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Joshua to fight on Sky until 2021
World heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua will fight on Sky Sports Box Office for at least another three years after signing a new deal with promoter Matchroom.
The new deal will include a minimum of Joshua’s next five fights, starting with his next bout against Russian brawler Alexander Povetkin at Wembley Stadium on September 22nd.
The Sky Ambassador currently holds the WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO world heavyweight titles with a perfect record of 21 wins from 21 fights. His last bout saw him defeat New Zealand’s Joseph Parker in front of a sell-out crowd at The Principality Stadium in Cardiff on March 31st.
Joshua said: “When I decided to become a professional boxer I felt the boxing market was stagnating and in need of new energy. Both Matchroom and Sky have backed me and have given me opportunity after opportunity and I will always deliver. They’ve worked very hard to give me a platform to showcase my skills and tell my story, so choosing to renew our deal was always a matter of when, not if. We have created history together and we are dedicated to keeping the UK scene in high demand for all boxers and boxing fans, but for me personally, the journey is nowhere near finished yet.”
Barney Francis, Sky Sports Managing Director, said: ‘It’s great news for Sky Sports viewers that Anthony Joshua will continue his relationship with us into the next decade. Since AJ turned professional with Matchroom on Sky five years ago, we have been there every step of the way. He is a real people’s champion and a superb role model for British and global sport. Last year, he took part in one of the greatest heavyweight fights of the modern era, and fans can now look to more drama and more huge nights on Sky Sports Box Office.”
Eddie Hearn, Matchroom Managing Director, added: “I am delighted to extend our promotional agreement with Anthony and also extend his relationship with Sky Sports. Anthony is a huge part of the Matchroom family and we have been with him from the debut to unifying the World heavyweight titles. He is the biggest star in the sport and we look forward to more success, more iconic nights and seeing him become undisputed Heavyweight champion.”
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You are here: Home / Lifestyle / Manchester / News / Manchester School of Art Fashion Show
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16th March 2015 By aAh! 0 293
By Olivia Wright
If you have Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, can read, or follow Kim Kardashian, you will know the past few weeks have been fashion and street style packed. But it wasn’t just New York, London, Milan and Paris who were treated to a touch of glamour, last week first and second year fashion students at Manchester School of Art put on a show to rival even the most experienced designers.
Resembling a Topshop Unique show, it was sleek, experimental and most of all cool. Would you expect anything less from Manchester?
But the show was not months in the making as newly graduated Natalie Dawson explained, “The students put together the hair, the make-up and the looks in less than a week. The looks were styled by the students and then colour ordered to create the fluidity of the looks. The show was completely student organised.”
The 74 looks in the show mixed outsider art with the work of the students, taking inspiration from 1950’s teddy boys and the work of Daniel Johnston. While surprisingly, the gorgeous models were the students or friends of.
Hannah Elizabeth Dawson and Jordan Allen
And with every great show, comes great street style. The ultimate proof that Manchester may be the coolest
city on the earth.
Students, Hannah Elizabeth Dawson and Jordan Allen, whose work was featured in the show described it as “stressful but successful”, while rocking Betsy Johnson inspired street style.
The show I witnessed was truly inspiring, to see the ideas of the future designers in the flesh is not only exciting but also an insight to the people who will be shaping the way we dress in ten years’ time.
The show was anything but amateurish and represented the fun that comes with fashion. Keep the date open for next year!
Photograph credits to Emily Buckley-Jones and Aly Henshall.
Olivia is a second year History student, who is either watching Keeping up with the Kardashians or trying to be them. Follow her on Twitter @oliviawright_.
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I-Team investigation reveals some Bay Area cities fail to solve most homicides
By Dan Noyes
An I-Team investigation has revealed a startling fact that criminals have a very good chance of getting away with murder in several Bay Area cities. Those police departments do a poor job of solving homicide cases, compared to other departments around the bay and the nation. The I-Team's Dan Noyes has been crunching the numbers.
Someone is thinking right now, "You shouldn't talk about this because you'll give a bad guy an idea." Experts say the best thing to do is expose the problem and pressure police departments, public officials and voters to take action.
No one should have to hold their best friend as he dies from a gunshot wound, but that's what Espanosa Matthews did, almost one year ago.
"About 10 or 20 shots went off," Matthews said. "He was shaking, that's all I know, and that was it. I let him go and walked out. I couldn't stay there."
Matthews says 16-year-old Rodney Frazier was a good kid who stayed out of trouble; he had no interest in gangs. He loved basketball and riding dirt bikes. He was still wearing his motorcycle helmet when he stumbled into the bushes and died at the home he shared with his grandfather.
At the time of his death, Richmond police called it a case of mistaken identity. Rodney's grandfather hasn't heard a word from authorities since.
"We raised him ever since he was two months old," said Frazier's grandfather Hozie Evans.
Evans: "It would make me feel a lot better."
Noyes: "If they found the guy?"
Evans: "Yeah, if they found out who did it. Yeah."
Rodney Frazier's death is among the almost 230,000 unsolved homicides in this country since 1980.
"I mean, it's like a war. In fact, you count homicide as a conflict, the murders committed since 1980 are one of the worst wars that America has ever experienced," said Thomas Hargrove of the Murder Accountability Project.
Hargove launched the Murder Accountability Project with a group of retired FBI investigators, criminologists, and investigative reporters.
Their data shows nearly 90 percent of murders were solved in 1965. Now, that number has dropped to about 60 percent, largely because the types of murders have changed -- fewer crimes of passion.
"We are less likely because of better intervention techniques to kill a spouse or girlfriend, so what are left are some kinds of murders that are more difficult to solve," Hargrove said.
Such as gang or drug-related killings, murders of strangers, or for monetary gain.
Hargrove's data shows several police departments around the Bay Area are doing a bad job of investigating homicides.
These are the cities with the most homicides from 2009 to 2013, ranked by how well they solve murders -- the clearance rate. In Richmond, where Rodney died, there were 128 killings, but just 32 percent of them have been cleared. That's the same as Vallejo, with 84 homicides and only 32 percent of them solved. The worst is East Palo Alto that had 35 murders, with just 8.5 percent solved. You can check out the full list here.
"If you really study the problem, how can you not have a sense of outrage?" Hargrove said.
There is hope. Oakland had the most homicides of any Bay Area city in that five year time frame -- 515 killings, and cleared just 212, 41-percent.
Oakland's homicide detectives were overwhelmed. The FBI stepped in to help.
"We're not coming in to take over. We're not coming in to say we're better. We're coming to say, 'How can we help? How can we make a difference?'" said Bertram Fairies of the FBI.
The FBI has assigned five agents fulltime and has many others on call. They're building a command center at the Oakland Police Department so agents can work in the same space as police detectives.
Dan Noyes saw firsthand this past Friday how the project is working. After a brutal torture gang hit, the task force launched six simultaneous pre-dawn raids, arresting 15 suspected gang members, confiscating an automatic rifle with 100-round drum, pistols, cocaine, heroin, and pounds of marijuana at a grow house.
"There's no way we could've pulled off an operation of this magnitude without our federal partners," said Capt. Erise Joyner of the Oakland Police Department.
In the past few months of the joint project, Oakland's homicide clearance rate has jumped to more than 60 percent.
"I don't want this to be like, 'Oh wow, the FBI came in and did something magical.' No, the FBI just came in and along with those detectives, with the increased personnel, it just gave them additional resources to focus on the problem," Fairies said.
That's the key. It takes manpower and a lot of overtime in those crucial 48 hours after a killing. The experts say police chiefs have to help those victims' families and make these cases a priority, and politicians and voters need to give departments the resources they need.
This story is based on numbers that local agencies report to the FBI. But, Richmond police called the I-Team late today to say the FBI missed some of theirs, and their clearance rate is actually 47 percent, not 32 percent. Either way, there is still a lot of work to do.
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Antimicrobial Activity of Monoramnholipids Produced by Bacterial Strains Isolated from the Ross Sea (Antarctica)
Pietro Tedesco, Isabel Maida, Fortunato Palma Esposito, Emiliana Tortorella, Karolina Subko, Chidinma Christiana Ezeofor, Ying Zhang, Jioji Tabudravu, Marcel Jaspars, Renato Fani, Donatella de Pascale
Microorganisms living in extreme environments represent a huge reservoir of novel antimicrobial compounds and possibly of novel chemical families. Antarctica is one of the most extraordinary places on Earth and exhibits many distinctive features. Antarctic microorganisms are well known producers of valuable secondary metabolites. Specifically, several Antarctic strains have been reported to inhibit opportunistic human pathogens strains belonging to Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc). Herein, we applied a biodiscovery pipeline for the identification of anti-Bcc compounds. Antarctic sub-sea sediments were collected from the Ross Sea, and used to isolate 25 microorganisms, which were phylogenetically affiliated to three bacterial genera (Psychrobacter, Arthrobacter, and Pseudomonas) via sequencing and analysis of 16S rRNA genes. They were then subjected to a primary cell-based screening to determine their bioactivity against Bcc strains. Positive isolates were used to produce crude extracts from microbial spent culture media, to perform the secondary screening. Strain Pseudomonas BNT1 was then selected for bioassay-guided purification employing SPE and HPLC. Finally, LC-MS and NMR structurally resolved the purified bioactive compounds. With this strategy, we achieved the isolation of three rhamnolipids, two of which were new, endowed with high (MIC < 1 μg/mL) and unreported antimicrobial activity against Bcc strains.
Marine Drugs
https://doi.org/10.3390/md14050083
Burkholderia cepacia complex
Psychrobacter
Arthrobacter
Biological Assay
ramnholipids
Tedesco, P., Maida, I., Palma Esposito, F., Tortorella, E., Subko, K., Ezeofor, C. C., ... de Pascale, D. (2016). Antimicrobial Activity of Monoramnholipids Produced by Bacterial Strains Isolated from the Ross Sea (Antarctica). Marine Drugs, 14(5), 1-14. [83]. https://doi.org/10.3390/md14050083
Antimicrobial Activity of Monoramnholipids Produced by Bacterial Strains Isolated from the Ross Sea (Antarctica). / Tedesco, Pietro; Maida, Isabel; Palma Esposito, Fortunato; Tortorella, Emiliana; Subko, Karolina; Ezeofor, Chidinma Christiana; Zhang, Ying; Tabudravu, Jioji; Jaspars, Marcel; Fani, Renato; de Pascale, Donatella.
In: Marine Drugs, Vol. 14, No. 5, 83, 26.04.2016, p. 1-14.
Tedesco, P, Maida, I, Palma Esposito, F, Tortorella, E, Subko, K, Ezeofor, CC, Zhang, Y, Tabudravu, J, Jaspars, M, Fani, R & de Pascale, D 2016, 'Antimicrobial Activity of Monoramnholipids Produced by Bacterial Strains Isolated from the Ross Sea (Antarctica)', Marine Drugs, vol. 14, no. 5, 83, pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3390/md14050083
Tedesco P, Maida I, Palma Esposito F, Tortorella E, Subko K, Ezeofor CC et al. Antimicrobial Activity of Monoramnholipids Produced by Bacterial Strains Isolated from the Ross Sea (Antarctica). Marine Drugs. 2016 Apr 26;14(5):1-14. 83. https://doi.org/10.3390/md14050083
Tedesco, Pietro ; Maida, Isabel ; Palma Esposito, Fortunato ; Tortorella, Emiliana ; Subko, Karolina ; Ezeofor, Chidinma Christiana ; Zhang, Ying ; Tabudravu, Jioji ; Jaspars, Marcel ; Fani, Renato ; de Pascale, Donatella. / Antimicrobial Activity of Monoramnholipids Produced by Bacterial Strains Isolated from the Ross Sea (Antarctica). In: Marine Drugs. 2016 ; Vol. 14, No. 5. pp. 1-14.
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[BLOG] Five Window on Eurasia links
Window on Eurasia notes the post-Soviet collapse of the numbers of learners of the Russian language, here.
Window on Eurasia reports the claim of a Russian politician that in 1991, securing the nuclear arsenal of Ukraine was a bigger priority than trying for borders changes, here.
Window on Eurasia notes how Belarus cannot protect itself from Russia, here.
Window on Eurasia explains why the Soviet Union let the Armenians and Georgians keep their alphabets, here.
Window on Eurasia explains how Russia’s naval and marine power is not doing well, here.
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences
Tagged with armenia, belarus, blogs, former soviet union, georgia, language, links, military, nuclear weapons, russia, russian language, ukraine
[BLOG] Five NYR Daily links (@nyr_daily)
Garry Wills writes at the NYR Daily about the history of impeachment, here.
David Rieff writes at the NYR about Peronism and the new president, in Argentina, here.
The NYR Daily looks at the disaster soon to be visited by Brexit on Northern Ireland, here.
Matt Seaton writes at the NYR Daily about what the recent British election reveals about the failing health of social democracy in England.
The NYR Daily looks at the new movie Atlantics, which looks at migration and Africa.
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[BLOG] Fifteen Toronto links
blogTO reports that Toronto has been testing Eglinton Crosstown trains, here.
What TTC routes might be changed by the Eglinton Crosstown? A map illustrates, over at blogTO.
The new tower proposed for 888 Dupont, at Ossington, will even include a vertical farm. blogTO reports.
Venerable Agincourt Mall is going to be a new condo development. blogTO reports.
Is co-ownership actually the only way most people in Toronto will end up owning a home? blogTO considers.
Residential tenants in a Leslieville building who complained about their landlord may end up getting evicted from a building never zoned for residents. CBC reports.
The City of Toronto has taken over the deserted shopping arcade at Queen Street West and John. CBC reports.
Katrina Onstad at Toronto Life tells the story of Katharine Mulherin, the Queen Street West gallery owner who changed her neighbourhood but was broken by gentrification.
The bar Tequila Bookworm is closing, displaced by rising rents. NOW Toronto reports.
NOW Toronto interviews night mayor Michael Thompson, here.
Steve Munro considers the TTC’s express bus services, here.
Terra Lumina, the nighttime cultural event at the Toronto Zoo, looks fantastic in these photos over at Toronto Life.
Oh, what the map of Toronto subways could have been if only we planned! blogTO shares one.
Steve Munro examines the TTC’s plan for 2020-2024, here.
The TTC may not act to decrease overcrowding on some routes. blogTO reports on why.
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Photo, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences, Toronto, Urban Note
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[URBAN NOTE] Seven city links: Innisfil, Buffalo, Ottawa, Montréal, Winnipeg, Amsterdam, Singapore
The town of Innisfil is looking forward to some very futuristic developments. Global News reports.
Jeremy Deaton at CityLab reports on how, buffered by the Great Lakes, Buffalo NY may end gaining from climate change.
The Ottawa chain Bridgehead Coffee has been sold to national chain Second Cup. Global News reports.
Many of the more eye-raising installations in the Gay Village of Montréal have since been removed. CTV News reports.
Warming huts for homeless people in Winnipeg were torn down because the builders did not follow procedures. Global News reports.
Open Democracy looks at innovative new public governance of the city budget in Amsterdam, here.
Singapore, located in a well-positioned Southeast Asia and with working government, may take over from Hong Kong. Bloomberg View makes the case.
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences, Urban Note
Tagged with amsterdam, buffalo, canada, china, cities, economics, futurology, glbt issues, global warming, globalization, hong kong, innisfil, manitoba, montréal, netherlands, new york, ontario, politics, public art, québec, singapore, southeast asia, united states, Urban Note, winnipeg
[URBAN NOTE] Ten city links: Laval, Calgary, Vancouver, Cleveland, Machu Picchu, London, Görlitz …
The Québec city of Laval now has a cemetery where pets can be buried alongside their owners. CBC reports.
Talk of Alberta separatism has already cost Calgary at least one high-profile non-oil investment, it seems. Global News reports.
A new piece of public art in Vancouver, a spinning chandelier, has proven to be a lightning rod for controversy. CBC reports.
Guardian Cities looks at the continuing fight against lead contamination in Cleveland.
Machu Picchu was built in a high remote corner of the Andes for good reasons, it is being argued. The National Post reports.
Wired looks at how rivals to Uber are currently fighting for dominance in London, here.
Guardian Cities shares a cartoon history of the birth of Nairobi, here.
The east German city of Gorlitz offered interested people one month’s free residence. The Guardian reports.
JSTOR Daily notes that Hong Kong was born as a city from refugee migrations.
Is Tokyo, despite tis size and wealth, too detached from Asia to take over from Hong Kong as a regional financial centre? Bloomberg View is not encouraging.
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Bad Astronomer considers how a stellar-mass black hole of 70 solar masses got so unaccountably huge.
Alex Tolley at Centauri Dreams considers the colours of photosynthesis, and how they might reveal the existence of life on exoplanets.
The Dragon’s Tales shares some links on humans in the Paleolithic.
Jonathan Wynn at the Everyday Sociology Blog considers the scripts of jokes.
Gizmodo reports on the repurposed China-Netherlands radio telescope operating from an orbit above the far side of the Moon.
JSTOR Daily considers the political rhetoric of declinism.
Language Log considers the controversy over the future of the apostrophe.
James Butler at the LRB Blog notes a YouGov prediction of a Conservative majority in the UK and how this prediction is not value-neutral.
Marginal Revolution shares a paper from India noting how caste identities do affect the labour supply.
Ursula Lindsay at the NYR Daily considers if the political crisis in Lebanon, a product of economic pressures and sectarianism, might lead to a revolutionary transformation of the country away from sectarian politics.
Jim Belshaw at Personal Reflections looks at some of the many complicated and intermingled issues of contemporary Australia.
The Planetary Society Blog reports on the latest projects funded by the ESA.
Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel shares ten beautiful photos taken in 2019 by the Hubble.
Strange Company reports on the strange unsolved disappearance of Lillian Richey from her Idaho home in 1964.
Window on Eurasia shares a Russian criticism of the Ukrainian autocephalous church as a sort of papal Protestantism.
Arnold Zwicky considers the positive potential of homoeros.
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[BLOG] Some Monday links
Architectuul looks at the winners of an architecture prize based in Piran, here.
Bad Astronomy’s Phil Plait notes the wind emitted from one distant galaxy’s supermassive black hole is intense enough to trigger star formation in other galaxies.
Maria Farrell at Crooked Timber pays tribute to Jack Merritt, a young victim of the London Bridge attack who was committed to the cause of prisoner rehabilitation.
Dangerous Minds looks at the history of French pop group Les Rita Mitsouko.
Bruce Dorminey reports on the European Space Agency’s belief Earth-observing spacecraft are needed to track ocean acidification.
The Dragon’s Tales reports on the consensus of the Russian scientific community against human genetic engineering.
Far Outliers reports on the first ambassador sent from the Barbary States to the United States.
JSTOR Daily reports on the life of pioneering anthropologist Franz Boas.
Language Log shares images of a bottle of Tibetan water, bought in Hong Kong, labeled in Tibetan script.
Lawyers, Guns and Money rightly assigns responsibility for the terrible measles outbreak in Samoa to anti-vaxxers.
The LRB Blog notes how tree planting is not apolitical, might even not be a good thing to do sometimes.
Marginal Revolution reports on a paper suggesting that food tends to be better in restaurants located on streets in Manhattan, better than in restaurants located on avenues.
Justin Petrone at north! shares an account of a trip across Estonia.
The NYR Daily looks at the photography of Michael Jang.
Personal Reflections’ Jim Belshaw continues to report from Armidale, in Australia, shrouded in smoke from wildfires.
The Planetary Society Blog reports on the early days of the Planetary Society, four decades ago.
The Russian Demographics Blog looks at how centenarians in Sweden and in Denmark experience different trends in longevity.
Starts With A Bang’s Ethan Siegel reports on the accidental discovery of the microwave background left by the Big Bang in 1964.
Understanding Society’s Daniel Little looks at the increasingly poor treatment of workers by employers such as Amazon through the lens of primitive accumulation.
Window on Eurasia looks at the small differences separating the Kazakhs from the Kyrgyz.
Arnold Zwicky shares a dance routine, shown on television in France, against homophobia.
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Stockbridge Massachusetts Marriages to 1850 – T Surnames
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TABOR, Lucy of Gt. Barrington, and Oliver H. Wright of Gt. Barrington, Jan. I, 1822.*
TAFT, Henry W. and Harriette Worthington of Stockbridge, int. Sept. 17, 1842.
TANNER, Huldah of Warren, and Amos Fowler Esq., int. Nov. 26, 1803.
TAYLOR, Elijah and Clarissa Parker of Stockbridge, int. Sept. 1, 1800.
Narina and Chester Tobey, int. Oct. 24, 1830. [m. Nov. 9]
Starita, Mrs., and Abishai Lewis, June 2, 1841.*
Sylvester C. and Narcissa Brewer of Tyringham, int. Sept. 1, -1832.
Sylvester Corydon, widr., laborer, and Julia Ann Van Horne, d.
James and Laura, Sept. 26, 1843.*
Tabitha and Moses Fuller, Feb. 19, 1787.*
Thomas and Clarry Rhenold, Nov. 27, 1788.*
THAYER, Frances of Braintree, and Sam[ue]l N. Nash of Canton, May 27, 1845, at State Line.* C.R.1.
THOMAS, Margeret and Jeremiah Minckler, [rec. between Apr. -, 1789, and Apr. -, 1790].*
THOMPSON, C. C. M. and Sarah [int. adds L.] Fox, – [int.
Sept. 21], 1839.
Hiram A. and Mary L. Barns, Aug. 29, 1839.
Lewis and Sarah B. Merrill of Pittsfield, int. Apr. 24, 1823.
Mary L. and Stephen W. Halsey, Apr. 4, 1843.
THORP, Rowania I. and Nathaniel Bates of Litchfield, Conn., Oct. 10, 1839.
TILLOTSON, David Jr. and Comfort Ford, int. Nov. 27, 1809.
TOBEY, Chester and Narina Taylor, int. Oct. 24, 1830. [m. Nov. 9, C.R.1.]
Gibbs and Electa Rees, int. May 19, 1800.
Hylon and Florilla [int. Florella] Hitchcock, May 3, 1815.
TRACY, Charles of Pittsfield, and Lucy C. Stoddard of Stockbridge, Mar. 25, 1848.* C.R.1.
TUCKER, Celestia of Pittsfield, and W[illia]m Montgomery of Pittsfield, Sept. 16, 1849.* C.R.1.
TURNEY, Mary [? Turner] and Billy Buckley, int. Jan. 8, 1791.
Marriage Records,
Berkshire County MA, West Stockbridge Massachusetts,
Town of West Stockbridge, Mass. Vital records of West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 . Boston: New-England Historic Genealogical Society at the charge of the Eddy Town-Record Fund. 1907.
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ZEE5 Indian Telly Awards 2019: Happu Singh And Angoori Bhabi Win Best Comedy Actors
Shubhangi Atre receives the award for Best Comic Role Female & Yogesh Tripathi receives the award for Best Comic Role Male at ZEE5 Indian Telly Awards
Updated on Apr 11, 2019 22:42:26 IST | By Ashutosh Oak
Bhabi Ji Ghar Par Hain is known as the best comedy show for its unique concept and creative plot. Be it Angoori’s naive nature or Saxena’s sarcastic personality, every character in the show has become a household name now. We love how the characters are placed in the show and their dialogues are quite popular amongst their fans.
Watch the latest episode of Bhabi Ji Ghar Par Hain below:
You might be thinking why are we telling you about a show which is known as the best comedy show from the last four years. Lets us reveal it to you, the cast of Bhabi Ji Ghar Par Hain has yet again won many awards. ZEE5 Indian Telly Awards held on 20th March 2019 saw actors Yogesh Tripathi and Shubhangi Atre awarded for the best comic role male and female.
Have a look at the pictures shared by the celebs on their Instagram:
The smile on their face truly expresses their happiness as it is their dedication and hard work which speaks for them. As soon as the awards were declared, the whole team of Bhabi Ji Ghar Par Hain was in for a celebration. Speaking about the awards, Shubhangi Atre received the award for her character of Angoori Bhabi as the Best Actor in a Comic Role Female (Jury). Also, the corrupt daroga Happu Singh played by Yogesh Tripathi bagged an award for the Best Actor in a Comic Role Male (Fans Choice).
Especially for Yogesh, this year has been a lucky one as it marked his appearance in the lead role of Happu Ki Ultan Paltan which is a spin-off of Bhabi Ji Ghar Par Hain. The new show is doing very well and the cast and crew celebrated the same by cutting a cake.
Watch the family of Daroga Happu Singh in the family show Happu Ki Ultan Paltan.
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A Lit Jellyfish
A Blog About Questions, Answers, and other Random Acts of Truth
A Haiku Interview
“Poetry should be made by all.”
— Lautreamont
A Lit Jellyfish is a forum for the literary game of chance known as Questions and Answers, invented by the French Surrealists in the 1920s.
The aim of A Lit Jellyfish is to present current and archived results from having played this game for two decades with family, friends, and other haiku poets, and to share thoughts and speculations regarding its relationship to the creative process. All Q&A postings are exactly as originally conceived, meaning they are not edited.
© Respective authors and contributors to A Lit Jellyfish
As A Lit Jellyfish evolves, I hope to incorporate Q&As from Brave New Players — those who wish to take a chance and play the game with me too. If the results are as exciting as I know they can be, I will post them here for everyone to enjoy. As you will discover, The Question and Answer Game is provocative, often mind-altering, sometimes hilarious, and most of all fun!
Michelle Tennison is the author of murmuration, a collection of contemporary haiku published by Red Moon Press. A limited number of copies are currently available from the author. If interested please inquire via the Contact Page of this website.
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Early praise for murmuration:
murmuration explores the intersection of heart and mind, conscious and unconscious with unquestionable integrity. A quiet alchemy, indeed.
— Lee Gurga
Michelle Tennison’s poetry awakens all six senses. Utterly human and mystically resplendent, these poems reorient the dimensions of self, everyday space, and sentience. This is a book of delicate alchemy and dazzling percipience that reverberates beyond its pages.
— Eve Luckring
Within, you will find all the notes you have forgotten. Among many possible descriptions, “river flowing through the trees a language of light”: to open this wonderful book is to open to song.”
— Richard Gilbert
[Tennison’s] work feels very modern, yet nothing is forced merely for effect. She is perhaps a step ahead of us in linguistic time.
–Paul Miller, editor of Modern Haiku
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Book Review: A Case of Doubtful Death by Linda Stratmann
September 11, 2013 by Mark
A Case of Doubtful Death: A Frances Doughty Mystery by Linda Stratmann
Review by Gordon O’Sullivan
Publisher: The Mystery Press (2013)
ISBN 978-0-7524-7018-4 £8.99
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In this, her third case, the reputation of Frances Doughty, Victorian female private detective has grown substantially. Now known as a discrete London investigator she has become an expert at solving small mysteries like lost pets, unusual ones like the alligator who is reputed to bask daily in the Serpentine and gruesome ones like murder. Her reputation has in fact grown to such an extent that she now has a fictional counterpart, Miss Dauntless, the lady detective of Bayswater, heroine of a series of romance novels.
In A Case of Doubtful Death, Miss Doughty investigates the fascinatingly bizarre world of the Life House. This is a mortuary where the corpses of clients are left to decompose after deathwhilst mortuary staff check that there is no mistaken diagnosis and ensure the client does not suffer the fate of being buried alive. Frances is engaged to find Henry Palmer, a young mortuary assistant and one of the Life House’s most reliable employees, who went missing the same night that one of the founders of the Life House, Dr Mackenzie, was found dead. As Frances keeps digging to uncover the truth surrounding Palmer’s disappearance and Mackenzie’s death, her investigations, despite the obstructive male medical establishment, lead to the uncovering of fraud, blackmail, and finally murder.
Frances Doughty is a great character, a strong young woman determined not to accept the strictures of Victorian society when it comes to her career. Consulting detective is an unusual career for a woman in Victorian times but Frances is an unusual woman. She talks composedly of distressing medical matters with doctors reluctant to accord her the same respect as they would a man, she has bodies dug up and even dresses as a man; escaping the confines of social convention to further her cases. She has a keen wit, “he smelled of gutta-percha and the burnt rubber scent of dead sap was the liveliest thing about him”, but she is not a revolutionary, Frances keeps her thoughts to herself when they do not serve her clients or her cases.
It is a pity then that there are too many minor characters clogging up the story, and consequently not allowing the character of Frances to take centre stage; there seems little opportunity for the reader to get to know her better. The narrative is similarly hampered with the main plot interspersed with too many sub plots which slow the action down at critical junctures. While these stories are cleverly plotted so Frances can eventually unravel them, Miss Doughty is involved in too many cases in this latest episode for the main narrative to compel.
The novel’s setting is perhaps its strongest suit. The intriguing and strange place that is the Life House is expertly described with a level of detail that would satisfy the curiosity of the most exacting reader and here the author’s non-fiction writing is a huge asset. Throughout the novel there is an obvious and intimate knowledge of Victorian life, from the polite side to the wild side that both absorbs and reassures the reader.
A Case of Doubtful Death will surely not be the last report we have of Frances, the doughty lady detective of Bayswater.
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A Letter from GUAA President Richard M. Hluchan—Fall 2019
The Alumni Association has made a commitment to enhancing our global nature, and to supporting diversity and inclusion.
The Last Word: In Transition
If there’s a thread in the work that I have done at Georgetown, it’s been working with students through transitions in their lives, which has been a fascinating lens through which to view the...
How Studying Literature Produces Better Physicians
Poetry by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. Novels like The Handmaid’s Tale and Sing, Unburied, Sing . These works are required reading for Georgetown School of Medicine students in the Literature...
More Than a Rivalry
When football Coach Lou Little arrived on the Hilltop in 1924, the program became a campus obsession.
From the Editor—Fall 2019
Georgetown has amazing alumni, and probably the best part of my job as editor of this magazine is the chance to meet you and, when I am really lucky, to have in-depth conversations about the great...
Is Uber Taking its Drivers For a Ride?
After two years of interviewing 40 Uber drivers in the Washington, DC, area, Georgetown’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor found that many stressors on Uber drivers keep them...
Black Theater Ensemble Tells Stories For 40 Years
While Soyica Colbert (C’01) was not a Black Theater Ensemble member, she was familiar with it through friends who were members. “One of the exciting things about this co-curricular group is that...
Scientists Mark First Evidence That Dolphins Give Birth in the Potomac
The first evidence that the Potomac River is a breeding area for wild bottlenose dolphins has been gathered by graduate students working with Georgetown biologist and dolphin expert Janet Mann.
The walls of Georgetown’s Leavey Center now tell a wonderful visual story of some of the university’s most inspiring alumnae and female faculty, staff and administrators, thanks to the Women on the...
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MAGIS Immersion Trips Provide Ways to Do 'More'
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Wrongfully Convicted Alumnus Wins Marshall Scholarship to Study Comparative Social Policy at Oxford
Georgetown alumnus Brian Ferguson (C’18), once wrongfully incarcerated for homicide and exonerated after serving 11 years of a life sentence, has won a prestigious Marshall Scholarship to pursue a master’s of comparative social policy at the University of Oxford.
Forrest Fauth (MBA’16) Builds a Successful Real Estate Business while Supporting His Properties’ Neighborhoods and Tenants
“If we are able to help, we will. I think it is just a part of the Jesuit thinking.”
Childhood Goals: A Desire to Create Impact Led Amy Fong (B’92) to a Career Helping Indigent Children
Amy Fong (B’92) found fulfillment when she left the world of finance in 2015 and started a new career as CEO of Save the Children Hong Kong.
Meet Rangel Fellowship Winner Bianca Uribe (C’18)
Bianca Uribe (C'18) has received a 2018 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellowship, a prestigious award given to only 30 students from universities across the country.
Marine Veteran & Hoya Author Craig Grossi (G’16) with Fred
From the Afghanistan battlefield to the Georgetown hockey rink to the window of a local bookstore, former Sergeant Craig Grossi (G’16) shares his experiences as a Marine, a Hoya, and now an author...
Testimonial: Exploring Languages Set the Stage for Professional Success
“Almost ten years later, I now see the clear lines of a career path stemming from my Georgetown language studies that I could never have predicted at graduation."
Actor, Publisher Tucker Kapp (C’10) Returns for 10-Day Artistic Residency
“The idea of the show started here,” Kapp said of S’Avoir, a one-man multimedia performance. “I had the most wonderful experience with the professors here. … At the most crucial moments in my life, my teachers were there for me with good advice.”
Research by Georgetown Alumna, Professor Shows Kidney Donors’ Brains are Different
Kristin Brethel-Haurwitz (G’16) is first author on a paper with psychology professor Abigail Marsh that for the first time shows that people who donate kidneys to strangers exhibit enhanced empathy on a neural level with strangers.
Mosquito Threats: Alumnus, Former Professor Work to Fight Vector-Borne Disease
A Georgetown biology alumnus is collaborating with his former professor on a $2 million grant to control a mosquito that spreads diseases such as Zika and dengue around the world.
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Ethics: Pregnancy and Research Under the Microscope
New guidance offered on Zika and the responsible inclusion of pregnant women in scientific research.
SEX: What's the Difference?
To better understand human health, researchers study sex as a biological variable in the lab.
Fall/Winter 2017: Women in Medicine
In this issue: Women in Medicine: New perspectives on sex difference, research ethics, and academic medicine. Georgetown Medicine is a publication for alumni and friends of Georgetown University...
McCourt Opens Washington’s First Census Research Data Center
Georgetown Lombardi Leads The Way at AVON 39 Breast Cancer Walk
In this Skin
Radiologist Asante Dickson (M’00) reflects on race, bias, and disparities in medical education and health care delivery...
Going the Distance with Nursing@Georgetown
For students in the School of Nursing & Health Studies online master’s in nursing program, the country is their classroom.
Cura Communitas
Georgetown addresses health disparities in the nation’s capital through research, partnerships, and hands-on care at the HOYA Clinic.
Build & Belong
Through a range of educational events and curricular support, the medical school’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion seeks to nurture school culture that enables diversity to thrive, and to...
Fulfilling Dreams, Serving Others
For 40 years, the Georgetown Experimental Medical Studies program has been identifying medical school candidates from populations underrepresented in medicine and preparing them to become exceptional...
Peter Mendelis (C’62, M’66, R’70)
Inspired to Serve
School of Medicine alumna wins the John Carroll Award for 17 years of leadership.
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Pepperdine University 1985 — 1989
Bachelor's Degree, Sports Medicine and Business Administration
Jennifer Hazenberg
Ferndale, Washington
RN at St.Joseph Medical Center
Bachelor of Science, Nursing
Bellingham Technical College 2009 — 2010
Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS), Registered Nursing/Registered Nurse
St.Joseph Medical Center May 2011 - Present
Jennifer I
Stirling Dynamics Inc. September 2011 - October 2013
Engineering Firm 2005 - 2010
Program Management, Systems Engineering, Aerospace, Commercial Photography, Photojournalism, Photography, Digital Photography, Photoshop, Portrait Photography, Event Photography, Wedding Photography, Event Planning, Event Management, Events Coordination, Coordinating Events, Business Development, Business Administration, Client Service..., Project Management, Project Estimation, Non-profit Volunteer, Non-profit Program...
Jennifer Joly
Government Relations Director
Seattle University, School of Law 1990 — 1993
Pierce County Washington 2012 - July 2015
Group Health Cooperative 2008 - July 2015
YMCA Youth & Government 2001 - June 2014
Public Disclosure Commission, State of Washington 2010 - 2012
Office of the Governor, State of Washington November 2002 - January 2005
Office of the Governor, State of Washington January 2001 - November 2002
House of Representatives, State of Washington July 1999 - January 2001
Governor's Executive Policy Office November 1997 - July 1999
Legislative Transportation Committee May 1992 - November 1997
Public Policy, Legislative Relations, Strategic Planning, Corporate Governance, Healthcare, Transportation, Non-profit Leadership, Courts, Appeals, Legislation, Program Evaluation, Government, Organizational..., Nonprofits, Leadership, Analysis, Program Development, Training, Political Campaigns
Jennifer K. Stuller
Writer & Editor. Author. Pop Culture Historian. Feminist Media Critic. CoFounder & Programming Advisor for GeekGirlCon.
BA, Comparative History of Ideas, Women Studies
Redwood High School 1989 — 1993
Ink-Stained Amazon June 2005 - Present
Humanities Washington July 2012 - Present
GeekGirlCon February 2013 - Present
SIFF March 2014 - May 2014
GeekGirlCon August 2010 - February 2013
Program in the Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington October 2011 - December 2011
I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd March 2007 - February 2010
Bitch Media July 2009 - September 2009
The Daily of the University of Washington 2004 - 2005
Public Speaking, Social Networking, Editing, Organizing, People Skills, Scholarly Research, Writing, Management, Freelance Writing, Research, Editorial Consulting, Teaching/mentoring, Event Planning, Marketing Communications, Public Relations, Communication, Customer Service, Published Author, Lecturing, Media Interviews, Lifestyle, Editorial, Books, Blogging, Social Media, Copy Editing, Event Management, Teaching, Non-profits, Community Outreach, Nonprofits, Interviews, Copywriting, Pop Culture, Creative Writing, Film, Publications, Entertainment, Facebook, Television, Press Releases, Radio, Publishing, Storytelling, Journalism, Content Strategy, Newsletters
Jennifer Lee, RN, BSN, CCRN
Registered Nurse at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology
San Francisco AACN Chapter 2012 - Present
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford September 2010 - Present
Seattle Children's June 2009 - June 2010
Seattle Children's May 2007 - October 2008
Seattle Children's May 2007 - April 2008
Best Buy September 2003 - May 2007
University of California, Berkeley Disabled Students Program August 2001 - May 2003
Leadership, Management, Healthcare Management, Training, Critical Care, Nursing, Healthcare, Patient Safety, Pediatrics, Epic Systems, Medication..., Wound Care, IV, Vital Signs, Hospitals
Jennifer McIver
Major Account Specialist
Business Development Certificate Program, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Communication and Media Studies
Amazon September 2011 - April 2015
KSTW TV July 2007 - August 2011
The Matale Line March 2005 - June 2007
Contract Negotiation, New Business Development, Relationship Management, Public Speaking, Marketing Communications, Sales, Business Strategy, Sales Presentations, Relationship Development, Strategic Marketing, Writing, Cold Calling, Advertising, Account Management, Key Account Development, Competitive Analysis, Salesforce.com, Business Relationship..., Interviewing Skills, Behavioral Interviewing, Media Buying, Social Media Marketing, Management, Online Advertising, Marketing, Digital Marketing, Lead Generation, Marketing Strategy, Online Marketing, Social Media, Customer Service, Objection Handling, Negotiation, Pricing Strategy, Social Marketing, Forecasting, Closing Business, Sales Trainings, Process Improvement, Strategic Communications, Corporate Communications, Relationship Building, Outside Sales
Jennifer Mennucci
Director of Budget & Program Analysis at Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District
BS, Political Science and Government
Master of Public Administration (MPA), Public Administration
Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District July 2001 - Present
City of Berkeley October 2000 - July 2001
City of Berkeley November 1997 - September 2000
City of Long Beach July 1995 - September 1997
City of Long Beach July 1994 - July 1995
Government, Public Administration, Transportation, Budgets, Organizational..., Public Policy, Policy Analysis, Project Planning, Project Management, Local Government
Jennifer Michalczik
Arbonne Independent Consultant at Arbonne International
Arbonne International May 2012 - Present
Jennifer Oiness
Greater Boston Area
Experienced Athletic Administrator
M.Ed., Athletic Administration
BS, Business Administration
NIAAA Certification Program, Athletic Administration
Le Jardin Academy May 2009 - August 2012
LJSA February 2011 - July 2012
YMCA June 2007 - February 2008
DR Horton December 2004 - May 2007
Jennifer Woodhouse
Sales at Macy's
Unversity of Washington
Macy's 2015 - Present
The Boeing Company 2012 - 2014
Nordstrom 2001 - 2005
Weidner Investment Services 1999 - 2001
Recruiting, Human Resources, Project Management, Training, Leadership, Employee Training, Sales, Internet Recruiting, Screening Resumes, Employee Relations, Staffing, New Hire Orientations, Management, Analysis, Hiring, Benefits Administration, Meeting Scheduling, Meeting Planning, Status Tracking, Project Status Reporting, Metrics, Coordinating Events, Meeting logistics, Meeting facilitation, Program Development, College Recruiting, Technical Recruiting, Interviews, Corporate Communications
Jennifer Zech
Research Coordinator at University of Washington
University of California, San Francisco 2014 — 2015
Master’s Degree, Global Health Sciences
Bachelor of Science (BS), Environmental Science and Resource Management
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Medical Anthropology and Global Health
Makerere University and John Hopkins University 2015 - Present
UCSF 2014 - Present
Qualitative Research, Quantitative Research, Project Management, Project Implementation, Data Collection, Community Outreach, Environmental Impact..., Environmental..., Environmental..., Statistical Data..., Policy Analysis, Environmental Policy, Sustainable Agriculture, Geographic Information..., Grant Writing, International Relations, Health Policy, Leadership, Visual Communication, Interpersonal..., Organization Skills, Dedoose, STATA, Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office
Jenny Awasano
Creative Director at Digitas
Pine Tree!
Digitas 2004 - Present
Modem Media 2003 - 2004
Digital Pulp 2000 - 2002
Interactive Advertising, Creative Strategy, Creative Direction, Rich Media, Copywriting, Interactive Marketing, Creative Development, Campaign Development, Storytelling, Pitching, Content Creation, Concept Development, Online Advertising, Integrated Marketing, Direct Marketing, Digital Marketing, Social Marketing, Digital Media, Advertising, Mobile Marketing, Email Marketing, Social Media, Creative Problem Solving, Social Media Marketing, Strategic Thinking, Event Marketing, Online Marketing, Mentoring, Keynote, Creative Writing, Mobile Applications
Jenny Baldwin
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Political Science
Aramark Uniform Services January 2012 - Present
Cintas June 2008 - January 2012
Cintas December 2004 - May 2008
Eliot Management Group January 2004 - November 2004
Cold Calling, Sales Management, Sales, B2B, Sales Operations
Jenny Gill
BA, Ethnomusicology
Women's Studies, Music
Fort Lewis College 1995 — 1997
ThriveSEO January 2009 - Present
Salsa Challenge August 2005 - Present
SalsAmigos - Teen Salsa Dance Program February 2006 - June 2008
Bantaba World Dance & Music June 2000 - April 2007
Jenny Iranon
B.A., Business
Forecasting, Leadership, Supply Chain, Process Improvement, SAP, Continuous Improvement, Paper Industry, Inventory Management
Jenny Marsh
Entertainment Relations at Gibson Guitar
Gibson Guitar September 2005 - Present
Music Industry, Music, Entertainment, A&R, Social Media Marketing, Social Media, Record Labels, New Media, Music Licensing, Recording, Social Networking, Event Management
Jenny Metz
Special Events Manager at Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center
Little Bit Therapeutic Riding Center November 2013 - Present
Woodmark Hotel Yacht Club & Spa June 2011 - December 2012
Woodmark Hotel Yacht Club & Spa January 2011 - July 2011
Destination Hotels and Resorts 2011 - 2011
lululemon athletica July 2008 - June 2009
Kenmore Air Harbor, Inc. 1993 - 1995
Hotels, Event Planning, Public Relations, Event Management, Social Media, Advertising, Marketing Strategy, Budgets, Social Media Marketing, Marketing Communications, Marketing, Fundraising, Hospitality, Media Relations, Copywriting, Merchandising, Online Advertising, Social Networking, Customer Service, Retail, Training, Sales, Newsletters
Jenny Sherwin
Vacation and Travel Promoter
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Sociology and psychology
Institute for Integrative Nutrtion 2012 — 2013
Holistic Health Coach, Health and Wellness, General
Yard House August 2013 - Present
Health Conscious Nutrition 2012 - Present
Customer Service, Team Building, Leadership, Public Speaking, Coaching, Healthcare, Training, Strategic Planning, Microsoft Office, Fitness, Stress Management
Jen Tiesi
Program Coordinator,IEL at University of Washington
University of Washington August 2015 - Present
Metropolitan Market 2015 - Present
TY I January 2013 - January 2014
Assumption-St.Bridget School January 1997 - January 2013
Color & Design/Exhibit Group January 1995 - January 1997
Nordstrom: Seattle January 1987 - January 1995
Management, Film, Project Management, Strategic Planning, Leadership, Marketing, Event Planning, Customer Service, Sales, Public Speaking, Microsoft Office, Social Media, Marketing Strategy, Fundraising, Nonprofits, Event Management
Jerry Griffee
Addictions Therapist and Mindful Group Facilitator
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Art Education
M.F.A., Master of Fine Arts
B.A., Secondary Education, Art
A.A., Liberal Arts, Addictions Counseling
Matrix Institute on Addictions August 2003 - April 2014
Friends Health Clinic/Friends Research/Los Angeles, CA October 1999 - June 2001
Relapse Prevention, Meditation, CBT, Chemical Dependency, Mental Health, Adolescents, Psychotherapy, Mental Health Counseling, Psychology
Jerry McDevitt AIA
Architect, Principal at GGLO
MArch, Architecture
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, Landscape Architecture / Urban Design
GGLO January 2011 - Present
Mithun May 1993 - January 2011
TRA, Architecture, Engineering and Planning April 1986 - May 1993
Sustainable Design, Mixed-use, Architectural Design, AIA, Comprehensive Planning, LEED AP, Design Research, Urban Design, Site Planning, Submittals, LEED, BIM, Green Building, Revit, Residential Design, Historic Preservation, Adaptive Reuse, Construction..., Construction Drawings, SketchUp, Interior Architecture, Space planning, AutoCAD Architecture
Jerry Raftis
Las Vegas, Nevada Area
Director of Operations at HarleyDavidson Cafe
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Finance/Economics
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Finance and Economics
Harley-Davidson Cafe November 2007 - Present
ESPNZone March 2001 - September 2001
Harrah's Entertainment April 1999 - March 2000
Jess Corozza
Kendall Park, New Jersey
School Counseling Intern
The College of New Jersey 2012 — 2014
Master of Education (M.Ed.), School Counseling, 3.98
MFA, Creative Writing - Fiction
Brandeis University 2004 — 2008
BA, English, Creative Writing
Slackwood Elementary School April 2014 - Present
Robinson Center June 2010 - Present
Dunn Middle School September 2013 - April 2014
Associated Recreation Council September 2010 - August 2012
Creative Arts at Park June 2007 - July 2007
Higher Education Student Assistance Authority May 2005 - August 2006
Creative Writing, Editing, Literature, Teaching Writing, Tutoring, Music, Social Media, Proofreading, English Literature, Copywriting, University Teaching, Grant Writing, Teaching, Fiction, Poetry, Research, Curriculum Development, Public Speaking, News Writing, Fiction Writing, Higher Education, Copy Editing, Journalism, Curriculum Design, Feature Articles, AP Style, Career Counseling, Student Counseling, Mental Health Counseling, Middle School, Small Group Counseling, Counseling Psychology, Child Development, Childcare, Recreation Planning, Academic Tutoring, Personality Assessment
Jesse Parce
Bachelor of Arts & Sciences, Drama
Newport High School 1998 — 2002
Theatre, Performing Arts, Acting, Stage, Drama, Improvisation, Shakespeare, Musical Theatre, Dance, Plays, Singing, Physical Theatre, Dialects, Dramaturgy, Opera, Teaching Acting, Classical, Stage Management, Theatrical Production, Arts Administration, Playwriting, Comedy, Voice Acting, Stage Combat, Choreography, Directing, Sketch Comedy
Jessica Brallier Schmidt
Owner at Hot Water Studios
Hillsboro Comprehensive High School 1994 — 1998
Graduated with honors, Honors High School Diploma
Hot Water Studios October 2012 - Present
Zoka Coffee Roasters February 2011 - January 2013
Unic USA CORP. December 2009 - January 2011
Recruiting.com July 2009 - November 2009
Vertafore October 2008 - July 2009
Franke Coffee Systems 2004 - October 2008
King County, Department of Natural Resources and Parks January 2003 - September 2003
Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar 1999 - 2003
Sales Management, Account Management, Sales, Team Building, Marketing Strategy, Customer Service, Consulative Selling, Selling, Sales Operations, Training, Key Account Management, Coffee, Retail, Negotiation, Product Development, Food, New Business Development, Leadership, Business Development, Event Planning, Key Account Development, Management, Strategy, Customer Satisfaction, Strategic Partnerships, Public Relations, Sales Presentations, Sourcing, Marketing, Time Management
Jessica Hartana
MBA Candidate Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management
Claremont Graduate University - Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management 2015 — 2017
Certificate, Project Management
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business 2011 — 2013
Bachelor of Science, Business Administration
Pre-Major Arts & Sciences
Kaiser Permanente October 2013 - December 2014
Kaiser Permanente June 2013 - August 2013
Octagon June 2012 - August 2012
Freelance June 2010 - August 2010
PT DJARUM December 2008 - December 2008
Event Planning, Customer Service, Strategy, Sales, Marketing Research, Marketing, Management, Data Analysis, Analysis, PowerPoint, Retail, Finance, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Competitive Analysis
Jessica Ormsby
Bank Teller at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. October 2013 - Present
Forever 21 August 2013 - October 2013
YMCA May 2008 - January 2010
Clinical Psychology, Retail Banking, Teller Operations, Interpersonal..., Customer Service, Team Leadership, Educational Technology, Sports Psychology, Counseling Psychology, Personality Assessment, Branch Banking, Customer Experience, Customer Relations, Long-term Customer..., Cash Handling, Cash Register, Foreign Currency..., Electronic Payment..., Code of Conduct, Security Operations, Conflict Resolution, Advising People, Swim Instruction, Retail Sales, Cashiering, Dance Education, Dance Instruction, Classical Ballet, Hip-Hop Dance, Jazz Dance, Women's Studies, Microsoft Technologies, Political Science, English Grammar, English Literature, Spanish, Creative Writing
Jessica Western
JIAHUA ZHANG
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biochemistry, 3.5
University of Washington April 2014 - Present
分子生物学, Microsoft Office
Jillian Boyd
Performing Arts Professional
What's Up, Pup? 2009 - 2011
Social Media, Social Networking, Teaching, Film Production, Video Production, Editing, Acting, Theatre, Film, Entertainment, Creative Writing, Public Speaking, Television, Microsoft Word, Video, Photoshop, Microsoft Excel
Jim Bogar
Writing and Editing for Technical Professionals
UIEvolution 2010 - October 2013
UIEvolution October 2006 - October 2008
Microsoft Corporation October 1987 - October 1997
Jim Bouvet
Executive Producer at Radical Media
Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Cinematography and Film/Video Production
BS, Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services
Radical Media May 2007 - Present
Traktor 1999 - 2007
Post Production, Video Production, Film Production, Commercials, Film, Television, Video, Documentaries, Producing, Feature Films, Music Videos, Broadcast, New Media, Entertainment
Jim Cusack
Director Space Simulation Labs at Boeing Sattelite Development Center
Jim Faith
Managing Partner at Trade and Export Finance Online
San Jose State University 1994 — 1996
Master of Arts (M.A.)
University of San Francisco 1991 — 1993
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.)
Overseas Private Investment Corporation The RSR Company June 2007 - Present
Trade and Export Finance Online January 2004 - Present
Jim Hermanson
Wizard at 3rd Comma
3rd Comma February 2008 - Present
J. (John) Gregory Morgan
Kansas City, Missouri Area
Director of Development at Friendship House/Catherine's Place
Joanie Anderson Woodland
BSN, Nursing
Jodi Haavig
Program Officer at Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation October 2007 - Present
Education, Human Services, Workforce Development, Philanthropy 1990 - 2007
Philanthropy, Program Evaluation, Program Development, Program Management, Writing, Program Design, Teaching
Jody Brauner Lando
Senior Scientist/Quantitative Ecologist at Cramer Fish Sciences
Joe Eskenazi
Software QA Analyst at FlowJo
PhD (ABD), Computational Linguistics
Master of Arts (M.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Linguistics
FlowJo, LLC 2015 - Present
MustHaveMenus 2014 - 2015
PLEXIS Healthcare Systems 2012 - 2013
Ingenuity Web Apps 2000 - 2010
Software Development, Software Design, User Interface Design, Quality Assurance, Testing, Natural Language..., Natural Language..., Knowledge Base, Ontology Engineering, Data Mapping, Information Extraction, Information Retrieval, Bioinformatics, Perl, Java, Python, XML, SQL, HTML, Agile Methodologies
Joel Jornlin
Senior Project Manager, Technology at Corbis
BA, Marketing
Corbis July 2013 - Present
RealNetworks July 2007 - Present
Cadence (PMI) Project..., Cadence (PMI) Risk..., Vendor Management, Agile Project Management, Program Management, SaaS, Cross-functional Team..., Cloud Computing, Product Marketing
Joe McIalwain
Executive Director of Edmonds Center for the Arts / Edmonds Public Facilities District
University of Alabama 1996 — 1998
Master of Fine Arts, Theatre Management
Bachelor of Arts, Drama
Bishop Blanchet High School 1986 — 1990
Edmonds Center for the Arts / Edmonds Public Facilities District January 2006 - Present
Kirkland Performance Center November 2001 - January 2006
CINCINNATI SHAKESPEARE COMPANY August 1999 - November 2001
University of Alabama August 1998 - July 1999
University of Alabama August 1996 - August 1998
Strategic Planning, Event Planning, Community Outreach, Public Speaking, Event Management, Public Administration, Non-Profit Management, Program Development, Project Management
Joe Popper
Orthopaedic Surgery Resident
Bachelor of Science, Bioengineering
Henry Ford Health System July 2011 - Present
Joe Weatherby, M.A., LMHCA
Mental Health Therapist at Joe M. Weatherby Therapy
The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology 2010 — 2013
Master of Arts (M.A.), Counseling Psychology
Bachelor of Arts - with honors, Sociocultural Anthropology
Joe M. Weatherby Therapy June 2014 - Present
Seattle School District January 2006 - Present
Windows Server, Psychotherapy, Software Documentation, Nonprofits, Teaching, Management, Psychology, Networking, Workshop Facilitation, Conflict Resolution, Mental Health Counseling, Social Services
Johanna Buck
OBIEE Developer ETL at F5 Networks
Certificate, Perl programming
Bachelor of Science, Applied Mathematics
F5 Networks January 2012 - Present
Group Health Cooperative October 2008 - April 2012
Group Health Cooperative October 2008 - May 2010
Group Health Cooperative August 2002 - October 2009
SQL Tuning, SAS, Perl, Informatica Development, Informatica..., Data Warehouse..., Unix, Informatica, ETL, Data Warehousing
John A. Doces
Visiting Associate Professor at International University of Grand Bassam
PhD., Political Economy and Public Policy
MA, Economics
International University of Grand Bassam August 2015 - Present
Bucknell University February 2014 - Present
Bucknell University September 2006 - January 2014
University of Southern California September 2005 - May 2006
Research, International Political..., International Relations
John Adolph
Domain Client Services Manager at MarkMonitor
Bachelor of Arts Degree, Communications and Editorial Journalism
MarkMonitor March 2015 - Present
Boise, Idaho March 2013 - March 2015
City of Chicago Law Department April 1998 - March 2012
Cook County Public Defender's Office March 1996 - March 1998
Civil Litigation, Courts, Trials, Legal Research, Legal Writing
John Eskelin
Cambria, California
Principal at Eskelin Plan/Design/Build/Preserve
MUP, Urban Design and Planning
BS, City Planning, Architecture
Eskelin Plan/Design/Build/Preserve December 2006 - Present
City of Seattle September 1987 - December 2007
Park City Municipal Corporation April 1982 - June 1985
Sustainable Design, Urban Design, Urban Planning, Construction Management, Design-Build
John (Jack) Bradbury
Crew Leader at U.S. Department of Commerce
Southeast Asian Studies
John J. Pittari, Jr.
Auburn, Alabama Area
Associate Professor at Auburn University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Urban Design and Planning
The City University of New York - The City College of New York 1984 — 1985
Master of Urban Planning, Graduate Program in Urban Design
University of Florida 1977 — 1983
Bachelor of Landscape Architecture
Auburn University August 1996 - Present
City of Seattle Planning Department 1989 - 1993
NYC Department of City Planning, Manhattan Office 1986 - 1988
Eisenman Robertson Architects 1984 - 1986
Gulfstream Land and Development 1983 - 1984
Urban Design, Higher Education, Landscape Architecture, Research, Urban Planning
John Loverich
Engineer at N Infinity Computational Sciences
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Aerospace Engineering
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Aerospace Engineering
N Infinity Computational Sciences February 2015 - Present
Tech-X Corporation July 2007 - January 2015
Advatech Pacific January 2006 - May 2007
University of Washington June 2000 - December 2005
Ocean Spar Technologies 1996 - 1998
C++, Computational Physics, CFD, High Performance..., MPI, Algorithm Development, Plasma Physics, Software Development, Matlab, GPGPU, Python, Proposal Writing, Hypersonic, Mathematica, Finite Volume, Computational Fluid..., Computational Plasma..., Journals, Electric Propulsion, Computational..., Numerical Analysis, Algorithms, Lua, Aerodynamics, LaTeX, Physics, Simulations, Numerical Methods, Nuclear Fusion, SciPy, Discontinuous Galerkin, GPU Computing, Artificial Neural..., JavaScript, Node.js
John P Cross
Retired from Scott Paper Company & j.cross design
BS, Construction Management
j.cross design 1978 - 1994
Scott Paper Compnay 1965 - 1992
Scott Paper Company 1965 - 1992
John Sheets
librarian at TOAST.net
Bachelor's degree, history, M. Lib., Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Languages
RETIRED January 2014 - Present
The Seattle Public Library July 1967 - January 2014
Collection Development, Library Science, Community Outreach, Research
John Sucharski
Vice President of Operations & Supply Chain at Harry's Fresh Foods and Cuizina Food Company
JGC Food Co / Harry's Fresh Foods / Cuizina Food Company January 2014 - Present
Cuizina Food Company October 2012 - January 2014
Charlie's Produce January 2011 - June 2012
NorStar Specialty Foods dba Real Foods 2004 - 2010
Senior Executive..., Management, Strategic Planning, Operations Management, P&L Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Supply Chain, Leadership, Team Building, Budgets, Product Development, New Business Development, Purchasing, System Implementations, Database Design, Lean Manufacturing, Cost Management, Cost Reduction, Quality Systems Design
John Vadino
Founder at One to the World, CEO The Production Network
The Production Network FounderOne to the WorldJanuary 2011 - Present
The Production Network October 1989 - Present
Entertainment, Cloud Computing, Social Media Marketing, Trade Shows, Production Managment, Digital Media, Creative Direction, Sponsorship, Management, Content Strategy, Video Production, Corporate Events, Video, Live Events, Event Management, Social Media, New Media, Marketing Communications, Television, Social Networking, Broadcast, Integrated Marketing
Jolene Tanner
Sitka Police Department Investigations Unit
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Astrophysics
Edmonds Community College 2007 — 2009
Associate of Science (A.S.), Physics
Sitka Police Department December 2014 - Present
Jonah Cohen
Senior Software Engineer at Uber
MS, Computer Science & Engineering
Harvey Mudd College 2001 — 2005
BS, Computer Science
Uber June 2015 - Present
Facebook March 2012 - June 2015
Fugazo, Inc. October 2007 - March 2012
Amazon.com June 2006 - September 2006
Microsoft June 2004 - August 2004
Sandia National Laboratories June 2003 - August 2003
Booz Allen Hamilton June 2002 - August 2002
Texas Instruments June 2001 - November 2001
Computer Science, C++, XML, iPhone development, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, DirectX, Computer Graphics, Perl, PHP
JONAS NICOTRA, M.Ed.
Freelance Interpreter at Lionbridge
M.Ed, Adult & Higher Education; Human Resources Management; TESL; Instructional Technology
Certificate, Localization/Internationalization Engineering
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2000 — 2002
Graduate Degree (Pós Graduação em Letras Lato Sensu), Portuguese Linguistics and Pedagogy
BA in French, Romance Linguistics, and International Studies (Europe), Business Law & Contracts; International Business; Import/Export; Phonetics; Syntax; and Translation
Lionbridge 2015 - Present
Washington State Department of Health June 2012 - Present
Seattle HIV/AIDS planning Council January 2011 - Present
King County, Snohomish County & Island County Planning Council January 2009 - Present
Washington Academy of Languages 2009 - Present
Washington State Coalition for Language Access January 2010 - June 2014
Amazon June 2013 - August 2013
Snohomish and Island County Committee June 2011 - June 2013
Northwest Translators & Interpreters Society January 2009 - February 2013
Immigration Law, Business, Editing, Software, Translation, Voice Over, Quality Management, Localization, Localization Testing, Curriculum Development, Staff Development, Interpretation, Technical Translation, Linguistics, Interpreting, Legal Translation, Simultaneous..., Foreign Languages, Proofreading, Internationalization, French, Language Services, Globalization, International Relations, Intercultural..., Multilingual, Portuguese, Language Teaching, Trados, Terminology, Medical Translation, Organizational..., Leadership Development, Subtitling, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Literature, Leadership, Treasurers, Quality Assurance
Jonathan Barta
Business and Residential Termite Control
Biola University, Talbot School of Theology 1988 — 1992
Master's Degree, Bible Exposition, 3.95
Bachelor's Degree, Economics and German, double major
Orkin Pest Control April 2015 - Present
Valley Baptist Church, Burbank, CA 1994 - 2014
Talbot School of Theology 1988 - 1992
Nonprofits, Public Speaking, Leadership, Fundraising, Community Outreach, Management, Event Planning, Leadership Development, Volunteer Management, Public Relations, Customer Service
Jonathan Callahan
President at Mazama Science
PhD, Chemistry
Washington University in St. Louis 1981 — 1985
BA, German, Linguistics, Chemistry
Mazama Science March 2007 - Present
NOAA/PMEL October 1995 - February 2007
Statistics, Science, Python, R, Data Mining, Analysis, Environmental Awareness, Data Visualization, Data Analysis, Simulations, Git, JavaScript, Databases, Data Management, MySQL, Fortran, Software Development, Research, Machine Learning, User Interface Design, GIS
Jonathan Telles
Jon Cybulski
Moline, Illinois
Supply Base Manager at John Deere
Montana State University-Bozeman 1981 — 1985
Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering
John Deere April 2001 - Present
John Deere Harvester Works January 1997 - April 2001
US Navy June 1986 - December 1996
Supply Management, Strategic Sourcing, Global Sourcing, Supplier Development, MRP, Supply Chain Management, Lean Manufacturing, Materials Management, Supplier Negotiation, Supplier Evaluation, Continuous Improvement, Value Stream Mapping, Supplier Quality, Purchasing, Supply Chain
Jonelle Wilhelmsen
Sales at Axcan Pharma
Certification, Administration and Management
BSN, Food Science Human Nutrition
Axcan Pharma June 2006 - Present
Wave Form Systems May 2004 - June 2006
Rheumatology, Pharmaceutical Sales, Managed Care, Oncology, Pharmaceutical Industry, Gastroenterology, Endocrinology, Neurology, Pulmonology, Cardiology, Sales
Jon Kottwitz
Sr Electronics Engineer at Precor
none, Electrical Engineering
Precor March 2012 - Present
Cardiac Science July 2004 - 2009
Quinton Cardiology July 2000 - June 2004
Quinton Inc. (Now Cardiac Science Corp.) 1990 - 2002
Quinton Instrument Co April 1986 - June 2000
Medical Devices, Firmware, Embedded Systems, Electronics, Orcad
Jon Michael Willson
Paralegal at Lorber, Greenfeild & Polito
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Philosophy
Lorber, Greenfield & Polito January 2014 - Present
Robert Half Legal October 2013 - January 2014
AppleOne April 2013 - September 2013
Law Dawgs, Inc. June 2012 - April 2013
Lumen Legal 2012 - 2012
Schwerin Campbell Barnard Iglitzin & Lavitt, LLP 2012 - 2012
Bergman Draper & Ladenburg July 2007 - July 2010
Lee Smart, P.S., Inc. October 2006 - March 2007
Law Offices of Kenneth R. Scearce (In-House Counsel - Travelers Insurance) December 2002 - October 2006
Employco Staffing December 2002 - April 2004
Asbestos Litigation, Corporate Maintenance, Environmental Law, Estate Law, Guardianship, Home Owners, Insurance Defense, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury..., Premises Liability..., Professional Malpractice, Product Liability, Subrogation, Wrongful Death, Electronic Databases, Electronic Document, Electronic Research, Document Review, Interviews, Legal Assistance, Legal Research, Legal Writing, Microsoft Word, Outlook, Timeslips, LexisNexis, Westlaw, WA Court Rules, Corporate Law, Trial Director, Draft Trial Pleadings, Create Discovery..., Case Analysis, Document Management, Report Writing, Factual Research, Critical Reading, Analysis/Synthesis, Litigation, Trials, Civil Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Courts, Pleadings
jon straub
IT Consultant at Action Computer Service
Action Computer Service September 2001 - Present
Network Administration, Windows Server, Firewalls, Microsoft Exchange, Software Installation, XP, OS X, Sonicwall, Windows, Networking, Windows XP, VPN, DHCP, Hardware, Antivirus, SonicWALL, Social Media
Jordan Whitley
Food Bank Coordinator
Master of Social Work (M.S.W.)
Bachelor of Social Welfare (B.S.W.)
Green River Community College 2009 — 2011
Associate of Arts (AA), General Studies
Hopelink October 2013 - Present
University of Washington October 2011 - September 2013
Renton Area Youth & Family Services September 2012 - June 2013
Uniform Destination March 2010 - September 2012
Customer Service, Retail Sales, Critical Thinking, Data Entry, Microsoft Office, Teamwork, PowerPoint, Social Services, Filing, Social Networking, Leadership, Time Management, Public Speaking, Community Outreach, Nonprofits, Event Planning, Volunteer Management, Microsoft Word, Administrative..., Research, Management, Training, Team Building
Joseph Clifton
Pharmacy Intern at Swedish Medical Center
Doctor of Pharmacy (PharmD), Pharmacy
BS, Neuroscience
Swedish Medical Center August 2012 - Present
Intermountain Healthcare September 2009 - July 2012
Hospitals, Healthcare, HIPAA, Cpr Certified, Data Entry, Pharmacy, Patient Safety, Medication Therapy..., Epic Systems, Immunization
Josh Hartmann
Recruitment Chair at Pi Kappa Alpha
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Junior
Pi Kappa Alpha 2015 - Present
Mercer Island Country Club June 2009 - September 2014
Microsoft Office, Customer Service
Josh McNulty
Director of Transportation at UPS
UPS Mail Innovations 2005 - July 2013
Transportation..., Logistics, Transportation, LTL, Logistics Management, Operations Management, Warehousing, Freight, Shipping, Air Freight, Supply Chain
Josh Siegel
Digital Strategy Consultant at Deloitte Digital
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Information Systems
Cedarcrest High School 2005 — 2009
Social Media, Access, Team Leadership, Critical Thinking, Microsoft Office, Visio, Microsoft SQL Server, CSS, Philanthropy, HTML 5, Microsoft Project, Tableau Software, Excel VBA, Data Modeling (ERD,..., XML, Tableau, Normalization, VBA, Network Security, Organization, TCP/IP, Active Directory, BODS, SAP Audience Discovery..., SAP HANA Enterprise..., TIDAL, BOBJ / BOBI, SAP CRM, JIRA, Adobe Experience Manager, Siebel
Joshua Campbell
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Survivors of volcano eruption criticize Guatemala’s disaster response
Bryan Rivera, 22, cries as he searches for his relatives, victims of the Fuego Volcano, in the ash-covered village of San Miguel Los Lotes, in Escuintla department, about 35 km southwest of Guatemala City, on June 7, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / JOHAN ORDONEZ)
Published June 7, 2018 at 9:11 PM
Guatemala is suspending rescue efforts in the hardest hit areas near the Volcano of Fire (Volcán de Fuego). At least 109 people are dead and nearly 200 are still missing. Some of the injured are being airlifted to the United States and Mexico for treatment at special burn units. As the shock of the disaster subsides, the government’s response is being criticized.
CGTN’s Harris Whitbeck reports.
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Volunteers sort tons of donated aid, package it and load it onto trucks at a private airplane hangar in Guatemala City. The trucks then drive for hours to reach shelters located near the Fuego Volcano, and the villages full of people who refuse to leave their homes but are running out of supplies.
Residents displaced by the devastating eruption of the Volcan de Fuego, or “Volcano of Fire,” receive items donated by residents from San Andres Villaseca, in Escuintla, Guatemala, Wednesday, June 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)
Aid continues to reach those who need it, and families receive kits containing purified water, food and other supplies. Shelters are filled with people passing the time, waiting for word on what the future holds.
Survivors of the Volcan de Fuego or “Volcano of Fire” eruption, gather at a shelter in Alotenago, Guatemala, Thursday, June 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Days after the fiery eruption, many start demanding answers. As the immediate needs of survivors are addressed, attention begins to turn towards figuring out exactly what happened and whether the official disaster response agencies reacted in a timely manner.
The National Commission for the Reduction of Disasters, CONRED, is under fire in the Guatemalan Congress, accused of not acting upon warnings from the institution in charge of monitoring volcanic activity that a major eruption was imminent.
A group of soldiers inspects the disaster zone after the Fuego Volcano eruption in the ash-covered village of San Miguel Los Lotes, in Escuintla Department, about 35 km southwest of Guatemala City, on June 7, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / JOHAN ORDONEZ)
Survivors have said CONRED did not order evacuations in the affected villages until many of them were already engulfed in the toxic ash.
The National Meteorological Institute, also charged with observing volcanic activity, says it started sounding the alarm early Sunday morning sending out nine separate bulletins in a space of of six hours.
Residents search for relatives victims of the Fuego Volcano in the ash-covered village of San Miguel Los Lotes, in Escuintla department, about 35 km southwest of Guatemala City, on June 7, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / JOHAN ORDONEZ)
A woman cries after looking at her relative’s house, destroyed by the Volcan de Fuego or “Volcano of Fire” eruption, in San Miguel Los Lotes, Guatemala, Thursday, June 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Moisés Castillo)
“In all our bulletins we warned of pyroclastic flow, indicating there would be avalanches of hot gas traveling at great speeds,” said Eddie Sanchez of the National Meteorological Institute.
CONRED is defending itself, saying it followed standard protocol for this type of situation. Former director of CONRED, Alejandro Maldonado, said those protocols work well if properly followed.
The Volcan de Fuego, or “Volcano of Fire,” continues to spew ash, as seen from El Rodeo, Guatemala, Wednesday, June 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
“They are based on mathematical formulas that calculate the average of constant, permanent volcanic activity and compare it to the deviations to determine the level of alert that should be issued,” Maldonado said.
But the timing of Sunday’s evacuation orders is under scrutiny, and the country’s Foreign Ministry is also under fire. Potential private donors said Guatemalan embassies in several countries refused offers of aid.
Student stylists trim the singed hair of residents who were burned during the powerful Volcan del Fuego or Volcano of Fire eruption, at a shelter near Escuintla, Guatemala, Wednesday, June 6, 2018. On an open-air patio at Murray D. Lincoln school, several displaced people sat on plastic chairs covered by aprons as the volunteers attended to them. (AP Photo/Oliver de Ros)
The father of Sandra Orizabal Diaz, Pedro Orizabal, left, and an unidentified relative, console Sandra’s sister Olga, during Sandra’s burial at the cemetery in Escuintla, Guatemala, Thursday, June 7, 2018. Sandra’s body was interred in a white coffin Thursday next to the grave of her husband. All told, 18 members of the family died or disappeared in the disaster. (AP Photo/Luis Soto)
As survivors wait for word on missing relatives and pass the time in shelters, the biggest question are if this could have been prevented, and how soon a sense of normality will return.
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Gediminas Ziemelis: 2017 was interesting, but 2018 will blow our minds
The air transport industry in 2017 was definitely a ride to remember: travel bans, laptop bans, a handful of bankruptcies, all at the backdrop of unprecedented financial results for airlines. In this end-of-year post, I’d like to go back to several events that made history. This list does not intend to be complete or objective, call it a personal reading, if you may.
China spreading wings...
The Asian market is growing stronger every year, all while Chinese banks are conquering the aircraft financing arena with waves of acquisitions. It is a game of giants like never seen before, with Avolon taking over CIT Group in April – a deal valued at $43 billion – being one of the many milestones that Chinese investors have reached this year.
...in more than one way
Another important milestone – this time for the Chinese aerospace industry – was the maiden flight of COMAC C919 back in May. One can surely argue to what degree the aircraft is actually Chinese, with most of the crucial parts produced by Western companies. Despite that, putting a commercial jet in the air is an achievement only a few nations can boast about. COMAC still has a long way to go, but the whole world is already watching.
Too many bankruptcies to name
Air Berlin, Alitalia, Monarch, Niki... the list goes on. The bloodbath that was 2017 has put the spotlight on failing strategies and lost opportunities. 2018 will definitely see its victims as well, though hopefully wise executives will learn from others’ mistakes. Air Berlin and Alitalia could be called Etihad’s orphans, and this only shows that pumping billions into troubled carriers is not the wisest way to spend a company’s money.
Hell freezes as Ryanair recognizes unions
It was hard to outcompete the Irish budget carrier – both in terms of profit margins and the number of headlines it made in 2017. Multiple cancellations and the “oops, we forgot to reschedule pilots’ holidays” crisis are just some examples of Ryanair being on everyone’s mind this year. Another important development is the recognition of trade unions – a thing the charismatic CEO Michael O’Leary said would not happen before hell froze.
Airbus takes over the C Series program
Dubbed as the “deal of century”, Airbus benefited from the Boeing-Bombardier fight and acquired a majority share in the Canadian C Series jet program basically for free. A definite win for both Airbus and Bombardier, this deal shows the importance of taking leaps of faith. China – which was rumored to acquire the program if not Bombardier entirely – lost the perfect opportunity to defy the Airbus-Boeing duopoly.
What to expect in 2018?
All forecasts are speculative in their nature, and filled with such adjectives as “better”, “faster”, and “cheaper”. I’m not going to repeat the obvious, but I will say this: 2017 was interesting, but 2018 will blow our minds. Multiple disruptions are on their way, like blockchain integration in such fields as ticket compensation claims and booking. The low-cost model will continue its journey around the globe, touching Latin America and other new regions. The drone market will expand, perhaps with first forays into the commercial air travel space. Virtual reality is going to reshape the training industry. Believe it or not, we are already living in the future. And while some bemoan changes, we at Avia Solutions Group see ourselves riding the tidal waves. If you want to become a part of history with us, you’ll know where to find us.
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Liquid sample delivery techniques for serial femtosecond crystallography
Uwe Weierstall
CLAS-NS: Physics
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X-ray free-electron lasers overcome the problem of radiation damage in protein crystallography and allow structure determination from micro- and nanocrystals at room temperature. To ensure that consecutive X-ray pulses do not probe previously exposed crystals, the sample needs to be replaced with the X-ray repetition rate, which ranges from 120 Hz at warm linacbased free-electron lasers to 1 MHz at superconducting linacs. Liquid injectors are therefore an essential part of a serial femtosecond crystallography experiment at an X-ray free-electron laser. Here, we compare different techniques of injecting microcrystals in solution into the pulsed X-ray beam in vacuum. Sample waste due to mismatch of the liquid flow rate to the X-ray repetition rate can be addressed through various techniques.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0337
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Weierstall, U. (2014). Liquid sample delivery techniques for serial femtosecond crystallography. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 369(1647), [20130337]. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0337
Liquid sample delivery techniques for serial femtosecond crystallography. / Weierstall, Uwe.
In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Vol. 369, No. 1647, 20130337, 17.07.2014.
Weierstall, U 2014, 'Liquid sample delivery techniques for serial femtosecond crystallography', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, vol. 369, no. 1647, 20130337. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0337
Weierstall U. Liquid sample delivery techniques for serial femtosecond crystallography. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2014 Jul 17;369(1647). 20130337. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0337
Weierstall, Uwe. / Liquid sample delivery techniques for serial femtosecond crystallography. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2014 ; Vol. 369, No. 1647.
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P-Nats win wild one in extras
Published Tuesday, Jul. 25, 2017, 9:28 am
Front Page » Sports » P-Nats win wild one in extras
The Potomac Nationals (43-56) won a wild game over the Down East Wood Ducks (38-62) 11-9 in 11 innings on Monday night at Grainger Stadium. The opener of a three-game set saw six lead changes and two ties before Potomac pulled away for the final time in the 11th. RF Rhett Wiseman drove in four runs and smashed the go-ahead two-run home run in the victory.
CF Daniel Johnson began his Carolina League career with a lead-off home run on the second pitch he saw out of the hand of RHP Emerson Martinez. Johnson received a promotion from the Hagerstown Suns on Monday morning and made his debut in the lead off spot with Potomac on Monday evening. His first career Carolina League home run gave the P-Nats a 1-0 lead after a half inning.
After Down East tied the score in the bottom of the first, the P-Nats answered with a two spot in the top of the second. 3B Ian Sagdal singled to begin the inning and was advanced to second on a soft ground ball to first by SS Edwin Lora. Wiseman drove in his first run of the game on an RBI single to right. The right-fielder now has an RBI in four straight games. With two outs, 2B Bryan Mejia singled to put runners on first and third. Johnson delivered again in his second at bat with an RBI single to right to put Potomac up 3-1.
The Wood Ducks broke out for four runs against RHP Luis Reyes in the bottom of the second inning. With one out, 2B Luis La O and RF Josh Altmann drew a walk. Then, DH Chuck Moorman singled in La O from second on a RBI base knock to left field. LF LeDarious Clark followed with his team-leading ninth home run of the season. The three-run homer gave the Wood Ducks a temporary 5-3 lead after three frames.
Potomac responded with a four-run frame of it’s own in the top of the third. DH Austin Davidson doubled and C Taylor Gushue singled to put runners on the corners to begin the inning. Two batters later, Lora plated the fourth P-Nats’ run on a single to center. Once again, Wiseman delivered with runners in scoring position with a double to right-center to tie the score at five. Then, 1B Matthew Page pushed Potomac ahead with a two-run double to right. The P-Nats held a 7-5 lead after just three innings.
The P-Nats extended the lead to 8-5 with a sacrifice fly by Lora in the top of the seventh. But, Down East had one more rally in it’s system in the bottom of the eighth. The Wood Ducks used it’s second four-run inning to take their second lead of the game. With the bases loaded and two outs, La O doubled on a blooper down the right-field line to cut the deficit to one. Altmann tied the game on a RBI ground out to second. Moorman made it 9-8 on a sacrifice fly to center.
Down to their final three outs, Lora played hero once again tying the game with his third RBI of the game in the top of the ninth inning. The six, seven, and eight hitters in the lineup drove in nine of the eleven Potomac runs in the series opener. RHP Kelvin Vasquez walked the first two batters in the inning. Sagdal sacrificed the runners to second and third. Then, Lora singled to left to tie the score at nine.
Wiseman finished off the Wood Ducks with his 10th home run of the season in the top of the 11th. Playing in it’s 24th inning in two games, Down East turned to a position player to pitch for the second consecutive night. Their right fielder, Altmann, came in to pitch in the 11th. After getting the first two outs, the right-fielder turned pitcher hit Lora and surrendered a two-run round-tripper to Wiseman. With the long ball, Wiseman extended his home run streak to three consecutive games.
LHP RC Orlan (SV, 2) finished off the game with his first Potomac save since 4/9 against Wilmington. He threw a perfect bottom of the 11th. LHP Jordan Mills (W, 1-1) also pitched well out of the bullpen throwing three perfect innings with three strikeouts in his return to the Nationals.
Eight of nine Potomac starters reached base in the contest as the P-Nats recorded 16 hits in the contest. Six starters recorded a multi-hit game. The game featured 20 total runs on 27 total hits and 33 total base runners. Johnson completed his debut 3-6 with two RBIs and a home run.
After a wild game on Monday night, the P-Nats and Wood Ducks will face off in the middle game of a three-game set on Tuesday night at Grainger Stadium. Potomac puts RHP Nolan Sanburn (3-3, 4.56) back into the starting rotation against LHP Brett Martin (1-5, 5.40) for the Wood Ducks. The P-Nats have now won the first eight of eleven contests against the Wood Ducks.
First pitch is scheduled for 7:00 pm. Coverage begins at 6:45 pm with the P-Nats Leadoff Show on the Potomac Nationals Baseball Network. The broadcast will be streamed live online at potomacnationals.com or through the TuneIn Radio or MiLB First Pitch apps.
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The man behind the Superstar
Read the full article on Film Companion, here: https://www.filmcompanion.in/southern-lights-baradwaj-rangan-rajini-interview-zee-tamil-2.0/
A few thoughts on Rajinikanth’s Deepavali-day interview on Zee Tamil, an “event” that possibly rivals 2.0 because the Superstar so rarely meets the media.
As he walks in, he looks like a benevolent family elder, bald and smiling and with kind eyes. He looks like he should be squeezing that slender frame into an easy chair, and disappearing behind The Hindu. Instead, he’s the star of stars, a super star, the Superstar, whose aura shows no signs of dimming. Amazing. Something tells me we’ll never see the likes of him again. Big stars, yes. Perhaps even bigger stars. But like him, no!
The host, Archana Chandhoke, begins by saying she wants to look at him like a fan. “Rendu kangal pathaathu,” she squeals. Two eyes aren’t enough. I am reminded of Papanasam Sivan’s composition that says he needs billions of eyes to gaze at the Lord. I don’t blame Archana. This rare interview by Rajinikanth is like a divine visitation.
The first question is surprisingly businesslike, about 2.0, the film he (He?) is out to promote. Apart from the characters, he says, there’s nothing similar between Enthiran/Robot and 2.0. There’s an “excellent message,” apparently. Because that’s why we go to Shankar movies, right?
At first, the film was planned without songs. Then, one title song was deemed necessary. Then, one “background song”. AR Rahman, then, said an album needs at least four songs. But the segue to Rajinikanth’s favourite song is more interesting. It’s Ponaal pogattum poda, from Paalum Pazhamum. I’m not surprised, given the star’s well-publicised spiritual side. It does make sense that he’s partial to this genre that was once called thathuva paadal (philosophical song). But this is the part I find most fascinating. He (being a Maharashtrian from Karnataka) had to find out the meaning of the song from a Tamil friend. How odd is that? I mean, he must have been drawn to the song only through the visuals and the music, then. Suddenly, an anecdote takes the form of a legend.
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Aadhy
Was waiting for this superb write-up to go up here. The man’s in quite a deep soul-searching phase I feel. Between some 27 ‘’this thing’’ and 13 ‘’hatsoff’ utterances, 19 tongue-slips, some fluff about 2.0 and an (understandably) overenthusiastic anchor, this interview was superstar unwinding himself from all the latest stress of politics. Fascinating to hear about his dreams about cut-outs and fandom, how he was star-struck sitting next to Kamal in a car, his words about dreams losing their value once they’ve been realized, the faux-simplicity projected by stars and media, the maayai of fame, and the most touching of all, his fond recollections of fatafat Jayalakshmi, out of nowhere. This man deserves a graceful exit from cinema, before he’s put under the pump for his shaky politics.
shaviswa
Maybe you should try to interview him BR. I know that it is probably impossible but no harm trying. And you could probably tell him that the interview will be only about his cinema career and not anything about his fledgling political career.
One the rarest interviews where my eyes welled up more than once. Only this man can do this everytime he appears on screen. What a write-up to match it.. Super BR saar! Thank you.
Archana was just the perfect person to do this interview. When he says, “am I such a special person to be bestowed with such luck”, she jibes back and forth a couple of “oh”s in a mocking way and he gives a majestic laugh at the end of it. An instance of amazing “chemistry” between the interviewer and interviewee.
The segment where she says are you such a happy person who spreads positivity around, he replies saying that is the power of truth. That struck with me till the end.
If any of you guys are on Twitter, it’s hilarious. They’re taking this article and still fighting Rajini vs Kamal wars and saying this piece is mocking Rajini!!! :-O
love it that he still says san-tho-sham, for happiness – and not san-dho-sham, like Tamil speakers generally do
I was very moved watching the interview, especially how he trivialized his simplicity. I cringe Everytime people like Vijay or ajith are mentioned as his successors. Politics is no place for a man like him. Hope he stays away. You are right, we’ll never see the likes of him again
Must say I’m a little saddened by how old he looks. I can buy him as my thaatha – he does the same “swallowing needlessly cos I’ve lost all my teeth” thing.
I haven’t watched the whole thing but I wanted to comment on this: In the West, when someone obviously popular and of some stature is interviewed, the interviewer tries or puts on a pretense of being objective and not overtly sycophantic. Puff piece is considered a pejorative. If I were a foreigner who somehow understands Tamil, I would think the hallmark of Tamil culture is sycophancy.
My goodness, how much each anchor tries to bend over backwards while simultaneously licking the shoes of whomever they interview. How do both sides put up with it – why is it so normalised that there is no other way? What does it say about society that any other way is unacceptable. How fucking stupid are we, really?
The Twitter reactions to this article is extremely funny. It looks like people go on Twitter just to fight and ridicule . A simple comment on manikandan’s aborted project leads you to be labeled as a Kamal Mani fan out to ridicule Rajni. Things that get people riled up these days, hmmm
for music/dance, she names… Michael Jackson? Not Gene Kelly or Fred Astaire or, closer home, Kamal Haasan? Part of me wonders if I should take offence and file a PIL
What’s wrong with MJ?! I wish I could attach one of those handy gifs.
I’m offended and I want to file a PIL! 😜
I absolutely loved his answer in relation to the question on how he remains so simple. He comes across as very self-aware.
While reading the article, the Thalaivar fan in me kept saying “ellam eyevaas”. Nevertheless, a wonderful piece. Romba san-tho-sham! 🙂
umamaheswarans
I don’t think this article was anything but an emotional tribute to Rajini the superstar. But I do find Kamal references in a Rajini movie quite irritating. Especially the stretch in Sivaji where Rajini mimics mgr/Sivaji/Kamal, I feel is insulting to a Rajini fan. I am eagerly waiting for the fanboy made movie from Karthik Subburaj. People like Shankar/Ranjith seems to prefer Rajini’s market value/mass appeal but not Rajini himself.
MANK: And the funniest thing is that people from my generation have actually grown up with Rajini, enjoying his every transformation (actor to star to superstar to what he is today). There’s much more of an emotional connect — simply by virtue of him being around, like, say, Ilayaraja — than for someone who just tuned in circa Baasha 😀 When we were growing up, the only “thalaivar” was MGR 😀
People from my generation feel “connected” to Rajini and Kamal and Ilayaraja the way 90s kids feel connected to Vijay and Ajith and Rahman. The nostalgia factor that kicks in when something like Nallavanukku Nallavan plays on TV is something else. This “emotion” transcends the fact of liking or disliking a particular phase or a particular film.
Now tell me a way to put this up on Twitter 😂
Ravi K
Is this interview available online? I couldn’t find it.
therag
Now I’m a 90s kid and want to have nothing to do with Vijay or Ajith. I have no clue where this “grew up with Vijay/Ajith” comes from. When I grew up I never heard about them, they were just some actors who delivered about 5 flops for every hit film. The only films which consistently generated hysteria were Rajni films and to some extent Kamal films. This whole Vijay-Ajith rivalry and their stardom is purely an industry concoction IMHO, and not organic. I’ve heard the women in the house talk about how Vijay has maintained his physique so well (I agree) and that’s that.
I’ve been affected by Rajni/Kamal hysteria. This was before I discovered his acting prowess and watched films like Mullum Malarum, so I was definitely in awe of Superstar Rajni. His films have always entertained and he does NOT take the audience for granted. Even a film like Baba is quite watchable IMHO and way better than the dreck that Vijay/Ajith serve nowadays, even considering that it is basically propaganda.
Outside of film, I think of Rajni as a very good representative of my parents’ generation. A well mannered conservative simple guy. When he said in the Kochadaiyan audio launch that he wanted his daughter to have children before working in films, I thought this was something that quite a few people from my family might say. Even the way he speaks English (contrast that with the way Kamal speaks) is that typical economical English that a lot of Indians speak. He’s just very relatable to a whole bunch of people and I can see where “love him cause of his simplicity” comes from. And I appreciate the fact that he retooled after the failure of Lingaa. I’m not a big fan of Kabali/Kaala but props to Rajni for such a bold move. I have full faith in Karthik Subburaj and am cautiously optimistic about 2.0.
Thalaivar is an emotion. I don’t think people can easily understand that unless they’ve traversed the journey alongside him. Your write up was such a poignant reminder of how we want more snippets, more excerpts about this journey… his camaraderie with Kamal, friendship with fellow stars and the 89s reunion… and ofcourse his collaboration with P.ranjith. BR for the sake of Tamil cinema you should do an interview with this legend. Ofcourse it might the hard to not play the unabashed fan girl but you will bring a certain intelligence to the conversation that is sorely overlooked.
Rad Mahalikudi
BR, like you mentioned, I grew up with Rajini, Kamal, Ilayaraja, Radhika. Hard to put it but it is like they are part of the family. It is fun when I hear people say “namma rajini” or “namma radhika” in conversation. A special connection?ni guess 1978, Rajini had 21 films that year. While I still like his style, post Thalapathy and Baasha, those movies are not Rajini movies at all. I would give my money to watch Rajini with that rawness from Bairavi, Kaali, Thappu Thaalangal, Avargal, Kazhugu, or Mullum Malarum. Johnny and Ilamai Oonjaladugirathu movies were ahead of their times. And his timing sense for humor from Thillu mullu and Thambikku entha ooru.
I wish he doesn’t get in to politics. I do wish like you he acts in character roles with good directors like Manikandan. Oh, well, will keep wishing.
watched the full interview and I must say I agree with anon. Archana was annoyingly displaying her sycophancy. Especially when the man himself is trying to be modest.
He was very honest in answers – and more importantly he appears to be someone who is aware of his popularity, .that he has benefited from it, and that he has also been extremely lucky to be where he is today. For such a candidate, you needed someone much better than a squealing, hyper-excited anchor. I come back to my request above – maybe you could try your hand at it. Maybe, a “Conversations with Rajini” kind of web series?
Am I the only one who was irritated with the anchor ? She went all over the place, and felt the interview was not organic at all.
Srinivas R
“If I were a foreigner who somehow understands Tamil, I would think the hallmark of Tamil culture is sycophancy.” — they would be right, at least about the Tamil film industry culture
Anuja Chandramouli
This was just so amazingly written BR. Something tells me we won’t read the likes of you either! In fact, it was so good I can almost forgive you for being a Kamal fan. (No need for a PIL just a poor joke!)
The Fatafat Jayalakshmi mention made me misty eyed. Not really familiar with her work but I loved her in Mullum Malarum and the ‘nitham nitham nellu soru’ track is a great favorite of mine. How about an article on Shoba and her?
@ Ravi K:
Aditya (Gradwolf)
@BR: I am not going to blame Twitter this time. I was also mildly disappointed that you suddenly started wondering if capital He must be used for Rajini, hitherto used only for Kamal. What is this new habit of gifting it to anyone and everyone? *exit *
Grad ‘conspiracy theorist’ wolf: It was just a pickup from my earlier line about ‘divine visitation. Enna saar neengalum… 🙂
Good comeback, 5/10 but not helped by your writing canon.
sridharraman
Well written, brangan! Among the many Kannada influences in his speech, san-tho-sham is easily the most endearing. 🙂
“What’s wrong with MJ?!” – That he was not a musicals guy, ‘just’ the biggest pop star that the planet has ever produced. I think if somebody’s talking genres, they should try to get it right. Er, unless it’s extreme metal/blues subgenres or something like that.
Wonderful write up. Didn’t really connect to it, not because of the writing but because I guess I don’t really connect to Rajni anymore. It kind of sunk in as I was reading this.
“Now I’m a 90s kid and want to have nothing to do with Vijay or Ajith. ” – Seconded. I am not sure about whether or not they are media made phenomena only. Maybe, but what I can say is for both the biggest and most ‘mass’ hits came only in the noughties. In the nineties, they cashed in on their youth to play chocolate loverboy. Ajith experimented a little with stuff like Vaali but Vijay was loverboy until IIRC some of these films began to bomb. Somebody said in Tamil cinema, you have to do action well to be a mass star and I agree (this is not necessarily the case with SRK/Aamir in Hindi nor arguably Rajesh Khanna either). In the 90s, the action heroes were still Kamal and Rajni mainly with Captain and Arjun bringing up the second tier. Sathyaraj enjoyed some hits intermittently. Meanwhile, Ilayam, Thala, Abbas, Vineet, Prabhudeva, Prashant crowded out the romantic comedy/tragedy/manaangati genre.
“they would be right, at least about the Tamil film industry culture” – Not only Tamil film industry but our general culture. Have a look at this uber sycophantic piece about Sachin. The funniest part is the writer moved to UK as a teen and yet posits that his experience is a proxy for millions of Indians who needed an Indian identity in the 90s. Er, I didn’t need it because I lived/live in India.
http://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/1165182/still-loving-sachin
Of course, on the other hand, if you’re Harsha Bhogle and while always being polite to a fault, don’t hesitate to make a point and don’t see anything wrong in talking about cricketers from other countries, you’ll get it from our petulant crybaby of a skip. So guess TV journalists in particular have to toe the line; the stakes are too high to say something that might offend these thin skinned demigods.
Yes. Vijay’s mass image started after Ghilli. And Ajith’s probably after some horrible movies in the 2000s like Dheena, Citizen, Red, Villain, Varalaru, etc.
If you put together all the horrible movies that Ajith has made, it may be more than the combined horrible movies of all Tamil heroes from Thygaraja Bhagavathar days.
I am still trying to figure out why Ajith came in the get up of a vampire in the middle of Citizen. That query has been unanswered to date.
That he was not a musicals guy,
Truly, the unassuming attitude is what makes Rajini! I remember an interview by one of the Sun channels just before Enthiran was released. He spoke about his life in general and in between switched to his bus conductor days for a brief moment. The way he spoke about it was plain and matter-of-fact as it could get. The man did not hit a high or low note when switching nor bat an eyelid. It is hard to capture that feeling in words but the nonchalance (for the lack of a better word) was not put on. Here is a man at peace with whatever he had been through and simply accepting.
(As I type this, I also remember the following in the same interview)
When asked about the movie, his long career, and the toll it takes on him, he simply said something like “every day i consider myself fortunate to be called for projects like these and my job is to do justice to the role the director has envisioned.. “. Many would have waxed about this but he was actually telling people to go seize the moment and be thankful for the opportunity.
Many may have said similar words but what he said felt pure. Until then, I never really idolized Rajini but after that interview, I was most certainly in awe of the person.
“People from my generation feel “connected” to Rajini and Kamal and Ilayaraja the way 90s kids feel connected to Vijay and Ajith and Rahman. ” Hey, Baddy….you are youth, man…don’t try to join “my” generation! 🙂
In the 2.0 trailer launch, Rajni had this killer line: “This film is not only for children, mass, intellectuals but for pseudo-intellectuals also”. LOL.
@Madan, I know they have delivered hits, have a fanbase etc. But their films were never events the way Rajni’s films were (maybe because Rajni films released about once in 3 years). I just don’t understand how and when the transition happened. With Rajni, I think Baasha is when he clearly became a yuge mass star, and I can accept that because Baasha is a very well made mass film.
Even if a mass star can get away with producing mediocre films, I think the film that makes him a star has to have broader appeal, and should generally be considered well made. Eg. Dhool and Saamy established Vikram as a mass star, so he could get away with some crappy films for a while but only for a while. The audience started punishing Vikram for his missteps and some of his experiments like Raavanan backfired. Now Vikram is considered a lesser star than Sivakarthikeyan. I don’t think Surya has made a successful mass masala but I don’t think he is considered a mass star, he doesn’t have a rabid fanbase for one.
I don’t think the Thala-Thalapathy euphoria was even there before 2010-11. It may have existed but the general audience didn’t know or care. Suddenly after 2011, Vijay was a huge star, Ajith was a huge star, their films get bumper openings. How did this happen? Their rise to superstardom is not organic which is why I feel the industry must have had a concerted campaign to push these two names. It happens all the time in sports, where a player or a group of players become the face of the team or sometimes even the sport. Like Wayne Gretzky, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Tom Brady. Of course, they are great athletes and outliers among outliers, but there is an incredible marketing machine built around these athletes that ensures that the public never forgets their names.
Dracarys
Except for Tamil and Malayalam speakers rest of the country pronounces san-dho-sam as san-tho-s(h)am.
In fact, almost all words, wherever you have ka,tha and pa sounds, It is replaced with ga, dha and ba sounds in Tamil and Malayalam.
praneshp
@shaviswa: I’d say you’re wrong, and counter with Thirumalai
@therag: Rajni was already a huge star even before Badshah/Annamalai. I think what changed with these films is they revolved around a narrative of Rajni beating impossible odds as (usually) a working class man. The parallels here between Rajni’s own life story and the character on screen evoked a new level of frenzy, taking him from mass to mass hysteria. The films that didn’t strictly follow this template like Veera or Arunachalam weren’t such outright successes as Badshah/Annamalai/Muthu/Padayappa which seemed to establish this as the new template around which every Rajni film would now have to be based. And which marked the point where I got off. Also why I liked Endhiran because it brought back shades of the absent minded professor of Dharmathin Thalaivan and the villain of Mundru Mudichu/Gayathri, i.e the Rajni who used to act whilst effortlessly sweeping the gallery off their feet.
It’s possible of course that the Thala-Thalapathy euphoria is entirely manufactured because even now, their run rate is not as amazing as Rajni’s (then again, as you said, they make too many films and don’t let the anticipation build up). Could also be they know where they really stand and can’t stay away from the market for so long lest somebody else occupies their space.
Thupparivaalan
I really want to believe that Vijay and ajith’s stardom are manufactured. Despite being non actors (which isn’t a problem in itself), they have zero charisma which makes me wonder how they got where they are now. Vijay’s style is entire stale and borrowed. His dialogue delivery is monotonous, his romantic stares are creepy. His dancing is terrific and can do comedy when he has a good supporting cast, but is incapable of the sort of heavy lifting say an Soorya did in Singam or Vikram did in gemini. Heck, I can’t even think he’ll be able to pull off sirithai like Karthi did.
Ajith’s case is even more puzzling. He is neither a good actor, dancer or a style icon. I think there was no one to fill the void that kamal and Rajni, and later the likes of Arjun and Vijaykanth left for action films. So these two despite their mediocrity were lapped by Tamil pattithotti.
If by manufactured people mean loads of PR, fan club galvanizing etc, then it is true. If by manufactured you mean media made/fake, then that’s simply not true. Ask anyone in the business of cinema, not those who just love cinema (even the distinction can be problematic with Vijay/Ajith films included). Kamal lost the ability to open a film a long time ago. Rajini has to depend on Kabali like aggressive promotion strategy and still cannot hold it. Vijay and Ajith are the only two stars who can command that business without much effort. It’s really them saying deal with it. So you accept it or not and disagree with the exact time when these changes happened, Vijay and Ajith are a force to reckon with and probably only ones at the moment with that clout.
As another 90s’ kid, I can reaffirm what people above said. Vijay & Ajith were nowhere in the scene at all when we grew up. Even Kamal, Rajni’s contemporary, started doing crazy Mohan comedies and so we didn’t identify him as a superstar of the masses. 90s was just Rajni out there all by himself, enjoying some other-wordly craze, with Muthu, Annamalai, Basha and later Padayappa shooting him up to the pinnacle of stardom. Even as late as ca.2007, with Vijay and Ajith having started to taste their mass success with Pokkiri and Billa, a Sivaji would come and show who’s the boss in terms of youth appeal. Even in my college time, disclosing oneself as a Vijay fan (Villu, Vettaikaran, Sura phase) would make him the butt of jokes. I believe the connect Vijay has now was formed in the post-Thuppaki resurgence phase, as the noughties’ kids are hitting their teens and adolescence now. Ajith OTOH has always been a mystery, as Thupparivaalan mentioned. Some say it’s his movies like Dheena, Attagasam, Billa, Mankatha etc., some say it’s his looks, while others claim his off-screen persona to be that X factor. Even his fans don’t seem to know.
When he is not trying to be a politician, Rajini is probably the most self aware star in the country. I was annoyed a bit with 2.0 promotional questions but I guess a rare interview of the man, made it just a minor issue.
@Aadhy: Even his fans don’t seem to know.
Loved that line. Had a good laugh.
@Madan: Thanks for mentioning Gayathri. This came before Sivappu Rojakkal, based on story by Sujata. Rajini, relished the anti-hero role.
In Kollywood, may be in other *woods also, there seem to be an unwritten rule that once you become a hero, you are always a hero and don’t have to act. Stars have to be portrayed as “do good”ers, larger than life guys. Fandom/industry seems to be toeing that line. No one thinks about that something called “acting” and “cinema”. At the end, we get time pass entertainment, but no good cinema with great shades of characters or acting. That is a big plus with Hollywood. Will any Kollywood big name act in Jack Nicholson role in “The Departed”? Leonardo in Wolf of Wall Street? Tom Cruise stopped doing it, but he did act as a MCP in Magnolia. Brad Pitt hilarious Gym trainer in Burn after reading. None of our guys will be up for it. Only hope I have is Vijay Sethupathy and possibly Madhavan.
Why is that? I see that as a curse. Guess we can’t differentiate acting as a profession/art from the actor as a person. Curse and disease I guess. We all lose out. For all the hoopla around Rajini, in last 25 years, name one movie from him that can be considered cinema? Only Enthiran makes it. Rest are forgettable and I had to watch it since they show up in water cooler and lunch time conversation – you haven’t seen it yet?
M.R. Sharan (@sharanidli)
For someone who grew up in Karnataka and for whom the Rajini phenomenon was only remotely experienced, the sycophancy of the anchor – the practiced devotion, the incessant praise, the hammy expressions – grated. Palabhishekhams of cut-outs are easier to rationalise than this meaningless charade of compliments. This is an encomium masquerading as an interview. However, the YouTube comments on the videos are full of praise for the anchor. Rarely have I felt more alienated from Tamil culture.
“In Kollywood, may be in other *woods also, there seem to be an unwritten rule that once you become a hero, you are always a hero and don’t have to act. Stars have to be portrayed as “do good”ers, larger than life guys. ”
I think as of now, this is more extreme in Tamil as opposed to at least Bollywood. While some of this kind of larger than life-isation still happens w.r.t Salman, it’s also true that a large segment of the audience does not watch Salman films anyway. That is, the excessive idolisation comes at a price. So while Tiger Zinda Hai did good business, Race 3 and Tubelight not so much. The other Khans are not so hung up on image; if anything, SRK’s most popular phase was his anti hero one. It didn’t ‘disqualify’ him when he acted in romcoms along side (like Kabhi Haan Kabhi Na). Of current actors, Ranbir Kapoor has done very grey roles like in Rajneeti and Ranveer played an outright villain in Padmavat. And even at the height of Big B mania, I don’t think there was any attempt to conflate his personal image with the roles he played (the way say Rajni’s roles since Annamalai are tailored to evoke his own against-the-odds struggle). Before Padmavat, I would have said it is impossible to imagine a top Bollywood star playing a thorough fiend like Leo in Wolf of Wall Street but now I would say yes.
Agreed that few if any Rajni films of the last two decades have been interesting, barring Endhiran. Diehards will say that is never the point of a Rajni film and fair enough but I wish it was.
(Original) venkatesh
BR : You are becoming misty-eyed and soft in your old dotage mate 🙂
This was by far one of the most “softy/emotional” articles you have written and boy did it lead me down a rabbit hole of a memory lane.
And yes he looks old and yes its clear that he doesnt have too many days remaining as a Superstar but boy can he bring a lump to your throat. You see a reflection of yourself in him.
Tambi Dude
“The other Khans are not so hung up on image; if anything, SRK’s most popular phase was his anti hero one. ”
But that was his starting phase. Once DDLJ came out, SRK never went back to negative roles. Just like Shatrughan Sinha and Vinod Khanna who too started with negative roles for some time. For that matter even Rajni was popular in negative roles (few films he did).
Real test will be when someone switches between positive and negative roles.
BTW watching Darr in Delhi, when SRK knives Sunny Deol during the climax of Darr, there were loud cheers in the hall. It was so surreal. To see crowd rooting for the villain was a unique experience.
” Once DDLJ came out, SRK never went back to negative roles.” – Hmm I would say it is different from Rajni because in the Darr years, SRK was alternating his villainous/anti-hero turns with rom com ones like in Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman or KHKN. Yes, it has mystified me that he didn’t just shun anti hero roles but overall became too soft image wise after DDLJ. I think turning into a pure romantic hero helped him in the short run but is the reason why he is the least successful now of the three Khans.
” To see crowd rooting for the villain was a unique experience.” – Ha ha, no wonder Sunny was pissed off. That also happened with Padmavat by the way, a result of Shahid either having to or himself choosing to underplay too much and Ranveer getting all the macho masala dialogues.
Let me give my theory on the ascent of Ajith and Vijay (kaasaa panamaa adichu viduvom)
Ajith and Vijay got their timing right – that is my simple explanation. After Baasha and Indian, Rajni and Kamal went on to do lightweight movies like Arunachalam, Avvai Shanmugi, Kadhala Kadhala, Muthu for about 3-4 years. Then we had the ageing Satyaraj, Prabu, Captain, Karthik, Sarath, Arjun on one side and the so-so Prasanth, Arun Vijay, Abbas, Vinith, Prabhudeva on the other.
A portal to stardom was opened in this brief period of lull (96-99), when Ajith and Vijay made an impact with Kadhal Koattai, Vaali, Poove Unakaga, Kadhaluku Mariyadhai, Thullatha manamum etc. It may be hard to believe now, but Vijay and Ajith were the creamy layer among the youth stars of the 90s – yeah the situation was that sumaar.
Then Rajni came back to his A-game with Padayappa and even Kamal created a stir with his Hey Ram. And Ajit Vijay were content to paddle along with hits and misses. Then there was again a lull after the Aalavandhan/Baba debacle & the window of opportunity to make an impact in the mas(s)ala area presented itself. And both Ajith and Vijay peaked then with Ghilli & Villain. It took them just these 2 movies at the right time to lay the foundation for their current mass-image and fan following. Ditto for Suriya-Kaaka Kaaka and Vikram-Dhool/Gemini.
Stars like Dhanush and Simbu, who are quite good at commercial cinema couldnt rise to the level of Vijay Ajith (or even Surya for that matter) because they peaked at the wrong time. i.e they gave their best hits when the Sivaji/Enthiran tsunami along with Dasavatharam (the movie which everyone dislikes & disses, but had a solid run in the B.O) came.
So whenever these 2 stalwarts were in prime form, the other actors were always outshined no matter how good their output was. Just to prove further, VJS and Sivakarthikeyan came into prominence when Kamal went out of the race and Rajni kept dishing out Lingaas and Kochadayans.
Edho ennala mudinjadhu 🙂
praneshp: I’d say you’re wrong, and counter with Thirumalai
True that! It was with Thirumalai he became an action hero. I nearly became a fan after watching him in the film. 🙂 He was pretty much at ease with the Madras Bashai – easily the best by a hero since Kamal. The film had some good songs too.
Shaviswa: And Ajith’s probably after some horrible movies in the 2000s like Dheena, Citizen, Red, Villain, Varalaru, etc.
Actually, all these are considered “landmark films” in his career. 🙂
Yet to watch the interview or read the article.
This is how I see Kamal and Rajini.
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The skills Kamal has in his repertoire are extensive and well known. This is not entirely surprising for someone who is on top of his game. But even outside his passion and profession i.e Cinema, Kamal comes across as knowledgeable and widely read. His views on Socialism, Gandhi and Tamil literature are not layman views. At least he does not present himself as a layman.
The more one learns the less he knows. Knowledge of this stature should make one humble. But humbleness is not exactly what comes to mind when we talk about Kamal.
A creator is like a God. Gods can be arrogant. Kamal is a creator. The creator in Kamal probably dulls the humbleness that should have come from his knowledge. Do all creators exhibit this tendency? May be not. But there are at least two other creators who fall in this category. Ilaiyaraja and Jeyamohan. Two people, like Kamal, who are very proud about what they have created. Their pride always comes along with their achievements. People who can’t differentiate their pride and achievements hate them for who they are rather than what they have done.
Rajini is in contrast almost in every way next to Kamal. Rajini is hardly an intellectual. He doesn’t pop names of experts, randomly, when he speaks. He can hardly speak coherently, without going in tangents, for that matter. His language is not polished. Even in his own field Rajini doesn’t always come across as someone who knows things in depth. His attempts in singing and directing went in vain. This is the Super Star that nobody knows where the ‘Super’ comes from.
May be Rajini knows. Knows what he don’t know. That the ‘Super’ in his Star is only a mirage and can be seen only at a fans’ distance. The Star that appears in the screen is not the person behind it. The Star has no limitations but the person has. He comes across as someone who has accepts life, both for what it is and what it is not. His off screen appearance is in a way saying that this is not the person you see in the screen. The Star out there is immortal and invincible. I am not.
Rajini is not a creator. Even if he is one, I doubt he would have believed that himself. The spiritualist in him would have said “I only play my part – – the part the director wants, the part God wants”. May be this grounded offscreen persona adds some charisma to his onscreen appearance, at least for his fans. Like a deity in a temple that is a stone and a God simultaneously. God for the believers. Only a black stone for itself. But when the stone dresses up, its always a festival.
If Kamal is an atheist God, Rajini is the spiritual human. While one walks around with his immortal creations, the other lives with his fallibility.
sachita
I remember my cousin asking me in 2000/01, if I was ajith or vijay fan( he was barely 9 or 10 then) – i was startled too wondering when did rajni or kamal became ajith or vijay question. At the same time I had a classmate ( from madurai) who was a huge fan of vijay. There are quite a few instances like these.
All I am saying it wasnt something that happened in 2011. It was there even in early 2000.
Vijay had quite a few hits as the guy delivering a lecture in climax about one side love. Cashed that success into successful masala movies. Except for few years of low before thuppaki he has had a strong box office i think.
Ajith is even more of a mystery because he doesnt even have box office success at all. Pretty much whole of 2000-2010 – i think he was delivering dud after dud till billa.
are they worthy of superstardom – no, no, no. But it is definitely not media made.
I dont think a vaccum create stars, the khans are super stars with unparalleled success. ( hrithik may be). Only in the past 3-5 years we are seeing some possibles.
I didnt even understand rajni fandom till I came to US, so how vijay becomes a star – giving out the same expression movie after movie or ajith with no acting chop becomes one is all a puzzle.
IMO the decline phase as an actor and ascent as a star begins when an actor starts picking scripts based on calculations, instead of stories they genuinely like. Baasha or Annamalai were probably not written with calculations on how to make Rajinikanth a big star or how to rake in big money. But one movie like that, sets the precedent for future movies of the actor, where how the hero has to be introduced on camera has more thought put into than the story/screenplay itself.
Vijay and Ajith have given dozens of horrible movies throughout their mediocre oeuvre. The key difference is earlier they chose crappy movies like Shahjahan or Aval Varuvala because they liked the crappy stories for some reason. Then comes a movie or 2 that makes them a big star and now crappy scripts are tailor made for them and calculations are made how it will help them in real life.
What sets Kamal haasan apart from his contemporaries and the ones who came after is, he mostly didn’t let the star takeover the passion he had for cinema. He kept doing movies that he wanted to do, no matter box office result or if his contemporaries overtook him in stardom. And in doing so, he continuously contributed to improve the art he was associated with in all aspects.
P. S. Kamal haasan occasionally gives in to his narcissism and makes movies like Dasavatharam, Viswaroopam 2 or cleverly includes self revering lyrics like “Varundhi uzhaippavan yaaru”, “Naan thodadha Sigarangal yedhu, Kai varadha kalaigal yedhu”.
“What sets Kamal haasan apart from his contemporaries and the ones who came after is, he mostly didn’t let the star takeover the passion he had for cinema.” – I think for Kamal, the ego of performer reigns supreme and to be fair, he has more or less acknowledged this in interviews. He has range and he WANTS to show it off in his roles. To tie it in with Easwar’s earlier comment too, he has not evolved quite to the point where he will only act as per the script’s requirements and sacrifice his ego. IMO that is very rare among talented actors who get popular and do lots of lead roles; they have a narcissistic trait at some level and want to hog the limelight. I honestly can’t think of an actor just now from Hindi or Tamil who has Kamal-like stardom and is secure enough to adopt understatement where that is all that’s required (Mamoothy comes to mind in Malayalam, AB at times but more in later years). In Hollywood, Russell Crowe is a good example of a big name actor who avoids Al Pacino-like showboating, though he is very much capable of delivering volcanic monologues with aplomb when he needs to. Al could have played the extroverted and curmudgeonly journalist of State of Play but whether he could have essayed John Nash or Jeffrey Wigand…I have my doubts. But back to Kamal, he doesn’t mind films flopping as long as they afford the space for him to showboat. But I don’t think he would want to step away from that (I don’t mean he wants to showboat through the entire role but wants there to be scope for it somewhere in the role). Perhaps his entry into politics is tacit acknowledgment that the public doesn’t find his showboating as captivating as it once did.
To also touch upon Easwar’s comment:
” People who can’t differentiate their pride and achievements hate them for who they are rather than what they have done.” – I think Indian audiences for some reason don’t understand the ego of performer. There is no point in demanding them (the performers) to keep it aside because for some (even many) that ego may be part of what drives their performances to captivating levels. In the West, it’s very normal for star actors or even singers to sound egoistic. And while that gets mentioned, yes, it is usually not accompanied by the recrimination that I have come across here and more so in TN. It is well known for instance that Lata is arrogant and manipulative but this aspect is not usually talked about so much compared to Raja and thalaiganam which as a combination will instantly deliver a thousand search results. There is a need in Tamil for a Raju Bharathan-like figure (without his English!) to humanise these stars without demonising them. Accept that they are not Gods how much ever you may wish they are but also don’t condemn them for merely being human.
“I remember my cousin asking me in 2000/01, if I was ajith or vijay fan( he was barely 9 or 10 then) ” – That’s interesting. My cousin was an Ajith fan in that time period and he would have been 10 too. But it was not (yet) a Vijay or Ajith question. And I think he placed Ajith in a basket along with Vijay and Vikram (couple of years later, say around Dhool). Rajni was the ultimate star.
Kamal did go the star route in the mid 80s – Sakalakala Vallavan phase – he made some horror movies like Uyarndha Ullam, Naanum oru Thozhilali, etc. And then Nayagan happened.
@Madan, Raju Bharatan made up quite a bit of stuff, including his supposed ‘closeness’ to stars and directors and music directors, and what they ‘said’ to him and what he ‘said’ to them. Moreover, his unauthorised biography of Lata Mangeshkar was such a horrible vilification campaign that had India had better libel laws, Bharatan would have been sued for defamation.
Raju Bharatan use to romanticize a lot, be it cricket or HFM. Thinking back, he was overrated for the same reason, unless you happen to be the fan of the person he was overrating. His classic romanticism is his description of G R Vishwanatha’s 97 notout against WI at Chepauk (those days Chepauk has to be a terrific bouncy and pacy track). Granted a terrific knock against a marauding Andy Roberts, but he made it sound like it was an out of the world innings.
But I am forever indebted to him for being the source of two well known trivia which I use to remind and irritate both Rafi and Kishore fans :- That Rafi took 11 retakes for Tasveer Teri Dil mein and Kishore became an avatar of Mohd Ghazni by retaking 17 times for Guzar Jaye Din Ki Harpal (both by Salil C).
“, his unauthorised biography of Lata Mangeshkar was such a horrible vilification campaign that had India had better libel laws, Bharatan would have been sued for defamation.” – Haven’t read it. I think making up stuff is bad, of course, and yes, he would never be able to get away with it with effective libel laws. But the attitude of covering the more human, not necessarily unsavoury, traits of the artists is something I respect. That Talat felt a superiority complex towards Rafi which he would later regret. It sounds plausible and it is a very human emotion. Rather than pretending that everything was hunky dory when we know it wasn’t.
“he made some horror movies like Uyarndha Ullam, Naanum oru Thozhilali, et” – Yappa, Uyarndha Ullam! My God! What a mokkai movie it was! 😀 Yeah, between these tired clunkers and Vikram not setting the box office afire, he had virtually nothing on his plate until Nayagan changed the game completely.
@ Tambi Dude: It speaks volumes (!) about Bharatan that he considers himself more passionate about cricket than music. I could live with his music writing if only because nobody else seemed to be interested in it but his cricket writing was absolutely atrocious. The rant he wrote after the Kolkata incident (99) (where Shoaib inadvertently blocked Sachin from completing a run and led to Sachin getting run out) was flat out unreadable. Oh, and he was very very pro Sachin those days, don’t remember if he changed his stripes later.
@Shaviswa – Yes, I agree Kamal haasan dabbled with some horrible commercial movies during his late 20s, but look at what happened after Nayagan – Rajini clearly became a bigger star compared to Kamal haasan, but Kamal haasan instead of going after box office collections or chasing superstardom, he consistently made/starred in movies that would outlive him.
In doing so he made a huge contribution to Tamil cinema this past 20 years not just as an actor, but as director/screenwriter/producer. The fact that he did not stop doing that after flops like Guna, Hey Ram, Anbe sivam speaks volumes about his passion for the craft.
But like I said earlier, occasionally he did projects that were self indulgent, but off late it became too much to bear even for people who liked his sensibilities.
“Oh, and he was very very pro Sachin those days, don’t remember if he changed his stripes later.”
what is this suppose to mean? If you are in anti Sachin gang, you can say it directly 🙂
That said, he was a treasure house of trivia. One trivia I remember was about Rafi during his doldrum days in early 1970s where he was reportedly told by a MD that he forgot how to sing in front of a mike. He went to Naushad’s house and cried, before Naushad spoke some confidence boosting words.
BTW around 1974 my dad saw a poster of Mughamad (sic) Rafi night , written in tamil at (gasp) Dindigul station. Such was his desperation. He also sung some atrocious telugu songs in that time frame.
Madan, Bharatan, like Khalid Mohammed, had his pet favorites. Whoever was his favourite at the time got good press. If he had a falling out, then the venom came out, double quick. His biography of Lata Mangeshkar was written after he had a falling out with her, and the hatchet was out. The book was an amalgamation of rumour, supposition, and some vainglorious poseuring.
Bharatan likes feeling important, and he often made himself sound more important than he was – he once wrote about Salilda sending him a composition to ask his [Bharatan’s] opinion about it. I mean, really?!
And Talat may (or may not) have felt superior to Rafi (I refuse to take Bharatan’s word that he felt that way – Talat was, by all accounts, a gentleman) but fact remains that they were very good friends.
For instance, Manna Dey has confessed to feeling bad that he wasn’t given songs that were given to Rafi, even by his own uncle.
Talat, by all accounts of him – from peers, music directors, lyricists, people who knew him, etc., was a gentleman. I cannot believe – especially on Bharatan’s say so – that he thought himself superior to Rafi.
Mukesh was famously honest about his limited range as a singer.
Unlike the women singers of the time, the male cadre had a great deal of camaraderie and friendship amongst them.
And even with Lata, what is today termed as her ‘arrogance’ would have been celebrated if it was a male singer in her position. Because Lata asked for her due and that was not looked upon kindly. Whereas a Kishore, who also asked for his due, was considered ‘eccentric’ not arrogant.
“Yeah, between these tired clunkers and Vikram not setting the box office afire, he had virtually nothing on his plate until Nayagan changed the game completely.”
@Madan, I’m not so sure that is entirely accurate. I’d actually say that Kamal has always done mass movies mixed with class movies (for lack of a better word, apologies!) until the mid 90s, at least. During the same time frame of Uyarndha Ullam and Naanum oru Thozhilali (both are duds, and I won’t debate that), came Oru Kaidhiyin Diary, Kakki Sattai, Swathi Muthyam, Punnagai Mannan…all big hits. Similarly, after Nayagan, he continued to dabble with masala such as Soora Samhaaram, Vetri Vizha, Sathya, Aboorva Sahodarargal, Chanakyan, Singaravelan etc. The fact is both were doing so many films, that some were bound to be hits and some absolute clunkers. I still remember that when Nayagan released, the film that had the bigger collections was Manithan, a film that even Rajini would agree didn’t deserve to be more successful that Nayagan! 🙂 Two anecdotes come to mind…a fellow school mate, on seeing the first day show of Nayagan, came back and said…”Semaiyya nadichirikkan, aana padam oduma theriyala”! 🙂 The second one was a popular angle mentioned during the Kamal-Rajini “wars” after a few years….”Ungaalu kuttaiya nadichaaru, mottaiya nadichaaru, komanathula nadichaaru, aana collection yaarukku?”! 🙂
@Madan – My memories of late 90s/early 2000s satellite tv channels was that Vijay/Ajith were already anointed as the next Rajni/Kamal. Vijay as next Rajni was bearable but Ajith was supposed to be the next Kamal!. I remember this fairly well since I was a PrabhuDeva fan(amongst younger heroes) at that time and had never understood why he was never mentioned in these next SuperStar equations 😉
Does the Rajini/Kamal dichotomy even apply with Vijay and Ajith? Both of them are trying to be Rajini kind of mass heroes, and neither are trying to be like Kamal, unless you count the films in which Ajith did multiple roles. Unless you’re using Rajini/Kamal to simply mean “the top two stars.”
Ravi K: Unless you’re using Rajini/Kamal to simply mean “the top two stars.”
That’s what it is. Unlike the MGR=Rajini (in the mass sense) and Sivaji=Kamal (in the seeking different ‘actorly’ roles sense) equation, here both Ajith and Vijay are ‘mass’ stars.
I don’t think a Sivaji/Kamal can happen again. In the sense that even Rajini had to abandon his stab at “soft” films (like Kai Kodukkum Kai) and get behind the more hardcore mass-masala bandwagon. So for an actor TODAY (in the home-viewing era) to get the Sivaji/Kamal kind of stardom with “soft” films is out of the question. That audience just isn’t there in enough numbers to justify blockbuster theatrical sales. Even Kamal’s biggest hits (Vettaiyaadu, Dasavatharam) are more massy (in the broad sense). I don’t see a Salangai Oli or a Moondram Pirai becoming huge hits today.
@Tambi Dude: I am pro Sachin myself in the sense that duh he was one of the greatest etc. So when I call somebody pro Sachin I am putting him in the fanatic category. The ones who cannot possibly be reasoned with. Bharatan’s articles then were completely lacking in balance.
@Anu Warrier: Some context about the Talat quote. He is shown as himself recollecting the phase in the early 50s when he was a singing star and Rafi was up and coming and he mentions feeling then that Rafi’s Punjabi Urdu was no match for his Lucknowi diction(I agree with that!). He rather regrets thinking about Rafi this way and not appreciating his talent then. So it came across as honest self reflection.
Re Lata, I don’t really mind that she spoke up for more money which is her prerogative (though I don’t agree that singers can be paid royalty). Rather, I have found her very lacking in warmth when talking about other female singers (in interviews not conducted by Bharatan, I may add). Maybe it’s a combination of arrogance and insecurity because she probably never stopped seeing others as competition even into the 90s and I have found that to be a disappointing aspect about her. Again that’s just how she is and fair enough.
@Shankar Didn’t mean to say that Kamal pivoted out of commercial films after Nayagan. If at all he did, it may have happened in recent years and not intentionally. He was still doing Crazy Mohan comedies into the early noughties. But I just meant Nayagan happened at the right time for him. He wasn’t necessarily in danger of getting wiped out but the phase just before Nayagan had a bunch of underwhelming films that didn’t do justice to his abilities. I agree though that both had lots of flops in that decade and sometimes, like buses, they arrived together. Rajni had a bit of a slump in 89-90. Curiously this too was followed by a Mani blockbuster.
Rajinikanth had a bad phase post Guru Sishyan. He made Dharmathin Thalaivan that flopped, and then it was that disaster called Blood Stone (how many of you remember that? 🙂 )
Kodi Parakuthu with Bharathiraja also flopped big time.Then a series of hits and misses with Rajathi Raja, Siva (oh that was KB at his worst), Raja Chinna Roja, Mappillai, Panakkaran and then another couple of duds in Athisaya Piravi and Nattukkoru Nallavan.
Thalapathi revived a bit of his star status but not by much, But Mannan, Annamalai, Yejaman, Veera and Baasha catapulted him into stratospheric heights.
“Rather, I have found her very lacking in warmth when talking about other female singers (in interviews not conducted by Bharatan, I may add). ”
That’s one of her lesser transgressions. She use to block the career of anyone she deemed as potential competition. Vani Jayaram has some story to tell.
Given the background she came from (stark poverty) I can understand, though not condone, that behavior. In my previous employment someone told me that how certain managers never hire any one who, ITO, one day may become a threat to them.
Laxmi Pyare use to boast about themselves that during their initial years after successful Parasmani, SJ use to stop recording and pack off the moment they see LP in the recording studio. Decades later, Nadeem Shravan returned the favor to LP, only roles reversed.
I guess this is all human instinct for survival.
I don’t think a Sivaji/Kamal can happen again.
Er, we already have someone who’s greater than Rajini and Kamal put together. 🙂
Rajinikanth interview was awesome. He is so down to earth and simple, unlike Kamal. Kamal is all about Kamal both on and off screen. I don’t see any difference. He talks exactly the same way in movies, politics or Big boss. Same crap over and over again. Dravidam, anti-hindi, communism, socialism blah.. blah.. blah. He is an overrated actor. It’s never about the role, it’s about how long he wears makeup, playing short man, tall man, playing a white american, with his stupid accent,punjabi sardar etc. It’s all about “Kamal” rather than the role he is playing. preaching his ideology all the time.
unlike kamal Rajini does not claim to be the so-called intellectual person. On the other hand, kamal the so-called intellectual person, cannot speak one coherent sentence. And I am not sure if anybody understands what he is saying. Aamir khan is far better than Kamal who can give a wonderful finished product to the audience, Kamal’s mind is cluttered, with a lot of info, and he just vomits all the info on the screen, which results in movies like uttama villain, vishwaroopam 1&2 etc.
Rajinikanth on the other hand, atleast sticks to what he knows best. And he has achieved the kind of popularity that nobody can even imagine. Vijay, Ajit or surya none of them have the same appeal as Rajini does throughout the country
@madan that’s an interesting point about ego and Indian audience.
Ego is chastised here probably because the society hasn’t accepted individualism. Adhering to Social values is seen more important than individual’s needs. So anything that would make an individual standout is probably not appreciated.
This could also be a residual of some tribal culture. In certain tribes, the skills of their Hunters is played down both by the hunters themselves as well as the group. Hunting, as much as it is skilled it is also by chance. Playing down their skill is in a way acknowledging the role of chance. Also, the pride in hunting skill, which is a sign of individuality, could result in inequality within the group. Which then could result in less sharing and puts the group’s survivability at risk.
As much as there is a need for society to understand the human side of performers, there is also a need for the performers to understand that there is lot more at play in their success apart from their skills alone. Kamal and Ilaiyaraja’s skills would have meant nothing at a wrong place and at a wrong time. A war ridden country could have never appreciated their talent.
When we were conceived to be born, there was a one third chance to be of a different gender than what we are now. By chance, if only the gender has changed and even if everything else is constant, the world would be different both for us as well as for the rest. It may not have been possible for a female Hitler to have done so much damage. A female Kamal, with exactly the same skills, could not have achieved what the male Kamal has accomplished because of gender challenges. When one realises this, the ego starts deflating on its own. Would that affect their performance? May be not. Their performance may become a purer expression of their nature.
When a spider makes a beautiful web, the beauty comes out of the spider’s nature, you know, it’s instinctive beauty. And how much of the beauty of our own lives is the beauty of being alive, and how much of it is conscious intention? That’s a big question. – Joseph Campbell
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“Selfless Shine Above The Selfish”: Barnaby
To a humble blogger whose most fervent core belief is that “PRIDE is the root of all evil”, Senator Joyce’s column in the Canberra Times resonates strongly:
Selfless shine above the selfish
Easter, Queensland’s state election is over, Parliament is out, time to relax with the family.
Relaxation is essential but in so many careers our life is like climbing a cliff continually reaching for that next foothold or crevice to pull us further up. If you stop too long you will cramp and fall off and if you have reached your top, well then, it is all downhill from there.
At the triathlon in Mooloolaba last week the general aim of competitors was to do a PB. At work, a career implies aspiration, as the alternative is regret. How many colleagues in the coffee room tell you that they are aspiring to a lesser job on lower pay? Spiritually, have you ever come across someone who told you they actually did find enlightenment but got bored with it in favour of banality?
Relaxation, like sleep, is an elixir on so many levels. So I am in Forster-Tuncurry ”relaxing”. At church on Sunday the local parishioners asked what I was doing. I told them I was ”relaxing with the family” which can be an oxymoronic juxtaposition. Some of the parishioners were ”relaxing” as well; some had been relaxing for years.
There are a lot of businesses that are very busy here helping people relax. To relax, apparently you have to consume lots of stimulants such as coffee, served at many shops up and down the main street.
You have to be eternally vigilant that you don’t go from purposeless relaxation to exercising as you go for a walk. Just as dangerous is reading the paper in which you may find a philippic written by some column troll and you will be taken back to work to write your rebuttal against this oxygen thief.
Then there are the questions you ponder as you stare at the ocean – what is the right proportionate mix of all these component parts; career goals, physical health, spiritual depth and how does one make sure that it is does not crowd out the most important responsibility to your family. How much is the appropriate amount of guilt you should feel before you are stirred from the slumber of ”there is more that I can do but I really cannot be bothered”.
Senator Judith Adams was a great example of an unselfish determination to serve. While some at Judith’s stage of life would have been content with relaxing, Judith instead took on board the major challenge of federal politics. Judith would have known her fate, but she worked until the end.
Born in Picton, New Zealand, she migrated to Australia and worked as a nurse. Judith began serving in the Senate in 2005 at the age of 62. I started then, too, I was 38. She was pro choice; I was and am pro life. Judith was a regional Lib, I am a regional Nat.
On so many levels we were likely to lock horns, but we didn’t. In 2008, I was honoured to attend the funeral of Judith’s husband, Gordon, a former Royal Flying Doctor pilot. Judith was a very matter-of-fact, practical and driven woman.
Politics is a job where you have the unfortunate experience of working with colleagues who die. Good people. It is the flip side of people like, and I will say it, Craig Thomson. I will say it because some drag the office down while others raise it up. A person can respect their public office while being completely at odds with a lot of what you believe in, but they conduct themselves in such a manner which deserves nothing but respect. Judith was such a person.
My recollection of Judith will be her intense interest in the lives of regional Australians. She committed to the task knowing she was never going to be a senior office holder. The reality is that many of the wider public would probably not even know her name. The strength about Judith was that this was not what was driving her.
She just wanted people to have their lives affected in a way which made things better for them. She didn’t want the fuss and the bother of the laurels. Even when she was going around on her electric wheelchair in Parliament, she always said that this was only temporary and that she was getting better. I have a sneaking suspicion she realised the truth but just didn’t want the attention to distract her from her job for others.
Barnaby is right.
Tags: barnaby joyce, canberra times, eulogy, juduth adams, pride, selfishness, selflessness
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6 Responses to ““Selfless Shine Above The Selfish”: Barnaby”
omanuel April 8, 2012 at 1:15 am #
Thanks for posting Senator Joyce’s insightful comment about selfless service.
Ultimately, that is probably the most meaningful purpose of life. The current demise of society seems to be the result of selfishness. It probably cannot be corrected by anything other than selfless service of public servants like Senator Joyce.
See: http://omanuel.wordpress.com/about/
Kevin Moore April 8, 2012 at 9:02 am #
omanuel,
This may fit in to your understanding –
“It seems that the Israelites prefer Egypt to the desert, slavery to freedom, Pharaoh to God and Moses, the past to the future, and the secure and known world to the insecure and unknown world. In other words, slaves desire to remain as slaves! Why? Because of fear – they fear freedom; likewise, they fear death and are afraid of their masters. The Israelites have therefore returned to being a slave or a prisoner – of the false comforts of Egypt and their own fear of the unknown!
William tonner April 8, 2012 at 7:33 am #
Thank you so much for your commentaries. Not only for this article, but for all of your
I particularly, enjoyed the piece on Mr Turnbull (Member for Goldman Sachs). Very
I always knew that there was something more than political opportunism driving Turnbull
but was never really sure what it was.
I knew that someone with Turnbull’s, obvious,intellect would never subscribe to the global
warming/climate change nonsense unless they had an ulterior motive.
Can you tell me if you have written anything on the “United Nations,Agenda 21”, otherwise
known as “Sustainable Development”?
I believe this issue is the biggest scandal of our times, perhaps ever. The connection to the global warming scam is clear for all to see. But this is not only an attempt to defraud
taxpayers. It is a plan to strip us all, of our freedom,pdemocracy and property.
If you have not addressed this topic, I urge you to do so at the earliest opportunity. The
implementation of this treacherous scheme well underway and if it is to be stopped, it can
only be stopped through public awareness.
The Blissful Ignoramus April 8, 2012 at 3:55 pm #
Thanks for your comments, much appreciated. I have not written on the UN’s Agenda 21 specifically. I have tried to assist in raising public awareness by analysing and exposing the demonstrably *financier* underpinnings of the proposed “solution/s” to “global warming”. Should opportunity permit, I will look to bring in Agenda 21 as a standalone issue in future.
Cheers, TBI
The esteem which I have for Barnaby Joyce after reading that has risen greatly. Such people in authority are a rarity.
“Let every soul be subject to higher authorities for there is no authority if not from God.” Romans 13:1 Barnaby obviously knows the highest authority to whom he is subject.
Matthew 24 –
“But Jesus called them to Him, and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them. 26 Not so shall it be among you; but whoever desires to be great among you shall be your servant, 27 and whoever desires to be first among you shall be your bondservant; 28 just as the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give His life as the redemption-price for many.”
Kevin Moore April 8, 2012 at 3:57 pm #
The link to this portion of essay cannot be posted as the whole post then disappears into cyberspace. Not even portion of the link will get through and I’ve tried a few times.
I think Barnaby would agree with this –
Part of an essay –
“Chinese Crackers” Historian Humphrey Mcqueen
“…….Once bitten, twice bitten
The failure to question China’s future is endemic in Australia where the economy
is again being derailed by mineral exports. In the era of deregulation, policy
makers are left with no strategic options beyond predicting that the China boom
will go on, and on. Australians have been down this yellow‐cake road more than
once before. Our forebears believed that they would grow rich if only the Chinese
wore woolen socks and put sugar in their tea. In The Glugs of Gosh (1917) poet C J
Dennis portrayed his fellow Australians as exchanging
… pianers and pickles and spanners
For seventeen shiploads of stones.
From the late 1950s, Australians transferred that cargo‐cult mentality across to
Japan’s mineral imports, leaving Australia ‘a lucky country run mainly by secondrate
people who share its luck’, as Donald Horne recognised in1964. Until Rex
Connor became Minister for Minerals and Energy in 1973, no Swank of Gosh had
thought it necessary to put a number on ‘the contribution of the mining industry
to Australian welfare’. The answer came in the 1974 Fitzgerald Report, which
calculated that, far from adding to the national coffers, the Australian tax‐payer
had subsidised BHP, CRA and Aloca to ship our dirt to Japan to the tune of
$137m.15
Five years later, then Treasury Secretary John Stone warned that a
coming boom in energy exports meant that we must dismantle our still
substantial manufacturing sector to manage a new bout of currency
appreciation.16 Stone’s resources boom confirmed ‘Banjo’ Paterson’s conclusion
from observing cattle booms and Northern Territory booms: ‘They all went bust’.
Within seven years of Stone’s pronunciamento, treasurer Keating was bleating
about a banana republic as the exchange‐rate plunged.
Statistical inflation
These memories and experiences would have done no more than keep me wary
of a China boom. The catalyst for my becoming a China sceptic was a 2003 article
titled ‘Gold into Base Metals’ in one of the most prestigious publications in
bourgeois economics. From an examination of the evidence between 1978 and
1998, its author, Alwyn Young, documented the unreliability of Chinese statistics,
thereby turning ‘the extraordinary into the mundane’.17 My mentions of Young’s
evidence encountered blank stares, although Crickey accepted a version in mid‐
2007. Because of the seminal place that Young’s article had in my outlook on
China, and because so much of the popular belief is based on very big numbers
about its growth, I shall open with his material.
Instead of fiddling with the final figures published by central
administrators, Young tracked how those results had been constructed from the
results forwarded from below. Lower‐level officials were rewarded for meeting
expectations and punished for failing to come in on target, as had been the case
for millennia. From time to time, the central authorities tried to correct the
errors. For instance, ‘the 1994 gross industrial output estimates were revised
downward by about 9 percent’. That year, the government identified 70,000
cases of misrepresentation. Another reason for the gulf between the hype and
the performance has been a ‘systematic understatement of inflation by
enterprises’. Young concluded that ‘the growth rate is not the highest in all…
EDIT: For some reason your comment was going directly into “Spam”, Kevin. Here is the link you wished to include http://strangetimes.lastsuperpower.net/?p=1799
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Home / Recent news / Utility regulators, APS boss spend all day in a verbal joust
Utility regulators, APS boss spend all day in a verbal joust
By: Dillon Rosenblatt September 5, 2019
Don Brandt, center, CEO of Arizona Public Service and its parent company, Pinnacle West Capital Corp., appears before the Arizona Corporation Commission in Phoenix, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. (AP Photo/Tom Tingle, Pool)
After more than five years as one of the most influential behind-the-scenes players in Arizona politics, Don Brandt took center stage at the Arizona Corporation Commission on September 4 to answer questions about shut offs and political spending, among other topics.
The five commissioners took turns asking the APS and Pinnacle West CEO questions about the death of Stephanie Pullman and APS’s involvement with her disconnections, the company’s political spending dating back to 2013, and follow-up questions based on answers Brandt provided in writing before his hearing.
Things kicked off pretty quickly with Corporation Commission general counsel Robin Mitchell asking to avoid using Pullman’s name as a request from her family, so her case was further referred to as “the incident.”
Brandt answered some questions in a room filled with media, staff, lawyers, and a handful of protesters; and deferred some questions to his underlings. Following are summaries of some of the collateral subjects that were part of the daylong hearing.
One of only a handful of topics all five commissioners agreed on was the company’s reasoning for not having any personal connection with customers during the process of delivering a door hanger to warn of a potential shut off.
Spearheaded by Commissioner Boyd Dunn’s questioning of Brandt, which was then deferred to Daniel Froetscher, APS’s executive vice president of operation, of why APS did not have any in-person contact with customers when delivering a door hanger on the premise.
Dunn was visibly annoyed by Froetscher’s responses, who acknowledged that nobody made contact with Pullman when delivering her door hanger. Froetscher said the reason for this is because of incidents that he said occurred while he did the job of contacting customers 35 years ago.
Now a third party contracting firm is in charge of delivering the door hangers without knocking or ringing the doorbell to confirm the message was received.
“A lot of us in the summer are not using the front door,” Dunn said, pointing out during the hot months of the year some opt to use the garage instead.
Froetscher said there are no attempts to post notices on garages or other doors in addition to the front door.
Froetscher said delivering the message is “not always well-received” and he personally had dogs unleashed on him, he was verbally threatened and one time someone pulled a weapon on him while delivering hangers.
Dunn wasn’t impressed.
“Really, in Sun City West you have that concern?” Dunn said, referring to the community where Pullman lived.
Froestcher said it’s a system-wide policy, with APS serving customers in 11 of the state’s 15 counties.
Other commissioners have previously spoken out on not liking Brandt’s answer to not having any personal contact, but Sandra Kennedy was the only other commissioner to reiterate that concern.
She asked Brandt how delivering a door hanger can be considered personal contact without any actual personal contact. Brandt deflected at first, then began to raise his voice at the commissioner saying he never said it was personal contact before eventually rolling his eyes at her line of questioning.
Bill Maledon, APS and Brandt’s attorney, dropped a bombshell when he told commissioners, in response to Kennedy’s questions, that the FBI investigation into APS’s 2014 political spending is ongoing, but the company expects it to wrap up soon.
The investigation, commonly referred to as “Operation High Grid,” contributed to the indictment of former-Commissioner Gary Pierce, his wife Sherry, lobbyist Jim Norton and utility owner George Johnson in an alleged bribery scheme with the moniker of “Operation Ghost Lobby.”
Gary Pierce confirmed to Capitol Media Services in a 2016 interview that FBI agents questioned him about the 2014 election, a race in which his son, Justin, was running for secretary of state.
After 14 days of trial spread across five weeks in the Ghost Lobby case, there was a hung jury and the case was eventually dropped by federal prosecutors.
Still, the ongoing investigation is not going to necessarily stop the company from spending on campaigns in the future.
Burns asked incoming CEO Jeff Guldner if he would promise that political spending on utility regulators would come to an end. Guldner said he is not currently CEO, and that he could not make that promise. He did promise to come back when he is CEO to answer questions.
That’s a far cry from what Guldner said in 2013, when he claimed to The Arizona Republic that the company did not meddle in any effort to get commissioners elected, which was proven to be untrue.
“We don’t tell employees who to vote for or try to influence elections. If you do that and are wrong, you have to live with it for four to eight years,” he said at the time.
Dunn also expressed his distaste of independent expenditures, including the ones that contributed to his 2016 election. He said that while the commission does not have any control over corporate spending, there’s nothing illegal about corporations spending money how they want, even to elect regulators.
“Because it is legal it does not make it right,” he said.
Brandt spent roughly as much time in silence as he did speaking, but even when he responded to commissioners he often deferred to other executives or refused to answer on the advice of his attorney.
This mostly came about when Kennedy was asking him – and only him – questions. She made it very clear she did not want to hear from anyone but Brandt.
On several occasions Brandt claimed to not know the answers to questions and tried to defer to other APS employees or his attorney. But Kennedy was relentless in saying she only wants to hear from Brandt.
“That’s why you’re here,” she said numerous times.
Burns opened up the questioning, but none were directed at Brandt. Dunn followed suit, but Brandt deferred all answers, so when it was Kennedy’s turn it had been more than an hour before the outgoing CEO had spoken.
Brandt’s attorney, Bill Maledon, claimed he thought Kennedy’s questions crossed the line, were unfair, or they did not have to legally respond; and in one instance directed responses at Burns, who is chairman of the commission, to complain about Kennedy.
Burns put his full support behind his colleague, reminding the lawyers that regulators are entitled to ask questions and saying he wouldn’t force Kennedy to limit the scope of her questions.
Kennedy and Brandt bickered over customer deaths, with Brandt denying any “direct ties” to the deaths.
They also bickered over company lobbyist Jessica Pacheco’s involvement in political spending and subsequent promotions, but Brandt’s attorney said they aren’t required to answer those questions, and political spending to defeat Prop 127, a ballot measure to make use of renewable energy stricter. Brandt said lots of utilities, and even some regulators, opposed it.
Kennedy and Brandt also got into it over APS’s poor J.D. Power customer satisfaction ratings, though Brandt claims he sees “overwhelmingly positive” feedback.
“The kudos thrown at me is embarrassing,” he said, which Kennedy found hard to believe.
“In my circle, that’s not what I hear,” she said.
The 2019 J.D. Power ranking listed APS dead last among the 13 biggest utility providers in the West region. Arizona’s Salt River Project, which is not regulated by the commission, was ranked at the top.
When the day was wrapping up and the final commissioner, Lea Marquez Peterson, began her questioning, she wanted to clarify from Brandt and APS why they opt not to use J.D. Power as its source for customer satisfaction.
Brandt said it was because APS uses its own system it created, which cannot be compared to any other utility because no other utility uses this system.
Howard Fischer of Capitol Media Services contributed to this report.
aps Arizona Corporation Commission Arizona Public Service Bob Burns Boyd Dunn Don Brandt Jeff Guldner Lea Marquez Peterson Pinnacle West Sandra Kennedy 9:45 pm Thu, September 5, 2019 Arizona Capitol Times
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‘Never assume’: Gijs Bakker
People | Stephen Todd
Renowned Dutch jewellery and industrial designer Gijs Bakker has a career that spans more than fifty years and a body of work with an amorphous design ethic.
The Ballroom lamp (1995–1997) is made from fine lace netting.
Image: Jos Fielmich
Dutch designer Gijs Bakker.
Image: Ilco Kemmere
Gijs Bakker’s career spans fifty years and not one of them dull. His first piece, Golden Onion, a sperm-shaped bracelet designed in 1965 was the beginning of a rich, varied and invigorating output that shows no sign of slowing down today. Bakker refers to himself as a “jewellery designer” and since the Dutch aren’t big on disingenuousness, I have to take him at his word. But of course he’s much more than what might be seen as a mere bijoutier. His adhesion to the mantle is in part to reinforce his challenge to our preconceptions. “Never assume,” is a recurring “Gijsism.”
“What I love about jewellery is that it is totally unnecessary,” he smiles. Bakker smiles a lot – the way I imagine a cardinal might smile, knowingly. I can never quite tell if that’s empathy or irony crossing his lips. Did I mention Gijs Bakker is Dutch? Bakker was born in 1942, two years after the Luftwaffe Blitz of Rotterdam and the annihilation of the Dutch resistance. Dire as it was, it was most certainly a tabula rasa. The old world had gone and everything was up for grabs.
Bakker’s first piece, the Golden Onion bracelet (1965).
Image: Rien Bazen
He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, which was then essentially a school of applied arts “since design education didn’t even exist,” as Bakker says. “We were very poor. Things were very grim.” Nonetheless, the Rietveld Academie fostered functionalist thought and a critical approach to society and class, heavily influenced by the Bauhaus and De Stijl. There is no separating Bakker’s creations from the context in which they are created. “In the late 1960s, things started to become more exciting. There was more wealth, a confidence was returning.” Although it would be a while yet before that confidence segued into optimism.
The Circle in Circle bracelet (1967) was remade in 1989.
In the meantime, Bakker met another Rietveld jewellery student, Emmy van Leersum. They graduated, married and began working together under the moniker G+E (Gijs + Emmy). “We were very different. She was functional and analytical in the step-by-step development of ideas, whereas I have a more intuitive approach. An excellent combination.” Indeed. Their articulated aluminium neckpieces and bracelets of the late 1960s were in perfect synch with the space age aesthetic, in many ways anticipating Pierre Cardin and Courrèges, and may well be the influence on the parodic catwalk scene in William Klein’s 1966 classic film, Who are You, Polly Maggoo? Their Circle bracelet of 1968 remains among Bakker’s most cherished designs. “It was simply made from the idea of punching a hand through a solid sheet of metal or cardboard,” he says. “The result is this very beautiful, very perfect disc. I think it is lovely.” The Circle announced the introduction of a certain kinetic element to Bakker’s work.
The Umbrella lamp (1973) is made from a standard nylon umbrella hood mounted on a wire frame.
By the early 1970s he’d begun experimenting with furniture, including pieces such as the poetic Umbrella lamp (1973) made from a standard nylon umbrella hood mounted on a wire frame, and the Strip chair (1974), made from strips of laminated beech. The Webbing chair (1978) is a square of industrial webbing stretched across a rather pert metal frame. The titles indicate process or material, and those materials, if not poor as such, are certainly rather ordinary. That beauty can be found in the everyday was a new concept then, and is still – let’s face it – contested today.
One thing that is certainly not contested today is the significance, if not the actual definition, of Dutch design. In 1993, Bakker and art historian Renny Ramakers decided to put on a show upstairs at the cult but kitsch Paradiso nightclub in Amsterdam. “It was snowing, it was cold, but all of Amsterdam was there,” Bakker says. Italian architect and designer Andrea Branzi also happened to be there, dragging in his wake a bevy of journalists and other design aficionados. What they saw was the birth of an amorphous design ethic (not, Bakker would insist, an aesthetic), glibly dubbed droog, or “dry.” Designers such as Hella Jongerius, Jurgen Bey, Marcel Wanders, Tejo Remy, Maarten Baas, Saskia van Drimmelen and dozens of others would all become grouped under the banner over the years. If their work shares an ethic, it is one centred on careful conception and hand-marked creation, a knowing wink at contemporary issues and a sense of humour that is, well, kinda dry. That it came to share an aesthetic was a problem.
the Vitrine display shelf (2012).
Image: Sylvain Georget and Carole Hernandez
“Dutch design has taken up a position of its own,” says Bakker, carefully choosing his words. “And it is partly being adopted. That leads to the development of a kind of aesthetic that covers the product, which in turn results in a kind of uniformity. Once a set of ideas becomes a style, it is finished.”
From 2000 until 2012, Bakker was head of the masters program at the Design Academy Eindhoven, overseeing the budding careers of such alumni as Tord Boontje, Dror Benshetrit, Job Smeets of Studio Job and Sydney’s Henry Wilson. If you look at the work of any of these designers, you may sense an undercurrent running through their output. To my mind, it’s something to do with not proposing resolute “solutions” to parent “problems.” Their work is open-ended, often transformative, even incomplete, subtly insinuating themselves into a life rather than shouting their arrival.
Today, I swear I can spot a graduate of Design Academy Eindhoven – there’s a style about it, a certain approach that overlays the work. Is this perhaps the reason – or the result – of Bakker’s resignation? Bakker looks, goggle-eyed through his trademark glasses designed for Polaroid in 1972, and smiles. Just smiles.
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Photon sculptor: Flynn Talbot
In the past decade, this Australian-born, London-based light artist and designer has seen his experiential and monumental installations exhibited around the world.
The Stovepipe necklace and bracelet (1967) are made from aluminium.
The silver Shot 4 bracelet (1998).
The Garden chair and chaise lounge (1980) are made from aluminium tubing and fibreglass cloth.
Image: Theo Uitenhaak
The Strip chair (1974) is made from laminated beechwood and ash veneer.
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Vito Fossella on Energy & Oil
Rep./Cons./Right-To-Life Representative (NY-13)
Voted NO on tax credits for renewable electricity, with PAYGO offsets.
Congressional Summary:Extends the tax credit for producing electricity from renewable resources:
(1) through 2009 for wind facilities; and
(2) through FY2011 for closed and open-loop biomass, geothermal, small irrigation power, landfill gas, trash combustion, and hydropower facilities.
Includes marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy as a renewable resource for purposes of such tax credit.
Includes cellulosic biofuel within the definition of "biomass ethanol plant property" for purposes of bonus depreciation.
Allows a new tax credit for the production of qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles.
Proponent's argument to vote Yes: Rep. RICHARD NEAL (D, MA-2): This bill contains extensions of popular tax incentives that expired at the end of last year. This needs to get under way. The R&D tax credit is important. This bill includes a number of popular and forward-thinking incentives for energy efficiency. This is a very balanced bill which does no harm to the Federal Treasury. It asks that hedge fund managers pay a bit more, and it delays an international tax break that hasn't gone into effect yet. It is responsible legislation.
Opponent's argument to vote No:Rep. DAVE CAMP (R, MI-4): We are conducting another purely political exercise on a tax bill that is doomed in the other body because of our House majority's insistence on adhering to the misguided PAYGO rules. The Senate acted on a bipartisan basis to find common ground on this issue. They approved a comprehensive tax relief package containing extenders provisions that are not fully offset, as many Democrats would prefer, but contain more offsets than Republicans would like. Why is this our only option? Because the Senate, which has labored long and hard to develop that compromise, has indicated in no uncertain terms that it is not going to reconsider these issues again this year.
[The bill was killed in the Senate]. Reference: Renewable Energy and Job Creation Tax Act; Bill H.R.7060 ; vote number 2008-H649 on Sep 26, 2008
Voted NO on tax incentives for energy production and conservation.
OnTheIssues.org Explanation: This bill passed the House but was killed in the Senate on a rejected Cloture Motion, Senate rollcall #150
Congressional Summary: A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide Tax incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, and to provide individual income tax relief.
TITLE I--ENERGY TAX INCENTIVES
Sec. 102. Production credit for electricity produced from marine renewables.
Sec. 104. Credit for residential energy efficient property.
Sec. 106. New clean renewable energy bonds.
Part II--Carbon Mitigation Provisions
Sec. 112. Expansion and modification of coal gasification investment credit.
Sec. 115. Carbon audit of the tax code.
Sec. 121. Inclusion of cellulosic biofuel in bonus depreciation for biomass ethanol plant property.
Sec. 122. Credits for biodiesel and renewable diesel.
Sec. 124. Credit for new qualified plug-in electric drive motor vehicles.
Sec. 127. Transportation fringe benefit to bicycle commuters.
Sec. 146. Qualified green building and sustainable design projects.
Opponents argument for voting NAY: Sen. SPECTER: H.R. 6049 would revive important tax provisions that expired at the end of 2007 and extend provisions that are set to expire at the end of 2008. I support extension of the R&D tax credit, the renewable energy tax incentives, and many other important provisions in this package.
Despite the positive elements of this legislation, the main sticking point is whether temporary extensions of tax relief should be offset with permanent tax increases elsewhere. The White House issued a statement recommending a Presidential veto of this bill in its current form. [Vote NAY to] allow the Senate to work its will and pass legislation that can be quickly signed by the President. Reference: Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act; Bill HR6049 ; vote number 2008-344 on May 21, 2008
Voted NO on tax incentives for renewable energy.
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY: Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008:
Production Incentives: Extends through 2011 the tax credit for the production of electricity from renewable resources (e.g., wind, biomass, geothermal, and hydropower).
Extends through 2016 the energy tax credit for investment in solar energy and fuel cell property.
Allows a new tax credit for the production of plug-in hybrid vehicles.
Extends through 2010 the tax credits for biodiesel (including agri-biodiesel)
Allows an alcohol fuels tax credit for the production of qualified cellulosic alcohol fuel.
Denies the tax deduction for income attributable to domestic production of oil, gas, or any related products.
SUPPORTER'S ARGUMENT FOR VOTING YES:Rep. MATSUI: Today's debate is about investing in renewable energy, which will chart a new direction for our country's energy policy. This bill restores balance to our energy policy after years of a tax structure that favors huge oil companies. Today's legislation will transfer some of the massive profits enjoyed by these oil companies and invest them in renewable resources that will power our economy in the future.
OPPONENT'S ARGUMENT FOR VOTING NO:Rep. SMITH of Texas: I oppose H.R. 5351. While it is well and good to encourage alternative energy development, Congress should not do so by damaging our domestic oil and gas industry. In 2006 all renewable energy sources provided only 6% of the US domestic energy supply. In contrast, oil and natural gas provided 58% of our domestic energy supply. The numbers don't lie. Oil and natural gas fuel our economy and sustain our way of life.
Furthermore, almost 2 million Americans are directly employed in the oil and natural gas industry. Punishing one of our Nation's most important industries does not constitute a national energy policy.
LEGISLATIVE OUTCOME:Bill passed House, 236-182 Reference: Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act; Bill H.R.5351 ; vote number 08-HR5351 on Feb 12, 2008
Voted NO on investing in homegrown biofuel.
H.R.3221: New Direction for Energy Independence, National Security, and Consumer Protection Act: Moving toward greater energy independence and security, developing innovative new technologies, reducing carbon emissions, creating green jobs, protecting consumers, increasing clean renewable energy production, modernizing our energy infrastructure, and providing tax incentives for the production of renewable energy and energy conservation.
Rep. PELOSI: This bill makes the largest investment in homegrown biofuels in history. We know that America's farmers will fuel America's independence. We will send our energy dollars to middle America, not to the Middle East.
Rep. TIERNEY: This bill incorporates the Green Jobs Act, which will make $120 million a year available to begin training workers in the clean energy sector. 35,000 people per year can benefit from vocational education for "green-collar jobs" that can provide living wages & upward mobility.
Rep. SHIMKUS: I'm upset about the bill because it has no coal provisions. What about coal-to-liquid jobs? Those are real jobs with great wages. Energy security? We have our soldiers deployed in the Middle East because it's an important national security interest. Why? We know why. Crude oil. How do we decrease that importance of the Persian Gulf region? We move to coal-to-liquid technologies. What is wrong with this bill? Everything. No soy diesel. No ethanol. No coal. Nothing on nuclear energy. No expansion. There is no supply in this bill. Defeat this bill.
Rep. RAHALL: [This bill omits a] framework to sequester carbon dioxide to ensure the future use of coal in an environmentally responsible fashion. We can talk about biofuels all we want, but the fact is that coal produces half of our electricity for the foreseeable future. We must aggressively pursue technologies to capture and store the carbon dioxide. Reference: New Direction for Energy Independence; Bill HR3221 ; vote number 2007-0832 on Aug 4, 2007
Voted YES on criminalizing oil cartels like OPEC.
Amends the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to declare it to be illegal for any foreign states to act collectively to limit the US price or distribution of oil, natural gas, or any other petroleum product. Denies a foreign state engaged in such conduct sovereign immunity from the jurisdiction of US courts
Gas prices have now reached an all-time record high, $3.27 a gallon, topping even the 1981 spike. This won't be the end of these skyrocketing price hikes either.
OPEC oil exports represent 70% of all the oil traded internationally. For years now, OPEC's price-fixing conspiracy has unfairly driven up the price and cost of imported crude oil to satisfy the greed of oil exporters. We have long decried OPEC, but have done little or nothing to stop this. The time has come.
This bill makes fixing oil prices or illegal under US law, just as it would be for any company engaging in the same conduct. It attempts to break up this cartel and subject these colluders and their anticompetitive practices to the antitrust scrutiny that they so richly deserve.
We can only affect OPEC subsidiaries in the US. So the result of this bill would be to hurt US companies while not affecting OPEC itself.
OPEC is a cartel, but we have to deal with it diplomatically. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was designed for US monopolies, not international state-run cartels.
We should focus on domestic policies to affect gas prices. We cannot respond to a short-term crisis with a long-term response.
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A close look at chemical elements, the basic building blocks of the universe. Where do we get them, what do we use them for and how do they fit into our economy?
Archived from iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/elements/id820289785. Items in this collection are restricted.
Obscure Elements
Sep 28, 2016 by BBC World Service
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Gold (Au)
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Thorium (Th)
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Platinum group (Pt, Pd, Ru, Rh, Os, Ir)
Sep 7, 2016 by BBC World Service
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Arsenic (As)
Aug 31, 2016 by BBC World Service
The macabre poison we know from crime novels and history books has some surprising modern uses. Justin Rowlatt travels the Subcontinent - first to India's Forest Research Institute in the Himalayas where Sadhna Tripathi explains why the chemical element ends up in telegraph polls. We then head to Bangladesh, scene of the "largest mass poisoning in history". Justin speaks to Dr Quazi Quamruzzaman who helped first uncover it, and to Richard Pearshouse of Human Rights Watch, who says the...
Silver (Ag)
The shiniest and showiest of metals is still mainly used in silverware. But it also has some surprisingly modern applications. Justin Rowlatt heads deep under the city streets to the sparkling London Silver Vaults to talk tableware and frivolities - the more traditional uses of silver. We also hear from Dr Alan Lansdown of Imperial College, a champion of silver in medicine (except when it turns you blue), and from Prof Alan Dalton about the future role of silver in flexible touchscreens....
Why does iodine deficiency still blight children in developing countries like India? Justin Rowlatt travels to Dehradun in the Himalayas with world expert Chandrakant Pandav to diagnose schoolchildren still suffering from the throat swelling called goitre, and from the permanent mental retardation known as cretinism. Justin challenges Indian government officials to explain why, 50 years after India first introduced its salt iodisation programme, this easily solvable problem still persists....
Hydrogen (H) - fusion
May 31, 2016 by BBC World Service
Could we finally be about to crack this source of potentially unlimited clean energy - thanks in part to a plethora of private sector tech startups? Laurence Knight travels to one such company, Tokamak Energy in the UK, to hear from plasma physicist Melanie Windridge. Meanwhile the BBC's David Willis reports on the string of secretive new fusion initiatives along the Pacific Coast, and the Silicon Valley money backing them. Plus, could fusion energy open the way to the economic abundance and...
Cadmium (Cd)
This toxic metal is slowly being phased out of our lives. But as presenter Justin Rowlatt discovers, while nickel-cadmium batteries may have disappeared from our gadgets, they still help to keep planes up in the air. Chemistry professor Andrea Sella tells the story of this colourful yet poisonous element, while metals consultant Dominic Boyle says even if we stop using it all together, the stuff is still piling up. Justin visits the offices of SES Batteries in the Indian military town of Ambala...
Potash plumps up fruit, vegetables and grains, and the potassium it contains is an essential nutrient. Yet India is completely dependent on imports of this critical fertiliser to feed its population. Presenter Justin Rowlatt visits a farm on the Ganges plains to see how this mineral is used, and speaks to the head of the national importer Indian Potash Ltd about their efforts to promote its use by farmers. We also hear from Paul Burnside, analyst at CRU Group, how a bust-up in Belarus has...
Hydrogen (H) - energy
Is the dream of a hydrogen-fuelled zero-carbon economy achievable? Presenters Justin Rowlatt and Laurence Knight ask where the hydrogen will come from and how we will store it. Professor Andrea Sella of University College London blows up a hydrogen balloon, while Professor James Durrant of Imperial College explains what an artificial leaf is. In India, Alok Sharma of the Indian Oil Company gives a tour of their hydrogen refuelling station and fuel cell research centre. And Ned Stetson of the US...
May 4, 2016 by BBC World Service
The metal that brings shelter and good health to India's poorest. Presenter Laurence Knight travels to a bustling Delhi where Rahul Sharma of the International Zinc Association explains how this self-sacrificing chemical element fights off the ravages of the city smog, while Dr HP Sachdev runs us through its medical benefits. In Rajasthan Sunil Duggal, chief executive of Hindustan Zinc Ltd, explains how mining operations such as at the gigantic Rampura Agucha will help feed India's coming...
Hydrogen (H) - water (part 2)
Apr 27, 2016 by BBC World Service
As climate change threatens to play havoc with the rain, could we instead draw our water directly from the ocean? In his second gulp of H2O, presenter Justin Rowlatt hears from climatologist Raymond Pierrehumbert about how global warming is causing drastic but often unpredictable disruption to our natural supplies of freshwater. Yet as Israel enters its third year of dought, few of the country's citizens are aware of any water shortages. The BBC's Shira Gemer reports on the technological...
Northwest India is fast running out of groundwater. As much of the world faces growing water scarcity, will mass migration and water conflicts become inevitable? Do we take water for granted at our peril? Presenter Justin Rowlatt hears from chemistry professor Andrea Sella of University College London why water is essential for life, and why it is far weirder than we realise. Laurence Knight reports from a parched Rajasthan on what can be done to stop farmers there from pumping the ground dry....
Noble Gases (Ar, Ne, Kr, Xe)
Mar 23, 2016 by BBC World Service
Neon, argon, krypton and xenon: Laurence Knight investigates their uses, from the blinding light of the arc welder's torch to the dying trade of the neon sign-making. Professor Andrea Sella explains how an alumnus of his home University College London - Scottish chemist Sir William Ramsay - uncovered an entire column of the periodic table containing all of these unreactive gases. Neon sign-maker Graham Cox shows how to bring colour and light to the dingiest of corners, while neon artist Marcus...
Germanium (Ge)
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Radioactives (Po, Ra, Rn)
Mar 9, 2016 by BBC World Service
Radium, polonium and radon may be names to make your hair stand on end, but are they actually useful for anything? And is our fear of them overbaked? Laurence Knight gets the chemistry rundown from Prof Andrea Sella of University College London at a hospital that used to treat cancer with radiation. Al Conklin of the Washington State Department of Health explains how we are still dealing with the world's early Twentieth Century craze for all things radioactive. Edwin Lane reports from Finland...
Tantalum & Niobium (Ta, Nb)
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Beryllium (Be)
Oct 22, 2015 by BBC World Service
Rare and toxic, beryllium can do serious damage to your lungs. Presenter Laurence Knight explores whether and how we can make use of this metal safely. Prof Andrea Sella of University College London explains why beryllium's surprising scarcity is the very reason it can be so harmful to the body. Gianna Palmer reports from the Hanford nuclear site in Washington State on this chemical element's intimate and poisonous history in the US nuclear weapons programme. And we hear from IBC Advanced...
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Titanium (Ti) - catalysts
Titanium is the magic metal that made possible the mass production of plastics and paints, as well as buildings that clean both themselves and the air around them. Presenter Laurence Knight heads to the Ineos oil refinery in Grangemouth, Scotland, to see how just a smidge of a titanium-based catalyst transforms a type of natural gas into the stuff of food packaging, bottles and car bumpers. He hears from Prof Andrea Sella why most of us spend our lives surrounded by titanium without even...
Hydrogen (H) - acids
These powerful chemicals are essential to obtain the minerals that build our world, the fertilisers that feed the planet, and the fuels that propel our vehicles - as presenter Laurence Knight discovers on a trip to the Ineos Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland. But while most traditional acids are based on the power of hydrogen ions, Prof Andrea Sella of University College London explains that many modern industrial "acids" do not, and come in startlingly unexpected forms such as...
Oxygen (O) - industrial uses
Why is oxygen essential to steelmaking, how do you extract it from the air, and can you inhale too much of it? Answering these questions leaves presenter Justin Rowlatt almost breathless. Prof Andrea Sella demonstrates the convenience and power of this bulk chemical, whilst Laurence Knight heads to BOC's air separation unit in Fawley to see how it is mass produced. Meanwhile Justin climbs a mountain, scuba dives and pedals like mad on an exercise bike inside a low oxygen chamber. But it's all...
Titanium (Ti) - materials
Aug 5, 2015 by BBC World Service
Stronger and more durable than steel, this glamorous metal crops up in sportscars, hip replacements and jewellery - but a new chemical process hopes one day to make it as common as steel. Prof Andrea Sella explains why this relatively widespread chemical element is so difficult to extract from its ore. Presenter Laurence Knight then heads to Yorkshire, where metallurgy pioneers Metalysis are trying to commercialise a novel way of doing just that - the so-called FFC Process. We also visit Epsom...
Oxygen (O) - oxidation
Jul 29, 2015 by BBC World Service
The “element of life” also makes the air that we breathe a perilous and costly atmosphere in which to operate. Prof Andrea Sella of University College London provides presenter Justin Rowlatt with a characteristically striking argument for why oxygen is so “incredibly dangerous”, and how its advent turned Planet Earth into a snowball. Pawanexh Kohli, in charge of India’s national cold chain strategy, explains over a cup of chai why the oxygen needs of fresh vegetables and fresh meat...
Cobalt (Co)
Cobalt, the metal in magnets and phone batteries, is synonymous with the colour blue. But what exactly are magnets, how do they work and where are they used? And is some of the cobalt being mined by children? Presenter Laurence Knight hears from chemistry professor Andrea Sella of University College London why a permanent magnet is like a flock of birds, and he travels to Arnold Magnetics near Sheffield where manager Martin Satyr explains how magnets are used in everything from recovering the...
Copper (Cu) - electricity
Jun 25, 2015 by BBC World Service
Copper has long been the metal of electricity generators and wiring. But presenter Justin Rowlatt asks whether new technologies herald the death of the old-fashioned electricity grid. Prof Andrea Sella of University College London explains the special properties of element 29 of the periodic table that mean that half of the world's mined copper is used to conduct electricity. Justin travels to the rapidly growing Indian city of Gurgaon to ask Jasmeet Khurana of solar consultancy Bridge to India...
Copper (Cu) - materials
Copper is the distinctive red metal in pots, pans and water pipes, and also plays a central role in whisky distillation. Presenter Laurence Knight and chemistry guru Professor Andrea Sella of University College London travel to the Abercrombie copperworks in Scotland to see the art of whisky still-making first-hand. Also in the programme, Gideon Long reports from Chile on why the source of one-third of the world's copper supply has not succumbed to the "resources curse". And Bill...
Boron is the mineral from the Wild West that stops glass from shattering and stops bullets in their tracks. Presenter Laurence Knight visits the Dixon Glass works to see why borosilicate glass is perfect for making chemistry equipment and much of the glassware we use in our day-to-day lives. Professor Andrea Sella demonstrates how this element puts the flub into flubber. Colin Roberson, founder of body armour firm Advanced Defence Materials, explains why being shot is like standing at the...
Gallium & Indium (Ga, In)
Jun 3, 2015 by BBC World Service
LED lighting, solar power and lasers are just some of the electronics revolutionised by two obscure chemical elements - gallium and indium. Laurence Knight hears from Mike Simpson of Philips why we will only need to replace our lightbulbs once every two decades, and travels to Sheffield University where research centre head Jon Heffernan explains what on earth III-V materials are and why making an LED is like baking a pizza. Meanwhile chemistry stalwart Prof Andrea Sella of UCL demonstrates...
Iron (Fe) - industrialisation
Apr 1, 2015 by BBC World Service
Iron is the chemical element at the heart of steel, and by extension of industrialisation, so what does the collapse in iron ore prices say about the economic progress of China and India? Is the steel-making party over, or is a new one just about to begin? And will humanity, one day, stop digging this element up altogether? (Photo: Skyscraper under construction in Pudong, Shanghai, Credit: Getty Images)
Iron & Manganese (Fe, Mn) - steel-making
The two key ingredients that enabled the mass production of steel. We travel to Sheffield - the birthplace of modern steelmaking - to get up close to the technological mid-wife, a Bessemer converter. Plus we visit the modern Forgemasters steelworks, to get a taste of just how hard it is to produce unbreakable parts for nuclear power stations and oil rigs. (Photo: Steel component at Forgemasters Steelworks, Credit: Laurence Knight/BBC)
Iron (Fe) - the Industrial Revolution
In the first of three programmes about iron, Justin Rowlatt explores two moments in industrial history that transformed this most abundant of metal elements into the key material out of which modern life is constructed. And they both took place right here in the British Isles.
Technetium (Tc)
Technetium is essential for medical imaging, yet supplies of this short-lived manmade element are far from guaranteed. We see a technetium scan in progress and a cow being milked, and hear the yarn of the 70-year chemistry wild goose chase sparked by this mysterious radioactive metal.
Fluorine (F)
Itself a ferocious yellow gas, fluorine is also the key building block for a string of other gases that pose a threat to mankind - from the ozone-depleting CFCs to potent greenhouse gases. We track fluorine from the mine to its incredible array of final uses. And we find out why an exploding Mercedes car has caused a trans-Atlantic chemistry tiff.
Chromium (Cr)
Feb 26, 2015 by BBC World Service
Chromium is the metal of modernity - spawning icons from the Chrysler Building to the Harley Davidson. This colourful element is the key ingredient in stainless steel and leather. But the shiny metal also has a dark side - one brought to public attention by Erin Brockovich.
Nickel & Rhenium (Ni, Re)
Nickel is the metal that made the jet age possible, not to mention margarine and bicycle sprockets. We visit Rolls Royce to discover the incredible materials science that this chemical element and its super-alloys have driven.
Uranium (U)
Oct 8, 2014 by BBC World Service
Uranium is the fuel for nuclear power stations, which generate carbon-free electricity, but also radioactive waste that lasts a millennium. In the latest in our series looking at the world economy from the perspective of the elements of the periodic table, Justin Rowlatt travels to Sizewell in Suffolk, in a taxi driven by a former uranium prospector. He is given a tour of the operational power station, Sizewell B, which generates 3% of the UK's electricity, by EDF's head of safety Colin Tucker,...
Lead (Pb)
Lead is the sweetest of poisons, blamed for everything from mad Roman emperors to modern-day crime waves. Yet a lead-acid battery is still what gets your car going in the morning. So have we finally learnt how to handle this heavyweight element? Justin Rowlatt travels to arts shop Cornelissen in London's Bloomsbury to find out why they have stopped stocking lead paints, and hears from professor Andrea Sella of University College London about the unique properties that have made this metal so...
Caesium (Cs)
The atomic clock runs on caesium, and has redefined the very meaning of time. But it has also introduced a bug into timekeeping that affects everything from computerised financial markets to electricity grids, and satellite navigation to the Greenwich Meridian. Justin Rowlatt travels to the birthplace of modern time, the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, England, to speak to Krzysztof Szymaniec, the keeper of the 'Caesium Fountain', and Leon Lobo, the man charged with disseminating...
Bromine puts out fires - both in the home and in the heart. But despite its reputation as an anti-aphrodisiac, this chemical element's biggest use is in fire retardants, found in everything from your sofa to your radio. But do these bromine-based chemicals pose a risk to your health? Presenter Justin Rowlatt hears from chemistry professor Andrea Sella of University College London, about his own childhood encounter with this noxious red liquid. Justin speaks to chemicals industry analyst Laura...
Plutonium (Pu)
Plutonium is one of a family of highly radioactive "synthetic" elements cooked up in nuclear reactors. But does it and its kin have any practical application besides the atom bomb? We travel to plutonium's sunny birthplace to find out. (Picture: Nuclear test in Nevada in 1953; Credit: Stocktrek Images/Thinkstock)
Silicon (Si) - solar
Already responsible for the IT revolution, could silicon be about to pull off an energy revolution too? We hear from pioneer John Schaeffer about solar power's hippy roots, and Richard Swanson of Sun Power explains why it may be on course to become the world's dominant source of energy. Meanwhile Republican stalwart Barry Goldwater Jr. makes a surprising political bedfellow for solar's traditionally green supporters. (Picture: Californian house covered in solar panels; Credit: Sunrun)
Silicon (Si) - chips
Silicon is synonymous with the computer revolution. We travel to its eponymous birthplace - Silicon Valley in California - to ask chip pioneers Intel why this chemical element has supported a billion-fold increase in computing power, and whether the exponential improvement implied by "Moore's Law" has reached the end of the line. (Picture: Intel 22 nanometre transistor; Credit: Intel)
Sulphur is in abundant supply thanks to its extraction from sour oil and gas, in order to prevent acid rain pollution. But does the world face a glut of this devilish chemical element, famed for its colour and odour? And if so, what uses can it be put to? Justin Rowlatt has his hair cut as professor Andrea Sella of University College London, demonstrates sulphur's surprisingly plastic - and acrid - qualities. He travels to the leafy London suburb of Twickenham to find out about Joshua Ward, the...
Tungsten (W)
Tungsten is one of the hardest, heaviest and highest melting metals, used in everything from bulbs to bullets, x-rays to drill bits. Justin Rowlatt hears from the perennial Professor Andrea Sella of University College London about the properties of what is one of the densest of elements. We get a tour of the SGS Carbide tool factory with managing director Alan Pearce, and we consider the market value of this very useful element with Mark Seddon, head of consultancy firm Tungsten Market...
Vanadium (V)
Traditionally used as a magic ingredient to produce tougher, more wear-resistant steels, vanadium has discovered a surprising new calling in life. Could this neglected metal, and the gigantic batteries it produces, provide the perfect counterpart for temperamental wind and solar energy sources? And could a future source of the mineral be harvested from the bottom of the sea? (Picture: Chrome vanadium adjustable spanners and bolts; Credit: runrobirun/Thinkstock)
Nitrogen (N) - fertilisers
Nitrogen is a crucial ingredient in fertilisers. And thanks to a pair of clever Germans, the Haber-Bosch process of fixing nitrogen from the air ensures that the planet's burgeoning population can still feed itself. But does it also threaten the planet with an environmental disaster more calamitous than climate change? And could the solution be provided by genetic engineers? (Picture: Legume root nodules; Credit: Ninjatacoshell/Wikicommons)
Nitrogen (N) - explosives
Some 78% of the Earth's atmosphere is nitrogen. Yet this seemingly inert gas is the key component of bombs and explosives. It has brought life and death on an epic scale since mankind first unlocked its potential a century ago. And it has brought tragedy to the lives of the scientists who mastered its potential. (Picture: Early Bosch ammonia reactor in Ludwigshafen; Credit: BASF)
Carbon (C) - plastics
Polymers – or plastics – are enduring, cheap, mouldable and versatile. Yet their very durability mean they litter our landscapes. And their main raw material - crude oil - will not last forever. So could the future be to use nature - with a little tweaking from man - to draw plastics from the atmosphere, and return them at the end of life?
What links soap, paper, heart disease and murder? Sodium. In the latest in our series of programmes looking at the world economy from the perspective of the elements of the periodic table, Justin Rowlatt returns to the chlor-alkali plant of Industrial Chemicals Ltd to discover from chemistry professor Andrea Sella how sodium is ripped from common table salt, and how it provides the grist for the global chemicals industry. One of its biggest uses is in the Kraft process, the most common way of...
Chlorine is more than just a chemical used in swimming pools. This poisonous green gas is the great enabling element of the chemicals industry, used in creating your clothes, computer chips, medicines and flooring. Justin Rowlatt travels to Thurrock to tour the chlor-alkali plant of Industrial Chemicals Ltd with chief chemist David Compton, as he discovers the brutal process of extracting chlorine from the most mundane of raw materials - table salt. We hear from regular contributor Professor...
Lithium (Li)
Lithium is the electro-chemical element - big in batteries and bipolar disorder. Over two decades it has shot from obscurity to become almost synonymous with the way we power our gadgets. Presenter Justin Rowlatt hears from chemistry powerhouse professor Andrea Sella of University College London about what makes lithium so light and energetic. We hear from Gideon Long in Chile, who visits the world's richest source of lithium in the Atacama Desert, and about how neighbouring Bolivia believes it...
Rare Earth Elements (Ce, Nd, Dy, Er, etc)
Neither rare nor earths, these 17 elements are nonetheless difficult and unpleasant to mine and refine. Chemically near-identical, these metals have unique magnetic and optical properties, making them essential in modern technology from fibre optics to wind turbines. So should we worry about China's stranglehold over their supply? (Picture: 20 euro note glows under an ultraviolet light; Credit: Frans Dekkers/Thinkstock)
Carbon (C) - diamonds
Diamonds are not forever. They can be burned, and these days they can be mass-produced in a factory. So can your jeweller tell the difference between a natural and chemically identical "fake"? And can the new breed of cheap, pure, manmade rocks be put to novel, hi-tech uses, beyond drilling rocks and adorning the wealthy? (Picture: Synthetic diamond lens; Credit: Element Six)
Calcium is the great structural element. It is the basis of much of the great architecture in nature as well as many of the incredible structures made by man. Presenter Justin Rowlatt hears from chemistry supremo Andrea Sella at the Royal Institution in London, where calcium was first isolated two centuries ago. He visits the obscure birthplace of the biggest modern-day use of calcium - cement - and sees that use in action at London's giant Crossrail construction project. And, if that weren't...
Tin (Sn)
Tin may seem old-fashioned, but it plays some surprisingly important roles in the modern economy. Presenter Justin Rowlatt meets our favourite chemist Andrea Sella of UCL at Pewters' Hall in London to discover the unique properties of the metal that sparked the Bronze Age. He discovers the metal's role in plastics and electronics, and visits the giant Pilkington glass factory to find out how tin revolutionised the glass-making industry. And he meets two very venerable tin chemists, Alwyn Davies...
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We all know carbon's role in global warming, but could element 6 also provide some solutions? Carbon fibre composites are making planes more fuel efficient, as Airbus explains. And wonder-material graphene has opened up a new world of applications, from energy storage to fuel filtration, as we discover at Manchester University.
Carbon (C) - energy
Carbon is a great energy store – in plants and animals, but also as hydrocarbons – coal, oil and natural gas. From the Industrial Revolution onwards, burning these fossil fuels has released vast quantities of carbon dioxide into the air, affecting our climate and oceans. So can we ever get by without carbon-based energy?
Heavy and chemically inert, why is gold, of all the elements of the periodic table, so highly valued by mankind? Does it even provide a sound basis for modern currencies? What is it actually useful for? And, given its value, what extraordinary lengths will people go to, to recover every tiny scrap of it?
Mercury (Hg)
Mercury is beautiful, yet deadly poisonous. Known as quicksilver, the Minamata international treaty aims to phase its use out completely. But how will the ban on element 80 affect artisanal gold miners? Or coal-fired power stations? And why does so much of this liquid metal end up in tuna and swordfish? (Picture: Ghanaian artisanal miner holds mercury in his hand; Credit: Matt Davies/BBC)
Light, strong and flexible, aluminium is used in drinks cans, window frames, aircraft and packaging. Ubiqitous today, why was it valued more highly than gold 150 years ago? Is it better to recycle this metal, or spend vast amounts of energy creating more of it from scratch? And why is Jaguar Landrover teaching robots to rivet?
The second most abundant element in the universe, helium is rare on Earth. In liquid form it is used as a coolant in super conducting magnets in MRI scanners – so should this rare element be used in something as frivolous as party balloons? And what happens to the helium when that balloon inevitably escapes the clutch of a small child? (Picture: US National Helium Reserve; Credit: Jonny Dymond/BBC)
Phosphorus is essential for life. Our crops would not grow without phosphate fertiliser. So should we worry that we may be frittering the stuff away? Or that most of the world's remaining reserves are controlled by one country? Or that our phosphorus-rich waste may be asphyxiating fish? The possible solution to these problems stinks.
The Elements and the Economy
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The periodic table provides an entirely new perspective on how the global economy works, as we discover in the first part of a new series about the chemical elements. A mining engineer working with Rio Tinto explains the geological processes that took millions of years to create the useful concentrations of these fundamental building blocks, and the often brutal process of extracting them. We hear about a project to dissect mobile phones in order to highlight the disturbing stories behind some...
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About Gentle Ben
January 2, 2020 by gentlebenno - 0 comments
ordinary average gentlemen escapes from evil claw via jetcopter, supermodel in tow
The interesting thing is despite what you read in the news I’m going by the assumption that Carlos Ghosn escaped from the evil claw death room with relative ease.
– Oh, his home was under surveillance? I love Japan, but the Japanese have a reputation for a stoic, detail oriented nature that is often unearned and comically missing: see Fukushima, the incessant problems with the Tokyo Olympic building projects, and Death Stranding. Ghosn’s home wasn’t likely under anything approaching the level of surveillance he’d have received in Mr Takashima’s subterranean volcano fortress. Ghosn probably just slipped out the back while the cop was asleep or watching the Giants destroy the Tigers, again.
– He certainly didn’t escape in a music case. For you see, what he did is his mercenary handlers drove him to an airport in the dark. Then they went to the civil aviation terminal side and boarded a private jet. For those who are unaware, civil aviation security and immigration checks are a flat joke compared to what folks go through in the steerage terminal. Ghosn may or may not have been required to present a passport and undergo a minor security check. My guess is he did neither, at least in any serious manner, and then they took off. They didn’t even have to break one guard’s neck, so boring.
– So now our hero is in the air, and on his way to Lebanon via Turkey. He flies from Osaka to Istanbul. Turkey is easy, so easy, Ghosn just paid them all off in gold doubloons. Next.
– And finally to Lebanon where he’s well known to the elite and without an extradition treaty. Japan can’t touch him there. Game over. Takashima screams at his giant video board and slams his claw down atop a mostly full brandy glass, shattering it into numerous pieces. Kitty squeals.
Hey man, I’d run too. Japan has a Stazi-like 99% conviction rate for federal charges. A man got a fairer trial in Nazi Germany.
But hey, isn’t the USA’s federal conviction rate also 99%? Why how interesting that you ask, because yes, yes it is. Damn, maybe we all better move to Lebanon while we still can.
Takashima: “I’ll get you next time Ghosn! NEXXXT TIME! [pets kitty]
August 13, 2019 by gentlebenno - 0 comments
is there a global leader who’s not a closet felon?
From Trump to Clinton to British royalty to [insert any elite person here] it seems there wasn’t anybody in power or money who didn’t deliberately fall into the spider web woven by Jeffery Epstein and his no doubt very large army of enablers and flunkies. Remember folks, these are the people who make decisions for you, and generally speaking, are supposed to be improving your lives. Or at least that’s the way it’s supposed to work, but no longer does.
What makes all this even more comical is that Epstein got the chance to off himself in a federal prison. Forget the conspiracy theories where a gaggle of coked out drunk alien assassins were hired by the illuminati to do him in. Dude literally hung himself with a bedsheet while a government contractor making minimum wage was in the loo browsing a dating app on his smartphone and wondering when the fuck his watch was supposed to end.
In an era where all our elite leaders are too deeply in the flesh trade to actually govern, it’s no wonder why the most junior of all government employees is so bad at their job they can’t prevent a grown man from hanging himself in a high security federal prison. It’s a true metaphor for failure from top to bottom.
And the best part is, none of this was a secret. Just like how apparently all of Hollywood knew what that Harvey guy was doing, so everybody seems to have known what Epstein was doing. It was just the way things were. It went on for decades in both cases.
If any of these guys made $12 as a Walmart packer, they’d all be in prison for decades. Instead, they’ll get to move on in life because nothing says the game isn’t rigged like being able to rub palms with a known sex offender without consequences. There are rules for the weak, and impunity for the powerful.
The federal justice system convicts at a stasi like rate of 99%. They’ll put a 19 year old who gets caught on the streets of Baltimore with a baggy of crack behind bars for two decades. But damned if they’ll get around to cleaning house with a powerful senator, or banker, or celebrity who enabled a 15 year old to be raped.
This is how societies and cultures fail. Washington, Lincoln, Churchill, all these consequential leaders who carved the world we live in today, gee these dudes sure did have their own flaws. But I’m pretty sure closet felon wasn’t among them.
PS. By the way, there’s no picture to this post. Why? Because almost every photo on this issue seems to already be doctored (faked) in some way, by one side or the other, to emphasize that Epstein was associated with [insert political rival here]. As if, one should be forced to forget, that everybody was in on this game. It’s cultural suicide.
July 11, 2019 by gentlebenno - 0 comments
REAL ID = real stupid
A few weeks ago me Ma hands me this partially threatening letter from the Giant Octopus (in government form) instructing her to update her driver’s license to REAL ID standards or they’d unleash three wild rabid crocodiles into her basement. I had no idea what this thing was. But whatever, I made her an appointment and we worked out all the documentation requirements. But now people from my office are taking off from work to get this ID update done. I guess eventually I have to do this too? I guess? So we did some research to get the backstory of this dumbest of ideas.
In 2005, Congress (that institution that never works) passed a law mandating enhanced requirements for government issued identification. This was done in response to the September 11th attacks. I guess the idea was to prevent the use of fraudulent identifications. The federal government was really after the States who issued poor quality or easy to forge driver’s licenses. For example, in Alabama they use old crop husks and in Oregon they use congealed kombucha base. Both of these are now unacceptable.
So what do you need a REAL ID to do? Well, according to the Department of Homeland Security (that institution that never works) it’s required for: “The purposes covered by the Act are: accessing Federal facilities, entering nuclear power plants, and, boarding federally regulated commercial aircraft.”
If you need to get on a federal facility they’ll give you their own specific ID for it. So unless you’re Homer Simpson the only real reason you need the REAL ID is to get on an airplane. That’s it.
Oh my! Where do we start?
1) Act passed in 2005 but not required to complete before 2020; 15 year introduction cycle (or three times longer than World War II).
2) In 14 years since Act has passed not one commercial airliner has been brought down or nuclear power plant infiltrated due to a forged identification thus bringing into question the entire relevance of the Act.
3) REAL ID is required to board a plane, but not required to board a train, bus, autogyro, get into a sports stadium, library, school, Valhalla, or any other place with 743% less security than airplanes and airports.
4) Assumption that technology developed and implemented by government will somehow produce 300 million REAL IDs that cannot be (at least easily) forged. Because surely an evil bad guy who really means it will find it baffling to forge an ID also produced by the genius wizards of your local MVA.
5) Despite bullets (1) through (4) above, the wheels of the bureaucracy have continued to turn for 14 years without nary a thought of perhaps: “maybe we don’t/shouldn’t really need to do this”.
behold! the definition of futility
March 6, 2019 by gentlebenno - 1 Comment
the plastic straw ban is futile
We’re back! We have no idea why. We’ll speak no more of it. Did you miss us? Please hold your applause [claps hands in an empty room].
So, what the most consequential recycling (“re-cy-cling”) news of the year? Is it:
a) That science still hasn’t solved replication technology thus forcing us to constantly throw away empty food packages when we want them instantly refilled with their sweet goodness?
b) That members of both American political parties still cannot be melted down to make something more useful, like office building support beams?
c) That beer brewers consistently still use glass even though much of glass isn’t recyclable and cans are 100% so, and still hold the same tasty beer? (more on this later)
d) I would hope nobody said plastic straws. But I’m sure a whole bunch of people would say plastic straws.
For you see, plastic straws were once fine. Now they are evil. For some reason.
We already wrote about this last year, but it’s gotten worse since then.
It’s now gotten to the point where the government (in Washington DC, of course) has to employ their own Brown Shirt goon equivalent to threaten your local neighborhood restaurant.
Here’s the reality check:
1) Plastic straws make up about 0.000004% of discarded non-recyclable plastic waste
2) The vast, vast, vast majority of plastic waste that gets into the ocean or into landfills is due entirely to the extremely poor basic waste collection practices of East Asian countries
3) The major recycling news of the year is not straws, but the Chinese government’s ban on the importation of high error rate recycled waste from aboard. Almost nobody is talking about this, but it’s a big deal folks. Every municipal recycling program in America is impacted, as in, yours. But because standard American news sources are terrible, you have to go bathe in an article written by Gizmodo of all places to get a good story on the issue.
Every aspect of American recycling is currently in flux. But, for some reason, in early 2019 the hate is on plastic straws.
One of the goals (cue laugh track) of this degenerate blog has always been to question the easy answer, or the lunacy of the current fad. The fallacy of being seen, or being felt, to “do good”. Often to the exclusion of larger problems, or more concrete action.
The municipal recycling planner at your local town hall (who probably makes $34K a year) will make major decisions this year that have a greater impact to the planet than any one of the rest of us will do the rest of our lives. These folks at least deserve our attention.
Fixing China’s non-existent recycling program is hard. Getting into the nitty gritty of recycling costs per ton per waste category per overall waste gathered by your local town hall is hard to get around. But banning plastic straws is easy, and refusing to use them is an instant self-check gratification for somebody who has decided (because they were told so by somebody else) that said straws are now a big problem.
But easy answers don’t save the planet. Hard work does.
August 1, 2018 by gentlebenno - 0 comments
the establishment hasn’t caught up with the reality of our new distributed planet
Yesterday a judge blocked the online publication of blueprints for a 3D printed gun. The States who filed the complaint called it, “a bell that cannot be un-rung”. The judge said, “There are 3D printers in public colleges and public spaces and there is the likelihood of potential irreparable harm,”.
So apparently all these folks don’t understand how the Internets works, haven’t heard or understood the word Torrent, and don’t understand the reality of how the planet currently works.
To borrow their term, I can guarantee you that 3D printing of firearms is going to be rung. And it’s going to be rung very, very soon. Soon it’ll be possible for anybody with access to cash to print any kind of gun they want, handgun, shotgun, assault rifle, whatever. It’s going to happen. That’s one of the fearful miracle implications of 3D printing, fueled by an Internets that enables the distribution of any knowledge whatsoever.
For over 15 years terrorists have been capable of teaching 19 year old disgruntled street urchins from Paris and Brussels how to make nail bombs. All of this knowledge is easily accessible online. It’s never going away. If the establishment thinks 3D printed handgun designs will be any different because some judge says so, they’re hopelessly naive.
As another example please kindly gaze upon the disaster that is killing more Americans than cars in oxy and fentanyl. The cops, judges, and legislators went after oxy because it was stacking five figures of dead Americans each year. But then fentanyl materialized out of thin air.
If you haven’t heard, there’s a new villain in town called carfentanil. It’s even more powerful than fentanyl. The number of American overdosing each year is higher than ever. Would you care to take a bet on if the number of dead is going to fall, or if you think carfentanil will be the last drug created out of thin air and pushed on the streets?
The establishment hasn’t caught up with the reality of our new distributed planet. This is the reason Trump was elected, not Russia. But understanding that our planet has changed irreversibly is really fucking hard to grasp. It’s a lot easier for folks to demonize Putin (a cardboard cutout well deserving of the asshole appellation) and move on.
But the opioid epidemic is an example of a massive problem that the establishment cannot solve. Folks want results and government can’t or won’t deliver. Because government hasn’t adapted to a changed world.
What to do? Well, for the drug problem this belligerent degenerate blog has always been about legalizing absolutely everything. Because the government is never going to be able stop drugs. Especially in an age where you can factory manufacture lethal opioids in a lab like it’s aspirin.
Let folks get high, who gives a damn? Treat addiction like the disease it is. Let folks shoot up or drop pills in clinics where they can get help when they inevitably OD and can get advice and support on how to quit. Treat the problem, don’t criminalize it when criminalization hasn’t worked for over 100 years of drug crime fighting.
For 3D printed guns, I don’t know, I haven’t gotten that far yet. But my guess is the answer is probably in the ammunition. I have no idea, but I’m guessing it’s probably a lot harder to make ammo from nothing than to 3D print a gun. Put since the establishment isn’t thinking things through (again) all they’ve got is the order of some judge to try and stop it. It will fail.
Behold that which cannot be stopped.
March 25, 2018 by gentlebenno - 0 comments
all of these people have wasted their time
Everyone is welcome to think one way or the other about America’s guns. But with every shooting, I’m on the side of jaded apathy and cynicism. There may be a solution, a compromise between sides that can be found on guns. It’s not going to happen. Those who marched are pushing with all they’ve got for gun control. That’s also not going to happen.
1) Those who marched seem to be under the impression that politicians work for them. That’s supposed to be how it works. But it doesn’t. Congress works for the following people:
a) Major campaign donors
b) The extreme fringe 5% of their party that rules their lives during the primary of their heavily gerrymandered district
c) Themselves
d) Ordinary average voter
In that order. I’m sure there might be a handful of folks in Congress who are decent people who are there primarily to do good. But I’ve come to believe they’re in the minority.
Ask yourself, what normal person would subject themselves to the vicious cage fight that is modern politics? The answer is, a normal person wouldn’t. Congress is not populated with problem solvers looking to compromise or make progress.
It’s why they can’t even conduct basic tasks like pass a budget on time. They’re on an unhinged two year cycle where their goal is not to do work, but to satisfy the cravings of (a) and (b). Rinse and repeat.
Anybody expecting that these people are going to be the ones to solve problems is asking too much a system that is (sadly) essentially broken at this point.
2) Think what you will about the NRA’s beliefs, but one cannot deny it is the most successful lobby in American history. There are two people on the planet who I believe possess the powers of the ancient Aztec demon god Itzpapalotltotec. They are Bill Belichick and Wayne LaPierre. These guys are absolute masters of their craft. Nobody can compete with them.
At this point, if you hired LaPierre and told him to get Congress to pass a law saying all ketchup bottles must be colored pink, he could probably get it done. The NRA has five million card carrying members. This is by far one of the largest and most dedicated interest groups in the country.
Unless the people who marched this weekend establish their own singular lobby group, get millions of people to join it, and fund it with a dump truck full of money they’re not going to compete effectively with the NRA.
As an example, after the Vegas shooting I think most people could get onboard with the most basic of gun control arguments, that bump stocks that converted a weapon to fully automatic under the table was not a good thing. They couldn’t even get that passed into law, they had to do it on the side later.
3) I’m just going to go ahead and say this. Most Americans simply do not care. I read an article yesterday that said since 2000 over 600K Americans have died in car crashes. Go ahead and try and wrap your brain around that number. In the last 15 years we’ve had more Americans die behind the wheel than in all our 20th Century wars combined.
Throughout my life I’ve known several people who’ve died in car crashes. I also know a handful of people who’ve died in gun violence. But, selfishly, or cynically, there just isn’t much I can do about it.
We Americans have a shocking tolerance for mayhem, death, and destruction. I think it’s in our primal colonial blood. It’s built into our national psyche.
I’m not going stop driving, or go out and demand that every car come equipped with that goo that saves Stallone from dying in a horrible crash in Demolition Man. I have personally accepted the risk to myself and to society associated with cars.
I think (whether they admit it or not) the vast majority of Americans have accepted the risk to themselves and to society associated with guns. Folks might not like it, but it’s the way it is.
Those who marched today think that this mindset is beginning to change, and the march shows it. I don’t agree. I’m sure more people have died to gunfire in Chicago since this last shooting than those who died in the Florida school. People intellectually know this, but essentially don’t care. They move on with their lives.
Like all this, or hate this, either way, I just don’t believe it’s going to change.
Democracy is a mess, and mostly doesn’t work, but it’s still a beautiful thing. Agree or disagree with those who marched, it’s still part of our freedom that they believe in a cause and are out there fighting for what they believe in. But, I do believe, all of these people have wasted their time.
gun control march in Washington DC, Circa 2029
November 8, 2017 by gentlebenno - 0 comments
jury duty – CNN, inspiration, and the grand escape
No sane person wants jury duty. But unless you recently ran into a car, know a judge to bribe, or are willing to give the state another reason to claw you, you’re going. And so I did.
I got in there bright and early with several hundred of my fellow citizens. My first impression walking in the door? They’ve got seven televisions in the room. All of them have CNN on, fucking CNN. One of the most solemn and important duties in somebody’s civic life and they’ve got garbage television on the walls. Man, just put some camels and giraffes on there so people’s blood and mental lunacy isn’t fired up by stupid CNN before they go play with somebody’s life in court.
The jury duty leader gives the introductory speech about how she knows nobody wants to be there, but how important it is to freedom, democracy, and justice that we be there. She inserts humor and the crowd is eating out of her hand the entire time.
She’s graded on a curve because she gives the same speech every day, but still, it says something about the state of our political leadership that the most inspirational and motivating political speech I’ve heard in years was given by a jury duty director at a random county courthouse.
They call out the names by the dozen assigning to each case. It’s great to hear the breadth of unique America, name by name. We’re doing just fine people [gives finger to haters on each political side using both hands].
I get picked with 49 others to sit the panel for a criminal trial. This didn’t sound fun. I’d have probably gotten struck anyways because of my day job and second job categories (moving that sweet, sweet Columbian pure across the International Date Line) [sips coffee], but still, even if you know you’ll get struck you wonder.
Lawyers and judges are crazy people. Who only knows what they’ll do with you once they’ve got you. But apparently, most criminal trials they said are quick and easy. It’s the medical malpractice trial you don’t want to get. Four to six weeks. Six weeks? Man, modern medicine is a shithouse apparently.
The 50 of us sit, waiting to be called back to the courtroom. But after sitting in there for five hours they finally start to dismiss everybody. I mean everybody who showed up that day. My case got continued, another one they cut a deal, etc, etc. They sent everybody home. Nobody got selected that day. Everybody was off the hook for three years of jury duty.
Sitting at the bus stop on the way out was like emerging from a hospital delivery room where people got to hold the baby. Everybody was gleeful and talking. Such a release for everybody. Courthouses suck. They’re necessary for modern society, but almost everything that happens in there destroys somebody’s life. So nobody wants to be in there, certainly not to sit a jury for days or weeks.
Would we have done it? Yes, all of us. And I hope we would have served with honor and wisdom. But for yesterday, all of us were making our grand escape. Even the cold rain couldn’t dampen anybody’s spirit.
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NYC Top Comedy Choices for Friday 1/2/15
For more, please visit HyReviews.com.
TV Alert: Michael Keaton is on Jimmy Kimmel (repeated from 12/17)
Over 50 stand-ups at an NYC comedy tradition of telling the first funny thing they wrote in the new year: 50 First Jokes…
…Last Comic Standing breakout star Joe Machi headlines tonight and Saturday at Carolines…
…brilliant, irresistible SNL writer/performer Mike O’Brien does a sketch/character show about 45 Minutes of Things...
…and top storytellers Ophira Eisenberg, Jim O’Grady, and more perform at Adam Wade’s Super Stories
Tonight’s recommendations for the best in New York City comedy (in chronological order, with top picks noted and shows over $10 marked with $) include:
[TOP PICK] 7:00 pm ($7): A dynamite lineup of top storytellers—Ophira Eisenberg, Jim O’Grady, Ed Gavagan, Peter Aguero, and host Adam Wade—perform at this aptly-named show at The Magnet theatre: Super Stories
[TOP PICK] [$] 7:00 pm, 7:00 pm, 8:00 pm, 8:45 pm, 10:30 pm, and 12:15 am ($20-$24 per show, plus 2-item food/drink min.): Tonight’s stand-ups include Artie Lange, Ryan Hamilton, Gregg Rogell, and Robert Kelly at the 7:00 show; Artie Lange, Ben Bailey, Ryan Hamilton, Robert Kelly, and Wil Sylvince (hosting) at the 8:00 show; Gary Gulman, Ben Bailey, Lynne Koplitz, Robert Kelly, and Keith Robinson (hosting) at the 8:45 show; Greer Barnes, Dov Davidoff, Lynne Koplitz, Lenny Marcus, and Marina Franklin (hosting) at the 10:30 pm show; and Dave Attell, Big Jay Oakerson, Greer Barnes, Dov Davidoff, and Wil Sylvince (hosting) at the 12:15 show, with all shows at Comedy Cellar (117 MacDougal Street, between 3rd Street & Minetta Lane) except the 8:00 pm show at Village Underground (130 West 3rd Street, off Sixth Avenue): Comedy Cellar Friday
[TOP PICK] [$] [DISCOUNTED] 7:00 pm & 9:00 pm & 11:00 pm (FREE TICKETS if you reserve in advance by calling (212) 260-2445 and mention HyReviews.com, but there’s still a 2-drink min. per person): TV & movie star Janeane Garofalo, Ben Bailey (Emmy Award-winning host of Cash Cab and NBC’s Who’s Still Standing?; Comedy Central Presents, Jay Leno), Sherrod Small (writer/performer on TBS’ Are We There Yet?, Comedy Central, VH1), and more performing at the only comedy club in the East Village: Eastville Comedy Club
[FREE] 7:00 pm: NYC stand-ups Matt Schwartzer, Gary Levitt, Damon Millard, Will Carey, Talia Gil Reiss, and Toby Muresianu performing at Otto’s Shrunken Head (538 East 14th Street, between Avenues A and B) hosted by Maribeth Mooney: Moons Over My Hammy
[TOP PICK] 7:30 pm ($10; SOLD OUT, but you can still probably get in via the standby line if you’re okay with standing): Brilliant Saturday Night Live writer/performer Mike O’Brien “performs solo sketch and stand-up, reads a short story, and in general, does things. Come out to see experimental comedy as well as comedy that involves no experimentation” at UCB Chelsea: Mike O’Brien: 45 Minutes of Things
[TOP PICK] [$] 7:30 pm & 10:00 pm ($32.75 plus 2-drink minimum): The breakout star at this year’s Last Comic Standing (he wasn’t provided the win, but deserved to) headlines tonight through Saturday at the Carolines Comedy Club: Joe Machi
[$] 7:30 pm ($15): Improv group Bucky makes up one long scene in the same location (a winning form that’s helped such teams as Death by Roo Roo win a whole lot of Cage Match victories)—and, when SNL is on break, sometimes includes star Sasheer Zamata—at the UCB East theatre: Bucky: Here and Now
[MEGA-TOP PICK] 8:00 pm ($12 at the door, $15.71 in advance online): For the ninth year of this annual tradition, 50+ NYC comics will come together to each tell the first joke he or she has written in the new year. Expect an exuberant gathering of comedic talent…and wild partying afterwards. The scheduled lineup includes Michael Che, Sasheer Zamata, Aparna Nancherla, Dan St. Germain, Mike Lawrence, Jo Firestone, Brooke Van Poppelen, Joe List, Nick Vatterott, Matt Koff, Jon Friedman, Erik Bergstrom…and many, many more. This lovely coming together of NYC’s stand-up comedy community is happening at Brooklyn’s Bell House (149 7th Street) co-produced by Sachi Ezura and hosted by John F. O’Donnell: 50 First Jokes, 2015 Edition
[TOP PICK] [$] 8:00 pm ($20; no min.): Ted Alexandro (one of the very finest stand- ups in the country; David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, two Comedy Central Presents half-hour specials; comedy album I Did It; frequently opens for Louis C.K.), Dan Soder (smart, edgy rising star; Conan O’Brien, Comedy Central Half Hour, Inside Amy Schumer, MTV’s Guy Code and Guy Court, VH1), Rachel Feinstein (finalist on Last Comic Standing;Inside Amy Schumer, HBO, The Apprentice, opens for Sarah Silverman on tour), Big Jay Oakerson (Comedy Central Presents, Louie, HBO, Showtime, MTV, IFC), Monroe Martin (finalist on this season’s Last Comic Standing), and Yannis Pappas (Comedy Central Half Hour, VH1) performing stand-up at The Stand Comedy Club (239 Third Avenue & 20th Street): Ted Alexandro, Dan Soder, Rachel Feinstein, Big Jay Oakerson, and More
[TOP PICK] [$] 8:00 pm ($29): The only FringeNYC show to ever include a barbershop quartet singing about alcohol and three rounds for each audience member (for my full review, please click here) is now playing as a perfect show for a date every Friday & Saturday night at the West Village’s Soho Playhouse (15 Vandam Street, in the downstairs Huron Club): The Imbible: A Spirited History of Drinking
8:00 pm ($10): Two PIT downstairs lounge improv groups making up a musical on the spot: Vern and Royals
[FREE] 8:00 pm: A mashup of stand-up, sketch, and minor league sports gimmickry—cheap beer, mascots, questionable seat upgrades, kiss cameras, hot dog cannons, and more—at The Creek upstairs theatre in Queens’ Long Island City: Instantacular
[TOP PICK] 8:30 pm ($10): Before this Magnet show, audience members may anonymously submit written confessions, secrets, rants, advice and opinions which will be used onstage by the improvisors—who include such talents as Laura Grey (stellar old-time radio style theatrical podcast Horrorgasm, improv troupe Salmon Diane, sketch/improv duo Klepper & Grey): The Friday Night Sh*w
[TOP PICK] [$] 9:00 pm ($15; SOLD OUT of seats, but there’ll be a standby line if you’re okay with standing): Some of the finest improv in the country from brilliant comics Shannon O’Neill, Silvija Ozols, Jordan Klepper, Connor Ratliff, Don Fanelli, and/or Michael Delaney forming a seamless and hilarious group mind at UCB Chelsea—the all-star members of The Stepfathers
[TOP PICK] 9:00 pm ($10 at the door or $11.59 online): Comics share their most shameful stories in the hope of being crowned the King or Queen of Shame, with tonight’s performers Sabrina Jalees (irresistible dynamo stand-up and rising star; Comedy Central’s Adam Devine’s House Party, Last Comic Standing, VH1’s Best Week Ever, MTV’s Failosophy, co-host of How Many Questions), Giulia Rozzi (Jimmy Kimmel, Chelsea Lately, writer for MTV’s Girl Code, VH1, Playgirl Magazine, co-host of Dive Comedy and Stripped Stories), Emma Willmann (Bravo, Oxygen), and Krystyna Hutchinson performing at Brooklyn’s Union Hall hosted by Ginny Leise & Soojeong Son: The Shame Game
9:30 pm ($10): Two PIT upstairs theatre improv groups making up a musical on the spot. Dagger includes Abby Holland (VH1’s Best Night Ever, musical improv groups Aquarius and Veal), and Hello includes Lorraine Cink (especially lovely singing voice; host & writer of Marvel Comics’ The Watcher): Dagger and Hello
[TOP PICK] [$] 10:00 pm ($20; no min.): Ted Alexandro (one of the very finest stand- ups in the country; David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, two Comedy Central Presents half-hour specials; comedy album I Did It; frequently opens for Louis C.K.), Dan Soder (smart, edgy rising star; Conan O’Brien, Comedy Central Half Hour, Inside Amy Schumer, MTV’s Guy Code and Guy Court, VH1), Ben Bailey (Emmy Award-winning host of Cash Cab and NBC’s Who’s Still Standing? ; Comedy Central Presents, Jay Leno), Dan St. Germain (enormously likeable and rapidly rising star who has several TV shows in the works; Jimmy Fallon, Comedy Central Half-Hour Special, The Electric Company, MTV, VH1), Rachel Feinstein (finalist on Last Comic Standing; Inside Amy Schumer, HBO, The Apprentice, opens for Sarah Silverman on tour), Big Jay Oakerson (Comedy Central Presents, Louie, HBO, Showtime, MTV, IFC), and Yannis Pappas (Comedy Central Half Hour, VH1) performing stand-up at The Stand Comedy Club (239 Third Avenue & 20th Street): Ted Alexandro, Ben Bailery, Dan Soder, Dan St. Germain, Rachel Feinstein, Big Jay Oakerson, and More
[TOP PICK] 10:00 pm ($10): Singing improvisors at The Magnet using an interview with an audience member to craft The Made-Up Musical
[FREE] 10:00 pm: NYC stand-ups (not announced) performing at Queens LIC’s The Creek upstairs theatre hosted by Neruda Williams…who will be celebrating the birthday of at least one of these comics with cake and beer: The Happy Happy Birthday Show
10:30 pm ($10): Josh Sharp (superb sketch writer/performer, co-star of GUMP, co-host of Cool Shit/Weird Shit), Jim Tews (Last Comic Standing), Megan Gailey (MTV), Nat Towsen (host of Downtown Variety Hour), and more performing stand-up, sketch, storytelling, or improv at UCB East hosted by Brandon Scott Jones, D’Arcy Carden, Justin Tyler, Kelly Hudson, and/or Alden Ford: Gentrify
[TOP PICK] 11:00 pm ($10): I’m not sure he’s in NYC tonight, but one of the finest improvisors alive, Joe Bill (Bassprov, iO, co-founder of the Annoyance Theatre) will either personally spearhead or lead in spirit a breathtakingly brilliant group of improvisors from Chicago and New York who will blow the roof off The PIT downstairs lounge with lightning-quick dark comedy unlike anything else in NYC. The other superb players typically are Doug Stoley (Conan O’Brien, The Scene), Amey Goerlich (Indie Cage Match, Krompf, The Scene), Jodi Lennon (Exit 57, Annoyance Theatre), Jed Resnik (Annoyance Theatre, UCB), Silvija Ozols (The Stepfathers), Betsy Stover (UCB), Ari Voukydis (VH1’s Best Week Ever, UCB), Russ Armstrong (iO Chicago, The Magnet), Micah Sherman (Second City, co-host of The Scene, host of Fun), Rick Andrews (Magnet teacher/performer), and Michael Burton (Act One, The Magnet), all declaring Chica Go-Go
[$] Midnight ($15; no min.): Ben Bailey (Emmy Award-winning host of Cash Cab and NBC’s Who’s Still Standing? ; Comedy Central Presents, Jay Leno), Big Jay Oakerson (Comedy Central Presents, Louie, HBO, Showtime, MTV, IFC), Adrienne Iapalucci (David Letterman, Last Comic Standing, VH1), Monroe Martin (finalist on this season’s Last Comic Standing), Vladimir Caamano, and Chris Cotton performing stand-up at The Stand Comedy Club (239 Third Avenue & 20th Street): Ben Bailery, Big Jay Oakerson, Adrienne Iapalucci, and More
[TOP PICK] Midnight ($5): A raucous laboratory for wacky ideas, in which comics Jo Firestone, Michael Wolf, Dan Glaser, and Cory Palmer create absurd game shows that they try out on the spot using audience members. “After we’ve attempted to create all the game shows, the audience votes on which idea gets to go straight to TV (not really)” at UCB Chelsea hosted by the fabulous Jo Firestone (exceptionally inventive and irresistible rising star; radio host of WFMU’s Dr. Gameshow, and live-on-stage host of Punderdome 3000 and many, many other shows): The Incredible Game Show Showcase
[TOP PICK] Midnight ($5): “Join filmmaker George Lucas (Radioland Murders) as he embarks upon an exciting new career as a comedian and talk show host! He’ll be joined by his hilarious talk show sidekick, Jar-Jar Binks, as they revolutionize the talk show format the same way Lucas once revolutionized cinema,” with Saturday Night Live writer Alison Rick and SNL alum Brooks Whelan being interviewed at the UCB East theatre hosted by Connor Ratliff & Shaun Diston: The George Lucas Talk Show
Friday Open Mics & Jams
5:00 pm ($5): Two-hour open-mic for 20 stand-ups performing for 5 minutes each, with sign-up online here, at the Stand Up NY Comedy Club (236 West 78th Street): Stand Up NY Open Mic
5:45 pm (no cover, 1 drink min. for both comics and audience members): Open mic stand-up providing 5-7 minutes per comic, running 1 hour. Arrive 30 minutes before the show to get on the signup sheet. This is a fine opportunity to perform at the only comedy club in the East Village: Eastville Comedy Club Open Mic
[FREE] 6:00 pm: An open-mic show on a lottery system (sign-ups happen at 5:45-6:00 pm) at The Creek upstairs theatre in Queens’ Long Island City with host Eli Sairs: The Orphanage
[ALMOST FREE] 6:00 pm ($1): PIT musical improv veterans mix with musical improv novices on-stage at the upstairs theatre for Pitch
[ALMOST FREE] 6:00 pm ($1): PIT improv veterans mix with improv novices on-stage at the downstairs lounge for Happy Hour
[FREE] 8:00 pm: An open-mic show that’s first come, first serve, with each comic getting 5 minutes on stage at The Creek downstairs lounge in Queens’ Long Island City hosted by Seena Jon: Mic and Cheese
(307 West 26th Street; 150-seater; shows free-$10; one of the most respected comedy theatres in the world)
(153 East 3rd Street; 99-seat main theatre, bar area for open mics; shows free-$10)
(123 East 24th Street; 99-seat upstairs theatre, 40-seat downstairs theatre; shows free-$15)
(254 West 29th Street; 60-seat theatre; shows $5-$10)
(Queens’ Long Island City; 40-seat theatre upstairs, 25 downstairs; virtually all shows free)
(117 MacDougal Street; among the finest daily stand-up lineups in the world; 2-item min.)
(239 Third Avenue; recent competitor to Comedy Cellar; no drink min.—support this policy!)
(1626 Broadway; focuses on the world’s top headliners, who perform hour-long sets; 2-drink min.)
(208 West 23rd Street; headliners on weekends, specialty & lineup shows weekdays; 2-drink min.)
(85 East 4th Street; strong weekend lineups; no cover using code HyReviews; 2-drink min.)
(99 MacDougal Street; convenient if Comedy Cellar’s sold out; no cover using code HyReviews; 2-drink min.)
(1568 Second Avenue, off 81st; Upper East Side club with typically solid lineups; 2-drink min.)
(236 West 78th Street, off Broadway; Upper West Side club with typically solid lineups; 2-drink min.)
Laughing Devil/The Standing Room
(4738 Vernon Blvd., by #7 train; Queens LIC club; free cover Fri-Sat with code LICVIP; 2-drink min.)
From legendary NYC comedy site Brooklyn Vegan: Thank God for Hy Bender’s religiously updated show bible BestNewYorkComedy.com. He is literally the only person in NYC providing daily summaries of what’s happening comedy-wise. It must be exhausting keeping that monster of a website alive…It is your daily comedy itinerary and it scares me how on top of his shit this guy is.
Please feel encouraged to reach out to tell me about comedy shows, hire me for book or screenplay work, or for any other reason by emailing me at hy@hyreviews.com.
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Algebra I (James Dunseith)
Unit 1: Number Tricks, Patterns, and Abstractions
Unit 2: The Number Line Project
Unit 3: Solving Linear Equations
Unit 4: Creating Linear Equations
Unit 5: Statistics
Unit 6: Mini Unit: Patterns, Programs, and Math Without Words
Unit 7: Lines
Unit 8: Linear and Exponential Functions
Unit 10: Quadratic Functions
Unit 11: Functions and Modeling
LESSON 1: Rectangular Gardens
LESSON 2: Wait, Can You Solve That?
LESSON 3: Area Models for Multiplying Polynomials and Factoring Quadratic Expressions
LESSON 4: Can You Factor It?
LESSON 5: Finding Roots of All Sorts
LESSON 6: Quadratic Functions in Three Forms
LESSON 7: Different Forms and Different Parameters
LESSON 8: Graphing Quadratic Functions (Gallery Walk)
LESSON 9: Features of a Parabola
LESSON 10: A Faster Way to Graph a Parabola
LESSON 11: How Does a Parabola Grow?
LESSON 12: The Axis of Symmetry and Vertex Form
LESSON 13: What if We Start With the Axis of Symmetry?
LESSON 14: Finishing Five Point Graphs
LESSON 15: What Does "a" Do?
LESSON 16: Solving Quadratic Equations (Delta Math)
LESSON 17: Moving Toward Mastery: Completing the Square (Day 1)
LESSON 19: Review or Move On (to the Quadratic Formula)
LESSON 20: A Review Day, In Its Own Way
LESSON 21: Unit 6, Two Day Exam
Opener: Three Kinds of Sequences
The Graph of f(x) = x^2
Quadratic Functions Gallery Walk
Graphing Quadratic Functions (Gallery Walk)
SWBAT understand that the graph of a quadratic function is a set of points on the coordinate plane. They will make tables and graphs as they develop an understanding of why a parabola is shaped like it is.
A gallery walk gives students some choice in their work, and gives everyone the chance to get up, move around, and share ideas. It also stays up on the wall so we can reference it in upcoming lessons.
James Dunseith
Graphing (Algebra)
tables of values
HSA-REI.D.10
Understand that the graph of an equation in two variables is the set of all its solutions plotted in the coordinate plane, often forming a curve (which could be a line).
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Calculate and interpret the average rate of change of a function (presented symbolically or as a table) over a specified interval. Estimate the rate of change from a graph.*
HSF-IF.C.7a
Graph linear and quadratic functions and show intercepts, maxima, and minima.
When Students Name Things
Today's opener is on the first slide of the lesson notes, and once again, it's about patterns. I give everyone a few minutes to get started, and I hope to observe that kids are pretty confident with this review task. The familiarity students have with tasks like this should open up some space to explore some new ideas. As I describe in this video, students should already feel comfortable moving both forward and backward through a linear or geometric sequence.
In considering the third sequence (which I don't rush to name because I want to leave room for students to construct an understanding of what this is), we find some curious behavior when we try to extend it backwards to the numbers that might precede the first term. Whatever consensus we come to, this sequence gives us a way to talk about the graph of
y = x^2
which is the focus of the mini-lesson that follows this opener.
U6 L8 Opener.mov
U6 L8 Agenda.jpg
U6 L8 Opener and Notes.pdf
Today's mini-lesson extends directly from the opener. I ask students to name the first sequence, which typically elicits both responses: it's an arithmetic sequence and it can be represented by a linear function. I everyone if they can imagine graph a linear function, and everyone feels good about that.
I repeat that structure for the second sequence. It's a geometric sequence that can be modeled by an exponential function, and ask students to use their fingers to draw in the air the shape that this graph would make. If anyone is unsure of what to do here, I direct their attention to anyone who is correctly tracing an exponential curve through the air.
"So what about this one?" I ask, pointing to the third sequence. "What should we call this, and what will the graph look like?" Students will have ideas, and some might even recognize already that it can be modeled by a quadratic function whose graph will be a parabola. Most kids will have to see it, so I suggest that we make a table and plot the points.
On the bottom half of the front board, I draw a table of values from 1 to 5, filling it in with the first five terms. Then, picking up where we left off on the opener, I make some blank rows above that, and extend the input column with 0 and the first five negative integers. Then we're able to fill it in by working our way up. With the table made, we can once again see the "pattern within the pattern" as we look at how the outputs change.
At this point, I hope that students can recognize that each output is the square of its input, so we're talking about the function
f(x) = x^2
Whether I can elicit that from a student or not, I write the rule on the board and ask everyone to make sure they know where I'm getting it. Once kids see it, testing a few input and output pairs, they buy it.
"This is a quadratic function," I say, "and today you're going to graph a few of these." I explain that just like y=x gives us a basic line - through the origin with a slope of 1 - this "parent function" will show us the basic graph of all the quadratic functions that follow. I set up a pair of axes on the board, plot the 11 points in our table, and ask that students do the same in their notes. After connecting the dots, I say "This is a parabola." Kids have seen some parabolas over the course of the last few lessons, and I hope that today's opener and this mini-lesson provide a foundation for why this function is shaped like it is. It's an understanding that I'll be looking for each student to demonstrate as we move into today's gallery walk.
U6 L8 This is a parabola.jpg
U6 L8 Table of Values and Pattern hint.jpg
Introduce the Task / Explanation of Documents
Now we get started on a gallery walk that will continue into tomorrow's lesson. To set up the lesson, I print each page (except for page one, the cover sheet) of this Quadratic Functions Gallery Walk. I group the functions by color, posting them in four sets around the room. For example, three "blue functions" are posted with the blue instructions on the back wall.
Each student gets a copy of this graphing template. I explain the task: "To complete this gallery walk, you must choose one function from each colored set, make a table of values and to plot the points for each function." So functions "A", "B", and "C" are the "Green Functions" and students must choose one of these before repeating for the "Blue Functions" (D, E, F), the "Purple Functions" (G, H, J), and the "Orange Functions" (K and L). By completing the gallery walk in that order, students are exposed to a new twist in each set. The green functions are pretty easy to see on the domain -5 to 5, but the blue functions are a little more "off-center," which will require students to reconsider the domain they choose. The purple functions are in vertex form, and the orange functions have less than two roots.
As I've described with previous gallery walks, student choice and student movement around the room result in increased buy-in and interesting conversations while the work happens.
Everyone gets started, and there's a lively bustle around the classroom as students choose the functions they'll work on. I circulate with students and answer clarifying questions about how to get started. At some point everyone may need to see an example, which I provide in two ways. On the fourth slide of the lesson notes is an example function. I show students how to make a table by using each input. This example is like the green functions, because there's a clear turning point between -5 and 5. As this activity progresses, students will continue to build an understand of how important that turning point is.
There are also some examples are posted on the wall. For function C, for example, I provide a table of values that shows how each input yields an output, and a graph on the domain -5 to 5. Students are free to use this one if they want, and it's encouraging to see how many kids will take a look at this before trying to do the same for A or B on their own. With that scaffold in place, I provide an extension by putting up sticky notes for other exemplars, and invite students to take a sticky and make the exemplar to post for others to see.
Where this Lesson Fits & Where We're Going Next
Moving forward, We're going to use these functions to talk about the features of a parabola. As students move on to the blue functions, they see that it is important to choose a domain that shows where the function turns around. Over the course of the next few days, we'll give the turning point a name, the vertex, and we'll formalize ways to find that point. For now I want students to notice some of these features on their own, so we can build toward that knowledge. Look at U6 L8 this student's work, for example. After using the domain -5 to 5 on function E, this student realized that she'd get a more complete graph by using some inputs less than -5, and she added those points to the graph. Other students try one domain, reconsider it, and do a second draft before setting up the axes and graphing the function.
In this video narrative, I describe how this activity helps students get the idea that the graph of a function is a set of points. It's important to have this experience to really drive that point home: there's no magic when we look at the graph of a parabola. That graph is a set of points, and those points come from somewhere.
Likely Outcomes
Today's work is likely to be slow going because the arithmetic takes time. This is a structure students have seen before in this class: we'll do something the "long way" before learning and formalizing some shortcuts. The long way is important because it draws on some foundational skills and provides experience that students will reference moving forward. We'll start to explore some shortcuts in tomorrow's lesson.
I buzz around the classroom and encourage students in their work right up until the bell.
U6 L8 Gallery Walk with Examples.jpg
U6 L9 Gallery Walk with Stickies.jpg
Graphing Template for Gallery Walk.pdf
Quadratic Functions Gallery Walk.pdf
U6 L8 Where this is going.mov
U6 L8 How to make a table plus hint.jpg
U6 L8 How to make a table.jpg
U6 L8 SW Gallery Walk back ii.jpg
U6 L8 SW Gallery Walk back i.jpg
U6 L8 SW Gallery Walk front.jpg
What is Algebra?
Algebra II » Modeling with Algebra
Where are the Functions Farthest Apart? - Day 1 of 2
12th Grade Math » Functioning with Functions
Graphing Parallel and Perpendicular Lines (Day 1 of 2)
Algebra I » Graphing Linear Functions
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Honour Our Wounded
Honour Our Wounded CIC (HOW) has been set up to support wounded soldiers and their families. The purpose of this is to assist finding and securing suitable and quality housing or further/ additional education, mobility needs or just some quality time away with the family.
HOW was set up in the early part of 2010 to make a direct positive impact on the quality of ex-service personnel's lives. The organisation is focusing on housing requirements and is forming partnerships with other service organisations, charities, housing authorities and suppliers.
This site is now on Facebook. Please click below.
KartForce
Providing injured troops with memorable, adrenalin packed experiences. KartForce focuses on providing the injured troops with the opportunity of enjoying an action packed two days of racing and socialising, something they never thought they could do again.
In parallel to this, KartForce also has an agenda to raise funds, for organisations that support injured British forces personnel.
Military Families Support Group
The website is intended to offer help, support, information and guidance for anyone who has suffered the loss of a loved one while serving with the UK Armed Forces. The Group can also offer help and support to injured and traumatised service men and women, and also their families.
My Daddy (or Mummy) is a Soldier.org
My Daddy is a Soldier Adventures wants to enhance the support for service children. These children face unique challenges, especially when a parent deploys and it is the intention to give children whose parent, or parents, are deployed, a focus.
National Memorial Arboretum
The NMA is a charity run by staff and volunteers and is part of the Royal British Legion Family. The National Memorial Arboretum is the UK's year-round centre of Remembrance, a living and lasting memorial to commemorate and celebrate: Those who have given their lives in the service of their country, All who have served and those who have suffered as a result of conflict, Others who for specific or appropriate reasons are commemorated on the site.
Officers Association
The Officers'Association is a charity dedicated to assisting officers who have retired or are about to retire from Her Majesty's Armed Forces.
Military trauma causes flashbacks, nightmares, anger and depression - often leading to violence, alcohol and substance abuse, job loss, family breakdown and even suicide.
The PTSD Resolution outreach programme helps veterans and TA struggling to reintegrate into a normal work & family life because of military post traumatic stress suffered as a result of service in the armed forces.
Queen Alexandra Hospital Home
The Queen Alexandra Hospital Home is a registered charity, providing a permanent home with devoted nursing and medical care for disabled ex-service men and women.
The Royal British Legion is the UK's leading charity providing financial, social and emotional support to millions who have served and are currently serving in the Armed Forces, and their dependants.
Royal Star & Garter Home
The Royal Star and Garter Charity has been caring for disabled ex-Service personnel since 1916 offering the best in nursing and residential care plus a range of therapies for anyone who is physically disabled or incapacitated and has served in Her Majesty's Forces. Any man or woman who served in the regular, National Service or reserve forces for any length of time, irrespective of rank, may apply for a place.
Scottys Little Soldiers
Scotty’s Little Soldiers is dedicated to supporting the children of men and women killed in action while serving with the British Armed Forces. The charity provides treats, trips and activities for families of the fallen with the aim of offering a respite – however brief - from the daily ups and downs of coping without a loved one.
Spear London
Veteran Support Service funded by the Royal British Legion, working with veterans in Hounslow, Merton, Richmond and Kingston, providing free support around homelessness, financial and benefit advice, housing advice, support around getting into employment and education, support around physical and mental health problems including Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, etc.
Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen & Families Association. National charity helping serving and ex-Service men, women and their families in need, committed to helping people in need, suffering or distress, regardless of age or condition.
St. Dunstans
Veterans Aid
The Ex-service Fellowship Centres is now called Veterans Aid. It runs a London hostel for the homeless and a residential care home for elderly ex-service personnel and their widows or widowers with particular provision for the disabled and infirm (although anyone in need of care may apply).
Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) manage the military estate, including accommodation for Service personnel and their families, on behalf of the MOD. The DIO was formed on 1 April 2011, when the former Defence Estates organisation was brought together with other infrastructure functions in the MOD to form a single organisation
MOD Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO) Operations Accommodation is responsible for providing Service Family Accommodation (SFA) in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. This includes the management of around 50,000 properties; major upgrades and other improvements; providing a comprehensive repair and maintenance service; managing allocation; and overseeing Service personnel Move In and Move Out of properties.
Address: DIO Headquarters Kingston Road Sutton Coldfield West Midlands B75 7RL
General Enquiries Telephone: 0121 311 2140
Email: DIO Corporate Services
Enquiries for Housing Services Freephone (UK only): 0800 169 6322
Standard call rate (overseas): +44 1904 418000 Military: 94510 8000
MOD Moving Guide for Service Families. Useful information on postings, moving house, moving overseas, returning from overseas, etc.
Army Postings
Information to help on Army posting within the UK and overseas - links to AWS, HIVE.
Bringing Pets into UK & Travelling with Pets
This site explains what you have to do to bring your pet dog, cat or ferret into (or back into) the UK through the Pet Travel Scheme without putting it into quarantine. It also explains the requirements for bringing many other types of pet animals into the UK.
Community Websites for All Armed Forces Bases in UK & BFG
Websites with information about the base you are going to, plus info on the local area - schools, travel, local clubs, shopping etc.
Information about moving, relocation and education, your new area, etc. There are HIVE offices throughout the UK, BFG and Cyprus.
I Am Moving
Useful service that lets you notify all sorts of utilities of your new address.iammoving.com Use this free site to pass on your new address to your gas, water and electricity companies, the government, your financial services and subscriptions or any of the nearly one thousand services listed.
JSHAO
The role of the JSHAO is to provide civilian Housing Information, Advice and, where possible, Placement to Service Persons and their dependants and to Ex-Service personnel still occupying Service Accommodation. The JSHAO is set up to provide Service personnel and their families with information and advice on the increasingly complex range of civilian housing options. The JSHAO provides a focal point for housing information and advice to all Service personnel and their families in particular those about to return to civilian life, and to ex-Service personnel who are still in Service Families Accommodation.
Joint Service Housing Advice Office
Trenchard Lines
Wiltshire SN9 6BE
Tel: Civ: 01980 618925
Mil: 94344 8925
MODern Housing Solutions
MODern Housing Solutions (MHS) is a company contracted by Defence Estates Operations Housing (DE) to carry out maintenance tasks in the homes of 45,000 Service Families in England and Wales.
The provision of good quality living accommodation for Service personnel and their families is a top priority for the Ministry Of Defence.
Soldier Oli
Soldier Oli is a rhyming picture book for children under 5 about a soldier going away on tour. It should help children cope if someone in their family has to go away. Proceeds go to the Army Benevolent Fund
AFPRB
The Armed Forces' Pay Review Body provides independent advice to the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Defence on the remuneration and charges for members of the Naval, Military and Air Forces of the Crown
Discounts available for British Forces and their familes on a range of products and services such as travel, mortgages, insurance, etc.
NAAFI Financial
Financial Services for the special needs of British Forces personnel, wherever they are posted throughout the world.
SiiAP
The Services Insurance & Investment Advisory Panel is a collection of authorised insurance and independant investment advisers, recognised by the Ministry of Defence and operating on behalf of Service personnel.
Duke of Yorks School, Dover
Subsidised by the MOD and offers affordable boarding for children of Service and Ex-Service personnel.
Service Childrens Education. Site gives advice and guidance for Service children's education both at home and abroad.
Army Wives United
Army Wives United was set up in January 2003 by an army wife who wanted to create somewhere to
help Army wives to make new friends and to help find old friends from past postings. They have now closed their website and transfered to Facebook.
Please click below to join their conversation
British Forces Post Office E-bluey information page tells you everything you need to know about how e-bluey works and how you can use it.
Largest UK database of Armed Forces and Ex-Forces Personnel on the web. Find Army Friends, RAF Friends, Navy Friends, Marines Friends and T.A. Friends.
Forces Web
This site has been set up to assist all service personnel and their friends & families currently serving in the British forces. Its aim is to build a community of members able to share photos in a gallery, discuss relevant and non- relevant issues in a forum, and to chat live: to try and keep members in touch with each other and offer the opportunity to make new friends.
HM Forces.co.uk
Online community for HM Forces - joining, leaving, benefits, fitness training, education, news, polls, discussions.
CWGC
Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The Debt of Honour Register is the Commission's database listing the 1.7 million men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died during the two world wars and the 23,000 cemeteries, memorials and other locations world-wide where they are commemorated. The register can also be searched for details of the 67,000 Commonwealth civilians who died as a result of enemy action in the Second World War.
Envoy Magazine
The magazine of the RAF Families Federation. Just go to the page below and download or read the issue that you would like to see.
Click to download latest edition
Forces Children’s Trust
The Forces Children’s Trust is a charity devoted to helping dependent children that have lost a parent whilst serving with the Armed Forces. The FCT, by reason of its aims and size, has the flexibility and ability to make decisions and offer help as needed, with minimum fuss and consequent time-loss.
Forcesline - SAFFA
Forcesline is run by SAFFA. It is free and confidential. It also is independent of the military chain of command. SAFFA's experienced civilian staff provide a supportive listening and signposting service for current and former members of the Armed Forces and their families. You can talk to them about anything, including personal concerns, worries and problems. We will give you factual information or 'signpost' the appropriate ways forward.
The telephone support line is available Monday-Friday, including Bank Holidays, and can be accessed from anywhere in the world.
The line is open from 10.30am - 7.30pm (UK local time).
UK 0800 731 4880
Germany 0800 1827 395
Cyprus 800 91065
Falkland Islands # 6111
Rest of the world +44 (0)1980 630854
You can also write or email them so click the link below to check out all their services
Help For Heroes works with MOD to provide support for the wounded in useful ways. H4H is particularly keen to see the wounded go on to have fulfilling lives in either the armed forces or in civilian life.
The HIVE organisation is a worldwide tri-Service information network available to all members of the Service community. HIVE Information Centres offer an extensive range of information on the availability of unit and civilian facilities, local schools and further education, housing, healthcare facilities, employment and training opportunities, relocation and local interest.
Homeport Magazine
Navy Families Federation publication
Not Forgotten Association
SSAFA stands for Soldiers', Sailors', Airmen and Families Association.
We are the national charity helping serving and ex-Service men, women and their families, including widows and widowers in need.
Eligibility for our help is one day's paid service in any of HM forces and National Service. We also help those who completed a period of satisfactory service in the Reserves.
The Yellow Ribbon Foundation
Providing non-political, impartial and informal support for family and dependants of the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and British Army and doing what the Tri-Service families do best - sticking together in times of hardship and in times of happiness, coming together for a better community.
If you are n the Armed Forces, or have someone in your life who is, do you ever feel that no-one understands what the lifestyle is like, are you confused about how to get even the simplest of information on military matters? The Yellow Ribbon Foundation helps provide non-political, informal and impartial help to anyone with a UK Armed Forces connection.
Veterans UK
Information for Armed Forces Veterans
Accts Military Ministries
Accts Military Ministries International encourages and equips Christian leaders in the armed forces of the world.
Introducing service men and women across the world to active Christian faith.
Inspiring Christians in the services to apply their faith and explore Christian ethics and values.
Helping military Christians share their faith and support one another.
Offering practical support to military chaplains and helping establish new chaplaincies.
AFCU
The Armed Forces' Christian Union is the only military Christian fellowship in Britain involved with all three Services. Its focus is to prayerfully support and serve all members of the British Armed Forces.
Armed Forces Christian Union
Air Force Christian Link Up aims to help Christians associated with the Royal Air Force to keep in contact with each other.
Naval Christian Fellowship - NCF
The Naval Christian Fellowship is a Fellowship of Christians in the Royal Navy, RM, QARNNS, RFA, other navies and associated services. Its objective is to link Christians together, to help and encourage them in their Christian life and witness and to promote interdenominational Christian fellowships in ships in co-operation with the chaplains.
SASRA
Soldiers' and Airmen's Scripture Readers Association.
Armed Forces Pensions Group
The Group's aim is to secure equality of pensions for former regular members of the Armed Forces who served for fewer than 22 years at any time to April 1975 and who were discharged before 5th April 1975. This also applies to those regulars who were discharged prior to 1981 who do not meet the criteria of length of service and age.
British Forces Resettlement Services
British Forces Resettlement Services (BFRS) is a Social Enterprise created to help the Armed Forces Community with their transition into civilian life
MOD site for Service Leavers and Employers. Advice and information for personnel who are leaving or have already left the Armed Forces. Search for resettlement workshops and vocational training courses to help you prepare for your future career.
Civvy Jobs
Civvyjobs.com is a dedicated ex Military jobs board for employers and recruitment agencies who are actively looking to recruit personnel who have previously served in the Royal Navy, Royal Air Force and Army.
Courses 4 Forces
One stop solution for Armed Forces education, resettlement, and recruitment.
Defence for Veterans
MOD site with information for veterans - help finding your service record, enquiries regarding medals, pensions, etc.
Demob Job
Nationwide ex-forces recruitment agency.
Forces Pension Society
At the end of their service career, which is invariably shorter than other public sector workers, service men and women should receive a pension at least as good as other public servants - and one that protects the financial position of their widow(er)s, partners and dependants in the event of their death.
The MOD Medal Office is the sole authority for the issue of medals authorised by Her Majesty to British service personnel and veterans. It is a tri-service Office became based at Imjin Barracks, Innsworth.
National Ex Services Association
NESA exists as a campaign tool for ex service men and women, their family, friends and supporters. Their website and newsletter exist to offer a voice of complaint, campaign and petition for Ex Service men and women, their supporters and families.
The Officers'Association is a charity dedicated to assisting officers who have retired or are about to retire from Her Majesty's Armed Forces. The Association's work falls into three main categories:
Residential Accommodation
Armed Forces resettlement training, retraining courses and recruitments/job for ex-military personnel.
Recruit for Spouses
As a wife or husband of a serving member of the Army, Navy or Airforce, life involves constant change and plenty of spouses forgo their careers, hitting hurdles when it comes to keeping a job that works around all the moving about and deployments. Launched in 2012, this recruitment website recognises an enormous talent pool of British service spouses, who, given the chance, would be an asset to any business. Why? Because they are by nature motivated, flexible and have the ability to juggle ten things at once.
Recruit for Spouses offers businesses the chance to access this vast potential workforce by advertising their jobs direct to this unique community. Spouses upload their CVs, whilst employees advertise their vacancies and the RFS team of volunteers match the two together. The types of jobs available are wide ranging, from shop floor to board room level, including contract work, part-time and full-time vacancies, job-shares as well as working from home roles. So whether spouses are looking for a job locally or want to find work that is flexible or based from home so that they can fit it around children, postings or deployments, Recruit for Spouses helps.
Joining is free, we offer our members CV writing/job interview mentoring and invite them to benefit from a collaboration with Dress for Success, a charity that helps to boost confidence though style advice.
For further information, please visit www.recruitforspouses.co.uk
Regular Forces Employment Agency
Its objective is to:
Assist ex-regular Servicemen and women to find employment throughout their working life
Offer employers access to staff they can rely on.
Help finding your service record.
The Single Persons Accommodation Centre for the Ex-Services is designed to help single ex-regulars to find appropriate accommodation when they leave the Service. Through this service the project reduces the likelihood of ex-services personnel becoming homeless or sleeping rough after discharge.
For all things of interest and help to Armed Service Veterans.
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NDMA Issues Details of Death Around The Country From Rain and Snowfall
ISLAMABAD: The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) on Tuesday issued details of death and damages incurred due to heavy rains and snowfall around the country.
As per the NDMA, the death toll from snow-related deaths climbed to 71 as severe weather continued across the country bringing life to a standstill.
At least 55 people have been killed in Azad Kashmir due to weather related deaths, according to a statement by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).
Furthermore, the NDMA said 19 people have died in an avalanche while 10 others were still missing.
Four injured have been recovered from the rubble, an NDMA spokesperson said.
Hundreds of passengers, including women and infants, were stuck on the roads in harsh weather on Monday night as a massive snowstorm wreaked havoc in different parts of Balochistan.
Levies officials said that more than 500 passengers were stranded in Kan Mehtarzai area of Killa Saifullah district, where temperatures dipped to as low as -14°C while heavy snowfall and strong winds almost buried cars on the main National Highway.
Emergency had been declared in seven districts of Balochistan, which were badly affected due to heavy rain and snowfall.
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By ADAM SAWYER
“For one human being to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks … Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.” –Rainer Maria Rilke
Love and War are two words that change lives. Sweethearts swoon and entire countries are swept up by the ravishment of warfare. My choice of the word Love over Peace is quite intentional, as I’m a firm believer in the notion that the latter is in no way the antonym to the despair that is War. Peace is merely the middle ground: safety. Creation and community are needed in order to properly balance out the scale, therefore Love fits the bill quite nicely. But I advise all to be careful with quickly labeling Love and War as two entities working in opposition. The famous Hellenic War delineates otherwise, showing how love may beget war. In contrast, one can only hope that the converse is just as likely.
I aimed to create a playlist which highlights both of these aspects of human nature while also making room for the grey areas that lie between anger and adoration. There is a certain tension involved in love – a push and pull that can turn into frustration or worse. Some of these songs come purely from the heart while others were written with an antagonistic slant; some are literal in their relevance while others are more abstract, and nearly all of them convey a sense of anxiety. That being said, let’s leave the boggy waters of semantics behind and let the playlist speak its case.
We begin with the aptly named “Cold War” from Her Lady of Awesome, Janelle Monáe. Her work is rebellious yet subtle all at once and always rides a wave of social commentary. This track sets the stage for the rest of the mix not only with its dramatic chorus and organs, but also with the title, which utilizes potent American historical imagery. Feist’s “A Commotion,” from her latest album Metals, begins with anxious strings and a nagging percussion. It’s simple and beautiful, but listen and you will hear her singing about being “ripped all apart.” Love is acknowledged as the way to “rise above the madness” in Brett Dennen’s “All We Have.” He speaks his heart within the frame of social discourse. I love it. Miss PJ Harvey’s latest album, Let England Shake, is a treasure trove for this particular playlist. It’s by far her most folk-based collection of work. She places a lot of focus on civil war and strife in England’s history. Enjoy one of my favorites among her latest gems, “The Words That Maketh Murder.” Mother Mother’s “O My Heart” is fun. At least I find it fun. But make no mistake: the Canadian indie rock band’s heart feels like “a fish out of water,” “a rock in the gutter,” “a house in tornado.”
Following is the Anglo-Irlandic punk band, The Pogues. “USA” speaks of a love lost. Singer Shane MacGowan comes to the realization that he can never forget the pain, no matter where he goes. Panda Bear soothes our hearts and minds with “Comfy in Nautica.” “Axel Rose” is one of the latest from the Anglo-Germanic indie rock band Art Brut. If this isn’t a perfect mix of love and war, I don’t know what is. Pixies’ “Wave of Mutilation.” Explanation necessary? The bow on this playlist package is a neat and adorable ribbon from The xx. Beginning serenely (as most The xx songs do), the lyrics to “Crystalised” soon unveil a relationship under pressure. As the song evolves, the vocal duo convince one another that they must leave behind their issues and focus on what’s important: the strong bond between them.
Janelle Monáe – Cold War
Feist – A Commotion
Brett Dennen – All We Have
PJ Harvey – The Words that Maketh Murder
The Pogues – USA
Panda Bear – Comfy in Nautica
Art Brut – Axel Rose
Pixies – Wave of Mutilation
The xx – Crystalised
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Chevrolet announces three new models
The plan, says Chevrolet, is to sell over one million vehicles in its growing European market share – up from under half that total last year.
However, with the brand introduced to the European market in 2003 and a range of more affordable and desirable models released in the past 12 months, Chevrolet believes fresh models could boost sales.
These will include an Aveo hatchback and a performance RS model. The GM-owned brand is also considering a small SUV based on the Aveo platform to rival the Ford Kuga.
Design chief Taewan Kim said: "”The design is not yet finalised, nor is there a final decision on market introduction but this could be a very important model for us in Europe.It is a growing segment and if the Chevrolet brand is to grow we have to be in it.
“We have taken a lot of existing Chevy design cues inside and outside the car and looks young, robust and will be affordable.”
Kim says the brand is aimed slightly below Vauxhall – which is more premium – in Europe, and instead will act as a value brand.
The current small SUV in the Chevrolet range, the all-new Orlando, is set to be released in Europe in the middle of next year and represents the first time Chevrolet has sold an SUV in Europe.
It will join the Spark city car, updated Aveo supermini, Cruze saloon and Captiva MPV in the Chevrolet range currently sold in Europe.
The models replaced the less popular rebadged Daewoo models introduced by Chevrolet when it first arrived in the European market.
The brand is more traditionally known for large US muscle cars, chief among them the Chevrolet Camaro. The Camaro, previously unavailable in the UK, will be sold in the next few years under the Chevrolet name.
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The New Ticket to the Colosseum Opens Even More Doors
In November 2019, the entrance fee to the Colosseum increased from €12 to €16. The integrated ticket provides 24 hour access (previously it was valid for 2 days) to the entire archaeological park, which includes the Colosseum, the Roman Forums and the Palatine Hill. Starting January 1, 2020 a new ticket to the Colosseum will be available for €22 per person and valid for 2 days. The new ticket will also be valid for entry to several new sites, called SUPER sites. The SUPER sites represent 7 distinct, historical sites within the archaeological park and provide the FULL experience.
What are the SUPER Sites included in the Colosseum ticket?
The SUPER sites, an acronym for Seven Unique Places to Experience in Rome, include Palatine Museum, House of Augustus, House of Livia, Aula Isiaca with the Loggia Mattei, Neronian Cryptoporticus, Santa Maria Antiqua, and Neronian Domus Transitoria.
Palatine Museum
The two-story Palatine Museum sits in the remains of Emporer Domitian’s Palace and houses artifacts discovered on the Palatine Hill. Some of the artifacts that may be observed in the museum harken from the period of Augustus and Nero with exquisite restoration and reconstruction.
House of Augustus
The original palace of the Empire’s first Emporer, Augustus, the house sits atop the Palatine Hill. Surviving over 2 millenia, artworks in the home have been carefully restored so visitors can admire some of the world’s finest examples of interior decoration. Some of the rooms viewable include the “Room of the Masks,” that features colorful theatrical masks frescoed on the walls, and “Room of the Pine Festoons,” or pine wreaths that decorate the walls.
House of Livia
The House of Livia is a rich example of ancient Roman architecture and design from the 1st century BC. The house is attributed to Livia, the wife of the first Emporer Augustus, from an inscription found on a lead pipe in the reception room.
The Aula Isiaca with the Loggia Mattei
The Aula Isiaca was part of the House of Augustus from the 1st century BC meanwhile the adjacent Loggia Mattei is all that remains from the nobile palace acquired by the Mattei Family in the 16th century.
The Neronian Cryptoporticus
The Neronian Cryptoporticus was constructed during the Neronian age and extends 130 meters underground. The frescoed corridor features vegetable elements and cupids, a mosaic floor and small windows that illuminate the interior.
Santa Maria Antiqua – dicembre 2015, gennaio 2016
Santa Maria Antiqua
The Santa Maria Antiqua is a church located at the base of the Palatine Hill whose surviving walls feature frescoes dating from the 6th to 9th centuries. The paintings overlap each other, creating a “palimpsest” effect. The church was abandoned after an earthquake destroyed it in the year 847.
Neronian Domus Transitoria
The Pictorial Representations of the Domus Transitoria help reconstruct the extraordinary home Nero had built for himself on the Palatine Hill. The representations confirm the words of Suetonius who described the richness in which the home was decorated as being covered in gold and semiprecious stones.
Where can I purchase tickets to the Colosseum?
The new tickets to the Colosseum may be purchased through the same outlets that tickets could always be purchased: online through CoopCulture or at the entrance (though expect long lines). You can also purchase a Roma Pass which is valid for entrance to the Colosseum, however note that your Roma Pass entrance does not include access to the SUPER sites.
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In 1989, OSMAN ‘OZZIE’ ERTOSUN, chairman of Excelcare Holdings, opened his first care home in Catford, South London. Ozzie tells Caring Times editor Geoff Hodgson his story of three decades in the care sector.
Excelcare is still a family business after 30 years. Starting with the 24-bed Bowood Nursing Home in Catford, the company now operates 33 care homes around London and East Anglia.
“Whenever we interview new staff we always stress that it’s important not to forget that we are a family business, but with corporate disciplines,” said company chairman Ozzie Ertosun.
“Because of our responsibilities in terms of regulation, local authorities, safeguarding and so on, disciplines have to be followed, but we like people to know, whether they are relatives, family, friends or staff is that they can call at any time and have an open and frank conversation – that is really, really important.”
Excelcare’s portfolio is mixed; some nursing, some purely residential and many registered as specialist dementia. The company also operates a homecare business.
In 1988, when he was just 19, Ozzie did some work experience at a care home called Nora’s Lodge in Sydenham.
“It was a small residential home belonging to a family friend. I worked there for six months, realised that it was an industry I wanted to be in, and I felt I could do it better than it was being done in those days, in a nicer building.
“Our family had a background in construction so we built our first home, Bowood Nursing Home, a 24-bed facility in Catford in 1989. I built that with my father and some tradesmen – we physically built the home over two years.
“You have really set a standard here,” a lady who was the main inspector for the Lewisham area told Ozzie.
“But you have the disadvantage that you are very young; people may not have the confidence to place your parents with you.”
“She was right,” Ozzie remembers. “For nine months I didn’t have a single admission! But I soon learnt: I got a nice, mature manager who worked for me for 28 years before retiring.”
Then, beginning in Lambeth, Ozzie began to take on ex-local authority homes. “I didn’t have a financial background and I asked my father, ‘How do I grow this company? It’s working; I’m enjoying it and it seems to be popular with the local authorities.’ He said I needed to learn how to borrow money in a bigger way – our accountant helped me to organise bank loans and we bought people on board who had worked for local authorities. They steered me towards block contracts, and this became our target market. We won a 15-year contract with Lambeth, taking over three of their homes, refurbishing them and building a new one. Then we tendered for a contract in Cambridge and that began our activity in East Anglia.
“Our hard work and family values paid off; local authorities could see we were sincere, that we weren’t here just to make some money and get out of the business. Then we gained a 30-year contract in Milton Keynes – we would buy the buildings, rebuild them and provide the care. And then we did the same thing in Essex. We didn’t really target the private market because in those days, the local authority rates gave you a reasonable return. We have always been open and honest, and local authorities know we have nothing to hide, and that our profits are at the bottom end of the market.”
About 15 years ago, Ozzie launched a homecare business. I t has been successful and is still operating but he has recently closed some of its branches.
“We couldn’t find the staff and maintain the quality,” said Ozzie.
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And the future? Again, like many other providers, Ozzie is beginning to look at the private-pay market.
“We are looking to knock down some of our older buildings and build better homes for our residents. A lot of this will be ‘care suites’ – they don’t need to be flats, they can be something like a studio-type apartment but small, so elderly people can easily get around them. I would want these to be within a care home setting but provide something more than just a room with an en-suite.”
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“Up to two years’ ago I had never used agency staff in London. But we have struggled to get nurses and carers. We increased pay as much as we could but then it became still more difficult when government tightened the regulations for recruiting nurses from overseas. It now takes about eight months to bring a nurse in from abroad and it is so expensive that it is sometimes not cost-effective. I have closed about five homes over the last five years because the fees would not have allowed us to care for people properly.
“One thing I would like to see change, is that the recruitment process be speeded up. At present it can take up three months to six months to replace someone when they leave. We’ve written to all the ministers, all our MPs, our managers have written as well, asking them to acknowledge that we have a problem and to make these immigration policies softer and easier for qualified people to come here where they are needed. It is such a long-winded process; people can get jobs elsewhere and be working within a week, so that puts care providers at a massive disadvantage.”
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Fear of the unexpected was a constant companion. Nevertheless, Caryn married and established a successful legal career. After nearly a decade of working for a Fortune 500 company and an international law firm she put her professional aspirations on hold when her son was diagnosed with autism. As she grappled with autism and a series of life-threatening illnesses, Caryn became a different kind of advocate.
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Real Disruptors Own the Future Unopposed
24 May 2019 By Godfrey Parkin Leave a Comment
In our desire to be as headline-grabbing as an asteroid strike, everything new gets a “disruptive” tag. If you find yourself longing for the relatively hyperventilation-free days of “revolutionary” but are afraid of seeming stuck in the 1900s, perhaps it is time to step back and gain some perspective. Disruption is, after all, a 20th century concept.
Decades ago in The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton Christensen’s described a “disruptive innovation” as one inferior to existing products, so it doesn’t initially compete for mainstream customers; rather disruptive innovations appeal at lower prices to a part of the market not already being served. Over time the disruptor enhances the features or functionality of the innovation and attracts mainstream customers away from incumbents.
An example is South Africa’s Capitec Bank, which started life as a cheap debit card service with none of the expensive overheads of a traditional bank. Ignored by the big players because it wasn’t a “real” bank, it gained customers who didn’t want to pay bank charges to subsidize fancy services they’d never use. The no-frills Capitec rapidly became consistently the most loved banking brand in the country.
Disruption conjures up new processes and experiences
Today, disruption is a little more dramatic than Clay Christensen foresaw, and less driven by price. The price we pay for a product, or its value, now has a significant qualitative customer experience component associated with it. CX bundles together things like time and convenience and emotional reaction to the entire process of engaging with the product, from discovery to purchasing to usage and more. So today disruptive innovations don’t have to start out cheaper — they can add value in dimensions other than price.
Disruptive innovation is now simply called disruption, and while still a part of the innovation family, it differs in important ways. Innovation is typically grounded in customer-perceived wants, while disruption focuses on discovering unrealized needs. Innovation seeks to capture existing users, while disruption creates new users. So the goal of innovation is to increase market share, while disruption’s goal is to increase market size. Most importantly, innovation develops new or improved products, while disruption conjures up new processes and experiences.
It is often assumed (falsely) that innovation is no longer enough; that unless you disrupt you are really not a serious contender. Innovation may have lost its cachet, but it is still an essential process which continues to sustain the differentiation of many businesses. Even icons of differentiation like Apple thrive on continuous innovation, with true disruptions being delivered many years apart.
Who you jiving with that cosmik debris?
Small meteoroids are cosmic debris. They are briefly exciting, burning up in the atmosphere as shooting stars. They enchant and evoke wonder, but they don’t change a thing. A large asteroid striking the earth, however, has significant momentum and, on impact, the capability to disrupt life as we know it.
In business, most innovations, most new products, most startups, and most trends are merely shooting stars, trying really hard to be asteroids. Why? Disruption is worthy. Journalists love disruption; investors respect it; strategists hunger for it. Being disruptive gives you an enviable commercial advantage, because by definition nothing can withstand your momentum, and your only competitor is the past.
Disruption has come to imply the termination of one established business model through the sudden wide-scale adoption of another. It creates brand new operating environments and business models, far removed from established norms, fundamentally changing CX. Real disruptors own the future unopposed. The old establishment is made irrelevant by its own inability to anticipate, create or adapt to explosive change.
It is easy to be dismissive of the hype, but real disruption does actually happen. In business, most often it is something which is done to you, rather than something you do to others. Massive asteroids plow into established industries and business models more and more frequently, leaving stunned ex-employees wondering what happened to their world.
There is not an industry or business sector in the world which is not being fundamentally changed by disruption. From retail, music, manufacturing, television, publishing, construction, agriculture and transportation, to the fields of finance, medicine, law, education and government, technology has enabled new processes which will change everything forever.
The asteroids are coming
As organizations grow, in order to reduce risk they become increasingly dependent on planning cycles and management systems whose primary role is to minimize deviation from the established norms. Those systems are designed to not change rapidly, if at all. As reward processes evolve around adherence to the principles of those systems, culture begins “norming” to treat innovation with suspicion, to disproportionately amplify the negative downsides of change, and to discourage radical thinking. The result is a growing inability to change or evolve.
Organizational change follows a logarithmic curve — tending to flatten over time. The more successful a company has been, the less willing it is to venture outside its bubble. The larger the organization, the less able it is to adapt to fast-changing circumstances.
This is the essence of the Red Queen Syndrome. In itself, it’s not a problem, as long as the business environment is characterized by slow incremental change. But when an organization which is evolving logarithmically finds itself in a rapidly shifting market, the asteroids are coming.
Technological capabilities change exponentially, and these advances bring about changes in human behavior which are rapid and irreversible. Human beings usually opt for the enhanced experience which new tech brings, rapidly abandoning their old ways of doing things. It is these changes in behavior which trigger the sudden shifts in markets which we call disruption.
There once was an axiom which asserted that a company which competes with its own brands will live longer. To stay relevant today, a company should disrupt itself, continuously. Any business can create disruption rather than become its victim. Developing strategies for disruption requires the right analytical and creative methodologies and skills, fearless leadership commitment, and a company culture that is not too precious about protecting its current business model.
Incumbent organizations tend to become tightly focused, which is an increasingly inappropriate approach to deal with rising chaos in their markets, like trying to use a sniper rifle to hit a specific starling in a flock that is scattering across the sky. Starling flocks do not explode into a million random flight paths, of course. Neither do individual consumers in markets. There are patterns and predictabilities in murmurations. Still, your chances of hitting your target improve with a shotgun. This concept is anathema to traditional marketers, and also to old-school digital advertisers who grew up on micro-targeting. But it may explain some of the apparently unassailable success of companies like Amazon and Alibaba.
Innovating in chaos without pulling back to view the potential of markets greater than those pursued by your existing industry may lock in your existing customer for a little longer. It may help you attract customers from your existing competitor. But it won’t protect you from a disruptor who is intent on growing a new market totally redefined by new processes.
Organizations are not all doomed to fail as they get bigger. But they will eventually flounder unless 1) they are geared to continually understand emergent customer needs and respond to changing customer behaviors, or 2) they are broad enough in their scope to meet big bang disruption with smartly expanding wide-scale solutions. There is a future for super-flexible micro-niche players, and for smart broad-scope mega-corporations, but anything in between will have the life expectancy of a shooting star.
Not so different from the world of the 1900s after all.
Originally published in Medium
Filed Under: Disruption, General, Innovation, Leadership, Strategy Tagged With: business, disruption, future, innovation, leadership, Strategy
About Godfrey Parkin
Godfrey Parkin is a digital strategist, with unique international credentials as a leader of corporate change and a start-up entrepreneur. He is the author of two best-selling books on digital marketing and business strategy.
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A science of behavior vs a science of Autism.
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“One is a science and the other is a disability.”
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The quote above is from a recent YouTube video by Brett DiNovi, CEO of the largest Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) agency on the EastCoast of the U.S. He was talking about the apparent confluence of ABA as a science of behavior, and Autism as a disability. For many, it seems, ABA has become a science of Autism, or a collection of topographically-defined procedures designed for a specific population.
It’s funny, I can’t think of a time B.F. Skinner, the founder of the philosophy that underlies much of present-day ABA, actually discussed Autism in his writings. Though it is possible I missed a passing reference somewhere, he focused the majority of his time talking about the world’s biggest problems. Through the development of a “technology of behavior” we could devise solutions that would help prevent such pressing issues as nuclear war and global warming, and refining practices in education, business, and the like.
While Autism treatment is certainly in line with Skinner’s vision of the field as a pressing global issue, Brett’s point was that we seem to be losing sight of the thing that makes the science of behavior so powerful– the principles underlying everything we do. His point was that we shouldn’t get caught up in particular forms, techniques, and procedures. The latter are topographical manifestations of something greater – basic principles of behavior guided by pragmatic analytic goals tied to socially significant behavior change.
In other words, ABA can “look” like whatever it needs to look like. The procedures used are only important if they are targeting behavioral processes serving our analytic goals. If they aren’t, they should be discarded in favor of something new. The beauty of a grounding in principles is its creative freedom to go out into the world and make a difference in people’s lives.
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Todd A. Ward, PhD, BCBA-D is the President and Founder of bSci21Media, LLC, which owns the top behavior analytic media outlet in the world, bSci21.org. bSci21Media aims to disseminate behavior analysis to the world and to support ABA companies around the globe through the Behavioral Science in the 21st Century blog and its subsidiaries, bSciEntrepreneurial, bSciWebDesign, bSciWriting, and the ABA Outside the Box CEU series. Dr. Ward received his PhD in behavior analysis from the University of Nevada, Reno under Dr. Ramona Houmanfar. He has served as a Guest Associate Editor of the Journal of Organizational Behavior Management, and as an Editorial Board member of Behavior and Social Issues. Dr. Ward has also provided ABA services to children and adults with various developmental disabilities in day centers, in-home, residential, and school settings, and previously served as Faculty Director of Behavior Analysis Online at the University of North Texas. Dr. Ward is passionate about disseminating behavior analysis to the world and growing the field through entrepreneurship. Todd can be reached at todd.ward@bsci21.org
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Entourage review: its obsession with boobs, babes and oiled up bodies continues
Francesca Steele
Look, could everyone please stop denigrating the Entourage movie for spurious reasons like ‘it feels like an extended episode of the TV series’? Since the US release a few weeks ago, critics across the Atlantic have booed and shamed writer and director Doug Ellin’s long-awaited reunion of Vinnie Chase and co for just that. As if, instead of being a cheery summer feel-good flick for nostalgic fans, the show ought to have morphed into some erudite reflection for Entourage neophytes on how childish 20-something boys grow up into upstanding young gentlemen. Yawn. What a boring film that would have been.
What did detractors expect? A brand new cast, novel character arcs and an entirely different raison d’etre? Like most other TV hit reunions (Sex and the City, say, or Veronica Mars) Entourage, the movie, knows exactly what it is and who its fan base is – just as it should. And an extended TV episode is exactly what fans want. The boys back together again, the booze, the boobs and, of course, Ari Gold (Jeremy Piven), the foul-mouthed agent from hell, with that heart of gold hidden far beneath the bluster.
In fact, Ellin is sensible enough to dispatch with anything that doesn’t fall within those narrow – and yes, vaguely old-fashioned – parameters straight from the outset. Gone is the earnestness which tainted the final season four years ago. Straight off the bat, we meet the boys – chilled movie star Vinnie (Adrian Grenier), his best friend and manager Eric (Kevin Connolly), plus pal Turtle (Jerry Ferrara, looking very slim indeed) and older brother Johnny Drama (Kevin Dillon) – all single, partying on a supermodel-filled yacht in Ibiza, and spouting the same offensively sexual banter as they always have. ‘Fun is when you forget a girl’s name while you’re f***ing her,’ reflects the ever sage Drama. Delightful stuff.
Vinnie, seemingly unaffected by the failure of his marriage, wants to direct his next movie as well as star in it – and Ari, suffering from the delusion that running a huge Hollywood studio is way less stressful than being an agent, finds him Hyde, a contemporary take on Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with bags of promise. The crew slips effortlessly back into the world that made the show so attractive to begin with: languorous drives through L.A., incensed movie moguls making multi-million-dollar deals and stacks of celebrity cameos: Jessica Alba, Jon Favreau, Liam Neeson, Thierry Henry and, of course, Mark Wahlberg (the exec producer on whose experiences the show was originally based), just to name a few.
Almost instantly the boys go over-budget and dispatch Ari to Texas, where he must convince an oil magnate and movie financier (Billy Bob Thornton, doing his usual smooth and disinterested Billy Bob thing) and his obnoxious son (an all grown-up Haley Joel Osment of The Sixth Sense fame) to cut him another cheque.
Meanwhile, Eric is preoccupied with the impending birth of his child with on/off girlfriend Sloan (Emmanuelle Chriqui), Turtle has made a shed-load of cash in the tequila business and is busy pursuing a romance with martial arts fighter Ronda Rousey and poor old Drama still just really, really wants some recognition for his acting skills.
Admittedly the plot is jam-packed with holes, convoluted tangents and blatant sexism that does occasionally jar. Why, for instance does Ari’s wife still not even have a name after eight seasons and a movie (her character is still just credited as Mrs Ari). One main criticism levied at the film is that its obsession with boobs, babes and oiled up bodies is misogynistic and out of date. It’s true – there’s not a single female character here with any real clout. But that exact same criticism could be levied – and was – at the original show itself. The film doesn’t try to be more, and if anything picks up the pace of those earliest seasons, before lacklustre efforts to grow up made the characters far more dull. It’s silly, good-looking and ridiculous and quite clearly targeted at old fans, not new audiences.
Part parody of the superficiality of showbiz, part champion of it, Entourage has always offered an insight into the inner workings of Hollywood in a way that’s both vacuous and absurd, sometimes missing the mark but also often uproariously funny, however inappropriate the jokes. The film is just the same. The fact that it really belongs to its most indecorous characters, Ari and Drama, the two bigots everyone loves to root for, says a lot about the show’s so-wrong-it’s-right appeal.
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MPs enjoy a summer of freebies
John Bercow attends Wimbledon
With MPs being awarded a 10 per cent pay rise this summer, politicians have been left having to defend their annual salary of £74,00o from sceptics who point out that the boost comes at a time when their constituents face tough cuts. Still, Mr S wonders whether that number is too small an estimate after one takes into account all the freebies they can receive.
According to the latest register of interests, MPs have been managing to enjoy a summer of freebies in between their constituency work. After John Bercow boasted last year that he had watched 65 of Roger Federer’s matches, he looks on course to achieve a similar number for 2015. According to the latest register of interests he enjoyed £4,866 worth of freebie tickets to the matches, receiving two pairs of tickets for free during the course of the tournament. This takes his total amount of sports freebies up to £7,497. Meanwhile Bercow isn’t the only MP to be enjoying the perks of the job; Justine Greening also enjoyed £3,200 worth of hospitality from the All England Tennis Club at Wimbledon.
Furthermore, it seems even the licence fee payer is helping MPs to have a bit of fun. The BBC gifted James Heappey, the Tory MP, two tickets worth £450 to Glastonbury music festival, which takes place in his constituency. Hopefully the gesture will go some way to appeasing the Tories as they proceed with their charter renewal negotiations.
Love being the MP for #Glastonbury! pic.twitter.com/b8QMmjxz8D
— James Heappey MP (@JSHeappey) June 26, 2015
Other perks listed include over £1000 worth of hospitality at Lords for Crispin Blunt and a £1,950 watch for Philip Hammond courtesy of H.E. Sheikh Mubarak Mahfouz bin Mahfouz. Meanwhile Simon Danczuk is beginning to give Boris Johnson a run for his money when it comes to fees accrued writing for a paper – he received £10,000 for an article he spent 5 hours contributing to for News UK.
All in all, nice work if you can get it.
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Attack on couples by khap panchayat illegal: SC
The court said if an adult man and woman marry, no khap, panchayat, individual or society can question them
The Supreme Court today termed as “absolutely illegal” any attack by khap panchayats or associations against an adult man and woman opting for inter-caste marriage.
The apex court said if an adult man and woman marry, no khap, panchayat, individual or society can question them.
A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud asked the Centre to give its reponse on suggestions earlier given by amicus curiae (friend of the court) Raju Ramachandran on ways to prevent harassment and killing of young couples in the name of family honour for marrying inter-caste or intra-clan (gotra).
“Whatever the amicus curiae says about khap, we are not concerned with that. What we are concerned is that if an adult girl or boy gets into marriage, no khap, no individual or no society can question them,” the bench said.
The bench told the Centre that it will not give its suggestion on the suggestion given by amicus curiae, assisting the court in the matter, and the court would contemplate passing an order based on the amicus’ suggestion.
“Whenever there is any kind of collective attack on a boy or girl who are adult, it is absolutely illegal,” the bench said and listed the matter for February 5 for further hearing.
The apex court had earlier sought suggestions from an NGO ’Shakti Vahini’, amicus curiae and ‘Khap Panchayats’ on the issue.
Khaps are caste or community organisations in villages which at times act as quasi-judicial bodies and pronounce harsh punishments based on regressive and age-old customs and traditions.
The NGO had moved the top court in 2010 seeking directions to the central and state governments to prevent and control honour crimes by taking a number of measures.
Earlier, the apex court had invited ‘Khap Panchayats’ to hear their views before issuing any order to stop them from harassing and killing couples and women in the name of honour.
The Centre had pleaded with the apex court to put in place a mechanism to monitor crimes against women by Khap Panchayats, as the police was not able to protect women facing ordeal at their hands.
The top court had also said that as a pilot project, it would examine the situation in three districts of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh where Khap Panchayats were active.
It had summoned the Superintendents of Police of Rohtak and Jind districts of Haryana and that of Baghpat in Uttar Pradesh to apprise the court of the situation there.
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Teenage girls return to normal after exorcism
by Adriaan Alsema September 2, 2008
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The group of teenage girls who were allegedly possessed by the devil after playing Ouija returned to normal after the intervention of a mysterious traveler, the mother of one of the girls said.
Jenny Cervera Trujillo, mother of one of the teenagers, told Caracol Radio a “mysterious traveler” that had come from Medellín was able to perform an exorcism, casting the devil out of the girls.
According to the relieved mother, Satan had taken control over her daughter and her teenage friends after the girls played the spirit-invoking Park Brothers board game Ouija.
“We spent one month in anguish. My girl kept herself locked in a dark room, wouldn’t eat and didn’t remember my name,” Cervera told the radio station.
Some of the girls were taken to the Diocese of La Dorada in Caldas to be attended by priests and the bishop and were later transferred to a hospital where they were confined and treated.
The interference of the mysterious Paisa solved the girls’ problem who now are able to act normally again.
Cervera and her daughter will be leaving their native town of La Merced, Antioquia and will move to the nearby La Triunfo. “This town is cursed, a lot of evil is going on here,”said the mother, who says some of the other girls have also decided to leave the town.
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'Attack on Titan' Reveals Historia's Tragic Past
By Nick Valdez - August 6, 2018 06:37 pm EDT
Attack on Titan's third season has already made a dramatic change in tone, and this shift to a more emotionally tragic atmosphere was the most noticeable with the latest episode exploring Historia's past.
After the previous episode led to the introduction of Historia's father, and the reveal that she has the true royal bloodline, fans certainly didn't expect to see how bleak of an upbringing she had.
Episode 39 "Pain" begins its exploration of Historia's past and fans were introduced to her mother. In her narration, fans learn that Historia's mother had been cold and distant throughout her entire life and it's only magnified when Historia seems happy that even a violent act against her was her mother showing her some kind of attention.
This is further compounded when Kenny shows up and threatens her family one night, and leading to death of her mother. Her mother's last words wondered why she had Historia in the first place, and this seems to indicate that the tie to the true royal family is more trouble than its worth.
Historia's an illegitimate child, and was about to be executed as well but then it's revealed that her father instead requested they move her away and change her name. This is all bubbling up to the surface now as Historia has been sought out because of that royal blood, but it's despairing to now she had such a terrible upbringing before even joining the Survey Corps.
It's just one of the many ways the third season is making other humans the antagonist this time around, and now Historia is caught in another struggle. Something she's been dealing with her whole life.
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The Computing Programme Team was established as part of the Mathematics Programme team in 1989. At the OUHK, a programme team is equivalent to an academic department in other universities. The Computing Team is one of the five current programme teams of the School of Science and Technology, led by the Dean of School Professor Philips Wang (王富利教授). It was also one of the first programme teams established.
The first computing programme launched was the Bachelor of Science with Honuors in Applied Computing programme back in 1989. Since then, the programme team have gradually developed into a mature academic unit with more than 400 fulltime students and 500 part-time students, and with programmes at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The team has also established solid foundation in research and development, especially in educational technology, innovative pedagogy, evolutionary computing, and software engineering.
From Distance Learning to Face-to-Face Teaching
OUHK is renowned for distance-learning education but she has evolved into a multi-mode university with a very strong full-time teaching operation. In fact, the full-time equivalent (FTE) of full-time students already exceeded part-time students in 2013.
The Computing Team was the first department in the school to offer a full-time programme back in 2004 when she developed the Bachelor of Computing with Honours in Internet Technology programme (BCOMPHITF). The programme was well received by secondary school-leavers as well as Associate Degree and Higher Diplomas holders. In 2007, the Bachelor of Science with Honours in Computing (JUPAS 9707) was also one of the first seven JUPAS programmes offered by the OUHK.
Due to the increased demand of Higher Diploma and Associate Degree holder for articulating to a degree programme, the Computing Team started offering the Bachelor of Science with Honours in Web Technologies programme (BSCHWTF), in collaboration with the Caritas Institute of Higher Education, in 2011. The programme has since produced over 140 graduates equipped with practical knowledge in web technologies for the local IT industry.
In 2012, the re-structured Bachelor of Computing with Honours in Internet Technology (BCOMPHITJ) was launched for the New Secondary School curriculum students. A new JUPAS code 9717 is adopted to distinguish this new programme from the previous one. There are now over 320 students studying in this programme.
Figure 1. Timeline of the launching of computing programmes
From Undergraduate to Postgraduate Curriculum
The Master of Science in Information Technology with Internet Application (MSCITIA) is the flagship postgraduate programme offered by the Computing Team. Since 2000, the number of graduates from this programme has already exceeded 750. The programme equips students with practical knowledge and it is welcome by those who like the flexibility of distance learning. Due to its popularity and uniqueness, the programme received the ICT Bronze Award Professional Development category in 2012.
In 2011, The Computing programme team entered a collaboration agreement with IBM China/HK Limited in offering the Postgraduate Certificate in Enterprise Computing, an advanced and specialized training course for mainframe and enterprise computing.
From Strength to Strength
The Computing team is highly dedicated to quality teaching for the benefits of our students. In addition to research in computing topics, innovative teaching and learning has been the team's another forte because it can inform best practices in effective education.
Back in 2003, the Research Grants Council (RGC), after a vigorous assessment process based on the same criteria as applied to other CERG research proposals, recommended to the Education and Manpower Bureau (EMB) to grant $312,000 to Dr. Vanessa Ng and Dr. Steven Choy's proposal titled 'Improving teaching and learning of computer programming in an asynchronous distance education environment'. Recently, Dr. Vanessa Ng and Dr. Andrew Lui was part of a cross-institution team receiving $4.4 million from the Quality Enhancement Support Scheme (QESS) on developing an e-learning platform for secondary school leavers. For other recognitions of the academic staff, please refer to the Recognitions and Awards page.
The Computing team are proud of our graduates. Down the years, our students have been competitive and won many prizes and awards. The most notable is perhaps a team of Year 1, 2, and 3 students were the second runner-up in the ACMHK Collegiate Programming Contest 2013, bettered nearly thirty teams from other universities some of which were formed with postgraduate students. For details of other prizes won, please refer to the Student Achievements page.
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Boise State looking to clinch divisional title vs Utah State
By The Associated Press - Nov. 21, 2019 05:59 PM EST
Utah State wide receiver Siaosi Mariner (80) runs down the field for an 80 yard touchdown reception as Wyoming cornerback Tyler Hall (9) defends during the first half of an NCAA football game Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019, in Logan, Utah. (Eli Lucero/The Herald Journal via AP)
No. 20 Boise State (9-1, 6-0 MWC) at Utah State (6-4, 5-1), Saturday at 10:30 p.m. EST (CBSSN).
Line: Boise State by 9 1/2.
Series record: Boise State leads 18-5
WHAT’S AT STAKE?
A victory over Utah State will clinch a share of the Mountain Division title for Boise State and open the door for the Broncos to host the Mountain West title game in December. The Aggies can keep their own division title hopes alive with a win.
KEY MATCHUP
Boise State’s receivers vs Utah State’s secondary. The Aggies rank second in pass defense in MWC games, allowing just 197.2 yards per contest while chalking up six interceptions. John Hightower, Khalil Shakir, and CT Thomas can test that stinginess. They have combined nearly 1,800 receiving yards over 10 games for the Broncos.
Boise State: QB Jaylon Henderson. With Hank Bachmeier and Chase Cord both uncertain to play on Saturday, Henderson will likely get his second start. The third-string QB threw for 292 yards and three touchdowns in his first start against New Mexico a week ago.
Utah State: RB Gerold Bright. With Jordan Love's status for Saturday still undetermined, Bright will play a key role in getting the Aggies going on offense. Utah State is 4-1 this season when he rushes for at least 60 yards.
Since 2000, Boise State is a national-best 137-17 (.890) in conference regular-season play. … Utah State has won 33 of its last 39 games when it has a 100-yard rusher, including a 3-1 record this year. … The Broncos have opened each of their last two games with a scoring drive of at least 90 yards. … Boise State has scored in 289 straight games, the sixth longest active streak in the nation and the ninth longest in NCAA history. … Bachmeier is 32-of-51 on third down this season, throwing for 578 yards, 26 first downs and five touchdowns. … Aggies DE Justus Te'i and DB Troy Lefeged Jr. are tied for first in the MWC and 16th in the FBS with two fumble recoveries. … Hightower has four 100-yard receiving games in the last six contests. He leads the Broncos with 754 yards and 6 TDs on 37 catches.
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Rovig passes for 279 yards, Montana State beats Albany 47-21
By TOM STUBER - Dec. 08, 2019 12:20 AM EST
Montana State's Isaiah Ifanse plows over Albany's Tyler Carswell on his way to a first-half touchdown during a second-round game in the NCAA Football Championship Subdivision playoffs Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019, in Bozeman, Mont. (Ryan Berry/Bozeman Daily Chronicle via AP)
BOZEMAN, Mont. (AP) — Tucker Rovig passed for 279 yards and three touchdowns in leading Montana State to a second-round FCS playoff victory over Albany 47-21.
Rovig finished 24 for 30 with no interceptions. Montana State's other quarterback Travis Jonsen ran for 85 yards on six carries, including a 47-yard touchdown run. The 47 points is the most the Bobcats (10-3) have scored in their playoff history.
The Great Danes got on the board right away when Jeff Undercuffler hit Juwan Green, who made a circus catch on the 35 and sprinted in for the score to complete a 58-yard scoring play just 1:08 into the game.
The Bobcats responded with 26 straight points on a variety of plays before the half. Montana State got Jonsen's 47-yard score to tie the game on its first possession, then Isaiah Ifanse, who is the start running back, blocked a punt out of the end zone for a safety. Kevin Kassis took a pass from Rovig in from 5 yards out before Ifanse scored from the 12. Montana State got a 19-yard field goal to end the half.
“This is how unselfish this team is,” explained Montana State head coach Jeff Choate. “When we go out there to punt and in practice, (Ifanse) jumps in there and works our guys over, so finally I just said, ‘let’s get him in there, because we can’t block him.’"
“The kick game gave us trouble and they outplayed us by a huge margin in the kick game,” Albany head coach Greg Guttuso said.
Damien Washington came up with two first half interceptions for Montana State. The second stopped a promising Albany drive on the Montana State 13. Coy Steel electrified the fans with three punt returns for 105 yards in the half. All three were over 30 yards.
Montana State got a one-handed, 49-yard touchdown reception by Lance McCutcheon on the opening play of the second half to push the score to 33-7. On the next Bobcats drive McCutcheon hauled in 42-yard pass from Rovig as he backpedaled into the front corner of the end zone. Montana State made it three scores on three drives in the second half when Logan Jones plowed in from the 3.
“It’s very nice when you can throw up 50-50 balls and know they can catch them,” Rovig said.
The Montana State defense held Albany to just 2 for 12 on third downs and Bryce Sterk had two sacks. Albany tacked on a pair of touchdowns late in the fourth quarter.
The Bobcats advanced to the quarterfinals to face the Austin Peay. The Great Danes finished their season at 9-5 after winning their first playoff game last week.
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Airgo is a family tent brand from outdoor retailer Go Outdoors, based around its air-tube tents and awnings.
A budget brand sold exclusively by Halfords that includes two- and four-person tents, including a small dome model. Prices are so competitive that you can buy a complete camping set, including a four-berth tent with sleeping bags and more, at less than £100.
As the name suggests, this is a manufacturer of a range of bell tents in unbleached cotton canvas. Set up in 2006, the company also makes other tents from traditional materials, including its take on the classic Scout patrol tent.
Founded in 1959, this French manufacturer is best known for its traditional frame tents, using cotton or polycotton. The tents are designed to last and are priced accordingly, though their quality is evidenced by the number permanently sited on campsites.
Caranex
This Scottish-based manufacturer offers a range of tents that act as awnings for cars. It has a partner company in Walton on Thames, Surrey that can adapt one if the basic model doesn’t quite fit your vehicle. The name Caranex is a contraction of the term ‘car annexe’. The company has been producing these since the 1970s and they can be seen on campsites and elsewhere, providing extra accommodation on anything from a MINI to a VW camper.
An outdoor brand that was founded in the same year as The Camping and Caravanning Club (1901), Coleman began with the development of the petrol lantern and it is still well known for its camping accessories in the UK. Its tent range reflects its heritage in the vast spaces of North America, with a selection of backpacking tents, including long-lasting names such as Bedrock and Cobra, but it also has a strong range of family tents. The FastPitch and Instant tents are all quick-pitch, including models with inflatable-tubes, pre-threaded poles and pop-up frames.
Easy Camp is part of the Danish Oase Outdoors group and produces camping equipment that’s cost effective, aimed mainly at those who are just starting out in the field. Festival and fair-weather adventure campers are well catered for, as are families. The most recent tent ranges include air-tube versions of tunnel tent designs. You won’t find many extra frills on an Easy Camp tent, but it will be designed to bring camping within the reach of those on a lower budget.
ESVO
This Dutch company has the largest tent manufacturing factory in Holland and provides fabric to many other outdoor supplies companies. It can trace its roots back to 1922 and now sells tents with traditional designs, predominantly in cotton or heavy-duty polyester with a cotton feel.
Eurohike
Blacks and Millets (now both owned by JD Sports Fashion plc) are part of a network of outdoor specialist shops and Eurohike is the name associated with their own-brand products. Eurohike tents range from pop-up festival-style units to eight-man family tunnel tents, all at competitive prices but without the bells and whistles you might find in more expensive brands.
The original Force Ten tent was designed in the 1960s and became an instant success with those who travel light, including explorers on major expeditions to the Himalayas. Today the tent is still available, in its Classic Mk 5 form, but the Force Ten range has been extended to include backpacking and lightweight tents for all types of camping expedition, in one-, two- and three-berth forms.
Now owned by Sports Direct, Gelert has been supplying camping kit from its base in Beddgelert, Snowdonia, since 1975 and is named after the famous dog buried in the village. Its current tent portfolio is smaller than in years gone by, but still covers everything from a ten-berth tipi to a two-man backpacking tent and from an eight-berth inflatable-tube to a quick-pitch pop-up.
Hi Gear
Hi Gear is the name given by outdoor retailer Go Outdoors to its traditionally-poled family tent range (other tent brands in the Go Outdoors family include Airgo and OEX). These mid-range tents are mainly tunnel style but range from smaller, weekender tents to large units that can accommodate a family for a fortnight in comfort. The retail outlets are generally large enough to have several pitched tents on display.
This company was started in the mid 1980s by a mountaineer who took over an old army surplus store and is still owned by the same family in Scotland. Its current range of tents extends from small backpacking ones to six-berth family tunnels, all designed to do the job without unnecessary extras at keen prices.
Based in Sweden, family-owned Hilleberg only designs and sells tents, no other products. The tents will also stand the worst of the world’s weather and have been doing so since the 1970s. You will pay a fair amount for a Hilleberg tent, but it’s the type of unit that could keep you alive in the most extreme conditions. The technical fabrics involved mean the tents are generally lightweight and ideal for carrying into the wilderness.
Hypercamp is the house brand of Obelink, an outdoor megastore in Winterswijk, in the east of the Netherlands, and includes several ranges including traditional frame tents that are rarely seen in UK stores today. The tents generally have a classic Dutch feel, with muted colours and cotton-feel fabrics.
Throughout its history Isabella has produced high-quality awnings for caravans, with a few tent models appearing in its line up at different times during its 60 year history. In 2017 it will be supplying a small range of tents in 1960s/70s designs as part of its anniversary celebrations.
A German company best known for its outdoor wear that also supplies a range of technical tents for backpackers and expeditions, along with a few family models.
A British brand that has had a strong presence in the caravan and motorhome awning market for several decades and has moved into tents more recently. Its current range includes a selection of well-specified poled and air-tube tents for families and couples alongside smaller weekender tents.
Although inflatable-tube tents have become popular in recent years, Dutch company Karsten has been supplying high-quality, cotton tents with air-tube frames since the 1980s. The tents are modular so you can buy as little or as much space as you need, though the prices reflect the fabric and build quality. These are tents designed to last.
A big brand in its USA homeland, but with limited representation in the UK, the range of tents available in this country depends on the current importer’s selection. Although there are a large number of tents in the Kelty range, they are all of a single-room dome-style design and many are not designed with UK weather conditions in mind. Several, for example, do not have flysheets so the mesh windows would let in the rain. Nevertheless, they produce some interesting tents for the right conditions.
With more than a quarter of a century’s experience, Khyam has made its name with its Flexi Dome Quick Erect system featuring sprung poles with knuckle joints that can be left attached to the tent itself and make pitching very swift. Sizes range from single-dog to eight-berth-family tent. Today the company also sells some family-size inflatable-tube and poled tents.
A budget brand from the AMG Group, which also includes Vango and Force Ten. The Litchfield name has a long history, though today Litchfield tents are generally available online and through supermarket-style retailers.
Founded by a serious climber who has done unsupported treks across the Andes and more, Lightwave supplies lightweight tents with no added frills for three-, four- and five-season use.
The new backpacking tent brand from outdoor retailer Go Outdoors, designed to give kit that performs well at an affordable price. It currently sells a small range of one-, two- and three-berth tents.
OLPro was founded in 2011 as a family tent brand and has both poled and inflatable-tube tunnel tents in its current range, in a selection of distinctive colours.
Outdoor Revolution has a heritage in caravan and motorhome awnings but has reintroduced tents into its portfolio in recent years. All in a distinctive grey and black colourway, there are several family-sized tents in both air-tube and poled designs along with the festival-style Hendrix.
Part of the Danish company Oase Outdoors (with sister brands Easy Camp and Robens) and firmly established in the UK as a leading player in the family tent market, Outwell has a huge portfolio of tents in varying layouts, fabrics and at different price points.
This is a budget range of tents sold by the high street chain, Argos – among others – with basic tunnel and dome designs.
Best known as a pioneer of budget-priced pop-up tents – with ranges including 2 Seconds Easy and Air Seconds inflatable-tube tents – the full Quechua range includes poled, pop-up and inflatable tube tents, in sizes up to eight berth, all sold through the retail chain Decathlon.
The technical brand within the Danish Oase Outdoors group, Robens tents include lightweight backpacker models, tipi styles and family units offering up to ten berth accommodation.
A budget brand based in the English Midlands, Royal is now owned by FPS Limited, best known for its distribution network, which allows it to supply its tents to a wide range of outlets. It currently supplies a range of poled and air-tube tunnel tents in four- to eight-berth variations without frills.
Skandika is based in Germany and sells a large range of tents, primarily aimed at family camping, right up to a 12-berth pod-style tent. It does not have outlets in the UK but its keen pricing is making it increasingly popular with those buying online.
SoulPad
UK-based manufacturer of traditional ridge and bell tent designs in cotton and polycotton.
Better known for its outdoor clothing lines, Sprayway has recently stepped away from supplying its own brand of tents in favour of selling Zempire ones, originating in New Zealand.
A long-established tent brand, SunnCamp currently offers a choice of models aimed at families. The Air Volution inflatable-tube tents offer two- to six-person accommodation.
Based in Derbyshire, Terra Nova has been making mountain and specialist lightweight tents since the early 1990s when it took over the tent arm of Wild Country. In recent years it has also resurrected the Wild Country name as its entry-level backpacking and family tent brand. Terra Nova also holds Guinness World Records for some of the lightest production tents available.
Outdoor brand The North Face celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2016 and currently offers a small range of lightweight tents in the UK.
Urban Escape
The camping brand of the Halfords retail stores network, Urban Escape includes a range of family tents from a two-man pop-up upwards.
A German company with a long heritage in the tent market. Founded in 1974, it won Germany’s Most Sustainable Brand award in 2015. Its range of lightweight tents are designed for a range of conditions, right up to the most extreme expeditions.
The name Vango tells of the company’s origins in Glasgow as it’s an anagram of Govan, the area of the city in which it was originally based. Now part of the AMG Group, along with Force Ten, Vango is the UK’s largest tent brand, with a heritage that goes back more than 50 years. It has ranges to cover all types of tents, from lightweight backpacking tents (with Duke of Edinburgh Award and Scout approval for some ranges) to large polycotton tents. It is also credited with bringing inflatable-tube tents into the mainstream with its AirBeam collections.
Terra Nova’s entry-level tent brand, Wild Country’s portfolio extends from lightweight and backpacking tents to weekend and touring tents with a few family models.
Wynnster
A long-standing name going back to the 1930s that is now part of the same group as Khyam. 2017 will see a relaunch of the brand with a range of poled tents.
Zempire
These tents from New Zealand are mainly inflatable-tube designs with distinctive shapes reflected in their names, such as Mothership. The colours are also slightly unusual in the UK camping world and the tents are sold by outdoor-wear supplier Sprayway in this country.
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Leave a Comment / Austin Breweries, Coffee and Beer, New Beer Release / By Irina Plakas / December 10, 2019
Independence Brewing Co. Collaborates with Little City Coffee Roasters to Release Packaged Nitro Coffee Blonde Ale
AUSTIN, TX ﹣November 25, 2019﹣ Independence Brewing Co. announced today the release of Up and Down: Brazil, its first packaged nitro coffee beer. The fall/winter seasonal is a coffee blonde ale brewed in collaboration with pioneering Austin-based coffee roaster, Little City Coffee Roasters, and features direct trade beans from an award-winning micro lot in the largest coffee producing region in the world.
Over a year ago the Independence Brewing team set out to find a coffee worthy of a significant brewery milestone: The company’s first packaged coffee beer. Naturally, the team reached out to Joel Shuler and his team at Little City Coffee Roasters who travel the world to bring unique and high quality coffees to Austin and whose roastery is located just down the road from the brewery. After piloting several recipes using coffees from different regions, the two teams decided that they would like to use a Brazilian coffee in the beer and booked a trip to Minas Gerais, Brazil to visit with some of Brazil’s top growers, many of whom Joel has cultivated relationships with over the past decade.
The two teams visited multiple farms over the course of a week, crisscrossing the world’s largest coffee producing region. After countless cuppings of mind-blowing coffee, they settled on a Yellow Bourbon from grower Augusto Borges Ferreira whose micro lot won a Cup of Excellence award in 2018. The result is a groundbreaking silky smooth nitro coffee blonde ale whose tantalizing aroma and rich coffee flavor are as close to a nitro coffee as a beer can get.
Up and Down: Brazil is a 5.6% alc/volume blonde ale that was brewed with 180 lbs of whole bean coffee per batch and comes packaged in a special widget can—the same technology that is used in canned nitro coffee. Independence is one of only a few breweries in the country to use these patented cans, and among the very first to experiment with canning a nitrogenated coffee beer. As with all boundary pushing ventures, this innovation involves both high risk and high reward for the 15-year-old brewery.
“Working with coffee in beer is risky,” says head brewer Brannon Radicke, “if not properly handled, it can quickly degrade to a stale kind of vegetal flavor. That was a big concern for us going into this—how to preserve freshness. Breweries often address this problem by making their coffee beers big stouts or porters with lots of roasted malts that mimic that roasted coffee flavor. However with our beer we wanted to do something different by showcasing the coffee as much as possible. By using a light blonde ale as a neutral base, there’s no way to hide off-flavors. We decided that the only way we were going to do this beer was if we could nitrogenate the beer instead of carbonating with CO2. In our experience nitro produces a more shelf stable product. There’s a reason why most of the canned coffees you see on the shelf are nitro.”
“This release is particularly exciting because of the opportunity it presents to showcase coffees from around the world,” says Jonathan Barraza, one of the brewers at Independence who traveled to Brazil and led the effort in bringing the beer to fruition. “If all goes well, we hope to bring this beer back next year featuring beans from a different coffee producing region that Little City sources from－Ethiopia, Mexico, Colombia, Myanmar, Indonesia, Yemen—the possibilities and flavor profiles are endless.”
Co-founder and president Amy Cartwright seconds that excitement. “Adventure is the lifeblood of Independence Brewing, it’s why we started the brewery and why we continue to innovate. With this beer we wanted to create something that is truly new, a hybrid of our two favorite beverages—beer and coffee.”
Up and Down: Brazil will be available in HEB, Central Market, Whole Foods, and select bars and restaurants throughout Texas December 1, 2019 – March 31, 2020.
ABOUT INDEPENDENCE BREWING CO.
Independence Brewing Co. is a local craft brewery and taproom located in Southeast Austin, Texas. Founded by Amy & Rob Cartwright in 2004, Independence Brewing Co. has grown from a small mom, pop & dog operation to a team of 40 people producing more than 20,000 barrels each year with distribution throughout Texas and Arkansas. Independence Brewing Co. is now one of the largest and most beloved breweries in Central Texas.
Independence’s core lineup of year-round brews includes Stash IPA, Native Texan Pilsner, Austin Amber, Redbud Berliner Weisse, Power and Light Session IPA, and Convict Hill Oatmeal Stout. These beers and several seasonal/limited releases can be enjoyed in a laid-back, industrial-style tasting room with views of the beer-making process set to live music from local musicians. Birds Barbershop offers beers exclusively from Independence Brewing Co. in all nine of their locations across Texas.
The business is a proud and active member of the communities of Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and El Paso. The brewery and its taproom are open to the public for tours in Austin, Texas. Anyone interested in learning more about Independence Brewing Company beer or tours of the brewery, should visit independencebrewing.com or follow @indybrewing on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.
ABOUT LITTLE CITY COFFEE
When Little City, an iconic Austin café and coffee roaster, was forced to shutter in 2011 after nearly 20 years in business, Joel Shuler, of Austin roaster Casa Brasil Coffees, stepped in to purchase Little City Coffee Roasters to keep the brand alive. Their team is passionate about coffee and actively travels the world to source small, unique lots of coffee directly from growers. In order to ensure that quality is maximized throughout the supply chain, careful attention is paid to every detail, from the partnership with the growers to the storage and roasting of the coffee. Within Little City’s climate-controlled warehouse, the beans are roasted to order. Each small batch is cupped by our team of coffee professionals to ensure that the coffee hits the shelves at its full potential. Little City firmly believes that “everyone deserves a great cup of coffee” and their blends and microlots are as at home at a coffee shop as they are at a corner store. The results are smooth, unique coffees that are as approachable as the classic Austin coffee shop that inspired them.
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Why I Admire Muhammad: A Response to Islamophobes
Anwar al Medina community in Dublin, Ireland @CraigCons
Published on Huffington Post (March 10th 2015)
Islamophobes have attacked me because I’ve written positively about Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam. Because I am a Catholic, they consider me to be a heretic and feel that my interfaith activities are sacrilegious. Islam, to these critics, is evil and Muhammad is nothing but a terrorist. I see Muhammad very differently from these fanatics. This short piece highlights his exemplary character and challenges Islamophobes to think differently about the Prophet.
One reason why I admire Muhammad is that he was an advocate of equality. In his Last Sermon at Mount Arafat, he declared: “An Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab, nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab… a white person has no superiority over black nor does a black have any superiority over white except by piety and good action.” The Prophet’s sermon ensured freedom for all people in society. His democratic message could be seen as a precursor to the American Constitution, which stands for similar egalitarian values, and to the pluralist outlook of the Founding Fathers, such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.
I also admire Prophet Muhammad because he advocated for religious tolerance, particularly towards Jews and Christians. In the Treaty of Maqnah, the Prophet told followers of Judaism that “[you] may be in peace… you are in security [under my rule]… Towards you is no wrong and no enmity.” As in his relations with the Jews, Muhammad wanted to protect Christians, who are also considered to be revered people to Muslims. In a covenant he made with Christian monks at Mount Sinai, Muhammad ensured the monks that Christian judges would be protected and churches preserved. The words of the covenant state that Muslims should look to Jews and Christians as their brothers and sisters who are children of the Almighty. In light of these treaties and covenants, the recent attacks by the Islamic State against religious minorities in Syria and Iraq are particularly striking because they blatantly contradict the Prophet’s call for tolerance within the Abrahamic tradition.
By extending religious tolerance to non-Muslims, Muhammad stood for human rights. The Prophet wanted women to have liberty so that they could live the kind of life that they desire. Two of his closest female companions demonstrate this point. His first wife, Khadija, was a successful merchant who ran a thriving caravan trade. Another of the Prophet’s wives, Aisha, became a leading Muslim scholar and jurist who was the first ever-female scholar of Islam. The relationship that he had with his wives showed that the Prophet believed that women should take leading roles in society and partake in important matters related to law and politics. The integration of these women into Arab society demonstrates that Muhammad did not want women to live in isolation, but rather he wanted them to become active members of society.
Smaller things outside of equality, religious tolerance and human rights also make me appreciate Prophet Muhammad. The Quran, as revealed to Muhammad, tells Muslims not to defame or be sarcastic towards other people. The Prophet believed that name-calling was wicked and he encouraged his followers to be civil in their interactions with others. He also taught us the importance of humility, and he encouraged Muslims and non-Muslims to be humble and pray.
The Islamophobes who do not see the value in Muhammad’s qualities are simply being close-minded. If the Prophet were alive, he would show them mercy and compassion in spite of their actions. He would also tell them to seek more knowledge.
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6 thoughts on “Why I Admire Muhammad: A Response to Islamophobes”
R jahan says:
I agree that those who do not see the benovelence of the holy Prophet Mohammad (pbuh) simply don’t want to see the flawlessness in his character. He was indeed a supereem being who was very successful in both religion and secular world. It’s be cause of him that we today can contribute to our society with equality, fresh appraisal and show appreciation for his teachings of tolerance and compassion.
luv4humanity says:
Very well said. I agree, it was prophet muhammad that gave women their rights in a time when the birth of a girl was considered horrific. He sets a supreme example for everyone to follow and act upon. Islamophobics should pray that may god help them open up their narrow minds and overcome their lack of knowledge before basing judgements on the perfect man who showed religious tolerance, compassion, mercy, and love for all humanity.
ECAW's blog says:
I wonder if it would make any difference to Dr Considine’s view on Mohammed if he found out that the part of the last sermon which he quotes is a modern invention which originated in a 1987 book “The Sermons of the Prophet” by S.F.H Faizi.
As for Mohammed’s wives, Khadija was a successful business woman before Islam came into being and supposedly gave women greater rights than previously.
Let’s spare a thought for Safiyah too. Mohammed had her husband Kinana tortured to death then took her as booty.
Rebecca Masterton says:
Many of the historical accounts about Prophet Muhammad’s (s) supposed gratuitous violence (e.g. the incident you have mentioned above) were fabrications compiled under the illegitimate and violent Abbasid caliphate that sought to justify its violations and excesses. You need to do a careful examination of narrators, who, opposed to the equal rights that Islam brought, and wanting to maintain their previous tribal superiority and dominance, were liberal in their defamation of his character.
Hassan Shah says:
I am surprised by your revelation about last sermon of the propht, as per your comment it invented in 1987 by some auther -in reality its in Sahi Bukhari and Sahi Muslim with multiple chain of narrations, both are over 1000 years old books- Amazingly, I read it in 1985 prior to the publication of so-called innovative book by Mr Faizi, as you refered.
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Support in France has risen for both Marine Le Pen’s far-right party and President Emmanuel Macron’s candidates three days before voting in the European parliament elections, an opinion poll showed.
Le Pen’s National Rally remained in the lead in voting intentions, according to the survey by OpinionWay for Les Echos newspaper published on Thursday, inching up one percentage point to a recent high of 25 percent.
That was two points ahead of Macron’s Republic On the Move party, which was seen up one percentage point from the previous poll last week at 23 percent.
The polarisation between Le Pen’s and Macron’s parties came at the expense of smaller groups such as the traditional centre-right party The Republicans, which was down one point to 13 percent.
“Emmanuel Macron’s involvement allows him to rally his own supporters, something he is the only one able to do, but that’s also re-awakening those who want to punish him,” OpinionWay’s Bruno Jeanbart told Les Echos.
Macron, who has been campaigning in recent days, has framed the elections as a battle between anti-immigration nationalists and pro-European “progressives” such as himself.
Candidates for the two previously dominant centre-right and centre-left parties have suffered, with the candidates backed by the Socialists, who were in power until 2017, polling at a mere 6 percent.
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What Makes Donald Trump Tick?
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On the Friday video edition of the Daily Daily Caller Podcast, we talk with editor-in-chief of the Daily Caller News Foundation and author of the book, “The Art of the Donald: Lessons from America’s Philosopher-in-Chief,” about what the president is really like, how he’s handling the media, and whether or not he likes the actual job of being president.
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A retired Detroit Tigers site by Mike McClary
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Game 72 Recap: Offensive Offense Costs Tigers Another
With another chance to seize first place in the Central, the Tigers bats went cold again as they lost to the Braves 3-1 at Turner Field tonight.
Billy Wagner saved his 400th game, becoming the fifth all-time to reach such a mark.
Another promising first inning ended relatively harmlessly for the Tigers. Five straight bullets from Ramon Santiago, Magglio Ordonez, Miguel Cabrera, Brennan Boesch and Carlos Guillen resulted in just one run. After that, the Tigers scattered just three hits, failing to put together a comprehensive threat.
Johnny Damon’s woes continued, as he is now just 3 for his last 30. No Tiger hitter was particularly impressive, although Cabrera went 2-for-4 with a couple singles.
Who was impressive, on the other hand, was Tigers’ rookie Andy Oliver. In his first big league start, Oliver went six innings, scattering five hits and allowing just two earned with four punchouts. Oliver appeared to have a crisp fastball and decent command of his secondary pitches. If he can turn in more starts like this one, perhaps the Tigers become players in the Cliff Lee lottery, as other arms will become expendible.
The Braves picked up their third run in the eighth inning off the bat of pinch-hitter Brooks Conrad, who hit his fourth homer of the season off Eddie Bonine.
Yet another dud from the Tigers offense was the story tonight, friends, coming at a time when the Twins are reeling and the White Sox are surging.
Twins, and now, Sox Watch:
The Twins lost their fourth straight game today at Citi Field in New York, but remain in first place, .5 games ahead of the Tigers, and 1.5 ahead of the White Sox.
The White Sox won their 10th straight tonight, defeating their cross-town rival Cubbies today.
Former Tiger starter Edwin Jackson tossed a no-hitter tonight on a whopping 149 pitches. Jackson walked 8 Tampa Bay Rays in the effort.
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Twitter Erupts as Imam-Ul-Haq Scored a Magnificent Ton
by Syed Yasir July 13, 2018 July 13, 2018
Credit: Getty Images.
On Friday (July 13) afternoon, Pakistani openers gave a fine start to the team in the first One-day International against Zimbabwe which is going on at Bulawayo.
After winning the toss, Zimbabwe invited Pakistan to bat first. Moreover, Opening pair Imam-ul-Haq and Fakhar Zaman gave a decent opening partnership to Pakistan as visitors managed to put 309 runs on board.
Opening partnership:
Zaman once again continued where from he has left which he displayed at Tri-nation series that Pakistan managed to win.
The explosive Zaman scored another fifty and it was Liam Roche, who had the last laugh. With the help of seven fours, he got 70-ball 60.
On the other side, Imam scored his second ton in ODI format. With the help of 11 fours, Imam scored 128 runs of 134. Both put an opening partnership of 113 runs.
Fakhar Zaman (Photo Source: Twitter)
Solid middle-order:
Soon after Zimbabwe thought they can make the comeback in the game, Babar Azam joined the crease.
Babar came back from injury after he was hit by a delivery bowled by Ben Stokes on England tour. He rotated the strike along with Imam till the mark of 172.
The cameo from the debutant.
A cameo was witnessed from the debutant Asif Ali, who had a good tri-series as well. Asif scored 46 off 25 balls which included four boundaries and two sixes. But his quick fire knock powered Pakistan to cross the 300-run barrier.
Imam’s selection.
Selection of Imam was widely criticized by Pakistani fans as they call it the effect of nepotism. Inzamam-ul-Haq, who is the chief selector of Pakistan cricket team faced a huge wrath from the fans as they believed Imam got a place due to his uncle.
However, Inzamam justified his selection by saying he was selected based on his performance. Veteran insisted that Imam’s selection in Pakistan’s ODI squad has nothing to do with family connections.
Moreover, Imam scored his second ODI ton, twitter erupted while hailing his knock. Many criticised his knock in the beginning as he was struggling to score.
Soon after the sun came out, Imam-Ul-Haq got the rhythm and eventually got the second ton.
Also, here are some of the top tweets:
Wickets tumbled near the death but Imam-ul-Haq's second ODI century leads Pakistan to a decent 308/7 against Zimbabwe in the 1st ODI in Bulawayo.#ZIMvPAK LIVE ➡️ https://t.co/IplUTfHDFC pic.twitter.com/stSkWVJk6w
— ICC (@ICC) July 13, 2018
Imam-ul-Haq played anchor, and debutant Asif Ali provided the big hits at the death, as Pakistan made 308 for 7 in the series opener https://t.co/sa7M0sN76Q #ZIMvPAK pic.twitter.com/vojagmFnoY
— ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) July 13, 2018
Very well played #ImamulHaq
Second ODI 100 🇵🇰♥️👍#ZIMvPAK
— Emmad Hameed (@Emmad81) July 13, 2018
https://twitter.com/meo_writes/status/1017707014972149760?s=19
Second ODI 💯 for Imam-ul-Haq. Well-crafted century by the opener and Pakistan are going strong at the moment – 198/2 (37) https://t.co/M3xbHfzI2V #ZIMvPAK
— Cricbuzz (@cricbuzz) July 13, 2018
#Bulwayo First ODI
Batting first Pakistan scored 308/7, thanks to brilliant Century by Imam ul Haq (128) & excellent innings by Fakhar (60) & Asif (46).#ZIMvPAK pic.twitter.com/SREnqd6rx3
— Akber Ali (Z) (@AkberAJaffri) July 13, 2018
Here are some of the top tweets:
Fakher Zaman once again continued the same form which he displayed at Tri-nation series which Pakistan managed to win. Fakher Zaman scored another fifty and it was who had the last laugh. With the help of 7 fours, he got 70 balls 60.
Solid middle-order
Soon after Zimbabwe thought they can make the comeback in the game, Babar Azam joined the crease. Babar came back from injury after he was hit a delivery bowled by Ben Stokes on England tour. He rotated the strike along with Imam till the mark of 172.
A cameo was witnessed from the debutant Asif Ali who had a good tri-series as well. Asif scored 46 off 25 balls which included 4 boundaries and 2 sixes. His quick fire 46 powered Pakistan to cross the barrier of 300 runs.
Selection of Imam-ul-Haq was widely criticized by Pakistani fans as they call it the effect of nepotism. Inzamam-ul-Haq, who is the chief selector of Pakistan Cricket Team faced a huge wrath from the fans as they believed Imam got a place due to his uncle. However, Inzamam justified his selection by saying he was selected based on his performance. Inzamam-ul-Haq insisted that Imam-ul-Haq’s selection in Pakistan’s ODI squad has nothing to do with family connections.
Twitter reactions.
Soon after Imam scored his second ODI ton, twitter erupted while hailing his knock. Se criticised his knock in the beginning as he was struggling to score.
As the sun came out, Imam-Ul-Haq got the rhythm and eventually got the second ton.
Here are some top tweets:
https://twitter.com/iMMujahidMalik/status/1017725060780646401?s=19
Tagged: Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq
Syed Yasir
I'm cricket enthusiast who has the passion to contribute in this beautiful sport by doing writing for it. I'm an ardent supporter of Misbah-ul-Haq, Suresh Raina and Hashim Amla. I'm a strong believer following passion and determination.
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‘Slava’s Snowshow’ Delivers a Blizzard of Delights
Posted on December 2, 2019 No Comment
Yellow clown in storm. | Photo by Vladimir Mishukov
BY CHARLES BATTERSBY | When Slava’s Snowshow first came to New York, back in 2004, American culture had little representation of clowning outside of Pennywise from It, and the new interpretation of The Joker from latest Batman movie. How times have changed in the last 15 years… Slava Polunin, the creator of Snowshow, hails from Russia, so it’s no surprise that his clowning show doesn’t involve American pop culture references. Rather, he has created a clown show that has a whimsical, magical, and occasionally grim view of the world.
The show doesn’t have a linear plot, but there is an emotional arc; the first scene is Polunin’s yellow clown alter ego, Asissai, trying to hang himself. Alas, his world is so bleak that he is unable to accomplish even this humble act. Despite the dark prologue, the show eventually reaches a magical conclusion, which will leave adults and kids so delighted that the house staff has trouble getting everyone to leave. It’s a show where the audience shouldn’t leave their seats during intermission, and should plan on staying a few minutes late to frolic with the cast after the performance.
In between the failed suicide attempt and the grand finale, Asissai gets himself into all sorts of adventures, including getting stuck in a giant spider web, finding himself stranded on a raft in the middle of the ocean, and being riddled with arrows—complete with a melodramatic death scene that takes a good five minutes to unfold (he gets better).
Polunin is joined by a team of clowns in green trench coats and floppy hats, who partake in his shenanigans. The green team serves as antagonists in some scenes, friends in others, and they run amok through the theater during the intermission, climbing over seats, pelting the audience with confetti and water. A few even kidnap an audience member and bringing them onstage.
With decades of experience behind it, the material in Snowshow is wonderfully non-verbal, with hardly a word spoken throughout (the cast’s miming skills are so great, the audience knows exactly what’s going on inside their heads).
Little houses in the dark. | Photo by Andrea Lopez
Parents who think this is the perfect show for your kids are right—but it’s also the perfect show for grown-ups. Our reviewer caught a Sunday matinee, which was filled with children who appreciated the humor, as well as the interactive elements, and weren’t brought down by the darker scenes. The material is child-friendly, but by no means dumbed down. It is often very touching, such as when Asissai magically brings an empty coat rack to life.
When Slava’s Snowshow ran at Union Square, it gained much acclaim for the climatic blizzard sequence, which blasts the audience with wind, lights, music, and confetti. In the current Broadway theater, this is even more thrilling. Audience members in orchestra seats will be brushing “souvenir” confetti out of their hair and clothes for days to come!
Those who think the art of clowning is nothing more than tying balloon doggies, or getting hit in the face by pies, need to see this show. It also should be seen by those needing a good laugh, and an uplifting live experience
In the performance our reviewer saw, no children were dragged into the sewers and eaten, although one adult was carried on stage and chased around to the delight of the crowd.
Through Jan. 5, 2020 at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre (124 W. 43 St.). Recommended for ages 8 and older. For tickets and performance schedule, visit slavaonbroadway.com or call 212-239-6200. Group rates for 10 or more; $35 Rush tickets (beginning at 9am each performance day, available on a first-come, first-served basis) are available via the TodayTix app.
Green clowns in blue mist. | Photo by Veronique Vial
Captivated by “Snowshow?” Better than a snowball’s chance. | Photo by Veronique Vial
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Soaring – Chess in the Air
A Glider Pilot Learns to Play Mother Nature
Boulder Soaring Area Map
Boulder GlidePlan Map 1:27
Boulder Triangles
Boulder 1000+ km Flights
Colorado Outlanding Fields
Fields Overview
Field Evaluation Criteria
Caribou Springs Trail
Yellowstone Road
E of Dry Creek Reservoir
Lazy W (Pvt)
2 NW of Lake Loveland
Christman Field (Pvt)
Cherokee Park Road / 287
The Buttes
Pahlow Field
Brubaker Lane
Sand Creek Road
Laramie River Valley Farm
Montague, CA
Nephi, Utah
Niederoeblarn, Austria
Lift Sources
What Is Ridge Lift?
What Conditions Produce Good Ridge Lift?
Why Is There Wind Anyway?
Direction And Strength Of The Wind
How Do I Fly In Ridge Lift?
X-Country In Ridge Lift
Risks And Risk Mitigation
Forecasting Ridge Conditions
What is Wave?
What Triggers Waves?
How Can I “See” Wave?
How Do Wave and Thermals Interfere?
How Do I Get Into Wave?
How Do I Fly in Wave?
How Do I Fly XC in Wave?
How Can I Forecast Wave?
Soaring Risks and Risk Mitigation
Passenger Briefing
Emergency and Land-Out Equipment
Landing Out
Other Pilots
Inspiration – Videos That Will Get You Hooked
Soaring Basics
Soaring Podcasts and Other Stories
Tips for Clubs
XC and Contest Flying
My Professional Bio
My Colorado 14ers
Aircraft Flown
My Soaring Goals for 2020
The purpose of this short post is to review my progress as a soaring pilot in 2019 and to lay out some objectives and aspirational goals for 2020.
Flying SSB’s DG505 with Gregg Davis above Mount Nebo near Nephi, Utah.
My Progress in 2019
39 glider flights (12 in DG 505, 27 in Discus CS)
120 glider hours (my new total is 319 hours)
My average flight duration was just over three hours. My longest flight was 7 hours and 14 minutes. 9 of my flights were longer than 5 hours.
Soaring sites: KBDU (Boulder) and U14 (Nephi)
Badges and Certificates
I got one step closer to attaining my Diamond Badge by completing Diamond Distance (a pre-declared 500km flight) on my 6th attempt (the only component missing is Diamond Altitude, i.e. a 5,000 meter altitude gain upon release from tow).
Upgraded from private pilot to commercial pilot by obtaining my commercial pilot certificate.
OLC Results
I flew on 8 out of 19 OLC Speed League weekends and finished six times among the top three pilots flying for the Soaring Society of Boulder. These six scores were (beginning with the most recent): 1/9 (first out of nine contenders); 3/9; 2/8; 3/8; 2/5; and 3/4.
Speed League Championship: worldwide I finished the year among the top 1000 pilots for the OLC Speed League (rank #942 out of 10,830 participating pilots). In the United States I came in at rank #122 out of 756 participating pilots and in Boulder I ranked #11 out of 37 participating pilots.
OLC Plus Championship: worldwide I achieved rank #1,357 out of 14,087 participating pilots. In the United States I came in at rank #71 out of 1,043 participating pilots and in Boulder I ranked #6 out of 46 participating pilots.
Contest Preparation
To prepare for future soaring contests I attended the OLC camp in Nephi in June/July of 2019.
I conducted extensive research into understanding terrain, weather, and land-out areas at the locations where I will be flying my first contests (Montague, Nephi).
Before the soaring season I participated in a few soaring contests on Condor, which I find to be an excellent practice tool.
A tragic accident during the OLC camp in Nephi was a powerful reminder that soaring is an inherently dangerous activity and that I have to work hard to minimize and manage the associated risks.
To this end I undertook extensive research to better understand the root causes of soaring accidents and how we can mitigate them.
I also spent considerable effort trying to understand the relationship of sporting risks and safety risks in soaring contests and how I can successfully manage both types of risks.
Furthermore, I read a lot what others had to say on the subject of soaring safety.
Stay safe by always heeding my own advice.
Move up to flapped gliders, fly with water ballast, and learn to responsibly use an engine.
Have fun flying my first soaring contests (I’m signed up for the 2-seater Nationals in Montague, CA; and the Region 9 Sports Class in Nephi, UT). My goal is to complete all tasks provided that I can do so without taking any safety risks. (My position on the score sheet is secondary given that these are my first contests.)
Contribute to my club’s OLC Speed League results by scoring among the top three Boulder pilots on 10 or more Speed League weekends. My stretch goal for the OLC Speed League is to score among the top 5 Boulder pilots and among the top 50 US pilots overall.
Complete a flight of more than 750km. My stretch goal is 1000km.
See goal #1.
Competing and Survival: Managing Risks in Soaring Contests
Glider racing above unlandable terrain in Utah, United States
As I am preparing for my first soaring contests in 2020 I have been thinking a lot about managing risks in soaring competitions. Will I be tempted into taking risks that could threaten my safety? How can I recognize risks in advance? Are all risks bad and must be avoided? Won’t I have to take risks in order to compete? Are the winners typically those who take the greatest risks? Is it even possible to compete and stay safe?
It took me a while to sort through these questions and I may not have all the answers. But here’s an attempt at addressing them and I am satisfied that it leads to a good place.
When we talk about risks and soaring we usually refer to Safety Risks, i.e. the likelihood that a person will be harmed (injured or killed) by participating in a hazardous activity. I recently published two articles on this subject entitled “The Risk of Dying Doing What We Love” and “Does Soaring Have to Be So Dangerous?“. For obvious reasons we want to keep our safety risks as low as possible.
But, like most sports, soaring also involves another kind of risk that is best referred to as Sporting Risk. Sporting Risks should be understood as a player’s gamble in a competitive game: if the bet is successful, the player stands to gain in competition; if the bet is unsuccessful, he or she stands to lose. E.g., a tennis player who places his shots close to the lines takes the gamble that his balls will land inside the court and be difficult to return. If the gamble is successful he stands to gain the point, if the gamble is unsuccessful, he loses the point. A slalom skier who takes tight turns around the gates takes the gamble that she will ski the most direct line and round each gate correctly. If the gamble is successful she stands to win by scoring the fastest time, if her gamble is unsuccessful (i.e., if she misses only one single gate) she fails to complete the course and loses the race.
While we must keep our Safety Risks as low as possible, this is not the case for Sporting Risks: a tennis player who plays only safe shots makes himself vulnerable to attacks from his opponent, and a slalom skier who gives each gate a wide berth will be too slow to win a race. Conversely, a very high risk strategy might pay off now and then but it is unlikely to succeed in the long run: a tennis player who places every single shot close to the line will accumulate too many unforced errors, and a slalom skier who tries to round each gate within fractions of an inch will not complete enough runs. Sporting Risks must be optimized instead of minimized. The player has to find the right balance between offense and defense. A “Goldilocks” approach wins. (Watch Mikaela Shiffrin, already one of the greatest slalom skiers of all time, getting this balance perfectly right.)
Sporting Risks in Soaring
If you practice soaring as a sport, i.e. as soon as you venture beyond a safe gliding distance to your home airfield (you don’t even have to fly in a contest), you are confronted with sporting decisions and Sporting Risks. John Bird and Daniel Sazhin recently published a scientific paper that specifically proposes a (sporting) risk strategy for Thermal Soaring. A simplified version appeared in two parts in the March and April 2019 editions of Soaring Magazine.
My summarized interpretation of their work is this: when we leave a source of lift and glide out on course of a cross-country task we can never know with certainty whether we will find another thermal. If we don’t, we have to land out. Our likelihood of having to land out is a function of our sporting decisions: the course line we choose (e.g. how many clouds we sample through course deviations), our inter-thermal cruising speed, and how selective we are with respect to accepting lift. The more aggressive we fly, the greater our potential task speed, and the higher our odds (our Sporting Risk) of having to land (and failing to complete the task). John Bird and Daniel Sazhin show that our land-out risk compounds the more glides we need to complete the task because each glide is an independent event, i.e. we will be forced to land even if we fail only once to find another climb. If we fly in a multi-day contest where even one land-out can destroy our chances of performing well, our Sporting Risk compounds across all the glides needed to complete all contest tasks. To succeed, we must find the right balance: if we are too cautious we will leave points on the table; if we are too aggressive we will end in a field and blow the contest result. When conditions are strong with multiple reliable lift sources ahead we can fly fast and direct; when conditions weaken we must quickly “shift gears” and switch our focus on staying aloft. In short: we must always strive to optimize our Sporting Risks and get the risk balance just right. The Golidlocks approach wins in soaring as well.
This is also illustrated by the following chart, which shows the attainable task speed on a XC flight as a function of a pilot’s sporting risk and his or her skill level.
Here is how to read this: the chart assumes a task where the maximum attainable task speed for a top pilot is 70kt. You can see that the pilot has to find the optimal sporting risk balance to achieve that speed. If she is more or less aggressive, her speed will remain shy of the 70kt. The chart also assumes that the minimum average speed to complete the task is 40kt. Pilots who are unable to reach 40kt will run out of lift at the end of the day and not be able to finish. Pilots with medium skill can only get to 60kt even if they get their own risk balance perfectly right. (Setting realistic expectations based on one’s skill set is therefore important, and inexperienced contest pilots should not be disappointed with themselves if they can’t get close to the performance of the top pilots even if they perceive that they have done everything right.)
John Bird and Daniel Sazhin have taken the question of how to optimize the Sporting Risks in soaring one step further and proposed that we should adopt one of two different mind frames or “gears” depending on the situation we are in: if the conditions ahead look promising, we should focus on “racing”, i.e. progressing forward on task as directly as prudently possible while flying at MC speeds; if things look bleak, we should shift down and focus primarily on avoiding a land-out while still trying to move forward on task if possible. Their thinking is supported by thousands of computer simulations, which show that this approach is likely to yield a winning strategy. I like the approach also for its practical simplicity: two gears are a lot easier to operate than many. Look up their work as it explains this in a lot more detail.
Risk Management in Soaring is More Complex Than It Is In Other Sports
One aspect that makes soaring different and particularly challenging is the unusually complex interplay of Sporting Risks and Safety Risks. Various sports tend to fall into one of the following categories:
(a) Sporting Risks can be Independent of Safety Risks. In many sports the safety risks are completely unrelated to an athlete’s decision making during a competition. E.g., while tennis players have an elevated risk of getting injured, that risk is not a function of how aggressively they place their shots. When they decide to play, they accept the Safety Risk (which isn’t very high to begin with) as a given and can focus entirely on managing the Sporting Risks. (The same is true for sports where the Safety Risks are negligibly small.)
(b) Sporting Risks and Safety Risks can be Aligned. In many high-risk sports the Safety Risks are a direct function of the Sporting Risk. E.g., a race car driver must manage his Sporting Risk by driving right up to the edge of where the car remains on the track (but not beyond). When his Sporting Risk increases, his Safety Risk increases as well. The two types of risks are perfectly aligned, which means the driver can keep his entire focus on going as fast as possible, just not any faster.
(c) Unfortunately, in some sports, the Sporting Risks and Safety Risks are Misaligned. Soaring falls into this category: in our sport, the relationship between these two types of risks is highly complex. This is problematic because the pilot must constantly manage (i.e. minimize) their Safety Risks, while also trying to manage (i.e. optimize) their Sporting Risks. This challenge can be confusing and at times even overwhelming.
The Complex Relationship of Sporting Risks and Safety Risks in Soaring
The following characteristics make soaring risk management particularly challenging:
(1) Not every Sporting Risk involves a Safety Risk
A pilot who rips through the air at 90-100 kts and skips all but the strongest thermals will certainly take a high Sporting Risk. However, if she always keeps a landable field in safe glide and readily switches from thermaling to landing mode when she’s down at 1000 ft AGL she is not taking a Safety Risk at all.
(2) Life-threatening Safety Risks exist even in the absence of Sporting Risks
A very conservative pilot who flies at MC 0 with a safe arrival altitude of 1,500 ft programmed into his computer might run into a 2-3 minute stretch of 500 fpm sink on final glide, lack the energy to reach the airport, try a low thermal safe two miles shy of the runway, stall and spin in.
It’s critical to notice that the “conservative” MC 0 setting actually contributed to the accident. From a safety standpoint, MC 0 is the riskiest setting to calculate a final glide because it presumes a still airmass and that we are able to fly perfectly at best L/D. A more “sporty” setting of MC 3 or 4 would have been a much safer choice because it would have given the pilot an additional built-in margin. If you’re not sure why that is, I recommend you read John Cochrane’s article “Safer Finishes“.
(3) Sporting Risks can quickly become life-threatening Safety Risks
Consider the following example (from “Perspective: One Contest Pilot’s View…” by Dave Nadler, Soaring Magazine May 1987). “First day of the contest. … I leave the ridge near the turn point, seeing a gaggle. Everyone in the gaggle knows that this thermal will make the difference between a completion and a land-out, on day 1. Pressure’s really on. But the gaggle is not going up. I leave, hoping the others will call it quits and final glide out to the beautiful fields in the central valley, while they can still get past the low obscuring front ridge. I coast down to the turn, click my photo and coast up the valley, picking fields. Pattern altitude, and a nice landing on a lovely golf course fairway. As I taxi off, the panicky radio calls start. Somebody tried to hang on too long in that gaggle, refusing to admit that the day was over until too late. The violent crash was seen from the air. Nobody dares land to offer assistance, the ‘field’ is way too dangerous. Which one of our friends is dead now? Just one day, 3.5 hours of flying, already one dead and two crashes.”
If your mind is focused on the task and making choices to optimize the sporting risks, it can be easy to overlook that a particular choice is no longer just a sporting bet but also a potentially life-threatening safety risk. In the example above, Dave Nadler himself clearly recognized the safety risk in time and switched from Sporting Risk Optimization to Safety Risk Avoidance.
However, it is quite possible that the fateful pilot who tragically lost his life was entirely focused on flying the task and decided to join the gaggle as a sporting move (his priority set to “staying up”) without even noticing that he was too low to “get past the low obscuring front ridge” and “glide out to the beautiful fields in the central valley”. By the time he realized it, he may have already been trapped in an unlandable area. And so he kept trying to dig himself out until it was too late! Up to a certain point in time he could have saved himself by deciding to execute a controlled crash landing in an ill-suited field, or by jumping out with the parachute. But who can really be certain that they would make such a choice under extreme stress and while being entirely focused on trying to climb?
How Can We Manage both Sporting Risks and Safety Risks?
If we consider this complexity and the stress that can arise in the cockpit we can understand why even highly experienced pilots routinely maneuver themselves into situations from where there is no escape.
But understanding alone isn’t enough. We need a recipe, a decision making model, that we can apply in the cockpit to help ensure that we think the right thoughts and do the right things!
As I began working on this I got good input and feedback from Daniel Sazhin who helped me realize that our observations, our judgements, our decisions, and ultimately our actions are all guided by our priorities. If our priorities are wrong or even just unclear, we might not even see what we need to see; we might not form judgments about the things that need to be judged; we won’t decide the things we need to decide; and our actions will not get us to where we really need to go.
Even if our priorities are right, there is plenty of opportunity for us to make mistakes at each of these subsequent steps (observing, judging, deciding, and acting), but if we have our priorities wrong, we might already be doomed from the start.
The following schematic illustrates how all our decisions and actions flow from our priorities:
Let’s go back to Dave Nadler’s example. If the fateful competitor had his top priority set to “I have to prevent a land-out”, he would have scanned the sky for clues that might help him achieve this objective. When he saw the gaggle, he might have made a snap judgement that there must be a workable thermal allowing him to realize his objective. So he quickly decided to join the other circling gliders. Only after he got there did he realize that the air actually was not going up and that a ridge obstructed his glide out to the land-able fields. (This is of course speculation since we can’t ask the deceased pilot. But it’s easy to see how it could have happened exactly like this.)
What could have prevented this outcome? It’s actually quite simple: he would have needed a different priority! Had his top priority been “I must be safe if things go wrong” he would have scanned the sky and the terrain differently. He surely would have looked for land-able areas and noticed the ridge that ended up blocking his glide to the fields. He would have formed judgments about how high he would need to be when joining the gaggle in order to keep a field in safe glide. As a consequence, his decisions and actions would likely have been very different. (Btw – if you’re certain that you would have noticed the ridge even if your focus was squarely on preventing a land-out, remember this experiment.)
We always say that safety is our number one priority. But this is just an abstract statement unless we make it actionable. How can we do that?
I would like to propose a simple and practical way to do this by stack-ranking our priorities like in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Our first priority, which must guide every single decision, must always be to stay safe. Only if and as long as this need is satisfied can we concentrate on our Sporting Risks. Our second priority is staying up, i.e. preventing a land out. And only if we are high enough that we don’t have to worry about having to land out can we concentrate on racing, i.e. going fast. Our pyramid looks like this:
Aside from being very simple and easy to remember in the cockpit this basic model has a number of key benefits:
(1) It ensures that we think ahead and consider potential Safety Risks whenever we consider a particular plan of action (and not only once we find ourselves in trouble!).
(2) It clearly delineates “Being Safe” and “Staying Up”. These two priorities are easily confused but they are absolutely not the same. Trying to stay up when it is no longer safe to do so is the single most frequent cause of fatal accidents (as I’ve demonstrated before). We must only focus on Staying Up as long as it is safe to do so!
(3) It gives us a blue-print to prioritize our Safety Risks and our Sporting Risks and it is aligned with the “gear-shifting” model as proposed by John Bird and Daniel Sazhin. If the conditions on course ahead are poor we should focus on staying up while continuing to progress forward on course, but only if and as long as it is safe to do so. And if the conditions ahead are strong and we are high enough that we don’t have to worry about staying up, we can concentrate on racing, but also only if and as long as it is safe to do so.
The following flow chart illustrates how we can apply these priorities to formulate, assess, and constantly revise our plan of action as we learn new information. (The colors are aligned with those used in the pyramid chart above.)
When we’re in the cockpit we are repeatedly assessing our situation and are making plans for what to do and where to go. This is shown by the blue box in the upper center. Thereby we must always test our plan of action against our priorities.
(1) We must always test the plan for safety first and ask “Will I be safe if things go wrong?” If the answer is no or even if we’re not sure, we must try to adjust our plan to eliminate the safety risk, or incorporate a contingency plan, i.e., an alternative Plan B or Plan C if Plan A does’t work out as we hope it will. If we can’t think of any way to do either of these things, we are already in a precarious situation: we have no choice but to execute a plan that could endanger our safety. If that is the case, we should also make an emergency plan to safe ourselves in case our only plan does not work out. (E.g.: the pilot in Dave Nadler’s example could have saved himself by bailing out in time or by executing a controlled crash landing. Check with your parachute rigger at what altitude you can still deploy your chute. You might be surprised how low it will work!)
(2) If our plan passes the safety check, we’re ready to test it against your Sporting Risk tolerance. If we’re concerned about having to land out we should be flying in our low gear and focus on staying up while trying to progress on task only as far and as fast as our Sporting Risk tolerance allows.
(3) If we are satisfied that our land-out risk is below our Sporting Risk tolerance threshold, we can focus on racing, i.e. we can fly at McCready speeds and follow the best energy lines.
As we execute the plan, we must watch out for new information that could change our assessment. Our next step will be to test our plan for Safety again so we know we have to look out for information that could impact our safety assessment.
The model is a continuous loop and requires us to cycle through this thought process on an ongoing basis. We tend to get in trouble when we are so wrapped up in execution that we fail to take in new information, especially new information that would change the results of our safety test. E.g., it is possible that the pilot in Dave Nadler’s example joined the gaggle at a time when he was still high enough to glide to safety and that he then got so focused on thermaling in unworkable lift that he did not notice that he had dropped below an altitude at which he was no longer able to cross the ridge and reach a field. Had he reassessed the situation at the time of joining the gaggle and tested his plan for safety he would have surely noticed the ridge and the importance of leaving the gaggle when a safe glide out was still feasible.
We must also remember that we are always testing our plans and not just our current situation! This is an important distinction because it requires us to “stay ahead of our aircraft”. If we do this consistently we can avoid getting into a situation where a dangerous Plan A is our only option.
The practical application of the model works best if you have considered your Personal Safety Minimums and your tolerance of Sporting Risks before you get into the cockpit. This is shown by the two boxes at the upper left of the flow chart.
Your Personal Safety Minimums should be appropriate for your skill level, your experience, your equipment, the terrain you’re flying in, the weather conditions, etc. They might include criteria such as “I will never thermal below x feet AGL”, “I will never fly closer than x wingspans from terrain”, “I will never blindly follow another glider”, “I will always keep a landable field in a glide assuming MC 3 or higher and an arrival altitude of x feet AGL.” Having these minima in place will make it easier to answer the question “Will I be safe if things go wrong?” If you’re confident that you’ll stay within your personal minima you should be pretty safe.
Your Personal Sporting Risk Tolerance is primarily about your willingness to accept a higher or lower land-out risk. E.g. if you are attempting to set a new speed record, you will need to have a high risk tolerance and it may take you several attempts until you succeed (the other times you will land out). If you want to win a multi-day competition with long daily tasks all of which you have to complete, your risk tolerance will have to be much lower. Your experience and skills might play a role as well; however, you should be comfortable with the possibility of a land-out before you go on any cross-country flight. Your Sporting Risk Tolerance helps you answer the question, “Is my land-out risk acceptable?
If you consider the flow chart too complex to use in the cockpit then try to remember at least the simple hierarchy of needs as shown in the pyramid chart. The most important thing is to always ask “Will I be safe if things go wrong?” before you get into a situation where this is no longer the case.
Do We Have To Take Safety Risks To Win A Soaring Contest? In Other Words: Do Reckless Pilots Have a Competitive Advantage?
The history of soaring is full of stories of bravery (or lunacy, depending on your perspective), where soaring pilots “polished the rocks”, “dug themselves out from the height of a barn”, “scraped across the ridge”, or “pulled up over the trees with no energy to spare” to glide to victory.
It is easy to see why pilots may have benefitted competitively by taking such safety risks. Such behavior must have helped pilots prevent land-outs, or cross the finish line minutes earlier than they would have been able to do had they stopped for another climb. They scored higher points and may have even garnered the win on a contest day by flying recklessly.
But does this also mean that pilots who are willing to take such great risks are gaining a competitive advantage in the long run (provided they survive)? If so, we should find that the winningest pilots are also the ones who take the greatest risks.
Last I checked, pilots didn’t wear badges that show how how many life threatening gambles they have already survived. Accident statistics are also not a good source because a single accident is often enough to end a particular contest pilot’s career (or life).
Unfortunately, I don’t think real life provides the data that would allow us to answer this question conclusively. But there is a next best thing to study: Condor. More specifically: the accident rates of pilots participating in the highest level of multi-player Condor racing.
Insights from Condor Racing
Wanting to find an answer to this nagging question, I analyzed the results of the last three years of a race called “Condor World Cup”. It is hosted by the European Condor Club and has been the most competitive race series over the past three years with almost 300 participating pilots who completed a total of 3,683 race flights. 122 of these pilots finished at least 10 individual races in this particular competition. These are the ones I decided to study. In particular, I wanted to know if those who consistently achieve the highest average point scores are also the ones who have the highest crash rates.
The results are very clear but they show exactly the opposite! Pilots who consistently achieve the best scores actually have the lowest crash rate: pilots who scored more than 900 points on average per race only had a crash rate of 4%; those who scored less than 600 points on average per race had a crash rate of 30%. The following chart shows the crash rate of pilots based on the average point scores that they achieved in the races that they completed successfully.
The chart shows the average crash rate for competitors that achieved average point scores within the indicated ranges. Only completed races count for the calculation of the average score per race. I.e., if a player crashed during a race, their (zero or even negative) score for that particular race is not included in the calculation of the average. This ensures that the calculation does not penalize a pilot for crashing, and it makes the results even more astonishing: even if there is absolutely no penalty for crashing, those who win most often are those who crash least often.
This is great news for us because it shows that we do not have to take great risks to win a soaring contest! In fact, the opposite is true: those who take the greatest risks tend to end up at the bottom of the score sheet, and those who fly the safest are also the ones who tend to score the highest.
As expected there are some cases where pilots with high crash rates occasionally won a single race. But those cases are a rare exception and these pilots will typically score very poorly on average!
There are of course limitations to using Condor as a proxy for the real world. By far the most important one is the fact that there are actually no Safety Risks in Condor at all. Even crashing is just a Sporting Risk because those who crash will get a zero point score or may be assessed a point penalty. But they can fly again the next day even though in the real world they would have destroyed their plane or even killed themselves. But does this mean the results are not relevant for the real world? I don’t think so: if there were an advantage to be gained from flying recklessly, surely it would be greatest in an environment where the penalty for recklessness is tiny when compared to a real soaring contest. And yet we see that even in an environment that is completely free of Safety Risks, recklessness does not pay off at all!
But WHY Is There No Sporting Advantage To Flying Recklessly?
The data from the Condor study are as clear as they could possibly be, yet they may still feel counterintuitive. What about the pilots who dug themselves out from the weeds or who scraped above the tree-tops to a low energy finish? Why aren’t those the pilots who typically win contests?
I believe the answer can be found in the model that I introduced earlier. Take another look at it, and this time, focus on the green racing box.
The only time when we can focus on racing is (1) when we don’t have to worry about survival, and (2) when we also don’t have to worry about landing out.
In other words: to race we must be flying safe and high enough that we can give our undivided attention to following the best energy lines and maintaining racing speeds. Once we drop down low, we must accept detours and fly at slower speeds. And once we recognize that our safety is at risk, every other consideration goes out the door completely. When we find ourselves in these situations we will most likely not be moving fast towards the finish line!
This does not mean that pilots can never get a benefit from a reckless maneuver. The Condor study does show that pilots with a significant crash history will occasionally win a contest day. But more often than not, reckless flying gets us into situations that will slow us down or even grind us to a halt. To win contests we must avoid these situations!
While we can thus surmise that staying safe is necessary to win contests, it is of course not sufficient. The winningest competitors are those who not only stay safe, but who also manage to find the right balance with respect to their Sporting Risks, and who furthermore have the necessary piloting and racing skills. (The latter are not a subject of this article).
In this article I propose a simple yet holistic model for managing our Safety Risks and our Sporting Risks in soaring contests. One that helps us stay safe and compete.
The model is informed by the basic insight that our observations, judgments, decisions, and actions are framed by our priorities. If our priorities are wrong, chances are that what we see, judge, decide and do will be wrong as well.
Our core priorities in a soaring contest are actually quite simple: in order to go fast we must stay safe first, and stay up second. I call this the hierarchy of soaring priorities: stay safe; stay up; go fast. It means that we can only race when the two more basic/vital needs are satisfied.
To manage these priorities during our flight, we must continuously formulate plans and test them against our priorities, always starting with “stay safe” at the bottom of the pyramid. Our Safety Risk Tolerance should be informed by our Minimum Safety Standards, and our Sporting Risk Tolerance should be specific to our sporting objectives and the length of the task/competition.
We must remember that in soaring, Sporting Risks and Safety Risks are not directly related. Safety Risks exist even in the absence of Sporting Risks, and Sporting Risks can become Safety Risks.
Safety Risks must be avoided (principled approach). A good question to ask ourselves is,”Will I Be Safe if Things Go Wrong?”
Sporting Risks must be balanced (Goldilocks approach). A good question to ask ourselves is, “Is My Land-Out Risk Acceptable?”
Taking Safety Risks can provide a short-term benefit in competition (provided we don’t crash), but it does not convey a competitive advantage in the long run; not even over the course of a multi-day contest. In fact, the opposite is the case: reckless competitors tend to find themselves at the bottom of the score sheet. We must stay safe before we can even focus on staying up. And we must stay up before we can even focus on racing. To be fast, we must maximize the time when we’re racing, and minimize the time when we are looking for lift down low or even trying to survive.
Staying safe is necessary but not sufficient to win races. The winners will be those who fly safe, who appropriately balance their Sporting Risks, and who have excellent piloting and racing skills.
The great news is that we not only CAN stay safe and win. The fact is that we MUST focus on staying safe if we want to have a chance at winning at all!
And that makes me feel better about flying my first contests.
I’d like to give special credit to Daniel Sazhin. Daniel kindly critiqued my article “The Risk of Dying Doing What We Love” and encouraged me to think more about how we as glider pilots can reduce our safety risks. When I responded with “Does Soaring Have To Be So Dangerous?“, he once again gave me something to think about when he pointed me to John Boyd’s OODA loop decision model, to which he added the critical insight that our observations, judgments, decisions, and actions flow from our priorities. He also challenged me to explore if our frequent “failure at situational awareness” as discussed in “Does Soaring Have to Be So Dangerous?” isn’t just a consequence of us having the wrong priorities to begin with. This was very instrumental in pushing myself towards developing the integrated risk management model presented here. And this model could not have been coherent without heavily borrowing from the scientific paper “Bounded Rationality and Risk Management in Soaring” which Daniel Sazhin and John Bird published together earlier this year. This work is referenced frequently throughout.
As I mentioned before I do not pertain to have all the answers. But I am convinced that we can make our sport safer by giving more thought to the questions discussed. I welcome further critique and inspiration as it will help me and hopefully others to become better and safer soaring pilots. Have fun and stay safe!
Does Soaring Have To Be So Dangerous?
My last post titled “The Risk of Dying Doing What We Love” presented the results of a statistical analysis where I compared the risk of flying sailplanes to other things we love to do such as cycling, horse back riding, paragliding, etc.
I showed that the risk of dying in a soaring accident is approx. 1 per 50,000 flight hours, which makes soaring per activity hour about 2x as dangerous as riding a motorcycle, 25x as dangerous as cycling, 40x as dangerous as driving a car, and almost 200x as dangerous as traveling on a commercial airline flight.
The post struck a core. Within just a few days, it was read tens of thousands of times and many of you have shared your thoughts and asked really important questions. Perhaps the most important ones were:
How can each of us make it safer for ourselves?
To answer these question I read, interpreted, and analyzed about 250 glider accident reports. My main sources were Germany’s Bundesstelle für Flugunfalluntersuchung (154 reports since 1998) and the United States’ National Transportation and Safety Board (93 reports for the past five years). I chose the US because that’s where I do most of my soaring and also because it’s a very large country with varied soaring conditions including flatland, ridge, mountain, desert, and wave soaring. Germany was a logical choice because it accounts for about one third of all soaring activities worldwide, and also because the quality of its accident reports is particularly high. In addition, I also reviewed the equally detailed soaring accident reports for Austria since 2010 (25 reports) and read the 2019 EASA Safety Report.
Classifications in the EASA Safety Report
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) provides a statistical analysis of aviation accidents between 2008-17 in its 2019 Annual Safety Report (gliders are covered starting on page 108) that classifies glider accidents as follows:
a) By phase of flight. 21% of European soaring accidents happened during takeoff, 50% during landing, 12% on the landing approach, and only 17% en route.
b) By type of operation. 6% of accidents occur during competition, 22% during flight training, and 72% during pleasure flights.
c) By Safety Risk. The EASA report breaks fatal accidents between 2014 and 2018 down by what happened: 26% of accidents were the result of a “Stall/Spin”, 17% were a “Collision with Hill”, 10% were due to an “Incomplete Winch Launch”, 8% were due to “Loss of Control”, another 8% happened in “Other Flying”, 7% were “Mid-Airs”, 7% “Technical”, 5% “Misuse of Controls”, 4% “Aerotow”, 4% “Medical”, and 4% “Other”.
Each of these classifications conveys some useful information. E.g., we need to be particularly careful during takeoff and landing. Most accidents occur during normal pleasure flights. Flight training needs to ensure that student pilots learn to fly coordinated and at the appropriate speed. We have to be particularly careful near hills and mountains, etc.
However, none of these classifications actually tell us why accidents really happened. What was it that caused the pilot to fly so slowly that she stalled and spun in? What made him collide with the hill? What caused her winch launch to be incomplete? Could he or she have avoided these outcomes? How? To answer these questions, we have to dig one or two layers deeper and get to the root causes.
(Btw – the soaring accident reports of the National Transportation Safety Board in the US frequently mention “Loss of Lift” as the defining event of accidents. Don’t we experience loss of lift all the time when we go soaring? This really should not be viewed as a reason for an accident!)
What causes soaring accidents really?
My analysis shows that approx. 90% of soaring accidents were caused by pilot mistakes. (10% were not and we will get to those also.) Four fundamentally different types of pilot mistakes accounted for the vast majority of accidents:
a) Accidents where – through improper decision making – the pilot had maneuvered him- or herself into a situation where proper handling of the aircraft was either impossible and/or no longer sufficient to avert a bad outcome. That’s why I’m calling them “Fateful Decisions.” In most instances the pilot didn’t even actively decide to take on a great risk, he or she simply failed to make a decision that could have prevented the accident. In other words, he or she allowed the safety margins to erode until it was too late. Examples include delaying the decision to land (at an airport or in a field); relying on an engine, flying too close to mountainous terrain; failing to stay within gliding distance to a save landing area; failing to interrupt a final glide when the altitude was not sufficient to reach the airport; failing to descend from a wave flight before the cloud layer closes; etc.
b) Accidents that were caused by improper handling of the aircraft and could have been avoided in the moment by good Basic Piloting Technique alone. E.g., failing to maintain sufficient airspeed during a winch launch; flying uncoordinated through a turn; cycling the gear instead of extending the airbrakes; not knowing how to stop a spin at altitude; getting out of position behind the towplane; etc.
c) Accidents where the pilot’s Pre-Flight Negligence resulted in a situation where good piloting technique alone was of no help to prevent a bad outcome. E.g., assembly mistakes such as failure to connect the controls and/or conduct a Positive Control Check (PCC); failure to go through the pre-flight checklist; failure to communicate the presence of water ballast to the tow pilot, etc. A very important special case of pre-flight negligence is the failure to have a specific pre-takeoff emergency plan. Many premature release accidents were caused by the pilot waisting precious time and altitude before deciding what to do and where to land.
d) Accidents that were caused by Insufficient Situational Awareness of the people involved. Most but not all of these were mid-air collisions that could have been avoided. Insufficient situational awareness might mean inadequate radio communications, insufficient look-out, or simply the failure to observe warnings that are there in plain sight.
If you look at past accidents through this particular lens, the following picture emerges:
Approx. 88% of accidents can be explained by the three types of pilot mistakes outlined above.
Fateful Decisions / Eroded Margins account for ~40% of accidents and are the single biggest factor.
Basic Piloting Mistakes accounts for ~30% of accidents.
Pre-Flight Negligence is the main cause of ~12% of all soaring accidents.
Insufficient Situational Awareness accounts for ~6% of soaring accidents, most of them mid-air collisions.
The remaining 12% of accidents are either unclear (e.g. the cause of the accident could not be identified) or they were truly unavoidable.
The following chart summarizes my findings. A more detailed analysis and discussion follows below.
Let’s examine each of these types of accidents in more detail and discuss what we can do to avoid them.
1) “Fateful Decisions / Eroded Margins” or: the Failure to Resist Temptations
Soaring requires constant decision making and decisions have consequences. It is not surprising that the largest group of accidents (40% overall for the data I looked at, in the US the share is even greater at 44%) are the unavoidable consequence of a decision that the pilot had previously made or failed to make during the flight. In other words: by making a wrong decision they had gotten themselves into a situation where good piloting technique alone was not enough prevent a bad outcome.
There is logically no limit to the kinds of decisions that could get us into trouble. However, a close look at accident reports reveals that most of these “fateful decision accidents” can be traced back to just a few types of mistakes. Let’s look at each of these in more detail, approx. in the order of frequency in which they occurred, starting with the most common ones first.
Delayed Airport Landing – Failure to make a timely decision to land and stick to it
It may seem surprising but many fateful decision accidents happen right next to the home airfield when the pilot is trying to extend their flight beyond the time when they should have made the decision to land. Here are some examples:
An experienced airline transport pilot had returned to the airport at the safe altitude of 800-1000ft AGL but kept circling next to the airfield down to 300ft AGL, still looking for lift. When he finally extended the gear, the glider stalled and spun in. Like many of these accidents, the outcome was fatal.
Pilot thermalled next to the airport at 400ft AGL, the glider stalled and spun in.
An airline transport pilot had already entered the landing pattern when he decided to circle again at 300ft AGL. The glider stalled and spun in.
Pilot circled above airport at low altitude, stalled and spun in.
Pilot with 1900 hours of experience entered landing pattern at a very low altitude, stalled and spun in.
Pilot with an experience of 2148 flights stalled and spun in at 15ft AGL on the turn to final.
Pilot delayed pattern entry to wait for another glider to clear the runway, ran out of altitude and came short on final.
Pilot with 550 hours of experience delayed pattern entry due to strong winds, got too low and collided with tree on downwind leg.
During check ride to earn a CFIG, pilot and instructor with 2700 hours of experience entered pattern too low and collided with a tree during last-second attempt to divert to a field.
Student pilot entered pattern too low, stalled, and spun in.
Pilot unnecessarily delayed pattern entry, stalled and spun in on turn to final
Pilot stalled and spun in while thermalling at 600ft next to airport. Managed to exit spin close to the ground, pulled up to avoid tree, stalled again, and crashed.
Pilot entered pattern too low and flew final approach close to the ground, stalled and spun in.
There are many more accidents that follow this same pattern. About two thirds end with a “stall and spin” and most of the other ones end with the glider colliding with a tree, power line, or another obstacle.
To avoid “stalls and spins”, student pilots are usually taught to fly coordinated and at a proper airspeed. This is of course good advice but it is not sufficient. These accidents were typically not caused by pilots who did not know that they had to fly faster and coordinated. The problem was that they had already maneuvered themselves into a situation where they were no longer able do that. E.g., a pilot who finds themselves within feet of the tree tops on their turn to final is already in an impossible situation. They could either keep the speed up and crash into a tree or they could attempt to get over the trees by pulling the nose up and using the rudder to keep the wings level. They will of course try the latter but it is also the best recipe for a stall and spin.
These accidents continue to happen even though they should be quite easy to avoid. All the pilot has to do is to enter the landing pattern at a safe altitude where the temptation to fly too slowly and/or too uncoordinated doesn’t occur to begin with, and where they have enough altitude/energy reserves to deal with unexpected sink or headwind on final.
What is a safe pattern entry altitude? In my experience there is no standard rule of thumb that fits all situations. In normal soaring weather and light winds a pattern entry at 800 ft AGL will be adequate most of the time. However, I have personally experienced that even 1000ft can be too low for comfort. And under extreme circumstances, you may want to be even much higher than that.
Delayed Land-Out – Failure to make a timely decision to land-out and stick to it
All of the accidents mentioned above happened right next to an airport. Similar accidents also occur frequently during XC flights when the pilot delays a decision to land in a field.
In some ways, these accidents are just special cases of failing to make a timely decision to land. All of the considerations above – especially the need to make the decision at an appropriate pattern entry altitude – apply here is well.
However, land-outs must be given special attention because the decision to land in a field is much more difficult to make than the decision to enter the landing pattern at the home airfield. Landing out is inconvenient. Selecting a field is stressful. There is a higher risk that the glider gets damaged. The prospect of having to deal with the land owner may be off-putting. The pilot may feel embarrassed that they did not make it back home. In gliding contests, there is an even greater impetus to stay aloft. In short, most pilots view the prospect of a land-out as a big negative. To avoid it they are tempted to keep searching for lift well beyond the time when they should have made a decision to land.
Daniel Sazhin, a PhD student of cognitive psychology, and one of the best contest pilots in the United States, explained in this excellent article that this is exactly the kind of situation in which pilots are likely to gamble and take the greatest risks.
The only reason that these accidents aren’t even more frequent is the fact that only the minority of pilots ventures beyond gliding distance of their home airport.
Very experienced pilot failed to make timely landout decision, got too low, flew too slowly to avoid hitting terrain, stalled and spun in.
Pilot with 200 hours of experience thermalled at a very low altitude, stalled, and spun in.
Pilot with 1800 hours of experience flying close to the home airport and over landable terrain, failed to make a timely land-out decision, circled at a very low altitude, stalled and spun in.
Pilot circled at 300ft AGL in the vicinity of an airport, then crashed into power lines, likely while attempting an off-field landing.
Pilot with 1300 hours of experience circled until very close to the ground, then impacted terrain on final turn to runway.
Pilot with 1100 hours of experience circled at 400ft AGL, stalled and spun in. Pilot did not attempt to use sustainer engine.
Pilot with 260 hours of experience made land-out decision too late, selected a short, down-sloping field, approached with a tailwind, tried to correct, and crashed.
Pilot with 1500 hours of experience thermalled at 450 ft in turbulent conditions, stalled, and spun in.
Pilot with 1600 hours of experience thermalled at 500ft, decided too late on a landout field, and collided with a building while attempting to reach the field.
Pilot decided too late to land out despite well-suited terrain. He got so low that he impacted the ground on the turn to final.
Pilot circled 300ft above ground. Decided to land and noticed a power line on the approach to land-out field, diverted to another field at last second (without having being able to examine it) and hit a bump in the field.
If you decide to fly cross-country, anticipate – in John Cochrane’s words, that “you will be tempted”. I.e., the only way to avoid these accidents is to resist the temptation(s). But how do we do that? I’ll get back to this question at the end of this chapter on fateful decisions.
Out of Glide Range – Failure to stay within glide range of an airport or a landable field
Making a timely decision to land obviously pre-supposes that the pilot stayed within glide-range of an airport or a landable field to begin with. Doing so is one of the most fundamental lessons all glider pilots are taught.
Pilot with 2100 hours of experience continued his XC flight in deteriorating weather conditions over unlandable terrain; was forced to land on a road, one wing impacted terrain; glider cartwheeled and came to rest inverted
Pilot with 4600 hours of experience got low, tried to reach an airport, then tried to divert to a field, failed to clear trees on final
Pilot with 200 hours of experience found himself in sink outside glide range of an airport; tried to land on a road and hit a sign
Student pilot left glide range of airport, tried to land on a street and hit trees and a power line
Pilot with 700 hours of experience continued to fly along ridge in insufficient lift, was forced to land in unsuitable field and ground looped
Pilot with 200 hours of experience flew into unlandable area based on expectation that he would find thermals; had to land in 1000ft field surrounded by tall trees; impacted trees on final
Pilot landed in corn field and destroyed canopy
During a flight with a passenger, a pilot with 300 hours of experience flew over a large wooded area, got into sink and crashed into trees 2 kilometers away from the airport.
When flying above flat terrain and cultivated farmland, staying within glide range of a land-able field can be quite easy – land-able fields might be found every few miles in all directions. But in different circumstances it can be very challenging: e.g. the mountainous areas and deserts of the Western United States are often completely unlandable, and airports may be 50 miles or more apart. High terrain may be in the way between your position and the nearest landable area even though your flight computer shows it to be within glide. Severe sink may degrade the attainable glide ratio of a 40:1 glider to 10:1 or even less. Bad weather may move in and make your only landable area inaccessible, etc. Considering these challenges, I found it surprising that not more accidents can be traced back to this root cause.
Relying on an engine
Glider operating handbooks typically state that a glider’s self-launch or sustainer engine must only be regarded as a convenience and not as something that the pilot can rely upon. Pilots are advised to only attempt an in-flight engine start when they are within glide range of a suitable land-out field that can be easily reached even with the engine mast extended (which degrades the glide ratio to varying degrees based on the specific glider). The accident reports reveal that many pilots failed to heed that advice. The temptation to keep going because the glider has an engine is often too great.
These accidents are just special cases of the pilot’s failure to keep an airport or a land-able field within glide.
Airline transport pilot with 26000 hours of experience relied on engine to cross mountain ridge under power; engine overheated; pilot continued in glide; got into sink and had to turn; landed on freeway and impacted a barrier
Flight instructor with 2300 hours of experience tried to climb into higher terrain under engine power, engine power was insufficient, pilot failed to turn around, and landed in trees just before reaching airport
Pilot with 4000 hours of experience flew too low into mountainous terrain; encountered sink that exceeded climb rate of glider and crashed into trees
Pilot with 2370 hours of experience attempted to start engine above land-out field; engine did not start; pilot was too low for proper landing pattern and crashed into trees short of field
Pilot of amateur-built glider relied on two simultaneously working engines for flight; 1 was designed for RC aircraft; 1 engine failed after takeoff; plane hit trees short of runway
Pilot with 2500 hours of experience decided to attempt engine start before selecting land-out field; when engine failed, diverted to field; was surprised by and impacted power line on final
Pilot failed to make timely land-out decision; extended engine, engine did not start; tried to land but stalled and spun in on turn to final from low altitude; in turns out the fuel line was closed
Pilot with 1300 hours of experience tried to start engine, engine failed. Pilot impacted ground just before reaching a land out field.
Pilot tested engine after winch launch; engine failed to start; pilot tried to reach land-out field but hit trees on approach
Engine did not start; pilot with 250 hours of experience tried to reach airport; came short and poorly executed land-out
Pilot with 1700 hours of experience launched on winch, then extended engine and inadvertently opened airbrake. Engine did not start. Glider stalled and spun in.
Pilot returning to home airfield noticed that we was too low; tried to start FES engine but battery was depleted (it showed 20% remaining); crashed into building on final approach
Misjudging the Final Glide
Misjudging the final glide and coming short is also a special case of failing to stay within glide range of an airport or a landable field and in some cases it can also be viewed as a special case of delaying the decision to land-out (provided that adequate fields were available along the final glide route). These cases tend to occur more frequently in a racing context, especially when there is no minimum altitude to finish the race. (If you also fly Condor multi-player races you will be very familiar with this).
Pilot with 3164 hours of experience misjudged final glide, tried to return to airport, diverted to alfa alfa field and ground-looped.
Pilot misjudged final glide; tried to return to airport and crashed into trees short of runway
Pilot with 1200 hours of experience misjudged final glide and hit trees on final approach
Contest pilot with 700 hours of experience misjudged final glide and hit trees on final approach
Impacting Mountain – Failure to Maintain Sufficient Distance and/or Airspeed when Flying Close To Ridges or Mountains
Ridge running and mountain soaring is likely to be more dangerous than flatland flying although it is impossible to demonstrate this because there are no reliable data available that break down all soaring activities into flatland vs. ridge and mountain soaring. However, a significant number of accidents happen because pilots fly in close proximity to mountainous terrain and without maintaining extra airspeed. The most typical case involves a pilot circling below the top of the ridge or just slightly above it, then getting unexpectedly close to the ridge (e.g. due to unexpected sink / lack of expected lift), pulling up, stalling, and spinning in. The temptation to fly too close and too slowly is greatest in weak conditions when flying at a safe speed and at a safe distance from terrain can make it impossible to climb. Here are some examples:
Pilot with 700 hours of experience thermalled at low altitude along the ridge, stalled and spun in. (The glider was equipped with a front electric sustainer that the pilot did not use, so it is unlikely that he believed himself to be in real trouble until the accident occurred.)
Highly experienced pilot soared low above complex rocks and ridges and impacted terrain.
Pilot circled next to mountain slope and stalled while heading towards the mountain; lowered nose to gain speed and impacted trees; very lucky to survive with minor injuries
Pilot with 280 hours of experience flew low along ridge, got into sink and had insufficient energy to avoid terrain impact
Pilot with 500 hours of experience circled below ridge line in windy conditions and crashed into trees on steep slope
Pilot with 3500 hours of experience thermalled at low altitude along a slope in somewhat turbulent conditions, the glider stalled and spun in
Pilot with 3900 hours of experience circled in weak lift low along slope, stalled and spun in
Pilot with 760 hours of experience thermalled too slowly above slope, glider stalled and spun in
Pilot with 400 hours of experience flew too low along ridge and collided with trees (could have been a stall/spin; details unknown)
Probably all of these accidents could have been avoided had the pilot followed the basic rules of 1) flying figure 8s instead of circling below the top of the ridge and until a safe distance to the top of the ridge is reached; and 2) maintaining extra air speed when flying close to terrain.
Flying into Clouds – Failure to Stay Clear of Clouds
These accidents tend to occur in wave flying conditions when pilots fail to make a timely decision to descend and the cloud layer closes below. Examples:
Pilot was flying in wave and cloud layer below was closing rapidly; got into clouds and decided to exit with parachute
Pilot on wave flight descended when cloud layer closed. ASW 27 reached high speed in cloud and broke up, possibly in rotor; pilot parachuted out
Pilot probably flew into clouds, lost orientation and impacted terrain (cause is not clearly established)
Airline transport pilot with 12000 hours of experience conducted a forbidden IFR flight directly into squall line thunderstorm, lost control and crashed
Other Decision Mistakes
The examples above account for the vast majority of all accidents that can be traced back to wrong in-flight decisions. Other decision mistakes happen as well but are quite rare. Here are some examples. All of them are one off occurrences.
Pilot tried to cross a mountain ridge while flying under power. When he got too low, he pulled up, stalled and crashed
Pilot decided to take off from wet, upsloping turf runway with quartering tailwind and high density altitude; the climb-out was too slow, glider released, tried to make 180 and impacted trees
Pilot flew two aggressive low passes, then crashed on final 180 degree turn to land
How Can We Avoid “Fateful Decisions” And Resist Temptation?
To answer this question we must first consider that practically all decision mistakes in soaring are preceded by the temptation to do something that we know is objectively unsafe. (But somehow we are doing it anyway.)
There are three important factors at play that determine how hard it is for us to resist the temptation and do the right thing:
(1) how strongly we are tempted;
(2) how great we think the risk is;
(3) whether we have to take an active decision to to something that’s dangerous (e.g. deliberately fly low over unlandable terrain) or if the danger is coming at us and we would have to take an active decision to get out of it (e.g. deciding to switch from thermalling to landing in a field as we get closer and closer to the ground)
We are most likely to make a fateful mistake if the temptation is high; our subjective assessment of the risk is low; and if the risk is coming at us such that we have to take a pro-active decision in order to avoid it.
Consider the following (fictional) scenario: a contest pilot is in first place on the last day of a national competition. He knows that he doesn’t need to win the last contest day but he has to complete the task: landing out would not only cost him the overall win, he would most likely be off the podium altogether. He would also miss his chance to compete in the World Championships, something he has aspired to his entire flying career. In short: his temptation to avoid a land-out is about as high as it can be.
During the flight, he made a minor tactical mistake and on the final leg he finds himself lower than he would like to be. No big deal, he has been in this situation many times before. In his club he is well known for his flying skills. He has thousands of hours of experience and has never had an accident. In other words: his subjective assessment of his personal risk when thermalling close to the ground is likely to be fairly low.
As he keeps looking for lift he is surprised (and increasingly annoyed) that he gets lower and lower as he continues on course. All he needs is one good climb and he can make it home. Somewhere between two fields that don’t look great but are probably land-able he finally finds some weak lift. He is down to 450 feet. This has got to work! He has gained back 600 feet when the lift dies. He’s got to move on and there’s a newly forming cloud just ahead. This is perfect! There also seems to be some kind of field right there. He pushes for the cloud. He’s down to 400 feet again when he encounters lift. He turns. Dammit – wrong turn direction. That hardly ever happens to him. Why now?There’s some big sink – he’s down to 250 feet. The field is within reach but he notices a power line running through it as he tries to center the thermal. This lift is narrow! But it will work! While he tries to center the turn, flying close to stall speed to keep the turn radius as tight as possible, he also tries to get a look at the field and the power line to figure out how he would land should this become necessary. Suddenly there’s a gust from behind, the glider stalls and spins in. The last thing our pilot sees is the ground rushing at him. And he hasn’t even made an active decision to do something that’s risky!
(1) The Strength of the Temptation
When we fly we can be tempted either by our desire to achieve positive flight outcomes (e.g. a personal best, more OLC points, peer recognition) or by our desire to avoid negative outcomes (e.g. having to land out and losing a contest, losing peer respect, missing an important meeting).
Recognizing that “you will be tempted”, as John Cochrane puts it, is the first and perhaps most crucial step towards making better piloting decisions. As John writes, “it’s much wiser to realize that you will be tempted and start preparing now to overcome that temptation, rather than just pretend you’re such a superior pilot it won’t happen to you.”
In applying Prospect Theory to soaring, Daniel Sazhin explains that the two types of temptations – positive and negative – are quite different in terms of human psychology. “People take the biggest risks when they are confronted with losses rather than gains.” I.e., the temptation to avoid a negative outcome is much stronger than the temptation to achieve a positive outcome. That means, for example, that a pilot who wants to achieve a new personal best is significantly less tempted to take great risks (there will be another opportunity!) than a pilot who thinks that he will get reprimanded or ridiculed for landing out.
What really matters, however, is not so much the situation per se but how we as individuals think about it. If you are thinking of a land-out as something that you must avoid at all costs, it’s not surprising that you are likely to wait far too long before you decide to switch from thermaling into landing mode. But you can choose to think about it differently! E.g., one of my fellow pilots in Boulder thinks of land-outs as opportunities to have a great adventure. This is a great way of re-framing the same situation! Instead of being something to be dreaded, a landout becomes something positive. If you can convince yourself to think about it this way, you are much less likely to take great risks when you find yourself low above some farmer’s field!
(2) Our Perception of the Risk Involved
If we think that a particular course of action could put us in grave danger, we are obviously much more likely to resist the temptation than if we think that nothing will happen.
The problem is that most of the time we don’t actually know how risky a particular situation or maneuver is. Instead we rely on our own subjective risk perception. And our perception is primarily shaped by our own experiences.
This means, if we make decisions that rarely but regularly lead to disastrous outcomes, and which Martin Hellman calls 99.9% safe maneuvers, they will appear to us as less and less dangerous because each time we made such decisions “nothing happened”. A glider flies until is doesn’t and we pay no price for repeating risky behaviors over and over again until the one time when it is too late. That’s when we become complacent.
Daniel Sazhin explores the psychology of this in more detail in his article “Experience Can Kill You” where he illustrates why we are prone to underestimate the risks of relatively rare events especially when our decisions are based on past experience.
To stay safe, we must remain aware that dangerous situations and maneuvers are, well, dangerous.
(3) Risks That Find Us vs. Risks We Decide To Take
One way to look at soaring decision accidents is to examine if the pilot deliberately flew into a dangerous situation, or whether the pilot failed to make a timely decision that would prevent him or her from getting into danger.
The accident data shows that only very few accidents were caused by pilots who actively decided to get into potentially dangerous situations. One such accident happened after the pilot had flown two low passes and then stalled and spun in during the turn to land; one involved a pilot who decided to fly into a line of squall line thunderstorms; and two or three cases involved pilots who actively decided to continue their flights over unlandable terrain without keeping a land-able field in glide.
In the vast majority of cases, the pilot did not actively invite the risk; the risk found the pilot, and the pilot failed to make a timely decision that would have prevented the accident.
This is bad news for those who might have thought that accidents primarily happen to thrill seekers. That is simply not the case. There are some thrill seekers in this sport who deliberately lead dangerous lives, but they represent a small minority. Most accidents happen to pilots who are generally risk-averse.
Ironically, being risk averse might make us even more likely to get into an accident in situations where the necessary evasive action carries some inherent risk as well. This is particularly the case when we are low and confronted with a familiar dilemma: should we decide to land in a field and risk hurting ourselves; or should we keep trying to thermal and risk hurting ourselves? Our fear of botching the land-out just adds to the temptation to keep trying to stay aloft, and the temptation continues to grow the closer we get to the ground. We are inclined to delay and delay the decision to land until one way or another, it is too late and we crash.
To stay safe, there are two lessons here: first, we must remember that the risks will find us without us having to go looking for them. We must make the timely and pro-active decision to take preventative actions. Second, we must mentally prepare ourselves for the possibility of having to land in a field. This goes without saying for anyone flying cross-country but it is even true for those who intend to stay close to their home airfield. Remember: eventually the risk is going to find you!
Strategies to Avoid Fateful Decision Mistakes
John Cochrane, Daniel Sazhin, Martin Hellman, and many others have proposed various strategies and I have added my own. I don’t think that there is a single silver bullet that works for everyone. I suggest you pick the ones that will work for you or even develop your own. The key is that you are not only able to think about this while you are on the ground, but that you remain firm in your resolve when you have to make the tough decisions while in the air.
(1) Remember that you will be tempted and try to direct your mind to keep the temptation as low as possible.
E.g., if you think of landing out as something to be dreaded, try to reframe your perspective and channel your mind to think about all the positive experiences that you can gain from it.
It you’re flying in a contest, try to focus on the immediate activity to be performed (and not the day or the overall result). Be like a tennis champion who is able to stay focused on each point and not get wrapped up in thoughts about the set, match, or the championship. If the task before you requires a safe land-out, execute it like a champion would. If your mind wants to go back to the bigger picture, broaden your perspective further and think about your family and the many years of soaring ahead. Remember that today’s flight outcome is insignificant provided you stay safe so you can fly again tomorrow.
I also like John Cochrane’s suggestion that you pick a hero story to help you reduce the temptation: he recounts the tale of his hero, John Seaborn, who refused to fly into a line of thunderstorms during the 2001 US Nationals, thereby forgoing the contest win and a chance to participate in the World Championships. Be like John Seaborn! (Btw: this story continued. At the 2018 US Nationals, John was in first place until the last day of the competition when he ran out of lift and executed a safe landout. Then, one year later, his patience paid off and he finally got his reward and won the 2019 US Nationals. Again: be like John Seaborn!)
(2) Regularly remind yourself that certain maneuvers such as thermalling low (even next to an airport), flying close to ridges without an adequate safety margin, circling below ridge-tops, crossing unlandable terrain (with or without an engine), low-energy final glides, terrain transitions at low altitude, etc, are – and will always remain – dangerous. This is true even if – and especially if – you have a lot of experience. Here are some things you can do to remind you that these risks are real:
Regularly invoke your memories of situations when you scared yourself. How did you get into these situations and what are you doing differently now to prevent them from happening again? E.g., I write flight reviews with lessons learned to help me avoid repeating my own mistakes.
Try to learn from the experience of others, especially those that have perished while giving in to temptation (e.g. by reading accident reports). Do not dismiss what happened to them by thinking that you are better then them. Instead, imagine how they got into these situations and how this might happen to you as well.
Invite flight instructors and peers to critique your flying and tell you if they notice any risky behavior. Correct it before it becomes a habit and your brain tricks you into believing that repeating a dangerous maneuver makes it safer (it doesn’t).
Recency matters so repeat those exercises from time to time. You can also ask yourself on every flight “what can possibly go wrong” and fly as if everything that could go wrong would come to pass.
(3) Plan ahead because the risky situations will find you and you will have to act to prevent them. Pre-plan the most difficult decisions so when the time comes, your mind is already made up and all you need to do is execute your plan.
Decide what safety margins you will maintain. E.g. “I will keep a minimum distance from mountainous terrain of at least x wingspans and I will never fly slower than x kts; I will never attempt to thermal below x feet; I will not circle along a ridge until I am at least x feet above; I will always keep a landable field in glide with an arrival altitude of x feet and assuming a glide ratio of x:1 (or a MC setting of at least x); for final glides I will use a safety altitude of x feet and and MC setting of at least x; I will never extend the engine unless I am at least x feet above a landable field.” Write these safety standards down, and promise your spouse and your friends that you won’t violate them. Review your flight logs to see if you kept your promises.
Some situations are less suitable for such simple decision rules because they require constant adjustments in flight. However, you can still make commitments that will help you stay ahead of the game and avoid the other frequent “fateful decision” mistakes. e.g. a good general rule is the familiar plan A/B/C paradigm: “whenever I decide to attempt something that is not 100% certain (e.g. a terrain transition, flying above unlandable terrain, approaching a ridge, soaring above clouds, etc.) I will always maintain a plan B and a plan C that I can fall back on if plan A does not work out.”
Pre-planning is especially important for land-outs where our temptation to delay the decision is the greatest. Promise yourself that “when I am x feet above the ground I will land, and I will not change my mind”
Note that the same set of rules will not work for everyone and everywhere. Your minimums should reflect terrain and site-specific considerations and must be appropriate for your glider and your skill level.
2) Basic Piloting Mistakes
This second category accounts for ~30% of Soaring Accidents. All of the skills necessary to avoid these accidents are regularly taught as part of basic flight instruction. You might ask, why then do these mistakes still occur? I had the same question.
One of the most interesting overall findings is that even the most basic piloting error accidents are rarely caused by true beginners!
In fact, only 10% of all improper aircraft handling accidents involve pilots with less than 50 hours of flight experience, and another 10% were caused by pilots with more than 50 but less than 100 hours of flight experience. The median level of experience of pilots involved in these accidents is 416 flight hours.
That means flight instructors overall do a pretty good job teaching the mechanical skills of flying. The main problems can be found elsewhere!
What leads even experienced pilots to make basic flying mistakes?
Once again, I’ve tried to look at these accidents based on the root causes that got the pilot into a situation where they were unable to react properly and steer the plane.
You might notice that many of these cases also involve some level of negligence or improper decision making. However, I classified all of them as “improper handling of the aircraft” because good piloting skills alone should have been enough to avoid the accident – even if the accident was preceded by carelessness and/or a poor decision.
I am discussing them in the order of how frequently they occurred:
Reaction to Emergency – Failure to React To Standard Emergency Situations
Pilots frequently run into trouble when they encounter a standard emergency situation that they have not personally experienced or trained for in a long time. Many of them occur during winch launches where an immediate reaction is required.
The winch cable broke at 300ft AGL, the pilot was too slow to react, stalled and spun in
Winch failed to pull at about 100ft AGL, glider stalled.
Winch pulled too slowly, pilot stalled and spun in.
Winch cable disconnected from glider, pilot stalled and spun in.
Pilot climbed too steep on the winch, stalled and spun in.
Wing of glider touched ground during ground roll, the pilot did not release immediately, the winch driver stopped the winch, the glider stalled and crashed
The gear of a glider collapses on take off roll, the glider pilot did not release and launched, the winch driver stopped the winch, the glider stalled
Interestingly, pilots seem better prepared to deal with the clear-cut case of a standard cable break, than they are prepared to react to irregularities in the winch’s operating speed. If you think about it, this makes sense because we have trained for cable breaks and our reaction in this case is more instinctive. When the winch just slows down our instincts don’t work quite as well because our first reaction may be to hang on and figure out what’s going on. By then the glider may have already stalled and our reaction comes too late.
Extensive flight experience is not a good preparation for these types of emergencies. Hundreds of uneventful winch launches make us drop our guard because we are not expecting a problem. In fact, the data suggests that a student pilot who has just gone through cable break exercises is more likely to react correctly in these situations than someone who hasn’t experienced a winch problem in a long time.
Overconfidence and Complacency
Experienced pilots, even when somewhat rusty, are more likely than beginners to overestimate their flying skills. Here are some examples of accidents where the pilot’s plane handling skills perhaps weren’t quite as good as they thought. These accidents could have been avoided had the pilot been a little more humble and avoided maneuvers that required more proficiency.
Pilot slipped plane into the ground, perhaps through a combination of overconfidence and show-offishness
Pilot of motor glider thought he could land in a small field, touched down, tried to go around and stalled out during the attempt to clear the tress at the end of the field.
Pilot decided to land with a tailwind out of convenience and loses control of the glider
Pilot returned to flying after a longer break and was unable to control glider during a normal aerotow
After crossing the finish line, a contest pilot decided to land directly rather than fly an abbreviated pattern. When extending the gear near the ground she inadvertently moved the stick forward and drove into the ground at a high speed of 100 kts.
Inexperience – Basic Piloting Errors By True Beginners
Of course there are several cases involving students who lacked the necessary training to react appropriately. Here are some examples:
Student pilot (age not reported) had only theoretical spin training and did not know how to exit from a spin
17 year old student pilot on first solo flight started to oscillate at 1000 ft AGL and lost control of the glider
15 year old student pilot with 30 hours of experience lands far too fast, bounces and crashes
A 76 year old student pilot observed and reported speed fluctuations on the winch but failed to lower the nose when winch slowed. The glider stalled and spun in.
Unfamiliar Aircraft – Insufficient Familiarization with New Aircraft
Several accidents happened after experienced pilots transitioned to an unfamiliar aircraft. Their experience might have contributed to making them less diligent in acquainting themselves with their new equipment. Several of the cases happened after a transition to a more complex motor glider.
Pilot flew a new aircraft, stalled and spun in during winch launch
Pilot flew new motor glider and failed to retract the engine. Pilot did not appreciate the degraded glide ratio, flew landing pattern too low and too slow, stalled and spun in
Pilot forgot to open fuel line on motor glider, over stressed, and crashed
Pilot flew historic aircraft too slowly, stalled and spun in on final approach
Pilot with 1700 hours (age 61) failed to notice that he mistakenly opened the airbrakes when extending the engine, over stressed when the engine did not start, stalled and spun in
Inattention
Experienced pilots are likely more relaxed than beginners. While this means that they are less likely to suffer from tunnel vision, the downside is that it can also make them less attentive. Four of these accidents happened when the glider pilot did not pat attention and accidentally climbed too high on tow.
Pilot did not pay attention on tow and climbed high above tow plane right after takeoff. Luckily, the rope released on its own and the tow pilot remained unharmed. The glider pilot turned to the left and impacted the ground.
Glider pilot with 1300 hours of experience climbed too high on tow and drove towplane into the ground.
Glider ballooned after takeoff on aerotow, pilot failed to release in timely manner, and pulled tow plane into the ground
Glider climbed too high on tow, tow-pilot released; glider touched trees
Pilot did not account for headwind on final approach and landed short.
How Can We Avoid Basic Piloting Error Accidents?
Basic piloting errors should be relatively easy to prevent. However, since most of them happen to experienced pilots, who likely consider themselves to be least susceptible, the biggest obstacle to reducing their numbers is likely complacency.
Before we are willing to do something to address this risk we must first believe that it is us who are vulnerable! Once that is accomplished, the remedy itself is relatively easy.
(1) Regularly practice standard situation emergencies such as rope breaks spin entries, and irregular occurrences, especially on tow
E.g., if you have not had a winch failure or an aero tow failure in some time it’s a good idea to fly with an instructor and have them pull the release on you when you least expect it. Ask to also practice unexpected things such as a power reduction of the tow plane or an irregular winch speed. These emergencies happen close to the ground and require immediate recognition and an almost reflexive reaction. If we are stunned by what’s happening and are trying to figure out what is going on, the glider might have already stalled and it is too late. Recognizing spin entries is easy to practice on our own at altitude (as long as you really know what to do if the glider does spin in and you first make sure that there’s no one else below you. Practice with an instructor first if you’re not 100% certain.) The important thing is that we instantly recognize what’s happening and reflexively do the right thing to stop it.
(2) Really get to know your equipment.
When you transition to a new glider be as diligent as you were when you transitioned into your first single seater. Do not underestimate the complexity of your new glider, especially if it has an engine or other unfamiliar controls and instruments.
(3) Stay current.
If you have taken a break from soaring for a few months, take a check ride with an instructor before you get back into your own ship. Read the operating handbook again and make sure you know exactly how everything works before you move the glider onto the runway.
(4) Worry – at least a bit.
If you tend to feel very relaxed when you get into the cockpit ask yourself what could go wrong: think of traffic, wind, weather, equipment failure, etc. Imagine the worst and how you would handle it. This will make you pay attention.
(5) Stay humble, seek critique, and critique yourself.
Reflect back after every flight: what did you do well? what could you have done better? what was the most dangerous situation? what could have happened in the worst case? what could you have done to avoid it? When you fly with an instructor, ask them to be ruthless in critiquing your flying. If we develop bad habits (and we all do), chances are that we won’t notice until someone tells us.
3) Pre-Flight Negligence
12% of all soaring accidents are the direct consequence of things that the pilot did or did not do before they even took off. In other words: once the launch process was underway, even the best piloting skills might not have been sufficient to prevent an accident. The chain of events that led to the bad outcome was already in motion.
Once again, these accidents happen primarily to experienced pilots. In fact, 85% were caused by pilots with at least 100 hours of experience and the median flight experience of the pilots involved was 700 hours.
Almost all of these accidents fall into a few groups, listed in order of frequency of occurrence:
Failure to properly assemble the aircraft and/or conduct a Pre-Flight and Positive Control Check (PCC)
The most frequent of these types of crashes involve disconnected control surfaces (mainly elevators or ailerons) and most could have been detected through a proper PCC. Examples:
Pilot forgot to connect elevator and released after takeoff from aero tow. In this winch case, the pilot luckily made it to the top of the launch and exited with the parachute. In this case, the pilot crashed into trees after releasing from aerotow when he noticed the mistake.
Pilot forgot to connect the ailerons on an SZD 30 Pirat. The same happened with this Nimbus 3T, this Astir CS, and this LS3a.
The pilot of the tow plane forgot to remove the aileron gust locks prior to launch and crashed after takeoff. The glider pilot was able to release and land straight ahead.
A glider pilot had deliberately removed the backrest. When the winch accelerated the pilot was pushed back into the soft seat cushion. His arm was too short to push the stick forward enough to keep the nose down. The glider stalled and spun in during the climb and crashed.
In this case, the rudder hinges were corroded and the rudder fell off the glider.
Failure to consider a specific pre-take off emergency plan before launch
We were all taught to have a pre take-off emergency plan in place before each launch that includes what we will do in case of an emergency. Unfortunately, as we experience one uneventful takeoff after another, we tend to become complacent and ignore or forget that lesson. Sometimes we maintain a vague plan but it is not specific enough and does not cover all eventualities. The problem is that if a take-off emergency does occur there is usually no time to think. We find ourselves at a low altitude and in a situation where flying a normal landing pattern is impossible. We may even be too low for a 180 degree turn and a downwind landing. The land out options at the airport we are flying from might be poor and we may not have reviewed them in some time (or maybe not even at all). We’re also over-stressed which means that neither our decision making skills nor our flying skills are as good as they would otherwise be. And every second we lose altitude and our options get worse.
Many of these accidents could have been avoided had we already pre-decided what to do. But without a clear and specific plan in place we tend to waver and wander about until it is too late. Examples:
Pilot attempted 360 degree pattern after release at 450ft. Impacted trees on downwind leg. A 180 degree turn followed by a downwind landing would have been a much safer choice.
Pilot on winch launch took off too early, touched back down after 150 ft, failed to release, stayed on tow, stalled, and crashed.
Winch cable broke at 350 ft, pilot wavered, wasted time and altitude when there was room to land straight ahead, then tried to make 180 degree turn from the middle of the runway with nowhere to go, stalled and spun in.
After aerotow release at 140ft, pilot failed to land straight ahead (despite there being plenty of room), tried to to make 180 degree turn, stalled and spun in. Here’s another similar case.
Tow plane was unable to climb (in part because glider had flaps in landing configuration), the glider pilot failed to release on time and impacted terrain.
A wing touched the ground during winch ground roll. Pilot failed to release and cartwheeled into the ground.
Winch cable broke at 150ft. Instead of landing straight ahead, pilot hesitated, wavered, made several turns in both directions, stalled and spun in.
Failure to review the pre-takeoff checklist
These accidents typically involve either the canopy or the air brakes opening during takeoff. Examples:
This airline transport pilot with 24,000 hours of flight experience took off without closing the canopy and airbrakes.
In this case the canopy opened on the downwind leg. Due to increased drag the pilot landed short of the runway.
Canopy opened on aerotow at 300 ft. Instead of staying on and flying the plane, the flight instructor released and slipped into ground.
Failure to properly prepare a Cross-Country Flight
A few accidents (all in the American West) involved flights where a landing place shown on a map did not exist or could not be found by the pilot.
Pilot was unable to locate an unimproved airport and had to land on an unsuitable dirt road.
Pilot landed on a closed runway and hit a fence.
How Can We Prevent Pre-Flight Negligence Accidents?
Similar to accidents caused by poor basic piloting skills, these accidents are easily avoided if we realize that we are susceptible and are willing to be consistently diligent in our flight preparations.
(1) Always use and follow checklists.
The most important ones are: assembly checklist; pre-flight check including PCC; pre-take off checklist; pre-landing checklist. Start over if you get distracted. Never ever skip the PCC!
(2) Have an emergency plan for each takeoff.
Be very specific and consider all eventualities. E.g., what do I do during ground roll if: the wing touches the ground; the towplane won’t climb, the winch slows down. Once airborne, what do I do if the rope breaks or if the tow plane/winch fails at different altitudes. For me, the best tactic is to actually call out loud what I would do “now” if the rope were to break: e.g. land straight ahead; small field 90 degrees left; larger field 30 degrees left; 180 degree turn to the left. This way I know exactly what to do and can focus entirely on executing the plan that is already in place.
(3) Never fly into the unknown.
Even if the sky ahead looks great! You must positively know before the flight where you can land. Also: always keep a landable place in glide.
4) Accidents Caused By Insufficient Situational Awareness
About 6% of accidents are caused at least in part by a pilot’s failure to maintain situational awareness either through audiovisual observations and/or (radio) communications. Most, but not all, of these accidents are mid air collisions that could have been avoided.
Failure to Maintain Visual Awareness
A glider pilot with 3700 hours of experience on final approach did not observe a winch launch and collided with the falling winch cable during landing
Two glider pilots flying in the same thermal ignored the Flarm warning signals and collided; all were able to parachute out.
Two glider pilots were flying together as a team and were in the same thermal at 4000 AGL – no other gliders; they lost sight of each other and collided; one pilot was able to parachute out; the other was unable to exit the cockpit (glider had lost part of one wing and spun uncontrollably)
Two glider pilots were flying in same thermal and aware of each other; then one repositioned the circle, they lost sight contact and collided in 2000ft AGL; one parachuted to safety, the other was unable to exit in time.
During a contest, 10-15 gliders were thermaling in the same lift; one repositioned circle and collided with another glider at approx. 3000ft AGL. Only one was able to exit. (A Discus had lost one wing and was in spiral dive; it’s pilot could not exit)
An aerotow rope (connected to a tow plane) lay across a winch rope; when glider launched on the winch the two ropes got entangled. This caused glider to crash.
Glider pilot launched on winch and failed to notice that another winch cable was lying across to the ground roll path. This other cable hooked onto the tail of the glider at takeoff and pulled the glider into the ground.
Failure to Communicate
Many of the following accidents could have been avoided if the pilots involved had been communicating more pre-actively and/or listened more carefully to the communications of others. Here are some examples:
Collision between power plane and glider on final approach; neither pilot had communicated their pattern entry and both were unaware of each other.
Mid air collision between glider and ultra-light power plane. Glider pilot parachuted. Power plane was able to land. Neither was aware of the other.
Glider and Cessna collided on final approach; both were able to land. The glider pilot was aware of the power plane but the power pilot was unaware of the glider. Both pilots relied on communications from ground operations. A direct communication from the glider pilot may have averted the accident.
A glider and motor glider collided several feet above ground; neither had been aware of the other until that point; pilots were very lucky to escape unscathed
A glider collided with a jump plane; neither was aware of the other; six people died on impact.
A glider on final approach collided with a gyrocopter that had just taxied onto the runway. The glider pilot had seen the gyrocopter during pattern entry but then concentrated on landing and lost sight.
Glider pilot failed to communicate that he carried water ballast; tow plane took off at normal speed; glider pilot noticed softness of the controls, assumed something is wrong with the elevator, released after takeoff and initiated ground loop before end of runway.
How Can We Prevent Insufficient Awareness Accidents?
The simple answer is to always pay attention, maintain a good look-out, and communicate pro-actively. That is true but probably insufficient advice. We can’t tell from the accident reports why the pilots did not do those things. It’s probably safe to say that we should
(1) Only fly when we are healthy and well rested so that we are able and willing to pay attention
(2) Ensure that our eyesight and hearing are up to the task. This is particularly important in countries (such as the United States) where pilots do not need a medical to fly gliders.
(3) Train ourselves to make regular position announcements on the radio, especially when we approach or fly in areas where we expect other air traffic. We must consider that glider pilots tend to seek out the same energy lines and are therefore frequently cruising towards each other at high speeds and at similar altitudes when it is close to impossible to see one another.
(4) Equip our gliders with compatible collision warning technology, especially when we fly in areas with other glider traffic. This could have prevented several accidents and probably has already prevented numerous others.
(5) Speak up when we notice something that could get others into trouble even if we’re not directly affected. This includes reminding others to pay attention or to communicate when we notice an opportunity for improvement.
(6) Pay close attention not just in the air but also on the ground.
5) Unavoidable Accidents
Like with any activity that involves dangers we must face the fact that some accidents really cannot be avoided by the pilot (unless of course they avoid to fly at all).
Fortunately, they represent the small minority of the cases. My analysis shows that approx. 8-15% of all accidents could not have been averted by even the most proficient and diligent pilot.
Most of those fall into one of the following four categories (in order of frequency of occurrence)
Technical Failures
These are rare but they do happen from time to time. I found this to be the cause in 9 out of 247 accidents (3.6%). This does not include issues that could have been detected by a thorough pre-flight check or failures that were caused by operating the plane outside its limits. I’m also not counting cases here where the engine of a motor glider failed to start. Here are some examples:
In this relatively recent case, the rudder of an Arcus got uncontrollable at 17,000 feet causing the glider to enter an irrecoverable spiral dive.
In this case, a wing of a Duo Discus broke in mid flight at a perfectly normal operating speed due to a manufacturing defect.
And in this case, the connection between the controls and the elevator of a DG100 disconnected inside the fuselage after takeoff, making the plane uncontrollable.
Medical conditions that result in the pilot passing out during the flight could only have been prevented by the pilot not flying at all.
There were at least four cases where the pilot suffered an in-flight heart attack. Here’s an example.
Certain Midair Collisions
Some midair collisions are avoidable through pro-active radio communications and better situational awareness. I have covered those under point 4) above. However, there are midair collisions that even the most diligent glider pilots would probably not have been able to prevent. These include cases where the other aircraft involved was not equipped with collision detection technology.
In this extreme case a glider was hit from behind in Class E airspace by a military aircraft traveling at 410 kts.
Multiple cases exist – such as this one – where two gliders collided head-on and where it was also practically impossible for one to see or take note of the other before it was too late.
Human Mistakes of Third Parties
In some cases an accident is caused by someone else and there is really nothing the glider pilot could do to avoid it.
One such case involves a winch launch, where a crew member incorrectly attached the cable in such a way that it could not be released by the glider. Unfortunately the winch cable cutter was defective as well and the pilot had to try to land while remaining attached to the winch.
Accident reports often just present what is known about the facts of an accident and sometimes even that is very little. In the case of fatal accidents there may be no witnesses. And in other cases, the accident pilot may have had an incentive to rationalize their own mistake(s) and attribute the accident to bad luck.
To understand how we can prevent accidents we have to get to the underlying reasons. In particular, I wanted to identify if the pilot had made a mistake or lacked basic skills that made it impossible for him or her to avoid the accident. This requires an act of interpretation, which is of course at least somewhat subjective. Obviously, no one can really know what went on in the pilot’s mind and in many cases, there are several contributing factors and sometimes a series of mistakes that led to the accident. However, after reading and re-reading so many accidents, clear patterns emerge, and I believe a reasonably accurate interpretation is possible. Someone else might interpret any one individual accident differently, but they would likely arrive at the same themes.
After interpreting each accident, I analyzed and categorized the results to develop recommendations and strategies of what each of us can do to minimize the likelihood of becoming part of the accident statistic.
As I pointed out at the beginning, once every 50,000 flight hours a soaring pilot dies. For every fatal accident there is also at least one accident with injuries. That means serious accidents where people are harmed happen about once every 25,000 flight hours.
The fatality rate of our sport makes it 2x as dangerous as riding motorcycles and 40x as dangerous as driving cars.
However, a careful analysis of accident reports shows that soaring does not have to be so dangerous. Approx. 90% of accidents are avoidable. If we were successful in doing that, we would reduce the risk of the sport by an order of magnitude such that it would only be 4x as dangerous as driving.
Unfortunately, such a dramatic reduction of accidents is unlikely to happen. However, each of us has an opportunity to drastically reduce the risks for him- or herself.
If you have read this entire post you have already realized that there are no silver bullets. You also know that experience alone is certainly not sufficient – in fact, it probably works against you. The median experience of the pilots involved in all these accidents is 522 hours. 34% of the accident pilots had flown more than 1000 hours. The following chart shows the distribution:
Here is a summary of the things you can do to help reduce your risk. I have organized them based on the types of mistakes that caused the most accidents, and the recommendations are listed based on my assessment of which ones are likely to have the biggest impact.
40% of accidents are caused by “fateful decisions” and “eroded margins”. Most of them are made by generally conservative pilots, not by daredevil thrill-seekers. How you can avoid them:
(1) Remember that you will be tempted to do something that’s dangerous and train your mind to keep the temptation as small as possible, e.g. by reframing potentially negative outcomes that you want to avoid at all cost (such as landing out) into positive opportunities (e.g. to have an adventure).
(2) Regularly remind yourself that certain maneuvers are always dangerous and that they do not get safer with experience. You may even be performing some of them regularly and no longer think of them as dangerous because nothing has ever happened. This is a dangerous trap that you have to get yourself out of!
(3) Pre-plan the difficult decisions such as when to stop thermaling and start landing; what you will do and not do when you’re in weak lift along a ridge, when to interrupt a final glide, etc. Your mind should already be made up when you get into these situations so you can focus on executing your plan.
30% of accidents are caused by basic piloting errors. Contrary to popular belief, even basic mistakes are most often made by experienced pilots. How you can avoid them:
(1) Regularly practice standard situation emergencies such as rope breaks and spin entries but also power reductions on tow and irregular winch speeds. We tend to be too slow in responding to situations that require a reflexive reaction if we have not experienced them in a while.
(2) Really get to know your equipment. Transitions to new and more complex gliders (e.g. motor gliders) often causes serious problems.
(3) After a break from soaring take a check ride with an instructor before you get back into your own ship.
(4) Worry – at least a bit. If you’re too relaxed there’s a real risk that you become inattentive. E.g., several people have dies because the glider pilot did not pay attention on tow.
12% of all soaring accidents are caused by Pre-Flight Negligence. The median pilot experience was 700 hours. How you can avoid them:
(1) Always use and follow checklists. Never ever skip the PCC or the Pre-Takeoff Checklist!
(2) Have a very specific emergency plan for each takeoff that covers all the things that could go wrong. “I can turn around at 200 feet” is very often not enough!
(3) Plan your flight, know where you can land, never fly into the unknown.
6% of accidents are caused by insufficient Situational Awareness. Most of these accidents are mid air collisions. How you can avoid them:
(1) Only fly when well rested so you can pay attention to the sky and the radio.
(2) Ensure that our eyesight and hearing are up to the task.
(3) Make regular pro-active position announcements when flying in areas with other air traffic. Expect other gliders to fly along the same energy lines.
(4) Equip your glider with Flarm and other traffic awareness technology.
(5) Speak up when you notice something that could get others into trouble.
(6) Pay close attention on the ground as well.
Soaring does not have to be so dangerous. If you train your brain to resist the temptations; if you practice and are self-critical; and if you are diligent before and during your flights, you can dramatically improve your odds.
The Risk of Dying Doing What We Love
Many of us participate in activities and sports that are at least somewhat dangerous. However, most of us also do not have a full appreciation of how risky these activities really are, especially compared to other things that we could be doing instead.
We just love our favorite pastime and facing up to its risks can be stressful because we also want to be safe while having fun. Psychologists call this type of stress “cognitive dissonance”, and we intuitively look for ways to remove the discomfort of our conflicting emotions, often by downplaying the risks to ourselves and to others.
E.g., when I became a glider pilot some 35 years ago, my instructors used to proclaim that “the most dangerous aspect of the sport is the drive to the airport”. This was a widely held belief at the time even though it could not have been further from the truth. And while the slogan was famously debunked by the prominent German pilot Bruno Gantenbrink in his speech “Safety comes first“, our instinct to downplay the risks to ourselves (and to others) has of course remained.
Given our natural inclination to deceive ourselves, it is not surprising that good data about the factual risks of many activities can be difficult to come by. And even if data are reported, they are often accompanied by statements that soften, blur, or contradict the facts, frequently through the use of misleading comparisons.
Here is just one such example from scuba diving in which the author asserts that scuba diving is safer than driving a car. She does this by comparing the statistic that 1 in 5,555 people were killed in a car accident in 2008 with the statistic that only 1 out of 212,000 dives ended deadly. Did you catch the fundamental flaw? The comparison would be ok only if each driver would drive just once a year. In reality, each driver makes on average 2 trips per day, i.e. 730 car trips per year, which means that the 5,555 drivers drove in aggregate about 4 million times (5555*730). I.e., 1 in 4,000,000 drives ended deadly vs 1 in 212,000 dives. By this – still not perfect, but definitely more comparable – measure diving isn’t safer than driving but instead about 19x more dangerous! No matter the sport or activity, you’ll quickly find similar examples of apples to oranges comparisons and a conscious or subconscious attempt to downplay the risks.
When I looked for data on risky sports and activities, I also found the other extreme: a Google search will return plenty of articles listing “the most dangerous sports in the world,” almost all of which try to make most sports sound insanely dangerous. However, more often than not these articles are just click-bait to generate ad revenue and lack any serious effort to get to the facts. Even the most well-intentioned ones that actually quote their sources tend to suffer from one of two major problems: either they lack a common denominator and therefore compare stats that are just not comparable; or they use a denominator that isn’t all that meaningful such as the general population while ignoring the differences in participation rates among different sports.
I wanted to know the honest truth and so I set out to do the research myself. The most important decision that I had to make at the outset was to select the most appropriate basis of comparison and hence, what denominator to use. I concluded that the most meaningful datapoint to me is the risk of dying (and the risk of getting injured) per hour of participating in a particular activity. There are two reasons I picked this risk per participation hour as the most sensible base of comparison: First, it allows me to compare different choices for my spare time, e.g., the risk of spending an afternoon riding a mountain bike vs the risk of spending the same afternoon flying a sailplane. Second, it gives me a sense of how serious the risk really is and therefore how carefully I should prepare to mitigate it.
The graphic that we’ll get to below shows what I came up with. To facilitate the readability of the comparison, I benchmarked all activities against traveling on commercial airlines, which happens to be one of the safest things you can do when you leave your home: only once in 10 million passenger hours (i.e., once in 1,141 years) will a passenger die when traveling on a commercial airline. In other words, the chance of a person dying within their next 1,000 participation hours is only 0.01%.
Other activities that I participate in regularly such as driving, cycling, skiing (on and off piste), or marathon running aren’t nearly as safe as traveling on an airliner but they are still quite safe.
Unfortunately, my favorite sport, flying sailplanes, aka soaring, is one of the more dangerous activities. There are no reliable participation data available for the US but I found quite solid information for Germany and France where soaring is much more practiced than in the US. In both countries the sport has a fatality rate of 1 in 50,000 participation hours; i.e., the risk of dying within the next 1,000 hours of participation is 2%, about twice as high as the risk involved in riding motorcycles. It also means that an active pilot, who flies about 100 hours per season, has a 1 in 50 chance of dying in the sport within the next decade, and it makes soaring about 200 times more dangerous as traveling on a commercial jet. Other air sports tend to have similar risks: flying powered airplanes is just a little bit safer whereas hang-gliding and paragliding are somewhat more dangerous.
Some of the data surprised me. E.g., I found driving, skiing, and cycling to be safer that I expected, whereas climbing the Tetons and especially Mt Everest is actually much more dangerous than I anticipated. Not surprising to me was the insanely high risk involved in Base Jumping, which is shown to be 480,000 times more dangerous than commercial aviation, with an expected death per 21 hours of participation, and practically no chance at all to survive the next 1,000 hours of flying through the air. If you’re a Base Jumper you are likely to complain that my methodology of counting only the short duration of the jump (and, e.g., not the time you spend climbing up the mountain) puts your sport into an unfair light. To that I say feel free to count differently if you want to convince yourself that jumping is safer than it really is. As I pointed out above, you certainly won’t be alone in your desire to deceive yourself.
Unfortunately, all the information in the chart below only refers to the risk of death and does not account for the risk of injuries. The reason is simply the fact that data about injuries are extremely unreliable since the great majority of sport injuries are never reported and/or accounted as such. (The omission of injury information also means that activities that tend to have a relatively high injury to death ratio (e.g. skiing, equestrian eventing, marathon running, riding motorcycles, hang gliding, paragliding, downhill mountain biking) might look relatively safer than they really are, and activities that have a relatively low injury to death ratio (e.g. general aviation, soaring, skydiving) might appear relatively more dangerous than they really are.)
Without further ado, here is the chart:
Another way to look at the same data is to compare them to the normal risk of dying (of any cause) at different life stages. Life insurance companies keep track of these risks as they seek to adjust their premiums based on the age of the insured. It should be intuitive that an 18 year old person has a much lower risk of dying within their next 1,000 life-hours than a 90 year old.
Below is a chart that shows how this normal risk of death increases as you get older. E.g, the odds that an average 18-year-old American male will die within their next 1,000 life-hours is about 0.01%. This happens to be exactly the same odds as traveling on a commercial airliner, once again illustrating how save commercial air travel has become. A 90-year-old male, by comparison, has a 1.9% chance of dying within their next 1,000 life hours. You can see how the slope of the curve remains fairly flat until the age of 50, and how it really steepens around 75. If someone manages to survive until the age of 119, their odds of dying within the next 1,000 life-hours will have risen to 10.2%.
(The source of this information is the US Social Security Administration. Note that they report the risk of dying within the next year, which I converted to the risk within the next 1,000 life hours, i.e. 41.7 days. Note also that the risk level tends to be slightly lower for females since their life expectancy is higher, but for our purposes the gender differences are negligible.)
So how do the risks of the various activities compare relative to the normal day-to-day risk of dying at different ages?
To illustrate this, I placed the activity icons onto the same chart (see below). Once again, you see that commercial air travel is the safest of these activities. Driving, skiing, cycling, back-country skiing, and marathon running are all along the relatively flat part of the curve. The risk of dying per hour when swimming in open waters or while participating in equestrian eventing is about 0.3%, equivalent to the risk that an average 71 year-old person faces in their day-to-day life.
As you move right and up along the curve, the risk level increases much more noticeably. Scuba diving is about as dangerous as being 80 years old, and motorcycling corresponds to the normal risk of being 85. Several air sports come next: general aviation, flying sailplanes, hang gliding, and paragliding. Each of these is about as risky as the normal lives of people aged 88 to 95. Downhill mountain biking also falls into this category.
As you continue further up the slope you can see two outliers: skydiving is about as dangerous as the normal life of a 107 year-old and climbing the Tetons is about as dangerous as being 119 yeas of age.
Three activities from the initial graphic above are still missing: Formula 1 racing, Climbing Mt. Everest, and Base Jumping. The dangers of these three sports are so great they are literally off the chart because the Social Security Administration does not compute death risk statistics for anyone older than 119. (You probably don’t know anyone of that age either.) Since Formula 1 racing is about 2x as dangerous as Climbing the Tetons and Climbing Everest is another 2x as dangerous, you can roughly imagine how high up the risk curve you have to go. With Base Jumping even that becomes impossible: it is more than 100x more dangerous than climbing Mt. Everest!
Why put all this information together? I believe we should all be fully aware of the risks that we take, and that we should let our awareness of these risks be an incentive to take the appropriate preparations and precautions to reduce these risks as much as possible. Most of the fatal accidents in sports are at least in part the result of human error and could have been avoided. If we close our eyes to the risks (as we are naturally inclined to do in order to remove this pesky thing called cognitive dissonance), we are also unlikely to do what it takes to keep the risks contained.
Commercial aviation is a great example that risk mitigation really works. After the invention of powered flight in 1903, flying was certainly one of the most dangerous things humans could possibly do. Gradually and over time, this risk has been reduced to such an extent that commercial air travel is now one of the safest things we participate in.
The concrete risks and the strategies for risk mitigation are obviously quite specific to each of the different activities and discussing them is beyond the scope of this article. But risk mitigation strategies do exist for all activities and deploying them deliberately and consistently can be very effective (for some activities probably more so than for others). If you do something that is objectively dangerous (and now you know that it is), learning about these strategies and taking them seriously can truly help you stay alive.
Have fun and be safe!
CX Landing in 20-30 kts Cross-Wind
Before the arrival of the cold front: fantastic fall-thermal soaring conditions along the Front Range.
This past Wednesday was a great fall soaring day. Initially I struggled off tow for a while, but once I got up above the inversion I had a great and easy flight in strong convergence and thermal lift along the Front Range, covering 350km in about 3 hours. Cloud bases were around 20,000 feet and the best thermals produced climb rates of up to 10 kts average. Not bad for October!
This was before the cold front arrived. I had not expected it until late in the evening but luckily I could see it coming just as I was planning to return to Boulder: the wind had been blowing from the southwest all day when I noticed a wall of dust rapidly moving in the opposite direction. When I first spotted it, I was flying over the foothills west of the field, and the front was just north of Longmont heading south. I accelerated my descent and landed safely in completely calm conditions. 10 minutes later the wind kicked up sharply and the temperature began to plummet.
CX wasn’t so lucky. He arrived back in Boulder about 30 minutes after the front moved in. Strong gusty winds were blowing from the north. AWOS reported 20 kts on the ground, gusting to 31. Boulder only has an east-west runway so CX was faced with a cross-wind landing in very challenging conditions.
Here’s what it looked like from the ground:
This was perfectly executed. Well done! (The video quality is not great but it’s definitely worth watching.) Note how he pulled right to his normal parking position 🙂
I also downloaded CX’s flight trace and took a closer look at the landing pattern.
CX began the “downwind” leg at 8,500 feet. That is 3,200 AGL (!) (The typical altitude at this point is less than 1,000 AGL.) 3,000 AGL might seem excessively high but extreme sink in the pattern is always a possibility in these conditions and the extra height allows the pilot to fly a bigger pattern, align with the runway sooner, avoid turning close to the ground, and it provides more energy reserves to maintain a greater speed in order to deal with extreme turbulence and other potential hazards. CX chose to fly an approach to G26. This is the best option when the wind is from the north because it allows the pilot to avoid landing next to buildings and vegetation that are located along the western half of the runway and could cause additional turbulence. (Before entering the pattern, the pilot also pulled the straps as tightly as possible.)
CX used the high altitude to fly a much wider pattern than usual and to maintain a much higher airspeed. The trace shows CX turning base to final about 2 miles east of the runway at an altitude of 6,100 feet (800 AGL). The ground speed is 120 kts (!), presumable reflecting an airspeed of about 80-90 kts and a tailwind of 30-40 kts. The turn looks much shallower than it actually was: the wind drift is very significant and a relatively steep bank angle was required during the final 90 degree turn.
3,000 feet before the threshold, CX is aligned with runway at an altitude of 300 feet AGL and a groundspeed of 85 kts. The airspeed must be somewhat higher to compensate for the cross-wind. (This is about where the video begins.)
CX reaches the runway threshold at 50-100 feet AGL. The ground speed is 70kts, the airspeed is still somewhat higher (presumably around 75-80 kts). The glider is still perfectly aligned with the runway. If you re-watch the video, you’ll also notice how CX is careful to always keep the right wing (on the windward side) slightly lower than the left wing. (This helps the pilot maintain direction and also prevents the wind from rolling the glider to the left.) The video also shows that the glider appears to be much more stable and easier to control as soon as it enters ground effect.
CX flares perfectly and touches down just before the first buildings at a ground speed of 42 kts. The touch down location minimizes the risk of turbulence in the lee of buildings and vegetation along Independence Road. CX chose to land on the dirt runway to have more room to maneuver if necessary. Landing in the dirt may also reduce potential sideway forces at the point of touch-down.
PS: The pilot is one of the most experienced cross-country pilots in the United States. In the video, the landing looked almost like a non-event. This impression is amplified by the fact that he was able to roll right up to his normal parking spot, stopping precisely where he intended to (and where he always does). The flight trace, however, tells a very different story and illustrates very well how unusual and challenging the conditions were. Most importantly, it shows the mitigating actions that CX took to minimize the risks associated with these conditions (much higher pattern entry, much wider pattern, much higher airspeed, always keeping the upwind wing slightly lower, choice of runway and touchdown point).
Wave Season is Here Again
It’s this time of year so I thought it would be worthwhile to reflect on the lessons from some of my past wave flights that included bruised rotor shins, have led to smarter transitions between wave bars, and even some high speed cruising.
Rotor / wave flight back in January of 2018.
So, here’s a quick wave flying refresher checklist:
Know how wave theory works – it’s imperative to have a solid mental model of the wave when you suddenly need to get out of 2500 fpm sink. Will you know where to point the nose?
Remember the lessons from hypoxia training. What are your first symptoms? Will you be able to recognize them? If you have not taken a training class, I highly recommend it.
Dress very, very warmly – it gets effing cold up there, even if the temps on the ground are nice. Look up the forecast temperatures at altitude.
Carefully study the weather that’s forecast throughout the day. Know the strength and direction of the wind at different altitudes. Know the moisture content of the air at different levels – will there be rotor/lenticular clouds? Know the projected location of the wave bars throughout the day and the strength of the projected lift and sink. Also know that reality can and probably will be different. Here’s an overview of weather forecasting tools for Boulder.
Avoid flying when the winds are too strong, for the turbulence can be too violent. Good climb rates can be found if winds are moderate – cruising speeds can then be even higher than in very strong winds as the necessary crab angle to stay in lift will be lower.
Know the rough air speed of your glider for the air in the rotor zone will be rough. Know where to expect rough air and slow down before you get there! Also, remember that rotor turbulence might suddenly surprise you even when you fly in laminar flow at high altitudes. (I have experienced rotor turbulence at 17,500 feet.)
Know Vne of your glider at high altitudes. (Remember, flutter is a function of TAS, not IAS, so your indicated airspeed limit gets lower as you climb higher). Also know the maximum air speed for deploying the spoilers and how to do it when flying fast (very carefully) – you may need them to avoid getting sucked up into Class A airspace.
Double check the oxygen system before you take off.
Practice slack line removal. Slack lines will form on tow and can be severe.
Pull all straps very tight and safely store all objects in the cockpit that could fly around (because they will). Do this again before exiting the laminar flow and returning to the rotor zone.
Remember that the flying technique to climb in rotor lift and in wave lift is completely different from flying in thermals. If you don’t know what it is, study the theory first, then apply it. The theory works!
Remember that wave bar transitions into the wind cost a lot of altitude (because they take much longer and you have to fly very fast). You can easily lose 6000 to 8000 feet in 3-4 minutes as you push into the wind. Be prepared for this. If possible, fly transitions where there are no clouds – the sink rate may be much lower. (Wave transitions with the wind are usually quick and the altitude loss is often a small fraction compared to upwind transitions.)
Know how to stay out of clouds. Depending on your crab angle and the strength of the wind you might be drifting backwards relative to the ground and clouds can suddenly engulf you from behind if you’re not careful. (Not only will you not see anything, the glider can also immediately take on a layer of ice.) Rotor clouds can form within seconds where none have been before. Clouds can also close up below you while you are flying above. Always, always pay very close attention to what is happening and descend before it is too late!
Reflect on the glide angle on final approach with spoilers fully open – then imagine what it would look like when the glide angle is twice as steep. This is about what to expect in 2000 fpm sink between wave bars. Keep this in mind when you consider the altitude necessary to reach a safe landing spot.
Here are some additional considerations specifically for Boulder:
When wave flying from Boulder, it’s useful to review typical Boulder wave routes. Since wave lift forms mainly in relation to the topography and the strength of the wind, it is usually found in the same places. Knowing where others have found lift before can be of help.
If you’re heading west over the foothills, e.g. when transitioning from the secondary to the primary wave bar (which tends to be anywhere between the Hogback and the Peak-to-Peak Highway), remember to maintain a safety altitude much (!) higher than what would be necessary in the same location during thermal soaring conditions.
Before you initiate an upwind wave bar transition it is imperative that you decide upfront how much altitude you are prepared to lose before you connect with lift again. I.e., you must decide upfront at what altitude you will turn around if you are not climbing again. It is impossible to know in advance how much height you will lose during the transition and therefore you must calculate and decide your turnaround altitude in advance as necessary to always keep a safe landing place within reach! I repeat: you must do this before you begin the transition! Once you are pushing forward you may be losing 2000-3000 ft per minute, and the ground, which seemed so far below a minute earlier, will be approaching very quickly. This is not a good time to do math! Treat your predetermined altitude as a “hard deck”, in other words, once you are down to your preset decision altitude, you will turn around and not continue to push forward! This particular flight, where I lost 6,000 feet (from 17,500 to 11,500) at a maximum sink rate of 29 kts (2,900 fpm) during a 3 minute long upwind transition flown at 85 kts IAS in a Schweitzer 1-34 into a 40+ kt headwind, provides a good illustration of this concept.
This chart shows the trace of this particular flight. The glider icon is in the middle of the wave transition as I pushed west into a 40 kt headwind to get from the secondary wave bar to the primary which was located over the lower foothills. The altitude graph below shows the 6000 ft of altitude lost during this 3-minute long transition.
Even on strong wave days the air at the airport in Boulder is often calm in the morning due to a strong ground inversion. This often allows for uneventful takeoffs in easterly direction. Around noon, sometimes later in the day, sometimes never, the winds turn west at the surface. Westwind takeoffs in rotor conditions can be dangerous and are definitely not for the faint of heart. Landing into westerly winds is usually ok but it is imperative to arrive at the pattern with plenty of altitude and to maintain extra airspeed throughout the pattern to deal with wind shear and turbulence. If rotors touch down near the field there can be extreme sink in the pattern. Fly a close pattern and a steep final approach so you always have extra energy available. If there is a northerly crosswind component, it is good to touch down before MHG to minimize the risk of additional turbulence from buildings and vegetation along Independence Road.
Remember that there are no good places to land over the foothills, i.e. maintaining a safe escape route towards Boulder (or another safe landing area) must be the number one priority. However, if you made a mistake and have no choice but to land in the foothills, it is always good to know the few emergency fields that do exist. These may not be good enough for you and your glider to remain unscathed but they should be good enough to safe your life. Last week I checked out one of these fields that is directly along the Peak to Peak Highway between Nederland and Boulder (see pictures below).
South Sourdough Trailhead Field. The field gets occasionally mowed. During my last visit only a small area to the east was freshly mowed. The grass on the rest of the field was about 10 inches tall. The field slopes slightly up towards the northwest – landing is best in this direction, wind permitting. In west wind conditions there may be hazardous turbulence along the line of tall trees. There is an access road from the Parking Lot on the west side of the Peak to Peak Highway.
Screenshot from Google Maps. The field is about 1300 feet long and is located 2.5 miles southeast of Niwot Ridge directly along the Peak to Peak Highway between Ward and Nederland. Route 116 is a spur road from the Peak to Peak Highway to the South Sourdough Trailhead, hence the name.
Across The Divide: Diamond Distance!
Yesterday was my sixth attempt to complete a Diamond Distance task. The basic requirement is a pre-declared 500km task with up to three turn-points. My strategy for setting these types of tasks has improved over time. I now adhere to the following principles:
Select a task area that provides the best soaring weather over the course of the day. Some parts of the task area might work best in the morning and other parts might work best in the afternoon. Thermal height and depth, thermal strength, convergence lines, development of cumulus clouds, over-development risk, wind direction and speed at different altitudes, buoyancy/shear – all of these things matter, and I try to account for all of these factors. I predominantly rely on Skysight for providing the forecast because it makes it easy to examine all factors for the entire task area throughout the day.
Place the first and second turn point furthest away from Boulder and place the third turn-point closer to home such that the last part of the flight can be flown within glide range of Boulder. This drastically reduces the likelihood of having to land out when the day might die towards the end.
Pick accessible turn-points. I.e., avoid turn points that might be difficult to reach, such as high mountain peaks. Each turn point should also be in an area of forecast lift at the approximate time or rounding it.
Ensure accessible landing places along each task leg. The spacing of these is most critical early and late in the day. The part of the task that lies during the best part of the soaring day (approx. between 1pm to 4pm) can be the most challenging.
Yesterday’s task adhered to these principles.
The task line is shown in blue and the turn points are marked in red by 45 degree sectors.
The Start point was at Nugget Ridge as I planned to take a northwest tow and Nugget Ridge is right on the typical tow route in the morning. Putting the start to the north while my first TP was in the south would also ensure that I would be in close proximity to the airport as I would try to get underway. Thanks to Pedja Bogdanovich for this tip!
I set my first TP at Woodland Park, a few miles north of Pikes Peak. Skysight forecast a convergence line to the south in the morning along the foothills, and the first cumuli were projected along that line. Cloud bases – which were generally a bit lower than I liked – were forecast to be higher to the south than to the north. Also, the south was projected to be less windy. (Strong winds can shear off the thermals, making it harder to climb.) Perry Park was my go-to landing spot on the southbound leg.
My second TP was at Toponas, due west of Boulder. This would make for a challenging second leg across some difficult terrain but the route was supported by the forecast and my fall back plan was to go back north along the convergence before heading west. Potential landing spots were Perry Park, Henderson Ranch (in the nw corner of South Park – thanks to Tom Z), some fields north of Silverthorne, the airport in Kremmling, as well as some fields near Toponas. While the second leg was the longest, it would not increase my distance from Boulder.
My third TP was Squaw Mountain, located south of Idaho Springs on the ridge that extends from Mt. Evans towards the northeast. I have often found lift in this area even in west wind conditions (however, you do not want to get any closer to Mt. Evans on the lee side on west wind days). Kremmling and Granby would be easy-to-reach landing spots west of the divide on this leg should a land out become inevitable. Squaw Mountain is already relatively close to Boulder and 13k feet would put me in glide range.
I set my Finish at Kenny Mountain, east of the Twin Sisters. This ensured that my entire last leg could be flown within glide range of Boulder. (I would have to round Kenny at 11k+ feet to have Boulder in final glide. Having the finish point away from the airport (but within final glide) has the side benefit that rounding it would invariably ensure compliance with SSA rules for Diamond Distance tasks. These rules require that the finish altitude is not more than 1000m below start altitude.)
Total task distance was 312.1 miles or 502.2 km (plus the final return to Boulder).
First Leg
Fortunately the day started early and there was no need for a big mountain tow. I took off at 11:12 am, released at 11:21 and flew across the Start line at 11:30, at an altitude of 11,000 feet.
Having my first leg pass the airport meant I could get going on course without first having to climb up high.
I released right above the entrance to Left Hand Canyon. After a few turns I flew across the Start Line on Nugget Ridge and headed out south.
There was good lift along much of the first leg even though I chose to fly in thermals several miles west of the convergence line because the cloud bases were significantly higher than along the convergence. Following the convergence might have been a bit faster but keeping a good altitude was more important to me along this stretch because there are very few landing options and the only good one is the private airfield of Perry Park.
It was nice having (unplanned) company on this first leg. 5K was heading to Pikes Peak and both of us left Boulder at about the same time. Flying side by side at times helped to see as to who had the better line.
My flight trace is shown in red. 5K is shown in light blue. We parted ways south of Deckers when I left the lift line to round my turn point at Woodland Park while 5K stopped to climb, heading to Pikes Peak.
I averaged 81kph on this 128 km leg and rounded Woodland Park at 12:56pm.
Turning Woodland Park.
Second Leg
Looking ahead after turning Woodland Park the second leg seemed daunting. The distance to Toponas was almost 200 km, much of it across challenging terrain and tall mountains. The cloud bases were still relatively low, around 16,000 feet. This may seem quite high for those used to flying at lower altitudes, but it really isn’t when considering that much of my direct route ahead led over unlandable terrain between 10,000 and 13,000 feet.
The area north of Woodland Park is a bit lower but that makes it all the more insidious. There are no places to land and there is an elevated ridge to the east (and to the west). It is imperative to maintain an altitude that allows clearing the eastern ridge to glide out to Perry Park. The further west one flies, the higher one has to be. I scared myself once before in this area and was determined not to let it happen again.
This screenshot captures my flight trace north of Deckers as I am trying to stay on course. You may notice my erratic-looking flight trace with a hook to the right (east) at the top. The ridge to the east is between 9000 and 10000 feet tall and being able to clear it at all times is essential to staying safe. You can see why following the course line takes you further away from the plains and requires additional altitude. My altitude dropped below 14,000 and in response I turned east to get closer to the plains. This is why cloud bases of 16,000 in this area should be considered relatively “low”.
I quickly found some good climbs back to cloud base and got myself back on course, passing Mount Evans on the west side.
Passing Mt. Evans and heading towards Silverthorne (Evans is the tall mountain to the right of the flight trace. Silverthorne lies in the valley ahead.) It is easy to see that cloud bases of 16k are uncomfortably low in this area.
Unfortunately, the cloud bases had still not risen much beyond 16k feet. I made it to the ridge south of Keystone Mountain and then stopped, milling around in middling lift unsure what to do. There were some clouds ahead but they did not look reliable. I could definitely glide ahead towards Silverthorne but I was concerned that I might get stuck in the valley.
Circling near Keystone Mountain east of Breckenridge. The western flank of Mount Evans is center right in the background. A glimpse of the Flatirons, 45 miles away, is visible on the horizon in the distance on the left.
I also wondered about the impact that Dillon Reservoir would have on the thermals. Ironically, the best looking cloud seemed to be right above the lake. I was not willing to trust it. There was a 12-16kt southwesterly wind at my altitude so I figured I might be able to ridge soar along the south-west facing slopes of the Ptarmigan Range north of Silverthorne if I could get there close to the top of the ridge line. Which seemed possible, although by no means certain. I also considered the potential impact of Eagle’s Nest Ridge, upwind of the Ptarmigan Range. This ridge was even higher and I figured it might mess with the wind direction. It could also mean lee side turbulence and sink. The more I thought about it, the more uncomfortable I became.
Dillon Reservoir is in the upper left. The valley beyond the reservoir in the distance leads directly to Kremmling.
So after a lot of hesitation, evaluation, and considering my options, caution prevailed and I decided to return to the east of the Front Range. I remembered what I learned in Austria: when flying in big mountains, especially ones that one is not intimately familiar with, it is always best to stay well above the ridges. I was not certain that I could do that. Maybe cloud bases of 16k were simply not enough for my first trip to the west…
Returning to the Front Range. Georgetown along I-70 is in the valley below. The Front Range is straight ahead. Longs Peak is visible in the distance.
I crossed over Mt Bierstadt and Mount Evans, heading north towards the Divide. Just before I got to Winter Park, I spotted my opportunity: a line of clouds had developed in westerly direction. I had just climbed to almost 17,000 ft, i.e., cloud bases were finally rising. The airport of Granby was within glide range. No mountain ridges were in the way. I had wasted some time but it was still early enough in the day. There were no more excuses. And with that I resolved to jump to the west.
The moment I decided to make the jump to the west. The divide is still a few miles ahead. Granby is at the bottom of the valley towards the right.
Crossing the Divide was a big moment. It felt daunting and liberating at the same time with the former gradually giving way to the latter. I reached full acceptance once the distance to the divide had increased to the point where gliding right back was no longer possible without gaining altitude first. At that point I just focused on one thing: progressing forward and not run out of time.
Whenever you fly over new terrain your inclination – rightfully so – is to stay high. But staying high also comes at the cost of being somewhat slow. Centering thermals takes time. Centering and climbing in weak thermals takes even more time. Centering and climbing in weak thermals while going into a headwind is even worse. I was wondering: how high is the working band? How low can I afford to get without having to spend even more time digging myself out. These were questions that had no answers for me. So whenever I found reasonable-seeming lift I turned at least to test it.
Fortunately the terrain between the Divide and Kremmling looks a lot more hospitable than the terrain over the foothills. If the clouds are high enough you can easily keep an airport (first Granby, then Kremmling) in glide. And even in the worst case of hitting massive sink – which actually seems a lot less likely given that the terrain is more mellow – there are often some farmers’ fields around where putting the glider down safely seems possible.
I managed to stay high enough to never get out of glide range of an airport. This saved me a lot of stress albeit at the cost of speed. One hour after crossing the Divide I finally got my turn point in view, still 15 miles away. I had expected a little town but all I could make out from the distance was a road intersection.
The immediate issue at hand was that I had almost reached the end of the clouds before a significant blue hole above the lower terrain to the west. I tried each of the last remaining three little clouds and finally found a good climb to cloud base under the last one allowing me to head out into the blue, round the turn point and stay within easy glide of Kremmling the whole time.
Rounding Toponas
I rounded Toponas at 4:16 PM. The Divide looked very far away. But the sky ahead looked great, considerably better than on the outbound leg. I was hoping it would stay this way for a while for I had a lot of ground to cover. Looking at the clouds I was pondering which of the two most promising lines to take.
A few minutes after rounding Toponas. Very nice looking clouds beckon ahead, promising quick progress on the return. Kremmling (not visible) is in the valley beyond the hills in the foreground. The Continental Divide is far away, barely visible on the horizon.
The southerly line (the one to the right of the nose in the picture above) was better aligned with my 3rd turn point but it would keep me on the west side of the Divide for longer. The northerly line (the one to the left of the nose) went directly towards Granby and the nearest point on the Divide. My number one goal at this point was to make it back over the Divide, my number two goal was to complete my task. I chose the northerly line.
The town of Kremmling is below, surrounding the airport. The Divide is now better visible on the horizon. The scenery was just beautiful.
A dark flat-bottomed cloud slightly north of Kremmling promised compelling lift. I figured it would be worthy of a small detour.
The cloud that promised delivered. If every climb had been like this, I would have been around the course in half the time!
Thanks to lift like this and the wind in my back, progress on the return was blazingly fast. Even despite little mistakes like the one in the picture below.
As I followed the line in front I could readily see that the cloud straight ahead was decaying. I should have detoured around it via the cloud to it’s right. Instead I held course and was rewarded with substantial sink under the dying cumulus.
Only 40 minutes after rounding Toponas I was already approaching the Continental Divide.
Close to cloud base it is often not easy to see the direction of the cloud streets. But the cloud shadows can be a dead giveaway like in this prime example. It was easy to see which way would get me over the Divide the fastest.
The town of Granby and the airport are below on the right. Lake Granby features prominently in the center. Longs Peak is towering right behind.
These clouds were the best of the day. I barely had to stop for a circle or two. Most of the time I could just dolphin up in lift and then drop the nose to bridge the short gap to the next cloud.
Beautiful view of the Divide from the west in late afternoon sunshine. Longs Peak is on the horizon to the left.
Approaching the Divide was a non-event and although it was already 5:15 pm, the day was still looking great. Now my mind could start to focus on something else: was it still possible to complete the task? I had another 110 kilometers to go.
A big blue hole greeted me as I crossed the Divide via Mt. Neva. The air on the east was very turbulent and I hit massive lee-side sink. I pushed the nose down, accelerated to 90+ kts and headed straight to the nearest spot along a long cloud street that seemed to stretch from Longmont towards Berthoud Pass but then turned away from the Divide towards Idaho Springs and continued in south easterly direction beyond.
As I approached the line I could readily see that it was generated by a convergence of different air masses. I connected with the line southwest of Rollinsville and immediately found myself in strong lift. After a few turns in turbulent rising air I continued southbound along the line.
This line seemed like a present from the powers to be: it was perfectly aligned to curve around towards my third turn point at Squaw Mountain.
Rounding Squaw Mountain, my third turn point.
I turned Squaw Mountain at 5:33 pm with another 70 kilometers to go to the Finish at Kenny Mountain.
Instead of heading straight to my goal in the north, I backtracked along the line I had just come from. This required an almost 40 degree deviation from the direct course line (see flight trace above) but it was most certainly the fastest route.
Without a single turn I continued to climb along the line, which allowed me to make rapid progress.
Cruising in straight flight along the powerful convergence line. Here I am on the final (northbound) leg south-west of Nederland. Barker Reservoir is about 8 miles ahead 15 degrees to the right of the nose.
I continued in straight flight along the line until I reached 16,000 feet near Gross Reservoir. I had 35 kilometers to go to my Finish Point at Kenny Mountain and from there another 20 kilometers to get back to Boulder. Barring some extreme sink event, I had more than enough altitude to complete the rest of my flight in a single glide and arrive back in Boulder with height to spare.
Flying past the Indian Peaks as the evening sun breaks through decaying cumulus clouds while I head north towards my finish point.
I told myself that it was still too early to get excited. My route would take me into the lee of the Twin Sisters. I still could not be certain.
Approaching Kenny Mountain – part of the rocky area right below the nose. Estes Park is further ahead.
The big sink did not come. At 3 minutes past 6pm I rounded my Finish Point with an altitude of 12,000 feet – 1,000 feet above my start altitude, and 1,500 feet higher than I needed to safely make it back to Boulder. It was a great moment.
Rounding Kenny Mountain: the 500km task is complete.
After five failed attempts, I finally had made my 500 km Diamond Distance. And it was in good style with my first excursion to the west of the Continental Divide.
There was still some lift as I’m returning to Boulder.
I hit a good line on the return to Boulder and had enough altitude to spare for a celebratory fly-by of the Flatirons before returning to the airport where I landed at 6:24 pm after 7 hours and 12 minutes in the air (my longest flight duration thus far).
My OLC flight distance based on optimized six legs was 564 km with an embedded FAI triangle of 439 km (also my biggest yet). One day later I also noticed that the flight was the highest scoring flight for the day worldwide with 651 points on OLC plus. The flight track is here.
Unexpectedly, my flight turned out to be the highest scoring flight for the day on OLC Plus worldwide. Granted it was a weekday with far reduced competition and I clearly benefited from outstanding soaring weather.
Don’t Give Up. It took me six attempts to make Diamond Distance. It’s eminently doable without taking any risks but it requires a really good day and a bit of luck. (My bit of luck was the perfectly aligned convergence line at the end of the day that allowed me to cruise to TP 3 and the Finish without turning.)
Yay to the West. The Continental Divide can be intimidating because it can get in your way on the return to Boulder. But flying in the west certainly isn’t any harder than it is in the east. And the terrain towards Kremmling is much more hospitable with better landing options and good low-traffic airports within easy reach. If you pick the right day – you want high cloud bases, good thermals, modest winds, and a low risk of over-development – then you’re set for a lot of flying fun.
The Height of the Cloud Bases Matters a Lot. Obviously this isn’t a new lesson but this flight really drove it home. You must always factor this into your flight planning.
Stay Above the Ridges. This is one of the main principles of early mountain flying that I was taught in Austria. Thermal lift is almost always best above the ridge lines. Ridge lift will work best at ridge top level but you have to be sure about the strength and direction of the wind. This is not a given because often the wind aligns with the direction of the valleys looking for the path of least resistance. Being on top of the ridges also gives you the best view, the smallest chance to get lost, and the widest choice of thermals to pick from. So in short, especially when flying across unfamiliar terrain, it is always best to stay well above the ridges.
Carefully Examine the Forecast for Good Lines and Select Lines Over Hospitable Terrain. Skysight correctly predicted the energy line to the west across Granby, Kremmling, and beyond. The line extended much further than I could even see. I’m pretty sure I could have kept going west for another 50 to 100 miles. (I just would have run out of day coming back). Lines that run over landable terrain with good airports are the best! The easiest starting point to find good energy lines in Skysight is by looking at projected XC speeds throughout the soaring day. This combines the forecast for thermal and convergence lift. You will then want to validate your choice by looking at cloud bases, thermal strength and a low Buoyancy/Shear ratio (indicated by “stipple” on the thermal strength chart).
My Flight Planning Strategy Worked (summarized at the beginning of this post). After five failed attempts I had learned from prior mistakes. If you plan your first long flights I recommend you adopt a similar approach to planning your route.
Fly Around Decaying Clouds. Expect to find sink underneath. A slight detour can be a better option, especially one that takes you across an actively developing cumulus.
Cloud Shadows Indicate Clouds Streets. When flying close to cloud base it can be impossible to see the direction of the street ahead. But the shadows on the ground are a great marker.
More Field Walking Is Required. On my next drive out west along I-70 I will want to check out a few fields north of Silverthorne. It was tempting to try soaring the ridge along the Ptarmigan Mountain but without having seen the fields at the bottom of that valley this was clearly a no-no. (I have researched several fields in this area via Google Maps but my degree of confidence in a field improves hugely after seeing it on the ground.)
How Do I Determine the Height of the Working Band? I could have flown much faster, especially on my leg to the west into the headwind, had I been more choosey about the thermals I picked. But this would have meant being comfortable getting lower before picking a thermal to climb in. Without experience in the area that I was flying in, I had no idea how low I could let myself get before having to worry about climbing back up. I still don’t know. If you have any tips, please let me know!
When 13k Is Too Low
I’ve had a few days to ponder another failed Diamond Distance attempt on August 6 and reflect on what prompted me to abandon my task very early on a promising looking day.
The weather forecast was strong, particularly to the northwest, and I had set an ambitious task with the first turn point at Bridger Peak, 40 miles south of Rawlins WY, and halfway between the airports of Saratoga, WY and Dixon, WY. To get there I would have to cross the Continental Divide into North Park, fly across North Park and then continue along the next mountain range to the northwest. The direct air distance from Boulder is 125 miles. The road distance is more than twice that, and driving there takes about 5 1/2 hours.
Declared Task. The turn point on the upper left is Bridger Peak.
I had a good and early start after releasing from tow south of Coal Creek Canyon (between Boulder and Golden). I then climbed to 16,000 feet over the Flatirons, quickly crossed my start line and headed in north-westerly direction. It was still early in the day with few clouds. My immediate objective was to find a good spot to climb up to the Divide and then cross it at a location that would give me a safe passage into North Park. The best area for that seemed to be northwest of Estes Park.
A few miles to the east of the Twin Sisters I found a strong 6-7 kt climb to cloud base at 16,400 ft and headed west from there towards the Divide. Although the cloud bases were still relatively low, my last few climbs had been good and I felt fairly confident that I would find good lift as soon as I would reach the Divide. So far everything had been quite easy.
East of the Twin Sisters I found a strong climb that took me to cloud base at 16,400. This seemed sufficient to approach the divide. I was hoping for additional lift above the Twin Sisters and along the northern flank of Mt. Meeker and Longs Peak.
That’s when my troubles began. The 12 mile push through the lee cost me more altitude than I had expected and when I reached the Divide above Flattop Mountain my altitude had dropped by more than 3,000 feet. I was down to 13,200, which put me at only 900 feet above the ridge. I remember thinking, “there has to be a climb here” and, “what do I do if there isn’t”?
Flight track approaching the Divide. On this 12 miles stretch above high terrain I expected good air but only found sink. The glider icon is above Flattop Mountain, directly at the Divide, at 13,000 feet – 3,400 feet lower than I had been just 10 minutes earlier.
The airport of Granby was in glide range. But the conditions in the Granby Valley, which I could now see for the first time, looked unsoarable and cloud bases there were very low, probably well below 12,000 feet. I felt almost certain that diverting towards Granby would mean accepting a retrieve.
3D screen shot from the same position over Flattop Mountain at 13,000 MSL (900 ft AGL), looking towards Grand Lake and Lake Granby. Granby Airport is at 8,200 feet MSL – a fairly safe looking glide from this position (20 miles away).
The direction towards North Park looked much better but I first needed a good climb to get there.
Except for the escape route to Granby, 13,000 feet was not a comfortable altitude at my location. The nearest airport to the east was Vance Brand, 30 miles away and there was a lot of high terrain in the way. Fort Collins was 35 miles away, also with high terrain to clear east of Estes Park. I had to decide quickly what to do if I didn’t find a climb fast: turn west, which would almost certainly end with a landing in Granby, or turn back east, find lift or risk having to land in a field near Estes Park.
3D view towards Estes Park from above Flattop Mountain. You can see the high terrain east of Estes Park towards Fort Collins. The odds of clearing this terrain in straight glide from my position were fairly low and definitely not something to count on.
I still had a high degree of confidence in the thermal conditions to the east. And, very recently I walked a field at the base of Lumpy Ridge, less than 2 miles north of the town center of Estes Park. While I was not thrilled about the prospects of potentially having to end my flight there, I felt reasonably confident that I would be able land in that field without damaging the plane (or myself) if I really had to.
2D view of my position above Flattop Mountain. You can see the location of my emergency land-out field just north of the town of Estes Park.
All this went through my mind in the one minute that I flew along the ridge looking for lift. Lift did not come and I ran out of time. A decision had to be made: turn left to Granby and land or turn right towards Estes Park and look for a climb? I turned right.
I still remember vividly the moment when I had to make that decision. Was it a risky choice? Subjectively it felt that way. Objectively, it probably wasn’t. I was at 13,000 feet. The field in Estes is at 8,000 feet. That meant I had about 4,000 feet of altitude to work with before I would have to decide to land. 4,000 feet gave me about 20 minutes to look for lift, maybe more. I had found strong lift several times that morning already and the conditions in Estes did not look any worse than the ones I had been soaring in for the last hour. And I now had a plan B, i.e I knew where I would land if I had to.
I followed a sun-facing ridge line towards Estes and, fortunately, I only needed a little more than one minute of my 20 minute lift-searching-allowance before I found the climb I was looking for.
It only took 1 minute and 20 seconds from the moment I turned east to finding a climb right above the ridge that runs east from Flattop Mountain. Note the oddly shaped trace during the climb. The lower part shows wind drift from west to east and this changes about half-way through. This is a sign of strong wind-shear and ultimately explained why I would continue to struggle climbing near the Divide.
Eight minutes later I had climbed back to 14,800 feet and the world was once again a better place. But the climb had been odd: between 12,400 and 14,100 the wind drift had been from west to east, and from 14,100 to 14,800 I had to push west to stay in lift and the climb became very uneven. That also meant the average climb rate was only 3 kt, the worst of the day thus far.
I quickly put that aside, given that I could not be choosey in picking this climb and pushed west again. Determined not to get so low again, I tried to take the next climb but it was very windblown and difficult to center. This time, I only managed to average 2 kts but managed to climb to 15,700.
A few miles further west, I once again only found very poor lift, taking me from 15,000 to 15,600 and the climb rate was less than 1.5 kts. Then, another few miles further west, an even weaker climb topped out at 16,100. That was the highest I could go.
This 3D trace shows the sequence of weak, uneven and windblown thermals as I tried to gain enough altitude to comfortably push northwest into North Park. The last climb was more of a holding pattern as I tried to make up my mind whether I should continue or abandon the task.
I was clearly high enough to push into North Park and there were clouds on route but I hesitated. And hesitated. I could get there but would the lift be any better than my last 4 climbs, which were extremely poor and got worse as I moved west?
View into North Park from my position above Trail Ridge Road after my long slog to reach 16k. There seemed to be good clouds all across North Park but would they work better than the weak climbs I had just experienced? If I look at them now in retrospect I can only think, “of course they would have worked!” Clearly my judgment at the time of making the decision was clouded by “recency bias”.
The top of the Divide can be very windy and the thermals there are often weak and uneven. Maybe, even probably, the conditions would be better if I went on. But I did not know that. Would the clouds work? I wanted to try it and then return if they didn’t work as well as I hoped. But maybe I wouldn’t even be able to come back? In which case I would likely be landing in Walden.
On the horizon, exactly in the direction of my first turn point, I could now see a towering cumulonimbus cloud billowing up. It was only 12:30pm. That seemed like an early indication of potentially massive overdevelopment in the afternoon. The forecast had not projected any storms but what about this cloud? It certainly looked threatening. Forecasts have been wrong before.
This is a segment of the same picture as above. But now I had spotted the rose-colored cb at the far side of North Park, above the snow capped peak in the distance that were directly on route. In retrospect, I think my mind was trying to do some mental gymnastics looking for reasons that would provide a justification for not to go on…
Circle by circle I was going back and forth in my mind. Should I push on or should I return? I already had my dose of adrenalin earlier when I got low above the ridge. The probability of completing the task seemed like a coin-toss. Maybe it would work, maybe not. Another circle of indecision. Then another. And another.
Circling above Trail Ridge Road below, as I was trying to make up my mind.
I looked towards Granby again where conditions had markedly improved in the last 20 minutes but the bases were still lower than to the east and northwest and the cloud bottoms still weren’t particularly promising.
View towards Grand Lake and Lake Granby from Trail Ridge Road at close to 16k feet. The cloud base was clearly rising but the clouds still didn’t look compelling. (Flattop Mountain, where I was low earlier in the flight, is the level high ground at the left side of the picture above the wing.)
My mind had finally found enough reasons “against” pushing across. In the next circle, I exited towards the south, having abandoned my task.
After abandoning the task I flew along the west side of Longs Peak before crossing back to the east. The clouds in the distance towards the Flatirons (at the right edge of the picture) still looked very welcoming and that is also where I would find very good climbs again.
I went on and had a good flight on the east side of the Divide, but for the rest of the day I kept second guessing my decision. I watched the day improve. Cloud bases rose as one would expect. The weather never overdeveloped except for a few localized virga and showers. In hindsight, I am almost certain that completion of the task would have been possible. But you have to make these decision in the moment and with information available at the time.
To be clear, the decision to abandon the task was not due to a real or perceived safety risk. There was no question in my mind that I could reach the airport in Walden or at least another safe landing place. So the risk I was not willing to take was a sporting risk, not a safety risk. It was one of potential inconvenience: finding myself sitting on the ground in Walden, having to wait for a retrieve, if things didn’t work out.
The real question is of course: what will I do next time when completion seems uncertain? How confident do I have to be in my ability to complete my task? I must be honest: there will never be 100% certainty. Does it make sense to push on if the chance of completing the task is only 25%? Probably not. If the chance is 75%? Probably. If it is 50%? I still don’t know.
My flight track is here.
13k MSL Can Be Really Low. It always depends on where you are relative to safe landing places and any terrain in between. 13k above the Divide west of Estes Park is too low for comfort. I should not let this happen again.
Walking Fields Pays Off. Having walked the field at the bottom of Lumpy Ridge, I knew where to find it and how to fly an approach if I needed to. This gave me the confidence to look for lift where I was almost sure to find it, and the clarity of thought to look for it without stressing out over whether or not I would be able to glide out to the prairie. Had I not known this field, diverting to Granby would have been my only viable choice.
Don’t Ever Get Into a Marginal Situation without a Pre-Decided Plan B. When I approached the Divide I was so confident that I would find lift on top that I had not pre-decided what I would do if I that did not materialize. So I only had one minute to consider my options. This felt too short and too stressful. It’s best to make a Plan B while you still have a lot of options so you just have to execute what you already decided. (This is no different to the decision of what to do in case of a rope break or any other emergency situation. Don’t wait to decide what to do when it happens. You must know what to do in advance.)
Don’t let your most recent experience in a small area cloud your judgement (recency bias). The day started very strong with solid, reliable climbs along the foothills. When the small area immediately next to the Divide did not work well, I lost confidence in the conditions across the divide as well. Similarly, I did not anticipate that the Divide would not work because I had found such great lift over the foothills. I must try to avoid falling victim of recency bias.
Learn to better differentiate between safety risks and sporting risks. These are very different things. Never take safety risks.
Pre-declare (to yourself) the level of sporting risk you are willing to take. Landing back at home is never 100% certain on a XC flight. It may be useful to pre-declare before the flight the land-out probability you are willing to take. E.g., “Today I am willing to accept a 30% land-out probability.” Then you can reflect during the flight what you believe the odds of landing out are if you continue on task. It might make it easier to decide whether to go on.
Pre-arrange a retrieve in case you need it. There is huge peace of mind knowing that someone will come and get you if you have to land away from the home field. In fact, unless this is pre-arranged it’s really difficult to accept a significant land-out risk.
Into Wyoming: 4th Diamond Distance Attempt
Rocky:
You see, flying takes three things: Hard work, perseverance and… hard work.
Fowler:
You said “hard work” twice.
That’s because it takes twice as much work as perseverance.
(from the movie “Chicken Run” by Aardman Animations)
Yesterday the Soaring Society of Boulder held its annual “Workfest” – a club event to clean and wax the club ships and get all other equipment in top shape. It was also the best soaring day of the week and one of the last remaining OLC Speed League weekends, so the plan was to start work as early as 7am so we could finish early and fly as soon as the bulk of the work would be finished.
My alarm was set for 5:15 am and by 6:30 I was among the first to arrive at the field. I figured it might be one of the last chances of the year to attempt a Diamond Distance Task (a pre-declared 500km flight with no more than 3 turn points). I wanted to get the work going as soon as possible so we could get in the air. In addition, I wanted to secure an early slot on the tow list – essential to have enough time to complete my soaring task.
I had planned my task based on the following considerations: higher cloud bases to the north (17+k) than to the south (~15k). Stay east of the divide due to multiple areas of expected OD in the afternoon in the west that might make a return over the mountains impossible. Light winds, including in the Laramie valley (which is usually quite windy). Strong late afternoon conditions over the prairie up to Ft. Collins. The task was:
Start: Bighorn Mountain (14km west of Boulder). TP1: Roger Canyon (ne of Laramie). TP2: Bergen Peak (sw of Golden). TP3: Horsetooth Reservoir. Finish: Rocky Flats. Task Distance: 311.2 miles = 500.8 km.
By 12:30 pm we were more or less done with the essential chores and I was ready to go. While the valley was still inverted, the tow distance was fortunately more reasonable than on July 19, and I was able to release in the first good lift above Nugget Ridge. After a short climb I rounded my start point above Bighorn Mountain (just inside the OLC start cylinder), returned to Nugget Ridge and stair-stepped my way back west toward the clouds with short successive climbs above Gold Lake, Ward, and the Brainard Lake Winter Parking Lot. From there I headed towards a nice looking cloud 10 miles north, fed by the NE ridge of Mount Meeker, which took me to cloud base.
Circling above the north-east ridge of Mount Meeker, where I connected with the clouds.
(Note for those new to flying from Boulder: stair-stepping (i.e. taking several short climbs above one of the ridges with pushes to the west in-between) is a frequently required technique to get into better lift close to the Continental Divide, where the depth and strength of the thermals is usually much greater than over the lower foothills.)
Soaring always feels best when you’re connected to the clouds, and when a whole row of good looking clouds marks a viable path forward. To quote Bob Caldwell, “the fastest way from point A to point B is rarely a straight line”. In my case, the best line ahead seemed to be a westerly route through Rocky Mountains National Park, crossing the Mummy Range near Ypsilon Mountain and from there directly north via Kinikinik towards the Laramie Basin.
The northern part of Rocky Mountains National Park, between Mummy Range and the Never Summer Mountains is a tricky area where you definitely do not want to get low. The only ways out from there are to the south via La Poudre Pass ( 10,200 ft) towards some fields near Grand Lake or to the west via Cameron Pass (10,300 ft) towards a landout field near Gould. The airports and fields on the eastern side of the foothills are 30 miles away and probably not reachable once you’re low. I only feel comfortable flying in this area when I have enough altitude to be able to glide over the mountain ridge to the west into North Park. Hence, I was careful not to drop below 15,000 feet. You can take a closer look at this area by examining my Boulder 250 Soaring Map.
Be particularly cautious when flying over the area circled in red between the Never Summer Mountains in the west and the Mummy Range in the east. There are no places to land in this area and it may be impossible to get out if you get low.
Fortunately, all the clouds worked without fail and I was making good progress heading north. As I crossed into Wyoming I was able to connect with a convergence line marked by a massive step in the height of the cloud bases (about 3,000-4,000 feet difference). I followed the line on the higher west side, which took me across US 287 and I-80 towards the higher ground east of Laramie.
There I had to leave the convergence and head north into a blue area with another 13 miles to go to reach my turnpoint at Roger Canyon. Two small emerging clouds gave me some extra boost and then I jumped into the blue.
A blue hole as I headed north towards my first turn point. The town of Laramie is to the left of the plane (not visible in the picture)
Laramie airport was to my left and in easy glide range. I closely watched the sky as I headed north and saw a new cloud appearing to the southwest of my turnpoint. I dashed for my turnpoint, rounded it at 1:50pm, and headed straight to the newly formed cloud. It wasn’t as good as I had expected it to be but in combination with the next climb it got me back to cloud base.
As I circled I had time to plan my southbound route. The convergence line had moved further west under a sky that already showed early signs of overdevelopment. Following it would represent a detour that would once again lead me across the same high and unlandable terrain that I had crossed earlier. The alternative was a more direct route below the lower clouds further east but it looked less convincing. If in doubt I have no problem to opt for the higher, if longer, westerly route. I just had to be careful to keep landable places in easy reach at all times.
On my southbound return as I’m crossing I-80 southeast of Laramie. You can see the convergence line ahead with lower cloud bases on the left and higher cloud bases straight ahead in front of the nose. The snow capped peaks in the distance are the Never Summer Mountains. The direct route to TP2 would have been below the clouds 15 degrees to the left of the nose. I opted to go straight under the higher cloud bases, and over the higher terrain .
It proved to be the right choice. The convergence worked even better than before and all the darkening clouds provided good lift even as light snow-virga started to fall. I made great time and was getting more and more optimistic that I would be able to complete my task despite the relatively late start.
A noteworthy moment came as I approached the Mummy Range from the north. My last climb had been mediocre and I had abandoned it in favor of a great looking cloud above Comanche Peak. I was getting a bit low, approaching 14,000 feet and a lot depended on the cloud working. If it didn’t I would not be able to maintain my southerly route but would instead have to divert eastwards along the ridge towards Loveland. Scraping over the Mummy Ridge and flying straight into the Estes Park basin at considerably less that 14,000 feet would not be a good idea… I had a clear escape path towards Loveland but going there would considerably hurt my progress.
I tugged under the cloud above Comanche Peak and to my great relief hooked a solid 7 kt climb, one of my strongest ascents of the day, taking me right back to cloud base at 16,000 feet. I distinctly remember saying out loud, “Wow, today is really good!” My confidence of completing the task had just received another huge boost.
Minutes later I crossed the Mummy Ridge into the Estes Park basin. And what I saw was astonishing: the sky ahead had turned completely blue. I had flown under such dark skies for the last 45 minutes that this came totally unexpected. A small lonesome cloud sat above the Twin Sisters but even it disappeared as I headed towards it.
A quote from Daniel Sazhin, a current US representative at the Junior World’s Championships came to my mind, “Soaring is a manic depressive sport.” One minute you feel great, like it’s the best day ever, then, one minute later, you are down in the dumps.
Well, to be honest, I wasn’t quite down in the dumps, at least not yet. I was still at more than 14,000 feet, I had past Estes Park, and Boulder was already well within glide range. But my hope to complete the task was eroding quickly. I got on the radio and asked other pilots nearby how they were fairing and quickly got confirmation that the conditions east of the divide had become very soft.
There were still good-looking cloud streets on the west side of the Divide. But following them would take me away from my next turn point, not towards it. I briefly considered abandoning my task and just following the lift lines but then I thought, “if I want to learn something new, I just have to stick with my task and see how far I can get.”
As soon as I made that decision, new hope started to form in my head. All of the foothills were now in the sun. Surely, the blue sky was just the consequence of a down-cycle, perhaps overdevelopment had preceded it while I was in the north. Now that the sun was heating the ground again, it was just a matter of time for new thermals to form and new clouds to appear.
I convinced myself that this is what would happen and my task now was to play for time while trying to continue to inch southwards. As I continued on course, I dialed my speed down to minimum sink and tried to just float along. There was some wind from the south east, maybe I could stay up in ridge lift? I tried the south eastern flank of Mount Meeker where I had found good lift in the morning but now there was no thermal to be found and the ridge definitely did not work either.
I looked for other terrain features that might work considering the angle of the sun and the direction of the wind. Meadow Mountain, south of Allenspark, looked promising, but again, nothing. I dropped below 12,000 feet. I had to find something soon otherwise I would have to head back out towards Boulder and I was concerned that the further east I would get, the more challenging it would be to climb back out.
Then some wisps appeared to be coming off a hill south-east of Meadow Mountain. To my surprise the wind had picked up to 16 kts and the rising bubbles provided very narrow and uneven lift. Slowly I gained more than 2,000 feet. Deep in the foothills it makes a huge difference whether you’re at 12,000 or at 14,000 ft.
The only remaining clouds looked to be just west of the Divide. If I could get there, maybe I could climb back to cloud base. I had just enough altitude to fly over Mt. Audubon and follow the Continental Divide south from there. Weak and completely wind-blown thermals were coming off Niwot Ridge and the Arapaho Ridge. I was surprised that I could not find any ridge lift right above the steep east-facing cliffs along the divide even though the wind was blowing directly towards the ridge line.
In the meantime the clouds had moved further west and there was no reason to hang out at the Divide which didn’t work anyway. With that I continued to inch towards my 2nd turn point looking for lift in the blue above any promising terrain feature. Weak climbs near Eldora and Rollinsville topped out at 12,000 feet, just enough to stay on course and keep Boulder in glide range.
Northwest of Blackhawk I was down to 11,500 ft. I had just enough altitude to approach the top of a hill, vouching to fly out towards Eldora Canyon (and Boulder) if I could not find any climb. Once again, I found lift at the last minute and managed to rise back up to 14,800 ft, the highest I had been in 1 1/2 hours!
This was the climb I needed to round Bergen Peak, my second turnpoint. I made Bergen at 13,100 ft. It was 5:45 pm and there was still no cloud in the sky. It was clear that the day would soon be coming to an end. I had little hope left in being able to complete my task but I still I felt compelled to see how far I could get. Maybe I would be surprised by a “glass off” evening effect over the prairie that would propel me forward?
On the other hand, it still seemed a bit too early to head out over the plains, and I had just enough altitude that I would be able to reach and fly along the top of Thorodin Mountain. That was my best hope for another climb to a higher altitude. At the north end of Thorodin I did indeed find some lift. However, instead of the boost I had secretly hoped for, it topped out at 12,500 ft.
I continued past the Flatirons to Bighorn Mountain to close whatever small triangle there was to score and kept going past Bald Mountain (nothing) towards Lyons. Just as I considered returning to Boulder I found another climb over the hogback. This one was different from the ones before. The air was smooth and the thermal was wide and even. For a moment I found one last glimmer of hope against my better judgement. In 3kt lift I climbed in perfect circles to … 10,800 ft.
At the same time high clouds moved in putting everything to the north into complete overcast. I knew then that the day was finally over. Although I kept going further north to see how far I could get, I put Boulder into my flight computer to ensure that I would stay within glide.
As expected, I didn’t get very far… Half way to Carter Reservoir and still 18 miles shy of my final turn point I finally had to face the fact that completion of my task wasn’t to be. When I reached a projected arrival altitude of 1,500 AGL at Boulder at MC3 I made a 180 degree turn towards the airport where I landed in glassy smooth conditions at 7:36 pm.
I flew 445 km in 5 3/4 hours. The first 2 1/2 hours were reasonably fast. The rest was very slow. My flight track is here.
Don’t give up, even if it looks hard. After the sudden deterioration of the soaring conditions on course, it seemed almost inconceivable that I would make it to the second turn point. And several times I found a climb – just before I had to change course – allowing me to continue. Bit by bit I made it to TP2. I only quit when there was no question in my mind that continuing would result in landing out.
Expect the unexpected and hang on. -The conditions can literally change from one minute to the next. I just came out of my fastest stretch and my strongest climb of the day when suddenly the route ahead was almost dead. If conditions can turn off quickly, they can also turn on quickly. So hang in there if you can.
Gear-shifting is really a thing. I read a lot about this but it was never so apparent to me than today that you may have to shift from one minute to the next to adapt your flying style to the conditions ahead.
Always know your escape paths. I was glad that I had done my homework when crossing the unlandable high terrain between the Mummy Range and the Never Summer Mountains. I knew how high I had to be and I knew where to go if things went sour unexpectedly.
Decisions can provide hope and focus your mind. This is more a psychological point than anything else. I already learned that waffling is not a good thing because it can make you do pointless things. But today I experienced the positive effects when I firmly stuck to my objective.
Sometimes the thermals cycle – and sometimes they don’t. Several times I have seen very rapid up and down cycles of thermal conditions. Today they just cycled down and did not come back. That can happen, too.
A long marginal flight is hard work and the necessary concentration is exhausting. I was pretty spent after getting up at 5:15 am, working on ship maintenance all morning, and then flying for six hours with the last 3 1/2 hours in marginal conditions, requiring my full attention.
In addition to these lessons, I have also collected a few questions to which I have found no solid answer. If anyone can contribute to my understanding, please let me know.
Why was there no ridge lift? My flight computer showed 15-18 kts of easterly winds (sometimes straight from the east, sometimes from the south-east) as I was flying at about 13,500 feet above the steep east-facing ridge of the Continental Divide that was just a few hundred feet lower. The direction of the wind is also confirmed by the wind drift when I tried to thermal in that area. Why was the ridge not working? Is it possible that the wind only blew at my altitude but not (or much weaker) lower to the ground? I have not been able to figure this out although I have speculated about it below.
When can I expect the “glass-off” phenomenon at the end of the day? And when not? Several times I have experienced the amazing phenomenon of the entire prairie lifting at the end of a soaring day. Yesterday this did not happen. I suspect this had to do with the winds. On days when it happens, the wind over the foothills tends to shift westerly in the evenings as a result of cooling over the hills as the sun angle there becomes very flat. The cooling air streams down towards the prairie, meeting the air over the plains and causing a weak but wide-spread convergence that lifts the air over the plains. Yesterday, the wind remained easterly all across the foothills (e.g. see my last climb near Lyons), i.e. there was no convergence over the plains. Which would explain why this phenomenon did not occur. I might just have answered my question. But is this right?
What caused the sudden collapse of the thermals in the afternoon? And why was there suddenly so much wind from the east? Are these two observations related? Why did the thermals not come back with all the afternoon sunshine? The only possible explanation I could come up with is the inflow of warm air from the east at a level of about 13k feet. This would explain the easterly wind at that altitude, it would explain why the thermals above the ridges near the divide were so wind-blown and turbulent, why they topped out at 13k feet, and it would even explain why there was no workable lift at ridge top level along the divide (because there was no or not much wind below moving up the slope – the wind may have just been at ridge top level, blowing across the ridge but not blowing up along the slope… All this seems a bit speculative. Anyway, does this seem true and does anyone know if this is an exceptional phenomenon or if it happens more often? (I had not experienced it before.)
An Epic Tow; Storms; Plus: Wave in July?
Virga and rain lines near Eldora Ski Area just before the end of my 3rd leg, two thirds into the flight.
We’ve not had a ton of luck with the soaring weather on recent OLC weekends and, as a result, our club, the Soaring Society of Boulder, has been losing ground against Moriarty, which is now comfortably leading in the US Gold League.
Unfortunately, this weekend didn’t look much better. A cold front was projected to move in on Saturday bringing thunderstorms and heavy rains to the Front Range.
Based on a detailed review of the forecast from Skysight, I estimated that there would be a narrow soaring window ahead of the front, from about 11am to 2pm, to get some miles under our wings and some points onto the score sheet. The best location to fly would be – once again – on the west side of the classic convergence line that would form parallel to the mountains, this time pretty far in the west: about half-way between the Peak-to-Peak Highway and the Continental Divide.
Getting there would almost certainly require a deep mountain tow as the morning thermals above the eastern foothills were projected to top out at about 1,000 – 2,000 ft AGL – too low for comfort when it comes to pushing all the way back towards the mountains, well beyond the Peak-to-Peak Highway.
When I got to the airport at 10am, some clouds had already started to form southwest of the Flatirons, consistent with the forecast, which projected that area to overdevelop first. They looked reasonably close to me and so I decided to get the Discus prepared as quickly as possible. Ay 10:45am I was ready to launch.
I asked John Lewis in the Pawnee for a tow to the south. Except for one or two weak bubbles directly above the ridge line of the Flatirons, the air was completely still for a long, long time. As we crossed Thorodin Mountain we reached the eastern edge of the first cloud, but the air still gave no hint of any movement. We reached Central City and I asked John to continue further west. We were already above 12,000 ft and I was determined not to go off tow until we hit lift somewhere. Otherwise, I would have no choice but to glide right back all the way to Boulder…
I had convinced myself that lift would come as soon as we got to the western edge of the clouds as this would mark the location of the convergence. We crossed Bald Mountain, 3 miles northwest of Idaho Springs, and the edge of the cloud was finally getting close. My hand had been on the release knob for a while but now it had to come … any second now … and – whoosh, the vario pegged solid at plus 10kts. One second, two seconds, three seconds, the lift is still there, and click, I’m finally off. 13,000 feet. My longest and highest tow so far by a wide margin.
I rolled into a tight circle and the averager shot right away to 10.5kts. Wow – now we’re getting somewhere! I noticed that I was drifting east – a great sign, for it meant I was definitely on the right (i.e. west) side of the convergence line. A few more circles and the lift weakened. I shifted a few miles north where the clouds looked even more promising and I connected again with a 10 knotter. Just two or three minutes later I climbed through 17,000 ft and was perfectly connected with the convergence line.
The only problem was that I had been on tow forever, well beyond the OLC start cylinder. I.e., until I got back within 15 km of Boulder I wouldn’t get any points for the flight! Only then did it sink in how far I had towed. I was 40km away from Boulder. The nearest point within the start cylinder was Gross Reservoir, still 25 km away!
There was only one thing I could do about that: put the nose down, head towards Gross Reservoir, “dip” into the cylinder, turn around, and come right back to the convergence. I was at 17,500 feet so I definitely had the altitude to do it.
With the wind in my back, it took me just over 7 minutes to cover the 25 km to Gross Reservoir, and another 9 minutes to get back, heading into the wind. The round trip had cost me 4,300 feet of altitude that I had to gain back. I climbed 2,000 feet circling above the Eldora Ski Area before continuing south, flying slowly to climb in straight flight.
The convergence line took me straight over the Continental Divide, across James Peak, Mt. Eva, Mt. Flora, and Colorado Mines Peak. The sky was already overdeveloped in this area so I decided to turn around and continue northbound along the convergence.
I covered the next 67km without a single turn and without losing altitude at an average speed of over 150 kph, the fastest segment of my flight. West of Estes Park, I decided to once again change directions and head south again. Conditions softened somewhat and I ran into a few patches of sink near Longs Peak that required some thermalling to not fall out of the working band.
The sky ahead rapidly darkened and I could see several flashes of lightning near Mt Evans. Intense virga and rain lines started to appear and when the lightning got within about 10 miles of my position I decided to once again change directions.
Conditions were still very strong and they looked even better on the west side of the divide. However, I did not want to push further west as I had no interest in landing out. My main focus was now to watch the development of the sky and to leave the Continental Divide in time before any of the storms would impede my return route or get close to Boulder.
This is when I noticed a very interesting transformation in the looks of the clouds ahead. Where there had been typical cumulus clouds with high cloud bases to the west and low hanging curtain clouds to the east, marking the convergence line, the cumulus clouds ahead started to take on the form of lenticular clouds with very smooth forms on their western edge.
Soaring along the convergence on too of the divide. Note that some of the clouds ahead have smooth western edges, just like lenticular clouds.
Granby was to my left, in easy glide range and clear of clouds, offering a safe escape route if necessary. I simply had to explore this phenomenon ahead of me. I continued to fly along the convergence, only now I tried to stay just to the west side of the edge of the clouds, flying in the blue.
Only the area on the east side of the divide was overdeveloped at this point. The sky to the west of the divide looked nice with higher cloud bases, no cumulonimbi, and excellent visibility. Grand Lake is below on the right.
And, just as I had hoped, I suddenly noticed the air going completely still while I was still climbing. I had entered a laminar air flow on the west side of the convergence line. It had all the characteristics of weak wave lift. I noticed that the winds, which had been around 10 kts or less for most of the flight so far, had picked up to 20 kts from the west. This was fascinating and felt surreal.
It clearly wasn’t classic mountain wave. I was right above the divide. There was no way that the air had descended on the back side and was pushed up again as a result of rapid warming in the lee of the mountains as would be typical for wave. I also wasn’t in ridge lift from the Divide for the line of lift followed the shape of the clouds, not the shape of the ridge.
Another look at the “lenticular-looking” western edge of some of the clouds ahead. There was indeed laminar lift up along the western edge of these clouds.
My flight track was akin to ridge flying at the “slopes” of the clouds but the lift was not like ridge lift at all. Ridge tends to be rough and uneven. This lift was smooth and laminar. The vertical component was small, approx. 2-3kts netto, which translated to a climb rate of approx. 1 kts at minimum sink speed. But climbing in glassy air along the edge of the clouds was amazing.
I enjoyed this for a while but at the same time kept wondering about my flight path back to Boulder. Surfing along the clouds, I could not see the sky to the east. 10 minutes earlier I had observed more and more low clouds forming out in the prairie. I was aware of the virga and rain lines from the overdeveloped area to the south gradually moving east north east. I was also aware of OD to the north, though none of it was visible from my position. The only reassuring thing was the blue sky above Granby.
More cloud surfing along the western edge of the clouds, now heading southbound in wondering what the sky towards Boulder really looked like. The visibility was great to the west, not so much to the east.
I still did not want to land in Granby. AWOS of Boulder indicated good conditions on the ground with light winds and good visibility. So I resolved to descend to get a better view of the sky below the clouds to the east. When I could finally see that I still had a safe and unobstructed path back to Boulder I did not hesitate and started my return.
View of the Continental Divide from north of Golden on my return. I’m down to about 10,000 feet but still above some very low hanging clouds.
I could even add a few more OLC points by closing my triangle over Gross Reservoir and heading towards Golden before returning to the airport for a safe and uneventful landing in calm conditions 10 minutes before 2pm. I even had just enough time to pack up and secure the plane without getting wet, leaving the airport just as the rain reached the field.
This flight was expensive (due to the high tow) but fascinating and I’m glad I took the opportunity to go up today.
293 OLC points in 2 hours 23 minutes. Average speed 113 kph. However, only 1 hour and 47 minutes counted for the speed league. So, therefore only 72 speed league points for the flight. Those who didn’t connect with the convergence today had a much more difficult time and had to contend with thermal lift under low ceilings and modest climbs. My flight track is here.
Lessons Learned:
OLC Speed League Scoring is Tricky. The basic rules are relatively straightforward: Maximum 4 legs, the fastest 2 1/2 hours count. You must pass through the 15 km start cylinder after release from tow and you must pass through it again before landing (which always happens unless you land somewhere else or you switch on an engine). But you also have to keep in mind that the end of the 4th segment cannot be lower than the beginning of the 1st segment. And this rule was particularly difficult for me today: I had to fly through the start at a fairly high altitude because I had to get all the way back to the divide again afterwards to connect with lift. Even my low point there still had to be fairly high. And that meant that a good portion of my flight towards the end did not count because it was flown at lower altitudes than my initial low point. It also would not have helped had I added on more miles at the end out in the prairie because the ceilings there were around 9-11k feet, much lower than my low point after the start. The safest thing is to remember your low point after the start and make sure to climb back up to the same altitude at the end of the fourth fast leg. (Today that was impossible because there were no climbs to those kind of altitudes available once I left the convergence line.)
Skysight Hit A Home Run. The forecast for today was uncannily accurate: the timing of the soaring window, the position of the convergence, the location of the areas that would overdevelop first, the timing and spreading of the rain and thundershowers, the attainable thermal heights, the ceiling of the cumulus clouds over the mountains, foothills, and prairie, pretty much everything was spot on. I can’t even think of anything that may not have been accurate. It’s not always like that. But this was pretty amazing.
Safe Decision Making. I am happy with the way that I handled my decisions today. I never got closer to lightning than about 10-15 miles and I did not hesitate at all and turned around when it looked like it might be getting closer. I realized that wave surfing the convergence had the potential to cut off my route to the east but I always and deliberately maintained easy and safe access to an alternative airport (Granby). I also deliberately decided to cut my flight short, knowing that I would get penalized in terms of speed league points because my flight would score for considerably less than 2 1/2 hours. This was also the correct decision to make.
“Wave” flying in laminar flow along a convergence line was a new experience for me. I’ll have to try this again when conditions look like this might be possible. It’s very cool! Calling it “wave” is probably wrong, as Alfonso Ossorio rightfully pointed out to me after the flight. Wave would suggest at least some repetition of an up and down airflow downstream. There is no evidence of that in this situation: there is only one convergence line and the laminar flow was just ahead of the upwind edge of the convergence, but it most likely did not propagate into an up and down motion further downwind. Also, the convergence line is not a classic wave trigger: the upwind motion isn’t caused by air getting pushed down (and heating up) prior to it moving up (and cooling down). It is most likely simply caused by the fact that the updraft along the convergence (which formed massive clouds today), is a massive obstacle for the prevailing winds aloft and they get rerouted above the obstacle that the convergence line poses. The flow is rougher down below the clouds (just like below rotor clouds), but it turns laminar in front of the convergence clouds (also just like it turns into laminar wave flow on the upwind side of rotor clouds.) Here’s a sketch of how I envision today’s scenario:
The easterly and westerly winds converged close to the top of the divide. Classic convergence lift was found at the western edge of these clouds. Smooth, wave-like laminar airflow could be found ahead of these clouds on the western side.
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Brain, Developmental, Memory February 12, 2019 February 13, 2019
Young Children With Thinner Brain Regions Have Better Working Memory
Associations between the thickness of different cortical areas and children’s age and working memory (digit span); via Botdorf & Riggins, 2018
By Matthew Warren
Anyone who has stood in the supermarket aisle trying to remember their shopping list might have wished for a larger brain. But when it comes to memory, bigger isn’t always better. A study published in Neuropsychologia has found that young children whose cerebral cortex is thinner in certain areas also tend to have better working memory.
A number of previous brain imaging studies already found that working memory – which we use for remembering and manipulating pieces of information over short timescales – involves a network of brain areas in both the frontal and parietal cortices.
But most of these studies examined adults and older children, and few researchers have investigated younger children aged 4 to 6. At this age, children’s working memory usually improves drastically, so it’s important to understand what is going on in the brain, especially if this could help children with learning difficulties.
In the new study, Morgan Botdorf and Tracy Riggins from the University of Maryland scanned the brains of 189 healthy children with no known learning difficulties aged between 4 and 8. An impressive 186 of the children remained still enough during the scan to provide usable data.
In a separate session outside of the MRI scanner, the researchers also assessed the kids’ working memory using the forward digit span task, which measures how many digits a child can hold in their memory.
Botdorf and Riggins then looked at how performance on this test was related to the thickness of four brain areas known to be important in working memory: the superior frontal cortex, middle frontal cortex, superior parietal cortex, and anterior cingulate cortex. They found that in all four regions, children with thinner grey matter tended to be able to hold more numbers in memory – they had what psychologists call “a higher digit span”.
While this result might seem counter-intuitive, it is not completely unexpected that a thinner cortex in these areas is related to better memory. During development, connections between neurons are “pruned”, restructuring and streamlining the brain in a way that is thought to improve memory and cognition, and the study authors suggest that this process is taking place in their participants.
The researchers also looked at whether these key brain regions were thinner in the older children – and if so, whether this could help explain why older children generally have better working memory. One region did seem to be involved in the effects of aging on working memory: older children had a thinner anterior cingulate cortex, which in turn was related to having a higher digit span. The researchers suggest that in young children, the anterior cingulate cortex “may be developing particularly rapidly” and so have an important role in the cognitive changes that occur in early childhood.
Aside from age, a number of other factors could influence the thickness of cortical areas. Previous research has implicated genetics and lifestyle factors like vitamin consumption and stress, for example, though the researchers note that the evidence for these is often sketchy. “A ripe avenue for future research would be to focus on identifying specific factors that impact the structure of the cortex, particularly during early childhood,” they write.
With a better understanding of what causes cortical thinning, researchers could begin to figure out how to intervene to facilitate these changes and improve working memory in children at risk of memory impairments. This is an important consideration as working memory is strongly related to educational achievement at school, and so the new study is a step in the right direction.
A limitation of the new research is that it only looked at children’s ability to store verbal information, not other important functions of working memory, such as remembering visual information. It remains to be seen whether these other aspects of memory are also related to the thickness of young children’s grey matter.
—When less is more: Thinner fronto-parietal cortices are associated with better forward digit span performance during early childhood
Matthew Warren (@MattbWarren) is Staff Writer at BPS Research Digest
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theemotionalbeing says:
Very interesting – less density more learning.
neurocritic says:
The link to the journal article takes you to the Apple homepage. The real link is:
BPS Research Digest says:
That’s weird. Now fixed, thanks!
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Helen Chauncy says:
I thought recalling digits in reverse order was the test of working memory.
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Memoirs of Robert E. Lee: his military and personal history, embracing a large amount of information hitherto unpublished
Confederate States of America. Army of Northern Virginia.
Long, A. L. (Armistead Lindsay) , 1827-1891
The The long arm of Lee; or, The history of the artillery of the Army of Northern Virginia
ArtilleryConfederate States of America. Army
Wise, Jennings C. (Jennings Cropper) , b. 1881
Letter of the secretary of war: transmitting report on the organization of the Army of the Potomac, and of its campaigns in Virginia and Maryland
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From Bull Run to Chancellorsville: the story of the Sixteenth New York Infantry together with personal reminiscences
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One of Jackson's foot cavalry: his experience and what he saw during the war 1861-1865
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Worsham, John H.
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Vermont in the civil war: A history of the part taken by the Vermont soldiers and sailors in the war for the Union, 1861-5
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The Modified McGoon Index does not Predict Mortality in Infants with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
Brett Weitzel
Gerald Holmes
Rebecca Moran
Background: Infants diagnosed with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) continue to have a high mortality despite medical advances such as inhaled nitric oxide (iNO), high frequency ventilation (HFV) and/or extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). The mortality in some studies exceeds 80%. The modified McGoon index (MMI), a ratio of pulmonary artery size to aortic size has been reported to predict survivability in these infants: infants with a MMI ≤ 1.3 have an 85% mortality: (Pediatr 2000;105:1106). Objective: To evaluate the utility of MMI in predicting mortality in our population. Design/Methods: We performed a retrospective review of all infants with CDH admitted to the University of New Mexico NICU between January 2000 and November 2002. All available echocardiograms were reviewed by a single pediatric cardiologist blinded to the outcome of the infants, and the MMI was calculated (LPA + RPA/ Ao). The following information was also recorded from each infants record: gestational age, birth weight, Apgar scores, need for cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the delivery room, length of hospital stay, days of ventilation, use of high frequency ventilation, use of iNO, use of ECMO and survival to discharge. Results: Eighteen infants with CDH were admitted; echocardiograms were available for 15. MMI ranged from .06 to 2.37 in the 15 infants. Seven infants died and 8 survived to discharge. There was no significant difference in birth weight between groups (lived (L): 3151 ± 203; died (D): 2735 ± 186 grams, mean ± SE), gestational age (L: 38.3 ± .4; D: 38.3 ± 1.1), CPR in delivery room (L: 1/8; D: 3/7). Infants who died had lower 5-minute Apgar scores (L: 7.1± .5; D: 4.8 ± .7, p< 0.05). A greater number of infants who died received ECMO. There were no differences between groups in the number of infants on HFV or iNO. An MMI of ≤ 1.3 did not predict death in our patient population: mortality in patients with an MMI ≤ 1.3 was 46% (6 of 13 infants), while mortality in patients with MMI \u2265 1.3 was 50% (1 of 2 infants). Conclusion: MMI ≤ 1.3 did not predict mortality in our population.'
Weitzel, Brett; Gerald Holmes; and Rebecca Moran. "The Modified McGoon Index does not Predict Mortality in Infants with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia." (2009). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/ume-research-papers/95
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Update on the Urgent and Emergency Care Review (NHS England / BBC News / Department of Health / British Journal of General Practice)
Summary This NHS England report covers work since the Urgent and Emergency Care Review. It discusses the involvement of local commissioners, the development of five-year strategic and two-year operational plans, updates on demonstrator sites to trial new models, and a … Continue reading →
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Overview of General Practice in England (House of Commons Library / BBC News / BMA / NAO / BMJ / Nuffield Trust)
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Welcome to Manistee County in West Michigan!
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This is where history, beauty, and nature come together to form a unique town that is a favorite destination in Michigan. Manistee has so much to offer today's traveler, and it's a terrific getaway for families or friends.
The Great Outdoors in Manistee
Lake Michigan beckons you to its golden beaches and spectacular sunsets, a guaranteed evening event! Take a stroll on the 1.5 mile Riverwalk, which is found behind the downtown district. Mileage markers have been placed every tenth mile to gauge your distance, and it is handicap accessible with ramps on both ends of the Riverwalk. The magnificent Manistee National Forest stretches for miles and is a nature-lover's paradise. Here, wildlife is found in its natural habitat, and recreation activities include camping, hiking, and biking. Nearby scenic rivers offer opportunities to fish, canoe, or kayak.
Downtown Manistee Shopping & Restaurants
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Visit downtown Manistee, known as the Victorian Port City. Spend time browsing the shopping district, which features everything from unique kitchen products to consignment items to trendy clothing. Then satisfy your hunger at one of Manistee's exceptional restaurants. Whatever you're craving, you'll find a perfect meal at an affordable price in downtown Manistee.
Historical Manistee
You can appreciate the history of Manistee when you see the architecture throughout the city, especially the Ramsdell Theatre. Here is where James Earl Jones got his start, and it is still the venue for area theater productions. The newly renovated Vogue Theater is open and features current films. Built in 1938, it is a welcome addition to have this grand theater back open in Manistee. The S.S. City of Milwaukee is a 77-year old Great Lakes ship, permanently moored in Manistee. It is open for tours, and during October, transforms into a Ghost Ship for the Halloween season.
Numerous golf courses, Casino Gaming, and the friendly faces of residents and business owners give Manistee the distinction of being in a place where you truly feel welcome. Discover the fun and beauty of Michigan's destination Victorian Port City, Manistee.
Manistee Festivals and Events
Any season--any time--Manistee is a great place to be. We have listed our area events in our festivals & events story so you can see at a glance what's happening when. You can get event details by checking our calendar of events pages and selecting a specific month. There's always something fun going on, no matter what time of year. You'll never be bored in Manistee!
Some of Manistee's Top Events
Manistee Forest Festival
Manistee County Fair
Manistee Car Shows
Manistee's Victorian Sleighbell Parade
Manistee Fishing Tournament Salmon Splash
Arcadia Daze
Onekama Days
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alternative to conventional asynchronous communication protocols. The facility also ensures that the processes belonging to a fault-tolerant process group will observe consistent orderings of events affecting the group as a whole, including process failures, recoveries, migration, and dynamic changes to group
Sequential quadratic programming (SQP) methods have proved highly effective for solving constrained optimization problems with smooth nonlinear functions in the objective and constraints. Here we consider problems with general inequality constraints (linear and nonlinear). We assume that first
Interior Point Methods in Semidefinite Programming with Applications to Combinatorial Optimization
by Farid Alizadeh - SIAM Journal on Optimization , 1993
"... We study the semidefinite programming problem (SDP), i.e the problem of optimization of a linear function of a symmetric matrix subject to linear equality constraints and the additional condition that the matrix be positive semidefinite. First we review the classical cone duality as specialized to S ..."
We study the semidefinite programming problem (SDP), i.e the problem of optimization of a linear function of a symmetric matrix subject to linear equality constraints and the additional condition that the matrix be positive semidefinite. First we review the classical cone duality as specialized
Suppose we are given a vector f in RN. How many linear measurements do we need to make about f to be able to recover f to within precision ɛ in the Euclidean (ℓ2) metric? Or more exactly, suppose we are interested in a class F of such objects— discrete digital signals, images, etc; how many linear measurements do we need to recover objects from this class to within accuracy ɛ? This paper shows that if the objects of interest are sparse or compressible in the sense that the reordered entries of a signal f ∈ F decay like a power-law (or if the coefficient sequence of f in a fixed basis decays like a power-law), then it is possible to reconstruct f to within very high accuracy from a small number of random measurements. typical result is as follows: we rearrange the entries of f (or its coefficients in a fixed basis) in decreasing order of magnitude |f | (1) ≥ |f | (2) ≥... ≥ |f | (N), and define the weak-ℓp ball as the class F of those elements whose entries obey the power decay law |f | (n) ≤ C · n −1/p. We take measurements 〈f, Xk〉, k = 1,..., K, where the Xk are N-dimensional Gaussian
Energy Conserving Routing in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks
by Jae-hwan Chang, Leandros Tassiulas , 2000
"... An ad-hoc network of wireless static nodes is considered as it arises in a rapidly deployed, sensor based, monitoring system. Information is generated in certain nodes and needs to reach a set of designated gateway nodes. Each node may adjust its power within a certain range that determines the set ..."
with node capacities and the algorithms converge to the optimal solution. When there are multiple power levels then the achievable lifetime is close to the optimal (that is computed by linear programming) most of the time. It turns out that in order to maximize the lifetime, the traffic should be routed
Consensus and cooperation in networked multi-agent systems
by Reza Olfati-saber, J. Alex Fax, Richard M. Murray - PROCEEDINGS OF THE IEEE
"... This paper provides a theoretical framework for analysis of consensus algorithms for multi-agent networked systems with an emphasis on the role of directed information flow, robustness to changes in network topology due to link/node failures, time-delays, and performance guarantees. An overview of ..."
This paper provides a theoretical framework for analysis of consensus algorithms for multi-agent networked systems with an emphasis on the role of directed information flow, robustness to changes in network topology due to link/node failures, time-delays, and performance guarantees. An overview
Implementing Fault-Tolerant Services Using the State Machine Approach: A Tutorial
by Fred B. Schneider - ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS , 1990
"... The state machine approach is a general method for implementing fault-tolerant services in distributed systems. This paper reviews the approach and describes protocols for two different failure models--Byzantine and fail-stop. System reconfiguration techniques for removing faulty components and i ..."
The state machine approach is a general method for implementing fault-tolerant services in distributed systems. This paper reviews the approach and describes protocols for two different failure models--Byzantine and fail-stop. System reconfiguration techniques for removing faulty components
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 ..."
for use in learning algorithms whose optimal solutions are guaranteed only for Mercer kernels. We demonstrate our algorithm on object recognition tasks and show it to be accurate and dramatically faster than current approaches.
Disconnected Operation in the Coda File System
by James J. Kistler, M. Satyanarayanan - ACM Transactions on Computer Systems , 1992
"... Disconnected operation is a mode of operation that enables a client to continue accessing critical data during temporary failures of a shared data repository. An important, though not exclusive, application of disconnected operation is in supporting portable computers. In this paper, we show that di ..."
Disconnected operation is a mode of operation that enables a client to continue accessing critical data during temporary failures of a shared data repository. An important, though not exclusive, application of disconnected operation is in supporting portable computers. In this paper, we show
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Steve Morris, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Institute, Columbine High School, combat Richmond County's rising violent crime rate, combat violence crime rate, combining efforts, come back, come together, comedian, comfort, comfortable, Coming of Age, Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa, coming up for a vote, commemorate, commemorating 1996 murder victims from Richmond and Columbia counties, commission of crime experts and political appointees, commit crimes, committees, committing more crimes, common employer, Communication, communications, communities, communities suffering the most, community, community a better place, community activist, community center, community centers, community childcare, community development model, Community Developmental Issues, Community Economic Development, Community Empowerment, community involvement, community oriented policing, community representatives, Community Resource Center, community safety, community service, Community vs. Needs, community-based, community-based organizations, community-based partnerships, company, compassion, compelled to leave, compelling, Competition between males and females, compilation of the TV-12 news stories, complaint, complaint about politics, complaint about sex, complaint and ban, complaints from a parent, complex, comprehensive family, compromised, CON, CON legislation, concentrate, Conceptualizations, concerned, concerned about our youth, concerned about violence, Concerns, concerted local effort, condemn, condemns, condemns young mothers to a life of poor education, condemns young mothers to a life of poverty, condemns young mothers to a life of welfare, conditions, Confederate flag, confessed, confessed to beating, confessed to choking, confessed to killing, confessed to murder, confessed to murdering, confessed to raping, confessed to shooting, confessed to stabbing, confessed to strangling her after a fight, confidence, confined, Conflict, conflict of values, conflicts, confronted neighborhood thugs, confusion, Congregation Children of Israel, congressional candidate, connecting with, connection to Africa, connection to South Africa, consequences, consequences for their inappropriate behavior, considerable personal courage, conspiracy, conspiracy to traffic guns, constitutional, constitutional rights, Consumerism, contact, contact Victims Assistance, Contemporary Black Family, content, content of his character, contentious debate, contents of the text, continue efforts to prevent crime, continue the work of the Million Youth Movement, continuing process, Contrary to popular belief, contribute, contributed to the decline, contributed to the decline in crime, contributed to this article, contributed to this report, contributing factor to the epidemic of black-on-black violence, contributing factors, contributing factors to black-on-black violence, Contributors, control, Controlling Behavior, Controversial, Convenience Store, convict, convicted, Convicted Georgia Sen. Charles Walker, convicted Georgia Senate Majority Leader Charles Walker, Convicted Georgia Senator Charles Walker, convicted killer Antonio Ruffin, convicted murderer Antonio Ruffin, convicted murderer Antonio Ruffin had killed before, convicted once, convicted se, conviction, conviction overturned, Core Rights, Coretta Scott King, Cornell, Cornell Drive, Cornell Harris, Cornell Harris: Dare 2 Dream Like King, Corporate America, Corporate Greed, correct disparities, cost, cost is high, cost of firearm injuries, cost of firearm injuries in the United States, cost of firearms, cost per firearm death, cost the state, costly, couldn't wait, counseling, counsels, counted the numbers, counterproposal, Counties, country, country a better place, County, county legislative delegation, County Sheriff, county's legislative delegation, courage, Courage defined the life of Barbara Ann Thurmond, courage was an inspiration, courageous, courageous activist, court, Court Calendar, Court Calendars, Court of Law, courtroom, courts, cousins, covered, covers courts, covers crime, crack cocaine, crack-cocaine statistics, crack-cocaine stats, craving for respect, Create, created, creating, creating more a violent society, creating new life is taken so lightly, creating new life is taken so lightly that school children sing about it, Creation, Creations of FireKawand Crawford, Creative Impressions, credit for the drop in black homicides, crime, Crime Affects Our Nation, Crime and health care, Crime and the Law, crime and violence, crime can happen to someone you know or love, crime committed, crime committed against their souls, crime decrease doesn't mean anything to victim’s families, crime drugs, crime experts and political appointees to revamp sentences, crime happens to someone else, crime has since subsided, crime has wreaked on our community, Crime in America, crime in black community, crime in the black community, crime in their streets, Crime is a Societal Problem, crime is allowed in the black community, crime is in our faces, Crime is no longer someone else's problem, crime is someone else’s problem, Crime is Something That Happens to Someone Else, crime lab, crime might go up again next year, crime must STOP, crime nightmare, crime numbers might be down this year, crime prevention, crime rate, crime rate falls but not rape and sexual assault, crime rate falls except rape, crime rate is like the stock market, crime reporter, crime spree, crime traces, crime victim, crime victim’s rights, crime victims, Crime Victims Advocacy Council, crime victims and their families, crime victims and their families are treated with compassion and dignity, crime victims and their families treated with compassion and dignity, Crime Victims United of California, crime victims’ families, crime-ridden, crime. 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Johnson, depart, Department of Psychology at Augusta State University, deprived, deprived children, deprived of development, deputy, deputy prosecutor, Derek Alderman, dermatologist, describes, desensitizes young people, desensitizes young people to death, desensitizes young people to violence, desensitizing young people to death, desensitizing young people to violence, deserves, deserves America’s highest civilian honor, designed, despair, Despite, despite being poor, destitution, destruction, details how, detention, determination, deters voters, deters voters from casting ballots, deters voters from casting their ballots, Devastating, develop, develop trust, developed, developing community, developing family, developing family and community, development, Developmental Issues, Developmental Issues of Families and Community, deviance, diagnosed, diagnosis, did just that, did not attend the NAACP Convention, did not pass, did not pass state requirements, did not pass state requirements for reading and language arts, did not vote, didn't embarrass him, didn't have any say-so, didn't know how, didn't want her to have the baby, didn’t work, died, died at a very young age, died at the scene, died later at the hospital, died that day, died this summer, died too young, different technology, difficult, difficult for most people to fathom, difficulties, difficulties and challenge, dignity, dinner, direct social activism, Director, Director Of Rape Crisis And Sexual Assault Service, director of Rape Crisis and Sexual Assault Services in Augusta, director of the Victims Assistance Department of the Augusta Richmond County judicial system, Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement, dirty, disabilities, disabled, disabled Navy veteran, disagreement, disappointed to learn, disciplinarians, discipline, discuss, Disgraced Georgia Sen. 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prisons, disproportionate number of blacks in prisons, disproportionate number of blacks in prisons in the state of Georgia, disproportionately impact low-income, disproportionately impact minorities, disrespect for the black church, disrespecting the black church, disrupted, disseminate electronic information, distance between Augusta and Birmingham, District 9 at-large seat, District Attorney, District Attorney Danny Craig, District Attorney Danny Craig has prosecuted homicide cases equitably, District Attorney Danny Craig listens to the voices of all crime victims, District Attorney of the Augusta Judicial Circuit, District of Columbia, District of Columbia Police, District Of Columbia Police Chief Charles Ramsey, Divided City, DividedCity.US, Divine Order/Decree, Divine Revelation, do not feel good about themselves, do not feel safer, do not forget, Do you know someone who you can help, Do-Over, doctorates, documented black family could not be sold, Does that sound like someone you 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we have to go, Dr. Martin Luther King, Dr. Martin Luther King would say ‘no’ Augusta has not lived up to his dream, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Robetta McKenzie, Dr. Steve Hobbs, dragged the victim down an embankment, Dramatic Unities, drastic changes, drawn, drawn into, drawn into the daily lives of a people who lived in hideous conditions under apartheid, dream, Dream Speech, dreamed, dreams, Dreams to Grow On, drive-by, drive-by shooting, Driver, drop-out, dropping out of school, drown, drowned, Drug crime, drug deal gone bad, drug dealer, drug dealers, drug dealing, drug deals, drug debt, Drug Lords as Leaders, drug-related crime, drug-related disagreement, drug-related robbery, drugs, drugs and alcohol, duplex, During this century American justice has been a mockery for black people, during what police said, dying, each slaying, early education, earmarked, Earnestine (John) Covington, Earnestine Covington, easily recognize, East Central Georgia Learning Resources System, east 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technology, Emily Sollie, Emma Whiters, Emory University, emory.edu, emotional toll on families, emotional toll on victims, emotional toll on victims and their families, emphasize reading school-sponsored, employed, employed as Neonatal ICU Nurse at the Medical College of Georgia, employee, employees, Employers, empower our youth, empower our youth to take control of their destiny, empowerment, Enabled, encourage, encourage your child, encourage your children, encouragement, encouraging, end black-on-black crime, end black-on-black crime in Augusta, end corporate rule, end parole, end youth violence, endeavor, endeavorfreedom.org, Endless wonder, endure, Endured, enduring, enduring spirituality, enforce existing laws, enforcement of existing laws, enforcers, engage the imagination by reading a great book, engage the imagination engage, Engaging Developmental, enhance, enhance democracy, enhance freedom, enhance our capacity for good work and service, enjoy, enjoy your children, enjoy your grandchildren, enlisting in the Army, enraged, ensure, Entered into rest, Entry, environment, environmental, Environmental Justice, environmental pollutants, Environmental Racism, epidemic, epidemic of black violence, epidemic of black-on-black violence, epidemic of teen pregnancy, equal education, equal justice, equal rights, equity, equity and well-being, Erich Olaf Tate, Erich Olaf Tate pleaded guilty to conspiracy to traffic guns, Ericka (Jessie) Covington-Wright, Ericka Covington-Wright, Ernest (Angela) Covington, Ernest Covington, Ernest Thurmond, Erroneous Publicity, escalating violence, escaped, espoused, Essence Award, Essence Award from Essence Magazine, Essence Magazine, established, Established brotherhood, established rules, estates, esteem, Estella Wright, Estelle Wright, estimated, estranged husband, ethical conduct, Eunice Harris, Eunice Harris: Love Pearls, Evan Tanks Johnson, Evans, Evans murder victim Gary Collins, Evans murder victim Gary Collins remembered, even a blind person could see, evening church service, Event, eventually, eventually convicted, every book they read, Every two seconds a gun comes off the American assembly line, Every two seconds a gun comes off the assembly line in America, every word, everyday Americans making a difference, everyday embarrassment, Everyone, Everyone must find and play a role in the development of the community, everyone who cares about our youth, everything, evil, Evil ALEC laws, Evil Apartheid, evils of oppression, evils of poverty, evils of racism, evils of slavery and evils of militarism, evils of the past, evolving here, ex-boyfriend, example of courage, examples, exception to the rule, excessive, excessive bail, excessive bail or fines, excessive crime, excessive fines, exchange, exchange for food, Exchange Value of Children, excited, excuses, exemplary deeds, exempt, Exodus From Pity to Power, expanded, expansions, expected, Experiences, express themselves, expressing concern about their 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‘Actual’ Climate Scientist Michael Tobis Thinks I Don’t Exist
Posted on 16 Aug 17 by Jaime Jessop 198 Comments
This is a reposting of a post I have put on my own blog: https://climatecontrarian.wordpress.com/2017/08/16/actual-climate-scientist-michael-tobis-thinks-i-dont-exist/
I thought about writing a post on this and then thought, meh, boring. So what if a paranoid scientist thinks I’m a sock puppet for fossil fuel interests? No big deal really. But he’s pushed his paranoid conspiracist ideation so far, I thought I had better write something, not least because this person is supposedly a representative of the ‘climate science community’. As far as I know, nobody in that community has publicly criticised his bizarre, obsessive behaviour.
It started with an innocent tweet:
Climate communicators realise that annotating their dark fairy tales w/ charts & graphs hasn't worked: will now just stick to scare stories. https://t.co/oru9Pes0Y6
— Jaime Jessop (@Balinteractive) August 14, 2017
This sparked off a 2 day twitter stream (currently ongoing) so bizarre, I can scarcely believe it. Tobis apparently took great offence at my quote tweet.
For my sins, I suddenly found my identity being questioned:
I have trouble believing you're real. Animal activist & climate naysayer, or troll? You know climate disruption already damages ecosystems?
— mtobis (@mtobis) August 14, 2017
Quite a few people got involved with the argument, mainly to suggest that Tobis was going over the top. He fired off a post on his own blog on the incident here. I quote one of his comments from that post:
“Let me be very plain. The profile picture is me.”
This carries precisely no information, as it is exactly what a sock puppet would say.
“So I will leave you with your somewhat obsessive ‘concerns’ and I will promise not to quote tweet you again.”
It’s not an obsession. It’s a hunch developed when I first encountered you yesterday. You have not convinced me that my hunch is incorrect, though it would be easy to do so. I would love to hear from someone who has met you to assuage my concerns.
Again, in the event that what you say is true, I sincerely apologise.
If it ain’t, though, if you’re not this one honest (if rather misguided) person but a dishonest person trying to be half a dozen or so trying to stoke the artificial anger at climate science, for whatever reason, I don’t have anything to apologise for.
I don’t propose to follow Jaime Jessop around trying to claim that the identity is a sock puppet. So if you’re real, please rest easy; I don’t intend to harass you, and I am genuinely sorry for the misunderstanding.
But *if* you’re not Jaime Jessop, I make no such promise. I will pay no more mind to Jaime Jessop, specifically, in future than I have in the past, as long as Jaime Jessop also leaves me alone. However, I’m now interested to find similar accounts with other identities attached, identities which the actual you (per hypothesis) might be using to encourage an environment which unfairly distrusts climate scientists.
You could save me the trouble if you like, just by talking to me for even a minute. But apparently you don’t want to do that. Yet you’ve already spent much more than a minute at this. I find this interesting.
To me, that is a downright weird comment for anybody to come out with, let alone a supposedly sober, rational scientist. Shub agreed:
Have just seen the latest comment on the blog. Bonkers. 🤪
— Shub (@shubclimate) August 15, 2017
Here’s a selection of Tobis’ other crazy comments on Twitter:
No, I'm talking about you. I suspect your bio is contrived for effect. I could well be wrong but if so it would be easy to convince me.
Somebody could easily have a contrived bio, maybe publish under several identities. I will apologise profusely if shown I'm guessing wrong.
So far response fits prediction for sock puppet; real person who writes so prolifically could just point to other writings or agree to skype
she accused my whole field of organized fraud and she quoted me mockingly. I saw Twitter bio & thought "wtf?" Tried & failed to find more.
I don't think in those terms at all! But some folk are paid to inject lies into online discussion & I'm wary of unfamiliar internet accounts
The exchange began with "JJ" insulting me, not the other way around. I stated frankly that I am unconvinced she is a real person.
Nothing, unless they were running a dozen or so similar "people". Which is why I'm interested in similar personae.
Sorry, I still don't see any evidence that JJ the person exists, and I still wonder why that is the case. I'm still open to convincing.
Note how they get increasingly suspicious and conspiratorial, like he’s feeding on his own feverish imaginings. Apparently, he’s got previous form. He accused at least one other person, Brandon Shollenberger of being a sock puppet too:
To quote, "Now more than likely Shellenberger is a sock puppet for the think tanks that find Curry convenient"
— Brandon S? (@Corpus_no_Logos) August 16, 2017
But he doesn’t seem to have obsessively followed up his accusations in anything like the manner which he has done with me.
I’m rather torn between being angry, bemused, unamused and highly amused that anybody would have the audacity to doubt my existence and question my honesty in such a blatant and passively aggressive way. I don’t intend to put him out of his misery any time soon by publicy acceding to his demands, but I will say that my existence is not privately in question, whereas Tobis’ state of mind does seem to be.
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16 Aug 17 at 10:15 pm
Michael may benefit from professional help with his paranoia. But he’d be better off seeing a psychiatrist—who could prescribe lithium, Haloperidol or Conspiracin—than a psychologist, who could prescribe further paranoia:
“As far as your blog is concerned, bear in mind that it is yours and that you can shut down any comment and run any moderation policy that you want. That still doesn’t make it easier to receive those hateful utterances in the first place, but at least it gives you some sense of control to shut them down. Bear in mind that a proportion of those comments is orchestrated and for all we know there are only a handful of people with multiple electronic “personas” each, who are paid to create disproportionate noise.”
Speaking of Stephan Lewandowsky, everyone’s favorite punitive psychologist has at last provided further hints as to the identity of his shadowy persecutors. In his latest complaint to Bristol police, he states that he believes the people following him may be “conspiracy theorists.”
I’m a bit of an expert in sock puppetry, ever since Monbiot accused me (or my alter ego) of sock puppetry when I pointed out that the study he was quoting which predicted 6 or 8 °C heating by the end of the century had been financed by Exxon Shell and Totale. Soon after I was banned from commenting at the Guardian, and my good friends who continued to comment, Sister Dingo, followed by Sister Zoot, made the interesting discovery that having a female persona helped when commenting, in that they were not subject to the same vile insults from politically correct Guardian readers. Similarly, my friend Ming Fangjian, who has started commenting at the Conversation since my banning, and who has not revealed his or her sex, finds that the comments are by and large less unpleasant than those addressed to an elderly white male. So far Doctor Ming has not received any offers of marriage but she (or he) has not lost hope.
Not only does Professor Lewandowsky believe that conspiracy theorists are following him (we are, even if no-one else is) but in a soon to be published contribution to the Oxford Research Encyclopaedia on Climate Science
http://climatescience.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228620-e-328
he reveals the extent to which we are conspiring to expose the conspiracy which he is propagating:
Furthermore, some climate skeptics reject studies that show their skepticism as partially a product of conspiratorial thinking—they believe such studies are themselves part of the conspiracy.
Hilary Ostrov (aka hro001) says:
Michael Tobis has always struck me as being the epitome of a supercilious climateer who is far too impressed with himself for anyone’s good – least of all his own.
I first formed this impression of him some months after Climategate 1.0 when he was in chock-a-block horror over the use of that very word at Judith Curry’s (then) new blog:
Regarding nomenclature, I find the avoidance of oppositional labels a commendable goal. I’d like to propose that the word “climategate” be among the words to avoid. I believe have seen you use the word at Keith Kloor’s site. (My apologies if I misremember this.) As a defender of what I take to be the consensus mainstream, I find it an emotionally hostile word filled with innuendo and practically devoid of meaning.
I strongly urge you, therefore, to eschew the contentious and obfuscatory word “climategate” in discourse here.
Some months later, he was pompously peddling the output of Kevin Trenberth’s false memory syndrome in a rather disgusting and very thinly disguised attempt to smear Chris Landsea.
I suppose it’s within the realm of possibility that Tobis might have been aided and abetted in his current delusions of rectitude by Barry’s unfortunate repeatedly and mistakenly referring to you as “Jesse”. But for some reason I doubt it would have made much difference.
So, I guess the kindest thing one can say about Tobis is that – like so many dedicated climateers – he’s just a verrrrrry slow learner.
17 Aug 17 at 5:05 am
The absence of a date of posting and an author had me confused (I had just awoken after all) and the more I read, the more I was reminded of previous efforts of Brad. So Jaime prove that you wrote this post, and answer this question – are we not all sock puppets for the ideas we espouse? After my morning coffee I shall go on a mtobis hunt, searching the dark recesses of Bing.
At Deltoid I once amused myself by offering a bounty to the first person who could predict my gmail address—which, I explained, was “identical to my real name, plus the at sign, plus gmail dot com”—and send me an email. Unsurprisingly, the first and last claim on the prize came from the lone skeptic, chameleon. She was the only commenter with sufficient insight into the denialist mind to guess the relationship between my screen name and my meatspace name, which is one of identity. The entire believalist horde was sure there was a trick involved.
Tobis is just showing that he is a bit (well a whole lot) crazy.
Now what could drive someone crazy better than obsessively claiming that there is a climate crisis underway?
Except claiming that those who disagree about the crisis are evil paid conspirators….
Hi Hilary. Yes, that was weird Barry keep referring to me as Jessie, even when ATTP, of all people, corrected him.
TinyCO2 says:
Sympathies Jaime.
Right from the start I had to laugh at Dr Lew’s conspiracy ideation bluster when it was all too obvious that the warmist side was riddled with it. Their fondness for believing that we’re all funded by fossil fuels is down to their own lack of progress. It can’t be their own failings or the public’s natural reluctance to swallow what they’re selling. No, it must be dark, highly funded forces ranged against them.
It’s never occurred to them that big companies have far swifter routes to government ears than to field internet grumblers. The most obvious being to meet MPs on or off the book to discuss things one to one. The other is to just put the price of products up and blame the green taxes. See British Gas. If they really wanted to get the message across they should have a day of action. Just agree amongst themselves to turn off the fossil fuel tap. In one day they could remind people how useful those hydrocarbons are. But they won’t because AGW hysteria just isn’t that much of a threat to them.
Tobis has been in the warmist scene long enough that he should recognise ‘voices’. We are quite different. Though Tobis is acting mad enough to be one of Brad’s creations. Can it be true? Are all the loopiest warmists Brad in disguise? Sadly not. I wouldn’t fall for his disguises so easily if warmists weren’t so weird.
I chose right at the beginning to don a disguise, purely for security reasons and the ‘real’ me has almost no internet contribution at all. I’ve no FB, Twitter or blog. I keep my head down. Having been Tiny for over 10 years, the real me would be the sock puppet and have no ‘credentials’ as a long serving sceptic.
Barry Woods says:
sorry Jaime.. I had no idea I was doing that.. I seem to have completed contracted your surname and forename together in my mind.
Please take into account I’m currently on holiday in Jersey, tweeting intermittanly and consuming rather more wine than normal.!
(Anybody who has ‘suspicions’ that I was doing it to mess with Michael’s mind, is absolutely wrong, but of course I can’t prove that. :-). )
We should all meet (cliscep party) in person one day. Anybody that doesn’t come will be excommunicated for being an ‘obvious’ Shill for big oil… Excommunicated for not sharing all that money they get..
(Note,for casual observer lots of in jokes in the above, please don,’t take it seriously or as ‘evidence’ of anything.. that means you. Lew)
Oh will mtobis be pi$$ed. I couldn’t find him in Wikki. But then Jaime and myself were also no-shows.
I’ll correct myself “But they won’t because AGW hysteria just isn’t that much of a threat to them.” should swap ‘isn’t’ for ‘wasn’t’. By never defending themselves, the fossil fuel companies gave warmist ideas sole possession of the debate. Common sense wouls suggest that Western society wouldn’t saw off the branch it is sitting on but recent events give lie to that theory. Western politicians are now so remote from the mechanics of society that they are easily attracted to impossible schemes. They could decimate the fossil fuel industries by accident. It would be no consolation to the oil and gas producers that the rest of us are equally damaged.
In a similar mistake – I think that industry and the Conservatives have surrendered the educational field to the left and the greens. They’ve stopped trying to defend themselves and the result has been a youth insulated from the other side of society. There’s nothing wrong with socialist ideas so long as they are tempered by practicalities and the awareness where the money for schemes comes from.
You’re forgiven Barry. I put it down to your famous propensity for typos at first. It seems fine wine in Jersey also played its part!
Tiny, this could be massive. Is ‘Brad’ really Tobis’? My mind is boggling.
Seriously, security is a concern, which is why a lot of people opt for anonymous aliases online. I can understand that. I haven’t and in fact a few friends warned me that I should. My philosophy is not to hide away behind a mask, but, at the same time, to remain as private as possible on line and not serve up my life history on a plate. But I’ve put enough information ‘out there’ for somebody to painstakingly piece together and work out where I live and who I am. Am I bothered? Not a lot, I have to say. Perhaps I should be.
Alan, Tobis isn’t even on Wiki? That is highly suspicious.
(((Richard Tol))) (@RichardTol) says:
I’ve never met Jaime, but never doubted she is an actual person.
I have met Shellenberger. His online and offline personalities are very similar.
17 Aug 17 at 10:11 am
Hi Richard, thanks.
I think you mean Shollenberger!
man in a barrel says:
Alan, Tobis runs a blog called Planet 2.0,or something equally inane. He used to have a site called “only in it for the gold”, where he once made a notorious comment about the need to get rid of x million people in order for the planet to survive, the exact number escapes me
Barry posted an interesting link which might be the genesis of this sock puppet obsession among certain members of the AGW community. Lewandowsky again!
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2011-03-28/lewandowsky/45638
Jo Nova on Prof Lew falling for a known hoaxer Alene Composta
http://joannenova.com.au/2011/03/lewandowsky-bitten-by-a-hoax/ but in the Prof”s mind this is more nefarious than that.
With respect Jaime, Lew’s post, apart from references to climate change (that do not seem to be the focus of his writing), seem reasonable and the advice offered even more so. There seems to be no doubt that abusive sock puppetry is occurring (on all sides).
MIAB. Thanks for the info. Having established his identity and read some of his output, I am no longer interested in his ravings. No doubt he will be devastated.
Sorry Alan. I see little evidence of actual sock puppetry on either side
Barry Woods. But surely the latter part of this thread is based upon the activities of a genuine and acknowledged sock puppet.
Alan, don’t completely write Tobis off. He’s one of the few warmists to understand that cutting CO2 is very difficult. After that his ideas go haywire.
True sock puppetry is pretending to be multiple people in the same debate. Just having different identities and/or winding people up with fake personas are not strictly the same thing.
Alan, the focus of Lew’s writing in that article is quite obviously climate change (and its detractors). Jo Nova is spot on about Lew. As a professional psychologist, that letter to him should have immediately rung alarm bells. Instead, he fell for it, hook, line and sinker, a victim of his own confirmation bias that there exists a nefarious conspiracy of just a few climate deniers out there who are using sophisticated techniques to generate multiple online personae to argue against the climate consensus and the ‘good’ people who support it by abusing them verbally on line. This is exactly what Tobis accused me of doing. As we speak, he’s probably frantically searching blogs across the climate debate, looking for electronic identities which are sufficiently similar to my own as proof that my twitter “JJ” master account is fake!
17 Aug 17 at 1:03 pm
Part of the kooky response of Tobis is probably attributable to the same rationalizations of all fundamentalist extremists:
They can’t imagine that actual people actually disagree with them.
Lew is another case entirety: he is Batshit crazy like a fox.
Jaime. This is interesting. We have rather different opinions. You believe Lew, despite having psychological training failed to recognize the communication as fake. Thus his response must be considered to have been given in good faith (which is what I initially recognized). You blame him for being a dupe, because what he responded to fell into his view that many climate science bloggers are constructs. But “Alene Composta” does not make this claim, and the advice offered to “her” is helpful and rational. Writing up a post telling how Lew was hoodwinked by a sock puppet is hardly earth shattering news (as the first commentator to JoNova’s post remarked).
I offer a possible alternative that paints Lew in a more devious light. Lew, trained as a psychologist, immediately identified Alene Composta as a fake, but decided to use her for his own ends. He replied sympathetically as if “her” concerns were real (as many people do indeed suffer the same fate). This was done deliberately so that Lew could later play the innocent and legitimately use it to prove the incidence of sock puppetry in the sceptic camp (as it indeed does).
I believe Lew is smarter than some of you give him credit for. As a psychologist, perhaps he’s playing with your minds.
Alan.. no. Lewandowsky is just a climate activist.. go and read his original opinion peace, that sceptics are just conspiracy theorists, like aids deniers.. May 2010. or the two little videos around the same time he made, dripping with innuendo and snear. A political activist that wants to smear his opponents
Barry Woods. No, what? Either Lew didn’t identify Alene Composta as a fake and you must identify his response as genuine advice given in good faith, and you can bash him for being gullible. Alternatively you accept my hypothesis and conclude that his response was also genuine, despite identifying Alene Composta as fake, and sent as part of a scheme to identify you lot as the nasties and demonstrate his view that the sceptic community does include sock puppets – which Alene Composta demonstrates so well.
“Short and curlies” comes to mind.
This does not deny the accuracy of your designation of Lew as a climate activist. In fact my thesis casts him as one damn devious son of an activist. My feeling is that he is perfectly happy for you to believe he was too dumb to see through Alene Composta’s rather pitiful ploy. It gives him more leverage next time.
Alan.. when Lew as publicly calling Jo Nova by name a 911 conspiracy theorist (based on a fake quote, by coauthor Marriott) and calling hyper emotional,irrational outside of mainstream society was he a) being clever or b) making a sexist, misogynistic politically motivated smear..
Note, he did a little video quoting her husband as anti-Semitic. Based on coauthors Marriot’s smears…
Please note I am referring only to the exchange between Lew and Alene Composta and how he subsequently used this. Methinks you are overthinking this. I have no time for the man and today is the longest he has invaded my cranium. Let’s move on.
Alan, your interesting hypothesis is not beyond the realms of possibility. It is indeed quite remarkable that Lew could be that gullible. As one commenter describes Alene on ‘her’ blog:
“If I ever doubted your blog being an ingenious spoof, I apologise.
There is no way in the world that anyone, and I mean ANYONE with a straight face can write what you write in the way you write it.
Tips me lid to you lady keep it up!
I put it down to his undisputed confirmation bias re. the organised ‘assault upon science’. But maybe he was just being clever in spite of that and decided to play Alene along so he could further his theory of organised sock-puppetry being a feature of online ‘scepticism’. But this tactic didn’t exactly play well for him did it, because most commentators just thought that he (and Cook) had just been easily duped. His academic output and the way he conducts himself generally doesn’t provide much in the way of evidence for your theory that he is super intelligent and devious, but then, I guess, if he really was super intelligent and devious, he would make sure that this was the case! I think we may have here a case of Occam’s Razor. I’m tending to go for the simpler explanation.
BTW, was Alene ever ‘outed’? Was he/she revealed to be a genuine bonafide sock puppet in the pay of Big Oil, or just a trickster, in it for the kicks? There are plenty of the latter about, who don’t have any agenda in particular, just a perverse desire to deceive for the sheer hell of it. Lew falling prey to such a person would hardly vindicate his views or organised climate sock-puppetry.
Jaime Lew didn’t lose anything. He knew you already had a bad opinion of him. Did his “gullibility” ever emerge from outside sceptic blogsites (other than by his own hand)? Wasn’t it a godsend to advance his thesis that sceptics are sock puppets.
BTW do sock puppets have to be in the pay of others? Can’t they cause mischief for its own sake or for a like-minded group? I suppose I’m asking – is Brad a sockpuppet?
Alan, before accusing Lewandowsky of above-average verbal intelligence, bear in mind that this is a guy who can’t remember whether to describe us as conspiracist (which is what he means) or conspiratorial (which is literally a conspiracy theory). For Lewandowsky, English is a second language at best, having apparently been raised in a Gibberish-speaking household.
(Science is more like a fifth or sixth language—or will be, if he ever learns to speak it.)
The other problem with your hypothesis is Lewandowsky’s hypertrophic ego. I can’t imagine he’d willingly cast himself as the fall guy in an elaborate piece of theatre. He might set up Cook or some hapless grad student to be humiliated for The Cause, but not himself.
Which is not to say he never publicly shoots himself in the foot. He does, and to make it worse, his foot is usually in his mouth when he pulls the trigger. But it’s invariably a matter of incompetence, not cunning.
Shub (@shubclimate) says:
Lew and Cook more than likely fell for Alene. People who struggle valiantly under the weight of disinformation onslaught and deceit (with their limited intellectual armamentarium) are definitely part of how they view the world to be. They are the kind of people Lewandowsky hopes to save. In other words, Lew could not have responded outright questioning Alene’s identity because there was a chance she was real.
“and to make it worse, his foot is usually in his mouth when he pulls the trigger. But it’s invariably a matter of incompetence, not cunning.”
Love that image. Brad, you are at your funniest when you’re being you, although Alene and her tear soggy cat was inspired.
I bow to your accumulated wisdom (and prejudice?) but I note all is opinion, unprovable (unless Len submits to scopolamine).
Alan, what part of Dr Lew’s behaviour males you think he’s super intelligent? This a guy who accidentally left in a 32000 year old man and two kids in a study. This is a guy who thought warmist web sites were a suitable place to canvass sceptics. This is a guy who mistook Dr Betts as a conspiracy ideating sceptic.
@jaime
I meant Mike Shellenberger.
I have never met Brandon Shollenberger, but do believe he is real.
Aha! Alene. I had an inkling but it seems I’m always the last to catch up with Brad’s antics.
“. . . . this is a guy who can’t remember whether to describe us as conspiracist (which is what he means) or conspiratorial (which is literally a conspiracy theory)”
It seems my English is as limited as Lew’s Brad. I make exactly the same mistake above. Oh God, I think I need a bottle of Whiskey and a revolver.
Shub Niggurath says:
Wait a minute, Brad was Alene?!! (did I know about this already?!!)
Tiny. Superintelligent no, Devious with low cunning surly never to be excluded? How come someone that many of you disparage gets where he has? You have to posit that those appointing are even more stupid than you take him to be.
It is all to easy to dismiss an opponent as being stupid.
Ah, I see Richard. Yes, you meeting Shellenberger makes sense. It was Shollenberger who was accused by Tobis of being a sock puppet, but he misspelt his name.
Alan, obviously Lew is not stupid. He’s incompetent and he’s manipulative and he sings from the AGW consensus hymn book whilst he uses his academic reputation to smear genuine climate change sceptics. Those appointing him are not stupid either – they’re just as incompetent and/or as lacking in morals as he is.
Tobis posted this one for the ages:
“mtobis @mtobis
No, I’m talking about you. I suspect your bio is contrived for effect. I could well be wrong but if so it would be easy to convince me.
3:22 PM – Aug 14, 2017 · Ottawa, Ontario ”
When I think of the CV’s of a seemingly great umber of climate hype promoters, “contrived bios”,. and especially contrived data, contrived conspiracy accusations, and contrived crises, all come to mind.
Tobis, like the blind hog hunting truffles, occasionally gets one right….
“Devious with low cunning surly never to be excluded?”
He lacks the physical courage for true surliness. But his cunning (which is not low but rat, technically speaking) coexists with a grossly unwarranted amour propre that would shirley be incompatible with sacrificing the queen (himself, Steve, Stephe, Estebán, Stevan, Stefen) to a cause to which he could just as easily sacrifice pawns (like his deformed hench-son Cook or his rentboy Hanich).
“How come someone that many of you disparage gets where he has?”
Reframe it as, “how come many of you disparage someone that has gone where he’s gone?” and the answer suggests itself.
How did he insinuate himself into the bottom-feeding, shit-eating ecological niche he occupies? By being a whore. Whores, to develop the metaphor somewhat, are not necessarily the best-looking women, just the sluttiest and greediest sixes who’ve given up on breaking into film.
“You have to posit that those appointing are even more stupid than you take him to be.”
Or they’re all idiots (or rather, mediocrities) prepared to use each other to make a buck.
And fun. Easy and fun.
But there’s a sliding scale of stupidity and nobody’s suggesting he’s got the single-digit IQ of the useless idiots who stand up for his honor online (when they’re not bickering over YouTube videos).
mark4asp says:
Well done Jaime for calling them out all this time. But this kind of thing is not an isolated incident. Mark Maslin called me a fossil fuel shill on twitter! At least he never questioned my identity. One of my blogs is entirely dedicated to nuclear power (pro-nuke). I have no blogs dedicated to fossil fuel, nor have I written much on FF. The climate faithful have a hard-time getting a grip on reality. No wonder they love climate models, and making stuff up. It’s a character flaw they have. I’ve never been paid to write a blog, never worked for nor been paid by any company connected to fossil fuels.
PS: One of Maslin’s books: “Global Warming – A very short Introduction” : https://www.amazon.com/Global-Warming-Short-Introduction-Introductions-ebook/dp/B003DKG5G2/
Mark4asp,
forgive me if you already knew this, but Maslin is no fan of ours either. I wouldn’t like us either if I were an utter douchecanoe. And talk about projection! It simply never enters Maslin’s imagination, does it?, that anyone could blog for the love of science—he’s so monogamously enthralled to Mammon that everyone who populates his mental cinema must likewise be a meretricious liar.
Say, can a sock puppet lie?
Mark, Maslin recently voiced his opinion (shared with Al Gore) that we need to ‘fix’ democracy because fossil fuel interests have hacked the ones we have here in the West.
http://theconversation.com/al-gore-qanda-and-video-interview-fixing-democracy-to-combat-climate-change-82426
Here’s an extract of his views on fossil fuel shills and how the West should be bouncing itself back to the Dark Ages to provide ‘leadership’ to the Third World (including China and India) on climate change):
“The problem we face is that western countries are not decarbonising faster enough – and the rest of the world expect leadership on climate change. The reason why some Develop countries are not decarbonising is as Al Gore said because our democracies have been hacked – hence big money from fossil fuel companies and media companies opposed to collective action on climate change are continually funding disinformation and funding election campaigns. As the science is very clear and the energy alternatives are cheaper, cleaner and secure.”
But what really gets my goat is that he’s a Professor (a Professor!) of Palaeo-Climatology at UCL, a University which I also attended (in those heady, far off days when I actually existed), yet can come out with some truly mind-numbingly dumb and non-scientific statement like this:
“Sunspots – we have had a sunspot low – part of the 11 years cycle and during that time we have had the hot years on record. The real concern is that as sunspot activity increases this will just add to the increase temperatures on Earth
wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunspot”
I almost feel ashamed to have gained a humble Physics/Astronomy BSc from the same educational statement which, in the interval, has apparently become a vipers nest of climate activists using academia as cover for political advocacy. Geoff too I don’t imagine.
Brad. “Reframe it as, “how come many of you disparage someone that has gone where he’s gone?” and the answer suggests itself.”
Sorry, but it doesn’t.
Seemingly the one thing you all hate him for is his success. He is extremely well known and influential, attracts funding, students and associates and confers some prestige upon the places he works. This is unacceptable to you and so you confer stupidity, mediocrity and other negative traits on his employers and supporters. Problem is this raises the anti, not only must Lew be of low moral fibre, but now those that promote him, and then? – those that promote his supporters until you include all those that promote or support the consensus? Good luck with that
Jaime. Soon we will need to affix a date to our degrees to prove they’re better than an origami masters.
Len Martinez says:
Alan, it is a general problem for conspiracy theories that they have to expand to encompass ever greater parts of the population. Climate scepticism’s view of its opponents is a good example.
Jaime, the sunspot text seems unremarkable to except for the words “The real concern”. Unless I missed something there…
As for democracy being ‘hacked’, it is surely not unreasonable to be concerned that a single elderly Australian amongst others has the power to influence UK/US elections in so clearly.
“Seemingly the one thing you all hate him for is his success.”
AK, the world is full of people like Lew. Certain strata of society are made up of nothing else, and yes we despise them too. Just like all B Ark parasites, they’re very good at what they do – which is not a lot. They don’t move the human condition on one iota but general reams of paperwork about the whole waste of time.
I’m sure that Lew sells himself as the guy who can solve public resistance to reducing CO2. No mention of what will happen if he doesn’t succeed because it never matters. It’s enough to just think it’s a good idea. Great, have a load of money. Nobody asks ‘why would a guy who has no empathy for sceptics and piss poor research skills be any good at that job’. Nobody even asks if the problem is solvable by subtle psychological methods. Nobody appears to have asked ‘Dr Lew, what have you achieved so far?’
How many actual problems has psychology solved? For every social theorist who claimed the wrong thing upfront, there will be a dozen who claim to have called it right after the event. Most of the time it doesn’t seem to matter, Either way these people get paid, get promotions and new jobs. And the irony is that the public have stopped trusting experts for exactly that lackadaisical attitude to getting the right answer.
Tiny. “Nobody asks ‘why would a guy who has no empathy for sceptics and piss poor research skills be any good at that job’. Nobody even asks if the problem is solvable by subtle psychological methods.” Sweeping statements – you have supporting evidence or do you think it to be self evident?
Len, the answer was in response to somebody pointing out that a possible upcoming Grand Solar Minimum might affect our climate in completely the opposite way to that predicted by climate scientists. That has virtually nothing to with the 11 year sunspot cycle, or the fact that the current cycle is now drawing to a close.
AK I have evidence but since they’ve been aired countless times, I’m not going through them again. Do you think he understands you? Do you think he has the skills to engage sceptics? What do you think his job is other than bloviating on issues like climate scepticism. I was never sure if he was secretly very clever until he deemed something like this – ‘Dr Lew is so bad he has to be a oil funded plant to make warmists look bad’ as an example of conspiracy ideation, whereas it was just basic derision.
Tiny,p almost certainly Lew has no idea of my existence.
No, but you’re a sceptic. You can articulate your objections to climate science. Are you in denial? That’s the conclusion the Dr Lews of this world have come to. They do it because they don’t want to think of you as a real person. So Lew will advise the powers that be about how deniers think and what might done about you but he’ll miss the mark because he doesn’t know you exist. It’s like the bad old days of anthropology where researchers would stride through a native village and draw instant conclusions or worse, form opinions based on the stories of travellers. If a modern anthropologist would be laughed out of town for not properly examining their subjects, why should psychologists get away with desk studies and silly surveys?
His lack of knowledge of AGW disputes preclude genuine understanding of his subjects. He wants our objections to be irrational because it’s an easy conclusion. His paper about conspiracy theories failed to paint us as nutters because even if it wasn’t a truly bad study, the numbers of people believing in conspiracies was lower than a random cross section of the public. The only reason Dr Lews of this world thrive is because the people assessing them are even more useless.
On the debate concerning whether Lewandowsky actually fell for the Arlene Composta scam, or was secretly playing along per Alan Kendall’s suggestion, to prove the existence of sock puppetry in the sceptic camp, I go for the former rather than the latter. To me, it is the simpler explanation that always explains the climateers behaviours rather than the more sophisticated. It is why I do not believe in most conspiracy theories, such as 9/11 (George W Bush), NASA faked the moon landings, or the CIA organized the JFK assassination. It is also why I do not believe the suggested conspiracy behind the temperature data sets. The simpler explanation is that the compilers have strong beliefs about the way the data should look, and never question the key assumption of the homogenisation methodology. So when they experience random data noise, they adjust out the data that does not conform to their beliefs (they find no reason for it so adjust it anyway)*, but keep in data that does.
The reason for Michael Tobis not believing that Jaime Jessop was real, I suggest stems from an extreme form of conspiracist ideation (to use Lew’s term). That is conspiracy theorists will accept their own empty (or weak) hypotheses as inalienable truths (pointing to fellow believers as confirmation) whilst rejecting high-quality evidence (or more rounded and informed moral perspectives) that undermine their beliefs for spurious opinions. In climate often for vague reasons of errant ideological bias (e.g. Lew’s free market ideation) or vested interests (e.g. Exxon Knows). It is nothing new at all. In fact in most societies, in most of human history, highly prejudiced enforcement of existing community beliefs existed, even when it conflicted with real world facts, or basic logic, or basic principles of justice, has been the norm. The weirdoes have been those who point out the conflicts between established consensus and reality, logic and/or wider morality.
*A point of enlightenment in my understanding of temperature data adjustments was when one highly articulate blogger accurately described the standard process of temperature homogenisation. He then added an opinion.
What if there isn’t a full record, or you can’t find any reason why the data may have been influenced by something non-climatic? Do you just leave it as is? Well, no, that would be silly. We don’t know of any climatic influence that can suddenly cause typical temperatures at a given location to suddenly increase or decrease. It’s much more likely that something non-climatic has influenced the data and, hence, the sensible thing to do is to adjust it to make the data continuous.
It’s of interest that Lewandowsky has done perfectly reasonable work before launching into the climate domain and conspiracy theory. Not only that, but much of this work is most excellent for demonstrating various of the mechanisms that contributed to the emergence of calamitous climate culture. For instance, various bias mechanisms described in his papers per the three part series at WUWT starting at the link below. No possibility of being accused of skeptic bias from source material, when Lew and crew are the main citations 🙂
It is only when a potential truth collides head-on with his world-view that sense seems to go right out the window. And the possibility that the *certainty* of climate calamity is an emergent cultural phenomenon, not a scientific truth, appears to cause exactly such a collision. The irony being that a proper consideration of word-view bias, is one of his most promoted warnings.
We also have to thank Lewandowsky (along with Oreskes) for pointing out that the whole of climate science can indeed be steered by social effects. Quite something coming from folks who defend climate change orthodoxy. He meant very seriously swayed by skeptic narratives, of course, though failed to show that this was so given the relative strengths of all the various narratives and networks and effects in play. Yet the possibility that in some circumstances science can be swayed, even derailed, via the kind of mechanisms he describes, is perfectly correct. Which very effectively admits that the original mainstream position, i.e. the highly promoted consensus on the certainty of calamity, could itself be a function of such social effects and not a finding of science. As indeed is the case.
http://judithcurry.com/2015/07/03/a-key-admission-regarding-climate-memes/
ManicBeanCounter: “In fact in most societies, in most of human history, highly prejudiced enforcement of existing community beliefs existed, even when it conflicted with real world facts, or basic logic, or basic principles of justice, has been the norm.”
Absolutely. And frequently still occurs (not to mention rising culture will drive changes to re-align the moral compass and justice too). Despite downsides, consensus in the face of uncertainty is a net evolutionary advantage, hence strongly embedded behaviors lean towards the effects you list. Much science occurs under the radar of social notice, hence is largely unaffected. But for those issues which for whatever reason get promoted to strong social attention, these effects are powerful compared to a relative fragility of science. A methodology that relies ultimately on evidence should always self-correct, eventually, but this could be decades or generations even, with much potential harm along the way. Even when writ small, such as with the 50 year consensus on saturated fats, now collapsed, these cultural effects can be very damaging. Potentially much more so for the CC case, where cultural effects are writ large.
MBC. Thank you for your considered evaluation of my “Lew” theory. I agree completely that in most instances the more simple interpretation is the correct one (the Razor usually wins) and a healthy suspicion of conspiracies is warranted. But it should be a suspicion not a denial because conspiracies do exist, and in some circumstances can be rather common*.
* in reality of course we are considering the actions of one man, not a conspiracy per se.
I would point out that the conspiracies you (and I) don’t believe are complex and would be expected to unravel because of their complexity and the involvement of many. In this case Lew receives a communication from someone who people easily recognize as masquerading others (a few even identify the culprit), also identifies it as fake and decides to use it. This is not complex. All it requires is that Lew identify the missive as fake (and we must consider that he is a trained psychologist), and that he is devious (with which all here concur). The only argument I have read here that has influenced me away from my own theory (actually more a speculation, not even a hypothesis) was provided by Brad who suggested that Lew was not a person to be in the front line if the action required any diminution of respect or status. If this is correct then the likelihood of my speculation being correct is vanishingly small.
I have found responses to my speculation highly interesting and confirmed my gathering respect for some who regularly post here.
I have another speculation that will test your powers of disbelief. Lew is Brad!!!!
@Alan, well, we all know that Lew is definitely not Brad!! BUT at one point in time (in the early days of his infamy) ….
Included in a flurry of posts (which he began on Sept. 3 [2013]) leading up to the “reveal” of a link to his actual (but at that point still not published) paper, was the mind-boggling claim from Lewandowsky that he was owed an apology by (amongst others) Steve McIntyre, because McIntyre (and others) had failed to find a 2010 E-mail invitation from Lewandowsky – that had made absolutely no mention of “Lewandowsky”, and in fact had been sent by his “assistant”, a Charles Hanich.
For more of Lew’s self-serving antics, see: The mystery of missing elements in Lewandowsky’s blog bluffery
Hilary, whose infamy, Brad or Lewandowsky?
Your comment at 10:21 a.m. seems confused.
What I have against Lewandowsky is that he’s an evil piece of shit. What I use against him is his embarrassing failures of brain, which are hardly difficult to come by. Why I bother doing this is that he’s successful (albeit in a ‘what profiteth a man if he gaineth a million bucks but hocketh his box?’ kind of way) and influential.
But stupid?
Let’s be precise here. I accuse our enemies of having zero intellectual curiosity, zero inherent preference for truth over falsehood, zero educational depth or erudition (of the kind that would have prevented the countless “conspiratorial”/”conspiracist” conflations by an academic who specializes in the topic, even if the same mixup can be forgiven when it comes from Jaime), zero ethical pride, zero limit to their promiscuous ability to sleep with themselves no matter what they’ve done to the world in the course of any given day, and of giving zero shits about the integrity of science.
If you’d like to see my proof on all counts in the case against Lewandowky—which (like Tiny) I don’t intend to rehash within the constraints of a comment thread—please see here and here for starters:
https://geoffchambers.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/lews-crews-loose-screws-by-brad-keyes/
https://climatenuremberg.com/2014/05/15/lewandowsky-literacy-in-five-minutes-a-cn-faq/
(The first link should also satisfy you of the truth of the charge that Lewandowsky neither knows, nor wants to know, the first thing about what makes “us” tick.)
I accuse our enemies (as if it were necessary to do so) of being humorless. Literally. You can travel for lightyears across the immense, bloated believosphere, and you’ll only ever come across one [intentionally] amusing website: DenialDepot. (It doesn’t rise anywhere near the level of wit displayed by Hilary, Ian, Jaime or Geoff when they’re trying to be funny, but I mention it for the sake of completeness and chivalry.) At the risk of sounding unscientific, DenialDepot is the exception that proves the law of nature. This is important, I think. With apologies to Geoff’s literary tastes, read The Name of the Rose for a classic exposé of the way anti-life cults are necessarily, anaphylactically averse to humor.*
Do I accuse them of stupidity?
In some cases, obviously. Wretches like Sou from Bundanga, Al Gore from Big Tobacco, “Wow,” David Appell and other trivially-beatable disputants are unintelligent by anyone’s definition.
Intelligence, to be sure, is a highly compartmentalised phenomenon. Some of them (like Rob Honeycutt) are good businessmen, if that’s what it takes to sell a company called Jizmbags for several million dollars, but couldn’t reason their way out of a scum-soaked paper bag. And even the best thinker among our enemies is no genius. But the most one can say about the majority of our enemies is that they’re stupid COMPARED TO ME.
Oh, and also, without exception, they lack either:
a) the insight to recognize how poorly they’re faring every time they debate us
b) the integrity to admit it
c) the balls to take their whipping like a man
d) or the ovaries to take their whipping like a woman
…preferring, without exception, to ban my IP address instead of perseverating in being shown the error of their ways.
Our enemies, by the way, categorically DO NOT include the entire “consensus”-believing hemi-climatosphere, as I’ve often gone out of my way to point out. The vast majority of believers are victims, not perpetrators, of the scam.
Conspiracies are a fact of life, not a theory. On the other hand, great institutional evil can be done without resorting to secret plots. Lest we forget our history:
Operation Nonspiracy launched
The climate leadership begins a concerted drive to hose down conspiracist ideation by removing all appearance of secrecy about its ambitions to re-engineer the world.
Ottmar Edenhofer, co-chair of the IPCC’s Working Group III, explains in precise German that, “we are in fact redistributing the world’s wealth by climate policy… one must free oneself of the delusion that climate policy is [about] environmental policy.” It’s a message repeated ad nauseam by public figures from Tim Flannery and Christina Figueres to Pentti Linkola, Gina McCarthy and Jacques Chirac. But it seems that no matter how openly the agenda is spelled out, how often or in how many different languages, skeptics will continue to portray it as some sort of clandestine plot.
The operation of the climate “machine” is usually no more conspiratorial than a crew of ants following a trail of pheromones to a juicy carcass. Made of money.
Money, needless to say, is not the same thing as success in my books.
*This paragraph, which I feel silly for having omitted, was an addendum.
That has to be the best assessment of the opposition I’ve ever read or probably will ever read. Bookmarked for future reference.
Brad. I would be interested to learn if you you’ve actually met and conversed in pleasant surroundings with any prominent climate scientists. I ask because of your consistent use of the word “enemy” in your last post. I am interested because, although I might have more reason to agree, I do not identify them as enemies, opponents yes but not enemies. Many I did not like as people (Jones) but someone like Keith Briffa was a delight to know and I had many long and pleasant conversations including those about climate science. Others I had the great pleasure of debating with in front of undergraduates. I don’t know Lew and if I ever met him (which is entirely possible) the event left no permanent impression. So I reserve judgement.
It has been most interesting to see the huge resentment that Lew engenders here and on other sceptic sites. It’s almost as if you cannot accept that the man can have any redeeming features, and that his success is due to the incompetence of others. I should exclude Andywest2012 who drew our attention to Lew’s earlier published work.
It is true that one can gain impressions of people we have never met (you and I for example have never met, but I would be most surprised if we didn’t mesh if we ever did). Impressions are based on writings and actions taken. But my experience is that those impressions are commonly tempered after a physical meeting.
Jaime, if you’re referring to my last comment, you’re very kind. Not too kind, but very kind. Since you bookmarked it, I’ve expanded it a bit for completeness.
Alan, ‘climate scientists’ and “our enemies” are distinct, slightly-overlapping sets.
In fact, to the (debatable and variable) extent that a climate scientist is a scientist, he or she cannot be my enemy.
The only synonym I apply consistently to “our enemies” is “believalists.” (Note: not “believers.”)
Alan, opponents keep us on our toes, and are therefore our friends.
But you err if you imagine we don’t have enemies. If Naomi Oreskes had her way, science would be consensus-based. In other words, it would stop dead in its tracks. If Lewandowsky had his way, scientists would only share their working with non-opponents. In other words, science would stop dead in its tracks. Both of these people are enemies of science, and science is the beating heart of modern civilization. That makes them inimici humani generis. They’re your enemies. They’re my enemies. They’re their own children’s enemies, whether their own children know it or not. I couldn’t care less if someone met Lewandowsky socially and he was a more convivial, charismatic raconteur than Stalin himself. It’s their crimes against humanity, not their interpersonal interactions, that count.
Alan, to answer your opening question, do Tamsin Edwards and Patrick Moore count? If so, yes.
That is now comprehensive Brad. Thanks.
Alan. Any scientist is not (or should not be) an enemy of the truth (or at least the quest for, thereof, carried out constantly, without regard for career, finance, reputation or ideological persuasion). In cases where this does not apply, wittingly or unwittingly, scientists become enemies of the search for ‘truth’ (i.e. as best an approximation to it that our limited human intellects, combined with our technological expertise can muster). An enemy of the search for truth is an enemy of science, ergo an enemy of those who value science as an investigative tool.
Having said that, much of the opposition don’t even pretend to be adherents of the scientific method anyway.
ANDYWEST2012 @ 18 Aug 17 at 11:57 pm
I would like to unpick your comment
…consensus in the face of uncertainty is a net evolutionary advantage, hence strongly embedded behaviors lean towards the effects you list.
This I would agree with, in ordinary life. Indeed in academia to understand the current state of knowledge in a subject based on opinions, like in economics or climate science, it is only by learning about the current state that of knowledge and methodologies, and comparing with the evidence, that it is possible to get some perspective on where the gaps lie for the entrepreneurial types in academia. That means clarifying propositions, through logic and language, deriving ever more refined empirically-based statements that can be verified against real world evidence. Lew’s “contributions” have been on two basic fronts. First, to encourage discrimination against any disagreement of climate science – they suffer from conspiracist ideation. Second to make the consensus so broad as to be inclusive of all activist believers who happen to be academics, whilst making it so ill-defined that those who point out the fundamental flaws in climate mitigation policy, whether logical, empirical or moral, are excluded. The fact of anyone disagreeing becomes evidence that they are wrong.
upon re-reading, I think it was my parenthetical remark…
Lindzen was surely right about the generally low calibre of person attracted to a climatological career.
…that may have misled you into thinking I meant to identify climate scientists with our enemies, especially as I inserted the remark immediately after a reference to our enemies. I didn’t mean that.
The logic connecting those sentences was much hazier than I may have implied, and their juxtaposition was unfortunate.
The only point I was trying to make, which was a bit of a throwaway, is that if this intellectual civil war (the one we call the Climate Debate) were instead the Oncology Debate or the String Physics Debate, I suspect it would be rather more difficult for us to outsmart our enemies, or even our opponents.
I’m thinking of using my white male administrator privileges to delete that parenthetical remark, because if it was capable of misleading you, it’s bound to mislead others. What do you reckon I should do?
Alan and Jaime,
I’ve become what I hate the most! Like Josef Stalin and John Cook before me, I’ve tampered with the record—controlled the past to control the present to control the future—rewritten history—by getting rid of that misleading (and misleadingly-placed) parenthetical sentence from my comment. Sorry about the confusion I caused.
Jaime, thanks again for your praise. Alan, thanks again for your criticism.
Brad. My vote is to leave it alone. As it stands its a mini threadlet weaving through this narrative.
I never implied that we don’t have enemies – clearly we do and I had at UEA. But I try as best I can to understand the underlying motives of my opponents and to categorize them as enemies serves no one.
When getting students to research and represent positions in the climate debate that they didn’t agree with, I always explained that understanding your opponent’s position was always beneficial to you in that it commonly gave you an unfair advantage. To be honest, I didn’t care if a student left being a more confirmed believer or a sceptic so long as they knew both sides of the argument. My job was to encourage them to think and evaluate. I wish I were able to say that I apply this throughout my life, but like everyone else I fail. But I might have made a good preacher!
“But I try as best I can to understand the underlying motives of my opponents and to categorize them as enemies serves no one.”
Agreed. Hence my clarification above: there are opponents, and there are enemies. Our opponents are our friends, because they force us to think better. Our enemies (obviously) aren’t.
Like you, I don’t really care if someone “believes” in [[[C]A]G]W] or not, as long as they respect the rules of science itself. Some of my best parents are believers. Obviously, I think an *understanding* of the rules of science leads more or less directly to a rejection of climate alarm, but what matters is that people not be taken in by the lies of Oreskes and Lewandowsky, not that they necessarily be inoculated against Doing Something About The Climate.
Alan, does Michael Tobis count? Do you count? If so, yes (to your question about pleasant chats with climate scientists).
Brad. I never have been a climate scientist (a scholar if you were being kind) and am now fully retired having had my last research paper published last month and having ceased peer reviewing the papers of others. In addition to which I actually meant meeting with someone so that you can simultaneously evaluate their body language, eye movements and what they say. I have had the good fortune to meet very few people I would evaluate as enemies. But as Climategate 2 revealed, you never can tell.
I don’t understand “Some of my best parents are believers.” Are you in fact a supercomputer programme – it might explain a lot?
AK, you have an inflated sense of our dislike for all climate scientists. I don’t know Briffa but I did feel sorry for him and assumed he was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. We know that they’re all different. Just like not every member of the Catholic church or priest abused children. However, like the church, a great many have ignored things they thought were wrong or explained away stuff that was worrying or worse, buried scandals to protect the whole. They think the silence is for the greater good. Just the opposite is true. Eventually the scandals come out and not only are they tarred by the events, they’re decimated by the cover up.
Part of my anger towards the warmist crowd (not just the scientists) is because they might be right about CAGW. These are a bunch of people who are doing a great impression of being crooks and incompetents. Most of them have no idea how monumental cutting CO2 is or they’d be calling for better standards. They’d police themselves. They’d kick Dr Lew’s work out as astonishingly bad (his work mind – he might be a really nice guy in person although I doubt it). They’d recognise that they can’t polarise the debate because action needs both sides.
Action on CO2 seems to be a separate thing in their minds. They don’t understand that the greater the action the more compelling the evidence has to be. They think belief is a binary thing. It’s not. Belief is measured in the scale of actions not in box ticking. Dr Lew seems to grasp none of this so how can he be useful?
Tiny, if you track back you will find that I was reacting to Brad’s original conflating climate scientists with enemies. But this was followed by several here defending Brad and agreeing with him or against my post. There is a lot of anger out there, because of this I now skip a lot of what appears in BH and don’t usually read discussions on WUWT. I read you, MBC, Jaime and many others here, nodding my head in agreement and feeling envy that I don’t possess the literary skills that you all possess. I sometimes disagree. For example, you wrote “a great many [scientists] have ignored things they thought were wrong or explained away stuff that was worrying or worse, buried scandals to protect the whole. They think the silence is for the greater good”. I disagree, I think that many don’t even acknowledge the existence of what you and I might consider gaping holes in the climate edifice. Still more may have doubts but these are buried for self preservation. It’s not unusual for scepticism to emerge towards the end of an academic’s life when there is little to lose.
I found your second paragraph particularly stimulating and will consider it further.
ManicBeanCounter:
Once again I agree. In short academics, especially those dealing in social psychology, ought to be much more on guard against the biases that strongly suck us towards a *cultural* consensus whenever there is significant uncertainty, and especially when the topic in question also has social impact (or merely *perceived* social impact). But this is rarely the case, and in Lewandowsky’s particular case his actions that you note are exactly those we would expect from a highly committed ideological defense; consensus policing emerges naturally in cultures and is part of the glue that holds them together against potentially millions of individual opinions (so resulting in common action rather than endless dispute – very useful indeed for many circumstances in our evolutionary history, but highly disabling for scientific exploration / understanding).
Adherents of cultures form a spectrum of belief, from merely ‘convenient’ belief’ at one end to highly committed at the other. While most of the social sciences appears to buy the narrative touting the certainty of climate calamity (why wouldn’t they as a default position? – the social sciences are sensitive to questioning what is perceived as ‘hard science’), and so social psychologists typically have huge confirmation bias in this direction that blinds them to the cultural mechanisms behind climate orthodoxy, most would presumably be reasonable in discussion of the topic. And for sure I can say this is the case with Dan Kahan for instance, who has generated some great data that helps our understanding of the issue despite he believes in the climate orthodoxy. But Lewandowsky appears to be at the Jesuit end of the spectrum, and at the strong end of Jesuit enforcement to boot (e.g. I paraphrase: more uncertainty only means more reason to act more urgently and with more resource, terms such as ‘the pause’ are heretical and not only have no basis in science but no basis for even raising as a scientific possibility, and hence represent contamination that should be resisted / erased).
As we know from the wider world, extreme ideological commitment can result in extreme actions (though fortunately the CC domain is nowhere near religious terrorism). Yet as to why the commitment, that is an interesting question. But for one who knows a great deal about all the above mechanisms, though also happened from early on to incorporate a climate orthodox stance as a pillar of his worldview (maybe from a strong tradition of such orthodoxy at UWA?) there is a terrible fork in the road. Crash the world-view by admitting all those mechanisms are what is driving the calamitous climate orthodoxy, or go to further and further extremes of inverted logic in order to reinforce the consensus and ascribe all the social mechanisms to the other side (which fork I don’t suggest is consciously perceived).
There has been much discussion over the years as to the extent in which strong belief in cultural narratives (which are basically all *group* level deceits), represents individual lying. This is highly complex and recursive, as it involves parts of one’s brain lying to other parts. The discussion is also convoluted and I guess the jury is still out, but once again may cover a spectrum, from yes to no. Everyone is subject to cultural influence and it is not productive to simply define everyone as a liar. But for unusually strong cultural belief this can result in actions that cross various (previously established) moral / social / justice lines (although this too is recursive because new culture moves the lines). Some say the strong case effectively becomes a personal lie to justify those actions, which seems intuitive in the case of obvious harm. But sometimes even the crossing of lines can later be seen as a cultural advancement which becomes celebrated. Newer research assisted by MRI scans, is raising the possibility that strong cultural belief works via the same parts of the brain via which hypnosis is achieved. One would not generally blame a person for doing what he / she has been hypnotized to do. Yet surely one should blame those strongly committed individuals who seem to be doing great harm to science and society due to their ideological commitment. The blame game is complicated 0:
TinyCO2: “However, like the church, a great many have ignored things they thought were wrong or explained away stuff that was worrying or worse, buried scandals to protect the whole. They think the silence is for the greater good. Just the opposite is true.”
Indeed. So culpability should be communal, I guess.
Alan K: “Still more may have doubts but these are buried for self preservation.”
But isn’t this just part of the mechanism via which Tiny’s above works? I.e. such folks have over identified their self preservation as being aligned to the greater entity that is going wrong?
Shollenberger is so weird, you could not make him up.
Tobis is not a sock puppet. He is just not a very original thinker.
Andywest2012. My belief is that there is a complete spectrum of belief with regard to matters like climate change. There are those so secure in their belief and confirmatory evidence that they can assume the guise of religious fanatics – no discussion is necessary and the science is known, definitive and settled. Few good scientists are this certain but multitudes of supporters are and many politicians pretend to be or cannot be bothered to seek out nuances. Scientists commonly pay lip service to the need for evidence but most go along with the crowd, which at the moment is firmly in the alarmist camp. It does not pay to be outside the strong consensus, unless you have retired or are nearing retirement. Nature of course picks sides and those on the wrong side will orchestrate their survival. This happened after the frigid projections of climatologists in the 1970s, and will happen again in the future.
Many scientists don’t know, and would wish to remain on their fences. Activists won’t let them and, to date, sceptics are on the “wrong” side.
Richard, I’ve had my disagreements with Brandon too. I think he also wrote a blog post on me a while back over some trivial disagreement we had which got blown out of all proportion. Twitter can be like that, as can life in general.
I agree with you on Tobis.
Alan Kendall: A fair description. But what you describe is a subset of behaviors due to strong culture, in which some science that is perceived as very important to society (justifiably or not), becomes entangled. Cultural behaviors have developed throughout our evolutionary history, while the endeavor of science is still comparatively very new, and very vulnerable to such behaviors.
Nevertheless, while it may not ‘pay’ to be outside the strong consensus, it is still responsible to resist inappropriate behavior and attempt to do the right thing wherever possible. Else-wise the final consequences for everyone get worse and worse (and some cultural movements backed by science for part of their authority, for instance via eugenics, have ended up very very bad indeed). I don’t think it is appropriate to just shrug one’s shoulders and excuse all by saying this is inevitable or unavoidable. And we don’t have to let things happen in exactly the same way in the future, in the climate domain or elsewhere; we can strive to improve.
The way emergent cultures work and their characteristics have been studied at least since Darwin, with much progress in recent decades especially. Hence, ironically, if it were not for the fact that the social sciences believe climate orthodoxy to be a certain conclusion of hard science that they don’t think to question, they would immediately recognize all of these characteristics. They are blinded by that much touted certainty from climate science, and many waste endless years working backwards from a supposed hard truth, vainly trying to figure out what’s wrong with individual skeptics, or indeed why after decades half the public in most countries still doesn’t buy it (which really is because innate skepticism resists culture: https://judithcurry.com/2017/02/20/innate-skepticism/)
As to nature picking the right side, we can to some extent pre-pick. Social analysis cannot make any statement at all about the physical climate. Nor can it even say whose theory about physical climate is right, or nearest right. But it can show in some circumstances what is definitely wrong, because it can readily identify a cultural consensus. And all cultural consensuses throughout history are wrong; they are emergent fictions geared to satisfy social purpose, and hence they can never reflect reality. The core consensus narrative for the CC domain, as transmitted in the most urgent and emotive manner by virtually the entire Western authority matrix from presidents and prime ministers on downwards (until the Trump administration), is the *certainty* of catastrophic CC (absent massive emissions reduction). After decades this narrative, itself ‘underwritten by science’ as leaders constantly remind us, has fed back to hugely bias the whole wider science and policy endeavors. But whether ACO2 turns out to be good, bad, or indifferent, we know that this narrative is wrong. It is a cultural fiction, a fairy story. And for scientists to support it, or even to continue to say nothing as the fiction is pushed so forcefully across the world, is wrong no matter their circumstances, and something that not only skeptics can justifiably lay at their door, but which future history will lay at their door too.
Andywest2012. It’s all very well writing that you “don’t think it is appropriate to just shrug one’s shoulders and excuse all by saying this is inevitable or unavoidable”, but surely you recognize that to do otherwise risks losing tenure, funding or support of your colleagues. It is similar to resisting what your employer wishes you to do if you work for industry. Since some of the policies advocated to avoid climatic damage are win-win situations, any opposition to the wider fantasies of climate alarm is not cut and dried lunacy and some advocated changes could be beneficial. This should not excuse supporting sloppy science, but I and some of my colleagues survived by not courting controversy (except in rigorously defined settings). Deliberately opposing the prevalent consensus would have been counterproductive. Better to work within than be cast aside and lose any influence. I think there’s a huge difference between what one should do and what one can do.
I was interested in your statement that “all cultural consensuses throughout history are wrong; they are emergent fictions geared to satisfy social purpose, and hence they can never reflect reality.” Do you believe this applies to topics like the development of democratic systems including justice, habeus corpus and the like. Or perhaps you think your statement applies especially to these. I believe with a little thought I could make a half decent fist of representing either side of a debate on the subject.
Alan Kendall: “It is similar to resisting what your employer wishes you to do if you work for industry.”
Which very many people do. And the consequences for the world in letting climate fantasies go rampant are potentially far worse than those which such people typically oppose with their employer. Nor does opposing fantasy mean abandoning support for policies that are likely useful anyhow.
Systems of reason such as justice, while necessarily incorporating some cultural norms, are in fact systems for resisting cultural change and especially excess, and when working without bias work in opposition to consensus policing and the natural selection of emotive narratives (which produces a cultural consensus). The ultimate such system is science, as its evidence is still more rooted in reality than the law (and ideally should not rest upon cultural props). Yet both systems can still be culturally subverted, this is a very frequent occurrence in fact. While science is self-correcting, eventually, much damage can occur during an extended period of subversion.
When we’ve finally gotten serious about the global warming movement’s corruption of science, when the impacts are really hitting us and we’re in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards—some sort of science Nuremberg (with non-apology apologies to David Roberts).
When that court is in session, do you really think “I was just following orders” is going to move the judge, the jury or the executioner to clemency?
It’s all very well to want to fight the system “from within,” as long as you actually remember to fight it, and don’t let your tenure or your mortgage or your pension become excuses for collaboration.
To your great credit, that’s what you did—you undermined the regime by teaching your students to see both sides of the debate.
And Paul Dennis, your colleague at the UEA, to his great credit, spoke out and called Hide The Decline what it was: “inexcusable.”
But how many other Good Germans can say the same?
It’s not unusual for scepticism to emerge towards the end of an academic’s life when there is little to lose.
It’s VERY unusual in science, because in science, scepticism is supposed to “emerge” the moment you first don the white lab coat.
If you were referring to CLIMATE science, then you just made a damning indictment of the entire field.
we rightly admire Resisters because they fight for what’s right, alone and at great risk to themselves. Irene Sendler risked, and suffered, arrest and torture by the Gestapo. You risked, and suffered, bitchy emails from Phil Jones. Paul Dennis risked, and suffered… well, I’m not sure. He seems to have gotten away with his good deeds scot free.
The ironic footnote, of course, is that Irene Sendler’s Nobel Prize went to Al Gore instead.
I agree with you both Alan and Andy. The behaviours and personalities are the same in any sphere of work. Climate scientists like to think that they’re a better class of people than those who inhabit the business world but on evidence so far, they’re just the same mix of good and bad. Like those other spheres, they need external forces to see the problems within and demand improvements.
Climate scientists still act like they’re working in pure science and they’re not, they’re detectives looking for evidence for the biggest trial ever. It needs to be forensic science. No more walking through the crime scene like Columbo dropping cigar ash. They should be more like Silent Witness. Everything bagged and tagged. Document everything. Future climate scientists shouldn’t find the current crop’s finger prints all over the data.
Nobody likes those restrictions. Everybody wants to be Columbo, making leaps of intuition and then getting a confession but in the real world every case he investigated would probably have been thrown out. It’s tempting to think that because fossil fuels are nasty, smelly substances that they don’t deserve a proper defence but what’s on trial is not the fuel but the people who used them. Almost all 7.5 billion of us. If they find us guilty then the punishment will be hard labour for every generation to come until a new energy source is available or acceptable.
I can’t condemn those career scientists who kept schtum about climate ‘science’ right up until the twilight of their careers, presumably in the interests of keeping a roof over the head of their family, but neither can I respect such a life choice either. They put a wage packet and a career before personal integrity and before scientific integrity. I am 99% certain that had I enrolled upon Atmos Physics and Chemistry MSc at UEA and subsequently carved out an academic career, it would have been cut short when I began to realise the shortcomings of the emergent science of catastrophic global warming and its encumbent professorial promoters. I don’t count myself as morally superior in that respect, just unusual. This in itself is a tragedy, because, as Brad points out, such a position, in science, should be the norm, not the exception.
Dear oh dear, the wheel has turned full circle and I find myself back in 2011 just after Climategate 2 and my role at UEA was revealed. I turned to Bishop Hill to put the record straight about my University and School and to try to tone down the rhetoric against my climate change colleagues within CRU and the wider School. Now I find myself in a similar position, trying to get people to be more reasonable about climate scientists. However this time I know from the outset that I am doomed to failure. But hey, one can but try. What have I got to lose – my reputation? It’s Monty Python time!
Firstly comparison with Irene Sendler (by Brad) is ridiculously over the top and disrespects her memory. Nothing I did at UEA approaches what she, and others like her did. I had a great time, I never felt under any great threat, I had the support of those that mattered and (at first) no restrictions on my teaching (after restructuring I lost access to the first year class where I gave a one hour lecture on climate change. I continued my main effort within my module on fossil fuels until the not so bitter end). I had support from across the School (including Keith Briffa) so I was more than willing in 2011 to give wholesome support to my School and University when it came under intense attack by sceptics. My views and support have changed very little. Yes, both CRU (which I never defended), my School and University did stupid things (possibly even criminal) but they never deserved the full hatred and abuse they were subject to. If you think you’re the good guys, try being on the receiving end of the WUWT and Bishop Hill hate machine.
Now I see the same happening again, exemplified by Brad wanting a show trial. There is, on occasion, much anger out there, rather than rational discussion, for which this site is known.
Sorry Brad, but I disagree vehemently with your current position.
Jaime. My apologies, we seem to have wandered so very far from your original topic and I hold myself very much to blame.
Alan, relax. You’re among friends. All real scientists are among friends at CliScep.
My show-trial reference was a satirical quote from David Roberts of Grist. I’ll dig up the original if you don’t recognize it.
To the extent that I see anyone as being truly criminal, it’s most certainly NOT the entire cli-sci profession, nor even the entire UEA or CRU staff, faculty, Senate, directorship or anything close! I have always tried (with mixed success, evidently) to confine my enmity to a handful of active saboteurs of the scientific method, so few that I can identify most of them by name.
Finally, my allusion to Irene Sendler was not by way of comparison but by way of contrast. I was making precisely the same point you made: that the personal cost of standing up for scientific integrity from within the system is trivial in the scheme of things (and it is therefore inexcusable to fail to do so, if you ask me).
Actually… “show trial”? I thought Nuremberg was a more-or-less legitimate war-crimes trial, though I’ve also heard rumors of forced confessions and coercion of witnesses, so I guess I’m too historically-uninformed to know whom to believe.
Skeptics are only human. The anger we felt towards the UEA *en bloc* was an unavoidable consequence of our having no “face” to put on the institution other than the well-known and rightly-despised faces of its most infamous employees.
Too few of us knew that you worked there too, as did (no doubt) countless decent, honest, true scholars. All we had to go on was the official position of the institution, which was (apparently) to defend the indefensible.
I can’t pretend ours was a fair, ideal, rational or desirable response. Far from it. It’s just one of those tragedies of war. But you can hardly be surprised that people lacking your inside knowledge (which is to say, most of us) and your wisdom and maturity (which is to say, most of us) reacted that way.
But you did the world a mitzvah by unmasking yourself as the “good” face of the UEA and providing a voice of sanity in those days of anger that began in late 2009 and climaxed after the show trials (*ahem* 😉 ) of 2010/11 reached their predetermined non-findings. I wasn’t present in those threads at BH and WUWT, but having read them subsequently, I dearly wish you’d been treated better and that your intervention had been taken in the right spirit by all, not just by some.
Note that by writing my last comment, I’m not defending the uglier flak emitted by some in the deniosphere. For one thing, I can’t defend it, because I don’t know what it entailed—I wasn’t on the receiving end of it, as you pointed out. All I’m trying to justify is the emergence of an impression of institutional corruption at a University which has never disciplined Phil Jones for his flagrantly anti-scientific actions.
But institutional corruption, needless to say, does NOT imply corruption on the part of all, most or even *many* individual human beings within. It’s simply a convenient fiction that treats a corporation as a person, then judges that personoid on the basis of its official actions—actions which were no doubt the result of votes among a small number of the highest management, without the mandate of rank-and-file scientists.
Finally, for what it’s worth, I’ve been at work most of the morning on a draft post which begins:
“Alan Kendall is not only a friend but, as our readers are aware, one of the most thoughtful, humane and deeply-educated contributors to this site. Having lived half as long as Alan, I can forgive myself for barely having learned half as much about the world.
So when Alan rebukes me, no matter how gently, his criticism is not to be dismissed lightly. It takes a whole blog post….”
Brad. Perhaps I’m carrying too much baggage and so did not (and to be honest still don’t) identify your intent. I have reread your 8.53pm post several times and still (even now knowing your intention) think you disrespect Irene Sendler’s memory. If you were trying to set up a contrast between the hardships she endured and the “easy” sacrifices that scientists would need to make, think again. Those sacrifices could involve giving up one of the major factors in your life, something you have earned – the ability to do science. This is something I wanted to do since I was eleven, and I knew I wanted to teach since getting my doctorate. Giving those up on a matter of principle would have been a very great hardship. My wife once remarked that I would go to work (at UEA) even without a salary. [And in my final year’s teaching I almost did].
Alan, now I’m as confused as I thought you were!
Surely, if one incurs a serious threat to one’s very ability to do science simply by speaking out FOR SCIENCE within the context of climate science, then “the entire field” (as the saying goes) has come to a more pathological pass than even I imagined.
We keep hearing that the UEA CRU is not a “proxy” for climate science, i.e. that whatever its (corporate) sins, they aren’t shared by other institutions.
But if that were the case, then shouldn’t it be relatively feasible to get a science job somewhere else, even (or especially) after sacrificing your future at the UEA by speaking out against bad science? Surely such a principled sacrifice should recommend you highly, or at least without prejudice, to a prospective employer anywhere else in the scientific world? Unless, of course, the tendrils of climatology’s “good cause corruption” reach even further and deeper than most cynics dare suspect!
What am I being here: naive? Simplistic? Illogical? For once, I hope one of the above applies.
Alan, let me also concede the obvious:
If (as it seems to have turned out, from what you’re telling me) the Irene Sendler allusion was applicable neither as a comparison nor as a contrast, with the truth awkwardly located somewhere in-between, then of course I shouldn’t have brought her name into it at all, and I apologize.
This is now embarrassing. To compensate I will tell a tale of how a scientist (me) can so easily be drawn into the climate change orbit and sell one’s soul. Before Climategate, but at the time after I was giving my climate change lectures to UEA undergraduates, my wife and I visited and flew over the Nazca Lines in Peru. There I noticed something interesting, the lines would be eroded by most ephemeral streams (which would be therefore younger than he lines) but would be have been made across other ephemeral stream deposits (which would have to be older than the lines). I had read that dating the lines was highly disputed, and it was even suspected that some of the lines had been recently “rejuvinated” by an archaeologist. But I had a way of dating and proving/disproving her activities if only I could date the stream deposits and when the piles of desert soil were last made. Not only that but I could then determine how much of the Nazca Plateau was being swept by rivers during any given interval. But I knew of a technique that could date how long rock crystals had been buried and shielded from cosmic rays. Furthermore a high plateau, like Nazca, would be an ideal site.
So I had an interesting research project, one with the potential to have worldwide interest. But it would be expensive and I would need significant funding and probably to interest a Peruvian student to come to UEA. I wasn’t certain that I would get funding from the British Research Councils, so thought about making the project as interesting as possible to other funding agencies – we even considered National Geographic. In considering making our project of interest to agencies, we thought up another angle. The Nazca lines are very fragile, they are only shallow trenches cut into the desert surface removing stones darkened by desert varnish. Any increase in rainfall would destroy them. So the insidious nature of climate science raised its head. Off I trotted to CRU. Yes, I was told we can predict future climate changes for large areas like the Nazca Plateau and its environs, and yes we could join you in supervising a research student. In the end, I never pursued this project, not because of any resistance to climate science, but because I realized the topic was far distant from my real research interests and if I became bored with it after the initial enthusiasm had waned it wouldn’t have been fair on any student we had recruited. But I came so very close to being a climate scientist sensu lato. So when you think of admonishing academics for their support of climate science, remember my story. The pursuit of interesting science can lead to strange bedfellows.
Not a problem Alan. Interesting discussion. Threads sometimes wander off topic. I came late to the climate wars, so missed ClimateGate.
“So when you think of admonishing academics for their support of climate science, remember my story.”
I’d never admonish an academic for supporting (or doing, or advancing our understanding of) climate science.
I’d only condemn them for vitiating it; corrupting it; retarding it; turning it into a virtual oxymoron—by, for example, supporting the *enemies* of climate science: Phil Jones, Michael Mann et al.
Remember, it was Mann who retarded climate science for seven years by refusing to disclose the details that would have invalidated his precious stick.
The reviled Steve McIntyre devoted years of his life, unpaid, in an attempt to advance climate science by debunking MBH98, in the face of tooth-and-nail resistance by people fraudulently calling themselves climate scientists.
“Giving them the algorithm would have been giving in to intimidation tactics,” Mann told the WSJ, thereby equating competitive replication with bullying.
Remember, it was Jones who said he’d rather retard human knowledge by destroying the CRU station data than share it with anyone.
These guys hate climate science. I don’t. Steve McIntyre doesn’t.
At worst, I might be accused of thinking the field is a bit of a joke, in terms of its meagre contribution to human knowledge. But unlike the supposed leaders of the field, I’d never go out of my way to make it even more of a joke.
No need to hang on. I read here and elsewhere that academics that do not admonish the guilty climate scientists (those that do “bad” science) are equally to blame. My story shows how even sceptics could be caught up. Once engaged in joint research it would become easier to be further drawn in. In my case it was with one of the senior players at CRU (not Briffa, and certainly not Jones). Some who write here and on other sceptic sites, would damn any that consort with the enemy or who try to understand their motives.
“Some who write here and on other sceptic sites, would damn any that consort with the enemy or who try to understand their motives.”
I’m happy to take your word on this, and I have no other way of knowing, since I rarely read what skeptics write. (I disproportionately consume alarmist writing, because that’s the source of my satire, my science and my motivation.)
“Happy” is perhaps the wrong word. I’m saddened by what you’re describing. But I’m not really surprised, since mathematics alone dictates that there be fanatics on either side of any sufficiently divisive argument.
I urge everybody here to reserve the word “enemy” (and the concept “enemy”) for actual enemies, not mere opponents.
“I read here and elsewhere that academics that do not admonish the guilty climate scientists (those that do “bad” science) are equally to blame.”
I’ve been guilty, on occasion, of condemning those who turn down perfect opportunities to condemn the guilty climate scientists.
But by “the guilty climate scientists,” I don’t mean those whose work is subpar, sloppy, erroneous or imperfect.
Those, I call “the human climate scientists.” Every scientist in the world is wrong about almost everything. That’s not only the human condition, it’s practically their job description. If you’ll pardon the cliché, science takes place on the frontiers of ignorance. That’s not a “bad” thing, that’s a definitional thing.
The only guilty parties in climate science are the ones who set out to increase human ignorance and delusion by, for example:
1. abusing their positions of respectability to lie about how science works
2. fighting, abusing and defaming people like Steve McIntyre in an attempt to scare citizen scientists away from improving climate science
3. publicly misrepresenting their results
4. publicly denying that their work is subpar, sloppy, erroneous or imperfect even when their own deskmates privately acknowledge that it is
5. hiding X, where X = anything.
If I’m boring you by defending myself at such length, Alan, I apologize. I would defend others here if I were absolutely certain that they shared my philosophy, but I can’t be since (as I admitted previously) I don’t read nearly enough of what my fellow-travelers write. I haven’t even read all the comments in this thread, and for all I know, some of them may embody the very binaristic, moralistic fanaticism you rightly deplore. I hope they don’t, but I don’t know (especially since you’re too much of a gentleman to name names).
Looking back, I notice with chagrin that I’ve argued for a moral duty to “speak out against bad science.”
That word (“bad”) was ambiguous at best, confusing at worst, since it’s indistinguishable from the adjectives used by the patronising, Ben Goldacre-ish ‘Crap Science’ crowd.
To remove any confusion, no, I don’t mean to suggest that anyone is obliged to condemn scientific work whose only crime is to be amateurish, inchoate, or (god forbid!) come to an incorrect conclusion.
My position has always been that not only is such work morally blameless, but a healthy field of science is in no danger of being “damaged” by it in any serious way.
At the risk of boring everyone, I’m sorry (particularly to Alan) for writing carelessly.
Cannot be repeated to often:
“Every scientist in the world is wrong about almost everything. That’s not only the human
condition, it’s practically their job description. If you’ll pardon the cliché, science takes
place on the frontiers of ignorance. That’s not a “bad” thing, that’s a definitional thing.
The only guilty parties in climate science are the ones who set out to increase human i
gnorance and delusion by, for example:
2. fighting, abusing and defaming people like Steve McIntyre in an attempt to scare
citizen scientists away from improving climate science
4. publicly denying that their work is subpar, sloppy, erroneous or imperfect even
when their own deskmates privately acknowledge that it is
The only guilty parties in climate science are the ones who set out to increase human
ignorance and delusion by, for example:
…The basis of genuine scientific research, CURIOSITY and a wish to solve real world
Cannot be repeated too often:
Is that a compliment or a dare? 🙂
Sorry I got a repeat comment, but like I said, it can’t be repeated *too* often.
A too impetuous serf.(
Neither a compliment nor a dare it be,
but an acknowledgement, for what
it’s worth. (From a serf.)
If it feels bad being connected to an institution that was (briefly) a figure of hate, try imagining it for your whole life. My Dad worked in and eventually managed power stations. They were always hated as dirty, massive, noisy monsters. During the coal strikes they were war zones. A neighbour almost punched my Dad, screaming at him that he’d got scab electricity, thinking the lights connected to a car battery was some special mains power to people who crossed picket lines. My chemistry teacher at secondry school literally bullied me for a reason I couldn’t fathom until the other kids told me he often openly ranted about the nearby power station before I arrived. Later I worked in a chemical factory that was always being complained about because of the smell and noise, regardless that the factory was there first and the houses grew up around it. I worked with two guys who had grim tales about working in the coal mines that didn’t go on strike. The conservatives are still reviled for shutting the mines down, even as the same people demand coal power stations are shut.
I am made aware at every point that the public and the media hate industry. At no point is there praise for the good things they provide. I remember being cross at the furore before Sunday trading – people wouldn’t be able to spend Sunday with their families!’ A large section of industry workers and their families thought ‘welcome to the club’. Only they don’t reliably get Christmas off either. When factories and power stations close almost everyone cheers. The early days of my career, I was left in no doubt that computers were the preserve of weirdos and loners. I remember watch Bill Turnbull smirking and laughing along with a group of culture types at the thought of using the internet. I remember thinking how horrified they’d be if someone admitted they hadn’t read and Shakespear or Dickens but they were positively proud of knowing nothing about computers. A year later it was www this and www that. Few, my career was no longer for losers although where I worked was doomed by rising energy prices.
I don’t remember you from back in 2010/11, I was too busy protecting my parents from the ‘angels’ in the NHS. See the difference? Industry bad, hospitals good, but both are vital for our comfort and longhevity. Many sceptics are from industry. They see no reason why we should be gentle with believers. We know how vital affordable, reliable energy is but how much is is taken for granted. They know that when the country raises its industry standards, jobs go abroad. In theory our demand for stronger rules on pollution, safety etc, should be reflected in what we buy but it doesn’t. As a country we happily buy cheap and turn a blind eye to pollution and worker abuses so long as they’re somewhere else. Do climate scientists care? If they’re wrong, do they expect the people affected to shrug and say that the scientists were just doing their job? It’s as important that they are under scrutiny and threat as any business. We tried being nicebefore 2009. We thought that they’d see the light after 2009. What are we supposed to feel almost 8 years later?
I was going to post a lengthier comment, but Alan has mostly said what I would have said (roughly, at least).
What I would be quite interested in understanding is what substantive bit of climate science do people here think will turn out to be wrong (in a major way) and why. Anyone willing to provide some insights?
Ken, we’re still searching for a substantive bit of climate science. We’ll let you know if we find it!
Ha ha, very funny. Okay, my question could be phrased in more than one way. The way I already phrased it, or you could explain which bits of climate science you don’t accept, and why.
Speaking for myself Ken, I think I’ve done that exhaustively over the years. I summarised my major points of disagreement for Tobis to which his response was that all the major predictions of climate science made in 1979 have come to pass (more or less) so it must be right.
That doesn’t really answer my question. Partly I am interested to see if the discussion can move on from maligning swathes of people with whom you disagree, but I am also interested in what bits you either don’t accept (or think will turn out to be wrong) and why. This isn’t intended as some kind of trick question.
Tiny. I wasn’t after any sympathy and, as I explained earlier I don’t deserve any. Then I failed to mention the joy of having had the respect of a great many undergraduates who passed through my hands.
I also worked for oil companies which for many greens is tantamount to being one of the seven princes of hell and beyond redemption. Accusations of being in the pay of oil companies bedevilled my academic life.
It does answer your question Ken, You just have to go look. But to save you the bother, my tweet to Tobis (plus those below):
The proposition that most or all of the warming since 1950 has been human caused. The proposition that GHGs have driven the GW secular >
Okay, so you dispute that most, or all, of the warming since 1950 was human caused. For clarity, the analysis indicates that it is extremely unlikely that more than 50% was non-anthropogenic. The analysis also indicates that the best estimate for the anthropogenic contribution is almost all of it (in fact, the analysis also indicates that natural influences probably produced a small amount of cooling, so that anthropogenic influences alone would probably have produced more warming than was observed). In other words, the probability distribution for the anthropogenic contribution is that it probably contributed somewhere between about 50% and about 160%, with a peak at about 110%. This Realclimate post explains it quite nicely.
If you disagree with this, does this mean that you regard it as quite likely that non-anthropogenic influences could have produced more than 50% of the observed warming since 1950? If so, what evidence do you have to support this?
FWIW, I did once try to construct a scenario in which more than 50% of the warming since 1950 was non-anthropogenic. It was extremely difficult to construct something that was physically plausible.
ATTP,
“What I would be quite interested in understanding is what substantive bit of climate science do people here think will turn out to be wrong (in a major way) and why.”
The fetish for consensus.
I know it will turn out wrong because homo sapiens spent between 400,000 and 1.2 million years (depending on your definitions) trying to do science that way, and failing abjectly.
For ~300 glorious years, which ended when Oreskes reared her distractingly-sexy head, we managed to put all that fatuity behind us. Then along came clisci, exhuming the putrescent cadaver of pre-science and calling it prescience.
Speaking of which, Ken, what was the scholarly (as opposed to propagandistic) purpose of the Consensus on Consensus paper to which you appended your name and whatever credibility that entails?
Please don’t run away like you did the last time I asked you this question, and the time before that, or I’ll be forced to inflict this nonversation on yet another unrelated thread in the future.
I don’t want to downplay (and it would be difficult to up-play) the experiences you describe and the bad taste they’ve justifiably left in your mouth. Thank you for sharing that story—I can’t really blame anyone for failing to appreciate your perspective, because I didn’t understand any of that until now. It’s rare to learn so much from a comment.
However, one of the points I take from Alan is that questions like
Do climate scientists care?
may sound, and may be, too indiscriminate to apply to a polylithic profession that includes (whether we see them or not) some good people.
I’ve asked questions of that form myself, countless times, and the instinct to write that way won’t switch off overnight, so I’d love to get your suggestions:
How can we better distinguish between the good guys, the bad guys and the ones who just fall in with the wrong crowd?
thomaswfuller2 says:
It’s all in the framing. Quite literally on Jaime’s most recent point. I submit that most Lukewarmers and most all of the consensus could accept the possibility that half or more of the recent warming is anthropogenic in origin.
But that’s not a scientific statement, really. It’s an umbrella. It’s purely political and the fact that it is used in so much literature is an indication of how much literature in this field is not scientific. And that’s before we even start to consider the accuracy of such statements.
When I write it it’s quite probable that I’m thinking 51%. When ATTP writes it he’s quite probably thinking of 110%, if I remember some of his posting correctly. So, like estimates of sensitivity, the range is too high for the statement to be useful.
We resort to these statements to paper over real differences in basic assumptions, such as the sensitivity to the atmosphere to doubled concentrations of CO2. And we need to paper over these differences in the blogosphere to avoid blood-letting. But the consensus also needs to paper over these differences to inflate the percentage of consensus holders.
I congratulate you (sincerely) on the fact that you “did once” behave skeptically.
Having said that, I trust you realize that the argumentum ad ignorantiam, or Argument From Failure To Believe Your Own Attempt At Constructing a Model You Didn’t Believe In To Begin With, doesn’t exactly mean very much in scientific questions.
I did once try to see if I could construct a model of human consciousness without making any reference to the Flying Spaghetti Monster. You know what? It was extremely difficult to construct something that was physically plausible.
Therefore, the human soul must be the gift of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. All praise her/him/it, for s/h/it is the wellspring of consciousness itself.
Need I belabor the analogy, Ken?
When ATTP writes it he’s quite probably thinking of 110%, if I remember some of his posting correctly.
Depends what you mean by “writes it” but if you’re talking about anthropogenic influences being responsible for more than 50% of the observed warming since 1950, then I’m mostly thinking of what is presented in this post (for example, the first figure).
When ATTP writes, “What I would be quite interested in understanding is what substantive bit of climate science do people here think will turn out to be wrong (in a major way) and why.” He deserves an answer.
I would nominate the statement that the most likely value of atmospheric sensitivity is around 3C. It may in fact turn out to be the case. But mathematically the statement is tenuous at best. Observationally it is not borne out to date. And theoretically it seems without strong foundation.
I consider that to be a statement vulnerable to falsification, and that that vulnerability is not newly recognized–I think many have known of it for a long period. Which is another class of problem with climate science dealt with above.
But mathematically the statement is tenuous at best.
What do you mean by this? The suggestion that the most likely value for equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) is around 3C is because this is roughly the middle of the likely range (1.5C to 4.5C). IIRC, the distribution is somewhat skewed, so it may be that 3C is not really some kind of best estimate (it may be more like something between 2.5C and 3C), but it’s probably closer to 3C than to 2C.
Observationally it is not born out to date.
There are paleo observations that are consistent with a best estimate of around 3C. If you mean recent observations, then we haven’t yet doubled atmospheric CO2 so it is clear that it has not been born out yet.
And theoretically it seems without strong foundation.
Actually, theoretically we expect cloud feedbacks to be small and probably positive. Water vapour and lapse rate have also been estimated theoretically. Together, they suggest that the ECS is probably above 2C and you can do some basic calculations that suggest the ECS is around 3C. See this video by Andrew Dessler, for example.
Fair enough, as long as skeptics like me get to answer that:
1. we don’t object to any major plank of climate science per se (if only because it bores us too much to locate the flaws that may well infest it for all we know)
2. what we find worthy of a chuckle is the politicoscientific adventitia that’s accumulated thanks to Tropical Resort Science by Committee, Rajendra-Pachauri-style
3. what we find worthy of hatred and ridicule is climate pseudoscience, Oreskes/Cook/ATTP-style
Ken, what was the scholarly (as opposed to propagandistic) purpose of the Consensus on Consensus paper to which you appended your name [snark self-snipped]?
You could have answered this in a fraction of the time it took you to put together your counterargument to Tom.
Of course, that assumes there is an answer.
Hiya Brad. Oreskes and Cook are not scientists, so pseudoscience is the right word. Up until ATTP fixed his name to their recent collaboration on consensus (which could have been shortened to ‘we stand by our previous work’) I would have said there’s a clear demarcation between ATTP and them.
ATTP seems bent on blurring the lines, but I do not think of him in the same terms as Oreskes/Cook.
ATTP, you expect you expect cloud feedbacks to be positive. But you use the word ‘probably.’
I would submit that the fact that you do not even know the sign of cloud feedback to be troublesome for those making statements such as you make.
You forget Lewandowsky’s Uncertainty Principle, which states that it is not our friend. Our inability to say yay or nay, positive or negative, necessarily increases the probability that whatever the sign is, it’s worse than we thought.
Ken might be destined for a less intimate circle of Science Hell than Lewandowsky, Oreskes and son, but since he’s had the decency / carelessness to comment here, I’m holding him accountable for his complicity. You should too, given that you think he added the imprimatur of actual, hard science to their fraud. Please don’t let him off my hook in your eagerness to land him on your hook. There’s enough squirming in the worm’s future to satisfy all of us.
Hiya Tom,
Hiya Brad. Oreskes and Cook are not scientists, so pseudoscience is the right word.
It’s possible I’ve misunderstood you, but the reason pseudoscience is le mot juste has nothing to do with their profession and everything to do with their lies about science. By the way, they both claim to be scientists (intermittently and inconsistently). Oreskes has even referred to her seminal Essay—the unreviewed, unreviewable page of pseudoscholarship bizarrely foisted upon readers of Science in 2004—as a scientific paper, a falsehood so brazen even Al Gore weaseled his way around saying it explicitly.
Given the fact that he banned me from his site (I eventually retaliated in a similar fashion) I don’t want to scare him off. If you ever want to see him disappear, though, start talking about Representative Concentration Pathways. It works on almost all consensus holders… they decide it’s time to do some gardening.
Firstly, I didn’t make a statement (or, at least, I don’t recall making any statement). Secondly, we may not know the cloud feedback, but the analysis done to date suggests that it is more likely to be positive than negative. Why not watch Andrew Dessler’s video? It says something like getting a climate sensitivity much below 2C would require a strongly negative cloud feedback. Is this possible? Sure. Is it likely? Not very. The evidence supporting a negative cloud feedback is essentially non-existent and we do have reasonably good arguments why the cloud feedback is likely positive.
ATTP: “…which bits of climate science you don’t accept…”
Its silence. Over the decades it’s voice has not seriously challenged the dominant Western authority narrative on CC, i.e. the *certainty* of imminent (decades) climate catastrophe as framed in the most critically urgent and highly emotive manner (example snippets below).
This narrative, coming from many of the most influential people in the Westerm world and the huge pyramids of government and organizations beneath them, has flooded the public sphere over many years, raising inappropriate fears and driving main policy, plus becoming an overwhelming source of emotive bias across all segments of society and feeding back into the wider enterprise of science itself. As can be seen from the sample snippets below, the authority of science is repeatedly invoked to underscore this *certainty* of imminent catastrophe. Where was and is the concomitant push-back from mainstream scientists across the world, that should be expected from this inappropriate hi-jack of their authority? If we take say the AR5 technical reports as a benchmark, this narrative is not supported by orthodox climate science, let alone anything proposed by Luke-warmer or skeptic scientists who also represent valid parts of the debate. With the multiple apocalypses touted in the recent NYM article, at last, while little and late, a few orthodox voices (even including Mann) have drawn a line and said this crosses into alarmism. While indeed welcome, this reaction probably reflects as much a changing political environment as a change of heart. However, the NYM article is different to the below narrative only in supplying much (largely speculative) detail. The core message, and the highly emotive and urgent framing, are the same as below. Over at Climate Etc some supporters of the consensus position have complained about ‘CAGW’ as a label. I paraphrase: “this doesn’t describe the science”. Well for those near the center of orthodoxy at least, they have a point. Yet nevertheless it most certainly does describe the dominant narrative that is driving all the action. Why has climate science remained silent for all these years, as an apparent certainty of imminent ‘CAGW’ has been sold to the world?
Example narative snippets:
[GRO HARLEM BRUNDTLAND] to 15th session of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development : “So what is it that is new today? What is new is that doubt has been eliminated. The report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is clear. And so is the Stern report. It is irresponsible, reckless and deeply immoral to question the seriousness of the situation. The time for diagnosis is over. Now it is time to act.” [OBAMA] Energy Independence and the Safety of Our Planet (2006) : “All across the world, in every kind of environment and region known to man, increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it’s here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.” Speech in Berlin (2008) : “This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.” George town speech (2013) : “Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.” State of the Union (2015) : “The best scientists in the world are all telling us that our activities are changing the climate, and if we do not act forcefully, we’ll continue to see rising oceans, longer, hotter heat waves, dangerous droughts and floods, and massive disruptions that can trigger greater migration, conflict, and hunger around the globe.” [FRANCOIS HOLLANDE] Paris climate summit Nov 2015 : “To resolve the climate crisis, good will, statements of intent are not enough. We are at breaking point.” [GORDON BROWN] Copenhagen climate plan (2009) : “If we miss this opportunity, there will be no second chance sometime in the future, no later way to undo the catastrophic damage to the environment we will cause…As scientists spell out the mounting evidence both of the climate change already occurring and of the threat it poses in the future, we cannot allow the negotiations to run out of time simply for lack of attention. Failure would be unforgivable.” [ANGELA MERKEL] to UN summit on Climate Change (2009) : “After all, scientific findings leave us in no doubt that climate change is accelerating. It threatens our well being, our security, and our economic development. It will lead to uncontrollable risks and dramatic damage if we do not take resolute countermeasures.” Same speech : “we will need to reach an understanding on central issues in the weeks ahead before Copenhagen, ensuring, among other things, that global emissions reach their peak in the year 2020 at the latest.” And while president of the EU, on German TV in a wake-up call for climate action prior to 26 leader EU climate meeting (2007) : “It is not five minutes to midnight. It’s five minutes after midnight.” [POPE FRANCIS] Asked if the U.N. climate summit in Paris (2015) would mark a turning point in the fight against global warming, the pope said: “I am not sure, but I can say to you ‘now or never’. Every year the problems are getting worse. We are at the limits. If I may use a strong word I would say that we are at the limits of suicide.” [MARK CARNEY] governor of the bank of England, speech ‘Resolving the Climate Paradox’, September 2016: “…climate change is a tragedy of the horizon which imposes a cost on future generations that the current one has no direct incentive to fix. The catastrophic impacts of climate change will be felt beyond the traditional horizons of most actors including businesses and central banks. Once climate change becomes a clear and present danger to financial stability it may already be too late to stabilise the atmosphere at two degrees.” [PRINCE CHARLES] speech to business leaders in Brazil (2009): “The best projections tell us that we have less than 100 months to alter our behaviour before we risk catastrophic climate change.” [AL GORE] speech to NY University School of Law (Sept 2006): “Each passing day brings yet more evidence that we are now facing a planetary emergency — a climate crisis that demands immediate action to sharply reduce carbon dioxide emissions worldwide in order to turn down the earth’s thermostat and avert catastrophe.” [JOHN KERRY] as US Secretary of State, responding to UN report (2014): “Unless we act dramatically and quickly, science tells us our climate and our way of life are literally in jeopardy… …There are those who say we can’t afford to act. But waiting is truly unaffordable. The costs of inaction are catastrophic.” [HILLARY CLINTON] time.com (Nov 2015): “I won’t let anyone to take us backward, deny our economy the benefits of harnessing a clean energy future, or force our children to endure the catastrophe that would result from unchecked climate change.” [BERNIE SANDERS] US presidential candidate (2016), feelthebern.com : Bernie Sanders strongly believes climate change is real, catastrophic, and largely caused by human activities. [M. LAURENT FABIUS] French Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development, in the National Assembly (May 2014): “We have 500 days – not a day more – to avoid a climate disaster. People often talk about climate change or global warming. I attach great importance to words, and as far as the French language is concerned I don’t think those words are very appropriate, because – without alluding to this or that political programme – change is seen as rather a positive thing, but in the case of climate, it isn’t at all. Some French people say: why not, since they might think Lille, for example, is going to join the Côte d’Azur? That’s absolutely not it. We must face up to climate disruption, climate chaos. The scientists, several of whom are present here, have said it: ‘you’d have to be blind not to see it’.” [FRANCOIS HOLLANDE] as French President, at 150 nation climate summit in Le Bourget, France (Nov 2015): “Never have the stakes of an international meeting been so high, because it concerns the future of the planet, the future of life.” [MERKEL] as German chancellor, at the Lowy Institute in Sydney (Nov 2014): “If we do not put a brake on climate change, it will have devastating consequences for all of us – there will be more storms, there will be more heat and catastrophes more droughts, there will be a rising sea levels an increasing floods.”
The IPCC has been remarkably clear about the foundational issues confronting climate science in terms of atmospheric sensitivity, the role of clouds in computational models and much more. They plainly state that we are unable as of yet to predict future climate states. They cite our inability to understand the net effects of cloud formation as one of the primary reasons.
ATTP, do you and Andy Dessler know something that the IPCC does not?
They plainly state that we are unable as of yet to predict future climate states.
Indeed, and neither am I.
They cite our inability to understand the net effects of cloud formation as one of the primary reasons.
Yes, this is one of the main uncertainties. However, even the IPCC says (AR5 Chapter 7 page 574)
The sign of the net radiative feedback due to all cloud types is less certain but likely
positive. We estimate the …… cloud feedback from all cloud types to be +0.6 (−0.2 to +2.0) W
m–2 °C–1.
In other words, they do estimate a range for the cloud feedback that suggests it is unlikely to be strongly negative (as suggested by Andrew Dessler) and that is more likely to be positive than negative. Given this, the ECS is likely to be above 2C.
Assuming that you are not just playing rhetorical games, the key point is that there is a difference between predicting the future climate state and determining the likely range of future climate states under various different possible future scenarios.
Which leads us to RCPs, which are being touted as such scenarios when in fact they are not, as clearly stated by their creators.
In case you don’t pass by Judith Curry today, you might find this paper she linked to interesting:
http://file.scirp.org/pdf/ACS_2017070315503961.pdf
You obviously lack the mental and/or testicular wherewithal to answer what would be a dead-simple question if you were a real academic:
What was the scholarly (as opposed to propagandistic) purpose of the Consensus on Consensus paper to which you appended your name?
How were you planning to refund the Scottish taxpayer for the salary you embezzled while fake-working on that fake research: cash? EFTPOS? Livestock?
Or would you prefer we ask your Vice-Chancellor?
ATTP @ 20 Aug 17 at 12:49 pm asks
Jaime’s reply is a very good one.
I will put it slightly differently. What, after 30 plus years of development, are the positive things that can be put forward to convince a group of lay people that climatology is actually a science?
Four years ago I made three basic suggestions in my post Three Positive Ways to Counter Climate Denial
First is building up a track record in predictions. I am sure ATTP can fill the answers.
1. More than twenty years ago the models predicted a continuing upward trend in global surface temperatures if greenhouse gases emissions were not severely curtailed. Emissions growth has exceeded our worst expectations so…..
2. In 2000 in both Britain and Germany, it was predicted that children would grow up not knowing what snow was. The decreasing can trend can be found ……
3. Following the massive heat wave in Europe in 2003, it was predicted that would extreme heat waves would become more frequent. This trend is shown….
4. Following Hurricane Katrina, it was predicted that would be an upward trend in these severe storms. That trend can be found ……
5. In 2007 the UNIPCC predicted that climate change could lead to a drop fall in crop yields by up to 50% in some African countries by 2020. The latest evidence to support this prediction consists of…..
6. One of the most visible signs of warming is the disappearing snows of Kilimanjaro. This continuing trend can be found…..
7. One of the most dire predicted consequences of global warming is of accelerating sea level rise. The latest data demonstrating this trend can be found at…
8. One of the biggest contributors of sea level rise is melting of the polar ice caps. Velicogna and Wahr 2006 predicted that the contribution to sea level rise from Greenland alone would rise from zero to 7mm per annum between 2002 and 2012. The actual data to support this is to be found……
I might be wrong, but I believe that all these predictions are false. If any they had turned out to be true then the might of the climate consensus would have been shouting it from the rooftops. On that basis, I believe that future climate catastrophes will not happen, despite the fact that policy will fail to bring global GHG emissions down to near zero by the end of the century.
Tom, my appreciation of your comments here and on Tobis’s post.
Ken, your simple attribution analysis makes some rather dubious assumptions, ignores systemic uncertainties re. natural atmospheric processes, plus it ignores the wider context of temperature variations throughout the instrumental period.
You state:
“It can’t be the Sun, or volcanoes, so it can only be the response to the internally-driven warming (0.45oC).”
Most of the warming post 1950 is in fact due to the rapid and near constant warming post 1980. The 30 years previous to that, global temperature went up and down considerably, changing very little overall in the process, even though emissions climbed steadily. So we have the 30 odd years following where most of your 0.6C warming takes place, which you declare is most likely due to the total increase in theoretical anthropogenic radiative forcing over the entire 60 year period. This bothers me slightly.
What bothers me more is that an increase in global temperature of almost exactly the same magnitude, and just as rapid (according to Hadcrut data) occurred 1910-1940, when anthropogenic radiative forcing was overall rather less and increased rather more slowly over the 30 year period. Much of THIS warming is very likely due to internal variability. But when we come to 1980-2010, because supposed radiative forcing due to CO2 is calculated to be much greater, it is somehow far more likely that the increase was due to man, not nature.
I will admit that the ‘spurt’ in global temperatures post 1980 is unlikely due to the sun. I do however consider it a distinct possibility that much of the secular trend in global warming post 1850 is due to solar forcing. You can shoehorn CO2 into that role, just as well as you can shoehorn it into post 1950 warming, as does the IPCC. But you can’t shoehorn CO2 into the 1940s warming. So the attribution of most or all of the warming post 1950 being anthropogenic looks very shaky to me, relying as it does on quite simple probability analysis, whilst ignoring structural uncertainties. We are, after all, talking only really about a 30 year period of rapid warming. It is conceivable that internal variability contributed > 50% to that warming (simply because, that must have been the case 1910-45), in which case sensitivity to CO2 must be very much less (over that period) than estimated by climate scientists (either that, or man-made aerosols have contributed a very significant cooling). I don’t see climate sensitivity suddenly increasing in the 21st century, so we then have to consider the possibility that a future man-made climate catastrophe looks highly unlikely.
back to Michael Tobis and why he would refuse to believe Jaime is real?
Does he really believe this, or is he making it up
Second suggestion in my post in my post Three Positive Ways to Counter Climate Denial was the following:-
The doubters believe that climate scientists practice pseudo-science
To counter this
Show that the methods are in the tradition of the greatest scientists like Newton, Pasteur, Einstein and Feynman. Where different, explain why climate science’s methods are superior, or more appropriate.
Define clearly the boundaries of climate science, and the different skills and specialisms within it. People might then start appreciating what how complex and diverse the subject actually is.
Demonstrate how climate science learns from the different philosophies of science.
Demonstrate how climate science utilizes basic distinctions of philosophy. For instance the differences between open and closed questions, between positive and normative statements and between a priori and empirical statements.
Show how, like in the field of medical science, climate science is advancing and over-turning or modifying previously held views through better quality analysis.
Climate science needs to draw upon a number of areas. Demonstrating how the science draws upon specialists in statistics, forecasting and other disciplines where it overlaps.
Show how proper controls are being implemented and adhered to in order to prevent any conflicts of interest from, for instance, the same people creating temperature sets who are also the trying to vigorously promote their theories.
This would lead to a professionalization of climate, which would mean that when clearly false statements were made anyone, with a competent understanding of the subject would see that they were untrue. Instead, we have the climate consensus, where academics in sciencey-type subjects can shout down competent experts in other areas who are not part of that believer group. Given that there is no clear distinction of competencies, nor do they highlight clearly unsubstantiated statements, I would reckon the whole lot of the CAGW statements are rubbish.
Of course ATTP can provide personal evidence of clear competencies. As a physicist he would never provide opinion pieces on say public policy, temperature homogenisation, philosophy of science or ethics.
What, after 30 plus years of development, are the positive things that can be put forward to convince a group of lay people that climatology is actually a science?
I couldn’t have put it better myself, so instead I put it slightly worse at my old blog, where I challenged someone—anyone—to name something we know now, courtesy of climate science, that we didn’t know 25 years ago.
After all, everyone understands that that’s what science does, by definition–it adds to human knowledge about nature—even if, like our hapless friend, they don’t know the first thing about how it does it.
If climate science can’t even do that, what else is there to say? The question—is it really a science?—just answered itself.
1. There is little, if any, indication that surface temperatures have not continued to increase.
2. IIRC, this was from a newspaper article. Maybe don’t believe everything you read in newspapers.
3. My understanding (and if I get a chance to find a source, I will, but I need to go and cook dinner) is that there has been an increase in the frequency, and intensity, of heatwaves.
4. The expectation with respect to Tropical Cyclones is that there will be an increase in the frequency and intensity of the strongest cyclones, but not necessarily an increase in the frequency of all cyclones. There is indeed an indication of an increase in the intensity and frequency of the strongest TCs in some ocean basins. However, this signal was not (as I understand it) expected to have emerged yet. See, for example, Elsner et al. (2008).
5. No idea. Maybe you can provide some source for your claim.
6. Again, no idea.
7. Recent sea level rise is faster than the 20th century average. The 20th century average is about 1.7mm.yr. It is currently 3.2mm/yr. See here, for example.
8. I’ve haven’t had a chance to check your claim about Velicogna & Wahr, but Greenland is indeed contributing an increasing fraction of sea level rise.
A few things to consider. Are you sure that what you claim was predicted, is actually what was predicted? Also, the underlying physics is pretty simple. GHGs reduce outgoing longwavelenth flux. This causes the system to warm so as to increase the outgoing LW flux and return the system to energy balance. This will cause the surface to warm, the oceans to warm (leading to sea level rise), the ice sheets and glaciers to melt (again sea level rise), the hydrological cycle to intensity (an increase in the intensity of frequency of extreme precipitation events), and will potentially influence other extreme weather events (although the impact on these events is less certain). Which bit of this do you dispute, and why?
ATTP: the kind of ******e who’ll come crawling for interaction, with people who don’t even exist.
I’ve just looked at Velicogna & Wahr (2006) and I can’t see any claim that sea level due to Greenland would rise from 0 to 7mm/yr between 2002 and 2012. Can you point out where it does so?
Also, the underlying physics is pretty simple … blah, blan …will potentially influence …
This old cliched nonsense could have been written 30 years ago. In fact, it has been. The problem is the lack of predictive power, not some vague sense of plausibility.
As far as heat waves go, you can check the IPCC AR5 SPM, which says (page 8)
It is very likely that the number of cold days and nights has decreased and the number of warm days and nights has increased on the global scale. It is likely that the frequency of heat waves has increased in large parts of Europe, Asia and Australia. It is very likely that human influence has contributed to the observed global scale changes in the frequency and intensity of daily temperature extremes since the mid-20th century. It is likely that human influence has more than doubled the probability of occurrence of heat waves in some locations.
Shub,
“This old cliched nonsense could have been written 30 years ago.”
Do you reckon, if we put our heads together, we would have any trouble writing next year’s climate science conclusions today? It’s not as if we don’t know the formula.
Third suggestion in my post in my post Three Positive Ways to Counter Climate Denial was the following:-
The support of policy controls
Medical practitioners and pharmaceutical companies fully realise that whilst medication properly diagnosed can deliver huge benefits, it can also generate great harm if there is not a proper diagnosis, or the incorrect medication, or dosage of that medication was prescribed. Similarly, there would be great concern if the armed forces did not have proper control of their weapons, so that rogue elements could seize control of those weapons to start an insurrection.
From a policy point of view, the UNIPCC in the Summary for Policymakers in 2007 that
“Peer-reviewed estimates of the social cost of carbon in 2005 average US$12 per tonne of CO2, but the range from 100 estimates is large (-$3 to $95/tCO2).”
Given that it would be totally immoral to impose policy whose consequences are more damaging that the issue it is supposed to alleviate, proposals for the proper implementation and control of policy are to be found ……
This one is was clearly breached in pushing through the Paris Agreement, and continues to be breached with those who criticize Trump’s withdrawal from that agreement. One of the most commonly used is the Climate Interactive data set. Their apportionment of the RCP8.5 baseline non-policy figures are utterly biased. At least from their figures in December 2015, they claimed that future per capita emissions in the USA would rise without policy, whilst since the 1973 oil crisis per capita emissions had been falling. It was the same with the EU, only their per capita emissions had been falling since 1980. For China and Russia per capita emissions are shown rise through the rough. It is as though without them the guiding hand of the green apostles, Governments will deliberately wastefully burn ever-increasing amounts of fossil fuels. rather than promote the welfare of their nations. This is a graphic I produced from the Climate Interactives C-ROADS software version v4.026v.071 RCP8.5 baseline scenario and the built-in population forecasts.
https://manicbeancounter.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/ghg-per-capita-1970-to-2100-c-roads-data-xlsx.png?w=600&zoom=2
China is the most globally significant. Despite a forecast decline in population to 1.00 billion in 2100, GHG emissions are forecast to peak at nearly 43GtCO2e by in 2090. That compares with 49GtCO2e from over 7 billion people in 2010. Conversely, non-policy developing countries (who do not want to game-playing ny committing to emissions reductions), are forecast to do disasterously economically and hence have very low emissions growth. That includes India, 50+ African nations, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq etc.
What is the relevance of this to ATTP’s question @ 20 Aug 17 at 12:49 pm
The answer is simple. When the climate community (such as Joe Romm and ATTP) use Climate Interactive’s bogus forecasts to compare against the impacts of policy they make two fundamental mistakes which any half-competent beancounter or economist would notice. First, they do not check the forecasts to make sure that is reasonable. Second, they do not look at the marginal impact that actual policy would make. This methodological flaw means that by merely signing a bit of paper countries the USA, China, Russia and the EU make huge differences to future emissions scenarios. The lack of competency in areas I understand by the climate community, and the lack of any consideration of the harms they will cause by false policies make me think they are not competent in the areas where I have less understanding.
Barry:
In abnormal psychology, that’s not a hard and fast dichotomy. He could believe it because he made it up, for example.
ATTL. The appropriate scientific procedure would be to quote all data – that which opposes one’s favoured interpretation as well as that supporting it. To only use and perhaps believe in supportive data is the mark of an advocate, not a true seeker after truth. Today you have been an advocate.
Thank you for your participation, transparency, patience and good humor (as we garble it in the USA).
I certainly don’t claim to have quoted all data (these are just blog comments) but maybe you could highlight what relevant data I have ignored.
ATTL. But I was not set the challenge and you chose to address it in your own indomitable style.
All the data Alan? In a blog comment? You really are a strange fellow. Your comments give the impression that you really want to make yourself look foolish.
Whoever was asking about the academic justification for ATTP’s involvement in a paper, is that a formal requirement of anyone? Where is it defined?
ATTP @ 20 Aug 17 at 6:13 pm
My point 5 you may not have heard about. The following quote from AR4 SYR 3.3.2 Summary of impacts on regions and AR4 SYR SPM 3
By 2020, in some countries, yields from rain-fed agriculture could be reduced by up to 50%. Agricultural production, including access to food, in many African countries is projected to be severely compromised. This would further adversely affect food security and exacerbate malnutrition.
I prepared a fairly full story of this false prophesy – dubbed Africagate in 2010. However, at 1500 words, it failed to post. I will post another time on my own blog.
Er, no, Len. Try to keep up.
I asked about the academic justification for the paper itself—you know, the one affectionately shortened to Cook’s Coc. Since Ken Rice is a named coauthor he would presumably know what it was… if it had one.
The only “requirement” I’m aware of is that, unless Ken was simply defrauding his employers, the paper must have had a scholarly raison d’etre.
Strangely, though, nobody involved in writing it seems to be able to say what that is.
What’s it been now, a year? A year of tumbleweeds, crickets and crickets inside tumbleweeds?
At this point taxpayers can certainly be forgiven for expecting a refund, or failing that (we all know how certain types love their money), the resignation of the pseudoscientists who squeezed out this steaming bolus of fake scholarship.
Or is there a statute of limitations on embezzlement?
“…you [ATTP] chose to address it in your own indomitable style.”
Dr Rice may be indefatigable or even inimitable (though I gave it my Oxford best, honest), but I doubt indomitable is le mot juste, or even un mot juste. I’d locate him closer to the opposite end of the insuperability spectrum. He’s so easily superable, in fact, that he has to ban raw prawns for pawning him at his blog.
Brad. I also regret using the word “style”.
Brad, sorry, I forgot it was you.
“…the paper must have had a scholarly raison d’etre.”
Why? Where’s that prescribed? Where have you seen the rule set out that academic freedom does not extend to papers or collaborations that have no such purpose? It would be odd to call it freedom and then constrain it so.
Len. How very weird, your 5.57am post seems to have no raison d’etre, and so, in a very small way, makes your point. But then one perceives that it therefore (by chance?) does have a raison d’etre after all, and all is confusion.
I think the confusion is all yours, Alan. Too early, perhaps?
The doctrine of academic freedom, in its most generous possible interpretation, entitles researchers to research whatever they want on the public dime.
(And no, I don’t intend to waste time coming up with a citation if you don’t accept this.)
But Cook’s CoC was obviously not an act of research at all (for starters, the conclusions were announced in advance), so your appeals to that lofty ideal are irrelevant and your objection ignored.
Freedom of speech is the only relevant principle, and all it does is restrain science-loving citizens from throwing every extant CoC on a bonfire of the inanities.
What it can’t do is explain why these soi-disant academics didn’t indulge their extracurricular love of Lysenkoist agitprop in their own time, at their own expense, and publish it in their own sad little zine.
The plural of samizdat is not samizdata, dude.
Len I think you may be confusing your “raison de la respiration” for your raison d’etre.
As far as I am aware, academic freedom goes beyond research and includes freedom to teach speak and publish. That seems to cover it.
Thank you for this correction, irrelevant though it may be:
“As far as I am aware, academic freedom goes beyond research and includes freedom to teach speak and publish.”
Right. Yes. Sure.
CoC papers are NOT an example of teaching or speech but of wasting everybody’s time in an elaborate parody of conducting, writing up and publishing the results of [fake] research.
Academic freedom was never intended as a cover for premeditatedly passing off Cargo Cult Psephology as billable academic work, was it? You accept this, don’t you?
in case it helps, stop for a second to meditate on the fact that you’re running apologetics for a paper even ATTP knows better than to try to defend.
It’s a free country. You’re welcome to rush in where angels fear to tread, but don’t say I didn’t warn you.
in case you’re tempted to run apologetics for CoC, take a second to mull over the fact that even ATTP knows better than to try to defend that alleged ‘study’ here.
It’s a free country. Anyone’s welcome to rush in where angels fear to tread, but they can’t say I didn’t warn them.
[Self-edited for gun-jumping. Although you’re being rude to Alan, you haven’t crossed that threshold with me yet, Len, so I’ll afford you the benefit of the doubt on principle. Call me an incurable optimist, but I’d rather take people as they come at first and be disappointed later.]
The genitive of самиздат is, of course, самиздатa—but that’s not the point. The plural is самизда́ты, and my comment stands.
Brad, Len wouldn’t be Len if he weren’t having a “pop”. I suspect you have escaped because he fears not always understanding your responses. I sometimes have my own problems and need a dictionary and thesaurus at hand. Wikki also runs red hot.
It wasted none of my time (until now, arguably) because I didn’t read it. Did you? Really? Why on earth would you do that?
“billable academic work”
What is that, exactly? Do academics bill for their work?
Btw, I’m not rude to Alan. It’s just friendly banter.
Come on, guys, you know how irony-challenged I am (not to mention generally deficient in anything resembling a sense of humor, at least when it comes to the Most Serious Threat To Human Longevity Since Telomere Fraying). You need to make accommodations in the form of hyper-literal exposition when I’m in the room, or don’t be surprised when I completely misunderstand you.
We’re not all wits, you know.
Where did Ken go? He threw down an iron-clad gauntlet and we were just getting into having a nice, sciency discussion, then . . . . gone! Still, at least he showed. Still waiting for Tobis to honour us, even if I don’t exist.
Can anyone definitively prove that Tobis* exists?
*I wouldn’t be surprised if it weren’t Swiss bread with chocolate in it.
Define what you mean by your question, ATTP.
Jaime. Ken now has done more than is necessary in interacting with us sceptical swine to write an exhaustive new sciency paper. We are now Überflüssig.
Alan, can one move from a state of not existing to being redundant? This is getting confusing.
…sorry to be slow in catching up.
So Len threw in with the antiscience Cook and Oreskes etc. and co-authored some op-ed paper dressed up in sciencey words?
And the wanted to share the good news with the deplorable?
Self parody has a new name:
Jaime. Redundant Nichtmenschen are everywhere at AGW sites – I believe even Ken has created some at his. As I have commented earlier I now think Brad is a supercomputer programme, that has swallowed dictionaries whole. This would explain the supernumeracy of his (its?) posts in recent days.
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Len? Lew? Ken? Kew?
The masses demand clarification
Thanks for catching that. ATTP his self.
Curses on autofill.
Please tell the masses I am pleased to oblige.
One thought on this:
Tobis pursuing a foolish argument is hardly surprising.
In a way it is his career path.
That Tobis is enthusiastically supported by ATTP is not at all unexpected.
I’ve never really bought this whole “autofill” excuse, having never misspelt anything on the Internet myself.
Anyway, I’ve informed the grateful missus of your recantation.
brandonrgates says:
> Well done Jaime for calling them out all this time. But this kind of thing is not an isolated incident. Mark Maslin called me a fossil fuel shill on twitter! At least he never questioned my identity.
Just gonna leave this right here, MARK4ASP, or whoever you really are.
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New Sneers Honours
By DAVID WOODING
IT’S been a year when the people of Britain have stuck a collective two fingers up to MPs.
Voters have used the ballot box to take their revenge on politicians of all varieties, whom many see as out of touch.
But some MPs and peers haven’t learned a thing as they hurl insults, throw tantrums and sneer at ordinary people.
So in an irreverent, but light-hearted, look back at the past year in Parliament, here are my New Sneer’s Honours.
Sneer of the Realm: Labour’s Emily Thornberry who scoffed at a house with three England flags and a white van outside. She resigned as shadow attorney general hours after tweeting a picture of them hours before the Rochester by-election result.
Life sneerage: Fouled-mouthed Tory Andrew Mitchell fought a £3 million, two-year legal after denying he called cops “plebs” when they refused to let him ride his bike through the Downing Street main gates. A High Court judge sided with the cops and told the snobbish ex-Chief Whip: “On yer bike.”
Cabbie-net Minister of the Year: David Mellor berated a taxi driver who suggested a quicker route, calling him a “a smart-arsed little b*****d” and telling him: “Shut up you sweaty little git.” The Tory ex-minister added: “I’ve been in the Cabinet, I’m an award-winning broadcaster, I’m a Queen’s counsel.” He was forced to apologise after cabbies threatened to ban him. I’d like to see how long he waits next time he wants to hail a taxi.
Sneer of the Year: Tory MP Mark Garnier for telling his party not to bother with “dog-end voters” who live in “outlying regions”. Suspect he’ll soon be at the dog-end of his political career.
Emily Thornberry and the twitpic that cost her her job.
Yes, Yes, Yes Minister: Deputy PM’s wife Miriam Clegg wins the honesty award for saying “women have been faking it for years”. But has she told husband Nick?
Snooze-Night TV Award: David Cameron, who admitted he often dozes off on the sofa when he has a night in front of the telly with wife Sam. The PM said: “Half an hour of Silent witness and we’re both asleep.” At least Sam doesn’t have to fake it.
The “Three minutes is a long time in politics” Award: Tory chief whip Michael Gove was nominated by his gossipy wife Sarah Vine. When told that men burn 4.2 calories a minute during sex, she quipped: “Wow! That’s 12.6 calories a session.”
Big Benn Clanger of the Year: Diane Abbott for live tweeting from inside church at Tony Benn’s funeral. An angry admirer of the Labour legend (that’s Benn, not Abbott) raged: “Why not go the whole hog and do a selfie with the coffin?”
The Prat that got the Queen: The royal claws were out for David Cameron after he claimed Her Majesty “purred” with pleasure when he phoned her the No vote in the Scottish independence referendum.
OBE – ‘Orrible Butty Eater: Ed Miliband, who bit off more than he could chew when he tried to battle his way through a bacon sandwich. The sarnie won.
The Gillette Award for Sharpest Political Putdown: Louise Mensch after MP’s wife Karen Danczuk posted saucy cleavage selfies on Twitter: “Put them away, love. Frankly, I’d rather see Ed Miliband eating a bacon sandwich.”
Karen Danczuk gives yours truly a lesson in how to take a selfie.
Gold Medal for Selfie-Exposure: Charities Minister Brooks Newmark resigned after sending explicit photographs of himself to an undercover reporter. The nation was appalled at his bad taste. Surely, no self-respecting MP would be seen dead hanging out of paisley pyjamas.
Class Warrior of the Year: Singer Myleene Klass for ripping Ed Miliband to shreds on TV over his planned mansion tax. “You can’t just point at something and say let’s tax it,” she stormed. “You might as well tax this glass of water.”
Worst political U-turn: Ed Balls, who was investigated by cops after hitting a parked car while doing a seven-point turn in a narrow street then driving off. It’s not the first time the shadow chancellor has found himself in a tight spot.
The Jack Horner Award for Women’s Rights: Nigel Farage, who infuriated mums by telling them to breastfeed in the corner of cafes and restaurants where nobody could see them.
Exposed: My story about Brooks Newmark.
Feminist of the Year: Sports Minister Helen Grant for her efforts to get more women involved in physical activity with these fine words of advice: “There are some wonderful sports you can do and look absolutely radiant and very feminine. Ballet, gymnastics, cheerleading and even roller-skating.”
Overseas Aid Champion: Harriet Harman who wore a T-shirt with the slogan “This is what a feminist looks like”. Her selfless act helped to boost employment in Mauritius, where women were paid 62p an hour to work in a sweatshop making the garments.
House of Lards Pin-up of the Year: Communities Secretary Eric Pickles, who has been bombarded with demands for signed photographs from young girls in Russia. A puzzled aide admitted: “I’ve no idea why Eric is so big over there.”
Cockup of the Year: Communities Minister Penny Mordaunt for using the word “cock” six times and “lay” or “laid” five times during a Commons speech on poultry welfare. But she later let slip it was part of a smutty dare from Royal Navy officer friends.
Twerking twerp of the year: David Cameron for twerking at an Ibiza-style rave he hosted at Chequers to celebrate his wife Samantha’s 40th birthday – after branding top twerker Miley Cyrus a bad role model for kids.
Pint of Order: George “We’re all in this together” Osborne, for keeping a padlock on his office fridge to stop staff raiding his milk. Well, at least he’s miserly with the rest of us, too.
Rocky Belt for Parliamentary Punch-ups: SNP chief Alex Salmond and Labour’s Alistair Darling who squared up in live TV debates over Scots independence. Two Scottish men shouting at each other and they didn’t have the decency to do it in a Glasgow pub.
Resignation of the Year: Home Office minister Norman Baker quits, saying that working there was like “walking through mud”. Think how your boss, Theresa May copes, Norman. She does it wearing kitten heels.
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Double output thanks to automated electrode production
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23/02/2018|Customer Story Werkzeugbau Karl Krumpholz GmbH & Co. KG
Krumpholz produces high-precision graphite electrodes on an HSC 105 linear from DMG MORI, these are stored and passed on to the eroding machines by robots when required in unmanned operation.
The service offering of Karl Krumpholz GmbH & Co. KG ranges from tool development and design to the complete production and colour-matching of the tools and on to include the serial production of plastic parts.
With more than 60 years of experience in Die & Mold making Karl Krumpholz GmbH & Co. KG is a competent and reliable partner for large car and commercial vehicle manufacturers. The service offering ranges from tool development and design to complete production and colour-matching of the tools and on through to the serial production of plastic parts. The company ensures its productivity and competiveness with continuous process optimisation – which, of course, also includes machining. DMG MORI has implemented a fully automatic interlinked system here, in which an HSC 105 linear machines electrodes that are then moved to a large store by robots and from there to two eroding machines.
Kay Löffler, Technical Manager at Krumpholz, Christopher Zwosta, Production Planning, and Tino Schnapp, CAM Manager.
“Ensuring our machines operate at full capacity plus reduction of the workforce to a minimum are the key factors for efficient tool making”, says Kay Löffler, Technical Manager at Krumpholz. Needless to say, automation solutions were the obvious answer here. A glance at the mould makers machining concept is a clear indication of this. Back in 2013 DMG MORI installed a DMU 60 eVo linear with a PH 150|8 pallet handling system. Krumpholz produces various small moving parts for the tools on this machine. Kay Löffler explains: “With the aid of the pallet handling system the machine is in operation 24/7. Also where large parts are concerned Krumpholz relies on DMG MORI: the machine park was expanded to include a DMU 210 P in 2014.
In 2014 the machine park was expanded to include a DMU 210 P for the machining of large components.
With the aid of a PH 150|8 pallet handing system the DMU 60 eVo linear machines various small moving parts for the tools in 24/7 operation.
The excellent order situation here calls for continuous operation. 95 percent of the tools are destined for the automotive and commercial vehicle sector. Krumpholz also produces serial parts in its own plastics technology facility, e.g. single frames for Audi or complete bumper systems for lorries. Automated production enables the mould makers to take on more orders, as the example of the latest installation shows. DMG MORI connected an HSC 105 linear and two Ingersoll eroding machines via a 6-axis Kuka robot. A store with space for 400 electrodes – ranging in size from 50 x 50 mm to 1,300 x 150 mm – is also integrated. The eroding machines are supplied flexibly from this store in dependence on the order situation.
“The HSC spindle with speeds of up to 40,000 rpm and linear drives with rapid traverses of 90 m/min enable accurate and at the same time dynamic machining” is how Kay Löffler assesses the performance of the machine. High-speed milling is therefore an unbeatable method for graphite machining – from both a qualitative point of view and where efficiency is concerned. However, efficient production of electrodes on the HSC 105 linear is only one element that leads to the high output of the system. The Technical Manager explains: “The large store also means that the eroding machines can work in continuous operation. This process was formerly carried out on separate machines. “We now produce double the number of parts on the automated system with the same workforce.”
Automation ensures a competitive edge
For the production of electrodes DMG MORI connected an HSC 105 linear and two Ingersoll eroding machines via a 6-axis Kuka robot.
The workers are now mainly responsible for the preparation of the electrodes. These are mounted on their holders and the key information for the electrodes are written on the RFID chip using a barcode scanner – from CAM through to the finished electrode including outputting of the NC programme for the eroding machines. The workers have meanwhile been redeployed to a different area, reports Cristopher Zwosta, Production Planning, and Tino Schnapp, CAM Manager: “The large store and high output mean the automation system requires continuous replenishment. That is why we have expanded the CAM department in the meantime.”
Kay Löffler sees the automation from DMG MORI as a good example for the direction of the future development of the tool making: “If we want to retain our competitive edge, we will have to forge ahead with similar manufacturing solutions in the coming years.”
Krumpholz also produces serial parts in its own plastics technology facility, e.g. single frames for Audi or complete bumper systems for lorries.
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Thermodynamics, Gibbs Method and Statistical Physics of Electron Gases
This book deals with theoretical thermodynamics and the statistical physics of electron and particle gases. While treating the laws of thermodynamics from both classical and quantum theoretical viewpoints, it posits that the basis of the statistical theory of macroscopic properties of a system is th...
Askerov, Bahram M., Figarova, Sophia (Author)
Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2010, 2010
Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics
Statistical Physics And Dynamical Systems
Mathematical Methods In Physics
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03171-7?nosfx=y
Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
This book deals with theoretical thermodynamics and the statistical physics of electron and particle gases. While treating the laws of thermodynamics from both classical and quantum theoretical viewpoints, it posits that the basis of the statistical theory of macroscopic properties of a system is the microcanonical distribution of isolated systems, from which all canonical distributions stem. To calculate the free energy, the Gibbs method is applied to ideal and non-ideal gases, and also to a crystalline solid. Considerable attention is paid to the Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein quantum statistics and its application to different quantum gases, and electron gas in both metals and semiconductors is considered in a nonequilibrium state. A separate chapter treats the statistical theory of thermodynamic properties of an electron gas in a quantizing magnetic field
XII, 374 p online resource
Quantum Thermodynamics Emergence of Thermodynamic Behavior Within Composite Quantum Systems
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Supersymmetric Methods in Quantum and Statistical Physics
by: Junker, Georg
Quantum Theory and Statistical Thermodynamics Principles and Worked Examples
by: Hertel, Peter
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The Hudson mutiny
Posted on February 20, 2018 March 1, 2018 by Douglas Hunter in History/Exploration
Illustration by Douglas Hunter
Habakkuk Prickett was lying in his cabin, his weakened legs aching from scurvy, when Henry Greene, accompanied by the boatswain, William Wilson, approached him on Saturday, June 21, [1611] with the plan to overthrow Henry Hudson.
Excerpt from God’s Mercies: Rivalry, Betrayal, and the Dream of Discovery, by Douglas Hunter. Doubleday Canada, 2007.
Prickett would have been among the last men they approached. If he were as close to Hudson as he claimed, it would have been a tremendous risk for the mutineers to involve him in advance. Surely he would tip off the master, the way he had already informed on Greene when he had his fight with the barber-surgeon at Iceland.
Greene and Wilson must have been confident of enjoying the support of enough able-bodied seamen both to seize control and steer the ship home. And their idea of shoving the weakest crewmembers into the shallop with Hudson would have terrified Prickett, who was by his own account bedridden. He was surely older than Greene and Wilson, who even in their famished state would have been physically imposing. The threat to the haberdasher was baldly stated, according to Prickett. Greene told him if he did not side with them, “I must take my fortune in the shallop.”
Prickett was given a chance to save himself because the mutineers needed him. He was the supercargo, the investors’ representative. The men who went along with Greene and Wilson would not have relished spending the rest of their lives as outlaws. If control of the ship was to be seized, it was best if it were done in a defensible legal fashion. Prickett’s cooperation was the surest way to save themselves from the gallows.
By the time Greene and Wilson came to Prickett with a crude scheme to wrest control of the ship, both were starving. They had already consumed their bread rations far ahead of schedule, and informed Prickett that there was only enough food aboard to last another two weeks. Greene in Prickett’s telling was violent and headstrong, a gambler, a spoiled young man with a poor record of self-restraint. Prickett wrote that Greene initially stormed out of his cabin in a rage when he would not agree to join him, leaving him alone with William Wilson, to attempt to talk Wilson out of the plan. Greene then stormed back in, demanding to know what Prickett had said. Wilson replied: “He is in his old song, still patient.”
Prickett tried to have Greene and Wilson agree “to stay three days, in which time I would so deal with the master that all should be well.” Prickett never said how he intended to deal with Hudson. He could have proposed to seek a promise from Hudson to sail directly home, and to involve a capable man like Bylot—even Juet—in the navigation. But the conspirators would not hear of three days, or two days, or twelve hours, Prickett claimed. They were determined to act as soon as possible: that night.
Prickett then offered a striking option: “if they would stay till Monday, I would join with them to share all the victuals in the ship, and would justify it when I came home.” While Prickett immediately related that “this would not serve their turns,” in attempting to defend himself from the cast stones by presenting evidence of all of his efforts to discourage Greene and Wilson, he touched on the very heart of the matter. Greene and Wilson had no real plan, except offloading Hudson, his most loyal men and the weakest crewmembers in order to stretch the rations. That would not do. The action needed a more coherent rationale for Prickett to take home with him. And by saving unsavory men like Greene and Wilson, who would gladly see him to his death if he opposed them, Prickett in turn could save himself.
Ironically, the precedent evidently chosen on which to build the insurrection involved none other than Henry Hudson’s own friend, Captain John Smith. To seize the Discovery and rid themselves of Henry Hudson, the mutineers would follow carefully how Smith had helped seize control of the Jamestown colony in September 1607, deposing its first president, Sir Edward Maria Wingfield. Leading men of the Virginia Company like Sir Thomas Smythe, Sir Dudley Digges, Sir John Wolstenholme, and Sir Robert Cecil, all of whom now backed the Hudson expedition, had been satisfied with the legality of the action against Wingfield. To persuade Smythe and his fellow investors of the legality of Hudson’s overthrow, the mutineers needed to adapt the basic script of the Wingfield action. And to persuade some members of the crew to go along with their insurrection, they would have to be convinced that what they were planning to do was no different than how Wingfield had been dealt with by Smith at Jamestown.
The mutiny scheme was far from perfect. In fact, in most ways it was terribly clumsy, and burdened by incongruities that pressed its logic beyond breaking strength. But it had an essential, cohesive shape. And in the end, it may have worked because the people who should have been casting the most critical eye over its uneven, even indefensible details after the Discovery’s return chose to go along with its rationale.
Anyone attuned to England’s overseas colonial ambitions would have been aware of the Edward Maria Wingfield case. Wingfield, who mercifully survived the coup unharmed, demanded a hearing on his return to England so he could refute the allegations made by John Smith and others in deposing him at Jamestown. There is no surviving record of the actual hearing, which may never have been held. But a lengthy draft defense by Wingfield, which he seems to have drawn up to guide him through the hearing, dates from around May 1608.
How many people aboard the Discovery would have known the details of how Wingfield was brought down is unanswerable, although Prickett more than anyone was in a position to know.Regardless, there is no more compelling echo of Wingfield’s unseating at Jamestown in September 1607 than Hudson’s overthrow aboard the Discovery in June 1611.
The many charges against Wingfield were tedious, and quite possibly not without cause, but among them were two basic ones germane to the Discovery mutiny: he played favourites to the detriment of the colony, and he hoarded and squandered food in a time of desperate need. The charges against Wingfield struck someone among the Hudson mutineers as eminently portable to a ship far from home, locked in shifting ice. Especially portable was how Wingfield was dealt with during the investigation into his conduct at Jamestown. On September 10, 1607, Wingfield was seized and placed in a pinnace, anchored off the fort in the river James, while his accommodations were searched for evidence.
The Wingfield-like elements of favouritism and food hoarding would be presented in the Discovery survivors’ High Court of the Admiralty depositions as the main case for having overthrown Hudson, and would also figure in Prickett’s voyage narrative. But none of these elements had been part of the case Greene and Wilson first made to Prickett on the eve of the mutiny. All the duo apparently cared was that they had eaten their rations long before everyone else had, and wanted to wrest control of the ship to get their hands on the food belonging to the people they would put in the shallop. The ravenous pair also complained of Hudson’s lack of forward motion—“that there they lay, the master not caring to go one way or other.” But it was the ice cover on James Bay, which typically does not clear until July, that limited their progress, as the mutineers themselves would discover.
Desperation was Wilson and Greene’s primary motive. When Prickett asked why they, married men with children, would risk an action that would “banish them from their native country,” Greene “bade me hold my peace, for he knew the worst, which was, to be hanged when he came home, and therefore of the two he would rather be hanged at home than starved abroad.”
When Greene refused to divert from the plan to proceed that very night, Prickett wrote that he told Greene he suspected that “it was blood and revenge he sought, or else he would not at such a time of night undertake such a deed.” At that, Prickett alleged, Greene took up Prickett’s bible “and swore that he would do no man no harm, and what he did was for the good of the voyage, and for nothing else, and that all the rest should do the like.”
Prickett did not explain how he was persuaded that no man would be harmed once cast adrift in an open boat among ice floes thousands of miles from home. Or how a man like Greene—who in Prickett’s own words with respect to religion considered himself “an open book” on which Prickett could write whatever he wished—could be relied on to swear to anything on a bible, particularly when he and Wilson had already made clear to Prickett their intention to cast away Hudson, those most loyal to him, and the sick. But swear Greene did, to Prickett’s satisfaction, as did Wilson. And so, Prickett claimed, did the rest of the conspirators, who filed that night into Prickett’s cabin: John Thomas, Michael Perce, Adrian Moter (whom Hudson had promoted to boatswain’s mate when he made Wilson his boatswain back on September 10), the cook, Bennet Mathew, and Robert Juet.
Juet was the first to enter Prickett’s cabin to join Greene and Wilson in taking the oath. Prickett found Juet “worse than Henry Greene, for he swore plainly that he would justify this deed when he came home.” It was the only moment in Prickett’s narrative when Juet undeniably was a ringleader.
Prickett acknowledged that the basis of the case against himself, which might yet see him hanged, was his administering of the oath: “…I am much condemned for this oath, as one of them that plotted with them, and that by an oath I should bind them together to perform what they had begun…” He was careful not to allow that he ever took his own oath. His case was rather that he had organized the conspirators along Christian lines. He made a point of including the actual oath in his account: “You shall swear truth to God, your prince and country: you shall do nothing, but to the glory of God and the good of the action in hand, and harm to no man.”
The oath-taking was the core of Prickett’s bid for exculpation: he had made every man involved swear to do no harm. Whatever followed that veered from that sacred promise was the sin of the oath-takers, not of Prickett. But at that point, Prickett also became an active co-conspirator. Because whoever ended up in the shallop, whatever the pieties of Prickett’s precious oath, received a death sentence. The men who were convinced to take seats in the shallop (just as Wingfield had been held in the pinnace) were supposed to be allowed back aboard, once the “evidence” for Hudson’s alleged hoarding of food was gathered. But Prickett expected these men to die, and he wished that some of the more useful ones remain with the mutineers to get the ship—and himself—home.
The mutiny, according to the list of oath-takers in Prickett’s journal account, enjoyed the participation of six members of the able-bodied crew, and the cooperation of Prickett. Of the remaining men, Thomas Woodhouse, Sydrack Faner, Michael Bute and Adrian Moore were all unwell and confined to bunks, and so were prime candidates for the shallop. The former boatswain, Francis Clement, was also expendable. While he had suffered a demotion at the same time as Juet and was criticized in Woodhouse’s note for having “basely carried himself to our master and to the action,” he had lost his fingernails to frostbite and may have been too lame to work the ship. Henry and John Hudson were doomed to be cut loose, as was the new first mate, John King. But that still left a significant group of skilled and mobile men: the recently demoted first mate, Robert Bylot, the carpenter, Philip Staffe, the barber-surgeon, Edward Wilson, the cooper, Silvanus Bond, the veteran Hudson sailor, Arnold Ludlow, and the ship’s boy, Nicholas Sims. This list of highly capable hands who were not among Prickett’s oath-takers revealed that the insurrection fomented by Greene, Wilson, and Juet, at least in its formative stages, was a creature of the lower ranks and marginal (or marginalized) voyage participants. And among the co-conspirators was potential instability, for Bennet Mathew had provided some of the most damning testimony against Juet at the September 1610 hearing.
In the hours leading up to the action, there would have been selective bargaining with men considered key to carrying off the uprising and then getting the ship home. When it came time to act, some of the men who had not taken the alleged oath would have to go in the shallop. Others would be allowed, convinced, or forced, to stay.
Greene told Prickett that, along with Henry Hudson (and, it went without saying, his son John), they intended to put in the shallop King, Staffe, and “the sick men.” To this Prickett helpfully replied that “they should not do well to part with the carpenter.” In a wooden ship that had already experienced a tough overwintering and shuddering groundings, Staffe was a crucial crewmember, and Prickett urged them to keep him. But they disliked Staffe, Prickett alleged, for the same reason they disliked King. The pair was “condemned for wrong done in the victual.”
Edward Wilson, the barber-surgeon, in his testimony before the High Court of the Admiralty in January 1612, would provide the most complete rationale for the conspirator’s actions. He alleged that at the time of the mutiny “their victuals were so scant that they had but two quarts of meal allowed to serve 22 men for a day, and that the master had bread and cheese and aquavit in his cabin, and called some of the company whom he favoured to eat and drink with him in his cabin, whereupon those that had nothing did grudge and mutiny both against the master and those that he gave bread and drink unto…”
The mutiny began, the barber-surgeon would attest, when the boatswain, William Wilson, approached Philip Staffe and asked “the reason why the master should so favour to give meat to some of the company, and not the rest…” Staffe supposedly replied “that it was necessary that some of them should be kept up,” at which Wilson told Greene what he had learned from Staffe. Greene and the boatswain Wilson then hatched a plan to put Hudson and King in the shallop, but to keep Staffe aboard.
According to Prickett, King was also disliked for having displaced Bylot as master’s mate. The conspirators had alleged to Prickett that “the master and his ignorant mate would carry the ship whither the master pleased: the master forbidding any man to keep account or reckoning, having taken from all men whatsoever served for that purpose.” Juet, for one, would have been deeply offended at an illiterate man without apparent navigation skills ultimately having come to serve in his place as master, and further being denied the right to make navigation observations himself.
Prickett, and some of the others who would go along with the mutiny, were trapped between two extremes of insurrection. On the one hand, there was the legitimate concern that Hudson was withdrawing into a scheming shell as the fever dream of discovery overcame him, cutting off all reasonable communication on the ship’s location, course and ultimate destination. Not having others share in the navigation duties was discreditably dangerous. On the other hand, there were violent, starving men at the head of the plot, who wanted nothing more than to stretch the rations by getting rid of about one third of the crew. Where they thought the ship should go next was another matter.
There was a reasonable course for Prickett to pursue, and it had been provided to him by the Reverend Cartwright’s action against George Waymouth on the deck of this very ship in 1602. As the supercargo, Cartwright marshaled a civilized and respectful insurrection, with the crew’s objections to an overwintering written down for Waymouth and an alternative plan proposed, of helping him spend the rest of the season search for possible passages, which led to the probing of the strait beyond the Furious Overfall. Prickett could have followed Cartwright’s example–his position being even more advantageous, as Hudson had already disobeyed his sailing directions. Instead, Prickett allied himself with Greene and his henchmen, racking his brain for some way to make the action they had in mind seem defensible, while saving his own skin.
Prickett wrote that he was successful in convincing Greene and Wilson to keep Staffe, but naturally he claimed noble motives. It was Prickett’s stated hope that after the conspirators “had satisfied themselves” by getting their hands on the ship’s rations, Staffe could work to convince them to allow Hudson and the sick men to come back aboard from the shallop. “Or, I hoped, that someone or other would give some notice, either to the carpenter, John King, or the master; for it so might have come to pass by some of them that were the most forward.” But Prickett could have raised the alarm himself by hollering blue murder, even if he was too ill to get out of his berth. By his own accounts, he would prove himself perfectly capable of communicating by shouting, and of venturing onto deck.
Already, his account of the mutiny’s unfolding was suspect. The idea of a line of conspirators on that small ship, parading unnoticed into Prickett’s cabin, to swear to his noble words on a bible, strained credulity. Prickett’s berthmates in the cabin outside the gunroom were King, Bylot, and Clement, none of whom took the oath. They all must have been elsewhere in the ship that night, if Prickett were to be believed.
But there would be ample reason for Prickett not to be entirely believed. Prickett’s main version of events, set down in his journal narrative, was contradicted by Bylot, who in a court deposition admitted to having foreknowledge of the mutiny. Bylot maintained he was not involved in planning. But he did allow that he was aware on the night before the coup “that Hudson and the rest were [to be] put into the shallop the next day.” Still, Bylot asserted that he and Prickett together attempted to talk the mutineers out of going through with their plan, but that “Greene answered the master was resolved to overthrow all, and therefore [Hudson] and his friends would shift for themselves.”
Greene’s reasoning was plain. He expected Hudson to obey the conventions of a commercial voyage, in which any deviation from the agreed course required the approval of the crew. With Bylot’s demotion, King’s promotion, and Hudson’s seizure of navigation instruments, the master was suspected of having secret plans for their course. If Hudson intended to operate without the approval of his men—if he was “resolved to overthrow us all”—then he and the men he favoured should “shift for themselves.” The statement was as close as anyone came to acknowledging what remained unspoken. In getting their hands on the remaining foodstores and making with all haste for the murre colony at East Digges Island, the core conspirators may have been determined to return the expedition to its recent state, when Hudson departed in the shallop for points and purposes unknown with what must have been a handpicked crew of loyal people.
Prickett would avow that Hudson and Staffe were his closest friends on the ship. If so, he sorely betrayed that friendship. Both he and Bylot knew something was coming, and found themselves a safe role in the coup, without making any effort to forewarn Hudson or his closest associates of the malice that was closing around them.
Something alerted the Discovery’s captain to the movements against him. Perhaps it was the shuffling of too many feet on the poop deck, above his cabin, or the sound of ice-hardened ropes moving jerkily through blocks as the trim of the sails was changed and course was altered. Whatever it was, George Waymouth was brought fully alert on the night of July 19, 1602, in the waters of Davis Strait to the east of Baffin Island.
All of Waymouth’s men had “conspired secretly together, to bear up the helm for England, while I was asleep in my cabin, and there to have kept me by force, until I had sworn unto them, that I would not offer any violence unto them for so doing. And indeed they had drawn in writing, the causes of their bearing up of the helm, and thereunto set their hands, and would have left them in my cabin: but by good chance I understood their pretense, and prevented them for that time.”
Waymouth’s fortune was shortlived: at eleven the next morning the crew “bare up the helm, being all so bent that there was no means to persuade them to the contrary.” When he came out of his cabin to ask them who had changed the ship’s course, “They answered, One and All. So they hoisted up all the sail they could and directed their course south and by west.” He managed to reassert his command, and even punish the ringleaders, while acceding to the crew’s demands. And not only did these mutineers spare his life: by refusing to overwinter in the arctic, north of latitude 60, they may well have saved it.
Nothing caused Henry Hudson to stir in the darkness of the Discovery’s cabin, nine years later, as another crew planned another, far more malevolent insurrection.
As the conspirators waited for the right moment to act on the night of June 21, King’s whereabouts were a concern, as he was the key person after Hudson that they were determined to cast away. They at first thought he was with Hudson, although Greene kept Hudson company for some time, despite their estrangement. King turned out to be up on the poop deck with the carpenter, probably enjoying a summer night under a half moon, breathing in fresh air that was chilled by an ice-strewn sea. Bylot must have been on watch in the early morning hours. Clement, who was Prickett’s bunkmate, was who knows where.
King returned to the cabin, apparently with Bylot. The current and former first mates were bunkmates, and Bylot had given nothing away. This was around four in the morning, at the changing of the four-hour watch, as Prickett attested “it was not long ere it was day” and the sun rose around 4:45.
Bennet Mathew, the cook, arose to fetch water for the kettle. King also awoke and went into the hold—lured there probably by Mathew for a discussion of the stores. King was trapped as the hatch was shut down on him. Who kept it closed Prickett claimed not to know, but Prickett said Mathew was quickly on deck. Meanwhile, Greene and “another” went to Staffe, and occupied the carpenter in conversation while Hudson was taken.
Prickett’s journal described how John Thomas—a bunkmate of Juet’s in the gun room—and Mathew led Hudson onto deck, while William Wilson pinioned his arms behind him. But Prickett would later testify in February 1617 that he never actually witnessed any of this, or that he ever saw Hudson pinioned. And the barber-surgeon, Edward Wilson, remembered the sequence differently.
The first that the barber-surgeon knew of a mutiny, he insisted in his court deposition in January 1612, was when Hudson “was brought down pinioned and set down before this examinant’s cabin…” Wilson looked out the door and saw men he declined to name—were they Mathew, Thomas, and William Wilson?—struggling to force Hudson onto the floor and secure his arms behind his back, by passing a length of pole through the crook of his elbows and tying his arms in place.
Edward Wilson offered up a surreal exchange: like a solicitous physician he “asked Hudson what he ailed, and he said that he was pinioned…” The barber-surgeon then apparently hoped to come out of his cabin to share in the victuals he would have known the mutineers were after, but those who had pinioned Hudson told him “if he were well he should keep himself so.”
Hudson, according to Prickett, asked his captors “what they meant.” And “they told him he should know when he was in the shallop.” But since Prickett wasn’t even on hand, this was entirely hearsay.
Down in the hold, with the hatch slammed shut over him and held in place, John King would have known immediately that something was terribly wrong. Bennet Mathew had suddenly disappeared, and by Prickett’s telling had rushed to help roust and pinion Hudson. An otherwise quiet morning, which should have given way to another laconic day of waiting for the ice to shift out of the anchored Discovery’s way, was alive with urgent activity.
The hold was a cramped, frigid prison. Cold air sank into it; the subarctic sea on the other side of the hull kept it refrigerated. The bilge water fouled its air, and condensation made the beams and planking slimy. Different levels of deck above him transmitted staccato shocks of scurrying feet. Some percussions were distant and muffled and moving with urgency. Others were crisp and sharp and purposeful and directly overhead.
The hatch was being lifted. Descending into view was the man who had promised Bennet Mathew there would be manslaughter and action that proved bloody to some before the voyage was over. Robert Juet was coming for him.
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There have been Superstars who tried fighting and fighters who tried their hand at being Superstars. But there is only one Ronda Rousey.
This record-setting modern legend has blazed a trail through mixed-martial arts, beginning with a bronze medal showing in judo during the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics and, most notably, continuing with a record-setting tear through UFC as the first female competitor to ever sign with the company. Given her status as the Strikeforce Women’s Bantamweight Champion before that promotion was absorbed by the UFC, Rousey was named the first-ever UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion upon her arrival.
Dubbing herself “Rowdy” Ronda Rousey with the blessing of the late Roddy Piper, she embarked on a ruthless undefeated streak that saw her submit opponents within a matter of seconds via her signature armbar. And she caught the sports-entertainment bug along the way, sharing the ring with The Rock and The Authority at WrestleMania 31. Ever since, rumors of a crossover to WWE persisted at almost every turn, though it seemed a dream pairing that was destined to remain just that … until Royal Rumble 2018, when Rousey arrived wearing Piper’s unmistakable leather jacket.
She then officially entered WWE in explosive fashion, sending COO Triple H crashing through a table and nearly getting into a scuffle with Stephanie McMahon before signing her Raw contract, and making it clear, in no uncertain terms, why she is “The Baddest Woman on the Planet.”
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Cops + Robbers
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The seedy side of Los Angeles in the decades after the First World War are documented in gory detail in an eye-opening new book of crime, violence and police corruption
Dark City: The Real Los Angeles Noir by Jim Heimann
Danny DeVito’s opening narration of the marvellous movie L.A. Confidential describes a Los Angeles where “the sun shines bright, the beaches are wide and inviting, and the orange groves stretch as far as the eye can see.” But a few seconds later, DeVito’s character, tabloid crime reporter Sid Hudgens rips away the façade and quips, “That’s what they tell ya, anyway. Because they’re selling an image.”
These words taken from the Oscar-nominated movie about corrupt cops in 1950s Hollywood highlight the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles that is explored in sometimes graphic and gory detail in a startling new book. The glamorous City of Angels is renamed Dark City by author Jim Heimann for his unflinching and macabre photography book that peels back the shiny veneer of Hollywood to reveal the sordid and often violent crime that riddled the city from the 1920s to the 1950s.
Heimann has collected black and white images from archives, museums, newspaper photo morgues, private collections, and his own library to create a visual history of LA that lifts up the red carpets and goes beyond the velvet ropes to visit crime scenes, notorious nightclubs and dark alleys. Alongside the photographs are pages from rare vintage crime tabloid magazines that record the exploits of LA’s cast of criminals and hold a magnifying glass over the real noir of the city.
We’ll leave the last word to DeVito’s magazine hack Hudgens who warns in his narration of L.A. Confidential’s opening scene, “But there’s trouble in paradise…”
From the headline crime of the Black Dahlia to the petty corruption of mayors and cops, discover the flip side of the Southland that inspired the movies and novels which came to be known as “Noir” in this edition, complete with bound-in facsimile magazine clippings.
In Pictures. Dark City: The Real Los Angeles Noir.
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© CLIFF WESSELMANN. A cigar-chomping detective examines the gruesome murder weapon, ca. 1940.
© CLIFF WESSELMANN. The bloody evidence of a murder spree awaits processing at police headquarters ca. 1930.
© JIM HEIMANN COLLECTION. Two prospective yardbirds are kept in check by a downtown police officer, ca. 1955.
© CLIFF WESSELMANN.
Dark City: The Real Los Angeles Noir by Jim Heimann is published by Taschen and is on sale now; AED 340
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Ambassador Sean Allerton, Pushes Again!
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A huge thank you to our Ambassador Sean Allerton, who has recently ‘pushed’ yet more miles in his wheelchair, to raise money for Elizabeth’s Legacy of Hope, and for the three RAF charities he also supports. Since losing the use of his hands and legs over twenty years ago whilst in Service with RAF in Cyprus, in a motorcycle crash, Sean has proven himself to be a true champion of people who live with disabilities; always encouraging others, and being grateful for what he has and what he can do. We too are immensely grateful to Sean for the example he is to all of us – and of course for the funds he has raised! THANK YOU SEAN. So, here he is – in September, scaling the roof of the O2 Arena, accompanied by ELoH Trustees Sarah Hope and Victoria Bacon, and members of his ‘RAF Family’. It was an amazing day – a clear blue sky giving us an amazing view of London – after which we all went to Ten Downing Street for a special visit, in recognition of the Points of Light Award Sean received from the Prime Minister last year (and Sarah and I received in 2015.)And here is Sean again, at his latest ‘Push’ at RAF College Cranwell, in Lincolnshire; also with Sarah and Victoria and Pollyanna Hope; this time with the Scottish Band ‘The Proclaimers’ too, whose song “If I Could Walk 500 Miles”, released in 1987, was the inspiration behind Sean’s idea to push for charity, in the way that he does.So far, Sean has raised over £38,000 and has pushed more than 2000 miles.
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Fear of Flying, Public Speaking and All Phobias Gain Rapid Relief From New Meridian Based Procedure
PRESS RELEASE: San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) -- Most people have experienced some level of fear when they encounter such things as snakes, heights, spiders, flying or public speaking. But, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, irrational phobias interfere with daily life for 10% of American adults. A new discovery makes it possible for people with phobias to gain relief without drugs, or traumatic therapy wherein patients are required to confront what frightens them. EFT addresses phobias at a deeper level by simply balancing the well-established energy meridians (chi) that become disrupted by intense emotional reactions.
Stanford-trained engineer Gary Craig, designed EFT to improve and accelerate the psychotherapy process. According to Craig, “EFT has been enormously successful in treating phobias because it balances and clears blocks in the body’s meridians. At the same time, EFT clears any associated emotional issues. If someone is afraid of elevators because they were locked in a closet as a child, EFT will clear that association. In 70 to 80 percent of cases, the phobia clears quickly, completely and permanently.”
The EFT process involves simple fingertip tapping on key acupressure points combined with focused thought. Craig explains, “most people with phobias can have an intense reaction just thinking about their feared object or situation. Using EFT calms that reaction and averts any future reactions.”
According to the American Psychological Association, only about 25% of people with phobias seek treatment. But if left untreated, 80% of adult phobias never get resolved. Furthermore, phobic people may be more susceptible to other forms of mental illness like depression or generalized anxiety disorder. A study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry states that people with agoraphobia may have a greater risk of developing Parkinson’s disease.
Best-selling author Dr. Joseph Mercola recommends EFT for people with anxiety disorders and phobias, which he describes as “an enormously crippling problem.” Mercola explains, “most people in this country suffer and do nothing, or they resort to drugs. Drugs do help, but it is obvious that they are no more than band-aids. Fortunately you don't have to rely on Paxil or Xanax for a solution. There are quick, simple and inexpensive solutions. EFT is one that seems to work profoundly well.”
Says Craig, “EFT is fast becoming a top treatment choice for psychologists and psychiatrists when working with phobic patients. Clinical cases evaluated over 9 years show that most patients respond to EFT and eliminate their phobias in one to three sessions as compared to a dozen sessions of conventional psychotherapy.”
Psychologist Dr. Joe Bavonese learned EFT and was impressed with the results. He offered EFT sessions to some phobic clients with whom he had previously only had partial success. One client had an intense elevator phobia that limited him in his job and on vacations.
Dr. Bavonese guided his client through EFT, focusing on his feelings of being closed in. After forty minutes of EFT, he rode the elevator several times with no phobic response whatsoever. The same feeling of being closed in was reflected in the man’s intense flying phobia and tunnel phobia, both of which cleared after this EFT session.
A recent USA Today article reported “Fear of flying cripples -- or at least burdens -- the careers of millions of Americans.” People are turning down promotions and opportunities because they require air travel and those opportunities may be going to less qualified individuals, at great cost to employers. Says Craig, “when people clear a phobia with EFT, they often discover a world of opportunity that was previously denied them because of their fear and avoidance.”
Over 1,000,000 have downloaded Craig’s free training manual and another 15,000 download it each month. It has been translated by volunteer practitioners into over twenty languages.
The EFT Manual explains the basics so that anyone can begin applying EFT right away. It can be freely downloaded at
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NKRI integrity must be placed in most important position: President
President Joko Widodo, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, and Jan Ethes Srinarendra wear Balinese traditional clothing, with a variety of colors and patterns, before the commemoration of the 74th Anniversary of the Republic of Indonesia at the Merdeka Palace in Jakarta, Saturday. (ANTARA/Desca Lidya Natalia/ak)
Jakarta (ANTARA) - The integrity of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia (NKRI) must be placed in the most important position, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) stated.
"The integrity of NKRI should not be sacrificed. NKRI’s integrity must be placed in the most important position," President Jokowi remarked before the commemoration of the 74th Anniversary of the Republic of Indonesia at the Merdeka Palace in Jakarta, Saturday.
"Happy 74th Anniversary Republic of Indonesia," the President remarked.
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The President averred his unwavering focus on the development of human resources during his second term for the 2019-2024 period.
"A character should be built from the start, as it is very important," he remarked.
The values of a person's character must be instilled since early on in life.
"Matters in relation to ethics, discipline, responsibility, independence, and culture of hard work must be built from the start. We must then prepare skills," Jokowi stated.
The character-building process was gradually continued until higher education.
During the ceremony, Regional Representatives Council (DPD) Chairman Osman Sapta Oedang was the reader of the proclamation text, while the prayer was read out by the education and culture minister.
The ceremony to commemorate the 74th Anniversary of the Republic of Indonesia is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. local time.
President Jokowi will act as inspector during a ceremony to mark the 74th anniversary of the Republic of Indonesia.
State officials, both the working cabinet ministers and leaders of institutions and agencies, will accompany the president at the main podium.
In the meantime, 11 thousand attendees at the ceremony constituted 30 percent of state officials, including from state institutions, the military, police, and ambassadors from friendly countries and 70 percent of the community.
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China: Believers Brutally Tortured for Their Faith
by Editor | Nov 21, 2019 | Communist Regime, Religious Freedom
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The Church of Almighty God (CAG) is the most persecuted single religious movement in China whose members are often tortured during detention, the police forcing them to disclose information about the Church or sign statements renouncing their faith.
Starved for 82 days
“I felt that I was dying from starvation, often dreamt at night that I was eating. If the walls were not covered with soft materials, I would have sought death by knocking my head against them,” a CAG member from the central province of Henan recounted to Bitter Winter her sufferings in prison.
Seven years ago, 21 years old at the time, she was arrested and later sentenced to four years in prison, charged with “organizing and using a xie jiao organization to undermine law enforcement.”
Article 300 of the Chinese Criminal Code states that being active in a xie jiao organization may result in a prison sentence of three to seven years. The article is often used to convict members of religious groups that have been included in the list of the xie jiao.
During her detention, the woman refused to wear a tag that specified her conviction because she believed it to be blasphemous. Angered prison guards ordered her cellmates to strip the believer naked, and then they locked her up in a small cell used to torture detainees. The walls and floor inside are specially designed to prevent prisoners from committing suicide when they can no longer bear torture-inflicted pain.
“Every day, I was given only a steamed bun slightly bigger than an egg and a scoop of soup with some vegetables to eat. Guards would just dump the food instead of giving it to me,” the woman remembered, adding that she felt so hungry that she would rummage through rubbish bins looking for food, but guards would not permit that.
Starved and exhausted, she had to endure intensive physical punishments throughout the day. Guards would force her to stand at attention, march in military-style goose steps, do squats, or torture her otherwise. They also instructed other inmates to beat and abuse her.
After 82 days of malnutrition, the woman lost a lot of weight and stopped having her periods. She continued to feel anemic even after her release from prison.
Viciously beaten, subjected to electric shock torture
“Your membership in The Church of Almighty God means breaking the law. If you don’t admit this, we’ll beat you to death,” a CAG member from Chongqing, a municipality in southwest China directly administered by the central government, remembered how the police threatened him during an interrogation in May last year.
He was detained at a secret interrogation center in a desolate and uninhabited area for more than two months. The police beat and kicked him, slapped him on the face, and struck him with a stick until it broke into pieces.
Unable to bear extreme pain, he knocked his head against the bed, attempting to end his life. But police officers ignored his agony and continued beating him until he passed out.
His whole body was covered in cuts and wounds, and his feet were so swollen that he could not put on his shoes. Regardless, he was confined to a tiger bench – an iron torture device on which victims are forced to sit with their knees tied together – for three days and nights, not being allowed to close his eyes and forced to watch propaganda videos slandering the CAG.
The man still suffers from the trauma of torture. He often wakes up from nightmares, and his memory has deteriorated.
Even elderly CAG members are not spared. In October, a nearly 60-year-old CAG believer from the eastern province of Jiangsu was subjected to electric shock torture. The police used electric batons to shock her armpits, legs, and feet. The woman was in so much pain that she screamed, and her body trembled all over. Police officers then strapped her mouth with a strip of cloth and continued to torture her.
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How to survive Lufthansa airline strike
The Lufthansa crew strike will impact flights to ten major cities in the U.S. from Frankfurt and Munich on Thursday and Friday. Reports indicate that Lufthansa flights from Munich to Los Angeles and Miami will be affected, and flights from Frankfurt to Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Houston, and Detroit have also been cancelled for those dates.
Airlines will often reject passengers’ claims to compensation for such disruptions by arguing that strikes are beyond the airline’s control, and that airlines are thus not responsible for paying compensation. Air travel experts would like to raise broader awareness and reiterate that a flight disruption caused by airline staff strike is definitely eligible despite what the airline states. Backed up by the latest decision from the highest European legal entity, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), airline staff strikes are a consequence of deteriorating relations between airline industry employers and employees. The ECJ assures that passengers are owed compensation for their losses during a strike.
If your flight’s cancelled because of an airline strike, what should you do? Please find a breakdown of your air passenger rights and a step-by-step guide to surviving strikes below.
How to Survive Airline Strike Season
Before departing for the airport, air travel experts strongly advise air passengers to know their rights under a strike.
1. Wait for airlines to act. When airline staff decides to go on strike, it is very seldom that airline authorities will cancel flights right away. Often, the airline will still try to get flights operating by actively negotiating with unions or even involving legal action to settle the dispute. As a consequence, many travelers do not know whether to reschedule their itinerary or not. If an airline does not cancel a flight 14 days before the originally scheduled departure, it is very likely that the airline is strongly pursuing negotiation with unions and might wait to cancel the flight until the very last minute. In such cases, passengers should not cancel the original flight before the airline confirms the flight cancellation, because airlines can refuse to pay for a refund and leave passengers paying for two tickets in the end.
2. Stay calm and know your rights. Not having the ability to plan ahead could make you feel helpless, but that is why the European Flight Compensation Regulation (EC261) has a comprehensive scheme to compensate travelers’ losses. The first thing travelers need to know about is their right to care, under which they can claim compensation for meals, refreshments, and two free phone calls, emails, or fax. When travelers arrive at the airport waiting for the announcement of strike-incited cancellations, they can demand that the airline provides those when a delay reaches two hours for a flight of the distance under 1500km, three hours for a flight between 1500 and 3500km, or four hours for a flight beyond 3500km. It is also possible for travelers to purchase meals in proportional to the waiting period, and claim reimbursement from the airline later. Passengers should keep all receipts to claim reimbursement later. Once the airline confirms the flight cancellation, passengers can choose from three actions: refund, rebooking to the next available flight, or rebooking to a later suitable flight. If the newly scheduled flight requires passengers to stay overnight at the airport, passengers can demand that the airline provides accommodation and transportation to and forth free of charge.
3. Get rightful compensation for your losses. Most importantly, after all these hassles, if you were traveling to or from the EU then you may be entitled to up to $700 in compensation – no matter if the airline cancels the flight and refunds the ticket, or provides a replacement flight to the original destination. As long as it is a last-minute cancellation or a flight delay of more than three hours, passengers can claim this compensation in addition to the other things that airlines provide during strikes. Also, airlines will often reject passengers’ claims for compensation by arguing that strikes are beyond the airline’s control and that airlines are thus not responsible for paying for compensation. AirHelp would like to raise broader awareness and reiterate that, a flight disruption caused by airline staff strike is definitely eligible despite what the airline states. Backed up by the latest decision from the highest European legal entity, the European Court of Justice (ECJ), airline staff strikes are a consequence of deteriorating relations between airline industry employers and employees. Even if a strike is a wildcat, the ECJ assures that passengers are still owed compensation for their losses during a strike.
4. Let the experts step in. After a strike hits, you are probably weary enough just from dealing with it. As a result, there are millions of dollars owed to consumers left unclaimed in airlines’ pockets every year.
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Earth – “Full Upon Her Burning Lips”
By Billie HeltonMay 23, 2019 No Comments
Drone gods Earth return with another stellar output. Full Upon Her Burning Lips is a great example of the beauty in simplicity.
Release date: May 24, 2019 | Sargent House | Facebook | Twitter
Drone metal is one of those genres that is definitely not for everyone. If you’re lucky enough to find some that clicks with you, however, it tends to click hard. Earth is the band that made it click for me with their masterpiece The Bees Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull. That album is one of my favorites ever, and easily my favorite drone album. Full Upon Her Burning Lips might take that mantle at this point, because it’s nothing short of a masterpiece.
Many people believe there’s no such thing as magic. I personally believe there is magic in being able to take such a minimalistic genre as drone and turning it into a masterpiece. Full Upon Her Lips does just enough to keep you enticed and keep melding the atmosphere slowly. The tracks meander hazily along with severely distorted, simplistic riffs front and center. There is a strong essence of doom to the writing and the tone with tons of Earth‘s iconic country/western and blues influence. This album is enchantingly cathartic, lulling you into an almost static state while it creeps along.
“She Rides an Air of Malevolence” might be one of the best songs I’ve ever heard. Listening to this track through a pair of good headphones is something I would almost equate to a spiritual experience. The heavy use of reverb and feedback permeating the smoky riffs is perfect. I got chills as one guitar chord slowly fades into the back of the track while another packs on a heavy riff. The undulating bass rooted deep beneath both of them just adds another layer to the dynamic atmosphere, with the lazy yet precise percussion leading it all along. I simply cannot get enough of this song. I’ve been listening to it nearly every day.
Full Upon Her Burning Lips is a great example of how atmosphere and the soundscapes music can create are almost more important than the music itself. While certainly not lacking, I find myself more enticed by essentially the essence of this album. My adoration isn’t in the individual notes as much as in the vast tapestry created by the tons of reverb and echoing distortion. The ambient tones feel like more of the center focus than the actual riffs. The fact that Earth, or any group, can achieve that is astonishing.
Bands have a predilection for going out strong on an album, and Full Upon Her Burning Lips is no exception. “A Wretched Country of Dusk” is one of the shorter tracks on the album, but one of the strongest. With more of a funeral doom vibe, incredibly melancholic riffs and an air of depression give this track a much different feeling than most of the album. It is to no fault as it doesn’t deviate much from the overall sound of the album while being markedly different. It moves slowly along at its somber pace like a funeral march, before a massive wave of feedback briefly washes through to end it.
Earth have done what they do best once again- and that is to create an incredibly diverse and vast piece of music at half the speed and half the notes of most other musicians. That is a hell of a thing to accomplish, and it’s a thing they have accomplished time and time again. Full Upon Her Burning Lips is an absolute masterclass of drone, with all of Earth‘s signature touches of country/western and blues all held together with strong doom overtones. The planet Earth is all the better for the band existing, and should be lucky to share a name with such a stellar group.
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Do You Remember… the Irish stars who appeared on I’m a Celeb?
Ellen Fitzpatrick
Editorial use only Mandatory Credit: Photo by ITV/REX (4271954ck) Nadia Forde in the Bush Telegraph 'I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out Of Here!' TV Programme, Australia - 27 Nov 2014
With 19 series under its belt and endless amounts of celebrities appearing on the show, I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here is top of our watchlist every winter.
Out of all the famous faces that have appeared on the show over the last 18 years, there were bound to be a few Paddies along the way.
From models and popstars to comedians and presenters, Irish stars from all walks of life have taken the trip Down Under to tackle the jungle.
How many do you remember?
Ant and Dec. Pic: Rex
From what we could gather here at Evoke HQ, there have been 10 Irish(ish) people who have made somewhat of an appearance in the I’m A Celeb jungle.
Fran Cosgrave was the first Irish contestant to join the line up for I’m A Celeb way back in 2004 and he made it all the way to third place.
The former Westlife bodyguard went on to win the first season of Celebrity Love Island in 2005 (yes, that was a thing) and got his own TV show with Calum Best, not too shabby.
Fran Cosgrave. Pic: Rex
Next to spend their three weeks living with snakes and critters was another Westlife associate but this time, it was Kian Egan himself and he went on to win series 13 in 2013.
Kian won over everyone’s hearts during his time in Oz although he’s always had the hearts of Ireland, and we all know Kian is doing pretty well since his stint on the show.
Kian Egan. Pic: Rex
The following year saw model Nadia Forde enter the jungle but was the second celebrity to be voted off after only surviving two weeks in the jungle.
She received a massive amount of trolling on social media for her weight and the model said that the messages ‘shook me to the core.’
Nadia Forde. Pic: Rex
Bringing us up to this year, we saw Girls Aloud and Derry native Nadine Coyle make her appearance but was the eighth celebrity to be kicked out of the jungle, not before fellow campmate, comedian and voice of Ex On The Beach Andrew Maxwell got the boot only days before her.
Andrew Maxwell and Nadine Coyle. Pic: Rex
So if there’s only five actual Irish celebrities, who are the rest?
In the third season in 2004, we saw Kerry Katona win the show and while she’s not Irish herself, we thought we’d give her a mention as she was married to Westlife’s Brian McFadden at the time and he met her at the end of the bridge.
Kerry Katona. Pic: Rex
And while we’re on the topic of celebrities married to Irish people, Spencer Matthews was on the show in 2015 for two whole days before saying ‘I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!’
He wasn’t with Vogue Williams yet, as she was still married to Brian McFadden, we think it still counts.
Spencer Matthews. Pic: Rex
Ok, maybe that one was a stretch but funny to remember him on it all the same.
Now onto the hosts, and our very own Laura Whitmore hosted sister-show, Extra Camp for five series from 2011 before she left in 2015.
Laura Whitmore. Pic: Rex
Lastly, the two you least expected, Ant and Dec themselves are Irish – well have Irish backgrounds anyway.
For anyone who saw their DNA journey, the pair not only discovered that their Irish roots are incredibly strong, they also found out that they are distantly related.
So there you have it, the 10 Irish and not so Irish (but we’ll allow it) people that have appeared on I’m A Celeb.
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Sir — No rely on how much scientists claim that humans are hardwired to be lazy, it can’t be denied that mechanization and different technological conveniences have introduced to guy’s propensity for indolence. While lifestyles have grown to be extra traumatic, it has also turn out to be greater sedentary. Everything may be finished with the click of a button.
But instead of including to man’s leisure, gadgets have ensured a sort of dumb inertia.
Physical inactiveness need now not have added mental stasis, however, it has. If laziness can lead to the entertainment of leisure time, it can be reinvigorating. But all the time stored by means of present-day marvels is spent slaving away in front of devices.
Chanchal Nandy,
New meanings
Sir — The article, “Desi dictionary” (Sept 30), became thought-upsetting. In the dictionary of New India, the phrases ‘patriotism’ and ‘nationalism’ have been redefined to stand for assaulting and/or abusing people on the basis of faith, caste or ideological differences. ‘Tolerance’ has been deleted altogether because it got here in the manner of hurling cuss words and vitriol at those who dare to harbor independent concept. Amidst this cultural revolution that is being wrought in current India, it’s far natural that an ‘autocrat’ will represent a person who simply aspires to instill a “little area”.
Kajal Chatterjee,
Sir — It changed into a pleasure studying the article, “Desi dictionary”, by Mukul Kesavan. The creator has to be lauded for the effort and idea that he has put into compiling the “New Indian Dictionary of the English Language”. Here is my take on a number of the references that the author made inside the piece, however, did no longer define. Libtard is a super portmanteau; she or he is a liberal-minded man or woman and via virtue of this accepting mindset a retard or “much less superior”; libtards are people from a bygone generation when tolerance and extensive-mindedness were virtues, out of area in a century whilst the world and its humans have been divided by means of slender ideological walls. But these also are individuals who, under the apparel of liberalism, have become a deaf ear to the lawsuits and critiques of big sections of Indian society and are in large part responsible for its pitiable state today.
Then comes sickular — here are folks who bring the contagious sickness of motive that allows them to upward push above the nonsecular dogmatism that is spreading like wildfire; like libtards, they don’t have any area in this point in time and are mainly hunted down. Yet, these are also people who’ve for years sat on the fence and pandered to the nonsecular sentiments of various sects and reaped wealthy dividends.
These are just two examples and the listing can go on. While each definition that Kesavan has furnished earrings true and hits home, it also can not be denied that the brutish forces which can be taking over the country, now not to say the arena, rode to strength at the backs of duplicitous folks that made a mockery of loved ideals like liberalism and secularism. The elite who concept it underneath them to interact with the so-called subaltern are similarly in charge of the existing situation.
Neel Banerjee,
Parting shot
Sir — The article, “Dissenting judges” (Oct 1), by Manini Chatterjee lauds the minority verdicts in vital instances that have been heard inside the apex courtroom ultimate month. Dissenting is indeed an essential thing of a vibrant democracy, but dissent amongst judges of the Supreme Court would possibly result in a confusion for commonplace people. Such verdicts enhance doubts that constitutional provisions may be molded in step with the wishes of the character deciphering them for suitable reasons.
Still, most of the people judgments offer a reason to take heart. It is encouraging that the apex court has refused to bow to pressures and upheld the freedoms provided with the aid of the Constitution. The courtroom has taken a realistic stand in every one of the instances and passed judgments that are honest to all events concerned. This is the motive that the apex court is the simplest institution that also enjoys entire public self-assurance. Its sensitivity in managing subjects of public interest is a promising sign for the Indian democracy.
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Mining sector can add $70 bn to India's GDP in next 15 yrs:CII
The report -- Mining Opportunities - Realising Potential -- also stresses on dealing with clearances which it says "still remain an impediment for a smooth transition from auction stage to implementation stage".PTI | November 20, 2016, 22:02 IST
New Delhi: A vibrant mining sector has the capacity to spur growth and add up to USD 70 billion to the country's economy as well as generate 60-70 lakh jobs, a report by industry body CII said.
The report -- Mining Opportunities - Realising Potential -- also stresses on dealing with clearances which it says "still remain an impediment for a smooth transition from auction stage to implementation stage".
A vibrant mining sector has the potential to propel economic growth not just through its contribution to GDP but also through its forward and backward linkages, the report said.
"In high growth scenario, mining sector can add close to USD 70 billion to GDP from now to 2030. Mining could play a crucial role in employment generation for India moving many from poverty to empowerment. In an accelerated growth scenario, mining can generate an additional 6-8 million jobs," it added.
Over last two years, the government has taken some important steps for removing stagnation in the sector. A major step is the enactment of Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 2015, which has made the process of allocation of mines transparent by introducing auctions.
The tenure of the mineral concessions has also been increased from the existing 30 years to 50 years, the report said.
"Presently, the process of obtaining approvals and clearances still remains long drawn and varies from state to state. This requires to be made simpler and expeditious so that the time required for operationalisation of the mineral concession can be drastically reduced," it added.
The report said that Environment and Forest clearances take long time in clearing adding that industry realises that these are non-negotiable and sustainable development needs have to be addressed at all stages.
"However, the problem is the inordinately long time that is required for obtaining this clearance and the cumbersome process involved therein," it said.
Environment Ministry has launched online portals for submission of applications and responses to queries but the desired results are yet to be achieved, it added.
"There is significant room for improvement in the clearance system in terms of efficiency, speed of decision making, predictability and transaction," the report said.
On clearances, the report said finalise specific timelines for each approval process step, without modifying the overall stipulated time in the notification. Finalise responsibilities and accountability at each process step, wherever not defined at present.
Work on digitising the approval process for enabling integrated online communication channel between central, state and district authorities, it recommended.
"Areas free from national park, sanctuaries, wildlife corridors etc be put up for auction," it said.
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Scott Nelson & a weirdly related miscellany
December 20, 2015 — Mira Vogel
Assuming his appeal is unsuccessful, prominent activist Scott Nelson aka @TheMockneyRebel has been expelled from the Labour Party after making a number of statements implicating Jews, “Jewish blood”, &c in various things he doesn’t like and scoffing when antisemitism was mentioned. Mathilda Murday and Soupy have collected some offending tweets. If you are inclined to comment about this below, keep in mind they’ve been threatened with litigation so mind your Ps & Qs. Nelson is penitent and as of about an hour ago, defiant at the same time (retweeting supporters who say antisemitism is nonexistent and a right wing smear). I am guessing the appeal will be considered by Labour’s National Executive Committee; if so it can be thought of as a benchmark. At the moment Corbyn-aligned Momentum people do not control the official organs of the Labour Party, but they have said that they intend to. In response, new alignments such as Open Labour are currently forming to bolster Labour democracy against populism and mitigate Corbyn’s anticipated failure to engage the wider electorate. My feeling is that if the outreaching parts of Labour make their presence felt, it will continue to put out people like Scott Nelson. If not then I have doubts that Momentum has the will, although Corbyn supporters exist who do recognise a problem and will do what they can, so hopefully I’m wrong about that. Worrying about antisemitism is one of those things where you win if you’re wrong.
I should also say I don’t think Labour have explicitly implicated antisemitism in the expulsion, and it is only one of several issues people have raised concerning Scott Nelson. One major divide in different parts of the left is the issue of whether to treat bigotry similarly if expressed by somebody privileged or somebody marginalised. This tension between relativist and universalist views is concentrated in situations like this one in which a disabled UKIP member objects to disablism on the part of Nelson (who is also disabled). Being universalist, Engage resists bigotry regardless of the objectionable politics of those who may be subjected to it (I find UKIP deeply threatening and politically moribund), or the extent to which we may identify with the perpetrator (without hesitation I’d hold my nose and take Corbynite Labour over the Conservatives in a two horse race).
Now to the weirdly related miscellany.
Campaigners against antisemitism often endure a range of unpleasant emotions which come with pursuing the issue both through big organisations and with individuals. They include a sense of futility against the machine, the chipping away of our self-esteem in the face of prejudice, and, if we’re unlucky, a sense of hatred we have no way of confirming because the hater is clever, directed against us personally because we are identified as Jewish. It all plays with your head. I think you will be struck by the overlap with the experiences of Adam Pearson in the excellent BBC3 documentary The Ugly Face of Disability Hate Crime. His starting point is an estimated 63,000 hate crimes against disabled people in England and Wales in one recent year, and the failure to prosecute these effectively. He speaks with disabled people, YouTube, legal professionals, and the police, and participates in a social psychology experiment. The action he embarks on is a promising direction, too. I very much recommend watching it.
The second miscellany is a recent LSE European Institute podcast, French sociologist Michel Wieviorka‘s talk ‘Europe’s Perfect Storm: racism, anti-Semitism, terrorism and resurgent nationalism‘. In it he weaves together several currents of European thinking in the past 30 years. He treats racism, antisemitism, terrorism and nationalism as expressions of evil which he observes to have revived in new, changed forms in in the 1980s, in what had been until then humanist Europe. Listen to this for an examination of how plural xenophobia has become, and how it is related to a decrease in trust of establishment authorities.
The final miscellany (HT @patlockley) is a piece in Dissent by Susie Linfield on left-wing Zionism.
“In its early decades Israel combined socialist, or social-democratic, politics with democratic freedoms. It was a poor and deeply egalitarian country; it was the praxis of left-wing Zionism. As Fred Halliday wrote, until 1967 “Israel enjoyed enormous authority, not so much as a close ally of the west, which at that time it was not . . . but as the site of an experiment in socialist economics and living.” But Israel has changed.”
“The task for American leftists is to support democratic, anti-occupation, two-state groups in any ways we can, including publications, conferences, visits, and, where appropriate, donations (even if we can’t match Sheldon Adelson). There are numerous such organizations, from the well-established New Israel Fund to smaller ones like Ta’ayush (in Arabic, “Living Together”) and Women Wage Peace, all of whose members include Arabs and Jews.
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Dealers: Political tensions pressures the leu into depreciation. The leu exchange rate reaches the lowest level in 6 months
de Dan Popa, transl/adapt. C.B. HotNews.ro
Marţi, 8 iunie 2010, 17:45 English | Business
The Romanian Central Bank (BNR) listed a slightly depreciated currency exchange rate for the leu against the euro, despite the fact that regional currencies (especially the Hungarian forint) corrected on Tuesday the losses suffered during the last days. A commercial bank dealer told news that the forint seems to be the regional currencies' winner; Hungarian PM Orban was holding a speech around 3 o'clock in front of the Parliament and the markets reacted positively. The leu should follow the same tendency, but the political uncertainty was dragging it down, the dealer explained.
The euro paid for 4,2180 lei on Monday and it appreciated to 4,2311 lei today. This is the highest exchange rate listed by BNR in the last six months, since December 16 2009, when one euro cost 4.2459 lei. The opening of the exchange rate on Tuesday, the leu had a high quota, near to 4.2390 lei for one euro. The national currency then appreciated constantly to 4.2165 lei/euro, only to lose the ground, reaching 4.23 lei.
The regional currencies had a similar evolution against the euro. The Polish currency initially appreciated from 4.1650 to 4.1325 zloti/euro. Then the exchange rate went up to almost its opening level. The Hungarian forint went down from 287.30 forints/euro to 283.60 and then recovered to the initial level.
As for the US dollar, BNR listed a reference course of 3.5496 lei/dollar, almost 3 bani up against yesterday. This is the highest level the leu reached against the dollar. Then the American currency depreciated initially from 1.1915 to 1.1983 dollars/euro on the international market. It recovered later up to 1.1903 dollars/euro.
On the monetary market, the short-term interest rates went slightly up, but continued to follow the monetary policy annual rate, namely 6.25% per year. BNR listed during the first part of the day an average interest rate for overnight deposits (ROBID) - 6.24% annually - up against the Monday level (6.16%). For placed overnight deposits (ROBOR), the annual interest rate went up from 6.6% to 6.7%.
"The fact that the Finance Ministry refuses to reject the receive offers seems weird, bearing in kind the increase in budget deficit. Moreover, this behaviour does not seem to suit the last statements made by the Finance minister, who said that should the fiscal measures failed to be adopted, Romania was going to become like Argentine in 2000. This statement suggest that it be adequate to build liquidity reserves, which contrasts with the fact that the Finance Ministry rejected all offers on auction worth of a total 3.6 billion lei during the last weeks. It is possible that public debt managers will try and make a comeback on short term on the monetary market, especially when we are drawing near to that time of the month when certain public payments are due. Such an operation could put pressure on short-term interest rate", ING Bank economists explain.
Interest rates due up to three months are in the area of 6-7%, having approximately 100 base points below the public debt outturn curve. To use this strategy over an extended period of time will need to refinance certain significant sums with an improved frequency.
The gold gram was listed on Tuesday, June8, at 142.5666 lei, up 5.30 lei (3.86%) against the Monday figures, namely 137.2649 lei.
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2019 Fall Clinic
Williams falls to Amherst 16-4
Amherst (11-6, 4-1) 2 8 0 0 0 2 2 2 0 16 13 0
Williams (3-12, 2-4) 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 4 10 7
Kellen Hathaway '19
2B: Harry Roberson; Ariel Kenney; Nick Nardone; Severino Simeone; Kevin Schroeder
2B: Eric Pappas; Kellen Hatheway 2
AMHERST, MA – The Williams College Baseball team (3-12, 2-4) traveled to Amherst College (11-6, 4-1) today to complete the third and final game of the series. Coming out of yesterday's double header, the Ephs dropped a game with a score of 11-9 and won a game with a score of 5-4. Today's matchup was originally scheduled to take place at home, but with recent weather the Eph's Bobby Coombs field is still unplayable. Action kicked off at 1:00 pm and ran for just under three hours.
After a tough first two innings the Ephs improved their game but were unable to overcome the initial deficit. The final score was 16-4 in favor of the Mammoths. Their success today earned them the 2-1 aggregate victory over the Ephs.
In the first inning, the Mammoths started strong with senior Max Steinhorn's single up the middle in his first at bat. Two plays later, he was batted in for Amherst's first run via an error by the second basemen. The Mammoths extended their lead to 2-0 when fellow senior Ariel Kenney was batted in through a reach on a fielder's choice. A combination of a strikeout and solid pitching ended the inning for Amherst. The Ephs started slow with two pop ups and a fly out.
Advancing into the second inning, the score remained at 2-0. A series of three walks loaded the bases for the Mammoths. After a pitcher change to left hander Brian Wooley, was followed by a double to right center, Amherst extended the lead to 5-0. The next two batters managed to double to right center and left field, respectively, to move the deficit to 7 runs. This was followed shortly by another single which brought home the Mammoth's sixth run of the inning. Another pitcher change to junior right hander Will O'Brien introduced some more calm to the game. Unfortunately, a combination of a fielding error and another run batted in gave Amherst a 10-0 advantage by the bottom of the second inning. The Ephs were unable to get on the board in the second inning with two strike outs and a ground out. The score remained at 10-0 moving into the third inning.
By the third inning, the Ephs found their stride in the field. A ground out, line out, and strike out ensured a short inning for the Mammoths. To keep the momentum going, junior Alex Panstares was the first Eph to get on base with a single down the infield line. Sophomore Mike Stamas followed suit two batters later with a single through the right side. First year Eric Pappas stepped up to the plate with two outs on the board and a runner on second and third. His single down the right field line batted in both Stamas and Panstares to make the score 10-2. Unfortunately, a ground out on the following play ended the inning for Williams.
Moving into the fourth, first year right hander Nehemiah Wilson stepped in as the Eph's fourth pitcher of the day. Williams kept their streak going with another scoreless inning for the Mammoths. A fly out, strike out, and ground out moved the game into the bottom of the fourth. Junior Kellen Hatheway stepped up for his second at bat of the day only to be walked via hit pitch. He eventually advanced to third after a line out, and first year Frank Stola's single to center field. Unfortunately, a second line out of the inning handed the Ephs their third out and ended the inning.
Entering the fifth inning, the score remained at 10-2. Another solid defensive effort from both teams meant the score remained unchanged moving into the sixth.
In the top of the sixth, the Mammoths earned a single on their first at bat. The runner advanced to third on a ground out and throwing error. He was eventually batted in off a double to center field. A single on the following at bat, brought in Amherst's 12th run of the day. A caught steal and fly out to the right fielder held the Mammoths to two runs for the inning. The Ephs started the bottom of the sixth strong. Hatheway earned a double to left field in the first at bat. He advanced to third on a passed ball, and was batted in by fellow junior Doug Schaffer's single on the next play. A quick series of three consecutive outs ended the inning for the Ephs, but their efforts cut the score to 12-3.
The Ephs began the seventh inning with another pitcher change. This time, first year Philip Barnett came in to replace Wilson. His first few pitches resulted in a walk and a line out to the third basemen. Unfortunately a stolen base and a single to right center extended the Mammoths' lead to 13-3. Two batters later, the Mammoths got their second run of the inning after a reach on a fielder's choice. From there, a line out to the short stop moved the game to the Ephs' at bat. Two fly outs and a strike out ended the inning quickly for Williams, and the game moved into the eighth with the score still at 14-3.
In the eighth inning, junior Tom Benz stepped in as the Ephs' next pitcher. The Mammoths continued their streak with their third consecutive inning with two runs. The first run came after Amherst managed to get players on second and third in their first three at bats. A ground out to the pitcher allowed Amherst to extend the lead to 15-3. With another runner on third, a fly out to right field ensured the Mammoths' last run of the game. Benz's strike out handed Amherst its final out of the inning. In the bottom of the eighth, Hatheway earned his second double of the game. Schaffers' ground out on the following play ensured Hatheway moved to third base. Junior David Kwan pinch hit for senior Adam Dulsky. His sacrifice fly out to center field brought Hatheway in for his second run of the day. The inning ended shortly after with the games' eventual final score of 16-4.
A strong showing in the field for both teams meant no runs were scored in the ninth inning. The game ended with the Ephs trailing the Mammoths by twelve runs.
Head Coach Bill Barrale commented on the teams performance: "The combination of walks and errors in the field made the game hard to win from the get go. We struggled a bit at pitching which further exacerbated our efforts."
The Ephs come away from the weekend 2-4 in conference games. Their next chance at competition will be on Tuesday at home against Trinity. The game begins at 4:00 pm with better forecasted conditions than this series against Amherst.
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May 1, 2018 Ephs fall in 5-4 extra innings to Skidmore College
April 29, 2018 Ephs blanked by Wesleyan Cardinals in final game of the series
April 28, 2018 Ephs drop two against Wesleyan
April 24, 2018 Jack Bohen named NESCAC Baseball Pitcher of the Week
April 24, 2018 Ephs Fall to RPI in 16-7 Defeat
April 22, 2018 Ephs top Hamilton 4-1, win key NESCAC West series
April 21, 2018 Ephs split double header with Hamilton
April 18, 2018 Schaffer Leads Ephs to 4-2 win over MCLA
April 14, 2018 Ephs earn split double header in part one against Bates
April 11, 2018 Ephs fall to Vassar in tough come from behind defeat
April 10, 2018 Ephs top Trinity 7-4 in Home Opener
April 8, 2018 Williams falls to Amherst 16-4
April 7, 2018 Ephs earn a split of the doubleheader at Amherst
March 31, 2018 Ephs fight back to gain split with Middlebury
March 30, 2018 Ephs fall to Middlebury in opener of divisional play
March 28, 2018 LaVerne rally sinks Ephs' effort 11-8
March 26, 2018 Ephs drop 11-4 decision to Cal Lutheran
March 25, 2018 Ephs drop two games at Whittier, 2-1 and 9-8
March 24, 2018 Ephs fall to Chapman, 9-0
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March 19, 2018 Ephs use the longball to win season opener vs. Caltech, 11-8
March 16, 2018 2018 Season Outlook
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Putting the ‘I’ in CISO: Why the Security Leader Must Become an Influencer
One of the most important attributes of a chief information security officer (CISO) is the ability to govern by influence rather than edict. This skill is especially important given that, according to an August 2017 Ponemon report, many organizations struggle with conflicts related to turf and silo issues — nearly half of CISOs still report to chief information officers (CIOs) — and the lines of responsibility for cybersecurity are not always clearly defined.
To resolve these problems, CISOs must explore ways to become influencers within their organizations. But this doesn’t mean the security leader should have absolute authority and total control over the security program. As many CISOs have realized, the cybersecurity function is much more likely today to have veto power over projects, especially IT projects, than ever before. However, veto power can be a double-edged sword that (if abused) can halt innovation and influence employees to turn to shadow IT.
According to an MIS Training Institute article that paraphrased Security Catalyst CEO Michael Santarcangelo, “CISOs can make changes and increase the scope of their influence, but only if they’re willing to realize that the name of the game is not power.” Deloitte Insights echoed this sentiment: “Instead of impeding innovation for fear of cyberthreats, the CISO should seek to be instrumental in aiding organizations to achieve their goals.” The piece also noted that “CISOs who are able to step beyond a tactical, technical level are more likely to gain credibility and support among leaders across the enterprise, including the board, CxOs and business unit leaders.”
CISOs who wish to exercise their ability to influence should remember to focus on listening first. Security leaders must use tact and diplomacy to increase the amount of contact they have with the rest of the C-suite, the board — and especially line-of-business (LOB) leaders. Some leaders view any form of engagement on the part of security folks as an attempt to meddle in business affairs and will respond defensively. That’s why CISOs must exert their influence carefully and listen to the concerns of various departments before imposing security restrictions on these lines of business.
According to journalist and former TED Global speaker Becky Blanton, “The most popular and memorable people in the world are those who give us their undivided and full attention.” In fact, per the State Department, the elements that make up Chinese symbol for “to listen” include symbols for “you,” “eyes,” “ears,” “heart” and “undivided attention.” Together, these elements illustrate that “to listen, we must use both ears, watch and maintain eye contact, give undivided attention and, finally, be empathetic.”
Focusing on Value
It’s important to remember that few business leaders have time to think about security. If the organization is not moving at the speed of business, it’s being overtaken by competitors. The CISO will get a lot more traction — and a lot more respect — if he or she can frame security recommendations and warnings in business terms instead of technical jargon that is meaningless to business leaders.
CISOs should reframe their interactions around cyber risks, both positive and negative, that can impact a particular line of business or — for C-suite and board interactions — the entire organization. If the organization has an enterprise risk management (ERM) framework already in place, the CISO should study it and frame cybersecurity in terms of its impact on the organization’s ability to create or protect value.
Influencing by Proxy
Even the most successful CISO influencer can’t be everywhere at once. That’s where the CISO’s ability to forge strong alliances throughout the organization can help spread the word that the cybersecurity function aims to help the whole enterprise, not hinder productivity. These allies can soften the terrain of interactions with new business units. Just as critically, they can be the eyes and ears of the CISO, helping raise the alarm well before security issues become incidents.
Keeping Up With CIOs
While the CISO position has evolved into a more strategic role, so has that of the CIO. A recent study by the IBM Institute for Business Value (IBV) found that CIOs are keen to “foster innovation through singular, more personalized relationships with core constituencies.” This is key because many organizations are embracing the consumerization of IT. This means CIOs must seek to improve the way they collaborate to shape and architect digital strategies, focus on innovation and become better change agents. Where CIOs go, CISOs should follow to ensure that the business risks of both today and tomorrow are still palatable to the C-suite and the board.
Boosting CISO-Board Engagement
In its director’s handbook on cyber risk oversight, the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) outlined questions to help board executives strengthen their engagement with security leaders and better understand how their organization approaches cyber risks.
These inquiries aim to address:
The CISO’s charter and scope of authority
The CISO’s formal lines of reporting
The CISO’s access to “an independent channel to escalate issues and to provide prompt and full disclosure of cybersecurity deficiencies”
The nature of the CISO’s relationship network, both inside (collaboration across silos and with audit, HR, legal, and supply chain and third party vendors) and outside (threat intelligence and sharing, law enforcement relationships) the organization
As boards reflect on and improve their oversight of cyber risks, they are increasingly looking for reassurances that the CISO is business-focused. Communication such as the questions described above can help executives and security leaders get on the same page.
Sign on the Dotted Line
As an influencer, the CISO can play a key role in shaping the organization’s cybersecurity risk strategy. When the security leader’s influence reaches all the way into the boardroom, that influence can actually help save the organization money in the aftermath of a data breach. The Ponemon Institute’s “2017 Cost of a Data Breach Study” found that board-level involvement reduced the per capita cost of a breach by more than $5.
Another benefit is the extra reach that comes with this form of human network instead of — or in addition to — formal authority. As the Deloitte Review article stated, “Regardless of where the CISO function is positioned within the organization, it is important to understand where dotted-line relationships may exist and to clearly define roles to avoid confusion in responsibilities and improve integration and collaboration.” The influencer CISO will have many informal dotted-line relationships, which will the benefit the entire organization.
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Phase 2 Work is Planned at Building Used by Families of Seriously Ill Children Undergoing Treatment
Press Release (ePRNews.com) - Hackensack, NJ - Aug 23, 2017 - When their toddler Chana was being treated for a neuroblastoma at the Children’s Cancer Institute at Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, Rabbi Chaim and Dr. Shoshana Poupko of Englewood, who are Orthodox, took turns on alternating Fridays walking the two-and-a-half hours from Englewood to Hackensack University Medical Center. This allowed for one parent to stay home with their other daughters while the other could be at the hospital with their sick child. Like many other parents, they stayed at the respite apartments at the Audrey Hepburn Children’s House, for families of seriously ill children being treated at Hackensack University Medical Center. That was three years ago.
Recent improvements have made it much easier for Sabbath-observant families staying at the newly renovated and renamed Suites on Second Street, thanks to amenities geared to the needs of Orthodox Jews. The idea to include these updates was spearheaded in part by the Poupkos’ experience and the desire to do something meaningful for the Jewish community in Chana’s memory.
When they heard that the Audrey Hepburn Children’s House was to be fully renovated, the Poupkos approached the Alfred N. Sanzari Family Foundation, which was helping to fund the project, about their desire to participate. Their plan was to renovate two Shabbat rooms to house a family for the weekend together, to further ease the burden for other Orthodox families who are already facing extraordinary circumstances.
“The residence now has elevators that stop on all floors automatically, lights that turn on without switches, and the like, plus distinct suites for men and for women with young children,”
explained Shoshana Poupko.
The couple turned to their religious community, Congregation Ahavath Torah in Englewood, where Rabbi Poupko is the associate rabbi, for help raising funds. Within two weeks, the congregation raised $100,000 to help pay for two Shabbat rooms (one for men, one for women and children) equipped with Shabbat-friendly appliances; and a special Shabbat elevator that stops on every floor so that buttons need not be pushed.
Each apartment has a private bath and a kitchenette with a microwave, refrigerator, and a warming cart and electric hot water urn that can be turned on before the Sabbath and left on safely for the duration. Bikkur Cholim Bergen County stocks and cleans out the refrigerators weekly. Motion sensors turn on lights as needed.
“Because of these upgrades, observant Jews can use the front entrance and access the elevator, warm up kosher food that’s stocked in the refrigerators, and siblings can play games and read books that are now available,” said Poupko. “The Shabbat rooms are easing some of the stress during an especially trying time.”
The newly refurbished residence was reopened in March as Suites on Second Street at the Audrey Hepburn Children’s House with a total of six fully modernized suites. A secondary project is being planned around the side entrance, which is often used by religious families; this requires an additional $15,000 to install a paved path and to landscape the area. If you are interested in making a donation to support this initiative, please reach out to Amy Glazer, Director, Tackle Kids Cancer and Annual Giving. She can be reached at 551-996-3720.
“Now, Hackensack University Medical Center is a real option for Orthodox families seeking treatment for their loved ones, who might not have been able to be here otherwise in the past,” said Shoshana Poupko. “The treatment we got at Hackensack University Medical Center is what propelled us to do this; we were treated like family and we are still in touch, three years later, with some of the staff there.”
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Photo Caption: Pictured at the ribbon cutting of the newly-refurbished “Suites on Second Street” at HackensackUMC’s Audrey Hepburn Children’s House are (left to right): Robert Budelman, Dr. Stephen Percy, Rabbi Chaim Poupko, Ayele Poupko, Dr. Ihor Sawczuk, Elana Poupko, Shoshana Poupko, Emma Ferrer, Benita Sanzari Raia, Dana Sanzari Jareck, Jennifer McGee, Ro Sorce, Heather Choi.
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The ID Co. Nominated In Double Award Wins
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The ID Co. has today announced it has been nominated as a finalist in the Credit & Collections Technology Awards 2019.
Separately, The ID Co’s. CEO and Founder, James Varga, has been nominated as a finalist in the inaugural Scottish Financial Technology Awards for Evangelist of the year.
The ID Co. helps businesses such as lenders to onboard their customers more efficiently. Its technology removes the friction caused during application processes by the current challenges of risk, fraud, compliance, and regulation.
The news comes on the back of a tireless opening for The ID Co. through 2019. As well as announcing seed funding in the Spring, the company has continued to develop and roll-out its new product offerings including Income Verification, DirectID Insights dashboard and Bank Account Validation suite of tools. The ID Co. has further recently become members of FDATA North America and the Financial Data Exchange in the United States, as well as the FinTech Alliance in the UK.
In the Credit & Collection Technology Awards, The ID Co. has been nominated in the category for Affordability and Assessment solution. This comes on the back of the launch of the company’s launch of its Income Verification product earlier in the year. The tool gives users access to real-time bank data in order to glean insights into a customer's income with data derived directly from their bank account.
The ID Co. competes alongside the likes of LendingMetrics and TransUnion in the category.
In the Scottish Financial Technology Awards, James Varga lines up alongside the CEO of FinTech Scotland, Stephen Ingledew; Chairman of the Financial Data and Technology Association (FDATA), Gavin Littlejohn, and; TynahMatembe, a Saltire Fellow and Business Director at Passion 4 Fusion.
James Varga, CEO of The ID Co. Said:
“We are of course delighted to be announced as a finalist in the Credit & Collections Technology Awards. The effort and resource that has gone into creating the best, most exciting, and impactful Income Verification platform available in the market today has been huge, and to have that effort rewarded with this award nomination is a huge testimony to the platform and the team at The ID Co.
”For my own part, I am thrilled to be nominated alongside such prestigious names as Gavin Littlejohn, TynahMatembe and Stephen Ingledew. I am all too familiar with the work of each of them, and the enormous contribution they have made to FinTech and technology in Scotland and beyond. To be on the same platform as them is a real honour. The DIGIT team have been one of the foremost names in financial technology media and events for a number of years now, and I very much look forward to attending the awards ceremony.”
More information on the Credit & Collections Technology Awards 2019, including a full list of categories and awards nominees can be found at: http://awards.credit-connect.co.uk/credit-and-collections-technology-awards-2019-finalists
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Haegue Yang "An Opaque Wind" (2015). Installation view at Sharjah Biennial 12. Courtesy of Sharjah Art Foundation. Photo by Deema Shahin.
“The Sharjah Biennial,” an editor of mine once opined, “has always been political, in a quiet way.” This year’s Sharjah Biennial 12, masterminded by Eungie Joo, formerly a curator at New York’s New Museum, has made quiet its buzzword. Rallied under the banner The past, the present, the possible, the featured works tug at an eternally slippery question: how can contemporary art still matter given today’s economic stranglehold and rampant political confinement? The answer, it seems, is somehow wound up in a quiet, thoughtful blend of contemplation and (re-)imagination. The city of Sharjah itself — in the throes of its own re-imagining, juggling its solemn love of tradition with its judicious taste for progress — is at the core of Joo’s admittedly utopic prospect.
Introspective and pensive, Sharjah Biennial 12 is a somewhat less gregarious affair than previous iterations, which have merrily embraced the largely South Asian community neighboring its principle exhibition areas. But what the biennial may have lost in community engagement, it has amply gained in the depth of its artists’ involvement with the urban fabric of Sharjah. Thirty-six artists from the succinct roster of fifty-five have made newly commissioned works, many of which were conceived and executed on site, after months of excursions across the city — soaking up its pace, substance, quirks and ambitions — starting from March 2014.
Sharjah alternatively inspires and bears the marks of invited artists’ interventions. A 14th-century model of a rosewater distillery in the Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization — allegedly resembling Duchamp’s iconic Bottlerack — inspired Rirkrit Tiravanija’s elaborate Untitled 2015 (Eau de Rose of Damascus)(2015). An exact replica of the ancient apparatus works as a functioning distillery, nestled in a courtyard rose garden that provides the raw material. Beirut-based artist Rheim Alkadhi sourced eyelashes from sea-faring laborers along the Sharjah Creek for her Communications from the Field of Contact (Each Hair is a Tongue) (2015), while Byron Kim’s City Night (2015) abstractions are contemplative records of Sharjah’s night sky — freeze-framing nocturnal solitude. Egyptian artist Hassan Khan made color-based “interventions” on the aptly named Flying Saucer building — a kitschy 1970s former fast-food chicken joint — toying at once with it obsolescence and its visibility.
The Flying Saucer is just one of four “transitional” urban spaces drafted into the Biennial’s off-site plotting. A dilapidated creekside warehouse housed Michael Joo’s Robert Smithson-inspired Locale Inscribed (Walking in the desert with Elsa, towards the sun, looking down) (2014–15), in which hewn crevices snake up to a reflective silver nitrate–coated wall in a spooky excavation-meets-self-examination installation. Nearby, Spanish artist Asunción Molinos Gordo transformed a soon-to-be-demolished storehouse into a “museum” crossing the dusty colonialist codes of outworn museography with forward-looking agro-technology-speak. WAM (World Agriculture Museum) (2010–15), resonating with the very title of the biennial, is a museum of the future mired in the past, in which present promises forebode fragile outcomes.
The most triumphal of these off-sites was also the farthest-flung. On the Gulf of Oman, in the east coast Sharjah exclave of Kalba, stood a derelict ice factory, the monumental site of the single work that brought the entire biennial’s meaning into sharper focus. Adrián Villar Rojas’s Planetarium (2015), as the title implies, is a vantage point: a site to observe what is real and alien, nature and spectacle. Cavity-riddled cement pillars are packed with detritus of all stripes — bird skeletons, gnarled sneakers, festering gourds, rotting spuds. In a surprising explosion of color, Rojas has painted the tops of the columns, making the raw concrete bottoms seem like plinths holding up cross-sectioned layers of startlingly aesthetic debris. The site is at once stark and sumptuous, stately and putrid. Whiffs of decomposition waft across the expansive space punctuated by varyingly shaped concrete blocks, one of which resembles a makeshift altar, while another’s top is engulfed by a yellow, Lynda Benglis-like paint blob. Outside, giant rows of peaty soil (utterly alien to this desert clime) hunch like sacred mounds on some Neolithic site. In one memorable masterstroke, Rojas lures us into a teeming, decaying world, which we ponder with near-existential wonderment.
Wonderment courses through the simple, graceful gestures that abound in the biennial’s more traditional sites: Pakistani artist Lala Rukh’s sublime meditations on the horizon line; Mohammed Kazem’s “scratchings” on plush, cottony paper of a souk stall’s door angling into the space; Unnikrishnan C’s intimate brick paintings; Rayyane Tabet’s graceful Steel Rings (2013-ongoing), tunneling across an entire wing of the Sharjah Art Museum — a poetic stand-in for the forgotten trans-Arab pipeline.
More overtly political works seem to bring us to the brink of some milestone, leaving us to ponder an aftermath: the final chapter of Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s Incidental Insurgents (2012–15), titled When the fall of the dictionary leaves all words lying in the streets (2015), explores the liminal space between the political present and its unseen potential direction; Eric Baudelaire examines the stateless state of Abkhazia in The Secession Sessions (2014–15); and Im Heung-soon’s haunting Reincarnation (2015) reveals a community of Korean women who lived in pre-1979 Tehran.
Sharjah Biennial 12 is an elegant affair — a “museum-grade” biennial, with not a hair out of place. More sedate than seditious, it is the fruit of Joo’s maturing conversations with artists she knows well, having shown several of them already in her 2012 New Museum Triennial, The Ungovernables. While some bemoan the lack of new artistic “blood” injected into this particular biennial vein, there is obvious merit to mining familiar practices more deeply. Perhaps because of this control and composure, Sharjah Biennial 12 has managed to round up works that provoke consideration… ever so quietly.
by Kevin Jones
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Road Test: Cupra Ateca
By Martyn Collins / 2 months ago / Road Tests, Top Stories / No Comments
Is the Cupra Ateca performance SUV worth the extra money compared to its SEAT sibling, asks Martyn Collins.
SECTOR: Crossover PRICE: From £36,695 FUEL: 34.0-36.6mpg (WLTP) CO2: 168g/km (NEDC Correlated)
Cupra was once the badge of fast SEAT models. That was until 19 months ago when it became a standalone brand. The Cupra Ateca is the first model to be launched from this brand, and on first glance it’s hard to tell it apart from the sportiest SEAT Ateca SUV models.
Look closer, and the Ateca gets chunkier bumpers, a unique grille plus new, questionable bronze badging and highlights that we’re not sure complement the range of exterior colour choices. The Cupra is also 20mm lower, with 19-inch wheels as standard.
Inside, like the exterior, the changes apart from the badging, trim and the TFT instruments are hard to spot. Still, being based on the Ateca, it’s the same, practical, spacious and, in the Cupra’s case, well-equipped place to be.
But it’s in the performance where the Cupra sets itself apart from the standard SEAT SUV. It’s powered by the 296hp and 400Nm 2.0-litre, four-cylinder TSi turbo petrol engine seen in the Volkswagen Golf R, matched with a slick, seven-speed DSG transmission, giving a 5.2-second time for acceleration to 62mph, despite the tall stance. Thankfully, 4Drive all-wheel drive is fitted as standard to make the most of its power. Body control is also excellent and the brakes are strong; Brembo brakes are featured as part of the extra-cost Design and Sound and Design Packs. As such, the Cupra Ateca is great fun to drive.
If you want to get more serious, there are six driving modes, including off-road and sporty Cupra functionality. Neither are best for this Ateca, as the lowered suspension compromises its off-road ability and the steering isn’t precise enough to match the performance.
Despite the large wheels and lowered suspension, the Cupra remains a comfortable drive – although there is noticeable tyre noise at speed.
For user-choosers, the Cupra Ateca will tick many boxes, but operators are likely to have higher interest in the more relevant Ateca FR Sport trim, priced from £28,655.
FW Rating: 4/5
Martyn Collins
Martyn has 18 years experience as a motoring journalist, working across a wide selection of B2B and consumer titles. A car enthusiast since his early years, Martyn has a particular interest in the latest models and technology and in his spare time enjoys driving his own Minis.
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In D.C., federal IT teams find real-world events create opportunities for training employees to use COOP technologies.
Rita Pyrillis
Simulated exercises are a great way to assess the effectiveness of continuity of operations plans, but there’s nothing like the real thing to see how well your employees actually use technology tools to meet their mission when they can’t reach their offices.
Just ask Joseph Johnston Jr. of the Smithsonian Institution or the Transportation Department’s Thomas Barrett. Events outside their brick-and-mortar doorways during the past few years created a learning lab for COOP and telework efforts.
Transportation had a chance to run a live drill this spring. When officials learned that Pope Benedict XVI would celebrate Mass in April just two blocks from DOT’s headquarters. They put their COOP and telework plans into action in “the largest, single-point exercise” the department has ever run, says Barrett, deputy secretary of Transportation.
More than half of DOT’s 5,800 employees who are eligible to work from home or other remote sites that day, avoiding the 45,000-person throng that filled the Washington National’s stadium nearby.
Here’s what the Barrett and Johnston, manager of the Smithsonian’s Network Management Division, suggest:
Put plans into practice so people can have tactical chances to try out the plans and technology, even if just for a small real-world event. “You can’t function effectively in a disaster unless you’ve practiced,” Barrett says.
Check remote-access links on a monthly basis. IT should adopt the Coast Guard motto: “Semper Paratus” — always ready, says Barrett, a retired USCG vice admiral.
Require employees to undergo training before they sign a telework agreement — that way they’re ready should an event arise. Make sure they understand the parameters in terms of security, accountability and safety of the work environment.
Sit down and diagram everything related to your systems and find your critical points of failure. That’s the biggest tip, says Johnston, because this information will ensure that an agency has the right plans in place and has resilient and redundant operations.
Budget for items that offer quick returns (encrypted notebooks, for instance) and that don’t require much financial backing, and at the same time plan for larger infrastructure needs in the long-term budget cycle.
Review change management practices and protocols to make sure they are sound. As new systems are developed, integrate them into COOP plans.
36% DOT workers who telework today; 50% The department’s new telework goal
SOURCE: Transportation Department
Some of the Smithsonian’s museums on the National Mall were closed to the public for three days because of flooding and power outages in June 2006, when record rains caused major flooding in the Washington area. Several federal agencies were shut down, but internal systems were up and running within 24 hours, allowing employees to continue business as usual, says Johnston
“We used some ingenious methods working with emergency power feeds so people could work from their homes,” he says. “One glitch was finding ways to hook into emergency generators.” When the IT team ran short of electrical and extension cords, employees brought them in from home and electricians patched them together.
There was a slight delay in making key decisions because several senior managers didn’t realize they had to physically be at one of the Smithsonian’s emergency operation centers (there are four scattered throughout the area). “There is now a realization that we need to have key things in place,” he says.
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Tag: FOG
April 1, 2019 October 29, 2019 FOG
Originally Published April 1995
Contributed by: Ben Ford
In my last article I talked about the dominant seventh chord and its strong tendency to move back to the root or tonic chord. This 5-1 motion (down a fifth, or up a fourth) is so important to all types of Western music, that I thought we ought to look at the big picture.
It just so happens that if you start at any note, and go down a fifth (or up a fourth) to the next note, and continue to move down a fifth or up a fourth, eventually you get right back to where you started from! For example, if
you start on a C, you would move through a sequence of notes like this:
C F Bb/A# Eb/D# Ab/G# Db/C# Gb/F# B E A D G C
Why this sequence occurs is a topic for a dissertation in Physics and Math. What matters to us is that we can use the Circle of Fifths to figure out the chords to many tunes.
Let’s say we are playing a tune in the Key of G. Notice that on the Circle, the G note is surrounded by C and D, which are the names of the 4th and 5th chords, respectively, for G major! It works exactly the same for each key: E is surrounded by A (4th or subdominant) and B (5th or dominant). Now it’s easy to see why the 4th chord is called the subdominant; it’s a fifth below the root, while the dominant is a fifth above the root.
Enough of this technical mumbo-jumbo; let’s go for a ride on the Circle of Fifths! Very often in various styles of music (especially ragtime), we can go on a little excursion outside the home key of the piece, and use the Circle to bring us back home. Example: Alabama Jubilee, in the key of C major.
The key of C major?!?! That usually means NO sharps or flats. But the first chord is A, which has the notes A-C#-E. Right out of the starting gate, we have jumped outside the key of C major. This adds variety and excitement to the piece, and even if you never before understood what was happening, chances are your ears at least told you that something unusual was going on.
How can we find our way back to C? By riding the Circle of Fifths!
The A7 chord is a dominant seventh chord, and pulls us clockwise around the Circle to D. By simply making the D chord a dominant seventh as well, we continue our momentum around the Circle to G. As expected, the G chord takes us home to C, a little breathless but none the worse for wear.
You’ll find this sort of trick used in all styles of music, but probably most often in ragtime tunes. The second part of Stone’s Rag uses the exact same chord pattern, A – D – G – C. The first part of Dill Pickle Rag is very similar;
the next time you play it, watch how it moves around the Circle of Fifths.
Music theory seems as dry as a desert to most folks, but a basic understanding of a song’s chord structure can really help you learn it more easily. It can also help you figure out how to play back up, harmonies or variations on the melody, or even to write your own music! I will talk about these topics in future articles, but for now, experiment
and have fun. Remember, as Pete Wernick says, “If it sounds good, it must be good!”
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What is Old-Time Music Anyway?
March 3, 2019 May 17, 2019 FOG
Contributed by Kathy Schwar
“Old-time” usually refers to music that evolved in isolated regions of the Southern Appalachians and other places in the southern U.S., based partly on tunes from the British Isles and on the rhythm of the banjo, which was developed from a West African instrument. Old-time music predates bluegrass. It’s the original early-recorded “country music” of the 1920s and 1930s, played by ordinary working people in communities, before travel was easy and before recordings could be heard on the radio. Old-time was the name given to this rural music by one of the first record companies to discover it and produce recordings.
The music may be fast or slow, played by a single banjo or fiddle, or the two together, or as a whole string band once guitars entered the scene somewhere after the turn of the century. There might be lyrics, although these might be “floating verses”, common to many tunes. There’s a great deal of syncopation, and tunes might have extra beats or bars, or missing beats or bars. Some wonderful tunes have little melody and lots of rhythm. There are up-tempo square-dance tunes in major keys, and slow haunting ones in modes somewhere between major and minor. There’s a lot of variation between individual players as well as differing regional styles, and no one “right way” to play any tune.
It’s quite different from bluegrass, which was developed from old-time music and other influences, even though a number of tunes of the same name are played in both genres. Bluegrass was created to be enjoyed by an audience, and each instrument in turn stands out by playing an improvised solo break. Old Time was never performance music; it’s participatory music to sit and play, or dance to.
The Difference Between Bluegrass and Old-time
An OT banjo is open-backed, with an old towel (probably never washed) stuffed in the back to dampen overtones. A BG banjo has a resonator to make it louder.
An OT banjo weighs 5 pounds, towel included. A BG banjo weighs 40 pounds.
An OT banjo player can lose three right-hand fingers and two left-hand fingers in an industrial accident without affecting his performance.
A BG banjo needs 24 frets. An OT banjo needs no more than 5, and some don’t need any.
A BG banjo player puts jewelry on his fingertips to play. An OT banjo player puts super glue on his fingernails to strengthen them. Never shake hands with an OT banjo player while he’s fussing with his nails.
A BG banjo is tuned gDGBD. An OT banjo can be in a hundred different tunings.
A BG fiddle is tuned GDAE. An OT fiddle can be in a hundred different tunings.
OT fiddlers seldom use more than two fingers of their left hand, and uses tunings that maximize the number of open strings played. BG fiddlers study 7th position fingering patterns with Isaac Stern, and take pride in never playing an open string.
An OT fiddle player only uses a quarter of his bow. The rest is just wasted.
The BG fiddler paid $10,000 for his fiddle at the Violin Shop in Nashville. The OT fiddler got his for $15 at a yard sale.
An OT guitarist knows the major chords in G and C, and owns a capo for A and D. A BG guitarist can play in E-flat without a capo.
The fanciest chord an OT guitarist needs is an A to insert between the G and the D7 chord. A BG guitarist needs to know C#aug+7-4.
OT guitarists stash extra picks under a rubber band around the top of the peghead. BG guitarists would never cover any part of the peghead that might obscure the gilded label of their $3,000 guitar.
It’s possible to have an OT band without a mandolin. OT mandolin players use “A”model instruments (pear shaped) by obscure makers. BG mandolin players use “F” model Gibsons that cost $100 per decibel.
A BG band always has a bass. An old OT band doesn’t have a bass, but new time OT bands seem to need one for reasons that are unclear.
A BG bass starts playing with the band on the first note. An OT bass, if present, starts sometime after the rest of the band has run through the tune once depending on his blood alcohol content.
A BG bass is polished and shiny. An OT bass is often used as yard furniture.
A BG band might have a Dobro. An OT band might have anything that makes noise including: hammered or lap dulcimer, jaw harp, didgeridoo, harmonica, conga, washtub bass, miscellaneous rattles & shakers, or one-gallon jug (empty).
OT songs are about whiskey and chickens. BG songs are about God, mother and the girl who did me wrong. If the girlfriend isn’t murdered by the third verse, it ain’t Bluegrass.
OT bands have nonsense names like Hoss Hair Pullers, Fruit Jar Drinkers and Skillet Lickers. BG bands have serious gender-specific names like Bluegrass Boys, Foggy Mountain Boys, and Clinch Mountain Boys
A BG band has 1 to 3 singers who are singing about an octave above their natural vocal range. Some OT bands have no singers at all.
A BG band has a vocal orchestrator who arranges duet, trio and quartet harmonies. In an OT band, anyone who feels like it can sing or make comments during the performance.
All BG tunes & songs last 3 minutes. OT tunes & songs sometimes last all night.
All the instruments in an OT band play together all the time.
BG bands feature solos on each instrument.
BG bands have carefully mapped-out choreography due to the need to provide solo breaks. If OT band members move around, they tend to run into each other. Because of this problem, OT bands often sit down when performing, while a BG band always stands. Because they’re sitting, OT bands have the stamina to play for a square or contra dance.
The audience claps after each BG solo break. If anyone claps for an OT band it confuses them, even after the tune is over.
Personalities & Stage Presence
BG band members wear uniforms, such as blue polyester suits and gray Stetson hats. OT bands wear jeans, sandals, work shirts and caps from seed companies.
Chicks in BG bands have big hair and Kevlar undergarments. Chicks in OT bands jiggle nicely under their dungarees.
A BG band tells terrible jokes while tuning. An OT band tells terrible jokes without bothering to tune.
BG band members never smile. OT band members will smile if you give them a drink. You can get fired from a BG band for being obviously drunk on stage.
BG musicians eat barbecue ribs. OT musicians eat tofu.
BG musicians have high frequency hearing loss from standing near the banjo player. OT musicians have high frequency hear loss from standing near the fiddler.
BG musicians stay on the bus or at the nearest Motel 6. OT musicians camp in the parking lot.
Reprinted with permission from Old-time Lewes Visit the web site for their tunes list and helpful resources.
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Build Your Own Cigar Box Fiddle
January 17, 2019 May 17, 2019 FOG
Contributed by Mike Deniz
I discovered cigar box fiddles (or CB fiddles) for the first time when cruising YouTube for tips on playing some of the tunes in the FOG repertoire. I was captivated by the primitive construction that seemed to complement so well the “ol’ time” music played on them since the mid 1800s. I was instantly obsessed with owning one. Early in my research I had run across the “build your own” plans from a 1940 edition of Popular Homecraft magazine that was posted on cigarboxnation.com, a site that is primarily dedicated to cigar box guitars. Being that I am the least handy person you may ever meet, I passed it by in hopes of finding a more turnkey solution. My further online searches revealed only two for sale on the entire internet – one was a poor specimen on eBay and the other was a $600 made-to-order version, a cost I just couldn’t justify. So, I returned to the plans and decided to give it a go, and was pleasantly surprised how easy it was.
The most difficult part was finding the right cigar box. I combed all the smoke shops in greater Rochester looking for one that was the right size and construction. All these places sell empty boxes for around $3 each. A full size violin is about 24” long, with the body being about 14”L and only 4.75” W at the narrowest point to accommodate the angling of the bow; very few cigar boxes are this long and squat. I had to settle for one that was 11”L x 8”W, which meant I had to plan for the neck being proportionately longer to compensate. This changes the point on the body where the bridge will be mounted, and where the f-holes will eventually need to be cut.
The other materials I acquired were:
¾” dia. oak dowel (be sure to use a strong wood – not pine – since it would bear all the tension of the strings)
½”W x ½”D wood strip for bass bar
Pencil-width dowel for sound post
Ukulele tuning pegs (these can be purchased on Amazon)
Two screw eyes (one large, one small)
Fingerboard with nut, tailpiece, and bridge (the instructions were to fabricate them all from wood, but I just purchased these instead with the string notches already in the nut and bridge
I cut the dowel to 24” long, and for a 5” length from one end, I sanded opposite sides of the dowel flat to a thickness of about 1cm. Into this flat end, I drilled four 3/8” holes an inch apart from each other, and assembled the ukulele tuners into them. Then I drilled a small hall in the opposite butt end of the dowel big enough to eventually fit the larger screw eye.
The thing to remember is that the back of the cigar box will be the top of the fiddle. Onto it I traced f-holes using a template printed from Google Images, then cut them out with a small hand-held sabre saw. I then drilled a hole in the “front” of the cigar box such that there was a 1” distance between the top of the fiddle and the top of the hole. The dowel was inserted and passed through the entire interior length, then secured to the inside back wall with glue and the large screw eye, which was screwed through from the outside (the screw eye would eventually become the anchor for the tailpiece gut cord).
To the inside top of the fiddle I glued the wood strip such that it spanned the entire length between the center line of the box and the f-hole on the G-string side. This would be the bass bar. Between the other f-hole and center line I glued the skinny dowel, cut such that it spanned the entire inside depth. This would be the sound post.
Finally, the last steps: 1) glue the fingerboard to the wood dowel and top of the fiddle; 2) fit the strings to the tailpiece and wind around the tuning pegs (the D and A strings were first passed through a small screw eye drilled into the ¾” dowel just in front of the nut), then fit the bridge. Because my fiddle was wider than average, I needed a taller bridge to prevent the box sides from interfering when bowing the G and E strings.
To see the original Popular Homecraft plans, click HERE.
It’s no Stradivarius, but it sound OK. I’m working on my second CB fiddle now. Stay tuned!
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Winter a Hazard for Instruments
by Kathy Schwar
I recently attended a workshop on caring for musical instruments during Rochester area winters. While much of the information may be common sense to some people, I found it really helpful for protecting instruments. As they say, “Instruments still think they’re trees,” though they are not, so they need special care in maintaining the wood and lacquer. Plus, the effects of the cold can affect the sound.
Dave Stutzman of Stutzman’s Guitar Center was the workshop speaker. This information is intended as a summary of “need to know” points:
In winter, it’s all about maintaining humidity to prevent cracking. While every instrument will not crack, it is hard to say which will and which won’t. But Stutzman knows that harsh winters will bring so many panicked musicians in for repairs that he has had to turn some away.
Keep instruments out of the cold as much as possible. But if they’ve been subjected to it for some time, let them acclimate, best for a few hours, in their cases when they get home. Don’t immediately open the case; Stutzman has actually seen that cause instantaneous cracking of the finish.
An easy rule of thumb is that when you turn your furnace on for the season, start humidifying your instruments. When you turn it off in late spring, humidifiers aren’t necessary.
Keep your instruments in their cases with a humidifier, not on a stand. This keeps the humidity constant and also helps humidify the neck.
If you use a console home humidifier, know that the gauge on the machine may not be accurate. A digital hygrometer, available where indoor-outdoor thermometers are sold, provides a more accurate humidity reading. Indoor humidity should be maintained at 45 to 55%. Keep all instruments in one room if you can. In winter the basement would naturally be more humid than upstairs, but don’t leave instruments there in summer.
Some humidifier choices are the Dampit-type humidifier, which is easy to use by following directions on the package. Also, hold it by both ends when shaking it out. MusicNomad’s The Humitar and similar options are available. If you fill the devices routinely once a week, twice a week when temperatures plummet, you’ll be reasonably sure there’s enough moisture. Take care that humidifiers don’t drip.
In summer, by the way, keep instruments out of a hot car or loosen the strings. When outside keep them in the shade with the case cracked open. But overall, Stutzman said, instruments subjected to cold “lose more moisture than they gain” in heat.
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What is Bluegrass Music?
Contributed by: John J. Long
Originally Published May 2001,
What is bluegrass music? Opinions vary some, but here is one. It is produced by musical instruments that are stringed and acoustic, and singing. To have an authentic bluegrass sound you must have a five-stringed banjo, played “Scruggs” style. The style is played using picks attached to the thumb and first two fingers producing a rhythmic “roll.” The other one or two fingers rest lightly on the banjo head to provide a reference point for a smooth rhythm.
Earl Scruggs, 2005
The Scruggs style is named for Earl Scruggs who began playing with Bill Monroe in 1945. Bill Monroe, referred to as the “Father of Bluegrass,” had been developing bluegrass music for several years, but it was the style of Earl Scruggs that pretty much solidified the sound known today as bluegrass. The music was called bluegrass because Bill Monroe came from Kentucky, the Bluegrass State. Earl later teamed up with Lester Flatt (also playing for Bill Monroe at the time) to form the Flatt and Scruggs band that went on to spread the bluegrass sound far and wide (you may have seen them on The Beverly Hillbillies). Other notable pioneers in the bluegrass banjo sound were Ralph Stanley, Raymond Fairchild (both still playing), and Don Reno. Most bluegrass bands evolved when a person played for a year or more with a well-established band and learned the business, and then left the group to start their own band. Several bands were formed by brothers, some having spent some formative years with other bands.
Monroe Brothers
Other bluegrass acoustic instruments normally used are: guitar, fiddle, mandolin (which Bill Monroe played), resophonic guitar (Dobro), and bass (acoustic preferred but electric allowed for convenience). Not many bands have all of the instruments, but you need at least four: banjo, guitar, bass, and one of the others. The guitar is not strummed; rather it is picked alternately from a single bass string to the three treble strings, with some bass runs leading from one chord to the next. Most guitarists do not play the melody (flat pick) on breaks; some can’t, and others don’t because it is rare that a guitar can be heard over the other instruments. On stage, microphones help the guitar to be heard.
Once the instruments are in place, you need some vocals. Most people playing the instruments also sing, if not lead, joining on the choruses with harmony. Most bluegrass music is learned and played by ear. Not much music is readily available in written form to local groups who play for their own enjoyment. It is learned by listening to the recorded versions. Not many groups use music stands on stage, and it is even more rare in impromptu get-togethers (jams). There are plenty of books around with the words to the songs, but the music is not included so a person must have access to the recordings, or to others who sing or play, to learn how a song goes. It is helpful sometimes to have
help with the words to a song available when you are first learning it, or if it is particularly difficult.
The format of a bluegrass song is normally as follows:
One person kicks off the song with an instrumental intro, typically banjo or fiddle;
The lead singer sings a verse and a chorus (others join in on the chorus with harmony);
Second instrumental person plays a “break” (a rendition of the verse or chorus melody);
Lead singer sings another verse and chorus (as above);
Another instrumental break (sometimes two instruments will split a break);
And so on, until the end of the song, typically with a vocal repeat of the chorus.
Some songs are instrumentals only, where each person takes a turn playing the melody. A typical bluegrass show or jam is about 75% vocals and 25% instrumentals. While each person is taking a break on the song, other persons are playing rhythm backup, using chord progressions from the “key” of the song. The backup is very important, and must be done tastefully so as not to overwhelm or distract the person doing the lead, either vocally or instrumentally.
Virginia String Band 1937
In a typical bluegrass jam, several people (6 – 10 or more) gather around and take turns selecting a song for the group, choosing the key (from 8 normally used), and leading the song. Most in the group will know the song and join in on the choruses, and take breaks. Others not knowing the song initially can play along by ear most of the time, when chord progressions are not complicated, and can pick up a song usually after hearing a couple of vocals and instrumental breaks. A picker should know the chord progressions, called the “circle of fifths,” which describes the relation of one chord to the other in a song key (A through G). Most guitar and banjo players use a CAPO to shift the playing position of a particular song key, to make the chord formations easier to play.
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The Cakewalk
October 16, 2018 May 17, 2019 FOG
Contributed by: Dick Pierce
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the “Cakewalk” was a dance sensation that swept the country. It was a couples’ dance that very often took the form of a contest. Couples would form a large square with the men on the outside and the women on the inside and strut around the square in cadence to a lively tune. Judges considered the elegance, grace and inventiveness of the dancers and would eliminate couples one by one. The last couple remaining was awarded a large, highly decorated cake which had been in plain sight throughout the contest. Today the term “cakewalk” usually implies something that is very easy. The dance itself, however, could be physically demanding but always considered an enjoyable recreation. The common expression “takes the cake” also comes directly from this activity.
The original dance had African-American roots dating back to the early days of slavery in the South. On Sundays, when there was little work on the plantations, slaves would gather to do a high kicking, prancing couple’s “walk around,” accompanied mostly by banjos, fiddles and drums. Originally the intention was to parody the elegant, stately European dances of their owners, often with an exaggerated grace that was sometimes comical. The owners were mainly amused and delighted and often awarded a prize to the couple that was judged to be the best. At some point the custom began of offering a cake to the winning couple. According to one source, the cakewalk was still popular at the dances of “ordinary folks” after the Civil War.
Later the cakewalk was performed in minstrel shows and musicals by professional entertainers who achieved a level of virtuosity in their improvised moves. It evolved eventually in the 1890s into the dance that became wildly popular in fashionable ballrooms throughout the country. As the dance grew in popularity, much music was published for the cakewalk, usually with “Cakewalk” in the title. One internet source lists over 145 pieces. Kerry Mills (composer of Redwing) wrote a number of cakewalks and is credited by some with starting the cakewalk craze. Typically the music was written in 2/4 time with two alternate heavy beats per measure, giving it the effect of an “oompah” rhythm. Many of the tunes have a minor key beginning and a major key ending.
In 1896 a young woman named Sadie Koninsky from Troy, New York walked into a large New York City music publisher with a letter of introduction and a tune that she had written. She was a department store clerk and ran a music counter. Dave Reed Jr., a well known lyricist of the time, wrote some words and Eli Green’s Cakewalk became a hit. (Who Eli Green was remains a mystery!) Its only real competition that year was At a
Georgia Camp Meeting written by Kerry Mills, also a cakewalk. Miss Koninsky never wrote another hit.
As the first decade of the twentieth century came to an end, the cakewalk as a musical composition began to decline in popularity and gave way to the ragtime piano music of Scott Joplin and others. Although rags and cakewalks share many similarities, the cakewalk was intended primarily for dancing while the rags were written more for listening and are generally considered more “musically sophisticated.” There has been some mislabeling of rags as cakewalks and vice versa, partly because the two forms of
music are syncopated and have an “intoxicating effect.” Nevertheless, the cakewalk is considered an important precursor to classic ragtime music. Like the rags, most cakewalks originally were written as piano compositions. Some of the music has been integrated into the old-time fiddle repertoire although not to the extent that the rags have been.
Enjoy playing Eli Green(e)’s Cakewalk! (It is worthy of note here that another of our repertoire tunes, Southern Aristocracy also comes from this era and is classified as a cakewalk.)
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