle Lowry was not happy with a fan seated courtside during the Raptors' win over the Warriors in Game 3 of the NBA Finals. &#...
Aaron Rodgers takes jab at ESPN's Paul Pierce on Twitter after Bucks' Game 4 victory Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers, a minority owner of the Bucks, got a jab in at ESPN NBA analyst Paul Pierce after Milwaukee's Game 4 victory....
Butler does it, leads 76ers past Raptors to force Game 7 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Jimmy Butler lived up to his Jimmy Buckets nickname to help Philadelphia force a seventh game against Toronto in the Eastern Confe...
Raptors’ Kyle Lowry crashes into crowd, gets shoved by fan during Game 3 Toronto Raptors guard Kyle Lowry went flying into courtside fans while chasing a loose ball in the fourth quarter of Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Wedne...
The Raptors lost Game 5 but at least Canada got this very cool rendition of its anthem With a chance to see a Canadian team win an NBA championship for the first time, the crowd at Scotiabank Arena was only too happy to belt out "O Canad...
76ers even series with impressive bounce-back win over Raptors in Game 2 Philadelphia answered its Game 1 loss in impressive fashion, with better defense and key adjustments to beat Toronto 94-89 and tie the series 1-1. &#...
Raptors hold off Warriors in Game 6 thriller to clinch first championship Toronto clinched the first championship in franchise history and ended Golden State's reign with a thrilling Game 6 victory. &...
With Raptors on verge of NBA history, Canadians in Oakland and beyond react to Game 5 win Cheers in support of the Warriors heard inside Oracle Arena during that first half faded as the second went on. Chants of "We the North" and "MVP" for...
76ers-Raptors Game 7: Joel Embiid X-factor for Philadelphia Joel Embiid isn’t a towel-tosser. The night after Kyrie Irving and the Boston Celtics meekly bowed out of the Eastern Conference playoffs with another...
Raptors handle Warriors in Game 4 to move within victory of first NBA title Kawhi (36 points, 12 rebounds) leads Raptors in Game 4 winToronto take 3-1 series lead as series returns to CanadaToronto Raptors 105-92 Golden State ...
Jimmy Butler pours it on as 76ers force Game 7 vs. Raptors PHILADELPHIA — Jimmy Butler lived up to his Jimmy Buckets nickname to help Philadelphia force a seventh game against Toronto in the Eastern Conference...
Raptors or ‘Game of Thrones’? Fans faced with tough TV choice The most critical moments of the Raptors' Game 3 will almost certainly overlap with the first half-hour or so of the "Game of Thrones" 80-minute final...
Slumping Ben Simmons comes to life as Sixers force Game 7 against Raptors Butler scores 25 in leading 76ers past Raptors to force Game 7Lillard pours in 32 to help Trail Blazers stave off eliminationJimmy Butler lived up to ...
Sarah McLachlan to perform ‘O Canada’ as Raptors aim for championship in Game 6 The league has announced the Halifax-born singer-songwriter will perform O Canada prior to Game 6 of the NBA Finals between the Raptors and Golden Sta...
Warriors, minus Kevin Durant, rally for Game 5 win over Raptors With their backs against the wall, the Golden State Warriors rallied for a 106-105 win against the Toronto Raptors in Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Mond...
Warriors outclass tired Trail Blazers in Game 1 of West finals SportsPulse: Maybe Kevin Durant can take this week off anyways? The Trail Blazers looked sluggish and need to regroup quick, otherwise it could be a v...
Curry leads second-half blitz as Warriors move within one game of NBA finals Golden State beat Portland 110-99 to go 3-0 up in seriesBlazers led by 13 points at half-time before comebackDraymond Green notches triple-double; Cur...
Beyoncé and Jay-Z Enjoy Date Night While Sitting Courtside at NBA Finals Game Beyoncé and Jay-Z are feeling that Golden State of mind on Wednesday evening. The A-list couple sat courtside at Game 3 of the NBA Finals with the To...
The Real ‘MVP’: Barack Obama Steals Drake’s Thunder at Game 2 of the NBA Finals While Drake has made himself the talk of this year’s NBA Finals with all his trash talk on behalf of his beloved Toronto Raptors, the rapture Sunday n...
Stanley Cup Finals: Time, TV, streaming info and everything you need about Game 6 of Bruins-Blues The St. Louis Blues, up 3-2 in the Stanley Cup Finals against the Boston Bruins, can capture the first championship in franchise's 52-year histor...
Pelosi, Trudeau make friendly wager ahead of Game 5 of NBA Finals House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a wager ahead Game 5 of the NBA Finals on Monday night between the Golden S...
St. Louis native Patrick Maroon sends Blues to conference final with double-OT goal in Game 7 Patrick Maroon, a St. Louis native, sent the Blues to the conference final with a goal that ended a stunning 47-save streak by the Stars' Ben Bis...
Pascal Siakam, Kawhi Leonard lead Raptors over Warriors in Game 1 Pascal Siakam and Kawhi Leonard guided the Toronto Raptors to a 118-109 win over the Golden State Warriors in Game 1 of the NBA Finals at Scotiabank A...
Raptors Fight Off Every Warriors Push To Grab A Comfortable Game 1 Victory In retrospect, we had a pretty solid indication that things were turning Toronto’s way in the build up to their Game 1 victory over the Warriors:...
Klay Thompson exits Warriors' Game 2 win vs. Raptors with leg injury Klay Thompson suffered a leg injury that the Warriors called "left hamstring tightness" and Steve Kerr called a pull that knocked him out of Game 2. ...
Game 7 Sunday: Stars must step up in Nuggets-Blazers and Raptors-Sixers Sports Pulse: The Nuggets face the Blazers and the Raptors take on the 76ers in a pair of decisive Game 7s. USA TODAY Sport's Jeff Zillgitt deta...
Toronto Raptors take series lead with Game 3 win over Golden State Warriors With a 123-109 win at the Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., the team dominated throughout the game. At one point, the Raptors had a 17-point lead over ...
Nick Nurse’s in-game adjustments help lead Toronto Raptors to NBA Championship The following are just some of the adjustments made by Nurse that helped the Raptors capture their franchise-first NBA Championship in his first year ...
Toronto Raptors win their first NBA title, beating Golden State Warriors 114-110 in Game 6 OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Toronto Raptors win their first NBA title, beating Golden State Warriors 114-110 in Game 6....
Opinion: Raptors show in Game 4 that they can win without a fully functional Kawhi Leonard The Toronto Raptors showed in Eastern Conference finals Game 4 vs. the Milwaukee Bucks that they can win when Kawhi Leonard isn't at his best. &...
Leonard hits bouncer at buzzer, Raptors beat 76ers in Game 7 Kawhi Leonard hit a shot from the corner over Joel Embiid at the buzzer that bounced off the rim four times before falling to give the Toronto Raptors...
76ers bounce back to handle Raptors and force decisive Game 7 Two nights after getting blown out by 36 points, the Sixers rebounded with a 112-101 win over the Raptors to force a Game 7 back in Toronto. &#...
Opinion: Warriors' dynasty crumbles in Game 4 loss to Raptors There was desperation simmering under the surface in a must-win Game 4, and the Warriors probably played their last game ever at Oracle Arena. ...
Toronto Raptors’ Marc Gasol should have gone to foul line late in Game 5, NBA says The NBA says Marc Gasol should have been given two free throws with 49 seconds left of Game 5 of the NBA Finals in Toronto, a game that the Raptors lo...
Opinion: After losing Game 5, the Raptors aren't in trouble — yet The Raptors are still in the driver's seat with a 3-2 series lead, but the pressure is on as the series heads back to Oakland for Game 6. ...
Kawhi Leonard's monster Game 1 for Raptors should have 76ers worried It was only the first game of the series, but if Kawhi Leonard keeps putting up big numbers, the 76ers are in trouble. ...
Drake celebrates Raptors' Game 3 win by mocking Klay Thompson Drake was ready to go again with the trash talk once the Raptors locked up their 123-109 Game 3 NBA Finals win over the Warriors. &...
Warriors' Kevin Durant out for NBA Finals Game 3; Klay Thompson is questionable The injury-plagued Warriors will go without two-time Finals MVP Kevin Durant for Game 3 in Oakland. The series with the Raptors is tied 1-1. &#...
NBA finals: Klay Thompson a game-time decision as injuries mount for Warriors Kevin Durant and Kevon Looney will not play in Game 3Golden State and Toronto tied 1-1 in best-of seven seriesThe Golden State Warriors will take the ...
Warriors' DeMarcus Cousins returns from quad injury in Game 1 of NBA Finals DeMarcus Cousins returned to the Warriors lineup in the opener of the NBA Finals after a left quad injury in Game 2 of the first round. &...
NBA playoffs: Kawhi Leonard's buzzer beater wins Game 7 for Raptors over 76ers Toronto will face Milwaukee Bucks in Eastern Conference finalsPhiladelphia 76ers 90-92 Toronto RaptorsKawhi Leonard hit a shot from the corner over Jo...
Kawhi Leonard leads Toronto Raptors to Game 4 win over Golden State Warriors The Toronto Raptors moved within one game of capturing their first NBA championship after defeating the Golden State Warriors 105-92 in Game 4 of the ...
Raptors’ Kawhi Leonard slays Sixers in Game 7 with rim-rattling buzzer-beater Leonard rattled home a series-clinching, buzzer-beating jumper to lift the Toronto Raptors past the Philadelphia 76ers in Game 7 and into the Eastern ...
Man who pushed Raptors' Kyle Lowry in Game 3 is part owner of Warriors The fan who pushed Raptors guard Kyle Lowry during Game 3 of the NBA Finals has been identified as Mark Stevens, part owner of the Warriors. &#...
Raptors fans overload Toronto’s Jurassic Park for Game 6, spill onto street Jurassic Park couldn't contain the long lineup of fans that snaked around Scotiabank Arena and past neighbouring Union Station in downtown Toronto, so...
VIDEO: Drake appears to call Warriors ‘trash’ after Game 1 loss to Raptors A tense exchange appeared to play out between Drake and Draymond Green on the courtside moments after the Raptors beat the Warriors 118-109 in Game 1....
Warriors edge Raptors with late surge to force Game 6 back in Oakland Steph Curry and Klay Thompson hit clutch 3-pointers late to help the Warriors beat the Raptors 106-105 and cut Toronto's series lead to 3-2. ...
Warriors’ Thompson expected to return for Game 4 as Raptors look to widen series lead Klay Thompson sat out from Game 3 at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday due to a hamstring injury. Game 4 is scheduled for 9 p.m. ET on Fri...
NBA Finals: Warriors' Kevin Durant officially out for Game 1, DeMarcus Cousins questionable Warriors coach Steve Kerr confirmed Kevin Durant will not play in Game 1 of the NBA Finals on Thursday, while DeMarcus Cousins is questionable. ...
Draymond Green keys Game 3 comeback, carrying Warriors to cusp of fifth straight Finals Green notches a triple-double as Golden State overcomes 13-point halftime deficit to topple Portland, 110-99, to take a commanding 3-0 lead in the Wes...
Warriors' Kevin Durant expected to practice with goal of returning in Game 5 of NBA Finals Warriors star Kevin Durant is expected to practice and do an extra workout with younger players on Sunday with the hope that he can play in Game 5. &...
Raptors beat 76ers in Game 7 thriller on Kawhi Leonard's buzzer-beater Kawhi Leonard's final shot bounced off the rim four times before finally dropping through to give the Raptors a 92-90 win over the Sixers in Game...
Golden State Warriors won’t have Kevin Durant, Kevon Looney for Game 3 against Toronto Raptors The Golden State Warriors will be short-handed for Game 3 with a number of injured players for the NBA Finals against the Toronto Raptors on Wednesday...
Raptors Snatch Back Home-Court Advantage With Game 3 Beatdown Of Gutted Warriors There may be no satisfying takeaway from Toronto’s Game 3 123–109 victory over the Warriors in Oakland, beyond the completely obvious reminder that ho...
Warriors coach Steve Kerr wears ‘Vote For Our Lives’ shirt ahead of NBA Finals Game 2 Kerr sported a black T-shirt at his media availability about 90 minutes before Sunday's tip-off with the slogan "Vote For Our Lives" in response to th...
Warriors' Andre Iguodala left wide open for NBA Finals Game 2-clinching 3-pointer Andre Iguodala was left wide open for the clinching 3-pointer in Game 2 of the NBA Finals. The Raptors deny disrespecting the Warriors' swingman....
Airports and the TSA are gearing up for the Real ID deadline. You should be, too The Real ID Act set new and higher minimum security standards for driver’s licenses and identification cards that will be accepted at airports. ...
It sure looks like Apple is gearing up for more cryptocurrency apps At this year’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) the company is set to announce the release of “CryptoKit;” a cryptography-oriented tool ki...
Hard To Watch: Drake Forgot To Buy Courtside Tickets For Tonight’s Game And Is Now Trying To Act Like He’s Friends With The Raptors From The Nosebleeds Hip-hop superstar Drake’s loud presence on the sidelines of Toronto Raptors games has been a constant storyline of the 2019 NBA playoffs, but it looks...
Ex-Wichita State star Fred VanVleet lifts Raptors in Game 5, credits performance to new baby Running on the adrenaline of a newborn, the competition of the NBA playoffs and little sleep, Toronto's Fred VanVleet all of sudden can’t m...
Warriors owner's wife says Beyonce fans made death threats over Game 3 moment in NBA Finals Nicole Curran, wife of Warriors owner Joseph Lacob, says Beyonce fans have been making death threats after perceived drama in Game 3 of NBA Finals. &...
Kamala Harris Has Been Gearing Up for a Biden Showdown Even before their heated exchange in the Democratic debate over school busing, Ms. Harris had been aiming to win over Mr. Biden’s core constituencies....
Mozilla is gearing up to tackle shady add-ons on Firefox Mozilla has announced that it will no longer accept Firefox extensions that contain obfuscated code as part of their updated Add-on policy that goes i...
Hollywood Is Gearing Up to Boycott Georgia Over Its New Abortion Law Three Hollywood production companies have announced that they will boycott the state of Georgia over Draconian new abortion laws, according to The Hol...
LeBron James calls for 'swift action' against Warriors part-owner who shoved Kyle Lowry in NBA Finals Game 3 Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James called Thursday for "swift action" to be taken against a part-owner of the Golden State Warriors who shoved Toron...
Masters week: Gearing up for 2019 tournament at Augusta PGA golfers from around the world compete in the 2019 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Course in Augusta, Georgia. ...
UA softball gearing up for #3 Washington at College World Series TUCSON – The 6th ranked Arizona Wildcat softball team have to play Pac-12 nemesis #3 Washington in the opener of the College World Series this T...
Revelers begin gearing up for Sunday’s NYC Pride March Rainbow-clad revelers in the millions will gather in Manhattan on Sunday for the annual NYC Pride March, which steps off at noon from Fifth Avenue and...
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ISRO's Heavy Rocket 'Baahubali' Gearing Up for Moon Mission on Monday India's heavy lift rocket Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle - Mark III (GSLV Mk III), nicknamed as 'Bahubali', and its passenger Chandrayaan-2 a...
Warriors' Kevin Durant won't be ready for Game 1 of NBA Finals Kevin Durant is still expected to be ready at some point during the NBA Finals after his strained calf was re-evaluated, but it won't be Game 1. ...
How Donald Glover and More Lion King Stars Are Gearing Up to Meet Meghan Markle Seth Rogen and Billy Eichner have some thoughts on the protocol surrounding the Royal Family. E! News' Zuri Hall stopped to chat with The Lion King s...
Chinese state media touts '5,000 years of trials and tribulations,' gearing up for trade war In the midst of a full blown trade war, China's state media is using propaganda to drum up support against the United States and President Donald...
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It will get loud: Metallica members will rock 'Star-Spangled Banner' for NBA Finals Game 3 Heavy metals titans James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett will rock the "Star-Spangled Banner" before Game 3 of the NBA finals. It will get loud. ...
Kawhi Leonard's bouncing buzzer-beater in Raptors' Game 7 win had everyone in absolute awe Kawhi Leonard ended the Philadelphia 76ers' season with a buzzer-beater that will be remembered forever by NBA fans. ...
Warriors coach Steve Kerr wears 'Vote For Our Lives' t-shirt to Game 2 of NBA Finals Steve Kerr wore a "Vote For Our Lives" t-shirt in support of stricter gun control laws two days after a gunman killed 12 people in Virginia Beach. &#...
2019 NBA Finals: Four players to watch to win Finals MVP With the NBA Finals set to begin on Thursday night in Toronto, here are the best bets to win the series MVP award (odds courtesy of Westgate SuperBook...
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Steph Curry, Warriors ready for Raptors' 'janky' defense in Game 3 The Golden State guard used the term to define the box-and-one defense the Raptors used on him - to great effect - during Game 2 of the NBA Finals. &...
Raptors coach on Kawhi Leonard's Game 7 buzzer-beater: 'That’s an old play I stole off a Hubie Brown DVD' Raptors coach Nick Nurse said the play that produced the Game 7 buzzer-beater against the 76ers was something he "stole off a Hubie Brown DVD." ...
Tornado confirmed in eastern Pennsylvania The National Weather Service says a tornado has been confirmed in eastern Pennsylvania. Damaged homes are reported in Berks and Chester counties but t...
YouTube, other services down due to eastern US congestion NEW YORK (AP) — Google is saying users of YouTube and other services are seeing errors or slow performance due to high levels of network congestions i...
Quake causes panic in eastern Indonesia; one killed A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck the Moluccas islands in eastern Indonesia on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported, killing one person ...
Magnitude 7.3 earthquake strikes eastern Indonesia A 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck the eastern Indonesian island of Halmahera, which is part of the country's eastern Maluku island chain, the U.S. Geo...
Libya’s eastern government says it won’t rule by force PARIS (AP) — The government in eastern Libya allied with forces attacking the capital says it does not want to rule the country by force. Abdulhadi La...
Four British nationals arrested in eastern China Four British nationals have been arrested in eastern China, the British Embassy in Beijing said Friday, amid escalating diplomatic tension between the...
George Soros to target far-right in eastern Germany George Soros's Open Society Foundation is gearing up to battle hate and the far-right in eastern Germany. The Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) is pre...
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Heavy flooding hits eastern Canada Thousands of people were told to evacuate their homes near Montreal in eastern Canada early on Sunday after rising floodwaters breached a dyke followi...
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China Eastern asks Boeing for compensation over 737 MAX grounding China Eastern Airlines has formally requested compensation from Boeing Co for the grounding of its 14 737 MAX aircraft and has delayed deliveries of f...
Quake with 7.3 magnitude strikes in eastern Indonesia: USGS An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 struck southeast of the city of Ternate on Sunday, in the Moluccas in the eastern area of Indonesia, the U.S. Ge...
Check Here Beginning At 6 p.m. Eastern For Decision 2019 Results Beginning at 6 p.m., you can check your Decision 2019 Primary results right here. Tune in to LEX 18 News for all our Decision 2019 coverage. ...
Major 7.3 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Eastern Indonesia A major 7.3-magnitude earthquake hit the remote Maluku islands in eastern Indonesia Sunday, sending panicked residents running into the streets, but n...
Why Is This Senator Beefing With the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians? On Wednesday, seemingly out of nowhere, Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina published a scathing column in the Charlotte Observer headlined, “Cherokee...
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7.3 magnitude earthquake strikes eastern Indonesia, causes panic A 7.3 magnitude earthquake shook the Moluccas islands on Sunday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey, creating panic and causing damage to houses ...
Pilot killed in Eurofighter collision over eastern Germany One pilot was killed and another managed to parachute to safety after two unarmed German Eurofighter jets collided over northeastern Germany on Monday...
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Two Eurofighter warplanes crash over eastern Germany: reports Two Eurofighter warplanes belonging to the German armed forces crashed in northeastern Germany on Monday, several media outlets reported, with some sa...
BJP's Estranged Ally Predicts "Massive Win" For Gathbandhan In Eastern UP The BJP's Uttar Pradesh ally Om Prakash Rajbhar, sulking for months, did not spare the party on the last day of voting for the national election. Aske...
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Afghan forces kill 6 civilians in eastern Afghanistan Afghan officials say at least six civilians, including a woman and two children, have been mistakenly killed in an Afghan security forces raid against...
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Weather system over eastern Florida has 50% chance of becoming cyclone - NHC A low pressure system located over eastern Florida has a 50% chance of becoming a cyclone in the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NH...
Police stop far-right band performances in eastern Germany The rock bands had violated the rules set for the concert, according to police in the German state of Thuringia. About 400 counter-demonstrators prote...
Two Ebola health workers killed in eastern Congo Unidentified attackers killed two Ebola health workers in eastern Congo over the weekend, the latest in a string of assaults that have hobbled efforts...
Eastern Ky. Electric Provider Approved For Rate Adjustments FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — An eastern Kentucky electric provider is restructuring its rates, but the adjustments won’t increase monthly bills for an ...
New Ukrainian President Zelenskiy visits eastern war zone Ukraine's new president has visited military positions in the country's east, where the army has been fighting Russia-backed separatists for five year...
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YouTube, other Google services down due to eastern US traffic congestion Services like YouTube, Google Cloud and G Suite are being affected, while #YouTubeDOWN is trending on Twitter. ...
Bucks' Middleton: 'Hopefully we learn from this' When the Bucks made mistakes in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals, the Raptors capitalized, and that was the difference in Toronto's series-clin...
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Quake causes panic in eastern Indonesia; no reports of major damage A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck the Moluccas islands in eastern Indonesia on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported, causing panic among...
Eastern Libyan forces release head of oil workers union The head of Libya’s oil workers’ labor union, Saad Dinar, was released on Thursday after being held by eastern security authorities for almost a month...
EU election: AfD surge in eastern Germany sets up clash of cultures The far-right AfD has emerged as the strongest political party in Germany's formerly communist East. With the Greens winning big among young, urban vo...
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Pak Extends Airspace Ban Along Its Eastern Border With India Till June 28 Pakistan on Thursday extended its airspace ban along its eastern border with India for the third time till June 28, according to a notice issued by th...
300,000 flee flare-up of ethnic violence in north-eastern DR Congo More than 300,000 people have been forced to flee resurgent inter-ethnic violence in north-east Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) just this month...
Creepy resting place for discarded toys in Eastern Kentucky ELLIOTTVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Deep in the hills of Eastern Kentucky, there’s a mysterious place where plastic baby dolls live out their final days. N...
Germany's Maas hopes for peace in eastern Ukraine under new leader The top diplomats from Germany and France are set to visit Ukraine to stress their countries' support for peace there. German Foreign Minister Heiko M...
| Mozambique cyclone Kenneth floods north-eastern centres Rains from Cyclone Kenneth, the second tropical storm to hit Mozambique within weeks, have continued to pound Pemba and surrounding areas causing mass...
Eastern EU states would back Barnier for Commission President: Hungary European Union Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier will be among the candidates that East European member states Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and ...
Search area widens for missing toddler in eastern Kentucky SALYERSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Officials have widened the search area for a 22-month-old boy who disappeared Sunday evening from his rural Kentucky home. Ne...
Cyclone Fani expected to intensify as it heads toward eastern India Cyclone Fani is expected to intensify into an "extremely severe" storm as it heads toward the coast of the eastern Indian state of Odisha, the India M...
Death toll rises in eastern India in encephalitis outbreak PATNA, India (AP) — Indian authorities say six more children have died in an encephalitis outbreak in eastern Bihar state, bringing the death toll to ...
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Chateau Roaring Fork
Nestled along the banks of the Roaring Fork River, the Chateau Roaring Fork offers comfortable and spacious condominiums that are a perfect retreat in winter or summer. Located just a few blocks from Aspen Mountain, historic downtown Aspen and the fr... More
Nestled along the banks of the Roaring Fork River, the Chateau Roaring Fork offers comfortable and spacious condominiums that are a perfect retreat in winter or summer. Located just a few blocks from Aspen Mountain, historic downtown Aspen and the free skier shuttle, which will take you to Snowmass, Highlands or Buttermilk Mountains.
In addition to the amenities listed these units also offer a full kitchen, television and VCR, high speed internet access and there is also an executive boardroom available for small meetings. On site parking is just another feature that the makes the Chateau Roaring Fork a comfortable and convenient place to stay while you are in Aspen.
The Gant is located on five landscaped acres yet just a short stroll from exhilarating skiing, shopping, dining, and nightlife of Aspen. Treat yourself to the relaxing environment of a condominium, enhanced by the amenities of a fine hotel.The Gant's... More
The Gant is located on five landscaped acres yet just a short stroll from exhilarating skiing, shopping, dining, and nightlife of Aspen. Treat yourself to the relaxing environment of a condominium, enhanced by the amenities of a fine hotel.
The Gant's one to four bedroom condominiums are complete with full kitchens, fireplace, humidifiers, balcony, and free parking-1 per unit. Services include daily housekeeping, concierge, bell service and private in-town and Aspen Airport transportation available.
The Gant, an award-winning condominium and conference center resort, has just completed a $5 million renovation and expansion that includes Pepperjack's Café, a new specialty café and cocktail bar, making The Gant the only condominium property in Aspen to offer food and beverage services.
Glory Hole Condos
Ideally located just 1 block from the Aspen Mountain Gondola, these condominiums offer a cozy atmosphere with full kitchen and fireplace. More
Ideally located just 1 block from the Aspen Mountain Gondola, these condominiums offer a cozy atmosphere with full kitchen and fireplace.
The historic Little Jewel home was originally built in the 1890s, but has been completely remodeled with all of today's modern conveniences. With beautiful hardwood floors and plenty of classic Aspen charm, this private residence is a true one-of-a-k... More
The historic Little Jewel home was originally built in the 1890s, but has been completely remodeled with all of today's modern conveniences. With beautiful hardwood floors and plenty of classic Aspen charm, this private residence is a true one-of-a-kind mountain home away from home. Aspen's Little Jewel has views of Aspen Mountain from the living area, is only a short walk to downtown Aspen, and is less than four blocks to the gondola.
Spread out over two levels, the main living area features a gas fireplace and a formal dining area for six people. The kitchen has stainless steel appliances and a breakfast bar that seats two. The master bedroom has a queen bed, en suite bath and adjacent den with a sleeper sofa for additional sleeping options. The guest bedroom has a queen bed and an en suite bath. Additional amenities include Wi-Fi, a washer/dryer, ski locker and a barbecue grill. Street parking is available for guests.
Mountain Valley Retreat
Mountain Valley Retreat is a spectacular 6 bedroom, 6 bathroom private home overlooking downtown Aspen from the east. This 5,000 square foot mountain house is spread over 4 floors and offers fantastic views and natural lighting throughout. The main l... More
Mountain Valley Retreat is a spectacular 6 bedroom, 6 bathroom private home overlooking downtown Aspen from the east. This 5,000 square foot mountain house is spread over 4 floors and offers fantastic views and natural lighting throughout. The main level has a spacious living room with high ceilings, wrap-around deck, dining table for up to 12, a three-sided stone fireplace, grand piano, and large kitchen. The property also offers a private outdoor hot tub, two car garage, laundry room, and wireless internet throughout. The master bedroom has a king bed, the second has two twins (can be made into a king upon request), the third has a king, the fourth has two twins, the fifth has a king, and the sixth has two twin bunk beds.
Old Hundred
The Old Hundred condominiums are just two blocks from the Silver Queen Gondola and all the restaurants, shops and nightclubs Aspen has to offer. There is private off street parking behind the units. These condominiums are uniquely designed in multi-l... More
The Old Hundred condominiums are just two blocks from the Silver Queen Gondola and all the restaurants, shops and nightclubs Aspen has to offer. There is private off street parking behind the units. These condominiums are uniquely designed in multi-level configurations. The Old Hundred condominiums also offer a fully equipped kitchen and fireplace.
Riverview Condominiums are located 5 blocks from downtown Aspen and about 9 blocks from the Aspen Mountain Gondola. These spacious condominiums are nestled on the banks of the beautiful Roaring Fork River on the east side of Aspen. A shuttle but st... More
Riverview Condominiums are located 5 blocks from downtown Aspen and about 9 blocks from the Aspen Mountain Gondola. These spacious condominiums are nestled on the banks of the beautiful Roaring Fork River on the east side of Aspen. A shuttle but stop is located 150 yards from the property. Amenities include a fully-equipped kitchen, wood-burning fireplace, deck, common outdoor hot tub and heated pool, and off-street parking. You can access Aspen’s exceptional shopping, dining, and skiing in minutes while staying in a quiet neighborhood on the river.
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Pittsburgh Rapid Results Veterans’ Homeless Boot Camp continues mission | TribLIVE.com
Pittsburgh Rapid Results Veterans’ Homeless Boot Camp continues mission
Aaron Aupperlee
Wed., November 19, 2014 12:01 a.m. | Wednesday, November 19, 2014 12:01 a.m.
Aaron Aupperlee | Trib Total Media
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto announces at a news conference on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014, that a task force of city, county and federal agencies, formed to end homelessness among veterans, helped find housing for more than 120 veterans during its first 100 days.
Army veteran Bill Ward, 60, of Sharpsburg spent the last two winters homeless, sleeping in an unheated hunting cabin in the woods near Wheeling, W.Va. A task force of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County and federal agencies helped Ward find an apartment. He finished moving in Monday, Nov. 17, 2014.
Bill Ward woke up on a cold Tuesday morning inside his apartment in Sharpsburg.
It was warm.
The Army veteran spent the last two winters homeless, sleeping in an unheated hunting cabin near Wheeling, W.Va.
His oatmeal would go cold in a matter of minutes.
“It would be 6 below in my living room,” Ward, 60, said. “Summers were beautiful, but winter was brutal.”
Ward blew out both his knees four years ago and has been out of work and mostly homeless since. A friend let him stay in the cabin, and Ward held out hope that he soon could find work and a house.
An onset of vertigo a year ago dimmed his optimism until the Pittsburgh Rapid Results Veterans’ Homeless Boot Camp became involved in August, eventually finding Ward an apartment in Sharpsburg. He finished moving in Monday.
“It just worked. I’m not sure how it worked, but it just worked,” Ward said.
Mayor Bill Peduto and Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald announced Tuesday that Ward was one of the 123 homeless veterans for whom the boot camp and a task force of federal, county and city agencies helped find housing during its first 100 days. Unfortunately, they said, more than 500 veterans in Pittsburgh remain homeless, according to an analysis by Veterans Affairs.
“We don’t want anyone to be homeless, but particularly veterans,” Fitzgerald said.
During a Hiring Our Heroes forum Downtown, the Allegheny Conference on Community Development joined with the federal departments of Defense, Energy, Labor and the VA to connect veterans with energy and manufacturing jobs in the region. The forum will continue Wednesday with a job fair at Heinz Field.
In 2009, President Obama announced the goal of ending homelessness among veterans by the end of 2015. Between 2010 and 2014, the number of homeless vets dropped 33 percent, from about 75,000 to less than 50,000, according to the VA. In June, first lady Michelle Obama challenged mayors to help.
Pittsburgh and Allegheny County responded by establishing the boot camp Aug. 8 and bringing together several agencies including the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the VA, city and county housing authorities and the county’s Department of Human Services. The task force identified homeless vets and made services more accessible.
“It is our duty to serve those who have served our country,” said Jesse Rodriguez, operations director of the Veterans Leadership Program of Western Pennsylvania, who led the task force.
Rodriguez said the task force wants to expand the services and organizations. He hopes to start working with employers to find veterans stable jobs.
Aaron Aupperlee is a staff writer for Trib Total Media.
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SGAC New Zealand
SGAC is looking for volunteers as New Zealand National Point of Contacts.
National Point of Contact
New Zealand’s space community has had a long tradition of contributing to pioneering radio astronomy. Early NZ radio astronomers include Elizabeth Alexander, one of the first female radio astronomers who pioneered the first use of the sea-cliff interferometer to study the sun at Leigh and Piha in 1948.
New Zealand’s geographical location and pristine skies have offered astronomers both professional and amateur alike, a unique vantage point on the southern skies. Facilitated by world class infrastructure such as the Mt. John Observatory, this has allowed local astronomers to contribute towards international research.
Despite the lack of a governing space body in New Zealand, the local space industry has recently witnessed a growth in the private sector, led by aerospace companies such as Rocket Lab with their successful Atea sounding rocket platform and their latest Viscous Liquid Monopropellant (VLM) rockets attracting the attention of major players in the international space scene. The success of such companies in defying the odds and establishing the foundations of a burgeoning space industry in New Zealand is a true embodiment of the pioneering, “kiwi ingenuity” spirit. We are constantly looking to grow our network of young aficionados, so join us as we strive to continue to grow this tradition!
Young Space Activities Overview in New Zealand
Though there are limited aerospace degrees offered at the tertiary level, the current space climate dictates a multi-disciplinary approach of which there is no shortage. There are an ever increasing number of opportunities for young professionals and students to take part of our emerging space future.
At the secondary level, organisations such as the New Zealand Rocketry Association offer students first-hand experience in all facets of engineering design. The various astronomical societies across the country also provide students a broader perspective in scientific discovery.
At the tertiary level, there are a number of research institutions with small satellite programs such as Massey University, while the University of Auckland and the University of Canterbury does have partnerships with companies like Rocket Lab in materials and control systems engineering.
Country-Specific Events in 2013
RASNZ Conference 2013, Invercargill (24-26 May, 2013): The Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand is holding its annual conference in 2013 in Invercargill. This is a great opportunity for RASNZ members, professional and amateur astronomers and interested members of the public to witness reports and presentations on the latest discoveries and activities in the field. This year’s exciting line-up of speakers even features the former ESA Director for Operation and Infrastructure - Jean-François Kaufeler.
Seventh Trans-Tasman Symposium on Occultations, Invercargill (27-28 May, 2013): TTSO are alternatively held in New Zealand and Australia and attract a wide variety of participants from novices to advanced observers. Their common goal is to advance the observation of all types of occultations. Included will be sessions catering for new observers – from how to select and set up an occultation observing programme to the more involved sessions on data reduction and the latest observing techniques. Reviews of successes from the preceding year and expected highlights of the upcoming year are also featured.
ESA Space Systems Engineer Speaking Tour, Southland (27-31 May, 2013): The talks are aimed at exciting students about space, science and mathematics and will cover all aspects of launching a rocket to space. In particular, former ESA Director for Operation and Infrastructure Mr Jean-François Kaufeler will also speak about the Venus Express space probe and the Rosetta mission to land on a comet next year!
Interesting Web Links for the Young Generation in New Zealand
Square Kilometre Array: The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is a radio telescope in development in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand and will have a total collecting area of approximately one square kilometre. New Zealand is a founding member of the SKA organisation, and is currently represented on the Governing Board.
KiwiSat – A Satellite Project by AMSAT-ZL: KiwiSat is a Massey University CubeSat operation encompassing the design and construction of the satellite, space capable laboratories and satellite command station. The nano-satellite will carry a scientific payload to collect atmospheric data for purposes of carbon balance monitoring. As of June 2012, all systems are now flight ready and on schedule for a mid-2013 launch aboard the DNEPR Space Launch System.
N-Prize Teams: The N-Prize, launched in April 2008 by Cambridge scientist Dr Paul Drear, challenges teams from around the world to launch and track a nano-satellite (hence the ‘N’) with a mass between 9.99 and 19.99g, around 9 orbits, with a budget of under £999.99. Two New Zealand Teams are currently in the running: Team 9.99 and Te Anahere Tere (The Angel Express).
Lunar Numbat: A team of Australian and New Zealand researchers partnering with Google Lunar X-Prize team White Label Space in landing a Linux powered rover on the lunar surface.
Groups, People and Institutions
New Zealand Spaceflight Association: The NZSA is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promote an informed approach to astronautics and space sciences since May 1977. Members enjoy benefits including monthly meetings in Auckland and Wellington, bi-monthly “Liftoff” publication, and various guest lectures to keep abreast of global spaceflight developments.
KiwiSpace Foundation (Formerly NZ Space Foundation): KiwiSpace was founded in 2010 with the objectives of igniting a vibrant New Zealand space industry and education framework. They provide resources for space enthusiasts on the latest NZ spaceflight activities, industry developments and education.
New Zealand Rocketry Association: Since 1991, the NZRA has fostered scientific learning for rocket enthusiasts of all ages through model rocketry. Every February, National Rocket Day is organised in Taupiri to showcase the latest rocket developments from around the country.
University of Otago: AARDDVARK: Antarctic-Arctic Radiation-belt (Dynamic) Deposition - VLF Atmospheric Research Konsortium
University of Canterbury: MOA: Microlensing Observation in Astrophysics
University of Canterbury Physics and Astronomy Department
Astronomical Societies
Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand: The RASNZ is a Member Body of the Royal Society of New Zealand and aims to promote astronomy and related sciences through its 27 affiliated societies across the country.
Auckland Astronomical Society
Canterbury Astronomical Society (Christchurch)
Skydome Observatory (Dargaville)
Gifford Observatory (Wellington)
Gisborne Astronomical Society
Hamilton Astronomical Society
Hawera Observatory & Astronomical Society
Hawke's Bay Astronomical Society
Northland Astronomical Society (Whangarei)
The Phoenix Astronomical Society (Wellington)
Southland Astronomical Society (Invercargill)
Wellington Astronomical Society
Careers/Industry
Rakon: Based in Auckland, Rakon is an established global company that designs and manufactures world leading frequency control solutions including satellite subsystems
Rocket Lab: Rocket Lab is an aerospace company focused on rapidly and cost effectively delivering innovative, technologies to the space and defence industries.
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DS+R wraps 15 Hudson Yards with the largest cold-warped curtainwall in North America
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) and Rockwell Group's first skyscraper, 15 Hudson Yards, is now complete after four years of construction. The 88-story residential tower fuses the largest cold-warped glass curtain wall in North America with a louver and limestone base. The tower is located on the southwestern flank of Hudson Yards's first phase located on 28 acres between 30th and 34th Streets, and 10th and 11th Avenues. One of the sites many towers, 15 Hudson Yards alone will enclose a whopping 980,000 square feet. The 914-foot-tall project rises from a CNC-fabricated limestone base sourced from Carrara, Italy. According to the design team, parametric guidelines and 3-D modeling facilitated a seamless design-to-fabrication process for both the approximately 1800 stone panels and their steel support systems produced in Queens and New Jersey. The rear of each panel is studded with metal angles fastened to a network of bent plates attached to the steel support system.
Facade Manufacturer New Hudson Facades CIG Architecture Berardi Stone Setting
Architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro (Lead Architect) Rockwell Group (Lead Interior Architect)
Facade Installer Core Installation Berardi Stone Setting
Facade Consultants Thelen Design Group Vidaris
Date of Completion January 2019
System Glass & stone curtain wall assembly
Products Interpane Insulated Glazing Units Bamco Ventilated Rainscreen Systems Santucci Group Dimensional Limestone Cladding CIG Architecture Formed Stainless Steel Cladding
The Shed, also designed by DS+R and Rockwell Group, adjoins the smooth limestone surface of 15 Hudson Yards along a diagonal seam defined by polished and formed steelwork by CIG Architecture. Incorporating the dynamic performance arts space into the base of the tower presented a number of mechanical and structural challenges for the design team. The 48.7-inch-wide modules all have both a glass and ventilation louver component. The designers varied the ratio of the two pieces parametrically to best ventilate interior mechanical equipment, with the widths of the louvers ranging from 4 to 31 inches. Beginning at the 20th story, the tower dramatically curves using a cold-warped unitized glass curtain wall system. The individual glazing units, produced by German manufacturer Interpane, were cold-warped on site. To warp the glass components, the panels were held in trapezoidal frames with silicone seal joints that anticipated the final form of the panels once they were bent into place. While early renderings of the project depicted 15 Hudson Yards with anatomical undulations, cost constraints and manufacturer warranties straightened the design into its current form. “We worked very closely with curtain wall fabricators from concept through execution, and the tower’s form is a product of this close collaboration,” said facade consultant Neil Thelen. “Using a collaborative parametric approach, we were able to iterate and analyze the impact of the tower’s curved forms on critical parameters such as IGU cold-warping, aluminum extrusion die option, unique part and assembly reduction, gasket engagement, and window operation.” Above the amenity spaces located roughly halfway up the tower—which are clad with glass mega panels—the facade's curvature increases dramatically, effectively breaking into four turrets. The glass panels deflect up to 8 inches at the skyscraper's summit. Although the dimensions and material of the facade differ throughout the tower, the cladding all attaches to the structural frame with a similar technique. “There are embedded plates in the slab edges to which faceplates are bolted with adjustable screws to align bearing points for each wall unit. Each curtain wall unit has a pair of load bearing hooks at the top where the dead load is transferred to the building structure from the hooks,” said DS+R project director John Newman. “It hangs from there and interlocks with a large, gasketted tongue-and-groove extrusion at the top of the unit below.” In response to river-borne gusts, the facade is designed to withstand 100-year wind loads with a system of structural silicone profiles, mullions, and steel reinforcements for spans greater than twelve feet. Additionally, testing conducted by an independent lab determined the placement of supplemental-load bearing aluminum extrusions.
Weill Cornell Medical College’s Double Skin
A research center in Manhattan gets a custom facade solution for energy efficiency and user comfort.
Ennead Architects and Heintges & Associates recently completed construction on the 475,000-square-foot Belfer Research Center, Weill Cornell Medical College’s latest expansion to Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The building’s facade includes a unique double skin system on the southern face to define the medical campus’ identity, provide ample natural light without glare to the laboratory spaces, and create a highly efficient envelope. Heintges and Ennead previously worked together on the neighboring Weill Greenberg Center in 2007, said Todd Schliemann, partner in Ennead Architects and designer of both WCMC’s Weill Greenberg Center and new Belfer Research Building. Among the strategies employed in that project was the use of custom ceramic fritting to cut down on sun loading and glare. The team repeated that strategy at Belfer, applying ceramic frit to both sides of the building’s outer curtain wall. The exterior of the outermost layer features a white frit pattern designed to reflect sunlight, while a black frit pattern on the interior surface helps reduce glare and increase visibility through the glass.
Facade Manufacturer Permasteelisa, BGT, Interpane
Architects Ennead Architects, Heintges and Associates, Atelier 10
Date of Completion 2014
System double insulated dual glass curtain wall with ceramic frit
The double curtain wall produces a chimney effect that reduces cooling loads. For insulation, the inner layer is composed of argon-filled insulated glass units. “We conducted a lot of thermal analysis to minimize bridging through the outriggers,” said John Pachuta, a partner at Heintges. The framing system for the inner wall is thermally broken; a layer of mineral-fiber insulation behind the frame helps improve performance. Permasteelisa manufactured the 5-foot units in its Montreal facility. Glass from BGT was treated with an Interpane coating, and outrigger connections were affixed to the frame every 5 feet. The outriggers also extend to support the outer skin. For the outer wall, unitizing the unique geometries helped maintain the building schedule, despite its complex appearance. “We learned that even with a subtle shift in plane, you can still use standard parts and pieces,” said Schliemann. The team was able to reduce the number of IGUs and achieve a more monolithic appearance by using larger, 10-and-a-half-foot panels, ultimately requiring fewer joints. The grid breaks into 21-foot repetitions, in order to accommodate window washing balconies that also provide faceted cavities in the exterior curtain wall. The cavity between the two skins measures between 18 and 25 inches to accommodate an aluminum catwalk, which is supported by the inner wall’s outriggers. Access points to the catwalk can be reached from the interior for cleaning and maintenance. With increasingly erratic environmental conditions in the Northeast corridor, the entire system had to be secure yet resilient. “We considered having support members starting from the base building structure—from the perimeter beams or columns to extend through the inner curtain wall—but to reduce thermal bridging it was more effective to have outriggers extend through the weather enclosure,” said Pachuta. “Instead, steel outriggers support the catwalk and outer screen wall that are directly attached to the mullions of the inner curtain wall.” Mullions of the inner curtain wall are reinforced with steel, and are anchored to the outer wall at the edge of each unit. The faceted cavities produce good ventilation, but also leave the protected areas open for pigeons to nest. En lieu of standard bird wire, the team developed a custom steel frame with tensioned, horizontal stainless steel rods ¾ inches apart. Though the system keeps the sky rats at bay, the wire is no wider than a bicycle spoke and does not impede views from inside.
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WEAK LINKS==WEAK CHAINS —
Dyre Wolf malware steals more than $1 million, bypasses 2FA protection
Campaign is crude and brazen, but rakes in cash anyway.
Dan Goodin - Apr 3, 2015 8:30 pm UTC
Researchers said they've uncovered an active campaign that has already stolen more than $1 million using a combination of malware and social engineering.
The Dyre Wolf campaign, as it has been dubbed by IBM Security researchers, targets businesses that use wire transfers to move large sums of money, even when the transactions are protected with two-factor authentication. The heist starts with mass e-mailings that attempt to trick people into installing Dyre, a strain of malware that came to light last year. The Dyre versions observed by IBM researchers remained undetected by the majority of antivirus products.
Infected machines then send out mass e-mails to other people in the victim's address book. Then the malware lies in wait. A blog post published Thursday by IBM Security Intelligence researchers John Kuhn and Lance Mueller explains the rest:
Once the infected victim tries to log in to one of the hundreds of bank websites for which Dyre is programmed to monitor, a new screen will appear instead of the corporate banking site. The page will explain the site is experiencing issues and that the victim should call the number provided to get help logging in.
One of the many interesting things with this campaign is that the attackers are bold enough to use the same phone number for each website and know when victims will call and which bank to answer as. This all results in successfully duping their victims into providing their organizations’ banking credentials.
As soon as the victim hangs up the phone, the wire transfer is complete. The money starts its journey and bounces from foreign bank to foreign bank to circumvent detection by the bank and law enforcement. One organization targeted with the campaign also experienced a DDoS. IBM assumes this was to distract it from finding the wire transfer until it was too late.
The success of the Dyre Wolf campaign underscores the need for improved training so employees can better spot malicious e-mails and suspicious ruses like the one involving the phone call to the targets' banks.
Dan Goodin Dan is the Security Editor at Ars Technica, which he joined in 2012 after working for The Register, the Associated Press, Bloomberg News, and other publications.
Email dan.goodin@arstechnica.com // Twitter @dangoodin001
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Comcast: We bent over backwards to help Level 3! (those bastards)
Net neutrality? Comcast says that its peering dispute with Level 3 is just …
Nate Anderson - Dec 1, 2010 11:30 pm UTC
Level 3's inflammatory Monday afternoon press release, in which it basically accused Comcast of trying to whack Netflix streaming traffic and flout net neutrality principles, certainly started a fire. Within hours of issuing the press release, the head of the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau was on the phone with Comcast, giving the company the business end of her Question Stick. What exactly was going on here, she wanted to know.
So Comcast told her, and in a follow-up letter (PDF), made its answers public for the world to read. That's because, in Comcast's view, the entire dispute is “nothing but good old-fashioned commercial peering dispute" and Level 3 is being "entirely disingenuous."
The entire blowup was extraordinary, because Level 3 has been in commercial arrangements with Comcast for years. It apparently decided to risk whatever goodwill it had built up on its attempt to drive a hard bargain that would put Level 3 in a better position than content delivery network competitors like Akamai and Limelight.
A rash bid
Why take the risk? In Comcast's view, Level 3 may be in over its head with its new agreement to deliver all of the Netflix streaming video traffic. The argument is that Level 3 won the Netflix contract away from other CDN providers by providing a surprisingly low bid, one that it now has to back up with a good deal from the major US Internet providers.
“Level 3 has low-balled its way into a new business deal that will significantly increase the amount of Level 3's traffic Comcast would carry,” says the cable giant, “and suddenly wants to seriously disrupt settled economics of Internet traffic to meet its new business plan. Its position is not based on any principles of fair play on the Internet, but instead is merely the result of its rash bid to carry Netflix traffic at radically low rates, based on the flawed assumption that it could use its Tier 1 Internet backbone status to cram its CDN traffic onto others' networks on a settlement-free basis.”
Indeed, because Level 3 is such a major Internet backbone provider and has historically run only a smallish CDN operation, Comcast has actually been the one paying Level 3 for certain interconnections in the past.
But the Netflix deal alone is so massive that Level 3 has suddenly become a major CDN player. Comcast says that it was approached by Level 3 two weeks ago, just after Level 3 signed the Netflix deal, and was asked for 27 to 30 new interconnection ports using the two companies' existing interconnection agreement (that is, Level 3 would pay nothing more for adding up to 30 direct 10GigE connections to Comcast's network).
Comcast “was able to scramble and provide Level 3 with six ports (at no charge) that were, by chance, available and not budgeted and forecasted for Comcast's wholesale commercial customers.” After providing these six additional ports, Comcast concluded that the existing settlement-free peering agreement with Level 3 was still (barely) valid, but if Level 3 really wanted another 21 to 24 ports, this was simply too much traffic. Level 3 would have to pay for those ports like any commercial paid peering customer.
Comcast also notes that nothing about any of these new ports was contingent on the type of traffic coming across it. That is, the company was concerned only about traffic volumes, not content.
Comcast's peering and transit policies are available on the company's website, and those policies make clear that settlement-free peering is only available to a company that can “maintain a traffic scale between its network and Comcast that enables a general balance of inbound versus outbound traffic.”
Level 3 did not respond to our inquiries.
Nate Anderson Nate is the deputy editor at Ars Technica, where he oversees long-form feature content and writes about technology law and policy. He is the author of The Internet Police: How Crime Went Online, and the Cops Followed.
Email nate@arstechnica.com // Twitter @natexanderson
Some people have used this to brand Comcast as some kind of evil entity.
I look at this and to me it looks more like the fox and the weasel are having a fight.
The previous article revealed a lot about the inner workings of traffic and routing of the Internet that I previously didn't know, so I think this is not really about consumers at all. Painting Comcast as the bad guy doesn't seem the be the full story here - from the looks of it it seems that Level 3 is trying to scrape together an intensely great deal at Comcast's expense, which of course has Comcast saying, "Wait a minute here".
It would be interesting to learn more about the exact costs that are required on the backend here - for example there's talks of ports. How much do they usually cost? What costs them money? An in-depth article about the economics of Internet infrastructure might be something I'd love to see on Ars.
kjtocool Seniorius Lurkius
The story fails to mention that the only reason Level 3 is sending Comcast this traffic is because Comcast's customers requested it. Their entire argument hinges on utilizing each other's networks to transfer bits for shared gain, it falls to pieces when you realize Level 3 is only serving what Comcast requested.
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JGG Ars Scholae Palatinae
Given their peering agreements, I wonder who can then possible peer settlement free with Comcast. Seeing as they have almost no commercial hosting and are almost entirely made up of end user subscribers, their traffic must be consistently only into their network.
If no one can qualify for settlement free peering, then their policy is a sham.
If Comcast customers are requesting data from Level 3 IP addresses, then it would seem to be in Comcast's best interests to accomodate such requests. Unless of course they don't care about satisfying their customer's requests.
L3 probably has to press the issue because of some commitments they made to NetFlix. If so, then they really can't cry about it if Comcast wants to charge them for peering.
Xavin Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor
The bottom line is that you don't traditionally pay for peering unless you just want to move your traffic through the other party's network. Since the endpoint here will be Comcast, they are trying to change the way things work, and not for the better.
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subhunter808 Seniorius Lurkius
What it sounds like to me is that Level 3 is wanting to play without paying while being paid to play. I think that is the extent of it.
Nevyn Ars Praefectus
"In other news, Level 3 has announced that they're forming 10 subsidiary groups, each of which will handle a tithe of their duties to contractors. L3's customers are delighted by the news, Comcast is fuming as each individual subsidiary's bandwidth doesn't reach the level of qualifying for additional fees. Rumors that these might attempt to file as non-profit charities still swirl."
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iamwhoiam Ars Tribunus Militum
JGG wrote:
Since when did Comcast really ever care about its customers.
Nabu the Wise Ars Centurion
kjtocool wrote:
This was my understanding as well. My basic understanding was that peering agreements dealt with "I want to send this traffic through through your network instead of using another possible network", not "I'm sending this traffic to your network because your network requested it".
I can understand that comcast wants help with expanding its network because these costs are the direct result of Layer 3, but they should be saying "We've expanded as much as we can, buy us more equipment if you want it faster.", while instead they're saying "We're changing our arrangement, you need to pay us to send any traffic to us."
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subhunter808 wrote:
...and Comcast would like to get paid twice, since every user already pays for their share of incoming data.
bmanhawks Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
No, I am unfortunately a Comcast subscriber and I subscribe to Netflix and do all my television viewing that way. I do not have cable, so I am the one asking for that data to come to me. Level 3 isn't just moving it across Comcast's network for just the sake of doing so and Comcast would prefer me to subscribe to their services instead of using a more customizable service at less than a 1/3 of what Comcast charges. So their point is Comcast is attempting to double dip on fees... I pay Comcast for that data already. ;-)
bvt Seniorius Lurkius
this is hilarious. they are pointing to their peering agreement, when this is (I believe) NOT a peering issue. Comcast is, for the most part, simply providing the last-mile for content delivered FROM Level3. If they can prove that L3 is using their (Comcast's) networks to peer while delivering content to OTHER subscribers (i.e. those whose ISP is not Comcast), then they have the right to charge for peering. I doubt that they can prove this, since the distribution deal hasn't started yet, and L3 hasn't ACTUALLY started delivering Netflix movies to people's TVs/computers/Xboxes/PS3s etc.
Jackattak Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor
This! Well put.
I hate Comcast as much as the next guy, and I think that Level 3 was banking on the US' general hatred of them in order to try and win this out. It hurts for me to say this, but I don't think Comcast was in the wrong, here.
Keithy Smack-Fu Master, in training
I'm increasingly getting the feeling that Level 3 should've had previous discussions about the possibility of becoming a CDN. Though it may have been difficult for them to anticipate issues with Comcast - if Comcast were only an ISP, it sounds like there wouldn't be a problem.
Psychophant Ars Scholae Palatinae
When Netflix suddenly starts directing all their customers to Level3, won't Comcast suddenly have a bunch of free ports that were previously carrying Netflix traffic and are now idle? I don't see why they need to expand at all, just shift resources around. This should be an interesting story to follow.
someonewhoknowstheinternet Seniorius Lurkius
So to all of those who think they know how the internet works...Comcast has become a slow moving corporate giant who is trying to own most of the content (note the pending NBC acquisition) it will provide for its customers. Comcast execs are probably not very happy that they were not able to hook up directly with Netflix and now have to deal with another providers network for content delivery. Basically L3 moved quicker, low-balled a bid (a separate argument entirely) and secured its ownership of the Netflix content which will in turn drive more end ISP's of the smaller DSL and Cable ISP's to become customers of L3. Sound like a good business plan? I think so...cut a cheap deal with a major content provider and then draw end users to their network with said content. That's business folks, deal with it.
That said, Comcast has built out a nationwide network to support its customer base and in doing that had a longer term plan which has been circumvented. It will happen again, and I am not sure the NBC deal should be allowed to be completed as it will make the NBC content available solely via Comcast, which is exactly what they are complaining about now, pot calling kettle black maybe?
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smartalco Ars Praefectus
Although Comcast has generally proved themselves to be a dickish company, I really don't think they're in the wrong here. If you read the towerpost that was in the comments on the article yesterday, it looks like there is a good chance that this is a peering issue, and Level 3 was counting on the shitstorm hurting Comcast more than themselves.
ylandrin Ars Centurion
Following Comcast's logic in charging L3 for incoming traffic requested by their customers, said customers would be justified in asking payment from Comcast for every bit they send their way.
Does that make sense? No. Neither does Comcast's position, even though they are already practicing it with Akamai. That's the moral point.
Let us take a look at it from an other angle: the business point. Every bit that gets transferred from L3's network to Comcast's, or the other way, transits on both networks at some point. L3 would have has much justification in charging Comcast for each of those bits than Comcast would have in charging L3 (they are both spending money carrying those bits).
Now, Comcast is riled at loosing traffic from Akamai (that Akamai is paying for) to L3 (that L3 is not paying for), L3 is riled at having to pay for traffic that it used to get for free. So... who gets to pay in the end? Whoever can least deal with loosing that traffic.
Last edited by ylandrin on Wed Dec 01, 2010 7:24 pm
AaronMK Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
I don't see how it makes a difference that Level 3 has become a CDN. If the streams were coming from Netflix servers, they'd still need to go through Level 3, or a company like them. Would it have made a difference if Netflix contracted with another peer that was two hops away, but still made the traffic go through Level 3 as opposed to their other peers?
Nagumo Ars Praefectus
Seeing as Comcast, like many other cable co's have exclusive monopolies in their respective areas. I don't feel at all poorly about shitting on their table. Fuck, Comcast and all like them!
Tremelune Ars Praefectus
My understanding is this:
- NetFlix was going through Akamai to Comcast customers
- Akamai was paying Comcast because it is a CDN
- NetFlix is now going through Level 3
- Level 3 is not paying Comcast because it is not a CDN
I don't think Comcast should get paid for delivering traffic requested by its end customers, whether it's a Wikipedia article or a competing video stream. This begs the question: What's special about a CDN? Why was Akamai paying Comcast anything?
Last edited by Tremelune on Wed Dec 01, 2010 7:22 pm
jonsmirl Ars Scholae Palatinae
And Comcast received approximately $8 billion from us customers for delivering those bits. That is just their Internet revenue and it is their most profitable business. Level 3 only has $4B in revenue.
Comcast is not a backbone and their traffic is never going to be symmetrical. It is Comcast's customers asking for the asymmetrical traffic so this is Comcast's problem. If they don't like it they can tell their customers to generate symmetrical loads.
Galeran Ars Tribunus Militum et Subscriptor
So, if Netflix were to write a version of their software that echoed the packets back upstream, Comcast would be happy?
(I know cable connections are very assymetrical; I use one. But netflix's video doesn't actually require that much bandwidth. Could probably be done for most users.)
m0k4t2 Ars Scholae Palatinae
I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.
slarti_b Seniorius Lurkius
Generally no-cost peers exchange only non-transit routes with each other. Non-transit routes are routes directly owned by the peering parties and their direct attached customers, but not routes learned from other ISPs or transit providers. Therefore any traffic sent to Comcast is destined for Comcast or one of its directly attached customers. Level3 would not send traffic through Comcast that is destined for a Verizon customer for example.
Peers also agree to traffic terms. For a no-cost peering relationship, the traffic exchange has to be mutually beneficial to both parties. Depending on their business plans, this could mean many different things. A simple peering relationship could be that they send each other an approximately equal amount of traffic. When one peer starts sending more, the other will often start asking for payment to deliver it since the costs have just gone up.
I do not know the details of the Level3/Comcast peering relationship to comment whether one entity is entitled to payment or not.
A 10Gbps ethernet port can be very expensive, depending on the equipment. However, this cost is usually a drop in the bucket for what it costs to build and deploy circuits for a large-scale backbone. That being said, it is not trivial if you have not budgeted for it. No business likes unexpected expenses.
-Slarti
Jesus69 Seniorius Lurkius
Tremelune wrote:
If this not a peering dispute, is it really common practice for CDN's to pay ISP's? Wouldn't that be redundant to what the consumer pays already for his last mile connection?
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Oh and also, this is the kind issue that the MSM is hopelessly inept at reporting, and I'm glad Ars in the thick of it.
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Ray Sanders Ars Praefectus
and those policies make clear that settlement-free peering is only available to a company that can “maintain a traffic scale between its network and Comcast that enables a general balance of inbound versus outbound traffic.”
How can you expect to have balanced traffic ratios, when Comcast is primarily an eyes network? Typical web browsing is probably in the area of 5:1 downbound, and possibly as high as 10:1. This seems a specious position at best.
p.w.j Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
Dumb question (and no time to read comments):
Is Comcast worried about Level 3's traffic going over Comcast's network to other ISPs? Or is Comcast worried about Level 3's traffic going over Comcast's network to Comcast ISP customers?
If the former, then I have total sympathy for Comcast.
If the latter (e.g. Comcast customers accessing Netflix), then Comcast should stuff it since it's already being paid by households to deliver data to said households. The origin of the traffic shouldn't matter
Lonyo Ars Tribunus Militum
People don't seem to get that Level3 is getting paid to host and pass on this data.
Netflix pays Level3 to transfer the data across their part of the network. That's who is paying for data. This data then gets put onto Comcasts network. Yes, the Comcast user has requested it, but they requested it from Netflix.
The user pays Comcast to get the data from its provider to their computer.
Netflix pays Level3 to get the data from the host server to the users network (in this case Comcast).
Why should Comcast soak up the costs of this data data going across Level3's network towards it? Netflix is already paying for that.
The amount of data being sent by Level3 to Comcast is greater than the amount of data being sent by Comcast to Level3. Level3 is getting paid to transfer this data, Comcast is getting paid to move it further along.
Comcast has nothing to do with what or how much the user requests, they are responsible for delivering it last mile (and a bit more). The host of the data is paying Level3 to get it to Comcast. It's not like Level3 are sending all this data to people for free. Why should Comcast be paying them to get the data, when they are being paid to get the data by the people providing the data?
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@Lonyo Either your formulation is really confusing (and you should rephrase it), or you got the whole issue backward:
Lonyo wrote:
Why should Comcast pay to get the data across Level3's network
Comcast is actually asking L3 to pay to get the data across Comcast's last mile.
vexed Ars Centurion
Bullshit. Comcast won't even bend over backwards to help their subscribing customers. Much less a potential competitor. I've received nothing but substandard service from them since I've lived in Philadelphia. Worst company ever.
ciel Ars Centurion
Because Netflix was paying Akamai to use their servers with fat pipes linked to edge nodes (that is, residential customers like you and me). Many of those customers have Comcast as an ISP, so Akamai paid Comcast for exclusive high-speed connections between its servers and Comcast's. Then Akamai could show Netflix that their servers could deliver a lot of content quickly to Netflix's subscribers, in an attempt to stop Netflix from switching CDNs.
A CDN's business model is to place servers at strategic locations in order to push a lot of data to edge nodes, and then sell their bandwidth to companies trying to reach those edge nodes. To do that, it makes sense to pay whomever provides the edge nodes with internet access for direct connections between your servers and theirs. This is because the residential customers are much less likely to switch ISPs based on CDN access than companies are likely to switch CDNs based on their access to ISPs, unless the ISP is very small and/or in a competitive market (which rarely is the case for Comcast).
Hence, the ISP has little incentive to peer with the CDN, while the CDN has a lot of incentive to peer with the ISP, so they typically end up paying money to the ISP.
Last edited by ciel on Wed Dec 01, 2010 8:17 pm
Operative Me Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor
I see some people siding with Comcast, which is surprising in and of itself. There are certainly some points in favor of Comcast here, but overall, they are the ones who are making the situation untenable. Let me explain why:
All traffic which much be passed to Comcast must also go over L3 lines in order to get there. If that is the case, L3 has just as much right to charge Comcast for the added bandwidth requests coming FROM Comcast customers as Comcast has to charge L3 for sending the data. The data flow is one way, but it is by request, not "forced". Were L3 sending data through Comcast lines to get to 3rd party customers, the demand for constant compensation would be valid. As it is direct L3 to Comcast data, there is little argument.
Charter is blocking ALL communications from L3 for this. If they don't want to install 21 to 24 new connections, that is understandable. It has a real-world cost for them to do so. However, they are not saying "we won't add connections unless you pay us". They are saying "since you won't pay us, we're entirely blocking your data". So rather than simply creating a bottleneck of data from L3, they are effectively using all Netflix customers (and potential customers) as bagaining chips, sayin it's all-or-nothing.
I personaly think L3 should pay for the connections, by which I mean they should be expected to cover the cost of adding these connections and offering to compensate for any work that must be done in order to get these connections working. That's fair. What Comcast is asking for, however, is a recurring fee for providing their own customers the content they want. L3 has had to expand their network greatly in order to fascilitate the increased amount of data they provide. It would not be reasonable for them to charge Comcast a monthly fee to deal with the amount of data they have to send to Comcast-- they are being paid to provide a service, it is their cost. The same is true of Comcast-- they are being paid huge sums of money to provide internet access-- including Netflix content. If they have to upgrade their infrastructure to deal with the load, that is their responsibility as part of the service agreement with their customers.
Let's hypothesize and say to set up all these extra connections it costs $5 million. I have no problem saying that L3 should cover at least half of that, if not all of that. But to expect them to pay (again, this is an example) $1 million per quarter, forever, to provide data that Comcast customers want is silly. Again, L3 has to pay for THEIR infrastructure and bandwidth to meet the demands of THEIR customers. It is silly to say that they should have to pay for COMCAST's expenses to meet the demands of COMCAST customers.
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SanGreal Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
Why should Comcast pay to get the data across Level3's network? Netflix is already doing that.
Huh? No-one is suggesting Comcast pay Level3. Like you said, Netflix pays Level3 to deliver the content to Comcast's network. Comcast's customers pay Comcast to complete the delivery across Comcast's network. Comcast is saying Level3 should also pay them to complete the delivery.
It's akin to a mailroom in an apartment complex charging fedex $20 for every package they deliver.
If it is L3 that is paying to get the data across Comcast's last mile, then what are Comcast subscribers paying for?
AaronMK wrote:
The lube?
pavon Ars Tribunus Militum et Subscriptor
I don't understand this. In a normal CDN/ISP peering relationship (ignoring for a second that L3 is both), wouldn't it work like this:
Backbone *----* Backbone
Comcast * * CDN
Home User *
Home user pays Comcast, Comcast pays Backbone, CDN pays Backbone (same or different). If they choose to peer, then both Comcast and the CDN would no longer have to pay money to their backbone providers but there would be additional costs of operating the peering connection and equipment. If one company is maintaining that connection, then it would make sense to ask the other to pay for the peering agreement to make up for it. But that has nothing to do with asymmetric traffic. That argument applies to peering between backbone networks, but doesn't make sense here.
Jawn Wise, Aged Ars Veteran
L3's brilliant.
They used their backbone status to sell Netflix an impossibly low rate (compared to other CDN's) and expected Comcast to BUY more infrastructure from them to support their bad business decision.
Then they tossed out a press release with the words "net neutrality" completely out of context and got the internet's moron brigade to think Comcast is the bad guy in all this.
There are non-trivial costs associated with adding 21-24 new connections, there is no doubt about that. The responsibility for the cost of adding them, however, falls on both parties. Comcast is being paid to provide data to their customers, L3 is being paid to send that data. If getting the data from L3 to Comcast requires more connections, both parties should be expected to pay up to improve the connections. Comcast is saying "you have to constatly pay us, or not only will we not improve connections, we will cut off the existing ones". This is why people are upset with Comcast.
Let's say Comcast and L3 are two countries that trade between each other. The United States of L3topia makes money by selling oil. One day they find a huge new oil field and want to sell more oil. The people in the Kingdom of Comcastia want this oil-- and the more there is, the more people will want to use it, which will mean more tax revenue for the Kingdom of Comcastia. Thus, it is financially benefitial to both countries to maximize the trade between them by increasing the amount of roadways between them. It is reasonable, therefore, that they split the cost of building bridges between them. However, the King of Comcastia is saying "you will pay us money every month, or we will allow no more oil shipments, even the ones we used to allow". Is this fair? No. The people of Comcastia want the oil, they pay for the Kingdom to open trading lanes with everyone. It is their right to have that oil. But the King of Comcastia is saying that the tax payers no longer have rights to the oil, even though the had it before.
Basically, Comcastia sucks as a nation, and you shouldn't live there if you have a choice.
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H type unusual LIMA-LAD graft
This 56-years old man had a CABG performed six years ago outside India. Though educated, he did not have a history and was unable to explain where and with whom he had had the procedure. He wanted a cardiac CT to check patency.
The cardiac CT revealed an unusual side-to-side LIMA-LAD graft in the form of an H (Figs. 1, 2). The LIMA was seen continuing inferior to the anastomosis. He did not have a scar on either forearm or the legs.
Further investigations revealed that this was most likely an Cohn H graft described by Calafiore. In this, an inferior epigastric artery is used to perform a LIMA-LAD graft, with the LIMA in situ. The appearance on the images below, are highly suggestive of this procedure.
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Businesses Seek Out a New Calculus for Public Cloud
With the cloud maturing, organizations need to take a more sophisticated approach to migrating and managing their resources.
Calvin Hennick
Calvin Hennick is a freelance journalist who specializes in business and technology writing. He is a contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines.
Not long ago, cloud computing was a trendy new concept, with some observers predicting that on-premises data centers would disappear completely as the cost of public cloud resources continued to spiral downward.
Those days are largely over. Public cloud prices have stabilized, and many organizations have found that on-premises infrastructure costs can be lower for a number of use cases. Some IT leaders have found that certain workloads — especially legacy applications — are more difficult to migrate or manage in the public cloud than they originally anticipated. And there’s a general consensus that hybrid cloud and multicloud (as opposed to exclusively public cloud) strategies will be central for most enterprises going forward.
All of this means that the decision-making process about moving resources to the public cloud – a process that was once dominated by the single metric of price – has grown far more complex. Organizations can find significant value by migrating workloads to the cloud, but they must have a strategy for identifying which workloads fit best, and how they can complete a migration seamlessly. Once migration is complete, many organizations face a challenge in managing multiple workloads in various cloud environments.
“A lot of the conversation in the past has been, ‘I need to go to the public cloud, and I don’t care how,’” says Milin Desai, general manager for cloud services at VMware. “Up until recently, it was very simple. Today, it becomes more application-specific, rather than ‘Everything goes to A,’ or, ‘Everything goes to B.’ You need to think through your business model. It comes down to where is the data, and what types of services do you need?”
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What Isn't Appropriate for the Cloud?
Historically, the public cloud has been seen as a good fit for workloads such as disaster recovery (DR), handling spikes in demand and the development and testing of new applications (dev/test). But many organizations are taking a more expansive view of the public cloud’s potential.
“DR, dev/test and spike were appropriate three years ago,” says Robert Christiansen, vice president of global cloud delivery for Cloud Technology Partners (CTP), a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company. He notes that two years ago CTP moved a Fortune 10 company’s top revenue-generating website to the public cloud, followed by hundreds of production applications. “The calculations have changed. The question is not ‘What is appropriate for cloud?’ The question is ‘What’s not appropriate for cloud?’”
The answer to that question, Christiansen suggests, is large enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and other central business systems, which can require significant restructuring to operate efficiently in the public cloud.
The percentage of enterprises that now see public cloud as their top technology priority, up from 29 percent in 2017
Source: RightScale, “State of the Cloud Report,” 2018
David Cope, senior director of cloud products and solutions market development for Cisco Systems’ Cloud Platform and Solutions Group, says that one of the current top use cases for public cloud is “IT as a service” (ITaaS), where organizations create a catalog of cloud resources and make them available both internally to users and externally to customers. The hybrid cloud model, he adds, is increasingly allowing organizations to “stretch” in-house resources into the public cloud, giving enterprises the ability to migrate at their own pace, as opposed to all at once.
“Instead of being forced to move legacy resources to the public cloud, I can now either allow my legacy applications to take advantage of new cloud services or, conversely, create new cloud-native applications that can easily access legacy resources, including other applications or data,” Cope says. “You don’t have to lift-and-shift or refactor everything anymore, which is a really significant development. We can now truly use business criteria — and not just IT criteria — to drive workload placement, looking closely at a variety of criteria, including price, performance, regulatory issues and access to new innovation.”
Whereas public cloud services once competed primarily on price, now they are attempting to differentiate themselves based on their pace of innovation at the platform level, with data analytics and artificial intelligence, for example, says Brian Hopkins, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester.
“Public cloud vendors are pouring so much money into new platform innovations, the pace at which they’re evolving new capabilities simple cannot be met by vendors who are selling software at smaller scales for either cloud or on-premises deployment.” he says. “If you believe that the pace of business is increasing through technology, and new technology insertion is going to be critical to your ability to keep up, then being in the public cloud means you’ll have access to more new technologies more quickly, and that is even more important than agility in the long term.”
Cope echoes this sentiment, noting that features such as Big Data query and elastic load balancing are becoming increasingly commonplace. “Maybe five years ago, there was a risk of commoditization with Infrastructure as a Service,” he says. “Now, there are these different characteristics of these public clouds that, along with geography, are helping customers decide where to place workloads.”
Managing After the Cloud Migration
“Most organizations are taking a ‘cloud-first’ approach for any new workloads, and are also ramping up the migration of existing workloads to public cloud,” says Kim Weins, vice president of marketing and product for RightScale.
Several years ago, the chief cloud management concern for many organizations was security. But today, Weins says, cost control tops the list. “Only a minority of cloud users have implemented automated policies to optimize costs, such as terminating unused resources or scheduling workloads to shut down after hours,” she says.
Cope notes that, according to surveys, organizations are running workloads in an average of four different public clouds – creating an urgent need to implement unified cloud management systems.
“While cloud management platforms are popular, a lot of companies are just beginning to feel the pain of managing siloed cloud tools and policies required for each cloud vendor,” Cope says. “Things like common security profiles, billing showback and chargeback — it’s becoming cumbersome.”
“Cloud management has been hot for a while,” Cope adds. “But now that multicloud is here, cloud management across disparate environments is becoming really important again.”
The State of Public Cloud Security
While cybersecurity concerns were once a major obstacle keeping organizations from adopting the public cloud, many organizations today actually see security as a benefit of public cloud migrations. Still, hackers are finding new ways to use cloud services as attack launch points, underscoring the need for organizations to stay vigilant. According to Cisco Systems’ 2018 Annual Cybersecurity report:
Fifty-seven percent of security personnel believe that the cloud offers better data security.
Threat actors are using legitimate cloud services for command and control activity, making it difficult for security teams to identify attacks because they mimic legitimate network traffic.
Organizations should ask for transparency from their cloud providers about their updating and patching processes, how they remediate vulnerabilities and how quickly they respond to alerts.
The use of cloud-based security technology has helped vendors keep time to detection (TTD) at low levels. The volume of total events seen by Cisco cloud-based endpoint security products increased fourfold from January 2016 through October 2017.
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Shawn Pinchbeck presents, an Evening of Sight and Sound
Shawn Pinchbeck presents, an Evening of Sight and Sound:
Ortona Armoury Arts Building, 9722 – 102 Street NW, Edmonton, Alberta,
June 1st, 2013 at 8 pm. Tickets are $8 at the door.
Edmonton’s original sound-twister and electroacoustic music composer Shawn Pinchbeck presents an evening of experimental sound compositions and a film screening diffused live into 8-speaker surround sound to celebrate his recent completion of a Ph.D. in Music Composition at the University of Birmingham, U.K.
On the program is the Canadian premiere of the experimental documentary film “Tallinn City Symphony” and acousmatic electroacoustic music composition “Gong”. Additionally, Shawn will celebrate the release of his 7th full length CD “Ortona”, which explores the sounds and impressions of Edmonton’s Ortona Armoury Arts Building where much of Shawn’s work has centered for over the last 10 years. A reception will follow the music performance and the audience is invited to stick around afterwards for a chat.
Shawn Pinchbeck is a well-known fixture of the Edmonton music scene, pioneering electronic music performance and interactive art in this region for nearly 30 years. His recent accolades include winning the Telus Courage to Innovate Award at the Mayor’s Celebration for the Arts in April and the 2012 Edmonton Artists’ Trust Fund in February. His credits include appearances in books such as the “Billboard Guide to Progressive Music”, films such as the Genie Award winning documentary “The Corporation”, recordings with British songwriters Rose McDowall (Strawberry Switchblade) and David Tibet (Current 93), and many other recordings, films, TV, and radio broadcasts around the world; not to mention performing at and curating more than a hundred performances in Edmonton of challenging and innovative sonic explorations.
Come out to an evening guaranteed to open your ears and fill your heart with new sound sensations!
Media Contact: Shawn Pinchbeck
Email: shawn@spinchbeck.com
Details of the film being presented:
Tallinn City Symphony
Every city can be compared to a symphony orchestra that is performing music without a score. Yet, the seemingly independent urban chaos reveals an enchanting composition when you have to ability to see and hear.
“Tallinn City Symphony” is the impressions of Astrida Konstante (Latvia) and Shawn Pinchbeck (Canada) two long time foreign residents of the Estonian capital city Tallinn.
ASTRIDA KONSTANTE
SHAWN PINCHBECK
RIHO VÄSTRIK
Length 28 min. Format HD.
© Vesilind 2012
trailer: http://youtu.be/WKbWrt4m5rE
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It’s an Educational Edition of ‘The Mix’
It may be spring break everywhere else in America, but here on BlogTalkRadio, it’s back-to-school time.
Because this week, our ever-popular Daily Mix offers a tote-bagful of lessons, enlightenments, illuminations, edifications and other things we just snatched out of our thesaurus.
“You were a month old when we brought you home,” Darryl (above) tells us his “mom” told him nine years ago. “And you’re adopted.”
—Run-DMC founder Darryl McDaniels recounts how he learned (at age 35!) that the woman he’d thought was his mom was in fact no relation to him whatsoever.
—Tatyana Ali, who played little Ashley Banks on The Fresh Prince of Bel Air tells Mr. Media host Bob Andelman what she has learned from being around such A-list co-stars as Morgan Freeman, Samuel L. Jackson, Billy D. Williams and Will Smith.
—Carson Kressley of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy fame fills World Talk Live! host Brett Cohen in on what’s it’s like to come out of the closet as a young man.
—Documentary filmmaker John Ziegler reveals to Evil Conservative Radio host Patrick Gibson how, exactly, the mainstream media mis- represented Alaska Governor Sarah Palin during Election ’08.
—Today show sports host Len Berman teaches Sports Heaven with Mark and Evan co-host Mark Elliot why favoring one team over another on-air is a no-no.
—Legendary character actor Burt Young – who played Paulie in the Rocky series – tells Movie Geeks United host Jamey DuVall how he learned to love Sylvester Stallone again after not speaking to him “for years and years and years.”
—The Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek informs WordBeat host Yvonne de la Vega why he believes Barack Obama is highly intelligent.
So don’t miss The Mix, hosted by everyone’s favorite pod jockey, Shaun Daily, tonight – and every Monday – at 9 p.m. ET!
To tune in, click here.
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10 actionable tips to generating more meaningful engagement on Twitter
By Dan Aston April 12, 2018 Engagement Twitter
Twitter is the social network of choice for the majority of us social marketing and comms professionals. No other channel makes it easier to keep vast audiences engaged, informed and entertained. One reason for Twitter's success is the ease at which organisations can create new profiles and begin engaging with multiple audiences.
For large or multi-faceted organisations however, generating meaningful two-way engagement across multiple Twitter accounts can be complex and time consuming. So we've compiled this list of 10 actionable tips that you can apply today to help generate more engagement:
1. Tweet often
In order to keep your followers ‘engaged’ you want to keep them updated continually with news and goings on with your organisation. Whether it’s a new exercise class you’ve added to your leisure centre timetable, news on the latest council recycling scheme, a new member of staff joining the team, or your latest sales promotion campaign. Let you audience know. But be wary that you are not simply broadcasting too many self-promoting tweets to your audience, as this could have a negative effect on your account and potentially loose followers, so it is important to find the right balance.
2. Use keywords
Keyword targeting on Twitter, allows you to connect with users based on words and phrases they have recently tweeted or searched for. This allows you to reach your target audience when it is most relevant to them. Similarly, by using #’s this allows people to quickly and easily search for a certain hashtag and your organisation will be discovered.
3. Schedule content
In order to save yourself or colleagues time and enhance your social media output it is a good idea to schedule tweets. By planning ahead you can ensure your account is tweeting at peak times and during events, this will help increase visibility and exposure to your organisation. Tweets can be scheduled either via Twitter if you have a Twitter Ad account or alternatively by using a Social Media Management platform such as CrowdControlHQ.
4. Use #hashtags
Hashtags are key tool to engagement on Twitter. They make your content discoverable and ensure that you are able to connect with like minded users. Similar to keywords, by using #’s this allows people to quickly and easily search for certain content and help your organisation be discovered.
Check out our blog post 'A complete guide to Twitter networking hours' for a little inspiration
5. Create lists
Twitter lists are a great way to keep up to date with other relevant users and organisations. They enable you to see updates from specific people or organisations who you have chosen to closely follow, by organising accounts of interests into groups. As such this allows you to be more engaged and up to date trends in certain industries. Creating lists are very easy click here to follow twitters step by step guide.
6. Engage, don’t just post!
Twitter is a social network, so socialise! Many brands have seemingly forgotten the main reason for social media network, as it is not a tool to just distribute self-promotional content. It is about engaging with your audience and providing them will relevant, informative and entertaining content. Engage with your followers by contributing to relevant conversations, providing value to your followers, and encouraging two-way conversation. Of course, some organisations perhaps operating in the public service arena can get away with simply broadcasting updates all day, but for the majority of organisations looking to engage audiences, it is not recommended.
7. Get involved in trending topics
In order to engage with users get involved in trending topics, it is a simple yet effective way to get involved with your audience. A number of top brands tweet support to movements and causes, a recent example being #IWD2018 (International Women's Day). It not only will help with engagement but can show the culture and ethics of your organisation. Remember, the topic does not have to be relevant to your organisation but be brave and get involved. It can be a great way to vary your content and increase the reach of your tweets.
8. Respond when you are @mentioned
If you are looking to improve your overall engagement on Twitter, then it is vital when people do engage with you, that you respond. Research has found that 15% of consumer will unfollow a bran if they don’t receive a reply to a post. Not only this, but the quicker you respond the better. Currently brands are failing to cope with the number of queries they are receiving on social media with only 34% of tweets being successfully answered.
Check out our blog 'How to handle complaints on social media' for more info.
9. Make it easy for people to get in touch!
Social media is increasingly used as the 'go-to' customer support channel, as people jump onto Twitter and Facebook, often on their phone, to submit queries and complaints.
To make it easier for customers and provide a better experience, make use of Twitter's profile buttons which allow consumers to simply click to send a direct message. Here, any complaints or queries are hidden from public view which can be beneficial if you are new to dealing with complaints or queries.
Depending on your organisation and social media setup, you can sometimes more appropriate to create a separate Twitter account specifically for customer service related queries and complaints. This can be most effective for organisations with a large customer base but where you have only one or two Twitter accounts for the brand, and receive a relatively high number of inbound messages.
Operating a separate Twitter profile for customer support also allows you to involve the Contact Centre or Support team in responding to enquiries received via that account, while the Marketing or Comms team focus on brand building and social campaigns via the brand profile.
10. Create a branded #hashtag
An effective way to generate user content is by starting your own branded hashtag, encouraging fellow Twitter users to get involved and generate content for you surrounding your hashtag.
Not only this, but by using branded hashtags it is an easy way for you to monitor what your audience are saying about the organisation or the campaign.
By using social media management platforms such as CrowdControlHQ you are able to integrate these campaigns into your analytics. From here you can analyse the reach, usage and impressions of the hashtag.
While these tips are to help improve engagement, by using them you will see a real shift in your Twitter page. Not only this, but by using them it will save you time and energy to invest in top notch content. Let us know your favourite tip by tweeting us @CrowdControlHQ
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Our Favorite Games of 2017
by Orange Tank · Published February 11, 2018 · Updated February 5, 2019
It’s February! What better time for a list of our favorite games of 2017?! The Board Game Barrage tanks got together, argued for hours, and came up with a selection that’s more or less representative of us as a group. It was a good year for games, so it’s criminal how many greats we had to leave off just by necessity, but they live on in our collections and in our hearts. Let’s get right to it:
10. Meeple Circus
You’ll never guess what game used to be in this spot … and you’ll never know. But, once you play Meeple Circus, a cutesy mess of stacking meeples and embarrassing your friends, you’ll understand why we had to include it here. Dexterity games often get a bad rap from a certain type of board gamer. You mean you have to use your hands? That’s like a baby’s toy! But I defy you to find one person who has played Meeple Circus and wasn’t crying laughing at their friend’s uncontrollable tremor as they sing along to Entrance of the Gladiators. Yeah, that’s what “the circus song” is actually called. Who knew?You see, while Meeple Circus is mostly about assembling wobbly towers of tiny people, it’s really all about that final round where you’ll also have to perform one of a set of ridiculous challenges. Alone. While everyone watches. Think you can assemble your circus with one hand? Or no thumbs? Or while inventing the dark and twisted backstories of your performers? It’s all fun and games until you knock your entire show to the floor ten seconds before the music ends. I actually think tightrope walking might be less stressful. – Neilan
9. Spirit Island
It’s gotta be hard to break out of Pandemic’s shadow. It doesn’t help that, ten years on, Pandemic is still alive and kicking in Legacy form. But where does that leave the non-legacy, non-campaign co-operative game? In a lot of ways, I see Spirit Island as the answer to that question, and one of the best evolutions of the genre that Pandemic popularized. The gist of this game of anti-colonialism is that you, the players, are living spirits of the Dahan nation. To chase away invaders, you’re blessed with insane elemental power, spooky fear mongering, and the best fictional names ever committed to writing. Excuse me, Sharp Fangs Behind the Leaves, have you met my friend, Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares?As colonists spread and build and ravage your island, it’s up to you to drive them back, often fighting alongside the natives. But unlike Pandemic, you’re rarely cursing your bad luck – gods and spirits don’t play dice, after all. You’re always a turn ahead, so plan, coordinate, and fight back with one of the most satisfying power curves in any co-op game. Each spirit handles very differently, so there’s a lot of replayability, not to mention different map setups, enemy play styles, and two decks of card abilities. I guarantee you’ll keep coming back, or my name isn’t Shadows Flicker Like Flame. – Neilan
8. Battle For Rokugan
Battle For Rokugan is a smoother than smooth area-control game in the vein of A Game of Thrones: The Board Game. Set in Feudal Japan in the Legend of the Five Rings universe, each player deploys hidden orders to the board, raising the tension turn by turn as you watch your opponents point their order tokens into your homeland. But it could be a bluff! They are, after all, trying to get you to waste your resources.The game distills down much longer area-control games, and allows you to quickly play through something that feels heavier. The whole thing takes less than 2 hours, meaning you just might… run it back immediately. – Kalen
7. CrossTalk
CrossTalk has two teams trying to guess the same word, but each time your leader gives a clue, the other team gets to guess first. This leads to a hilarious game of chicken as you try to help your team without helping the other team. Before each round, the leaders give their team a hidden clue that serves as context for the rest of the round. CrossTalk is a party game for both strategy gamers and your family members who have tried simpler games and came away unfazed.It’s a truly great party game in that it seems to have unlimited replayability, because like the best board games, you aren’t just playing a game—you are playing your opponents. – Kalen
6. Sol: Last Days of a Star
Sol: Last Days of a Star, a indie sci-fi game from 2017, will have you dreaming of movies like Interstellar and Sunshine. You play as an alien race slowly orbiting around the sun awaiting its explosion and your species death. The game combines a very simple ruleset, with abstract puzzly gameplay. Your mothership can spawn tiny ships, which you arrange into formations to create structures to help you score points and make new types of units.What really makes the game is that every turn your mothership slowly rotates around the sun, meaning you have to plan to utilize the other player’s structures, as you will likely only be back in this quadrant of space one more time. You must always look ahead around the curve to see what your opponents have been creating, and how you could best take advantage of their buildings. The game feels unlike anything else, which in and of itself is enough to land on a best of 2017 list. – Kalen
5. Guards of Atlantis
Even if you’ve never played a MOBA, or don’t know what MOBA means, chances are you know someone who could tell you. After all, video games like League of Legends and Dota 2 remain among the most played in the online scene – and finally, there’s a board game that does the genre justice. To summarize: Pick a hero. Pick a team. Kill the enemy team’s minions, before the enemy team kills yours. Don’t die. DON’T DIE. OH GOD YOU DIED YOU FEEDER LEARN TO PLAY YOUR HERO. Sorry. Bad habit.Guards of Atlantis employs a simultaneous card selection mechanic that makes your fate entirely your own – there’s no luck in play. And with eight different heroes to choose from (two more in an expansion), each of which feels very unique … well, it’ll take a lot of plays to master. If you’re willing to make an event of it, you’ll get a team vs team experience with pushes, pulls, and agonizingly close calls. All the drama and tension you might expect from the video game genre is reproduced faithfully. Make sure to play with abusive teammates who threaten to quit halfway, for maximum authenticity. – Neilan
The first thing that strikes you when you see Azul on the table is the beauty of it. You may not be familiar with the Portuguese azulejos these glimmering, gorgeous, heavy tiles are meant to evoke (we certainly weren’t) but that knowledge isn’t necessary to appreciate the satisfaction that the look and the heft of the pieces communicate. But in a time when amazing game production is nearing the norm, it is the stunning mechanics of Azul that set it apart.You’ll likely hear the wonderful clinking of the tiles in your hand as you shuffle them absentmindedly, debating yet another devilishly difficult decision this angelic appearing game has placed at your feet. As with all the very best abstract games, the rules are simple but the strategy is deep… and it is this marriage of visual and mechanical beauty that makes Azul an instant classic. – Mark
3. The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31
The social deduction genre is a crowded one in the board game world. Classics like The Resistance, Werewolf, and Battlestar Galactica have spawned hundreds of imitators and resulted in a saturated and often mediocre field. All this makes the emergence of the fantastic The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31 all the more wonderful and surprising. It does the “I’d really like to help guys, but I honestly don’t have anything for this mission!” thing that Battlestar Galactica pioneered and did so well but streamlines it in a way that games like Dark Moon tried, but never seemed to get quite right.Most importantly, it provided us with more pulse pounding, stand-up-from-the-table-screaming-in-disbelief moments than any game in 2017. The Thing: Infection at Outpost 31 reminds us why we love social deduction games so much and proves there may be more thrills and laughs to be mined from the genre yet. – Mark
2. Gloomhaven
Twenty years ago, my brothers and I played a dungeon crawling game at a friend’s, an experience that led us to a board game store on a mission to track it down. What we found instead was an entire hobby. A lifestyle, even. In all the intervening time, I never did get my own copy of HeroQuest, but it probably could never have lived up to the idea I’d built up in my head. Nostalgia can be a cruel thing.Gloomhaven plays like the best version of my half-imagined memory of HeroQuest. I never took to tabletop roleplaying like DnD, and Gloomhaven isn’t trying to be that, but now I understand the thrill of gathering with friends around a table to return to a familiar place, to explore (to slay, mostly) a world that exists almost entirely inside our own heads. It’s a game of deep interlocking card-driven systems, where placement and timing matters. The intricate design slowly reveals itself to the player as they encounter new enemies and mold their hero, all while cleverly sidestepping the dice chucking that typifies the genre.
Oh, did I mention that there are almost a hundred scenarios? Seventeen classes? More cardboard than a box factory? Did I mention that all this was written and designed by one guy? Gloomhaven is an incredible achievement, and for my money, the de facto dungeon crawling experience in a box. If you can justify the time to devote to its massive campaign, you’ll uncover a rich world absolutely worth exploring. – Neilan
1. Sideral Confluence: Trading and Negotiating in the Elysian Quadrant
At first blush, Sidereal Confluence: Trading and Negotiating in the Elysian Quadrant seems to undertake a task as unwieldy as its mouthful of a title. Specifically, striving to take a medium weight Euro with all the cube pushing, resource converting and engine building you’d expect, and then making one of its central mechanics pure negotiation. And while the title might leave something to be desired, there is little but brilliance in the way the design meshes these two seemingly unrelated gaming styles together. The Euro half stands firmly on its own, providing all the puzzles, resource management and cool, unique alien race specific powers you could ever want.The magic, however, is in the way the titular trading and negotiating is woven in. It permeates the game. You’ll be dealing early and often, but somehow in such a way that all that negotiating feels fun and encouraged and beneficial to all parties involved. Sidereal Confluence: Trading and Negotiating in the Elysian Quadrant takes two well worn game styles, the Euro and the Negotiator and combines them into something fresh and amazing… and Board Game Barrage’s Game of the Year, though maybe not the title of the year. – Mark
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Queen Elizabeth II delivers the Queen's Speech whilst sat next to Prince Charles, Prince of Wales during the State Opening of Parliament on June 21, 2017 (Getty Images)
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A bishop is urging parishioners to write to their MPs asking them to support the removal of a 50 per cent cap on faith admissions in new free schools.
The Bishop of East Anglia, Alan Hopes, has already written to MPs across the diocese, asking them to support the Conservative manifesto pledge, after its omission from the Queen’s speech on Wednesday.
The cap on faith admissions was intended to promote religious diversity.
“All the cap achieved was to bar the Catholic Church from opening new schools,” Bishop Hopes wrote.
“This is because it would result in Catholic schools turning away Catholic pupils on the grounds of their Catholicism, a feature which is prohibited by Canon Law.”
Since September, the Diocese of East Anglia has developed bids for eight new Catholic schools in Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, the Bishop said.
“We are now simply awaiting the opportunity to submit these bids, and the removal of the cap is the final piece of the jigsaw to enable this to happen and for new Catholic schools to become a reality,” said Bishop Hopes.
In England, a free school is state-funded, but not under the jurisdiction of a local authority. Proposals for new free schools can be put forward by groups independent of the government, for instance faith and community organisations, parents or charities.
Unlike the grammar schools policy, removing the cap does not need any primary legislation, only the political will of the Secretary of State.
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The 5th Dad 2.0 Summit: Stories Everywhere You Looked
February 23, 2016 February 23, 2016 / Carter Gaddis / 1 Comment
The White House was aglow the night before the fifth annual Dad 2.0 Summit in Washington, D.C.
Stories simmered everywhere I looked this past weekend at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.
I wish I had been there as a journalist. I wish I could have covered the fifth annual Dad 2.0 Summit in Washington, D.C., for a major news organization.
For example: Esquire. The venerable men’s magazine — my favorite magazine since the early 1980s — was the event’s primary media partner for the second year running. For that, the magazine should be applauded.
I wish I could have been there writing about the event for Esquire.
As it is, I was there for the fourth consecutive time. I was there as a speaker, as a participant, as a member of a community that has become dear to me as a 40-something father of two elementary-age children and a writer who loves great stories.
Throughout the weekend, from the moment I landed at Reagan National Airport on Wednesday evening until the moment I arrived home on Sunday afternoon, I was awash in story ideas.
It never gets out of your blood when you’re a journalist. I did that for 24 years. I found stories. Even when I didn’t want to be there, even when there seemed to be nothing compelling, nothing worth writing — I found the story.
That was the job.
If I had been there covering for Esquire or another respected news and entertainment organization, I might have felt a bit overwhelmed by the volume of compelling material. Still, I’m confident I would have managed to write something coherent and representative.
All I had to do was look and listen and write it down. What I saw and heard was a movement that is composed of dads and moms from all over the world. Parents who share a passion for content creation, for storytelling, and for being the best dads and moms they can be.
I saw brands — Dove Men+Care, Kia, Lego, Best Buy, Lee Jeans, Rheem, and many more — that sent representatives to the Dad 2.0 Summit to connect with fathers and to join in the conversation about the evolving role of dads in the 21st century.
I saw what I always see at the Dad 2.0 Summit: waves of raw emotion shared and accepted — and embraced.
Speaking of things embraced, I saw hugs. I saw a lot of hugs. I gave and received a lot of hugs, too, from people I have come to love over the years and from people who I met for the first time. Hugging is the universal language at the Dad 2.0 Summit, and there is a lot of it, always.
Mostly, though? I saw stories. So many stories.
Here are just a few that I might have used as a hook in a post-conference roundup if I had written one for a big-time publication:
One of the seminal moments of the fifth annual Dad 2.0 Summit: Beth Blauer, left, meets author Brad Meltzer, the opening keynote speaker. Meltzer dedicated his speech to Blauer and her late husband, Oren Miller, a leader and friend who helped galvanize the dad blogging community around the world.
Author Brad Meltzer, the opening keynote speaker, dedicated his remarks to the late Oren Miller and his wife, Beth Blauer.
Oren was one of the dad blogging community’s most important leaders, the founder of a large and vibrant group of dad bloggers on Facebook. He also was an incredible writer who died too young of lung cancer, and Beth was in Washington, D.C., to tell her family’s story with the people who loved Oren so.
Disclosure: I sat on a panel with Beth, along with the head of Movember in the United States, Mark Hedstrom. Jim Higley, the marketing director of Camp Kesem and one of the most respected voices in the country for cancer care advocacy, moderated the panel, which was about the galvanizing effect of fighting cancer.
That was a story. It was a story of Beth and Oren’s final days together, of how Oren nearly lost his fight before it began because the news shattered him and sent him to a dark place that could only be lit by the presence of his small children. It was a story of fierce optimism, a story of nine difficult months that moved all who heard it to tears and left me in awe of the strength and grace of Beth Blauer.
I told my cancer story, too. We all have one.
Oh, and? Higley announced a huge fundraiser for a new Camp Kesem chapter at the University of Maryland, Beth and Oren’s alma mater. Twelve dads will walk Hadrian’s Wall this summer to help raise money to fund the new camp.
That’s a story.
So were these. It would have been easy, frankly, to unearth them:
The brands have shown up in force over the years. What were they doing there? What did they expect to accomplish?
Creed Anthony reads a tale of visiting the land in Kentucky where his ancestors were forced to work as slaves while author and keynote speaker Brad Meltzer looks on.
Creed Anthony, a dear friend and father of African-American descent who authors Tales from the Poop Deck, read a powerful post about visiting the land in Kentucky where his ancestors had been forced to work as slaves 140 years ago.
On Friday night, a large group of dads turned out for the first “Dad Slam,” a series of readings where men cried and laughed and shared their hearts. When time ran out on the ballroom, they moved to another room and kept right on reading and crying and laughing and sharing.
That’s what they call “color,” in the news business. It was a chance to pull back the curtain and find out what this community is about.
And then came Derreck Kayongo, the closing keynote speaker. He is the CEO of the Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta. He got us singing and dancing.
So many moments. So much useful information. So many hugs.
So many selfies and so much fun.
This was the fifth annual Dad 2.0 Summit as I saw it. Stories everywhere. Simply everywhere.
And there will be even more a year from now in San Diego. I can’t wait to find out what happens next.
These guys and 400 others — my extended family. We have a lot to say and we have a lot to do. The Dad 2.0 Summit brings us together for common purpose: To change the way the world thinks about fatherhood. That’s a story. (L-R: me, Jeff Bogle, Out With the Kids; Chris Read, Canadian Dad; Jay Sokol, Dude of the House.)
Oren Miller: He Has Shown Me How to Live
February 25, 2015 November 18, 2015 / Carter Gaddis / 4 Comments
Oren Miller has made me a better person and a better father. He is my brother. I will always tell his story.
We want context at the end. We want order, or some sense of purpose. We want it to matter. We want to tell our stories, and we want them to make sense.
It helps with the pain. It helps with the sadness. It helps to remind us that the reason we cry is because once, we were oh, so glad.
We have been glad to know Oren Miller. We have been proud to call him friend, to call him brother.
We all have stories to tell.
We have stories to tell about Oren Miller.
Today, and for the past few months, these stories have been nourished with tears. We knew it was bad, then worse, and now we are at the end and we want context. We want to add our patch to the quilt of Oren’s life, or his digital life, I suppose.
We were brothers, Oren and I. As his brother, as we come to the end, I am compelled to tell my story. This is right. This is good. Will it make sense? I don’t know. But my pain demands it. My tears require it.
It matters.
My story of Oren is about hope. It’s about the human capacity to shape the world for good.
It matters, all right.
We found out the worst of bad news before Father’s Day – lung cancer had spread to his brain. Nothing could stop it. We set out to help Oren’s family in a small, but meaningful way.
We came together to raise money for a dream trip, a vacation for a lifetime. We figured $5,000 ought to do it. Disney, maybe. Someplace nice before treatment began. Someplace Oren and Beth and their beautiful son and daughter could go and laugh and love and just be, if only for a while.
Our brother Brent Almond posted the online fundraiser on the crowd-funding site, Giveforward.com, at the suggestion of another brother, Jim Higley. These are remarkable human beings. These are my brothers. Oren’s brothers.
Brent posted it late on a Thursday night, the Thursday before Father’s Day, with no fanfare or social media promotion. By mid-morning Friday, the goal had been eclipsed and the total pledged was approaching $10,000.
Eventually, it would surpass $35,000. That was the power of this brotherhood, the power of a group of creative fathers from around the world whose primary connection was a Facebook group started by an unassuming, quiet, Israeli-born Marylander named Oren Miller.
“So crazy, it just might work.”
That is the group’s tagline. It started with about 30 fathers in December 2012. I was among them.
As of this writing, there are 1,047 members from nearly every state in the U.S., nearly every continent on the planet.
There are stay-at-home dads, single dads, old dads, young dads, married dads, divorced dads, gay dads, granddads. There are dads who draw, dads who paint, dads who create video, dads who make crazy lunches, dads who take photos, dads who write and dads who sing.
There are conservative dads, liberal dads, black dads, Asian dads, white dads, and dads of just about every ethnic and religious persuasion you can imagine. We fight and cry, love and learn from one another.
Once a year, we get together at Dad 2.0 Summit. That’s where I met Oren in person for the first time, in Houston. I can’t believe that was only two years ago.
He and I had exchanged excited messages about how we were going to try to expand the Facebook group while we were in Houston. Could we reach 100 members? Who did we want to ask?
Anyone and everyone. That’s who. All were invited.
Are you a dad? Do you have a blog?
You’re in.
One thing, though: “Don’t be a dick.”
It’s Oren’s only real rule for the group. Pretty reasonable, if you ask me.
Now, two years after he wondered if we could reach triple digits in the group, a scholarship fund bearing his name enables some of his brothers to go to Dad 2.0 every year. Six bloggers were awarded the scholarship this time around. It is a powerful, permanent testament to what he means to our community.
And so, the group of brothers who came together out of that initial experiment rose up when Oren needed us and raised tens of thousands of dollars for his family. I wish it could be more. It should be more. Please help make it more by donating here: Give Back to Oren.
One day this past summer, Whit Honea and I were talking on the phone about Oren and the group and how sad it was that Oren had cancer but what an incredible thing it was to see the group come together for that cause with such effect.
If we could do that for one of our own, looking inward, we thought, why couldn’t that energy and spirit be turned outward? Why couldn’t we band together, brothers from around the world, and try to make good things happen everywhere?
And so, thanks to Oren Miller and his loving brothers and all of those who contributed to the fundraiser, Dads 4 Change was born.
All we want to do at Dads 4 Change is make the world a better place, to help our kids develop an appreciation for volunteerism and giving, to model good citizenship for them and hope they carry that message into the future. That’s all.
That’s Oren’s legacy for me. It also is a legacy of community, which is peace. In peace, our best selves emerge. Just don’t be a dick.
Context? Purpose? Order. There is none. What is happening is too sad and pointless, as meaningful as a flower, as full of purpose as a single raindrop, as random as a stalk of wheat in the breeze.
But he has shown me how to live. He has shown us all the meaning of grace and dignity. Outwardly, his humor has remained intact and as sharp as ever. He is Oren. Then, as now, my brother.
There is no context for this. There sure as hell is no purpose. It does matter, though. Oren Miller made me a better person, a better father. That matters. And I will always tell that story. Always.
Oren Miller (far right) with some of our brothers at Dad 2.0 Summit in New Orleans, January 2014. Also pictured (L to R): Aaron Gouveia, John Willey, Fred Goodall, Vincent Daly.
I’ll leave you with this: a dancing chihuahua. I saw it first on Oren’s blog, a Blogger and a Father, and it was one of his favorites. I smile every time I see it. So does Oren. I hope you will, too.
A Look Back at Dad 2.0 Summit in NOLA
February 2, 2014 November 18, 2015 / Carter Gaddis / 18 Comments
Saturday night on Bourbon Street – neon green and red and blue and colors of indeterminate hue, a gathering Louisiana mist, free (FREE!) entrance into the Lipstick Club. Old Absinthe House for a round, then off again down a tunnel of light and music and grime and the smell of cigarette smoke.
So good. Regretfully, I could not hang.
Bloggers on Bourbon Street.
This band of Dad 2.0 Summit attendees, these brothers and sisters of the digital world, wandered inexorably through one more night together, inevitably toward the Cat’s Meow karaoke bar.
When that realization dawned, when I knew that the clouded group-think had coalesced around the Cat’s Meow as its destination, I knew I didn’t have the energy. As much as I wanted one more chance to build memories with these beautiful friends, my hotel bed beckoned. I began to fall back. One friend after another drifted by, new faces and familiar, buddies and confidants, fellow writers and parents – I slowed my pace and let them slip past me through the Bourbon Street crowd.
Until at last I was at the end of our line, swallowed on all sides by unfamiliar faces and revelers whose nights were just getting started. Then I stopped, watched the heads of friends old and new bob through the gathering French Quarter fog until the last of them was out of sight. I walked back to the hotel along quiet, glistening Royal Street. A lone street performer sang an unfamiliar blues piece in a darkened doorway.
Another Dad 2.0 Summit was done. All that remained was to write the epitaph.
So … what now?
Rob Candelino of Dove Men+Care.
That was the question we were asked on Friday morning as the third annual Dad 2.0 Summit got underway at the J.W. Marriott New Orleans. The question, significantly, was asked of us by a brand representative. Actually, by THE brand representative as far as the dad blogger community ought to be concerned – Rob Candelino of Dove Men+Care.
The two-time title sponsor of Dad 2.0 Summit champions the concept of accurate depictions of fathers and fatherhood in TV ads. It’s a start, and Dove is a welcome and influential ally, but as Dad 2.0 co-founder Doug French says often about the larger picture: “We still have a lot of work to do.”
But … what now?
An informal study of 2013 commercials depicting fathers conducted by dad blogger Zach Rosenberg of 8BitDad revealed that, for the most part, things are moving in the right direction. Derogatory depictions of bumbling dads are not nearly as prevalent as they were. That’s progress.
Still … what now?
Procter and Gamble, the world’s biggest advertiser, touched hearts and likely moved product with the latest incarnation of Thank You, Mom ads associated with the upcoming winter Olympics. It seemed … odd … that they ignored the roles of the respective fathers of the athletes depicted, but an argument can be made that emphasizing the contributions of mothers does not necessarily de-emphasize those of the fathers. Of course, an argument also can be made that omitting dads from that advertising conversation was short-sighted on the part of P&G, but listen – at least they tried with the Dad’s Way and Modern Dad campaigns this past summer (disclosure: I was a blogger ambassador for both of those campaigns, which included a Father’s Day excursion at Brooker Creek Preserve).
Pirate’s Alley, French Quarter, New Orleans.
Perhaps what’s next, then, is for giant brands like P&G to follow the example of consistency demonstrated by Dove Men+Care and truly embrace what’s happening with this community of fathers who also happen to be talented, innovative content creators – and with engaged, enlightened fathers throughout the country. XY Media Group, parent company of Dad 2.0 Summit, is leading the way in that conversation and in the search for the answer to Candelino’s question. I, for one, can’t wait to see what happens next. What’s most exciting to me about it is that I have the opportunity to help shape that answer, as do all of the bloggers and brand representatives who made New Orleans home for the past four days.
Speaking of which, listed below are a few personal highlights of the third annual Dad 2.0 Summit. I can’t possibly list them all here, because the weekend gave forth far too many memorable experiences and insights. The highlights:
I was honored to be asked to conduct a round table workshop on journalism and storytelling. The participants lifted me mentally and – in one notable case – emotionally throughout the hour-plus session. Jim Higley made me mist up when he reminded me about an image I used in a post about our family’s trip to Tropicana Field to see the Rays and Red Sox in October. So, yes … during a weekend of emotional gut-punches, I even cried during my own workshop! If you were there – or if you were not – and would like to chat about the topic and techniques of purposeful observation as a means to breathe life into your writing, please don’t hesitate to contact me. Thank you to all of those who attended, and a huge thank you to those of you who have since given me a kind word about the workshop itself and about how it already has affected your approach to storytelling.
Blogger Lorne Jaffe of Raising Sienna and the New York City Dads Group earned a standing ovation for the greatest show of courage I’ve witnessed in two years of attending Dad 2.0. His willingness to confront his own depression-anxiety disorder in that very, very public setting – and his brilliant turns of phrase and use of imagery in the post he read “Do I Really Like What I Like?” – gave me strength. It was likely the moment most people who were there will remember years from now when we talk about Dad 2.014.
Hanging with my fellow DadCentric bloggers, Kevin McKeever, Michael Moebes and Whit Honea, as well as fellow 2013 Spotlight Bloggers McKeever, Honea and Chris Read was another highlight. As I say, I could not hang Saturday night, but part of the reason for that was I made the rookie (or sophomore) mistake of hitting the Quarter a bit too hard on the first night and never quite regained full equilibrium. I enjoyed every minute I spent with them, though, as well as all of the friends I met in Houston in 2013 – Jim Higley, Mike Adamick, Jay Sokol, Jeff Bogle, Creed Anthony, Charlie Capen, Andy Herald, Jim Lin, Amy Windsor, Sam Black, John Pacini, Lance Somerfeld, Matt Schneider, Chris Lewis, Oren Miller, Adrian Kulp, Jason Greene, Kenny Bodanis, the guys from the National at Home Dads Network, the guys from Life of Dad, the guys from the National Fatherhood Initiative, and on and on. Then there were the first-timers, people I had met online only, who now I can include in my personal, ever-growing web of true, “in-real-life” friends who share an interest in parenthood and the creative impulse – Jess Sanfilippo, Lizz Porter, John Kinnear, John Willey, Brent Almond, Eric of Dad on the Run, Justin Aclin, Buzz Bishop, Vincent Daly, Scott Flax and so many, many more.
Listening to Jim Higley and Parenthood creator and show runner Jason Katims talk about parenting, the creative process and other important topics on Friday was a privilege. I was fortunate enough to run into Jason during that night’s cocktail party and he was kind enough to answer two questions: Is the message about authentic portrayals of fathers in media resonating in his industry (short answer: slowly, but surely) and what were his favorite TV shows as a kid (he mentioned All in the Family and Taxi as influencers, along with several other half-hour sitcoms that I didn’t quite catch).
I also appreciated hearing Josh Levs share his parenting journey and announce the publication of his new book in front of the Dad 2.0 audience. And it was interesting to see closing keynoter Peter Shankman displaying his pair of Google Glass (Google glasses?) all day Saturday at the J.W. Marriott. The future is here.
The folks from Dove Men+Care were amazing, as usual, and I would be remiss if I failed to thank them for the Movie Night on the Couch prize pack that I won and the framed photos from the Real Dad Moments campaign. We appreciate all the other brand representatives who did so much to make the experience great: Cottonelle (for whom I blogged — thanks to XY Media — during the Let’s Talk Bums campaign in the fall); National Geographic Animal Jam (hence, the skunk in the photo above); Jamba Juice; Kraft Cheese; Lee Jeans; LEGO Friends; Microsoft Surface; the New Orleans Convention and Visitors Bureau; Little Remedies; and the savior, Starbucks Via.
I’ll never forget Whit Honea’s remarkable reading of Two Busy’s Spotlight post, By Such Swift Currents. It was a fitting swan song for DadCentric, as well as a wonderful way to honor the work of one of the finest writers in our community.
Fog shrouds Royal Street on Sunday morning.
I’ll wrap it up with a special thank you to two of my all-time favorites in this community, my New Orleans roommates David Vienna of The Daddy Complex and Aaron Gouveia of the Daddy Files. The weekend flew by far too quickly, my friends. I appreciate everything you did to make it memorable for me.
So, what now? For the community, for society, it seems clear XY Media Group and other prominent dad groups will continue to consolidate and build on the efforts that seem to have made headway over the past three or four years.
But what about for me, personally? What now for this journal? That’s simple – I’ll just keep telling stories as well as I can, and try to make this online journal/whatever it has become something worth the time of its readers. I will also answer the call, when it comes, to help tell stories that depict fathers and fatherhood in an authentic light. It’s the least I can do for a community that has given so much to me in such a short amount of time.
Seconds to Check, a Lifetime of Moments to Savor
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I’m trying to remember how I thought about things when I was seven. I carry a few foggy memories from that age of an awakening awareness of gonads, girls and God. I was on the verge of knowing a few things, but I was still working out the details.
For instance: I knew older boys were terrified of being hit in the ‘nads. That’s what we called them: ‘nads. Or, I suppose I should say that’s what the older boys called them, and we first graders followed suit.
Because that’s what first graders do. They emulate. They’re mostly undifferentiated human templates, absorbing and assimilating the qualities of those around them. What they hear, see, smell, touch, do and dream at that age combines with nature to give them form and substance for life.
At seven, I don’t recall if I had the slightest idea that ‘nads were properly called testicles (and even more properly called testes, but we’re not really sticklers for propriety). I do remember that I didn’t know what purpose testicles served. I only knew they were my constant companions, and that it hurt like the dickens when I they got hit or kicked or smashed by the pointy tip of my bicycle seat, and older boys wore a cup during baseball practice and games, and I wanted to get a cup, too, because it would mean I was a big boy.
So, now, I’m the father of a seven-year-old first grader. In preparation for this piece about testicular cancer awareness, I thought it would be good to start with a lesson for my older son. I thought I’d begin with the generalities then move on to the specifics.
During the drive from Tampa to Walt Disney World Saturday, I asked the back seat the general question, “Hey. You guys know what testicles are?”
Silence. Then …
“They’re, like, well … um, no, not really.”
Turns out my older son knows approximately what I knew almost 40 years ago at that age. Only, instead of ‘nads, he and his buddies call them balls.
(A quick aside here. I envy the years of rich discovery ahead for my sons. The lessons they’ll learn. The colorful vocabulary they’ll acquire. Oh, to relive each and every moment when life served up a new testicular euphemism. It’s all ahead for them: nuts, eggs, huevos, danglers, scrotes, cojones, rocks, stones, the family jewels. And oh, so many more. Use them well, boys. Use them well.)
After our brief chat Saturday, my older son knows now that the proper name is testicles, but I’m still not sure he’s ready to process the concept of testicular cancer. I’ll save the specifics for later.
Not much later, though. One day soon, I’ll explain to my sons that testicular cancer is the most common form of cancer among boys and young men aged 15-35. I’ll explain that catching it early is vital, because 99 percent of those diagnosed with testicular cancer respond well to treatment and can lead normal, active lives. My wife and I will talk to their pediatrician about teaching self-examination, and then we’ll reinforce the importance of vigilance. We won’t be shy, because it’s too important for awkwardness.
All of those details are a bit much for a seven-year-old, I think. But what we can do now is instill the zest for life that will convince him that it’s well worth the few seconds it takes to check for signs of testicular cancer.
So we savor the moments. Saturday, with my wife laid out by a nasty head cold, I piled the boys into the car for the hour-long drive over to Epcot. The annual Flower and Garden Festival has begun, and that means topiary! You might be surprised at how fascinated young boys can be with wired shrubbery shaped like Mater and Lightning McQueen, or like a family of pandas.
We spent a couple of hours Saturday wandering the pavilions, chasing the evil Dr. Doofenshmirtz, enjoying the mild weather, relishing each other’s company. It’s the Year of Disney for our family, and this was the first time it was just me and the boys. They’ll remember these days of Disney, I’m sure. I know I will. Perhaps one day they’ll look forward to days like these with their own kids.
With that hopeful thought in mind, we’ll remind them occasionally when they’re older to self-check for signs of testicular cancer. And then, if necessary, we’ll remind them of why. Hopefully, they’ll already know. Hopefully, they won’t need to be reminded that we check because those few seconds could buy them and everyone who loves them years, decades, a lifetime of moments to savor.
It’s Man UP Monday!
I’m proud to be a member of the Single Jingles Man UP Monday BLOGGING TEAM!
Today, I’m doing my part to spread an important message about Testicular Cancer.
Did you know that Testicular Cancer is the #1 cancer in young men ages 15 to 35?
Did you know that Testicular Cancer is highly survivable if detected early?
Did you know that young men should be doing a monthly self-exam?
Stop by the Single Jingles website for more information on Testicular Cancer.
Request a FREE shower card with self-exam instructions — it just might save a young man in your life!
And if you’re feeling just a little AWKWARD about this conversation, check out this video from some parents who feel the exact same way!
Thank you to Jim Higley of Bobblehead Dad for inviting me to participate in this great series. Here is the first installment, written by Whit Honea and published last Monday at his personal blog, Honea Express. Here’s another entry by Paul Easter, and another by Andy Hinds (aka Beta Dad).
Topiary panda family at the China pavilion, Epcot.
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Wasp sting induced STEMI with complete coronary artery occlusion: a case of Kounis syndrome
Benjamin Cross1,
Tawfiqur Rahman Choudhury2,
Mark Hindle3,
Gavin Galasko2
1Medical student, Blackpool Victoria Hospital, Blackpool, UK
2Lancashire Cardiac Centre, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Blackpool, UK
3General Practice, Viran Medical Centre, Preston, UK
Correspondence to Benjamin Cross, bencross142{at}gmail.com
A 45-year-old previously healthy man with minimal coronary artery disease on imaging presented with an acute MI after sustaining a wasp sting following previous non-eventful exposures throughout his life. This is the first case of Kounis syndrome with optical coherence tomography imaging and proven IgE wasp venom hypersensitivity. The Hymenoptera venom is composed of allergenic proteins and vasoactive amines which are responsible for venom toxicity. This patient also has a history of atopy giving a predisposition for developing IgE-mediated allergic reactions. Hymenoptera stings can be severe in atopic individuals and anaphylaxis may ensue. However, it is a rare cause of myocardial infarction (MI) (Kounis syndrome). Multiple wasp stings in the past may have contributed to sensitisation. Kounis syndrome is a rare clinical manifestation which should remain in the minds of physicians, especially with younger patients with no history of ischaemic heart disease or few risk factors.
ischaemic heart disease
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Contributors GG was the consultant responsible for the care of the patient, drafted and revised the paper and acts as the guarantor. BC wrote, drafted and revised the paper. TRC and MH drafted and revised the paper.
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The 2020 election season is here. To kick off the festivities, the crowded Democratic field is going to get together and duke it out. There will be a crowded field of contenders with all eyes on who will take down Trump in the 2020 election. Key topics are to include women’s rights, the war in Iran, the Mueller Report, the opioid crisis, and gun control.
Who Are the 2020 Democratic Candidates?
The number of participants in the first 2016 Republican Debate was laughable to the left. 16 people took the stage and bickered for what became ratings gold. Now, there will be 20 over a two-night event where 10 individuals will be chosen at random to take the stage on separate nights.
Here is the lineup of 2020 Democratic candidates:
Peter Buttigieg
Now that you know the line-up, let’s discuss how you can watch this historic event without cable.
When Are the 2020 Democratic Debates?
The first 2020 Democratic debates will take place over two nights. They will air on Wednesday, June 26, 2019 and Thursday, June 27, 2019. Since 20 people have met the requirements to be involved, a random drawing determined who will debate on which night.
Lineup for Night 1 of 2020 Democratic Debates
Night one will see a nice mix of familiar faces with a lot of new ones. You can expect the following 2020 Democrats to take the stage on Wednesday:
Beto O’Rourke,
Not feeling the Bern? Don’t see Obama’s bestie? Don’t worry. They’ll be available on night two.
If you are looking for a particular candidate or want a full introduction to everyone, here is who you can expect on night two:
Kristen Gillibrand
These debates will be held on three channels under the NBC umbrella. You can catch them on:
With that knowledge, let’s discuss how you can watch these debates for free.
How to Watch the 2020 Democratic Debates for Free
Since these debates will transform next year’s election (not to mention, it’s the first time we’ve heard of two-thirds of the candidates), it’s important that everyone gets access to the 2020 Democratic Debates. That is why it’s easier than ever to watch the 2020 Democrat Debates for free.
First, you can download the NBC News App. They will be streamed on there during the 9:00 to 11:00 EST time slot. While convenient, you won’t get the pre and post coverage.
Otherwise, hook your antenna. Check out AntennaRecommendations.com and see where your zip code can snag a 2020 Democratic Debates signal.
How to Watch 2020 Democratic Debates Without Cable
If you have a streaming service, you don’t need to dust off the old antenna. There are many streaming services that will carry the 2020 Democratic Debate in real-time.
The cheapest bet would be Sling TV users. You can get MSNBC in either Sling Orange or Sling Blue for $25 per month. In addition, a majority of areas will also have the NBC affiliate through their Sling subscription. So, that’s another viable option.
You can also get MSNBC on almost every basic streaming service package. Depending on your area, NBC may be available as well.
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Black History Month Highlight: Margie W., Atlanta 3-Day Walker
Meet “Miss Pink” – Margie W., who represents the 3-Day all year long; not just in her pink wardrobe, but in her sparkling enthusiasm. She has participated in fourteen 3-Day events since 2005, raised more than $32,000 (not including all the donations she has made to teammates over the years), and promotes the 3-Day spirit in every step of her life, not just those she takes on her yearly 60-mile journey.
Margie told us her story, her goal, and why it’s so important for the African American community to participate in the 3-Day. As we celebrate Black History Month, we also celebrate Margie and her vital message.
Because she lost her favorite cousin to breast cancer, and because her sister is now a more than twenty-year survivor of the disease, Margie encourages everyone she knows to be on the lookout for early signs of breast cancer, to get their mammograms, and work to make every difference that they can.
“As an African American woman, it is so important to me to walk.”
And walk she does! When the 3-Day came to Atlanta in 2005, Margie says she was “over the rainbow” about making that sixty-mile journey. She has walked in other breast cancer walks, and has walked the 3-Day in other cities, but she keeps coming back to the 3-Day.
“When I started, I told myself I was only going to walk three years and I was going to be out of there. But I became addicted! I keep telling my donors it’s going to be my last year, but then every year, I call them again and say, “I lied. I’m walking again!”
At almost 67 years old, she has been walking through knee pain for the last few years, but is going through treatment to try and walk this year if she can. But no matter what, she will crew. And she’s already begun fundraising!
“I already have $600 in my book. I am always raising money! That way, I can be there no matter what!”
For people who need help hitting their fundraising goals, Margie has plenty of ideas, but her #1 tip is simple: Just ask.
“ASK. ASK. ASK. I keep donation letters at work, in my car, in my purse. Anytime someone tells me I look pretty in my pink, I ask them! I’m always ready. I take whatever they give me. I could be in line at the grocery store, and if someone says something about all my pink, I tell them about the 3-Day.
I also used the 3-Day app last year. I sent out no letters, but I used the app and I was amazed! My thing is, you cannot just sign up, and throw fundraising on the back burner. You have not because you ask not. Ask!”
Her team, Tutu’s for Tatas, has also used fashion shows and a “Breast Cancer Mustang” event to help raise money. They were one of the first teams in 3-Day history to hit the million-dollar mark, and that’s thanks to dedicated fundraisers like Margie.
She always donates to her teammates and fellow walkers who are struggling to meet their goals, and accepts any donation, no matter how small. That includes donations that are less than a dollar!
“The smallest donation I ever had was 37 cents. I was on a 12-mile training walk, and I stopped to use the bathroom. A little girl named Megan stopped and talked to me, and I told her I was walking for breast cancer. And she gave me thirty-seven cents, so I wrote a check for that thirty-seven cents and sent it in.”
To her, every cent, and every step makes a difference. Because she knows that all that work goes to helping people in need.
“It’s about seeing the symptoms, getting your mammograms. [..] There is a lot of help here! There are so many charities and help. That’s why people like me walk so hard and work and fundraise!”
She says that, “by the grace of god, I’m not a survivor, but I am a supporter” and she wants to support Komen’s Bold Goal as long as she can.
So, if you see her in Atlanta this year, give Miss Pink a big hug, and thank her for all her hard work.
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Heidi Alexander joins the march of the moderates out of Westminster
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The march of the Labour moderates away from Westminster continues, with Heidi Alexander the latest to quit parliament. The Labour MP announced this morning that she will stand down from her seat and take up a job working with Sadiq Khan at City Hall. Her departure is no real surprise: speculation has been rife for a while that she would quit. It has also been obvious that Alexander wasn’t happy, to say the least, working under Jeremy Corbyn. Alexander was one of the first to quit the shadow cabinet in 2016 in the wake of the referendum. At the time, she told Corbyn that ‘a change of leadership is essential’, in the hope that Labour’s moderates could oust their leader. That didn’t work – and nor did her follow-up criticism of Corbyn in the months that followed, during which she said her time in the shadow cabinet showed that it was ‘entirely dysfunctional’. While the subsequent general election silenced her – and others’ – criticism of Corbyn, her departure today makes it clear that, for Labour moderates, like Heidi Alexander, Andy Burnham and Tristram Hunt, Westminster still isn’t a happy place to be.
Labour will have no problem in keeping hold of Alexander’s Lewisham East seat in the upcoming by-election. The party has a majority of 21,000 and even if the Tories pile their resources into the area, they don’t stand a chance of snatching away the seat. So the big question is who the party puts forward to stand in south London. In such a safe seat, expect an ugly bunfight to break out among Corbyn’s allies who will already be vying for position. As the pro-Corbyn website Skwawkbox puts it:
‘Her (Alexander’s) local party now has an opportunity to select a candidate more aligned with Labour’s direction under its leadership. With the right-wing in Lewisham well organised, it is expected to be a tough contest.’
So Corbyn’s supporters will almost certainly see Alexander’s departure as an opportunity rather than a loss. It gives the far left another chance to strengthen their grip on the Labour party and elect one of their own to parliament. For the dwindling number of moderates left on Labour’s backbenchers, things have just become even lonelier.
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‘Social class’ check: Jeremy Corbyn’s top team
This summer, Jeremy Corbyn has struggled to get much coverage of his plans for domestic policy thanks to the fact Labour’s anti-Semitism crisis has dominated the headlines. So the Labour leader can take heart that one of his policy ideas has finally started to make waves. In a speech on the UK press on Thursday, Corbyn will call on the BBC to declare the ‘social class’ of all its presenters and journalists as part of a bid to improve its diversity – including whether they went to private school and their parent’s occupation and education.
Mr S has no doubt that Corbyn plans to lead by example and do the same with his office. But just in case he doesn’t, Steerpike has compiled a ‘social class’ check of Corbyn’s top team:
The Labour leader grew up at Yew Tree Manor in Chetwynd Aston, a hamlet on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border – described by Tatler as ‘a pretty red Georgian property that was once part of the Duke of Sunderland’s estate’.
Upbringing: It was a ‘thoroughly upper-middle-class, scruffy country upbringing’, according to Rosa Prince, Corbyn’s biographer.
School: Corbyn attended the private Castle House prep school – then later a grammar
University: studied for a degree in Trade Union Studies at North London Polytechnic.
Parents: His father was an electrical engineer and his mother studied science at London University in the Thirties.
Jeremy Corbyn’s director of communications attended the prestigious fee-paying boarding school Winchester College – where he stood in a mock election as a Maoist Party candidate
School: Private.
University: Milne read Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford.
Parents: Father is former BBC Director General Alasdair Milne.
Jeremy Corbyn’s head of strategic communications also attended fee-paying Winchester College. He grew up in Primrose Hill, one of London’s most fashionable postcodes.
School: private
University: Trinity college, Oxford
Parents: Father was a financier and mother is a property consultant
Jeremy Corbyn’s close ally – part-time consultant – and top comrade attended Worth School, the independent boarding school.
University: did not attend.
Parents: Father a stockbroker and mother a daughter of a Tory MP.
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Stocks to Watch: Sprint, MetroPCS, Ruby Tuesday
By Anna Prior
Among the companies with shares expected to actively trade in Thursday’s session are Sprint Nextel Corp. (S), MetroPCS Communications Inc. (PCS) and Ruby Tuesday Inc. (RT).
Japanese mobile carrier Softbank Corp. (9948.TO) is in advanced talks to buy U.S. operator Sprint in a deal expected to exceed Y1 trillion ($12.81 billion) in value, a person with knowledge of the negotiations said Thursday. It’s not immediately clear whether Softbank will buy all of Sprint or a two-thirds stake. Such a move could make Sprint a more viable player in the U.S., thanks to the deep pockets of Softbank and its founder, Masayoshi Son. Wells Fargo notes that Softbank is also likely attracted to Sprint’s 49% stake in Clearwire Corp. (CLWR) and its spectrum portfolio. It also means Sprint is unlikely to go after MetroPCS near-term. Sprint shares jumped 19% to $6.00 premarket, while Clearwire shares soar 22% to $1.59 and MetroPCS shares are off 6.4% to $11.27.
Ruby Tuesday’s fiscal first-quarter earnings fell 16% as the casual-dining chain was hurt by chief executive-search costs, though same-store sales posted the company’s first increase in nearly two years. Shares fell 5% to $6.67 premarket as earnings missed market expectations.
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Category: Train journeys
Memorable train journeys
Three Staffordshire bus rides
Welcome to a fourth day of travelling to tick off various ‘to do’ routes, destinations, new buses and trains which began with an early start from Llandrindod Wells on the first 06:18 journey which starts its journey at this lovely station and continues beyond Shrewsbury as a stopping train through to Crewe arriving at 08:50.
It’s quite a trek on a one coach Class 153 and I was expecting we’d get inundated with commuters heading into Shrewsbury and then Crewe for nine o’clock. It turned out to be a quiet journey. We’d only collected ten passengers by the time we reached the main line at Craven Arms and picked up just a few more both there and the next station, Church Stretton, before arriving in Shrewsbury for 07:57 so a bit early for commuters; but that’s all you get in the Heart of Wales Line’s limited timetable until a 10:14 arrival (and then 13:32) which is probably too late for being at work. One passenger, along with myself, went all the way from Llandrindod Wells to Crewe but otherwise everyone got off at Shrewsbury and we collected a new cohort from there and the next six stations heading to Crewe.
The Heart of Wales Line is a wonderful experience; I ranked it eleventh in my Hundred Best Train Journeys compiled at the end of last year, and it certainly deserves that placing offering spectacular views, lovely quirky well kept request stop stations, and, as I found yesterday, great bus routes which parallel part of it.
From Crewe I headed south easterly on the line via Stoke-on-Trent to Derby alighting at Uttoxeter as I wanted to travel on three Staffordshire bus routes on my ‘to do’ list: First Potteries route 32 from Uttoxeter back to Hanley bus station in the city of Stoke-on-Trent, followed by route 18 across to Leek, and finally a route operated by Aimée’s, the 109, up to Macclesfield.
This three and a half hour zig-zag trip worked well with good connections and offered interesting contrasts between bus companies, routes, scenery and bus stations.
Taking the latter first, Uttoxeter has a functional bus station with ample room for the four stands around a parking area for the principal departures operated by Midland Classic, D&G Bus, Trentbarton and First Potteries. But I couldn’t help noticing the bus parking area seemed to be commandeered by crews of refuse trucks meeting up for a chat and a break. First there was one, then two and then a third joined in. Hanley has a very impressive bus station with around twenty-five stands in a head-on semi-circular layout with some parking bays for buses laying over on the apron. It’s obvious much careful thought has gone into the architectural design of the structure, the practical bus manoeuvring area and the passenger circulating area which is an extremely pleasant space to wait. Toilets had changed to being on ‘free vend’ since my last visit and were clean and presentable. There’s a small convenience store/coffee shop, but I noticed a lack of timetables posted on the wall although each departure stand had a screen showing the next three departures, and there were lists posted showing which service departed from each bay in service number order. There’s a lovely large and airy unmarked travel office with two members of First Bus staff behind the counter and a display of timetable leaflets including both First Potteries and the D&G Bus booklet. There seems to be a good relationship between First and D&G Bus throughout the Potteries. Finally, Leek bus station; well, let’s correct that from the start, it’s not a bus station, more a collection of poorly marked bus stops or stands along a depressing looking side street (stands are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, then a gap, and then 8).
Stands 5, 6 and 7 have disappeared as has the waiting room where they once stood outside; that’s been bricked up, but just to tantalise waiting passengers, the sign’s been left in place.
To finish off the poor image, the timetable displays in a poorly lit, dirty and almost unreadable case aren’t even posted straight. I haven’t seen such poor bus station presentation since, well, um, yesterday as it happens, in Merthyr Tydfil.
And some people clamour for more public authority control of public transport!
I didn’t get to Macclesfield bus station on this visit as I bailed out at the rail station noticing a late running Cross Country train for Manchester was just arriving, so managed to just catch it, but I’ve experienced the bus station on previous visits and I’d just say it’s a poor, a very poor, imitation of what Hanley has achieved – and much smaller at that too.
The 32, 18 and 109 bus routes are very pleasant ones to travel along with some great views across the Staffordshire countryside. The 32 wasn’t very busy out of Uttoxeter but we picked up a good load as we approached Hanley.
Cheadle, the halfway point, looked a very nice town to explore; I must return some time.
The 18 is one of First Potteries key inter-urban routes running every 20 minutes to Leek with single deck Scanias. Sadly the seats, bizarrely and for no discernible reason, are all branded ‘Scania’ (I can’t imagine any passengers thinking “you know what; I must go out and buy a Scania truck”) …. …. and must rank even more uncomfortable than the ironing boards in Thameslink trains, and that’s saying something. We had a reasonable load as we headed to Leek on the thirty-five minute journey, and although much of the route is built up, there were some great views to see as well.
Finally to route 109, Leek to Macclesfield.
Aimée’s had the makings of a friendly image when I first spotted a bus in the company’s two-tone pink/crimson livery …. … before spotting the nearside skirt panels.
Then I thought Leek had a variety of different small independent bus companies…
until I noticed all the legal lettering was for the same Aimée’s … … and most displaying the same advert for taxi drivers for an obviously associated company. As you can see Aimée’s timetables for the four routes it runs from Leek were posted behind the driver on the bus I travelled on …
… and it was a step back in time to see the ticket machine ….
…. and my driver proudly showed me his original cash bag too.
We left on time at 13:35 for the fifty minute run to Macclesfield with six on board, aside from me.
There’s a nice direct route north on the A523 between Leek and Macclesfield and I was a bit surprised to see it took fifty minutes for the thirteen miles. A poor average speed of 15 mph on a fast A road.
But to my consternation we headed south, rather than north, out of Leek. It turns out we do a twenty minute tour of the town’s residential areas before heading towards Macclesfield, but tellingly none of the six on board alighted, and we picked no one up except almost at the end of the circuit, within walking distance of the ‘bus station’, two passengers boarded – obviously sensibly avoiding the round-the-houses tour and walking the short distance from the town centre where we’d been twenty odd minutes previously!
This is just the kind of compromise local authorities have been forced to indulge in (mixing town routes with inter-urban routes) to try and save money in their plummeting tendered bus budgets but they end up pleasing no one and upsetting everyone – it just puts off longer distance passengers, and in this case, attracted no local passengers either. This coupled with the appalling bus station really makes all the positivity from well meaning groups such as the bus industry sponsored Greener Journeys and Catch The Bus Week wheezes ring hollow to me.
Shortly outside Leek we deviated on another dog leg to serve the village of Rudyard which cost us another five minutes, but at least two of our eight passengers alighted. Everyone else went to Macclesfield and no one else boarded.
But I enjoyed the journey and once again saw some lovely Staffordshire scenery.
From Macclesfield my late running Cross Country train (“20 minutes late due to a late running South Western Railway train in Bournemouth”!!) got me into Manchester Piccadilly just in time to catch one of Northern’s brand new Class 195 trains introduced into service only last week, but I’ll tell you about that tomorrow.
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Across the Valleys to mid Wales
Today’s been a varied travel day starting with a Pacer and Class 37 hauled commuter train in the Cardiff Valley, followed by a journey on a brand new inter-urban bus up a Welsh valley then three more bus rides across the tops of the valleys, a poorly patronised but impressive express bus ride from Swansea to Carmarthen and ending the day on a rural bus route further into mid Wales plus a train ride on the Heart of Wales line to Llandrindod Wells with just me on board.
Let’s start at the beginning. Transport for Wales are still running a lot of Pacer trains on the Cardiff Valley lines. You only have to stand on Cardiff Central or Queen Street stations for a short while and you’ll soon hear the familiar Pacer style screech as they come and go.
My early morning trip up to Bargoed at 06:50 from Queen Street this morning was no exception and for a contra-peak journey had a moderate load although only three of us travelled the full 45 minute ride to Bargoed. There’s no early morning journey to get you all the way to the terminus at the head of the valley at Rhymney where I was aiming to pick up one of the two southbound peak journeys now operated by a Class 37, so I settled on Bargoed which is fifteen minutes down the line. The first journey which shuttles just to Cardiff Central and is destined for a Class 37 at 07:43 was a Pacer joined to a Class 150 this morning as driver training is not yet complete on the 37s; but the second 37 designated journey, the 07:42 from Rhymney (07:57 from Bargoed) duly appeared with the distinctive sound and shape of this fine diesel locomotive pulling four traditionally blue and grey liveried coaches. It was quite an early morning sight. This journey has been retimed by 3 minutes (was 08:00) but you’d never know from the printed and online timetables but this was just one of many timetable inconsistencies I stumbled on during today which the unwary traveller could be caught out with.
Despite the issue of manual doors (particularly their shutting at stations) we made good progress and kept to time until just before Cardiff Queen Street where red signals were our downfall arriving into Cardiff Central nine minutes late.
It started off quiet but was soon a busy trip with plenty of standing passengers by the time we reached Cardiff.
Commuters seemed used to the new arrangements which have been operating for a couple of weeks now and the guard gave regular announcements about how to open the doors and posters were also displayed at stations. I doubt many people took notice and everyone was coping fine.
Transport for Wales have introduced these ‘Thunderbird’ type arrangements to release other trains for conversion to meet looming accessibility deadlines at the end of this year. That’s looking like a very tight timescale to me, and as mentioned above, there are plenty of Pacers still around and new train deliveries are running notoriously late. Still in the meantime it’s great fun to take a commute on a ‘proper train’ and well worth a ride (there are two comparable journeys in the evening peak back from Cardiff to Rhymney).
It was a complete contrast to follow this with a ride on one of the twelve smart new Volvo B8 MCV bodied buses introduced last week by Stagecoach for Traws Cymru on routes T4 and T14.
The Welsh Government have stumped up £2.1 million for Powys County Council to buy the new buses which feature very comfortable seats (train companies and the DfT please note)… …..extensive luggage space … usb, Wi-fi (although my phone wouldn’t connect) and the latest innovation – seat back down lighting – the purpose of which I’m still struggling with…
I caught the 09:10 from Cardiff to Hereford route T14 which is the joining together of three previously separate routes to provide a handy through service. Five of us travelled to Merthyr Tydfil via Pontypridd, so it was a quiet run but an extremely impressive fast journey arriving into Merthyr Tydfil just after 10:00 – it would have taken fifteen minutes longer by train!.
The ride was smooth and comfortable and by using the segregated dual carriageway A470 for most of the way you feel you’re really making progress in a way the train can never do. The T14 along with the T4 and the Stagecoach branded X4 journeys provide an impressive 15 minute frequency between Cardiff and Merthyr Tydfil which is well promoted on the buses… ….and in Merthyr Tydfil bus station…
……except that there’s a bit of brand confusion … …..although it was impressive to see leaflets on board the bus …. …..but not helped by an out of date poster in Merthyr Tydfil bus station by the departure stand. Sadly that was just one of the negative images of Merthyr’s bus station. What an absolute dump. This bus station gives a simply appalling impression of bus travel. I tweeted a dozen or so photographs this morning so won’t include them all here; just a small selection to give blog readers an idea of just how bad it is. There are plans to build a new bus station and encouragingly work is due to start this year. It can’t come soon enough.
But in the meantime Stagecoach you don’t cover yourselves in glory with this type of presentation…
….nor displaying out of date and misleading timetables (route 6 has different tunes to those shown). It’s no good trumpeting a smart brand on buses if crucial timetable information is out of date. Let’s hope the new bus station doesn’t follow Cardiff’s example where I see the former site right outside the station is now redeveloped but no sign of the new replacement bus station next door getting underway.
From Merthyr Tydfil I took route 6 across the top of the valley to Aberdare and from there route 8 over another valley top to Glynneath. It’s a route I’ve done before and serves up some great views along the way. Catching a bus from Aberdare’s bus station is a much more positive experience than Merthyr – I particularly liked the departure listings including a helpful map. And full marks to Stagecoach for having Aberdare timetable books on both buses I travelled on.
In Glynneath I took the hourly First Cymru X7 which runs down the valley via Resolven to Neath and then via a quick route into Swansea. Most passengers got off in Neath and I was the only passenger travelling through with five others boarding in Neath. This route (along with others) is branded Cymru Clipper and has obviously recently been renumbered into a new family of lower X numbers along with the similar X8 to Banwen, in the neighbouring valley. Except all the bus timetables displayed at every stop we’re still showing X55 and there were even two old out of date posters inside the bus advertising the old route numbers including the X58 (now X8).
It seems First Cymru joins Stagecoach South Wales in being a bit tardy when it comes to updating information. The great Information ‘Open Access’ revolution may be coming, but let’s get the basics right first please
My next journey was to Carmarthen and I’d originally planned to get back on the tracks and take the train but as we pulled into Swansea’s bus station I spotted the three journey a day Traws Cymru route T1S which runs fast up the M4 and A48 taking just 53 minutes. The T1S connects with the hourly T1 from Carmarthen on to Aberystwyth to provide a through facility from Swansea but it very much needs better promotion. The Traws Cymru website is a bit clunky to use and there were no T1S leaflets available at the First Cymru information counter in the bus station. Perhaps not surprising therefore only four of us travelled all the way through to Carmarthen. As the Welsh Government pay for this service, as well as overseeing Welsh trains, it would seem a good idea to provide combined timetables and integrated ticketing. You know the kind of thing the private sector is always being chastised for supposedly not doing.
After a refreshment break in the delightful Carmarthen I caught the 17:50 route 280 to Llandovery. This route has been on my ‘to do’ list for a few years and it didn’t disappoint with some splendid views across to the Brecon Beacons National Park. We took ten passengers home from Carmarthen with just three on board as we left Llandeilo where we picked up two more. By Llangadog they’d alighted and the remaining three got off between there and Llandovery, where I was the only one left. Llandovery is a lovely small Welsh town and a great setting for a bus terminus even if it is just a car park. From Llandovery I took a train at 19:43 for my last journey for today on the gorgeous Heart of Wales line, north to Llandrindod Wells where I’ll stay tonight. I was the only passenger all the way from Llandovery to Llandrindod Wells tonight. If this had been a bus route it would’ve got the chop by now. But this is a train, so as it costs about ten times or more the cost of a bus, it continues!
It’s been a very enjoyable day’s travels. Roger French
Devons’s top circular bus and train tour is back
Here’s a great way to spend five hours on a summer Sunday: enjoy one of the best circular journeys in Devon, if not the whole of Britain. It takes in three top rail lines and a brilliant bus route skirting a National Park.
The circular route can be based on either Exeter or Plymouth with the three train journeys in the circuit being the summer Sunday only route between Exeter and Okehampton (known as the GWR Dartmoor Line); the Tamar Valley Line from Gunnislake to Plymouth and the West Country main line from Plymouth back to Exeter including the infamous Dawlish Wall. The missing bit between Okehampton and Gunnislake is filled with the Sunday only 279 bus route, which after an absence of three years, I’m delighted to say, is back up and running again this summer thanks to funding from the Devon and Cornwall Community Rail Partnership. I couldn’t resist taking a ride around the circuit today to celebrate the 279’s return.
Even better this 125 mile circular route can be enjoyed for the price of a Devon Day Ranger at £13 for the trains (£8.20 Railcards) plus a bargain £3 for the 279 bus as a special concession rate for passengers holding rail tickets. Like the 271 yesterday, this route is deemed a ‘tourist route’ by Devon County Council and National Concessionary Passes are not valid (even though they are valid on routes 79 and 118 which cover the same route on Mondays to Saturdays).
Sadly the old Dartmoor Sunday Rover ticket which gave extra value by combining both bus and rail travel on journeys around and across Dartmoor was withdrawn after 2015 and hasn’t reappeared – although this didn’t include trains on the main line.
If you want a Sunday morning lie-in take the 11:08 GWR departure from Exeter St Davids to Okehampton which arrives at 11:54 giving plenty of time to connect with the only departure on the 279 at 12:20 which continues beyond Tavistock through to Gunnislake. But it’s well worth taking the first train of the morning from Exeter St Davids to Okehampton at 09:04 arriving at 09:50 giving plenty of time to take a ride on the Dartmoor Railway heritage line where they often run a former Thumper train (on my previous visit) ….
…..or an eclectic mix of locomotive and carriages including a Brake Van which you can travel on with a great forward view when being pushed from behind and an amazingly friendly guard called Don who gave a running commentary as happened this morning on the 10:15 from Okehampton…. ….and takes you to Meldon Viaduct and which is well worth a visit.
Alternatively the Exeter to Okehampton train stops at Crediton and Sampford Courtenay stations along the way both of which are interesting stop-offs to explore.
Crediton station is on the Barnstaple line and has some lovely heritage signs and posters and is lovingly maintained.
Sampford Courtenay is one of Britain’s quirkiest stations; only open in the summer; sees just the four trains each way, each Sunday; has a grass covered platform; has no facilities whatsoever other than a bench seat; has a locked gate to the platform which the guard on the first train of the day unlocks and the guard on the last train of the day locks up. (Interestingly two passengers were waiting to access the station and board the train when we arrived this morning.)
And that’s about it for facilities. It’s about a four mile walk to Okehampton if you choose to get off at Sampford Courtenay – the photo below was from a previous visit.
Okehampton station itself is about a ten minute walk from the town centre but there’s a popular cafe in the station which does a brisk trade on a Sunday with rail enthusiasts, walkers and cyclists and there are stalls selling railway memorabilia for the heritage Dartmoor Railway.
It was great to see the GWR trains busy today – 30 passengers were on the first train and a good load was waiting to board the return journey to Exeter.
The return of the 279 bus route after its three year absence is very welcome as not only does it make this circular tour possible but it’s a great scenic route in its own right.
The timetable is fairly limited but the 12:20 journey to Gunnislake is ideal with train connections at both ends if you’re doing the circuit anti-clockwise from Exeter as are the two journeys from Gunnislake at 10:05 and 14:00, for a clockwise circuit, which connect with trains from Plymouth as well as at Okehampton (see timetable below).
Go-ahead owned Plymouth Citybus operates the route from its small depot in Callington. It follows the A386 from Okehampton towards Tavistock all along the western perimeter of Dartmoor save for a couple of deviations to the west to serve Bridestowe and Lydford.
The last time I travelled on this route (when it was numbered 187 rather than 279) was in the summer of 2015, when it was operated by First Bus and they still had a presence in this part of Devon. It wasn’t First Bus at their finest and not surprisingly they quit Devon soon affter this uninviting, unkept and filthy Dennis Dart appeared on what should be a lovely tourist route! An appropriate epitaph to the old style First Bus in Devon.
There were nine of us on the 12:20 journey this afternoon all doing the same round trip, which was quite an impressive turn out. Another passenger boarded just outside Okehampton and travelled to Tavistock. Our driver observed it’s the most he’s seen as no one travelled last time he did the trip. He’s based at Liskeard depot as no-one from Callington wants to do the Sunday rest day work containing the 279!
The former route 187 included a diversion to serve the tourist attraction of Morwellham Quay between Tavistock and Gunnislake. It’s a former copper mine, which is now a “working” museum (along the Beamish lines) including a fascinating train ride into one of the old mines. Sadly the updated 279 no longer serves this attraction but continues direct to Gunnislake arriving at 13:45 for the GWR train departure at 13:58 for Plymouth.
We made good time on the journey this afternoon and arrived into Tavistock with enough slack for a fifteen minute leg stretch pause in the bus station and even leaving there on time arrived Gunnislake five minutes early so there’s plenty of time to include Morwellham Quay on the way if desired.
On a previous visit to Gunnislake station in Spring 2018 I noticed the old 187 timetable for Summer 2015 (its last year of operation) with its more frequent service was still on display in the bus shelter and I tweeted Plymouth CityBus to let them know. Frustratingly it was still there this afternoon and sadly there was no mention of the new 279 timetable.
This is very unfortunate particularly as there was superb information at Okehampton in both the station and the authentic bus stop outside.
The contrast couldn’t be more stark.
The Tamar Valley Line between Gunnislake and Plymouth is my favourite Devon branch line with its narrow twists and turns as it follows the valley down through the delightful villages of Calstock and Bere Alston. This section of the line was originally built as a narrow gauge railway to serve the extensive copper mines in the area so when it was upgraded to standard gauge it wasn’t surprising the train brushed against trees and bushes lining the tracks, and still does in places.
The viaduct over the River Tamar at Calstock is just one of the spectacular sights on the journey….
….and it’s also worth looking out for the two ungated level crossings which are very unusual for a full size passenger rail line in regular use.
At Bere Alston the train reverses back from the stub of the line (which used to continue to Tavistock and Okehampton) before continuing south down the valley to the wonderful Bere Ferrers (and note the ‘Beer Ferris’ spelling on the former signal box in the photograph below!).
Now here’s a station well worth stopping off at and having a look around if you have time.
Not only is the station itself done out in splendid heritage signs and posters but Chris Grove who lives in the former booking office owns the neighbouring land which he’s turned into a Heritage Centre with an eclectic mix of railway carriages, diesel locomotives, a yard crane, turntable, a fully working signal box controlling the adjacent track which although only 300 yards long can accommodate three engines running at the same time, as well as a model railway layout, exhibitions, memorabilia, paraphernalia and more. It’s a fascinating place and if you’re really keen, Chris offers accommodation and meals in some of the carriages. I didn’t have time to visit today but I thoroughly enjoyed my visit when passing through last weekend and Chris was a great host.
Carrying on down the Tamar Valley the River becomes impressively wider as it’s joined by the River Tavy with the rail line bridging over the latter just before the rivers join.
The line then continues under the Great Western main line with restricted views of the famous Royal Albert bridge behind the not so famous road bridge ….
….before the branch joins the main line itself just after St Budeaux Victoria Road (alongside St Budeaux Ferry Road on the main line). Continuing into Plymouth there are magnificent views of the Dockyard as this section of the tour comes to an end.
It’s a summer Sunday afternoon, so expect the last leg of this circular trip to be busy; the main line ride from Plymouth to Exeter. I’ve taken many journeys back from the West Country on a Sunday afternoon and the train is invariably packed even before it leaves Cornwall. The Gunnislake train arrives into Plymouth at 14:43 with a handy fifteen minute connection on to the 14:58 GWR train back to Exeter St Davids arriving there at 15:57. However, this train comes up from Penzance and is notorious for being ‘rammed’.
This afternoon, I instead opted to take the next eastbound departure from Plymouth at 15:12 which is a GWR train crucially starting its London bound journey there so a much better chance of a decent seat.
It arrived into Exeter at 16:07 just ten minutes later than the Penzance originating train did.
This final leg of the circular tour provides a lovely hour’s scenic ride through Ivybridge, Totnes, Newton Abbot and Teignmouth before the crème de la crème, the gorgeous section of line through Dawlish.
After that it’s back into Exeter after a wonderful day in Devon.
However, I’m now heading on to Bristol and Cardiff for more bus and train travels tomorrow.
PS It was great to meet blog reader David also doing this round trip today as well as Phil from Modern Railways magazine who was enjoying a return ride on the Gunnislake branch this afternoon.
PPS Just to let you know the great lengths I go to capture photographs for this blog included last weekend’s visit to Bere Ferrers Heritage Centre when Chris kindly offered for me to capture the GWR train coming into the station from a vantage point high up on one of his heritage signals – note the high viz, so it was perfectly safe for me to do that – indeed it was a great honour as Chris said no-one other than him had climbed up before!
New sleeper turns into a bad dream
There’s something seriously amiss with Caledonian Sleeper’s train service.
I’ve blogged about the new Mark 5 coaches a couple of times recently (here and here) highlighting the teething problems I encountered, in particular no water in the en-suite shower in my supposedly swanky new ‘Club’ room on two of the three journeys as well as a number of other niggles.
These included an emergency stop and losing all the electrics when heading south around Preston in the early hours of Tuesday 4th June. The sharpness of the braking followed by an eerie silence and two or three attempts to reboot the train’s control systems over the next ten minutes was enough to wake most of us up and a consequential disturbed night.
We got going again on that occasion and thankfully arrived into Euston with no further incidents. Not that trip anyway, but a much more serious fault necessitating another emergency stop happened a week later on Tuesday 11th June as the Lowlander service headed north to Glasgow and Edinburgh coming to a sudden halt in Stafford. This resulted in serious damage to the train’s wheels such the train couldn’t continue and coaches had to be summoned in the early hours to take passengers on to Glasgow and Edinburgh by road. Not a particularly edifying or attractive proposition when you’re probably already dressed for bed and maybe even nodding off.
Every night since that incident two weeks ago Caledonian Sleeper have been cancelling one of the journeys, either northbound or southbound between either Glasgow or Edinburgh and London. Alternative options for booked passengers offered by Caledonian Sleeper are either taking a daytime Virgin Trains journey or a replacement overnight coach on the motorway; neither option being particularly acceptable when it’s likely you’ve already made onward travel plans or have other commitments necessitating overnight travel.
An overnight coach on the motorway is hardly an acceptable alternative when you might have paid £230 for a new en-suite single room or even £335 for a double room, albeit Caledonian Sleeper are giving full refunds, but it’s likely many passengers would prefer flying as an alternative with a night in a hotel, I know I would, but that doesn’t seem to be on offer as a alternative.
Caledonian Sleeper have been making much of the luxury offered by their new deluxe sleeper coaches, offering a “timeless experience”; it’s just a pity “timeless” is turning out to be “trainless”. The problem being expectations have been seriously raised with Caledonian Sleeper hyping up their new ‘hotel-on-wheels’ at five star prices – it’s £395 for a Club double room on the Highlander between London and Fort William/Aberdeen/Inverness for a single night journey (and no Railcard discounts are available), that’s just shy of £800 for a return journey or ‘two nights stay’ – and for that you expect five star service, not ‘replacement road transport’.
Even if everything is running smoothly you’d think paying £395 for a night’s sleep, albeit coupled with a 570 mile journey, would include more than just one complimentary hot drink with a measly breakfast. I was taken aback to find a few coffee granules, a cup of hot water and UHT milk sachets came at a charge of £2.70 on top of that £395 fare – what an absolute rip-off. You even get unlimited complimentary coffee in the cheapest Travelodge deal.
With the ongoing teething problems it obviously made sense for Caledonian Sleeper to pull the planned introduction of Mark 5 coaches on to the Highlander service which had been scheduled for the beginning of this month (and which was already well delayed from the planned 2018 launch). It’s now been pushed back to “early July”, (update… Wednesday 26th June – just announced now put back to September) but for some time passengers have been booking their journeys assuming new en-suite rooms at the significantly enhanced prices as advertised on the glossy Caledonian Sleeper website only to later receive a refund on the difference between new and old pricing as disappointed passengers are told it’s the old coaches for them, for now.
Mind you that’s better than having the disaster that is the new rolling stock at the moment, but even those trusty old coaches are showing signs of age and lack of investment making it feel like very poor value for money as well as unreliable.
On my LEJOG trip with Geoff and Vicki last week our Inverness train had standard toilets out of action while the accessible toilet next to the lounge coach had no water making it unhygienic and unacceptable. At about 6pm prior to the train leaving Euston a text was received advising there’d be no lounge car that evening thereby meaning no refreshments available, but when we got wind from other sources that may not be the case, I rang Caledonian Sleeper to query it only to be told the email had been sent out in error and there would be a lounge coach after all. There was no explanation when I asked why a corrected email hadn’t been sent leaving a feeling of shambolic incompetence.
Even worse the Fort William section of the train that evening developed an engine fault in the West Highlands meaning passengers arrived into Fort William over three and a half hours late after 13:30.
There was then a hiatus for Friday night’s southbound journey from Fort William when it was announced the train was cancelled due to “staff having insufficient rest” following the late arrival that morning so “guests” (Caledonian Sleeper’s corporate spin is still insisting on calling us all ‘guests’ despite clearly not being able to run a hotel) were told on social media they’d have to travel by coach (“replacement road transport”) over to Edinburgh, arriving in the middle of the night, with a transfer on to the train from there.
A further tweet advised arrangements had been made for refreshments to be available at the Jury’s Inn in Edinburgh where “guests” could also wait before boarding the train, but twitter was awash with disgruntled passengers saying coach drivers dropped them off at Edinburgh Waverley station with no mention of hotel refreshments.
Again, it gives the impression of total incompetence.
Meanwhile it wasn’t much better on the southbound service on Friday night either with new coaches on the Lowlander service coming to a halt at Acton Bridge just south of Crewe with passengers having to make their way down to London once Virgin Trains and West Midlands Trains got going in the morning.
These latest disasters on Friday came just twenty hour hours after there was confidence on Thursday wheel problems on the damaged train from 11th June would finally be fixed for the weekend …
…. with Caledonian Sleeper tweeting things “are due to return to normal”.
It’s turned out not to be the case with the Glasgow bound journey cancelled last night yet again.
This raises the question of why other sets of new coaches are not being introduced into service. Somewhere sidings must be full of new coaches bearing in mind the new trains were due into service on both the Lowlander and Highlander services from 2nd June. This implies there are still issues with the new trains yet to be resolved beyond problems with wheels damaged on 11th June.
I can’t help thinking Serco – the company running the Caledonian Sleeper franchise – are completely out of their outsourcing depth running this specialist type of train service. It’s all very well hyping up running a luxury ‘hotel on wheels’ but is it practical? Is the business model charging exhorbitant five star prices, raising expectations for a high standard of service, achievable on an overnight train between London and Scotland? Sadly Caledonian Sleeper is rapidly gaining a reputation worse than Fawlty Towers.
Serco must be losing a fortune over the present shenanigans (although I’m sure there’ll be some contingent liability passed on to the Spanish manufacturer CAF too) but it shouldn’t be forgotten the sleeper service attracts massive public subsidy to keep it going. OK, there are far fewer passengers impacted than in the GTR or Northern Rail fiasco last May but proportionately the disruption per journey is far worse. A 25% failure rate on the Lowlander service at the moment.
Yet taking a look at the Caledonian Sleeper website it’s as though nothing is wrong and it’s all sweetness and light. Where’s the contrite apology from the managing director at what has become a complete shambles of a service? Not a word, just the same continued hype. Quite extraordinary head-in-the-sand PR.
I feel sorry for the stressed out staff on the trains and in customer service, sorry, “Guest Service Centre” where “Guest Ambassadors” work. Word of advice Serco. Ditch the ridiculous corporate hype and get back to basics of delivering a proper service. And you really have got to do much better at letting passengers know what’s happening more in advance than you’re doing; it’s not like catching a commuter train home; canacelling an overnight sleeper means huge distruption to people’s travel plans possibly including ruined holidays.
Unsurprisingly Caledonian Sleeper’s reputation is currently being trashed every day on Twitter.
Tuesday 25th June, midday update: as I publish this blog, there’s no word from Caledonian Sleeper whether tonight’s Lowlander service will run as normal or which of the four portions (Glasgow/Edinburgh – northbound/southbound) will once again be cancelled. A quite extraordinary way to run a train service, let alone a sleeper service.
BusAndTrainUser Comment, Sloppy service, This is going all wrong, Train journeys 12 Comments June 25, 2019 June 26, 2019 6 Minutes
LEJOG: As it happened
This is the story of how a journey on the Longest Day of the year from Lands End to John O’Groats by ground public transport (that’s bus and train) unfolded in real time.
The original plan, as described in Wednesday’s (19th June) blog was to complete the end-to-end journey in just under 24 hours.
Except, that plan was so last month. Literally.
This adventure has been a long time in the making and on the way down to Penzance last night I realised First Kernow’s updated timetable for route A1, introduced for the summer on 26th May, means the planned departure from Lands End at 1334 has been retimed to depart six minutes later at 1340 which, together with an added six minutes running time to allow for summer traffic delays, makes for an arrival into Penzance at 1445 instead of the original time of 1433.
This gives an almost impossible tight four minute connection between bus and train at Penzance with our GWR train leaving for Plymouth at 1449.
Team LEJOG had a bit of a conflab late into the night on the Sleeper from Paddington …. at least as far as passing Swindon around 0130 this morning …. and we decided to forget about achieving any sub 24 hour timings with inherent risks of a missed connection even before we’d left Cornwall and enjoy a more relaxed travel lifestyle by taking advantage of the now more frequent hourly summer A1 timetable (it was two-hourly) and start our adventure an hour earlier this morning on the 1240 from Lands End rather than the risky 1340, and be happy with a 24 hour 45 minute end-to-end journey time.
So here we are…….it’s now….
0755 And all’s well.
GWR’s Night Riviera brought us to Penzance spot on time having left Paddington last night at 2345.
It’s a really lovely refurbished sleeper too. It may not have the en-suite options now offered by Caledonian Sleeper (together with their troublesome teething problems), but it’s still a very pleasant ambiance both in the berths and the lounge car.
I thought it a bit odd the window blind above the hidden sink had been replaced by a sticky cover over the window which I didn’t like to peel off so was unaware where we were on the journey especially in Cornwall in daylight but apparently its a temporary fix for a broken blind.
The lounge car is very nice and I must say I prefer it to the new Caledonian Mark 5 lounge car. This one also has a mix of seating layouts ….
…. as well as impossible to sit on bar stools …
which apparently are perch places ‘to lean against’ rather than sit on – pleased that was clarified for me in time!
Enough chit chat about Sleeper trains, it’s now ‘Breakfast in Penzance’ with a few hours spare before beginning our travel adventure proper in Lands End at 1240.
It was lovely to meet up and have breakfast with Karen and Phil who are All The Stations supporters and are currently on holiday in Cornwall and kindly gave us a lift down to Lands End in their hire car.
1240 Lands End
After the obligatory photographs to prove we are here ….
… it’s time to begin the adventure on our first bus the 1240 First Kernow A1 to Penzance. We left a couple of minutes late but no worries as our revised schedule gives us more time in Penzance.
And we also met the lovely Tony who coincidentally is also heading to John O’Groats raising money for Guide Dogs. He’s taking a route via London and the Caledonian ‘Highlander’ Sleeper to Inverness (as we’re catching that same train but from Crewe) and then he’s taking the (later) train to Thurso tomorrow morning rather than the Stagecoach X98 bus.
All good so far as we enjoy the lovely Cornish countryside and the narrow roads (Porthcurno below!).
Word of advice for any LEJOGers … allow plenty of time for delays on the A1 bus route especially through Treen….
1400 Penzance
We finally made it into Penzance fifteen minutes late at 1359 and 30 seconds due to all the traffic delays and as Tony with his guide dog Gaynor are booked on the 1400 to Paddington, our bus driver kindly stopped right by the entrance to the station and Geoff jumped off to sprint ahead to try and hold the train for a few seconds with Tony, Gaynor, Vicki and I rushing along behind…
The train was just leaving ….
… but then came to a halt so we chased up the platform thinking the train manager in the rear cab had seen us ..
…. but to no avail, it was a brief emergency stop and the train headed out again leaving Tony behind.
Luckily he has now arranged a Plan B to catch the 1449 to Plymouth with us and then jump on the next train from there to Paddington arriving 2039 so he should just make it to Euston for the Highlander leaving at 2115 to Inverness.
We’ll see him again when we board that train ourselves in Crewe so for now we have a little time to relax……
….before our smartened up Class 150 takes us via ‘all the stations’ to Plymouth leaving at 1449 as per our original plan.
And Tony and the lovely Gaynor are with us…
1725 Plymouth
First a big shout out to Dominic at the Rail Delivery Group. who is monitoring our progress on social media, and GWR who held Tony’s train to Paddington at 1657 as our stopping train from Penzance was running four minutes late and arrived tantalisingly close at 1655. Pleased to say Tony and Gaynor and all the other connecting passengers easily made it.
We had a more sedate connection on to the 1725 Cross Country train to Leeds which we’re with as far as Tamworth at 2119.
2135 Tamworth
A great on time journey with Cross Country to Tamworth where we’ve changed from the upper level to the lower level on to the West Coast Main Line.
Four kind hearted well wishers have met us with plentiful provisions, including Martin who’s driven up from south London – what a lovely surprise.
Just time for some selfies with Geoff and Vicki as our next Virgin Trains arrives to take us on to Crewe.
2220 Crewe
There’s something a little eerie about waiting on a deserted Crewe station from 2217 to 2350 with everything closed but as well as the Tamworth provisions we now have more food delivered by another well wisher, Serf, alerted by Sarah, who lives nearby to Crewe.
It’s amazing and heartening to see the widespread admiration for Geoff and Vicki’s fantastic work documenting their travels on YouTube from supporters literally all across the country.
I’m still not sure what the point of these info-screens are, but at least they brighten up the platform.
I pressed the green ‘i’ button but nothing happened.
At least we know the Caledonian Sleeper to take us overnight to Inverness is on its way and, importantly, on time.
2350 and here it arrives, all sixteen coaches….
0000 Good night
0412 Good morning as that reassuring clunk and jolt, when you’re asleep on the Caledonian ‘Highlander’ Sleeper, lets you know it’s train split time in Edinburgh. This time I resisted the temptation to look out through the window blind in my berth at the deserted platform, save for high-viz wearing railway staff working hard to separate the train into its three separate portions to head north, and just carried on drifting in sleep until ….
0420 I was conscious we’d left Edinburgh and were moving but now we’ve stopped and my mind woke up and also clicked into gear thinking – why have we stopped, we mustn’t be delayed into Inverness. Luckily the pause was only for a short while and the wonderful ‘Real Time Trains’ website is showing us as waiting at a red signal at Haynarket junction for about eight minutes just now and a consequential four minutes late running as we’re now back on the move again and thankfully with a predicted on time arrival into Inverness.
0440 Good night.
0540 Perth
One minute early arriving into Perth. All looking good.
0700 The Cairngorms
I know they’re now getting on a bit but I love these old style lounge cars and there’s no better way of seeing the beautiful scenery Scotland offers.
More importantly Tony and Gaynor are now awake and up …
0814 Tomatin passing loop
We’ve made it to the passing loop at Tomatin on time and great to see the LNER Kings Cross bound train pass by just now also on time so now we have a clear track ahead into Inverness and are confident we’ll make our vital connection on to the X98 at 0850.
0840 Inverness
Our Sleeper is arriving into Inverness on time so it’s all good for the connection on to the Stagecoach X98 to Wick at 0850.
Not only that but a big surprise to be met off the train by Sir Peter Hendy, Chairman Network Rail (who was attending the AGM of the Friends of the Far North Line that morning) – thanks so much Peter for taking the trouble to meet us – even though we were dashing through for the bus it was a delight to stop and have a quick chat.
Then it was fond farewells to Tony and Gaynor and that dash to the X98 at the nearby bus station.
And another thanks – to Daniel and David, top bosses at Stagecoach North Scotland, for making sure our connection was made …
… and the right ticket was issued – a through ticket right to John O’Groats.
So now it’s the penultimate leg to Wick.
1130 Berridale Braes on the A9
In good news the expected delay at the long term roadworks on the A9 at Berridale Braes didn’t materialise as we passed through just now…
… catching a green phase not long after arriving …
…. but in not so good news we’re almost 15 minutes behind schedule anyway making that 15 minute connection in Wick looking tight.
However we’ve just arrived at ….
1135 Dunbeath
Where there’s a driver changeover and a little bit of stand time ….
….and its now 1140 and we’re off again now only ten minutes down so looking good again.
1220 Wick
Yes! We’ve arrived in Wick on time after all the delays on route and so now it’s on to the final leg – the 1235 route 177 to John O’Groats – it’s a Friday only school kids special – apparently a 66 seater with 64 kids on the ‘manifest’ so we’re banking on some kids not turning up today as there’s three of us and another passenger waiting!
1240 The Last Leg
In Wick our 177 has arrived with plenty of room and we’re off on the final leg to John O’Groats with the stop watch showing 23 hours and 57 minutes.
And there’s plenty of room on board too.
Nearly there!
Tantalising close.
But we’re doing a figure of eight type route to drop the school kids off!
John O’Groats
Made it.
It’s been an epic journey and in such great company. Huge thanks to Vicki and Geoff for joining me…
… and so pleased they managed to get both hats bringing an 874 mile journey to a celebratory end.
Having done the usual touristy stuff we’re now heading down to Thurso in a taxi to meet up with Tony and Gaynor and make sure they get safely on the route 80 bus up to John O’Groats for the end of their journey.
Here they are arriving at Thurso station….
…..and catching the 80 on their final journey leg to John O’Groats.
1630 Thurso
A welcome bite to eat has gone down well and we’re taking the late afternoon train from Thurso back to Inverness which brings this story to an end.
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LEJOG: The plan
To celebrate a year of blogging and the upcoming Longest Day of the year I’m heading down to Cornwall on GWR’s Night Riviera sleeper train tonight to begin an epic 24-hour Lands End to John O’Groats trip by bus and train beginning tomorrow, Thursday, afternoon.
On most weekdays, this famous journey can be accomplished in exactly 24 hours using ground based public transport; leaving Lands End at 13:34 on a First Kernow bus on route A1 and arriving John O’Groats excactly twenty-four hours later, coincidentally also at 13:34 on the Stagecoach route 77 arrival from Wick.
Over that twenty-four hours the journey involves taking the A1 bus to Penzance then a GWR train to Plymouth followed by a Cross Country train to Tamworth, a Virgin Train to Crewe and then the Caledonian Sleeper overnight to Inverness from where the Stagecoach X98 bus takes you to Wick to connect with that bus on route 77 to John O’Groats.
The timings are tight in places and it will be touch and go whether everything works out as planned along the way; but there’s no Plan B.
The A1 arrives Penzance at 14:33 giving a fairly comfotable 16 minute connection to the GWR train leaving at 14:49. This arrives Plymouth at 16:51 and the Cross Country departure is at 17:25 through to Tamworth arriving there at 21:18. Another comfortable 17 minute connection there on to the Virgin train at 21:35 and into Crewe at 22:17 for the Caledonian Sleeper at 23:50.
The crunch connection comes in Inverness with the Sleeper due to arrive at 08:39 on Friday morning while the Stagecoach X98 is scheduled to leave the nearby bus station for Wick at 08:50 allowing just 11 minutes. Fingers will be kept firmly crossed that this connection works, as a late arrival by the Sleeper will scuppour the schedule completely.
On arrival into Wick on the X98 at 12:20, the 77 which normally leaves at 1305 doesn’t run on a Friday schoolday at that time, as schools in the Highlands finish at lunch time on Fridays. so instead there’s a 177 schooldays only journey from Wick Community Campus at 12:35 which will arrive John O’Groats at 13:25 shaving nine minutes off the 24 hour timing making for a LEJOG attempt at 23 hours and 51 minutes.
Except another crunch point will come on that X98 journey as there are currently frustrating delays on the route at the infamous scenic Barriedale Braes coastal hairpin bends with road re-aligning works in full swing. Here’s hoping there’ll be no more than a fifteen minute hold up on the three hour thirty minute journey from Inverness and that vital connection to the 177 isn’t missed.
There is an official Guinness World Record held for this journey. Roy Bromet made it in 24 hours and 4 minutes in June 2016, so although this adventure is just for fun, it’ll be interesting to see if thirteen minutes can be shaved off this timing and a new record of 23 hours and 51 minutes achieved.
First Kernow, GWR, Cross Country, Virgin Trains, Caledonian Sleeper, Stagecoach North Scotland – is down to you!
I’ll be posting a live updated blog during the journey and for those who subscribe by email, you’re welcome to check out progress along the way by visiting either this blog’s home page or Twitter. A full blog will be posted out to subsribers at the end of the journey.
And it’s not just me; the lovely All The Stations couple Geoff and Vicki are coming along too, which must be a good omen for success. A brilliant Longest Day lies ahead.
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All steamed up in Ongar
The Epping Ongar Railway is having one of its popular steam weekends this weekend and I took a ride to the end of the Central Line to have a look.
Thanks to Roger Wright’s ownership interests, you can always count on decent bus connections from right outside Epping Station to North Weald using Roger’s extensive London Bus Company fleet of heritage London buses.
RTs and an RMA were among the vehicles out today providing a half hourly service between Epping and North Weald with some journeys continuing to Ongar and even Shenfield and they were all as busy as usual.
On the railway EOR had three steam engines providing an hourly service from North Weald east to Ongar as well as west to Coopersale where the line currently terminates in the middle of a forest but with no alighting or boarding facilities. It takes fifteen minutes to travel from North Weald to Ongar and around half that time to Coopersale along the single track line.
The three steam engines on parade yesterday included Met 1 (photographed above) famous for the honour of working the last steam-hauled London Transport passenger train in 1961 and now a regular attender at steam events in the London area from its base at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre ; 4270 (photographed below) a GWR 2-8-OT which spent its entire career hauling heavy coal trains in South Wales and now resides at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway; and 5197 (phoptographed further down the page) USA S160 a 2-8-0 locomotive designed for heavy freight work across Europe but spent much of its career in China before a life of preservation normally based on the Churnet Valley Railway.
Ongar is the original ‘start-of-the-line’ of the Central Line; the shuttle ‘Tube’ service between Epping and Ongar closed twenty-five years ago in 1994. It’s a nice Underground quirk that despite this all distances on the system are still measured from the zero mileage post situated literally at the end of the line at Ongar station.
Blake Hall station (between North Weald and Ongar), renowned for only having six passengers a day, closed back in 1981 when it was converted into a private residence and very nice it looks too as you steam by on the train.
There’s a great surprise inside the station building at Ongar this weekend as the brilliant railway painter Malcolm Root has a small exhibition displaying some of his original paintings in the ‘Penny Salon’, and how lovely it was to meet Malcolm there too.
His paintings are renowned for capturing an amazing level of detail not only of the locomotive and train itself but the whole atmosphere of the wider setting including people and other vehicles all in the period style.
The whole atmosphere on the Epping Ongar Railway yesterday was also brilliant helped by the dedicated staff and volunteers who take their roles impressively seriously as well as a great mixture of fine engines and old carriages reminding of a time when seats really felt grand to sit in and always lined up with windows.
There are aspirations to extend the EOR beyond Coopersale to terminate just before the current Epping Underground station at a new platform and station called Epping Glade. This would be a great addition and be a tremendous boost for the railway but it will be sad to see route 339 lose its raisin d’être.
Well done to Roger Wright and everyone involved at Epping Ongar Railway and London Bus Company for putting on a great event once again.
The three day steam weekend continues today, so depending on when you read this and where you live, why not pop along, or make a note of the next ‘1940s Steam Weekend’ on 22/23 June.
BusAndTrainUser Bus journeys, Heritage Railways, Train journeys 2 Comments June 9, 2019 June 12, 2019 2 Minutes
A day in Stranraer and The Rhins
It may not rank as high as the West Highland Line, the Kyle of Lochalsh Line or the Far North Line in the great Scottish Scenic Rail Lines stakes but ScotRail have rightly designated the line down to Stranraer as a Scenic Rail Journey and very justifiably so too.
While I was in Glasgow on Monday in between consecutive night sleeper train travels I took the opportunity to take another ride down to Stranraer and remind myself why I ranked it thirteenth in My Hundred Best Train Journeys when compiling that list at the end of last year.
It’s not that Stranraer itself is a must-visit destination, sadly the town is well past its prime now the Belfast ferry has moved further up the coast, leaving desolation where lorries and cars once formed their orderly queues before boarding.
It’s also not that the first part of the journey south from Glasgow is particularly scenic either. It’s not.
It’s not that the trains are spectacular either; they’re unrefurbished Class 156s similar to those that could be found on the top rated scenic lines in the West Highlands and Far North prior to those being revamped and improved. But they do offer tables and great window views, so I’m not complaining.
The line’s scenic reputation comes from the eighty minute ride south of Ayr on the single track section through the lovely stations at Maybole, Girvan, and Barhill.
It’s not that there are lochs. Nor mountains. Nor huge spectacular valleys.
It’s just mile after mile of stunning Scottish countryside with rolling hills, rivers and plenty of lush green landscape.
The Stranraer timetable is not particularly attractive either. It’s an approximate two-hourly frequency but only three journeys start in Glasgow (six hours apart at 0808, 1413 and 1813) with most of the other journeys starting in Kilmarnock. Even those Glasgow journeys are bettered by taking a later train on the more direct route to Ayr, saving twenty minutes, and having a handy 6 minute connection in Ayr to the earlier leaving Stranraer train that went the slower route via Kilmarnock.
As my sleeper arrived late into Glasgow at 0815 on Monday morning I had no option but to catch the 0830 to Ayr and connect there with the Stranraer train that had left Glasgow earlier at 0808 via Kilmarnock.
Sadly though, Monday morning was not a good start to the week for ScotRail with a number of incidents including cows on the line to Ayr necessitating slow cautionary progress resulting in a 16 minute late arrival in Ayr thereby missing the Stranraer train which hadn’t been held for the sake of leaving ten minutes later if it had waited for us.
Still, on the upside I had a bit of time to look at the major work now in progress to renovate and make safe the hotel above Ayr station which began as an emergency measure a few months ago when the building was suddenly declared dangerous necessitating the complete closure of the station and rail lines in the area at great inconvenience.
It turned out eight of us bound for Stranraer were left stranded in Ayr and in view of the two hour wait until the next train staff summoned an eight seater taxi which arrived in twenty minutes and we set off for the eighty minute drive down to Stranraer, which aside from the wait, took about the same journey time as the train.
I’d travelled this route before on Stagecoach’s route 60/360 and it’s a great scenic ride with some lovely coastal views contrasting with the more inland route taken by the train, so it made for an interesting and welcome variation.
I’d never ventured west of Stranraer before and decided to put that right on this visit and explore the hammer head shape every geography student is familiar with when drawing the coastline of Great Britain.
This headland peninsular is officially called The Rhins but apparently the locals don’t call it that. It protrudes out towards Belfast in the south western corner of Dumfries and Galloway.
Luckily when I was in Dumfries earlier this year I took a photograph of a bus map displayed in bus shelters in the town as in the frustrating absence of finding a bus map online to refer to, this proved invaluable in working out which bus routes to travel on to explore both ends and both sides of The Rhins. Update is I found the online map after publishing this post thanks to a helpful reader – see below for more explanation.
The timing worked perfectly to travel on the 1155 one-return-journey four-day-a-week departure on the McCullochs Coaches operated circular route 412 from Stranraer to Leswalt, Envie and Galdenoch (see map above).
This was a lovely thirty-five minute run with just me and one other passenger who alighted in Leswalt leaving just me to enjoy the trip round. The route was slightly curtailed due to a road closure but it was still an enjoyable and quiet rural ride.
The Fiat minibus has an interesting staggered 2+1 seat layout ….
…. and a livery which seems to be the base colours for the ‘south west of Scotland transport partnership’ brand as I saw another bus wearing similar colours and sporting a logo to that effect on route 500 to Dumfries operated by Stagecoach.
When I’d investigated the SWesttrans.org.uk website previously it just linked to a collection of minutes and agendas of Partnership Board Meetings. Most odd. However, I’m pleased to update following publishing this report someone has kindly pointed out the link to “Service Information” on the website which has a further link to Dumfries & Galloway timetables as well as a link under “Sustainable Travel” to the bus map referred to above. Why do authorities make it so hard to find these things?!
Back in Stranraer I switched to one of Stagecoach’s routes in the area, the 407, which runs all the way down to the southern end of The Rhines at Drummore.
This eight journey a day route is shared with McCullochs Coaches who operate two school journeys and Wigtownshire Community Transport who operate a journey at 1700. We took nine passengers as far as Sandhead which is half way along the 44 minute journey (see map above) but the second half was just me on board although we brought two back from Drummore and another half dozen from Sandhead on the return.
Stagecoach also operate route 408 up to Kirkolm to the north of The Rhines but sadly the 1410 departure didn’t arrive, or more possibly the driver of the 407 when he got back to Stranraer st 1402 didn’t change the blind. There’s one other route, the 387 to Portpatrick on the west coast which is shared between Stagecoach, DGC Buses and Wigtown Community Transport and a convoluted town route in Stranraer, the 365, which Stagecoach also operate.
Another quirky bus feature of Stranraer is the Ulsterbus garage a long way from its normal Northern Ireland territory but historically here for the Glasgow to Belfast service via the ferry, which as highlighted already, has moved further north.
Having enjoyed the scenic rides up and down the ‘hammer head’ I decided to head back to Glasgow on the 1500 ScotRail departure from Stranraer; the scenery as far as Ayr was as gorgeous as ever and I thoroughly enjoyed the journey.
Frustratingly this train arrives Ayr at exactly the same time a fast train leaves for Glasgow making a connection impossible so I continued to Kilmarnock (photographed below) where there’s a more convenient three minute connection across adjacent platforms to a train passing through from Carlisle and which gets into Glasgow at 1737, whereas if the connection had been possible in Ayr it would have meant an earlier 1710 arrival into Glasgow.
If ScotRail are serious about promoting the scenic delights of the Stranraer line I would strongly recommend reviewing those tight and missed connections and promoting the timetable better – for example whereas the Ayr trains which offer either tight or missed connections are shown in the Stranraer leaflet; the Kilmarnock connections aren’t.
Back in Glasgow I was impressed that Caledonian Sleeper was ready and waiting to board passengers at 2200, the promised time, and it wasn’t long before I was in bed and only vaguely aware we were on our way at the scheduled departure at 2340 back to London Euston. Everything went well until around 0300 when we made a wakening emergency stop in the Preston area. It turned out we’d lost power but after five minutes or so everything had been successfully rebooted and we were on our way again arriving into Euston slightly ahead of schedule . Annoyingly my shower didn’t work (again) along with the toilet flush packing up during the night and only a trickle of water from the basin tap in the morning. I experienced the same plumbing problems on my inaugural journey at the beginning of last month which indicates snagging issues are still very much to the fore on the new sleeper carriages.
In fact chatting to staff, they confirmed all is not going well, with continuing porblems and staff consequently taking flack from disgruntled passengers who’ve paid a handsome price for these en-suite extras. Sadly some staff are apparently having to go off sick due to the level of stress. It’s obviously a trying time for a Serco and Caledonian Sleeper and although disappointing, it’s a sensible decision to postpone converting the Highlander route to the new coaches until these problems are ironed out. I hear 7th July is the latest date envisgaed for their introduction.
Someone must be seriously losing out financially due to these delays and problems as the uptake in revenue to justify the new coaches must be well below budget as well as compensation being paid out for failing to deliver. Let’s hope all is resolved soon.
PS: yes that timetable case in Stranraer, captured in a photo above, was a bit disheveled…!
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Sleeping Beauty (not quite yet)
Monday 3rd June 2019
It was meant to be the grand launch night, last night.
Serco owned Caledonian Sleeper had planned to begin running their much delayed smart new Mark 5 trains on the Lowland route between London’s Euston station and Edinburgh and Glasgow from Sunday 2nd June so I bought a ticket to Glasgow a few months ago and planned an interesting day’s travels in Scotland before planning to return the following night (tonight) back to Euston.
Then Caledonian Sleeper announced the Highlander to Inverness/Aberdeen/Fort William would also launch with new coaches from the same date, 2nd June, which was really good news and with hindsight I wished I’d got a ticket on one of those journeys – Fort William on a Mark 5, just imagine.
But in the lottery that is trying to travel on Serco’s new Sleeper coaches Caledonian Sleeper brought forward the Lowlander launch with no public notice to Sunday 28th April even though bookings on their website were still for the old carriages right through until 2nd June.
As readers will know I managed to book a ticket during that first week on 3rd May and wrote about the experience in an earlier blog.
I looked into changing my tickets for 2nd/3rd June from Glasgow to a Highlander destination but decided to stick with another trip to Glasgow. This was just as well as a fortnight ago continuing teething problems with the new coaches led Caledonian Sleeper to postpone the launch of the upgraded Highlander route to ‘some time later in the summer’ with refunds now being offered to those who’d booked the super new ensuite rooms and now relegated back to old style berths.
Meanwhile I rolled up at Euston for my second new Mark 5 Sleeper experience last night ready for an earlier departure at 2134 – a couple of hours earlier than the normal 2350 departure time as we were heading up the East Coast Main Line due to ‘improvement works’ shutting the West Coast Main Line.
The Highlander was similarly affected with an earlier departure at 2028 than its usual 2115 set off time.
It’s not that the ECML is inherently longer or slower it’s that we have to still leave from Euston due to our 16 coach length needing long platforms that Kings Cross can’t offer so trains have to spend the first hour of the journey shunting up to Wembley sidings (or to give it’s official name – Wembley European Freight Operations Centre – known as ‘WMBYFET’ in the trade which incongruously even earns a place in the station listings – not that you can alight there!).
Having arrived at WMBYFET, and after a fairly lengthy pause, the train retraces its tracks back towards Euston again but branches off at Primrose Hill to reach the Overground’s North London Line at Camden Road and then an hour after leaving Euston you find yourself taking the curve on to the East Coast line at Copenhagen Junction just in front of Kings Cross station.
Except last night it all went pear shaped.
The omens were not good when I noticed the Highlander showing ‘Delayed’ but it did leave only 16 minutes late at 2144 which is in the ‘easy to make up’ bracket on such a slackly timed route.
We’d been reminded of our earlier departure by tweet and passengers arrived at Platform 15 ready for the promised 2100 access to rooms.
Except nothing happened at 2100 and the new style check in lecterns remained empty.
After a while a member of staff with a clipboard came and advised us he was waiting for the Train Manager to authorise boarding but we weren’t given any reason for the delay among much mobile phone call making by this key staff member.
To everyone’s relief at 2115 the necessary authorisation was given, the train doors were unlocked and check in began.
That late start put paid to a timely departure as check in was still underway at 2134 and not finished until 2145.
Back on board while passengers were settling in and grabbing a seat in the new and expanded lounge coach with its new and expensive (but obviously ‘locally sourced’) menu I was wondering why after a further hour had passed we were still sat in Platform 15 going nowhere.
I wandered down to the lounge car but the staff there explained they were too busy serving to even think about a reason why we hadn’t yet moved and nor did a member of staff in my carriage busily collecting up breakfast menus (still not updated for the new look Mark 5 menus) know of any reason for the delay.
I’m not sure whether the individual intercom/help buttons in each berth facilitate a general PA announcement throughout the train but none came and I decided not to disturb our obviously busy Train Manager with such a trivial enquiry as to why an hour after our scheduled departure we’d gone nowhere.
I checked the Caledonian Sleeper twitter feed but no news there either.
Just at that moment a whistle blew, the doors beeped and closed and I was relieved I hadn’t chosen that moment to wander back on to the platform as we were off.
With the benefit of hindsight I’m wondering why we were off as the 2044 departing Highlander had reached the Wembley sidings complex ten minutes later at 2055 but all was not well due to overhead power problems.
Indeed that train wasn’t on the move again for around three hours after a rescue engine had to be dispatched and there were also apparently further problems with one of the locos.
So it’s a mystery why we left when we did as presumably someone had a plan for how we wound circumnavigate the dud power cables. In the event we stopped further south than Wembley at Kilburn Park after just ten minutes into our journey at 2245 and sat there for the next two hours watching the occasional Virgin and LNWR train pass by, until finally at 0030 the Highlander passed us having been rescued and making its way south again and over to Camden Road, and we finally got going at 0051.
I’m sure it was a nightmare to sort out but it does seem to me there must have been poor communications between the ‘industry partners’ about what to do for the best and then communicate on to passengers in a timely fashion.
Following the above tweet at 2244 as we were departing, after the first hour’s delay, no more news came until 0115…
In the event, unlike the Highlander, we had the benefit of a lot of slack in our schedule and made up much of the delay. As we approached Edinburgh our expected arrival into Glasgow was given as a respectable 0730 – not too much delayed from our scheduled 0718.
Unfortunately we got held up again outside Edinburgh and then had to wait for staff to come and split the train as we continued on to Glasgow and further slow progress around Motherwell finally arriving into Glasgow Central just now at 0829 this morning – around an hour late – having had to wait for a platform as a late departing Virgin train left.
Not bad considering the three hours and more we were delayed earlier at Euston and Kilburn subsequently spoilt by slow progress since Edinburgh. But the fact we made up a lot of the delay is even more reason to give much more definitive reassurance to passengers (sorry, guests) on board about the delay – rather than nothing being said and a couple of tweets sometime later.
Finally for this post a few observations about the new Mark 5 coaches further to my report on 3rd May:
The keycard worked this time but only because I remembered how to programme it. There were no instructions accompanying or in the plain white envelope. I also asked a member of staff in the lounge car but he had no knowledge. I’m not sure how guests are supposed to know the ‘two tap’ secret – I asked another guest if they had instructions and she said her keycard too was just in a plain envelope.
The side destination panels were wrongly showing our train would be calling at stations on the West Coast Main Line – bit of a basic error that one!
The en-suite toilet flush is very noisy for your next door neighbour.
The intercom/help line is also very noisy – I heard my neighbours ringing tone and conversation very clearly.
The ‘bar stools’ in the lounge car are not very comfortable – more like perch stools.
On the plus side, my shower worked a treat this time and with nice hot water too.
And you just can’t beat waking up to a sunrise over the east coast as you travel towards Edinburgh…
… it’s a good job last night wasn’t the grand launch night. There may still be teething problems but I’m sure these will soon settle down and the service will become a Sleeping Beauty and be much admired – if not quite yet.
PS: I’m sure there’s a good reason but I do wonder why trains can’t ‘turn’ at Kilburn Park whenever using the ECML instead of continuing to Wembley; also seemed to me no reason to add all that extra time into the schedule. We could have left almost at the normal time last night … because we effectively did!
PPS: As we approached Glasgow just now there was an onboard announcement made apologising for the delay (’caused by a broken down train in the Wembley area last night’) but this was inaudible in the cabins.
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Medway Valley by train
Saturday 1st June 2019
There’s a lovely railway branch line which heads in a north/south direction across the centre of Kent where Southeastern trains shuttle up and down all day between Tonbridge in the Weald and Strood in the more industrial north of the county. It’s a quiet backwater line weaving its way between the main commuter lines heading east/west linking East Kent with London
It takes just over 50 minutes to travel the full journey from one end of the line to the other. Southeastern deploy two trains in the off peak every hour between Tongbridge and Strood with an extra train adding a half hourly frequency between Maidstone West (situated in the centre of the line) and Strood. In peak hours trains don’t make it all the way to Tonbridge but instead run every half hour between Paddock Wood (the station after Tonbridge and where there’s a little bay platform to turnback) and Strood.
Rather than being a dead-end branch line, the Medway Valley Line provides passengers with handy connections at both ends to High Speed Trains whisking you off to Ebbsfleet, Stratford and St Pancras International at Strood and at Tonbridge (or Paddock Wood) trains connect to London Bridge, Waterloo East and Charing Cross.
There are also connections at Tonbridge to the hourly Southern service via Edenbridge to Redhill; where there are connections south to Gatwick Airport (and Brighton) as well as west to Dorking, Guildford and Reading on the GWR diesel train service.
What a shame, now bi-mode trains are becoming fashionable, it isn’t possible to join all these east-west connections up and run a through train from Reading to Redhill, Tonbridge, Maidstone and on to Strood every hour; a bit like a railway M25.
There are two stations in Maidstone on the line, the one after Maidstone West (towards Strood) is called Maidstone Barracks even though the Invicta Park Barracks complex in the county town is a little way north east of the station the other side of the main A229 to Rochester and ironically closer to the main station in Maidstone called Maidstone East on the Victoria to Ashford line. The Barracks are scheduled to close in 2027 but I doubt the station will be renamed.
The best feature of this lovely branch line is the way it follows the course of the River Medway for most of the route once it turns off the main Tonbridge to Ashford line at Paddock Wood and the tracks head north continuing past such lovely stations as Beltring, Yalding, Wateringbury and East Fairleigh to Maidstone West. The line continues along the course of the River Medway north of Maidstone West but it becomes more urban and industrial in nature.
There’s a designated 28 mile walk all along the River Medway from Tonbridge to Rochester called appropriately enough the Medway Valley Walk; it’s part of the Long Distance Walkers Association portfolio of recommended walks.
Yalding station
I’m not energetic enough to tackle a walk of that length, but I’d noticed the delightful views of the Medway on previous train journeys as I travelled along the line and have long wanted to take a bite-sized walk to savour the views and the tranquil atmosphere alongside the river.
In fine sunny weather last Thursday I got off the train at Yalding which is where the rail tracks begin running alongside the River and took the footpath along the River’s west bank to the next station up the line, the aptly named Wateringbury. It didn’t take long and I was in plenty of time to catch the next northbound train an hour later.
Yalding and Wateringbury have small boat marinas on the River Medway close to both stations which make for a picturesque addition to the scenery.
This line is a real gem in Kent’s busy rail network. It’s why I ranked it No 29 in my Hundred Best Train Journeys at the end of last year. It’s overseen by the Kent Community Partnership who have produced a very informative video on their website about the line and do their best to promote it and share its delights, as I’m doing now.
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Union of Northern Workers removes Local 1 executives
May 9, 2018 - Ollie Williams - May 9, 2018
Union members protest outside the NWT legislature in March 2018. Ollie Williams/Cabin Radio
The Union of Northern Workers (UNW) has removed the three leading members at one of its most prominent local branches.
Local 1, which represents 800 Yellowknife-based territorial government workers, is now in trusteeship – meaning it will be run indefinitely by three senior UNW officers.
In a letter released at the end of April, the UNW said Local 1's executive had failed to meet its responsibilities under the union's bylaws. The union says Local 1 did not hold enough meetings, did not keep accurate minutes, and was not providing sufficient financial reporting.
"As many of our activists and local officers are volunteers, sometimes they have challenges completing the requirements of our bylaws and regulations," UNW president Todd Parsons told the CBC. "We saw that the Local 1 was struggling."
Only three members of Local 1's executive were listed after a November election. They were president Brad Enge, vice-president Carol Moore, and treasurer Audrey Enge. The secretary's position was vacant.
In recent months, Local 1's Facebook page carried at least one message at odds with elements of the union's campaigning.
While UNW leaders held a strike mandate vote regarding their collective bargaining dispute with the territorial government, someone posting in Local 1's name on March 26 told the local's followers: "This is a post from a concerned member that I'm reposting. I'm sharing with the words of a fellow GNWT employee, because she summed it up so well.
"A reminder for GNWT UNW members that today and tomorrow are once again the opportunity to cast your vote against, or in favour of a strike mandate.
"A reminder that now is a time to use your voice. A majority 'yes' outcome means that if no agreement is reached at the table afterwards between the government and the union, that strike will happen. Contrary to what is being alluded to by the union, there is absolutely no guarantee as to how long a strike will go on for."
Two weeks after that post was published, on April 10, the UNW's director of finance and administration – Melissa Pohajdak – commented beneath it to say Local 1 had been placed in trusteeship. The UNW's letter to Local 1 members advising of that move is dated April 30.
Enge, the president until UNW intervened, had earlier posted about taking significant time away from his work and volunteer duties through medical leave.
The three UNW trustees now controlling Local 1 are first vice-president Gayla Thunstrom, second vice-president Nicole Tews, and Somba K'e regional vice-president Josée-Anne Thibault.
Those trustees will remain in place until a new executive is elected or the local is dismantled into smaller branches.
An information session for Local 1 members will be held on Monday, May 14, at 5:30pm inside the North Star building on Yellowknife's 53 Street.
Local 1's members are territorial government workers based in Yellowknife with the exception of hospital staff, WSCC employees, and staff at the departments of health and social services, infrastructure, and justice. Members also include staff at the NWT Housing Corporation, Yellowknife Housing, and the francophone school board's non-teaching workers.
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Home Investment Didi Chuxing to expand presence in bike-share market
Didi Chuxing to expand presence in bike-share market
on: January 03, 2018 In: Investment, Tech, Media & Telecom, Transport & LogisticsTags: No Comments
Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing has agreed a deal to buy out struggling bike-sharing startup Blugogo, sources close to the matter told Caixin.
The two companies confirmed an agreement for the acquisition in late December, though the transaction is yet to be completed, sources said. Cash-strapped Bluegogo has suspended its business since November and has let go of most of its workers.
Established in November 2016, Bluegogo is one of dozens of bike-sharing startups that have sprung up in Chinese cities over the past two years. The company operated in major domestic cities including Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Chengdu and Beijing, according to company reports, and also expanded overseas to Los Angeles. But the company faced a capital crunch in late-2017 due to the fierce price wars in the industry.
Didi’s takeover of Bluegogo reflects the company’s long-held goal of expanding into bike-sharing. In 2017, Didi became the top investor in industry-leading Ofo with a 25% stake after participating in two funding rounds.
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How much warming in the pipeline? Part II – it’s as tricky as ABC
Warming ‘in the pipeline’ is a term used to describe lags and inertia in the climate system. As explained in my previous post on this topic, the planet is committed to further heating and sea level rise, irrespective of what choices we make now, or in the immediate future, to reduce carbon emissions. The global warming trend over the last 100 years (actually, from 1906 to 2005), of 0.56°C to 0.92°C, is not all that we would have expected. That is, there is a ‘missing’ quanta of warming, which is being hidden by a number of poorly understood factors.
First, let’s consider 21st century carbon emissions mitigation scenarios. A range of possible future energy and economic development storylines have been developed by the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES), such as A1FI, A2, B1 etc. (based on global vs regional action, and different tech pathways). For details, see here. These scenarios were used as a basis for the IPCC 2007 AR4 projections of future climate change. Two important points with these SRES storylines: (i) there is no explicit preference given to any particular scenario, and (ii) they are not active mitigation scenarios (mitigation is a byproduct of economic, social and technology choices). As such, it can be confusing to work out what ‘is likely’, and indeed, whether any are particularly realistic.
More usefully in terms of future predictions, a recent paper in PNAS by Van Vuuren and co-workers (including a friend of mine, Tom Wigley, who is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide), assessed the impact on climate change of some plausible real-world actions. Here is the abstract, with some bolding by me:
Estimates of 21st Century global-mean surface temperature increase have generally been based on scenarios that do not include climate policies. Newly developed multigas mitigation scenarios, based on a wide range of modeling approaches and socioeconomic assumptions, now allow the assessment of possible impacts of climate policies on projected warming ranges. This article assesses the atmospheric CO2 concentrations, radiative forcing, and temperature increase for these new scenarios using two reduced-complexity climate models. These scenarios result in temperature increase of 0.5-4.4°C over 1990 levels or 0.3-3.4°C less than the no-policy cases. The range results from differences in the assumed stringency of climate policy and uncertainty in our understanding of the climate system. Notably, an average minimum warming of ≈1.4°C (with a full range of 0.5-2.8°C) remains for even the most stringent stabilization scenarios analyzed here. This value is substantially above previously estimated committed warming based on climate system inertia alone. The results show that, although ambitious mitigation efforts can significantly reduce global warming, adaptation measures will be needed in addition to mitigation to reduce the impact of the residual warming.
Their conclusion? Even with a strong and concerted effort towards rapid carbon mitigation, we are committed to 0.5 to 2.8°C additional warming (on top of what has already been experienced), due to the combined effects of climate system, economic and technological inertia.
This sobering view is supported by many climate scientists in this field; most prominently, by Prof V Ramanathan of University of California — San Diego. Ram is the scientific guru of the study of tropospheric aerosols (soot, dust, sulphates, nitrates and other chemicals that together constitute the low-lying ‘haze’ seen over polluted cities worldwide, and now, large parts of Asia). Aerosols can cool the climate by reflecting solar energy back out to space before it has a chance to be absorbed and re-emitted as infrared radition by the Earth’s surface, and also warm the climate by absorbing extra energy in the lower atmosphere (coming mostly from incompletely burnt carbon from coal-fired power stations and dung braziers). Collectively, it’s called the Atmospheric Brown Cloud (it used to be known as the Asian Brown Cloud, ’cause that is where most of it is). Also known as ABC.
Last year, Ramanathan and co-author Y. Feng published a remarkable paper in PNAS called “On avoiding dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system: Formidable challenges ahead“). Here, once again, is the abstract:
The observed increase in the concentration of greenhouse gases (GHGs) since the preindustrial era has most likely committed the world to a warming of 2.4°C (1.4°C to 4.3°C) above the preindustrial surface temperatures. The committed warming is inferred from the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates of the greenhouse forcing and climate sensitivity. The estimated warming of 2.4°C is the equilibrium warming above preindustrial temperatures that the world will observe even if GHG concentrations are held fixed at their 2005 concentration levels but without any other anthropogenic forcing such as the cooling effect of aerosols. The range of 1.4°C to 4.3°C in the committed warming overlaps and surpasses the currently perceived threshold range of 1°C to 3°C for dangerous anthropogenic interference with many of the climate-tipping elements such as the summer arctic sea ice, Himalayan-Tibetan glaciers, and the Greenland Ice Sheet. IPCC models suggest that ≈25% (0.6°C) of the committed warming has been realized as of now. About 90% or more of the rest of the committed warming of 1.6°C will unfold during the 21st century, determined by the rate of the unmasking of the aerosol cooling effect by air pollution abatement laws and by the rate of release of the GHGs-forcing stored in the oceans. The accompanying sea-level rise can continue for more than several centuries. Lastly, even the most aggressive CO2 mitigation steps as envisioned now can only limit further additions to the committed warming, but not reduce the already committed GHGs warming of 2.4°C.
You can download the PDF of the full paper, for free, here. It’s an excellent piece that should, in the most part, be intelligible to the majority of interested readers.
The net climate-forcing effect of ABCs is much more poorly known than that of long-lived trace greenhouse gases, as explained here. Our best estimate is that in sum, ABCs cool the climate system — potentially offsetting more than half the warming we would have otherwise expected to date. That is, the new industries and traditional stoves of Asia may have delayed the worst impacts of climate change. Here is a key point made by R&F (I removed the reference numbers for clarify of reading here — see the original paper for the links to the relevant peer-reviewed literature; GHG = greenhouse gases, CEWGA = committed equilibrium warming from greenhouse gases and aerosols, Wm2 = watts per metre squared, DAI = dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system):
First, we have to consider the effect of aerosols, which start off as urban haze or rural smoke and ultimately become transcontinental and transoceanic plumes o ABCs consisting of sulfate, nitrate, hundreds of organics, black carbon, soil dust, fly ash, and other aerosols. ABCs have masked GHG warming by enhancing the albedo (percent of incoming solar radiation re-flected back to space) of the planet. A recent review of available literature estimates the masking effect of ABCs to be 47% (1.4 Wm2) with a 90% confidence interval of 20-80%. The IPCC-AR4 value for the masking is 40%. Effectively, the forcing ‘‘felt” by the climate system is only 53%, i.e., 1.3°C, which is identical to CEWGA, the committed warming adapted by earlier studies. About 8% of the committe warming (0.2°C) is compensated by increases in the surface albedo because of land-use changes; 20% (0.5°C) is delayed by the thermal inertia of the oceans and it is only the balance of 25%, i.e., 0.6°C, that should by now have manifested as observed warming. This algebraic exercise demonstrates that the observed surface warming of 0.76°C (since the latter half of 1800s) is not inconsistent with the committed warming of 2.4°C.
The fundamental deduction (subject to the assumption of IPCC climate sensitivity) is that if we get rid of the ABCs today the Earth could warm another 1.6° (which includes the delayed warming caused by ocean thermal inertia) unless we act now to reduce GHG concentrations. As shown by couple ocean atmosphere models used in IPCC, 50% of this warming can happen in few decades, and most of the balance will manifest during the course of this century. The situation with respect to sea-level rise is considerably more complex. Sea-level rise caused by thermal expansion (in the range of 10 to 30 cm per century) is likely to continue for centuries (even if the warming asymptotes to values close to CEWG by 2100) because of the time required for mixing of the heating to deeper oceans. In addition, the range of CEWG (1.4-4.3°C) raises another major DAI-related issue. As suggested by the IPCC the Greenland Ice Sheet can disappear completely if surface warming is maintained in excess of 1.9-4.6°C for millennia and raise sea level by 7 m or more.
Prof HJ Schellnhuber, Director of the Potsdam Institute, commented formally in PNAS on the R&F paper here: “Global warming: Stop worrying, start panicking?“. His conclusion was that R&F’s assessment is technically right, but, as Mark Twain once commented on a Wagner opera, it’s not as bad as it sounds. That is, there is still a fair chance that we can ‘hold the 2°C line’, if strong mitigation of greenhouse gases is combined with the following three actions: (i) a slow, rather than instant, elimination of aerosol cooling, (ii) a directed effort to first remove warming aerosols like black carbon, and (iii) a concerted and sustained programme, over this century, to draw-down excessive CO2 (geo- and bio-engineering) and simultaneously reduce non-CO2 forcings, such that the final equilibrium temperature rise will be lower than would otherwise be expected on the basis of current concentrations.
His bottom line? “This requires an industrial revolution for sustainability starting now“.
The main implication I draw is that some form of aerosol geoengineering is really really likely; first, just to make up for the global cooling effect lost as polluted cities clean their air, and later to buy time for decarbonization (and, I suspect, air capture).
posted 6 March 2009 at 11:38 AM by mitchell porter
Unless we suddenly become serious about removing most of the 500 GtC we added to the active carbon cycle.
As well as the yearly increment, of course.
posted 7 March 2009 at 10:02 AM by David B. Benson
willy Soon says it better than i can
It’s the Sun, stupid!
[Ed: Snip — just provide the link, not 700 words of regurgitated text. The comments section are for your own thoughts]
posted 7 March 2009 at 6:28 PM by Lindsay H
re: Lindsay H
See Skeptiical Science.
#1 on the list of long-debunked arguments is:
“It’s the Sun”
posted 8 March 2009 at 1:36 AM by John Mashey
Maybe some of the ‘masking problem’ could be explained by the ‘discredited’ data that shows CO2 levels were on average higher during 1800-1960 period than the 280ppm so often quoted. The figure for that period could have been as high as 335ppm but this was disregarded by Callendar to achieve the lower figure. This might explain why some extreme hot weather events happened prior to 1940. If a higher CO2 level is assumed for last century, would this factor help in explaining the ‘missing quanta of warming’ for recent temperature ranges?
posted 8 March 2009 at 7:10 AM by Ian George
Ian George (5) — This link
http://www.geocities.com/bpl1960/Correlation.html
explains most of the temperature anomolies for the past 128 years as due to CO2, as measured.
David Can’t access link – page not found.
Ian George (7) — I dropped the “l” off the end. The following should work.
[Ed: I also edited the original to fix]
posted 9 March 2009 at 9:15 AM by David B. Benson
http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/1748-9326/4/1/014006/erl9_1_014006.html
posted 9 March 2009 at 1:57 PM by Hank Roberts
David Thanks for this. I am trying to establish whether the graph (Fig 2) used by Callendar to average 19th century CO2 levels (based on actual air measurements) found on this link is flawed and why.
http://www.warwickhughes.com/icecore/
posted 9 March 2009 at 2:21 PM by Ian George
“The global warming trend over the last 100 years (actually, from 1906 to 2005), of 0.56°C to 0.92°C, is not all that we would have expected. That is, there is a ‘missing’ quanta of warming, which is being hidden by a number of poorly understood factors.”
In other words, the computer models would predict much more heating over the past century than has actually occurred. If we assume that the computer models are correct, then something we don’t understand well must account for the difference between the actual heating and what the computer models would expect.
An alternative theory is that the computer models have over-projected the amount of heating that can be expected from an increase in CO2.
I would be interested in any empirical evidence that suggests that the first alternative is more likely than the second.
posted 10 March 2009 at 4:46 AM by PaulD
Roger Pielke Snr has responded to your heating in the pipeline posts and says that you are wrong.
posted 10 March 2009 at 4:54 AM by Bishop Hill
Roger Pielke Snr’s cites Levitus 2001 to claim there has been no ocean heating and little ice melting since mid-2003.
First, I wonder how a 2001 paper can make any judgement on what happened since 2003. Second, the most recent publications on this topic, Levitus et al 2005 and Dominiques et al 2008, both show a large and ongoing gain in ocean heat content. See:
https://bravenewclimate.com/2008/11/23/what-bob-carter-and-andrew-bolt-fail-to-grasp/
As stated earlier, I agree with the point that tropospheric aerosols from fossil fuels are incredibly bad for human health and other environmental impacts (black carbon soot, acid rain, radioactive emissions, mercury poisoning), putting us in a situation of damned if we do, damned if we don’t.
posted 10 March 2009 at 5:40 AM by Barry Brook in reply to Bishop Hill
PaulD I looked over the figures for CO2 data (post 8 above) and ran them against NASA yearly global temps to check correlations.
From 1880 – 1910 there was a CO2 increase of 9ppm which resulted in a 0.15C drop in temp.
From 1910 -1940 there was a CO2 increase of 10ppm which resulted in an 0.5C increase in temp.
From 1940 – 1975 there was an increase of around 25ppm which resulted in a drop of 1.0C in temp (aerosols, pollution?).
From 1978 – 2008 there was an increase of around 50ppm which resulted in a rise of 0.45 in temp.
We can say that CO2 levels are rising rapidly but something is holding back the temperatures as the correlation between CO2 and temps are not consistent. For instance 1910-40 had the same temp rise as 1978-2008 with a 1/5th CO2 rise. However, one could conclude that a 75ppm CO2 increase has lead to a 0.45C rise in temps (ie 1940-2008) or an 86ppm CO2 increase has led to 0.9C rise (1910-2008). So maybe the models are wrong in their predictions. CO2 may be just a passive insulator which could account for higher minimum temps occurring. There is also some evidence that CO2 can only absorb a certain amount of heat but I’m not sure if this is correct.
posted 10 March 2009 at 1:48 PM by Ian George
Ian, check your arithmetic: -0.15+0.5-1.0+0.45 = +0.1C, yet the rise from 1880-1900 to 1990-2008 has been greater than +0.8C (NASA GISS or Hadley). Thus illustrates the problem with picking individual years as start-end points.
That ‘something’ holding back temperature rise is aerosols and inertia, mixed with volcanic, solar forcing and multi-year ocean-atmosphere dynamics (e.g. ENSO, PDO), as explained above and in the previous post on this topic, and other places on this blog. Your speculation about CO2 being a passive insulator etc. is just that – speculation. There are more robust, parsimonious explanations which fit with the theories and empirical data of physical science. But have fun musing — that’s what the non-peer-reviewed blogosphere is for.
posted 10 March 2009 at 2:20 PM by Barry Brook in reply to Ian George
Pielke’s references to recent data showing oceans failing to store heat are in this:
http://www.climatesci.org/publications/pdf/R-334.pdf
posted 10 March 2009 at 4:15 PM by Alan Wilkinson
Thanks Alan. An excellent write-up of this issue, including discussion of the Willis et al 2008 paper cited by Pielke, can be found here:
http://www.skepticalscience.com/Mystery-of-the-vanishing-ocean-heat.html
“However, upper ocean heat, like surface temperature, doesn’t follow a monotonically warming trend during global warming. Ocean temperatures experience interannual variability and over the past 3 decades of global warming have had several short periods of cooling… Argo takes measurements in the top 2000 metres of the ocean. Could the heat have moved to the deep ocean? This seems unlikely. Deep steric changes occur over time scales of decades or longer and aren’t expected to explain the discrepancy over the last 5 years (Antonov 2005)… Willis 2008 speculates that there is most likely a systematic error in at least one of the three observing systems which is introducing a linear trend. “
See also here for further details:
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/06/ocean-heat-content-revisions
“…But the big picture is that ocean heat content has indeed been increasing in recent decades, just like the models said it should.”
Both are worth reading to get a better understanding of OHC and how our knowledge of this critical measurement continues to be refined.
posted 10 March 2009 at 4:27 PM by Barry Brook in reply to Alan Wilkinson
We are behaving on the A1FI Scenario or above, so this is what we are heading towards.
The lower scenarios are hypothetical unless or until the global community changes its behaviour and there are no clear signs that humans are likely to change in the near future. When we do, additional feedback loops at very large scales may have already locked in.
When planning our future in areas such as the Murray Darling Basin, I think that we first need to acknowledge that we are headed towards the AiFI outcome which by the 2100 is around double the dangerous 2 degree climate change outcome, possibly up to triple dangerous climate change. So I find it strange that so organisations start picking supposedly low middle and high emission scenarios for planning work (all below the AiFI output).
The lower scenarios are not something that we are close to.
posted 10 March 2009 at 11:23 PM by Michael W
Barry Thanks for pointing out the typo – 1940-1975 should read 0.1C cooling, not 1.0C (the missing +0.1C occurred between 75-78). The reason I chose those periods was because they showed noticeable warming or cooling patterns. I ‘cherrypicked’ 1978-2008 as a 30 year period to match against 1910-1940.
posted 11 March 2009 at 6:03 AM by Ian George
Michael W — yes, we are following an A1FI pathway at present, but I cannot see that continuing. None of the SRES storylines are realistic. I suspect, realistically, that we’ll track above A1FI for another decade or so, and then fall well below it as we collectively get our act together (coupled with shortages in oil/gas and locally, coal, starting to bite). But in terms of impact management and risk aversion, we need to plan for the worst, because even if we don’t follow the A1FI path to hell, the impact side of the equation could turn out to be more sensitive the climate system disruption than the mid-range expectation.
IG – no problem, I wasn’t accusing you of cherry picking, simply trying to work out where your maths went wrong. A difference between 1C and 0.1C is rather large in this context, after all :)
posted 11 March 2009 at 8:17 AM by Barry Brook in reply to Michael W
Ian George (10, 14) — Regarding the ice core CO2 data, you could compare all the Antarctic ones to see the variations. I doubt there is any statistically noticable effect as the problems of collecting data from ice cores have been repeatedly and exhaustively studied. But whatever you do, be sure to test for statistical significance (ss); I doubt that your short time studies possess ss as it usually requires at least 30 years of data when doing climatological studies.
The IR properties of carbon diioxide are rather complex. I’m quite satisfied with the empirical formula in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Arrhenius#Greenhouse_effect
rather than attempting the postgraduate texts in atmospheric physics.
posted 11 March 2009 at 8:26 AM by David B. Benson
Shortages of coal????
posted 11 March 2009 at 8:35 AM by PeterW
I said locally PeterW. China, for instance, is already hitting shortages: mine output relative to domestic demand — it’s the world’s largest coal producer but now a net importer. Limitations will be how much can be shipped out from ports of countries with an abundance of the black stuff. Worldwide reserves of economically recoverable coal would last 80-125 years, depending on future levels of use. But that’s not a globally even supply.
posted 11 March 2009 at 8:50 AM by Barry Brook in reply to PeterW
Slightly off the point of this blog but here goes.
Regardless of AGW, CC, sea level change, etc – why the govt is not investing in sustainable, ‘green’ energy is beyond me. Surely it makes sense to access a free supply of energy (eg wind, tidal, solar, geothermal, etc) and to wean ourselves off depleting supplies of fossil fuels. The infrastructure will initially be costly – we may even have to increase our C)2 levels to create that infrastructure. But the savings down the track in lowering pollution levels, lessening land degradation and accessing free sources is the only sensible option.
posted 11 March 2009 at 10:40 AM by Ian George
Barry, I was involved in a coal gas exploration project recently and as part of the project quite a number of large bore holes were drilled in VERY large prospective area.
Every drill hole revealed layer upon layer of high grade black coal – that is EVERY hole over an area of thousands of hectares and hundreds of metres of depth.
Further exploration showed these ‘reserves’ continued into other geological provinces to the north south, east and west.
Unfortunately for the exploration company the gas in the seams was not economically viable – not enough water or pressure in the seams or something like that (at the moment) as were the coal seams themselves given the shallower deposits already being exploited nearby.
The geologists on the job were not surprised at the extraordinary amount of coal revealed – they commented that every province they had explored for coal seam gas in Australia, the US, China and India had similar results ( as will Antarctica).
I was astonished at the numerous thick layers of coal revealed by the drill cores – it was seemingly endless and the geos calculated the total coal reserve (reserve used inappropriately by me) revealed by this exploration effort contained many times the known documented reserve in Australia.
The exploration company archived their drill results and moved on, but the resources they identified were reported to their investors and flagged for further attention – perhaps in 20 or 30 years was one comment.
As a result of this and a number of similar experiences I have been exposed to many exploitable resources drilled, explored, mapped and marked in confidential company archives for later attention, so as far as I’m concerned the ‘local’ or otherwise shortage of coal is a myth.
I might add this applies to gold, iron ore, nickel and many other minerals as well – especially gold though ;-P
posted 13 March 2009 at 12:11 AM by PeterW
Two relevant articles in this week’s Science, one on coal supplies:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/323/5920/1420
and another on increased aerosol dimming:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/323/5920/1468
PeterW — coal supply is ultimately all about economics of recovery and EROEI. I have no doubt you are right that there are many trillions of tonnes of coal still harvestable in the upper crust — it’s just a matter of whether anyone can be bothered. A carbon price would help dissuade them, for sure. More fundamentally, I agree with the principle that to depend on ‘peak coal’ as a saviour of future CO2 emissions is a bad, highly risky bet indeed. There’s plenty left to take us to unpleasant places in the future.
Given that surface temperatures have levelled off / slightly dipped for the last decade, what would be your response to a discovery that that the oceans have also not warmed over that period – i.e. that actually there is no warming waiting in the ‘pipeline’? Would it then be necessary to start looking elsewhere for proof of GW?
posted 15 March 2009 at 3:47 PM by BFJ Cricklewood
Warming in the pipeline refers to both ocean heat content (down to 700 m, not sea surface temperature) and tropospheric aerosol masking (which is what is discussed in the post above).
Regarding your question, there is not, and cannot be, any proof of global warming. There is a deep literature on the basic theory developed from first principles, models, experiments and observations (in many areas of physics, chemistry, geology, biology), and a large published body of empirical geophysical and biological evidence from real world systems, the majority of which is consistent with this underpinning science. There are also inconsistencies, which can indicate problems with aspects of this theory (e.g., unanticipated interactions or feedbacks, +ve and -ve), poorly understood aspects of Earth systems science (e.g. ENSO drivers), or measurement error (e.g., insufficiently precise or well-scaled instrumentation).
posted 15 March 2009 at 4:32 PM by Barry Brook in reply to BFJ Cricklewood
Not cooling:
BJF Cricklewood: “Given that surface temperatures have levelled off / slightly dipped for the last decade..”
Please spare us the nonsense. This is a serious issue.
posted 17 March 2009 at 11:21 AM by Gaz
David (#29) and Gaz(#30):
In another discussion Barry has said that global surface temperatures have indeed levelled out (while cautioning that this ignores factors such as warming in the pipeline).
Do you deny this plateau in the temperature records for the last decade or so?
Barry (#28)
Yes I appreciate that
* anthopogenic global warming has not been proven, there being unknowns that we know about but cannot quantify, eg ocean heat content and aerosol cooling, that may or may not act as a pipeline of future warming.
* what we nevertheless do have is an array of circumstantial evidence, proxies and models that many in the climatology business put their faith in.
But what I’m trying to establish – particularly in the light if the abovementioned temperature plateau – is what the response of such climatologists would be to a discovery that this pipeline effect is negligible. Just how important is the pipeline to the AGW hypothesis? Would it collapse without the pipeline, or would empirical support be sought elsehere?
BJF Cricklewood: “Do you deny this plateau in the temperature records for the last decade or so?”
There has been some variation around a rising trend. If you want to call it a “plateau”, go ahead. Just don’t expect anyone to take it seriously except the hard-core “LA LA LA I’M NOT LISTENING” types.
Have a look at the graph referred to by David B. Benson at #29. There are dozens of occasions in recent decades when this variation could have been described as a “plateau”, and just as meaninglessly.
Why would you think the pipeline effect might be negligible? Is there a magical trap-door at the bottom of the ocean that allows all that heat to escape to Narnia?
posted 18 March 2009 at 8:58 AM by Gaz
So you do deny the plateau, contradicting what virtually everyone else – Barry included – is saying?
I didn’t say the pipeline is negligible, I asked what the reaction would be if it was.
Bear in mind the pipeline idea only seems to have brought in in the first place, to explain why the temperature plateau does not show that GW has stopped.
posted 18 March 2009 at 9:37 AM by BFJ Cricklewood
Bear in mind that you are wrong. Warming in the pipeline is not associated with any perceived ‘plateau’ — ocean inertia and aerosol masking has been a scientific topic in the peer-reviewed literature for decades.
And the ‘plateau’ does not exist if you look at the data climatologically — the 30 year trend is strongly +ve. And the trend is +ve even over the last 10 years:
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/wti/from:1999/plot/wti/from:1999/trend
Not for 11:
Is for 12:
Is for 13 (and so on…)
posted 18 March 2009 at 12:59 PM by Barry Brook in reply to BFJ Cricklewood
BFJ Cricklewood: “I didn’t say the pipeline is negligible, I asked what the reaction would be if it was.”
There is a big difference between “is” and “might be”, which is why I asked “Why would you think the pipeline effect MIGHT BE negligible?”
Unless you think it MIGHT BE negligible, there is no point speculating about what might happen if that’s how it turned out.
Anyway, I think it’s pretty clear that the recent short term fluctuations in global temperatures don’t say anything of significance about how much warming’s in the pipeline.
posted 18 March 2009 at 3:42 PM by Gaz
BFJ Cricklewood (31) — Carefully define what you mean by plateau and go through the enitre record to determine the number of times this has occurred. Nothing extraordinary about this one, methinks, except possibly the rather extended solar minimum just now. That does not happen very often.
posted 19 March 2009 at 10:14 AM by David B. Benson
Barry (#35): …Warming in the pipeline is not associated with any perceived ‘plateau’…
You yourself though associated them in your discussion on .
As to the existence of a plateau, you also said there that “…if average surface temperatures really have fallen slightly as the Hadley figures suggest.”
posted 20 March 2009 at 11:41 PM by BFJ Cricklewood
Sorry, must have messed up the markup there…
You yourself though associated them in your discussion on what Bob Carter supposedly missed, ie that the theoretically ‘missing’ heat could have gone into the oceans.
And I still haven’t any response to the hypothetical question of how much of a rethink, a discovery that the alleged pipeline is negligible, would prompt.
And here’s another: how much longer would the current plateau need to continue before you would deem the AGW hypothesis to be failing?
There is some discussion here about what would falsify current modelling. They estimate that a negative trend over a 20 year period would be outside the 95%CI predictions of current IPCC model ensembles.
posted 21 March 2009 at 2:59 PM by Geoff Russell
Gaz (#36) questions the point of speculating on the scale of the alleged pipeline.
It seems to me it is this : if pipeline heat is significant, so is AGW; and if it isn’t, nor is AGW.
A corollary being that if we can’t comment meaningfully on the scale of the pipeline, we can’t comment meaningfully on the AGW hypothesis either, it remains mere speculation.
Geoff (#31):
Ok, so another decade of flat (or -ve) temperature gradient (and negligible pipeline) would falsify the AGW hypothesis for all but its most committed devotees?
BFJ#43: A negative temperature trend over 20 years? Starting in 2005 or 1998? If it did occur, plenty of scientists would be scratching their heads, not really because they would doubt (A)GW, but because they would be worried about their estimation of where the heat is going. We know that more energy is arriving than leaving, that much is comparatively simple and measurable (satellites).
Where it is going is a tougher issue? Is it melting ice? Warming the oceans? Warming continental land masses? etc. If you look at some of the moves between ice ages and warm ages, there have been long periods, really long periods, which went against the trend.
Consider the run of 5 heads in the following sample produced by R software:
[1] “T” “H” “T” “T” “T” “T” “H” “T” “H” “H” “T” “H” “H” “H” “H” “T” “T” “H” “H”
[20] “T” “H” “H” “H” “H” “H” “T” “H” “T” “H” “H” “T” “H” “T” “H” “T” “T” “T” “T”
[39] “H” “T” “H” “H” “T” “T” “H” “H” “T” “H” “H” “H”
Does it convince me that the R random number generator is biased? A run of 5 heads is outside a 95%CI for a 5 throw sample. If I had written a naive random number generator that produced this run, I would double check my code. But the R generator has had substantial testing, so I have plenty of other reasons to trust it, after all a run of 5 heads isn’t SO unlikely. But a 20 head run would have me contacting the R authors for a bug fix!
Responding to my #42 above, Barry (#22 in the Do Scientists Really Believe in AGW thread) :
We’ve had +0.74C global warming in the last 100 years and about 90 ppm CO2 rise. That’s +0.0082C/ppm. A doubling of CO2 on pre-industrial by mid-century would be +280ppm. Based on no further acceleration of temperature rise and nothing in the pipeline, this would imply a warming of +2.3C. So your statement is patently false, even if there was no aerosol masking or ocean inertia.
I am essentially just following up on your response to that Bob Carter, where you argue that he wrong to say that GW has stopped, since he is only considering the for now levelled out surface temperatures of the last decade or so, ignoring the ‘pipeline’. This argument of yours thus places great store in the pipeline as a proof of GW – it says the GW and the pipeline theories stand or fall together.
It does seems to me significant that your challenge to Carter was over the pipeline, not over the (perhaps temporary) halt in surface temperature increases.
BFJC: You are confused. My challenge to Carter was that 10 years was meaningless because of the sensitivity of global weather to short-term fluctuations. My calculation above was over 100 years — a period where a 10 year fluctuation becomes irrelevant.
Your “stand and fall” straw man is patently rubbish. Stop posting rubbish. I’ve already explained that proof is impossible and unscientific. So stop repeating that nonsense too.
posted 22 March 2009 at 10:54 AM by Barry Brook in reply to BFJ Cricklewood
(#44 Geoff)
You say “we know that more energy is arriving than leaving”, which looks to me like an effective proof that GW is occuring, beyond any reasonable scepticism.
But do we really know this (1)? There is presumably no comparable (satellite?) data from pre-warming periods to compare to, to help us eliminate errors in what we think we are measuring.
So we ‘know’ GW is happening, but) we just can’t show where the heat is going anymore (2. Until recently, surface temperatures sufficed to show us GW, but something has now changed. Do we (3) even have an idea of what that something is?
Do (1), (2) & (3) together not suggest agnosticism is in order?
If you look at some of the moves between ice ages and warm ages, there have been long periods, really long periods, which went against the trend
Sure. But that to me merely says AGW could be happening, not that it is happening.
(#46 Barry)
My challenge to Carter was that 10 years was meaningless because of the sensitivity of global weather to short-term fluctuations.
Yes, I acknowledged that argument of yours, but also note that the gist of your what-bob-carter-and-andrew-bolt-fail-to-grasp article, eg ->
..about 90% of this additional energy has been used to heat water and about 7% to melt ice. Only about 3% is left over to warm the air. So we shouldn’t be at all surprised if air temperatures show the weakest response to the enhanced greenhouse effect – at least in the short term.
-> was that the apparent halt in GW seized on by Carter, was due to the extra heat going into the oceans rather than the atmosphere, and that other heat was being reflected by aerosols, and that Carter was overlooking these.
Which is why it still seems to me that for GW to be a reasonable hypothesis, we first need a reasonable take on OHC.
(btw I acknowledged too your view that accurate measurements of OHC are not (yet) practical).
The notion of the oceans being a heat sink I can readily understand as being a ‘pipeline’, whose stored up heat will unavoidably be delivered up to us sooner or later.
But not the reflectivity of aerosols. The heat they have reflected is gone forever, surely?
Rather than having a pipeline effect, is the main issue with aerosols instead that they degrade/dissipate (far?) sooner than CO2, so that if we stop creating new aerosols, we will quite soon lose their cooling effect?
A warming period usually follows an ice age (even a mini one) and that is part of the natural cycle. If CO2 has been below 300ppm for 600,000 years then CO2 is unlikely to be the primary driver of all the extreme warming and cooling periods during that time. In the last 100 years, there has been an increase in global temps of about 0.8C. What percentage has been caused by natural warming and what % has been caused by CO2 increases? Can anyone quantify?
Barry Just found this link based on the ones you have at post 35. Does this show a cooling global sea temp representation?
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1994/to:2010/scale:0.1/mean:10/plot/hadsst2gl/from:1994/to:2010/scale:0.1/mean:10/plot/uah/from:1994/to:2010/scale:0.1/mean:10
Ian: No, it’s obviously not cooling, it’s warming — a simple OLS shows this:
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/hadcrut3vgl/from:1994/to:2010/scale:0.1/mean:10/plot/hadsst2gl/from:1994/to:2010/scale:0.1/mean:10/plot/uah/from:1994/to:2010/scale:0.1/mean:10/plot/hadsst2gl/from:1994/to:2010/scale:0.1/trend
Barry Depends on the start year. If you change it to 1998, the trend is downward.
If we contend that seas are warming, wouldn’t that lead to higher evaporation rates resulting in more cloud cover.
This would have the effect of generally dampening daytime temps but increasing nighttime temps (increased water vapour and the released CO2 from the warming oceans, acting as an insulator). Is this too simplistic?
It was your linked plot Ian, not mine — I just added the trendline. Oh, and try changing the year to 1997…
Evaporation rates are increasing over the oceans, but it’s thought to be mostly due to greater windiness. Curiously, pan evaporation rates are steady or slightly down over land — something the models cannot generally replicate. As to your cloud effect, it depends if they are low (tends to reflect sunlight) or high (tends to trap heat).
posted 24 March 2009 at 8:38 AM by Barry Brook in reply to Ian George
Barry Thanks for the explanation above. I’ve just been noticing that minimum/nighttime temps seem to have increased more than max/daytime temps which has resulted in higher av mean temps. Snow in the middle east over the past 2 years may also indicate higher evaporation levels.
I took your link at post 51 (which I originally posted at 50 but with no trend line) and changed the start date to 1998. It shows a downward trend – I was just pointing out that it’s the start date that counts (in your post at 35 you have done the same with global temps at ‘not for 11’).
I have also read, though it will probably be open to much conjecture, that there has been a slowing in CO2 level increases, a cooler ocean temp emerging and a slowing trend to sea level rises since 2006.
“Warming ‘in the pipeline’ is a term used to describe lags and inertia in the climate system”.
No, it’s a line of spin used by publicly-funded climate change spivs who are frantically trying to seem to know what they are doing while being wrong about virtually everything they do, and hoping to keep the gravy train going a bit longer. Saying there is warming in the pipeline is like saying there’s a buildup of electricity in the wires that hasn’t yet been delivered to your house. Warming doesn’t cower in the corner, waiting to pop up. If the warming has been offset by other factors then it’s already gone.
“we are committed to 0.5 to 2.8°C additional warming”
You mean 1.65 +/- 70%? A range of error which might as well have been generated by a monkey with a typewriter. Why does nobody question this sort of thing?
“This requires an industrial revolution for sustainability starting now”
Go on then. What are you waiting for? You’re the bloody climate scientists. Ring up Penny Wong, she agrees with you. One day climate scientists are going to have to wake up to the reality that the politicians that say they believe in all this stuff are doing nothing about it. Why do you think they’ve picked 2050 as a target? If you want to see action, you’re going to have to do it yourself. Sitting around firing off reports and asking for the government to act is about as worthless as the horrible denialists who say nothing should be done at all.
posted 13 April 2009 at 2:22 PM by Geoff
Is this a caricature, or are you really serious?
posted 13 April 2009 at 4:22 PM by Barry Brook in reply to Geoff
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Chernobyl and Fukushima – measuring our monsters in the midday sun
Guest Post by Geoff Russell. Geoff is a mathematician and computer programmer and is a member of Animal Liberation SA. His recently published book is CSIRO Perfidy.
For another terrific article by Geoff, related to Fukushima and radiation risk read: Cancer deaths in Japan will be from alcohol and ciggies.
Measuring our monsters in the midday sun
The first rule of Horror Films 101 is “Don’t reveal your monster too soon”. Fear is all about suggestion. Hints. Things that go bump in the night. Letting vague connections swell in the imagination. Chernobyl. Fukushima. The hint of a fin caught in the corner of your eye. The Serpent’s Egg is an Ingmar Bergman film from the late 1970s which knew all the tricks. There were sounds in that film more chilling than blood and guts. Violence was suggested rather than displayed, and you heard it ooze through the movie like it did the historical events in the back story … the rise toward Nazism in Germany in the 1920s.
Once your monster is front and center on screen, anti-climax is tough to avoid. Just two workers were killed in the initial explosion at Chernobyl.
The head within the head was a deft stroke in the design of the Alien monster. Even when the monster is confronted face to face, the inner head lurks like Russian dolls meeting Pandora’s box. In the 12 months after the Chernobyl explosion, 28 front line workers died. Over the next 20 years another 19 died from acute radiation sickness suffered in 1986.
Once you have established the genre of your film, you can carry the audience with just the occasional hint of forthcoming carnage. The second Aliens film had plenty to work with. A monster that gestates inside its victim with no outward sign is an excellent starting point. Worse than any cancer, this is a lump which bites. Blind panic can then be induced without requiring heavy handed symptoms or writhing agony. Of around 4000 thyroid cases in children after Chernobyl, 98.8 percent were successfully treated. The cancers are common knowledge, the treatment success is a fact on the brink of extinction.
Shining a light on the monster
There is, however, only so much you can get away with before your monster has to take centre stage. Even if only for the final 10 minutes. If you want your audience to line up and pay for the sequel, then you need to deliver. How many films lack an ending? How many books just fizzle?
It’s time to get the Chernobyl monster out of the shadows and place it out in the midday sun.
Chernobyl, the site of the famous 1986 reactor explosion, is in the Ukraine, the homeland of one Trofim Lysenko. While the USSR has always had world class physicists and mathematicians, Lysenko was a nutcase who came to prominence in the late 1920s and held back Soviet life sciences until the 1970s and beyond. Particularly in the Ukraine. Long after the rest of the world understood the nature and importance of DNA and chromosomes, many Russian life scientists either believed, like Lysenko, that they were irrelevant or were too frightened to say otherwise. Who cares about radiation damage to an irrelevant biological artifact like DNA? Lysenko’s dodgy theories about the origin of viruses meant that hospitals were scrupulously clean, but hyperdermic needles were reused.
The primitive state of Russian life sciences hampered both treatment and studies of those affected by Chernobyl. But eventually collaborative projects were set up and the work was done. There were studies into child health, cardiovascular health, solid cancers, blood cancers. You name it, it has now been studied. The World Health Organisation released a 20-year summary of the work in 2006 [pdf]. I’ve mentioned the thyroid cancers in children already.
Despite the Lysenko curse, the Soviet medical system had some definite strengths and its collapse with the breakup of the USSR compounded already significant difficulties. Any impacts from Chernobyl were tiny compared to the large increase in child mortality and declining life expectancy across the region in the 1990s. Across the main areas effected, Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, the collapse of the Soviet health system saw infant mortality pretty much double and life expectancy drop by perhaps 6 years during a decade. One little fact says it all … by 1999 some 80 percent of Russian men were alcoholic and drinking on average 3 litres of vodka every week.
Combine this public health catastrophe with a massive movement of people and the task of detecting small long term radiation impacts is diabolical. According to the WHO report, among the 200,000 emergency workers who received an average dose of 100 milli Sieverts, there was an increase of 5 percent over normal cancer death rates. Instead of 41,500 cancers, they expect 43,500. During the first 10 years, there were 150. Ukraine has 48 million people and had 143,000 cases of cancer in 2008. The WHO estimates that during the first 10 years after Chernobyl, there were, including the 150 in the emergency workers, 405 additional cancers attributable to radiation from the accident. These are, of course, in addition to the thyroid cases.
The difficulties of accurately determining the impact of Chernobyl are considerably worse than I can possibly detail in this little piece. If you want more, you can start with Laurie Garrett’s Betrayal of Trust. But perhaps Chernobyl isn’t the real monster but merely it’s offspring. The real monster of the anti-nuclear movement lurks even deeper in our psyche. Hiroshima. Nagasaki. For these events there is better data.
Dropping deeper into the abyss
It has been 66 years since atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II. Some 198,000 people died in the blast and from subsequent acute radiation effects. The health of approximately 212,100 of the survivors was subsequently followed, beginning in 1947. People receiving a dose of up to 1 Sievert (1,000 milli-Sieverts) suffered a median loss of life of around 2 months. Those receiving more than a Sievert lost a median of 2.6 years of life. So far, there has been no radiation health effects measured in the children of survivors of the blasts.
Some people regard these bombings as the most hideous acts of deliberate violence in human history. Unfortunately, they have some competition.
The firebombing of 67 Japanese cities in the months prior to the atomic bombings killed twice as many people and will have caused a further ocean of injuries that people lived with for decades. Is the fear of cancer worse than a crippled leg which hurts 24×7 and forces you to take expensive pain relief which at best just takes the edge off? The Japanese delivered similar levels of death to the people of the puppet state of Manchukuo prior to and during the war. But their methods were even more barbaric. Both events are worse than anything the planet’s nuclear arsenels have ever delivered.
Further down the scale of sophisticated weaponry we come to the humble machete which killed more people in Rwanda in 1994 than even those firebombing squadrons over Japan. The Rwandan massacres are only the third biggest such event since 1950. Do you remember the biggest two? Anti-nuclear activists have done a great job. Everybody has a conditioned Pavlovian reaction when Chernobyl or Hiroshima is mentioned, but non-nuclear events involving greater suffering are quickly consigned to a category of tragic horrors which are as unstoppable as earthquakes.
The slasher genre
There is one horror genre which deserves mention before moving on … the slasher. Blood and gore is in your face from the first reel. Caldicott. Some teens find such flicks amusing. Plutonium contamination from nuclear weapons testing has been reported in Japan with possible contamination from Fukushima making the headlines a few days back. Surely the World War II bombings must have had a long lasting contamination impact, after all Caldicott claimed during a debate with George Monbiot that Chernobyl’s impacts will live on for “generations and generations” and have been covered up by a World Health Organisation conspiracy.
In case you believe Caldicott’s conspiracy theory, you need to expand the scale of the conspiracy to include not just the WHO people involved in Chernobyl studies, but all of the agencies around the world who contribute data to the world’s cancer registries. Age standardised cancer incidence in bombed and plutonium polluted Japan is about 200 cases per 100,000 people per annum. The rate in the US is 300. So either US medicos exagerated their rates as part of the coverup, or the Japanese understated theirs. Who knows. What about clean green Australia? It’s cancer rate is even higher at 313. And in Ukraine itself? What is the cancer rate in filthy dirty Chernobyl contaminated Ukraine? Have a guess … I’m using the latest publically available data from 2008. Higher or lower than Australia? It’s 191, lower even than Japan. You need to use age standardised figures to compare countries, particularly because the life expectancy in Ukraine is 68, about 10 years less than the US. Whatever is killing Ukrainians, it isn’t radiation induced cancers.
Climate famines
While it is clear that the suffering of the Rwandan massacres dwarfs anything even remotely possible from Chernobyl, the planet is experiencing the beginnings of a climate shift that will make even the Rwandan massacres look small. There’s really only two kinds of disaster which have ever regularly caused more than a million deaths. Famine and disease. Influenza kills between 250,000 and 500,000 mainly elderly people every year but killed 40 million of all ages in 1918. The recent swine flu pandemic killed just 3330 frequently young healthy people and was judged by many in the media as a beat-up. Probably the same journalists who thought swine flu was over-hyped are out there whipping up fear and panic over Fukushima with its current, and probably future, body count of zero.
Apart from disease, famines have always been big killers. More than a few have killed over a million people. None of the deaths in such events are easy. The current global food system is already stretched to breaking point. Increasingly, factory farmed pigs and chickens eat vast amounts of human quality food supplemented with vitamins and minerals and they easily outbid the world’s poor for grain. All it takes is simultaneous bad weather events in a few places to cause price spikes, grain shortages, hunger, undernourishment and death on a scale that eclipses the worst that human violence has dished up. As late as the middle of last century, while America was watching Leave it to Beaver, 15 million Chinese starved to death. 15 million is the official number, the truth is likely much higher.
The climate change monster is the real deal. It isn’t CGI. It doesn’t shrink in your estimation when exposed to bright light. It is quietly looming in the shadows as the gap between the food supply and the hungry is flunctuating around a rising trend line which regularly leaves a billion people undernourished.
Resourcing the future
The Rwandan massacres were not really genocides in quite the same sense as The Holocaust. They were first and foremost land grabs. A resource war. Too many people living on too little land. Ubiquitous energy won’t guarantee no more resource wars, but it will be a good start. Ubiquitous energy can relieve at least some resource shortages and ubiquitous clean energy is necessary (but not sufficient) to prevent dangerous climate change. Once you turn a nuclear reactor on, it stays on 24×7. You can use off-peak nuclear power for desalination, for recharging the electric vehicles that will come in handy when oil runs short, for making fertiliser and much more. Try doing that with a solar thermal power station. The much hyped Andasol I solar thermal power station is a 50 mega-watt unit, even a modest nuke is 20 times bigger. Andasol I has a tank of molten salt at 400 degrees centigrade to act as a battery after sun down. The salt battery for a 50 mega-watt unit is 14 meters high and 38 meters in diameter. Scale it up 20 times and you have half a million tonnes of 400 degree salt. Now try to leverage your power plant for desalination or other major off peak power and you might need a million and a half tonnes and many days your battery just won’t get charged anyway.
Am I promising the mythical energy too cheap to meter that early nuclear proponents offered. Not at all. But there are good reasons that nuclear power can be mass produced and scaled up far more efficiently than the diffuse renewable alternatives like wind and solar thermal.
Engineering and toys
What we know about nuclear power technology is that it can be reliably deployed and generating many terrawatt hours of electricity in as little as a decade in any country regardless of local climatic conditions. This has happened in countries as different as Switzerland, Sweden, Japan, Germany, and the US.
This means that the technology can be modularised, mass produced, and can replace fossil fuels. Newer designs are better and safer. We need the newer designs because they can run on the waste from old reactors that so worries nuclear critics. There is enough waste to power the planet for hundreds of years. And I mean all the planet, not just in my backyard.
These new designs will allow us to shut uranium mines.
No renewable other than hydro has ever come close to achieving large-scale energy production. The high growth rates so often cited for renewables are misleading. It’s easy to double in size when you are tiny. Denmark’s famous wind farms can’t even power a country of 5.4 million people, let alone handle the needs of a billion people in India or 150 million Nigerians. We are comparing bicycles and trucks here. I commute by bicycle every working day of the year, but would I lash 10,000 bicycles together to transport a thousand tonnes of grain from silo to mill? This is just plain silly. And if you want to talk safety, then consider the tide of industrial accidents with more people walking around on rooves putting up solar panels. Australia, for one, can’t even install ceiling insulation without an incommensurate number of deaths.
The planet has two vast challenges over the next 50 to 100 years. The first is poverty and the other first is climate change. They are intimately connected. During the last 3 weeks while the media was focussed on an event that hasn’t killed a single person, 31,500 Indian children between the ages of 1 and 5 have died of respiratory disease because their families still cook with wood or cattle dung. A similar number of Japanese will have been diagnosed with cancer. All 60,000 families will feel this personal tragedy immensely despite these events being missed by the 6.30 news.
Affordable power isn’t just a hip pocket electoral issue in developing countries, it’s a matter of life and death. Likewise, the reforestation of the planet isn’t just some middle-class greenie issue, it too is a matter of life and death. The mining of timber for cooking and of forests for land to run cattle are both incompatible with effective action on the two big issues.
Should the Indian Government stop its quest for affordable nuclear power because of a few thousand cancers over a few decades from Chernobyl? Or because nobody died and nobody got sick at Three Mile Island? Or because 3 people got radiation burns and a few more might get cancer during the next 3 decades in Japan? Over 615,000 people get a cancer diagnosis in Japan each year. Each is a personal tragedy but to let the risk of a few more drive energy policy at a global level is selfish, stupid, cruel and irrational.
“Anti-nuclear activists have done a great job. Everybody has a conditioned Pavlovian reaction when Chernobyl or Hiroshima is mentioned, but non-nuclear events involving greater suffering are quickly consigned to a category of tragic horrors which are as unstoppable as earthquakes.”
What is your point? What are you trying to prove? Ok, some things are worse than nuclear disasters… Ok, so what? You are getting further away from the point!. Nobody is saying the nuclear disastors are the worst things that ever happened on earth, but that doesn’t mean it’s harmless! The important thing isn’t to prevent nuclear disasters, and let other types of massacres happen, no one is defending that! What you are defending needs no defending…
posted 5 April 2011 at 12:37 AM by ron
This is fabulous. Thank you. I was hoping for an article like yours.
It should be enough to convince a rational person, but there are many otherwise rational people out there who will continue to believe the N.Y. Academy of Sciences production where they claim one million deaths from Chernobyl (numbers aside, conflating a death like the deaths of BP rig workers or the Chiba refinery fire deaths with Loss of Life Expectancy cases drives me nuts–and if you DON’T conflate these two things, you’re accused of covering up mass death).
Given that the liberal/progressive recourse to the one million figure is widespread among bloggers, if not among ordinary progressives, is it necessary to dismantle this report?
Here’s something else useful from G. Cravens:
http://bigthink.com/ideas/31827
The responses reinforce the point about confirmation bias.
posted 5 April 2011 at 12:40 AM by Gregory Meyerson
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posted 5 April 2011 at 12:49 AM by david in ct
“… To date, there is no radiation-related excess of disease in adulthood, but it will require several more decades to fully determine this, as this population is still relatively young.” (from the link given above)
I won’t get into arguing on this, but am posting just once to make the point.
You want to use the comprehensively applicable goose-gander sauce here, not argue that your gander is nothing like the goose being cooked.
Look at these and ponder the argument being used:
http://www.google.com/search?q=climate+small+signal+emerge
“Only in recent decades has it clearly taken over — has the “signal” of man-made climate change begun to emerge from the background “noise” …” (Broecker)
“The 18-model ensemble-based signal emerges in 260 years. …. natural that statistical efforts to find a signal will be slow …” (Pielke Jr.)
“… Climate change link in hurricane losses decades away …. the time scales for a climate change signal to emerge … There may well be a climate change signal present but ….” (Reuters)
Shorter: if the climatologists are so sure there’s going to be climate change, even though there’s almost no statistical evidence yet, why are the cytologists and radiologists so sure there’s going to be cell damage from radiation?
How do you argue that the climatologists and cell biologists aren’t all [fill in your favorite denial / paranoid claim — in it for the grant money; making this up to try to control your wallet; green lizards intent on world domination; eager to serve man ….]?
Seriously, Barry. I tried to argue this with you a few years ago, gave up and went away. I expect I will again, I see no point in -arguing- about how to address policy issues based on small statistical effects emerging from large trends.
And I urge you and everyone — for every argument you make or dismiss or evaluate — to swap the goose and the gander and see that the sauce works for both equally well.
I look at phenology for the answer.
I urge you to do the same. Nature bats last. Small effects emerge long before statistics can prove them.
posted 5 April 2011 at 12:52 AM by Hank Roberts
Hank, I haven’t got time to answer you now (about to go to bed), but briefly (to remind myself), trying to draw an analogy between climate change and the LNT hypothesis (or greater than LNT, as the NYAS study would have to propose) is not at all reasonable. At the very least, think of it this way:
Look at what the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the UN Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) publish. Their reports agree with what Allison is saying, i.e. it is the health physics consensus.
Next, look at the arguments of people like Caldicott, the NYAS authors, and similar ilk who say they are wrong on radiation effects.
Then, compare them to the folks who use the same arguments to say the World Meteorological Organisation and UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are wrong on global warming.
Then think about it for a bit.
posted 5 April 2011 at 1:35 AM by Barry Brook in reply to Hank Roberts
Almost perfect, but not perfect. The author could have added the expected 30-years past additional 8% mortality for thyroid cancers (they were 6000 and not 4000), and he still would get a small deaths toll for that disease. Additionally, the 2011 update of the UN report on Chernobyl does not invalidate the previous estimate of 4000 additional caner deaths; it only says it has been impossible to confirm them, because they can’t be differentiated from the natural expected deaths (estimates vary with context, and that’s why cohort studies are done, but small bias in limited populations are almost impossible to confirm). [deleted – unsubstantiated opinion]Anyway, dismissing these small innacuracies, the post is great and the essential assertions hold.
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posted 5 April 2011 at 1:37 AM by Jose de Sa
Read a more critical report on Chernobyl that also included medical and scientific sources omitted by the UN – IAEA [deleted unsubstantate hearsay] you just have to be truthful about certain points and not included other critical points.
Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment
Written by Alexey V. Yablokov (Center for Russian Environmental Policy, Moscow, Russia), Vassily B. Nesterenko, and Alexey V. Nesterenko (Institute of Radiation Safety, Minsk, Belarus). Consulting Editor Janette D. Sherman-Nevinger (Environmental Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan).
Volume 1181, December 2009
This is a collection of papers translated from the Russian with some revised and updated contributions. Written by leading authorities from Eastern Europe, the volume outlines the history of the health and environmental consequences of the Chernobyl disaster. According to the authors, official discussions from the International Atomic Energy Agency and associated United Nations’ agencies (e.g. the Chernobyl Forum reports) have largely downplayed or ignored many of the findings reported in the Eastern European scientific literature and consequently have erred by not including these assessments.
http://www.nyas.org/publications/annals/Detail.aspx?cid=f3f3bd16-51ba-4d7b-a086-753f44b3bfc1
This comment could have been deleted as a deliberate distortion of the facts. Full disclosure was not given.
The Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences issue “Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment”, therefore, does not present new, unpublished work, nor is it a work commissioned by the New York Academy of Sciences. The expressed views of the authors, or by advocacy groups or individuals with specific opinions about the Annals Chernobyl volume, are their own.
See Prof Brook’s comment up thread at 4:56 pm.
posted 5 April 2011 at 2:08 AM by Shelby
Jose de Sa said:
The author could also mention the japonese estimates of the long-term deaths resulting from the nuclear blasts, which were small but not zero: about 530, 180 of them leukemia.
Can you provide something in the way of evidence for this?
The comment you refer to has been edited and a request for a ref was asked for.
posted 5 April 2011 at 2:19 AM by Huw Jones
Well written – but how to get it out into the daily newspaper?
I remember a talk at McGill University in the 1960’s by Hans Selye -” Dr Stress” and his theory on how stress eventually makes us susceptible to disease. I really think we could have the makings of a class action suit against the media – people must be stressed if they are buying iodine pills, etc. Just think of all the illnesses that will result from the stress (it eventually affects the immune systems) resulting from all this inaccurate reporting.
posted 5 April 2011 at 2:23 AM by Retired Nuclear Tour Guide
awesome. absolutely awesome.
posted 5 April 2011 at 2:24 AM by schla
Comparing a natural disaster effect with nuclear plants in same natural disaster area, is a rational method to put things in perspective, as it considers the marginal risk of said nuclear plants.
20000 deaths due to eathquake and tsunami. 3 of them in nuclear stations. 0 due to radiation. No one of the workers has been reported to have received a total dose over 0.2 Sievert, and it appears that no one of the population has received even 0.01 sievert.
However it is even more necessary to compare different energy sources as this gets into the relevant alternative danger. This puts things in perspective for me:
http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/03/lifetime-deaths-per-twh-from-energy.html
That is not even considering any climate risk at all.
posted 5 April 2011 at 2:25 AM by Cyril R
The WHO report of 2006 can’t confirm predicted increased rates of cancer, they haven’t all happened, and may never be tabulated. However, I think it is fair to report that it does state a number of 8,250 total “predicted excess cancer deaths”, page 108.
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posted 5 April 2011 at 2:36 AM by steve lapp
Hank:
Barry is exactly right. For your point to work, the analogy between the body of evidence supporting the best climate science and the scientific evidence for LNT must hold. Does it? If it did, you would think we’d see excess cancers (lots of them) in high background radiation areas compared to low background radiation areas. We don’t. In fact, according to Ted Rockwell’s account, the BEIR reports basically admit their lack of evidence for LNT. (I can quote him quoting them if you like, for what it’s worth)
Though, as Barry notes, with regard to NYAS, the compilers do not hold, I assume, to the standard LNT metric of .04 deaths per person/sievert.
Does anyone know what number they use? If they used .04, putting aside the collective dose fallacy, they would need 25,000,000 sieverts to get their million bodies (again, this should be put in terms of loss of life expectancy to avoid sensationalism).
It is my recollection from reading synopses of the article that they claimed a much larger release in curies than the standard–which, I think, was around 300 million curies for Chernobyl.
posted 5 April 2011 at 2:45 AM by gregory Meyerson
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posted 5 April 2011 at 3:08 AM by DV82XL
Barry, the guy whose post preceded mine is an example of the reasoning I’m cautioning about.
I’m urging you to acknowledge the very small effects reported where they show up.
On the Hiroshima page, they said exactly what you quoted but the text went on with words you left out, about the time needed to detect a trend.
This is exactly how the climate change arguments get distorted, by leaving out consideration of small effects so people don’t learn how small they are.
http://www.nih.gov/news/health/mar2011/nci-17.htm
“The researchers believe that continued follow-up of the participants in the current study will be necessary to determine when an eventual decline in risk is likely to occur.” — links in the original.
Many changes related to technology are _small_effects_ emerging from a noisy statistical background.
Much of the statistical _noise_ is from effects like the death rates due to coal, and tobacco, and persistent organic chemicals.
Talk about relative risk.
posted 5 April 2011 at 3:10 AM by Hank Roberts
okay hank:
I did not appreciate your point because I was focusing on LNT, where, actually, the effects predicted are not small, but quite large, are they not?
I apologize. will read your link on small effects.
the guy above.
“The real monster of the anti-nuclear movement lurks even deeper in our psyche. Hiroshima. Nagasaki. For these events there is better data.”
Data? Here are some eyewitness accounts:
http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/Hibakusha/index.shtml
This is not Godzilla or Cloverfield. This threat is for real.
posted 5 April 2011 at 3:34 AM by sophia
let me try this. Even before the AGW signal emerged (according to most climate scientists), the causal mechanism that would lead to predictions of its emergence was known (or let’s pretend for purposes of argument).
With LNT, while there is a causal mechanism for damaging cells, the question is whether and to what extent LNT as an assumption acknowledges DNA repair mechanisms.
The analogy in the climate discussion to DNA repair mechanisms would be “negative feedbacks.” The question is whether that last is a good analogy: is the evidence for hormesis on a par with the evidence for “negative feedback?” (clouds?)
I admit to my nonexpertise so feel free to educate me. That’s what I’m on the earth for.
I don’t understand what eye witness accounts of the atomic bomb have to do with geoff russel’s piece.
Is anyone denying the suffering of atomic bomb victims?
I’ve often heard the suggestion that if the bombs were not dropped, a war of attrition would likely have killed many more people. That’s a strange thing to say, but when you think about it…
That quote that they shouldn’t have dropped two but ‘just’ one nuclear bomb is similarly a strange thing to say, but again probably true…
So if it’s not dangerous, why bother wearing suits, masks, bother with decontamination, een measuring radiation levels? Why even bother to “save” the plant now rather than just leave it to itself.
I’m a bit tired of hearing “less people will die than catastrophe X”, “more cancer from cigarettes” etc.
Is there still anyone out there doing risk assessments who is not in either the pro or con nuclear camp?
posted 5 April 2011 at 4:39 AM by Watcher
@Huo Jones,
There is an institution devoted to study that, RERF:
http://www.rerf.or.jp/radefx/late_e/cancrisk.html
Some time ago I searched for data about that in this site and I found a report with those numbers. I can’t remember exactly which one of the many reports in this site was, but in this one from that site, for example, you can find the known conclusion that radioactive exposure increased the leukemia risk from the usual 4% to 20% (percentage of all cancers): http://www3.cancer.gov/intra/dce-old/pdfs/ciiabs.pdf
Watcher;
They are not trying to “save” the plant. They are trying to limit the release of more radioactive material to the environment.
Why bother wearing suits, masks, bother with decontamination? Because if you do get enough dose it will eventually be bad for you. But, more to the point, it is legally required to wear the suits and masks and to decontaminate. The control levels are far below what is likely to hurt a worker or the public. But, they can be easily measured and the rules were writen based on the any dose is bad theory.
posted 5 April 2011 at 4:50 AM by Mike Keefer
Regarding the suites ans masks, I think it is as for the evacuation zone: not because there is a high radioactivity level, but because it can be found in unexpected places in the plant, or suddenly spread, regarding the evacuation zone. They are PREVENTIVE measures.
So, these measures don’t mean the raioactivity is high, something many people are being led to think. They are precaucionary.
I’m not an expert, but let me add something about the LNT theory: for me, it is plausible. Of course the body will react against the cells ionization, repairing them. But not the same way for everybody, and that is why the damages are not deterministic but random. Some people will sufffer nothing, may be because they have a strong immunity system, while other people will devellop cancer. This happens with all other carcinogenic factors. But all ionization factors cause cancer – even the Sun’s light – skin cancer. Of course, not for most people.
And besides, the LNT theory is based precisely on the study of A-bombs survivors in Japan. You find it in most of the conclusions of RERF papers.
However, there is a point to mention: those studies were done for a single radioactivity burst, and the extrapolation of its findings for moderate but continuous exposures can be questioned. Any way, the WHO’s committees think they have not enough evidence to change the conclusions reached from the A-bombs survivors, which mean LNT.
i want to comment on this part, because it shows multiple big errors if you want to convince people for the nuclear energy cause:
“According to the WHO report, among the 200,000 emergency workers who received an average dose of 100 milli Sieverts, there was an increase of 5 percent over normal cancer death rates. Instead of 41,500 cancers, they expect 43,500. During the first 10 years, there were 150. Ukraine has 48 million people and had 143,000 cases of cancer in 2008. The WHO estimates that during the first 10 years after Chernobyl, there were, including the 150 in the emergency workers, 405 additional cancers attributable to radiation from the accident. These are, of course, in addition to the thyroid cases.
The difficulties of accurately determining the impact of Chernobyl are considerably worse than I can possibly detail in this little piece.”
1. difficulty to attribute deaths to the accidents is one of the main problems. This is a way to avoid responsibility and the general public doesn t accept it as an excuse any longer.
2. increase in cancer death rates. in developted societies, cancer is a very common cause of death (mostly at a rather old age). a 5% increase (and it looks like people talk of this when they actually means something like going from 50% to 55%) turns up massive total numbers.
3. cancer rates must be done in relation to age groups. people dying cancer when they are 87 years old is mostly accepted. kids getting born with an early death sentence is not.
4. and here we are again, how will we prove that the kid got the cancer from the accident? against a company that will pay less for legal costs fighting any court decision than they would have to pay for a single kids suffering?!?
ps: the map shows zones that are still not usable today, as far as 200 km from the reactor. sorry, but i simply do not want that the future of an area like Tokio depends on favourable wind directions. this is not acceptable!
posted 5 April 2011 at 5:30 AM by sod
Geoff Russell, nice post well written. I do believe that, technically speaking, your arguments make sense. However, I think that, morally, emotionally and politically, you are heading in the wrong direction.
OK, there are bigger catastrophes than those nuclear events. So what? Nuclear accidents are bad things. Genocides are even worse, I agree. It does not make nuclear accidents acceptable.
When something bad happens, victims and witnesses go through a whole range of emotions. The fact that worse things happen does not help much in dealing with those emotions. People are scared about radiation and other nuclear effects. Telling them that there are things more dangerous than radiation will just increase their anxiety.
Let’s stop trying to minimize or downplay nuclear risks. Let us all acknowledge that nuclear power is special in the people’s minds. Other technologies are more dangerous than nuclear? I agree. But what really matters in the end is what the public believes, justified or not.
posted 5 April 2011 at 6:33 AM by François Manchon
@ Francois
You are suggesting that we simply accept the irrationality around nuclear power rather than to attempt to educate the public.
Given that nuclear power will be necessary to lift the living standards of billions of people, which will save and improve equally large numbers of lives, how is your stance ‘moral’?
posted 5 April 2011 at 6:44 AM by SteveK9
This is probably hopeless but in what sense is Fukushima an ‘accident’. Was the refinery fire also an accident? Or the dam rupture?
After TMI and Chernobyl I guess it is only natural to refer to a crisis like this as an accident.
Definition of ACCIDENT
a : an unforeseen and unplanned event or circumstance
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/accident
posted 5 April 2011 at 7:00 AM by David B. Benson
SteveK9, on 5 April 2011 at 6:46 AM said:
The natural disaster caused damage to the plant and loss of outside power, but it did not cause the release of radioactive waste, that resulted from the human management of the reactor before and after the quake. Disaster planning and management, the hydrogen explosions, fuel melting, and the release of radioactive waste, make this an accident.
sophia, yes, it is true that the effects of radiation are real and dangerous to humans, the environment, etc. but there is a fundamental difference between dropping the bomb and an “accident” like this. apples and oranges.
Cyril R,
Read the book or various reviews on-line of “Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire” by Richard B. Frank. In the book, Frank describes why the two bombs were used and the crucial affect of the 2nd bomb on the Japanese. He also describes the probable impact of a siege strategy whereupon after the US would have destroyed the railroad system, and thus the last means that Japan had to move goods in Japan including food, the nation would have starved to death in the coming winter.
We are straying off-topic here. Comments like this belong on the Fukushima Philosopical Thread. Please move the conversation there.
posted 5 April 2011 at 7:40 AM by Alej
IT was an accident and not an accident.
Like Katrina.
ron: “Nobody is saying the nuclear disastors are the worst things that ever happened on earth, but that doesn’t mean it’s harmless!” Of course not, but most other activities are assessed on a cost/benefit ratio analysis … motor cars aren’t harmless but few people suggest we ban them.
gregory: perhaps it is necessary to consider the million death claim more rigorously, but its so ridiculous I haven’t given it serious thought. The Ukraine 2008 age standardised incidence makes that clear. Suppose conservatively that 300,000 of the million happened in Ukraine. Most would have happened in the second decade at the earliest. This should have changed the per annum cancer rate by about 300000/(50e6/100000*10)=60 [population of ukraine is 50m].
So the “true” cancer rate in Ukraine should be either
131 per 100,000 per annum or 250 per 100,000 per annum. If the WHO trained all the Ukraine medical
professionals to recognise Chernobyl cancers and keep them out of the official figures, then the higher figure holds. But if all the cancers were counted in official data, then the true rate of non-Chernobyl cancer is 131 per 100,000 per annum. Both scenarios seem ridiculous. Looking at the actual globocan data for Ukraine makes it pretty clear that there is no huge lump of radiation cancers in Ukraine, so the WHO must have been very diligent in training people to keep them out of the registries and in any event the overall rate is still lower than clean green Australia. We don’t need Chernobyl, we have plenty of beef, booze and fags.
I’ll reply to other comments later. Thanks for the positive comments!
posted 5 April 2011 at 7:58 AM by Geoff Russell
“So if it’s not dangerous, why bother wearing suits, masks, bother with decontamination, een measuring radiation levels? Why even bother to “save” the plant now rather than just leave it to itself ?”
Two valid questions.
For the first one, think about the interdiction of smoking near a gasoline station pump. It is perfectly justified. Gasoline is dangerous. Does it means that one cannot smoke anywhere ? No . You need to wear the protection when you are 50 m from the plant, but not 1km from the plant. In nuclear as with most industrial risks, the dose makes the poison, the only exception from this principle is bio-hazard because germs and viruses are self-replicating.
For the second one, let’s not mince words : it is a fundamental design fault. Nuclear Installations should be “walk-away acceptable” whatever the circumstances leading to their disfunction (and I include war). PWR have been conceived for military naval purpose, and for that purpose, they fit the above constraint as long as the submarine/aircraft carrier is at sea. It is unfortunately not the case for civilian land-based nuclear installations. I hope that this will be the main lesson drawn from Fukushima, but I don’t think it will translate quickly into fundamental changes. The problem is that there is a fine balance to be found : these “faulty” productive assets generates wealth that can be used to transform society to adapt from resource depletion and fend off Greenhouse Gases threats. If that can be temporarily true for Natural Gas (to displace coal), it can certainly be also temporarily true from Nuclear Power Plants with obsolete designs.
posted 5 April 2011 at 8:50 AM by Charles Monneron
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posted 5 April 2011 at 8:55 AM by BerGonella
@Francois Manchon,
Except when accepting nuclear power, and therefore the possibility of nuclear accident, is the best way to avoid genocides down the road. I think that is the main reason why readers of the blog of a climate researcher are promoting nuclear.
As far as increasing the anxiety of the public is concerned, this is a feature not a bug : the the public should be MUCH MORE anxious about the effect of Greenhouse Gases, resource depletion and natural catastrophes : they are much more real than the threat of low radiation dose. The next 50 years are not going to be a walk in the park for humanity, we better recognize that as soon as possible.
geoff:
300,000/(50 million/1 million) = 300,000/50= 6000.
@gregory meyerson :
Like Katrina”
This is so true. The real cause for the 30,000 victims is land planning that didn’t acknowledge enough tsunami risk. I don’t buy the argument that Japan is an overpopulated country and that people had to live somewhere : There are many agricultural properties, even in the most populated regions that are completely out of harm’s way. This is where the 500,000 evacuees should have had their house build. The coastal strip should have been exclusively devoted to agriculture.
At least the Nuclear Power Plant had the excuse that it was compulsory to be sited by the sea to get access to a cold source.
> The coastal strip should have been
> exclusively devoted to agriculture.
All around the world. But try telling people that.
The answer to “Do you feel lucky? Well, do you?” is, for most people, always “Yes, of course!”
Personally, 35 years or so ago, my first chance ever to buy a piece of property, I looked up the ocean height as of the last high stand (no ice on Greenland or Antarctica), and bought just above that long-ago coastline.
I’ve always been a bit of a pessimist — about the monsters my great-grand-nieces-and-nephews will find under _their_ beds.
To Geoff Russel
Dear sir, thank you for this post. Your contributions continue to make encouragingly interesting reading.
There’s two things that keap on bothering me thow, not as much in your post as in general. this is sad because it’s unnescessary. I try be clear in describing them in a generalistic way.
A sievert (Sv) is a political intrument of a higly subjective nature. Its primary use is for policy makers to have something to base their decisions on. It is the least nonsense attempt among a lot of way more nonsense attempts to evalute human risk for radioactivity. It is By No Means valid as a source for scientific research of any kind (besides political research). It does not guarantee anything, least of all the giving of a conclusive notion of the actual human health threat. It appears to me it is being used out of its scope into the ridiculous.
And relating to this:
Radioactivity can only cause damage on the level of its own ‘existence’. This is the submolecular level. Any scientific research into the overall human health effects, be it beneficial or damaging, must therefore focus on that level of event for its results to be anything remotely close to usefull, as a reliable indicator of the effects of radioactivity on human health. Sofar, no such research has been conducted succesfully, the obstacles being the indefinite nature of radioactive influence and various practical research limitations.
Considering these two facts, for all we know Helen Caldicott could be not that far off. The only true scientificly sound statement is that we Do Not Know.
It appears we can allow ourselves quite some ignorance in this respect, without getting immidiately punished for it, but let’s not push it. Let’s not tell ourselves lies.
The world is in need of a source of energy that can replace the one that’s putting smoke in our eyes fast and it needs a lot of it. Under the current state of technology, the main source that can solve that need is nuclear energy.
Whatever monster lures in that, we do not know. Not me, not you, not anyone else. This is not a movie. If this monster in fifty years from now turns out to be more of a Helen Caldicott than a Ted Rockwell, than we have every reason to keep it confined as much as we can right now. Not ‘reasonably’ safe, but 100% guranteed safe. Just in case it’s not as innocent as we all hope it is. There is no reason here in ‘reasonably’.
The trick to obtain that level of safety is incredibly easy. All we have to do is want it, more than anything else. If we can’t do that, we may be risking way more than just a few billion cancer cases. We are not discussing the installation of just one or two power stations here, you know that.
I imagine a caveman standing by a fire. If he gets in it, he dies, but if he keeps it going he keeps warm. Maybe a burn every now and then, but cavemen can handle that. His family is a few meters further away. “See? This safe.” he tells them. “No threat for our health”. He stares into the flames in fascination. That was one smoked-up atmosphere ago. Then there is another man, some spaced out future person. “Well, there goes the last uranium, it served us well, but it’s a good thing we kept the cork on the bottle when it still made a difference.”
y.t. Parrot
posted 5 April 2011 at 9:40 AM by Parrot
Sophia and Jose
What is your point? The studies you point to are following the dropping of the atomic bomb. How can radiation levels there be compared with what has happened at Fukushima, or come to that TMI or Chernobyl. You are comparing apples and oranges and therefore your comments on this thread are disingenuous and off-topic.Moderator?
posted 5 April 2011 at 10:46 AM by Ms.Perps
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posted 5 April 2011 at 11:21 AM by Barry Brook
Gregory … I should have put in the brackets, but my
calculator (R) does the right thing:
3e5/((50e6/1e5)*10)=60
3e5/(50e6/(1e5*10))=6000
So 300000 deaths is 60 per 100,000 per annum for 10 years in a population of 50 million. I’m just trying to get a feel for the scale of the signal that a million extra deaths would leave in the region and it isn’t credible that they would have been just missed in the normal course of cancer registry data collection.
I did make a serious mistake however. I used the 191 incidence rate when I should have used the
110 mortality rate for cancer in Ukraine … in which case the relative signal of 60 is even bigger.
posted 5 April 2011 at 11:26 AM by Geoff Russell
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okay: I get it.
300,000/500=600; 600/10=60. or 3 e5/5 e 3.
posted 5 April 2011 at 12:40 PM by Gregory Meyerson
Parrot: Here’s why Caldicott is very wrong about radiation. Radiation damages cells, no argument. But what makes a damaged cell become cancerous? Eat some red meat and you will find (assuming you have the analytical chemical skills :)) damaged DNA in cells from the inside of your colon that are sloughed off into your feces. Other cells with damage remain in your body and may become cancerous. This damage happens every single red meat meal. But soy protein will also damage your DNA, and milk protein and chicken protein. Probably all protein … but I’ve only seen data on those four. But there is not one scrap of evidence that the damage caused by soy protein (or chicken) goes on to become cancer. Its the type of damage that is crucial.
So Caldicott’s stories of the horrible things that this or that radiation/particle does to cells may be perfectly accurate (not that I’ve checked), but without a body count (the epidemiological level), it means very little. It’s a little like when somebody says … “your mouth is full of bacteria!”, or “That food is full of chemicals!”.
posted 5 April 2011 at 1:27 PM by Geoff Russell
> the epidemiological level
Here: http://dceg.cancer.gov/reb/research/ionizing
posted 5 April 2011 at 1:45 PM by Hank Roberts
Some nearby countries may wonder exactly what paths the radioactivity, and the radioactive flora and fauna, might take.
“South Korea has expressed concern to Japan over the release of radioactive water by Tokyo Electric Power Co. into the Pacific Ocean from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Yonhap News Agency reported Tuesday, citing South Korean foreign ministry officials.”
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110405x6.html
posted 5 April 2011 at 2:13 PM by bks
If the CSIRO Board can conduct themselves as indicated by Geoff Russell…
Documents obtained under Freedom of Information legislation show that CSIRO researchers informed the CSIRO Board
“Recent findings from [CSIRO] scientists have established that diets high in red meat, processed meats and the dairy protein casein can significantly increase the risk of bowel cancer.”
CSIRO scientists inform the CSIRO Board — April 2006
What did CSIRO tell the public? . . .
“Studies have shown that fresh red meat (beef and lamb) is not a significant risk factor for colorectal cancer.”
CSIRO Total Wellbeing Diet, Book 2 — October 2006
then presumably this increases the likelihood that some of Caldicott’s accusations must hold water.
I see no reason to believe that the CSIRO is unique.
Anyway I will read the book with interest to see what the strength of the evidence is..
posted 5 April 2011 at 2:24 PM by Chris Warren
I would greatly appreciate if the author of this article would be held to Barry’s very reasonable standard to “Please be sure to supply references to support your assertions”.
In particular, I’m having difficulty finding support for the actual numbers that Russell presents, such as in connection with the 200,000 emergency workers, and also the supposed 98.8% successful treatment of the 4000 thyroid cases. Are these from the WHO report? If so where?
Also — is there a version of this WHO report written in a character set that Acrobat can search? Or some other solution to searching it?
BNC does not edit blog posts/articles by other contributors. We are sure Geoff will be able to provide you with any further information you require.
posted 5 April 2011 at 2:55 PM by gwideman
That’s the whole point i’m trying to make sir, it does matter. It matters if it’s just a headache, or reduced fertility or years out of a life or earlier developement of diseases. Damage to mankind also adds up. We know that from the side effects of pesticides. A few hundred thousand bad moods add up to a smaller number of lethalities. That is the dicipline. Damage to human health is exactly what the word says it is and you don’t measure that in cancers or corpses. That you measure in percentages human health. It makes perfect sense and it doesn’t make sense to do it any other way.
There is an enormous danger in not considering all effect. Somewhere down the line you will inevetably be confronted with the accumulated effect of the thing you refused to see as important. We’ve been there. This is how it goes:
Some demographic institute finds there is a rising fatality, sinking birthrate, increasing disease count or deformation of some sort, whatever, some bad news. Anything alarming that can’t be explained, so they ring the bell. Somebody else starts doing research and finds the cause. Whatever the cause is, the experience is that one characteristic always returns:
We’re too late to control it. It’s either all over the place of financially so powerfull or profit rich it gets surpressed. How do you think global warming got this far? And there’s still people denying it’s happening on this very blog.
Back to radioactivity. If some sea of mini side effect turns up, there is no way we will ever get it out of the environment again. The understanding of the true effect of radioactivity on lifeforms/living tissue is Zero, zilch, nothing. It’s not chemical, i’ts subchemical. Solid probability. There is no lethal dose. The only thing we have is an idea of the dose that would be lethal to every human. That’s not the same thing.
Approach it as a mathematical problem. If there is no obvious solution to the variable, you isolate it, right? You make sure that on one side of the ‘=’ there’s nothing left but the variable. Whatever is left on the other side is the solution. There is nothing obvious about the solution of this variable, so we gotta write it out. We can’t just guess. All we have to do is put a “=” between energy generation induced radioactivity and the rest of the world. Problem solved.
And think of the advantages of a primary 100% safety objective:
1. Never again a panic like this.
2. Servere reduction of opponent argument.
3. Increase of support population.
4. Reduced risk of fuel based military conflict.
5. Increased attention for other problems.
6. Maybe actually getting the job done.
That’s just the few that come up in my mind right now.
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posted 5 April 2011 at 3:05 PM by Parrot
I have not as yet made one comment on anything posted on Fukushima however this one is so bad I just have to – sorry.
I am restraining myself to the renewable disinformation so let start.
“but would I lash 10,000 bicycles together to transport a thousand tonnes of grain from silo to mill?”
What is silly is that the author thinks that this is a valid comparison! No, no-one would lash together 10 000 bicycles to carry 1000 tons of wheat. However if there was no fossil fuel available and the job needed to be done, 10000 people on bikes could easily carry or tow 100kg of wheat each and transport the grain even if it took a couple of trips. In the case of wind farms however connecting up different wind regimes is not as hard as organising 10000 bike riders. We live in 2011 not 1911 and modern communications and technology make the job relatively easy.
“Once you turn a nuclear reactor on, it stays on 24×7”
This is clearly not true. Nuclear reactors are like any power plant that fail and/or needs maintenance so the best they can do is 90%. In countries other than France there exists many other forms of generation that switch off allowing the high capacity factor. In France there are load following nukes leading to the CF of their fleet to be 75%.
There is no power plant on Earth that has a CF of 100%.
“You can use off-peak nuclear power for desalination, for recharging the electric vehicles that will come in handy when oil runs short, for making fertiliser and much more”
Yes you can however off-peak is a thing that was invented because certain large power stations cannot be turned off economically as they are base-load only. Nuclear is one of these. Most, if not all, renewable sources are intermediate and can be despatched at will when they are generating (in the case of wind). Desalination plants cannot be switched off and on fast enough to make up for nuclear’s base load only capacity.
Rather than the dumb 1890s concept of off-peak the new smart grid based on 21st century communications will sense what is happening in the environment and act accordingly. If there is a surplus of wind the smart chargers in the electric cars will switch on. When there is not they will contribute some of their stored energy to smooth the grid.
Desalination and fertiliser production can happen when the sun is shining as both water and fertiliser can be easily stored, so neither is CF dependent. However society needs to conserve both these resources to avoid environmental damage.
” The much hyped Andasol I solar thermal power station is a 50 mega-watt unit, even a modest nuke is 20 times bigger. Andasol I has a tank of molten salt at 400 degrees centigrade to act as a battery after sun down. The salt battery for a 50 mega-watt unit is 14 meters high and 38 meters in diameter. Scale it up 20 times and you have half a million tonnes of 400 degree salt.”
Andasol1 is 50MW because of the subsidy structure in Spain that cuts out over 50MW. It is also a trough type plant, again built this way because bankers know troughs as will loan money for them. Trough plants can only heat the salt to 400deg so that is the temp that is stores.
The newer type of power towers that use molten salt as a working fluid, like the one that just opened in Italy, heats to salts to just under 1000deg dramatically increasing the amount of energy stored. So the calculations presented here are wrong.
The future of solar in a 100% renewable grid will need to be of three classes of power generation. First of all the ‘baseload’ stations will be large power towers with 72 hours storage and gas or biomass backup. Due to the large storage, gas/biomass use will be under 10% and sometimes zero in good insolation areas.
The second will be the trough type andasols and solar PV with 3 – 7 hours of storage that will do the afternoon and morning peak.
Lastly will probably still be gas/biomass plants doing peaking and wind firming allied with solar PV with 1 hour storage. There is no real replacement for economical short startup peaking power however the solar PV plants will be able to do the lions share.
“This means that the technology can be modularised, mass produced, and can replace fossil fuels.”
I am sure it can but in what time frame? The only major truth of Fukushima, and all I will say on it, is that the systems that were designed to stop the kind of things that happened failed. Japan was only saved from a worse disaster by quick thinking and heroic personnel that turned fire trucks and concrete pumpers into emergency core cooling. Neither of which was in the original design or disaster plan. While we build complex machines they will still behave in unpredictable ways. What makes nuclear unique is the possible consequences of these failures.
When you are modularising and mass producing these reactors you will now have to take into account that the systems that you design, no matter how well you think you have done it, can also fail and then you will need to guard against these potential failures. Also as the French found if there is a problem found later on then you have just mass produced 1000 errors – if it serious then the entire fleet can be brought down again as the French found with their standard design.
We need to start now to mitigate climate change not when all the new wonder reactors are debugged and mass produced but with what we have. Sure wind and sun are not what we are used to however it is up to us to change to fit them not try and perpetuate this business as usual, growth at all costs model that has caused climate change in the first place.
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posted 5 April 2011 at 3:52 PM by Stephen Gloor (Ender)
@ Ms. Perps,
My point is science, truth and rigor.
The repports on Chernobyl can easily been found in the net. For example: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2005/pr38/en/index.html
For the latest results: http://www.unscear.org/docs/reports/2008/Advance_copy_Annex_D_Chernobyl_Report.pdf
The number of deaths from children thyroid cancers can be found in a number of belaraus and russian reports. As a matter of fact, the reports I have seen did’nt mention a survivability rate of 98.8% but of 99.8% – only 15 deads in 6000 cases. The extrapolation of a survivability of 98% at the end of 5 years and 92% at the end of 30 years is an extrapolation of typical data. Statistics, of course.
Regarding the fact that we can not mix oranges with apples when compairing A-bombs with Chernobyl: first, I was who pointed to the differences – a single burst against a continuous moderate release. But of the same stuff: ionizating radioactivity.
There are a lot of specific studies on Chernobyl, as anybody can see reading the UN reports. You may want to question their rigor, but then you’ll lose the ground to question Greenpeace, who was who claim for the 950000 deads from Chernobyl…
The Greenpeace and also the Green german party, who rules the energy politics in the European Union (well, this a belief, I can give that).
posted 5 April 2011 at 4:47 PM by Jose de Sa
“Evidence meltdown” – George Monbiot keeps swinging for science and evidence – fantastic to see:
The unpalatable truth is that the anti-nuclear lobby has misled us all
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/apr/05/anti-nuclear-lobby-misled-world
I’ve discovered that when the facts don’t suit them, the movement resorts to the follies of cover-up they usually denounce…
Further interrogation of HC’s answers here:
http://www.monbiot.com/2011/04/04/interrogation-of-helen-caldicotts-responses/
posted 5 April 2011 at 4:51 PM by Barry Brook in reply to Jose de Sa
An extract, relevant to Geoff’s post and to some commenters here who’ve pointed to the NYAS study:
Like Vidal and many others, Caldicott pointed me to a book which claims that 985,000 people have died as a result of the disaster. Translated from Russian and published by the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, this is the only document that looks scientific and appears to support the wild claims made by greens about Chernobyl.
A devastating review in the journal Radiation Protection Dosimetry points out that the book achieves this figure by the remarkable method of assuming that all increased deaths from a wide range of diseases – including many which have no known association with radiation – were caused by the Chernobyl accident. There is no basis for this assumption, not least because screening in many countries improved dramatically after the disaster and, since 1986, there have been massive changes in the former eastern bloc. The study makes no attempt to correlate exposure to radiation with the incidence of disease.
Its publication seems to have arisen from a confusion about whether Annals was a book publisher or a scientific journal. The academy has given me this statement: “In no sense did Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences or the New York Academy of Sciences commission this work; nor by its publication do we intend to independently validate the claims made in the translation or in the original publications cited in the work. The translated volume has not been peer reviewed by the New York Academy of Sciences, or by anyone else.”
posted 5 April 2011 at 4:56 PM by Barry Brook in reply to Barry Brook
The problem is that long term effects of radiation cannot be seen and the results of an accident can not easily be quantified and therefore the pro-nuclear lobby, industry and governments can use the ‘no proof/evidence argument with ease. Used regularly for oil until recently.
It might be the case that there is a very small percentage of increases in death or serious illness over a very large population and so as a quantity it might be quite high (100s of thousands).
However this is just speculation and I am afraid that the attraction of nuclear power is so great that we will not know until it is later. Possibly the same as the effects of the oil industry and our desire for large cars, air con, full on heating etc. I am not saying I am right. I do hope the nuclear lobby is right, however it feels like more of the same sort of protectionism.
It will be interesting to see if the real monsters turn out to be the nuclear industry and governments protecting them or the anti nukes.
posted 5 April 2011 at 5:10 PM by Eric Moore
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posted 5 April 2011 at 5:11 PM by Shelby
@Stevek9: “You are suggesting that we simply accept the irrationality around nuclear power rather than to attempt to educate the public.”
Actually I am suggesting both: 1) Accept irrationality. Emotions must be acknowledged and managed appropriately. Telling scared people that they are wrong is likely to trigger more fear, anger and other negative reactions.
2) Educate the public. People are scared of the unknown. This is a very long term task. We also need to increase the scientific knowledge about radiation effects. Epidemiological studies as the ones referenced by Geoff are key.
posted 5 April 2011 at 5:28 PM by François Manchon
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@ Eric Moore,
I agree with you regarding the pro-nuclear lobby. I am pro-nuclear, but I recognize that there is a pro-nuc lobby tending to rebuild data the same was as the pro-renewables lobbies.
It is true that because sthocastic morbility data can not be proved in a court, some pro-nuc people tend to dismiss epidemiological results at all – but not for the deaths resulting from coal. It is a anti-science position similar to the Greenpeace’s, when this one count all deaths after Chernobyl as resulting from radioactivity, since we can not distinguish them in a deterministic way, in the present status of science.
Now, the 4000 deads estimate is based on integrating the radioactivity levels from the Chernobyl plant to the remote regions (including Sweden, for example), weigthed by the LNT cancer risc (0,5% per 100 mSv, a coefficient extracted mainly from A-bombs ) and by the living population in those regions. And those deads are long-term estimates, ehich means that many of them have not happened yet, so they can not be proved.
I think this is a very reasonable estimate. Chernobyl was really a disaster, after all.
The point we sould stress, however, is that the breaking of the Vajont and the Banqiao hydro damns killed respectively 2000 and 170000 people in Italy (1963) and China (1973), not to mention the people killed by coal, 2600 in chinese coal mines just last year, as the chineses have pointed out: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/25/china-nuclear-safety-idUSL3E7EP01B20110325
The only way that the public can be educated is if they feel that the truth is being told and I have already seen conflicting information about Chernobyl, medical questions and the Japan crisis. One persons education is another’s propaganda.
We need a worldwide body made up of scientists, medical professionals, nuclear experts, geologists and historians to really investigate. We do not need shareholders, industrialists or politicians particularly.
@Eric Moore,
We already have that “worlwide body made up of scientists, medical professionals and historians to really investigate”.
Under the umbrella of the United Nations. I’ve been hyperlinking some of their reports.
I’ll take some time to look. Thanks
I would be as happy as anyone to come to the conclusion that the risk/benefit profile of nuclear make it a good solution for the problems that Russell enumerates.
So while Russell points out the susceptibility of public and media to FUD arguments and shady use of data by anti-nuclear activists, I am looking to Russell’s use of data and facts, hoping to find something that’s more robustly persuasive to me.
So… let’s look into the 4000 thyroid cases of which “98.8 percent were successfully treated”. Yes, such a statement does appear in the WHO report, if you combine what is said on page 107 (“less than 1% …died from this disease… rest treated successfully”) with the version on page 104 (survival rate in a sample of 1152 patients was 98.8%).
But what this does not cover is the kind of “success”. If we read the details on pages 45 to 50, we learn that success corresponds basically to just the initial treatment to avoid short-term death.
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The WHO report describes how the radiation effect on the thyroid is inversely proportional to age, so it is disproportionately children, and young ones at that, who are at risk.
Russell says “the treatment success is a fact on the brink of extinction”, and elsewhere links suppression of such facts to the anti-nuclear activists. I would suggest that this kind of success — almost 4000 children sentenced to surgery, chemo,
[deleted unsubstantiated personal opinion]– does not make a very nuke-friendly argument to parents anywhere, (and if the anti-nukes have suppressed this, then they’d be doing the pros a favor). Maybe it’s still an argument worth making, but it’s not “98.8% cured good as new”.
I’ve not yet discovered where Russell got the emergency worker data from (200,000 population, with predicted 2000 excess cancers). But that passage seems to mix together predictions for lifetime incidence with other info for the period up to the 1998 data in the WHO report. [deleted unsubstantiated personal opinion] So the “numbers to 1998” don’t relate easily to the lifetime projections.
Finally one blanket statement about all the comparisons in this article to things that are worse. When you compare consequences of nuclear power to Rwanda, you have succeeded only in saying that nuclear power is not as bad as something that is too horrible to contemplate.
Bottom line: Yes, I already buy that that there are FUD arguments out there. And I’m rooting for the author to show the way in using data more thoughtfully than this article does.
@Jose de Sa
I do understand the risk to life does come from lots of sources. I am not defending the pro-oil/coal lobby. In-fact I remember having the same gut feelings about the pro-oil corporations and cover-ups of the 70s/80s and also when the climate change scientists were beginning to make noise, I was suspicious of the people denying that this was a problem. It may be unfair to consider the pro-nuke camp in the same way, but it just feels that way to me. Hope I am wrong.
For those interested in LNT versus threshold linear versus hormesis, here is an interesting ‘serendipitous experiment’
http://www.ecolo.org/documents/documents_in_english/low-dose-Cobalt-taiw-06.pdf
posted 5 April 2011 at 6:53 PM by Cyril R
@cyril R
Interesting report and I can quite believe it, but it is just one case. It might be like a report that says 25ml of wine every day is good for your heart, however 1/2 liter of mentholated spirits will kill you over time.
If I have this wrong and this report applies to all radiation and exposures then it should be easy to prove by experimentation.
I agree that comparing some disaster elsewhere in the past with the Fukushima Daiichi crisis is not fair.
However comparing different aspects or technologies within the same disaster is a good starting point for perspective. Tsunami and earthquake killing over 20000. Buildings collapsing killing over 1000 (over 2000?). Nuclear plants emitting radiation killing no one. Earthquake and tsunami killing 3 in/around nuclear plants. If the workers were fishermen instead of nuclear plant employees in fortified buildings, would they be safer? I think not! Entire villages have been washed away!
Now a further and more relevant perspective is to look at how deadly different power sources are:
Conclusion: burning stuff is dangerous. Energy sources that don’t involve burning stuff are all of them many times safer and the difference between them all is small.
Hydro, nuclear, wind, not very deadly, coal natural gas oil biomass, very deadly.
See also Brian Wang’s take on this:
Hello Eric. We definately need more experimentation! On mice for starters. But that’s kind of an bad thing to say I guess…
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When it comes to reports and evaluation, I found this interesting article on the tobacco industry and although we must not compare the two industries I think it shows how the lack of proof can be used against the public.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1568/is_n7_v28/ai_19030080/
“It created the Tobacco Industry Research Council, later renamed the Council for Tobacco Research, supposedly to fund studies examining “all phases of tobacco use and health.” Although some CTR-funded researchers produced further evidence of tobacco’s hazards, most worked in areas far afield from the CTR’s ostensible focus, while certain “special projects” were deliberately selected to cast doubt on the connection between smoking and disease. The CTR helped maintain the pretense that more research was needed – always and forever. The industry’s strategy, as Tobacco Institute Vice President Fred Panzer put it in a 1972 memo, was “creating doubt about the health charge without actually denying it.” Company officials steadfastly maintained that the case against smoking was not conclusive, and it soon became clear that no amount of evidence would sway them from that position.”
i have a simple solution to solve this big problem:
“405 additional cancers attributable to radiation from the accident.”
the solution is: shifting the burden of proof!
any increase in cancer rates after a nuclear accident will be attributed to the accident. and it is the task of the pro- nuclear side, to demonstrate which cases are NOT caused by the accident.
to stay in the film language brought up by Geoff Russell (and possibly the best part of his guest post):
if you are stuck in a horror movie, would you really want to look at additional deaths, that can be clearly attributed to the monster?
posted 5 April 2011 at 7:49 PM by sod
By the way it might be a bad thing to experiment on mice but it is readily done to check medical and cosmetic products (and at one time cigarettes).
Speaking of cigarettes, did you know that smoking a pack of sigarettes exposes you to roughly 0.1 millisievert? We discussed this on Energyfromthorium forum. Smoking two packs a day gets you 8000 mrem or 80 millisievert! The culprit is polonium-210. Scary!
http://www.energyfromthorium.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2865
I have a nice reference for general reading on radiation hormesis:
http://www.scientificexploration.org/journal/jse_17_3_kauffman.pdf
Jose de sa: My number of 4000 came from the 2006
who report I linked and it is referring to data up until 2002. So 6000 sounds reasonable, but I can’t find the 2011 report you mention … just this:
http://arch.iarc.fr/documents/ARCH_TechnicalReport.pdf
Haven’t looked at the UNSCEAR 2008 report you linked. Will do so when I get the time. Nuclear isn’t really my “burning issue”, but I was getting so furious at SBS TV reporting here in Australia (not sure where you are), that I just had to write something. Anyway thanks for the references.
Shelby: See some of my earlier comments about how unlikely it is for normal cancer registries to just miss a million deaths as is required for the WHO conspiracy theory. I did go to the NYAS cite and they wanted me to pay for the report (fair enough), but I’ll wait for someone more expert to deal with it. There is now an army of collaborative teams working on Chernobyl impacts. I have some confidence they won’t miss anything this big. Does that mean I think the non-Anglo scientists were incompetent? That depends on the when the work was done. In the late 1980s, early 1990s? Read Laurie Garrett on this period and make your judgement. If a million people really did die, then that “signal” (a cold word for something so horrific) won’t have vanished. The modern studies would have found it. If they don’t find it, then I’d bet it was never there.
Sophia: talking about “data” is a cold way of talking about horrific events, but from an individuals viewpoint, disasters and more mundane events are equally shocking. That was actually the point I was trying to make when I talked about living with pain. Many of Chernobyl’s victims may get cancer, but will be pain free until it reaches some stage. Victims of more conventional violence may live with pain for the rest of their lives. Which is worse? Most of the victims of Hiroshima didn’t know what hit them. Probably none of the Rwandan victims were spared substantial periods of pain and terror. I’m not saying X is worse than Y and therefore Y is okay. Not at all, I’m just saying X is worse than Y so lets give X more attention than Y.
Great article, Geoff. In fact, this may be the best one I’ve read so far since the Fukushima incident began – and I’ve read many, many! (This is certainly not to take away from all the other excellent posts on BNC since the Japan earthquake + tsunami either).
There’s much irony to be found when reading some of the comments in this thread, after reading this article and the George Monbiot article Barry linked to above. Even after all the scientific evidence and numbers are taken into account, some people are still clutching at straws for arguments against nuclear power, trying to promote the “100 % renewables” agenda. This is in spite of the fact that nuclear fission is the most environmentally sound, safest, most plentiful energy source we have access to.
I believe (and sincerely hope) that the monster is getting more and more exposure in the nuclear debate – much to the disappointment of some horror fanatics.
posted 5 April 2011 at 8:26 PM by Tom Keen
Hi Cyril
What you get in cigarettes is horrific. I smoked. Why? because when I was young it looked like a cool thing to do. It made you think you were more attractive, stylish, intelligent, thanks to the adverts, promotions and sponsorships. All seems so odd now.
Interestingly:
http://www.accessexcellence.org/WN/SUA03/medical_tobacco.php
You see there are some benefits in having tobacco. However, I won’t be smoking again.
Tobacco companies and the people covering for them were pretty big monsters. I hope this is not the same for Nuclear industry. Only time will tell.
>Cyril R wrote:
From what I’ve read so far it appears long term, non-acute exposure to whole body dose radiation is almost certainly good for you, up to at least half a sievert per year (!) which is over a hundred times typical global background radiation.
Where are the links? Is this opinion, or is it not speculative?
Perhaps you are anxious to stop reading about it and to begin practicing what you preach?
>To the Moderator:
I am still in awe that the first posts that I have ever made(in the other thread) were deleted and harshly edited with no warning whatsoever. This thread is full of opinions with no links. I suppose the only reason they are still here is because they support your cause?
I am not “on duty” all the time. This is a voluntary, part-time position. I will now go back over comments posted while I was away and make judgements about what sort of “opinions” people are posting. Philosophical opinion is one thing, personal opinion presented as fact is another and the latter requires references. Your comments list hard facts and figures, such as radiation levels in certain areas and your own scientific conclusions – obviously these need validation.
Cyril R’s scientific comment has been edited other “philosophical” views by commenters have not. If you do not like the commenting rules and falsely perceive that you are being discriminated against do feel free to go elsewhere and post on an un-moderated blog.
posted 5 April 2011 at 8:35 PM by bRIVERb
If radioactivity is not dangerous, as the author of this thread happily boasts, then why do all countries set laws for radiation levels?
“Radioactive iodine-131 readings taken from seawater near the water intake of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant’s No. 2 reactor reached 7.5 million times the legal limit, Tokyo Electric Power Co. admitted Tuesday.”
Also -“cesium-137 was 1.3 million times the amount allowable”
The level of radioactive iodine in- “water leaking from the crack(#2) had a reading of 5.4 million becquerels, Tepco said.”
More than 130 million times the maximum amount allowable.
Has ” Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences)” been reviewed in English?
The claim of 985,000 is at pg 210, but there is substantial preliminary data.
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=g34tNlYOB3AC&lpg=PA192&ots=O15VbW_Y98&dq=chernobyl%20985%2C000&lr&pg=PA211#v=onepage&q=chernobyl%20985,000&f=false
The book provides a table of different estimates of Chernobyl deaths including 14,000 for NRC [table 7.9, pg 208] but several go over 100,000.
As not all pages are available, I assume such radical differences are based on methodology and assumptions.
Anyway it is one way of ‘shining light on the monster’ somewhat different to Russell.
In my previous comment a few parts were deleted by the moderator as possible personal opinions, with invitations to provide citations. Here are the specific citations.
Two “deleted” sections relate to: “success corresponds basically to just the initial treatment to avoid short-term death”. I went on to say that following that initial treatment, as describe on pages 45 to 50 of the WHO report, children went on to suffer a variety of further effects, either from the disorder or from the treatment. The WHO report, page 45, discusses different details from different studies, such as::
— (Rybakov 2000): in 330 children treated at Kiev, 57% developed regional metastases and 14.5% developed distant metastases (for example lung).
— (Demidchik 2005) reports on 1152 consecutive cases operated on in Minsk, where, for example, 66% also had lymph node involvement.
— To date (not sure which date), 12.3% of this group had a recurrence of the carcinoma (WHO report p46)
— Thyroidectomy (the most-used treatment in the quoted studies) leads to hypothyroidism in 50% of patients: See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyroidectomy for effects and treatments. (Or see it’s references for primary sources.
— 9.3% of the patients experienced permanent hypoPARAthyroidism (WHO report page 45), which is described here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoparathyroidism, as leading to “hypocalcaemia, is a serious medical condition”.
— 5.6% of the patients had “permanent recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy”, (WHO report page 45). This affects vocal cords and breathing (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19335706 for example).
— WHO report pages 46 describes various aspects of the treatment of a group of 220 children with thyroid cancer. Of these, 100 had lung metastases, and hence underwent multiple courses of 131-I treatment, with 65% achieving “stable partial remissions”. The report notes that repeated treatment with 131-I runs the risk of inducing pulmonary fibrosis, which was indeed found in “as many as 17 children”.
(These are examples from a longer list.)
In a final “deleted” section I asserted that there was confusion around Russell’s juxtaposition of the 2000 excess emergency worked cancers (predicted) with the quite low “deaths so far up to 1998”, because (here’s the deleted bit) the predicted deaths would not be expected until mostly after 1998. Here’s the reference that supports that: for example, page 103 “It is well-known from long-term epidemiological studies […] that radiation-associated morbidity and mortality increased should be expected in the decades to come. […] recognized minimum latency period of about 10 years for many cancers.”
I hope these references clear up where my statements were coming from.
Again, I’m open to arguments that these effects are favorable compared to effects from other energy sources. I think it improves the pre-nuclear argument if even the worst (reasonable) assessment of Chernobyl (or Fukushima etc) still looks much less hazardous than the other energy processes.
gwideman – thank you for supplying the references to substantiate your claims. We appreciate your effort and your courtesy. I wish some others would be as gracious.
This is a science based blog so references regarding the”science” as opposed to a “philosophical argument” are essential and required.
>MODERATOR
I am not “on duty” all the time. This is a voluntary, part-time position. I will now go back over comments posted while I was away and make judgements about what sort of “opinions” people are posting. Philosophical opinion is one thing, personal opinion presented as fact is another and the latter requires references. Your original comments listed hard facts, such as radiation levels(and your own scientific conclusions) in certain areas – obviously these need validation.
But my original comments listing the radiation levels had the required link in my next post, as it was asked for by someone. That link had the exact numbers I listed and since it was a PDF, I had even instructed as to where to look for the numbers. It was not at all my personal opinion. It was legit.
If you wish to quote a statement I have made be sure to quote it in full. You left out part of what I said and I have inserted this, in brackets, into the response from me, which you pasted above.
Please re-submit the link to the radiation level PDF (in English). If it was wrongly deleted we apologise. Because you insisted we had deleted your original PDF, we let stand, in a later comment, a link to a Japanese PDF, listing radiation levels – despite the fact that BNC policy is to require English language links or translations.
My idea is to jump the whole good-science-bad-science thing, go directly to the consequence and start a post on the Zero Tolerance Option. This time not as a yes-or-no question, but as a ‘how’ question on the basis of the assumption that the full consequences of a more-than-zero-option can’t be predicted conclusively. If it has a life, it’ll show by itself. If not, i’ll concentrate on roasting coffee for the rest of the decade.
posted 5 April 2011 at 10:04 PM by Parrot
@ bRIVERb
It’s not that any quantity of radiation exposure is inherently safe, and I don’t believe this is implied by the author of this article. It’s that the amount of exposure from Chernobyl clearly did not (and does not) have the wide spread health effects which some predict, and some continue to claim.
See https://bravenewclimate.com/2009/09/19/radiation-facts-fallacies-and-phobias/ for more information
posted 5 April 2011 at 10:16 PM by Tom Keen
I have been following this thread with some consternation and it seems that my doubts about the validity of some of the statements about the dire effect of radiation may be correct.
I watched the interview between George Monbiot and Helen Caldicott(it is on the BNC blog and I urge you to watch it) the other night and was stunned, as was Monbiot, by her assertion that the UN, WHO and IEAE were complicit in a conspiracy of silence about the deaths and longstanding ill-health of the populace after Chernobyl and TMI.
Just now I followed a Twitter link on BNC to an article by George Monbiot. You really should read it in its entirety but here is the intro:
Over the past fortnight I’ve made a deeply troubling discovery. The anti-nuclear movement to which I once belonged has misled the world about the impacts of radiation on human health. The claims we have made are ungrounded in science, unsupportable when challenged and wildly wrong. We have done other people, and ourselves, a terrible disservice.
I began to see the extent of the problem after a debate last week with Helen Caldicott(1). Dr Caldicott is the world’s foremost anti-nuclear campaigner. She has received 21 honorary degrees and scores of awards, and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize(2). Like other greens, I was in awe of her. In the debate she made some striking statements about the dangers of radiation. So I did what anyone faced with questionable scientific claims should do: I asked for the sources. Caldicott’s response has profoundly shaken me.
First she sent me nine documents: newspaper articles, press releases and an advertisement. None were scientific publications; none contained sources for the claims she had made. But one of the press releases referred to a report by the US National Academy of Sciences, which she urged me to read. I have now done so – all 423 pages(3). It supports none of the statements I questioned: in fact it strongly contradicts her claims about the health effects of radiation.
http://www.monbiot.com/2011/04/04/evidence-meltdown/
He feels he has been totally duped by the anti-nuclear establishment and the green movement and I have to agree with him!
posted 5 April 2011 at 10:29 PM by Ms.Perps
bRiverb: Tom has pretty well answered this, but I’d just
add one thing. Occupational health and safety standards are, and should be, very conservative. E.g., some workers have been exposed to levels of radiation that might yield a tiny chance of cancer.
Just for illustration, suppose its 1 in 200. In an extreme case this is acceptable. But it isn’t acceptable to have thousands of workers routinely exposed to such levels on a regular basis. Likewise when faced with an urgent rescue, emergency workers sometimes take risks that they wouldn’t normally take if for example … rescuing a cat up
a tree when time wasn’t an issue.
posted 5 April 2011 at 10:53 PM by Geoff Russell
You should also read the following:
Some examples of the outrageous statements by Caldicott and their re-buttal by professors working in the fields are illuminating.
Helen Caldicott, Quote 1:
“There could be a huge hydrogen explosion, which would rupture the containment vessel, and out of Unit 2 would come huge plumes of radiation, which, if the wind is blowing towards the south, could devastate much of Japan forever.”
HC’s source:
“Read the NY Academy of Sciences Chernobyl report and extrapolate from there”
My response:
a. As my article explains, the Yablukov book has little scientific standing and has not been peer-reviewed.
b. Here is what Professor Robin Grimes, Professor of Materials Physics, Imperial College, London, tells me:
“The word “forever” is clearly nonsense as radioactivity does decay. Given the present temperatures and pressures within the reactors and the decay heat, which is now only a few percent of what it was, the pressure vessels are not going to rupture via a brittle fracture. At worst it will leak slowly. If it did, the levels of contamination would increase locally. More difficult to clean the mess and cost.”
Helen Caldicott, Quote 5.
“And over time, nuclear waste will induce epidemics of cancer, leukemia and genetic disease, and random compulsory genetic engineering.”
“This is basic radiobiology that I learned in 1st year medical school and was initially derived from the classic experiment of Mueller of the effects of radiation on drosophila fruit fly for which he won the Nobel Prize and the radiobiology is explained in my book. I don’t see how you can derive all the basic medical information you need George in 8 hours to write and article for tonight!”
Professor Gerry Thomas tells me this:
“Absolutely no evidence for this whatsoever – we live in a radioactive world, we are superbly adapted to it. There are areas of the world that are exposed to natural background radiation 10+ times higher than the average (same maximal dose as radiation workers receive). These populations do not show an increase in cancer.”
GM: “you’re saying you would dismiss the U.N. Scientific Committee as being part of the nuclear industry?” HC: “I could, yes.”
“Absolutely! In light of the Chernobyl report as the WHO et al have never done the necessary epidemiological studies necessary to make such a statement. The NYAS report has covered much of the medical and scientific investigation which desperately needed to be done. Tim Mousseau participated in this report and I would encourage you to talk to him re your questions. His number is ************. Dr Janette Sherman is the editor talk to her, her email is above.”
I asked her about UNSCEAR. Strangely, she refers to the WHO. Does she know what UNSCEAR is?
Professor Gerry Thomas tells me:
“I actually was a member of the UNSCEAR committee on the Health effects of the Chernobyl accident and wrote the section on the molecular biology of thyroid cancer. I can assure you that none of us are in the pay of the nuclear industry. I was anti-nuclear until I worked on the after effects of the Chernobyl accident – now I am very pro-nuclear as I realise that we have an unwarranted fear of radiation – probably due to all the rubbish about a nuclear winter we were fed during the cold war.”
George – I was an anti-nuclear, dark green until I found out I had been misled – mainly from reading this blog and now from this revelation. Helen was my hero too – what a let-down.
I meant to say – what a let down and a total betrayal of trust.
The source for at least half a sievert year non-acute whole body dose being good for you is explicitly this one
Thank you Cyril. Much appreciated.
posted 5 April 2011 at 10:57 PM by Cyril R
I’ll agree that while interesting, comparing past disasters with nuclear power isn’t the correct frame.
We should compare potential future disasters.
Currently, Australia is responsible for roughly 25% of the approximately 1 billion tons the countries who aren’t self sufficient in coal consume each year. Most of that flows thru the port of Newcastle. In our ‘what if’ the port of Newcastle stops functioning for some reason. Natural Disaster, Labor Unrest or maybe the Australian Greens decide that exporting coal is bad and just close it.
That leaves the world 250 million tons/year short of coal. The port/rail capacity of the rest of the worlds coal exporters can make up maybe 50 million tons/year in a pinch.
The result will be that the coal importing countries will have to do without 200 million tons of coal.
How do we decide who will do without.
1) The coal importers get together, hold hands, sing Kumbaya and work out a plant that minimizes that impact on each of their countries in a fair and equitable manner.
2) The market decides, I would not just the news of Germany closing a few nuclear plants which would result in a 20 or 30 million ton difference in global coal consumption resulted in a $10/ton price increase in Europe. A 200 million ton shortage is going to be like an auction for rare art.
3) The country with the biggest Army decides they are not interested in suffering at all or paying exorbitant prices. Rolling blackouts or exorbitant prices will cause massive civil unrest. They decide they will take whatever coal exists on the export markets and everyone else will have to bear the burden of the coal shortage. Inflicting violence on a coal exporting country will be less then the violence from the civil unrest.
History shows us that option #3 is a high probability event. There has been no shortage of armed conflict in the oil exporting countries in the last 30 years.
The list of countries who are capable of exporting more then a dozen nuclear reactors worth of coal is short. (50 million tons)
Australia, Indonesia, Russia, South Africa, Columbia and the USA.
Russia has used energy as a political weapon. South Africa and Columbia struggle with internal violence. Indonesia has some difficulties with Radical Islam. Environmentalists in the US are doing everything they can to stop coal exports.
Depending on an imported resource that only a handful of countries control carries with it substantial risk.
Being one of the handful of countries that controls coal exports also carries the risk of others violently meddling in your internal affairs.
This comment belongs in the Fukushima Philosophical Open Thread. Please move over. Future comments in the wrong thread may be deleted, as per BNC policy. We have no method of transferring comments between threads.
posted 5 April 2011 at 11:33 PM by harrywr2
Short article from NHKlabout radiation levels in reactor buildings 1,2,3:
“Plant radiation monitor says levels immeasurable
A radiation monitor at the troubled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says workers there are exposed to immeasurable levels of radiation.
The monitor told NHK that no one can enter the plant’s No. 1 through 3 reactor buildings because radiation levels are so high that monitoring devices have been rendered useless. He said even levels outside the buildings exceed 100 millisieverts in some places.
Pools and streams of water contaminated by high-level radiation are being found throughout the facility.
The monitor said he takes measurements as soon as he finds water, because he can’t determine whether it’s contaminated just by looking at it. He said he’s very worried about the safety of workers there.
Contaminated water and efforts to remove it have been hampering much-needed work to cool the reactors.
The monitor expressed frustration, likening the situation to looking up a mountain that one has to climb, without having taken a step up.
Tuesday, April 05, 2011 19:51 +0900 (JST)”
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/05_38.html
posted 5 April 2011 at 11:36 PM by bks
[deleted off-topic comment. Please re-post in Sceptics thread.]
posted 5 April 2011 at 11:53 PM by Jeremy
> Jeremy
don’t feed the troll
> hormesis, cobalt, Chen study
articles citing Chen: Effects of cobalt-60 exposure on health of Taiwan residents suggest new approach needed… can be read by looking that study up in Scholar. One such list is here:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=17711240711126678264&as_sdt=2005&sciodt=0,5&hl=en
Note that Chen’s article refers to exposures to external gamma, not alpha or beta radiation and not to exposure to internal radiation.
Enthusiasts often obscure these differences when referring to the Chen study.
Watch particularly for claims that fthe Fukushima radioactivity from iodine and cesium is trivial because of the Chen study. These are not at all the same type or exposure.
But Chen says he was not able to obtain the population data needed to properly evaluate the surprising result, and hasn’t published a followup that I can find. Nor have I been able to find any other authors who have followed up his paper. Most people citing it point to blog copies, not to the journals where you’d expect to find links to citing papers.
I look for good skeptics; those will acknowledge the limitations as well as the suggestion of a possible effect as Chen does in the actual paper, both in the introduction:
“The findings of this study are such a departure from expectations, based on International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) criteria, that we believe that they ought to be carefully reviewed by other, independent organizations and that population data not available to the authors be provided, so that a fully qualified, epidemiologically valid analysis can be made.”
and in the Discussion:
“In such studies, it is very important to examine the confounding factors that could possibly affect the comparisons being made between the exposed population and the general population of Taiwan. Are there qualitative differences in the two populations? Although it is a critical factor, the age distribution of the exposed population has not yet been determined, and it was assumed that the age distribution of the exposed population is the same as that of the general Taiwan population….”
Be skeptical about attempts to claim more for Chen’s paper than Chen claims.
Quotes from:
“Is Chronic Radiation an Effective Prophylaxis Against Cancer?” published in
Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume 9 Number 1 Spring 2004
Skeptics should look carefully at this journal:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Association_of_American_Physicians_and_Surgeons
I think people make a little light with the 98.8% “curing” of Chernobyl’s 4000 (6000 – whatever) thyroid cancer cases. Here’s some of the reality of that cure…
source http://health.usnews.com/health-conditions/cancer/thyroid-cancer/treatment
Almost all cases of thyroid cancer are treated with surgery. Many are also treated with additional methods. Possible complications of the surgery include:
Damage to the nerves that control the vocal cords, which may cause temporary or permanent hoarseness or loss of voice
Irritation of larynx by intubation, which may cause temporary or permanent hoarseness or loss of voice
Damage to parathyroid glands, which may lower blood calcium levels and lead to muscle spasms and numbness
Infection of the surgical site
Bleeding or formation of a hematoma (blood clot in the neck)
If your thyroid is removed, you will take thyroid hormone replacement pills daily for the rest of your life.
posted 6 April 2011 at 12:57 AM by Nick Palmer
@Georg
4000 thyroid cancers from Chernobyl is the “standard” number. 68xx is when everybody aged less than 18 at the time is considered, and for recent updates, since the excess of those cancers on the expected number has still been increasing 20 years past – allthough most of them now in girls, while for boys the peak was reached 10 years after: http://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/chernobyl.html
I think you are right. We should mention not only the deads but also the sick, and most thyroid cases are treated with surgery and additional methods. We should do it In order to improve safety – it appears that IAEA is just going to do that, learning from Fukushima. That is how humankind progresses.
Anyway, about the Chernobyl real thing, the best report I know is this one: http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2006/9241594179_eng.pdf
Reading the WHO report that I hyperlinked in my previous comment, it can be seen that Cardis, E. (Elisabeth) was who had estimated the 4000 deads from Chernobyl. She did it in 1996, and 10 years after she wrote another paper: http://depts.washington.edu/epidem/Epi591/Spr09/Chernobyl%20Forum%20Article%20Cardis%20et%20al-1.pdf
In this last paper Elisabeth reviews the new data available from post-following the affected people, to recognized that this data does not confirm her predictions. However, she also clarifies that given the very small prediected increase for most people (eg. 1%), no epidemiological study can distinguish that signal from noise (my words).
But there is a very interesting point in her paper: if we know now that thyroid cancer and Iodine-131 is what is most dangerous, is because of Chernobyl. Also, if we know that leukemia is the other most common cancer from radioactivity, is from the A-bombs survivors follow-up (as well as from a few medical accidents). Before Chernobyl we did’nt know that.
Barry and Geoff – thank you for this excellent post. I was bouncing around the web and came on an interview with “physicist, educator, author” Gregory Benford on the Azimuth blog. The interview’s title is non-descriptive: This Week’s Finds (Week 310). Benford is very level-headed, IMO.
Given the ‘monster movie’ theme of the post, I found this quote very appropriate:
I fear we are now in the Decade of Dithering that will end with the deadly 2020s.
(several questions and answers later)
The great danger is that tipping points may not be obvious, even as we cross them. They may present as small events that nonetheless take us over an horizon from which we can never return.
He discusses tipping points that worry him and much else. The monster is making little noises, but which are significant? One of his serious concerns is that we will continue talking and not get out and experiment soon enough. There are links to the research papers scattered through the interview.
posted 6 April 2011 at 3:18 AM by Andrew Jaremko
Could anyone help me out here please, my friends are panicking due to Fairewinds webcast, in particular this one about Te-129 measurement and recriticality at Fukushima. Please tell me why it is nonsense, I am not a nuclear engineer.. Thanks..
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/tellurium-129-presence-proof-inadvertent-recriticality-fukushima
posted 6 April 2011 at 3:39 AM by A-mouse
@Nick Palmer: You may be interested in my earlier comments in which I make similar points, indeed somewhat graver, with references to the WHO report quoted by Russell. (Search for my username).
I think that it serves the pro-nuclear case to be as comprehensive as possible when assessing Chernobyl (or TMI, or Fukushima), and to muster the argument that even then, nuclear is favorable compared to alternatives.
posted 6 April 2011 at 6:34 AM by gwideman
I don’t think it is wise to compare global warming research with radiation poisoning.
There is scientific consensus among climatologists re: anthropomorphic GW, not so with the latter. Even where there might be consensus is with very low dosage gamma rays at best.
posted 6 April 2011 at 7:22 AM by Enviromentalist
Everyone (not in the medical field) seems to argue over the cancer risks of radiation exposure, as if it were the only measure of health impact. I never see proponents of nuclear power talking about the serious non fatal diseases that radiation poisoning can cause, such as weakened immune systems and metabolic diseases. People don’t have to die to suffer with illness. You also leave out the medically known affect that radiation has on genetic cell mutation and birth defects.
NickPalmer: Fair comment. I debated when writing on whether to say “cured” but settled on “successfully treated”. Nobody is saying Chernobyl wasn’t a disaster and some of those thyroid cancer people will suffer considerable problems as a consequence. But the numbers of people suffering as a consequence of, for example, cooking with wood and cattle dung is vastly greater, with about
1500 children dying per day in India alone, see
Hughes and Dunleavy cited in:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1078/1438-4639-00224
The pre-mortality suffering of these children is also serious. India has realistic nuclear goals to alleviate this suffering and anti-nuclear activists are trying to stop them … for example by opposing uranium sales to India or anywhere else regardless of safeguards. What makes the suffering of a small number of thyroid cancer victims so important as to take deliberate action to perpetuate the suffering of a vast number of Indian and other children?
Lastly, if taking medication for the rest of your life is the worst that happens, I’d say that’s a good outcome. Many Australians choose taking a medication for the rest of their lives for blood pressure over a simple cure … changing their diet and exercise habits.
There are alternatives, renewable, and green alternatives to cooking with wood or nuclear power.
You can not claim that Chernobyl was no big killer when precisely there was a monumental effort done by governments to prevent the very same deaths. Could the “low mortality” rate of 9,000* be a million if the USSR claimed Chernobyl was no big deal? and did not evacuate, give Iodine pills etc.?
That is the problem with natural experiments, always will be.
* http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2006/pr20/en/index.html
Enviromentalist, on 6 April 2011 at 8:29 AM said:
Many Australians choose taking a medication for the rest of their lives for blood pressure over a simple cure … changing their diet and exercise habits.
I bet Foster’s is behind that…
A userful overview on Chernobyl, with 2 pages of references (including some with links) can be found at
http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles_2010/Summer_2010/Observations_Chernobyl.pdf
The author is Zbigniew Jaworowski, a physician/nuclear scientist who was in charge of radiation protection in Poland at the time of the Chernobyl accident. He is also a former chairman of UNSCEAR.
posted 6 April 2011 at 9:46 AM by Marje Hecht
Ms. Perps and others – you might be interested in the following webpage, where Helen Caldicott is concerned.
http://www.ntanet.net/publicinfo.html
It’s worth reading all the material on that page.
Personally, I think Helen Caldicott was already previously completely discredited, and nobody ever really paid her any attention any more – but in the wake of the Fukushima incident, the media dusted her off again to get some more ratings.
posted 6 April 2011 at 9:58 AM by Luke Weston
[deleted unsubstantiated personal scientific opinion on link supplied by previous commenter.Please re-submit with the analysis of your off the cuff appraisal and links to support it.]
posted 6 April 2011 at 10:15 AM by Shelby
Good heavens Caldicott is hopelessly uninformed. She has absolutely no idea what the truth is regarding radiation exposure. Some people believe in the nuclear bogeyman like it is religion.
posted 6 April 2011 at 10:22 AM by Jeff B.
Luke Weston, on 6 April 2011 at 9:58 AM said:
Yes, and did you?
Caldicott said:
new literature shows that low doses of radiation, are 6 to 8 times more dangerous than originally estimated?(3, 4, 5, 6)
And her sources were;
3. Hal Morgenstern et al,”Epidemiological Study to Determine Possible Adverse Effects to Rocketdyne/Atomics International Workers from Exposure to Ionizing Radiation” Final Report to the Public Health Institute Berkeley, Cal, Subcontract No.324A-8701-S0163
4. Rob Edwards,”Radiation Roulette” New Scientist, 11Oct, 1997
5. Lynne M Wiley et al, “Impaired Cell Proliferation in Mice That Persists Across at Least Two Generations after Paternal Irradiation” Radiation Research Society, 1997
6. Hans Ellegren et al “Fitness Loss and Germline Mutations in Barn Swallows Breeding in Chernobyl”, Nature, Vol389, Oct 1997
So how do these sources discredit her statement?
A warning that out of date sources, not referenced to on-line readable links, may be deleted. It is unlikely that people on this blog could access the information to check your analysis. Often literature this old is out of print and peer reviewed re-buttals may have been published.
posted 6 April 2011 at 10:23 AM by chris warren
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Out of date sources which may have been re-butted in the peer review literature need accessible links for verification.
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Please note that, as previously stated, comments with links to unverifiable literature, such as out of print or books, obscure out of date texts are not acceptable as references on BNC. If links to the research are provided , people are able to check the work themselves and to assess the information against any possible peer reviewed re-buttals which may have been published susequently
Chris: Do you know how many articles people could list to counter the Caldicott ones? what’s the point?
BTW, Chris: if you read the monbiot assessment of the NYAS study, he provides the link to the review. Here it is. It is certainly not a study I would confidently cite as authoritative.
http://rpd.oxfordjournals.org/content/141/1/101.full
That said, there’s loads of uncertainty in assessing the impacts of radiation from Chernobyl.
In this article you conflate nuclear power with nuclear weapons, which is the thinking that underlies a lot of anti-nuclear opinions. You minimize Hiroshima and Nagasaki by saying that more people were killed in other attacks.
But Hiroshima and Nagasaki are particular horrors for a very good reason: because they introduced the world to a new, radically more destructive and cruel kind of weapon.
I think a lot of anti-nuclear feeling comes out of that traumatic reality – that weapons exist that can kill millions of people at once.
To make nuclear power acceptable to people, it’s necessary to dissociate it from nuclear war. I think the angst about small amounts of radioactivity comes partly from the fear of nuclear war, a threat so big that people can’t directly face it. And fears that nuclear power will enable proliferation of nuclear weapons and nuclear terrorism are especially important to address for this reason.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki shouldn’t be lumped together with Chernobyl or Fukushima. That will only make people exaggerate the badness of nuclear accidents.
Nuclear war really is a horror and that should go without saying.
Please note that the post referred to by you is a guest post by Geoff Russell and not by Barry Brook. You should direct your questions on this post to Geoff.
posted 6 April 2011 at 11:50 AM by Laura
It seems easier to discredit nuclear lobbyists that to discredit Caldicott….
Here is Dr. Bernard L. Cohen (again) – see Luke weston’s link:
studies attribute far less fossil fuel usage to nuclear power, and that solar energy, … uses more than ten times as much of these materials (steel,aluminum, cement, glass) as nuclear power for generating the same amount of electricity.
No source provided.
But reputable sources such as: http://www.nature.com/climate/2008/0810/full/climate.2008.99.html
… nuclear emits twice as much carbon as solar photovoltaic, at 32 gCO2e/kWh, and six times as much as onshore wind farms, at 10 gCO2e/kWh.
The Nature report [citing Solomon, S. et al. (eds.) Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] covered plant constructoin and operating and appears to have not considered decommissioning and the present value of CO2 emmissions for waste depository for multiple years. The concept “life-cycle” was not properly explained.
So we have a choice – a nuclear proponent says “more than ten times as much”.
Nature and IPCC shows data indicating it is half as much.
Sensible people will probably prefer Nature and IPCC.
I checked your link and it was not from a peer reviewed paper in “Nature” – it was from an on-line journal “Nature Reports Climate Change” and written by a journalist. You are skating on thin ice here – your whole post could have been deleted on the grounds that you were deliberately distorting information by omitting to provide the correct title of your source – thus implying the article was a peer reviewed piece. Any future such instances will be deleted. Further, as the Cohen quote was not directly on BNC, policy as to providing refs rests with the original publication, not with us.
gwideman: “I’ve not yet discovered where Russell got the emergency worker data from (200,000 population, with predicted 2000 excess cancers”
Table 12 of the 2006 WHO report … page 108
http://www.who.int/ionizing_radiation/chernobyl/who_chernobyl_report_2006.pdf
“When you compare consequences of nuclear power to Rwanda, you have succeeded only in saying that nuclear power is not as bad as something that is too horrible to contemplate.”
Agreed, but I’m also saying that nuclear power can, provide electricity to prevent 1500 deaths per day of Indian children caused by wood/dung cooking.
for MODERATOR and chris warren, on 6 April 2011 at 10:23 AM
Taking the first reference from the four questioned, here is how to find them. Just take the cite or a chunk of the title and paste it into a Google Scholar search, then look through the page; once you find the website for the journal, you can also do a “site search” to narrow the results.
This isn’t hard, but it’s a rare thing to find encouraged or explained. Congratulations to the blog reader and host and moderators for encouraging the process.
Yes, there’s a lot to read. No, I’m not claiming I read all these. I’m hoping it’s acceptable to point out that it is in fact usually quite easy to find such material nowadays, and worth making the extra effort. And of course checking the claims made for the document, read the actual footnote and find the source it’s attributed to and see if the author got it right. Not easy.
I hope the guest topic authors will follow the same routine, saving questions about their info — this will become much easier for the readers to pick up and do.
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=American+Journal+of+Industrial+Medicine%2C+1999%2C+35%3A21-31
[PDF] Effects of exposure to external ionizing radiation on cancer mortality in nuclear workers monitored for radiation at Rocketdyne/Atomics International
[PDF] B Ritz, H Morgenstern, J Froines…
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE 35:21–31 (1999) 1999
Wiley-Liss, Inc. Page 2. relative risk of cancer (excluding leukemias …
Cited by 30 – Related articles – View as HTML – BL Direct – All 5 versions
Note the 30 subsequent citations Google Scholar finds; the link to that is:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=5767633190193008050
These 30 citing articles include followup studies by Ritz as well as other journal articles, and of course some dreck; Scholar is not a perfect instrument and picks up some bogus mentions or PR sites also. Check, don’t just copypaste.
Thank you Hank. It is necessary for the commenter to do the Google Scholar search and post the links to enable easy access for readers of this blog who may not be familiar with literature searches.
posted 6 April 2011 at 12:50 PM by Hank Roberts
A-mouse, as far as I can tell Te-129 would mean recriticality. The measurement might be in error, but no one seems sure.
posted 6 April 2011 at 12:55 PM by Greg Simpson
Chris Warren, that is not a Nature scientific paper, it is a freelance journalist writing an opinion piece for Nature Reports Climate Change magazine, using a selective cherry pick of two outlier articles by Sovacool and Mudd/Diesendorf, that do not agree with the authoritative literature. If you want the most up-to-date assessment, read this, based on a meta-analysis of 10 years of literature on this subject (including the values reported in IPCC AR4 WGIII 2007):
Nicholson M, Biegler, T. & Brook, B.W. (2010) How carbon pricing changes the relative competitiveness of low-carbon baseload generating technologies. Energy 36, 305-313 doi:10.1016/j.energy.2010.10.039
These values support Cohen’s contention. If you want to educate yourself on the matter further, please read TCASE 4, 7 and 8:
TCASE 4: Energy system build rates and material inputs: https://bravenewclimate.com/2009/10/18/tcase4/
TCASE 7: Scaling up Andasol 1 to baseload: https://bravenewclimate.com/2009/12/06/tcase7/
TCASE 8: Estimating EROEI from LCA: https://bravenewclimate.com/2010/03/08/tcase8/
You seem to imagine that these issues haven’t been thought of by anyone on BNC, when in fact they’ve been looked at exhaustively.
posted 6 April 2011 at 1:35 PM by Barry Brook in reply to chris warren
This is probably hopeless but in what sense is Fukushima an ‘accident’
In the terminology I was trained in, an unplanned event is an “incident” if there are no injuries and an “accident” if there are injuries. It is therefore the post-tsunami Fukushima Daiichi accident.
Since there are no deaths associated with the failure of the plant, I have steadfastly refused to countenance the term “disaster”. I don’t have any problem with calling this a “crisis”; the ongoing issues and threats, the level of innovation in response and mobilization of outside resources justify that term.
posted 6 April 2011 at 2:11 PM by Joffan
Laura: I think we agree that people lump nuclear power in with nuclear weapons but differ in our response. 1) There has been plenty of past discussion on BNC about why nobody wanting weapons would bother using a power reactor to get them. 2) My piece argued that the risks from nuclear weapons are not as bad as from conventional weapons or runaway climate change. So its an acceptable risk. Coupled with 1), I think 2) is a winning argument and my not pointing this out is a deficiency in the article. 2) on its own, is probably not going to convince anybody who isn’t already on side.
Chris Warren: Regarding CSIRO and conspiracies. Barely on topic … but there isn’t a post to hang this on. I believe the CSIRO Board acted irresponsibly in allowing the second edition of the Total Wellbeing Diet to be published … and subsequent TWD material. I have no evidence that they had any knowledge of the first edition … and I put in FOI claims to find it and found nothing. But I don’t believe this was a conspiracy. Quite a bit of the material I reference in my book was from CSIRO researchers, including the the authors of the TWD. I found no evidence that anything dodgy has passed peer review. So my book makes an argument that the TWD authors misrepresented their own results. This isn’t actually an argument but a plain fact. The numbers given in the Appendix of TWD first edition do not match the peer review research paper results. Was it just a typographical error? No. A great deal was made of the claim that people lost more weight on the TWD high protein diet than the control diet when the peer reviewed journal paper says they didn’t. Weight loss was identical on the control diet and the high protein diet.
This is quite different from the Caldicott conspiracy claim which implies a significant number of researchers ignored a million radiation induced deaths because of some direction from WHO or IAEA.
@A-Mouse:
I can’t make much sense out of what’s written at the Fairewinds link you posted. I didn’t find a reference there to the actual data on which that post was based.
But there is data from KEK which shows the presence of Te-129m in small amounts. I’m inclined to trust the KEK measurements, personally, unless I’m given good reason not to. There are serious nuclear experimentalists there, some of whom I’ve met, who know how to measure such things.
Here’s a guess: it could be that Gunderson confused the presence of Te-129 with the presence of Te-129m.
The activity of Te-129m is not the same as that of Te-129. Te-129 is a very short-lived isotope (~70minutes) and its presence in significant amounts would tend to indicate some sort of recriticality had occurred. That would be very surprising, if it turned out to be true, but not necessarily such a disastrous development.
Te-129m is a metastable excited state (11/2 -) of Te-129 with a half-life of about 33 days. So it could well still be present in R1, R2 or R3, and water that was in contact with any of the cores.
Te-129m decays to the ground state Te-129 (3/2 +) by a pretty soft gamma ray so the phase space is small, and there’s a big change of spin, so the decay rate is suppressed. But Te-129m decays would inevitably lead to the presence of some Te-129 activity, though at a much lower level.
On the whole, the picture of no re-criticality events seems perfectly consistent with what they are seeing at KEK, namely, rather low levels of Te-129m, and no detectable Te-129.
http://www.kek.jp/quake/radmonitor/GeMonitor5-e.html
posted 6 April 2011 at 5:05 PM by David Kahana
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posted 6 April 2011 at 5:19 PM by MrPete
@Barry Brook:
You disagreement with Chris Warren seems to be a misunderstanding. In your paper you do not even look at PV or windpower since you only take into account what you have defined as baseload generating technologies.
What is clear from your paper is that estimates about CO2 emmissions from nuclear plants vary wildly from 8 to 60 kg CO2eq/MWh.
Denholm / Kulcinski give a value for wind power of 14 without storage and 20 with pumped hydro storage. http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/pdf/fdm1261.pdf
They give a number of 60 for PV without storage and 136 for systems with storage.
Yet estimates for CO2 emmissions from wind power or PV also vary wildly in the literature. As do those of nuclear power.
I don’t think there’s conclusive evidence for either view on the issue. PV and especially wind are better than coal. So is nuclear power but there’s heated debate over whether nuclear is better than wind.
Mind you, these calculations are not easily done. It is very hard to estimate the ammount of energy needed to produce nuclear fuel. Same holds true for the values of the raw materials for a wind turbine.
Also what do you consider the lifetime of a nuclear power plant to be? 30 years, 50 years or 80 years? Same holds true for the question of how long a wind turbine might last before it needs to be replaced.
Thus, it is easy to come up with wildly varying data of CO2 emmissions.
posted 6 April 2011 at 6:57 PM by Bill
Te-129 evidence of recriticality, nope:
http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2011/04/recritical-thinking.html
In a similar vein:
http://uvdiv.blogspot.com/2011/04/idea-about-faulty-i-134-reading.html
The control rods are fully inserted! Coolant water is borated! Remember there is no heat generated inside the control rods. Even if they melt the neutron poisons would go with the melt, and there would be a big chunk of fused hot corium that has no moderator. A very uncritical configuration.
@Georg Russell,
You made a good point regarding the people who was injured by radioactivity but not dead. Of course we have to be sorry for them. However, if we extend the accountability from deads to injured, we have to do that for all forms of power production, and I doubt we can find those numbers.
To David Kahana, on 6 April 2011 at 5:05 PM
says: “I can’t make much sense out of what’s written at the Fairewinds link you posted. I didn’t find a reference there to the actual data on which that post was based.”
The video specifically names the information sources.
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/03/80539.html
high CI-38 radioactivity
http://www.japanfocus.org/-Arjun-Makhijani/3509
Te-129
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/press/corp-com/release/11033112-e.html
and the previous day:
Measurements were in gross error before so you wouldn’t know whether Cl-38 would be correct. However you would be seeing much more Cl-36 than Cl-38 as Cl-35 absorbs more neutrons and moreove Cl-36 is very long lived.
Here is the document. Note that Makijani and IEER are known anti-nuke and their case is based on numerous assumptions on core geometry etc. If you look at the Cs-134 to Cs-137 ratio (very tiny) this does not indicate any significant fission.
http://www.ieer.org/comments/Cause_of_high_Cl-38_Radioactivity20110330.pdf
Also please read:
bRIVERb, on 6 April 2011 at 7:49 PM said:
Thanks for the source. I’ve commented on the Cl-38 previously, it makes no sense without Na-34 and other activities. Neutron “beams” seem odd, to say the least. Hard to say what that’s referring to. TEPCO has had problems with isotopic analysis previously, which means they can be wrong with specific activities too, depending on the time when samples were taken and when they were analysed. I’ll reserve judgement as to whether those problems have been worked out. But there’s definitely something strange about their numbers.
Te-129m 33d CY=0.09% 8.7/s
Te-129 70m CY=0.511% 1200/s
Te-132 3.26d CY=4.3% 3.0/s
Te-134 42m CY=6.97% Not Detected
Where CY is cumulative yield in thermal fission of
U-235.
Converting count rates to numbers of atoms per cm^3:
N(129) = 0.73×10^7
N(129m)=3.58×10^7
N(132)=1.2×10^6
N(134)= Not observed
First, 129 looks out of line with 129m, that is too
high to come from decays of 129m. But if we conclude
that 129 is coming from recent u235 fission, then why
don’t we see high Te-134 activity. The yield of 134 is
seventy times larger than the yield of Te-129, with about the same decay constant. If the Te-129 came from recent criticality, we really should see high activity
of 134.
To me, this casts doubt on the idea there was recriticality.
Te-129m N=
posted 6 April 2011 at 11:06 PM by David Kahana
See http://ie.lbl.gov/fission/235ut.txt for fission product yields.
Update on radioactivity measurements in seawater some distance of the coast (30 km):
http://www.jaif.or.jp/english/news_images/pdf/ENGNEWS01_1302084754P.pdf
Highest value 30 km off the coast is about 80 bq/liter, which is really not much:
http://www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~wilkins/energy/Companion/E20.2.pdf.xpdf
Cyril, check the cesium-137 at checkpoint 7. Diffusion in the ocean is much slower than in the atmosphere. Let’s see what it looks like in August. I am surprised by the use of the past and present tense in these discussions. It’s the trends that are important, not the current values.
posted 7 April 2011 at 12:25 AM by bks
bks, the checkpoint 7 cesium-137 is increasing at a rate of around 10 bequerel per liter per week. This is really nothing, and if you look at the different trends in the different measuring point, this indicates mixing and diffusion to me. (some go up some go down).
The Pacific contains over 8000 EBq total, 11 Bq/liter. Typical soil is over 1000 Bq/liter (assuming specific gravity around 2).
http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/natural.htm
I am definately going to follow the trends, but so far the alarming media hype for widespread contamination seems silly to me.
Oops, did it again! I meant has an activity of x Bq.
Perhaps a better comparison than Chernobyl: the larger amount of radioactivity from surface nuclear testing.
“Takada, a physicist at the faculty of medicine at Sapporo University, who is an adviser on radiation hazards to the government of Japan…… during 32 years of Chinese tests.
… Takada said China’s three biggest tests alone generated 4m times more radioactivity than the Chernobyl reactor accident of 1986. He has called the clouds of fallout “an air tsunami”.
Quote from: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6122338.ece – April 19, 2009 – Revolt stirs among China’s nuclear ghosts
You may find of the descriptions hard to believe.
There’s film — some of the saddest I’ve ever seen:
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posted 7 April 2011 at 10:23 AM by bRIVERb
@Geoff Russell
Nuclear weapons haven’t killed many people, but that is because they haven’t been used! And they haven’t been used because they are hard to make. There are plenty of people who would use a nuclear bomb if they could.
Since you think nuclear weapons are overestimated as a threat, do you think that we shouldn’t be concerned about nuclear weapons proliferation? Because that seems to me obviously wrong.
I think the huge threats in the future are climate change and resource shortages. This century is likely to be a time of wars over resources. And if too many countries have nuclear weapons, we are likely to have nuclear wars over resources.
I’ve read that the United States could be disabled for months if a nuclear bomb were exploded high in the atmosphere. See http://www.empcommission.org/docs/empc_exec_rpt.pdf
From this report: “The electromagnetic fields produced by weapons designed and deployed with the intent to produce EMP have a high likelihood of damaging electrical power systems, electronics, and information systems upon which American society depends. Their effects on dependent systems and infrastructures could be sufficient to qualify as catastrophic to the Nation.”
Our society is an intricate interdependent structure and an EMP attack that disables this structure could kill many millions of people, and the United States wouldn’t necessarily even know who had done it!
This could also happen naturally. Every now and then the sun barfs out a blast of plasma, called a solar storm. A massive solar storm could cause an EMP similar to that caused by a nuclear explosion in the atmosphere. Relatively small solar storms have caused power outages, but a rarer huge storm could be truly catastrophic.
So, we need to protect ourselves against EMP’s whether or not there is nuclear weapons proliferation.
The awfulness of a weapon is not only a matter of how many people have died by it. You cannot kill millions of people long distance by machetes. We have air defenses against firebombing the United States. But nuclear missiles or an EMP attack can do this.
Nuclear proliferation is nothing to take lightly! I think that, combined with the hostility in the world, it is one of the worst dangers in our future.
And if anyone downplays the danger of nuclear weapons, it makes me wonder if there is a significant danger of nuclear weapons proliferation from nuclear power. Because if you need to tack argument #2 onto argument #1, then argument #1 may be weak. That is a frightening thought.
posted 7 April 2011 at 12:37 PM by Laura
What has happened to New Matilda these days … tut tut
Jim Green writes another piece :
http://newmatilda.com/2011/04/07/do-we-know-chernobyl-death-toll
NUCLEAR POWER 7 Apr 2011
Do We Know The Chernobyl Death Toll?
By Jim Green
“Did 43 people die after Chernobyl – or almost a million? Jim Green explains why the answer is hard to calculate, and why George Monbiot has got it wrong by several orders of magnitude”
followed by the usual stream of comments, and people shouting about Beyond Zero Emissions : “Transition is possible, can be afforded and achieved within the next ten years…”
posted 9 April 2011 at 7:55 AM by bryen
Nice post. But “hyperdermic needles” should be “hypodermic needles”. They penetrate under the skin: “hypo” means “under”.
posted 9 April 2011 at 10:18 AM by John Baez
posted 9 April 2011 at 5:08 PM by John Bennetts
Well, do we know the fossil fuel death toll? Is it ten thousand or ten million per year?
Transition is possible, with what, solar that isn’t there 85% of the time (15% capacity factor in average location)? Even in the desert solar is not there 75% of the time. Guess what we’re going to do that time. Nope not install some hugely expensive battery. We’ll just burn fossil.
That’s the real monster, a sympathetic but dangerously naive and innumerate hope that solar will replace coal.
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posted 10 April 2011 at 9:29 AM by Michael Elliot
On my blog I’ve been estimating the cancer deaths from Fukushima radiation to be nearly 300. We will see what happens in future analysis. This is, of course, based on the LNT. If you have another model to propose, then go for it, but this is all we can do with the information available.
I just really hope that we don’t have the same FUD about cancer deaths from Fukushima that we had about Chernobyl. I really really hope we don’t have that.
posted 13 April 2011 at 6:24 AM by Alan
Geoff Russell: “We don’t need Chernobyl, we have plenty of beef, booze and fags. ”
omg, what does this have to do with homosexuality? but now I know more about your way of thinking though, so thanks…
posted 13 April 2011 at 7:13 PM by ron
‘fag’ = cigarette
(Origin: 1425–75; late Middle English fagge broken thread in cloth, loose end (of obscure origin); sense development apparently: drooping end > to droop, tire > to make weary > drudgery, drudge (compare relationship of flag1 to flag3 ); ( def. 6 ) a shortening of fag end (a butt, hence a cigarette))
Hard to believe anyone is so naive, unless of course they’re being deliberately dissembling.
posted 13 April 2011 at 8:17 PM by Barry Brook in reply to ron
I guess I am a greenie, and in the early 80’s protested against nukes in the uk. Now I am older and was almost convinced by this article. Just a few comments:
Discussing nuclear weapons alongside nuclear power is legitimate since the latter is a peaceful development of the former. Further, if I am reading this article https://bravenewclimate.com/2010/09/18/ifr-fad-7/
correctly both are based on plutonium. Plutonium was the evil released by these industries and the one which caused me most concern in the 80’s. It is encouraging that the nuclear industry is trying to deal with this evil – can it be put back in the bottle? So if ifr’s work we have a means of removing this concern. Then the waste products of IFR’s “only” are of concern for “less than 500 years” (same ref). Well its better and it is the nuclear industry cleaning up its own waste which has to be good. If we could apply the same rules to the coal and petroleum industries then we could really make progress against climate change.
Regarding the comparison of the Rwandan genocide with Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and the firebomning of Japan I think there is a scale missing – time. Rwanda – 800000 in 100 days
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rwandan_Genocide
, firebombing – 500000 in 7 months http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_bombing_during_World_War_II#United_States_strategic_bombing_of_Japan , Hiroshima Nakasaki between 150000 and 246000 in 3 days (1/2 at the time the rest over the following months) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki. And this is the true horror of nuclear weapons and why we need to work so hard to remove them and the means of their creation. Again the first article quoted makes the link between nuclear power and nuclear weapons.
So I am not yet converted to nukes but can see that IFR’s may be able to undo some of the bad already done.
posted 17 April 2011 at 6:20 PM by Newbould
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Don’t have a link to the study itself, but here is a Bio Scholar review.
Is the jump from Barn Swallows to humans a realistic one?
http://news.bioscholar.com/2007/04/study-challenges-iaeawho-clean-chit-report-on-radiation-risk-post-chernobyl.html
Study challenges IAEA/WHO clean chit report on radiation risk post Chernobyl
Thursday, April 19th, 2007 0
Washington, Apr 19 : More than twenty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster when researchers found wildlife thriving in the 19-mile ‘exclusion zone’ around the disaster site, they were thrilled.
Scientists found healthy-looking deer, boar, lynx, and eagle owls throughout the zone, despite the fact that the blast had showered radioactive material over huge swaths of Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia.
Now, a new study has revealed that barn swallows living near Chernobyl, which is in the Ukraine, suffer from many birth defects and abnormalities than normally expected. In addition, the swallows are not living as long and are not breeding as successfully as their cousins in other parts of the world.
Researchers say a study of the birds has allowed them to separate the physiological effects of radiation from the sociological and psychological ones.
“Birds don’t drink, birds don’t smoke, and they don’t suffer the same kind of stresses as humans that can cause diseases such as cancers,†said study co-author Tim Mousseau, a biology professor at the University of South Carolina and a National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration grantee.
He said it might be possible that people living near the affected zone could still be at risk even though radiation levels had declined.
Anders Moller, from Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, who led the team that has been monitoring the barn swallows since 1991 for signs of abnormalities, such as deformed beaks, toes, and feathers and unusual colouring, examined more than 7,700 birds, some from Chernobyl and others from control areas including Spain, Italy, and Denmark, for the study.
The team’s results, published online in the journal Biology Letters, showed that abnormalities are much higher in birds from the Chernobyl population.
Findings revealed that more than 13 percent of the Chernobyl birds had partial albinism tufts of white feathers compared to levels of around four percent in the control birds. Recapturing the same birds year after year showed that birds with abnormalities were four times less likely to survive and that breeding success was reduced by over 50 percent.
“Abnormal features like albinism are extremely rare in nature,” National Geographic quoted Moller as saying.
The team says the findings support the theory that even the low levels of radiation around Chernobyl are enough to cause the higher than average rates of abnormalities and birth defects reported in humans living in the region.
“Based on the bird data, we think there is likely to be a plethora of human ailments associated with the Chernobyl radiation,” said Mousseau, who is also carrying out a health study on children living in the Chernobyl region.
Interestingly, the study directly contradicts a 2005 report prepared by the Chernobyl Forum, which said that social stress, and the collapse of agriculture after Communism was overthrown in 1990, were the most significant causes of poor health in the region.
The forum, led by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) said about 6.6 million people were exposed to high doses of radiation and 56 people were directly killed by the disaster. The report estimated that as many as 5,000 people may die from some form of cancer related to the radiation.
Moller and colleagues think that the health impact could be much worse.
Keith Baverstock, an environmental scientist at the University of Kuopio in Finland and co-author of a 2001 United Nations report on human health around Chernobyl, said the results of the bird study are worrying.
“It confirms that even relatively low levels of exposure to radioactive fallout can result in genetic effects. If Moller and colleagues are right, then millions of people living in Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia are still at risk. With proposals to increase the use of nuclear energy, this is a matter that needs urgent attention,†Baverstock added. (ANI)
posted 20 April 2011 at 4:23 PM by John Smith
I’m trying to tease out the implications of this study. How do we know the differences between Cher swallows and Spanish swallows are due to radiation? Is there an alternative explanation? if it is, does it manifest in the rest of the wildlife?
If low level radiation causes these genetic abnormalities, why don’t we see this in studies of hi and low level radiation areas?
Is there something different about the chernobyl area radiation? Given that the millisievert takes body burden and pathway into account, why would radiation exposure in C be different from elsewhere?
I’d like to see a study that added another control: birds from relatively hi background radiation areas.
posted 21 April 2011 at 12:43 AM by Gregory Meyerson
We criticised that bird brain story on EfT forum:
http://energyfromthorium.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2807
Tiny dose effect relationship; ignoring natural deviations in brain size; questionable 0.01 mm measuring accuracy (how do you measure a soft brain with 0.01 mm accuracy???). Very sloppy.
posted 21 April 2011 at 1:11 AM by Cyril R
My take on the barn swallow “controversy.”
It all boils down to who are you going to trust: a couple of rogue academics with a reputation for sloppy and dishonest work or the World Health Organization?
posted 22 April 2011 at 12:34 AM by Brian Mays
It is quite rediculous to claim that 5000x background is low dose radiation. This is heavy radiation therapy treatment level radiation, the kind that makes your hair fall out and feel real sick.
Anyway, that 5000x background only caused a bird brain size reduction equivalent to the natural variation in brain size. VERY small dose effect relationship.
posted 22 April 2011 at 12:41 AM by Cyril R
The near 5000 x radiation difference came down to a range from 17.95 millirems to 84,000 millirems/yr.
From .02 mSv/hr to 94 mSv/hr.
Variation in head size presumably accounted for by radiation was 12 %.
The idea that brain size reductions work on an LNT curve strikes me as prima facie preposterous. A central point of the article is to extrapolate to humans.
posted 22 April 2011 at 4:21 AM by greg meyerson
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HomeLifestyleThis Map Shows The Best And Worst States For Retirement In 2019
We’ve all fantasized about the day we quit working for good. But have you given serious thought to where you’ll live in retirement? The idea of spending life as a retiree in a quaint New England cottage or sunny California condo might seem appealing, but that might not be your best option, according to the results of personal finance website Bankrate’s latest rankings.
The Best Place To Retire? America’s Heartland.
Bankrate recently updated its ranking of the best and worst states to retire for 2019. To come up with the ranking, it considered five major categories related to the life of a retiree, and weighted them according to importance: affordability (40%), wellness (25%), weather (15%), culture (15%) and crime (5%). These factors and their weightings were chosen based on a separate survey, which asked participants to rank what they care most about in retirement (the top answer was friends and family).
Bankrate ranked the best and worst states to retire, with four of the top five landing in the middle of the country.
According to the rankings, Nebraska is the best state to retire to. The Cornhusker State ranked within the top 15 for factors such as wellness (8th) and affordability (14th), and in the top half for crime (19th) and culture (21st). The only factor where it didn’t fare so well was weather (30th).
Rounding out the top five were Iowa, Missouri, South Dakota and Florida.
“Generally speaking, we have this area and the heartland that does really well,” said Adrian Garcia, a data analyst for Bankrate. He noted that given their proximity, most of the top states have similar weather patterns. “But they also do pretty well in wellness overall. The other key thing ― because affordability was the biggest weight in our survey ― is these areas that ranked well tend to be more affordable,” Garcia said. In fact, Missouri ranked No. 1 for affordability.
The Worst States For Retirement
On the other hand, Maryland ranked as the worst state to retire. It fell within the bottom 15 for affordability (4th worst), culture (9th worst) and wellness (13th worst), while also underperforming in the area of crime (18th worst). The only factor that fell within the top half of rankings was its weather (18th best).
Also included in the five worst states to retire were New York (which ranked last for affordability), Alaska (worst for weather and tied for worst crime), Illinois and Washington.
See The Full Ranking
Curious how your state stacks up? Here’s a look at Bankrate’s full ranking of best and worst states for retirement.
2. Iowa
3. Missouri
4. South Dakota
6. Kentucky
7. Kansas
9. Montana
10. Hawaii
11. Arkansas
12. Wisconsin
13. North Dakota
14. Vermont
15. New Hampshire
16. Alabama
19. Mississippi
20. Wyoming
21. Oklahoma
22. Tennessee
23. Massachusetts
24. Michigan
25. West Virginia
26. Ohio
27. Rhode Island
28. Georgia
30. Connecticut
31. Maine
32. Delaware
33. Colorado
34. Pennsylvania
35. Utah
36. Louisiana
37. New Mexico
38. Arizona
39. Virginia
40. Minnesota
41. South Carolina
42. New Jersey
43. California
44. Oregon
45. Nevada
46. Washington
47. Illinois
48. Alaska
49. New York
50. Maryland
Relocating In Retirement: A Personal Decision
So, given these rankings, should you hightail it to Nebraska once your working days are over? Not necessarily. “Retirement is a very personal decision,” Garcia said. That means the ideal location for living out your golden years might not match up to the numbers.
One thing that is important for most retirees is affordability, which is why it was weighted so heavily. Once you stop working and devote more time to travel, hobbies and maybe even volunteer work, the fact is that you’ll most likely transition to a fixed-income budget. “So you want to make sure you’re living somewhere that works for that budget, whether it’s the town you’re living in, a nearby neighborhood or perhaps a different state,” Garcia said.
When it comes to other factors such as wellness or weather, you might have different preferences. That’s why Bankrate also created a tool that lets you customize the weightings and see which states best match your liking. You can try it out for yourself below.
Garcia explained that the goal of this ranking isn’t to push retirees toward one location or another, but simply to allow people to take a second look at some of the places that aren’t often considered retirement havens. “We often hear about Florida, Hawaii or Arizona, but maybe we should spend some time investigating whether Nebraska or Iowa or somewhere in the middle of the country might be good,” he said.
At the end of the day, however, these rankings can’t replace what most people consider the most important factor in deciding where to retire. “If you’re going to be really far from the people you love and care about, it might not make sense to move,” Garcia said.
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Surfing Crystal Pier: Life as a Grommet
by Dr Abalone • August 30, 2016 • 7 Comments
Crystal Pier, Pacific Beach, California. Early 1970s. Photo: Brian Tissot.
Crystal Pier, 1966
In the long arc of my surfing life my early years remain indelibly etched on my psyche, as is true of most surfers. Why is simple: we are pulled in by the ocean’s allure, rapidly learn her inner-most secrets, measure our courage against her power, but are ultimately humbled by fear. It is the beginning of a life-long love affair: a relationship where you always chase but never catch. Because the ocean, for all her glory, beauty, and power is indifferent and no matter how much time you spend trying to understand her moods there is always more to know. Of course, this is both the allure and the challenge of surfing, or of any such life focused on the sea. And at an early age, I just learned to surrender to my passion for the ocean and let it lead me through life. It has served me well. But I have never forgotten those early days, my first dates with the waves.
And so it was for me when I began chasing waves in 1966 at Crystal Pier in Pacific Beach near San Diego. At nine, according to my mother’s rule system, I was too young to surf with a board because I might get hit by it and drown. Wait until you’re 13 she said. So while I watched my older brother ply the waves my first experience was on a “foamie”, a 3-foot white foam board designed to float in tranquil pools. Instead, I dragged it out into the raging summer torrents of white water off Crystal Pier in a pitiful attempt to replicate what skilled surfers were doing offshore. I was rewarded for my efforts by a severe pounding in the low-tide shore-break which after a few righteous waves snapped my foamie in two and sent me scrambling back to the beach. Such was the power of the ocean to a grommet or grom, a young surfer.
But yet I never forgot the few milliseconds of joy I experienced while being plummeted by the sea. So four years later, after moving from San Diego to Virginia to Idaho, I was back in Pacific Beach, turning 13 and finishing 7th grade. My mother could not stop me now and I saved up the cash for a board from my morning paper route for the San Diego Union. With that, I bought a 9’6″ Hansen Mike Doyle pintail, which was the love of my life that summer. So when school let out during in June of 1970 I threw myself into a summer of surfing with my best friend Neal Unger. It was an amazing time: free, pure, and the kind of transformative experience that can change your life. Of course, I didn’t know that at the time but can say that confidently now looking back from the relative sanity of advanced adulthood.
My first board in spring 1970.
Now in 1970 in Pacific Beach surfing was in full swing and had been for many years. Long boards had given way a few years earlier to short boards. We rode down to the beach which was 15 blocks from my house, either carrying our boards on our bikes, walking, or the occasional ride from our parents. And would spend the entire day there; or at last until the waves were blown out at noon. We soon discovered that every beach street had its own crew, each with its own rules, surf stars, pecking order, etc. as we soon learned. Although we started at Law St., where most of the experienced surfer hung out — including Skip Frye, the local legend — we soon learned it was a bit too advanced for us and moved down to Diamond St. or the no-mans land in-between but eventually Crystal Pier.
Starting out we were clueless so we just pushed our boards out into the surf, fin first, and jumped on to surf the white water all the way to the beach. After a few hundred times we gravitated to riding swells like real surfers. I still remember that first time we padded outside at Law St. and sat in the line-up. We were all smiles, proud of ourselves for the big accomplishment. Hey we were surfers! But then everyone dropped to their boards and quickly began paddling offshore. And so did we — although we didn’t know why — but we were a bit too slow and got caught inside and thoroughly thrashed by a large set of waves. So we learned, and watched, and repeated everything we saw. And soon, after another couple of hundred rides, were riding swells like everyone.
Early morning at Crystal Pier in Pacific Beach. Photo by Cynthia @ http://surfergrrrl.blogspot.com/
And that’s the way of it. That is the surfer’s life. Honestly it was wonderful. When else in your life have you ever spent so much time and attention focused on one thing. And that one things was riding waves. We’d surf twice a day, every day, for months and eventually years on end. Our goal was simple: to learn how waves break under every imaginable combination of swell size and direction, wind strength and direction; varying tidal conditions — low tide, high tide, spring tide, neap tides — than add the condition of the shifting sand bars, the wax and wane of the crowds, the lineup, the slope of the beach, etc. And with all that you develop, purely instinctually of course, is a sense of how a surf spot works. One look and you know where to go, how to select waves, and what it what it would feel like surfing, Such is the life of a surfer. And of course then you move to another spot and have to start all over again. This is why the life-long love affair starts and never ends.
Me with my 7’8″ Sunset, Fall 1970. Photo: Gene Tissot.
And then the big day came: school started, 8th grade, and the weather got colder. Even in San Diego that meant buying a wet suit or hanging up surfing until the summer. I had the money from my paper route so a wetsuit it was and a new board as well. So in the fall of 1970 I embarked on a new season of surfing on my 7’8″ Sunset gun and a Body Glove wetsuit. I loved that board but it was way too big for PB and I was still too much of a grom to control it. But it looked wickedly cool. I remember when the day came that I finally shot the pier. I caught a right and instead of turning away from the pier something told me to go for it, so I did, threading the pilings with ease as the wave exploded around me. Tragically my board snapped in two against a piling several days later so my joy was short-lived. But I quickly recovered when I jumped on to my next board which was a 5′ 10″ twin fin, the most common board at the time.
My 5″ 10″ twin fin, late 1970. A fun board but it tracked and hummed. Photo: Brian Tissot.
I loved the twin fin as it was maneuverable and helped me join the short board revolution and advance my skills to the next level. But it was a difficult to board ride. No long drawn out lines with this one or a fin would track and you’d fly off the board. Instead you had to whip it around and keep it moving. The board also had this weird configuration whereby the fins would hum if it moved with at any appreciable speed. Regardless, I was stuck with it and rode it for the rest of 1970 and all of 1971. And later, in 1972, I was forced to move to the Bay Area where cold water and rocky cliffs greeting me, and rather abruptly my grom days were over, although my surfing life was just beginning.
And even though I continue to surf 45 years later, I look back on those early days with fondness.They are still in my dreams and thoughts and they sustain me in my life. Because I can always look back with satisfaction on those days and say “I got it good.” For I still remember, like flashes of a camera in a jerky film, pushing out through the surf with Neal, taking off on my first swell in the lineup, my first great bottom turn and tube ride; all those intimate moments and times of terror that I experienced those first two years. But most of all I remember the waves of Pacific Beach and Crystal Pier in all their uniqueness, power and fickleness. My first love affair with the ocean.
Crystal Pier, Pacific Beach, CA. Photo by Michael James Slattery. Luminous Views Gallery (https://luminous-views.com/)
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7 comments for “Surfing Crystal Pier: Life as a Grommet”
Staffan Rennermalm
Lovely way to grow up…
Sandie Silva
Brian, I love your stories….. Mike loves your stories tooThis would make a great movie !! Seriously!!Sent from XFINITY Connect Mobile App
Thanks Sandy. I really appreciate the feedback. I am working on a sci-if book which includes surfing so you never know! Stay tuned 😀
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Greg Burgener
You know, we probably surfed together in 1970 and/or ’71 at Law St. without knowing it, I don’t remember if we ever talked about this, crazy. The last place I lived before moving up to Pismo in the summer of ’71, was on Reed St. in PB. I had a place of my own, a tiny cottage behind a house, and would go surfing everyday after work, almost always at Law St., I rode a 7′ 2″ Canyon. I loved that board, and took it with me when I moved up to Pismo, then Jerry Grantham, who became my first new friend, came up to me after surfing, and said, “you can’t ride that here”.
“What do you mean, I just did?”
“Yeah but that is the wrong shape for the surf around here.”
Without knowing anybody yet, I could tell that he was the big kahuna, we were friendly, so I figured it would be a good move for me to ingratiate myself to him. “So what do you suggest?”
“I can shape you a board that will be perfect for you, for these waves.” The waves didn’t really look or behave all that much different than what I was used to in San Diego, but I decided to play along.
“Okay, but only if I can be in the shaping room to make sure you don’t fuck it up.”
And so began what was to become a long friendship. You know the rest of the story.
You can get lots of waves if you’re one of the friends of the big kahuna.
Greg, It’s amazing how lives can intertwine. I don’t recall talking about PB with you but then all the parties blur my memories of those times, which I’ll always cherish. I never had a JG board but as I recall they were awesome. Hope to connect again soon. Aloha, Brian
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Yussef El Guindi
For Thursday I read People of the Book, by Yussef El Guindi, and available at New Play Exchange.
"Can we all agree going into this war made us less safe?"
That is a question one of the characters ask in this People of the Book, and though you may assume they are referring to the Iraq War of 2003, they could easily be referring to the Persian Gulf War of 1991.
Following the demise of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, the power-imbalance led to leaders like Saddam Hussein to press their advantage in a way which would have been more difficult in previous years.
President George H.W. Bush pressed his advantage as well. The West had not seen a wide-scale war in some time. Saddam's invasion of Kuwait was tailor-made for international outrage and for one shining moment, the United States was able to convince most of the world to join in or at the very least stay out of the way.
The war lasted thirty-three days, or has never ended, depending on how you look at it.
Taken literally, El Guindi's play is about deception, professional and personal jealousy, and the effect of American wars in the Middle East. It's a great read, with playful and cutting dialogue, and it is also a metaphor for how American has played itself, chaining our fate to the region. Each of the four central characters reflect a different point of view, about art and writing, about the war and its worth, and what responsibility the United States has yet to take for its actions.
Yesterday the President announced his plans regarding the conflict in Syria. "I want to get out," said President Trump. That's what he said. "I want to get out."
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NBC SPORTS COLLEGE FOOTBALLNCAA FB Kansas State Wildcats
Baylor, Ohio State big favorites in Week 10
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The top two teams in the AP Top 25 will be without their starting quarterbacks this week, starting with the Baylor Bears who visit the Kansas State Wildcats on Thursday as 17-point betting favorites at sportsbooks monitored by OddsShark.com.
No. 2 Baylor lost starting pivot and Heisman Trophy candidate Seth Russell to a season-ending neck injury in their 45-27 victory over Iowa State two weeks ago, and will hand the ball to freshman Jarrett Stidham for Thursday night’s Bears vs. Wildcats betting matchup at Snyder Family Stadium.
Russell had led the Bears to an eye-popping 61.1 points per game this season, tops in the nation, throwing an incredible 29 touchdown passes to lead them to a perfect 7-0 straight up record and against the spread wins in four of their last five outings.
Stidham has amassed 331 passing yards and six majors in spot duty this season, and gets the start against a Wildcats squad that is winless SU in their last four, all against Big 12 rivals, and also winless SU in their last three against the Bears.
No. 1 Ohio State will also be forced to make a quarterback change when they host the Minnesota Golden Gophers as heavy 23-point chalk on Saturday night.
Buckeyes starter J.T. Barrett will miss this week’s contest while he sits out a one-game suspension, thrusting last year’s hero, Cardale Jones, back under center. Barrett has shared playing time with Jones for much of the season, leading the club to a perfect 8-0 SU record and extending their current SU win streak to 21 games.
The Buckeyes have covered in their last two, holding opponents to just 17 total points, while the Gophers have squandered a strong 4-2 start with a pair of SU losses but kept things close in last weekend’s 29-26 loss to Michigan, covering as 11-point underdogs.
No. 3 Clemson will have starter Deshaun Watson at the helm this weekend when they battle No. 17 Florida State as 12.5-point chalk in a clash that will likely determine the ACC’s Atlantic Division title.
The Tigers’ 56-41 win over North Carolina State improved them to 14-0 SU in their last 14 games at home according to the OddsShark College Football Database, while the Seminoles bounced back from a stunning 22-16 loss to Georgia Tech with a dominant 45-21 win over Syracuse on Saturday.
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Garden Education Resources
(resource for PLT’s Early Childhood GreenSchools School Site Investigation)
The USDA Team Nutrition website contains a comprehensive list of resources for early childhood educators looking to promote better nutrition through gardening. The resources include activity kits, lesson plans, a fact sheet, videos, and a farm and garden online training. All resources were produced by reputable universities and organizations with the common goal of forming healthy habits amongst pre-school age students.
(resource for PLT’s PreK-8 activities “Charting Diversity,” “Trees as Habitats,” “Birds and Worms” and PLT’s Biodiversity secondary module)
This booklet from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s BirdSleuth program helps K-12 students participate in citizen science bird projects by guiding them through six challenges using resources from eBird. The tasks include getting comfortable with eBird citizen science, using online resources to find your state bird, looking for birds that fit into different groups, practicing bird counting and entering data online, extracting data from eBird about local birds, and taking action to improve bird habitat in your area.
Early Childhood Education Resources
(resource for PLT’s Environmental Experiences for Early Childhood program)
Are you looking to tap into the Early Childhood education arena? Visit All Education Schools’ clearinghouse of early childhood education resources to explore professional organizations, licensing and credentials, reliable research, educator blogs, and more – all related to Early Childhood. Whether you’re just embarking on an early childhood education career or already work with children, you’ll find plenty of useful information.
BirdSleuth Explorer’s Guidebook
(resource for PreK-8’s “Trees as Habitats,” “Sounds Around,” and “Schoolyard Safari)
Use this booklet from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to support specific PLT lessons. The BirdSleuth Guidebook offers step-by-step instructions to enable families, school groups, and others to get outdoors and connect with nature. Go on a habitat scavenger hunt (Trees as Habitats), create a sound map (Sounds Around), and identify backyard species (Schoolyard Safari and Name That Tree).
How Electricity Works Infographic
(resource for PreK-8’s “Energy Sleuths,” PLT’s Energy & Society Kit, and PLT’s GreenSchools program)
Help students understand the science of electricity with this animated infographic from SaveOnEnergy.com. It includes the basics of electricity all the way to how we harness this power to fuel homes, schools, hospitals and more.
EPA’s WaterSense Kids Website
(resource for PreK-8’s “Every Drop Counts” and PLT’s GreenSchools program)
The Environmental Protection Agency’s WaterSense Kids website teaches elementary and middle level students about the importance of water and why we need to conserve it. Test knowledge with an online animation, or identify simple water solutions to use water wisely.
Lorrie Otto Seeds for Education GrantsThe Seeds for Education Grant Program offers $100 and $500 to schools, nature centers, and nonprofit organizations to support stewardship projects. Projects should focus on native plants and cultivate students’ appreciation for nature.
Introduction to Bundling the NGSS
This archived, one-hour webinar serves as an introduction to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Recorded June 28, 2016, a group of experts who helped develop the standards discuss the principles of bundling for instruction. Download the slide deck and access available example bundles.
Together with the NGSS Example Bundles Guide, these tools can help teachers, administrators, and curriculum developers as they begin the process of creating the full range of aligned instructional materials that schools and districts need for implementation.
The full suite of example bundles will be released in stages over the next few months and will ultimately cover all grade levels. Each release cycle will include information geared toward different grade levels to ensure that curriculum developers for science have a broad set of examples to consider in preparation for the 2016-17 school year.
Nature-Based Preschool Conference
Hosted by NAAEE and the Natural Start Alliance, the Nature-Based Preschool National Conference brings professionals together from around the country to advance the movement to use nature to improve early childhood education, and to create a community for this new and growing profession. This year’s conference will be held August 15 – 17 at the Dodge Nature Center and Preschool in St. Paul, MN.
National PLT is partnering with Minnesota PLT to present Activity 2: Sounds Around from PLT’s Environmental Experiences for Early Childhood. Visit Coordinators Corner to access the presentation proposal, or review PLT’s supporting Branch newsletter article written by MN PLT Outstanding Educator, Karen Christenson for more ideas! Session proposals for this event are due at the end of February each year.
Color the World!
(resource for PreK-8’s “Web of Life,” “Trees as Habitats,” “The Forest of S.T. Shrew,” “Habitat Pen Pals,” “Charting Diversity,” “Schoolyard Safari,” and more)
Coloringnature.org offers more than 500 realistically illustrated coloring pages that can be downloaded and printed for use in preK-8 classrooms. Choose from categories such as amphibians, reptiles, mammals, birds, insects, animal homes, biomes and habitats, and trees. Consider pairing the pages with PLT activities as diagrams, models, or assessment tools.
School Gardens Fact Sheet
(resource for PreK-8’s “Pass the Plants, Please” and “Plant a Tree,” as well as PLT’s GreenSchools and GreenWorks! programs)
This USDA resource titled School Gardens: Using Gardens to Grow Healthy Habits in Cafeterias, Classrooms, and Communities provides a brief overview of the benefits and educational uses of school gardens. It includes links to successful school garden programs and tips for planning, staffing, funding and maintaining a school garden.
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in Low-Income Communities
(resource for PreK-8’s “Renewable or Not?,” “Energy Sleuths,” “The Global Climate,” “In the Driver’s Seat,” as well as PLT’s GreenSchools and GreenWorks! programs)
Investing in energy efficiency, renewable energy, and climate protection programs is an important way for state and local governments to provide a variety of benefits to low-income communities, including energy cost savings, job creation, improved air quality, and healthier homes. EPA’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in Low-Income Communities guide helps state and local staff connect with local and national initiatives that can assist them in expanding or developing their own EE and climate initiatives in ways that benefit low-income communities.
Melinda Gray Ardia Environmental Foundation Grants
These $1,500 grants help educators develop and test holistic environmental curricula that integrate field activities with classroom teaching. Proposed projects should incorporate basic ecological principles, encourage students to solve environmental problems, and present controversial issues objectively. The grants would be a perfect pairing for any PLT-related investigation or field study. One page pre-proposals are due Friday, August 12.
Southeastern Forests and Climate Change Module Videos
To further increase the usability of PLT’s Southeastern Forests and Climate Change module, two narrated video presentations are now available online. They are both listed in the Educator Resources section of the website (free registration required) and detailed below:
Module Overview – This short presentation briefly introduces the module and explains how educators might successfully implement the teaching materials.
Matching the Module to Educational Standards – This presentation provides information on how the module activities can meet standardized benchmarks.
Get Your Daily Dose of Trees Poster
This Minnesota DNR poster highlights the mental and physical health benefits of trees. For example, did you know childhood asthma rates are lower in urban neighborhoods that have more trees? Or, exposure to forests decreases mental fatigue by relaxing and restoring the brain? It’s true. Learn more about why you should get your daily dose of trees to be healthy. Poster dimensions are 13″x19″. Download the poster for free, and hang it in your office or school today! As a bonus, you can use this handy trees-health benefits video to enhance the poster’s educational value.
Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt
(resource for PreK-8’s “Resource Go Round,” “A Few of My Favorite Things,” “Make Your Own Paper” and more)
Join National Public Radio’s Planet Money team as they follow the manufacturing of a T-Shirt around the world — from the farms where the cotton is grown to the factories where the shirts are sewn together. This story is told in a 5-chapter story of video clips: http://apps.npr.org/tshirt/#/title
Paper Plate Habitat
(resource for PreK-8’s “The Forest of S.T. Shrew” and “Trees as Habitats,” as well as the Meeting Neighborhood Trees section of Environmental Experiences for Early Childhood)
Florida PLT has created a Paper Plate Habitat template to be used in conjunction with the exploration of microhabitats. This document contains a list of materials, instructions, and images necessary for students to create their own Paper Plate Habitats and begin exploring the life and interrelationships found within.
Rooted in Math
(resource for PreK-8’s “Renewable or Not,” “Every Drop Counts,” and “The Shape of Things,” as well as PLT’s GreenSchools program)
The theme for EE Week this year is “Greening STEM: Rooted in Math”. Use this infographicfrom NEEF to make some quick calculations, such as the number of gallons of water you use every time you take a shower, or the pounds of CO2 emissions by a lightbulb. Register for EE Week to receive discounts, grant opportunities, and more educational resources.
Nature Maestro® App Series
(resource for PreK-8’s “Sounds Around” and PLT’s Environmental Experiences for Early Childhood)
With Nature Maestro®, sound recordist and composer Dennis Hysom is your guide. Use this series of applications to explore sounds in nature. You might compose a soundscape for the rainforest, build a nature scene using audio paired with imagery, and discover fun facts about animals all along the way. Immerse yourself in these biomes to compose and share creative soundscapes and then share them with others.
Summer Institute for Climate Change Education
Climate Generation’s 2016 Summer Institute will provide middle school and high school teachers the resources and training to teach about climate change, using the Next Generation Science Standards. Participants will hear from experts and share ideas about bringing climate education into the classroom. The program offers two graduate credits and will take place at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, June 21-24, with housing available.
The Awesome Foundation Grant
Deadline: Rolling, Applications Reviewed Monthly
The Awesome Foundation provides $1,000 grants to projects that bring communities together. “Awesome projects” are defined as sparking “an instant of joy and delight and inspiring a long-term hope for a more awesome future.” Anyone can apply and requests are reviewed monthly by chapter location.
PLT GreenWorks! Grants
Project Learning Tree is offering grants up to $1,000 to involve students in service-learning projects to improve the environment at their school or in their community. To be eligible, applicants must have attended a PLT workshop (either in-person or online) that includes training, lesson plans, and other resources to help integrate these projects and environmental education into school’s curriculum or youth programs. Note: Only PLT’s PreK-8 and Early Childhood Online Courses meet the online training eligibility requirements.
(resource for Project Learning Tree’s PreK-8 activities “Renewable or Not,” “Every Drop Counts,” and “The Shape of Things,” as well as PLT’s GreenSchools program)
The theme for EE Week (April 17-23) this year is “Greening STEM: Rooted in Math”. Use this infographic from NEEF to make some quick calculations, such as the number of gallons of water you use every time you take a shower, or the pounds of CO2 emissions by a lightbulb. Register for EE Week to receive discounts, grant opportunities, and more educational resources.
An Animated Guide to the Science of Wind Turbines
(resource for Project Learning Tree’s PreK-8 activities “Renewable or Not” and “Energy Sleuths,” as well as PLT’s GreenSchools! program)
While the science behind wind powered turbines may seem modern day, the concept has been around for millennia. Its predecessor, the simple windmill, can be traced as far back as 200 B.C. when it was used for farm work, such as grinding grain and drawing water. Have you ever wondered what keeps the massive propellers of today’s wind turbines in motion? Check out SaveOnEnergy’s animated infographic to learn more about how wind turbines work.
Recycle City
(resource for Project Learning Tree’s PreK-8 activities “Renewable or Not,” “Nature’s Recyclers,” “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle,” “A Look at Aluminum,” and PLT’s GreenSchools! program)
EPA’s Recycle City’s interactive website showcases an interactive map, scavenger hunt, and game that all explore ways homes and businesses can recycle, reuse, or reduce waste. Use this website to spark interesting discussions around waste and recycling in places and spaces where students can have direct impacts.
Tell Your Water Story
(resource for Project Learning Tree’s PreK-8 activities “Water Wonders” and “Every Drop Counts,” and PLT’s GreenSchools! program)
The H2yOu website aims to inspire people to care for and conserve our shared global water resource. On H2yOu’s interactive map, students can share stories about where they get their water from, why it’s important, and what they’re doing to conserve it. Student stories from around the world appear in narrative form, and pieces of artwork, poetry, or song.
(resource for Project Learning Tree’s PreK-8 activities “Sounds Around” and PLT’s Environmental Experiences for Early Childhood)
Use this series of applications to explore sounds in nature. With Nature Maestro®, sound recordist and composer Dennis Hysom is your guide. Immerse yourself in different biomes (the rainforest, for example) and compose a soundscape or build a nature scene using audio paired with imagery. Along the way, you’ll discover fun facts about animals.
Project BudBurst
(resource for Project Learning Tree’s GreenSchools School Site Investigation, as well as many other PLT PreK-8 activities, especially “Bursting Buds,” “Looking At Leaves,” and “Signs of Fall.”)
Project BudBurst is a network of people across the country that monitors plants as the seasons change. This Spring, use Project Learning Tree activities to get your students outside, and use Project BudBurst to help them see how their seasonal observations about plants compare to those being made all across the country. In addition to collecting scientifically useful data such as first leafing, first flower, and first fruit, students will understand the impacts of changing climates on plants and their phenology. Read more.
Project Learning Tree is offering grants up to $1,000 to involve students in service-learning projects to improve the environment at their school or in their community. To be eligible, applicants must have attended a PLT workshop (either in-person or online) that includes training, lesson plans, and other resources to help integrate these projects and environmental education into school curriculum or youth programs. Note: Only PLT’s PreK-8 and Early Childhood Online Courses meet the online training eligibility requirements.
EJK Foundation Mini-Grants
The Ezra Jack Keats (EJK) Foundation, named for the children’s book author and illustrator, provides $500 grants to public schools, preschools, and libraries with creative, innovative programs that support or extend the Common Core. Projects should foster creative collaboration and diverse communities.
Green Education Program Grants
Deadline: Applications Accepted Year-Round
The Alternative Fuel Foundation provides grants of $250-500 to forward-thinking schools with projects that use alternative fuels and promote sustainability. Those that encourage parent involvement and build community spirit are preferred. Nonprofit public and private K-12 schools and their associated parent groups are eligible.
(resource for PreK-8’s “Renewable or Not,” “Nature’s Recyclers,” “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle,” “A Look at Aluminum,” and PLT’s GreenSchools! program)
(resource for PreK-8’s “Water Wonders” and “Every Drop Counts,” and PLT’s GreenSchools! program)
Digital Notebook Template
(resource for PreK-8’s “Adopt a Tree,” “Rain Reasons,” “Signs of Fall,” “Nothing Succeeds Like Succession,” and many more)
Want to go paperless in your classroom and experiment with digital note keeping? Read educator Nick Mitchell’s Scientific Teacher blog for ideas to transform the way you and your students take notes. This blog details using digital notebooks in the classroom, including basic information on why digital notebooks are useful and how to get started with free existing, provided templates.
(resource for PreK-8’s “Renewable or Not” and “Energy Sleuths,” as well as PLT’s GreenSchools! program)
LITERATURE CONNECTIONS
Epic! For Educators
(Resource for PreK-8’s “The Forest of S.T. Shrew,” “How Plants Grow,” “The Closer You Look,” and many more as well as PLT’s Environmental Experiences for Early Childhood)
Are you looking for new literature connections to support your favorite PLT lessons? This growing Epic! online library offers thousands of picture books, chapter books, early readers, and even nonfiction books (think Common Core Connections!) that elementary teachers can access free of cost. Registered users receive unlimited access to books and customized recommendations for readers’ age levels and interests. Epic! is available for iPads, iPhones, and Android devices.
EXPLORING CAREERS WITH STUDENTS
Order Free Scientist Cards from Natural Inquirer
(Resource for PreK-8’s “A Forest of Many Uses,” “Who Works in this Forest?,” “Forests for the Trees,” “People, Places, Things,” and many more)
Natural Inquirer is now accepting free orders for their Scientist Card sets, directly from their web site. Individual orders are limited to either one full pack (100 cards) or up to 3 of the smaller packs (Women in Science, Classroom set, and Wildlife Scientists). The smaller packs all contain 30 cards a piece. Use these cards to connect PLT lessons to actionable careers!
Conservation Connect Videos
(Resource for PreK-8’s “Web of Life,” “Habitat Pen Pals,” and “400-Acre Wood”)
Connect your students with conservation professionals using the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s new video series. Each 5-7 minute episode features a specialist and footage of a species. For example, during one episode, an educational specialist discusses manatee behavior and shows footage of manatees, followed by a law enforcement officer who demonstrates the use of high tech tools used to arrest wildlife poachers. Visit the FWS website to find a video of interest to you and your students.
LearnForests.org Career Videos
(resource for PreK-8’s “A Forest of Many Uses,” “Forest Consequences,” and “Who Works in this Forest” as well as Focus on Forests’ “Monitoring Forest Health”)
Check out the Oregon-based website LearnForests.org for a compilation of nearly 30 videos targeting Grades 4-12 about careers in the forest sector. In addition to valuable career insights, the videos contain various forest facts that are both interesting and informational. The first-person accounts of those who currently have forest careers provide an insightful resource for those considering a future in the field of forestry.
GREENSCHOOLS RESOURCES
EPA’s Carbon Footprint Calculator
(resource for PreK-8’s “Plant a Tree,” “Waste Watchers,” “The Global Climate,” and “In the Driver’s Seat,” Forest of the World’s “Seeking Sustainability” and “Making Consumer Choices,” and PLT’s GreenSchools program)
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) website provides an interactive carbon footprint calculator designed for use by students in middle or high school. The calculator begins by asking students to investigate some baseline data points, such as their average home energy usage, transportation habits, and waste disposal process. Then, the calculator offers tangible conservation tips alongside estimated annual savings. This is an excellent tool for making home connections, as well as a complement to PLT GreenSchools!
HIGH SCHOOL RESOURCES
Bears of the World: Interactive Range Map
(resource for PreK-8’s “400-Acre Wood” and “Life on the Edge”, as well as PLT’s Biodiversity and Forests of the World secondary modules.)
Bear Trust International’s interactive world map shows students and educators in grades 9-12 where eight different species of wild bears live. The map includes photos and facts on American and Asiatic black bears, brown bears, giant pandas, polar bears, sloth bears, and sun bears.
Sustainability in Bioenergy: A Nation Connected
(resource for PreK-8’s “Renewable or Not?” and PLT’s Energy & Society Kit)
This informative documentary, Sustainability in Bioenergy: A Nation Connected, produced by the US Department of Energy, highlights ongoing efforts in communities nationwide to develop, produce, and provide bioenergy. From farmers and families in the Midwest to researchers and business owners on the coasts, the video provides firsthand views and personal stories describing bioenergy-related projects and how they work to create new jobs and lessen humans’ impact on the environment.
Greener Blue Jeans
(resource for PreK-8’s “We All Need Trees,” “A Forest of Many Uses,” and “Who Works in this Forest?,” as well as PLT’s Biotechnology secondary module)
Who doesn’t like blue jeans? The indigo dye that provides their distinctive color holds up to detergents, but ages into that soft, worn look. Indigo is one of the oldest dyes used for coloring textiles. For thousands of years it was extracted from tropical plants in Asia, the Middle East and the Americas, with various unpleasant side effects. This Berkeley University of California article describes the research involved in finding a cleaner route to produce the iconic dye.
Why Trees? Video
(Resource for PreK-8’s “Planning the Ideal Community,” “Pollution Search,” and “Improve Your Place,” PLT’s Places We Live secondary module, and PLT’s GreenSchools! program)
As we know, trees represent more than just beautiful natural elements of our land, they also provide shade, manage water, stop erosion, protect streams, soothe the soul, clean the air, protect the quality and health of water, and attract homeowners, renters, and shoppers. Check out this Doodle Lecture created by Alabama Cooperative Extension that unveils the many benefits of having trees in our communities.
School Garden Checklist
(Resource for PreK-8’s “Plant a Tree,” “Soil Stories,” and “Pass the Plants, Please,” as well as PLT’s GreenSchools! and GreenWorks! service-learning programs)
Planning to start a garden project? Download this step-by-step guide, provided by the Let’s Move! Presidential initiative, to ensure you won’t miss any information that could support the health of your garden. Detailed checklists offer tips about soil safety, site selection, overall design, plant palette, how to build and use the garden, and the importance of creating local partnerships and utilizing local resources.
Energy Zones Mapping Tool
(Resource for PreK-8’s “Renewable or Not?,” “Energy Sleuths,” and “Our Changing World,” as well as PLT’s Energy & Society Kit, and GreenSchools! energy investigation)
The Energy Zones Mapping Tool is a free online database that allows users to map existing and potential energy resources in the 39 easternmost states. Users can run site-suitability analyses for a variety of renewable energy sources, including biomass, solar, water, wind, natural gas, geothermal, and nuclear power. Regional, custom maps of existing energy resources and environmental characteristics that impact energy development can also be created using overlapping and interactive layers. This tool is hosted by the Eastern Interconnection States’ Planning Council (EISPC), among other project partners.
Energy Literacy Videos from DOE
Energy is an abstract and important concept that concerns all things on earth and plays a role in many natural and social science processes. Uncover the power of understanding energy by watching the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Seven Principles of Energy Literacy video series. This series breaks down key information about energy’s functions including flow, amount, and quality, in addition to looking at how quality of life, economics, politics, and environment are affected by how we create and utilize energy.
Recycling Infographic
The amount of water used to produce a plastic water bottle can be up to 3x higher than the actual amount of water in the bottle. Use this infographic in conjunction with PLT’s Activity 83 “A Peek at Packaging” which you can download for free from www.plt.org/onlinePD as a sample of PLT’s PreK-8 Activity Guide.
President’s Environmental Youth Award
The President’s Environmental Youth Award (PEYA) recognizes outstanding environmental projects by K-12 youth. The PEYA program promotes awareness of our nation’s natural resources and encourages positive community involvement. Since 1971, the President of the United States has joined with EPA to recognize young people for protecting our nation’s air, water, land, and ecology. It is one of the most important ways EPA and the Administration demonstrate commitment to environmental stewardship efforts created and conducted by our nation’s youth.
Each year the PEYA program honors a wide variety of projects developed by young individuals, school classes (kindergarten through high school), summer camps, public interest groups, and youth organizations to promote environmental awareness. Thousands of young people from all 50 states and the U.S. territories have submitted projects to EPA for consideration. Winning projects in the past have covered a wide range of subject areas, including:
restoring native habitats
recycling in schools and communities
construction of nature preserves
installing renewable energy projects
creating videos, skits and newsletters that focused on environmental issues
participating in many other creative sustainability efforts
Evaluation results consistently demonstrate that participation in the PEYA program is frequently a life-changing experience for many of the young people and their project sponsors.
http://www2.epa.gov/education/presidents-environmental-youth-award
Environmental Scholarships for Middle & High School Students
The GreenAllies Challenge is a national scholarship competition for middle and high school students. We hope that the competition will help students become leaders in the environmental movement.
Students will choose to either start an environmental club in their school, or complete an environmental project with an existing club. GreenAllies will then pair them with a mentor from the GreenAllies organization, who will guide them through the process of completing a project and competing in the Challenge.
The winner of the Challenge will get a $1,000 scholarship, and $1,000 to continue their project!
For more information, visit this webpage: http://www.greenalliesnetwork.org/#!contact/cudb
VIDEOS, APPS, AND GAMES
PBS KIDS PLUM LANDING
(resource for PreK-8’s “Trees as Habitats,” “Sounds Around,” “Planet Diversity,” “Earth Manners,” “Pollution Search,” and many more!)
A PBS KIDS environmental science project, PBS PLUM LANDING offers educators fun and engaging resources to get kids outside and connected to nature. PLT has partnered with PLUM LANDING to encourage kids to explore their local water systems, find out what happens to life in the desert, and investigate nature’s sounds and smells. Download PLUM LANDING’s free summer camp resources, including interactive games and videos.
Monitoring Freshwater Ecosystems App
(resource for PreK-8’s “Every Drop Counts,” “Water Wonders,” and “Watch on Wetlands”, as well as Focus on Forests’ “Monitoring Forest Health” and “Forest to Faucet”)
This Do-It-Yourself (DIY) Lake Science app developed by UC Berkley’s The Lawrence Hall of Science allows users to participate in and facilitate activities that teach about freshwater ecosystems. For example, families and educators have the opportunity to view videos and discover what lies beneath the surface with an “Under the Lake” simulation. The DIY Lake Science app is all inclusive – material lists, instructions, and explanations of how to participate in a day of exploring inside or outside are readily available and are displayed in a detailed and informational format. This app is free on iTunes, available for iOS 7 and above.
(resource for PreK-8’s “Adopt a Tree,” “The Closer You Look,” “Environmental Exchange Box,” and “Water Wonders,” as well as PLT’s GreenSchools! program and secondary modules)
Using Scratch, educators of all ages and levels can program interactive stories, games, and animations and share their creations in an online community. Click on For Educators to access tips and resources for using Scratch in the classroom, including an introductory video, how-to tutorials, and a webinar. Teacher can also join the ScratchEd community to connect and collaborate with other educators using Scratch.
Literacy Cards for ELLs
(resource for PLT’s “Environmental Experiences for Early Childhood”)
Check out this preschool picture book (literacy cards) of outdoor words and actions, created by the Collaborative Leadership Fellows Program at the University of Minnesota Rochester. The cards feature outdoor play action words such as “draw,” “climb,” and “jump” in multiple languages. The words are also depicted using an image and the language translations are available for English, Spanish, Chinese, Cambodian, Somali, and Arabic. The languages were selected based on high populations of individuals speaking them in the mid-western United States. Download the “Let’s Play Outside!” booklet to connect with English Language Learners (ELLs) near you!
Create Your Own Book App
(resource for PreK-8’s “Sounds Around,” “Adopt a Tree,” “Rain Reasons,” “Signs of Fall,” “Nothing Succeeds Like Succession,” and lots more!)
Be the author, illustrator, and editor of your own literary adventure with Book Creator, an app that can be downloaded for the iPad from the iTunes store. Book Creator allows anyone to create and share their own journals, text books, children’s picture books and photobooks that can be designed with a multitude of text and image formatting options. This app offers a variety of printing and electronic sharing options that help its customers of all ages distribute their books to relatives, friends, and colleagues.
Dawn Publications – If You Love Honey
(resource for PreK-8’s “Habitat Pen Pals,” “Dynamic Duos,” “Web of Life,” “Schoolyard Safari” and Early Childhood’s “We All Need Trees”)
“If you love honey, then you must love honeybees” so says Dawn Publications’ children’s book, If You Love Honey. If You Love Honey takes readers on an exploration through the benefits and beauty that prevail through the relationships of living, breathing organisms that co-exist in nature. The colorful illustrations and simple concepts help young minds foster curiosity and develop an appreciation for nature. This book explores the importance of oak trees, mushrooms, soil, earthworms, and more. Be sure to check out the end of the book for fun facts about pollinators, seed spreaders, and beneficial insects.
National Geographic: Great Nature Project (resource for PreK-8’s “Picture This!,” “Habitat Pen Pals,” “Planet Diversity,” and “Charting Diversity” as well as PLT’s Biodiversity module)
Take part in a global snapshot of biodiversity with National Geographic’s Great Nature Project. With just four simple steps (see it, snap it, share it, and identify it), you can become a citizen scientist by sharing the biodiversity you see and experience from your unique point of view. Over time, this annual event will provide data that can be used to answer scientific questions or provide useful information to decision makers. Try using the mobile iNaturalist app, which is versioned for Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, and Swedish. Get outside and share photos of your encounters with plants, animals, and fungi!
Invasive Paper Project (resource for PreK-8’s “Nature’s Recyclers,” “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle,” “Invasive Species” and “Make Your Own Paper,” as well as PLT’s GreenSchools! program)
The Invasive Paper Project travels throughout Detroit to offer papermaking demos and workshops with invasive plants (like Phragmites, Honeysuckle, Garlic Mustard) that have been removed from city parks, lots, and green spaces in many different communities. This project creates community awareness about invasive plant species and their effects on local ecosystems, while also providing an opportunity to think about invasive plant life differently. While eradication is important, projects like this one allow participants to experiment with new uses and products from otherwise unwanted raw materials. Consider turning your next papermaking activity into a service-learning project by using invasive species pulp instead of paper scraps!
Biointeractive’s Holiday Lectures on Science (resource for PreK-8’s “Planet Diversity,” “Charting Diversity,” and “Life on the Edge,” as well as PLT’s Biodiversity secondary module) Biointeractive’s Holiday Lectures on Science series brings current research into the classroom, bridging the gap between textbook science and real life science. The Biodiversity in the Age of Humans series asks powerful questions, such as: Are we witnessing a sixth mass extinction? What factors threaten ecosystems on land and in the sea? What are researchers doing to conserve biodiversity and ecosystems around the world? What tools do we have to avoid a global catastrophe? In six half-hour lectures, three leading scientists describe the state of biodiversity on our planet and how to face the great challenges that lie ahead.
Expedition: Insects (resource for PreK-8’s “Can it Be Real?,” “Habitat Pen Pals,” and “Dynamic Duos”) Giant deadly hornets, gorgeous fluttering butterflies and stealthy crawling stink bugs: discover these and more fascinating insects in Expedition: Insects, an e-book written, illustrated, and animated by the Smithsonian Science Education Center. Students will learn about six different types of insects in natural habitats around the world and how evolution and adaptation is responsible for the insects’ characteristics. Download an interactive version of the e-book for free on iBooks or read the non-interactive PDF version online.
Fruit and Vegetable Fact Sheets (resource for PreK-8’s “Pass the Plants, Please” and “We All Need Trees”) These fact sheets from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension’s Nutrition Education Program provide information about 30 fruits and vegetables. Each fact sheet includes an illustration of the fruit or vegetable along with nutrition information, uses, description, varieties, and where the fruit or vegetable was first cultivated. The sheets could be incorporated into K-12 biology, health, or nutrition lessons or shared with students’ families to help promote healthy eating habits.
Digital Game: The Ruby Realm (resource for PreK-8’s “Air Plants,” “How Plants Grow,” “Sunlight and Shades of Green,” “Tree Factory,” and more) The Ruby Realm is a multi-level adventure game about photosynthesis. Players must navigate a cavern in search of missing friends. Luckily, Biobot Bob–a robot powered by artificial photosynthesis–is there to help players fend off evil enemies. Players must find light sources where Bob can generate the glucose he needs for power. Using Bob’s Molecule Replicator, they shoot light beams at carbon dioxide and water molecules, breaking them apart and recombining the atoms to form glucose. Through these and similar actions, the game helps students construct an understanding of photosynthesis by letting them actively participate in the process of chemical change.
Free iPad App: Ferret (resource for PreK-8’s “Picture This!, “Habitat Pen Pals,” and “Charting Diversity”) This free, interactive iPad app teaches children how to classify animals in a series of taps and swipes. Ferret marries science and design, allowing children to discover and learn about select species. The app allows students to “build” animals using a periodic table-like classification system, and in doing so, describe their distinct characteristics.
STEM Design Challenge: Edible Cars (resource for PreK-8’s “In the Driver’s Seat” and PLT’s Energy & Society Kit) The Teaching Channel is a video showcase — on the Internet and TV— of innovative and effective teaching practices in America’s schools. One of many STEM design challenges, Edible Cars showcases how teachers and students might integrate science, engineering, technology, and math—along with creativity and art.
Energy e-Books (resource for PLT’s GreenSchools! energy investigation and Energy & Society Kit) Stamford University and KQED public media have created digital textbooks for high school students and lifelong learners. Offering a broad introduction to the topic of energy, these multimedia e-books—Energy: The Basics and Energy: Use and Efficiency—feature animations, in-depth articles, and a glossary of energy terms, along with videos exploring topics such as geothermal energy, the solar power industry, and the diverse careers in the renewable energy field. Access the e-Books and a companion iTunes University course.
Design a more natural playground! The National Wildlife Federation and the Natural Learning Initiative has released Nature Play & Learning Places: Creating and Managing Places Where Children Engage with Nature, a definitive 192-page illustrated guide to nature play design. Most children’s playgrounds are metal, plastic, concrete and devoid of nature. These guidelines show how to create a new type of nature play and learning area with trees, shrubs, flowers, and natural materials so that children and families can experience and appreciate wildlife and nature at every place they use in every community.
Free 8-week Online Course about Water in the West The course comprises 8 weekly modules, each featuring one or more lectures of about 20 minutes by various Colorado State University water faculty. Modules include topics such as: Water Conflicts, Irrigated Agriculture, Groundwater, Energy, Urban Stormwater Management, Climate Change, Snow, Water for Aquatic Ecosystems, Physical Complexity in Headwater Streams, Water-related Disasters, Water as a Human Right, Coping with Global Water Scarcity. Along with the lectures are links for recommended readings, interactive activities, other related CSU resources, discussion forums, and quizzes. There’s even a fun section on water, music, and art. Course starts Feb. 16. For more information visit Water, Civilization, and Nature.
Nature Based Preschool National Conference August 19-22, 2015 in Gainesville, GA This conference is for educators and administrators who operate–or who want to operate–nature-based preschools, and allows these specialized educators to network, learn, and propel the field forward. This year’s conference will be held in conjunction with the Association of Nature Center Administrators (ANCA) Annual Summit in Gainesville, GA, at the Elachee Nature Science Center and Nature Preschool Elachee, which is less than an hour from Atlanta.
Life: Magnified (resource for PreK-8’s “The Closer You Look” and “The Shape of Things”) Life: Magnified is an exhibit of scientific images showing cells and other scenes of life magnified by as much as 50,000 times. The exhibit is on display at Washington Dulles International Airport’s Gateway Gallery from June through November 2014. The supporting Life: Magnified website features high-resolution versions of all 46 images in the collection along with longer captions than in the airport exhibit. In this online gallery, you’ll see cells from all around the body—brain, blood, eye, skin, liver, muscle. Each type of cell teaches different lessons about how life works.
The Water Cycle by USGS (resource for PreK-8’s “Every Drop Counts,” “Water Wonders,” and “Watch on Wetlands,” as well as PLT’s GreenSchools! Water Investigation) This interactive water cycle diagram produced by the US Geological Survey and the United Nations allows you to “mouse around” the parts of the water cycle and view explanations, pictures, and more. Available for beginner, intermediate, and advanced students, the diagram introduces an increasing number of terms at each level. PDF and jpg versions of the diagrams are also available for download and printing.
RadTown USA (resource for PreK-8’s “Air We Breathe”, “Focus on Risk” module, and PLT GreenSchools! programs) EPA’s Radiation Protection Program has launched the RadTown USA website, created to allow middle and high school students to explore radiation- where it is found and how it is used- in four different environments. The website also has Common Core supported content, including the history of radiation protection, ways to reduce exposure risk, careers in radiation protection, and the benefits of radiation.
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Diamond And Silk Dishonestly Claim Kamala Harris Supports Segregation
The Fox News duo known as “Diamond and Silk” came up with yet another whopper, this time to attack Sen. Kamala Harris on the issue of segregation.
By NewsHound Ellen
1 week ago by Heather
The Fox News duo known as “Diamond and Silk” came up with yet another whopper, this time to attack Sen. Kamala Harris after she became the breakout star in last week’s Democratic debate for confronting Joe Biden over his comments about segregation.
Harris, as anyone who has been near a television or computer screen since Thursday night's Democratic debate almost surely knows, spoke of how integration meant a lot to her because she “was part of the second class to integrate Berkeley, California, public schools almost two decades after Brown v. Board of Education.”
But leave it to Diamond and Silk to dishonestly suggest that Harris – with obvious approval from the Fox & Friends hosts – is really a segregation-supporting oppressor of blacks.
Lynnette “Diamond” Hardaway said accusingly, “She don’t have a pretty past. Hers is just as ugly. If you want to know who’s the threat to black people, it is Kamala Harris.”
Hardaway was referring to Harris’ record as a prosecutor which is fair game. But not the way these liars told it.
Rochelle “Silk” Richardson "asked," "How is Camilla [sic] supportin’ the same party that segregated her and her family? She’s in support of the same party. It’s not just Joe Biden, it’s the party. The Democrats are the party of segregation and she supports it.
"Right," Hardaway said, emphatically.
Not one of the three Fox & Friends cohosts challenged this gaslighting. Instead, cohost Brian Kilmeade deliberately validated it.
Rather than point to anything Republicans are doing on behalf of African Americans in the present, Kilmeade reached back two centuries when Abraham Lincoln was a Republican and when Democrats gave birth to the Ku Klux Klan. It's the world’s most bogus “proof” that Democrats are still the anti-black party, yet Fox keeps grasping at this straw. Ditto for when Kilmeade held up the last century, when Sen. Robert Byrd was a member of the KKK, conveniently “forgetting” that Byrd also renounced that membership, calling it his “greatest mistake" in that century too.
KILMEADE: I think on some level, Diamond, the Democrats don't want this argument for the main reason is they’re the ones who gave birth to the Ku Klux Klan. It was a Republican that -- Abraham Lincoln’s party -- that up into the 1960s that would fought [and] push back against racism. And somehow that narrative flipped, and people are forced to go back and remember what Sen. Byrd was and -- even though every road is named after him and every hallway has a plaque with his face on it.
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Watch proof that Fox News puts propaganda first and facts last below, from the June 28, 2019 Fox & Friends.
Published with permission from News Hounds.
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Fox Grifters Diamond & Silk Ridiculously Assert Kamala Harris Supports Segregation
Rock & Burlap, along with Fox's Brian Kilmeade, trot out the tired canard that Democrats are the "real racists" by ignoring everything that's happened since the civil rights movement in the '60's.
Fox Grifters 'Diamond & Silk' Claim Trump Is Protecting The Border From 'Invasion'
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Trump's favorite You Tube star grifters, Diamond & Silk, made an appearance on Fox & Friends to play the but, but, but "the Democrats are the real racists" game in the wake of Trump refusing to condemn the violent white [...]
'Diamond & Silk' Play 'Both Sides' Apologists For Trump's Refusal To Condemn White Supremacists
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2018 Greece Wildfires More than 80 Dead [PHOTO GALLERY]
Thread: 2018 Greece Wildfires More than 80 Dead [PHOTO GALLERY]
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Originally Posted by Meatpie
Summers with extreme heat will become the norm for Britain in the next decades as global warming intensifies.
Yes, much of southern England is like that (I can't see any clues to quite where that photo is, but it's broadly a southern landcape, and I'm guessing either Chilternsa to East Anglia, or central southern England). Up here it's less extreme - temperatures less high, and the drought has never gone over 2-3 weeks without at least a little measurable rain. Now loo0ks like we really are going to get a major breakdown over the next few days, with much lower temperatures, pretty well everywhere getting some heavy rain - though perhaps flooding from intense thunderstorms in places. That may be the end of the heatwave, but there are hints it may resume in about a week.
If you're kissing Death make sure you've got a blue protruding tongue.
"John Stuart Mill, of his own free will,
On half a pint of shandy got particularly ill."
Continuing Meatpie's theme:
Original article has some pics and graphics, including comparison of this year's global temperatures with 1976 (probably our longest previous heatwave in Britain). In 1976 the global distribution of hot and cold areas more-or-less balanced out, this year the hots are far more intense and extensive than the colds (though at least Greenland is in one of the few coldspots, so this won't be contributing to sea level rise as quickly and directly as it might have done).
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...ugh-a-heatwave
Why is Europe going through a heatwave?
Scientists say this ‘extreme’ weather in the northern hemisphere may soon be the norm
Why is it so hot?
Partly, it’s just the luck of the weather. The jet stream – the west-to-east winds that play a big role in determining Europe’s weather – has been further north than usual for about two months. A stationary high-pressure weather system has left the UK and much of continental Europe sweltering. Iceland, by contrast, has been hit with clouds and storms that would normally come further south.
The jet stream’s northerly position may have been influenced by temperatures in the north of the Atlantic, which have been relatively warm in the subtropics and colder south of Greenland.
“The current hot and dry spell in the UK is partly due a combination of North Atlantic ocean temperatures, climate change and the weather,” said Len Shaffrey, a professor of climate science at the University of Reading.
The influence of climate change on the jet stream is still being explored.
Is climate change to blame?
The heatwaves in the northern hemisphere are undoubtedly linked to global warming, scientists say. “There’s no question human influence on climate is playing a huge role in this heatwave,” said Prof Myles Allen, a climate scientist at the University of Oxford.
On Thursday the university will publish an analysis of how much more likely climate change made Europe’s current heatwave. Similar heatwaves have happened in the past when the planet was cooler – the world was two-thirds of a degree celsius cooler in 1976, a notably hot year in the UK. But climate change made them happen more often, Allen said.
Prof Peter Stott, a science fellow at the Met Office, said global warming of 1C since the industrial revolution was clearly making extreme heat more likely. “It is increasing quite significantly the risk of such a heatwave. The temperatures of 30C (86F) and above this week have gone from being a very rare occurrence to, not a frequent occurrence, but much more likely,” he said.
The wide geographical spread of the heatwave, right across four continents, also points to global warming as the culprit. “That pattern is something we wouldn’t be seeing without climate change,” Stott said.
Britons are only somewhat worried about climate change, according to the British Social Attitudes tracker. Wildfires, such as those that have occurred recently in northern England, are one reason to be more concerned. “The moorland fires is an example of an impact that comes with such prolonged heatwaves,” Stott said.
Older people are vulnerable to extremes of heat, with 20,000 people believed to have died across Europe in the 2003 heatwave. Transport infrastructure suffers, with rail lines buckling. The other major short-term impact is on agriculture. Shaffrey said the hot, dry spell was wreaking havoc on farming. Heatwaves in other countries will probably cut yields of crops that the UK imports, pushing up prices.
Longer-term, the green and pleasant landscape of the UK may vanish if rainfall patterns change because of global warming. “People might like a Mediterranean climate but it will be very different. For wildlife, a change of that magnitude could be very traumatic because it has nowhere to go,” said Allen.
Is this a sign of things to come?
Yes. “It’s a warning of what we will have to deal with,” said Stott. Michael Mann, a US climate scientist, tweeted: “What we call an ‘extreme heatwave’ today we will simply call ‘summer’ in a matter of decades if we do not sharply reduce carbon emissions.”
Floods reported in the Athens metropolitan area today
m/ ^_^ m/ "The goal of all life is death" - Sigmund Freud
Mortua sed non sepulta!
Los Estados Unidos
Greece has not enough water to extinguish its fires in one location, and too much water in another. It's not fair.
"I'll hit you so hard your ancestors will die."
.....Harlan Ellison
gibing
A glimpse of Hell on earth
Yes Earth is turning more and more into something similar to the Republic of Gilead.
Greece has "serious indications" that a fire that killed at least 83 people near Athens earlier this week was started deliberately, Citizen Protection Minister Nikos Toskas says.
Eyewitness video shows ferocity of the flames that swept through Mati on July 23
91 confirmed dead so far but the search for bodies continues.
Dozens of volunteer divers kept searching the sea off Mati on Sunday looking for the bodies of other possible fire victims.
I hope those people, standing in the water to keep from burning, aren't now risking a shark attack. Maybe there are no sharks in the Mediterranean.
LunaFreya
Why am i only concerned for the dog?
Dogs are good people (except for pitt bulls), so it's okay if you are concerned for the canine.
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LISA RENEE (Time Shift Blog): “What is Prison Planet?”
What is a Prison Planet? What are the factors that have contributed to the long term memory loss and identity wiping that the human race has suffered through repeated recycling on the Earth? When we awaken to the present moment and begin to remember what has happened to the human race in the past timelines, we know that the trauma of planetary invasion and the current transmissions of mind control are designed to keep us mentally looping in fear and avoidance programming. When we awaken to the truth, we begin to break the hypnotic spell of the mind control and the frequency fences. Know that we are eternal spiritual consciousness, and that we all can find our inner connection with our true spiritual being to safely guide us through the enslavement maze of greed and authoritarian control.
I AM the Eternal God Being, I Know Who I AM.
The Guardian Host has revealed the Alien Machinery and NETs that are used for Consciousness Wiping all planetary inhabitants, bringing attention to the false light used in the False Ascension Matrix, as well as the repeated recycling of Souls that are routed into Consciousness Traps that make the Earth a Prison Planet. During the Ascension Cycle, the Krystal Star Guardians are essentially on a rescue mission to help the planet ascend, and to liberate the Souls on the Earth from Mind Control and AI False Timeline Propagation enforced by the Negative Alien Agenda.
Historical Records Erased
On 3D planet Earth, humanities true star origins, ET involvement and historical records, ancient artifacts and sacred spiritual texts, along with higher consciousness memories were mostly erased, so that we would not remember who we are or where we came from. We were handed a false history, false identity and false reality from the victors of war, along with strong broadcasts of NAA Mind Control programming in order to condition us to believe in the fabricated anti-human culture that is the controlled AI version of 3D reality. Artificial grids and AI timeline networks are used by the Controllers, both human and nonhuman, to maintain the 3D artificial reality for the inhabitants of this planet and to maintain the Prison Planet enslavement status.
Black Sun Program
The Negative Alien agenda NAA is to force the planet to serve another multiple species Controller agenda, through imposing false replicated time fields using bio-warfare technology such as Holographic Inserts, AI and Mind Control, namely created under genetic reptilian-insectoid Archon extraterrestrials, at the expense and life force of the human race and the kingdoms under the human domain. Much of the NAA is veiled behind the shadow levels of the ET and human military industrial complex collaboration, with the primary takeover accessing the U.S. naval forces and underground bases in the earth. It appears earth was invaded several times by hostile Negative Aliens with a major shift occurring 26,000 years ago during the Luciferian Rebellion, Atlantian Cataclysm and leading to the latest event with the Sumerian-Egypt Invasion. These agendas are still in effect today and impact all human and earthly life as an enforced enslavement on a Prison Planet being harvested for a variety of resources to send back to off planet Controllers, such as harvesting the energetic quanta of human life force and earthly minerals.
Black Sun Agenda for Debt Currency
The system of debt based currency used as the current global monetary system was originally brought to the earth by the Alpha Draconis Orion Group. These entities have organized themselves on the earth in what is called the Black Sun Agenda. The Draco Reptilians of the Orion Group view themselves as the most intelligent species in the Universe and believe that earth humans have descended from their biological seeding processes, from multiple planets they have conquered. Therefore they believe humans, as well as the earth, are their personal property and have instituted the global slavery system via the indoctrination of debt-based currency. One should be aware that on many other planets, monetary systems do not exist, and all inhabitants born onto the planet are considered free citizens with equal rights to flourish in the global society that is organized by that planet’s system of government. A planetary system ruled by debt currency in which one has to pay for their basic shelter, food and healthcare from birth is considered a Prison Planet.
Hibernation Zones
Additional phantom area pockets or zones were created during the Atlantian Cataclysm through reversal electron or Light reversals made in sections of the earths field that were intended to inhabit by the NAA and intruding races to enslave the planet and humanity. This connects with the NETs that turned earth into a Prison Planet.
Alien Airl Interview Transcript
The Alien Airl captured in 1947 by U.S. Military, describes a similar scenario of Prison Planet with her telepathic interpreter, Nurse Officer, Matilda O’Donnell MacElroy.
IS-BE = Immortal Spiritual Being, Consciousness that exists outside the material body, Lightbody
The Domain = Anunnaki Groups ET Domain Expeditionary Force, Self Proclaimed Rulers of Territory in Earth’s Solar System, Airl is Officer in The Domain
Electronic Force Field = NET
Electric Shock Therapy = Mind Wiping, Blank Slating, memory erasure
Old Empire = Orion Group
Return to the Light = False Ascension Matrix
Transcript of Airls’ Communication circa 1947: “Eventually The Domain discovered that a wide area of space is monitored by an “electronic force field” which controls all of the IS-BEs in this end of the galaxy, including Earth. The electronic force screen is designed to detect IS-BEs and prevent them from leaving the area. If any IS-BE attempts to penetrate the force screen, it “captures” them in a kind of “electronic net”. The result is that the captured IS-BE is subjected to a very severe brainwashing treatment which erases the memory of the IS-BE. This process uses a tremendous electrical shock, just like Earth psychiatrists use “electric shock therapy” to erase the memory and personality of a patient and to make them more cooperative. On Earth this “therapy” uses only a few hundred volts of electricity. However, the electrical voltage used by the “Old Empire” operation against IS-BEs is on the order of magnitude of billions of volts! This tremendous shock completely wipes out all the memory of the IS-BE. The memory erasure is not just for one life or one body. It wipes out the all of the accumulated experiences of a nearly infinite past, as well as the identity of the IS-BE! The shock is intended to make it impossible for the ISBE to remember who they are, where they came from, their knowledge or skills, their memory of the past, and ability to function as a spiritual entity. They are overwhelmed into becoming a mindless, robotic nonentity.
After the shock a series of post hypnotic suggestions are used to install false memories, and a false time orientation in each IS-BE. This includes the command to return to the base after the body dies, so that the same kind of shock and hypnosis can be done again, and again, again — forever. The hypnotic command also tells the patient to forget to remember. What The Domain learned from the experience of this officer is that the Old Empire has been using Earth as a Prison Planet for a very long time — exactly how long is unknown — perhaps millions of years. So, when the body of the IS-BE dies they depart from the body. They are detected by the “force screen”, they are captured and ordered by hypnotic command to “return to the light”. The idea of heaven and the afterlife are part of the hypnotic suggestion — a part of the treachery that makes the whole mechanism work. After the IS-BE has been shocked and hypnotized to erase the memory of the life just lived, the IS-BE is immediately commanded, hypnotically, to report back to Earth, as though they were on a secret mission, to inhabit a new body. Each IS-BE is told that they have a special purpose for being on Earth. But, of course there is no purpose for being in a prison — at least not for the prisoner.
Any undesirable IS-BEs who are sentenced to Earth were classified as “untouchable” by the Old Empire. This included anyone that the Old Empire judged to be criminals who are too vicious to be reformed or subdued, as well as other criminals such as sexual perverts, or beings unwilling to do any productive work. An untouchable classification of IS-BEs also includes a wide variety of political prisoners. This includes IS-BEs who are considered to be noncompliant free thinkers or revolutionaries who make trouble for the governments of the various planets of the Old Empire. Of course, anyone with a previous military record against the Old Empire is also shipped off to Earth. A list of untouchables include artists, painters, singers, musicians, writers, actors, and performers of every kind. For this reason Earth has more artists per capita than any other planet in the Old Empire. Untouchables also include intellectuals, inventors and geniuses in almost every field. Since everything the Old Empire considers valuable has long since been invented or created over the last few trillion years, they have no further use for such beings. This includes skilled managers also, which are not needed in a society of obedient, robotic citizens. Anyone who is not willing or able to submit to mindless economic, political and religious servitude as a taxpaying worker in the class system of the Old Empire are untouchable and sentenced to receive memory wipeout and permanent imprisonment on Earth. The net result is that an IS-BE is unable to escape because they can’t remember who they are, where they came from, where they are. They have been hypnotized to think they are someone, something, sometime, and somewhere other than were they really are. Although the military base of the Old Empire was destroyed, unfortunately, much of the vast machinery of the IS-BE force screens, the electroshock / amnesia / hypnosis machinery continues to function in other undiscovered locations right up to the present moment. The main base or control center for this “mind control prison” operation has never been found. So, the influences of this base, or bases, are still in effect.
The Domain has observed that since the Old Empire space forces were destroyed there is no one left to actively prevent other planetary systems from bringing their own untouchable IS-BEs to Earth from all over this galaxy, and from other galaxies nearby. Therefore, Earth has become a universal dumping ground for this entire region of space. This, in part, explains the very unusual mix of races, cultures, languages, moral codes, religious and political influences among the IS-BE population on Earth. The number and variety of heterogeneous societies on Earth are extremely unusual on a normal planet. Most “Sun Type 12, Class 7” planets are inhabited by only one humanoid body type or race, if any. In addition, most of the ancient civilizations of Earth, and many of the events of Earth have been heavily influenced by the hidden, hypnotic operation of the Old Empire base. So far, no one has figured out exactly where and how this operation is run, or by whom because it is so heavily protected by screens and traps. Furthermore, there has been no operation undertaken to seek out, discover and destroy the vast and ancient network of electronics machinery that create the IS-BE force screens at this end of the galaxy. Until this has been done, we are not able to prevent or interrupt the electric shock operation, hypnosis and remote thought control of the Old Empire prison planet. Of course all of the crew members of The Domain Expeditionary Force now remain aware of this phenomena at all times while operating in this solar system space so as to prevent detection and the capture by Old Empire traps.
(ES Newsletters – Historical Timeline Trigger Events, Poverty Consciousness,
Alien Interview; Transcript of Matilda O’Donnell MacElroy telepathically communicating with captured alien, Airl. Edited book compiled by Lawrence Spencer. Purported to be official transcript of the U.S. Army Air Force Roswell Army Air Field, 509th Bomb Group. Subject: Alien Interview, 25. 7. 1947, 1st Session.)
~via EnergeticSynthesis.com – Time Shift Blog – October 17, 2018
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Geomagnetic Storms
LISA RENEE: “The Sun and Solar Activity”
“As we move through the series of timelines in each dimensional octave, we reclaim our spiritual identity, while recoding and changing the artificial or false reality from interfering with our continued consciousness expansion. We connect with our lost aspects to merge with these timelines, which allow us to reclaim and re-collect our spiritual bodies, clear Negative Forms, Clones, and Artificial Intelligence. As we clear false identities and inorganic architecture from suppressing and impairing our consciousness expansion, we are extracting the alien enslavement programming and clearing mind control implants, in order to embody our true inner Christos spirit. During such times of heightened solar activity, many people on the spiritual awakening path are engaged in some form of clearing negative forms and extracting the false, inorganic or alien structures in order to access their higher spiritual expression and help accommodate the changes happening in their lives.”
With the masculine body corrections underway with the recent Solar wind transmissions, the alchemical transformation of humanities consciousness evolution has come to merge with the greater scientific understanding of DNA Activation. DNA activation plays an important and direct role in spiritual ascension and consciousness evolution for the entire planet. The Cosmic Father principle returns the imprint of humanities original DNA architecture through the ascension cycle when the Solar and Stellar body’s transmit intelligent plasma forces with geometric coding to the earth. The Cosmic Mother principle returns the original record of Mitochondrial DNA through the magnetic shifting happening on the planet, which helps to reinstate our blood, brain and neurological system blueprint into higher functioning in order to bond with the DNA of our true origins. The original instruction set of our DNA is a lattice work of pure liquid crystal, an ideal transmitter and receiver of energetic resonance, inter-communication and perceiving a variety of levels of consciousness. Planetary and Human DNA is activated through the communication made with the intelligent plasma emitted from the Sun through Solar Flares and during major events of solar body activity. The original instruction set of humanities 12 strand DNA is what connects our higher consciousness with our physical body in order to experience the eternal God Source levels of our Personal Christ Consciousness or Avatar Christ.
Planet earth’s local Sun is a star called Sol. Our Sun is a Stargate and it is possible for certain craft to be used to go in and out of the Solar System from the Solar portal, making our Solar System an important outpost that has generated territorial conflict between intruding races. The original 4th dimensional Stargate on the earth is located in Giza, Egypt and this is a main opening access into other portals, as well as access into the many layers of the Astral Plane. In this location, the trajectory path made between the Sun and Earth can be accessed, it is interconnected through geometric fields of mathematical instruction sets based on the base groupings of Platonic Solids, which are the building blocks of matter or geometric coding that arranges the blueprint of the Universe. Thousands of years ago, the Annunaki had taken control of this area of the planet, in order to gain control over the important relationship that exists between the earth and the Sun, as well as attempting to take control over its plasma transmissions as an energy source. Thus, the Sun’s activity is important to many as it is related to activating higher DNA on the earth, as well as acting as the control access point of who goes in and out through the Sun portal. Each Sun and Star in the Universe is interconnected through the intricate blueprints recorded in the morphogenetic field layers, and the plasma filaments that create the etheric webbing that connects all of the star consciousness together.
During the Ascension Cycle the planet is exposed to many sequences of broadcasts from Solar Flares and Stellar Activations which cause the levels of the planetary field to progressively open up into each other, dissolving the dimensional frequency barriers that kept the levels separate at one time within the planetary field. The levels continue to dissolve as these energetic fields on the earth progressively draw in more frequency patterns from the higher dimensional fields or the unified fields. As these levels dissolve, progressively more consciousness energy and awareness merge with and become held within, the biological life form, and the biological life form shifts from one set of dimensional time continuum cycles to another.
When we energetically evolve and move up in dimensional frequency bands, we are exposed to more dimensional octaves, therefore more potential timelines. However, in the range of polarities that may exist as potential consciousness experiences, there is only one timeline that is the highest expression of our spiritual identity and that manifests the fulfillment of our highest expression or heroic probability. Within the future timelines are stations of identity, commonly called Soul, Monad, and Christos self. These spiritual identities comprise lightbody parts or whole spiritual bodies of our forgotten future selves. These are spiritual energetic bodies that hold our consciousness intelligence matrices, our mind matrices and that make up our spiritual identity. We are designed to reclaim these spiritual-energetic pieces during the Ascension cycle. This is why those on the spiritual ascension path continually experience their spiritual-energetic healing by meeting the cellular memories in the timelines that surface for compassionate witnessing, at different stages of evolution on the earth.
The consciousness within our Solar System is undergoing its own level of solar initiation through the increased amounts of solar plasma emissions and the upcoming total solar eclipse, also known as the Great American Eclipse on August 21st, 2017. The previous time a total solar eclipse was visible across the entire contiguous United States was during the June 8, 1918 eclipse. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A total solar eclipse occurs when the Moon’s apparent diameter is larger than the Sun’s, blocking all direct sunlight, turning day into darkness.
Recently, solar plasma emissions interacting with Earth’s ionosphere rapidly changed the shape and direction of the magnetic field, as well as generating geomagnetic storms, auroras and increased the range of the earth’s plasma fountain. It is clear evidence that we are undergoing an intense Solar Initiation of radiating plasmic light, as well as enduring the upcoming total eclipse event, which is rapidly progressing humanities evolution on our chosen spiritual journey upon this earth. Eclipses shift the foundation and the structure of cosmic order to push consciousness evolution into another pathway, the result is a shakedown of the status quo and breaking up of stagnant energies. Along with the sensation of being squeezed through the eye of a needle, in order to come out on the other side into completely different situations or even as a different and changed person. This total solar eclipse has special consideration in the activation of the north node in the Four Royal Stars, sitting in the northern position of Regulus, which is the dominant star in the Leo constellation. The number 23 is assigned to Regulus in Leo for the Royal Star of the Lion, and as such there are occult rituals that use the number 23 for amplifying black magic grids and their anti-life structures.
However, as one is being accelerated into spiritual initiation into higher frequencies which instigate DNA activation, such as when the lightbody connects with the transmission of solar plasmas and the shifting foundation as a result of the total solar eclipse, many people may experience a range of ascension symptoms. Many of these symptoms are related to the movement and clearing of energy blockages, and the detoxification from the toxic waste releases which is known as die-off. During spiritual activation and the subsequent die-off phase, one may experience Ascension Symptoms, like Ascension flu and exhaustion. The immune system is essentially rearranging the body’s grounding mechanism, and resetting the metabolic and homeostatic base levels for the necessary higher functioning of the body to be capable to embody higher solar frequencies in the cells. In the integration phase of higher frequencies and solar coding, sometimes all one can do is rest in bed, and not eat much of anything. It’s best not to eat harder to digest foods while the body is in catabolic breakdown mode, or digestion will draw energy away from the transmutation of the flesh and the process of spiritual resurrection will not be as complete. One may create toxicity and tissue damage if working against the natural break-down cycle and ignoring the bodies request for rest, cleansing or fasting. Listen to your body!
Giving up the past and letting go of the ego-personality is the first stage of really living. Until we give up and surrender to our inner spirit, we have been trying to live from the concept of the Ego/Personality self, instead of higher spiritual or Christ Self. It is often the case with human action, that what we manifest through our ego efforts, turns out to be the very opposite of what we actually intended. The die-off process is the most extreme experience of nature stepping in to help us move beyond the known experience of the ego, clearing out blockages in so that we may access into the vast reaches of a mystical connection with the universe. The deeper the surrender to the living-death of the spiritual Ascension process, the more we can actually incarnate and embody our higher spirit in the flesh.
The movement of stars, planets, comets and asteroids through space affect the solar activity and the magnetic field; the upcoming total solar eclipse is another such consciousness altering event. Which in turn impacts the geomagnetic field influencing the collective and individual electromagnetic, chemical and biological systems on the earth. These forces impact our consciousness and bodies in unprecedented ways, and in this cycle are manifesting many unusual symptoms and changes in our biorhythms and lifestyle.
There are changes happening in the glandular and hormonal system, resulting in shifts in all basic body patterns such as sleeping, eating, elimination and daily bio-rhythms.
The body is adjusting to a new sense of time and space, as well as grounding mechanism. The internal body clock will feel changed or off its usual pattern.
Many people are feeling out of sorts, with waves of sadness, feelings of loss or grieving of leaving behind the past. We may be leaving behind old behaviors, friendships or ways of being.
When moving too quickly or feeling bodily stress, sensations that create vertigo, nausea or disorientation.
Remember to be gentle with your heart , allow yourself the rest you need and only allow others within your inner sanctum that treat you with the same kindness and care. These are intense times of solar activiation and spiritual initiation and that may include radical leaps into the unknown, endings and beginnings as we shift into higher consciousness, as we prepare for the timeline skipping that moves us into the next harmonic universe. Take good care of yourselves and your loved ones!
Blessings for graceful transition,
Lisa Renee
~via EnergeticSynthesis.com – Time Shift Blog – August 1, 2017
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ALEX MYLES: “3 Day Solar Storm”
A Magnetic Filament that had been hovering above the Sun’s surface has exploded — releasing tons of SuperCharged hot Plasma into the Solar System… This is creating a disturbance in our planet’s Magnetosphere, causing a Geomagnetic Storm to occur.
Humans are also affected because we each have a personal Electromagnetic Field that surrounds us — an Aura… Therefore, in the same way Electromagnetic Energy affects our planet, it can also play havoc with our own Energy Fields, which has recently been scientifically proven.
Solar Storms are known to desynchronise our circadian rhythm, which is the internal biological clock that controls our sleep and wake times… Affected by this Electromagnetic activity, our Pineal Glands produce an increase in Melatonin — thus disturbing our sleep and throwing our intuition and inherent orientation out of sync… We suffer from disrupted sleep patterns, exhaustion, and vivid dreams.
We may also have Enhanced Intuition and Psychic Awareness.
Solar Storms are also to directly impact our Nervous System, causing us to feel extra edgy, cautious, and feisty, and as though we are running on adrenaline in “fight or flight” mode.
Human beings have mostly been conditioned to believe that if we cannot see or touch something, it must not exist — when, in actuality, we are capable of seeing, sensing, hearing, and smelling so much more than we give ourselves credit for…. We also need to take into account the things that do exist but are outside of our sensing range… However, if we are ultra sensitive to energy, we may be more affected by this energy (and absorb more of it) than those who aren’t.
The effects of Geomagnetic Storms are often highly underestimated… When they occur, we can find ourselves spun out or agitated without having any clue as to why… We may also notice that our senses are on High Alert, and that everything feels and sounds louder, brighter, stronger, and more vivid than before. Geomagnetic Storms can feel volatile, and during this period, our minds and bodies can feel like they have temporarily “shut down.” However, when we have slowed down, we are in a far better position to receive Energetic Downloads and DNA Activations that help our vibration shift to a Higher Dimension… This is similar to the “ascension flu” that occurs when someone is going through an intense awakening period and their body is transcending from a physical one to a “Light Body.”
We are BEings of Light, made entirely up of Energy… We only feel physical as we have been taught to believe that our world and Universe is made up of physical entities, when it actually consists of Highly Vibrating Energy… Everything that exists in the Universe is made of Energy that constantly Vibrates, and moves in Cycles, and the Collective Consciousness is one of the most impressive Cycles to observe.
Human thoughts, emotions, feelings, beliefs, values, and overall ideology are currently Shifting at an incredibly fast speed… The intense energy surrounding Earth, mostly due to Solar activity, is generating a Shift toward a Mass-Awakening, whereby as a Collective, we are BEcoming more Consciously Alert and Aware of ourSelves and others, as well as the positive and negative effects we have on the outer world.
Major Solar Flares from the Sun send off massive amounts of Plasma and Crystalline Frequencies that reach our planet… This intense Energy they carry is believed to reach our Electromagnetic Field and Activate and Shift our Conscious Awareness, and is powerful enough to lift us up to Higher Frequencies or Dimensions.
An Insight into the Dimensions
3rd Dimension: In this Dimension, the ego is in control. We exist in a material world, view things from a physical state, and see people as separate from others rather than unified. We suffer from feelings of lack. Social status, money, and career are valued higher than compassion and kindness. We rely only on the five senses. We have no desire for introspection, and we perceive and judge everything as “good or bad.” We’re fearful of losing money, possessions, and control. We don’t feel “good enough.” Everything is perceived as a coincidence rather than alignment or synchronicity. We desire to always be “right.” We feel like we need someone else to make us happy or feel fulfilled.
4th Dimension: This is known as the Astral plane, and a Gateway to the 5th Dimension. We can step back to the 3rd dimension relatively easily. We can discover new friendships on the same frequency and find our “soul tribes.” We are aware that thoughts can shift vibrations and reality. Compassion, Acceptance, Unity, and Unconditional Love are valued, and a healthy diet and lifestyle become Highly important. We seek SOUL Purpose and Passion, and we often feel alone. We have a Heightened Awareness of unrest on Earth, and a desire to pursue our SOUL Mission or Calling. We are Aware that there is more to the world than meets the eye. We use our intuition and trust it, and we open our third eye chakra, therefore “knowing things” without being able to explain how. We can tell when someone is lying, and experience regular Deja Vu and Synchronicity. Time NO longer feels linear, and astral travel is possible.
5th Dimension: In this Dimension, it is difficult to re-enter the 3rd dimension. We have a Heightened Intuition. We feel No limits, No fear, and No judgment of “good or bad.” We have an absolute understanding of Yin and Yang. There is NO Competition, and No feelings of lack. We live in a Unity Consciousness, and Accept and Love family as they are. Everything is Effortless and Flowing. We find Abundance. We cannot be manipulated, and can instantly Love Unconditionally. We No longer take anything personally.
When we BEcome more Consciously Aware of ourSelves and the World we live in, we experience something known as “Ascension.” This is when a personal awakening results in a shift from the 3rd dimension to the 4th, 5th, or Higher.
The Divine Light that radiates toward us during and after Solar flare activity is thought to allow us to move quickly toward ascension. If our vibration is lifting, and we are heading away from the 3rd dimension and BEginning to feel the Higher frequency of the 4th or 5th Dimension, we may experience the following:
*Pressure headaches and general aches and pains, mainly in the stomach (solar plexus) area
*Feeling out of sorts or unbalanced
* Flushes, dizziness, nausea
* Ear ringing, difficulty focusing, confusion, and having a foggy mind
* Forgetfulness, temporarily misplacing items
* Extreme fatigue, exhaustion, lack of energy, disturbed sleep patterns (waking up between 2 and 4 a.m.)
* Seemingly out the blue bouts of anxiety, stress, irritability, frustration, sadness, nervousness, worry, fear, grief, and overwhelm
* Emotional, tearful, highly sensitive
* Heightened awareness, enhanced intuition, having insights that seem to appear out of nowhere, psychic abilities, telepathy
* Aversion or sensitivities to particular foods and drinks
* Difficulty tracking time (time either feels too slow or at great speed)
* Noticing synchronicities, i.e. certain number patterns reappearing
* Premonitions, intense dreams, or nightmares
* Skin feeling irritable and/or itchy
* Struggles with communication, arguments, disagreements
* Electronic devices malfunctioning.
Geomagnetic Storms are intense transformational periods that can bring mind-opening Awakenings and reconnect us to internal and external Universal Knowledge and Wisdom… To ensure we resonate with this Higher Energy so that our vibration is raised, we can combat the effects of Solar Activity by resting and taking time from our busy schedules to do the following:
* Drink plenty of filtered water (not tap water)
* Take saltwater baths
* Meditate and remain aware of recurring thoughts and feelings
* Avoid caffeine and alcohol
* Spend time in nature
* Consume high vibrational foods such as fruit and vegetables
* Remind yourself that everything in the universe is made up of energy and that conscious thought and intention can instantly alter how we think and feel
~via In5D.com
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Wrappers for Feature Subset Selection
by Ron Kohavi, George H. John - AIJ SPECIAL ISSUE ON RELEVANCE , 1997
"... In the feature subset selection problem, a learning algorithm is faced with the problem of selecting a relevant subset of features upon which to focus its attention, while ignoring the rest. To achieve the best possible performance with a particular learning algorithm on a particular training set, a ..."
In the feature subset selection problem, a learning algorithm is faced with the problem of selecting a relevant subset of features upon which to focus its attention, while ignoring the rest. To achieve the best possible performance with a particular learning algorithm on a particular training set
An introduction to variable and feature selection
by Isabelle Guyon - Journal of Machine Learning Research , 2003
"... Variable and feature selection have become the focus of much research in areas of application for which datasets with tens or hundreds of thousands of variables are available. ..."
Variable and feature selection have become the focus of much research in areas of application for which datasets with tens or hundreds of thousands of variables are available.
An extensive empirical study of feature selection metrics for text classification
by George Forman, Isabelle Guyon, André Elisseeff - J. of Machine Learning Research , 2003
"... Machine learning for text classification is the cornerstone of document categorization, news filtering, document routing, and personalization. In text domains, effective feature selection is essential to make the learning task efficient and more accurate. This paper presents an empirical comparison ..."
of twelve feature selection methods (e.g. Information Gain) evaluated on a benchmark of 229 text classification problem instances that were gathered from Reuters, TREC, OHSUMED, etc. The results are analyzed from multiple goal perspectives—accuracy, F-measure, precision, and recall—since each is appropriate
Bayesian Network Classifiers
by Nir Friedman, Dan Geiger, Moises Goldszmidt , 1997
"... Recent work in supervised learning has shown that a surprisingly simple Bayesian classifier with strong assumptions of independence among features, called naive Bayes, is competitive with state-of-the-art classifiers such as C4.5. This fact raises the question of whether a classifier with less restr ..."
Recent work in supervised learning has shown that a surprisingly simple Bayesian classifier with strong assumptions of independence among features, called naive Bayes, is competitive with state-of-the-art classifiers such as C4.5. This fact raises the question of whether a classifier with less
A Comparative Study on Feature Selection in Text Categorization
by Yiming Yang, Jan O. Pedersen , 1997
"... This paper is a comparative study of feature selection methods in statistical learning of text categorization. The focus is on aggressive dimensionality reduction. Five methods were evaluated, including term selection based on document frequency (DF), information gain (IG), mutual information (MI), ..."
This paper is a comparative study of feature selection methods in statistical learning of text categorization. The focus is on aggressive dimensionality reduction. Five methods were evaluated, including term selection based on document frequency (DF), information gain (IG), mutual information (MI
The pyramid match kernel: Discriminative classification with sets of image features
by Kristen Grauman, Trevor Darrell - IN ICCV , 2005
"... Discriminative learning is challenging when examples are sets of features, and the sets vary in cardinality and lack any sort of meaningful ordering. Kernel-based classification methods can learn complex decision boundaries, but a kernel over unordered set inputs must somehow solve for correspondenc ..."
Discriminative learning is challenging when examples are sets of features, and the sets vary in cardinality and lack any sort of meaningful ordering. Kernel-based classification methods can learn complex decision boundaries, but a kernel over unordered set inputs must somehow solve
Feature selection based on mutual information: Criteria of max-depe ndency, max-relevance, and min-redundancy
by Hanchuan Peng, Fuhui Long, Chris Ding - IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
"... Abstract—Feature selection is an important problem for pattern classification systems. We study how to select good features according to the maximal statistical dependency criterion based on mutual information. Because of the difficulty in directly implementing the maximal dependency condition, we f ..."
first derive an equivalent form, called minimal-redundancy-maximal-relevance criterion (mRMR), for first-order incremental feature selection. Then, we present a two-stage feature selection algorithm by combining mRMR and other more sophisticated feature selectors (e.g., wrappers). This allows us
Detection and Tracking of Point Features
by Carlo Tomasi, Takeo Kanade - International Journal of Computer Vision , 1991
"... The factorization method described in this series of reports requires an algorithm to track the motion of features in an image stream. Given the small inter-frame displacement made possible by the factorization approach, the best tracking method turns out to be the one proposed by Lucas and Kanade i ..."
The factorization method described in this series of reports requires an algorithm to track the motion of features in an image stream. Given the small inter-frame displacement made possible by the factorization approach, the best tracking method turns out to be the one proposed by Lucas and Kanade
An Empirical Comparison of Voting Classification Algorithms: Bagging, Boosting, and Variants
by Eric Bauer, Ron Kohavi - MACHINE LEARNING , 1999
"... Methods for voting classification algorithms, such as Bagging and AdaBoost, have been shown to be very successful in improving the accuracy of certain classifiers for artificial and real-world datasets. We review these algorithms and describe a large empirical study comparing several variants in co ..."
Methods for voting classification algorithms, such as Bagging and AdaBoost, have been shown to be very successful in improving the accuracy of certain classifiers for artificial and real-world datasets. We review these algorithms and describe a large empirical study comparing several variants
The CN2 Induction Algorithm
by Peter Clark , Tim Niblett - MACHINE LEARNING , 1989
"... Systems for inducing concept descriptions from examples are valuable tools for assisting in the task of knowledge acquisition for expert systems. This paper presents a description and empirical evaluation of a new induction system, cn2, designed for the efficient induction of simple, comprehensib ..."
, comprehensible production rules in domains where problems of poor description language and/or noise may be present. Implementations of the cn2, id3 and aq algorithms are compared on three medical classification tasks.
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Precise Segmentation of Bone Marrow Cells by Using Multispectral Imaging Analysis Techniques
by Qiongshui Wu, Libo Zeng, Ningning Guo
"... Abstract: Counting of different classes of white blood cells in bone marrow smears can provide pathologists with valuable information regarding various hematological disorders. For automatic imaging analysis techniques, precise segmentation of White Blood Cells is quite challenging due to the compl ..."
Abstract: Counting of different classes of white blood cells in bone marrow smears can provide pathologists with valuable information regarding various hematological disorders. For automatic imaging analysis techniques, precise segmentation of White Blood Cells is quite challenging due
Blood monocytes consist of two principal subsets with distinct migratory properties
by Frederic Geissmann, Steffen Jung, Dan R. Littman - Immunity , 2003
"... Peripheral blood monocytes are a heterogeneous population of circulating leukocytes. Using a murine adop-tive transfer system to probe monocyte homing and differentiation in vivo, we identified two functional subsets among murine blood monocytes: a short-lived CX3CR1loCCR2�Gr1 � subset that is activ ..."
Peripheral blood monocytes are a heterogeneous population of circulating leukocytes. Using a murine adop-tive transfer system to probe monocyte homing and differentiation in vivo, we identified two functional subsets among murine blood monocytes: a short-lived CX3CR1loCCR2�Gr1 � subset
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
by Joseph Campbell , 1972
"... Botiingen Foundation, andpttt.!.,.: b % / ,.,;:,c,m B<,.ik.*, second ..."
Botiingen Foundation, andpttt.!.,.: b % / ,.,;:,c,m B<,.ik.*, second
Socioeconomic Status and Health: The Challenge of the Gradient
by Nancy E. Adler, Thomas Boyce, Margaret A. Chesney, Sheldon Cohen, Susan Folkman, Robert L. Kahn, S. Leonard Syme - SOCIAL INFLUENCES ON BIOLOGY AND HEALTH A. BASIC PROCESSES 71
3-D Sound for Virtual Reality and Multimedia
by Durand Begault , 2000
"... This paper gives HRTF magnitude data in numerical form for 43 frequencies between 0.2---12 kHz, the average of 12 studies representing 100 different subjects. However, no phase data is included in the tables; group delay simulation would need to be included in order to account for ITD. In 3-D sound ..."
set is psychoacoustically validated using a 113 statistical sample of the intended user population, as shown in Chapter 2. Otherwise, the use of one HRTF set over another is a purely subjective judgment based on criteria other than localization performance. The technique used by Wightman and Kistler
SELECTION AND INFORMATION: A CLASS-BASED APPROACH TO LEXICAL RELATIONSHIPS
by Philip Stuart Resnik , 1993
"... Selectional constraints are limitations on the applicability of predicates to arguments. For example, the statement “The number two is blue” may be syntactically well formed, but at some level it is anomalous — BLUE is not a predicate that can be applied to numbers. According to the influential theo ..."
Selectional constraints are limitations on the applicability of predicates to arguments. For example, the statement “The number two is blue” may be syntactically well formed, but at some level it is anomalous — BLUE is not a predicate that can be applied to numbers. According to the influential theory of (Katz and Fodor, 1964), a predicate associates a set of defining features with each argument, expressed within a restricted semantic vocabulary. Despite the persistence of this theory, however, there is widespread agreement about its empirical shortcomings (McCawley, 1968; Fodor, 1977). As an alternative, some critics of the Katz-Fodor theory (e.g. (Johnson-Laird, 1983)) have abandoned the treatment of selectional constraints as semantic, instead treating them as indistinguishable from inferences made on the basis of factual knowledge. This provides a better match for the empirical phenomena, but it opens up a different problem: if selectional constraints are the same as inferences in general, then accounting for them will require a much more complete understanding of knowledge representation and inference than we have at present. The problem, then, is this: how can a theory of selectional constraints be elaborated without first having either an empirically adequate theory of defining features or a comprehensive theory of inference? In this dissertation, I suggest that an answer to this question lies in the representation of conceptual
Outline of a Theory of Intelligence
by James S. Albus - IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics , 1991
"... Abstract-Intelligence is defined as that which produces successful behavior. Intelligence is assumed to result from natural selection. A model is proposed that integrates knowledge from research in both natural and artificial systems. The model consists of a hierarchical system architecture wherein: ..."
Abstract-Intelligence is defined as that which produces successful behavior. Intelligence is assumed to result from natural selection. A model is proposed that integrates knowledge from research in both natural and artificial systems. The model consists of a hierarchical system architecture wherein: 1) control bandwidth decreases about an order of magnitude at each higher level, 2) perceptual resolution of spatial and temporal patterns contracts about an order-of-magnitude at each higher level, 3) goals expand in scope and planning horizons expand in space and time about an order-of-magnitude at each higher level, and 4) models of the world and memories of events expand their range in space and time by about an order-of-magnitude at each higher level. At each level, functional modules perform behavior generation (task decomposition planning and execution), world modeling, sensory processing, and value judgment. Sensory feedback control loops are closed at every level. I.
Quantitative analysis of multispectral fundus images
by J. M. Gibson B
"... We have developed a new technique for extracting histological parameters from multispectral images of the ocular fundus. The new method uses a Monte Carlo simulation of the reflectance of the fundus to model how the spectral reflectance of the tissue varies with differing tissue histology. The model ..."
We have developed a new technique for extracting histological parameters from multispectral images of the ocular fundus. The new method uses a Monte Carlo simulation of the reflectance of the fundus to model how the spectral reflectance of the tissue varies with differing tissue histology
Research Article A Preliminary Study of the Suitability of Archival Bone Marrow and Peripheral Blood Smears for Diagnosis of CML Using FISH
by Mariann Coyle, Amma Anima Benneh, Emmanuel Alote Allotey
"... License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Background. FISH is a molecular cytogenetic technique enabling rapid detection of genetic abnormalities. Facilities that can run fresh/wet samples for molecular diagno ..."
diagnosis and monitoring of neoplastic disorders are not readily available in Ghana and other neighbouring countries.This study aims to demonstrate that interphase FISH can successfully be applied to archivalmethanol-fixed bone marrow and peripheral blood smear slides transported to a more equipped facility
cardiac stem cells are multipotent and support myocardial regeneration. Cell
by Antonio P. Beltrami, Laura Barlucchi, Daniele Torella, Mathue Baker, Federica Limana, Stefano Chimenti, Hideko Kasahara, Marcello Rota, Ezio Musso, Konrad Urbanek, Annarosa Leri, Piero Anversa - Rota M, Musso E, Urbanek K, Leri A, Kajstura J, NadalGinard B, Anversa P. Adult
"... Evidence challenging the accepted wisdom has been slowly accumulating (McDonnell and Oberpriller, 1984; Rumyantsev and Broisov, 1987). In the past few years, we have documented the existence of cycling ventricular myocytes in the normal and pathologic adult mammalian heart of several species, includ ..."
Evidence challenging the accepted wisdom has been slowly accumulating (McDonnell and Oberpriller, 1984; Rumyantsev and Broisov, 1987). In the past few years, we have documented the existence of cycling ventricular myocytes in the normal and pathologic adult mammalian heart of several species, including humans (Kajstura et al., 1998; Beltrami et al., 2001; Quaini et al., 1Cardiovascular Research Institute 2002). Although these data provided an alternative view
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Sesame: A Generic Architecture for Storing and Querying RDF and RDF Schema
by Jeen Broekstra, Arjohn Kampman, Frank Van Harmelen , 2002
"... RDF and RDF Schema are two W3C standards aimed at enriching the Web with machine-processable semantic data. ..."
RDF and RDF Schema are two W3C standards aimed at enriching the Web with machine-processable semantic data.
From SHIQ and RDF to OWL: The Making of a Web Ontology Language
by Ian Horrocks, Peter F. Patel-Schneider, Frank Van Harmelen - Journal of Web Semantics , 2003
"... The OWL Web Ontology Language is a new formal language for representing ontologies in the Semantic Web. OWL has features from several families of representation languages, including primarily Description Logics and frames. OWL also shares many characteristics with RDF, the W3C base of the Semantic W ..."
The OWL Web Ontology Language is a new formal language for representing ontologies in the Semantic Web. OWL has features from several families of representation languages, including primarily Description Logics and frames. OWL also shares many characteristics with RDF, the W3C base of the Semantic
Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification
by Ora Lassila, Ralph R. Swick, World Wide, Web Consortium , 1998
"... This document is a revision of the public working draft dated 1998-08-19 incorporating suggestions received in review comments and further deliberations of the W3C RDF Model and Syntax Working Group. With the publication of this draft, the RDF Model and Syntax Specification enters "last call.&q ..."
This document is a revision of the public working draft dated 1998-08-19 incorporating suggestions received in review comments and further deliberations of the W3C RDF Model and Syntax Working Group. With the publication of this draft, the RDF Model and Syntax Specification enters "last call
A Framework for Dynamic Graph Drawing
by Robert F. Cohen, G. Di Battista, R. Tamassia, Ioannis G. Tollis - CONGRESSUS NUMERANTIUM , 1992
"... Drawing graphs is an important problem that combines flavors of computational geometry and graph theory. Applications can be found in a variety of areas including circuit layout, network management, software engineering, and graphics. The main contributions of this paper can be summarized as follows ..."
Drawing graphs is an important problem that combines flavors of computational geometry and graph theory. Applications can be found in a variety of areas including circuit layout, network management, software engineering, and graphics. The main contributions of this paper can be summarized
Factor Graphs and the Sum-Product Algorithm
by Frank R. Kschischang, Brendan J. Frey, Hans-Andrea Loeliger - IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION THEORY , 1998
"... A factor graph is a bipartite graph that expresses how a "global" function of many variables factors into a product of "local" functions. Factor graphs subsume many other graphical models including Bayesian networks, Markov random fields, and Tanner graphs. Following one simple c ..."
A factor graph is a bipartite graph that expresses how a "global" function of many variables factors into a product of "local" functions. Factor graphs subsume many other graphical models including Bayesian networks, Markov random fields, and Tanner graphs. Following one simple
Secure Group Communications Using Key Graphs
by Chung Kei Wong, Mohamed Gouda , Simon S. Lam , 1998
"... Many emerging applications (e.g., teleconference, real-time information services, pay per view, distributed interactive simulation, and collaborative work) are based upon a group communications model, i.e., they require packet delivery from one or more authorized senders to a very large number of au ..."
management. We formalize the notion of a secure group as a triple (U; K;R) where U denotes a set of users, K a set of keys held by the users, and R a user-key relation. We then introduce key graphs to specify secure groups. For a special class of key graphs, we present three strategies for securely
The program dependence graph and its use in optimization
by Jeanne Ferrante, Karl J. Ottenstein, Joe D. Warren - ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems , 1987
"... In this paper we present an intermediate program representation, called the program dependence graph (PDG), that makes explicit both the data and control dependence5 for each operation in a program. Data dependences have been used to represent only the relevant data flow relationships of a program. ..."
In this paper we present an intermediate program representation, called the program dependence graph (PDG), that makes explicit both the data and control dependence5 for each operation in a program. Data dependences have been used to represent only the relevant data flow relationships of a program
Efficiently computing static single assignment form and the control dependence graph
by Ron Cytron, Jeanne Ferrante, Barry K. Rosen, Mark N. Wegman, F. Kenneth Zadeck - ACM TRANSACTIONS ON PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND SYSTEMS , 1991
"... In optimizing compilers, data structure choices directly influence the power and efficiency of practical program optimization. A poor choice of data structure can inhibit optimization or slow compilation to the point that advanced optimization features become undesirable. Recently, static single ass ..."
assignment form and the control dependence graph have been proposed to represent data flow and control flow propertiee of programs. Each of these previously unrelated techniques lends efficiency and power to a useful class of program optimization. Although both of these structures are attractive
Biclustering of Expression Data
by Yizong Cheng, George M. Church , 2000
"... An efficient node-deletion algorithm is introduced to find submatrices... ..."
An efficient node-deletion algorithm is introduced to find submatrices...
Ontologies: Silver Bullet for Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce
by Dieter Fensel , 2007
"... Currently computers are changing from single isolated devices to entry points into a world wide network of information exchange and business transactions called the World Wide Web (WWW). Therefore support in the exchange of data, information, and knowledge exchange is becoming the key issue in cur ..."
will play in knowledge management and in electronic commerce. In addition, I show how arising web standards such as RDF and XML can be used as
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Motivated by emerging battery-operated applications that demand intensive computation in portable environments, techniques are investigated which reduce power consumption in CMOS digital circuits while maintaining computational throughput. Techniques for low-power operation are shown which use the lowest possible supply voltage coupled with architectural, logic style, circuit, and technology optimizations. An architectural-based scaling strategy is presented which indicates that the optimum voltage is much lower than that determined by other scaling considerations. This optimum is achieved by trading increased silicon area for reduced power consumption.
A Signal Processing Approach To Fair Surface Design
by Gabriel Taubin , 1995
"... In this paper we describe a new tool for interactive free-form fair surface design. By generalizing classical discrete Fourier analysis to two-dimensional discrete surface signals -- functions defined on polyhedral surfaces of arbitrary topology --, we reduce the problem of surface smoothing, or fai ..."
representations;J.6[Com- puter Applications]: Computer-Aided Engineering - computeraided design General Terms: Algorithms, Graphics. 1
Random Oracles are Practical: A Paradigm for Designing Efficient Protocols
by Mihir Bellare, Phillip Rogaway , 1995
"... We argue that the random oracle model -- where all parties have access to a public random oracle -- provides a bridge between cryptographic theory and cryptographic practice. In the paradigm we suggest, a practical protocol P is produced by first devising and proving correct a protocol P R for the ..."
We argue that the random oracle model -- where all parties have access to a public random oracle -- provides a bridge between cryptographic theory and cryptographic practice. In the paradigm we suggest, a practical protocol P is produced by first devising and proving correct a protocol P R for the random oracle model, and then replacing oracle accesses by the computation of an "appropriately chosen" function h. This paradigm yields protocols much more efficient than standard ones while retaining many of the advantages of provable security. We illustrate these gains for problems including encryption, signatures, and zero-knowledge proofs.
Wattch: A Framework for Architectural-Level Power Analysis and Optimizations
by David Brooks, Vivek Tiwari, Margaret Martonosi - In Proceedings of the 27th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture , 2000
"... Power dissipation and thermal issues are increasingly significant in modern processors. As a result, it is crucial that power/performance tradeoffs be made more visible to chip architects and even compiler writers, in addition to circuit designers. Most existing power analysis tools achieve high ..."
Power dissipation and thermal issues are increasingly significant in modern processors. As a result, it is crucial that power/performance tradeoffs be made more visible to chip architects and even compiler writers, in addition to circuit designers. Most existing power analysis tools achieve
The Future of Wires
by Mark Horowitz, Ron Ho, Ken Mai , 1999
"... this paper we first discuss the wire metrics of interest and examine them in a contemporary 0.25m process. We then discuss technology scaling over the next several generations, from SIA and other predictions, and how our wire metrics trend over that time. We will examine the delay and bandwidth lim ..."
this paper we first discuss the wire metrics of interest and examine them in a contemporary 0.25m process. We then discuss technology scaling over the next several generations, from SIA and other predictions, and how our wire metrics trend over that time. We will examine the delay and bandwidth
Short signatures from the Weil pairing
by Dan Boneh, Ben Lynn, Hovav Shacham , 2001
"... Abstract. We introduce a short signature scheme based on the Computational Diffie-Hellman assumption on certain elliptic and hyper-elliptic curves. The signature length is half the size of a DSA signature for a similar level of security. Our short signature scheme is designed for systems where signa ..."
Abstract. We introduce a short signature scheme based on the Computational Diffie-Hellman assumption on certain elliptic and hyper-elliptic curves. The signature length is half the size of a DSA signature for a similar level of security. Our short signature scheme is designed for systems where
A Behavioral Notion of Subtyping
by Barbara H. Liskov, Jeanette M. Wing - ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems , 1994
"... The use of hierarchy is an important component of object-oriented design. Hierarchy allows the use of type families, in which higher level supertypes capture the behavior that all of their subtypes have in common. For this methodology to be effective, it is necessary to have a clear understanding of ..."
The use of hierarchy is an important component of object-oriented design. Hierarchy allows the use of type families, in which higher level supertypes capture the behavior that all of their subtypes have in common. For this methodology to be effective, it is necessary to have a clear understanding
Bigtable: A distributed storage system for structured data
by Fay Chang, Jeffrey Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Wilson C. Hsieh, Deborah A. Wallach, Mike Burrows, Tushar Chandra, Andrew Fikes, Robert E. Gruber - IN PROCEEDINGS OF THE 7TH CONFERENCE ON USENIX SYMPOSIUM ON OPERATING SYSTEMS DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION - VOLUME 7 , 2006
"... Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers. Many projects at Google store data in Bigtable, including web indexing, Google Earth, and Google Finance. These applications ..."
Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers. Many projects at Google store data in Bigtable, including web indexing, Google Earth, and Google Finance. These applications
The synchronous dataflow programming language LUSTRE
by N. Halbwachs, P. Caspi, P. Raymond, D. Pilaud - Proceedings of the IEEE , 1991
"... This paper describes the language Lustre, which is a dataflow synchronous language, designed for programming reactive systems --- such as automatic control and monitoring systems --- as well as for describing hardware. The dataflow aspect of Lustre makes it very close to usual description tools in t ..."
This paper describes the language Lustre, which is a dataflow synchronous language, designed for programming reactive systems --- such as automatic control and monitoring systems --- as well as for describing hardware. The dataflow aspect of Lustre makes it very close to usual description tools
Network information flow
by Rudolf Ahlswede, Ning Cai, Shuo-Yen Robert Li, Raymond W. Yeung - IEEE TRANS. INFORM. THEORY , 2000
"... We introduce a new class of problems called network information flow which is inspired by computer network applications. Consider a point-to-point communication network on which a number of information sources are to be mulitcast to certain sets of destinations. We assume that the information source ..."
, by employing coding at the nodes, which we refer to as network coding, bandwidth can in general be saved. This finding may have significant impact on future design of switching systems.
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Towards an Active Network Architecture
by David L. Tennenhouse, David J. Wetherall - Computer Communication Review , 1996
"... Active networks allow their users to inject customized programs into the nodes of the network. An extreme case, in which we are most interested, replaces packets with "capsules" -- program fragments that are executed at each network router/switch they traverse. Active architectures permit ..."
Active networks allow their users to inject customized programs into the nodes of the network. An extreme case, in which we are most interested, replaces packets with "capsules" -- program fragments that are executed at each network router/switch they traverse. Active architectures permit
The x-Kernel: An Architecture for Implementing Network Protocols
by Norman C. Hutchinson, Larry L. Peterson - IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering , 1991
"... This paper describes a new operating system kernel, called the x-kernel, that provides an explicit architecture for constructing and composing network protocols. Our experience implementing and evaluating several protocols in the x-kernel shows that this architecture is both general enough to acc ..."
This paper describes a new operating system kernel, called the x-kernel, that provides an explicit architecture for constructing and composing network protocols. Our experience implementing and evaluating several protocols in the x-kernel shows that this architecture is both general enough
An application-specific protocol architecture for wireless networks
by Wendi Beth Heinzelman , 2000
of factors influencing the design of sensor networks is provided. Then, the communication architecture for sensor networks is outlined, and the algorithms and protocols developed for each layer in the literature are explored. Open research issues for the realization of sensor networks are
A Survey of active network Research
by David L. Tennenhouse, Jonathan M. Smith - IEEE Communications , 1997
"... Active networks are a novel approach to network architecture in which the switches of the network perform customized computations on the messages flowing through them. This approach is motivated by both lead user applications, which perform user-driven computation at nodes within the network today, ..."
Active networks are a novel approach to network architecture in which the switches of the network perform customized computations on the messages flowing through them. This approach is motivated by both lead user applications, which perform user-driven computation at nodes within the network today
U-Net: A User-Level Network Interface for Parallel and Distributed Computing
by Thorsten Von Eicken, Anindya Basu, Vineet Buch, Werner Vogels - In Fifteenth ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles , 1995
"... The U-Net communication architecture provides processes with a virtual view of a network interface to enable userlevel access to high-speed communication devices. The architecture, implemented on standard workstations using offthe-shelf ATM communication hardware, removes the kernel from the communi ..."
The U-Net communication architecture provides processes with a virtual view of a network interface to enable userlevel access to high-speed communication devices. The architecture, implemented on standard workstations using offthe-shelf ATM communication hardware, removes the kernel from
Application of Phylogenetic Networks in Evolutionary Studies
by Daniel H. Huson, David Bryant - SUBMITTED TO MBE 2005 , 2005
"... The evolutionary history of a set of taxa is usually represented by a phylogenetic tree, and this model has greatly facilitated the discussion and testing of hypotheses. However, it is well known that more complex evolutionary scenarios are poorly described by such models. Further, even when evoluti ..."
The evolutionary history of a set of taxa is usually represented by a phylogenetic tree, and this model has greatly facilitated the discussion and testing of hypotheses. However, it is well known that more complex evolutionary scenarios are poorly described by such models. Further, even when
Network Coding for Large Scale Content Distribution
by Christos Gkantsidis, Pablo Rodriguez Rodriguez
"... We propose a new scheme for content distribution of large files that is based on network coding. With network coding, each node of the distribution network is able to generate and transmit encoded blocks of information. The randomization introduced by the coding process eases the scheduling of bloc ..."
-riding are in place. We demonstrate through simulations of scenarios of practical interest that the expected file download time improves by more than 20-30 % with network coding compared to coding at the server only and, by more than 2-3 times compared to sending unencoded information. Moreover, we show that network
Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
by Randall Atkinson - RFC 1825 , 1995
"... Content-Type: text/plain ..."
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Steven Spielberg, Javier Bardem, Steve Zaillian Circle Montezuma-Cortez Epic From Script By Blacklisted Writer Dalton Trumbo
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EXCLUSIVE: One of the most compelling movie questions coming into 2014 is, what film will Steven Spielberg direct? I don’t know if this is next or far down the line, but here is a tantalizing possibility: I’m told that he has his sights on Montezuma, an epic tale of the kinship and ultimately the bloody collision between Montezuma and Cortez as the latter led the Spanish infiltration into Mexico. I’ve heard that Javier Bardem has sparked to playing the Spanish explorer Hernando Cortez, and that the catalyst here is a nearly 50-year old script by Dalton Trumbo that is being rewritten by Steve Zaillian, who teamed with Spielberg on the Oscar-winning Schindler’s List.
Zaillian is boarding this project as producer, likely alongside Spielberg and his DreamWorks team. The rights are now controlled by DreamWorks, but Zaillian’s first look deal is at Fox and I don’t know if a team-up there is in the works. Zaillian is currently producing the Moses epic Exodus for Fox, with Ridley Scott directing Christian Bale in the lead role.
This project could be retitled Cortez, since the viewpoint will be from the latter character to be played by fellow Spaniard Bardem. The project, considered one of the great unmade scripts in moviedom, has an illustrious history. Trumbo wrote it for actor/producer Kirk Douglas, with whom he did the classics Spartacus and Lonely Are the Brave. Trumbo turned in a 205-page draft in 1965, when Martin Ritt was supposed to direct Douglas in the film. It never happened.
Douglas and Trumbo’s collaboration on Spartacus ended the writer’s pariah status on the Hollywood black list. Trumbo was the most successful of the Hollywood Ten, the group that refused to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee during the witch hunt to root out communists. After spending 11 months in jail for contempt of Congress, Trumbo emerged with just as chilling a future when he was blacklisted from Hollywood. He was a forgotten man until Douglas hired him for Spartacus in 1960. It’s another project with a most interesting history mobilized by Douglas. He also developed Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest as a star vehicle for himself after playing the lead role on Broadway. When he entrusted it to son Michael Douglas and the late Saul Zaentz, they couldn’t get it made with Kirk and the Oscar-winning Milos Forman film got made with Jack Nicholson in the role of Randle Patrick McMurphy. Michael Douglas has told me it took his screen legend father a long time to get over the slight.
Spielberg toyed with several projects last year meant to follow Lincoln. First was the hi-tech science fiction film Robopocalypse which Drew Goddard adapted from the Daniel H. Wilson novel. Spielberg decided to table that for now, but still hopes to direct it. Then, he was going to helm American Sniper, a Warner Bros project that has Bradley Cooper producing and playing Chris Kyle, the highly decorated Navy SEAL with the most confirmed wartime sniper kills and who was tragically shot to death by a fellow vet he was helping through Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. After Spielberg and DreamWorks dropped out, Clint Eastwood signed on to direct.
The Montezuma and Cortez story is epic stuff. Cortez led an infiltration into Mexico in 1519 —bringing a lust for gold and silver, religion, and diseases like smallpox–and right away developed a relationship with Aztec ruler Montezuma. Initially held as a guest/prisoner by the Aztec leader, Cortez eventually turned the tables. The Spanish aggression led to outright battles with invading forces and when Montezuma finally succumbed, he was killed by his countryman shortly after. The warring continued, and, Cortez fathered a child with Montezuma’s daughter, following his death. This is all just coming together, maybe too soon for Spielberg to do next. But it should be the first big movie deal of the new year. I’ll tell you more as this firms up.
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Transgender Fighter Takes First Place In Historic MMA Win [VIDEO]
Grace Carr Reporter
A transgender Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighter transitioning from male to female became the first transgender fighter competing as a woman to beat a biological male, Saturday night.
MMA fighter Anne Veriato recently transitioned from male to female but indicated he wanted to compete against other biological males because he didn’t want to continue facing accusations that he had an unfair advantage by competing against biologically female fighters. “It’s only fair to fight men,” Veriato told International MMA News after he took first place in the match in Manaus, Brazil. “It never crossed my mind to fight a woman because I think I’m too good.”
“I only know that I’m good after I beat men. That’s what makes me happy and hungrier to train. I don’t think it’s fair to fight women,” he added.
Veriato trained harder than he ever had before to make up for his hormonal therapy to become more feminine, he said, noting he didn’t have the same strength in the gym as he’d previously had.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) has no official rules or regulations on testosterone level requirements for competition. The World Fighting Championships (WFC) also has no official policies regarding transgender fighters.
His announcement and sequential match comes after transgender fighter Fallon Fox completed against women for a number of years while failing to disclose that he had undergone gender reassignment surgery and hormone therapy in 2006.
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At Trinity High School in Texas, senior Mack Beggs won the state title for the girls’ Class 6A 110-pound division. Beggs won this title for the second consecutive year in late February, sparking concern among parents and competitors over the competition’s fairness. (RELATED: Testosterone-Pumped Transgender Wrestler Wins State Title For Second Consecutive Year)
Beggs is biologically female and started taking hormones when she was 15 years old, prompting many to raise concerns since she was competing against female athletes not taking hormones, reported Fox6Now. The National Collegiate Athletic Association, USA Wrestling and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency rules classify Beggs as male because she exceeds the range of acceptable testosterone levels for females, according The Associated Press.
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News From 2020: The Future Of Beyoncé, Fifth Harmony, Selena Gomez, and More Music Stars
There’s never a boring day in pop music. Spoil yourself on the advancements these pop stars will be making in their career within the next 5 years, as told by our real legit $9.90 crystal ball! This is the totally accurate, 100% true first edition of News From 2020. Beyoncé We don’t mention Her name anymore ever since she ascended into Heaven in an elevator 2 years ago in The Sécond Coming. Jay Z Staged The Sécond Coming and sold it on TIDAL (now RIPPLE) as an IMAX visual album. Was last photographed in Malibu next to Becky With The Good Hair…
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Song Of The Week #3 – Disclosure ft. Lorde
Each week, the Music vertical spotlights one song – new or #throwback, local or international, and across various genres. Check back every Monday for our curated pick of the week, and drop us an email at [email protected] if you’re a local artist with a new track that you’ll like us to hear! ::: Disclosure ft. Lorde – “Magnets” LORDE IS BACK. Standing under two blood moons, sulking at a party, having a fit dancing in a black raincoat, killing a man – all classic Lorde. This brilliant, tribal-infused collab and its purr-fect video make “Magnets” our song of the week! After (doing an excellent job)…
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Episode 946: Universal Monsters
October 27, 2016 February 1970, Gordon Russellcitation needed, curse, dognoise, flashlight, merchandise, mummy, mystery box, paperback library, police futility, postulate, redshirt, universal monsters, wake the deadDanny Horn
“Be cautious with it! We don’t want a string of strange deaths in our group.”
But it’s the age old story, isn’t it? Man comes into contact with something other — something beyond our grasp, beyond understanding, beyond words — and it changes us, occasionally for the better. And we take that encounter, and we turn it into story.
I mean, not this story, obviously. This story is insane. You know how Joseph Campbell and the Mythkateers say that all mythic narratives are just variations on a single great story? Yeah. This is one of the exceptions.
But even the strangest sound has an echo, and here, in the midst of the ragged and unruly Leviathan tale clattering across our screens in double-time, we can reach out and grab hold of another story that’s following a similarly erratic track.
There is another story where Barnabas very gradually fights an otherworldly menace, where Quentin appears and disappears with little consequence, where Maggie experiences carefully controlled doses of mild peril, and where an upsetting reptile pulls the strings, and makes the puppets dance.
This is a story that our people tell. We call it Barnabas, Quentin and the Mummy’s Curse.
Yes, it’s time for another visit to the Parallel Time of the Paperback Library, a contemporary line of spinoff books that re-imagined Dark Shadows as a set of self-contained stories, starring a limited selection from the cast. At first, these books were focused on girl governess Victoria Winters, roughly based on the original series bible and featuring lurking ghosts that might or might not be a Scooby-Doo style hoax. But they couldn’t ignore Barnabas forever, and by book #6, the vampire took a lead role.
The last time we checked in with the Paperback Library, it was for Quentin’s first appearance in the series — book #14, Barnabas Collins and Quentin’s Demon. Quentin didn’t appear in the next book, Barnabas Collins and the Gypsy Witch, but apparently the people are still clamoring for more Quentin books.
So it’s here, in April 1970, that the series pivots once again, with book #16 — Barnabas, Quentin and the Mummy’s Curse. There’s 16 more books in the series, and from here on, they all use that title construction: Barnabas, Quentin and…
So we get Barnabas, Quentin and the Nightmare Assassin, and the Crystal Coffin, and the Magic Potion, and the Frightened Bride. Not all in one book; those are four separate titles, each disappointing in its own unique way.
One of the interesting things at this point in early 1970 — and I use the term “interesting” loosely — is that both the TV show and the book series are having a problem figuring out what to do with Quentin. Back in his hometown of 1897, Quentin was the king of kaiju — a handsome, star-crossed rogue with six girlfriends and all the storylines. But once the show returned to 1970, the Quentin that’s washed up on the shore is not really the guy we once knew. This Quentin looks the same, but his connection to the current storylines is strained at best. And in the Paperback Library, Quentin is an even more slippery concept, because the author doesn’t really know who Quentin is, or was.
The PBL novels were written by Dan Ross, under his wife’s name, and he never watched Dark Shadows, because he had a demanding job. He wrote two 160-page books a month, which averages out to 16 pages a day. It could be a novel about nurses, or a gothic romance, or a western, or a mystery. The only thing that mattered was the two pages per hour emerging from the Selectric. The credo: Always be typing.
Therefore, stopping for half an hour in the middle of the afternoon to find out if Olivia Corey is really Amanda Harris would be a colossal waste of time. It’s just not relevant to the job that he’s being paid to do. It would actually be reckless folly for him to learn anything more about the television series that he’s adapting.
So the Quentin briefing, as far as I can tell, was essentially this: Like Barnabas, he’s an itinerant Collins cousin who can appear in different time periods. He has sideburns. He’s a werewolf. Briefing complete. Let’s see what Mr. Ross comes up with.
The main character in BQ/MC is Maggie Evans, a governess at Collinwood who’s basically Vicki without the backstory. Apparently a carrier pigeon arrived at Dan Ross’ house under separate cover telling him that now the governess is called Maggie, and there’s a little girl named Amy; this pigeon will self-destruct in five seconds.
Well, you can’t expect Dan to keep all those characters in mind at the same time, so he offloads half of them at the start of the book. When we join the action at the snowbound Collinwood, Maggie’s alone in the house with Roger and his young son David. Elizabeth, Carolyn and Amy have decamped to the West Indies for the duration, probably picking up some voodoo artifact that they can use in book #19, Barnabas, Quentin and Some Voodoo Artifact.
It’s getting close to Christmas, so David’s on break from the study schedule, and Maggie is kind of knocking around the house with nothing to do.
As always in these books, the characters are snippy and quick to anger. Roger mentions his cousin Anthony, a noted archaeologist, and David says, “He’s the one who used to be always sending us cards from Europe and Africa. He went around digging up things.” That sentence earns him a scolding from Roger and another from Maggie, and when David leaves the room, Roger says, “I fear my son is badly spoiled.” Then Roger complains about the winter coming so early: “It makes things more difficult at the factory, and I dislike the cold and snow.” He doesn’t like anything.
Maggie says that she’s glad Barnabas is coming to spend the holidays at Collinwood — he’s often traveling around the world somewhere, in this reality — and Roger sniffs, “He’s never been a stable type. Traveling all the time. It’s no wonder the Collinsport people have regarded him with suspicion on his visits here.” Maggie sticks up for Barnabas, saying that people judge him because he’s different, and Roger moans, “I wish he understood that. I’ve tried to advise him to dress more conventionally, give up his all-night hours and come without that wretched mute monster, Hare.” And then he’s off on another Roger hate-jag.
Hare, if you’re not entirely au fait with the recurring minor characters of the Paperback Library, is Barnabas’ mute, violent companion, who guards the Old House while Barnabas is “working,” and chases off anybody who tries to visit during the day. We met Hare in the first Barnabas novel, which took place in 1902, and here he is again in 1970, still hard at work. There’s no explanation for Hare’s longevity, and he doesn’t need one. He’s an immune system. If you have any further questions about Hare, then he will growl and wave his hands and chase you off the property. I like Hare a lot.
The big, plot-moving news is that the archaeologist cousin is coming to the estate — Professor Anthony Collins, who recently retired from the Boston Historical Museum. Maggie asks what he’s like, and Roger gives her an incredibly Paperback Library description, which sounds exactly like the way that people don’t ever talk.
“Anthony is a typical aged professor. He was still erect of figure, though sixty-five, and his hair was iron-gray when I last saw him. He has the Collins features but he’s very near-sighted without his glasses so he wears them nearly all the time. This gives him a scholarly look. Of course he is precise and exact in his manner.”
Imagine saying that out loud, as part of a conversation. It can’t be done. It’s only page 9, so it’s far too early to give up hope, but “his hair was iron-gray when I last saw him” does not bode well for the dialogue to come.
Anyway, Anthony’s here to chew gum and catalogue Egyptian artifacts, and he’s all out of gum. He’s going to live at the red brick house near the entrance to the estate, and he’s brought along a bunch of playmates, who can be the victims and/or suspects of the terrible crimes that will no doubt ensue. There’s a young professor named Herb Price, and an old professor named James Martin, and a dark-haired secretary named Harriet Fennel, and a maid from the village named Bessie who is destined to be monster chow.
They’ve arrived laden with artifacts liberated from the tomb of King Rehotip, because that’s what professors do when they retire from historical museums; they take a truckload of the museum’s collection with them, so they can keep working and not actually retire.
The next morning, Maggie walks into the drawing room and finds a stranger, Professor Herb Price.
He heard her and turned to greet her with a thin smile on his pleasant face. He was in his late twenties or early thirties with light brown hair. He wore heavy sideburns and dark-rimmed glasses. He is Quentin, in disguise.
Well, it doesn’t actually say the Quentin part, but it might as well. The frontispiece of the book has a little plot summary, and it poses the following question: “Death strikes at Collinwood — but who is the killer?” There are several potential answers, and one of them is “the disguised Quentin Collins”. So obviously we’re supposed to spend the entire book trying to figure out which character is secretly Quentin. The answer is Herb Price, because he has sideburns. People with sideburns always turn out to be secretly Quentin. That is a fact about the world.
Price introduces himself, and says that he’s going to be working with Professor Collins on cataloguing the Rehotip collection. “I hope you won’t think archaeology a boring business,” says Professor Price, “because it isn’t.” Maggie didn’t even say anything.
“Isn’t there supposed to be some sort of curse on the King Rehotip tomb?”
He nodded. “That story was started because of the bad fortune suffered by the first expedition that attempted to open the tomb. Professor Collins was the leader of the second and successful group.”
“Wasn’t there some sort of inscription on the tomb?”
Herb Price looked grimly amused. “I can quote it: ‘Death shall come on swift wings to him that toucheth the tomb of Pharaoh.’ Does that sound sufficiently sinister?”
Well, it sounds sufficiently made up, if that helps. Did they really say “toucheth” in ancient Egyptian?
And now we’re doing Howard Carter’s canary, all over again. You remember Howard Carter, he was the guy who opened Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, and then everyone involved in the expedition mysteriously died of explicable causes over the next four decades. My favorite part of that story is the claim that at the exact moment that Carter opened the tomb, a snake entered Carter’s house and ate his canary. So this is one of those.
Anyway, after a while Price goes away, and Maggie tells Roger about the visitor. “He seemed familiar to me,” she says. “I could be wrong, but I think I may have seen him somewhere before. But he wasn’t wearing glasses as he is now. Glasses make quite a difference in people.” Yeah, I guess they do.
By the way, I’ve read this entire book, and if you want to ask me why Quentin is pretending to be an archaeologist, then go ahead and ask. The answer is that I don’t know. Nobody ever explains it.
The next day, Maggie gets a phone call from Professor Collins, who asks her to come and work for him over the holidays. He’s already got a secretary, but he’s a very busy man and he needs extra secretarial work, because he’s retired and apparently archaeologists just get busier after they retire. Also, he’s planning on monkeying around with the mummies, and you need a random girl around for peril.
Roger doesn’t mind if Maggie wants to earn some extra cash, so she walks over to the red brick house and meets Anthony. It turns out he’s “a tall, bony man with iron-gray hair and the strong features characteristic of the Collins family,” which is exactly how Roger described him. That’s the thing about descriptions in the Paperback Library books; they have real staying power. Once somebody gets described, they stay described.
For example, when Maggie meets Anthony, it says that “he wore rimless glasses which gave prominence to his fanatical blue eyes,” and then two pages later, “his pale blue eyes with their strange brightness marked him as a fanatic.”
But the really important thing that you need to know about Anthony is that he’s 65 years old. The following sentences are all on page 25.
“I’ve told her it’s a myth created by the sensation-hungry press,” the old man grumbled.
“Fine,” the old man said.
The old man led her to a dark hallway.
With the venerable professor leading the way, she slowly made her way down to the cellar level.
But if you think Professor Collins is old, wait until you meet Professor Martin, on the next page. Professor Martin is tremendously, relentlessly, inconceivably and unforgivably old.
An old man sat at the table writing something. He was frail and appeared to be eighty or more.
Anthony Collins came close to the old man and spoke loudly in his ear. “This is Miss Maggie Evans, my new assistant.” The old man’s thin, yellowish face showed a slight smile. His eyes were sunken and his head bald. With his hollow cheeks and shiny false teeth, he seemed more like a Death’s head than a human being.
Which, jeez, okay, I guess the dude is old. You don’t have to go all the way to “Death’s head”. You could just say “in his eighties” and we’d believe you.
Maggie decides to give the archaeology a whirl, so she follows Anthony around with a notebook as he says things about Egypt. And Dan Ross just keeps tapping away at that keyboard.
Maggie decides to take the job, so she’ll go back to Collinwood for the night, and then come to stay at the red brick house tomorrow. But it’s snowing like crazy outside, so Herb Price offers to walk Maggie back to Collinwood, to make sure she gets there safely.
There’s a little bit of tension here, because apparently Harriet has her eye on Price, and she’s not thrilled about having another young woman around. This is boilerplate PBL material and won’t actually lead to anything in particular. By this point in the series, Ross has given up on the norms of murder mystery writing, like motives and suspects. This weakens Americans’ faith in the murder mystery process that will take a generation to repair.
Once they’re outside, they act like Maggie is entirely helpless out in the snow, and she’s relying on Price to help her navigate this relatively short walk across the Collinwood estate where she’s lived for several years. Also, she’s from Maine. Snow is not really that big of a deal.
But she says, “I hope we know which way we’re going,” and he says, “We’ll manage,” and they lope along, gossiping about Professor Martin, who is a strange old man, and Harriet, who is a bitter, frustrated young woman. People fill a lot of time in this book reciting bits of the character bible at each other.
And then suddenly Price is taken ill. His face is white and drawn, his voice suddenly taking on an odd gasping quality, his pace slackening and so on. “I suddenly don’t feel too well,” he says, and says something about going back to take his medicine. And then there’s the dognoise.
Before she could answer, there came a mournful howling like the wolf call she’d heard the night before. It seemed very near. She gave him a terrified look. “What can that mean?”
Well, obviously what it means is that Price is a snow-wolf? Or something? There’s only a couple times in the book when Price has one of these sudden attacks, and both times, it begins with him hearing another wolf howling in the distance. I’m not sure where the other wolf is supposed to come from. There’s no mention of the moon, and this doesn’t really tally up with any known depiction of lycanthropy, but this is how Paperback werewolves work. So Price shoves the flashlight at Maggie, and then he stumbles off into the darkness. That was Quentin, by the way. That was one of the Quentin parts.
This leaves Maggie basically on her own front lawn with a flashlight, and she wonders if she’ll manage to make it home without accidentally falling off a cliff. Seriously. “It would be terribly easy to reach the edge of the cliffs and stumble to her death on this stormy night,” the book says. Would it?
But she finally manages to make her way towards the big house, and then suddenly a dark figure appears before her, and she discovers the caped coat and gaunt, noble face of Barnabas Collins! Hooray for snowstorms!
So here’s Barnabas, with his gaunt face and his melancholy smile. “Gaunt” is the new keyword for Barnabas. He has a gaunt, noble face on page 31, and then a gaunt face a few paragraphs later; he’s a gaunt-faced man on page 33, and then he’s got a gaunt, handsome face on page 34.
Traditionally, the Paperback Library has been particularly insistent about how handsome Barnabas Collins is; in the three previous books that we’ve discussed, he was called handsome 16, 18 and 24 times. But in this book, it appears we’ve crossed some kind of threshold, and Barnabas is now both gaunt and handsome, in that order.
Let’s do the numbers. Barnabas is a “gaunt, handsome man” on pages 48 and 60, and he has a “gaunt, handsome face” on pages 34, 37, 84, 88 and 141. He has just a plain “gaunt face” on pages 31, 50, 87, 127, 158 and 159, plus a “gaunt, noble face” also on 31, and he’s a “gaunt-faced man” on page 33. He’s also a “dark, handsome man” on page 36, a “handsome British cousin” on page 97, and a “handsome Britisher” on 120, and he has a “handsome face” on page 104.
That gives us a final score of 15 gaunts and 11 handsomes, so Barnabas is officially 1.36 times more gaunt than he is handsome. And if reading the last few paragraphs has made you feel like you no longer recognize “gaunt” as an English word, then just wait until we get to how old Professor Martin is.
Once Maggie is safely inside and protected from the horrors of an average New England winter, we can get down to business and figure out what everyone disapproves of. Here’s how this kind of thing goes down, in the world of the Paperback Library.
“What’s this talk about defiling tombs?” Roger Collins demanded as he came back into the room.
“I question this project of Anthony’s,” Barnabas told him. “And I think you made a mistake in allowing Maggie to work for him.”
Roger’s face darkened. “Are you suggesting I’m not taking proper care of this young woman?”
“I don’t think you gave it sufficient thought.”
“You and Anthony have never gotten along,” Roger reminded him.
Barnabas shrugged. “That has no bearing on this.”
“Of course it has,” Roger argued. “You’re prejudiced against our cousin. That’s why you want to prevent Maggie from working for him.”
“I’m thinking more of the curse than anything else. Do you have any idea how death stalked the other expedition that attempted to raid that tomb? I don’t want to see Maggie in any danger. Anthony has a right to jeopardize his own life if he likes, but I don’t think he should drag others into the shadow of the curse of Osiris.”
Roger looked nasty. “I’m not up on those fancy names like you, Barnabas, but I’ll match my good sense against yours any day. Especially when you hire someone like Hare!”
And then they just throw down. Man, if there’s one thing people can do in these books, it’s argue. Roger is perpetually on the verge of playing the Hare card.
Oh, and Maggie and Barnabas have kind of a slow-burning romance going; I suppose I should mention that. Back in Barnabas Collins vs. the Warlock, they started one of those super tame love affairs that people apparently have in these novels, where they kiss every once in a while, and spend the rest of their time telling each other to be careful. Maggie, like all the heroines in this series, is entirely in love with Barnabas, and she refuses to believe the wild stories about him being a vampire, even though he obviously is one, and literally everybody else in the book points this out on the regular.
This is a typical manifestation: “She surrendered completely to those cold lips to which she’d become accustomed. They were no indicators of the warmth and charm of this solitary and lonely man.” And now we can get back to the tomb-defiling.
The next morning, Maggie reports back to work at Anthony’s red brick house, where she’ll be living for the next several weeks or until she gets murdered, whichever comes first.
First thing, she interrupts Anthony in the middle of studying two breathtakingly lovely gold scarabs set with precious stones, which he’s super awkward about and establishes the motive for the upcoming murders, check and check. And then it’s time to go downstairs and play with Professor Martin.
So, you remember old Professor Martin, right? Sure you do; he’s the old one.
The scrawny old man was on his knees beside an uncrated stone tablet. “You’re the young woman Anthony hired yesterday, aren’t you?”
She smiled. “Yes.”
“See this,” the old man said proudly, pointing at the tablet before him. “Art as ancient as this and in this state of preservation is rare. It’s worth any risk to bring it back.”
Her eyebrows raised. “You think there is a risk?”
The old man shrugged. “You have heard of the curse?”
“Lord Carter was a personal friend of mine,” the old man said, still on his knees. “He financed the original expedition and died of a mosquito bite.”
“Did he get the bite while at the site of the tomb?”
The elderly professor nodded.
And OH MY GOD SERIOUSLY WE BELIEVE YOU THAT PROFESSOR MARTIN IS OLD. This concept does not need to be reinforced every three sentences. He is an old man and he is concerned about poisonous curse mosquitos. MESSAGE RECEIVED.
So obviously I counted the number of times that people in this book are described as old or young, which is a totally normal way to read a book and is not considered obsessive-compulsive behavior. Here are the findings.
Professor James Martin: 40 references to how old he is, including old man, old professor, elderly professor, aged professor, veteran professor, ancient professor and old scholar, plus at one point Maggie says that he’s a strange old man and Price responds, “He’s very old.”
Professor Herb Price: 39 references to how young he is, including 20 young professors, 18 young mans and 1 young fella.
Professor Anthony Collins: 31 references, including old man, older man, venerable professor, senior professor, elderly professor, elderly cousin, elderly man and old Egyptologist.
Also, if you’re curious, Maggie is a young woman, the Collinwood housekeeper is an old woman, David is a youngster, and Roger is a middle aged man. This concludes my report on how old everyone is.
And now, we finally get to the good part. Maggie leaves old Professor Martin and talks to young Professor Price, and then she starts to unpack a box full of Egypt stuff. She takes a vase out of a crate, and then she feels something cold and slimy, and she recoils in horror from the thing deep in the dark crate, which happens to be my favorite character in the book, hooray!
“In there,” Maggie cries. “Some dreadful slimy living thing. It crawled over my hand!”
So Price pokes around in the crate with a flashlight, and there he is, the true star of the book: a small lizard, hiding in one of the vases.
But this isn’t just any lizard. “It’s a lizard of a species I’ve never seen before,” says Price. Maggie asks if it could be poisonous, and Price — who has only seen the lizard for two seconds, hiding in a vase, and also he’s Quentin — immediately says, “Very likely. It didn’t sting you, did it?” It did not. Maggie is fine. This is a girl who hangs out with an undead ghoul who kills people with his teeth, and she falls to pieces over miniscule reptiles.
“This could be a find,” says Price, “a lizard that’s somehow managed to exist for thousands of years.” That doesn’t get an exclamation point, by the way. It’s an absurd assertion to make, but if you’re going to make it, give it some appropriate punctuation.
Price tells Maggie to go and get Professor Martin, and she does: “Maggie hurried out of the room, glad to put some distance between herself and the crate with the tiny horror in it.” She’s only done fifteen seconds of actual work so far, and she flees the scene because there’s a lizard.
By the time Maggie and Martin come back, Price has captured the lizard in a jar, which he shows off to everyone. Here’s the text from the wanted poster:
The vicious looking green lizard was about four inches long and had an ugly wide head that measured an inch at least. A darted tongue kept in constant motion as the lizard slithered wildly inside the jar.
Old Prof Martin peers at it and says, “I can’t place it in any category.” This is apparently something entirely new in lizards.
Professor Martin’s frail figure almost trembled with excitement. He pointed a thin forefinger at the jar. “That little fellow may have been placed in the tomb by one of King Rehotip’s trusted servants. If so, the chances are it’s poisonous. Some of the Egyptian kings used to pepper their tombs with all kinds of poisonous creatures to guard against the tombs being vandalized.”
So that’s a thing, they are 100% certain that somehow a single lizard can survive for thousands of years. Not that type of lizard, or that family, but actually the same actual lizard, who’s been hanging around in the tomb for four thousand years, getting progressively more poisonous and annoyed with the world.
“I’ll take the jar up to Professor Collins and get his verdict,” Herb said.
“Be cautious with it!” the old man called after him. “We don’t want a string of strange deaths in our group.”
Maggie gave the old professor a frightened look. “Do you really think that could happen?”
“Why not? Those Egyptians were devious people. And it might be possible for some of the poisonous creatures to remain in a state of inactivity for literally thousands of years and then come alive again.”
So that’s how science works, in Barnabas, Quentin and the Mummy’s Curse. Everybody looks at this creature and instantly proclaims it to be an immortal, radioactive super-lizard. I have no idea what they’re talking about.
At dinner that night, the girls sit at the table utterly bored, while the boys all talk about lizards, and Maggie begins to wonder if maybe Egyptology is not for her. But that’s the point of these books, that women should go nowhere and do nothing. Quickie gothics like this make housewives grateful for their lot in life, by reassuring them that anything interesting in the world is dangerous and unpleasant.
After dinner, Barnabas comes by to gossip about everything. “I don’t like that lizard business,” he says, which should have been his catchphrase.
Barnabas has an encounter with Cousin Anthony, and they don’t like each other. Barnabas points out that Anthony is defying the curse of Osiris, and calls him a grave robber. Paperback Barnabas is not good with diplomacy.
“I have great respect for the dead,” Barnabas says, “and for their resting places.” Anthony fires back, “I had almost forgotten. But your preoccupation with the dead is a natural thing. True to your nature.” After Anthony leaves, Maggie asks what he meant by that, and Barnabas says, “Don’t ask me to explain all the fuzzy thinking of my elderly cousin.” There are no further questions.
Price wanders into the room, and he flinches at the sight of Barnabas. After Price leaves, Barnabas asks Maggie if she’s heard of Quentin Collins. “He’s another of the family who shows up here at intervals,” Barnabas says. “There have been whispers that he has involved himself with witchcraft. Some think he is under the curse of the werewolf.”
Then Maggie remembers seeing a picture of Quentin in a family album. “Of course, he does bear a remarkable likeness to Quentin. But his hair is lighter, and he wears glasses.”
“Glasses and hair dye are simple means of disguise,” Barnabas explains. “I’m by no means sure that your Professor Herb Price is Quentin, back here under an assumed name. Just the same, I’d watch him closely. Especially since there is the wolf business involved.”
So that’s the situation at the red brick house at the moment. Lizard business, wolf business and a Clark Kent-style disguise, worn at intervals.
After Barnabas’ antisocial call, Maggie goes to bed, and wakes up in the middle of the night as her door slowly creaks open, and a shadowy figure stands in the doorway. Heroines in Gothic novels spontaneously wake up at least three times every night, just in case shadowy figures drop by.
At the foot of her bed, it made a kind of gesture, as if tossing something at her.
Instinctively she knew what it was. Even before the slimy thing came crawling across the bedspread she had seized a heavy glass ashtray from the bedside table. With screams of terror she struck out at it wildly and then fumbled for the switch on the bedside lamp.
She found it and turned it on, panting with terror. Her aim had been better than she could have hoped. The battered remains of the lizard made an ugly stain on the bed covering.
Yes! It’s Maggie’s first night in academia, and already someone is trying to murder her with lizards. The shadowy figure apparently counted on the lizard automatically engaging its anti-governess features; tossed onto the bed, it would scamper straight at Maggie and poison her in the face, rather than run into a closet and hide. And now a priceless four-thousand-year-old reptile has been destroyed by secondhand smoke.
Nobody believes Maggie’s story of a shadowy figure, because how could a person walk into someone’s bedroom. In Professor Collins’ study, they find the glass jar lying on the floor, which proves this was an attack by a lone lizard, who was probably radicalized on the internet.
The following morning, Maggie wakes up kind of depressed. “Her eerie experience of the night before,” says the book, “and the generally ominous atmosphere of the red brick house, had about decided her that she should give up this new job and return to Collinwood.”
This is the correct conclusion. Maggie should go back to Collinwood immediately; there is literally no reason for her to stay. Nobody likes her here, she hates the work, she’s not interested in Egypt, she thinks archaeology is grave robbing, she’s afraid of lizards, somebody is threatening her, and her actual house is within easy walking distance. Why is she still here? But the women in these novels never decide to leave the terrible house parties they attend; it was the same with Lara in the last book we discussed.
Now, obviously, Maggie needs to stay on the premises or there’s no more story, but the author doesn’t even do her the courtesy of giving her a motive. The first thing that comes to mind is that she should be romantically interested in Professor Price aka Quentin, which would give him a purpose for being in the book. But at this stage in the series, Barnabas is still such a draw that they can’t dilute the fantasy by having Maggie interested in another guy.
Still, there are lots of ways to give Maggie a reason to stick around. I will now make up several of them off the top of my head. #1: Maggie has a friend or relative there, preferably a woman, who she wants to protect. #2: There’s a mystery that she wants to solve, probably something to do with a necklace that looks familiar to her, possibly from a past life in Egypt. #3: She really needs the extra money because her aunt is sick, or she wants to buy a motorcycle. #4: Anything else. It is so easy to do this.
But the book insists that she’s just indecisive, and she needs to consult with at least two men before making up her mind to do anything. Meanwhile, she’s stuck in the cellar with the venerable and decrepit Professor Martin.
She sighed. “I’m not sure I’m in agreement with what you’re doing. Even though you open these tombs in the name of historical research, you are actually robbing graves, aren’t you?”
The old man looked startled. “That’s a primitive way of putting it,” he said. “Ours is not an easy profession, Miss Evans; it requires dedicated men. I have lost my health through explorations. The malaria from which I suffer keeps coming back and robbing me of a little more of my strength each time, and the best experts assure me it is incurable.”
THEN HOW ARE YOU SO OLD? cries the reader. For Ptah’s sake! You’re an ancient skeleton man and your strength is ebbing away a little at a time, and somehow you keep on functioning. Everybody talks about the curse of Osiris, and how everyone in the first expedition died, but here is a man who is clearly 98 percent of the way there already, and he’s outlived a quadrimillenial lizard. This is why nobody believes in pyramid curses anymore.
And then there’s the matter of Professor Price being Quentin, which they keep talking about and it never goes anywhere. Maggie asks Anthony if he’s sure about Price’s credentials, and Anthony says he thought they looked okay. But then she tells him that Price walked into Collinwood the other day without being invited in, and he says that’s strange, I’ll watch him closely. Then she says, “He may be perfectly all right,” because nobody in this book can hold a single opinion in their head for five minutes.
So that night, she sits by the fireside with Price, as he tries to pretend that he’s not Quentin, which he obviously is. They hear a wolf howling outside, and Price gets all jumpy and weird again, and then he rushes up the stairs and probably turns into something.
Maggie goes over to Collinwood to look at David’s jigsaw puzzle, and on her way back to the red brick house, we finally get a non-lizard-related chapter-ending cliffhanger.
She walked a little faster and soon she was nearing the red brick house again. Gray smoke was issuing from its chimneys and many lights glowed warmly in its windows. In a few minutes she would be safely inside.
The thought was still in her mind when from out of the bushes there came bounding a giant, snarling wolf. The terrifying creature blocked her path, its yellow eyes filled with mad hatred. At the sight of its powerful fangs she screamed and drew back!
It all works out okay, of course. This is just the usual mid-book wolf attack, where the fierce predator looks at the main girl and makes some growling noises, and then it gets chased away by Barnabas, or a passing car, or it suddenly remembers an appointment. Who even knows with giant wolves.
But forget all of that; I certainly have. The important thing now is to get the marquee monster up and moving. We only have twelve chapters, and it’s half-past six. Let’s get some mummy up in here.
To set the scene, Anthony sends the other professors off on a trip to Boston, to bring some of the items that they’ve catalogued back to the Historical Museum. I don’t know why they’ve carted all this junk from Boston to Collinwood, if they’re just going to unpack it and bring it back to Boston, but I guess even Egyptologists need a change of scene sometimes. So young Professor Price and old Professor Martin and dark-haired irrelevance Harriet Fennel cart the stuff off in a U-Haul, back to the metrop.
And while they’re out of the way, Anthony tells Maggie that he has a special activity planned for this evening, namely: the reanimation of the dead.
There are three caskets in the basement of the red brick house, all taken from the tomb of King Rehotip, and you’ll never guess what secret toy surprise is hidden inside the biggest and shiniest. Take it away, Professor.
“To win new fame for his favorite god and himself, King Rehotip hit upon a plan to pretend he had died and been resurrected through the magic of Osiris.”
“How could he do such a thing?”
“His plan was excellent. He had the court physician give him a mercury-like liquid which induced a coma resembling death. He’d already arranged with the physician and his heir and younger brother, Prince Seotris, to later give him an antidote which would restore him to life.”
“And did they do it?”
“That is where the story becomes interesting.”
Yeah, well, I’ll be the judge of that. So the crackpot backstory of this crackpot book involves a pharaoh from the 17th dynasty putting himself into a coma, and giving his younger brother the wake-up juice. But everybody knows that you can’t trust younger brothers, everybody except the Great Light of the Dawn in the mystery box over here.
And so he sleeps e’en now, this suspended ruler, pickled in time like gherkins in a canopic jar. And that’s what Anthony Collins is going to fuck with this evening.
Maggie has some opinions on the subject, and surprise, somebody in a Paperback Library book is not going to be supportive.
“You’re doomed to failure,” she said. “King Rehotip’s plan was meant to cover only a short period of time. He’s been in that coffin for thousands of years. Some deterioration of his mind or body has surely occurred.”
Madness gleamed in the pale blue eyes of the Egyptologist. “I disagree,” he said. “There should be no tissue change. And when the antidote is poured between his lips, King Rehotip should live again!”
“In a strange age and a foreign land of ice and snow! The shock of his returning to life should be enough to send him insane!”
“I don’t agree,” Anthony Collins said.
And oh my god, you have to stop saying that you disagree with every sensible thing that somebody says to you. There is a point where that stops being a useful worldview.
But you know Egyptologists; they figure once you’ve defiled a tomb, you might as well keep on defiling it. He cracks open the flavor seal, and there’s the lightly-embalmed King Rehotip, with a little glass vial tucked behind his ear, filled with magical purple drank.
And Maggie has no choice but to stand by and watch, as Anthony tears the linen strips from the ancient king’s face and presses the potion to his parchment lips. Well, when I say she has no choice, what I mean is she has like six dozen opportunities which she does not act upon. Also she brings him a pair of scissors when he asks for it.
So the Professor decants the antidote into Rehotip’s mouth, and nothing happens, which is very deflating for about a page and a half, and then suddenly
Then, suddenly, there came a faint sound of movement from the golden casket. A chill shot up Maggie’s spine. Unbelievably, the eyes of King Rehotip had opened. The dark brown eyes gazed straight up at the ceiling and had a wild light in them.
Anthony Collins’ lined face had taken on an expression of sheer wonder. He was frozen motionless as he stared at the coffin. A weird shriek came from the lips of the bronzed figure and there was the sound of ripping cloth as King Rehotip broke the linen wrappings that bound him.
In the next instant the pharoah had sprung to his feet. Most of his wrappings still clung to him in mummy fashion, though his head and shoulders were uncovered and his arms and legs free. He moved towards Professor Anthony Collins with an insane gleam in his eyes. Again a weird, savage cry escaped his lips and his bronzed, sinewy hands seized the professor’s throat.
And if that isn’t the biggest “I told you so” in the entire world, then I don’t know what is. I mean, two hundred points to Maggie on this one.
So everybody loses consciousness all at once, and when they get back up, Rehotip’s actually shuffled all the way upstairs and out the door, out into the wide open spaces, wild and untamed and utterly, impossibly, mad.
At this point, in walks eccentric millionaire Barnabas Collins, stopping by on a snowy evening to pass the time of night with his girlfriend and her irresponsible employer.
“Are you telling me this fugitive from the tomb is at large out there?” he asks. They are. They are telling him exactly that.
Anthony’s response is, “I did what any scientist or researcher in my place would have done,” which is a citation needed if I ever saw one. This whole book is just one big 160-page citation needed.
Maggie asked, “What if that creature wanders about the countryside attacking innocent people?”
“That won’t happen,” Anthony argued. “As I have told you before, King Rehotip wil die in a short time from the cold.”
Barnabas said sharply, “Wasn’t he already dead? The state he is in now could scarcely be termed as alive.”
Maggie nodded. “That’s what I’ve told the professor. We’re not dealing with a normal person and so you can’t count on his minding the cold.”
Barnabas turned to his cousin. “Well, Mr. Egyptologist, do you have an answer for that?”
He doesn’t, really. Nobody does. But Anthony says he’s not going to call the police until the morning, because why even bother, and that appears to be that.
“I will not interfere,” Barnabas says, “as long as your spectral fugitive refrains from killing wholesale.” Retail killing is apparently just fine.
Later, Maggie confides in Barnabas that she shouldn’t have involved herself in this insanity, and Barnabas smiles, “If we all did the right thing at the proper moment, what a simple and uninteresting world this would be.” That is not a healthy philosophy, not in this town.
Their chat continues along similar lines, raising the question of whether Barnabas is a vampire or not. He says he’s not. She says she believes him.
“Please don’t try to explain or make me see things differently,” she says. “I’d prefer to be wrong than to be disillusioned.”
So that’s something of a mission statement for this entire enterprise. The Paperback Library Gothic line is an endless series of stories about young women who don’t know when to quit. They’re abused in just about every possible way — pushed around, threatened, attacked, harassed, driven to the very brink of madness — and they always remain compliant and docile, accepting everything that comes their way, and hoping for the best.
Don’t call the police, says the Paperback Library to its unwitting readership of actual women with real-life problems. Think it over. Stick around and see if it gets better by itself. What an interesting world this will be!
So then the story goes pretty much the way you’d expect; the sun comes up, and nobody’s been mutilated that we know about, so Anthony just goes back to business like nothing ever happened. He swaps in another mummy to take King Rehotip’s place, and he says that the others won’t notice. Apparently he was keeping a secret spare mummy for emergencies, hidden in plain sight among the artifacts that his team is supposed to be carefully examining and cataloguing. These are not very efficient archaeologists.
There’s a long, maddening series of conversations between Anthony and Maggie about King Rehotip. Anthony says the pharoah must be dead by now, and Maggie says, I saw him from my window last night, so he’s still alive, and Anthony says, well, maybe he was alive last night, but he must be dead by now. As long as the monster that he personally reanimated is currently out of his line of sight, Anthony insists that it’s died and instantly disintegrated the second it disappeared from view. He does this many, many times. Professor Anthony Collins is a made-up fictional person, and yet I want to hit him in the face. How do you account for something like that?
Young David calls Maggie at lunchtime, and tells her that he saw “ghost tracks” in the snow when he was out skiing this morning. The tracks didn’t look like normal shoe prints, and they stumbled all around, leading into the cemetery. Maggie tells David not to go into the cemetery. He asks why, and she says, “It’s just that I think cemeteries aren’t proper places to ski.” This is not the appropriate warning for the current threat level.
Maggie takes a break from archaeology that afternoon to go skiing with David for a while, and he shows her the funny tracks. After a happy afternoon together, she sends him back to Collinwood, and then makes another in a string of unwise decisions.
It’s not quite dusk, so she figures she’ll go check out the cemetery before it gets dark, and then she’ll tell Barnabas what she found. But when she gets to the cemetery, she realizes that it’s getting dark quicker than she’d expected, because we are reading a book about a grown woman who doesn’t understand how the sun works.
Naturally, Rehotip is in the cemetery, and supernaturally, he grabs her with steel hands and lifts her off of her feet. And it’s pretty much game over for Maggie, except then Barnabas shows up, hurrah, and he says Egyptian words, and Rehotip kind of hisses and runs away, end of action sequence.
Barnabas and Maggie talk about Anthony, and his many excuses for not informing the authorities about the dangerous creature on the loose. Apparently, Anthony is the only person they know who can get a cell signal, because they don’t take any steps to call the police themselves. Barnabas asks how long Maggie plans to stay at the red brick house, and she says, “I don’t know. Not long. I would like to see this terrible situation cleared up before I leave.” But the terrible situation is the reason you should leave, I say out loud to these fictional people, but they don’t listen; they never do.
Barnabas walks Maggie back to Collinwood, where she has dinner with Roger and catches up on the local news. A girl was attacked in the village last night — one of the secretaries from the Collins plant — and given a savage kiss on the throat. The girl didn’t get a look at her attacker, but her condition was familiar — she was weakened and dazed, and had two red marks on her neck. So that means Cousin Barnabas was responsible, because Barnabas, as everyone in this book series knows, is a vampire.
“This is the first attack since that other time, and Barnabas is back here again.”
“But your secretary didn’t see who attacked her,” she pointed out. “It could have been anyone.”
Roger shook his head. “Not with those telltale marks on her neck and the strange feeling of dizziness she experienced. I call them Barnabas’ trademarks.”
“Then you’ve made up your mind.”
“I’m afraid so,” he admitted. “I want no scandal. But if Barnabas is going to slake his thirst for blood at the throats of young girls, he’d better do it somewhere else.” He frowned. “If only Barnabas would leave on his own. But I fear he won’t.”
“And if he doesn’t?”
“I can’t let him remain here and expose us all to gossip and perhaps have him seized by the authorities. The Collins name is worth more than that.”
“I doubt if things will get that bad.”
“It will only need another attack or two,” Roger predicted moodily. “And if Barnabas is truly a vampire, those attacks are bound to come.”
And oh my god, what is the matter with you people? Everybody in this book is okay with the idea that dangerous monsters of their own creation are out slaughtering the innocent. It’s things like this that make townspeople reach for their torches and pitchforks.
Okay, what else? There’s some more Quentin/not Quentin conversation that I don’t need to trouble you with, and another round of wishful thinking with Anthony.
“King Rehotip did not perish from the cold as you’d hoped,” Maggie insisted. “He is still very much alive. He was hiding in the old cemetery, and now he’s taken refuge in the forest.”
Anthony frowned. “I can’t believe he’ll survive long. It’s not possible with the temperatures dropping to zero at night.”
Then Maggie goes to bed, satisfied with another day well-spent.
She awoke later to stare up into the darkness with alarm on her pretty face. Outside in the hallway, measured footsteps were coming in the direction of her door. The footsteps brought to her mind the limping and mutilated ancient king in his linen wrappings. Her flesh crept and she waited.
The footsteps halted outside her door and then she heard the door handle turned. She held her breath. After a moment the attempt to force the door ended, and the measured footsteps moved away.
She gasped with relief and lay back on her pillow. Who or what had it been? And why had they wanted to get into her room? Then a shrill cry, somewhere between a wail and a scream, came from outdoors. It lasted only a minute but it made her quake with fear for a second time. After that, there was a grim silence. And at last she again fell asleep.
So what do you even do with people like this? It’s unreal. She’s the most irresponsible heroine I’ve ever seen outside the Twilight series.
The screamer was Bessie, obviously; the girl was a born redshirt. In the morning, Harriet reports that someone dragged the maid outside, and threw her off the cliffs to a messy death on the rocks below. In other words: an entirely solveable mystery, if only the people who heard her scream would get out of bed, go downstairs and see what’s going on.
Maggie is sorry about Bessie’s death, but not, like, do anything about it sorry. She consults with Anthony, who tells her that it probably wasn’t King Rehotip anyway.
“I have been down to the beach and seen the body. So I know what I’m talking about.”
Professor Collins’ pale blue eyes held that gleam of madness again. “I examined the body closely and I found two red marks on her throat.”
“Two red marks,” she echoed faintly.
“And you know what that means,” he said with malicious triumph. “Not Rehotip but Barnabas! It is Barnabas who leaves red marks on the throats he drains of blood!”
And then they find out that Professor Price is missing; nobody’s seen him since they learned about Bessie’s murder. Therefore, Price is the murderer, because that is how murder investigations work.
Turns out Price was Quentin after all, apparently, and he knew that the police would want to question everybody about Bessie’s murder, so he just ran away, and he doesn’t ever come back for the whole rest of the book. That is the end of Quentin’s participation in Barnabas, Quentin and the Mummy’s Curse; Barnabas and the mummy will have to take it from here.
Now, the obvious question is, why would Quentin come back to Collinwood in a transparent disguise and pretend to be an archaeologist, and then leave at the first sign of trouble? And the other obvious question is, why was Quentin in this book at all? The werewolf thing didn’t go anywhere — “Price” had a couple of funny turns and then Maggie saw a wolf, but once King Rehotip started marching around, everybody forgot about the possible-werewolf living under their roof.
The answer, I think, is that Paperback Library knew that Quentin was crazy popular, and they told Dan Ross to put him in all the Dark Shadows books from now on. So Barnabas Collins and the Mummy’s Curse becomes Barnabas, Quentin and the Mummy’s Curse, and Dan makes a little adjustment in the outline that he’s currently working from. Professor Price becomes Quentin in disguise, people talk about that occasionally, and otherwise the story just goes on as planned.
So the concept of “Quentin” has been drained of all meaning, even more than what’s happening on the show right now. Quentin is a name and a photo on the cover, a werewolf out of water, in a story that doesn’t need him. The title Barnabas, Quentin and the Mummy’s Curse implies that Barnabas and Quentin are the two main characters, either helping each other or fighting with each other, but it turns out to be just a list of three things that appear in the book. Quentin doesn’t even know that King Rehotip is walking around. He missed the actual storyline by a mile.
Oh, and then Maggie is driving from Collinwood to Anthony’s house, and King Rehotip is in the back seat, reaching out his withered brown hand to grab hold of her. She stops the car, runs out in a panic, and tells Anthony that the mummy is still on the loose.
“That’s a strange story!” says Anthony.
Things start to unravel at this point; there’s about twenty-five pages left, and some of the characters are still alive. This is swiftly corrected.
First, they find Harriet dead in the cellar, having apparently tripped on the stairs and broken her neck in the fall. Martin finds another pair of red marks on Harriet’s neck, so Anthony says that Barnabas killed Harriet, and we have that conversation all over again.
Maggie finds Barnabas down at the Blue Whale drinking a beer, and he tells her that he’s been keeping an eye on the pharoah.
“I’ve been spending a lot of time tracking your mad king down,” he said. “Contrary to what Anthony claimed, he’s still very much alive.”
“I knew it,” she said.
“A lot of his time is spent at the old cemetery.”
“So he’s gone back there.”
“There’s a tool shed in the far corner of the cemetery, away from the graves,” Barnabas told her. “Much of the time he’s been hiding in there. He seems to be afraid of the daylight. But after night he leaves the wooden shed and roams about widely.”
And murders people, presumably, and hides in the back seat of parked cars, unless that was the vampire, or the wolf man, or the Creature from the Black Lagoon. This is why they’re called Universal Monsters, because you can plug any of them into an action sequence, like it’s a USB port.
It’s all clear in the back seat as Maggie drives back to the red brick house, but when she arrives, King Rehotip is there on the lawn. But the real monster, as always, is inside the house.
She saw the angry distorted face and mad eyes of King Rehotip staring at her. His clawlike hands reached out toward her with more than a hint of menace.
Maggie screamed and backed away as the horror limped towards her. The thing opened its withered lips and made that shrill, shrieking cry again. She wheeled around and fled to the rear door, reaching it ahead of the pursuing monster.
Anthony Collins was standing in the middle of the room. She ran up to him and cried, “Rehotip! He’s outside. He chased me to the rear door. In a moment he would have caught up with me.”
“You’re telling me you saw Rehotip just now?”
“Out there!” she said, pointing dramatically.
“I find that hard to believe,” the professor said. “I heard nothing until your car pulled up a few minutes ago. Then you screamed just before you came in here.”
Well, what do you think she was screaming about, you madman? Christ! I guess you have to kill a guy to get Anthony’s attention.
Oh, and guess what happens next. Maggie and Anthony go downstairs to the cellar, and they find Professor Martin, slumped over one of the caskets. The feeble old man is dead; the ancient curse of Osiris has claimed another ancient victim. Final score: Professor Martin: 0, Curse mosquitos: 1.
Except Martin has two red marks on his neck!! which Maggie says doesn’t prove anything. Everything has marks, she patiently explains. Sometimes people just have marks; it’s a thing that happens and nobody can do anything about it.
“At least let us not give the story to the police until the morning,” Anthony said. “Otherwise we’ll have reporters flocking in on us in the middle of the night.”
Maggie listened to his serious words and decided this was a fair enough compromise. The authorities needn’t know that they had discovered James Martin’s body before going to bed. It could just as well be in the morning. “Very well,” she said.
And then they go to bed. I swear to all the agricultural gods, I don’t know what to do with these people. There are not enough laws to address this kind of behavior.
In the morning, Maggie decides that Barnabas should be the one who puts an end to the mad king, but she’ll have to wait until dusk to talk to him about it.
Barnabas would never consent to breaking the usual routine of remaining in the Old House until dusk. So if she were going to solicit his aid, she would have to wait until then.
More specifically, the police would have to wait until then. She decided to say nothing about the shed in the cemetery where Barnabas said Rehotip had been hiding. If the police found it on their own, well enough. If they didn’t, she would suggest at dusk that the aid of Barnabas Collins should be sought.
She had breakfast alone. Tea and toast were all she could manage.
So, again, I don’t even know. Words fail me.
“It would be helpful if you would keep this information secret until Rehotip is captured,” Professor Collins said to the inspector. “If the press gets word of it the whole business could turn into a mad carnival.”
The inspector looked indignant. “It’s mad enough as it is. And how long do you think I can manage to keep this secret if I tell my men we’re looking for a fugitive madman born two thousand years ago!”
Maggie suggested, “Can’t you merely say that you’re looking for an insane man?”
I HAVE ALREADY FOUND AN INSANE MAN, shouts the inspector, and locks up every single character in the book.
The police don’t find anything, obviously, because Maggie doesn’t tell them where the creature is, but after dusk, Barnabas leads them straight to the tool shed in the cemetery and sets it on fire, and then the inspector and the mummy fight to the death in the blazing ruins, and Barnabas has to go in and carry the policeman out of the shack before it collapses. He’s probably fine.
So that takes care of the mummy, but there’s still the matter of three or four mysterious killings to solve, and you’ll never guess who the murderer turns out to be. It was the lizard!
Tomorrow: A Helping Hound.
At the beginning of the episode, Carolyn is lying in bed, asleep. Then we see somebody on the right nudge the bed with a rolled-up script, which is her cue to get up and start the scene.
Sky tells Carolyn, “I’m staying up until Miss — until Angelique gets back.”
It’s storming like crazy all over the place — huge thunderclaps in every scene — but nobody’s wet. Bruno goes wandering around in the woods with his fur coat on, and when he comes back to Collinwood, he’s perfectly dry.
After Liz goes upstairs to bed, Jeb and Bruno walk forward past their marks, and stand in half-shadow.
The DS comic panels in today’s post are from “Awake to Evil” in Gold Key’s Dark Shadows issue #6, published in August 1970. That makes three Dark Shadows Barnabas vs. Mummy stories published in a little over a year — Mummy’s Curse, “Awake to Evil” and the comic strip story from May 1971, where it’s revealed that Barnabas actually is the god Osiris.
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Mark Perigard says:
Off-topic, but the cable channel Decades is running a ‘Dark Shadows’ marathon starting Saturday at 1 p.m. and running straight through Monday morning.
I am brazen enough to admit I took the “What ‘Dark Shadows’ Character Are You?” quiz on the Decades web site and got Quentin Collins, which is terribly baffling as I do not have sideburns. However, I do believe every picture of me is cursed, but that is another story.
Danny Horn says:
Oh, nice, thanks for telling us about that. Those marathons usually bring a bunch of new people to the blog.
Be warned that it’s probably just going to be the first 26-week syndication package, from Barnabas coming out of the box to Julia and Barnabas killing Dr. Woodard. They’ve done three of these DS marathons before, and it’s been that 26-week package, which then loops back and starts from Barnabas out of the box again.
According to the Decades website, they will begin at Episode ‘7116’ (236), as Barnabas kidnaps Maggie from her hospital room, and begins her ‘Josette-ification’ (and then, Hooray! Buzz fans rejoice! His ‘bike’ rolls in next day!); the marathon ends at 6:30 am Monday, with Episode ‘7199’. Since all the Sunday episodes have the same description (for episode 286), I am not sure what the last episode will be; what is the numbering that Decades uses? (I’m too lazy to do the math to figure out how many shows will air.)
And apropos of the current post:
Just want to express my appreciation (and admiration) of your fortitude in battling through another ‘Marilyn Ross’ outing. Hopefully there will be no permanent damage – since no one can come through unscathed.
I remember the novels were fairly nonsensical, but there was usually SOME sort of explanation slash wrap-up, usually a non-supernatural Scooby-Doo plot. What a surprise to get an ACTUAL mummy (with mummy-fashion wrappings), who may or may not even have been a vampire! Actually, I was hoping the two red marks on every victim’s neck could be blamed on the Egyptian Mosquito Twins, but I don’t write romance novels.
When did Vicki vanish from the volumes? The lunacy of BQ&TMC would have been right up her Street…though it seems that almost all the characters could have been changed out with no noticeable difference (except Barnabas, of course. Who else could be gaunt and handsome like Barnabas? I do hope his torment is noted at some point.)
But DO PLEASE take some rest, and try to recuperate before attempting anything like that again – I understand that survival rates are low for overdose on this stuff. Maybe you should consult your doctor.
There actually is a Scooby-Doo explanation for the murders and the neck marks, but it was omitted for clarity. I’ve replaced it with my own imaginary ending where the lizard yells YOU’LL NEVER CATCH ME ALIVE! and then zooms away on his lizard-sized Vespa.
But it was actually the only character left alive, because of the scarabs. The mummy didn’t actually hurt anybody at all. I can’t talk about it. I’ve already said too much.
Lizard’s got your tongue, eh?
I especially like that everyone seems to regard the resurrected four-thousand year old mummy Re-ho-stat escaping with the attitude of, “…oh, there’s supposed to be frost tonight, should I bring in the houseplants? Nah, it’s late, I’m tired, if they die, they die…”
But, there is a Scooby-splanation, thank goodness! Hate to think Dan didn’t follow the standard formula – if it ain’t Barnabas, it ain’t supernatural.
86 – so, episode 322. For what it’s worth. I don’t know how much sense that makes, but I guess the networks don’t really care.
Slocum says:
Decades website says 84 episodes this weekend…not sure if that includes any repeats.
Collinwood, snowbound? Indeed, Mr. Ross never did watch the show. Everyone knows about the ectoplasmic shield around Collinwood that turns all snow and most of the rain into dry thunder.
Kosmo13 says:
Collinwood wasn’t completely snow-free. One of Joanna Mills’ love letters to Quentin mentions the snow outside while the 2 of them were dallying inside.
And when Nathan Forbes and Millicent are making their wedding plans, they discuss the possibility of needing a back-up date in case heavy snow occurs on their first choice.
Lou Edmonds as Roger could make all kinds of nonsense sound believable; it was one of his special talents. And even he couldn’t read that description of Professor Collins without sounding like something out of a Monty Python sketch.
What was the herb price back in 1970?
The “gaunt” bit reminds me of the Cherry Ames nurse books I read as a girl. Nobody’s name could be mentioned without its trademark adjective. It was always “the fragile Mai Lee,” “plump Bertha Larsen,” “stern Dr. Wylie,” “freckled Gwen Jones,” etc.
Since when is Barnabas down on grave robbing? Or is he just afraid the elderly Egyptologist will nick all the good stuff before Barnabas gets there?
like gherkins in a canopic jar. Canopickles!
I SKI ON YOUR GRAVE!!
I ski on your grave just killed me. 😀
Reading this at work, and trying very hard not to laugh out loud. 2000 year old killer lizards for the win!
(I sometimes wonder if the “Marilyn Ross” books weren’t an attempt to make the actual series seem logical and sensible by comparison.)
The sad thing is that Ross, with all his defects is one of the founders of the multi-vampire epic, along with Anne Rice and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (much better writers)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_literature
The fact is that, grind our teeth as we might, Ross’ Barnabas is a forerunner of Yarbro’s Saint- Germain.
(By the way, Yarbro gets one thing very right, I that for most of human history, paranoia and lynch mob were the default position, so a vampire had to learn how to be unconspicuous)
Well I guess Maggie isn’t “a bug on Egyptology” like Suzette Fremont (Blood Feast). Not that that prevented her from becoming a victim, along with every other girl who obtained a copy of “Ancient Weird Religious Rites” (you see what trouble being interested in weird stuff gets you into?). But at least the kaiju in Herschell’s film had blue eyebrows and wasn’t afraid to use them. That has to be worth something, doesn’t it? Goes a long way in remedying plot holes and bad acting.
Here’s a clip…
(((Glen McCulla))) (@ColdLazarou) says:
This took me over 45 minutes to read because i had to keep stopping to get my breath back from all of the LOLs.
Especially ‘pickled in time’ (wouldn’t the Rani be a camptastic addition to DS? In some haunted Parallel Time netherspere i expect there’s a Marilyn Ross Target novelisation where that happened).
I’m making a t-shirt with ‘I SKI ON YOUR GRAVE’ embossed proudly upon it.
What about the “script cue” blooper? One of my faves. At the beginning of the episode, Carolyn is lying asleep on the bed until you see this script come across in the lower right of the screen and tap the bed to give Nancy Barrett the cue to start stirring.
Oh, I didn’t notice that. I’ll go look, thanks!
My pleasure! (“TWOP!”)
davidspofforth says:
You know, I can well believe that cousin Anthony Collins could be part of the TV continuity. He could be the son of Auntie Nora (although she’d have to be a young teen mother for him to be 65). And the Egypt theme works, considering granny Laura was an Egyptian fire spirit or some such.
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Mass Effect: Andromeda – First Impressions
April 1, 2017 lefranzine
Moving to a new galaxy to escape Shepard’s Shadow.
If my twitter feed isn’t subtle enough, I am a huge fan of Mass Effect and Bioware in general. When Mass Effect Andromeda was announced I was both excited and nervous. There were a lot of things I loved about the series (though the Mako wasn’t one of them) which made me cautious in regards to getting my hopes up. This is the first solo game without Shepard and entourage, a series of characters I spend most of my teen years with. I was worried that I might hold onto what was instead of embracing what is.
The story takes place between ME2 and ME3 with arks containing Turians, Salarians, humans and Asari set off to colonise Andromeda. By the time they reach Andromeda, it’s six hundred years in the future. The player can choose to between the Ryder twins, either female or male depending on what you feel like. I chose female Ryder first because I wanted to know what it was like romance the new alien species, the Angara.
Sibling rivalry is about to reach a whole new level.
Ryder’s role in the game is to find habitable planet for the people of the arks to settle on and prosper. Ryder is also aided by an AI system called SAM implanted in her head. In the beginning of the first three games, the players had to choose between classes such as a biotic, soldier, infiltrator etc. With the added help of SAM, Ryder can access these classes and tailor points into Biotic, Tech or Soldier. I’ve put most in biotics as I like floating people into the air.
However, I have gone into soldier and put points there to help my character access more guns. This does mean that SAM is always with you, being a voyeur to Ryders entire life, which I think is a fair trade for that many abilities. I do enjoy these systems as it enables me to have more of an ability to explore. In the last few games, choosing a particular class meant I would sacrifice a certain aspect like being unable to use heavy guns.
So many choices!
Setting this game in Andromeda was a good idea as it is a whole other galaxy to explore whilst avoiding the storylines that happened in the Milky Way i.e. The Reapers and Shepard. I do like the narrative thus far as it’s far enough in the future (and another galaxy) where the characters are unaware of the events of ME3 and the plot is not driven by this. It does include little easter eggs of previous characters of the Mass Effect trilogy but they don’t feature prominently within the narrative. It gives a nod to the fans who have been with the series to start whilst not alienating new players.
The developers even have a new big bad called the Kett, who seem to want to dominate planets. Their plan so far seems to involve the ancient tech of ‘remnant’ which opens up vaults that terraform planets and make them nice, cosy homes for people to live on. When Ryder woke up from cryo-sleep on the Hyperion and goes to open vaults, I won’t lie, I kept thinking of Borderlands.
Evil space dinosaur will ruin your day.
The game thus far seems to be a mash up of ME2 and Dragon Age: Inquisition (another Bioware game). The world seems more open, filing the missions in the categories of priority, systems, allies and tasks. It extends the game somewhat allowing the player to explore the system before doing the main storyline. I am a ‘complete everything’ sort of player which is why I’m doing a first impression piece. And my word, is there a lot to do. I am currently level twenty-eight and I not even half way through the main plot line. If you love expansive games full of exploring, I would suggest playing MEA.
There are the traditional loyalty missions of the crew, who interact with each other more on the ship, fleshing out who they are as people. The Tempest is the ship which ferries around Ryder in their search for a home which is a huge ship filled with interesting characters and research stations which help you develop armour, weapons etc. You can also jump someone’s bones pretty much after meeting them, fast-tracking romances even before loyalty missions. Much like the last Dragon Age game, you can even romance those who are not part of you’re immediate team like a pilot or a smuggler from one of the less hospitable planets.
The Normandy will always have a place in my heart. Not its elevators though.
Obviously, I have a few gripes with the new game as everyone one does. This includes the inclusion of the Nomad or ‘the Mako 2.0’ as I like to call it. I’m not particularly a fan of forced driving through a game. I can understand the protection of a vehicle through rough terrain or radiation filled planet. However, the controls are evil and the Nomad does not do well on corners in tight spaces. The one redeeming feature of the Nomad is the conversations your teammates will have, even poking fun at Ryder’s driving.
It is fun to run enemies over with the nomad too.
The characters animations also seem a bit stilted, though kudos to the voice actors for really putting the emotion in the voice. Apparently, Bioware are coming up with a patch to have more expression on the face which I look forward to and appreciate they are listening to the fans. Ryder occasionally has a hilarious glitch where the rest of the face won’t move but the eyes will, making it look like they are screaming internally.
As someone who has a few eye problems, I found it difficult to read the tiny writing for the instructions on certain things. Like drive the bloody Nomad properly. And who thought it was a good idea to do light blue writing? It barely stands out half the time. I’m still of the opinion that players should get to see what colour the writing is in and maybe the font too while we’re there. It’s annoying but it can be resolved by me peeling myself off the sofa and getting closer to the TV.
Despite some of the flaws, I have thoroughly enjoyed what I have played thus far considering I have made it to a high level. I may have also spend an entire day playing the game without realising I forgot to eat lunch. It is truly an immersive world which has the player explore so many different planets. This may take me a while to complete the entire game (including all the minor missions), but I look forward to seeing how it ends and I dare say I’ll be a little sad when it does.
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Boris?
Filed under: Boris, Europe, Politics, Trump — derryvickers @ 6:37 pm
Is it Boris?
Oh No! Its Trump.
So alike.
Trump and Boris: so look alike
An Alliance Made in Heaven?
Filed under: Brexit, Europe, Jeremy Corbyn, Theresa may — derryvickers @ 9:04 am
Well perhaps not!
A Heavenly Alliance
There’s a Hole in my Bucket Dear Theresa
Filed under: Brexit, Politics, Security, Theresa may — derryvickers @ 10:46 am
“The Huawei 5G row took a very serious turn yesterday after Cabinet Secretary Sir Mark Sedwill (pictured above) wrote to all ministers, special advisers and officials to demand answers on who was responsible for the leak. In what looks like the inverse of Murder on the Orient Express – “none of us did it!” – all those Cabinet ministers who were said to have raised concerns at the Chinese firm’s role (Williamson, Javid, Hunt, Fox, Mordaunt) have now put out categoric denials that they were responsible for the breach of confidence.”
“One Tory MP told me the UK’s industrial strategy should now focus on how to help Huawei’s rivals like Nokia.”
Read Paul Waugh at PAUL WAUGH <dailybrief@huffpost.com> for 26 April 2019
Nancy Pelosi on Brexit: why Irish-US diplomacy is a powerful force in border talks – Liam Kennedy
Filed under: Brexit, Europe, Good Friday Agreement, Ireland, Politics, USA — derryvickers @ 6:00 pm
““Let me be clear, if the Brexit deal undermines the Good Friday Accord, there will be no chance of a US-UK trade agreement.”
For the full article
https://flipboard.com/topic/nancypelosi/nancy-pelosi-on-brexit%3A-why-irish-us-diplomacy-is-a-powerful-force-in-border-tal/a-w_Ey6CIET_CQgimrtlY0Vw%3Aa%3A2815871887-ff4a09e83f/scotsman.com
Lyra McKee, A Funeral and the Good Friday Agreement for Hope in Ireland
Filed under: Brexit, Good Friday Agreement, Ireland, Politics, The Troubles — derryvickers @ 1:55 pm
One can but hope for Northern Ireland
Remember the Good Friday Agreement 22 May 1996
A catholic reporter’s funeral service in a protestant church
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/apr/24/theresa-may-to-attend-lyra-mckee-funeral
“Northern Ireland’s political parties have called a de facto truce in the region’s toxic, dysfunctional politicking. Sinn Féin and DUP leaders appeared together in Derry after the killing, drawing praise and encouragement to start talks on restoring power-sharing.”
Let’s just hope it’s a stimulus for Power Staring to begin again on 22 May 2019.
You can find more of a eulogy to Lyra McKee and the Good Friday Agreement at
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/21/killing-lyra-mckee-derry-shows-how-hard-it-is-for-wars-to-end-sinead-oshea
The Last Supper Then and Now
Filed under: Climate Change, Greta Thunberg, History in the making, Jeremy Corbyn, Personal, Politics, Sustainability, UK Parliament — derryvickers @ 9:11 am
Greta Thunberg talking with Caroline Lucas and Jeremy Corbyn at the UK Parliament on 23 April 2019.
Greta Thunberg should be encouraged to speak to the UK Parliament as a whole.
In any case, if Trump is allowed to speak to the UK Parliament in June (and I hope Bercow succeeds again in stopping him) then Greta should be invited to follow immediately afterwards.
To Focus on a Brexit Resolution
Filed under: Europe, Good Friday Agreement, Ireland, Jeremy Corbyn, Politics, Yeats — derryvickers @ 9:45 am
I did not know how to comment on the murder of Lyra McKee in Derry last Thursday but Brian Wilson showed the way in Saturday’s Scotsman.
https://www.scotsman.com/lyra-mckee-s-murder-shows-danger-of-no-deal-brexit-in-n-ireland-brian-wilson-1-4911924
I particularly welcome: “This is not just “one issue among many” but – as I have repeatedly argued over the past couple of years – the one that must condition the whole negotiation. You cannot have a hard border within Ireland. Full stop.”
And his conclusion: “While there is no ideal solution to Brexit, there are certainly lessers of evil. There are many good reasons for real leaders to act on that principle and Irish peace is one of them.”
I am repeated reminded of Yeats ‘A Second Coming’
Let’s hope that the Good Friday Agreement remains intact.
The Strange Case of Julian Assange
Filed under: Assange, Europe, Jeremy Corbyn, Patrick Cockburn, Politics, Social, USA — derryvickers @ 2:15 pm
Assange had pleaded political asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for the last seven years.
He was eventually expelled last Thursday and arrested by the Met.
Since then many have come to his defence and an equal number have attacked him because
Julian Assange is wanted on two counts:
Hacking and Leaking US military information principally on its war in Iraq
Accused of rape in Sweden
You can read more about Hacking and Leaking in
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/julian-assange-wikileaks-chelsea-manning-war-democracy-a8867816.html
Cockburn believes that leaking / whistleblowing is essential in this increasingly authoritarian world and finishes his article with:
‘Assange is likely to pay a higher price than Ellsberg for his exposure of government secrets. The Pentagon Papers were published when the media was becoming freer across the world while now it is on the retreat as authoritarian governments replace democratic ones and democratic governments become more authoritarian.
The fate of Assange will be a good guide as to how far we are going down this road and the degree to which freedom of expression is threatened in Britain at a time of deepening political crisis.’
In his and Jeremy Corbyn’s view the UK Government should reject any US request to expatriate Assange to the US.
But to the Rape Charge, so far one case has been closed but the other is still open and the Swedish Government has yet to request expatriation. If the Swedish Government does ask for Assange to be repatriated to stand trial then the UK Government would find it difficult to refused, we are currently still part of the EU with Sweden.
Dani Garavelli in the Scotsman on Sunday:
https://www.scotsman.com/news/opinion/dani-garavelli-assange-apologists-make-light-rape-case-1-4906997
‘Labour backbenchers, including Diana Johnson, Stephen Kinnock, Stephanie Peacock and Stella Creasy, signed an open letter to Home Secretary Sajid Javid seeking assurances that every assistance would be offered to Sweden should it make an extradition request.
Garavelli noted that:
‘In the end though, as so often, it was Emily Thornberry who nailed it. “Why weren’t the Swedish authorities told in advance of Assange’s ejection from the Ecuadorian Embassy as the US clearly was? Our priority should be the alleged two victims of sexual violence in Sweden and not a ruse to get him extradited to the US as a whistleblower,” she wrote.’
And that sums up the main difference between the two potential charges: A clear court case as to whether Assange did or did not rape two ladies in contrast to the undoubted leak of US extremely dubious human rights violation in Iraq and Afghanistan.
At present of course Assange is in UK custody and the UK government will have to decide whether to expedite Assange to Sweden if asked, or to the US. In my view the UK should expedite to Sweden, but I don’t know if the UK Government can successfully seek a clause in the agreement to so could prevent Assange there after being expedited to the US.
Just to finish for the time being; it looks clear that the Ecuadorian Embassy was pleased to get rid of their visitor after seven years
‘I think the first thing to say is Ecuador has been making some pretty outrageous allegations over the past few days to justify what was an unlawful and extraordinary act in allowing British police to come inside an embassy,” [Jennifer Robinson, Assange’s lawyer] said’
https://www.scotsman.com/news/assange-s-lawyer-claims-ecuador-made-smears-to-justify-arrest-1-4907277
Post Script: I have now read a similar view to my collection above. See
https://labourlist.org/2019/04/labours-response-to-the-arrest-of-julian-assange-doesnt-cut-it/
Una fotografia di un buco nero
Filed under: Black Holes, Brexit, Italian, Politics, Space, World Class — derryvickers @ 2:55 pm
Lo trovo affascinante.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/apr/10/black-hole-picture-captured-for-first-time-in-space-breakthrough
Un’impresa magistrale!
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Trovo difficile capire che si vede il buco nero stesso non oscurato da gas caldo, ma accetto la spiegazione che è un effetto di gravità attorcigliata intorno al buco.
Scusa se è una deviazione inutile dalla Brexit.
Ma per me è un piccolo gettone che le persone possono e lavorano in cooperazione in tutto il mondo.
Prendo nota del Corriere della sera
La prima (storica) immagine di un buco nero: in Rete i paragoni più ironici, dal tortellino all’occhio di Sauron
May to work with Corbyn – after 2 years
Filed under: Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, Politics, Theresa may — derryvickers @ 9:47 am
Two contrasting views of the same eventful day 02/04/19
Paul Waugh in Huffington Post
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/theresa-may-finally-tries-to-break-free-of-her-brexiteer-prison-but-will-jeremy-corbyn-help-her-escape_uk_5ca3df58e4b0ed0d780dfd4d?95d&ncid=newsletter-ukThe%20Waugh%20Zone%20030419&utm_campaign=newsletter-The%20Waugh%20Zone%20030419&guccounter=1
and John Crace in the Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/series/the-politics-sketch
Both say in their individual styles that May is running a serious risk in finishing the Tory Party by inviting Corbyn to assist and Corbyn will be taking a serious risk that the Labour heartland will abandon them.
If the outcome is a joint recommendation to vote on a soft Brexit it could be worth it as a stay of exit from the EU for another 18 months but no more. But I do have my doubts that May and Corbyn are anything of the calibre of Churchill and Atlee.
I can only hope that the Bill before the UK Parliament today tabled by Yvette Cooper and Oliver Letwin to prevent the UK leaving the EU without an agreement is successful. A real Stake in the Ground.
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Funeral of Diana Princess of Wales, White Hotel, reviewed
Danny Moran 7 September 2018
Danny Moran gets up close to the death car in this bizarre 'artistic exorcism'
The word comes through on Messenger, as it so often does where Austin Collings is concerned. There’s to be a xerox re-enactment of Princess Diana’s funeral, staged at the White Hotel night club, twenty years to the day after the Peoples’ Princess was originally slung to rest.
“Cat. Pigeons. Us.” reads the note, and there’s a link to some fulminations in the Daily Star. “Harry’s mum” to be “exorcised” at the “sick and twisted” event. As a writer, and head farmer at the secretive Salford culture-barn, Collings has never shied from sticking two fingers at popular sentiment - in fact, he’s more or less got two fingers on a stick, truth be told - so it seems too earnest an invitation to swerve.
Inside a mouldering ex auto garage, on the lip of an uneasy edgeland, a mitred minister steps up...
That’s how we wind up in a dog-leg alleyway by Victoria Station, as a coffin draped in quartered livery is unloaded from the back of an estate car, and a procession duly unfolds, sending us down back streets, along the contours of the river, through the thick of the rush hour jam, to an industrial estate backyard of stolid Strangeways-land. A hundred-or-so White Hotel faithful in ragged mourning tweed…shades and veils…clutching posies to throw at the sadness in the road.
Dead weight bearing the nation's grief
“We are gathered here in The White Hotel to give thanks for the life of Diana…”
Inside a mouldering ex auto garage, on the lip of an uneasy edgeland, a mitred minister steps up to deliver the solemn ceremonial bidding. In the half light, orders of service in our mitts, we crane our necks to glimpse the establishment in the quire. Behind us, the hull of the death car…or a treacle-toned VW Golf, at least…crumple-nosed, bedecked with flowers, driver's door torn off, hank of blonde hair fluttering limply in the footwell.
“Goodbye England’s rose…”
The music is delivered by a three piece mariachi band…charro suits, sombreros big as boats, as flowers rain down on the low stage and words are wistfully mouthed by the congregation.
“The girl given the name of the Goddess of hunting was in the end the most hunted person of the modern age…”
Earl Spencer’s famous tribute, voiced by the writer Jonathan Meades, is piped in from up in the gantry where the DJ awaits his slot.
“Diana, our companion in faith and sister in Christ, we entrust you to God…”
Paparazzi lie in wait
The Death Car: crumple-nosed, bedecked with flowers, driver's door torn off
Brexitland satire? Poundland publicity stunt? Or just a retread of one of MI5’s greatest hits? Take a look at the spectacle surrounding you. The avant garde is in power now, and the world stopped making sense. It’s all cabaret, and dada is the official line.
The dry ice clears. The bar opens. The DJ puts on some vinyl.
“Is that the Ryanair logo?” says someone, as we gather around the car.
"Oh yeah..." says a voice as the coffin drapes are inspected.
“She’s got her tits out.”
“Yeah, I can see that.”
“Apart from that, though…it’s the Ryanair symbol isn’t it?”
We stand and sup our drinks as patrons take turns behind the wheel, try the seatbelts, and the scene slowly fades from funeral to party.
Candle in the Wind - Mariachi Band
The White Hotel has worked hard to acquire its status as the city’s premier under-the-radar den of iniquity. To compare it with the early years of the Hacienda might be to stretch an unwilling point, but point also to some home truths regarding local culture. For just as Factory’s famous playroom took its name from the situationist injunction that “the hacienda must be built” so this surreptitious night spot derives its identity too from the annals of literature: DM Thomas’s 1981 novel of that name is an excursion into the horrors of the holocaust courtesy of Freud’s controversial theory of the death drive.
The remote academic who christened this Salford establishment believes that the shoah should not be responded to solely through piety: to do so is to risk replicating the fascist impulse, so the theory goes. You have to pick at the rules. Browsing the posts on the Atrocity Boy blog which attended the White Hotel’s predecessor, The Bunker, you might glean an insight into the motivations swirling around the club. If your night time is cut to the beat of the Northern Quarter then you will go out, drink, flirt, fight, fall in love, and go home according to somebody else’s plan. And then one day you will die. Is that a contract you are willing to sign and seal?
Here, so the management would have it, with its all-night licence and its reputation for casual hedonism, is one of the sparks of the regeneration of the Salford border. The spectacle of a bunch of nighthawks, not one spring chicken among them, doing their damnedest to offend everyone in sight might say much about the corporate / Art Council ethos which has taken hold of contemporary culture, and the generation gap which divides the old and the new Manchester. What Collings, writer Stanley Shtinter, filmmaker Chris Petit, impresario Ben Ward and others are up to may be difficult to discern, but you can be sure they’re manning the frontier between ideas of the city.
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Salford's Peel Park is looking lovely - now let's sort the rest out
Jonathan Schofield 4 July 2018
Jonathan Schofield thinks the provision of beautiful parks should be part of health policy
PEEL Park is looking beautiful.
Despite the browning of this long hot early summer there’s a serenity and crispness to the place, with the circular rhythm of the main flower beds, the grand stairs on two sides, and a broad river on another. A focus has been added with the return of the statue of Joseph Brotherton, MP. The change of ground level, 22 metres (75ft) from the back of Salford Museum and Art Gallery, to the main area of the park, adds visual interest. There are numerous notice boards to give the place a back story. The only bum note is the ugly University of Salford building, Maxwell House, which was unfortunately sited at the main entrance to the park in the fifties.
There’s money in place at Peel Park for park rangers to care for the place until 2020 and, it must be hoped, more funding can be found to continue their good work. The cost of the transformation has been £2.5 million from Heritage Lottery funding but also the husbandry of people like Joe Palframan, the park ranger, who has put heart and soul into getting this public space this far. Talk to him and you can see the pride in his eyes, and the determination to build on the good work. “Yes, I’m proud of what we have achieved and how far we’ve come, but there’s more to do yet.”
The cost of the transformation has been £2.5m
The returned statue of Joseph Brotherton MP
Peel Park, named after the Prime Minister and its major donor, Robert Peel, was one of three Salford and Manchester parks opened on the same day on 22 August 1846. The others were Philips Park in Clayton and Queens Park in Harpurhey. These three were the first truly municipal (corporation) parks built from new in the UK. Each of them was required to contain formal gardens, playgrounds, provision for archery and quoits, together with skittle and ball alleys, a refreshment room, one or more fountains, and ‘retiring places’. The competition to design the parks was won by Joshua Major & Son of Leeds.
On Sunday the entire working population sinks into a state of abject sloth or listless apathy
The motivation was clear as contemporary comments reveal: it was a moral mission. This is James Kay writing with condescension turned to maximum.
‘Dear sir,-I hasten to give my testimony in favour of your proposal to connect public parks with great towns, in order to promote helpful recreation amongst the working classes. The operative population of Manchester enjoys little or no leisure during the week, the whole available time being absorbed by their occupations. The few hours which intervene between labour and sleep are generally spent either at the tavern, or in making some necessary family arrangements. On Sunday the entire working population sinks into a state of abject sloth or listless apathy, or even into the more degrading condition of reckless sensuality. Were parks provided, recreation would be taken with avidity, and one of the best results would be a substitution with innocent amusement at all times for the debasing pleasures now in vogue.’
Green and lush by the River Irwell
Local MP Mark Philips and a chief supporter of the parks spoke more sympathetically, “I would hope that these public walks, these open spaces of ground, will not be placed in the outskirts of the town, too great a distance from the working population themselves; that they will not become places of resort for the wealthy parts of the community alone, in the immediate vicinity of their own dwellings, but that the greatest possible care will be taken in the selection of these places so as to secure the greatest possible advantage to the greatest number of the population. By bringing together all classes the mutual improvement of all classes must result, together with a greater degree of confidence between one class and another; for the more they mix with one another the more they will understand one another.”
Yes, it is top down language, it is not how we speak now, but much of what Philips said applies today. It has been one of the terrible derelictions of duty of national and local government that from the eighties onwards they forgot the motivation that created the parks in the first place, and once cherished beautiful places became green slums.
Now it seems we have started to relearn those lessons. Give people better living conditions, make the places where they live contain at least some beauty and the benefits in terms of well-being, respect and identity are huge.
Numerous notice boards give the place a back story
A shady riverside stroll
Yet Peel Park’s renaissance and those elsewhere at, say, the Alexandra Parks in Moss Side and Oldham, are a drop in the ocean. One of those other parks from 1846, Queen’s Park in Harpurhey, is a disgrace and this in an area that has very low health indices and much poverty. In the fifties and sixties the public parks of this region were a byword for good maintenance and beauty.
The National Health Service (NHS) is a vast sponge that soaks in more and more cash. Theresa May is promising in the coming years to pump in £20 billion to add to the already £125 billion annually being spent in England alone. Meanwhile the main part of the NHS devolution to Greater Manchester concerned a more holistic approach, treating the whole person, catching problems early and trying to save lives, health and money by taking away the need for hospital visits.
In this respect, the re-creation of beautiful parks with good civic sports facilities (not private gyms) in towns and cities along with a general boost to the public realm should be treated as a part of UK health provision. Not directly of course, because the wastage in the NHS is appalling, but intellectually so. Ball-park figures these, if you forgive the pun, but why not take £5 billion of that extra £20 billion per year and over several years bring our parks and green spaces, in particular, up to scratch so they become as well-used as they once were.
Those three original parks, although run by Manchester and Salford corporations (now the city councils), were largely funded through philanthropy. That wouldn’t work, sadly, in 2018, so state support is the key. £5 billion a year would mean 200 parks improved every year if capped on average at £2.5 million - or 1,000 every five years. Simplistic calculations these, but providing a very healthy statistic.
Peel Park is about three quarters of a mile from Deansgate at the junction with Bridge Street. The best access is from the Crescent by walking behind Salford Museum and Art Gallery. The walk from the city centre through the hectic and very welcome redevelopment of Chapel Street, Salford, is entertaining in its own right. There are regular events at the Park and an active Friends group should recent incomers into the new Chapel Street area flats want to get involved.
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Excellent article again Jonathan. Without a doubt you are Manchester's best local historian. The historical context you give important in showing why parks were created and why they should be seen, by councils and Government, as vital today.
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great photos...it is looking good
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abstract = "RATIONALE: A robust finding in the alcohol literature is that heavy and alcohol-dependent drinkers show stronger reactions to alcohol-related cues than light drinkers. However, there are individual differences in the degree of cue-elicited craving. Personality factors appear to be involved in cue reactivity and impulsivity is a possible candidate. OBJECTIVES: The aim of the present study was to examine the role of different aspects of impulsivity in heavy drinking and alcohol cue reactivity in social drinkers. METHODS: Participants were heavy (n = 13) and light (n = 29) social drinkers who were exposed to neutral and alcohol-related stimuli during a single laboratory session. Trait impulsivity, response inhibition, and sensitivity to reward were assessed with the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11), the Stop Signal Task, and the Card-Arranging Reward Responsivity Objective Test, respectively. RESULTS: Heavy drinkers scored higher on trait impulsivity (BIS-11) than light drinkers. In addition, heavy drinkers reported elevated levels of craving for alcohol, but both in light and heavy drinkers, craving increased equally after exposure to alcohol cues. Impulsivity appeared to moderate this relation: heavy drinkers with ineffective response inhibition showed more craving to alcohol cues, compared to heavy drinkers with adequate response inhibition. In light drinkers, response inhibition did not influence craving to alcohol cues. CONCLUSIONS: Different aspects of impulsivity are involved in heavy drinking and perhaps motivate alcohol consumption in a variety of ways. Having a deficient response inhibition appears to be a risk factor for heavy drinkers because it is associated with increased craving to alcohol cues.",
author = "H. Papachristou and C. Nederkoorn and R. Havermans and {van der Horst}, M and A. Jansen",
doi = "10.1007/s00213-011-2240-5",
volume = "219",
journal = "Psychopharmacology",
publisher = "Springer",
T1 - Can't stop the craving: The effect of impulsivity on cue-elicited craving for alcohol in heavy and light social drinkers
AU - Papachristou, H.
AU - Nederkoorn, C.
AU - Havermans, R.
AU - van der Horst, M
AU - Jansen, A.
N2 - RATIONALE: A robust finding in the alcohol literature is that heavy and alcohol-dependent drinkers show stronger reactions to alcohol-related cues than light drinkers. However, there are individual differences in the degree of cue-elicited craving. Personality factors appear to be involved in cue reactivity and impulsivity is a possible candidate. OBJECTIVES: The aim of the present study was to examine the role of different aspects of impulsivity in heavy drinking and alcohol cue reactivity in social drinkers. METHODS: Participants were heavy (n = 13) and light (n = 29) social drinkers who were exposed to neutral and alcohol-related stimuli during a single laboratory session. Trait impulsivity, response inhibition, and sensitivity to reward were assessed with the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11), the Stop Signal Task, and the Card-Arranging Reward Responsivity Objective Test, respectively. RESULTS: Heavy drinkers scored higher on trait impulsivity (BIS-11) than light drinkers. In addition, heavy drinkers reported elevated levels of craving for alcohol, but both in light and heavy drinkers, craving increased equally after exposure to alcohol cues. Impulsivity appeared to moderate this relation: heavy drinkers with ineffective response inhibition showed more craving to alcohol cues, compared to heavy drinkers with adequate response inhibition. In light drinkers, response inhibition did not influence craving to alcohol cues. CONCLUSIONS: Different aspects of impulsivity are involved in heavy drinking and perhaps motivate alcohol consumption in a variety of ways. Having a deficient response inhibition appears to be a risk factor for heavy drinkers because it is associated with increased craving to alcohol cues.
AB - RATIONALE: A robust finding in the alcohol literature is that heavy and alcohol-dependent drinkers show stronger reactions to alcohol-related cues than light drinkers. However, there are individual differences in the degree of cue-elicited craving. Personality factors appear to be involved in cue reactivity and impulsivity is a possible candidate. OBJECTIVES: The aim of the present study was to examine the role of different aspects of impulsivity in heavy drinking and alcohol cue reactivity in social drinkers. METHODS: Participants were heavy (n = 13) and light (n = 29) social drinkers who were exposed to neutral and alcohol-related stimuli during a single laboratory session. Trait impulsivity, response inhibition, and sensitivity to reward were assessed with the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11), the Stop Signal Task, and the Card-Arranging Reward Responsivity Objective Test, respectively. RESULTS: Heavy drinkers scored higher on trait impulsivity (BIS-11) than light drinkers. In addition, heavy drinkers reported elevated levels of craving for alcohol, but both in light and heavy drinkers, craving increased equally after exposure to alcohol cues. Impulsivity appeared to moderate this relation: heavy drinkers with ineffective response inhibition showed more craving to alcohol cues, compared to heavy drinkers with adequate response inhibition. In light drinkers, response inhibition did not influence craving to alcohol cues. CONCLUSIONS: Different aspects of impulsivity are involved in heavy drinking and perhaps motivate alcohol consumption in a variety of ways. Having a deficient response inhibition appears to be a risk factor for heavy drinkers because it is associated with increased craving to alcohol cues.
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DO - 10.1007/s00213-011-2240-5
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Faith & the Future Force #1
Written By: Jody Houser
Art By: Barry Kitson, Jelena Kevic Djurdjevic, Stephen Segovia
Digital Release Date: July 26th, 2017
Rated Teen/Young Adults (ages 13+)
A SPECTACULAR SUMMER EVENT! This summer, every second counts when acclaimed writer Jody Houser (Mother Panic, Star Wars: Rogue One), explosive artist Stephen Segovia (Ninjak, Action Comics), comics legend Barry Kitson (Fantastic Four), and special surprise guests push Faith into a centuries-spanning fight for existence alongside the greatest heroes of the Valiant Universe...past, present, and future! Faith "Zephyr" Herbert - former member of Unity, current Harbinger Renegade, and Los Angeles' #1 superhero - is the universe's last, best chance at survival! Centuries from today, a devious artificial intelligence has unleashed a blistering attack on the very foundations of time ...one that is unwriting history from beginning to end! Now, with her options exhausted, Neela Sethi, Timewalker - the self-appointed protector of what is and will be - has returned to the 21st century to recruit Earth's greatest champions of today and tomorrow to oppose this existential threat...and she needs Faith to lead them! But why Faith? And why now? This July, fly to the farthest edges of the future in a death-defying race to save time itself as Faith leads the charge alongside Valiant's greatest heroes...and becomes a new legend for the ages!
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Eloquentia Perfecta: Fairfield Core Writing Anthology of Student Work
Fairfield University Core Writing Program
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This Anthology presents exemplary writing by first-year students in the Core Writing Program. As the first “born digital” volume, it introduces students to the elegance of digital publication. The Anthology demonstrates the Core Writing Program's dedication to the Jesuit tradition of eloquentia perfecta—the notion of active engagement with language in the service of public good and personal development.
Map of Early Modern London
Shannon E. Kelley
Faculty Contribution; Pedagogy; Student Project
The Map of Early Modern London (MoEML), is an ongoing project by the University of Victoria to map the spatial imaginary of Shakespeare’s city. The project asks how London’s spaces and places were named, traversed, used, repurposed, and contested by various practitioners, writers, and civic officials. MoEML’s maps allow users to plot people, historical documents, literary works, and recent critical research onto topography and the built environment.
Shannon Kelley is a MoEML Pedagogical Partner of the project. Students enrolled in English 213 – Shakespeare I at Fairfield University in the Fall of 2014 also contributed to the project.
"Beauty and the Beast" Through the Ages: Exploring the Feminist and Narratological Implications of Attempts to Modernize the Classic Tale
Jessica Romeo and Nels C. Pearson
Student Project
Beauty and the Beast from the 18th Century to the Present is an interactive eBook (created using Apple's iBook Author) by Jessica Romeo '17 as part of her EN 390 Literature Capstone, taught by Professor Nels Pearson, in the fall of 2017. The project offers both a critical overview and interactive timeline of the history of adaptations of Beauty and the Beast from the 18th Century to the present.
Note: For best experience, use iBook application on Mac or iOS devices to open the iBook file (.ibooks). Users without Apple devices can view the regular pdf version (without interactive elements).
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Ninoy Aquino International Airport (MNL), Andrews Ave, Pasay, 1300 Metro Manila and Vienna, Austria
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If average speed of your car will be standard for this route between Ninoy Aquino International Airport (MNL), Andrews Ave, Pasay, 1300 Metro Manila and Vienna, Austria and road conditions will be as usual, time that you will need to arrive to Vienna, Austria will be 1 hour.
Driving distance between Ninoy Aquino International Airport (MNL), Andrews Ave, Pasay, 1300 Metro Manila and Vienna, Austria is calculated by google maps and it is 99 mi.
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Brussels/Lugano, 29 October 2015. Today, on World Psoriasis Day, the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology highlights the importance of tackling prejudices against patients with psoriasis.
Nearly three percent of the world's population, men, women, and children, even new-born babies, endure the symptoms of psoriasis. Many tolerate constant pain from cracking and bleeding skin. They sometimes fall victims of public rejection because of the misunderstanding surrounding the disease. Some people still compare psoriasis to being unclean or self-imposed and shun those who bear its mark. As a result, many people with psoriasis isolate themselves because of such a deep sense of shame.
Although psoriasis is a visible condition, patients still suffer from others’ misperceptions, especially about the most persistent prejudice, that psoriasis is contagious. Persons suffering from psoriasis have a tendency of isolating themselves from their peers and this loneliness can lead to depression and anxiety.
Focusing the general public on these facts is also the goal of the recent World Health Organization Resolution on Psoriasis.
Between 7 and 11 October 2015, during the 24th Congress of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology in Copenhagen, a number of leading experts discussed everything new around psoriasis. At the same time, the EADV was proud to host for the first time a Patient Village within the premises of the Congress, bringing together practitioners and patients of skin diseases. Today our thoughts are with the patients of psoriasis. The EADV is committed to keep raising its voice for psoriasis, not only in terms of scientific research, but also to help patients overcome societal prejudices and improve relations with doctors.
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EbonyLife Films’ Chief Daddy Netflix release party
Lagos, 14 March 2019. The crew and star cast of the Chief Daddy movie, including Mo Abudu, Niyi Akinmolayan, Kate Henshaw, Funke Akindele, Ini Edo, Dakore Egbuson, Ajoke Silva, Taiwo Obeleye and other renowned guests celebrated the launch of the movie at the Netflix launch party, held in Lagos on Tuesday, 12 ... Read More
Chief Daddy, Netflix
Lagos, 5 March 2019. EbonyLife Films’ Chief Daddy, the third-highest-grossing movie in Nollywood box office history, will be available to viewers around the world from 15th March 2019 on Netflix. When Lagos-based billionaire Chief Daddy keels over suddenly at the dinner table, there’s a scramble amongst family members, household staff and mistresses for a slice ... Read More
MEET ‘FAMZY’: FALZ STEALS THE SHOW IN THIS CAPTIVATING FINAL TEASER FOR CHIEF DADDY
Lagos, October 19th, 2018. In true EbonyLife fashion, the final teaser for Chief Daddy is nothing short of exceptional. The long-awaited teaser reveals the eccentric character, ‘Famzy’. Played by award-winning rapper, entertainer and actor, Folarin ‘Falz’ Falana, ‘Famzy’ is the spoiled, privileged son and heir apparent of Chief Beecroft, who turned down a role in ... Read More
Major brands move to sponsor EbonyLife’s ‘Chief Daddy’
Star-studded comedy supported by Keystone Bank, Johnnie Walker, Airtel and Bollinger Lagos, 20 June 2018 – EbonyLife Films, producers of Fifty, The Wedding Party, The Wedding Party 2: Destination Dubai and The Royal Hibiscus Hotel, is thrilled to announce that Keystone Bank, Johnnie Walker, Airtel and Bollinger are sponsors for its upcoming movie, Chief Daddy. ... Read More
Royal Hibiscus Hotel streamed for over 100,000 hours in 11 weeks on Amazon Prime
Romantic comedy from EbonyLife is a hit with audiences outside Africa Lagos, 8 June 2018 – EbonyLife Films, producers of Fifty, The Wedding Party and The Wedding Party 2, is excited to announce that its latest production, The Royal Hibiscus Hotel (RHH) has been viewed for over 100,000 hours in only 11 weeks on the ... Read More
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Royal Hibiscus Hotel to be available on MTN network
Latest Nollywood blockbuster from EbonyLife gets digital release on June 1 Lagos, 4 May 2018 – EbonyLife Films, producers of Fifty, The Wedding Party and The Wedding Party 2, is excited to announce that its latest production, The Royal Hibiscus Hotel (RHH) will be available digitally, on the MTN network, via MTN Shortz, from June ... Read More
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Filming wraps up for EbonyLife production, Chief Daddy
Moviegoers will be delighted with star-studded dramatic comedy this festive season Lagos, 3 May 2017 – After weeks of blood, sweat and tears, EbonyLife Films, producers of Fifty, The Wedding Party, The Wedding Party 2: Destination Dubai and The Royal Hibiscus Hotel gladly announces the end of the filming period of its newest movie – ... Read More
EbonyLife assembles stellar cast for its latest blockbuster film
Upcoming dramatic comedy promises to be this December’s hit movie Lagos, 18 April 2017 – EbonyLife Films, producers of Fifty, The Wedding Party, The Wedding Party 2: Destination Dubai and The Royal Hibiscus Hotel (RHH) is delighted to announce that production has begun on its newest movie, the intriguingly titled Chief Daddy. Set in Lagos, ... Read More
Amazon Prime licenses Royal Hibiscus Hotel for audiences outside Africa
Newest romantic comedy from EbonyLife gets international release Lagos, 29 March 2018 – EbonyLife Films, producers of Fifty, The Wedding Party and The Wedding Party 2, is excited to announce that its latest production, The Royal Hibiscus Hotel (RHH) will be available on the Amazon Prime platform from March 30. This is good news for ... Read More
EbonyLife treats 300 inspirational women to private screening of Royal Hibiscus Hotel
Hit romantic comedy to be enjoyed in celebration of International Women’s Day 2018 Lagos, 12 March 2018 – In celebration of this year’s International Women’s Day, EbonyLife Films, producers of Fifty, The Wedding Party and The Wedding Party 2, will screen its latest movie, The Royal Hibiscus Hotel (RHH) on March 28. The event is ... Read More
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I’m proud to announce the birth of MakerBot.TV, a new online web video series that I co-produced covering all things awesome in the world of MakerBot.
I spent most of July and August working out of MakerBot’s Brooklyn Headquarters (the BotCave) to concept, staff and launch this new series. Working with long-time pal Bre Pettis, MakerBot’s cofounder, CEO and former video superstar himself, we set to work on coming up with a new 12 to 14 episode weekly series that would appeal to current MakerBot owners and non-owners alike.
The show has to be entertaining, informative, tell great stories and appeal to a wide audience. The first thing we did was set about finding the perfect person to bring in full-time as MakerBot’s Video Superstar. This was not an easy search as the role demanded not just a great on-screen presence, but someone who can think creatively, quickly, knows online video production, is a great editor and isn’t freaked out by deadlines. After almost a month of searching, we hired Annelise Jeske.
Annelise is perfect for the role. She’s got a cool sense about things, is very creative, driven, and didn’t freak out when I threw Final Cut X at her and said “you’ll be using this.” Once Annelise was on board, she and I set to work to concept out the various segments, branding, music and story ideas.
MakerBot’s 3D printers aren’t just a product, they’re a lifestyle. While still arguably in the early adopter and hobbyist days, these robots are part of an ecosystem that is exploding with creative use and potential. To own a MakerBot Thing-o-Matic isn’t to just own a machine that makes replacement parts for your home. It’s about being part of something much bigger. It’s about being part of a fast growing segment of humans who are using shared ideas, designs, software and hardware to build upon the greatness of others. Call it the DIY movement, the maker movement, whatever. It’s about solving problems, learning, creating and ultimately sharing knowledge with others like you.
MakerBot has spawned a growing community of people who share their 3D designs on an open website called Thingiverse. If you design a bicycle mobile phone mount or coat hook, you can share those designs on Thingiverse and others will build upon them to improve or make variants of them. This is exciting stuff, because that means as a new MakerBot owner, you have access to thousands of products that you can print out at any time. There’s new models posted all the time, so we’re doing a regular segment called Thingiverse Roundup that focuses on cool stuff found here.
Annelise has experience doing stop motion animation, so we quickly decided that the opening sequence and segment IDs should be animated using printed models and letters. We saw Tony Buser‘s Bob the Bobblehead robot appear in the office one day and knew we needed to incorporate him into the show.
As a result of Bre’s appearance on the Colbert Report, MakerBot has been scanning the heads of friendly hackers, thinkers, writers, artists and musicians with a high resolution 3D scanner. These scans can be printed out to render a perfect plastic bust thus giving us our Notables segment.
There’s so much more to come. I’m really happy with our debut episode, which features much head scanning when the organizers and artists from the AfroPunk Festival stopped by MakerBot’s workshop. Angelo Moore from the band Fishbone and Reggie Watts are two of the artists who are featured. An excellent model of Yoda and a multi-piece Sword of Omens are featured in the Thingiverse Roundup segments. Future episodes will focus on interesting creators, artists and events in the ever expanding universe of affordable 3D printing.
My role was primarily getting MakerBot TV off the ground. It’s in Annelise’s very capable hands now. The show has tremendous momentum, support from the whole MakerBot staff and a universe of stories that have yet to be told. I’m proud of what we’ve produced and very excited at what’s to come. Please tune in, subscribe and tell your friends. It’s going to be an awesome ride!
I’m spending the next 6 weeks in Brooklyn helping to launch a new video series for MakerBot Industries, makers of your friendly, low cost, desktop 3d printer. We’re looking to a hire a kick ass Online Video Superstar to be the face of this new series and to ultimately take over the daily production aspects of the show. If your passionate about robots, video production and DIY culture, this might just be your dream job. Please apply as we’re looking to hire for this position immediately.
My RoboGames piece is live on Current TV
Many moons ago, I was commissioned by the fine folks over at Current TV to do a VC2 piece on RoboGames, the annual event for all things related to robot fight competitions. The piece follows the team behind Beer Bash, a “special” kind of robot, as they prepare it for competition at RoboGames. It’s airing all week in heavy rotation I’m told, so lemme know if you see it. It’s also on Current’s site and embedded below.
Roboexotica uprising on track
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It’s the day before the big opening of the main event here in Vienna, Austria, the 10th annual Roboexotica Festival for Cocktail-Robotics. Lots of preparation action going on in the Freiraum with several of Johannes’ students collaborating on a few delightfully rude drink dispensing bots. I’m happily joined here by many bot friendly pals from the States including Bre Pettis, CTP, Kal Spelletich, Al Honig and Mitch Heinrich to name just a few, all on track with their creations. Here’s some pix to whet your appetite of the madness to come.
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Last night was one of the best SRL shows ever! Tons of machines, copious amounts of fire, big range, brilliant lighting and weeks of hard work by the crew to produce this 40 minute spectacle. As always, Scott is the go-to man for the best pix.
Video of SRL LA show setup
Here’s a bit of video I shot during the setup of the last SRL show in LA. It runs about 10 minutes. I’m trying out YouTube’s embed to see how it looks.
Why I love SF
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This town rawks! I take it for granted some times, but San Francisco really is the center of the universe. Those who don’t live here, just don’t realize it. Friday night, Marc tipped me off to a VIP reception shmoozie thing for Wired magazine’s NextFest event. Jedi mind tricked my way in and immediately was greeted with a martini. Wandered around amongst the futurist tech, taking in the shiny sites and think to myself how this all reminded me of dot-com irrational exuberance. I remember fondly the days of weekly launch parties greased with free flowing alcohol and endless hype. Thanks for the memories, Wired!
The next day, I returned to NextFest to take in most of what I had missed the night before. Unfortunately, the mass of humanity flooding the hall made it next to impossible to get a good look at anything clearly. The demo for ASIMO was impossible as everyone and their kids wanted in to see the humanoid robot walk up and down stairs. I queued up for the robotics panel discussion after, which was moderately interesting despite the obvious shilling for robotic products made by the moderator Colin Angle’s company. Stories of war profiteering by this same moderator by his same company elicited several boos from the audience. The most interesting points were brought up by Rodney Brooks director of MIT’s CS and AI lab and Ken Goldberg, professor and researcher at UC Berkeley. Brooks said that the Jetsonian dream of Rosie the robot is still at least 20-25 years off. Goldberg was the only panelist to give props to robotics as an art form, rather than pure market commodification as others seemed pre-occupied with.
Other highlights of NextFest were this 3D printer which I witnessed creating skulls, the K-bot which is a robotic head that emulates human facial expressions, the Moller Skycar and the directed sound of HyperSonic Sound technology.
Later that night was the Cloud Factory Design Collective’s 6th annual fashion show. Fucking amazing! Ravers can make hella cool threads and show them off in the most creative of ways. More on this once some pix become available. Like I said, this town rawks!
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What is Sexual Identity and what should we do with it?
What is sexual identity? I’m so glad you asked because I just received a PDF of the short article I wrote for the The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Family Studies. Sexual identity, according to yours truly, “can be defined as a label that helps signify to others who a person is as a sexual being and includes the perceptions, goals, beliefs, and values one has in regard to his/her sexual self.” (p. 1). Sexual identity is a multidimensional construct; it is not just gay or straight. It involves many factors such as gender identity, sexual orientation, sexual attraction, sexual behaviors, and even fantasies & desires. Sexual identity exploration is 100% normal and is an expected aspect of human development.
Understanding sexual identity is pretty important in today’s political climate. Youth is a time of identity exploration, and for many, that includes sexual identity exploration. The issue of sexual identify is often the difference between inclusion and exclusion. Many youth that identify as a sexual minority, which includes orientations such as lesbian, gay, bi, pan, etc., experience exclusion. They are bullied, made fun of, and have laws passed that exclude their protection from such negative behaviors. These youth are four-times more likely to attempt suicide than there straight peers. That is why I can’t help but worry about how sexual minority youth might be feeling about North Carolina’s new law, HB2, a law that limits protections for LGBTQ+ populations. The tone of this law is exclusive, and I know that youth that are exploring their sexual identity are negatively impacted by what they are hearing and seeing.
Understanding sexual identity is a first step, but as adults in the lives of youth, we have an obligation to teach inclusion and kindness. In many ways, this can be a matter of life and death. Parents and caregivers are the number 1 most important protective factor for youth. When the adults closest to these youth love and protect them, their chances of success are greatly improved. All adults can play a part in building inclusive environments that are accepting and supportive. In fact, these environments are essential if we want to promote mental and physical health of our future. Not just for sexual minority youth, but for all youth.
If you would like to learn more or read the article in full, check it out here: wbefs073
Allen, K. (2016). Sexual identity. In C. Shehan (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Family Studies. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
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Observing gravitational-wave transient GW150914 with minimal assumptions
Cranfield Defence and Security
Staff publications - CDS - Shrivenham
Abbott, B. P.; Davies, G. S.; LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration
URI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.122004
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.122004
Abbott, BP., et al., (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration). Observing gravitational-wave transient GW150914 with minimal assumptions. Physical Review D, 93(12), 122004 (2016)
The gravitational-wave signal GW150914 was first identified on September 14, 2015, by searches for short-duration gravitational-wave transients. These searches identify time-correlated transients in multiple detectors with minimal assumptions about the signal morphology, allowing them to be sensitive to gravitational waves emitted by a wide range of sources including binary black hole mergers. Over the observational period from September 12 to October 20, 2015, these transient searches were sensitive to binary black hole mergers similar to GW150914 to an average distance of ∼600 Mpc. In this paper, we describe the analyses that first detected GW150914 as well as the parameter estimation and waveform reconstruction techniques that initially identified GW150914 as the merger of two black holes. We find that the reconstructed waveform is consistent with the signal from a binary black hole merger with a chirp mass of ∼30 M⊙ and a total mass before merger of ∼70 M⊙ in the detector frame.
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