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Horror 101 – Episode 67: The Romero Special (Day of the Dead) – Aug 15th, 2017
February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017
Welcome back listeners! We weren’t expecting to return so soon but the death of our beloved Lord of the Undead; writer/director George Romero has forced us back to the mic for another special remembrance podcast. Only minutes after the news of George’s death was circulated we were inundated with requests from friends and colleagues who pleaded for a Horror 101 Romero show. Not just that, they wanted to be involved in the recording. So this show is going to have 9 of us getting together to share our Romero stories from when we met him. How his movies affected us growing up and what it was like to be on a Romero set for Land of the Dead. We also watch Day of the Dead to keep in tune with our threequel theme this year. Clocking in at just under an hour this is longest podcast since the Top 20. Join us as we pay tribute to The Godfather of the modern Zombie.
01:00 Prelude to Terror…
05:40 Meeting Romero at the Cons…
08:30 Night of the Living Dead…
16:05 Duane Jones…
17:50 Nood and I watch Martin…
23:35 Threequel talk (Day of the Dead)…
36:16 Clancy on the set of Land…
44:05 Eugene’s Horror 101 hat trick…
48:15 The Man was a saint…
51:20 Conclusion (thanks for listening!)
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'Wonderful.... An excellent book about a remarkable man.'
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This is the acclaimed biography of the American poet, novelist and short story writer Charles Bukowski (1920-94), who wrote more than fifty semi-autobiographical books about his life in Los Angeles.
Bukowski is often misunderstood by those who do not know his work. He is frequently labelled, dismissively, as a cult writer, whereas in fact he has a very large international readership. He is also often considered a crude writer of dirty stories, whereas in fact he was a highly original, elegant stylist whose poetry and prose is witty, compassionate and wise.
An avid reader of Bukowski's books, Howard Sounes spent two years interviewing virtually everybody alive who knew the author in order to compile this affectionate, but also insightful biography.
Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life (the title being a quote from a Bukowski poem one for the shoeshine man”) was published in 1998, by Canongate Books in the UK, and by Grove Press in the USA, and is available in both countries in paperback (Canongate ISBN 978 1 84195 897 2; Grove edition ISBN 0-8021-3697-4).
Additionally, Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life has been, or is in the process of being, translated for publication in these countries (publisher's details in brackets):
Brazil (Conrad Livros, ISBN: 85-87193-15-5)
Croatia (Tridva Jedan, ISBN: 953-201-276-1)
The Czech Republic (Pragma, ISBN: 80-7205-710-3)
Estonia (Tänapäev, ISBN: 9985-62-162-X)
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Israel (Astrolog, ISBN 418-365)
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Poland (Twój Styl)
Sweden (Härnqvists bokförlag, ISBN: 91-974905-4-7)
Turkey (Parantez, ISBN: 975-8441-20-5).
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From Fur to Foie Gras: Animals Are on a Winning Streak
While Trump has loosened some federal protections for animals, activists are gaining ground on the local and state level.
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In Milwaukee, activists organized a successful resistance against a proposed plan to build a slaughterhouse.
Activists with Slaughter Free Chicago (SFC) gathered November 7 at City Hall to push the city—once, says SFC founder Robert Grillo, the “slaughter capital of the world”—to eliminate its remaining slaughterhouses. Dozens of protesters sang, spoke with mayoral staff, and invoked the memory of the socialist writer Upton Sinclair, whose book The Jungle exposed the squalid working conditions of the city’s meatpackers.
Published in 1906, Sinclair’s novel galvanized landmark legislation empowering the federal government to regulate meat quality. But the plight of the workers themselves (let alone the animals they killed) went largely unaddressed. “I aimed for the public’s heart,” Sinclair famously wrote, “and by accident hit it in the stomach.”
The latest wave of slaughterhouse critics hopes this time, it can hit the heart.
On the surface, the situation for animals is grim: The Trump administration has loosened government protections in areas from wildlife refuges to trophy hunting to the meat industry, and climate emergency is poised to threaten wild animal populations worldwide. Though Trump did sign a federal ban on intentional animal cruelty November 25, it specifically exempts farms, slaughterhouses, hunters, fishers and research labs, rendering its scope limited. But a series of high-profile animal rights victories has swept the country in recent weeks, suggesting more substantive reform may be possible.
On October 30, activists in the public gallery at a New York City Council meeting thrust jazz hands to the air in celebration of a ban on foie gras produced from force-feeding, amid a raft of animal welfare legislation that included the establishment of a city office explicitly dedicated to animal welfare concerns, new data-keeping requirements on animal cruelty reports, vaccination requirements, equine working conditions, and regulations promoting shelter adoption—many of which reflect active ongoing campaigns elsewhere. Mayor Bill De Blasio signed the legislation November 25.
Earlier in October, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed laws banning the manufacture or sale of new fur products, as well as the use of most animals in circus acts. In August, Illinois became the third state to outlaw the sale of cosmetics tested on nonhuman animals, following California and Nevada. And in Milwaukee, activists organized a successful resistance against a proposed plan to build a slaughterhouse in a long-vacant north Milwaukee business park, in a campaign partly inspired by SFC.
The 21th century, thanks in part to activist efforts, has seen a “loosening up of the instrumental perspective on animal use,” says Bernie Unti. Unti, a senior policy adviser to the president of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), has written extensively on the history of the animal protection movement. In the early-to-mid 20th century, Unti says, the movement largely focused on more modest campaigns such as those surrounding dogs and cats in pounds; a fast-growing meat industry parried any more ambitious proposals. But shift in public attitude, combined with technological innovations in clothing, research and fake meat, is making reforms an easier lift than in decades past.
“A common misconception about animal rights activists is that we only care about nonhuman animals, and that we’re discrediting human culture and human behavior,” says Amy Zignego, who helped organize the Milwaukee campaign. “We always have to be really sensitive. We don’t want to be perceived as a bunch of white vegans.”
Of the dozens of business-park neighbors whose doorbells activists rang, Zignego said, only one person had even heard about the slaughterhouse development plan, which was, at the time poised to proceed with little debate. Acting quickly, activists successfully pushed to delay the vote. The district’s alderman initially backed the proposed slaughterhouse on account of its potential to provide jobs and accused activists of “selective indignation” Ultimately, however, citing an “overwhelming response from neighbors in opposition to the project,” he changed his mind. The slaughterhouse company pulled out.
Zignego says the campaign aimed for an “intersectional” approach, arguing that the deleterious effects she associates with slaughterhouses—noise, pollution, and low-quality work—animated the activists just as did straightforward animal welfare concerns.
But there can also be tensions when human and nonhuman interests appear to diverge. The fur debates which have raged in California and New York—where the City Council speaker proposed a ban earlier this year—have in some cases stoked resentments along racial lines. The president of California’s Black Business Association, for instance, accused the anti-fur campaign of “ignorance,” citing the cultural significance of fur among black women. Corporations help fuel these tensions: The Intercept found that some California fur advocates received previously undisclosed payments from an industry organization.
Some activists acknowledge that many high-profile movement victories—even substantive ones—can feel somewhat parochial: Queen Elizabeth fur free; Pfizer banned a forced swim test, Walmart ends live fish sales. But many believe such narrower campaigns can effectively pave the way for change on a larger scale.
The Berkeley, Calif.-based grassroots advocacy group Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) pushed for the statewide fur ban, but press coordinator Matt Johnson clarified the specificity of the issue did not reflect the scope of the group’s ambitions, which include the end of all animal exploitation for food, clothing, science and entertainment. But the statewide law, following municipal fur bans implemented in municipalities like Los Angeles and San Francisco, is consistent with the pattern laid forth in DxE’s 40-year “strategic roadmap.” This roadmap emphasizes local seed activism—with Berkeley as the epicenter—to forcefully push the proverbial Overton Window, fundamentally transforming how the public and the legal system conceive of nonhuman animals.
DxE formed this decade, and has gained prominence through its “open rescue” actions whereby activists enter a farm without authorization, document conditions and take with them animals in need. The strategy, which predates the organization, strives to extend legal precedent and to publicize mistreatment of animals. The group takes particular aim at source farms for retailers like Whole Foods that advertise as more humane.
A meat industry report showed that, while 2017 saw a slightly reduced volume of meat sales from the previous year, sales of meat with “production claims” like “antibiotic-free” or “organic” increased by more than 38%. For Johnson, this dual trend embodies the shortfalls of consumer-based rhetoric, which he doubts can galvanize the fundamental change he desires. Unti from HSUS sees validity in such criticisms, but still takes heart in the fact that more consumers experience a moral churn as they choose their eggs.
Ultimately, both activists agreed the movement must shake its reputation of self-righteousness—justified or not—to be successful.
Critics, Unti says, have charged that animal rights activists are “good at one thing: saying 'shh, tsk tsk.' Telling people what they should not do.”
“The message is so much centered around ‘go vegan,’ ” Johnson says. “It gives people this impression that you’re either in the snobby holier-than-thou club that no one really wants to be in, or anyone in that club thinks that you’re an evil person.”
Instead, he suggests, advocates’ message should be “systems-focused. People are on your side if you can craft that message. It feels like we should be at the tipping point.”
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UEFA Champions League, Group
Inter have failed to get beyond the Champions League group stage for a second successive season after losing 2-1 at home to Barcelona, with Ansu Fati's late victor making him the youngest scorer in the competition's history.
Fati, 17, came on as an 85th-minute substitute, and a minute later scored from Luis Suarez's pass.
The Italians started the day second in Group F and needed to match Borussia Dortmund's result to advance to the knockout phase of the Champions League for the first time since 2011-12.
Inter threw everything at Barcelona, who had already qualified, after Romelu Lukaku cancelled out Carles Perez's opener, but the victor came from 17-year-old substitute Fati in the 86th minute.
However, Dortmund won 2-1 at home against Slavia Prague to finish second, with Inter coming third.
Ansu Fati raises his fist to crowd after celebrating his goal with teammates.
"Messi getting rest. Nothing more", Valverde said.
This is according to Diario Sport, who reports that Lautaro Martinez continues to top Barcelona manager Ernesto Valverde's wishlist for January, despite Inter Milan's reluctance to sell him.
In the process, Fati broke a record previously held by Peter Ofori-Quaye, who scored for Olympiacos aged 17 years and 194 days in 1997.
Martinez thought he had found the breakthrough when he chested down a through ball and fired home, before being denied by the offside flag, and Inter again had a goal chalked off when Lukaku was in an offside position before Martinez prodded in from close range.
This was Barcelona's first win away at Inter in any European competition since September 1959 in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup quarter-final (4-2).
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Adamovic, Tatjana
Med Coll Wisconsin, Human & Mol Genet Ctr, Milwaukee, WI 53226 USA.
Hamta, Achmad
Univ Gothenburg, CMB Genet, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Roshani, Leyla
Lü, Xuschun
Röhme, Dan
Helou, Khalil
Univ Gothenburg, Dept Oncol, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Klinga-Levan, Karin
Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för vård och natur. Högskolan i Skövde, Forskningscentrum för Systembiologi.
Levan, Göran
Rearrangement and allelic imbalance on chromosome 5 leads to homozygous deletions in the CDKN2A/2B tumor suppressor gene region in rat endometrial cancer2008Inngår i: Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics, ISSN 2210-7762, E-ISSN 2210-7770, Vol. 184, nr 1, s. 9-21Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
The inbred BDII rat is a valuable experimental model for the genetic analysis of hormone-dependent endometrial adenocarcinoma (EAC). One common aberration detected previously by comparative genomic hybridization in rat EAC is loss affecting mostly the middle part of rat chromosome 5 (RNO5). First, we applied an RNO5-specific painting probe and four region-specific gene probes onto tumor cell metaphases from 21 EACs, and found that rearrangements involving RNO5 were common. The copy numbers of loci situated on RNO5 were found to be reduced, particularly for the CDKN2A/2B locus. Second, polymerase chain reaction analysis was performed with 22 genes and markers and homozygous deletions of the CDKN2A exon 1β and CDKN2B genes were detected in 13 EACs (62%) and of CDKN2A exon 1α in 12 EACs (57%) Third, the occurrence of allelic imbalance in RNO5 was analyzed using 39 microsatellite markers covering the entire chromosome and frequent loss of heterozygosity was detected. Even more intriguing was the repeated finding of allele switching in a narrow region of 7 Mb across the CDKN2A/2B locus. We conclude that genetic events affecting the middle part of RNO5 (including bands 5q31 q33 and the CDKN2A locus) contribute to the development of EAC in rat, with the CDKN2A locus having a primary role.
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Ahmed, Bulbul
University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh.
Hossain, Monzur
Islam, Rafiul
Kumar Saha, Ananda
Mandal, Abul
Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för vård och natur. Högskolan i Skövde, Forskningscentrum för Systembiologi. University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh.
A review on natural sweetener plant - Stevia having medical and commercial importance2011Inngår i: Agronomy Journal, ISSN 0002-1954, Vol. 73, nr 1-2, s. 75-91Artikkel, forskningsoversikt (Fagfellevurdert)
Stevia is a perennial herb that belongs to the Asteraceae family. It is a natural sweetener plant and estimated to be 300 times sweeter than cane sugar. The leaves of stevia are the source of diterpene glycosides, viz. stevioside and rebaudioside. Stevioside is regenerated as a valuable natural sweetening agent because of its relatively good taste and chemical stability. Now it is being cultivated in Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Hawaii, Malaysia and overall South America for food and pharmaceutical products. Products can be added to tea and coffee, cooked or baked goods, processed foods and beverages, fruit juices,
Rajshahi University, Rajshahi, Bangladesh.
Khatun, Mansura
Biswas, Manosh
Establishment of an Indirect Genetic Transformation Method for Arabidopsis thaliana ecotype Bangladesh2011Inngår i: Journal of Central European Agriculture, ISSN 1332-9049, E-ISSN 1332-9049, Vol. 12, nr 3, s. 519-528 Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Arabidopsis thaliana is a small flowering plant belonging to the Brassicaceae family, which is adopted as a model plant for genetic research. Agrobacterium tumifaciensmediated transformation method for A. thaliana ecotype Bangladesh was established. Leaf discs of A. thaliana were incubated with A. tumefaciens strain LBA4404 containing chimeric nos. nptII. nos and intron-GUS genes. Following inoculation and co-cultivation, leaf discs were cultured on selection medium containing 50 mg/l kanamycin + 50 mg/l cefotaxime + 1.5 mg/l NAA and kanamycin resistant shoots were induced from the leaf discs after two weeks. Shoot regeneration was achieved after transferring the tissues onto fresh medium of the same combination. Finally, the shoots were rooted on MS medium containing 50 mg/l kanamycin. Incorporation and expression of the transgenes were confirmed by PCR analysis. Using this protocol, transgenic A. thaliana plants can be obtained and indicates that genomic transformation in higher plants is possible through insertion of desired gene. Although Agrobacterium mediated genetic transformation is established for A. thaliana, this study was the conducted to transform A. thaliana ecotype Bangladesh.
Alade, Larry
University of Massachusetts.
Barbosa, Alexandra
ANICP.
Bartolino, Valerio
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
Beggs, Steven
Agri-food and Biosciences Institute.
Bergenius, Mikaela
Casini, Michele
Clarke, Maurice
Marine Institute Rinville.
Coers, Aukje
Pelagic RAC Secretariat.
Deroba, Jonathan
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Dickey-Collas, Mark
Wageningen IMARES.
Enberg, Katja
Institute of Marine Research.
Gårdmark, Anna
Gudmundsdóttir, Asta
Marine Research Institute.
Hansson, Sture
University of Stockholm.
Hatfield, Emma
Marine Scotland Science Marine Laboratory.
Hintzen, Niels
Holmgren, Noél
Högskolan i Skövde, Forskningscentrum för Systembiologi. Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för vård och natur.
Hoines, Åge
Arge Jacobsen, Jan
Faroe Marine Research Institute.
Keating, James
Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology.
Krysov, Alexander
Knipovich Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography (PINRO).
Maersk Lusseau, Susan
Mäntyniemi, Samu
University of Helsinki.
McCulla, Alan
Anglo North Irish Fish Producers' Organization.
Miller, David
Mosegård, Henrik
DTU Aqua - National Institute of Aquatic Resources.
O'Donoghue, Sean
Killybegs Fishermen's Organization Ltd..
Olesen, Christian
Danish Pelagic Producers' Organization.
Payne, Mark
DTU Aqua - National Institute of Aquatic Resources Section for Fisheries Advice.
Pönni, Jukka
Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute.
Power, Michael
St Andrew's Biological Station.
Raitaniemi, Jari
Riveiro, Isabel
Instituto Español de Oceanografia Centro .
Roel, Beatriz
Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science.
Rohlf, Norbert
Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institute Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries Institute for Sea Fisheries.
Schoute, Barbara
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea.
Schön, Pieter-Jan
Silva, Alexandra
INRB-IPIMAR.
Timoshenko, Nikolay
AtlantNIRO.
Trenkel, Verena
Ifremer Nantes Centre.
Report of the Benchmark Workshop on Pelagic Stocks (WKPELA 2012), 13–17 February 2012 Copenhagen, Denmark2012Rapport (Fagfellevurdert)
Ali, Nurshad
Rajshahi University.
Hoque, Ashraful
Haque, Abedul
Abdus Salam, Kazi
Karim, Rezaul
Rahman, Aminur
Islam, Khairul
Alam Saud, Zahangir
Khalek, Abdul
Azim Akhand, Anwarul
Dhaka University.
Hossain, Mostaque
Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.
Islamic University, Kushtia.
Miyataka, Hideki
Tokushima Bunri University.
Himeno, Seiichiro
Hossain, Khaled
Association between arsenic exposure and plasma cholinesterase activity: a population based study in Bangladesh2010Inngår i: Environmental health, ISSN 1476-069X, E-ISSN 1476-069X, Vol. 9, s. 36- Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Background: Arsenic is a potent pollutant that has caused an environmental catastrophe in certain parts of the world including Bangladesh where millions of people are presently at risk due to drinking water contaminated by arsenic. Chronic arsenic exposure has been scientifically shown as a cause for liver damage, cancers, neurological disorders and several other ailments. The relationship between plasma cholinesterase (PChE) activity and arsenic exposure has not yet been clearly documented. However, decreased PChE activity has been found in patients suffering liver dysfunction, heart attack, cancer metastasis and neurotoxicity. Therefore, in this study, we evaluated the PChE activity in individuals exposed to arsenic via drinking water in Bangladesh.
Methods: A total of 141 Bangladeshi residents living in arsenic endemic areas with the mean arsenic exposure of 14.10 ± 3.27 years were selected as study subjects and split into tertile groups based on three water arsenic concentrations: low (< 129 μg/L), medium (130-264 μg/L) and high (> 265 μg/L). Study subjects were further sub-divided into two groups (≤50 μg/L and > 50 μg/L) based on the recommended upper limit of water arsenic concentration (50 μg/L) in Bangladesh. Blood samples were collected from the study subjects by venipuncture and arsenic concentrations in drinking water, hair and nail samples were measured by Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy (ICP-MS). PChE activity was assayed by spectrophotometer.
Results: Arsenic concentrations in hair and nails were positively correlated with the arsenic levels in drinking water. Significant decreases in PChE activity were observed with increasing concentrations of arsenic in water, hair and nails. The average levels of PChE activity in low, medium and high arsenic exposure groups were also significantly different between each group. Lower levels of PChE activity were also observed in the > 50 μg/L group compared to the ≤50 μg/L group. Moreover, PChE activity was significantly decreased in the skin (+) symptoms group compared to those without (-).
Conclusions: We found a significant inverse relationship between arsenic exposure and PChE activity in a human population in Bangladesh. This research demonstrates a novel exposure-response relationship between arsenic and PChE activity which may explain one of the biological mechanisms through which arsenic exerts its neuro-and hepatotoxicity in humans.
Almqvist, Gustaf
University of Stockholm, Stockholm Sweden.
Andersen, Michael
Danish Fishermen’s Association, Fredericia, Denmark.
Willestofte Berg, Casper
DTU Aqua – National Institute of Aquatic Resources Section for Fisheries Advice, Charlottenlund, Denmark.
Broadgate, Wendy
The Fisheries Secretariat (FISH), Stockholm, Sweden.
Bryan, Meaghan
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Miami, United States.
Campana, Steven
Fisheries and Oceans Canada Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, Canada.
Cardinale, Max
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Institute of Marine Research, Lysekil, Sweden.
Dierking, Jan
Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften, Kiel, Germany.
von Dorrien, Christian
Thünen Institute Baltic Sea Fisheries, Rostock, Germany.
Eero, Margit
DTU Aqua – National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Charlottenlund, Denmark.
Efimov, Yuri
Russian Federal Research Institute of Fisheries & Oceanography (VNIRO), Moscow, Russian Federation.
Gasyukov, Pavel
AtlantNIRO, Kaliningrad, Russian Federation.
Hemmer-Hansen, Jakob
DTU Aqua – National Institute of Aquatic Resources Department of Inland Fisheries, Silkeborg, Denmark.
Hjelm, Joakim
Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap. Högskolan i Skövde, Forskningscentrum för Systembiologi.
Horbowy, Jan
National Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Gdynia, Poland.
Hüssy, Karin
Johansson, Reine
Baltic Sea Advisory Council, Dyrön, Sweden.
Jonusas, Stanislovas
DGMare, Brussels, Belgium.
Kornelius, George
Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment (BIOR) 8 Daugavgrivas Str. Fish Resources Research Department, Riga, Latvia.
Köster, Fritz
Kraak, Sarah
Thünen Institute, Braunschweig, Germany.
Krumme, Uwe
Large, Scott
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Larsson, Staffan
Swedish Cod Fishermen’s Producer Organisation, Lycke, Sweden.
Luzenczyk, Anna
Lövgren, Johan
Maguire, Jean-Jacques
Godefroy, Quebec, Canada.
Mosegaard, Henrik
Nielsen, Anders
Norrström, Niclas
Oeberst, Rainer
Stepputtis, Daniel
Stern, Edward
Storr-Paulsen, Marie
Strehlow, Harry Vincent
Svedäng, Henrik
Ifremer Nantes Centre, Nantes, France.
Wæver Pedersen, Martin
Zimmermann, Christopher
Report of the Benchmark Workshop on Baltic Cod Stocks (WKBALTCOD)2015Rapport (Annet vitenskapelig)
The ICES Benchmark Workshop on Baltic Cod Stocks (WKBALTCOD), chaired by External Chair Jean-Jacques Maguire, Canada and ICES Chair Marie Storr-Paulsen, Denmark, and attended by two invited external experts Verena Trenkel, France and Meaghan Bryan, USA met in Rostock, Germany, 2–6 March 2015 with 39 participants and six countries represented. The objective of WKBALTCOD was to evaluate the appropriateness of data and methods to determine stock status and investigate meth-ods appropriate to use in the single-stock assessment for the cod stock in SD 22–24 and cod in SD 25–32 in the Baltic. Participants in the workshop were a large group with diverse backgrounds representing the industry, fisheries, NGOs, managers and scientists.The single-stock analytic assessment of the eastern Baltic stock was not accepted by the assessment working group (WGBFAS) in 2014 due to severe problems with the input data. The advice for the eastern Baltic cod was, therefore, based on the ICES approach for data-limited stocks. As an outcome ICES decided to establish a bench-mark for both cod stocks and to scope an integrated assessment for the Baltic cod stocks. The first meeting (WKSIBCA) was therefore meant to introduce the interces-sional work conducted since the assessment working group in April 2014, and to reach some conclusions on how to proceed both in the short term (Benchmark in March 2015) and longer term (2–3 years) and was seen as a data compilation work-shop, there is produced a separate report from this workshop. The WKBALTCOD was the 2nd meeting in the benchmark process and was intended to come up with a final stock assessment method, stock annex and input data for both stocks. As it was not possible to reach conclusive decision on the final model to be used for the east Baltic cod stock during the benchmark meeting and as more work on the preferable models was needed, it was decided by the ACOM leadership to prolong the bench-mark process until the assessment working group meeting in April 2015. This deci-sion has led to a relatively long process partly mixed with the assessment working group WGBFAS.It became clear during the benchmark process that although large effort has been put into explaining the underlying processes leading to the changes in the Baltic ecosys-tem, there is still some lack of understanding of the present situation in the eastern Baltic cod stock. Therefore, it was not possible to reach firm conclusions on the final model to be used and therefore not possible to set reference points. It was decided to continue to explore the most promising models and to continue to improve the input data until the assessment working group started in April.The main challenges still to be solved for the Eastern Baltic cod stock is the quantifi-cation of increased natural mortality and decrease in growth. Through several presentations during the workshop (both WKSIBCA and WKBALTCOD) it became clear that natural mortality very likely has increased in later years, due to decreased condition and increased parasite infection. A decrease in growth also seems plausible duo to a decrease in condition and/or selectivity-induced mortality of the largest in-dividuals. However, as none of these parameters are easily estimated, especially with the severe ageing problems, different model assumptions made the output very shaky.For the western Baltic cod, stock identification issues were examined in area SD 24, the intermediate area: based on otolith characteristics and genetics. Due to the results showing a large proportion of east cod in this area, it was decided to split the catch2 | ICES WKBALTCOD REPORT 2015and survey from SD 24 into either the western or eastern Baltic cod stock. It was pos-sible to derive proportions of eastern and western cod in SD 24 back to the mid-1990s.For the western Baltic cod stock a modelled survey indices was included in the as-sessment covering the western part of SD 24 and Area 22+23 and based on a smoothed ALK.Both cod stocks have in the past used commercial tuning fleet to have a better cov-ered of older age groups. It was decided to abound this time-series duo quality issues such as a limited coverage and problems with technical creeping.WKBALTCOD was not able to explore and define reference points for the Western Baltic cod stock during the meeting due to time constraints, but these were calculated and decided by correspondence after the meeting. The recent protocols on estimation procedures developed by WKMSYREF3 for stocks with a full analytical assessment and for data-limited stocks served as objective guidelines to obtain reference point estimates.
Danish Fishermen’s Association Fredericia, Denmark.
Arula, Timo
University of Tartu, Estonia.
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden.
Clink, Sally
Baltic Sea Regional Advisory Council, Denmark.
Collie, Jeremy
University of Rhode Island, USA.
Eckeskog, Magnus
The Fisheries Secretariat (FISH), Sweden.
DTU Aqua - National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Denmark.
Eriksson, Pehr E.
Swedish Fisherman’s Federation Fiskets Hus, Sweden.
AtlantNIRO, Russian Federation.
Gröhsler, Thomas
Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries (TI-OF), Germany.
National Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Poland.
Howell, Daniel
Institute of Marine Research, Norway.
Jepsena, Ilona
European Commission, Directorate for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Belgium.
Johansson, Reine J.
Swedish Fishermen´s Federation, Sweden.
Janusas, Stanislovas
European Commission Directorate for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, Belgium.
Kaljuste, Olavi
Karpushevskiy, Igor
Klaas, Kunnar
Ministry of the Environment of Estonia, Estonia.
Kornilovs, Georgs
Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment (BIOR), Latvia.
Thûnen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries (TI-OF), Germany.
Linke, Sebastian
University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Swedish Unniversity of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden.
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Canada.
Neuenfeldt, Stefan
Plaganyi, Eva
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research (CMAR), Australia.
Plikshs, Maris
Raid, Tiit
Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu, Estonia.
Reeves, Stuart
European Commission Directorate for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries , Belgium.
Rindorf, Anna
Storr- Paulsen, Marie
Strehlow, Harry V.
Vinther, Morten
Walther, Yvonne
Report of the Benchmark Workshop on Baltic Multispecies Assessments (WKBALT): 4–8 February 2013, Copenhagen, Denmark2013Rapport (Fagfellevurdert)
Annett, Judith
Berglund, Stefan
Increasing Societal Well-Being Through Enhanced Empathy Using Computer Games2015Inngår i: Well-Being in Contemporary Society / [ed] Johnny H. Søraker, Jan-Willem Van der Rijt, Jelle de Boer, Pak-Hang Wong & Philip Brey, Springer, 2015, s. 135-155Kapittel i bok, del av antologi (Fagfellevurdert)
Recent research suggests that the well-being of both individuals and society in general may have a neurobiological basis linked to empathy. This raises the issue of available routes for enhancing empathy (through interventions such as education, training, pharmacology, etc.). One of the most important features of the human brain, especially of the brains of children and teenagers, is its plasticity. Millions of children and teenagers spend many hours every day playing computer games. Many computer games include different forms of violence and aggression and there has been extensive research that indicates that there is a correlation between playing these games, aggression, and reduced disposition to pro-social behaviors. However, much less research has been conducted on the potential effects of pro-social and non-violent computer games. Since there is not yet a comprehensive model of the possible causal relationships between playing such games and neuropsychological function, neuroendocrine function (e.g. oxytocin release), empathy, pro-social behaviors, and individual and societal well-being, we provide a basic theoretical framework for empirical research on these issues. The aim of this framework is ultimately to establish not only correlational evidence, but to allow the development of experimental protocols to meaningfully examine the causal relationships and mechanisms.
Aps, R.
University of Tartu.
Fetissov, M.
Holmgren, Noel
Kuikka, S.
Central Baltic Sea herring: effect of environmental trends and fishery management2011Inngår i: Ecosystems and Sustainable Development VIII / [ed] Y. Villacampa & C. A. Brebbia, Southampton: BioMed Central Ltd. , 2011, s. 69-80Konferansepaper (Fagfellevurdert)
Uncertainty is an endemic condition of the Baltic Sea herring (Clupea harengus membras, L) fishery management. It is a condition exacerbated by the fishing fleet overcapacity and consequent exploitation of the herring stock at a level believed to be unsustainable. Some sources of uncertainty are mainly related to biology and fishing technique: the unsolved problem of herring assessment and management units, the recruitment–environment relationship and the reduction in mean weights-at-age, uncertain ageing of fish, the problem of unaccounted fishing mortality caused by the fish selection through the trawl net. Fishing fleet overcapacity is believed to be behind of the regulatory overfishing when setting the Total Allowable Catches (TACs) higher than the scientific advice (decision overfishing) and tolerating the extensive underreporting of catches (implementation overfishing). Two scenarios for the Central Baltic Sea herring fishery management options are constructed and the Bayesian networks are used to represent and update uncertainties encountered in the process of the management related situation assessment. First scenario represents the current status of the fishery management resulting in fishing mortality (F) higher than FMSY – the fishing mortality that corresponds to the Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY). The second scenario demonstrates the assumed potential impact of economic incentives (e.g.zoning, individual transferable quotas (ITQs), territorial use rights etc.) on the reduction of excessive fishing capacity and bringing actual fishing mortality closer to FMSY.
Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu, Tallinn, Estonia.
University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
Fisheries management: from linear to collaborative science-policy interface2011Inngår i: Management of Natural Resources, Sustainable Development and Ecological Hazards III / [ed] C. A. Brebbia, S. S. Zubir, WIT Press, 2011, s. 3-14Konferansepaper (Fagfellevurdert)
The context of fisheries management, according to recent studies, tends to be complex, uncertain and controversial and it cannot be adequately addressed based on work done within the “linear” science-policy interface (SPI). It is believed that moving towards a more participatory and “collaborative” SPI model would favour implementation of more efficient economic incentives to reduce the fishing fleet capacity and bring the actual fishing mortality closer to the levels considered to be sustainable. Focusing the participatory research basically on fish biology and fish stock assessment seems to be too narrow while, on the other hand, it does not embrace many other important issues of contemporary fisheries management. It is suggested that further involvement of stakeholders into the full-scale bio-economic modelling based participatory research would contribute to better understanding of the dynamics of human natural interface concerned and, consequently, would improve the consensus between different interests.
Asp, Julia
Univ Gothenburg, Dept Clin Chem & Transfus Med, Inst Biomed, Sahlgrenska Acad, S-41345 Gothenburg, Sweden .
Synnergren, Jane
Jonsson, Marianne
Dellgren, Goran
Univ Gothenburg, Dept Mol & Clin Med, Sahlgrenska Acad, S-41345 Gothenburg, Sweden / Sahlgrens Univ Hosp, Dept Cardiothorac Surg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Jeppsson, Anders
Comparison of human cardiac gene expression profiles in paired samples of right atrium and left ventricle collected in vivo2012Inngår i: Physiological Genomics, ISSN 1094-8341, E-ISSN 1531-2267, Vol. 44, nr 1, s. 89-98Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Asp J, Synnergren J, Jonsson M, Dellgren G, Jeppsson A. Comparison of human cardiac gene expression profiles in paired samples of right atrium and left ventricle collected in vivo. Physiol Genomics 44: 89-98, 2012. First published November 15, 2011; doi: 10.1152/physiolgenomics.00137.2011.-Studies of expressed genes in human heart provide insight into both physiological and pathophysiological mechanisms. This is of importance for extended understanding of cardiac function as well as development of new therapeutic drugs. Heart tissue for gene expression studies is generally hard to obtain, particularly from the ventricles. Since different parts of the heart have different functions, expression profiles should likely differ between these parts. The aim of the study was therefore to compare the global gene expression in cardiac tissue from the more accessible auricula of the right atrium to expression in tissue from the left ventricle. Tissue samples were collected from five men undergoing aortic valve replacement or coronary artery bypass grafting. Global gene expression analysis identified 542 genes as differentially expressed between the samples extracted from these two locations, corresponding to similar to 2% of the genes covered by the microarray; 416 genes were identified as abundantly expressed in right atrium, and 126 genes were abundantly expressed in left ventricle. Further analysis of the differentially expressed genes according to available annotations, information from curated pathways and known protein interactions, showed that genes with higher expression in the ventricle were mainly associated with contractile work of the heart. Transcription in biopsies from the auricula of the right atrium on the other hand indicated a wider area of functions, including immunity and defense. In conclusion, our results suggest that biopsies from the auricula of the right atrium may be suitable for various genetic studies, but not studies directly related to muscle work.
Asplund, Annika
Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap. Högskolan i Skövde, Forskningscentrum för Systembiologi. Takara Bio Europe AB (former Cellartis AB), Gothenburg, Sweden.
Pradip, Arvind
Takara Bio Europe AB (former Cellartis AB), Gothenburg, Sweden / Novo Nordisk A/S, Bagsværd, Denmark.
van Giezen, Mariska
Takara Bio Europe AB (former Cellartis AB), Gothenburg, Sweden.
Aspegren, Anders
Choukair, Helena
Rehnström, Marie
Jacobsson, Susanna
Ghosheh, Nidal
El Hajjam, Dorra
Holmgren, Sandra
Takara Bio Europe AB (former Cellartis AB), Gothenburg, Sweden / Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Larsson, Susanna
Benecke, Jörg
Butron, Mariela
Wigander, Annelie
Noaksson, Karin
Sartipy, Peter
Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap. Högskolan i Skövde, Forskningscentrum för Systembiologi. AstraZeneca R&D, GMD CVMD GMed, Mölndal, Sweden.
Björquist, Petter
Takara Bio Europe AB (former Cellartis AB), Gothenburg, Sweden / NovaHep AB, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Edsbagge, Josefina
Küppers-Munther, Barbara
Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap. Högskolan i Skövde, Forskningscentrum för Systembiologi. Takara Bio Europe AB (former Cellartis AB), Arvid Wallgrens Backe 20, 413 46, Gothenburg, Sweden.
One Standardized Differentiation Procedure Robustly Generates Homogenous Hepatocyte Cultures Displaying Metabolic Diversity from a Large Panel of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells2016Inngår i: Stem Cell Reviews, ISSN 1550-8943, E-ISSN 1558-6804, Vol. 12, nr 1, s. 90-104Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Human hepatocytes display substantial functional inter-individual variation regarding drug metabolizing functions. In order to investigate if this diversity is mirrored in hepatocytes derived from different human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) lines, we evaluated 25 hPSC lines originating from 24 different donors for hepatic differentiation and functionality. Homogenous hepatocyte cultures could be derived from all hPSC lines using onestandardized differentiation procedure. To the best of our knowledge this is the first report of a standardized hepatic differentiation procedure that is generally applicable across a large panel of hPSC lines without any adaptations to individual lines. Importantly, with regard to functional aspects, such as Cytochrome P450 activities, we observed that hepatocytes derived from different hPSC lines displayed inter-individual variation characteristic for primary hepatocytes obtained from different donors, while these activities were highly reproducible between repeated experiments using the same line. Taken together, these data demonstrate the emerging possibility to compile panels of hPSC-derived hepatocytes of particular phenotypes/genotypes relevant for drug metabolism and toxicity studies. Moreover, these findings are of significance for applications within the regenerative medicine field, since our stringent differentiation procedure allows the derivation of homogenous hepatocyte cultures from multiple donors which is a prerequisite for the realization of future personalized stem cell based therapies.
Takara Bio Europe AB, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Andersson, Christian X.
A novel maintenance medium extends the life-span and enables long term applications for both human primary hepatocytes and human pluripotent stem cell derived hepatocytes in conventional 2D cultures2017Konferansepaper (Fagfellevurdert)
Awe, Julius Adebayo
Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för vård och natur. Högskolan i Skövde, Forskningscentrum för Systembiologi. University of Manitoba, CancerCare Manitoba, Canada / Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden .
Xu, Mark Chu
University of Manitoba, CancerCare Manitoba, Canada .
Wechsler, Janine
ScreenCell, Paris, France / Hôpital Henri Mondor, Créteil, France .
Benali-Furet, Naoual
ScreenCell, Paris, France.
Cayre, Yvon E
ScreenCell, Paris, France / Hôpital Robert Debré and Pierre, Marie Curie University, Paris, France .
Saranchuk, Jeff
University of Manitoba, Canada .
Drachenberg, Darrel
Mai, Sabine
Three-Dimensional Telomeric Analysis of Isolated Circulating Tumor Cells (CTCs) Defines CTC Subpopulations2013Inngår i: Translational Oncology, ISSN 1944-7124, E-ISSN 1936-5233, Vol. 6, nr 1, s. 51-65 Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) have been identified with the potential to serve as suitable biomarkers for tumor stage and progression, but the availability of effective isolation technique(s) coupled with detailed molecular characterization have been the challenges encountered in making CTCs clinically relevant. For the first time, we combined isolation of CTCs using the ScreenCell filtration technique with quantitative analysis of CTC telomeres by TeloView. This resulted in the identification and molecular characterization of different subpopulations of CTCs in the same patient. Three-dimensional (3D) telomeric analysis was carried out on isolated CTCs of 19 patients that consisted of four different tumor types, namely, prostate, colon, breast, melanoma, and one lung cancer cell line. With telomeric analysis of the filter-isolated CTCs, the level of chromosomal instability (CIN) of the CTCs can be determined. Our study shows that subpopulations of CTCs can be identified on the basis of their 3D telomeric properties.
Ayukekbong, James A.
Department of Infectious Diseases/Section of Clinical Virology, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Andersson, M. E.
Vansarla, Goutham
Tah, F.
Camyaids Institute of Laboratory Diagnosis and Clinical Research, Douala, Cameroon.
Nkuo-Akenji, T.
Faculty of Science Diagnostic Laboratory, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon.
Lindh, M.
Bergström, T.
Monitoring of seasonality of norovirus and other enteric viruses in Cameroon by real-time PCR: an exploratory study2014Inngår i: Epidemiology and Infection, ISSN 0950-2688, E-ISSN 1469-4409, Vol. 142, nr 7, s. 1393-1402Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
We studied the seasonal fluctuation of norovirus and other enteric viruses in Cameroon. Two hundred participants aged between 1 and 69 years were prospectively followed up. Each participant provided monthly faecal samples over a 12-month period. A total of 2484 samples were tested using multiplex real-time PCR assay for the detection of norovirus, rotavirus and enterovirus. The effect of weather variables and risk factors were analysed by Pearson correlation and bivariate analysis. Overall, enterovirus was the most commonly detected virus (216% of specimens), followed by norovirus (39%) and rotavirus (04%). Norovirus and enterovirus were detected throughout the year with a peak of norovirus detection at the beginning of the rainy season and a significant alternation of circulation of norovirus genogroups from one month to the next. Age <5 years and consumption of tap water were risk factors for norovirus infection. Better understanding of factors influencing transmission and seasonality may provide insights into the relationship between physical environment and risk of infection for these viruses.
Banks, H. T.
Center for Research in Scientific Computation North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC, USA.
Banks, J. E.
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center (UROC) California State University, Monterey Bay Seaside, CA, USA.
Bommarco, Riccardo
Department of Ecology Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Uppsala, Sweden.
Curtsdotter, Alva
Jonsson, Tomas
Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap. Högskolan i Skövde, Forskningscentrum för Systembiologi. Department of Ecology Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Uppsala, Sweden.
Laubmeier, A. N.
Parameter estimation for an allometric food web model2017Inngår i: International journal of pure and applied mathematics, ISSN 1311-8080, E-ISSN 1314-3395, Vol. 114, nr 1, s. 143-160Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
The application of mechanistic models to natural systems is of interest to ecological researchers. We use the mechanistic Allometric Trophic Network (ATN) model, whichis well-studied for controlled and theoretical systems, to describe the dynamics of the aphidRhopalosiphum padi in an agricultural field. We diagnose problems that arise in a first attemptat a least squares parameter estimation on this system, including formulation of the modelfor the inverse problem and information content present in the data. We seek to establishwhether the field data, as it is currently collected, can support parameter estimation for theATN model.
Bari, M. A.
University of Rajshahi.
Islam, W.
Khan, A. R.
Antibacterial and Antifungal Activity of Solanum torvum (Solanaceae)2010Inngår i: International Journal of Agriculture & Biology, ISSN 1560-8530, Vol. 12, nr 3, s. 386-390Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Leaves, stem, roots and inflorescence of Solanum torvum Sw. were extracted in two different organic solvents (chloroform & methanol). Antibacterial and antifungal effects of the extracts were tested on fifteen (six Gram positive & nine Gram negative) human pathogenic bacteria and on eight pathogenic fungi. Methanolic extracts of roots of S. torvum exhibited promising antibacterial and antifungal effects on all organisms tested in comparison with that observed in the leaves, stems and inflorescence extracts. The toxicity of the extracts was in the following order; root>stem>inflorescence>leaf. The minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) values of methanolic extract of roots of S. torvum were in the range between 64-128 µg mL -1 . Chloroform extracts of roots were more toxic (LC 50 35.4629 ppm) than other extracts analyzed in Brine shrimp test. In conclusion, S. torvum appears to be an attractive material for the development of antimicrobial drugs and environment friendly biopesticides.
Bays, Harold E.
Louisville Metabolic and Atherosclerosis Research Center Inc., Louisville, KY, USA.
Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap. Högskolan i Skövde, Forskningscentrum för Systembiologi. Global Medicines Development, CVMD, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Xu, John
Biometrics and Information Sciences, AstraZeneca, Gaithersburg, MD, USA.
Sjöström, Carl David
Global Medicines Development, CVMD, AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Underberg, James A.
Department of Medicine, NYU School of Medicine & NYU Center for Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, New York, NY, USA.
Dapagliflozin in patients with type II diabetes mellitus, with and without elevated triglyceride and reduced high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels2017Inngår i: Journal of Clinical Lipidology, ISSN 1933-2874, E-ISSN 1876-4789, Vol. 11, nr 2, s. 450-458Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
BACKGROUND: Dapagliflozin is a selective sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor that improves glycemic control in patients with type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM) by reducing renal glucose reabsorption.
OBJECTIVE: The aim was to evaluate the lipid effects of dapagliflozin 10 mg or placebo in patients with T2DM with/without baseline elevated triglyceride and reduced high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol levels.
METHODS: This was a post hoc analysis of 10 phase 3, placebo-controlled studies of dapagliflozin 10 mg (N = 2237) or placebo (N = 2164) administered for 24 weeks in patients with T2DM. Patients with elevated triglyceride (>= 150 mg/dL [1.69 mmol/L]) and reduced HDL cholesterol levels (<40 mg/dL [1.04 mmol/L] in men; <50 mg/dL [1.29 mmol/L] in women) were included (group A). The reference group (group B) included patients who did not meet the defined lipid criteria.
RESULTS: The effects of dapagliflozin on fasting lipid profiles were generally similar in the 2 lipid groups (ie, groups A and B) and, compared with placebo, were associated with minor increases in non-HDL cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein, and HDL cholesterol levels. The effects on triglyceride levels were inconsistent. The incidence of adverse events (AEs)/serious AEs, and AEs of genital infection, urinary tract infection, volume reduction, renal function, and hypoglycemia were similar in the 2 lipid groups.
CONCLUSION: Patients with T2DM treated with dapagliflozin experienced minor changes in lipid levels; the changes were generally similar in the 2 lipid groups. The clinical significance of these changes in lipids is unclear, especially in view of the positive effects of dapagliflozin on other cardiovascular disease risk factors.
Berg, Sofia
Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för vård och natur. Högskolan i Skövde, Forskningscentrum för Systembiologi. IFM Theory and Modelling, Div. of Theoretical Biology, Linköping Univ., Linköping, Sweden.
Christianou, Maria
IFM Theory and Modelling, Div. of Theoretical Biology, Linköping Univ., Linköping, Sweden.
Ebenman, Bo
Using sensitivity analysis to identify keystone species and keystone links in size-based food webs2011Inngår i: Oikos, ISSN 0030-1299, E-ISSN 1600-0706, Vol. 120, nr 4, s. 510-519Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Human-induced alterations in the birth and mortality rates of species and in the strength of interactions within and between species can lead to changes in the structure and resilience of ecological communities. Recent research points to the importance of considering the distribution of body sizes of species when exploring the response of communities to such perturbations. Here, we present a new size-based approach for assessing the sensitivity and elasticity of community structure (species equilibrium abundances) and resilience (rate of return to equilibrium) to changes in the intrinsic growth rate of species and in the strengths of species interactions. We apply this approach on two natural systems, the pelagic communities of the Baltic Sea and Lake Vättern, to illustrate how it can be used to identify potential keystone species and keystone links. We find that the keystone status of a species is closely linked to its body size. The analysis also suggests that communities are structurally and dynamically more sensitive to changes in the effects of prey on their consumers than in the effects of consumers on their prey. Moreover, we discuss how community sensitivity analysis can be used to study and compare the fragility of communities with different body size distributions by measuring the mean sensitivity or elasticity over all species or all interaction links in a community. We believe that the community sensitivity analysis developed here holds some promise for identifying species and links that are critical for the structural and dynamic robustness of ecological communities.
Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap. Högskolan i Skövde, Forskningscentrum för Systembiologi. Dept of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Div. of Theoretical Biology, Linköping Univ., Linköping, Sweden.
Pimenov, Aexander
Weierstrass Inst., Berlin, Germany / Environmental Research Inst., Univ. College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Palmer, Catherine
Weierstrass Inst., Berlin, Germany.
Emmerson, Mark
School of Biological Sciences, Queen's Univ. Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom.
Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap. Högskolan i Skövde, Forskningscentrum för Systembiologi. Dept of Ecology, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
Ecological communities are vulnerable to realistic extinction sequences2015Inngår i: Oikos, ISSN 0030-1299, E-ISSN 1600-0706, Vol. 124, nr 4, s. 486-496Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Aquatic Resources, Institute of Marine Research, Lysekil, Sweden.
Boje, Jesper
The National Institute of Aquatic Resources Section for Fisheries Advice, Charlottenlund, Denmark.
Degel, Henrik
The National Institute of Aquatic Resources Section for Management Systems, Charlottenlund, Denmark.
Florin, Ann-Britt
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Aquatic Resources, Institute of Coastal Research, Öregrund, Sweden.
Grygiel, Wlodzimierz
Sea Fisheries Institute, Gdynia, Poland.
Gröhsler, Tomas
Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries (TI-OF), Rostock, Germany.
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Institute of Marine Research, Sweden.
Karpushevskaia, Anastasiia
Latvian Fish Resources Agency, Riga, Latvia.
Finnish Game and Fisheries Research, Institute Kotka Unit, Kotka, Finland.
Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute Turku Game and Fisheries Research, Turku, Finland.
Statkus, Romas
Division of fishery research and science, Fishery service under Ministry of Agriculture, Klaipeda, Lithuania.
Stoetera, Sven
DTU Aqua - National Institute of Aquatic Resources Section for Fisheries Advice, Charlottenlund, Denmark.
Ustups, Didzis
Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment (BIOR), Fish Resources Research Department, Riga, Latvia.
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Institute of Marine Research, Karlskrona, Sweden.
Report of the Baltic Fisheries Assessment Working Group (WGBFAS): 14-21 April 2015, ICES HQ, Copenhagen, Denmark2015Rapport (Fagfellevurdert)
The ICES Baltic Fisheries Assessment Working Group (WGBFAS) met 14-21 April 2015 (Chair: Mare Storr-Paulsen, Denmark), with 28 participants and 9 countries represented. The objective of WGBFAS was to assess the status of the following stocks:
1 ) Sole in Division IIIa, SDs 20-22
2 ) Cod in Kattegat, Cod in SD 22-24, Cod in SD 25-32
3 ) Herring in SD 25-27, 28.2, 29 and 32, Herring in SD 28.1 (Gulf of Riga), Herring in SD 30, Herring SD 31.
4 ) Sprat in SD 22-32
5 ) Plaice 21-23, Plaice 2425
6 ) Flounder 22-23; 24-25; 26+28 and 27+29-32, Brill 2232, Dab 2232, and Turbot 2232 (survey trends)
WGBFAS also identified the data needed, for next year’s data call with some suggestions for improvements in the data call as well as in InterCatch. The report contains an introduction with the summary of other WGs relevant for the WGBFAS, country specific fishery description, the methods used, and ecosystem considerations. The results of the analytical stock assessment or survey trends for the species listed above are then presented with all the stocks with the same species in the same sections. The report ends with references, list of Working Documents, recommendations and Stock Annexes. In first quarter 2015 the Baltic cod stocks and the plaice stocks were benchmarked. As a result the Baltic cod stocks now have to apply a splitting key in SD 24 were both stocks are present. This has changed the assessment from being an area based assessment to now being a stock based assessments and has implications for the advice. The principle analytical models used for the stock assessments were XSA and SAM. For most flatfishes, CPUE trends from bottom trawl surveys were presented (except plaice 2425 and her31 using relative SSB from SAM and XSA, respectively). Ecosystem changes have been analytically considered in the following stock assessments: Herring in SD 25-27, 28.2, 29 and 32, and Sprat in SD 22-32, in form of cod predation mortality. Last year a very large retrospective pattern in the Eastern Baltic cod stock caused that the WG rejected the analytic assessment. Several uncertainties in the data lead to this conclusion i.a age reading problems with large inconsistency between and within nations as well as a change in growth and natural mortality. However, even though a data compilation workshop and a benchmark have been conducted in the intermediate time it was not possible to solve the main issue on growth. The lack of knowledge on growth caused to that even the length based data required in the data call was very uncertain for the models and in the end the WG was not able to produce a better model than was presented last year which is based on survey trends. The Her-30 (Herring in the Botnian Sea) was by the working group down scaled from a category 1 stock to a category 3 stock due to the commercial tuning fleet used in the assessment having very uncertain estimates in the last couples of years. However, during the Baltic ADG an alternative assessment was suggested were the stock is still considered a category 1 stock but the last 8 years of the commercial tuning fleet was terminated. This assessment was conducted after the working group but has been included in the report.
Cadigan, Noel
Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.
Johann-Heinrich von Thünen-Institute, Germany .
Morgado, Cristina
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, Denmark.
Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute, Finland.
Ifremer Nantes Centre, France.
Report of the Inter-Benchmark Protocol for Herring in Subdivision 30 (IBP Her30): 11–15 March 2013, By correspondence2013Rapport (Fagfellevurdert)
The Inter-Benchmark Protocol for Herring in Subdivision 30 (IBP-Her30) worked by correspondence between February 28 and March 28 2013. Verena Trenkel (France) served as Chair with invited expert Noel Cadigan (Canada). There were six participants. The objectives of the groups were to review the work carried out in response to the benchmark working group WKPELA in 2012.
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Institute of Coastal Research, Öregrund.
Comparison of methods and results for the estimation of a sustainable harvest rate for the Bothnian Sea herring2012Inngår i: Report of the Benchmark Workshop on Pelagic Stocks (WKPELA 2012): 13–17 February 2012, Copenhagen, Denmark, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) , 2012Kapittel i bok, del av antologi (Fagfellevurdert)
Berggren, Elisabeth
Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för vård och natur.
Sidenvall, Birgitta
Jönköping University.
Larsson, Dennis
Subarachnoid haemorrhage has long-term effects on social life2011Inngår i: British Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, ISSN 1747-0307, E-ISSN 2052-2800, Vol. 7, nr 1, s. 429-435Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Aim: The aim of this study was to describe memory after a subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) from the perspective of relatives and patients in two cohorts and also to evaluate the application of relatives' statements as a tool in nursing care and rehabilitation, in order to support the patient. Background: Cognitive sequelae due to SAH are a large disability and may influence the adjustment to daily life. Supporting patients and relatives requires knowledge concerning the patients' memory both from the perspective of patients and relatives. Method: Eleven relatives and 11 patients (Cohort 1), 11 years after the onset of an SAH and 15 relatives and 15 patients (Cohort 2) 6 years after the onset of an SAH, participated in the study. Interview questions and memory tests were used to collect data. Findings: Problems with memory, including meta-memory problems regarding relatives' statements, were common. Relatives and patients stated patients' menory in a similar manner. However, patients' statements concerning their memory corresponded in higher degree with memory test results, in comparison with relatives' statements. Conclusions: Relatives' and patients' statements are useful as tools in nursing care and rehabilitation. However, from results showing meta-memory problems and that patients' statements concerning their memory corresponded better with memory test results (in comparison with relatives' statements), it is vital to offer patients memory tests in order to prevent complications in mutual family relationships.
Bergman, A.
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Capio Diagnostik AB, Kärnsjukhuset, Skövde.
Fernandez, V.
Department of Parasitology, Mycology and Environmental Microbiology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, Solna.
Holmström, Kjell-Ove
Claesson, B. E. B.
Enroth, H.
Rapid identification of pathogenic yeast isolates bt real-time PCR and two-dimensional melting-point analysis2007Inngår i: European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, ISSN 0934-9723, E-ISSN 1435-4373, Vol. 26, nr 11, s. 813-818Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
There is a need in the clinical microbiological laboratory for rapid and reliable methods for the universal identification of fungal pathogens. Two different regions of the rDNA gene complex, the highly polymorphic ITS1 and ITS2, were amplified using primers targeting conserved regions of the 18S, 5.8S and 28S genes. After melting-point analysis of the amplified products, the Tm of the two PCR-products were plotted into a spot diagram where all the 14 tested, clinically relevant yeasts separated with good resolution. Real-time amplification of two separate genes, melting-point analysis and two-dimensional plotting of Tm data can be used as a broad-range method for the identification of clinical isolates of pathogenic yeast such as Candida and Cryptococcus spp.
Bergström, Lena
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Aquatic Resources, Öregrund, Sweden.
Blenckner, Thorsten
Stockholm Recilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Frelat, Romain
University of Hamburg, Institute of Hydrobiology and Fishery Science, Hamburg, Germany.
Grimvall, Anders
Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Haapasaari, Päivi
University of Helsinki, Department of Environmental Sciences, Helsinki, Finland.
Haas, Bianca
University of Hamburg, Institute of Hydrobiology and Fishery Science, Hamburg Germany.
Heikinheimo, Outi
Natural Resources Institute Finland, Helsinki, Finland.
Jernberg, Susanna
Finnish Environment Institute, Marine Research Centre, Helsinki, Finland.
ICES, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Lindegren, Martin
Centre for Ocean Life, DTU-Aqua, Charlottenlund, Denmark.
Levin, Phil
Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, USA.
Lehikoinen, Annukka
Helsinki University, Kotka Maritime Research Centre, Kotka, Finland.
Möllmann, Christian
Nordström, Marie
Åbo Akademi University, Environmental and Marine Biology, Åbo, Finland.
Otto, Saskia
Peltonen, Heikki
Marine Research Centre, Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland.
Précuchét, Laurence
Putnis, Ivars
Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment BIOR, Fish Resources Research Department, Riga, Latvia.
Romakkaniemi, Atso
Natural Resources Institute Finland, Oulun yliopisto, Finland.
Suikkanen, Sanna
Torres, Marian
Uusitalo, Laura
Weigel, Benjamin
Wesslander, Karin
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Marine Environment, Västra Frölunda, Sweden.
Zagrodzka, Zuzanna
Interim Report of the ICES/HELCOM Working Group on Integrated Assessments of the Baltic Sea (WGIAB): 18-22 April 2016 Helsinki, Finland2016Rapport (Annet vitenskapelig)
The ICES/HELCOM Working Group on Integrated Assessments of the Baltic Sea (WGIAB) meeting was held in Helsinki (Finland), 18-22 April 2016. The meeting was attended by 26 participants from five countries and chaired by Laura Uusitalo, Fin-land, Saskia Otto, Germany, Martin Lindegren, Denmark, and Lena Bergström, Swe-den. This was the first year of the new three-year Terms of Reference (ToR) for WGIAB. The main working activities in 2016 were to A) develop the trait-based ap-proach of understanding the ecosystem function, and B) explore the social-ecological system, including indicator development, revising the conceptual model, and devel-oping case studies. As a primary outcome of the ToR A, we built on our previous work on integrated ecosystem assessments (IEAs) in the Baltic Sea, but extended it beyond considering changes in abundances of a few dominant species, to accounting for community-wide changes in a number of key traits across multiple trophic levels. These traits represent various ecosystem functions upon which we derive important ecosystem services. By investigating temporal changes in the community weighted mean traits of phyto-plankton, zooplankton, zoobenthos, and fish, we demonstrated whether trait reor-ganizations at the level of entire communities occurred in the Central Baltic Sea as a result of the 1980s regime shift. Using in total 29 traits combined for all groups we found indications of two breakpoints across all four taxonomic groups over the last decades, i.e. one around 1990 and one around 2000. Further work will focus on ex-ploring the nature of the changes in trait composition and on standardizing the num-ber of traits and data types (i.e. binary, continuous or categorical) across taxonomic group.In addition, we collected data on key functional groups and abiotic variables in all main sub-basins of the Baltic Sea, setting the stage for a cross-regional comparison of temporal patterns and trends in lower trophic level in the face of recent develop-ments in climate-related drivers.With reference to Tor B, to explore how social indicators could be used in parallel with biological indicators in an integrated assessment framework, we developed a conceptual model of interrelationships between ecosystem and society. We used the model as a basis for mapping factors to be accounted for in the ecosystem-based management using the Baltic salmon and clupeid species as case studies. The models depict 1) the structure of the foodweb relevant to the target species, 2) the key com-munity level and population traits that contribute to the state of the species, 3) main pressures affecting the foodweb and their effects on the species, 4) key management measures, and 5) benefits that the species can produce for society.To support the development of Ecosystem Overview the group members evaluated the probability of occurrence and the magnitude of the effect of 15 pressures occur-ring in the Baltic Sea. The top five pressures identified were input of nutrients, in-creased temperature, decreased salinity, input of hazardous substances, and input or spread of non-indigenous species.The work will continue intersessionally and the next meeting of WGIAB is planned to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, back-to-back with WGCOMEDA and WGEAWESS.
Swedish Univeristy of Agricultural Sciences, Department of Aquatic Resources, Öregrund, Sweden.
Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Hamrén, Henrik
Baltic Sea Centre, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Jacob, Ute
Kininmonth, Stuart
Llope, Marcos
Instituto Español de Oceanografía, Centro Oceanográfico de Cádiz, Spain.
Müller-Karulis, Bärbel
DTU Aqua, Charlottenlund, Denmark.
Olsson, Jens
Pekcan-Hekim, Zeynep
Rau, Andrea
Thuenen-Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries, Rostock, Germany.
Reid, David
Marine Institute, Rinville, Galway, Ireland.
Tomczak, Maciej, T.
Institute of Food safety, Animal Health and Environment, Riga, Latvia.
Report of the ICES/HELCOM Working Group on Integrated Assessments of the Baltic Sea (WGIAB)2015Rapport (Annet vitenskapelig)
The ICES/HELCOM Working Group on Integrated Assessments of the Baltic Sea(WGIAB) was established in 2007 as a forum for developing and combining ecosystembasedmanagement efforts for the Baltic Sea. The group intends to serve as a scientificcounterpart and support for the ICES Baltic Fisheries Assessment Working Group(WGBFAS) as well as for efforts and projects related to Integrated Ecosystem Assessments(IEA) within ICES and HELCOM. The group works in cooperation with similargroups within the ACOM/SCICOM Steering Group on Integrated Ecosystem Assessments(SSGIEA).The 2015 WGIAB meeting was held in Cádiz, Spain, from 9–13 March, back-to-backwith the meeting of its counterpart in the Working Group on Ecosystem Assessmentof Western European Shelf Seas (WGEAWESS). The meetings had joint sessions as wellas WG specific work, and some participants effectively participated in both meetings.The WGIAB meeting was attended by 27 participants from nine countries. The meetingwas chaired by Christian Möllmann, Germany, Laura Uusitalo, Finland and Lena Bergström,Sweden.This was the last year of the ongoing three-year Terms of Reference (ToR) for WGIAB.The main working activities in 2015 were to i) conduct studies on Baltic Sea ecosystemfunctioning with the goal to publish case studies from different parts of the Baltic Seain peer-reviewed journals, ii) work on the demonstration exercise to develop ecosystem-based assessment and advice for Baltic fish stocks focusing on cod (DEMO) withmultiple approaches, iii) plan further how to integrate the social and economic aspectsmore tightly in the WGIAB work, and iv) discuss the future focus and format of theWGIAB work.The Baltic ecosystem functioning activity focused on identifying and exploring keytrends and linkages in the Baltic Sea foodweb. This was pursued by presentation andfurther discussion of ongoing intersessional work on foodweb modelling and integratedanalyses, and by exercises to develop conceptual models Baltic Sea foodwebsand the links to ecosystem function. Long-term monitoring datasets on the abiotic andbiotic parts of the Baltic Sea Proper ecosystem were updated for use in the continuedwork to develop environmental indicators for fisheries and marine management.The focus of the DEMO 3 (DEMOnstration exercise for Integrated Ecosystem Assessmentand Advice of Baltic Sea cod) was on finding a way to use the results from theDEMO1 and DEMO2 workshops in short and midterm projections/scenarios of Balticcod dynamics based on different types of modelling, as well as designing methodologyand modelling data for practical implementation of Integrated Advice for Baltic cod.The WGIAB was positively inclined towards including social and economic aspectsinto the integrated assessment. Openings to this path were provided by presentationon ongoing project work, and discussing their linkages to ecological aspects. It wasseen as crucial that experts on social and economic analysis should be included andtake an active part in the future work of the group.The group concluded that its upcoming work should focus more closely on functionaldiversity, which was identified as a recurring issue in the Baltic Sea. This approach wasalso identified as a useful connection point between scientific and management aspectsin order for the group to continue serving as a forum for developing ecosystem-basedmanagement efforts in the Baltic Sea. A focus on functional diversity was also seen as2 | ICES WGIAB REPORT 2015a potentially feasible way of bringing together management aspects for different sectors,by linking to ecosystem services concepts.The group proposed Saskia Otto, Germany and Martin Lindegren, Denmark as newincoming Chairs, together with Lena Bergström, Sweden and Laura Uusitalo, Finland.Having four Chairs is justified due to the wide scope of the group's work, as well asthe increased work load due to the planned new foci.
Berthenet, Elvire
Swansea University, United Kingdom.
Yahara, Koji
National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Toyama, Japan.
Thorell, Kaisa
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Pascoe, Ben
University of Bath, United Kingdom.
Meric, Guillaume
Mikhail, Jane M.
Swansea University, United Kingdom / Cardiff University, United Kingdom.
Engstrand, Lars
Enroth, Helena
Burette, Alain
Centre Hospitalier Interrégional Edith Cavell/Site de la Basilique, Brussels, Belgium.
Megraud, Francis
Centre National de Référence des Campylobacters et des Hélicobacters, Bordeaux, France / University Bordeaux, France.
Varon, Christine
University Bordeaux, France.
Atherton, John C.
Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre and National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Smith, Sinead
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Wilkinson, Thomas S.
Swansea University Medical School, Swansea University, Microbiology and Infectious Disease Group, Swansea, United Kingdom.
Hitchings, Matthew D.
Falush, Daniel
Sheppard, Samuel K.
A GWAS on Helicobacter pylori strains points to genetic variants associated with gastric cancer risk2018Inngår i: BMC Biology, ISSN 1741-7007, E-ISSN 1741-7007, Vol. 16, nr 1, artikkel-id 84 Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Helicobacter pylori are stomach-dwelling bacteria that are present in about 50% of the global population. Infection is asymptomatic in most cases, but it has been associated with gastritis, gastric ulcers and gastric cancer. Epidemiological evidence shows that progression to cancer depends upon the host and pathogen factors, but questions remain about why cancer phenotypes develop in a minority of infected people. Here, we use comparative genomics approaches to understand how genetic variation amongst bacterial strains influences disease progression.
We performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) on 173 H. pylori isolates from the European population (hpEurope) with known disease aetiology, including 49 from individuals with gastric cancer. We identified SNPs and genes that differed in frequency between isolates from patients with gastric cancer and those with gastritis. The gastric cancer phenotype was associated with the presence of babA and genes in the cag pathogenicity island, one of the major virulence determinants of H. pylori, as well as non-synonymous variations in several less well-studied genes. We devised a simple risk score based on the risk level of associated elements present, which has the potential to identify strains that are likely to cause cancer but will require refinement and validation.
There are a number of challenges to applying GWAS to bacterial infections, including the difficulty of obtaining matched controls, multiple strain colonization and the possibility that causative strains may not be present when disease is detected. Our results demonstrate that bacterial factors have a sufficiently strong influence on disease progression that even a small-scale GWAS can identify them. Therefore, H. pylori GWAS can elucidate mechanistic pathways to disease and guide clinical treatment options, including for asymptomatic carriers.
Bertilsson, Ann
Jonsson, Annie
Inventeringsmetodik med undervattensvideokamera för studier av stormusslors förekomst och tätheter vid vägbroar2012Rapport (Annet vitenskapelig)
Biswas, M. K.
Huazhong Agricultural University, China.
Ahmed, M. B.
Mondal, M. A. A.
University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh.
Razvy, M. A.
Hoque, A.
Islam, R.
Hossaina, M.
In exploitation of genetic diversity in potato breeding2010Inngår i: Agronomski Glasnik (Agronomy Journal), ISSN 1848-8900, Vol. 72, nr 4-5, s. 261-276Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
With a view to select divergent parents genetic diversity was estimated among twenty genotypes. Thirty F1 progenies developed by line-tester mating were studied from seedling generation to first clonal generation for five important agronomic traits. Cluster analysis reveals that the parents could be grouped into seven different clusters. Cluster means showed wide range of variation for several traits among singles as well as multi genotypic clusters. Considering diversity pattern, parents should select from cluster I, III, IV, and V for the improvement of potato. Analysis of variance revealed that all most all the sources of variation were highly significant for all the studied traits in both generations. Parents Challisha, Lalpakri, Patnai, Chamak, Sadagoti, TPS-67 and TPS-364 were found to be good general combiners for tuber yield and yield contribution traits due to their gca effects. The sca effects showed that out of 30 hybrids 12 were found to have specific combining ability for tuber yield and those hybrids also exhibited considerable heterosis for tuber yield and yield contributing traits.
Blagrove, Mark
Department of Psychology, Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom.
Hale, Sioned
Lockheart, Julia
Swansea College of Art, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Swansea, United Kingdom / Goldsmiths, University of London, London, United Kingdom.
Carr, Michelle
Jones, Alex
Valli, Katja
Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap. Högskolan i Skövde, Forskningscentrum för Systembiologi. Department of Psychology, University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
Testing the Empathy Theory of Dreaming: The Relationships Between Dream Sharing and Trait and State Empathy2019Inngår i: Frontiers in Psychology, ISSN 1664-1078, E-ISSN 1664-1078, Vol. 10, artikkel-id 1351 Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
In general, dreams are a novel but realistic simulation of waking social life, with a mixture of characters, motivations, scenarios, and positive and negative emotions. We propose that the sharing of dreams has an empathic effect on the dreamer and on significant others who hear and engage with the telling of the dream. Study 1 tests three correlations that are predicted by the theory of dream sharing and empathy: that trait empathy will be correlated with frequency of telling dreams to others, with frequency of listening to others’ dreams, and with trait attitude toward dreams (ATD) (for which higher scores indicate positive attitude). 160 participants completed online the Toronto Empathy Questionnaire and the Mannheim Dream Questionnaire. Pearson partial correlations were conducted, with age and sex partialled out. Trait empathy was found to be significantly associated with the frequency of listening to the dreams of others, frequency of telling one’s own dreams to others, and attitude toward dreams. Study 2 tests the effects of discussing dreams on state empathy, using an adapted version of the Shen (2010) state empathy scale, for 27 pairs of dream sharers and discussers. Dream discussion followed the stages of the Ullman (1996) dream appreciation technique. State empathy of the dream discusser toward the dream sharer was found to increase significantly as a result of the dream discussion, with a medium effect size, whereas the dream sharer had a small decrease in empathy toward the discusser. A proposed mechanism for these associations and effects is taken from the robust findings in the literature that engagement with literary fiction can induce empathy toward others. We suggest that the dream acts as a piece of fiction that can be explored by the dreamer together with other people, and can thus induce empathy about the life circumstances of the dreamer. We discuss the speculation that the story-like characteristics of adult human dreams may have been selected for in human evolution, including in sexual selection, as part of the selection for emotional intelligence, empathy, and social bonding.
Borg, Julia
Malmö University Hospital, Lund University, .
Melander, Olle
Malmö University Hospital, Lund University.
Johansson, Linda
Uvnäs-Moberg, Kerstin
Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences.
Rehfeld, Jens F.
Rigshospitalet, University og Copenhagen.
Ohlsson, Bodil
Gastroparesis is associated with oxytocin deficiency, oesophageal dysmotility with hyperCCKemia, and autonomic neuropathy with hypergastrinemia2009Inngår i: BMC Gastroenterology, ISSN 1471-230X, E-ISSN 1471-230X, Vol. 9, s. Article number 17- Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Background: Gastrointestinal (GI) dysmotility and autonomic neuropathy are common problems among diabetics with largely unknown aetiology. Many peptides are involved in the autonomic nervous system regulating the GI tract. The aim of this study was to examine if concentrations of oxytocin, cholecystokinin (CCK), gastrin and vasopressin in plasma differ between diabetics with normal function and dysfunction in GI motility.
Methods: Nineteen patients with symptoms from the GI tract who had been examined with gastric emptying scintigraphy, oesophageal manometry, and deep-breathing test were included. They further received a fat-rich meal, after which blood samples were collected and plasma frozen until analysed for hormonal concentrations.
Results: There was an increase in postprandial oxytocin plasma concentration in the group with normal gastric emptying (p = 0.015) whereas subjects with delayed gastric emptying had no increased oxytocin secretion (p = 0.114). Both CCK and gastrin levels increased after the meal, with no differences between subjects with normal respective delayed gastric emptying. The concentration of vasopressin did not increase after the meal. In patients with oesophageal dysmotility the basal level of CCK tended to be higher (p = 0.051) and those with autonomic neuropathy had a higher area under the curve (AUC) of gastrin compared to normal subjects (p = 0.007).
Conclusion: Reduced postprandial secretion of oxytocin was found in patients with delayed gastric emptying, CCK secretion was increased in patients with oesophageal dysmotility, and gastrin secretion was increased in patients with autonomic neuropathy. The findings suggest that disturbed peptide secretion may be part of the pathophysiology of digestive complications in diabetics.
Borgmästars, Emmy
Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
de Weerd, Hendrik Arnold
Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap. Högskolan i Skövde, Forskningscentrum för Systembiologi. Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Bioinformatics, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
Lubovac-Pilav, Zelmina
Sund, Malin
miRFA: an automated pipeline for microRNA functional analysis with correlation support from TCGA and TCPA expression data in pancreatic cancer2019Inngår i: BMC Bioinformatics, ISSN 1471-2105, E-ISSN 1471-2105, Vol. 20, nr 1, s. 1-17, artikkel-id 393 Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
BACKGROUND: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small RNAs that regulate gene expression at a post-transcriptional level and are emerging as potentially important biomarkers for various disease states, including pancreatic cancer. In silico-based functional analysis of miRNAs usually consists of miRNA target prediction and functional enrichment analysis of miRNA targets. Since miRNA target prediction methods generate a large number of false positive target genes, further validation to narrow down interesting candidate miRNA targets is needed. One commonly used method correlates miRNA and mRNA expression to assess the regulatory effect of a particular miRNA. The aim of this study was to build a bioinformatics pipeline in R for miRNA functional analysis including correlation analyses between miRNA expression levels and its targets on mRNA and protein expression levels available from the cancer genome atlas (TCGA) and the cancer proteome atlas (TCPA). TCGA-derived expression data of specific mature miRNA isoforms from pancreatic cancer tissue was used.
RESULTS: Fifteen circulating miRNAs with significantly altered expression levels detected in pancreatic cancer patients were queried separately in the pipeline. The pipeline generated predicted miRNA target genes, enriched gene ontology (GO) terms and Kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes (KEGG) pathways. Predicted miRNA targets were evaluated by correlation analyses between each miRNA and its predicted targets. MiRNA functional analysis in combination with Kaplan-Meier survival analysis suggest that hsa-miR-885-5p could act as a tumor suppressor and should be validated as a potential prognostic biomarker in pancreatic cancer.
CONCLUSIONS: Our miRNA functional analysis (miRFA) pipeline can serve as a valuable tool in biomarker discovery involving mature miRNAs associated with pancreatic cancer and could be developed to cover additional cancer types. Results for all mature miRNAs in TCGA pancreatic adenocarcinoma dataset can be studied and downloaded through a shiny web application at https://emmbor.shinyapps.io/mirfa/ .
Browall, Sarah
Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Backhaus, Erik
Department of Infectious Diseases, Skaraborg Hospital, Skövde, Sweden.
Naucler, Pontus
Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden / Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Sweden.
Galanis, Ilias
Sjöström, Karin
Karlsson, Diana
Berg, Stefan
Queen Silvia Children’s Hospital, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Luthander, Joachim
Department of Paediatrics, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Sweden.
Eriksson, Margareta
Spindler, Carl
Department of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Sweden.
Ejdebäck, Mikael
Trollfors, Birger
Darenberg, Jessica
Public Health Agency of Sweden, Solna, Sweden.
Kalin, Mats
Örtqvist, Åke
Department of Communicable Diseases Control and Prevention, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden / Department of Medicine, Unit of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden.
Andersson, Rune
Department of Infectious Diseases, Institute of Biomedicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Henriques-Normark, Birgitta
Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Dept of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
Clinical manifestations of invasive pneumococcal disease by vaccine and non-vaccine types2014Inngår i: European Respiratory Journal, ISSN 0903-1936, E-ISSN 1399-3003, Vol. 44, nr 6, s. 1646-1657Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Bu, H.
Linköping University.
Rosdahl, I.
Sun, X-F.
Zhang, Hong
Genotype <21CAs/≥21CAs and allele <21CAs of the MANBA gene in melanoma risk and progression in a Swedish population2009Inngår i: Molecular Medicine Reports, ISSN 1791-2997, E-ISSN 1791-3004, Vol. 2, nr 2, s. 259-263Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Cutaneous melanoma is characterized by poor patient outcome in its later stages. The search for genetic markers is therefore crucial for the identification of populations at risk for melanoma. Highly polymorphic CA repeats in 3' proximity in the MANBA gene were examined by PCR-capillary electrophoresis in 185 Swedish melanoma patients and 441 tumor-free age- and gender-matched individuals. The associations of the polymorphisms with melanoma risk, the pigment phenotypes of the patients and tumor characteristics were analyzed. A significant difference in allelic distribution between melanoma patients and tumor-free individuals was observed. The frequency of the MANBA genotype <21CAs/≥21CAs was significantly higher in melanoma patients than in the controls. When comparing allele distribution in patients and their matched controls, the allele <21CAs was found to be associated with the female gender (39.8 vs. 31.2%, P=0.041, OR=1.46, 95% CI 1.02-2.10), but not with male gender (34.4 vs. 30.9%, P%0.39). Within the melanoma group, there were no differences in the distribution of the MANBA alleles associated with patient gender or age before or after 55 years at diagnosis, nor was there any association between the MANBA genotype and pigment phenotype or tumor sites. The MANBA allele <21CAs was, however, associated with thin melanomas at diagnosis (Breslow thickness ≤1.5 mm and Clark levels I and II). In conclusion, these data suggest that MANBA polymorphisms might be an indicator of tumor growth and progression and, together with other markers, could be used to identify individuals at increased risk of melanoma.
Carlsson, Jessica
Davidsson, Sabina
Orebro Univ Hosp, Dept Urol, Orebro, Sweden / Univ Orebro, Sch Hlth & Med Sci, Orebro, Sweden.
Helenius, Gisela
Orebro Univ Hosp, Dept Lab Med, Orebro, Sweden.
Karlsson, Mats
Lubovac, Zelmina
Andren, Ove
Orebro Univ Hosp, Dept Urol, Orebro, Sweden .
Olsson, Björn
A miRNA expression signature that separates between normal and malignant prostate tissues2011Inngår i: Cancer Cell International, ISSN 1475-2867, E-ISSN 1475-2867, Vol. 11, s. 14- Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Background: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) constitute a class of small non-coding RNAs that post-transcriptionally regulate genes involved in several key biological processes and thus are involved in various diseases, including cancer. In this study we aimed to identify a miRNA expression signature that could be used to separate between normal and malignant prostate tissues. Results: Nine miRNAs were found to be differentially expressed (p < 0.00001). With the exception of two samples, this expression signature could be used to separate between the normal and malignant tissues. A cross-validation procedure confirmed the generality of this expression signature. We also identified 16 miRNAs that possibly could be used as a complement to current methods for grading of prostate tumor tissues. Conclusions: We found an expression signature based on nine differentially expressed miRNAs that with high accuracy (85%) could classify the normal and malignant prostate tissues in patients from the Swedish Watchful Waiting cohort. The results show that there are significant differences in miRNA expression between normal and malignant prostate tissue, indicating that these small RNA molecules might be important in the biogenesis of prostate cancer and potentially useful for clinical diagnosis of the disease.
Carlsson_et_al_2011
Örebro University / Örebro University Hospital.
Karlsson, Mats G.
Andrén, Ove
Differences in microRNA expression during tumor development in the transition and peripheral zones of the prostate2013Inngår i: BMC Cancer, ISSN 1471-2407, E-ISSN 1471-2407, Vol. 13, artikkel-id 362 Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Background: The prostate is divided into three glandular zones, the peripheral zone (PZ), the transition zone (TZ), and the central zone. Most prostate tumors arise in the peripheral zone (70-75%) and in the transition zone (20-25%) while only 10% arise in the central zone. The aim of this study was to investigate if differences in miRNA expression could be a possible explanation for the difference in propensity of tumors in the zones of the prostate. Methods: Patients with prostate cancer were included in the study if they had a tumor with Gleason grade 3 in the PZ, the TZ, or both (n=16). Normal prostate tissue was collected from men undergoing cystoprostatectomy (n=20). The expression of 667 unique miRNAs was investigated using TaqMan low density arrays for miRNAs. Student's t-test was used in order to identify differentially expressed miRNAs, followed by hierarchical clustering and principal component analysis (PCA) to study the separation of the tissues. The ADtree algorithm was used to identify markers for classification of tissues and a cross-validation procedure was used to test the generality of the identified miRNA-based classifiers. Results: The t-tests revealed that the major differences in miRNA expression are found between normal and malignant tissues. Hierarchical clustering and PCA based on differentially expressed miRNAs between normal and malignant tissues showed perfect separation between samples, while the corresponding analyses based on differentially expressed miRNAs between the two zones showed several misplaced samples. A classification and cross-validation procedure confirmed these results and several potential miRNA markers were identified. Conclusions: The results of this study indicate that the major differences in the transcription program are those arising during tumor development, rather than during normal tissue development. In addition, tumors arising in the TZ have more unique differentially expressed miRNAs compared to the PZ. The results also indicate that separate miRNA expression signatures for diagnosis might be needed for tumors arising in the different zones. MicroRNA signatures that are specific for PZ and TZ tumors could also lead to more accurate prognoses, since tumors arising in the PZ tend to be more aggressive than tumors arising in the TZ.
Örebro University Hospital.
Validation of suitable endogenous control genes for expression studies of miRNA in prostate cancer tissues2010Inngår i: Cancer Genetics and Cytogenetics, ISSN 2210-7762, E-ISSN 2210-7770, Vol. 202, nr 2, s. 71-75Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
When performing quantitative polymerase chain reaction analysis, there is a need for correction of technical variation between experiments. This correction is most commonly performed by using endogenous control genes, which are stably expressed across samples, as reference genes for normal expression in a specific tissue. In microRNA (miRNA) studies, two types of control genes are commonly used: small nuclear RNAs and small nucleolar RNAs. In this study, six different endogenous control genes for miRNA studies were investigated in prostate tissue material from the Swedish Watchful Waiting cohort. The stability of the controls was investigated using two different software applications, NormFinder and BestKeeper. RNU24 was the most suitable endogenous control gene for miRNA studies in prostate tissue materials.
Carlström, Karl E.
Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Section of Neurology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Ewing, Ewoud
Granqvist, Mathias
Gyllenberg, Alexandra
Aeinehband, Shahin
Enoksson, Sara Lind
Department of Clinical Immunology Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
Checa, Antonio
Division of Physiological Chemistry II, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Badam, Tejaswi
Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap. Högskolan i Skövde, Forskningscentrum för Systembiologi. Department of Physics, Chemistry & Biology (IFM), Bioinformatics, Linköping University, Sweden.
Huang, Jesse
Gomez-Cabrero, David
Translational Bioinformatics Unit, Navarrabiomed, Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra (CHN), Universidad Publica de Nevarra (UPNA), IdiSNA, Pamplona, Spain.
Gustafsson, Mika
Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, Sweden.
Al Nimer, Faiez
Wheelock, Craig E.
Kockum, Ingrid
Olsson, Tomas
Jagodic, Maja
Piehl, Fredrik
Therapeutic efficacy of dimethyl fumarate in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis associates with ROS pathway in monocytes2019Inngår i: Nature Communications, ISSN 2041-1723, E-ISSN 2041-1723, Vol. 10, nr 1, s. 1-13, artikkel-id 3081Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Dimethyl fumarate (DMF) is a first-line-treatment for relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). The redox master regulator Nrf2, essential for redox balance, is a target of DMF, but its precise therapeutic mechanisms of action remain elusive. Here we show impact of DMF on circulating monocytes and T cells in a prospective longitudinal RRMS patient cohort. DMF increases the level of oxidized isoprostanes in peripheral blood. Other observed changes, including methylome and transcriptome profiles, occur in monocytes prior to T cells. Importantly, monocyte counts and monocytic ROS increase following DMF and distinguish patients with beneficial treatment-response from non-responders. A single nucleotide polymorphism in the ROS-generating NOX3 gene is associated with beneficial DMF treatment-response. Our data implicate monocyte-derived oxidative processes in autoimmune diseases and their treatment, and identify NOX3 genetic variant, monocyte counts and redox state as parameters potentially useful to inform clinical decisions on DMF therapy of RRMS.
Chaudhari, Aditi
Wallenberg Laboratory, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Krumlinde, Daniel
Wallenberg Laboratory, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Sweden / Scientific Solutions, Stockholm, Sweden.
Lundqvist, Annika
Akyurek, Levent M
Department of Medical Chemistry and Cell Biology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Bandaru, Sashidhar
Skalen, Kristina
Stahlman, Marcus
Boren, Jan
Wettergren, Yvonne
Department of Surgery, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Ejeskär, Katarina
Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsa och lärande. Högskolan i Skövde, Forskningscentrum för Systembiologi. Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Sopasakis, Victoria Rotter
p110 alpha Hot Spot Mutations E545K and H1047R Exert Metabolic Reprogramming Independently of p110 alpha Kinase Activity2015Inngår i: Molecular and Cellular Biology, ISSN 0270-7306, Vol. 35, nr 19, s. 3258-3273Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
The phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate 3-kinase (PI3K) catalytic subunit p110α is the most frequently mutated kinase in human cancer, and the hot spot mutations E542K, E545K, and H1047R are the most common mutations in p110α. Very little is known about the metabolic consequences of the hot spot mutations of p110α in vivo. In this study, we used adenoviral gene transfer in mice to investigate the effects of the E545K and H1047R mutations on hepatic and whole-body glucose metabolism. We show that hepatic expression of these hot spot mutations results in rapid hepatic steatosis, paradoxically accompanied by increased glucose tolerance, and marked glycogen accumulation. In contrast, wild-type p110α expression does not lead to hepatic accumulation of lipids or glycogen despite similar degrees of upregulated glycolysis and expression of lipogenic genes. The reprogrammed metabolism of the E545K and H1047R p110α mutants was surprisingly not dependent on altered p110α lipid kinase activity.
Akyürek, Levent M.
Skålén, Kristina
Ståhlman, Marcus
Borén, Jan
Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap. Högskolan i Skövde, Forskningscentrum för Systembiologi. Department of Medical and Clinical Genetics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Rotter Sopasakis, Victoria
Wallenberg Laboratory, Department of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
p110α hot spot mutations E545K and H1047R exert metabolic reprogramming independently of p110α kinase activity2015Inngår i: Molecular and Cellular Biology, ISSN 0270-7306, E-ISSN 1098-5549, Vol. 35, nr 19, s. 3258-3273Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Chawade, Aakash
CropTailor AB, Lund, Sweden.
Lindlöf, Angelica
Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för vård och natur. Högskolan i Skövde, Forskningscentrum för Systembiologi. CropTailor AB, Lund, Sweden.
Olsson, Olof
CropTailor AB, Lund, Sweden / Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Global expression profiling of low temperature induced genes in the chilling tolerant japonica rice jumli marshi2013Inngår i: PLoS ONE, ISSN 1932-6203, E-ISSN 1932-6203, Vol. 8, nr 12, s. e81729-, artikkel-id e81729 Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Low temperature is a key factor that limits growth and productivity of many important agronomical crops worldwide. Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is negatively affected already at temperatures below +10°C and is therefore denoted as chilling sensitive. However, chilling tolerant rice cultivars exist and can be commercially cultivated at altitudes up to 3,050 meters with temperatures reaching as low as +4°C. In this work, the global transcriptional response to cold stress (+4°C) was studied in the Nepalese highland variety Jumli Marshi (spp. japonica) and 4,636 genes were identified as significantly differentially expressed within 24 hours of cold stress. Comparison with previously published microarray data from one chilling tolerant and two sensitive rice cultivars identified 182 genes differentially expressed (DE) upon cold stress in all four rice cultivars and 511 genes DE only in the chilling tolerant rice. Promoter analysis of the 182 genes suggests a complex cross-talk between ABRE and CBF regulons. Promoter analysis of the 511 genes identified over-represented ABRE motifs but not DRE motifs, suggesting a role for ABA signaling in cold tolerance. Moreover, 2,101 genes were DE in Jumli Marshi alone. By chromosomal localization analysis, 473 of these cold responsive genes were located within 13 different QTLs previously identified as cold associated.
Cheng, Xiaoxiao
Radcliffe Department of Medicine and Medical Research Council Human Immunology Unit, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, United Kingdom.
Veverka, Vaclav
Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 9HN, United Kingdom, the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Flemingovo Namesti 2, 166 10 Prague 6, Czech Republic.
Radhakrishnan, Anand
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030.
Waters, Lorna C.
Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 9HN, United Kingdom.
Muskett, Frederick W.
Morgan, Sara H.
Huo, Jiandong
Yu, Chao
Evans, Edward J.
Leslie, Alasdair J.
Radcliffe Department of Medicine [Oxford].
Griffiths, Meryn
UCB Pharma, Slough SL1 4EN, United Kingdom.
Stubberfield, Colin
Griffin, Robert
Henry, Alistair J.
Jansson, Andreas
Ladbury, John E.
Ikemizu, Shinji
Division of Structural Biology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kumamoto University, 5-1 Oe-honmachi, Kumamoto 862 0973, Japan.
Carr, Mark D.
Davis, Simon J.
Structure and Interactions of the Human Programmed Cell Death 1 Receptor2013Inngår i: Journal of Biological Chemistry, ISSN 0021-9258, E-ISSN 1083-351X, Vol. 288, nr 17, s. 11771-11785Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
PD-1, a receptor expressed by T cells, B cells, and monocytes, is a potent regulator of immune responses and a promising therapeutic target. The structure and interactions of human PD-1 are, however, incompletely characterized. We present the solution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-based structure of the human PD-1 extracellular region and detailed analyses of its interactions with its ligands, PD-L1 and PD-L2. PD-1 has typical immunoglobulin superfamily topology but differs at the edge of the GFCC' sheet, which is flexible and completely lacks a C '' strand. Changes in PD-1 backbone NMR signals induced by ligand binding suggest that, whereas binding is centered on the GFCC' sheet, PD-1 is engaged by its two ligands differently and in ways incompletely explained by crystal structures of mouse PD-1.ligand complexes. The affinities of these interactions and that of PD-L1 with the costimulatory protein B7-1, measured using surface plasmon resonance, are significantly weaker than expected. The 3-4-fold greater affinity of PD-L2 versus PD-L1 for human PD-1 is principally due to the 3-fold smaller dissociation rate for PD-L2 binding. Isothermal titration calorimetry revealed that the PD-1/PD-L1 interaction is entropically driven, whereas PD-1/PD-L2 binding has a large enthalpic component. Mathematical simulations based on the biophysical data and quantitative expression data suggest an unexpectedly limited contribution of PD-L2 to PD-1 ligation during interactions of activated T cells with antigen-presenting cells. These findings provide a rigorous structural and biophysical framework for interpreting the important functions of PD-1 and reveal that potent inhibitory signaling can be initiated by weakly interacting receptors.
Chowdhury, Manjushree
Institute of Environmental Science, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh.
Mostafa, M. G.
Biswas, Tapan Kumar
Department of Chemistry, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh.
Saha, Ananda Kumar
Department of Zoology, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh.
Characterization of the effluents from leather processing industries2015Inngår i: Environmental Processes, ISSN 2198-7491, Vol. 2, nr 1, s. 173-187Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap. Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden / Department of Environmental Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, Georgia, United States.
Banks, H. Thomas
Center for Research in Scientific Computation, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States.
Banks, John E.
Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center (UROC), California State University, Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, United States.
Jonsson, Mattias
Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden.
Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap. Högskolan i Skövde, Forskningscentrum för Systembiologi. Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden .
Laubmeier, Amanda N.
Traugott, Michael
Mountain Agriculture Research Unit, Institute of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
Ecosystem function in predator-prey food webs: confronting dynamic models with empirical data2019Inngår i: Journal of Animal Ecology, ISSN 0021-8790, E-ISSN 1365-2656, Vol. 88, nr 2, s. 196-210Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Most ecosystem functions and related services involve species interactions across trophic levels, for example, pollination and biological pest control. Despite this, our understanding of ecosystem function in multitrophic communities is poor, and research has been limited to either manipulation in small communities or statistical descriptions in larger ones. Recent advances in food web ecology may allow us to overcome the trade-off between mechanistic insight and ecological realism. Molecular tools now simplify the detection of feeding interactions, and trait-based approaches allow the application of dynamic food web models to real ecosystems. We performed the first test of an allometric food web model's ability to replicate temporally nonaggregated abundance data from the field and to provide mechanistic insight into the function of predation. We aimed to reproduce and explore the drivers of the population dynamics of the aphid herbivore Rhopalosiphum padi observed in ten Swedish barley fields. We used a dynamic food web model, taking observed interactions and abundances of predators and alternative prey as input data, allowing us to examine the role of predation in aphid population control. The inverse problem methods were used for simultaneous model fit optimization and model parameterization. The model captured >70% of the variation in aphid abundance in five of ten fields, supporting the model-embodied hypothesis that body size can be an important determinant of predation in the arthropod community. We further demonstrate how in-depth model analysis can disentangle the likely drivers of function, such as the community's abundance and trait composition. Analysing the variability in model performance revealed knowledge gaps, such as the source of episodic aphid mortality, and general method development needs that, if addressed, would further increase model success and enable stronger inference about ecosystem function. The results demonstrate that confronting dynamic food web models with abundance data from the field is a viable approach to evaluate ecological theory and to aid our understanding of function in real ecosystems. However, to realize the full potential of food web models, in ecosystem function research and beyond, trait-based parameterization must be refined and extended to include more traits than body size. © 2018 The Authors. Journal of Animal Ecology © 2018 British Ecological Society
Dave, Vivek Priy
Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
Ngo, Tien Anh
Pernestig, Anna-Karin
Tilevik, Diana
Kanit, Krishna
Nguyen, Trieu
Wolff, Anders
Bang, Dang Duong
MicroRNA amplification and detection technologies: opportunities and challenges for point of care diagnostics2018Inngår i: Laboratory Investigation, ISSN 0023-6837, E-ISSN 1530-0307, Vol. 99, nr 4, s. 452-469Artikkel, forskningsoversikt (Fagfellevurdert)
The volume of point of care (POC) testing continues to grow steadily due to the increased availability of easy-to-use devices, thus making it possible to deliver less costly care closer to the patient site in a shorter time relative to the central laboratory services. A novel class of molecules called microRNAs have recently gained attention in healthcare management for their potential as biomarkers for human diseases. The increasing interest of miRNAs in clinical practice has led to an unmet need for assays that can rapidly and accurately measure miRNAs at the POC. However, the most widely used methods for analyzing miRNAs, including Northern blot-based platforms, in situ hybridization, reverse transcription qPCR, microarray, and next-generation sequencing, are still far from being used as ideal POC diagnostic tools, due to considerable time, expertize required for sample preparation, and in terms of miniaturizations making them suitable platforms for centralized labs. In this review, we highlight various existing and upcoming technologies for miRNA amplification and detection with a particular emphasis on the POC testing industries. The review summarizes different miRNA targets and signals amplification-based assays, from conventional methods to alternative technologies, such as isothermal amplification, paper-based, oligonucleotide-templated reaction, nanobead-based, electrochemical signaling-based, and microfluidic chip-based strategies. Based on critical analysis of these technologies, the possibilities and feasibilities for further development of POC testing for miRNA diagnostics are addressed and discussed.
de Peppo, G.M.
Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg.
Svensson, S.
Lennerås, M.
BIOMATCELL VINN Excellence Center of Biomaterials and Cell Therapy, Göteborg.
Stenberg, J.
Sahlgrenska University Hospital, University of Gothenburg.
Strehl, R.
Cellartis AB, Göteborg.
Hyllner, J.
Thomsen, P.
Karlsson, C.
Human Embryonic Mesodermal Progenitors Highly Resemble Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Display High Potential for Tissue Engineering Applications2010Inngår i: Tissue Engineering. Part A, ISSN 1937-3341, E-ISSN 1937-335X, Vol. 16, nr 7, s. 2161-2182Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Adult stem cells, such as human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs), show limited proliferative capacity and, after long-term culture, lose their differentiation capacity and are therefore not an optimal cell source for tissue engineering. Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) constitute an important new resource in this field, but one major drawback is the risk of tumor formation in the recipients. One alternative is to use progenitor cells derived from hESCs which are more lineage restricted but do not form teratomas. We have recently derived a cell line from hESCs denoted human embryonic stem cell-derived mesodermal progenitors (hESMPs) and here, using genome wide microarray analysis, report that the process of hES-MPs derivation results in a significantly altered expression of hESCs characteristic genes to an expression level highly similar to that of hMSCs. However, hES-MPs displayed a significantly higher proliferative capacity and longer telomeres. Interestingly, the hES-MPs also demonstrated a lower expression of HLA class II proteins before and after interferon-γ treatment, indicating that these cells may somewhat be immunoprivileged and potentially used for HLA-incompatible transplantation. The hES-MPs are thus an appealing alternative to hMSCs in tissue engineering applications and stem cell-based therapies for mesodermal tissues.
Delsing, Louise
Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap. Högskolan i Skövde, Forskningscentrum för Systembiologi. Department of Neurochemistry, the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Gothenburg, Sweden / Discovery Sciences, IMED Biotech Unit, AstraZeneca, Mölndal, Sweden.
Dönnes, Pierre
SciCross AB, Skövde, Sweden.
Sánchez, José
Biostatistics, IMED Biotech Unit, AstraZeneca, Mölndal, Sweden.
Clausen, Maryam
Discovery Sciences, IMED Biotech Unit, AstraZeneca, Mölndal, Sweden.
Voulgaris, Dmitrios
Department of Micro and Nanosystems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
Falk, Anna
Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm.
Herland, Anna
Department of Micro and Nanosystems, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden / Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Brolén, Gabriella
Zetterberg, Henrik
Department of Neurochemistry, the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Gothenburg, Sweden / iClinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden / Department of Molecular Neuroscience, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom / UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, London, United Kingdom.
Hicks, Ryan
Barrier properties and transcriptome expression in human iPSC-derived models of the blood-brain barrier2018Inngår i: Stem Cells, ISSN 1066-5099, E-ISSN 1549-4918, Vol. 36, nr 12, s. 1816-1827Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Cell-based models of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) are important for increasing the knowledge of BBB formation, degradation and brain exposure of drug substances. Human models are preferred over animal models because of inter-species differences in BBB structure and function. However, access to human primary BBB tissue is limited and has shown degeneration of BBB functions in vitro. Human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) can be used to generate relevant cell types to model the BBB with human tissue. We generated a human iPSC-derived model of the BBB that includes endothelial cells in co-culture with pericytes, astrocytes and neurons. Evaluation of barrier properties showed that the endothelial cells in our co-culture model have high transendothelial electrical resistance, functional efflux and ability to discriminate between CNS permeable and non-permeable substances. Whole genome expression profiling revealed transcriptional changes that occur in co-culture, including upregulation of tight junction proteins such as claudins and neurotransmitter transporters. Pathway analysis implicated changes in the WNT, TNF and PI3K-Akt pathways upon co-culture. Our data suggests that co-culture of iPSC-derived endothelial cells promotes barrier formation on a functional and transcriptional level. The information about gene expression changes in co-culture can be used to further improve iPSC-derived BBB models through selective pathway manipulation.
Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap. Högskolan i Skövde, Forskningscentrum för Systembiologi. Department of Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden / Discovery Biology, Discovery Sciences, R&D, AstraZeneca, Mölndal, Sweden.
Kallur, Therese
BioLamina, Sundbyberg, Sweden.
Department of Neurochemistry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, The Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden / Clinical Neurochemistry Laboratory, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, Sweden / Department of Neurodegenerative Disease, UCL Institute of Neurology, London, UK / UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, London, UK.
Discovery Biology, Discovery Sciences, R&D, AstraZeneca, Mölndal, Sweden.
Enhanced xeno-free differentiation of hiPSC-derived astroglia applied in a blood-brain barrier model2019Inngår i: Fluids and Barriers of the CNS, ISSN 2045-8118, E-ISSN 2045-8118, Vol. 16, nr 1, artikkel-id 27 Artikkel i tidsskrift (Fagfellevurdert)
Background Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) hold great promise for use in cell therapy applications and for improved in vitro models of human disease. So far, most hiPSC differentiation protocols to astroglia use undefined, animal-containing culture matrices. Laminins, which play an essential role in the regulation of cell behavior, offer a source of defined, animal-free culture matrix. Methods In order to understand how laminins affect astroglia differentiation, recombinant human laminin-521 (LN521), was compared to a murine Engelbreth-Holm-Swarm sarcoma derived laminin (L2020). Astroglia expression of protein and mRNA together with glutamate uptake and protein secretion function, were evaluated. Finally, these astroglia were evaluated in a coculture model of the blood-brain barrier (BBB). Results Astroglia of good quality were generated from hiPSC on both LN521 and L2020. However, astroglia differentiated on human LN521 showed higher expression of several astroglia specific mRNAs and proteins such as GFAP, S100B, Angiopoietin-1, and EAAT1, compared to astroglia differentiated on murine L2020. In addition, glutamate uptake and ability to induce expression of junction proteins in endothelial cells were affected by the culture matrix for differentiation. Conclusion Our results suggest that astroglia differentiated on LN521 display an improved phenotype and are suitable for coculture in a hiPSC-derived BBB model. This provides a starting point for a more defined and robust derivation of astroglia for use in BBB coculture models.
IMED Discovery Sciences, AstraZeneca, Mölndal, Sweden.
University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Human iPSC-derived endothelial cells can develop in to brain-like endothelial cells after coculture with primary human brain cells2017Konferansepaper (Fagfellevurdert)
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Envoy warns against threats to bilateral relations
By ZHAO HUANXIN in Washington | China Daily Global | Updated: 2019-12-05 23:28
Chinese Ambassador Cui Tiankai speaks at US-China Business Council’s annual gala Wednesday night in Washington. [Zhao Huanxin / China Daily]
China and the United States, the key stakeholders for world peace, stability and prosperity, should stand up against any attempt to undermine their relations or to stir up confrontation and hatred, Chinese Ambassador to the US Cui Tiankai said on Wednesday in Washington.
Speaking to a hall of business representatives, diplomats and government officials at the 2019 China-US Business Council gala, Cui noted that Robert B. Zoellick, former US trade representative, raised the notion of "responsible stakeholder" in 2005, and "each of us" is a stakeholder for the development of China-US relations.
"It is our shared social responsibility to thwart the attempt to undermine our relations, and create positive impetus to our friendship and cooperation," Cui said.
Cui's remarks came a day after the US House of Representatives passed the Uygur Intervention and Global Humanitarian Unified Response Act of 2019, a bill that China said has deliberately discredited the human rights situation in the Chinese region and seriously interfered in China's internal affairs.
The new act followed Washington's passage of the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 into law a week ago.
Cui said Xinjiang used to be a heavy victim of terrorism, where thousands of terrorist attacks happened.
"But thanks to our resolute fight against violent terrorism, and thanks to our education efforts to help the people affected by extremist and terrorist ideas, no terrorist attack has taken place in the past three years," he said.
He further noted that facts will always prevail over lies.
"Whatever happens, China stands firm on safeguarding its sovereignty, security and development interests," he said.
He also said that what is happening in Hong Kong, as in Xinjiang, has been seriously distorted.
"For Hong Kong, it is most urgent to stop violence and restore order there," he said. "However, there are people out there who are trying to challenge the bottom line of 'one country, two systems', and their real intention is to overthrow the country and ruin the two systems."
The well-being of the Chinese citizens either on the mainland or in Hong Kong, or the interests of American companies and citizens there "mean nothing" to them, he said.
On the trade friction between China and the US, Cui said he believed the two sides will be able to tide over the difficulties and return to the "right track" of win-win cooperation.
The ambassador warned that "some destructive forces" are taking advantage of the disagreements, giving volume to such "extreme rhetoric" as decoupling, a new "Cold War", and a clash of civilizations.
"If suspicion, animosity, estrangement and confrontation are allowed to grow without any constraint, what consequences will the two peoples and the whole world have to suffer?" Cui said.
Evan Greenberg, chair of the US-China Business Council, said the US' relationship with China is marked by "deep strategic distrust and lack of a broad strategic high-level communication".
"The US business community wants engagement, not decoupling. We seek cooperation and healthy competition," Greenberg said. "We don't support a trade war as a strategy. We want to compete. We insist we do so on a level playing field."
Robert B. Zoellick, former US trade representative, delivered a speech "Can America and China be Stakeholders"at US-China Business Council's annual gala Wednesday night in Washington. [Zhao Huanxin / China Daily]
In his keynote speech "Can America and China be Stakeholders", Zoellick said that those who assume that China has not acted constructively within the US-guided system – who assume that China is only a disrupter – are misleading themselves, and "self-deception is dangerous in diplomacy".
"When I selected the world 'stakeholder' in 2005, I had in mind that stakeholders have interests in a shared enterprise," Zoellick said. "That interest is worth work, even perseverance, to preserve, adapt, and grow."
Craig Allen, president of the US-China Business Council, said that business is often said to be the "ballast" of bilateral relations, keeping the ship steady, balanced and moving forward in calm seas or stormy waters.
"A ship that loses ballast in bad weather is a ship that is in danger," he said.
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Comparative Law and Decolonizing Critique
Teoria Jurídica Contemporânea
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Title Comparative Law and Decolonizing Critique
Creator Munshi, Sherally
Subject Direito Comparado
Comparative Law; Decolonizing Critique; Pierre Legrand; Critical Theory; Direito Comparado; Crítica Decolonial; Pierre Legrand; Teoria Crítica
Description ABSTRACT:This essay asserts that comparative legal scholarship might overcome its current crisis of relevance by reorienting itself towards decolonizing critique. In a recent article, decrying the current state of the discipline, Pierre Legrand argued that comparative law has become mired in a solipsistic and outmoded style of positivism. Draying upon insights from critical theory, he argues that the discipline might render itself more relevant by engaging in a more contextualized analyses of the law and by encouraging active interpretation beyond descriptive reporting. This essay extends Legrand’s argument to suggest that an emancipated, incorporative, and interdisciplinary comparative law might play an important role in decolonizing legal scholarship more broadly. Founded in a commitment to constrain an ethnocentric impulse in legal discourse, comparative law seems a natural site from which to challenge the varieties of Eurocentrism that continue to define legal scholarship and study and for exploring the colonial roots of globalized racial formations. RESUMO:Este ensaio propõe que os estudos jurídicos comparados podem superar sua atual crise de relevância reorientando-se para a crítica decolonial. Em artigo recente, condenando o estado atual da disciplina, Pierre Legrand argumentou que o direito comparado está atolado em um estilo solipsista e ultrapassado do positivismo. Refletindo sobre os insights da teoria crítica, ele argumenta que a disciplina pode tornar-se mais relevante envolvendo-se em uma análise mais contextualizada da lei e incentivando a interpretação ativa para além de relatórios descritivos. Este ensaio amplia o argumento de Legrand para sugerir que um direito comparado emancipado, incorporativo e interdisciplinar pode desempenhar um papel importante na decolonização mais ampla da doutrina jurídica. Fundado em um compromisso de restringir um impulso etnocêntrico no discurso legal, o direito comparado parece um local natural a partir do qual é possível desafiar as variedades do Eurocentrismo que continuam a definir a doutrina e a produção acadêmica jurídica e a explorar as raízes coloniais das formações raciais globalizadas.
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Identifier https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/rjur/article/view/12991
10.21875/tjc.v2i2.12991
Source Teoria Jurídica Contemporânea; v. 2, n. 2 (2017); 203-238
10.21875/tjc.v2i2
Relation https://revistas.ufrj.br/index.php/rjur/article/view/12991/10937
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Clif High | The Road Ahead
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When in U.S. History has a sitting president taken off on an overseas trip for an extended period of time, with 65 airplanes, 34 warships, reportedly 3,000 guests, not including the amount of military personnel traveling as well, at a cost to taxpayers of $200 million dollars per day, or $2 billion dollars in total. All of this, at the pinnacle of an economic and political upheaval. The answer?: never! The U.S. dollar continues to lose value and a number of insiders are predicting a bank holiday as early as November 11. Could this be true? America is bankrupt, and the rest of the world is no longer willing to go along with quantitative easing – or printing money out of thin air. Something big is getting ready to happen. In fact, it is happening now. And Clif High’s Web Bot seems to agree.
The Web Bot is an internet prophetic computer program that predicts or forecasts future events on a global scale. It is actually the Asymmetric Language Trend Analysis Report, commonly known as The Web Bot. The Web Bot is the brainchild of Clif High, a reclusive genius with a strong background on linguistics and human behavioral studies. Clif High has a patent on computer-assisted reading technology which allows reading from computer screens at up to 2000 words per minute. Reaching into other areas of hidden potential within language use by humans, he has been developing a system of software internet agents (like search engines use) and other proprietary processing methods to predict future events. The software project, begun in 1997, captures near-real-time changes in language patterns within internet discussions. Then, employing radical linguistic techniques of his own devising, he develops a model which anticipates future events with some seeming accuracy. The processing has, at its core, a method of assigning emotional values to complex content and time carry-values to predict changes in future behavior based on how people are using language now.
Since June 2001 when the work projected a major 'tipping point', that is a 'life-changing event' with aspects of 'military and accident' that would forever change the way we live to occur inside 90 days, the web bot project has continued to give archetype descriptors of future events such as the anthrax attack in Washington, the crash of American 587, the Columbia disaster, the Northeast Power outage, the Banda Aceh earthquake and most recently the flooding of the Red River. As a continuing project, reports are offered from the extracted archetype information at his web site, www.halfpasthuman.
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James Gilliland | UFO & ET Contact at the ECETI Ranch
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Source: redicecreations.com
November 4, 2010–UFO researcher James Gilliland joins us from the ECETI ranch at Trout Lake, close to Mount Adams in Washington State. The ECETI ranch is a UFO hotspot that is regularly visited by UFO enthusiasts and investigators who are curious and interested in having a first hand experience with UFOs, orbs, light trails, spontanous healing and other phenomena. We discuss the ongoing contact experiences that James and many other visitors are having with UFOs, extraterrestrials and intraterrestrials. We also discuss the UFO community and how the establishment seems to be getting ready to use UFO and ET disclosure for their own purposes and agenda. Other Topics Discussed: background on the ECETI ranch, Kenneth Arnold, flying saucers, non-interference, NWO crowd, major shifts, alignment with galactic plane, quantum leap in consciousness, Annunaki, catastrophy, chemtrails, weather modification, HAARP, humanity waking up, genes of the gods, junk DNA, victim mode, UFO community, clean technology, UFO/ET community infiltration, war industry, dependent, fake alien invasion, Wernher von Braun, visiting the ECETI ranch.
~Red Ice Creations
Richard Sauder | Underground Bases and Tunnels
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Source: redicecreations.com, Richard Sauder's Website
November 2, 2010–Richard Sauder, Ph.D., is probably the world's foremost public authority, as well as the first person, to systematically popularize the mysterious topic of underground and underwater bases and tunnels. He is the author of several books and major reports. During the first hour of this program we discuss themes from his book, "Hidden in Plain Sight - Beyond the X-files," an in-depth book on underground bases, combining archival research, on the scene investigation, and first-hand interviews. Sauder takes us into the underground world. Topics discussed: underground bases, insiderd, Phil Schneider, catacombs of Rome, Paris, London, tunnel boring technology developed in the mid 1950-1960's, official documentation of underground bases, Cheyenne Mountain, compartmentalized projects, funding, black ops programs, Pentagon losing trillions of dollars, hydroponic gardens, military, the Mormon church, the Vatican, Scientology, John Williams, Pentagon pneumatic tube, approaching cataclysm, SRI, currency collapse, genetic engineering, GMO's, global seed vault, Bill Gates, Norwegian and Swedish underground bases, underground bases and tunnels in other parts of the world. ~Red Ice Creations
Max Igan | Truth Frequency Radio October 31, 2010
Source: truthfrequencyradio.com, thecrowhouse.com
Max Igan touching upon the recent UFO sightings, chemtrails, the importance of clean water and how we can move forward as a humanity who understands our reality.
Niara Isley | ET Contacts and MILABS
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Source: Ohio Exopolitics
Niara Terela Isley is a writer, artist and certified body-centered life coach. She is also an experiencer and researcher of all aspects of extraterrestrial phenomena, from government cover-ups, to spiritual expansion of consciousness. As an experiencer of extraterrestrial abduction/contact and her strange milab-type experiences while in the air force, Niara has gained deep insights into the workings of our world and the roles that different groups of extraterrestrials may be playing in it. Today she works to raise public awareness about the reality of extraterrestrials, to shed light on the machinations of the "shadow government" and re-frame it all in a life-affirming and hope-filled vision of where we may be headed as a species from her own life-long spiritual experience and perspective. She was an Air Force radar specialist at Nellis Air Force Base, commonly known as Dreamland. She is the author of the book Facing the Shadow, Embracing the Light.
Stephen Bassett | UFO/ET Disclosure & The EU, October 2010
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Interview With Stephen Bassett, Founder of Paradigm Research Group.
Valletta, Malta October 2010
Richard C. Hoagland | Gods of Cydonia - The Case for Ancient Structures In the Solar System
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The conclusions presented here will shock and amaze you! Boldly going where no scientists have gone before... The Debate! The Conclusions! The Wonder! Scholars, theologians and scientists came together at the University of Wisconsin for an all-day, mind-blowing discussion on the questions of "God, Man, and E.T." Captured in spectacular cinematic style, packed with stunning imagery, computer animation and a Symphonic music soundtrack, this program is the result of this historic event and compelling, wide-ranging discussion. Hosted by former CNN Anchor, Cheryll Jones.
Richard C. Hoagland - Former CBS Science Advisor for Walter Cronkite, and a former NASA consultant to the Goddard Space Flight Center, is Founder and Principal Investigator of The Enterprise Mission. Author of the international best seller, "The Monuments of Mars" - now in it's Fifth Edition.
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State Senate Staffer Reported Doing Political Work on State Time
A Tennessee Senate staffer appears to have been doing political work while collecting a full-time state paycheck, an apparent violation of state law, public records and documents reviewed by TNReport show.
Derek Hummel has been executive secretary for Sen. Ophelia Ford, D-Memphis, since April of this year, drawing a $30,468 annual salary. Over the past three months, he has also been conducting political activities during state business hours on his state-issued computer, according to phone records and Facebook postings.
Hummel has identified himself as field director for the Phillip North for State Senate campaign. Hummel was paid $625 in September by the North campaign, according to campaign finance filings released last week.
When TNReport visited Ford’s office at the Capitol last week to interview Hummel, no one was present, but Hummel’s desk was strewn with what appeared to be campaign material, and political documents were visible on his taxpayer-funded desktop computer.
During an attempt to interview Hummel today, he accused TNReport of violating state law by calling him on his government-office phone.
“You’re an idiot,” Hummel told TNReport. “I’m calling Bill Fletcher,” he added, before abruptly hanging up. Fletcher is a prominent Tennessee Democratic campaign advertising specialist and political strategist.
…According to a state law call the “Little Hatch Act,” state employees are prohibited from “engaging in political activity not directly a part of that person’s employment during any period when the person should be conducting business of the state.” The law mirrors the federal Hatch Act.
Note: The state Republican party’s rapid response team had criticizing news release out promptly. Here it is:
Tennessee Republican Party Executive Director Adam Nickas today released the following statement regarding a news report that Democrat State Senate candidate Phillip North’s Campaign Field Director ran campaign operations out of the legislative office of Sen. Ophelia Ford (D-Memphis) with state-owned equipment on state time:
“Phillip North has set a new low for public corruption. Without ever serving a day in the legislature, Phillip North has managed to violate our system’s most basic legal and ethical boundaries. It is disgraceful that North would allow a state employee to work on his campaign full-time while drawing a check for full-time work from the taxpayers of Tennessee. North has broken trust with the citizens of Nashville by having taxpayers subsidize his campaign effort. He should immediately return to taxpayers the money his field director took while he was explicitly doing political work on state-owned equipment on state time.”
This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged derek, Ford, hummel, north, Ophelia, Phillip, political, Senate, state, work on October 15, 2012 by Tom Humphrey.
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Consent for Community Centre Extension
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At the end of last week planning consent was received for this project. The application was submitted in May and it took 7 weeks for the Decision Notice to...
Vineyard Community Centre Extension
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With a track record of success in resolving tricky access issues for the Vineyard Life Church (VLC) & Vineyard Community Centre and steering them through planning (2017 and 2019),...
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BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN * * * * 20.9 21.1 22.7 22.9
HISPANIC/LATINO 10 * 11.0 13.6 30.5 29.4 30.7 30.0
ASIAN * * * 1.6 1.6 2.6 2.6
TWO OR MORE RACES * * * 3.0 3.0 3.3 3.2
DISABLED * * 11.3 11.1 13.0 12.9
ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED * 11 18.3 16.0 58.3 59.7 58.4 58.4
NATIVE HAWAIIAN OR OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDER # # 75.6 88.2
WHITE 0.0 0.0 3.3 5.3 1.3 1.5
BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN # # 4.0 7.4 3.0 3.4
HISPANIC/LATINO 0.0 0.0 3.4 5.8 2.0 1.9
NATIVE HAWAIIAN OR OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDER N/A N/A 5.4 0.0 1.2 1.7
TWO OR MORE RACES # # 2.3 5.6 1.3 1.7
FEMALE 0.0 0.0 2.8 5.1 1.5 1.7
MALE 0.0 0.0 3.9 6.6 2.2 2.4
The Florida Standards Assessments (FSA) measure students’ mastery of the new Florida Standards and are administered to students in grades 3-10 in English language arts (ELA) and grades 3-8 in mathematics as well as in Algebra 1, Geometry, and Algebra 2 (2014-15). For ELA and mathematics assessments, the FSA replaced the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) 2.0 and Algebra 1 and Geometry End-of-Course (EOC) assessments aligned to the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards (NGSSS). In science, Florida continues to administer the Statewide Science Assessment in grades 5 and 8 and the Biology 1 EOC assessment, aligned to the NGSSS (2013-14 and 2014-15).
Florida Alternate Assessment (FAA) for Students with Disabilities
The FAA is designed for students whose participation in the general statewide assessment (FSA and EOC) is not appropriate, even with accommodations. The FAA measures student academic performance on the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards Access Points (NGSSS-AP) in language arts (reading, writing), mathematics and science.
Assessment results in the following tables reflect scores on FSA (2014-15) or NGSSS assessment data, as applicable, combined with FAA data for ELA results (2014-15) and for reading and writing results (2013-14). Beginning in 2014-15, Florida's state assessment in ELA included sections for both reading comprehension and writing. As of 2014-15, writing is no longer a stand-alone subject for state assessments, having been combined with reading for the state's ELA measure. For mathematics and science, results include FSA or NGSSS, FAA and EOC assessment results, as applicable. Results show satisfactory attainment for students who were in attendance during both semesters of the school year.
On EOC assessments and the FSA ELA and mathematics and NGSSS science tests, students can attain one of five possible achievement levels, ranging from Level 1 (lowest) to Level 5 (highest), with scores at Level 3 or higher designated as satisfactory. The FAA is scored on nine performance levels, with FAA Level 4 establishing the minimum level for satisfactory attainment.
English Language Arts Assessment Results (FSA and FAA)
BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN N N 29 98 34 99
HISPANIC/LATINO 100 100 41 99 51 99
AMERICAN INDIAN OR ALASKA NATIVE N N 45 97 53 99
Mathematics Assessment Results (FSA, EOCs and FAA)
ASIAN N N 75 99 79 99
Science Assessment Results (Statewide Science Assessmemt or NGSSS, EOCs and FAA)
(FSA, EOC, and FAA)
Grade 10 90 60
Percentage of Students Scoring at Each FSA or NGSSS and EOC Achievement Level, 2014-15
ALL STUDENTS 25 19 49 23 29 28 11 9 18 26 29 13 14
WHITE 26 50 16 26 32 14 12 10 22 32 17 19
BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN 37 35 20 6 3 31 33 24 7 5
HISPANIC/LATINO 28 31 26 9 6 22 28 29 12 10
ASIAN 10 16 29 18 27 8 15 27 18 32
NATIVE HAWAIIAN OR OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDER* 17 27 31 14 12
AMERICAN INDIAN OR ALASKA NATIVE 27 31 23 12 17 28 32 12 12
TWO OR MORE RACES 18 29 28 13 11 14 25 31 14 16
DISABLED 60 26 10 2 2 45 30 17 4 4
ECO. DISADVANTAGED 29 32 25 8 5 25 31 28 10 7
ELL** 50 33 14 3 1 45 32 17 4 2
MIGRANT* 33 35 23 5 32 34 23 7 4
FEMALE 26 42 23 31 28 10 8 18 27 30 13 12
MALE 62 24 27 27 12 10 19 25 28 13 15
ALL STUDENTS 17 42 33 28 28 24 15 5 22 25 25 19 9
WHITE 17 38 38 21 25 26 20 8 14 22 27 25 13
BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN 41 32 18 8 2 36 31 20 10 3
HISPANIC/LATINO 31 30 23 13 3 25 26 25 17 7
NATIVE HAWAIIAN OR OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDER* 35 19 29 13 20 26 27 20 8
AMERICAN INDIAN OR ALASKA NATIVE 26 29 28 14 4 24 26 26 18 7
TWO OR MORE RACES* 24 27 25 16 7 18 25 26 21 10
DISABLED 70 20 7 2 1 56 25 13 5 1
ECO. DISADVANTAGED 34 30 22 11 3 30 29 23 14 4
FEMALE* 17 48 30 23 28 25 17 6 18 24 26 21 11
MALE* 33 38 33 27 22 13 4 26 26 24 17 7
FSA MATH and EOC's
ALL STUDENTS 17 35 26 17 34 23 25 12 5 27 21 27 16 10
WHITE 18 34 25 20 26 21 29 16 8 18 18 30 20 13
ASIAN 13 13 27 24 23 10 12 24 24 30
NATIVE HAWAIIAN OR OTHER PACIFIC ISLANDER* 35 15 31 23 20 27 18 11
AMERICAN INDIAN OR ALASKA NATIVE 36 26 25 9 4 26 22 29 15 9
ELL** 47 25 19 7 2 42 23 22 10 4
MIGRANT 41 24 23 8 3 38 24 25 10 3
FEMALE 37 33 34 23 26 12 5 26 21 28 16 9
MALE 32 35 22 25 12 6 28 20 27 16 10
Florida students in ESOL programs who have been in the U.S. less than one year are required to be tested on the Comprehensive English Language Learning Assessment (CELLA) as well as on a state mathematics assessment, but may be exempt for up to one administration of the FSA in reading. These students’ test scores are not included in the current year’s proficiency calculations for math and reading as a flexibility provision approved for Florida by the U.S. Department of Education. The ESEA SPAR chart shows the number of recently arrived ELL students who are not included in the AMO mathematics and reading proficiency calculations for 2014-15.
The following chart compares the achievement levels between NAEP and the FSA:
FSA 2.0 Achievement
The chart below shows, for the sample of Florida schools selected to take the grade 04 and grade 08 math and reading assessments, the percentage of Students with Disabilities (SWDs) and English language learners (ELLs) in the tested grades who were tested on each assessment. The goal established by the National Assessment Governing Board (NAGB) is 85% inclusion.
Additional information is provided on the NAEP website at http://www.nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/ or on the FLDOE website at http://www.fldoe.org/asp/naep/.
TOTAL 0.0 8.0 11.2 8.9 5.5 5.4 6.7
Learning gains were not calculated in 2014-15. In order to calculate learning gains, the FDOE needs two years of assessment information. The FSA was new in 2014-15, so there was not two years of assessment data to calculate learning gains.
The table below indicates how schools in this district were identified for ESEA flexibility. Focus schools are identified as schools for which the most recent grade is “D” as well as Title 1 schools graded “C” or higher for which the federal four-year graduation rate was lower than 60%. Priority schools are identified as schools for which the most recent grade is “F.” Reward schools are schools that were graded “A”; improved a letter grade; were rated “Improving” in the school improvement rating system or improved a rating; or maintained a grade after having improved by two or more letter grades in the prior year.
53 51 SOUTHWEST MIDDLE SCHOOL
53 151 PHILIP O'BRIEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 201 NORTH LAKELAND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OF CHOICE
53 361 EASTSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 491 DENISON MIDDLE SCHOOL
53 611 INWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 621 LAKE SHIPP ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 631 JOHN SNIVELY ELEMENTARY
53 681 WAHNETA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 802 LEWIS ANNA WOODBURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 881 POLK CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 1141 PURCELL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 1251 WINSTON ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING
53 1271 SLEEPY HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 1362 HORIZONS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 1401 JANIE HOWARD WILSON SCHOOL
53 1521 OSCAR J. POPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 1611 LAUREL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 1701 EAGLE LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 1702 PALMETTO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 1751 JAMES E. STEPHENS ELEM. SCHOOL
53 1761 LAKE GIBSON MIDDLE SCHOOL
53 1841 R. CLEM CHURCHWELL ELEMENTARY
53 1851 DR. NE ROBERTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 1981 DUNDEE RIDGE MIDDLE ACADEMY
53 91 COMBEE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 321 SHELLEY S. BOONE MIDDLE SCHOOL
53 571 WESTWOOD MIDDLE SCHOOL
53 1241 JESSE KEEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 1501 CRYSTAL LAKE MIDDLE SCHOOL
53 1781 DUNDEE ELEMENTARY ACADEMY
53 31 LAKELAND SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
53 43 LAWTON CHILES MIDDLE ACADEMY
53 61 CARLTON PALMORE ELEM. SCHOOL
53 251 LINCOLN AVENUE ACADEMY
53 261 ROCHELLE SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
53 311 DANIEL JENKINS ACADEMY TECH
53 401 DAVENPORT SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
53 441 RIDGEVIEW GLOBAL STUDIES ACAD.
53 531 FRANK E. BRIGHAM ACADEMY
53 651 LAKE ALFRED ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 711 JEWETT MIDDLE ACADEMY MAGNET
53 712 JEWETT SCHOOL OF THE ARTS
53 901 BARTOW SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
53 933 CHAIN OF LAKES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 941 BARTOW ELEMENTARY ACADEMY
53 971 UNION ACADEMY
53 1061 HIGHLAND CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 1281 HIGHLANDS GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 1421 DALE R FAIR BABSON PARK ELEM.
53 1601 BOK ACADEMY
53 1671 MCKEEL ACADEMY OF TECHNOLOGY
53 1681 SCOTT LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 1682 MCKEEL ELEMENTARY ACADEMY
53 1692 SOUTH MCKEEL ACADEMY
53 1711 GARDEN GROVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 1721 LAKE WALES SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
53 1771 LAKELAND HIGHLANDS MIDDLE SCHL
53 1821 JAMES W. SIKES ELEMENTARY SCHL
53 1881 WENDELL WATSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 1891 VALLEYVIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 1908 SPESSARD L HOLLAND ELEMENTARY
53 1951 BERKLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
53 1961 DISCOVERY ACADEMY OF LAKE ALFRED
53 8002 POLK PRE-COLLEGIATE ACADEMY
53 8005 MAGNOLIA MONTESSORI ACADEMY
53 8121 HARTRIDGE ACADEMY
53 8131 POLK STATE COLLEGE COLLEGIATE HIGH SCHOOL
53 8133 CHAIN OF LAKES COLLEGIATE HIGH
53 8140 LAKELAND MONTESSORI MIDDLE SCHOOL
53 8141 LAKELAND MONTESSORI SCHOOL HOUSE
53 8142 BERKLEY ACCELERATED MIDDLE SCHOOL
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home Domains, gTLD's, ICANN, Internet ICA Responds to ICANN CEO’s Davos Remarks on “Hogging Names” and “Cybersquatting”
ICA Responds to ICANN CEO’s Davos Remarks on “Hogging Names” and “Cybersquatting”
By James Barnley Posted in Domains gTLD's ICANN Internet
During the recent World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, ICANN CEO engaged in an interview in which he touted the purported benefits of the new gTLD program. Unfortunately, in the course of those remarks he appeared to accuse domain portfolio owners of “hogging names” as well as equate them with “cybersquatters”.
Many ICA members felt that these remarks were gratuitously negative and displayed a disturbing lack of understanding of the domain monetization and secondary sales marketplace and of certain practices engaged in by new gTLDs, especially the premium pricing of thousands of desirable domains. The remarks also failed to acknowledge the substantial contributions that domain portfolio owners and managers make to ICANN’s financial well-being and to its overall community and processes.
Consequently, the ICA Board authorized the drafting and transmittal of a letter to CEO Chehade responding to his remarks. The letter follows —
Mr. Fadi Chehade
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
Dear Mr. Chehade:
I am writing on behalf of the members of the Internet Commerce Association (ICA) in regard to remarks that you recently made in a video interview while attending the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. In this interview, while discussing the new gTLD program, you stated:
The reality is, the more there are names, the less people will actually be hogging names in order to charge a lot for them. Because if somebody took your name on dot-x, you can go get another name on dot-y now.” and “We went from twenty-something top-level domains … to hundreds now… We think it will actually reduce cybersquatting eventually.” (Emphasis added)
The ICA objects to your statement as it expresses a disdainful view towards the legitimate activity of domain investing, a hostile view of domain investors who are significant ICANN stakeholders who are deeply affected by its policies, a lack of awareness of the market realities of domains as an asset class, and an unwarranted promotion of new gTLD domains over those at legacy gTLDs.
The Internet Commerce Association ICA) was established in 2006 to represent the interests of professional domain investors and developers. We have been a member of ICANN’s Business Constituency (BC) since 2007, and our Counsel Philip Corwin was just elected to represent the BC on ICANN’s GNSO Council. Mr. Corwin is also a member of the Internet Committee of the International Trademark Association (INTA) and its Internet Governance Subcommittee.
As has been reported in the press, many domain investors, including ICA members, took considerable offense at your remarks and viewed them as disrespectful and indicating a disturbing misunderstanding of domain name industry practices, as well as a lack of appreciation for the role that our industry plays in supporting ICANN and the new gTLD program.
ICA estimates that our members own and/or manage approximately ten percent of all registered domains. As domain registrants are the “taxpayers” of the domain name system, and the original source of all monies that are up-streamed to ICANN by registrars and registries, and as those funds constitute the major financial underpinnings of ICANN operations, that means that our members support about ten percent of ICANN’s infrastructure and budget. Thus, for example, of the 197 trips that you reported taking during calendar year 2014, ICA members funded about 20.
ICA members have been major investors in domains offered at new gTLDs, and have provided consulting services and investment funds to some new gTLDs. Absent their substantial financial commitment to new gTLD domains, the program’s total registrations would have been substantially lower than those recorded to date, and would have fallen even further below ICANN’s own projections. ICANN had to reduce its FY15 budget by $10 million due to the unanticipated shortfall in new gTLD registrations, but the cut could have been substantially larger absent significant domain registrations by professional registrants.
Your statement that “if somebody took your name on dot-x, you can go get another name on dot-y now” is true to a point, so long as one does not factor in affordability. You mischaracterize the price advantages of new gTLDs, ignoring that premium-priced registrations and premium-priced renewals are the norm among new gTLD registries. New gTLD registry operators are free to charge whatever they think the market will bear and they are not “hogs” for doing so, especially as the new gTLD program was intended to encourage a variety of registry business models.
If ICANN’s objective in launching the new gTLD program was to create a name space where “hogging names” is not possible and where those who control the domain names are not able to “charge a lot for them”, it has failed. In the new gTLD program that ICANN created and whose rollout you have overseen, new gTLD registries play the role that domain investors have exercised in the legacy gTLD extensions, but with tremendously greater market power. Each new gTLD registry has a monopoly over its name space and solely determines the prices at which its domains can be purchased. Nearly all new gTLD registries are reserving portfolios of thousands of desirable domains that are only available at premium prices.
In the new gTLD space registration and renewal prices are typically much higher than in the legacy extensions. Some new gTLDs set a minimum registration price of thousands of dollars per domain. Most other new gTLD registries offer affordable minimum registration pricing yet have set premium prices on thousands of their most desirable domains – the more desirable the domain, the higher its price. Registration prices for certain desirable domains in the new gTLDs are priced at thousands, tens of thousands, and sometimes even in excess of one hundred thousand dollars for the rights to a single domain. For example, Wine.club was recently offered for public auction by the .Club registry and the winning bid was $140,000. Certain .forsale domains were released with registration and renewal pricing of tens of thousands of dollars per domain per year, producing a present value of the cost of ownership for a single domain approaching one million dollars.
The members of the ICA fail to see the distinction between a domain investor offering a .com domain for market value, and the .Club registry offering a .club domain for market value or the .forsale registry offering a .forsale domain for what the registry believes to be market value. In all these extensions, market realities mean that when domains have substantial inherent value it can lead to the domain owner or the registry being able to “charge a lot for them.” Indeed, some new gTLD registries have entered into bidding wars that raised tens of millions of dollars for ICANN specifically for the right to be able to “charge a lot” for domains in the new gTLD extensions involved in contention sets.
In contrast, in the original extensions including .com, registration and renewal prices are typically between $8-$10 per year. Renewal rates on .com domains are held fixed under the current registry contract with Verisign as a result of a U.S. government approval condition. Consequently, there is a two decade history of .com price discovery where the market has determined that meaningful, intuitive domains have substantial inherent commercial value. No participant in the legacy name spaces wields market power. A domain buyer in the legacy extensions enjoys the benefit of thousands of domain owners competing with each other to offer the most desirable domains at the most compelling prices.
Meaningful, intuitive domains are inherently valuable, whether in .com and other legacy extensions or in the new gTLDs. The “strings’ for which applications were submitted and the substantial prices paid in contention set auctions, whether private or ICANN-run, are further evidence of perceived value. The absence of pricing controls in new gTLDs has in fact shifted pricing discretion away from portfolio registrants and toward registry operators. In .com and other legacy gTLDs with low annual registration fees, domain investors price domains they offer for resale based upon their perceived market value. In the new gTLD program, the registries are pricing annual domain registration based upon on their perception of market value. In both instances, the marketplace is working.
The maintenance of a large domain portfolio does not make any organization or individual a “hog.” If it did then just about every major ICANN-accredited registrar would fall within that category, as they warehouse tens of millions of domains collectively and often join with our members in creating a liquid and dynamic secondary domain marketplace. Whether domains are “dark”, “parked”, developed, or resold on the secondary market at prices that buyers and sellers find mutually acceptable, all of these practices are legal and ethical so long as conducted in conformity with relevant law and policy.
Domain investors are not “hogs” and they most certainly are not deliberate trademark infringers, or “cybersquatters”. It is not clear what you intended by your reference to “cybersquatting”, though it is concerning that you used this pejorative term just after making disparaging remarks about domain investors. “Cybersquatting” is generally equated to engagement in intentional trademark infringement.
If you intended to apply the term “cybersquatting” to the domain industry practice of parking a portfolio of domain names, such use would be wholly inaccurate. Many domains held in portfolios are “parked” and monetized through relevant ad links much as Google and other search engines monetize search results (in fact, Google is a major provider of such ad services to domain investors). A June 2008 ICANN Policy Issues Brief on domain name monetization reported:
Pay-per-click (PPC) is when someone, a registrant, registers a domain name that might attract a large number of Internet users to it. The registrant then hosts revenue generating content or links to other websites at the domain name, which typically feature advertisements for products or services related to the name. Each time a user visits the website and clicks on the one of the links or advertisements, it creates revenue for the registrant…Domain parking is a practice used by registrars, individual registrants and Internet advertising publishers to monetize type-in traffic…The practices of using parking and PPC to monetize domain names have not to date generated the same concerns as tasting. (Emphasis added)
ICA subsequently supported actions proposed by the GNSO to curb abusive domain name tasting, a practice then engaged in primarily by registrars. That proposal was adopted and has resulted in the effective termination of abusive domain tasting.
While individual registry operators are free to determine whether domain parking is permitted at their registries, and while their pricing policies also influence the economics of domain monetization, ICANN heeded ICA comments that “New AG language that equates parked domains with negative social consequences and costs is unjustified, inappropriate, and at odds with prior ICANN findings and policy, proposed URS evaluation criteria, and WIPO guidance to UDRP examiners.” As a result, ICANN deleted proposed provisions from the final Applicant Guidebook (AG) that would have established a general policy against domain parking at all new gTLDs.
ICA has respected trademark rights from its earliest days, while also advocating for reasonable balance between the rights of trademark owners and domain registrants. Shortly after its formation, ICA adopted a Code of Conduct that establishes best practices for the industry, including a strong stance against intentional trademark infringement (cybersquatting):
Protection of Intellectual Property Rights. A registrant shall follow accepted trademark law and respect the brands and trademarks of others. Members will not intentionally and in bad faith register and use a domain name that is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark or service mark. Registrants shall respond promptly to legitimate disputes relating to alleged infringement of intellectual property rights.
Our members pride themselves on maintaining clean, noninfringing portfolios and on having an excellent record of success in UDRP or trademark litigation actions that might be brought against them by overzealous trademark owners. The World Intellectual Property Organization’s “WIPO Overview of WIPO Panel Views on Selected UDRP Questions, Second Edition (“WIPO Overview 2.0“)” is quite clear in stating that domain portfolio monetization does not automatically equate to trademark infringement, stating:
2.6 Do parking and landing pages or pay-per-click links generate rights or legitimate interests in the disputed domain name?
Panels have generally recognized that use of a domain name to post parking and landing pages or PPC links may be permissible in some circumstances, but would not of itself confer rights or legitimate interests arising from a “bona fide offering of goods or services” [see also paragraph 3.8 below] or from “legitimate noncommercial or fair use” of the domain name, especially where resulting in a connection to goods or services competitive with those of the rights holder. As an example of such permissible use, where domain names consisting of dictionary or common words or phrases support posted PPC links genuinely related to the generic meaning of the domain name at issue, this may be permissible and indeed consistent with recognized sources of rights or legitimate interests under the UDRP, provided there is no capitalization on trademark value (a result that PPC page operators can achieve by suppressing PPC advertising related to the trademark value of the word or phrase). By contrast, where such links are based on trademark value, UDRP panels have tended to consider such practices generally as unfair use resulting in misleading diversion. (Emphasis added)
ICA members are quite aware of this viewpoint relating to UDRP enforcement and avoid ad links that might be viewed as based upon “trademark value”. Likewise, national cybersquatting statutes recognize the non-infringing nature of legitimate domain monetization methodologies employed by professional portfolio owners.
Respect for trademark law is of course directly tied to consumer protection. In this regard, we are aware that many in the trademark community are quite concerned that, while their names are available at new gTLDs for sunrise registration, the prices being asked by registry operators are often very high. Consumer protection is also at stake in the continuing debate over whether Public Interest Commitments (PICs) provide sufficient protection to the public against scams and other potentially abusive practices at new gTLDs – both the GAC and various ICANN constituencies have expressed strong skepticism on this point, especially in regard to strings associated with regulated industries and professions. ICANN collected about one-third of a billion dollars in first round new gTLD application fees, and has taken in more than $30 million more from “last resort” contention set auctions, yet the New gTLD Program Committee has yet to establish a policy that effectively responds to these consumer protection concerns.
On behalf of ICA members, I hope that this letter makes you more aware of the high standards maintained by professional domain investors, and that both domain investors in legacy extensions and new gTLD operators price their domains subject to the same marketplace laws of supply and demand. We hope that in the future you will refrain from referring to domain portfolio owners as “hogging” domains or, worse, equate participants in our industry with those who engage in deliberate “cybersquatting” or other practices that are adverse to the public interest.
For the sake of more broadly informing the general public and ICANN community of the corrective facts cited in this letter, we would ask that it and any response you may care to provide be posted at ICANN’s correspondence page.
Jeremiah Johnston, President
Internet Commerce Association
Cc: Steve Crocker, Board Chairman
Bruce Tonkin, Board Vice-Chairman
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How the message gets embedded
By Don AitkinJune 26, 2019Other
Somewhere in this or a recent thread an alarmist asked me did I think there was some massive conspiracy involving learned societies, universities and governments, all of whom were missing the points I was making. I said No, I don’t have much truck with conspiracies, small or massive. The notion that the choice was binary — either you thought there was a conspiracy, or you accepted the alarmist position — stuck in my mind, and this essay is a response to that common orthodox position.
First, there has to be a message, and it has to be of some moment, some significance, to involve players like governments. In my view the message came half a century ago, in the form of the environmental movement, which proclaimed that human beings were destroying the one planet they lived on. The message came at the same time as a steady decline in the proportions of people in the Anglophone societies, and in the Protestant parts of Europe, who took organised Christianity seriously. The message was quickly politicised by a new formation, political parties often called Greens, which used the colour as their symbol, and increasingly as their name. The Greens were not part of the liberal/conservative, left/right, Labor/Coalition divide that is familiar to us, though their tendency, being radical, was to the left. The established parties did their best to ignore the Greens, but when in time they reached ten per cent of the popular vote both traditional sides of politics tried to work out how best to counter this new threat.
Second, the party in government will try to avoid doing anything of substance in a new and contested area like this, but it will do what it sees as wall-papering, as John Howard did in setting up the Australian Greenhouse Office in 1998. As time went on, however, the AGO gained more and more functions. In 2004 it became part of a government department, and after Kevin Rudd’s win in 2007 it became part of the new Department of Climate Change. Why did this expansion happen, when Howard tried so hard to downplay ‘climate change’? In part because the AGO’s funding was built into forward estimates, which meant that unless these were changed by the Department of Finance and by Cabinet, it would be there forever. And all department secretaries try to hang on to what they have. So, all over the wide range of the Australian Government there are bits and pieces of the apparatus of State whose function is to proclaim the message that ‘climate change’ is important and we have to do something about it. That applies whoever is in power. It would be extremely difficult for Scott Morrison as Prime Minister to change that message quickly, and laborious (though in my judgment necessary) to do it slowly.
Third, these ‘climate change’ entities in government have money to spend, and they search for allies. Enter the learned academies. In 1990 I was able to persuade my Minister that we should allocate some infrastructure funding to the academies. The Minister though they were a bunch of old guys whose primary purpose was to decide on other old guys to honour. I said while there was some truth in that judgment, the academies provide a more or less neutral source of advice when government needed to get past the legion of urgers who want more money spent on this or that in the world of research, especially in science, social welfare, education and health. Yes, there were other possible sources of more or less neutral advice, but there was no harm in having the academies on side. He agreed, and each of the four received some more core funding. Now, the academies also have their own axes to grind, and they will support any proposal that directs funding to academics who want to do research. It was not long, therefore, before ‘climate change’ money came on to the scene, and the academies did their best to ensure that it was directed to areas that the government wanted research in: ‘human-induced climate change’. I do not think there was any suggestion from any academy that the reach of the funding should be broadened to include sources of natural variation. I stand to be corrected. I am a fellow of one academy and know the others reasonably well. That is my picture.
Fourth, now enter the universities, always hungry for money. Every dean wants to see his or her academic staff busily seeking funding, and all praise to those who are successful. Those who followed the Government and academies line were therefore strongly supported, and the few who criticised it, or pointed out that there were shoddy elements in the research thus funded, were made to become pariahs, and dealt with in a fairly brutal way. What happened to Professors Brady, Carter and Ridd was appalling. Other critics saw the writing on the wall, and shut up. For a young researcher the rule was head down, work on, say nothing. And the shift into work that either supported the CO2 hypothesis or took it for granted, and asked what would happen now, grew steadily stronger.
In time, fifth, other organisations picked up the new theme, some because it made sense financially, some because its board now included people who took the new theme seriously, some because board members were also board members of other organisations where the shift had already occurred. Major international organisations did likewise, so their affiliates in other countries felt some need to follow suit. Little by little the view that the planet was in danger became the theme of the early 21stcentury. Did any of these organisations, anyof them, do the due diligence and go back to square one, examine all the evidence, and come to an informed view? If one did, it has not proclaimed its virtue in this domain. The Royal Society and the Australian Academy of Science set up working parties to prepare the official view, but the official view was already set. The working party had simply to provide the right words. That not all members agreed with the published words is well known. Too bad. They are there, set in what looks to be stone.
None of this required a ‘conspiracy’. None was needed. What we have seen, in the account I have given, which I think is substantially accurate, is reliance on another form of argument: the argument from authority, or argumentum ad verecundiam. When questioned as to your knowledge of the matter, you reply that since the Royal Society or the Australian Academy has already said the words there is no need for you to do anything else. They are the authority. You simply refer to them. If we all agree as to the authority that is a different matter, as we might do in the case, say, of a newly discovered asteroid. Where we don’t agree, the appeal to authority is inherently fallacious.
Who stood out against the tide? Overwhelmingly, retired scientists, engineers and the like, people who could not be disciplined by their former organisations, and disliked the groupthink they could detect. Scientists like Lindzen, Happer, Curry, Kininmonth and Paltridge in our country, and many others around the world, cannot be dismissed as ignorant, so the orthodoxy simply takes no notice of them, as it does with respect to most inconvenient data.
Alarmists are correct to say that they hold the reins, and that no one of importance listens to the sceptics. That does not mean that the alarmists are correct. My guess is that the rising price of electricity, and the associated lack of capacity to power mainstream grids through solar and wind, will cause a slow rethinking of the orthodox position. I don’t think it will happen quickly, because once organisations take up ‘positions’ they are most reluctant to let go of them, as I pointed out in the case of government instrumentalities.
Very interesting Don. Looking back to your time at ARC, you clearly would have seen the beginnings (or continuation) of this trend so I take your view at face value. I would only add in your last para “it does not mean the alarmists are incorrect either”.
Any chance we can get some comment on your essay from one or more of the players from the mainstream side that you include in the piece, ie a CRC, or the Academies. Do any of them follow here?
Don Aitkin says:
I don’t know who the readers are unless they comment, so I can’t help there. But I wouldn’t be surprised to get some new commenters on this one. I agree that it does not mean the alarmists are incorrect, either.
JimboR says:
Some think institutional pressures have acted in the opposite direction….
“Finally, there is Garth Paltridge’s own book, The Climate Caper. This contains little science at all. It is mainly about the institutional pressures that act on scientists. I agree with much of what Garth says, but my observation is that the pressures have largely acted in the opposite direction, inhibiting communication of mainstream climate science when governments found the implications inconvenient. Thus organisations such as CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology remain muted on the inadequacy of proposals from both sides of politics.”
http://theconversation.com/rogues-or-respectable-how-climate-change-sceptics-spread-doubt-and-denial-1557
Pearman has certainly made up for it since!
But he had to leave CSIRO before he could say what he really thought. That supports your theory of institutional pressure, but it also supports Enting ‘s theory that the pressure is in the opposite direction to what you and Paltridge claim (at least in this case). Far from the government encouraging them to ramp up the alarm, they’re forcing them to tone it down.
Ridd is not the first scientist to lose his job for speaking out about climate change:
https://www.theage.com.au/national/scientists-bitter-over-interference-20060213-ge1qxb.html
Bryan Roberts says:
Jimbo, I’m not sure that is the case. As I understand it, he was sacked because he publicly disagreed with the ‘official’ JCU position that the GBR was in imminent danger of destruction, thus imperilling a major source of their funding, not because he had a particular position on climate change.
CameronH says:
I thought that it was his “particular position on climate change” that disagreed with their official position and, if taken seriously, would imperil their funding that got him sacked. You statement does not make sense to me.
I think you will find that he publicly disagreed with his colleagues on the condition of the GBR. He became persona non grata at JCU, and guess what? University HR departments are about as forgiving as the KGB.
chrisl says:
Follow the money. Add virtue signalling. Mix thoroughly.
spangled drongo says:
“Who stood out against the tide?”
Good question. A few retired academics but many workers whose daily bread has been affected but whose opinion has been overwhelmed particularly by mainstream media that loves nothing better than alarmist news. And they wallow daily in the clamour of climate crisis.
But here’s one tide that so many academics are in denial of:
Sea level rise of less than one and a half inches in a century:
https://principia-scientific.org/worlds-76-best-tide-gauges-show-negligible-sea-level-rise/
But even with this compelling evidence in full view as in the city of Sydney, built around a harbour displaying this long term sea level stability, Clover Moore has the hysterical capacity to declare a “Climate Emergency”.
And the mindless stupidity gets attention all around the world:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2019/06/21/sydney-declare-climate-emergency-face-national-inaction/Sw8ynflphqmD9R3idPEozN/story.html
Doug Hurst says:
To me the facts say that we do not face a climate crisis from human production of CO2 and wind and solar would not solve it if we did. So I am not worried about the fate of my grandchildren. What concerns me now is that facts and reason don’t seem to count much any more, especially in places they should like government and academia. But facts usually do count eventually and when this happens we will face the huge task of unscrambling the omelet.
Climate change/crisis is now institutionalised and part of the thinking of millions. Even if we have indisputable evidence that I am right, and we do not face a climate crisis, how do we change the legislation, go back to burning coal, re-write the text books, dismantle all the wind farms, convince the masses to stop worrying and basically put everything back as it was before the great scare? I don’t know, but I suspect that proving we are right will only be step one in a very long process of restoration of facts, reason, overall sanity and much reduced influence of noisy fanatics on government.
My point exactly Doug and how many trillions $ have we wasted and for how long? Certainly we know we can’t mitigate any measurable change by 2040 or 2100 or for thousands of years , no matter how many 100s of trillions of $ we care to throw at their so called CAGW. See question 20 RS & NAS report.
Maths guru Nic Lewis has looked at their claims and finds we might have a change in temp before the thousand year mark but thinks that co2 levels would still remain elevated for thousands of years after a lowering of temp.
Don’t forget these calculations are only made after we stopped ALL HUMAN co2 emissions today, so we know that their so called mitigation is a complete CON and FRA-D.
OH and Lomborg calculates that FULL Paris compliance would only get us 1% of the way down the RS & NAS mitigation road. Meanwhile China, India and non OECD couldn’t care less as their co2 emissions continue to soar and OECD emissions flat-line.
So not even 1% compliance so far and the pollie donkeys, MSM donkeys and deaf and dumb so called scientists tell us we STILL must do something about their so called CAGW?
Skeptical Television scientists and commentators have lost their positions on public broadcasters. David Bellamy was ousted from the BBC for saying climate change alarm was baloney and more recently Clive James hasn’t had a gig in the ABC After resist say demolishing climate change alarm where he likened the players to a house of cards that will come tumbling down but they’ll keep their careers
“how do we change the legislation”
I’m not sure what your concerns are there, Abbott demonstrated how easy that is. By far our most complex legislation in this area was Gillard’s carbon tax (ETS or whatever else you want to call it). Abbott went to an election with an “axe the tax” agenda, won the election and ten months later the legislation was repealed. The various RETs and abatement funds that replaced it are largely regulatory so the minister of the day can change the settings there without even a vote.
Meanwhile Trump has demonstrated how easy it is to pull out of global commitments – so much for UN world domination.
Richard S Courtney says:
Dear Don Aitkin,
You say,
“Somewhere in this or a recent thread an alarmist asked me did I think there was some massive conspiracy involving learned societies, universities and governments, all of whom were missing the points I was making. I said No, I don’t have much truck with conspiracies, small or massive.”
I, too, don’t think there was or is a conspiracy. However, formation of the existing bandwagon did involve concerted actions to usurp learned societies. Those actions only required activities of a few people because very few members of learned societies take any interest in governance of the societies.
Richard Lindzen published a paper that details those activities. It is an interesting – and shocking – read that names names: it can be read here http://www.lavoisier.com.au/articles/climate-policy/science-and-policy/LindzenClimatescience2008.pdf
and an updated version (version 4) can be downloaded from here
https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.3762
Importantly, several attempts had been made to start a political scare about anthropogenic (i.e. human-made) global warming (AGW) in the nearly a century following Arrhenius publications on the greenhouse effect. None of these attempts was successful until for purely personal reasons Margaret Thatcher campaigned about AGW it and threw money at publicising it. Her UK political party were willing to support her use of government money to generate the AGW scare because the scare could be used to attack the UK’s National Union Of Mineworkers (NUM) whom they blamed for the 1974 UK General Election result. Then, politicians in other countries supported her scare for economic reasons. I explain all these matters in this item
https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/richard-courtney-the-history-of-the-global-warming-scare/
It reports how prior to the existence of the AGW-scare I predicted the AGW-scare would occur. In its Introduction I say,
“I provided my report to BACM near the end of 1980 and they considered it in early 1981 (it is often referred to as my “1980? and my “1981? report, but that is the same report). It concluded that positive feedbacks in the political system would cause ‘global warming’ to become a serious environmental issue whether or not any scientific evidence to support it were to be obtained. Indeed, the political feedbacks were so severe that the issue would become more important than any other ‘environmental’ issue and was likely to supplant most ‘environmental’ issues.”
“BACM rejected that report saying it was “extreme” and “implausible”. Since then ‘global warming’ has failed to obtain any supporting evidence but has become the major ‘environmental’ issue such that all other ‘environmental’ issues have become subordinated to it.”
Please note that if you remove all mentions of science from the influence diagrams then political influence continues to power the remaining positive feedback loops that generated the scare.
I hope this is helpful.
I made this post yesterday and it is still in moderation. A post I made in this thread today instantly appeared.
Clearly, some moderation rule has ‘snagged’ this post and I would be grateful if I were told what it is because then I could avoid breaking the rule in future. Thanking uou in anticipation of the info.
I made this post yesterday. It is still in moderation I am supposing because it contains links. Hence, I post it here without the links and people who want to read the links will need to google to find them.
Richard Lindzen published a paper that details those activities. It is an interesting – and shocking – read that names names: it can be read here [link redacted]
[link redacted]
It does not directly address the issue raised by Don but the Peter Hadfield video titled “the evidence for climate change WITHOUT computer models or the IPCC” makes a very good case for why the mainstream view is so prevalent in the science world. Of note is the timeline of the CO2 story and the advanced status if the hypothesis long before computers existed and therefore before anyone dreamed up the IPCC to address the issue.
I am interested in hearing genuine responses challenging the logical structure of Hadfield’s argument and the facts he presents. In other words, people should actually watch the video, all of it, (only 15 minutes) before responding.
You will find it here:
https://youtu.be/OJ6Z04VJDco
Chris I think there should a small change for a doubling of co2, but the latest calcs find perhaps 1 to 1.5 c increase, Not worth worrying about and the RS & NAS tell us there is ZIP we could achieve anyway. End of story.
IOW humans could all live in caves for many hundreds of generations and the measurable change in temp and co2 levels would be tiny.
Neville, “but the latest calcs find perhaps 1 to 1.5 c increase, Not worth worrying about“. That is one of the key points frequently misrepresented. 1 to 1.5 C increase in the average is hugely significant, because the high end can get very high (as per Europe this week) and the analysis indicates a doubling of the increase in the Arctic, already the fastest warming area? People tend to think of here and now and that 1.5 increase is trivial, but it is not about here and now, it is about the global average and is a huge jump. Also, the problem is broader and includes the effects of an atmosphere holding and releasing much greater quantities of H2O, once again look at recent rainfall events all around the world causing flash flooding.
So Chris, how would you mitigate your so called problem and what change would we see in co2 levels and temp? And how long would it take? See my comments below.
Lomborg uses the RCP 8.5 extreme and finds no measurable change to temp by 2100 and that’s after full compliance with the Paris agreement. His one graph exposes the complete CON and FRA-D.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/05/31/in-one-graph-why-the-parisclimate-accord-is-useless/
Empirically determined values of low climate sensitivity indicate that feedbacks in the climate system are negative and, therefore, any effect of increased CO2 will be too small to discern because natural climate variability is much, much larger.
Empirical – n.b. not model-derived – determinations indicate climate sensitivity (i.e. rise in global temperature induced by a doubling of atmospheric CO2 from present levels) is less than 1.0°C for a doubling of atmospheric CO2 equivalent. This is indicated by the studies of
Idso from surface measurements
http://www.warwickhughes.com/papers/Idso_CR_1998.pdf
and Lindzen & Choi from ERBE satellite data
http://www.drroyspencer.com/Lindzen-and-Choi-GRL-2009.pdf
and Gregory from balloon radiosonde data
http://www.friendsofscience.org/assets/documents/OLR&NGF_June2011.pdf
These completely independent determinations each indicates that climate sensitivity is ~0.4°C for a doubling of CO2 equivalent.
Indeed, because climate sensitivity is less than 1.0°C for a doubling of CO2 equivalent, it is physically impossible for the man-made global warming to be large enough to be detected (because natural climate variability is much larger).
If something exists but is too small to be detected then it only has an abstract existence; it does not have a discernible existence that has observable effects (observation of its effects would be its detection).
Aha! This post has also gone into moderation so it seems that links dump my posts into moderation.
I will post it again but without the links which enable readers to check its information for themselves.
[link to source paper redacted]
Yes, too many links, I think. I fancy two is the maximum allowed, not by me but by Word Press.
Dear Don Aitkin
While you were resolving the issue I reposted my post of yesterday with its links redacted. I write to apologise for my seeming impatience. I was investigating and trying to overcome the automated rule that was putting my posts in moderation.
If you want to stop the cluttering of this (your) thread caused by my duplicate posts then please feel free to delete the duplicates with redacted links.
dlb says:
Pretty slick presentation by Hadfield, basically a fait accompli on his part. What he neglects are the Rumsfeldian unknown unknowns which plague the best predictions of science.
But we now have some “knowns” from the last 40 years.
UAH temp change last 40 years 0.52C
Atmospheric CO2 change 333ppm (1979) to 405ppm (2019)
Atmospheric CO2 increase has been reasonably linear over this period. Assuming atmospheric CO2 increases at the same rate, a doubling of CO2 from 1979 would produce a temperature increase of 2.4C in 145 years from now.
Given that global CO2 emissions will probably start decreasing within the next 50 years, and that the relationship of temperature to CO2 is logarithmic (levelling off), I can’t see any calamity ahead. And all this assumes the warming we have seen over the last 40 years is solely due to CO2.
Chris Warren says:
The temp response to CO2 is logarithmic, but the temp response to GHG’s is close to linear.
The main reason is that warm air holds more water vapour.
We have been through all this in previous threads.
I do not think global CO2 emissions will “probably start decreasing” because the population is still increasing and industrial development outside OECD will continue and even accelerate.
Boambee John says:
If CO2 is the driver, and you do not expect it to decrease, then mitigation is a dead end, and we should turn our focus to adaptation.
Sorry, my response above is to Stu not Chris. Too busy and too bloody cold this morning. I need more of their Gorebull warming.
Here again are Nic Lewis’s calculations about the long lag for temp and co2 emissions, compared to earlier attempts by the IPCC etc. This is for cumulative co2 emissions or the increase from 280 to 410 ppm, then to 560 ppm.
https://judithcurry.com/2018/12/11/climate-sensitivity-to-cumulative-carbon-emissions/#more-24552
Currey’s paper is difficult to follow, but I do note she seems to be basing her projections on a steady accumulation of CO2 from current anthropogenic causes, burning of coal, oil, gas and cement and agriculture. But she makes no allowance for the rising levels of methane. The cause of the recent acceleration is apparently not yet agreed but there is mounting evidence of leaking of the Arctic methane hydrates, with the potential of a massive “burp” according to some papers. The latter could be catastrophic if large and sudden.
See above Stu, iow tell us how to mitigate your so called problems?
Why don’t you read up on Holocene tree line change [those old tree stumps are hard to argue with and they sure beat a lone tree ring], warming and sea level rise, stu, and get some understanding of recent history when temperatures were higher, there was much less permafrost [therefore more methane] and CO2 levels were supposedly much lower.
And then get back to us with your “evidence” of climate crisis.
You did not watch the video, did you?
You admitted you didn’t read Curry’s paper, didn’t you?
Frankly, the opinion of someone who admits Curry’s paper is too “difficult” for them to read does not impress me to spend 15 minutes of my life watching a video. And I suspect all sensible people ‘value’ your opinion as I do.
According to data from a new study (Sannel et al., 2018), subarctic Northern Sweden has yet to rise out of the range of frigid, permafrost-friendly temperatures coeval with of the Little Ice Age (roughly 1400 to 1900 AD).
Permafrost still exists today in regions where there was no recorded permafrost during nearly all of the Holocene, when temperatures were too warm (3°C higher than today) for permafrost to form:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/bor.12276
As I have been telling you for ages, stu, we are in the lowest quartile of Holocene temps so please stop bed-wetting like all the kiddies are currently doing.
That paper seems to refer to the sub-arctic, a different locale! Find me the same stuff in the Arctic and in the siberian sub-arctic.
There are literally dozens of peer reviewed papers, stu, so stop being in such denial and go and look.
How does 7c warmer grab you?
“During the period of maximum forest extension, the mean July temperatures along the northern coastline of Russia may have been 2.5° to 7.0°C warmer than modern.”
Radiocarbon-dated macrofossils are used to document Holocene treeline history across northern Russia (including Siberia). Boreal forest development in this region commenced by 10,000 yr B.P. Over most of Russia, forest advanced to or near the current arctic coastline between 9000 and 7000 yr B.P. and retreated to its present position by between 4000 and 3000 yr B.P. Forest establishment and retreat was roughly synchronous across most of northern Russia. Treeline advance on the Kola Peninsula, however, appears to have occurred later than in other regions. During the period of maximum forest extension, the mean July temperatures along the northern coastline of Russia may have been 2.5° to 7.0°C warmer than modern. The development of forest and expansion of treeline likely reflects a number of complimentary environmental conditions, including heightened summer insolation, the demise of Eurasian ice sheets, reduced sea-ice cover, greater continentality with eustatically lower sea level, and extreme Arctic penetration of warm North Atlantic waters. The late Holocene retreat of Eurasian treeline coincides with declining summer insolation, cooling arctic waters, and neoglaciation.
The most frightening thing is that the “consensus” is completely impervious to its own failures:
“A senior U.N. environmental official says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ?eco-refugees,” threatening political chaos, said Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program, or UNEP. He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human control.
As the warming melts polar icecaps, ocean levels will rise by up to three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat island nations, Brown told The Associated Press in an interview on Wednesday. Coastal regions will be inundated; one-sixth of Bangladesh could be flooded, displacing a fourth of its 90 million people. A fifth of Egypt’s arable land in the Nile Delta would be flooded, cutting off its food supply, according to a joint UNEP and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency study. ?Ecological refugees will become a major concern, and what’s worse is you may find that people can move to drier ground, but the soils and the natural resources may not support life …”
UNEP estimates it would cost the United States at least $100 billion to protect its east coast alone. Shifting climate patterns would bring back 1930s Dust Bowl conditions to Canadian and U.S. wheatlands, while the Soviet Union could reap bumper crops if it adapts its agriculture in time, according to a study by UNEP and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis … The most conservative scientific estimate that the Earth’s temperature will rise 1 to 7 degrees in the next 30 years …
U.N. Predicts Disaster if Global Warming Not Checked
Associated Press (30 June 1989)”
Then there was the “50 million climate refugees” forecast that was also a lemon. And there are plenty more.
What would it take for the UN and the climate alarmists to accept that their forecasts of climate disaster regularly fail to eventuate?
None of those events have been predicted to have occurred YET. The timelines are to do with taking action to lessen future effects.
Are you saying none of these things will occur in the future?
Geeeezzzz Stu, if you think all of this is correct, you must also have considered mitigation? So tell us your answer, how, when and by how much? Can’t wait for your response to Lomborg’s graph. Is it 1,000 years, 5,000 years or 7,000 years? And don’t forget temp as well.
And don’t forget to book your flight to the non OECD countries, I’m sure they’ll welcome you with open arms.
Did you see Currie, the guy not the lady say FEMA spent $450 billion since 2005 fixing climate related damage in USA. That was not including insurance claims. And the figure is accelerating. And he wants to start spending money “before the flood” to reduce damage in the future. This is the worldin which his namesake claims damage from weather induced events is decreasing. Wow
Not sure what year you think we are in, but the 50 million climate refugees were originally predicted to occur by 2010. From Spiegel:
“UN Embarrassed by Forecast on Climate Refugees
Six years ago, the United Nations issued a dramatic warning that the world would have to cope with 50 million climate refugees by 2010. But now that those migration flows have failed to materialize, the UN has distanced itself from the forecasts. On the contrary, populations are growing in the regions that had been identified as environmental danger zones.”
Also, note that the other prediction was “entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000”.
This reversal, according to alarmists including you, did not happen. Seems it is all too late now, so eat, drink, and be merry for at an indeterminate time in the future we will all die.
Predicting disaster somewhere in the indeterminate future if we did not do something by 19 years ago seems inane.
Like most things on the side claiming nothing is happening ( often known as denying facts) posts alleging to be quotes of Tim Flannery can usually be traced to mis quotes of reality.
For example he said “We’re already seeing the initial impacts and they include a decline in the winter rainfall zone across southern Australia, which is clearly an impact of climate change, but also a decrease in run-off. Although we’re getting say a 20 per cent decrease in rainfall in some areas of Australia, that’s translating to a 60 per cent decrease in the run-off into the dams and rivers. That’s because the soil is warmer because of global warming and the plants are under more stress and therefore using more moisture. So even the rain that falls isn’t actually going to fill our dams and our river systems”. But that has been turned by Bolt et al into “flannery said, the dams will never fill again ” etc, which is far from the truth.
Oh well, distortion of the facts and misquoting are standard fare in the quackery driven debate.
Watch the video and come back with objections to the logic of Hadfield’s argument, not standard deny tactics, change the space, distract etc. Oh you can’t can you. Never mind.
I didn’t mention Tim Flummery, you are just using the standard alarmist (dare I say denialist?) trick of trying to change the subject.
Incidentally, as well as missing the date of the climate refugees forecast, whidh was by 2010, you also missed the last sentence of the 1989 UN prediction of doom from sea level rise.
“The most conservative scientific estimate that the Earth’s temperature will rise 1 to 7 degrees in the next 30 years …”
Should you be mathematically challenged, 30 years from 1989 is 2019. We seem to have missed much of the 1 to 7 degree rise!
Part of the reason the message gets embedded is that the alarmists never, ever, recognise or admit to their multiple failures. Perhaps because their reading comprehension is too limited to understand them.
How many of those refugees from Syria are not climate related refugees? It was not just political.
Scraping the bottom of the barrel bringing Syria into this!
Obviously, you are right that people fleeing Syria are climate refugees because people don’t run away from bombs being dropped on them [not].
What’s your prediction on Poley B’ars, stoo?
https://www.thegwpf.org/polar-bear-numbers-could-have-quadrupled/
It is amazing what less hunting will do isn’t it?
It is even more amazing that alarmists will pretend polar bears are “threatened” when their population has quadrupled in recent decades.
This, of course, goes to the veracity of the cult and its members (including you) who proselytise their superstitious belief that beneficial global warming is a problem and some claim is an “emergency”.
Well, the 50 million climate refugees were to be by 2010, which I think has already passed, unless alarmists have set up a new calendar.
The 1989 prediction of vast flooding of low level land predicted temperature increases of (conservatively) 1 to 7 degrees within 30 yests, ie by 2019. The BOM will have to do a lot of homogenising to show that!
There are other failed predictions also, but showing you were wrong about two is adequate to cast doubt on everything you say.
As for “Are you saying none of these things will occur in the future?” that question is totally inane.
Every doomster ( climate, religious or other) prediction has failed to materialise. I clearly remember Tim Flannery on ABC saying in September 2006 sea levels may rise up to 4 metres within 10 to 15 years. Also heard in 1989 there will be no snow on the Snowies, lake Jindabyne will be dry and the town will be a ghost town. Well let me assure there is plenti of snow, water and the town is booming. This prediction was updated by a “climate scientist” at Macquarie Uni ( Ithink this the the uni who sacked Prof Brady), she said in 2012 enjoy the skiing because by 2020 no more snow. Well that is next year – I give her ptediction a millionth of a chance, and that is being generous.
I still remember the diagrams how major seaside cities will look like in 2010, every one of them turned to completely, utterly wrong!. As for the 50 million climate refugees, 1 did claim just that (wow), his claim was dismissed in an Auckland court.
The failure of every doomsday predictions or prophesy was one influence converting me from an alarmist to a sceptic.
FFS, and when was that slated to be? Could well happen yet. Why do you think the snowfields have invested millions in snow making? And speaking as a skier thank dog they have.
Presumably that “dog” is a St Bernard?
Of course, or at least an aussie kelpie.
“could well happen yet”. So could a new Ice Age. Perhaps you might offer a possible timeframe?
And still no one is willing to challenge the logic and facts underpinning Peter Hadfield’s video. Amazing. Points to the truth. Or has everyone ducked the challenge of actually watching it to the end. Only 15 minutes. Here it is again to save you looking back.
Hadfield gives some references but not sufficient. Anyway he makes good points at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ6Z04VJDco&t=770
and in the chart at:
The chart seems to show a correlation with TSI until the 1980’s when CO2 reached sufficient levels for global warming to over haul any TSI influence.
Has Hadfield ever produced a paper to support his convenient claim that TSI, when combined with CO2 over that vast paleo period then aligns CO2 with temperatures?
The assumptions required for that would make current IPCC climate models look downright sagacious in comparison.
IOW, it’s unmeasurable, unquantifiable blither.
But sticking to much more recent history, the facts remain that we have warmed less than 1c since records began and that was from the coldest prolonged period of the Holocene. So that still leaves us in the bottom quartile of the global Nat Var warming that has occurred during that 8-10 thousand year period where it is commonly accepted that global temps fluctuated by at least 4c. That paper I showed you suggested up to 7c.
Now please tell us 1/ how that is in any way any sort of climate crisis? 2/ how you can deny that some, probably most, if not all, of that approx.1c is Nat Var? and 3/ what is happening today climate-wise that did not happen during the last 80 centuries when it was known and shown to be warmer when CO2 was at only ~ 280 ppm?
You are the one who’s ducking.
A couple of words spring to mind, amplification and feedback. Go and look up the Arctic temperature situation, and the rate of decline of sea ice and arctic snow cover. And by the way, Hadfield makes no pronouncements, he quotes science research, that is the strength of the stuff he puts out, so no he has no paper to point you at.
Also regarding what I just wrote it seems that the figure for Arctic warming being double the global average is actually even higher as you get nearer the pole, i.e. higher latitude. A bad sign, but wont affect Dubbo for a long time yet.
A “couple of words” aren’t science.
If runaway warming from those “couple of words” has not occurred in the past when CO2 was more than 10 times current levels, then your reasoning is flawed.
And with all the screams about the “record” current heatwaves they conveniently forget it reached 127f [53c] in Spain in 1935:
https://realclimatescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/2019-06-27112859_shadow.jpg
And just imagine what other historic data conveniently eludes them when the gatekeepers continually cook the books as we have endless evidence of.
So please answer my questions and stop dodging and weaving.
Stu please tell us how to fix your so called climate emergency? You seem to spend all day, every day yapping about the perils that await us in the future, but run away and hide when we ask you about verifiable mitigation solutions?
I’ve shown that their so called mitigation is the greatest con and fra-d in the history of the world, but still no response?
Dr Hansen admitted it’s BS and fra-d as he told the Guardian in 2015 after the fra-dulent Paris circus.
For a person who seems to be so concerned about our future you have a strange reluctance to face the facts and admit there is SFA we can achieve by throwing endless trillions $ at this mirage either now or into the distant future.
So come on tell us what you propose to fix your nightmares? This should be easy, unless you haven’t bothered to look at your so called mitigation data or evidence? Even Chris on his better days admits that mitigation will not work, so why not tell us where he’s wrong? Until that time you have no credibility at all.
Yes indeed Neville. Stu’s non-solution to the likely non-problem from a scientist who has testified before congress on many occasions:
Apart from the fact that “it is a safe argument that once we quarry the cement required, mine and refine the steel and aluminium, and dig up the rare earth minerals that every wind turbine requires, Industrial Wind Turbines cannot even be considered green.”
“Where every single one of these installations exists energy to your home cost more than it would without it.
In most cases this energy costs at least three times more than conventional fossil fuel power plants.
The homeowner must pay the price for the government’s belief that it is doing something beneficial for the environment or the Earth’s temperature.”
https://climatechangedispatch.com/wind-solar-costing-you-money/
Nev and SD,
First can Nev recall just what it was like when CO2 was ten times current levels? It was a very long time ago and was a nasty world and there were no humans around. The causes of change were natural and ultimately fixed by the earths systems rebounding and finding new equilibrium positions each time. Now the problem is not natural, but man made.
As for Hansen, I think you will find he was disgusted by the paltry effort achieved in Paris (because of the drag effects of the political forces at work). Like Mann he thinks we need to be doing more or we will be truly stuffed in the end.
So back to where we are. We can sit on our hands and watch the house burn down or we can call for help. In this case the help is science, to keep tabs on what is happening and also to find solutions.
Just as the cost of solar power has been reduced massively through new technologies and also sheer volume. So it is with the nascent efforts at carbon capture and storage. Not just the stick it in the power station stuff but stand alone systems to suck it out of the air. They exist already in pilot form, but are expensive. Mankind is inventive when faced with problems, it just needs to recognise the problem, allocate resources and work hard. In the current case throw in some luck as well.
As we will soon be reminded, the US went from a standing start and put men on the moon in a decade. It was a mammoth and staggeringly effective program. With similar commitment the same is possible with our climate problem.
But we are a long way from having consensus on the problem. If I was in charge (of the whole damn world) I would doing a few things like ramping up more efficient small scale nuclear power systems that pose less safety and security problems than the current megastructures. Next I would pour money into research for renewable energy, better storage, and CCS. To pay for it I would impose (to borrow an idea from Bernie Sanders) a small transaction tax on the global financial system. It is amazing how a few cents on every trade could mount up. Finally I would force the current fossil fuel masters to come clean on their obfuscation efforts of denial and make them stop. That is not quite the right word but is more polite than some others I could use.
In light of your questions is it possible you are softening your positions just a little? Would be great if so. Cheers and have a nice weekend.
Neville asked you a series of questions and he quoted Hansen as providing answers to those questions. Neville then asked other questions that arise from Hansen’s words; i.e.
“So come on tell us what you propose to fix your nightmares? This should be easy, unless you haven’t bothered to look at your so called mitigation data or evidence? Even Chris on his better days admits that mitigation will not work, so why not tell us where he’s wrong?”
You have replied by asking,
“First can Nev recall just what it was like when CO2 was ten times current levels? It was a very long time ago and was a nasty world and there were no humans around. ” Then waffling about that irrelevance.
stu, you need to understand that conversation does not consist of exchanging unanswered questions. Conversation consists of considering the points presented. You have completely ignored what Neville reported and asked, and you have attempted to change the subject by asking,
“First can Nev recall just what it was like when CO2 was ten times current levels? It was a very long time ago and was a nasty world and there were no humans around. ”
That has no relation to anything that Neville, reported, and asked. It is irrelevant twaddle.
Please answer the questions Neville asked because that is how conversation is conducted.
PS To avoid you chasing your own ‘red herring’, I point out that the laws of physics are the same now as they were “when CO2 was ten times current levels”, the laws of physics are not changed by the existence of humans, and the reason you think it was “nasty” is because you are a member of a species (viz. humanity) which did not evolve then. None of which is pertinent to the subject under discussion except to say that the temperature was not elevated to harmful levels by the high CO2 levels: indeed, such high levels of atmospheric CO2 existed during an ice age.
From earlier, since mitigation/adaptation have come up.
Chris at 1356 on 27 June
Added now
So which should we pursue, mitigation (CO2 reduction) at vast expense for minimal return, or adaptation?
No need to pursue either of those options, after all the alarmists want to take our money in exchange for vague promises of better weather in 100 years time
Sorry not better weather, perhaps survival of the species. But never mind, rationality and economic forces will soon take over and these arguments will seem weird, even arcane by the standards of the time. Unless you are a cockroach.
At last you have provided an explanation for your surreal views and strange beliefs.
Mike considered mitigation and adaptation options in response to elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration and he wrote,
You have replied by saying ;
OK, I get it. You are a cockroach!
Stu bed-wets and pontificates; “perhaps survival of the species”. Oh, dear!
Seeing as you climate crisis consensuals are too lazy to put your heads outside and check sea levels, here is Sydney harbour sea levels since the 1880s.
Sea levels are rising at the frightening rate of 65 mm per century but there is a GPS chip nearby showing a downward movement of similar rate, IOW, almost nothing happening.
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_global_station.shtml?stnid=680-140
And that is verified by the east coast beaches which are in the best condition they have been in for decades.
Further north in Moreton Bay, SLs are rising 9 mm per century +/- 68 mm per century.
The tide gauge there was changed nearly 40 years ago but in actual fact king tides there are lower than they were 70 years ago.
With nothing happening in the SLR dept, stu, there is nothing happening with your climate crisis either so the survival of the species would be a pretty safe bet.
It’s just a shame that our legislators listen to the bed-wetters, blitherers and brainwashed kiddies instead of checking for themselves before they squander our life savings on this non-problem.
Future investment climate is where the real problem will be:
http://catallaxyfiles.com/2019/06/26/more-madness-from-the-university-of-melbourne/#comments
Spangled Drano, time for you to grasp the fact that this is not about sea levels right now. It is about overall climate, changing conditions for the biosphere and down the track probable major sea level rise in the future. I know you are of the group that thinks we have always had cars, power comes out of poles, our world is how it has always been, and high tide at Manly has not changed, but that is not realistic. The only constant in the world is change and the pace is accelerating, get used to it. Like it or not the settled world you love including coal power, petrol cars, and stable rainfall is changing. We cant stop it and we have to accept facts. Fortunately the rational world, even the corrupted economic/political regime we have is in the bitter end driven by reality. Just look at the write down of the asset value of GE stock who missed the start of the transition to renewables. They have a major problem with the switch from new coal generators. Economics wins in the end. So stick with your name calling, the world has a long history of studying fossils. Or instead get with the program, the change over has started. Join the winning team mate.
Mike Burston says:
Isn’t blaming CO2 (and by direct implication, humanity itself) for every single instance of natural planetary dynamism (above every other known & unknown variable) the grossest oversimplification of all?
Even by your lax standards, that response is utterly pathetic.
You see absolutely no natural causes for anything at all? Really??
And I should have added just think of the business opportunities for first movers in this space. Huge potential for the smart players. Or you could be like the inventor of the digital camera (kodak) or the first big cell phone maker (nokia) or many others who stuck with the core business, and then lost it. Opportunity is for the brave. Laggards fail. That is the story of our economic miracle. The current world never lasts.
You might think the Australian national grid should be providing electricity rather than being a protection racket to reward people for buying uneconomic equipment in the hope of stopping Antarctica from melting.
Xtu
You wrote
“We cant stop it and we have to accept facts.”
If you genuinely believe this, and are not just parroting alarmist talking points, then you would abandon the insane pursuit of CO2 mitigation and look to putting resources into adaptation. Reliable despatchable power (not intermittent solar and wind), efficient road and rail transportation, not wasting food in fuel, things like that.
But I suspect that you are too committed to the alarmist “narrative” to change course.
A conspiracy? As you explained Don why there are large numbers of people who push the argument we are all doomed and it is our fault is quite a complex one. For many it very much has the trappings of religious cults. I have been impressed over the years with the pitifully futile proposals from the doomsday cult as to what should be done. The catch cry is renewable energy from many and yet the world has 1% of that and it is expected to grow to 4% by 2050. In the last few years some leading lights in the environmental movement have realized the futility of renewables. If we need energy the only emission free possibility is nuclear. Horror upon horror the cultists say how could that be proposed! Humanity has many within it that will believe in strange things and push for others to believe as well. It is a function of the way humans operate. The belief itself is not that important what what is important is it makes you part of the group. One of my brothers was well into the cult and could have been classified as a deep ecologist. This is a belief system that wishes to change the world to be centred around ecology rather than humans. They have a manifesto which advocates a world population of around 500 million. Also an end to industrialization. I could go on but essentially it would mean reversing back into the 1600s. It is interesting that many of the things environmentalism wants is also an attack on our economy. I am sure as in any religion most of the followers don’t see this as the endgame but certainly it seems someone does. Being classified as a ruinous virus I certainly will oppose it at every turn.
Very true, good summary bb.
You write,
” If we need energy the only emission free possibility is nuclear. Horror upon horror the cultists say how could that be proposed! Humanity has many within it that will believe in strange things and push for others to believe as well. It is a function of the way humans operate. The belief itself is not that important what what is important is it makes you part of the group. One of my brothers was well into the cult and could have been classified as a deep ecologist. This is a belief system that wishes to change the world to be centred around ecology rather than humans.”
Yes, and we have an example of the application of that ideology because it was applied by Pol Pot in Cambodia. The death toll was horrific as the country was de-industrialised.
I have repeatedly stated the following explanation to supporters of the anthropogenic (i.e. human-made) global warming (AGW) scare.
Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) notably carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions requires reducing the use of fossil fuels, but the use of fossil fuels has done more to benefit human kind than anything else since the invention of agriculture.
All human activity requires energy supply. Prior to the use of fossil fuels the total energy supply available to humans was limited to energy obtainable from wind, passive solar, animals and slaves. Human activity increased immensely when the much greater energy obtainable from fossil fuels became available to do work initially by use of the steam engine.
More than 80% of energy now used by humans is provided by fossil fuels.
Removing the use of fossil fuels would require return to reliance on the energy obtainable from wind, solar, animals and slaves together with great adoption of nuclear power. This would kill at very least 3.8 billion people (and probably many more than that).
Anyone who doubts the death toll would so high should ask a farmer what his food production would be if he had to replace his tractor with horses (answer to that question provides adequate explanation of the matter which is a little more complicated than that).
Simply, the carnage from cessation of fossil fuel usage would be so great that it would pale into insignificance the combined atrocities of Genghis Khan, Adolf Hitler and Pol pot.
I tell all environmentalists that if they are successful in ending fossil fuel usage but they and I survive the resulting carnage then I will accept them as my slaves but I will fight to not be their slave. And many others will fight with me because in that circumstance many will join with me in shouting, “I am Spartacus !”
Stu everything you propose will not change the climate or weather by 2050 or 2100 and beyond. Lomborg told us this many years ago and he has the heavy, maths, stats, economic and science studies to back up his conclusions.
His team includes real Nobel laureates and numbered about 23 ( that’s total, not all are Nobel Laureates) at last count. As I’ve shown using the RS and NAS calcs it still wouldn’t make any difference if we stopped all human co2 emissions today. Anyway that’s the story from the alarmist side of the ledger.
The only answer is adaptation and more ONGOING R&D and in the meantime we should be building new HELE coal plants in OZ ASAP. Dr Hansen told us the truth , S&W are just BS and fra-d, akin to believing in the Easter bunny and the Tooth fairy.
It seems that even Wikipedia are starting to catch up. You’ll see here that they now list OZ as 1.08% of global co2 emissions and their graph on China’s emissions is nearly vertical since about 2000.
Just a pity they didn’t show the near flat-lining of the developed OECD countries emissions over the same time period, i.e. from 1990 to 2017.
Don’t forget that OZ population increased by about 47% from 1990 to 2017. As I said , we should be building new HELE coal plants ASAP.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions
The huge volume of undeniable evidence is that all the predictions from the Climate-Doomsday-Religious-Cultists have ALL been WRONG!!!!
What makes the stu-pids of this world think their present, persistent, panicky, prognostications will be any different?
Yet they feel this need to ignore reality and rationality and shout even louder to terrify the little kiddies in order to get the attention they crave.
Not to mention those lovely govt grants.
No point replying to the above nonsense really. However it is one of those very rare times when a biblical phrase comes to mind. Jeremiah 5:21
: : : Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not:
But never mind, events will have you eat your words, sadly before too long. But then again, with your head so deep in the sand you will not hear or see anything I guess. End of story.
We’ve shown you the data and evidence, so why not show us your so called climate emergency and then tell us how to fix it? But please no more silly religious dogma.
No point, you don’t ever listen. Goodbye.
We are dying to hear and listen , stu, if only you had something to tell us other than your baseless panicky prognostications.
Rational people like us are always on the lookout for real problems so we can be prepared, but doomsday scenarios that, historically, have been shown to be totally baseless, are not real problems.
Just bed-wetting blither.
Bye-bye once again [or is that just another hand wave?]
Yes, stu, we have eyes, ears and minds but you simply fail to provide any facts.
So remind us now, which of your doomsdays has actually been right?
Well, the 50 million climate refugees by 2010 wasn’t, and the (conservative) UN estimate of a 1 to 7 degree temperature increase by 2019 certainly seems to be in major doubt.
As I wrote earlier, if Stu really believes that “We cant stop it and we have to accept facts”, then adaption is the only rational course of action, and wasting trillions on intermittent, unreliable, ruinables is the greatest disservice to future generations that could be imagined.
But Stu is utterly comitted to that course of action.
You want a Biblical quotation that fits the narrative of your climate scare-cult? OK. It Is
“mene mene tekel upharsin”.
These words are the origin of the phrase “The writing on the wall” which is used to describe a forecast of disaster for someone. The Book of Daniel, Chapter 5, says these words were writing that appeared on the wall at a feast hosted by Balshazar and says their translation is,
You have been weighed in the balance and found to be wanting.
Palaeontologists must have deserted this argument in terminal frustration. Everyone agrees that both temperatures and Carbon dioxide levels were much higher in the past, but the earth did not become uninhabitable. The fossil record shows that life flourished. It did not die out, and start again from scratch, and despite alarmist forebodings, will not do so in the future.
Chris Warren, please do not ask me for references. Go to your local library, and ask for some basic textbooks on Geology.
No references – just lazy denialist stuff I presume.
Laziness may have fitted you for the public service, but it is not a defence of your lack of intellectual rigour.
no references – no rigor.
Don’t use words in vain.
Rigor is usually associated with mortis. This accurately describes the intellectual level of your ‘discussion’.
End Permian, 251 million years ago, 96% of species lost
Known as “the great dying”, this was by far the worst extinction event ever seen; it nearly ended life on Earth. The tabulate corals were lost in this period – today’s corals are an entirely different group. What caused it? A perfect storm of natural catastrophes. A cataclysmic eruption near Siberia blasted CO2 into the atmosphere. Methanogenic bacteria responded by belching out methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Global temperatures surged while oceans acidified and stagnated, belching poisonous hydrogen sulfide. “It set life back 300 million years,” says Schmidt. Rocks after this period record no coral reefs or coal deposits.
Credit: JAIME MURCIA / MELBOURNE MUSEUM
From the Canada museum website:
Speculated Causes of the Permian Extinction
Although the cause of the Permian mass extinction remains a debate, numerous theories have been formulated to explain the events of the extinction. One of the most current theories for the mass extinction of the Permian is an agent that has been also held responsible for the Ordovician and Devonian crises, glaciation on Gondwana. A similar glaciation event in the Permian would likely produce mass extinction in the same manner as previous, that is, by a global widespread cooling and/or worldwide lowering of sea level.
The Formation of Pangea
Another theory which explains the mass extinctions of the Permian is the reduction of shallow continental shelves due to the formation of the super-continent Pangea. Such a reduction in oceanic continental shelves would result in ecological competition for space, perhaps acting as an agent for extinction. However, although this is a viable theory, the formation of Pangea and the ensuing destruction of the continental shelves occurred in the early and middle Permian, and mass extinction did not occur until the late Permian.
A third possible mechanism for the Permian extinction is rapid warming and severe climatic fluctuations produced by concurrent glaciation events on the north and south poles. In temperate zones, there is evidence of significant cooling and drying in the sedimentological record, shown by thick sequences of dune sands and evaporites, while in the polar zones, glaciation was prominent. This caused severe climatic fluctuations around the globe, and is found by sediment record to be representative of when the Permian mass extinction occurred.
The fourth and final suggestion that palaeontologists have formulated credits the Permian mass extinction as a result of basaltic lava eruptions in Siberia. These volcanic eruptions were large and sent a quantity of sulphates into the atmosphere. Evidence in China supports that these volcanic eruptions may have been silica-rich, and thus explosive, a factor that would have produced large ash clouds around the world. The combination of sulphates in the atmosphere and the ejection of ash clouds may have lowered global climatic conditions. The age of the lava flows has also been dated to the interval in which the Permian mass extinction occurred.
No CO2, no high temperatures, no Russian collusion. LMAO
JimboR,
Bryan Roberts has just wiped the floor with you (an easy thing to do) so I write to ask if you intend to demand his CV as you demanded my CV when I wiped the floor with you in the previous thread?
The reason I ask is because I enjoyed playing with you struggling on that ‘hook’ of your own making and I would get much pleasure from watching Bryan Roberts having similar fun.
Richard, I can see I really touched a nerve when I asked about your formal qualifications. You started a post with “I am a scientist”, I quoted that and asked for further details by way of formal qualifications, you respectfully declined, I accepted that and we moved on. Well, at least most of us did. Methinks the scientist doth protest too much.
I’m pretty sure Bryan is a scientist, and I vaguely recall he’s even mentioned which maths units he took in his degree, but I can’t recall him ever starting a post with “I am a scientist and….”. He doesn’t need to defer to such authority, he lets his comments speak for themselves.
As for the Permian Extinction, Bryan copy-and-pasted stuff from the Canada Museum and I did the same from the Melbourne Museum, neither of us provided any original content, and neither of us needed to claim to be scientists. I’m more than happy to let the museums duke that out, I’m not qualified to adjudicate. Perhaps you’re also a palaeontologist and can shed further light?
I did hear a good anecdote from Martin Van Kranendonk, who also thinks the Permian Extinction was caused by huge amounts of volcanic CO2 causing a thermal maximum. It was along the lines of.. if two geologists go into the field they’ll always come back with three opinions.
“I’m pretty sure Bryan is a scientist“
Thank you. You are correct, but I have no intention of elaborating on this.
I see you are still wriggling on the line. Excellent!
So long as you spend time trying to defame me you are not looking for lies that could dupe people into thinking your AGW-cult may be right. Therefore, I will keep ‘tugging on the line’ so long as you remain stuck on the ‘hook’ you made yourself.
And my reminder of the fun I had at your expense has obtained something of value.
You have admitted you don’t provide any real information but ‘copy and paste’ untrue anecdotes from others. That was obvious, of course, but I intend to remind of your admitting it when you next post nonsense.
As for your suggestion that your smears and lies “touched a nerve”,
don’t be silly and stop flattering yourself.
I would not have resurrected the matter if that suggestion were true but I intend to repeatedly remind people about it until you crawl back under your bridge. I am inoculated against pathetic attacks like yours because I have been suffering the “slings and arrows” (yes, I can quote Bill W, too) from your ilk for decades.
You seem to have forgotten I admitted to you that I am “the spawn of the Devil”. Perhaps you don’t believe in my evil powers but, of course, I can no more prove they exist by words on a web page than I can prove anything else about me that way. Are you really willing to take on my demonic powers which have more effect than the global warming you say you fear?
So you are a palaeontologist as well; you’ve managed to break the deadlock between the views of the two museums. Excellent. Flip this guy an email and explain to him where he went wrong…
https://www.bees.unsw.edu.au/martin-van-kranendonk
I’m sure it’ll make his week.
Neither Bryan Roberts nor I said either of us is a “palaeontologist” (Bryan may be but I don’t know and I don’t care if he is or is not).
Nobody here has “managed to break the deadlock between the views of the two museums” and I see no evidence that anybody here has tried to do that.
I do see that you claimed to know the cause of a particular event and Bryan demonstrated beyond doubt that such certainty does not exist: there is a variety possible causes. Your reliance on choosing authorities to “believe” induced you to claim knowledge that nobody has but one museum asserts (this is the same mistake you make when asserting there is evidence for AGW).
See, my demonic powers have again overpowered you!
Or is it merely that you are too thick to consider what you have written before you press the Submit button?
“and I see no evidence that anybody here has tried to do that.”
How about….
“don’t provide any real information but ‘copy and paste’ untrue anecdotes from others.”
Here are his actual words….
“But it turns out the most extreme event that wiped out 95% of species on Earth was caused by a thermal maximum. And that’s a long time back in the geological past, but at that time, there was a huge amount of volcanism that the Earth went through, and… So, we think of the Earth as this sort of planet that just sort of bubbles along, but it goes in waves and pulses. And at that time, there was this big pulse of volcanic gases that belched out CO2, and it changed the atmosphere. And it changed it so fast that the species could not keep up, and 95% of all species on Earth went extinct.”
Take it up with the professor….. no doubt your qualifications well out-gun his. Let us know how it goes.
I don’t need to rely on any other when confronted with someone as intellectually challenged as you.
The issue is clear for all to see.
You claimed a single explanation exists for ‘The Great Dying’ and provided a quote saying “Credit: JAIME MURCIA / MELBOURNE MUSEUM”
Bryan Roberts demonstrated there are several possible causes of the ‘The Great Dying’ and proved his point by quoting another museum (i.e. the Canada museum website).
I pointed out that Bryan Roberts had “wiped the floor” with you (an easy thing to do), and I asked if that meant you intended to demand his CV as you had demanded my CV when I had wiped the floor with you.
You responded to my enquiry with bluster so I continued to ‘pull your leg’ about your silly behaviour (and I don’t intend to stop).
You continue your bluster about “qualifications” (that are not relevant) and this post is me continuing to ‘yank your chain’.
I always enjoy poking objectionable and anonymous trolls, and I will continue to enjoy this exchange with you until you crawl back under your bridge.
“and I don’t intend to stop”
Knock yourself out! You’re not even making a dent.
1. Bryan and I each copy-and-pasted two different museums’ position on an issue (neither of us can take credit for either)
2. you clearly preferred one over the other with comments about floor mopping and “‘copy and paste’ untrue anecdotes from others”
Which were the “untrue anecdotes” btw? If I knew that I might at least have a clue what you’re on about.
3. when I congratulated you on being able to choose the right answer (something I freely admitted I was unqualified to do) and suggested you share your wisdom with the professor, you denied you had and now shift the argument to:
“You claimed a single explanation exists”
No, I showed an explanation held by the Melbourne Museum (and the UNSW Professor). I made no comment as to to whether there were alternate views – indeed I’d be surprised if there weren’t. But since this view contradicted Bryan’s original assertion it seemed relevant to the post.
It’s a ridiculous proposition that somebody attaching a scientific view to a thread has an obligation to attach all known views. I attached the one I knew about. Bryan did the same.
Perhaps your beef is with Melbourne Musuem (and the UNSW professor) for settling on one view while Canada Musuem leaves open the possibility of four? Neither Bryan nor I can take the credit or blame for that. Take it up with the museums and or professors.
Is this really as good as you’ve got?
I certainly won’t be climbing under any bridges (whatever that means), but I can imagine I might get bored with arguing with someone of so little intellectual rigour. If your goal is to just bore me out of the discussion, you’re almost there.
“If your goal is to just bore me out of the discussion, you’re almost there.”
You are thinking about running away. A few more nudges and you may be gone.
Of course, dealing with you provides similar revulsion to scraping something unpleasant from the bottom of a shoe, but it is worth doing and for the same reason, and your message encourages me to complete the job..
When you go you can console yourself that – like other trolls who have returned to hiding under a bridge – you will still be a legend in your own lunchtime.
What sort of message should denialists get embedded into their skulls now?
It looks like the climate message is becoming well embedded in new northern hemisphere heats records. New Delhi has just recorded it hottest June Day, and in France;
“The mercury reached 45.9 degrees Celsius (114.6 Fahrenheit) in Gallargues-le-Montueux in the Gard department in southern France, according to the French national weather service Météo-France.
This is 1.8 degrees higher than the previous record from 2003. ”
This is just the start – tough luck for their grandchildren. They will probably hate you once you are dead.
This, of course, is climate. The recent very cold period in north America, naturally, is weather.
BTW, Chris, having said above that you
“do not think global CO2 emissions will “probably start decreasing” because the population is still increasing and industrial development outside OECD will continue and even accelerate.”
Do you deny that, if CO2 is the driver, and you do not expect it to decrease, then mitigation is a dead end, and we should turn our focus to adaptation. Starting with stopping wasting billions on unreliable and intermittent renewables and even more on batteries for storage, and focus instead on adaptation to what you and Stu regard as the inevitable?
Or will your grandchildren hate you when you are dead for wasting money on a failed CO2 mitigation program instead of using that money and human ingenuity to adapt to the change you have already proclaimed to be inevitable?
No they will feel the inter-generational love and thank the stars for science, reason, and august scientific institutions that gave humanity the means to extract itself from an otherwise dystopian future.
The denialists will be remembered as the laughing stock they are today.
So you don’t think that CO2 emissions will decrease because population is increasing and industtial development outside the OECD will continue and even accelerate, but if per capita emissions decrease we are all saved.
But if population continues to increase, and industrial development continues, then reducing per capita emissions will simply slow the build up of CO2. It is unlikely to reverse it.
If absolute levels of CO2 matter, as you keep telling us, then decreasing per capita emissions while population increases will not solve the problem.
And you gave the gall to call me a denialist, while you build a future on wishful thinking!
CO2 will decrease if per capita CO2 falls (as is true for some states) and the population stabilises or better starts to fall.
Adaption is impossible – fools errant.
Are denialists, fools as well?
Your words were that you “do not think global CO2 emissions will “probably start decreasing” because the population is still increasing and industrial development outside OECD will continue and even accelerate.”
Now you say that it will.
Try thinking a bit more….
What does the word “if” mean to you????
Chris, one could say if only science could be funded from a sort of blind trust so government wasn’t effectively the only customer for science climate wouldn’t be political any longer
You are betting the future on a combination of reducing per capita emissions and a hope for a stabilising or reducing population. Clearly, you do not see the issue as being urgent, because these desiderata will not happen overnight.
“If” is a small word with major implications. You are building your hopes on wishful thinking.
Chris warren,
This is 1.8 degrees higher than the previous record from 2003. ” ”
The Earth has been recovering from the Little Ice Age (LIA) by warming intermittently for the last 300 years.
Of course we get hotter temperatures now than were common at similar times in the last 300 years.
Record recorded temperatures are inevitable at this stage of recovery from the LIA because we have only been measuring temperatures in many places in recent decades (Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736) invented the alcohol thermometer in 1709, and the mercury thermometer in 1714. In 1724, he introduced the temperature scale that bears his name).
The warming that is recovery from the LIA started before the industrial revolution and long before the 1950s when the IPCC says
(a) rising anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) reached levels that may have affected global climate
(b) the global temperature entered the 30 year cooling period that caused the ‘sulphate emissions are causing global cooling’ scare.
Considering the above, I ask you,
Can you provide any evidence that the natural and beneficial warming which is recovery from the LIA has yet reached the global temperatures experienced in the Minoan, Roman and Medieval warm periods?
Is the message embedded yet????
“Monthly and all-time temperature records were broken Wednesday in parts of Germany, Poland, France, Spain, and the Czech Republic. At least two people died from the heat in Spain. Clermont-Ferrand, France reported a record high of 105.6 degrees Fahrenheit. ”
Is that tears of denialist frustration I see falling from your eyes, or just sweat from global heat?
Just add more air-conditioning….
https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/air-conditioning-is-the-world-s-next-big-threat-20190629-p522hd.html
Might we expect that thd air con has now permanently been switched off at the SMH offices?
Oh, sorry, it is only the proles who should switch off. Important people should continue in comfort.
Checked out the extreme cold in north America recently.
Oh, sorry, that is weather, not climate.
Has reality embedded ye????
I repeat my question to you.
Silly, silly question from a denialist;
Obviously current temperatures are higher;
https://static.skepticalscience.com/pics/Moberg_Hockey_Stick.gif
Good science dowses flames from bad denialists.
https://skepticalscience.com/medieval-warm-period-intermediate.htm
Silly, silly graph.
It has all the same faults as MBH98 that has been refuted by a mountain of evidence and pubic enquiries over the decades since its initial publication. I objected to MBH98 within a week of its first publication and as I reported on this blog at http://donaitkin.com/thinking-about-things/#comment-58965 the deplorable Michael Mann wrote an email (leaked by Climategate) which purported to be dispute of my objection.
My criticism objected to the MNH98 ‘hockeystick’ graph because the graph had an overlay of ‘thermometer’ data over the plotted ‘proxy’ data. This overlay was – I said – misleading because it was an ‘apples and oranges’ comparison. The Moberg reconstruction you link (https://skepticalscience.com/medieval-warm-period-intermediate.htm ) has the same fault: see the different colours.
Simply, the Moberg reconstruction says nothing about the Minoan and Roman warm periods and provides an indication that its analysis does NOT provide any indication of recent temperatures being warmer than temperatures of the Medieval warm period.
And you will always fail in your propaganda campaign when relying on sks for your data. That is the blog of a cartoonist whose knowledge of climate is no more than your own.
PS I still have not noticed any affect of the apparent threat Mann makes against me in his email. But it does show how deluded JimboR is to think I am going to stop ‘pulling his leg’ for his attempts to smear me: JimboR is not in the same league of warmunists as the Mann.
The message might get embedded, blith, when you tell us how far back their “records” go.
Kiddie stuff, 2 people died, hey? Wow!
How about 200,000 in 1821 and some serious droughts during the MWP:
https://realclimatescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/2019_05_11_06_53_48-down.png
And it was even much hotter in Spain in 1935 at 127f:
The truth is always the best way to embed your message but some people [like Michael Mann] spend most of the time telling congress how clever they are:
https://judithcurry.com/2019/06/27/truth-in-testimony-and-convincing-policy-makers/
And following that, the best he could come up with was dodging the facts and attacking and harassing his opponent:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/06/28/is-there-not-a-single-climate-scientist-out-there-who-will-call-this-out-as-improper/
Embedding the message of history:
“The northern limit for grapes during the Middle Ages was about 300 miles above the current commercial wine areas in France and Germany.”
https://web.stanford.edu/~moore/HistoryEcon.html
This guy’s a nutter ….
Didn’t someone running for the Demorat nomination for 2020 recently proclaim “I am Spartacus”? Is this the same one?
Boambee John,
I don’t know, but I said it in this thread (at http://donaitkin.com/hoew-the-message-gets-embedded/#comment-59259 ).
I am not an American (I am an English left-wing socialist of the old-fashioned English kind).
Perhaps you are thinking of someone called Peter Courtney?
Thanks, actually I found your post a bit after posting the above. The Demorat concerned was Cory Booker, who seems unlikrly to make the cut.
In fact, I am grateful when somebody (in this case you) draws attention to facts, reason and argument that are so unassailable that some warmunist (in this case Chris Warren) wants to refute them and can’t so is reduced to throwing silly personal abuse such as “nutter”.
If the poor little warmunist had some response to my comment other than a lachrymose temper tantrum he would have refuted it in a reply to it. Your query of whom diddums meant gives me an excuse to link to my comment which I now repeat
http://donaitkin.com/hoew-the-message-gets-embedded/#comment-59259
All donations (in this case of publicity for my comment) are gratefully received.
“So Chris, how would you mitigate your so called problem and what change would we see in co2 levels and temp? And how long would it take?”
You have already been told that all we need is for per capita emissions to fall (which can be done) and population held constant or fall (which can be done).
You only need to balance sources with sinks.
But achieving these desiderata will take significant periods of time. Reducing population growth to zero, and reducing total population numbers, in particular, will take many decades (unless, of course, you are proposing what might euphemistically be termed “active measures”).
Yet most climate alarmists adhere to the line that immediate action is required to reduce not just CO2 emissions, but absolute quantities of atmospheric CO2.
Which is it? Immediate action or measured progress?
Don’t let denialists disrupt consideration of science by gratuitous comparison with medieval or Roman or Minoan.
These events were not caused by increased CO2 and naturally reversed. There is no possibility of that now.
You demand,
That is madness which cannot be cured by your equally insane assertion saying,
OK. We agree that “”These events were not caused by increased CO2 and naturally reversed”, but if that is true then there is no reason to suppose the present warming will not “reverse”.
Your demand to ignore past climate behaviour and your idiotic justification for that demand are merely additional display of your complete ignorance of what science is and how it is conducted. So I write to inform you of a fundamental scientific principle that refutes your demand; viz. the Null Hypothesis.
The Null Hypothesis is a fundamental scientific principle and forms the basis of all scientific understanding, investigation and interpretation. Indeed, it is the basic principle of experimental procedure where an input to a system is altered to discern a change: if the system is not observed to respond to the alteration then it has to be assumed the system did not respond to the alteration.
The Null Hypothesis says it must be assumed a system has not experienced a change unless there is evidence of a change.
In the case of climate science there is a hypothesis that increased greenhouse gases (GHGs, notably CO2) in the air will increase global temperature. There are good reasons to suppose this hypothesis may be true, but the Null Hypothesis says it must be assumed the GHG changes have no effect unless and until increased GHGs are observed to increase global temperature. That is what the scientific method decrees. It does not matter how certain some people may be that the hypothesis is right because observation of reality (i.e. empiricism) trumps all opinions.
Please note that the Null Hypothesis is a hypothesis which exists to be refuted by empirical observation. It is a rejection of the scientific method to assert that one can “choose” any subjective Null Hypothesis one likes. In science there is only one Null Hypothesis: i.e. it has to be assumed a system has not changed unless it is observed that the system has changed (this differs from statistics where any ‘null hypothesis’ can be adopted to be tested).
However, deciding a method which would discern a change may require a detailed statistical specification.
In the case of global climate in the Holocene, no recent climate behaviours are observed to be unprecedented so the Null Hypothesis decrees that the climate system has not changed.
Importantly, an effect may be real but not overcome the Null Hypothesis because it is too trivial for the effect to be observable.
Human activities have some effect on global temperature for several reasons. An example of an anthropogenic effect on global temperature is the urban heat island (UHI) that probably distorts global temperature ‘measurements’. Cities are warmer than the land around them, so cities cause some warming. But the temperature rise from cities is too small to be detected when averaged over the entire surface of the planet, although this global warming from cities can be estimated by measuring the warming of all cities and their areas.
Clearly, the Null Hypothesis decrees that UHI is not affecting global temperature although there are good reasons to think UHI has some effect (e.g. it probably distorts global temperature estimates). Similarly, it is very probable that AGW from GHG emissions are too trivial to have observable effects.
The feedbacks in the climate system are negative and, therefore, any effect of increased CO2 will be probably too small to discern because natural climate variability is much, much larger. This concurs with the empirically determined values of low climate sensitivity.
Empirical – n.b. not model-derived – determinations indicate climate sensitivity is less than 1.0°C for a doubling of atmospheric CO2 equivalent. As I said above in this thread at http://donaitkin.com/hoew-the-message-gets-embedded/#comment-59060 , this is indicated by the studies of
Idso from surface measurements [see link for original paper]
and Lindzen & Choi from ERBE satellite data [see link for original paper]
and Gregory from balloon radiosonde data [see link for original paper]
Indeed, because climate sensitivity is less than 1.0°C for a doubling of CO2 equivalent, it is physically impossible for the man-made global warming to be large enough to be detected (just as the global warming from UHI is too small to be detected). If something exists but is too small to be detected then it only has an abstract existence; it does not have a discernible existence that has effects (observation of the effects would be its detection).
It is an absolutely certain fact that CO2 DOES does cause some warming of the atmosphere. But to date there are no discernible effects of AGW. Hence, the Null Hypothesis decrees that AGW does not affect global climate to a discernible degree, and that is the ONLY scientific conclusion possible at present.
Richard S Courtney
Null hypothesis is a statistical test based on data.
You have produced no data. I use data.
Current warming will only reverse if the cause reverses.
The cause is the scientific fact that CO2 absorbs infrared radiation which warms the biosphere which then causes outgassing of CO2 from land and sea water.
Lookie, lookie here Richard:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/06/11/san-francisco-soars-degrees-record-heat-wave-torches-california-west-coast/?utm_term=.3be3c3016f6d
https://scripps.ucsd.edu/programs/keelingcurve/wp-content/plugins/sio-bluemoon/graphs/co2_10k.png
Poor Richard – the data monster is coming to bite him. Run Richard, run.
It seems that you probably misheard someone who said you needed “reading classes”: they were NOT talking about a new pair of spectacles.
I clearly stated that I was explaining the scientific Null Hypothesis which “differs” from a statistical null hypothesis (see Footnote 1).
And, dear boy, your inability to read is also demonstrated by your writing,
“I provided data” (about the Minoan, Roman and Medieval warm periods)
NO, you did not.
You “provided” (i.e. linked to) the Moburg reconstruction which I pointed out doesn’t cover the times of the Minoan and Roman periods and overlays onto the reconstruction different (and not comparable) data for recent times.
You could have “provided” more and similarly relevant data by linking to the New York Telephone Directory for 1940: it also says nothing about relative global temperatures of the Minoan, Roman, Medieval and Present warm periods.
Read what I wrote, look at the graph, and then dry your eyes.
Life is good and it will get better when you escape your cult and its beliefs so you can embrace reality.
FOOTNOTE 1
I wrote,
You have replied,
Richard, you are using scientific methods intended for use in controlled environment lab experiments to investigate something as chaotic, multivariate and uncontrollable as the climate. It’s unsurprising you get the results you do.
Well, jimb, you get the prize for getting it bass ackwards.
You and your mates are arguing that there is a major change in that “chaotic, multivariate and uncontrollable” system.
Richard is merely asking you for evidence.
You are recommending controlling a single part of a system as “chaotic, multivariate and uncontrollable as the climate.” Dream on!
It’s unsurprising that you tie yourself in knots the way you do.
But at least you are coming to recognise the impossibility of what you are proposing.
spangled drongo and Boambee John,
The anonymous troll attempts to demean people who hinder the spreading of the AGW-cult’s beliefs, and I am trying to stop those attempts by ‘getting rid’ of the troll. On this occasion the troll did not smear anybody but tried to behave properly by disputing what I had written (although – as you have observed – the point the troll tried to make was wrong and stupid).
I could not care less about the troll’s silly attempts to demean me. In fact, I am having fun swatting the troll whose attacks cannot hurt me (my career is over, my future is limited, and I have a thick skin).
However, trolls who attack people need to be swatted because their behaviour could dissuade others from ‘putting a head above the parapet’.
I am willing to desist from my attempts to get rid of the troll if he/she/they/it stops attacking people and, instead, tries to debate things people have said. But, your answers to the troll’s attempt to dispute something I wrote demonstrate there is – as yet – little indication that the troll is capable of correcting its behaviour by making real points.
BJ I didn’t make any recommendations or proposals. I pointed out why Richard’s analysis gets the result it does. He’s using the wrong scientific tool for the job.
As for those who do make remedial recommendations, AFAIK they’re not recommending we control the climate, or even control a small part of the climate. They’re recommending we control what we inject into the climate. Regardless of what you think of the merits of that, that clearly is in our control. Regardless of whether or not we do that, the climate will always be uncontrollable. The best they can hope for is to influence its long term trajectory. There’s no contradiction there with what I wrote.
Richard, can you remind me again who I attacked please? Preferably with a direct quote in inverted commas of what I wrote, rather than your interpretation of what I wrote. And while you’re quoting me, I’m still waiting for you to highlight where I “‘copy and paste’ untrue anecdotes from others.”
You assert,
“I pointed out why Richard’s analysis gets the result it does. He’s using the wrong scientific tool for the job.”
The scientific Null Hypothesis cannot be the “wrong scientific tool” because – as I explained – it applies to any and every scientific appraisal. (You would know why this is if you understood how science is conducted.)
As I told you,
This follows from the principle of parsimony which is sometimes called ‘Occam’s Razor’.
This principle says that in any scientific consideration the explanation which requires least assumptions is probably correct.
The Null Hypothesis adopts only one assumption; i.e. the system’s behaviour has not changed because the system has not changed.
Any other explanation for unchanging system behaviour adopts at least two assumptions; i.e.
(a) something did alter the system’s behaviour
(b) that alteration to system behaviour is masked and/or negated by another (and simultaneous) alteration to the system’s behaviour.
Hence, as I said,
And I explained that by using UHI for illustration.
Very importantly, I concluded my explanation saying,
I know this is difficult for non-scientists to understand and impossible for members of the AGW-cult to accept, but it is so fundamental to the practice of science that scientists just use it and rarely give it a thought.
Don’t pretend you don’t know what you did. You repeatedly attempted to smear me by suggesting I am unqualified.
Demands for personal information are not acceptable if only because nobody can prove what they write about themselves on a blog. I tried to demonstrate that truth by saying I am willing to admit I am the spawn of the Devil.
Personal information about me has no relevance to the correctness of anything I have written here. And – as I said – I learned long ago that engaging in discussion of me allows slimey trolls like you to to destroy a thread (there is a reason why even Prisoners of War are only required to provide ‘name, rank and number’; i.e. personal identification.)
An apology would be accepted but only improvement to your behaviour can correct the matter.
“As for those who do make remedial recommendations, AFAIK they’re not recommending we control the climate, or even control a small part of the climate.”
You need to check the more fevered (that is, most) of tge recommensations from the alarmists. Talk of controlling the earth’s thermostat features in many.
“Talk of controlling the earth’s thermostat features in many.”
Tell ’em they’re dream’n.
Richard, pasting the same stuff a second time isn’t going to make it any more convincing. You’re using the wrong tool for the environment you’re working in.
As for your other nonsense I think you’re being a bit paranoid. I asked your for your qualifications as a result of you starting a post with “I’m a scientist”. I do that for anyone who starts off with that claim. I asked precisely once, you declined, we moved on. But still it seems to be an issue for you.
Paste the exact text in inverted commas that you think I need to apologise for and I’ll consider it, but I’m pretty sure you’ll fail to find it.. it’s all in your head.
“pasting the same stuff a second time isn’t going to make it any more convincing. You’re using the wrong tool for the environment you’re working in.”
I did NOT post “the same stuff”. I referred back to my statements you had ignored, and I gave further explanation of them. It is not my fault that you are too thick to understand my original words nor my further explanation of them.
But I will repost my words you have – yet again – ignored despite my additional explanation of them.
I told you,
If you still think the scientific Null Hypothesis is “the wrong tool” then perhaps you could say what “tool” you think should be used. Perhaps it is it a sledge hammer, or maybe a crystal ball?
You are completely failing to be “convincing” when attempting to dispense with the scientific method by wittering about the “wrong tool” but not stating what you think would be the right tool.
As for me being “paranoid”: DON’T BE DAFT. You asked me what you had done and I reminded you. My having given you a slap, the troll who posts a ‘stu’ is trying the same silly misbehaviour.
Thanks Chris and I accept you now admit that co2 levels cannot be reversed by 2100 or for thousands of years.
That’s certainly what the alarmist scientists have told us ( see RS & NAS report) and Nic Lewis seems to think that is the case.
But how can facts and truthful data/evidence emerge when you have a fool like Mann as the chosen spokesman for the clueless Dems?
Judith Curry lists all the porkies this fool got away with at this hearing. All true believers should read her summary and then ask yourselves why anyone would ever believe anything he says about their so called CAGW.
It just proves how corrupt some of these people are and how ready they are to believe so called evidence without any proper data or analysis.
By 2100, sad to say, it is unlikely there will be any reversal but actions taken today will reduce the rate of increase, potentially down to zero? New technologies are not out of the question provided funding and research increases now.??A zero population growth, plus per capita emissions falls embedded in all national infrastructure plans will ensure a safe ecological future for future generations even if they want to plant vines in Greenland, timber I Antarctica and scuba dive at the north pole. They will have to fund rebuilding the Sydney Opera House, moving theFukushima nuclear plant, and relocating British Houses of Parliament. Venice will be memory and all the population of Bangladesh will be squabbling for space in a much reduced India sub continent. Finally Australia will regain its inland sea.
So you believe that measured progress is the way, no need for panicky reactions of the kind favoured by Stu.
Glad you nominated the end of the century, even with robust population control policies it will take most of that time to stabilise and start getting noticeable reductions in total world population.
Waiting for research into more mature technology, rather than pouring billions into the black hole of current solar, wind and battery technology also is sensible. Ingerently stable nuclear, a breakthrough in CO2 capture, and we can have reliable, uninterrupted electric power for the future.
The crying need is to prvent CO2 levels reaching over 600 ppm by 2100, so we need to push fools like Curry and clueless Liberals out of the way. Humanity does not need such corrupt people who prefer belief over science and sprout dogma without any proper data or analysis.
Unlike realists who use data such as this:
And use such data to understand the current heatwave setting record temperatures across Europe and America
The epicenter of broiling conditions is California, where records have fallen from south to north. San Francisco Airport soared to a record high of 100 degrees Monday, which is its earliest instance hitting the mark and its hottest June temperature, by two degrees.
Poor ol’ enuresistic blith is in denial that there is nothing happening today that didn’t happen with bells on during the earlier Holocene when CO2 levels were below 300 ppm.
How much does he deny?
Let me count the ways:
He denies hot Holocene history.
He denies that Europe, like Australia, the US etc., all fake their temperature data by cooling the past and warming the present.
He denies that IPCC GCMs are based on assumption-based GIGO.
He denies that natural climate variability happens anymore.
He denies that our current warming of ~1c since the beginning of the Industrial Rev and the end of the LIA still leaves us in the bottom quartile of natural global warming that has occurred for the last 80 centuries.
He denies that consensual science is completely unscientific.
Just a few for starters. Please feel free to add as more denials arrive.
More Nat Var facts that the climate consensuals are in denial of and refuse to embed:
“When the Great Lakes water levels were unusually low from approximately 2000 through 2012 or so, this was pointed to as evidence that global warming was causing the Great Lakes to dry up.
Take for example this 2012 article from National Geographic, which was accompanied by this startling photo:
The accompanying text called this the “lake bottom” as if Lake Michigan (which averages 279 feet deep) had somehow dried up.
Then in a matter of two years, low lake levels were replaced with high lake levels. The cause (analysis here) was a combination of unusually high precipitation (contrary to global warming theory) and an unusually cold winter that caused the lakes to mostly freeze over, reducing evaporation.
Now, as of this month (June 2019), ALL of the Great Lakes have reached record-high levels.
Time To Change The Story”:
https://climatechangedispatch.com/great-lakes-water-levels-record-highs/
Climate catastrophists really want to head the way of Venezuela:
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2019/06/green-lunacy-at-the-parkville-asylum/
Peter E says:
You nail the learned academies. There are also public administrators, of whom the late and unlamented Maurice Strong may be seen as an example, who are experts at presenting Ministers with dangers that must be faced, so requiring new staff, sections and branches and Divisions and Departments and ultimately the empires we now see around us, built on taxpayer funds. Some issues are so pressing that nothing will avail except massive subsidies of these taxpayer funds. Then you get into the mendicant class, the developing countries who require massive aid and also the businessmen who can help if only they get a leg up from the government. The demand grows and it doesn’t pass un-noticed by the revolutionaries longing for a cause that there is something in this for them; here is a way to change the world, a giant plan for the future. And all can appeal to authority, the experts who have laid down the law. But as someone pointed out recently, there are scientists who are calculators with computers and logarithms capable of seeing far into the future, something that previously was only possible for gipsies with crystal balls. Then there are scientists who do research and through measurement seek the truth. Let us pray!
AS an NTEU representative helpfully explained: “We’re just junkyard dogs”.
“Denialists not gunna like it …..”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/03/david-attenborough-collapse-civilisation-on-horizon-un-climate-summit
“Denialists not gunna like it ……”
https://www.axios.com/temperature-records-set-in-2019-512a1109-99ae-45aa-8953-781ff955c91d.html
But it’s real.
It’s always interesting how outbreaks of hot weather are climate disruption but unseasonal cold weather is just weather..
Here’s an article on Climate Change as faith
https://www.facebook.com/1564222468/posts/10213097516503593?s=1092462652&sfns=mo
BoyfromTottenham says:
Wow, Don – your post generated a lot of comment!
My 2 bob’s worth:
In 1850 Karl Marx wanted to overthrow global capitalism and replace it with ‘the dictatorship of the proletariate’. And by 1920 or so Lenin had succeeded in doing that in the USSR, with disastrous results for the citizens until the USSR imploded 70 years later.
The UNFCCC wants to overthrow global capitalism and replace it with ‘the dictatorship of the climatariate’. See the difference? Expect the result to be any different? No, I didn’t think so!
Poor ol’ blith. He not only is a blatant denialist but he even denies he denies.
He is in denial of the manipulation and fabrication of temperatures that the gatekeepers have been doing since records started.
And he quotes John “97%” Cook as an authority on historical Holocene temperature fluctuations who shows ~ 0.4c historic max variability.
I wonder how that tiny bit of increase led to 4 metre SLR and huge tree line changes during that period?
Get real, blith.
How many papers would you like me to produce to prove your flawed blither?
Mike Burston
Hot weather is not climate disruption. Continuing “record breaking” hot weather is climate disruption.
Unseasonal cold weather is unseasonal weather. Continuing “record breaking” cold weather would also be evidence of climate change.
But there is no ” Continuing “record breaking” hot weather” so according to you there is NO “climate disruption.”
That is good to know, It is on a par with your contention (above) that there is no tropospheric Hot Spot.
Here is more continuing heat records being broken, for you to deny!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/07/01/alaska-heat-wave-record-heat-fuels-wildfires-melting-sea-ice/1616992001/
Good facts dowse bad flames from Courtney and Co.
More facts to throw at the feet of denialists.
Don’t let denialists prattle on about some tropospheric hotspot.
This is a trick they pull. The facts are:
From Steve Sherwood [https://www.iflscience.com/environment/climate-meme-debunked-tropospheric-hot-spot-found/]
My colleague Nidhi Nishant and I have now analysed the radiosonde data yet again, and we found a tropical warming profile even closer to that expected. The fastest warming was at an altitude of about 12 km, and averaged 0.25C per decade – much faster than at the surface (0.14C per decade).
This means that the troposphere is warming around 70-80% faster than the surface. So, far from being absent, this tropospheric warming is at least as strong as predicted by the average climate model, which predicted that the troposphere would heat 64% faster than the surface.
Moreover, our data show that the tropical troposphere has warmed at a more or less constant rate since widespread balloon launches began in 1958, which is a bit puzzling given the ocean-surface hiatus since 2000 or so.
More Evidence
This result comes hot on the heels of a new University of Washington study which overcomes one of the key obstacles to obtaining an accurate satellite-based record of atmospheric warming. The problem is that temperatures vary during the day, and when a new satellite is launched (which happens every few years), it observes the Earth at an earlier time of day than the old one (since after launch, each satellite orbit begins to decay toward later times of day).
This means that over time, if you don’t know the daily cycle of temperature very accurately over the whole planet, you are going to get an errors in the long-term warming trend when you piece the different satellite records together. The University of Washington group has come up with a way of estimating this temperature cycle from the satellite data themselves while at the same time accounting for other effects such as calibration changes.
The result is that they now find mid-to-upper tropospheric warming that is just as strong as predicted by models, in line with both of the new radiosonde studies. The troposphere was warming all along – it’s just that the warming is very hard to see when other things are happening to the instruments over time.
One remaining puzzle is that the radiosonde data do not show a “hiatus” in atmospheric warming, but the satellite data do. Another is that the surface warming rate over oceans has been somewhat weaker than predicted by most climate models, even going back well before the “hiatus.”
This could be due to the models being too sensitive, but would be more easily explained by the existence of some influence on climate that has up until now been partly offsetting the greenhouse effect, and has not been properly accounted for. Thus climate scientists still have important puzzles to solve — but it looks like the “missing hot spot” has finally been found.
Steve Sherwood is Director, Climate Change Research Centre at UNSW Australia.
So denialists want to deny the tropospheric hot spot too.
Wow! all that record heat!
You don’t think it might just be media-talk?
That must be why the Peterman Glacier has grown nearly 10 klm since 2012, hey?:
https://realclimatescience.com/2019/07/growth-of-the-petermann-glacier-since-2012-2/
Not content with being unable to read the words of others, you now fail to understand the words you wrote yourself!
A record broken in one place on one or a few days is NOT “Continuing “record breaking” hot weather”
(not unless you have invented a new meaning of the word “continuing”).
Stop denying reality. Accept reality and be free of your superstitious fears.
There is no “Continuing “record breaking” hot weather”; none, zilch, nada.
And if there were “Continuing “record breaking” hot weather” then, so what?
I have told you that hotter temperatures are now more likely than at any time in the last ~
300 years because the world has been recovering from the Little Ice Age for the last~300 years and there is no evidence that this completely natural intermittent warming has ended.
You are playing silly, silly word games.
The only way you can get a new record is if previous records are broken.
If, and as, CO2 accumulates this will CONTINUE.
C o n t i n u e
Past records are being broken – the record breaking continues.
Chris Warren.
To quote a tennis player, “You cannot be serious!”
YOU wrote,
I did not write that, YOU DID.
I pointed out that
(a) There is NO “Continuing “record breaking” hot weather”
(b) “A record broken in one place on one or a few days is NOT “Continuing “record breaking” hot weather”
and I repeatedly told you
(c) “And if there were “Continuing “record breaking” hot weather” then, so what?
Your response is to accuse ME of “playing silly, silly word games”.
The ONLY “word games” are yours. You attempt to excuse your silly, silly word games by writing,
But I had answered those “word games” each time I wrote,
“hotter temperatures are now more likely than at any time in the last ~300 years because the world has been recovering from the Little Ice Age for the last~300 years and there is no evidence that this completely natural intermittent warming has ended.”
Unless, of course, you are claiming somebody was measuring temperatures long before 300 years ago?
Stop panicing. There is no evidence of any “climate disruption” and no evidence of any “climate emergency” while there is much evidence that CO2 is not having any effect on these matters.
The dogma of your cult claims the lack of evidence for your fears does not matter. IT DOES.
The Hot Spot is not there. Anybody who looks at the data can see the Hot Spot is missing. If the data showed the Hot Spot then the Hot Spot would be obvious because it consists of warming at altitude that is between two and three times the warming at ground level.
You report that some warmunist says he has “analysed” the data which shows the Hot Spot is missing, and he says he has found it. He is wrong and he probably knows he is wrong.
The Hot Spot is missing. Stop denying reality and live with the reality that the Hot Spot is missing.
Unchain yourself from your fears. The truth will set you free.
I add that your concerns about the Hot Spot are like concerns about The Man On The Stair; i.e.
One day while walking up the stair
I met a man who wasn’t there.
He wasn’t there again today.
I wish that man would go away.
Your crooked lies illustrate an old tale.
There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile.
He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile.
He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house.
I suppose you mean ‘truth’ when you talk about my “crooked lies”.
Your fears of the climate “disruption” and climate “emergency” are mistaken because climate “disruption” and climate “emergency” DO NOT EXIST. At very least they don’r exist to a discernible degree.
If you have any evidence that either or both of them does exist then publish it because you will certainly get two Nobel Prizes (Physics and Peace) and possibly a third (Chemistry) for finding what many scientists around the world have been seeking for decades without any success.
Introducing some reality into “France’s hottest evah” temperatures:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/06/29/frances-new-hottest-recorded-temperature-ever-is-in-question-guess-where-it-was-measured/
And they don’t tell you about France’s 50c in 1930:
https://realclimatescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/2019-06-29154219.png
Just like our own BoM. After wiping the slate of all our old records, their new ones are a lot cooler.
A new paper showing almost nothing happening WRT SLR [ mean of 0.34 mm/y] from 76 of the best tide gauges:
https://notrickszone.com/2019/06/20/worlds-76-best-tide-gauges-100-years-of-data-show-a-mean-0-34-mm-yr-rise-negligible-acceleration/
More message that needs embedding.
The joys, satisfaction and virtue signalling of EV ownership:
First comes high prices, 2/ big taxpayer subsidies, 3/ short range, 4/ long waiting times for recharge, 5/ high battery replacement cost, 6/ non-payment of their share of road usage, [did I miss anything?], now this.
With brilliant solutions to the climate “problem” like this, what’s not to like?
Electric vehicles in Germany account for more CO2 emissions than diesel ones, according to a study by German scientists:
https://www.brusselstimes.com/all-news/business/technology/55602/electric-vehicles-emit-more-co2-than-diesel-ones-german-study-shows/
More denialism from Courtney
“he Hot Spot would be obvious because it consists of warming at altitude that is between two and three times the warming at ground level.”
Fake.
More denialism from blith:
http://joannenova.com.au/2010/11/dessler-2010-how-to-call-vast-amounts-of-data-spurious/
But when your mates keep adjusting and kriging those tens of thousands of radiosondes you will always convince yourself that you were right.
But check the actual measurements anyway:
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/hotspotmodelpredicted.gif
Please give credit where it is due.
I was merely citing the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) when I wrote,
This is, you say, “denialism” and it is “fake”. You need to take up those strong words with the IPCC.
The accusation of fakery is yours: I did not make it and I do not support it.
The Hot Spot is fully described in Chapter 9 of the so-called “scientific” WG1 report of IPCC AR4 that you can download from https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ar4-wg1-chapter9-1.pdf
The Hot Spot is shown Figure 9.1.
It is on page 675 and is titled,
“Figure 9.1. Zonal mean atmospheric temperature change from 1890 to 1999 (°C per century) as simulated by the PCM model from
(a) solar forcing,
(b) volcanoes,
(c) wellmixed greenhouse gases,
(d) tropospheric and stratospheric ozone changes,
(e) direct sulphate aerosol forcing and
(f) the sum of all forcings.
Plot is from 1,000 hPa to 10 hPa
(shown on left scale) and from 0 km to 30 km (shown on right). See Appendix 9.C for additional information. Based on Santer et al. (2003a)
The Hot Spot is the big red blob that is only in plots (c) for wellmixed greenhouse gases, and (f) for the sum of all forcings.
As you can see, in the Figure the blob is warming of between 2 and 3 times the warming near the surface beneath it.
Furthermore, the plot is of predicted temperature rises “from 1890 to 1999” and the measured temperature rises are for the latter part of the period (since 1958 for the balloon data and since 1969 for the satellite data). Thus, warming measured by balloons and satellites was for when “wellmixed greenhouse gases” were at their highest.
Therefore, if the effect of wellmixed greenhouse gases is as predicted in Figure 9.1 of IPCC WG1 AR4 then the measured warming in the Hot Spot should be MORE THAN 2 to 3 times greater than warming measured near the surface beneath the Hot Spot.
Also, the Hot Spot is predicted by Santer et al. who have ‘previous’ for “fake” findings (remember the infamous Chapter 8 scandal). So your accusation that the predictions of warming are “fake” must have some credibility.
However, I make no comment on your accusation of fraud, and I leave that for you to defend if Santer et al. take action against your accusation.
I hoped you had better than that.
The oft-quoted diagram is not a prediction of a “hot spot”, and this word is never used. It is denialist fakery.
It is modelling from 1890, so to test its accuracy, you need to know what the atmospheric zonal temperatures were in 1890’s.
The suggested temp variations are in the order of tenths of degree and not multiples 2-3 times etc. To explain for slow-learners, – if the surface warmed one degree – the model does not imply upper warming of 2-3 degrees. It suggests upper atmospheric warming of 0.4 C per century ie to reach 1.4C.
You have misunderstood the science. A linear increase, from a small base, results in multiples but this is not the mechanism and cannot be touted as such.
The best way to understand this modelling is to start with the first date we have sufficient zonal data, and go from there.
If you look at panel f, you will see a modelling suggestion of warming at 8-12 km height (near equator) of less than 1C over a century.
Good luck on your researching – you are going to need it.
I have to admire you for your gonads!
You write of the Hot Spot as it is described in Chapter 9 of the so-called “scientific” WG1 report of IPCC AR4 ,
“It is denialist fakery.”
I thought I was a critic of the IPCC but even I have never accused the IPCC of publishing “denialist fakery”.
And I have to say that my own studies of climate model performance refute your accusation.
I agree with the IPCC AR4 which says (AR4 WG1 Chapter 9 Page 674 ),
“The ability to distinguish between climate responses to different external forcing factors in observations depends on the extent to which those responses are distinct (see, e.g., Section 9.4.1.4 and Appendix 9.A). Figure 9.1 illustrates the zonal average temperature response in the PCM model (see Table 8.1 for model details) to several different forcing agents over the last 100 years, …”
“The major features shown in Figure 9.1 are robust to using different climate models. ”
As I said, you can download the document from https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ar4-wg1-chapter9-1.pdf .
As usual, your cult is wrong. However, in this case, the IPCC is right.
PS I dare you to ask me to report my work and Kiehl’s work on model performance. It adds to the egg that is already on your face.
You have posted your objective target of CO2 in the atmosphere:
“Chris Warren
The crying need is to prvent (sic) CO2 levels reaching over 600 ppm by 2100”
You have also posted your proposed policy to achieve this outcome:
What you have not explained is how this policy is to be implemented. Do you propose a one child policy? Even with the full force of a totalitarian state, China had problems with its version of this. If not a compulsory policy, what do you propose?
On per capita emissions, one way to reduce the rate of total emissions growth is to ban immigration from low per capita emission nations to high per capita nations. Do you propose this?
Coming closer to home, one way to reduce Australia’s total emissions would be to stop all immigration, as new migrants, particularly those from low per capita emission states, inevitably increase their emission rates as they adopt our higher per capita emission lifestyle. Do you support this course of action?
Another way to lower Australia’s total and per capita emissions would be to construct new HELE coal fired power stations, which have a significantly lower emission rate than current stations. Do you support this?
So many questions, this is enough for the moment. I look forward to your response.
Here’s a book you need to read, blith:
https://www.amazon.com/Global-Warming-Skepticism-Busy-People-ebook/dp/B07H57WVYJ/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1538663092&sr=1-1&keywords=global+warming+skepticism+for+busy+people
Who does blith remind you of?
Plenty of passion but denies reality:
I, too, much prefer science and analysis over beliefs and dogma. And it pleases me that you are starting to learn that science is about displacing beliefs with dogma (if nothing else, I can take pleasure in knowing my explanations on the previous thread have taught you this).
The analysis you need to read is this
https://edberry.com/blog/climate-physics/agw-hypothesis/human-co2-not-change-climate/
See? Your worries have all been disproved so you can sleep peacefully tonight.
“science is about displacing beliefs with dogma ”
Of course I intended to write
“science is about displacing beliefs and dogma with empiricism”
You seem to be very ill informed or slow.
I have already addressed the edberry trash over a year ago – in my post of:
So unless it has been published ina reputable journal then it is fit for denialists only.
Ed’s paper that reports his excellent work is in process of being published in a “reputable journal”.
You were told this in the previous thread. Importantly, his paper is superb (which is why you cannot dispute it).
Anyway, in science what matters is empirical evidence and NOT where something is published and by whom. There are many examples which demonstrate this, but I provide you with one because you are too thick to find one for yourself.
Orville and Wilbur Wright were two brothers who sold new and used bicycles. They learned simple mechanics to enable them to repair bicycles, but other than that their education was very limited, and they had no training or qualifications in science. However, they wanted to build a ‘heavier than air’ flying machine, so they devised and built a small wind tunnel which they used to experiment with models as a method to discover the problems of ‘heavier than air flying’. ‘Mainstream science’ claimed that ‘heavier than air flight’ was not possible because a more powerful power engine was needed. The Wright brothers ignored that and continued to conduct real science while developing a light-weight motor which they knew would be inadequate according to ‘mainstream science’. Their work revealed that inadequate power was not the main problem preventing ‘heavier than air flight’. Their scientific investigations showed the main problem was need for varying geometry of lifting surfaces to provide aeronautical stability. They then combined the knowledge provided by their science with their mechanical skills to construct a flying machine and they tried to publish their science. But no “reputable journal” would publish their paper so they published where they could.: thus, the seminal work on aeronautics was published in a magazine about bee-keeping.
The value of the science conducted by the Wright brothers is demonstrated by, for example, the existence or Airbus Industrie. The value of their science is NOT indicated by who they were, their education, their qualifications, the refusal of ‘mainstream science’ to agree their work, or where they published their work. The same is true of all science (including the excellent scientific work of Ed Berry).
So from all that, can I assume that eberrry’s paper will appear in a Beekeeper’s Magazine?
All denialists swarm together.
It does not matter where Ed’s paper is published. It only matters that you cannot dispute it because it is excellent.
And please don’t try to be clever. You can’t do it (because if brains were dynamite you lack sufficient to dislodge your wig).
On the face of it, the idea that a fraction of a degree rise in average ‘global’ temperature, and a similar miniscule (millimetric) increase in sea level could spark a worldwide panic, on which national governments would spend billions to control the climate and avert supposed catastrophe one hundred years hence, is simply absurd. Deeper analysis reveals that it is actually ridiculous (deserving of ridicule). When it can be shown that humans CAN control the climate, reduce glacial melting, and lower sea levels, it might be worthwhile revisiting the discussion. Until then, forget it. Spend the money improving life for those already here. Our progeny will engineer their own salvation. If they cannot, we could not have done it for them.
Bryan Roberts wrote,
“When it can be shown that humans CAN control the climate, reduce glacial melting, and lower sea levels, it might be worthwhile revisiting the discussion. Until then, forget it. Spend the money improving life for those already here. Our progeny will engineer their own salvation. If they cannot, we could not have done it for them.”
SECONDED! HEAR, HEAR!
Another interesting article from the GWPF. How they fiddle the data again and again, again.
https://www.thegwpf.com/man-made-warming-how-climate-scientists-fiddle-the-data-again-again-again/
Neville,
In addition to the three blogs linked from the GWPF blog you commend, I think you may be interested in this item especially its Appendices.
https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmsctech/387b/387we02.htm
I hope this is helpful or, failing that, interesting.
Thanks for the link Richard. BTW Dr Roy Spencer shows why the recent hot spell over parts of Europe is not unusual and lists 3 facts to make his case.
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2019/07/record-high-temperatures-in-france-3-facts-the-media-dont-tell-you/
And Dr Pat Michaels explains why their so called CAGW fantasies are built on faulty climate model projections. The one model that is the closest to the observations is the Russian model. Why is it so?
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/07/02/climate-models-are-fudged-says-climatologist-video/
Earlier historical heatwaves were much worse for France and some other European countries.
The death toll during the 1911 heatwave was over 40,000 and much earlier heatwaves caused the death of 100,000s of people.
Today our much higher populations can reduce heatwave deaths by a huge factor with regular, sensible hydration and the use of air conditioning.
Of course cold spells are the far larger killer and moderate cold is a factor as well. See recent Lancet study.
Oh and co2 levels in 1911 were about 300 ppm and the earlier extreme killer heatwaves occurred when co2 levels would have been about 280 ppm.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/france-1911-heatwave-41000-deaths/
There were also very bad heatwave conditions in London and the UK during the long hot summer of 1911.
Probably more Saharan heat and blocking highs, certainly not their so called climate emergency or climate change or Gorebull warning or any other delusional nonsense.
https://climatechangedispatch.com/great-british-heatwave-1911/
The warmists will be thrilled by the June temps but now that el Nino has finally gone I think we will see some cooling:
http://www.drroyspencer.com/2019/07/uah-global-temperature-update-for-june-2019-0-47-deg-c/#comments
Still no response to my questions posted at 1925 yesterday?
I had hoped that you might have some clear responses on how your desired policies might be implemented. Seems practical matters are not your style?
More hospital visits and an increase in hypothermia cases plus deaths because of much higher electricity prices.
What have elderly Aussies done to deserve this criminal abuse in their twilight years? And the clueless Andrews Vic Labor govt appear to be hell bent on closing another coal fired power station ASAP.
http://joannenova.com.au/2019/07/sacrificed-for-the-renewables-religion-electricity-doubles-cold-deaths-up-one-third/
You should follow my lead and drop out of the “conversation”, they live in a pseudo science world and will never be convinced of reality.
I have noted some discussion regarding the science quals or otherwise of RS Courtney. You can get some back ground via Sourcewatch.org (which is a very useful site for checking many of the claims in this blog). Another site lists him with a BA and a DipPhil but no Ph.D and no science. Here is a link to an article he wrote in 2004 which is good for a laugh. The style and approach still function today in the alternate universe.
https://web.archive.org/web/20040925101826/http://www.eco.freedom.org/el/20040802/courtney.shtml
Cheerio once more.
From the Oxford University website.
A DPhil is the Oxford equivalent of a PhD.
Both ‘PhD’ and ‘DPhil’ are abbreviations for ‘Doctor of Philosophy’, which is an advanced research qualification usually involving independent research to write an original thesis.
Stu, please take the time to google things before you make yourself ridiculous.
No, back in your box. The site referenced explicitly says DipPhil that is Diploma not Doctorate. Then to further complicate things his ref is to Cambridge not Oxford. And neither claims to have a DipPhil anyhow. Maybe that is why he does not quote it himself. Further he does not appear at all under Google Scholar so appears to have not published anything scientific or otherwise in a peer reviewed place.
If you had anything to say that is of worth or is of interest then you would say it.
You are wasting your time by trying to make me seem interesting because, sadly for me, I am not interesting.
Your apparent interest in me is flattering, but it wastes space in the thread because it is not relevant to anything being discussed here. So, just be a good little troll and crawl back under your bridge until you can find something to say that is of worth and/or is of interest
“sadly for me, I am not interesting.” quite correct, I agree completely.
It pleases me that you agree I am not interesting.
I have no idea who you are or what you look like so your interest in me was causing me to fear to bend over near strangers.
Of course, I still need to take care because the perversions of anonymous trolls such as you should not be ignored, especially when one of them becomes fixated on somebody they claim is not interesting.
Stu surfaces briefly, sees his own shadow, and crawls back into his hole.
RSC, As stated I was merely responding to the discussion regarding your quals or lack of. You put up the link to a dodgy old video. Yet you imply but wont confirm a science background. That lead to some searching, which is not hard. But some people here have a hard time following posted links as evidenced by the lack of source checking rubbish from wattsup etc. for example the silly and debunked
story about the French record temperature site. Secondly, I was only online again to warn Chris it was time to bail out and leave the space to the barbarians. And while at it to give a little more of your background. Or are you not that RS? If so, sorry, my mistake.
stu (or perhaps I should call you Perve),
OK. I see your fixation on me continues. I can’t stop it but I can profit from it.
Perve, I have an old, unwashed pair of underpants,
How much will you pay for me to sell them to you?
I think you just totally shot yourself in the foot. What is wrong with you, apart from senility?
Hooroo.
Stu has had more farewells here than Dame Nellie Melba had.
stu AKA Perve,
Won’t you offer a fair price for my underpants? I promise I have not washed them.
It seems that your fixation with me makes you think I will give you things for nothing.
I am keeping personal information to myself (including the health problems you are now asking about).
But you can have the underpants for a reasonable price.
We can both benefit from your buying them.
What is wrong with you? Are you a cheapskate that you won’t offer a fair price for the underpants?
Most humanitarian crises in history (Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, etc) have been initiated in the interests of a better life for people’s children. That didn’t work. Now we have children telling their parents how to live so that they can have a better life. Is that going to work any better?
Antarctic ice collapses.
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/06/25/1906556116
https://www.climate4you.com/images/NSIDC%20NHandSHandTOTALiceExtension12monthRunningAverage.gif
But shocking of all is the fact that even these facts were printed in “The Australian” albeit in a small report on page 3.
But the key point is that these trends will continue while ever CO2 emissions exceed CO2 sinks.
Denialists be damned.
The short term sequestration processes for CO2 can easily sequester the total annual emission (both natural and anthropogenic) each year. This is clearly demonstrated by the dynamics of the seasonal variation of atmospheric CO2 each year.
The continuing trivial rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration (from 0.03% to 0.04%) has been completely beneficial; i.e. it has provided ~20% increase to agricultural production and has no observed harmful effects.
This CO2 rise occurs because there is a residual of the seasonal variation each year. And this residual is probably an effect of the changing equilibrium state of the carbon cycle that is induced by the global temperature rise which is recovery from the Little Ice Age (LIA). The delay of the CO2 rise after temperature rise is about 50 years and is not surprising because some processes of the carbon cycle have rate constants of decades.
(ref. Rorsch A, Courtney RS & Thoenes D, ‘The Interaction of Climate Change and the Carbon Dioxide Cycle’ E&E v16no2 (2005) )
The recovery from the LIA began about 300 years ago and before the industrial revolution.
Your assertion that “Antarctic ice collapses” and ” will continue while ever CO2 emissions exceed CO2 sinks” is meaningless twaddle.
What does “collapses mean”?
And what mechanistic connection are you claiming exists between the asserted collapse of Antarctic ice and CO2 emissions and sinks?
Just had a look at the latest from UAH V 6 Sat data. In May S Polar was MINUS -0.26c and in June MINUS -0.39c and of course no warming for SP from Dec 1978 to end of June 2019.
And latest Sat data for SP LAND was MINUS -0.48c for May and MINUS – 1.63 c for June ’19. Overall global warming for UAH V 6 is 0.13 c decade since Dec 1978. Mostly from NH 0.15 c dec and N Pole.
https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0/tlt/uahncdc_lt_6.0.txt
Even RSS V 4 shows S. Polar MINUS -0.2 c for May ’19 and June yet to be posted.
http://images.remss.com/data/msu/graphics/TLT_v40/time_series/RSS_TS_channel_TLT_Southern%20Polar_Land_And_Sea_v04_0.txt
Why do denialisms get everything so wrong all the time?
Good example from Richard Courtney
FALSE Each year the quantity rise after seasonal variation
“The continuing trivial rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration (from 0.03% to 0.04%) has been completely beneficial; i.e. it has provided ~20% increase to agricultural production and has no observed harmful effects. “
FALSE : The beneficial impacts of carbon dioxide on plants may be limited, said co-author Dr. Philippe Ciais, associate director of the Laboratory of Climate and Environmental Sciences, Gif-suv-Yvette, France. “Studies have shown that plants acclimatize, or adjust, to rising carbon dioxide concentration and the fertilization effect diminishes over time.”
“…residual is probably an effect of the changing equilibrium state of the carbon cycle that is induced by the global temperature rise which is recovery from the Little Ice Age (LIA). “
FALSE – no evidence and rate of increase is beyond anything to do with LIA recover.
“The delay of the CO2 rise after temperature rise is about 50 years”
FALSE: This relates to feedback out-gassing not fossil fuel emissions.
“The recovery from the LIA began about 300 years ago and before the industrial revolution.”??IRRELEVANT???In short Robert Courtney sprouts “meaningless twaddle”. The so-called “mechanistic connection” is the flow of heat. Heat melts ice.
Why do you refuse to learn?
I told you the the short term sequestration processes can easily sequester all the emission (~96%natural and ~4% anthropogenic) each year. And I cited our peer reviewed publication which explains the matter in detail.
You have replied with a non sequitur,
i.e. “FALSE Each year the quantity rise after seasonal variation”
Say what!? How is that possible?
The atmospheric CO2 concentration does NOT jump up after seasonal variation has completed.
The variations of atmospheric CO2 concentration measured at Mauna Loa are shown here https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/
Anybody can see the Mauna Loa data (as all similar measurements elsewhere) shows that, as I said,
“This CO2 rise occurs because there is a residual of the seasonal variation each year. ”
Our paper I cited gives explanation of the dynamics of the sequestration. Here, I merely point out that the Mauna Loa data does NOT show the seasonal fall in atmospheric CO2 gradually decreasing as sinks fill. The seasonal variation ‘drops like a stone’ before reversing.
And I pointed out,
You respond saying “FALSE : The beneficial impacts of carbon dioxide on plants may be limited, ,,,,”
and you quote what some alarmist says may happen.
No, dear boy, what I wrote is TRUE, and that is why you do not dispute it. What may (probably won’t) happen does not change that.
If that response from you were not sufficiently idiotic, you attempt to outdo it by quoting me and writing,
Those words I wrote are true.
I agree with you that your words in reply to them are “FALSE” and, as you say, you have provided “no evidence” for them.
You continue your raving by writing,
YES, my words do relate to “outgassing” (from the oceans), but your words I was refuting were about “CO2 emissions” and NOT “fossil fuel emissions”. Emissions of oil, gas and coal are something else, and CO2 emissions from all human activities (including fossil fuel usage) are less than 4% of CO2 emissions (to the air).
And you reach a climax of weirdness by writing,
We are supposed to be discussing a post that I made. I had a phone call with my brother last night: he assures me that, contrary to your suggestion, he has said nothing about this matter.
There has been – and probably still is – recovery from the Little Ice Age (LIA), and it consists of intermittent warming for about 300 years. It is silly to suggest that warming is “IRRELEVANT” when you claim a “mechanism” is “flow of heat” that “melts ice”.
Importantly, melting has little to do with glacier loss which is mostly a result of greater sublimation than precipitation.
Your nonsense I have answered here does not include any answers to my questions to you. They were and are,
” What does “collapses” mean?
I have given you the courtesy of refuting all you wrote. Perhaps you can give me the courtesy of answering my questions because – without those answers – your original post is still meaningless twaddle.
“There has been – and probably still is – recovery from the Little Ice Age (LIA)”
Richard, what precisely do you mean by “recovery from the LIA”? It’s not like climate is a spring, returning to its neutral position after something compressed it. If nothing had changed, we’d still be in the LIA and we’d probably be calling it a BIA by now. Clearly something has warmed us up since the LIA. The most obvious candidate is increased solar activity but that hasn’t been increasing much for a while now and yet still we warm. You’d also expect that to warm the stratosphere but its not warming.
Jimb, do you deny that the LIA was the longest and coldest cold period during the Holocene?
There is plenty of evidence to support that.
When there were natural climate temperatures of at least 4c higher [some scientific papers claim almost double that] why would you not think it is natural for climate to move back to – and either side of – its average?
And having warmed ~ 1c since records began that still leaves us in the lowest quartile of natural climate temperatures during the Holocene.
If we warmed at least another 2 – 3c during the Holocene with CO2 levels at under 300 ppm, please show how our 1c warming since the LIA is proof of anything other than natural climate variability?
spangled drongo,
Thankyou for your clear and accurate post that refutes the nonsense JimboR addressed to me.
I see no reason to add to your response, but this post thanking you for your fine response demonstrates I am not avoiding anything.
I received this email today and what is interesting here is that in spite of the slight rise up to 2014, the MSL has dropped 7 cm in the last 5 years:
Daniel Fitzhenry – Hydrographic Surveyor
Capt. Daniel Fitzhenry – CPHS1 Hydrographic Surveyor – Registered Surveyor – Dip. Environmental Studies (Macq.)
Steven Fitzhenry – B.Eng. (Civil) Sydney – MIE Aust. – Maritime Civil & Structural Engineer – Project Manager
Capt. Adam Fitzhenry – B. Eng. Honours (Civil) Syd, MBA AGSM – Maritime Civil & Structural Engineer – Oceanographer
Ellie Fitzhenry – B.Sc (Sydney) – Marine Biology & Ecology – Marine Science
Capt. Paul McGaw – ROV Operations Manager – Electrical & Mechanical Engineer
Tracey Hay – B.A (Macq) – Project Coordinator – IT, Statistics & Research Manager
Rising Sea Levels – The Climate Debate
The seas and oceans to the east of Australia forms the largest body of water on Earth. This broadly connected vast body of water presents a genuine sea level. The Sydney Fort Denison Recording Station provides stable, accurate and genuine mean sea level data. The following table shows mean sea levels at 10 year intervals and these levels are related to Chart Datum which is at the lowest spring tide level.
100 YEARS OF MEAN SEA LEVELS AT FORT DENISON, SYDNEY:
1914 – 1.11 metres
Accordingly, the mean sea level at Sydney in 2019 is 6 centimetres lower than the mean sea level at Sydney in 1914 when the Bureau Of Meteorology commenced recording Mean Sea Level.
Your general posts about CAGW convey an air of deep concern, if not panic, at the rate of warming you expect from increasing CO2 emissions. However, your proposed actions, reducing per capita emission levels, and stabilising and then decreasing population levels, do not seem to match that level of concern.
In particular, stabilising and then reducing world population will be the work of many decades. Unless, that is, you are thinking of what might be euphemistically described as “active measures”.
What actions do you propose to first stabilise, and then reduce, world population?
It sounds like you need to do a lot more research before commenting further.
It is obvious that all CO2 emissions are not being sequestered. That is why CO2 accumulation is increasing at over 2ppm per year.
If you think responding to you is a non-sequitur, then this just reflects on the totally confused and mixed-up rants you are posting. You are the source.
The rise of CO2 in the atmosphere is not “trival”. This is just a fantasy of denial.
The benefit to vegetation of enhanced CO2 cannot be maintained, and does not offset the loss of species, coastal environments, and disrupted weather that will accompany continuing global warming.
You do not understand the so-called “hot spot” IPCC modelling.
The LIA confusion is a deliberate denials trick as the rate of CO2 rise, and the level has no equivalent in LIA temperature variation. Denialists only resort to this because their previous attempts to trick people based on now debunked “pause” and debunked “sunspot”theories have been shown to be pure fakery and are now thrown into the trash where the LIA canard should follow.
The core issue is fossil fuel emissions, not outgassing emissions. The latter is a feedback. There is no way fossil fuel emissions can be feedback. It seems you have no knowledge of feedbacks.
You asked for some vague “mechanistic connection”. You were given this as we all know that heat melts ice. You seems t have great difficulty reading because, even after this, you say:
So as you are such a slow learner I will tell you again. Collapse of ice is due to heat from global warming due to imbalance between emissions and sinks.??Please print this out and place it under your pillow.
No-one cares what phone calls you make.
The loss in land ice volumes is much greater that could be achieved by (so called) sublimation which may well accelerate as air temperatures rise due to global warming. Land ice does not sublimate as does dry-ice (frozen CO2).
So far with all your hyper-activity – you have not made any useful point.
You say to me,
It is clear to everyone that you don’t have a clue about this subject to which I have made some small contribution in the peer reviewed literature.
It is obvious that alterations to the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere result from the altering equilibrium state of the carbon cycle. That is why the concentration goes up and down like a fiddler’s elbow (see https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends/ ) . And the dynamics of this seasonal variation demonstrate that the annual variation is NOT because the ‘sinks’ are saturated. The short term sequestration processes can easily sequester ALL the total CO2 emission (both natural and anthropogenic) each year but they don’t because the carbon cycle continues to adjust to longer term changes (e.g. the temperature rise from the LIA).
This changing equilibrium is why the apparent accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere does not relate to the anthropogenic CO2 emission. If the extra emission of human origin was the only emission, then in some years, almost all of it seems to be absorbed into the sinks, and in other years almost none. Furthermore the slow change to the equilibrium condition also provides an explanation of why the apparent accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere continued when in two subsequent years the anthropogenic CO2 flux into the atmosphere decreased (e.g. the years 1973-1974, 1987-1988, and 1998-1999).
The rest of the twaddle which is the rest of your email is also wrong. That twaddle is all based on your assertions I have here refuted so I need say nothing more in answer to it.
The apparent accumulation of over 2 ppmv per year is an increase of ~0.0002% in atmospheric concentration per year.
If anything you said was true then the annual variations due to seasonal fluctuations of emissions-to-sinks would produce a long run horizontal trend that would always be below 300 ppm.
I was stunned to see a denialist actually reference reputable data. So presumably you know that CO2 emissions have been exceeding available sinks since the 1850’s. Data (spreadsheet) is here: https://www.icos-cp.eu/GCP/2018
And https://www.icos-cp.eu/sites/default/files/inline-images/s45_Global_Sources_and_Sinks_newcm.png
The underlying increase in CO2 is the adjustment in the carbon cycle and has nothing to do with the LIA, sunspots, or planetary cycles such as Southern Oscillation.
The accumulation in the atmosphere is not “apparent”. It is real.
Your so-called “anthropogenic CO2 flux” lacks rigor. CO2 emissions are from fossil fuels and cement with some adjustment due to deforestation.
They always increase every year except for a very few instances such as the El Nino year 1998.
Every other instance you cited was FALSE.
In 1973 emissions (fossil fuels and cement) were 4.611 GT and increased to 4.619 in 1974
In 1987 they were 5.708 GT and increased to 5.917 GT in 1988
They fell in 1998-99 but this was a strong El Nino period.
In every year you cited the amount of CO2 flowing into the atmosphere exceeded the amount being reabsorbed by natural sinks by over 2.5 GT (1970’s) to over 3 GT (1980’s). Some of this is the feedback “out-gassing” from warming water.
Your statement that “apparent accumulation of over 2 ppmv per year” was mischievous, as the rate is not apparent and is increasing. The data from Mauna Loa is:
2008 385.60 ppm
Naturally you had no reply and could only stick your head in the sand in shame. You do not understand that there are feed backs and probably have never accessed the CDIAC.
Consequently you are well and truly floundering in the dark. A rate of 2.3 ppm over the remaining lifetimes of todays youth will see CO2 levels exceed 500 ppm with associated temperature increases.
The real issue is the extent warming is due to each of CO2, methane and water vapour and the capacity of a turbulent warming atmosphere to hold more water vapour.
Please no more false facts and denialist tricks.
I take umbrage to your saying to me,
“I was stunned to see a denialist actually reference reputable data. So presumably you know that CO2 emissions have been exceeding available sinks since the 1850’s. Data (spreadsheet) is here: https://www.icos-cp.eu/GCP/2018 ”
Firstly, I always provide “reputable data” usually with links.
Secondly, you proclaim that accurate information in an IPCC report is “fakery” while proclaiming that IPCC reports present real science.
Importantly, you make daft assertions, for example, you assert that “emissions” are more than “sinks” as though that were some great revelation. YES. THAT MUST BE SO BECAUSE THE CO2 IN THE AIR IS INCREASING.
I have tried to explain to you WHY the CO2 in the air is increasing. And I have provided several reasons why we know (yes, KNOW) it is not because the anthropogenic CO2 is accumulating in the air.
READ WHAT I HAVE WRITTEN FOR YOU AND TRY TO LEARN.
Importantly, APOLOGISE for your fatuous assertions saying to me,
I have refuted each and every point you have made, and my refutations are clear and full explanations (n.b. not daft and unsubstantiated assertions such as you provide)
Not only do I “understand there are “feedbacks”, my post in this thread at http://donaitkin.com/hoew-the-message-gets-embedded/#comment-59060 ) begins by saying,
and it provided links to each of these three completely independent determinations.
You have yet provide anything to substantiate your ill informed and erroneous twaddle, and I am losing patience with your attempts to pretend that abuse of people information and journals is an acceptable alternative to scientific discourse..
“Collapse of ice is due to heat from global warming due to imbalance between emissions and sinks.??”
What is the average temperature in the area of collapse?
Richard, what precisely do you mean by “recovery from the LIA”? What recovered and why did it recover? And why is it still recovering?
Poor ol’ jimb.
Like blith. Determined to live in a fool’s world.
Lots of things in heaven and earth other than hockey sticks, jimb.
Including Nat Var:
http://joannenova.com.au/2019/07/cosmic-rays-seeded-clouds-during-the-last-geomagnetic-reversal/
JimboR;
You ask me,
When you first put that question to me in this thread it was answered in this thread by spanglewd drongo at http://donaitkin.com/hoew-the-message-gets-embedded/#comment-59589 .
As anybody can see, I then wrote,
What part of that did you not understand?
Or are you trying to pretend I have avoided your silly question?
For additional clarification, I add that whatever caused the LIA is the probable cause of the recovery from the LIA.
One thing can be said with complete certainty; i.e.
CO2 has no part in the natural variation around a mean temperature state which in recent centuries is observed as recovery from the LIA.
That doesn’t sound like science to me.
That’s OK, jimb.
When your whole world is a CO2 hockey stick, that’s quite understandable.
Since this seems to have become a subject of interest, what are your science qualifications?
It is no use referring to anything the drongo posts as I have a filter that blocks its posts.
I only see the drongo drivel when I log in using a computer in a library or public wifi.
I feel very sorry for the rest of you.
Statements such as: ” I add that whatever caused the LIA is the probable cause of the recovery from the LIA.”
show your complete incompetence.
Good to see someone with a completely open mind!
BJ, our blith has applied that same filter to current sea levels as well as Nat Var.
Now he just draws the curtains and avidly follows the cli-sci of little Greta and AOC.
Life is so easy these days.
In answer to your posing a question that had already been answered in the thread by spangeled drongo (SD), I linked to the reply of SD and quoted the agreement with that answer I had posted in the thread. And I added,
You have replied to that addition saying in full,
IT IS SCIENCE
A scientific dispute of my statement would have asked me to say
(a) the information providing the “complete certainty”
(b) mechanisms I consider may “cause the observed natural variation around the mean temperature”
As I told you in a previous thread,
“Science is a method that seeks the closest available approximation to ‘truth’ by searching for information that refutes existing understanding and amends or rejects the existing understanding in response to discovered information that refutes the existing understanding.
Pseudoscience is a method that adopts an existing understanding as being ‘truth’ and seeks anything (e.g. information, consensus, celebrity endorsement, etc.) which bolsters that existing information while creating excuses to reject or ignore anything that refutes the existing understanding.”
Furthermore, it your very next post after the one reporting you don’t know what science sounds like, you have written saying in full,
THAT IS PURE PSEUDOSCIENCE.
And, yes, I proclaim you are right when you say I am “incompetent” at pseudoscience.
You and your AGW-cult are trying to destroy the advancement to humanity provided by the Enlightenment. In this thread at
I explained the terrible consequences that would result if you were to be successful
I have addressed every scientific question you have put to me but I still await your answer to the question I put to you; viz.
When are these “scientists” ever going to grow up.
Like our blith and co here, they refuse to look outside.
They are calling for restrictions on carbon dioxide, but objective evidence shows coral have thrived under much more warming and cooling than is presently occurring, and coral continue to thrive today:
https://www.cfact.org/2019/07/02/science-digest-gets-caught-pushing-a-coral-reef-myth/
So Richard, to summarise, it was really cold once, you’re not sure why, but no matter how warm it gets now and no matter how high the CO2 levels get now, it’s because it was really cold once. I’m beginning to think you really do believe in a big elastic band in the sky.
Jimbo I don’t know what caused the LIA either, but it could be the sun or slightly more clouds or volcanoes, or longer ocean oscillations or a mixed combination etc. Who knows?
Tony B of Climate Reason has looked at all available records and was able to find warming spikes during that much colder period as well. We know from the archives that deadly heatwaves also occurred through Europe during that period and we had similar heatwaves in Sydney in the 1790s. See Watkin Tench observations and records. Streams dried up and thousands of birds dropped dead and fouled waterways around that area of Sydney.
Co2 levels would have been around 280 ppm then so we know it wasn’t the driver. But overall the period between about 1300 to 1850 was much colder than today ,but also had much warmer, short fluctuations as part of the record.
Thankyou for your good answer to the silliness from Chris Warren. The silliness was aimed at me so, for the record, I am writing to state my complete agreement with you fine answer.
I would like to add one of the possibilities that exist in your “etc.” because I think it is the most probable.
Slight variation to ocean currents could alter global temperature because
(i) radiative balance maintains itself
(ii) radiated energy is proportional to the fourth power of the emitting surface.
(Richard Lindzen and I each completely independently calculated this).
(ii) radiated energy is proportional to the fourth power of the emitting surface’s temperature.
(I am surprised that this typo. existed for days without Chris Warren demonstrating his superior scientific knowledge by doing me the favour of pointing out it needed correction)
I agree with Clive James who said Alarmists have always profited from their insistence that climate change is such a complex issue that no “science denier” can have an opinion worth hearing. For most areas of science such an assistance would be true. But this particular area has a knack of raising questions that get more and more complicated in the absence of an answer to the elementary ones. One of the elementary questions is how man made carbon dioxide can be a driver of climate change if the global temperature has not gone up much over the last 20 years but the amount of man made CO2 has. If we go on to ask a supplementary question say, how would carbon dioxide raise temperature when the evidence of ice cores indicates the temperature has always raised CO2 we will be given complicated answers, but we still haven’t had an answer to the first question except for the suggestion that the temperature, despite observations, has really gone up, but the extra heat is hiding in the ocean
“the extra heat is hiding in the ocean”
And if some of the alarmists are to be believed, hiding well down in the ocean where it cannot be detected.
Apparently this hideen heat is so powerful that it manages to defy the rule that hwat rises, in order to sink deep into the ocean, and doesn’t warm the surface water on the way through.
Amazing stuff, this anthropogenic heat!
What observations are you using.
The science is elementary. You would not find much over 20 years, but who says this is the relevant time scale?
Why pick 20 years?
You are quite correct. Climate scientists tell us that 30 years is the relevant period.
However, if not much has happened in 20 years, it will all have to happen in a rush over the final ten, won’t it?
PS, any thoughts on the practical measures needed to achieve your required population stabilisation, and ultimately, reduction?
John, yes, if emissions of CO2 had had proved to be as influential as claimed there wouldn’t be any need to re-brand global warming firstly as Climate Change and more recently Climate Disruption.
Whether it’s known by any of those terms or even “climate justice” it’s really just predatory economics. It’s an exhibition of mankind’s inherent capacity for raising opportunism to a principal: the enabling condition for fascism in all its varieties, and often an imperative mindset among high end frauds.
Your reference to “fascism in all its varieties” is why I keep asking Chris what measures he proposes to achieve his policy of first stabilising world population, and then reducing it.
He never responds.
But Chris I’ve provided you with a timescale of thousands of years and that estimate is provided by alarmist scientists via the combined RS and NAS report. Here’s their QUESTION 20 q&a AGAIN and maths guru Nic Lewis also calculated there would be a lag of thousands of years. Even if we stopped all human co2 emissions today.
Certainly planting trees and BLUE carbon projects around the world would be much better and a lot cheaper than trying to reduce emissions by regulations. And voters wouldn’t buy these useless schemes anyway.
https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-change-evidence-causes/question-20/
Here’s the more detailed graph of Zigfield et al study.
https://royalsociety.org/-/media/Royal_Society_Content/policy/projects/climate-evidence-causes/fig9-large.jpg?la=en-GB&hash=8A44DB48554B7B2E358FDF37C97CD90A
“timescale of thousands of years and that estimate is provided by alarmist scientists via the combined RS and NAS report”
Clearly just a bunch of dastardly denialists!
Can’t help myself and have to comment. The two papers you refer to highlight the problem you refuse to see. Yes the damage we have already done is irreversible in our timescale. But we can pull back and prevent a further degradation of conditions if we work to reduce future emissions. Even now, although you knock renewable energy, it’s development has actually done a lot already to limit emissions while powering global growth. At least now you seem to be opening the door to recognizing that we have a problem.
And SD, yes they would build resort. Those kinds of places are built with only a short term lifespan in mind. Plenty of examples of that.
“while powering global growth”
Renewables have certainly powered growth in China. They have also increased costs and decreased reliability in other countries. I suppose throwing out food ruined by power failure leads to purchasing more food, so that might count as “powering global growth”!
PS, back again? When is your next farewell?
BTW, Stu, what do you think of Chris’ “solution” of lowering per capita emissions, and first stabilising, then reducing, world population? Will it be timely enough and sufficient to “prevent a further degradation of conditions”?
“Plenty of examples of that.”
Give us one.
SD, Right now I am back in good old Canberra. Everywhere you look government and private buildings constructed since the 1960’s have been or ate being replaced. As for the Maldives, that story was done to death here weeks and months ago.
And BJ, I am back while the conversation stays polite and sensible, you start abusing again and I am gone, up to you.
Stu AKA Perve.
You write.
In this thread YOU are so fixated on me that you have been rudely and stupidly demanding that I give you personal stuff!
I have made a fair offer in response to your impolite and silly demands for me to give you personal stuff, but you are refusing it because you expect me to hand over to you for free what is mine.
BE POLITE AND BE SENSIBLE. I have said I will pander to your fixation by letting you have some of my old and unwashed underpants if you pay for them but you refuse to pay.
Please stop hand waving, stu, and give me a specific example.
Perhaps you might ask your colleague Chris to reduce the number of “denier/denialist” slurs he slings about?
Check this luxury resort where I am staying and tell me if you think they would have built it if they believed in the alarmist view of sea level rise:
https://www.theaustralianplus.com.au/competitions/win-a-luxurious-five-night-getaway-to-the-maldives
Richard, not knowing the cause of the LIA is fine, but not knowing the cause of the LIA while attributing to it all (or most) of the warming and CO2 rise since, is an act of faith not science.
Now may we all join hands in prayer to praise the Almighty Rubberband in the sky. (Is there a tax exemption with that?).
Try not to be silly.
You are claiming something has changed. I am making no such claim.
I am saying that the recovery from the LIA started before there was any possibility of AGW. That is an observation.
And I am saying there is no evidence that the recovery has stopped. That is a fact.
YOU are saying – with no evidence and no reason – that the recovery from the LIA has stopped so something else is now continuing the intermittent warming. That is an assertion of superstitious faith.
How did you obtain your superstitious idea that the LIA has stopped?
Did autistic Greta hear it from her ‘voices’, or did some other ignorant fool tell you?
My point is there is no inherent “recovery” mechanism, there is no elastic band. If nothing changed, we’d still be in the LIA. Something warmed us up from the LIA. It is pure faith to assume that warming process has been the same for the entire period There’s no more faith required in assuming it was the same forcing all that time, as is needed for a different forcing over time. If you see me head off at 60km/hr you can assume I complete my entire journey at 60km/hr, or you can assume I changed my speed; both require faith. A better approach would be to take measurements… but you need to fix your Null Hypothesis problem before you can get to them.
Now, I’m off to a wedding for the weekend…. let me know how you get on with your homework.
The climate system has NOT changed. Its variation remains within its range of the holocene.
I know you climate change denialists like to claim nonsense like this,
“If nothing changed, we’d still be in the LIA. Something warmed us up from the LIA. It is pure faith to assume that warming process has been the same for the entire period There’s no more faith required in assuming it was the same forcing all that time, as is needed for a different forcing over time.”
That is illogical twaddle. Parsimony suggests that what is happening is caused by whatever caused it previously.
The system continues to drift as it always has. Weather changes as it always has, and climate is the integral of weather. So can be expected to vary as it always has.
Your basic assumption says all change to climate is driven by change to radiative forcing. And it is very important to recognise that this assumption has not been demonstrated to be correct. Indeed, it is quite possible that there is no force or process causing climate to vary. I explain this as follows.
The climate system is seeking an equilibrium that it never achieves. The Earth obtains radiant energy from the Sun and radiates that energy back to space. The energy input to the system (from the Sun) may be constant (although some doubt that), but the rotation of the Earth and its orbit around the Sun ensure that the energy input/output is never in perfect equilbrium.
The climate system is an intermediary in the process of returning (most of) the energy to space (some energy is radiated from the Earth’s surface back to space). And the Northern and Southern hemispheres have different coverage by oceans. Therefore, as the year progresses the modulation of the energy input/output of the system varies. Hence, the system is always seeking equilibrium but never achieves it.
Such a varying system could be expected to exhibit oscillatory behaviour. And, importantly, the length of the oscillations could be harmonic effects which, therefore, have periodicity of several years. Of course, such harmonic oscillation would be a process that – at least in principle – is capable of evaluation.
However, there may be no process because the climate is a chaotic system. Therefore, the observed oscillations (ENSO, NAO, etc.) could be observation of the system seeking its chaotic attractor(s) in response to its seeking equilibrium in a changing situation.
Very, importantly, there is an apparent ~900 year oscillation that caused the Minoan Warm Period (MWP), then the Ancient Cool Period, then the Roman Warm Period (RWP), then the Dark Age Cool Period (DACP), then the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), then the Little Ice Age (LIA), and the present warm period (PWP). All the observed rise of global temperature in the twentieth century could be recovery from the LIA that is similar to the recovery from the AWP to the RWP and recovery from the DARC to the MWP. And the ~900 year oscillation could be the chaotic climate system seeking its attractor(s). If so, then everything you assert is based on the false premise that there is a force or process causing climate to change when no such force or process exists.
“Parsimony suggests that what is happening is caused by whatever caused it previously.”
Richard, that could well be the most damaging statement to your street cred as a scientist yet. Part 2 of your homework is to reflect on that and tell us why. And if you plan to rely on Occam’s razor, do so very carefully.
I see you’re still struggling with part 1. I gave you a clue in my very first rebuttal of it. Your Null Hypothesis approach is suitable for designing and testing an experiment IN LABORATORY CONDITIONS.
I’ve got a plane to catch. You’ve got an entire weekend to get or your homework done or risk flunking the class.
It is fashionable to ask this, so I will ask you.
What are your science qualifications?
Jimb’s cli-sci qualifications are all based on the strict belief that Nat Var is cooling ONLY!
And all warming is down to ACO2.
How can he go wrong in this modern world of endless, exaggerating, empty, eccentric, egotistical, elitist, excitable, enurisistic “environmentalists”.
How’s your aspergers coming along, jimb?
Our jimb is in complete denial of the fact that since the end of the LIA a considerable amount of the warming occurred before CO2 could be blamed [ up to the 1930s].
I am drooling at the thought of the great scientific education you are going to give me. I can add it to all I learned while obtaining a living being employed as a research scientist doing government work throughout my adult life.
I don’t intend to do any homework before you provide my first lesson because you quote me saying,
and assert
“Richard, that could well be the most damaging statement to your street cred as a scientist yet.”
I am shocked that I may lose some “street cred” because I did not know I had any, and losses are greatest when one doesn’t recognise a loss until it is gone.
Importantly, my ignorance is so great that I don’t understand why my simple statement of fact could damage my “street cred” or anything else. Therefore, I see no purpose in doing “homework” until you remove the veil of ignorance which you say is preventing me understanding the great mysteries you are trying to reveal to me.
“If you still think the scientific Null Hypothesis is “the wrong tool” then perhaps you could say what “tool” you think should be used.”
I assume you meant to direct that at me, not Chris. You’re a scientist, work it out. Have a look at what tool climate scientists use before they apply the Null Hypothesis, and whole boat load of statistical tests. Think about why you might need to do that first. If you’re still stuck in a day or two I’ll give you some clues.
NO! Read what I told you. You are still confusing the scienmtific Null Hypothesis with the statistical null hypothesis.
And, importantly, you arre claiming the scientific methid is the “wrong tool” so say what “tool” you think should be used. Is it you.
Yes, I appreciate the distinction. I said the Null Hypothesis AND a whole boat load of statistical tests.
the Null Hypothesis AND a whole boat load of OTHER statistical tests
Neither of those can be undertaken until you’ve performed another important step that you’ve missed. Your assignment is to work out what that is.
Your attempt to confuse the scientific Null Hypothesis with the statistical null hypothesis is failing as a method to obfuscate your inability to say what you think is the “tool” that should be used instead of the scientific method.
I have TWICE told you in this thread,
“In science there is only one Null Hypothesis: i.e. it has to be assumed a system has not changed unless it is observed that the system has changed (this differs from statistics where any ‘null hypothesis’ can be adopted to be tested).
But you are still trying to confuse the scientific Null Hypothesis with the statistical null hypothesis.
YOU are claiming the scientific method is the “wrong tool” to consider the existence of anthropogenic global warming.
There fore, YOU have a duty to say what “tool” would be the right one (or more).
Say it or crawl back under your bridge.
The paper “Human CO2 Emissions have little Effect on Atmospheric CO2” by Ed Berry has been mentioned repeatedly in this thread.
Therefore, some readers of this thread may want to know that on July 4, 2019 it was published in the International Journal of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences, of the Science Publishing Group.
It is an open access paper, so its PDF can be downloaded at no cost from
http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/journal/paperinfo?journalid=298&doi=10.11648/j.ijaos.20190301.13
The Science Publishing Group is outed on Wikipedia.
You only get published there if you have been refused by decent journals.
The company has been criticized for predatory open-access publishing. In an experiment, university professor Fiona McQuarrie submitted an article to International Journal of Astrophysics and Space Science from Science Publishing Group, using pseudonyms Maggie Simpson and Edna Krabappel (characters from the cartoon series The Simpsons). Although the article had been generated by the SCIgen computer program and was nonsense, it was accepted for publication. Librarian Jeffrey Beall, creator of a list of predatory open-access publishers, in 2014 pseudonymously published a nonsensical article in American Journal of Applied Mathematics. The article contained an alleged proof of Buddhist Karma.
They publish nonsense and no doubt attract denialists like moths to the flame.
Try shooting the message for a change, blith.
A bit beyond you, hey?
“decent journals” means” journals that produce results that Chris likes?
You have sunk to a new low even for you.
Unable to find fault with the message, and unable to ‘shoot the messenger’, you try to besmirch the paper the message is printed on.
Sad, very sad.
You have been exposed.
No, I am not “exposed”. I have checked my zip and my flies are NOT undone.
Somebody, I forget who, gave a reference to a paper by Ed Berry. It seems it has been published in a journal with a low reputation. And there are questions about the veracity of the paper which lead to the difficulty in publishing. It seems that paying to be published is now flourishing. There are several places where it is referred to which are quite interesting to read.
This is a good one . https://davidappell.blogspot.com/2018/02/idiocy-from-ed-berry-phd.html
There are several others also.
There are some interesting commenters there also which make it worth reading. Have fun
When you grow up you will have learned enough to comment on scientific matters. Until then you would do well to stop enmarassing yourself.
PS You still have refused to say what price you are willing to pay for the used and unwahed undrrpants I offered to sell you.
You know nothing about science as you believe:
This is fake as glaciers do not sublimate.
Any first year undergraduate student knows science better than Richard S Courtney.
RSC is a scientist as Monkton is a Lord.
Michael Burston says:
Sublimation is significant
https://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water-science-school/science/sublimation-and-water-cycle
Michael Burston
This is a misunderstanding. Water only sublimates at pressures below the triple point of water.
The science is here: https://opentextbc.ca/chemistry/wp-content/uploads/sites/150/2016/05/CNX_Chem_10_04_PhaseDi.jpg
This is below 0.6 KPa.
https://opentextbc.ca/chemistry/wp-content/uploads/sites/150/2016/05/CNX_Chem_10_04_H2OPhasDi2.jpg
It would seem that whoever prepared the material for school students may not have checked this out thoroughly or are using the word far too loosely.
You say, “RSC is a scientist as Monkton is a Lord.”
That is surreal.
The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a theatrical organisation and not a scientific one.
However, there is a Lord Monckton; viz. the Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley.
Just as we would expect from you, stu, that is the most trivial objection it is possible to apply to that finding.
But par for the course, of course, from that particular critic.
Which says it all about your total climate debate.
And just like our blith, you have nothing to refute in the findings but you feel it is essential to keep shooting.
I see that Jo Nova has listed some climate scientists who are not quite so panic stricken about the Antarctic ice “collapse” as the Gruaniad
One of the best things about websites like Jonova is reading the comments there. Some of the folk there are way more rabid than here. That is the real give away about the lack of veracity of the “science” she quotes, which often as not is merely a rehash of newspaper articles. And we all know about “fake news”.
Perhaps you might explain how the commenters at Jo Nova being, in your opinion, “rabid” detracts from the veracity of what she posts.
Still, it is good to see that you recognise the prevalence of “fake news” in the press. The Grauniad is a good example of a purveyor of “fake news”.
PS, what are your science qualifications?
Clearly you have never read the comments there or on similar sites such as wattsup etc. I gave you a compliment. You guys at least try and stick to science, most of the time, and not the demented ravings of some (I did not say all) of the comments in those places, they attract nutters.
The so called scientist that the DEMS call most of the time is “upside down Mann.” Whenever the DEMS need to BS about their so called CAGW this is their go to joker. Unbelievable but true.
In the recent hearing he used himself most of the time as the source of his claims, while the real scientist Dr Judith Curry used the IPCC reports as well as other reputable sources to support her arguments.
Maths & stats guru Steve McIntyre invented the “upside down Mann” tag for this fool after he was caught out using data upside down to try and support his case in some of the studies.
But never fear this is the type of go to joker that some of the bloggers here and elsewhere use to try and support their dubious claims.
BTW here is the latest article from Matt Ridley about the greening of the world over the last 30 years. Amazing trace gas co2 when just 0.01% increase in the total atmosphere can be so beneficial for our biosphere in so short a time.
Don’t forget the world’s economy has doubled in size over that same period of time and yet some left wing loonies are still telling us we have only a very short time before we reach the apocalypse.
See AOC, Bernie, Greta, the Pope, Gore etc and my Labor candidate at the recent election who claimed we had only “3 more years to take action on climate change”. This lunacy would be hilarious if it wasn’t so serious. And yet this Labor donkey still received about 30% of the 2PP vote. Can you believe it? Oh and Wikipedia now tells us that OZ is responsible for a whopping 1.08% of global co2 emissions. SARC
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/07/05/global-greening-is-happening-faster-than-climate-change-and-its-a-good-thing/
There is countervailing evidence that the higher CO2 is degrading the nutrient value of crops like rice and even pasture grasses for cattle feed. I am traveling this weekend so cannot give the reference now. But can later to satisfy the doubters.
Evidence or opinion?
BTW, rice is grown in paddy fields. I wonder how much methane bubbles up in those fields?
“I am traveling this weekend so cannot give the reference now. But can later to satisfy the doubters”
You can spare us the agony if you like, stu.
We know how reluctant your alarmist heroes are to admit that ACO2 is such a friend and benefit to humans but the concept is relatively simple; plants take in carbon to build their tissues, and if there is more carbon around, they have an easier time.
Leaves take in air through tiny openings called stomata, but in the process the stomata lose water; with more carbon available, they don’t have to open up as much, conserve moisture and grow faster and better.
But your enuresistic mates insist that it is much more complicated than that because pests will also thrive in those improved conditions and consume those benefits.
And we already know that.
Never happened before in the life of farming, hey stu?
But strangely, even while experiencing huge pest invasions, farmers have developed such better strains of rice etc to produce enormous increases in yields.
And the extra CO2 will be a huge bonus as plants are fundamentally CO2 and water.
But when you are in serious denial of the great benefits of this extra CO2 you shouldn’t tax your tiny mind on the bleedin’ obvious.
BJ and SD,
Here is that reference, I just knew you would be doubters.
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/5/eaaq1012.full
It is one of the journals from the US AAAS.
Declines of protein and minerals essential for humans, including iron and zinc, have been reported for crops in response to rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, [CO2]. For the current century, estimates of the potential human health impact of these declines range from 138 million to 1.4 billion, depending on the nutrient. However, changes in plant-based vitamin content in response to [CO2] have not been elucidated. Inclusion of vitamin information would substantially improve estimates of health risks. Among crop species, rice is the primary food source for more than 2 billion people. We used multiyear, multilocation in situ FACE (free-air CO2 enrichment) experiments for 18 genetically diverse rice lines, including Japonica, Indica, and hybrids currently grown throughout Asia. We report for the first time the integrated nutritional impact of those changes (protein, micronutrients, and vitamins) for the 10 countries that consume the most rice as part of their daily caloric supply. Whereas our results confirm the declines in protein, iron, and zinc, we also find consistent declines in vitamins B1, B2, B5, and B9 and, conversely, an increase in vitamin E. A strong correlation between the impacts of elevated [CO2] on vitamin content based on the molecular fraction of nitrogen within the vitamin was observed. Finally, potential health risks associated with anticipated CO2-induced deficits of protein, minerals, and vitamins in rice were correlated to the lowest overall gross domestic product per capita for the highest rice-consuming countries, suggesting potential consequences for a global population of approximately 600 million.
Yeah, thanks for the blurb, stu.
There are at least 100 papers to the contrary.
Just answer a simple question.
If we have been growing those same grain crops since CO2 levels were 280 ppm are you saying that they are similarly reduced in quality?
In case you had not noticed all crops have increased enormously in quality and quantity during that period.
Generally speaking, nitrate fertilisers are all that is needed to make up any deficiencies.
When you increase quantity enormously just by adding CO2 you are naturally always going to lose some quality without more additions. But even so, the gains still far outweigh the losses.
I thought you’d be a wake up to that and would be pushing the “plague and pestilence” barrow instead.
But you obviously don’t know much about a farmer’s daily grind.
SD “There are at least 100 papers to the contrary.”
Really. Can you provide some links that say the nutritional value of crops has increased with CO2 and not just that they grow faster/bigger etc.?
When you answer the question I asked;
You will likely find your answer.
Did you read Neville’s link on global greening, above, stu?
“This greening is good news. It means more food for insects and deer, for elephants and mice, for fish and whales. It means higher yields for farmers; indeed, the effect has probably added about $3 trillion to farm incomes over the last 30 years. So less land is needed to feed the human population and more can be spared for wildlife instead.”
I see this every day. The increase in my wet sclerophyll and rain forest is enormous.
The place looks like the Vale of Tralee even in the drought!
So I have handed over even more to the wildlife.
What a climate crisis we are facing.
Oh sorry, I thought you were still maintaining that an increase in CO2, which is such a small constituent of the atmosphere, could not possibly influence anything. Is that not so now?
Where have you been lately, stu?
Pay attention, hey!
Open your eyes and look at all my recent comments.
I have been trying to get it through your brain for the last hour that CO2 is what we need to survive.
No kidding! Who would have thought?
Not you, obviously.
You don’t do thinking.
You don’t understand sarcasm do you? Oh well, never mind, keep on keeping on, old chap.
You’re not actually telling us you have just had a Damascene awakening by any chance, are you?
This has to rank as one of the weirder outcomes of a warming world. Oil companies re-freezing the permafrost (Which is melting around them) so that they can continue drilling.
https://www.ecowatch.com/alaska-permafrost-melting-oil-drilling-2577458683.html
This could improve your education no end, stu:
Some blith fakery upthread:
Here is a photo of Dr Lonnie Thompson standing next to an ice spire on Kilimanjaro. Notice any meltwater pools nearby? You won’t, because they aren’t there.
The glacier ice sublimated:
https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/070601_thompson1_vmed_1p-grid-4×21.jpg
Here is Phil jones in the Climategate emails on Lonnie Thompson and his private opinion on the Kilimanjaro glacier:
“I’ve heard Lonnie Thompson talk about the Kilimanjaro core and he got some local temperatures – that we don’t have access to, and there was little warming in them. The same situation applies for Quelccaya in Peru and also some of his Tibet sites. Lonnie thinks they are disappearing because of sublimation, but he can’t pin anything down. They are going though.”
Lonnie’s email is “Lonnie G. Thompson”
The removal of surrounding forests over the years has reduced the moisture at the mountain top and snow and ice no longer form there.
Lonnie and Ellen Thompson both served as advisers to Al Gore in the making of “An Inconvenient Truth”.
Says it all really.
Naturally, like blith, they don’t want to admit the real cause of the missing ice publicly.
Jeez a rare event, I agree with the sparkling drongo. Yes glaciers can sublimate and Kilimanjaro is a good example, due to the very dry air there. Wow, cheers mate.
stu (AKA Perve),
You should tell Chris Warren about glacial sublimation because – being the naughty little denialist that he is – he has misunderstood a triple point diagram and says it doesn’t happen.
For some reason (which he does not state) he is incapable of understanding anything I write.
You may be able to help him understand the unimportant truth that glaciers sublimate.
Also, he may buy you my old underpants as a ‘thank you gift’ for getting him to learn something.
Like Stu I have to agree with SD about Kilimanjaro , big reduction of trees at the base , but little warming trend and of course sublimation.
Lomborg included all this in his book “Cool It “many years ago. Just a pity Lonnie T lost his nerve when Steve McIntyre pursued him over some of his other silly claims and ultimately refused to provide Steve with the data. Of course he wasn’t the only so called scientist to run and hide when Steve challenged them.
Neville, you’ve got a better memory than I have. I had forgotten a lot of the saga of those days.
It showed the warmists up, even then, for the science deniers they were but now they are doing it in spades [and shovels].
Mind you, Stephen Schneider, Paul Ehrlich et ors used a shovel back in the ’70s and earlier.
There’s just happens to be a lot more shovelling today:
https://realclimatescience.com/2019/07/sad-experts-say-we-starved-to-death-in-1975/
Sublimation cannot occur at air pressures found at Kilimanjaro.
You only have ablation of ice and evaporation of melt-water.
Phase change from solid to vapour only occurs at pressures below the triple point of water.
You better reverse your selective-ignorance machine, blith, so you can see this picture.
Then you can learn what happened to the ice on Kilimanjaro.
Even Lonnie Thompson’s colleague, Doug Hardy said of the disappearance of the Kilimanjaro ice;
“Dryness, not warming, is what’s causing the glaciers to recede,” says Hardy, “the amount of water from glacier melt is relatively insignificant, because most of the ice is “sublimed” — it evaporates immediately, bypassing the liquid phase.”:
I write to respectfully ask why you call Chris Warren ‘blith’.
I do not intend to be impertinent by asking, and I understand it may be improper to answer my question if the matter is a personal reason or joke between you and him.
I ask because newcomers may not understand of whom you speak (I was not instantly aware).
I call him “blith” as a friendly way of saying “blitherer-in-chief”. Or even blitherer number one, seeing as there are a few other blitherers here.
I was just looking back over some old material and found this interesting post from 2008. You will see it confidently predicts 20 years of cooling due to low solar activity. (That did not happen). But the best bit is the collection of comments after the post on Wattsup.
“But his analysis of the sun’s cyclical activity and global climate records has led him to the view that we are entering a period of up to two decades in which reduced solar activity may either flatten the upward trend of global temperatures or even cause a slight and temporary cooling. In a paper given in 2005 to a ”soiree” hosted by then president of the Academy of Science, Professor Jim Peacock, McCracken said the sun was the most active it had been over 1000 years of scientific observation. This made it inevitable that its activity would decrease over the next two decades in line with historically observed solar cycles.“
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2008/08/26/former-head-of-csiros-division-of-space-science-says-global-cooling-may-be-on-the-way/
You say, “Have fun” as the conclusion to a post that has no relevance here.
I have been having a lot of fun trying to gain something from your kinky fixation about me. I take it that your comment I have quoted is encouragement for me to continue pandering to your fixation. OK, I will.
My offer is still available to you, so please say how much you are willing to pay for my old and unwashed underpants.
Dr Jennifer Marohasy will be speaking at the Maroochydore Surf Club on Sunday the 14th July at 2 pm. Here’s part of her post and the link.
https://jennifermarohasy.com/2019/07/sea-level-fall-at-the-great-barrier-reef/
“I will show some evidence of past cycles embedded in the local Sunshine Coast landscape, including when Maroochydore was underwater because of higher sea levels just 120,000 years ago.
Everyone is welcome at the Surf Club. I will speak for about 1 hour … beginning at 2pm on Sunday 14th July on Level 3 which is the Conference Room, 36 Alexander Parade, Maroochydore.
You must think you are on a winner here with a duplicate comment, hey, stu?
I would have thought the penny would have dropped with this opening remark:
“Yarmak said he had been selling the tubes to oil companies since the 1970s,”
IOW, you just don’t get that when you are working in the frozen ground that always melts in the season of best working conditions, [ie summer] heavy machinery needs a solid base to work on and like the ice roads of the far north, the ground needs to be kept frozen to provide that functional base.
And could it possibly be that a huge increase in that heavy machinery has created more slush on the worksites?
You don’t understand much about the real world, hey stu?
What a pathetically feeble, evidence-free, argument.
But so typical of current kiddie klimate culture.
And you are such a polite, courteous debater, the whole world is impressed, well done.
We have learned the techniques of polite debating from Chris.
I will grant you some of that pushback. But now explain the buildings collapsing and roads buckling in Alaska due to melting of permafrost that was thought to be “permanent”. Towns are having to be moved.
About 25% of the northern hemisphere is covered with permafrost and during the Holocene it has come and gone at a great rate.
As evidenced by the changing treelines which have been much further north than currently.
It’s called Nat Var, stu.
But not to worry.
The melting gives off nitrous oxide and that laughing gas should prevent enuresis.
You put a lot of faith in natural variation. Tell us the normal and maximum rates of change over the Holocene and how they compare with now, when things are changing rapidly?
Stu, I have answered that [good] question a dozen times. But are you seriously denying that temperatures have changed during the Holocene?
When CO2 supposedly was always below 300 ppm?
Denying that high lat tree lines have changed?
Denying that sea levels have changed?
Denying that the LIA was the longest, coldest period in the Holocene?
Denying that Nat Var during the Holocene occurred over a wider temperature range than is happening now?
And while you are pondering that you might like to tell us just what exactly is happening today, climate wise, that did not occur during the Holocene?
You know, that question I have asked you many times but which you are yet to answer.
Stu, it depends if the melting is local around the buildings and roads or extending further afield
More current kiddie klimate culture.
Here is science in straight out denial of temperatures preceding CO2 and building models based on the reverse assumption:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/07/06/more-reactive-land-surfaces-cooled-the-earth-down/
More evidence that the MWP occurred around the world before a retreat into the much colder LIA. But even the LIA had warming spikes before the start of the modern warm period.
https://notrickszone.com/2019/07/06/medieval-climate-anomaly-now-confirmed-in-southern-hemisphere-on-all-four-continents/
Here is Dr John Christy’s recent talk to the GWPF and you have to wonder how long their CAGW fantasy can continue.
He lists all of their projections over the years and explains where they have failed.
Plenty of graphs, charts, history etc and although it is a long read it is fairly easy to follow. He puts their so called CAGW to the test and it fails miserably.
https://www.thegwpf.com/putting-climate-change-claims-to-the-test/
How does your sublimation at Kilimanjaro?
What are the air pressures there?
I am not denying those things. But you show me how that changes the fact that we now have escalating changes in global weather and all the experts are saying it will get worse. For all but the last few thousand years we have not had large scale, settled civilization. So what happened before that is irrelevant in terms of coping now with what is occurring. 1.5 or 2 degrees change does matter and is already having serious consequences. All the things you quote end up as “so what”.
“…we now have escalating changes in global weather and all the experts are saying it will get worse.”
Is that your answer to my question?
If it is, please show how those “escalating changes” are any worse or in any way any different [except where they involve ever increasing populations which we all accept] than they were when CO2 was below 300 ppm?
Up to early 1900s.
You seem to be saying the “problem” is simply the population [ and I am inclined to agree] but that is a completely different problem altogether.
And that different problem is not about changing climate unless you can demonstrate how climate is different today to the Holocene pre early 1900s.
Which you have yet to do.
SD and Stu
Chris also seems inclined to this position on population. I will ask both of you the questions that I have previously asked him, which he has not answered.
If population is the problem, how would you go about first stabilising, and then reducing world population? Over what time frame would you hope for this to occur? Can your objectives be met within an acceptable time frame without using what might euphemistically be called “active measures?
BJ, I’m not a demographer and no expert but most countries will stabilise their population if they develop a reasonably functional economy, run their own affairs and be responsible for their own survival.
As has been shown by history, rather than the “food for Africa” so called solution which has been disastrous.
And then there are the Muslim countries today that are determined to out breed and flood the ROW even though some are a basket case economically.
It’s hard to see “active measures” working there but allowing migration is certainly not the answer.
But third worlders need F/F power as a big step in the right direction for independence and population control.
I think that you are right, both in respect of most of the world, which will naturally stabilise its populations as living standards improve, and in respect of the Islamic nations, and their diasporas (diasporae??), which will continue to remain under political pressure to expand.
I don’t see any great urgency to reduce population levels, certainly not because of panic from the CAGW alarmists, but the Islamic issue is of concern for different reasons, not relevant to this thread.
Chris glaciers have been increasing and receding for thousands of years and global SLs were about 2 metres higher about 4,000 years ago. OZ is a good example and Jennifer Marohasy will talk about the much higher SLs of the Eemian IG etc some 120,000 years ago next Sunday. See above link.
But Kiliminjaro’s glaciers are an example of sublimation at work because of the drier air in that area. Interesting that Tanzania’s pop has increased from about 21 mil in 1984 to about 61 mil today.
And that much larger pop has an increased life expectancy of about 15 more years today ( 65) compared to the pop in 1984. Just another reason I don’t I don’t believe in their so called climate change emergency. Obviously everything is much better today and that includes the poorer countries of Africa as well.
As interesting as it is:
“But Kiliminjaro’s glaciers are an example of sublimation at work because of the drier air in that area. ”
still does not explain how sublimation could ever occur as purported given the science of the water phase change behaviour.
It seems that sublimation is not the process at work.
Please tell, oh learned one, what is the mystical “process” that emulates sublimation of ice but is not sublimation?
And since you claim to know more than anyone else about the behaviour of ice (i.e. frozen water) , please demonstrate your knowledge by explaining why all ice is wet (i.e. has all its surfaces coated in a layer of liquid water) at all temperatures down to -47 degrees Celsius.
My question asks why ice is wet, and to assist you in finding an answer I state three things which I doubt you know.
The property of ice having all its surfaces coated in a layer of liquid water at all temperatures down to -47 degrees Celsius was first discovered by Michael Faraday.
This Michael Faraday also did some work on electricity.
In the 1990s, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging was used to investigate this layer of water on all ice surfaces at all temperatures down to -47 degrees Celsius, and these NMR investigations revealed the reason for the water layer.
Chris, you are claiming to have greater knowledge of ice properties than providers of resources for secondary schools.
I think you are an ignorant fool who knows nothing about ice properties. You can prove me wrong by answering my two questions; viz.
What is the “process” which you claim emulates sublimation of ice but is not sublimation?
Why does a layer of liquid water coat ice surfaces at all temperatures down to -47 degrees Celsius.
Chris Warren AKA The Tool.
You seem to have returned from the wedding but have not withdrawn your silly assertion that the scientific method is “the wrong tool” to investigate climate change.
I have repeatedly asked you to say what you think is the right “tool” but you have not answered that.
The only “tool” you have provided as a suggested method for investigating climate change is yourself.
And attempts to defend your mistaken ideas about sublimation fail as a distraction from your claim that you are a “tool” whose opinions should displace findings of scientific investigations.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hasan_Yolcu/publication/312596421/figure/fig2/AS:455223186595845@1485545073737/Phase-diagram-of-dry-ice-retrieved-from-http-chemwikiucdavisedu-Textbook.png
That diagram answers neither question.
I remind that i said,
I think you are an ignorant fool who knows nothing about ice properties. You can prove me wrong by answering my two questions”
Your response proclaims what was already clear to all; i.e. You are an ignorant fool who knows nothing about ice properties.
Also, you were not forced to reply and, therefore, your provision of a silly response proves you are too stupid to recognise your ignorance.
I suggest you mend your speech a little – lest you get paid back in your own coin.
I only raised a single issue – conditions for sublimation.
You have tried to create distraction by talking about something else.
That’s a bit rich coming from someone who slings abuse like “denier”, “denialist”, “denialism”, “lies”, and “slander” around all the time.
Mend your own ways before demanding change from others!
This has been considered before. Denialist is an appropriate term.
Lies are spread by denialists and exposing lies relies on both the context and evidence.
While I have blocked one, both Neville and our new troll are inveterate sources of unilateral corruption.
Don didn’t think so, and this is his blog.
I suspect that your definition of “lies” is any statement with which you do not agree.
Bit like your definition of “reliable website” is any site with which you agree.
PS, I’m sure it was an oversight, but you forgot to tell us how you propose to first stabilise, and then reduce, world population (preferably without resorting to what might euphemistically be described as “active measures”.
Or are another of the “fate of the world is more important than democracy” school of thought?
You make two points and they are each wrong; very, very wrong.
First, you say to me,
In this thread you have attempted to smear and to defame me, and my research, and Ed Berry, and his research, and the IPCC, and an internationally published technical journal.
I have merely treated you with contempt (which is more respect than you deserve).
Secondly, you assert,
NO!!! Those two assertions are each a lie.
You are claiming to know more about sublimation of ice than the accepted experts in this field but the only knowledge of sublimation you have displayed is a phase diagram that you have misunderstood. I asked you to justify your assertions by answering the simple question,
Then, I avoided any possible assertion of my having used trickery: I gave you a hint about what research you can do (i.e. the shovel you can use) to obtain an answer to why sublimation occurs to ice so easily (i.e. to refill the hole you have dug and are in). Furthermore, I stressed the importance of that information about a property of ice by asking you,
“Why does a layer of liquid water coat ice surfaces at all temperatures down to -47 degrees Celsius?”
If you were not so thick then you would have grabbed the life-line of “a layer of liquid water” which enables evapouration to emulate sublimation at all temperatures down to -47 degrees Celsius.
I WAS NOT “CHANGING THE SUBJECT”. I WAS GIVING YOU AN ESCAPE ROUTE FROM YOUR HOLE.
The water coating is important, but direct sublimation also occurs from ice.
Chris, you know little and you are not very bright (even by troll standards). I suggest that you reject the global warming cult because it is not doing you any favours.
If you were not so thick then you would have seen that when I offer a ‘tethered goat’ to a troll there is usually a string attached to it.
For example, I gave a clear demonstration of this in this thread when I ‘hooked’ the troll labelled as stu. I ‘dangled the bait’ of me saying “I am not interesting” (see the short sub-thread that begins at http://donaitkin.com/hoew-the-message-gets-embedded/#comment-59522 )
stu grabbed the ‘bait’ and this enabled me to point out the dangerous threat provided by trolls who express personal interest in others on the web. I wrote,
My giving you the knowledge of ice surface properties was me offering another ‘tethered goat’. It has resulted in you providing a response that proves your comments are expressions of complete ignorance.
It i important that your comments are merely expressions of your complete ignorance.
DEMANDS FOR PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM PEOPLE ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE.
At very least they demonstrate a dangerous perversion, and at worst they are attempts to commit crime. In this thread and another you and your cronies have been demanding personal information from me.
MY RESPONSE TO YOUR DEMANDS HAS BEEN TO TREAT YOU WITH CONTEMPT, AND I DON’T WANT ANYBODY TO THINK I HAVE ANY RESPECT OF ANY KIND FOR YOU.
Please upload longer posts in future.
They are very entertaining.
But you and others using the concept sublimation have yet to describe how this complies with the science of phase change for water.
It seems, based on the science, that sublimation only occurs at pressures below a certain level (0.006 atm), not above.
https://www.learner.org/courses/chemistry/images/text_img/phase_diagram_water.jpg
Maybe you could address the issue and provide support for any other tangent.
Thank you for your kindness.
RS, wrote “stu grabbed the ‘bait’ and this enabled me to point out the dangerous threat provided by trolls who express personal interest in others on the web. I wrote,
Now let us get this really clear. I do not give a toss about him personally, but he turned up here, and started pontificating. He then posted a link to a video of a speech he says he gave at a Heartland conference years ago. It is a bizarre rant and fairly typical of Heartland shows. And It is reasonable to check on the bona fides of people professing scientific qualifications in a forum like that and here. He was introduced as Doctor R S etc which he did not refute. But there is no apparent evidence of such a qualification. He also lays claim to being an IPCC reviewer, which is a dodgy and misleading claim similar to his fellow traveller, Monckton. At least he has not claimed he won the Nobel prize! Yet. Which lead to an interesting link.
Under the title “the continuing misadventures of R S Courtney: non scientist”
https://watchingthedeniers.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/the-continuing-misadventures-of-richard-s-courtney-non-scientist/
It is a good read especially the comments that follow. Here is an example.
“To the left of centre says:
I’ve just had a similar encounter, on the Watts Up With That site, with someone who refers to themselves as richardscourtney. I assume it is the same Richard S Courtney who is being discussed here (although I guess one cannot be absolutely certain that it is). A really remarkable encounter in which I was accused of “trolling”, spreading “pseudo-scientific nonsense”, and aiming to “mislead”, “misinform” and “disrupt” (amongst other accusations). A really remarkable and extremely unpleasant encounter. What was more, when someone else commented that he had in fact mis-interpreted my comment and should really apologise, he thanked them for their comment but claimed that he knew how to deal with “trolls” like me. He also included a comment similar to that described by the commentator above, that I “claim I didn’t get enough hugs as a child”. Would maybe be amusing if this wasn’t someone who is actually taken seriously by some.” Sound familiar?
This is typical of scores of posts referring to the style of his attacks. His approach is remarkably consistent it seems and that is not the only place where his misdeeds are recorded. Google is full of such links.
Given that he proffered the link to the video it is reasonable to assume it is one and the same. Which brings me back to the video, which is worth watching as it is melodrama mixed with biblical style rantings and really crazy. He talks like he should be in a church pulpit not a blog site, even when he gets to the part where he is supposedly serious. Then again, if that is where he would feel comfortable it might explain a lot.
Perhaps now he will desist and spare us from his weird mindset.
Yes, RSC has been exposed as a denier.
“The term denier is not intended to apply to all those questioning climate science, especially the ordinary individuals being mislead. The term denier applies to those individuals such as Courtney who are paid public relations professionals lacking scientific qualifications whose job it is to muddy the debate and mislead. ”
Maybe RSC could confirm whether or not he is a paid denier or not.
Maybe someone should ask for their money back?
stu AKA Perve and Chris Warren,
You two slimey trolls have exposed yourselves as being despicable.
For four decades I have consistently proclaimed that climate changes. It always has and it always will.
You assert that I am “exposed” as a “denier”. WRONG! I proclaim that I am a supporter of science and an opponent of the global warming cult because there is no evidence – none, zilch, nada – of any discernible effect of human activities on global climate.
The cult of global warming uses nasty trolls like you to attack me – as you have tried to do here – because I have consistently promoted science to refute the evil promotions of your cult.
I am not and I never have been a public relations professional either paid or unpaid.
I do not know how to exterminate trolls like you guys. I wish I did.
YOU PERVERTS DISGUST ME. YOU MAKE ME SICK.
People do notice your lies.
Few people are reading this but I mention a couple of the falsehoods in your latest post in the probably forlorn hope you will learn something.
If as you now claim you “don’t give a toss” about me “personally” then you would not have repeatedly demanded that I give you personal information about me. There are only three reasons for those demands; viz, you are a pervert, or you are a criminal, or you are a pervert and a criminal.
I provided referenced information and explanations which refuted nonsense you had asserted, and I understand why you say that was “pontificating”.
RS, enough, enough, enough, time to just shut up mate, you are once again embarrassing yourself on a blog site. Just go away, or perhaps Don can block your disgusting rantings. If you want to just talk “science” fine, but you seem incapable of that.
stu aka Perve;
I am NOT your “mate”.
Your claim that I am is merely another of your perverted fantasies about me.
I don’t know who you are but (assuming you are a person, not a group or bot) your posts display what you are.
You are a disgusting pervert.
Your demands that I post personal info. about me on the web may tickle your perverted fantasies about me but – in addition to everything else wrong with those demands – they assume I am sufficiently stupid that I would do it.
Look at my comments. I want to “talk science” but – as everyone can see – when I try to introduce science into the thread all discussion is disrupted by ‘The Three Trolls’ imitating The Three Stooges. The three of you cannot discuss science; you think science is about abusing people, Chris Warren doesn’t know what science is, and JimboR says he cannot explain his misunderstanding of basic scientific principles because he is on a honeymoon.
You contribute nothing of any merit here so return to the slime under your bridge where you belong.
“Mate” is a colloquial Australian term when referring to another. It can be a genuine reflection of association or it can, as in this case, be a derogatory reference, a put down. Anyhow, your post illustrates the point I was making. Please disappear from here, you are a nong (another aussie term which you won’t comprehend -it is not flattering).
I thought the issue was how sublimation could occur at Earthly pressures, given the science.
Have you actually addressed this?
If you and others cannot deal with a small issue – I doubt whether you can deal with climate change.
Interpreting a chart correctly is within the skill sets of high school students.
I am assuming your post addressed to the Royal Shakespeare Company is intended for me.
Please don’t pretend you “thought” anything: thinking is clearly beyond your limited abilities. For example, anybody capable of “thought” would not expect a sensible person to accede to demands for personal info. to be posted on the web.
Also, you have repeatedly demonstrated that you lack ability at reading comprehension, so it is not surprising that you failed to understand that the matter under discussion is your mistaken notion that glacier ice does not sublime. You say you “thought” the subject was something else, but it was not.
I tried to help you out of your mistaken notion by mentioning a property of ice. However, your lack of any knowledge of the material properties of ice induced you to claim I was changing the subject. That claim informed me that the task of teaching you any materials science is beyond the abilities of a mere mortal such as me.
I will be willing to again try try to teach you something when you have mastered reading to the level that you can understand ‘Janet And John’. For now I am confronted by the surreal experience of having attempted to discuss the carbon cycle with you in this thread: talking to you about that was like attempting to have a conversation with a parrot that is trained to ‘talk’.
Dr Hansen and Bill McKibben tell us everything will be OK if we can just return the world to 1990 levels of co2 emissions. McKibben’s site is named 350.org because that is the level of 350 ppm that they now endorse. But I’m sure they must be having a joke with the feeble minded among us.
Chris thinks that 300 ppm is the limit we should aim for and then everything will be wonderful in his pixie, fairyland garden once more.
But if they really believe this infantile nonsense they should jump on the first plane ASAP and set up their protest base in China and India etc , because that’s where the ONLY growth in co2 emissions have come from over the last 30 years. Best of luck with that task, I’m sure you’ll be welcomed with open arms. SARC.
Here AGAIN is the WIKI link for all countries co2 emissions 1990 to 2017.
If you have considered William Ruddiman’s work, you may well find that a safe level is below 300ppm.
I assume you are now satisfied that sublimation is not scientifically accurate.
Chris your 300 ppm is a fantasy as is Dr Hansen’s 350 ppm so what is it you don’t understand? But by all means tell us about your so called climate emergency and then tell us how to fix it?
Don’t forget real data and evidence from the real planet earth and not your fantasy world. I’ve provided real data from Our W. I. D to prove that everything today is much better and humans today live much longer + healthier + wealthier lives.
Neville, you better show our blith this picture as he claims his denial machine won’t let him see anything I post [how’s that from someone who calls rational sceptics deniers?] and ask him how he figures this is melting ice:
He’s now reached the stage where someone needs to hold his hand and calm him down.
Chris has already given us the bare outline of how he would solve the problem. Reduce per capita CO2 emissions and halt the rise in world population, then reduce future population numbers.
Put aside that these actions will not reduce global CO2 levels to 300, or even 350, ppm for many years, he has offered (and seems either unwilling to, or incapable of offering) any detailed prescriptions of how these desiderata might be achieved.
The first could be achieved using current technology, either HELE or nuclear, but both of these are haram to him.
Short of dictatorial measures, the second would take many decades, and would require improvements to living standards in much of the world that would negate the effects of the first.
Chris is not a denialist in respect of this, he just ignores the whole issue of the practical measures needed to achieve his target.
Please cite where I claimed a “climate emergency”.
If 350ppm and 300ppm is a fantasy (!!??) what is the science.?
No reputable scientist has investigated and found these two benchmarks to be fantasies.
Reducing population growth in concert with falling per-capita emissions is the path that causes the least disruption to present society.
Gosh Chris why do we always have to hold your hand and do your thinking for you? To get co2 levels back to 300 or 350 ppm on human timescales IS A FANTASY according to the RS and NAS report.
And if you think that the developing countries are going to rely on your S&W fantasies from now on you really do need more help than I can offer.
So how many endless hundreds of trillions of $ will this cost and how many thousands of years would it take? OTOH if you’ve suddenly come to your senses and don’t believe in sudden and irreversible CAGW, we can all throw a party and celebrate your return from the abyss.
But if you don’t believe in the alarmist scientist’s projections via the RS report, you’ll have to explain your reasoning and of course tell us why they’re wrong?
If our denialists understood the CO2-global warming dynamic, they would be in a much better position to make informed comment instead of generally slanderous statements.
Climate change as a response to GHG’s goes way back in time. Fossil fuels have just accelerated it.
You can see this if you read and understand this:
https://donaitkin.com/perhaps-carbon-dioxide-increases-are-postponing-the-next-ice-age/
The human pop 10,000 YBP was probably about 5 mil and could have increased to 40 mil by 5,000 ybp. Who knows? But Don’s last two paragraphs are probably on the money. OZ should be building more coal HELE plants and ditching clueless, unreliable S&W ASAP.
Here is how Don finished his article.
“The other is that if Berger and Loutre are right, then the whole effort of trying to combat temperature change is pointed exactly in the wrong direction. We should be keeping up the CO2 and CH4 levels, so that the next ice age is postponed indefinitely. I know that others have said this in the past, and that all the signs are that the warming we have had so far has been beneficial.
But if we have 50,000 years to deal with the problem, there may come the time when the scientists of ten millennia ahead will have worked out how to prevent ice ages ever recurring. And it will all be due to us, and our love for farms, beef and fossil fuels!”
This paragraph from Don reminded me that in the 1970s the BBC did a program and associated book on “The Weather Machine and the Threat of Ice”. Given the change in fashions since then either would probably be difficult to find these days.
The interesting thing is the solution proposed by the Beeb to counter the perceived threat of a new Ice Age – burn more fossil fuel! The Beeb suggested that rising sea levels would be preferable to glaciers. The book even included a map showing parts of Europe that might need to be inundated to keep the glaciers away.
All blasphemy these days, of course.
Such attempts at references are fake: What does this even mean – “RS and NAS report.” You give no title and no page number etc.
So I assume you now accept that I have not claimed a “climate emergency”, that you now accept that “sublimation” is not the appropriate scientific term, and that you have yet to understand Ruddiman.
Apart from your slanderous language and tradition of chery-picking, it seems you do not have the necessary skills to explore these issues with the required level of accountability and rigour.
It is quite clear from your proposed remedies that you do NOT believe that there is a “climate emergency”. Your proposed solutions of reducing per capita CO2 emissions and world population cannot (in the first case) be implemented by current solar and wind technologies, while turning population around without taking extreme measures involving dictatorial powers (and probably mass murder) would be the work of many decades.
So why do you bang on about the subject incessantly?
Boambee John
You are misinformed. Australia has already reduced per capita emissions.
Turning population around in decades seems reasonable to me and is no more dictatorial than every other government program or religious dictate.
I have never said anything about current solar and wind. Why do denialists constantly make this stuff up?
Consistent failure of apocalyptic warnings hasn’t stopped climate change alarmism but their “solution” is ever more apocalypse.
A new publication from the Global Warming Policy Foundation reviews the impact of wind energy on the environment and finds that it is already doing great harm to wildlife:
https://www.thegwpf.org/the-appalling-environmental-cost-of-wind-energy/
It seems to have escaped your somewhat narrow focus that Australia reducing its per capita emissions makes three fifths of five eighths of bugger all to world CO2 concentrations, but thank you for confirming that we have done our share there, and need only reduce our popolation, a task easily accomplished by stopping all immigration.
If you think world population can be turned around in “decades” without a strong measure of (at least) coercion, you know little of demographics, nor of the vexed history of such policies in India and China.
As for your statement that “I have never said anything about current solar and wind. Why do denialists constantly make this stuff up?”, I remind you that a couple of threads ago (look it up yourself if you have forgotten), you abused me for allegedly dismissing solar and wind in favour of HELE coal and nuclear. Or you could just keep on denying it.
You seem to have a very convenient case of STML about some things you post.
What references have you provided that have not been debunked?
Do you know what at DOI is?
Do you know how to stay on topic?
Can you write a post without slander or obscenity?
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Aircraft: Ikarus C42 - G-CDRO
Isle of Wight - Challenge Complete
Today should have been an earlier and longer flight but for Chris Evans' blooming Carfest event. Supposed to be a car event in the nearby Laverstoke park; close to the downwind leg of 21/03. But on Thursday night I found out they were having air displays too. I was going to phone the airfield on Friday morning when a notification of air display was shown in the NOTAMs, but found a note had now appeared on the Popham website saying that they would be using runway 21 with a left hand direction - seemed fair enough and would keep our traffic away from the display area. But then things get worse. Airbourne cancelled all their instructional and trial flights and blocked-out all other booking slots. Then the Popham website note was embellish with "Limited private flying until 0945 local then flying displays by Sea Fury, Blades, Tornados, Black Cats, Arbarth Extra, BBMF and the Vulcan until 1630 local." for Sunday - implying that the airfield was effectively shut between. I suspect that things had snowballed with more display aircraft joining in. But it was very frustrating with the lack of information. The most worrying thing was that the display pilots information said that they had an Restricted Airspace Temporary (RAT) - they didn't! Whilst they had been practising, they also had told local pilots that they shouldn't be using Pophams frequency.
So we decided to go later on. When I got the the airfield we went out to watch the BBMF fly past over Popham and then over to the display area. Chris was doing a great service on the radio to keep it under control. Whilst fuelling the aircraft, the Vulcan also flew over - and impressive aircraft. This was the end of the days display, so we could now proceed with our flight. We had met Roy and agreed to fly together down to Isle of Wight (Sandown) together with Colin and Jac in two aircraft. I had already called Carla the day before and found that we didn't need PPR. I called again before we left and found that the cafe was still open - great! On the toss of a coin we decided that Roy would fly the outbound leg and I would do the return to Popham.
Once the Vulcan had finished we could join the exodus and depart from 26. Given the time restriction we are routing direct via Ropley, Butser Hill and Hayling Island. We initially were following Colin in G-VI and then overtook them. At the Solent they regained the lead and called for a straight-in approach whilst we chose an overhead join.
Once landed we taxi towards the tower where we now have to park, since Britten-Norman have taken over airfield management. Carlas cafe has also been resurrected on this side of the airfield. We sign in in the cafe and have a cuppa and a gorgeous slice of carrot cake (thanks Carla).
My turn for the homebound flight. After a quick checkover we lineup on 23 after a few landing aircraft. We take off and continue in the same direction from climbout. Jac says she is going direct to the Needles, rather than round the coast. However from my location that would take my over the radio mast, so I head further south - then even further south due to some low cloud. Onwards, and I'm considering turning early past Yarmouth up to Hurst Castle, but then the other go round behind us out to the coast, so I sort-of follow from the front towards the Needles. Then north over the New Forest for a smooth flight back to Popham. Lovely.
So that's my final letter for the AlphaBet Challenge - Challenge complete with only a few more days to go!
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This is the first of a three concert survey of Beethoven’s five sonatas for cello and piano. This duo of Karel Bredenhorst and Simon Callaghan is presenting the works in mixed recitals which will give a fine sense of the enduring legacy of this extraordinary repertoire.
The sonata in G is one of the Op 5 pair that was dedicated to the King of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm II, a keen music-lover and amateur cellist. It is understandably therefore something of a celebration of the instrument, the cello part now becoming more prominent than ever before. Written in Berlin in 1796 when the composer was 25, the sonata is from Beethoven’s early period and typically therefore contains much brilliant writing for the piano. More radical was his liberation of the cello part from its subservient role providing a bass line, the stringed instrument now becoming much more of a partner in advancing the musical argument. Radical too is the form of this three movement work, which opens most untypically with a slow, exquisitely beautiful Adagio.
The recital begins with a Bach sonata for viola da gamba, suggesting something of the historical context of the Beethoven composed 60 years later. Then with the Rachmaninov sonata, written 100 years after the Beethoven, we can hear how that earlier essay initiated the argument that resulted in this ultimate flowering of passionate Romanticism.
Johann Sebastian Bach – Sonata for Violo da Gamba and Harpsichord No.2 in D BWV 1028
Ludwig van Beethoven – Sonata in G minor Op 5 No.2
Frederic Chopin – Polonaise in C Op 3 (arr. Feuermann)
Sergei Rachmaninov – Sonata in G minor Op 19
Simon Callaghan (piano)
Karel Bredenhorst (cello)
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DeVotchKa “Live with the Colorado Symphony”
By Marquee Magazine on December 1, 2012 Album Reviews, Brian F. Johnson
DeVotchKa
Live with the Colorado Symphony
Cicero Recordings Ltd.
DeVotchKa’s soaring vocals and worldly sound have always made them seem much larger than the quartet that they are. “We have always had orchestral leanings,” said lead singer Nick Urata in a press release that accompanied the album. “We wrote for more and more players with every album. When the chance to perform with an entire symphony came, we jumped at it.”
Gluttons for hard work, the band didn’t take the normal route of hiring a composer to create the charts — the band did it themselves with violin/viola player Tom Hagerman taking on the lion’s share of that immense task.
The result is a near-flawless blending of the band’s sound with an entire 60 piece orchestra. “We have been working towards this moment ever since the band began,” Urata continued.
The vast compliments that the orchestra provides brings out layers of the songs never heard or even imagined before, and takes the band’s already rich sound and braces and supports it from every angle possible — even in areas where it needed no extra reinforcement.
“Along The Way” is one of the disc’s highlights, and is a great showcase of the pairing between the band and the orchestra. — BFJ
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A round of the week in Maori politics. Tea tapes aside, week 3 of the election campaign in Maori politics was a lot more exciting than the last.
Surprisingly, the Herald on Sunday’s (HoS) story on Pita Sharples electorate manager, Martin Cooper, failed to carry over to Monday. The HoS revealed Cooper used his position to influence the Auckland Council. On Radio Live with Willie and JT Sharples blames the media for highlighting the story. It appears that Pita Sharples thinks that possible corruption in his office is a non-issue and the media should be beat up on for doing their job. Nice (sarcasm).
Te Karere released their latest poll, this time on Waiariki. The poll showed Te Ururoa Flavell enjoys a commanding lead. I, as well as Bomber and Tim Selwyn, doubted the poll’s validity. I don’t accept that Te Ururoa enjoys 56%. Annette and Louis both polled 22%.
On RNZ Social Development Minister Paula Bennett refused to commit to retaining Whanau Ora. Bennett claimed the policy is not National Party policy and these things will be fleshed out after the election. On the same program Labour’s Annette King said Labour has no qualms about continuing Whanau Ora. Bennett’s stance may prove detrimental to the Maori Party/National Party relationship. King’s comments may go some way to rebuilding trust between Labour and Tariana Turia.
On Monday night Native Affairs held their Te Tai Tokerau debate. As an aside, Native Affairs won best current affairs show at the Aotearoa Film and Television Awards. I picked Kelvin as the winner, but most in the media and the blogosphere picked the win for Hone – fair enough.
Tariana Turia led with her call for family who care for disabled whanau to be paid as caregivers. I see no issue with this. It seems wrong that the government pays strangers to act as caregivers but not family. I’m not sure if this is Maori Party policy is whether Turia is acting in her capacity as Disabilities Issues Minister.
The Maori media, particularly Radio Waatea, started paying attention to Labour’s Maori policy. Labour quietly released their Maori policy statement after I criticised them for not doing so last Friday. For my discussion of the policy see this post over at Pundit. The statement was broad, but the first step to influencing Maori political discourse. I say broad, but I should also add that there are some very specific policies like increasing funding for Maori tourism, extending 20 hours free education to Kohanga reo and restabilising Maori trade training.
RNZ reported sparks were flying at a Te Tai Tonga debate hosted by Ngai Tauira at Victoria University. The two main contenders, Rino Tirikatene and Rahui Katene, were at each others throat for most of the debate. National’s Paul Quinn, apparently, got in on the action as well. The highlight of the debate was probably the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis candidate telling the others they need to calm down and smoke more weed.
Wednesday was fairly quiet. Labour’s Maori policy statement still led on Waatea and TVNZ’s multiparty leaders debate was held that night. Consensus seems to be that Hone Harawira was a top performer and Tariana Turia performed well too. John Armstrong, who is certainly no friend of Hone, declared Hone the standout. Tracey Watkins praised Tariana Turia in the Dom and I took my hat off to both leaders, but Tariana in particular.
It was a busy day for the Mana Movement. In response to the Nat’s draconian plans to drug test beneficiaries Hone Harawira and Annette Sykes called for Cabinet to lead by example and submit themselves for drug tests. After all, as the Nat’s say when they propose draconian measures, the innocent have nothing to fear. Mana also slammed the pay increase MPs are set to receive next year and Sue Bradford continued her run of positive publicity with another profile in a major daily.
In the Herald Claire Trevett looked insightfully at the Maori Party relationship with the Nats. Rawiri Taonui gave his opinion on the Maori seats too. His points bear close, close resemblance to everything I have been saying for the past year. Except Taonui takes the safe road and picks Te Ururoa to retain Waiariki. A safe bet, but it's still 50/50.
On RNZ Mana's Annette Sykes slams the Maori Party statement that Mana cannot represent Maori because Mana contains many Pakeha. Annette takes offence at this saying it goes against Maori values. Annette highlights that Maori values dictate that Maori embrace Pakeha and that saying this isn't true is a misunderstanding of kaupapa Maori. I would add that the Maori Party's contention disrespects the Pakeha whakapapa of many Maori too. Annette tops it off and says the Maori Party is, rather than Maori led, "National led".
I speculate in the Herald that the Green activist base may move to Mana in response to Russell Norman throwing Joylojn White overboard. Over at Pundit I also explore Labour’s Maori policy statement and the surprises it contains.
Pita Sharples reckons his opponent, Shane Jones of course, is a waste if he is not the leader of the Labour Party. Sharples thinks the party should have gifted him a safe seat like Manurewa. I agree. I don't know what Labour was thinking standing him in Tamaki Makaurau.
If there's anything I've missed please leave a comment and I'll update it as soon as I can. And also remember to keep tuned to Radio Live next week. Willie and JT have been interviewer prominent politicians in the lead up to the election including many Maori politicians.
Labels: election 2011, maori elections, maori politics, the week in maori politics
Jack McDonald November 18, 2011 at 1:54 PM
I read you're Herald article.. Do you really think when Russel was told about this, considering that the co-ordination of the 'activism' was done by the partner of his EA, that he should have hushed it up or supported it? Russel's handling of it was excellent and showed his integrity.
Most Green activists see this as vandalism and even if they agree with the sentiments of the stickers we feel for the National grass-roots members because extensive hoardings take alot of work. I actually think the biggest thing that will stop Green activists moving over to Mana is Hone Harawira's social conservatism. The Greens consider issues of gay rights, abortion, women's rights and full social equality to be very important issues. There has been no clear leadership from Mana on these issues and I think that will stop, among other things, Greens from moving over. Also Hone visiting Destiny won't help.
Sue Bradford saying we are selling out over this issue is just ridiculous. She is doing it for political reasons, I doubt she even thinks that. I don't even agree with the rhetoric that the Greens have moved to the centre. We have not changed any policy, and you say our priorities are 'middle of the road', is a transformational change of our economy 'middle road'? or is lifting 100,000 out of poverty 'middle class'? Most middle class people in NZ wouldn't even want to accept child poverty exists in this country.
Pine November 20, 2011 at 11:11 PM
Integrity? The Green's Aussie leader did what should have been done, simple.
Greens are the third choice for mainstream kiwis. They're so middle of the road now you could paint a white line down the middle of their policies and call them state highway 3.
Hone's social conservatism? A typically astute mainstream observation. Seriously, the Greens very important issues of gay rights, abortion, women's rights and full social equality are pretty much accepted by the mainstream. There is no clear leadership from Mana on these issues because they're non-issues nowadays in nz. Even Act supports ending discrimination against sex couples. And its mainstream nz & Greens that have a beef with the Destiny church. Unlike Hone and other Maori leaders for that matter.
Most middleclass do know what poverty in nz is, they just don't care. They drive past places like Cannons Creek and Otara with blinkers on. But its becoming more and more cool to be environmentally conscious for the middleclass. And the great thing about the Greens is that they make poverty in those places visable to the middleclass, the Greens take the blinkers off the mainstream.
And even though I think the Greens are just an environmentally friendly version of Labour, the more Greens middle & upperclass membership grows--which it will--the more empathy the upper and middleclass will have for their surroundings imho. Thats a good thing.
Are we really that mainstream? Our policies haven't changed one bit since we were all called radical hippies. It's more about perception in my opinion. And that the mainstream has moved towards us.
And no those issues aren't mainstream, because we still don't have gay marriage, gay adoption and our pay equity stats are shocking. Labour and National allow consience votes on these issues, the Greens have clear policy that all MPs have to vote for.
They are certainly not non-issues for the thousands of New Zealanders who still face discrimination because of their sexuality and/or their gender.
Labour are actually getting more and more like us, not the other way around. They are taking the policy we have had for years.
And the only reason green issues are now mainstream is because of the work Greens have been doing for over a decade. When our first MPs entered Parliament they were laughed at and scorned for raising so called 'radical' issues like climate change, animal welfare, safe food and peak oil. now those issues are more mainstream not because the Greens have sold out, but because of consistent and strong advocacy from the Greens for over a decade.
Pine November 22, 2011 at 10:15 AM
Yes, Greens are becoming mainstream, which I think should and is being embraced by the Greens. Their policies are gaining acceptance by the mainstream because of the West's global awareness of the environment and, to a slower extent, social equity.
Most people are accepting of Gay Rights. I'd wager it will be legal for a same sex couple to marry and adopt within the next one to five years at the latest, which has nothing to do with the Greens but the tireless work of gay rights activists and the slow acceptance of popular culture and the mainstream.
What the Greens have been called is nothing compared to the names Mana is being labeled everyday, who seem to have the bigots, the mainstream and the political and media establishment against them. Very much unlike what the Greens ever faced.
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Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyaan
Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College, Chandigarh
Higher education faces numerous challenges today in view of the rapid technological advancements and the constant information explosion. Paradigms of excellence are constantly rising. Therefore, it becomes imperative for the academic institutions to enhance the skills of the students so as to ensure their participation in the making of a new, resurgent India. The challenge is for the teaching faculty and the Support Staff also to rise to the occasion and hone their skills so that they can meet the changing parameters of skill and quality assurance in the education sector. RUSA (Rashtriya Uchchtar Shiksha Abhiyaan), a flagship mission of the MHRD is aimed at ushering in qualitative changes in the higher education sector.
Mehr Chand Mahajan RUSA team shares the vision of MHRD that a strategic shift in thinking is required to realise the goals of Access, Equity and Excellence so far as the higher education in India is concerned. In view of the changing global scenario, we are committed to addressing these thrust areas so that the long term goals of enhancing Gross Enrolment Ratio, Skill development and Entrepreneurship are achieved in due course of time. A beginning was made by the college in this direction in February/March 2016 and a series of programmes were organised to upgrade the skills of the students, teaching faculty and the support staff. Many more events are on the anvil as we strive to realise the long- term goals of RUSA.
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RUSA Newsletter 2016-2018
Inauguration of Bio-Gas Plant
by Sh. R.K. Popli, PCS, Director Higher Education cum State Project Director (RUSA), Chandigarh Administration, U.T., Chandigarh
Detail of Expenditure incurred under RUSA Infrastructure Grant
To attain higher levels of access, equity and excellence in the state higher education system with greater efficiency, transparency, accountability and responsiveness.
Dedicated to improving equity in higher education by providing adequate opportunities.
Ensures adequate availability of quality faculty and capacity building at all levels.
Empowers the institution to develop capabilities to plan, implement and monitor initiatives for higher education.
Member, Managing Committee Sh. H.R. Gandhar
Principal Dr. Nisha Bhargava
Academicians Dr. Sanjeev K. Sharma
University Institute of Applied Mgmt. Studies,
Panjab University, Chandigarh.
Dr. Suresh K. Chadha
University Business School,
Panjab University Chandigarh.
Prof. Ravinder K. Singla
Department of Computer Science & Application,
Media & Society Representative Sh. Daljit Ami
Punjabi documentary filmmaker and
Industry Representative Sh. Amarbir Singh
Indian Polymer Industries, Mohali (Pb.)
Alumna Dr. Namita Gupta
Centre for Human Rights & Duties (U.I.E.A.S.S.)
Teaching Faculty Mrs. Poonam Jain
Dr. Vibha Sharma
Mrs. Vandana Syal
Library Representative Mrs. Shashi P. Bansal
Student Representative President, Student Council
Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College for Women, Chandigarh
RUSA Project Monitoring Unit
Chairperson Dr. Nisha Bhargava
Teaching Faculty Mrs. Raman Chadha
Dr. Shefali Dhiman
Non-Teaching Representative Sh. Kuldeep Singh
Sh. Pawan Sharma
Student Representative Vice-President, Student Council
RUSA Institutional Co-ordinator Ms. Neena Sharma
Civil Works & Environment Management Dr. Mini Grewal
Dr. Sarabjeet Kaur
Procurement Dr. Swati Sidana
Dr. Kanika Sofat
Financial Aspects Ms. Madhvi Bajaj
Dr. Nidhi Tanwar
Equity Assistance & Plan Implementation Dr. Gagandeep Kaur
Dr. Gurjeet Virk Sidhu
Academic Activities Dr. Komil Tyagi
Dr. Purnima Bhandari
RUSA Newsletter Dr. Mamta Ratti
Dr. Ketaki Dwivedi
Sh. Ashish Mudgal
Technical Assistance and Correspondence Sh. Ashish Mudgal
Managing data for SHEC and AISHE portal Sh. Surjit Singh
Accounts and record keeping Sh. Pawan Sharma
Sh. Pawan Sharma (Acc.)
Dr. Kiran Bedi, Hon’ble Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry unveiling the RUSA News Letter 2016-18 during National Symposium on 4th September,2018.
11th January,2020
Mr Vivek Atray, former IAS officer, motivational speaker and a member of RUSA GOVERNING BODY, Mehr Chand Mahajan College for Women, sent a video message for the Governing Body meeting held on 11th January 2020.
4th September,2018
Dr. Kiran Bedi, Hon’ble Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry unveiled the RUSA News Letter 2016-18 during National Symposium
The College organized a Workshop on Stress Management under the aegis of RUSA. Life Coach, Education Psychologist and Management trainer Mr. K.S. Chatwal conducted an interactive and stimulating session with nearly 75 enthusiastic participants from various Colleges across tricity.
The week-long Faculty Development Programme (FDP) organised under the aegis of Rashtriya Ucchatar Shiksha Abhiyaan (RUSA), culminated on 2-12-2016. The theme of the FDP was- ‘ICT: New Dimensions in Research and Higher Education’.
The Department of Punjabi organized a Workshop by the renowned Punjabi Poet and Sahitya Akademi Awardee, Padmashree Dr. Surjit Patar. Dr. Patar shared varied nuances of the art of writing poetry and showcased how to evolve thoughts into poems.
16 February, 2016 to 24 February, 2016
The Postgraduate Department of English held Remedial Classes for B.A. – I year on ‘Revisiting Structures in English Grammar’. They were conducted by the NET qualified faculty member Ms. Madhvi Sharma.
The Department of Public Administration organized an Awareness Programme cum Workshop on ‘Society, Crime and Police.’ The event comprised of Power Point Presentation Competition under the theme “Society, Crime and Police”.
The Postgraduate Department of Mathematics held Remedial Classes for B.A. I / B.Sc. I on ‘3-Dimensional Geometry and Algebra.’ They were conducted by the NET qualified faculty member Ms. Geetika.
The Postgraduate Department of Commerce held Remedial Classes for B.Com. I on ‘Shares, Debentures and Accounts of Insurance Companies.’ These were conducted by the NET qualified faculty member Ms. Jyoti Soi who clarified the doubts of the students on the said topics.
The Postgraduate Department of English organized a Workshop on CV Writing. Ms. Sumedha Singh, School of Communication Studies, Panjab University conducted the workshop.
The PG Department of Economics organized an Awareness Programme cum Workshop on ‘Start Up India and its Impact on Economy’.
The Department of Zoology conducted an Awareness Programme and Training Workshop on ‘Artificial Nests and their Role in Bird Conservation’.
The Department of Computer Science and Applications organized a 2-day Awareness Programme and Training Workshop on ‘Cyber Security and Information Management’.
26 February, 2016 to 3 March, 2016
A 7-Day Faculty Development Programme on the topic “Capacity Building and skill enhancement in Higher Education” was organized with an aim to apprise the teaching faculty of the challenges in the field of higher education
The Department of Office Management and Secretarial Practice organized a workshop on Office and Business Communication Skills. It was conducted by Ms. Enma Popli, Soft Skill Trainer and founder of SkillSmart Training.
5 March, 2016 to 7 March, 2016
The Department of Microbial and Food Technology in collaboration with Association of Microbiologists of India, Chandigarh Unit, organized a 3-day National Workshop on ‘Fermentation Technology for Production of Value Added Products’.
The College organized a Workshop on E-governance and Financial Management conducted for the non-teaching staff of the college. Dr. Kuldeep Singh, Panjab University apprised the participants of the various aspects of E-governance.
The Postgraduate Department of Psychology held a 3-Day Workshop on ‘Data Analysis in Psychology using IBM SPSS’ for the postgraduate students.
8 March, 2016 to 10 March, 2016
The Postgraduate Department of Psychology organized a 2-day Workshop on ‘Emotional Freedom Technique.’ Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) conducted by Dr Vijay Girdhar, HOD Dept of Psychiatry, Govt Multi-specialty Hospital Sec 16 Chandigarh.
The Department of Mass Communication organized a workshop on ‘Career in Radio at a Glance’. Radio Jockey Pankaj, 92. 7 Big FM (Reliance Entertainment), made the students aware of the various avenues available to them in the field of broadcasting.
The college team of the Rashtriya Uchchtar Shiksha Abhiyaan continues its endeavours to bring about qualitative changes in the field of Higher Educaiton. The primary aim of this prograame remains the holistic development of the faculty, students and the support staff. Following the preparatory grant of Rs. 1.5 lakh released by the Central Govt. in October 2016, an equal share was contributed by the DAV College Managing Committee, New Delhi. As a result o, a host of activities in the form of Workshops, Awareness Programmes, Industrial Visits, Faculty Development Programmes, UGC NET Coaching Classes and Remedial Classes were organised to boost the academic growth in the Institution.
A pioneer in many fields, Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College spearheaded the cause of sustainable development through green energy by setting up a RUSA sponsored Biogas Plant that is one-of-its-kind in Chandigarh’s educational institutions. On this occasion, Mr. R. K. Popli, PCS, Director Higher Educdtion and Prof. Dalip Kumar, ASPD (RUSA) inaugurated the plant.
Under the aegis of RUSA, the Department of Hindi conducted a two-day workshop on ‘Anuvaad : Sambhavnayein aur Samsayein’ to discuss the role of Hindi in the current Indian scenario.
The Department of English conducted a very informative and enlightening Inter College RUSA sponsored workshop on ‘Translation : Technicalities and Challanges’. Prof. Rana Nayar, Dept of English and Cultural Studies, Panjab University, Chandigarh was the resource person.
The Department of Zoology organized a RUSA-sponsored educational visit for B.Sc. Medical (Semester-Vi, Fisheries) students to school of Fisheries, GADVASU, Ludhiana. Dr Abhed Pandey, Asst. Prof. delivered a lecture on Freshwater Pearl Culture. He demonstrated the technique involved in preparing pearls.
A three day workshop on ‘Fundamentals of Statistics using SPSS was organised by the Department of Psychology, under the aegis of RUSA, which was attended by 41 students and 7 faculty members from the Department of Psychology. The sessions dealt with a basic introduction to types of variables, coding and entering data into SPSS.
Skill development being integral to the spirit of RUSA, a two-day workshop on ‘Android Application Development’ was aimed at acquainting the students with immense possibilities in the field of app development as far as employment avenues are concerned.
The Music Department of Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College for Women organized a two-day National Workshop on ‘Interrelation of Vocal and Instrumental Music with reference to technical terms of Indian Music’. The workshop was conducted under the aegis of RUSA. The workshop was to deliberate upon the interrelation between the two and to apprise the participants of the technical terms common to both forms of music.
The Dept of Public Administration and Club of Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College Public Administration Students organized a RUSA sponsored workshop on Leadership. Mr.Amit Hans, Founder Director, EduCorp Trainings, Chandigarh, in three highly informative sessions, apprised the participants of various aspects of leadership.
The Postgraduate Dept of Economics of Mehr Chand Mahajan DAV College for Women held an awareness programme on Goods and Services Tax (GST) for its students and faculty. Organised under the aegis of RUSA, the programme aimed at making the participants aware of the various aspects of one of the biggest reforms in India’s indirect tax structure that is GST.
The Physics Department of College organised a RUSA sponsored workshop-cum-demonstration on Experimental Physics. Dr. Renu Bedi, Head of Physics department informed that the workshop had two-fold objectives- one was to provide hands-on training to the students and the second was to enable them to create scientific equipment, which is generally very expensive in the market, from junk or discarded material available at home.
The MHRD released the Infrastructure Grant of Rs. 1 cr in May 2017 to facilitate the infrastructural upgradation of the institution. This grant was divided into three segments :
To facilitate the flagship mission of Swachch Bharat, the construction of new washrooms and support units in the college was undertaken. Construction of 15 New Washrooms in Block D at an estimated cost of Rs 15.33 lakhs has been initiated and is likely to be completed. Construction of 14 New Washrooms is targeted to be completed by 31-3-2018.
Renovation and Refurbishment :
New water-tanks, mattresses and hot-water dispensers were added to the college hostel.
Kabaddi Mats and other sports facilities were procured for our young sports women.
Repair of furniture, up gradation of facilities in seminar hall, office and classrooms was undertaken.
Renovation of the staff washrooms in college campus Block D was taken up and is likely to be completed by 31-5-2018 at an estimated cost of Rs. 3.82 lakhs.
Renovation of the Chemistry Laboratory is likely to be completed by 31-5-2018 at an estimated cost of Rs. 8.5 lakhs.
Digital Lounge set up in the hostel.
More books have been added to the Library.
Projectors, screens and other pedagogical aids were added to facilitate teaching-leaning environment.
Equipments like servers, UPS, Printers were procured for ensuring smooth academic and administrative function in the college.
Centrifuge, Fume-hood, digital pH meter and refrigerators were added to the laboratories.
Alternate Energy Resources :
25 kWp Solar Photovoltaic Panel was installed in order to reduce the use of electric energy. Already functional, this project was completed at the cost of Rs. 13.75 laksh. 10 integrated Solar Light were also installed in the hostel and college campus.
Initiated a Biogas Plant for solid-waste management and sustainable development.
New water-tanks, mattresses and hot-water dispensers were added to the college hostel. Kabaddi Mats and other sports facilities were procured for our young sports women. Repair of furniture, up gradation of facilities in seminar hall, office and classrooms was undertaken. Renovation of the staff washrooms in college campus Block D was taken up and is likely to be completed by 31-5-2018 at an estimated cost of Rs. 3.82 lakhs. Renovation of the Chemistry Laboratory is likely to be completed by 31-5-2018 at an estimated cost of Rs. 8.5 lakhs.
In our pursuit for excellence, consistent strides have been taken to update our resources.Computers have been brought for setting up a Digital Lounge in the hostel and more books have been added to the Library. Projectors, screens and other pedagogical aids were added to facilitate teaching-leaning environment. Equipments like servers, UPS, Printers were procured for ensuring smooth academic and administrative function in the college. Centrifuge, Fume-hood, digital pH meter and refrigerators were added to the laboratories.
RUSA Report 2018-2019
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When Owen Whelan revealed his secret, he was set free from a haunting past and an uncertain future for his son, Ennis. However, in order to know the true depths of his heart, first we must follow him all the way back to a dirt road on a chilly and bitter spring dawn in Ireland. Behind the locked doors of his memories and hidden beneath shame, hunger and eventually escape, we learn the true meaning of the proverb, “There’s hope from the ocean but none from the grave.” Owen’s journey will teach him that sometimes you have to cross that ocean not only to survive but to finally find love, life and become the man worthy of your own admiration and respect.
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They barely knew him, this man whose wavy red mane was now frosted over and unruly, with the permanent indentation of a hat pressed into it. All he said was, “Ye’ll be livin’ with us now.”
The letter was still folded in his shirt pocket from Wednesday’s post. The simple powerful expression of hopelessness played over and over in his mind, yet those few scribbles gave way to this foretold journey and the outcome of his brother and sister-in-law’s short lives.
“Colleen is dead and buried and I don’t have the means to keep them. The sooner you come get them the better.”
His brother’s wife’s mother, the grandmother so named to these two blameless beating hearts, turned them out without so much as an empty apology. She didn’t even have the decency to wait with them until Dan arrived. She barely had enough humanity left to send two sentences to save their lives. Dan dug deep for either pity or some shred of understanding for how blood kin could leave two small boys alone on the side of the road but could find neither. Over the years, he’d seen his fair share of malice. He’d walked the earth long enough to have witnessed much worse in people than this, yet regardless of the amount of times he’d beheld the reprehensible acts of human beings, he didn’t grow blind to them. Once he laid eyes on the boys again, and the state in which they were, any chance their mother’s mother had of absolution in his prayers turned to ash.
His voice was low and it rattled a bit. He sighed after he spoke, emptied his chest, then took a deep breath and yawned. He’d traveled an hour in the dark to fetch them and the sun had yet to make even the slightest peek over the horizon.
“Where’s yer thin’s?”
“We haven’t any thin’s. Someone came and took…” Patrick attempted to explain.
“Figured that. Off we go then.”
Their uncle’s heavily lidded eyes never met theirs when he lifted their weightless frames into the flatbed of a cart, pulled by an aged yet sturdy black horse. His words were few but well heeded. His calloused hands barely clasped the reins when he clucked his tongue in his hallowed cheek at the horse to move.
“More orphans,” an old woman grunted as she shook her head and sneered when they passed her on the road. Dan repeatedly glanced back over his shoulder at his cargo to observe the going’s on. Dillon sat in a ball, staring at the road behind them in complete silence. Patrick sat up and glared at the woman in what slight moonlight was left in the darkness, causing her to look away. When she turned her head and met his eyes again, she sneered and shouted at him, “What are ye lookin’ at?”
Dan wanted no part of this confrontation, regardless of how petty it was and barked, “That’s enough. Sit down.”
Dillon pulled hard at his brother’s arm to sit back but he resisted. As the woman faded out of sight, along with her went the place he was born. Patrick’s blank expression and dry eyes told perfectly that he gave no care of loss to either.
“Uncle Dan? Are we orphans now?” asked Dillon, the younger of the two brothers.
“Aye, lucky ones.”
“Lucky? Us?”
“Ye have kin, don’t ye? Ye coulda ended up in a orphanage instead of comin’ ta me grand estate,” their uncle answered, never moving an eye left or right.
“Ye have an estate, Uncle?” Dillon asked with childish naïveté.
Their craggy uncle just laughed to himself and never looked back.
“Thank ye, Uncle. We’ll earn it. I swear it to ye,” Patrick remarked, giving his younger brother the eye to be quiet now and leave their uncle be. Dan understood in those first few minutes how important it was to Patrick that they not be considered a burden and would never expect anything from him.
Patrick was older by a few years, although his mature and somber demeanor made those few years seem double the length. Uncle Dan knew they were being freed from living hand to mouth or worse, begging in the streets. Patrick’s words of gratitude were spoken on behalf of both he and his brother, the same as all of his words up to this point. Had it not been for either the kindness or obligation of their uncle Dan Flynn to take them in, they’d have been left to suffer the hard shell that life would shroud them in over time–if they survived at all. How bad could it be to live in a real home, even if they’d have to share a bed with their cousins? They’d moved from one dirt floor hovel to another, only to be cast-off in the end to the dirt road. Whatever their uncle’s motivation, they’d have a roof over their heads and food in their bellies, which was more than two homeless and scrawny lads from the outskirts of Old Kilcullen could hope for.
“How far is it to Uncle Dan’s grand estate, Patrick?” Dillon asked, hunkered down almost into a ball opposite his brother with his knees pulled tight to his chest.
“I don’t remember. Now shush, will ye?” Patrick answered, folding his arms with a hard frown.
“I’m missin’ Ma,” Dillon said, and began to weep.
“It’s not far. We may be there by breakfast but don’t get yer hopes up,” their uncle said over the pipe in his teeth, followed by a phlegm-filled cough and a wad of spit that hit the dirt road with a whack.
“Why can’t we talk? I want to talk, Patrick, it helps me some.”
“Alright then! For cryin’ tears, what do ye want to talk about?” Patrick scooted closer to his brother.
“Uncle Dan? Is it alright if Patrick and I talk?”
“Talk all ye want! Why the devil should I care?”
“See? Uncle Dan said…”
“I heard him!”
“Well, alright then. I was only sayin’…”
“Just talk if ye want or I’m gonna turn my back to ye right this minute and pretend ye ain’t even here,” Patrick growled, balling a fist and drawing it back before catching a glimpse of his uncle, glancing over his shoulder for the first time since they’d crossed the bridge over the Liffey.
Patrick unclenched his hand and put it away. A second later, the cart wheels stopped turning and the hoof beats fell silent. When their uncle turned to face them, they cowered in the corner of the cart and clung together under his lowered brow and flattened lips, waiting for the whip.
“That’s better,” he said with a hard rattle, and then coughed and spat again.
“Sh-sh-should we shut our mouths now?” asked the naively bold and curious runt, buried beneath his brother’s arm pit.
“Ye can beat the tar outta each other for all I care!” He paused a second, peering at them, now more visible in the faint dawn glow. His ice blue eyes peeked out through slits of wrinkled skin. “Ah, I see ye now in the good light,” he said with a wink. He nodded his head and a half-smile grew on his mouth before he turned back in his seat and clucked his tongue again.
They sat quietly huddled in the few inches of pressed hay, pulling their hats down hard to shield their eyes from the risen sun now warming them through their ill-fitting clothes. They separated as the temperature between their bodies rose into perspiration and became uncomfortable.
“Give me some air to breathe, will ye?” Patrick said, pushing his brother an inch or two from his side.
“I’m scared. I want to go home.” Dillon began to sniffle again.
“Well, we ain’t got a home no more–as if we ever did. Wherever this cart stops and he tells us to get out, that’ll be our home for now,” Patrick whispered, pointing at his uncle’s back.
Once they’d finally found a settling spot in the hay, they both went silent but glanced at each other every so often, as if to make sure the other was still there. The journey would take them north to Naas and then onward to Caragh and their uncle’s home, and what an uncomfortable but lovely journey it was. In the course of an hour, it seemed a whole new world was opening up to them. Passing through Naas had them hanging out over the side of the cart to get a good look at the people and the scenery that was completely foreign to them.
It was Thursday, one of the Naas market days. They could smell the fresh baked goods and see the rows of fat corn and lush greens. They popped to their knees when the cart pulled to the side of the road and Dan climbed down. Believing they were next, they stood at attention, and lined themselves at the road side of the cart for him to help them down, only to find him walking on alone, turning only to wave them down to take their seats and wait for him.
“Have ye ever seen such a place, brother?” asked Dillon.
“Not in me life.”
“I’m puttin’ all a this in me memory for later, to dream of in me sleep. I’m wishin’ I had me one of those pies over there.” Dillon leaned over the side of the cart, his arms dangling and his head resting on the edge. “Oh, I wish me stomach would stop this rollin’. He has to feed us, Patrick! I mean, he can’t just starve us to death…can he?”
“Get back! Here he comes,” Patrick ordered as they both fell into their places in the hay.
“Here,” their uncle said, tossing them each a flour sack with a piece of bread and butter and a small chunk of cheese.
“Thank ye, Uncle Dan! God bless ye!” shouted Dillon.
“Thank ye, Uncle,” Patrick said, as he turned his back, slid down into the cart and began to devour his meal.
“Here, take this,” Uncle Dan said, handing them a container of water he’d filled at the market.
They quickly chewed and guzzled and within a few minutes, they’d dozed off to sleep. The hour didn’t matter because the exhaustion of grief and the long night’s lonely anticipation of their uncle’s arrival, combined with their full bellies, had drawn them each into a ball in the hay.
The cart creaked along at a steady pace. Before long, Patrick opened his eyes and nudged Dillon awake. A woman was bent down in her garden pulling greens and stuffing them in her apron. When she caught a glimpse of them, she straightened up and waved high above her head. “Da’s home,” she called, and several children came running.
“Da! Do ye have them, Da? Did ye bring the cousins?” an older boy asked as he leaped into the air to see into the wagon.
“Aye, I’ve got them. Come on now, boys. Time to rise and shine,” Dan told them as he climbed from the wagon and kissed his wife on the cheek.
“Ye’ve been up nearly all night,” she said to Uncle Dan. “I’ll keep the children outta yer hair. Now go get some sleep.” She patted him hard on his back.
“Noreen, take these two and I’ll be off to work. I’ve lost nearly half the day already.”
“Surely they know what kept ye away this mornin’. They’re not expectin’ ye, are they?”
“Doesn’t matter, the horses are.”
“Hmph. Well, be gone with ye then. We’ll see ye at supper.”
“Thank ye for doin’ this,” Dan muttered.
First Patrick and then Dillon were set hard to the ground before their aunt Noreen and their cousins, now lined up like a flight of stairs. Neither raised an eye to her until she took them each by the hand and pulled them toward the house.
“Where’s yer things?” she asked them.
“Don’t have none, ma’am,” Patrick muttered.
“Don’t have any, not don’t have none, and what do ye mean, no things!? Clothes and what nots?”
They looked at each other and then at her and shrugged.
“Never mind. Come along now. Let’s get ye in the house and then clean ye up a bit. Poor don’t mean dirty ‘round here! Ye got dirt from yer name day behind yer ears.” She took a good whiff of them and made a sour face.
Noreen called to the children to continue their chores and waved to the eldest son to follow her into the house and show the cousins where they’d be sleeping. “I’ll give 'em the tour, Ma,” said Lochlan, and waved them over to a room off the kitchen with two decent-sized flat beds pushed against opposite walls near the doorway. At the other end of the room were two chests, two small chairs and a modest dresser with a wash basin and pitcher.
“This is OUR room. Ye’ll be in here with us. We’ve already three to a bed and we all have our own spot, so ye’ll just have to squeeze in where there’s a hole.” The elder boy turned away and stopped, turned back and faced them down hard, “I’m Loch. That’s short for Lochlan. Ye best remember that,” he said with his fist in a ball and his thumb aimed at his chest.
Loch appeared to be at least fifteen and already had the voice of a grown man. Dillon trembled which caused Patrick to cringe. The boy had a habit of wetting his breeches when he was frightened but with Patrick’s hand clenched tightly around his for support, he held his water. Patrick was solemn and acted very unimpressed. He didn’t want to give his cousin the impression he thought them all his betters. The last thing he wanted or needed was pity, even though he doubted already that there was any here to be found.
Dillon’s eyes were fixed on the beds. Patrick knew that all he could think about was crawling into one at that very moment and having his first real dream.
From the small bedroom window, they could see the remaining children were still out in the gardens, pulling weeds, feeding animals and filling a horse trough with water. A petite dark-haired girl ran behind a joyful toddler in the yard, which almost caused Patrick to smile.
“That there is me Sister Brianne and baby brother Rory. He’s a handful, that one.”
Loch lead them back out through the kitchen into the yard where Aunt Noreen was waiting for them.
“Over here, ye two!” she shouted.
“Ma’s gonna scrub ye down now. She’s real clean so get used to bathing at least once a week. She read somewhere about germs and the Bible says the cleaner ye are the closer ye are ta God–or somethin’ of the like. Well, some of us have work ta do,” Loch grumbled.
“One more thing!” he added, turning back to them and speaking so close they could smell his breakfast. “Yer not guests here, yer kin. Ye give my Ma any guff, any trouble at all, and I’ll deal with ye. My Ma works too hard to keep this lot in line and I won’t think twice about puttin’ a boot in yer arse if ye don’t do what’s told to ye.”
Loch was at least a whole head taller and a body wider than either of them. Again, Patrick found Dillon pressed under his arm like a baby bird beneath its mother’s wing. They nodded in unison and looked down at the dirt but Patrick eyeballed him as he walked away.
“Well, what are ye waitin’ on? Git!” Loch ordered.
The boys took heed and ran to the barn where Noreen was planted with her hands on her hips. Her ample bosom pushed forward and rested on her large midriff, which made her chins appear almost tucked into her cleavage.
“Clothes off! Toss them here and get into the water,” she ordered, pointing a long-handled scrub brush at them.
“E-everythin’, Aunt Noreen?” Patrick asked softly.
“Did I stutter, child? Oh, for Heaven’s sake, lad! I have four sons and a husband. Unless ye got two willies each down there, there’s nothin’ under those rags I ain’t never seen!”
They peeled off their clothes in an instant, covered their private parts and hopped into the tub of cool water. It was new to them and being naked in the company of a woman other than their Ma felt quite peculiar. The only time they’d been submerged in a body of water for years was leaping into the Liffey in their under breeches on a warm day to cool off, or falling in from a log when they were fishing.
“Soap. Ye wash with it,” Noreen said, taking the bar and running it across the bristles of the scrub brush and then slapping it into Patrick’s hands. He rubbed the soap between his hands, up and down over his face and across the top of his head and back again.
“Ye have no nits, I hope?” Noreen asked quietly.
“None that we know of, Ma‘am,” Patrick replied.
“Good. Well, stand yerself up and let me scrub the rest of ye. After today, yer on yer own but I’ll make good ‘n sure ye done it right,” she declared and shook her index finger at them.
Once what would become a weekly ritual of bathing was completed, they climbed from the murky water and she wrapped them each in a cloth blanket and handed them clean underthings and clothes to wear.
“We don’t have much but we have all we need. These should do. Ye’ll wear these on the work days and on Sundays ye’ll get clean ones. We’ll work on new shoes as well–new to ye, that is.”
Noreen turned and marched off toward the house, stopping briefly to snatch Rory from the ground and toss him squealing on her hip, reaching for Brianne.
“Get dressed and I’ll put ye ta work.”
Loch was standing behind them now with a shovel and pail, and he smiled deviously, turning his head to the stables.
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West, Centre and Flinders – Days 59 to 61 – Flinders Ranges and Rain – Part 3
Posted on October 12, 2016 by Kevin & Ruth Sheather
The Quorn Railway Station serviced the Ghan and is now the end of the Pichi Richi line.
We had decided overnight that we would go back to Quorn the next day, irrespective of weather conditions. The sun was shining between the clouds at Hawker but we encountered showers as we drove towards Quorn. We arrived in that town to a very wintry day, with cold south westerly winds and intermittent showers. We were sitting considering our options when I received a message that folk with whom we had earlier contact, who live in Quorn but had been away, had arrived home.
History in Quorn’s main street
Some of you know of my involvement with the www.exploroz.com web site. EcplorOz used to have a “birthday fairy” feature whereby on member’s birthdays a forum post would extend birthday greetings to all whose birthdays fell on that day. Members listed would usually wish each other a happy birthday. In that way I got to know Graham. When I learned that he lived in the Flinders Ranges I asked him questions about the area. It was always understood that when we visited that we would make contact. I had contacted Graham when we had arrived in Port Augusta, only to learn that he and his wife were in Western Australia. They travel around Australia more than we do.
Our meeting place for coffee in Quorn, Emily’s.
We made contact that afternoon and agreed to meet for coffee the following morning. We met at an interesting bistro and coffee shop called Emily’s. This relatively new business venture has been established in what was previously a general store. Much of its charm is the result of many of the original fittings being left in place. The original grocery shelves occupy one wall and contain a display of grocery and other items from yesteryear. Some of the furnishings are of vintage, but solid, appearance and items such as mannequins, dressed for the period of the original store’s heyday, help to create the atmosphere.
Inside Emily’s Bistro & Coffee Lounge. Note the old fixtures.
Refrigerators and display cases for food are new, with the normal paraphernalia of the modern coffee shop. Behind the scenes is a very modern kitchen with bakery facilities. The output that we sampled, as we got to know Graham and Maxine, were excellent as was the coffee.
An empty cash transfer machine. A reminder of my youth.
But the retained feature that caught my eye took me back over fifty years to my first job. The general store had used an elevated cash transfer system, known as a flying fox, that conveyed client payments to a central cashier, in small containers sent on their way by a rubber catapult arrangement. I had used one of these contraptions all those years ago.
When I commented to the lady behind the counter on my experience with this old equipment, she asked if I would like to relive old times by pulling the handle to send a container whizzing along its wire. Of course I did! So I was taken into the original cashier’s enclosure and for a moment relived part of my youth.
Wild flowers against the background of the northern end of the Elder Range.
During our discussion Graham suggested that we do a drive through Moralana Scenic Drive. The drive links the Hawker to Blinman Road with the Hawker to Parachilna Road by way of a gap in the ranges between the northern end of the Elder Range and the southern walls of Wilpena Pound. Having made that arrangement we parted until the next morning.
An elevated crossing of the road to Port Augusta by the Pichi Richi Railway. This was formerly the track of the famous Ghan railway to Alice Springs.
After a late lunch, we drove towards Port Augusta, through the Pichi Richi Pass, the gap in the mountains from which the Pichi Richi Railway tales its name. It is an attractive drive, crossing and passing under the railway line several times and with water washing over a normally dry causeway. As we reached the point where we intended to turn around we could see Port Augusta in the distance so we continued on to do some necessary shopping.
River Red Gums line the banks and stand in the beds of many Flinders Ranges creeks.
At 10.30 the following morning, Friday, we set off on the 70 kilometre drive back to Hawker and the further 25 kilometres to the start of the Moralana Scenic Drive. The track had only reopened that morning but was not particularly wet, although the streams crossed were mostly running, but shallow. The track is, in reality, station tracks for Arkaba and Merna Mora Stations, through whose grazing land it passes.
Black Gap provides a hiking trail into Wilpena Pound.
The hills on each side were green with lush grass. Periodically, wild flowers decorated the road side, often running in a blanket of yellow or purple up a hill side or disappearing between the stands of native pines. The occasional kangaroo raised its head to look as us as we passed its feeding place.
A Bearded Dragon pauses to search the sky while drinking at a running stream – in the middle of the track.
There are two places of particular interest on this road, both near the half way mark. The first is a side track into Black Gap. The creek bed that forms part of the track was flowing with water from the recent rain and was fairly deep in one place. This part of the track was a bit interesting, as water obscured the rocky creek bed, hiding the small boulders over which we had to drive.
The hiking track into Wilpena Pound runs along the banks of this stream.
Black Gap is a hiker’s entrance into Wilpena Pound. The previously mentioned Heysen Trail passes through Black Gap. From the car park at the end of the track it is about a 12 kilometres walk across the floor of the Pound and through the main entrance, to reach the Wilpena Resort. The hills on either side of the track are lightly covered in native pines but were lush with grass. There should have been many happy kangaroos in those hills.
Rebuilt cueing yards are right beside the Meralana Scenic Drive.
Back on the main track, we came to the second point of interest. During the construction of the Overland Telegraph Line native pine trees from the Flinders Ranges were used to support the wires where the line came through the adjoining area and further afield, where there were no suitable trees. The pine logs were pulled out of the mountains using teams of bullocks.
The information plaque at the rebuilt cueing yards
But the Flinders Ranges are mostly comprised of rock which badly damaged the bullocks’ feet. To protect the feet they were fitted with steel shoes, much the same as used with horses. But the bullock shoes were called cues and the process of shoeing was known as cueing. Yards that were used for the cueing process are beside the track by a stream. Merna Mora Station, on whose land the old yards were built and were falling into decay, have rebuilt them and provided a picnic table as well. We paused there for a late morning coffee.
The drive emerges from the ranges and leads over the Moralana Plain to its intersection with the Hawker to Parachilna Road. We completed the drive, through a few more creek beds to reach the sealed road and returned the 40 kilometres or so to Hawker, where we stopped at the Sightseer Café for lunch, before returning to Quorn.
Flood damaged bridge on the old Ghan railway.
On the way back to Quorn from Hawker we got the benefit of local knowledge. We turned from the main road onto a track that, after a couple of kilometres, brought us to a stream that had been bridged all those years ago to carry the line for the Ghan. But in 2011 the bridge that had stood for so long lost a pillar and two spans to the flood waters of that wet year. Stones used in construction of the fallen support pillar weighing at least two tones each, were tumbled down stream for hundreds of metres. One steel span was pushed onto the bank while the other was carried several hundred metres down stream as well.
Hugh Proby’s grave is located near to the place where he lost his life.
We then retraced our steps of about half a century ago, past areas where we had camped and visited. These included Warren Gorge and Proby’s grave. Hugh Proby, third son of an English lord, was drowned in Willochra Creek, north of Quorn, in 1858, after ignoring the advice from an Aboriginal stock man about crossing a flooded creek. The stock man and Proby’s horse survived and lived to see old age. The grave remains a tourist attraction because of the huge marble memorial stone that Proby’s family had shipped from England and transported to a sight near to the location at which he drowned. So the message is naw as it was then. “If its flooded, forget it!”
Not much fruit on this Quandong tree.
At one point we stopped beside a couple of Quandong trees to receive a lesson in botany from Graham. Quandong trees grow wild but can be cultivated. They are popular in the Quorn area and common in the gardens of residents. The berry is similar to a cherry but quite tart so apple and much sugar are often added to improve taste. Quandong berries are mainly used to make jam. Quandong jam can be bought almost anywhere in Quorn.
A view along a Quorn footpath.
We said goodbye to our new friends over a cup of tea at their home. We then returned to the caravan park to prepare for departure the next day. We had decided to start making our way home. There was no sign of improvement in the weather. Rain fell again over night, with a minimum temperature of 4 degrees. The outlook for the next couple of weeks was more of the same.
The recent black out in South Australia occurred just two days after we crossed into New South Wales on our way home.
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The Resource Escape from the prison of love : caloric identities and writing subjects in fifteenth-century Spain, Robert Folger
Escape from the prison of love : caloric identities and writing subjects in fifteenth-century Spain, Robert Folger
Folger, Robert
Chapel Hill, N.C., North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures | U.N.C. Department of Romance Languages | Distributed by University of North Carolina Press, 2009
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Escape from the prison of love : caloric identities and writing subjects in fifteenth-century Spain
Escape from the prison of love
caloric identities and writing subjects in fifteenth-century Spain
Robert Folger
Courtly love in literature
Self in literature
Subjectivity in literature
Gender identity in literature
Spanish fiction -- To 1500 -- History and criticism
Spanish fiction -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
San Pedro, Diego de, active 1500, Cárcel de amor
North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures, no. 292
North Carolina studies in the Romance languages and literatures
Chapel Hill, N.C.
Distributed by University of North Carolina Press
U.N.C. Department of Romance Languages
Classical period, 1500-1700
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How to Get Desired Results From Digital Marketing Campaign
by Shikha
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Today we are looking to tackle the very difficult question of what is the perfect digital marketing strategy and that can be hard. There are a lot of different types of business models online. There are news sites, there are e-commerce sites, there are branding sites, there are FAQ sites and they all have different business models and there's so many different ways to advertise nowadays.
At this point in time digital strategy has never been more important. You could be putting all your money into Facebook, LinkedIn, SEO, email marketing and you could also on the other end of the spectrum have a diversified portfolio where you understand the contribution of every single channel and that is what we're looking to get into today.
When it comes to a digital marketing strategy the most important thing is to first define the business goal and then the person as that align with those goals and then create a forecast for each channel so what's the strategy, the traffic, the conversion rate, the conversions and the ROI for every single channel and we've never been able to do this before. Accurately plot the goal and then the strategy for each channel with real numbers within a budget and a timeline to help a client get to that exact goal that they're looking for.
Facebook ads are perhaps the best form of online advertising around today. Facebook has over two billion users around the world and because Facebook collects so much data from these users including you and you can leverage that data to your advantage to reach potential customers and clients of your business. However, the key is to run targeted ads on Facebook and you can do that by building custom audiences.
Through the Facebook Ads manager platform so there's a couple things that you can do here one if you have an email list of any kind you can import that data right into Facebook and at any time you run ads even if your ad budget is as little as five or ten dollars you can ensure that those ads that you run are seen by the right audience.
TARGET YOUR AUDIENCE
The biggest mistake that marketers make is they just throw money out at Facebook and don’t run targeted ads. So if you're a real estate agent think about running those ads to target first-time homebuyers or people that might potentially be looking to buy a house you have the power of that data right at your fingertips the other thing that you want to know when running Facebook Ads is what is your objective. is it to buy clicks? Is it to buy engagement? Is it to buy views?
So once again if you're spending money on Facebook on ads you shouldn't just throw your money away because you want to get more views on a video or you want to get necessarily more comment to that video. What you want to get is buyers so make sure that your objective is tailored to what your end game is, which in this case would be to get more leads or to get more conversions.
Use Instagram and Twitter as search engines. These social networks nowadays provide end users with a lot of data and easy access to reach people. You can go on Twitter right now and you can type into any search phrase. You can type into any business, any executive and a company that you want to work with or that you want to get their attention. So in case if you are a creator or an influencer and you want to work with say Nike, you could go on Twitter right now, you can type in Nike, you can click people and now you can see a search of anyone that has Nike in their profile on Twitter
The same thing applies for Instagram or you can use hashtags to run searches for people that are speaking about specific topics. so if you are let's say an SEO expert you can type in SEO help on Twitter and you can see anyone that's talking about this particular topic. swoop in and offer to help them out that's the power of using Twitter and even Instagram for search. going forward in 2019 make sure that as you're creating content and building relationships on these platforms that you're also using them as search engines next.
OPEN YOUR OWN SOCIAL GROUPS
If you're struggling for getting engagement on any social network then think about starting your own private group whether it's a Facebook group, a Whatsapp chat group, a private group on Twitter which allows you to create private DM groups with up to 50 people, whether it's a private LinkedIn messenger group start-up private groups where you can bring light-minded professionals and colleagues just like you into your own space by creating your own group.
You now are able to control the conversation and steer it in a way where you have content that's fresh and relevant for that audience. You can share it directly with those group members without coming across as being self-promotional. You can also look at the content that other people are posting. Analyze who is your superfans, who are the people that are most interested in your content and invite them into a private group. Private groups are going to be a big trend.
STOP CHASING NEWBORN SOCIAL SITES
Stay informed of what's happening on other social networks but don't go chasing new shiny objects meaning don't go chase the trends just because you hear that there's a new social network and trust me you will .you shouldn't just rush to go jump on it. Guess what happens when you rush to go to a new social network.
What you're doing is you're engaging with probably the same people in your space that are already on Instagram, snapchat, Facebook with you. These people are doing the same thing that you're trying to do. so my recommendation is instead of going to chase that new shiny object work within the existing infrastructure.
TAG THE PLACES YOU VISIT
As you are going to different places on Instagram specifically, as you're going to these places and sharing content, there are other people that are either doing the same or they're looking for content in these venues. so if you go to a sporting event like to a marathon race or a public gathering or say to Kumbh Mela then grow your following by posting content consistently on a daily basis on that gathering, making sure of hashtags and making sure that your content is also easily discoverable with where you visit.
So once again throughout 2019 make sure that not only are you paying to optimize your content and get additional reach but you can also do a couple easy tips and tricks to get more organic reach and it starts with tagging the places of where you visit and post content on Instagram.
That's a wrap thank you so much. If you found this content useful be sure to drop a comment below and also I'd appreciate it if you can share with your social network.
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Aldnoah.Zero – 12 [END]
By Tag Team, posted under Aldnoah.Zero, ANIME, Mini-Talk
Slaine with a gun + season 1 finale = people are going to get shot
Jrow, Fosh & Skylion are here to talk about the final battle between Inaho & Saazbaum and also give reactions to the final scene in which Slaine shoots some people and leaves us asking, “they dead for real?”
http://ia802300.us.archive.org/9/items/Aldnoah.zero12Mini.talkOnMetanorn/12Aldnoah.zero12Mini.talk.mp3
Extra Deaths
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50 Responses to “Aldnoah.Zero – 12 [END]”
FINALLY, decent Urobutcher count. Let us pray that the dead stay dead and not do a Marvel/DC resurrection. I expect to see someone weaponizing Earth/Mars into a weapon by equiping planetary engines/space fold/hyperdrives/etc2 and sending it into the other planet. That would definately up the Urobutcher count. ^_^
(Two left.)
Yeah if anyone that “died” comes back ill rage hahahaha
You know deep down, they’re going to come back somehow. Throughout the series, he haven’t seen any characters with enough development to become viable replacements.
Possibly! I just wont hold my breath.
Neither would I. This feels predictably cliché.
POWUH: iLurker with 12 comments
And there’s the second season for Aldnoah Zero too…
Which prevents anyone actually believing they’ve really died. Because they’re the most developed and focused characters the first half has made.
Namika says:
POWUH: Meta Resident and Metanorn's Hime-chan~ with 1758 comments
I’ll be honest, this show was kinda bleh :\
I still liked it, because the plot was interesting, and the music was splendid, but it was just…. generic. And the end struck me. I liked Slaine the most in this anime but he got little screentime, absolutely no development or proper backstory whatsoever. I’m not talking about the others. It felt like this show just happened and that was all. I can go on for hours about what i didn’t like about it and stuff, but i still more or less enjoyed it enough not to drop. All in all it was a disappointment, especially for something that Gen Urobuchi laid his hands on. Was he really writing it? The whole thing? Because the princess got ‘revived’ twice. First time okay, the excuse was fine, but the second time…
ckuri says:
Urobuchi only wrote the general concept and the first three episodes. The final story and remaining episodes were written by Katsuhiko Takayama (Baka and Test, [email protected], Cat Planet Cuties, and Boku no Pico (no joke!)).
For the record, Katsuhiko is good at adapting Urobutcher-senpai’s work. Though, I’m not sure if senpai noticed him or not. 😉
I thought this ending was atrocious. Utterly terrible. If it was Gen Urobuchi who had the idea for this ending, it’s completely in keeping with his ‘style’: Do something pointless and ‘shocking’ to be ‘edgy’. I’ve heard that he wasn’t involved in the ending, but I it certainly fit the kind of thing he would do (maybe someone else thought they’d try to emulate him? You guys mention Katsuhiko). It was just awful. Here’s the thought process for coming up with that as I see it:
“So we get them all in the same room in the end, and we have them all kill each other!!!”
“Because it would be so cool!”
“But what point does it make?”
“Point? What are you talking about. Let’s just do it cause it would be awesome. Maybe it’s something like the futility of war and shit. We’ll say something like that.”
“Haven’t we made that point with the whole rest of this series, in a lot better way? Why have Slaine flip out here at the end?”
“Shut up. Slaine kills everyone.”
Sumairii says:
POWUH: 800-899 and Mad Scientist with 814 comments
For the record, that is exactly how it went down. That’s also how the decision to rotoscope Aku no Hana was made.
Loved it, I thought there was actually a lot of power to that end scene. Darn, I knew that one time we agreed on something wouldn’t last long. 😛
The idea was fine, but it could be done SO MUCH better that it looked kinda pathetic and pointless.
I agree with what you pointed out. Even though there’s a high chance those shot are still able to draw breath.
Boku no pico?? O_O srsly???
Well, the idea of Slaine killing Inaho is fine with me, it’s just that that ending was neither surprising nor expected. Emotions werent even awakened, considering im an emotional watcher. And thank god it wasnt him. I got confused, because someone told me it was him, someone said he did 4 episodes and so on… and i kept forgetting to google it. But again, thank god it wasnt him. Although its so sad that such potential was wasted completely. ;_;
Oh, and I hated the princess. Did I say that already at some point in the episodics?? 😀 She was so freaking irritating… -_-
I don’t think Urobutcher is the writer for you Highway, I see his style of storytelling to be somewhat creative and unique! I think it takes guts to actually kill main characters which I feel is lacking in anime today.
I can look back at several war themed anime and manga where nobody from the main cast ever dies because the writers seem to be afraid of the fan hate to kill anyone off and the Bleach manga comes to my mind when I talk about this which as most people know has has been running for years and after a few recent chapters the creator tried to kill off a main character and he got tons of hate for it, but after a few weeks that character came back! That to me is dumb and I hate that…
Anyway yeah I see your point HWY on it being OH MY GOD shock factor, but that is just how Urobutcher rolls and I don’t think he will ever change his style because it works for him yeah not everyone is going to like it which is fine we can’t all like the same writers xD
Actually, I really like a lot of the things he does. I just dislike that ONE POINT in every show that the brand gets to his head and he has to do something that just is idiotic. Like Psycho-pass, I thought was great, except for Show ▼
the huge stupid cop out of “OMG it’s PEOPLE!” It would have been so much better if it actually WAS a computer. That would have been something that extends, something that was fresh, something that set up a moral dilemma. But no, “It’s all criminal brains! Isn’t that shocking?!?!?!”
He’s a very good writer. And he does setups that work really well, like Gargantia, Psycho-pass, and even Aldnoah Zero. It’s just that there usually is one time that it gets to him that he has to be edgy and make it awesome, and that’s when it just gets stupid.
True I see your point on his use of shock to create some kind of dramatic reaction
The only really interesting thing here is Inaho’s potential death. I’m still skeptical as to whether he’s gone for reasons I will discuss later, but it would certainly be fresh to see the show follow someone else in the second half. Like maybe Slaine, or perhaps even Rayet. But in any case, the failure of a/z’s semi-finale is its repetition of previously seen formulas at such a crucial moment.
The princess has been “killed” twice before now. And you expect us to believe she’s really dead now just because of a little blood? Half of me wants to believe that it’s true this time, but I’m hard pressed to convince myself knowing the show’s track record. It simply doesn’t have the balls to kill off any of the main cast. I would be pleasantly surprised if it found the courage this time.
And while we’re talking about unimaginative repetition, how about that Dioscuria? I thought the show was saving something truly special for the semi-finale. But no, all Saazbaum gets is an awful mash-up of powers from every single Vers cataphract Inaho has already fought. That was some of the laziest bullshit I have ever seen.
But I digress. I guess the moral of the story is that Asseylum has nine lives. She’s used three of them now. So we just need her to die another six times over the course of the second half. Should be a piece of cake for a/z, right?
Well, I did think Dioscuria had a cool transformation sequence. 😀
I think Rayet will step up as the new “princess” while Slaine will probably turn into either the main villain or the anti-hero like Jrow said, but as far as Inaho goes I don’t want to see him return in the second half! If he does that would feel kinda dumb! I guess worst case he returns with Amnesia and is unable to fight for a few episodes; however through the power of anime he will recover fast and save earth.
Lol yeah it really is hard to take the princess as dead because she seems to keep coming back again and again or is she just lucky? What if her Aldnoah power adds some kind of luck factor? Just kidding! That would be silly to add extra powers to the Aldnoah.
Sasubaum the Voltron of A.Z
Slaine is gonna clone his very own Asseylum army and take over marz! Muhhahahahahahahaha
My brraaaaain… IT’S MELTIIIIING TT.TT
Slaine, you asshole!
And you, Urobutcher-san, I hate you! Though I don’t. Like, how can you kill two MCs, leave two important side characters in the brink of death and END THE SEASON and announce another one?! Are you serious?
And what with this weird trend lately of ending animes on huge cliffhangers? You don’t do it! It’s unfair!
It’s how they keep you coming back for more! 😛
Yeah, and I just keep coming back with a dumb face. I WANT MOAR! Dammit.
They’re feeding an addiction that’s growing inside. And you’re knowingly playing into their hands. 😉
Slaine just did what he had to do and clearly we can see his emotions were a bit CRAZY so I can see why he did what he did! I mean did anyone really expect Slaine and Inaho to be friends? I mean come on…
It’s really the end of Orange and Bat. The Slepinir has been totaled and Slaine got upgraded from the skycarrier. But yeah, if they didn’t join forces by the middle of this point, they just weren’t going to.
His emotions were a bit crazy and that’s why I can’t see why he did what he did. Like, the whole thing was such a shock to him he didn’t even know what he was doing by the end. “Whatever, I’ll kill this guy who’s been pissing me off even though he could help me, even though I caused the princess’s death, even though I’m the asshole in this whole story.”
Sorry… I’m actually really angry at Slaine.
I did expect them to be allies at some point, but after Inaho ditched on him saying that he was using the princess in whatever way he needed I lost hope. But did he REALLY need to kill him?
Well, you hit the nail on the head there when you said that his emotions were a little crazy. In fact, I’d go with emotionally unbalanced. Remember that all he knows of Inaho is what the boy told him at their last encounter. Inaho admitted that he was exploiting the princess for his own gain, and for Slaine , that puts you at the same level as the knights that started this whole thing. And in his mind, this Terran who left him to die and who was using princess is now about to soil her body and memory by touching her. So, he stops him. He warns him not touch her. Inaho, knowing what he’s doing, pulls out his gun even though he has no intention in shooting, and Slaine shoots him on instinct, killing him.
It’s your classic “suicide by cop” scenario except with a boy literally broken and insane with grief, rather than a cop.
A cruel tactic to fill us with suspense and anxiety as we wait for the show’s second half. Split cours are insatiable and this unholy trend first began with Fate/Zero three years back when this Fall officially kicks in.
F/Z had legitimate reason for the mid-season break. Ufotable really needed a breather before wading neck-deep back into the animation. And boy did it pay off.
I can’t speak for all these other shows following suit though.
Yeah it works for some but not all! I know after F/Z we had stuff like Rinne no Lagrange which also had a mid season break, but that kinda counted as another “season” so yeah it doesn’t work for most! I dunno if that was the case with Valvrave or not…
My biggest complain is actually with Yowapeda. I know it was a three course series and all but you can’t stop in the finish line of the second day of a three day race. It’s wrong. If you’ve gone as far as making three courses, you might as well end the year and finish the ******** race.
I think they did it because another run was already confirmed. At least we can find out what the hell happened in Fall.
That’s awfully optimistic, Kyo. I think they’d need another 3 cours to get to the end of the third day of the race.
There were quite a few. The series I recall going the split cour route after Fate/Zero were Gin no Saji (Silver Spoon), Hamatora, Space Dandy (Though I dropped it after the first season’s second episode), Jormungand, Kakumeiki Valvrave and Rinne no Lagrange.
And soon Aldnoah.Zero, Hitsugi no Chaika, Prisma Illya, WIXOSS, Mushishi Zoku Shou and possibly Tokyo Ghoul will be joining the group.
The problem though is not the fact that they split cours. Silver Spoon having a split cour is not a problem at all, since it’s a slice of life show. The problem lies on the shows that has a fuc*ing cliffhanger at the end of a cour. This is so wrong.
Then animes like Fate/Zero, Hamatora, Jormungand, Kakumeiki Valvrave and others that have just finished their first halves are guilty. They left huge WTF cliffhangers making you beg to see what happens next but you have to suffer the wait of a whole season to get closure.
Okay, so, what the heck did I just watch? First Dioscuria was OP as all heck, but of course it had all the powers of all the other mechs that came before it. Of course that gives Inaho a jump on it since he knows exactly how to beat it. It becomes a fight to see how they can get the princess to the center of the castle first.
Slaine arrives in his skycarrier and is beginning to have conflicts as he’s constantly having to defend himself against Terrans, rather than against Martians. Saazbaum is a great villain even though he pretty much falls apart against Inaho, yet Inaho still has a struggle. Slaine finds himself inside of Tharsis, and oddly enough, is able to activate it. Tharsis seems to have speed abilities so far as we can see. Slaine hears Saazbaum having trouble and comes to his rescue since Saazbaum saved his life. Slaine saves Saazbaum at the last minute right as Asseylum shuts down the system.
However, because Slaine saves Saazbaum, it gives the count the chance to finally kill Asseylum. Slaine overcome with the fact he’s the one who allowed this to happen, turns his gun on Saazbaum and attempts to shoot him to death. Inaho, who has been injured, crawls over to the dead princess and we get the “flashbacks of death” as he shows his love for the princess. However, Slaine will not allow it. This is the first time Orange and the Bat have ever met face to face. Slaine will not allow Slaine to touch the princess’ body. Inaho realizes that it’s “Bat” that he faces and in a very similar to their situation from their first meeting, they draw their guns on each other. However, this time, it’s Slaine who not only fires first, but this time, finds his target and kills Inaho.
So, wow, are you telling me that after all of our supposing that it was Yuki and others who had the largest death flags, they subverted all that and made it Inaho and Asseylum, the two characters who everyone knew weren’t going to die, be the ones that were killed?!
Sasuga, Aldnoah Zero. You got me…
So, what happens next? I have a feeling next season will be a timeskip and we might be going to Vers more with what’s going on. We’ve lost 2/3 of our main characters, so I’m guessing Slaine and others will pull up the slack. We have to find out why he has Aldnoah rights and if it had something to do with his father or some relation he has to the royal family. I’m guessing that pendent meant nothing since it never came into play at all. It was just a symbol of the princess’ hopes and her life.
Slaine is now the wild card of this series. He no longer has an allegiance to either side. In fact, if you really want to look at it, this entire season has been showing his growth from the beginning. He starts off as basically a meek slave and eventually grows to become his own person. The death of Asseylum actually help his growth as he leaves the person, the child he was, behind. I think he’s going to want to end the war in her name, but he will do it his own way. Him having Aldnoah rights will give him the leg up he needs as he becomes the main MC.
I can’t wait till next season, and I’ll admit, Aldnoah certainly surprised me with that ending….
Also, who could have guessed that the death flags that were shooting up when Asseylum and Eddelrittuo were having their tearful goodbye moment, or when Yuki kept worrying over Inaho and the two expressing their care for each other, were actually for Inaho and Asseylum and not for Yuki and Eddy?
As for the my answers to the hot button questions that have been swarming through the anime forums and comment boards since this episode aired:
Do I think Asseylum is dead?
-Yes, I think she’s done her job in this series. Also for her to die 3 times only to keep coming back would be ridiculous. Also, the strongest reason is that her death is where all of Slaine’s final development is hinged, and cutting that line between them shows the completion of his transformation and the end of his childhood.
Do I think Inaho’s dead?
-Yes, even more so than Asseylum. His entire end scene is set up like a final death. The music, flashbacks, the sad smile, the soft muffled voice, it was all there. Also, it pains me to say it, but he too has served his purpose to the story. He gave the Earth Forces the ability to look at the Martians as mortal and an enemy that could be beaten. He laid the foundation. Also, you only notice this if you look, Inaho looked like he was about to die anyway. He wasn’t thinking about escape, he wasn’t even looking to give aid to the princess, he just wanted to be by her side. He has an obvious concussion, the temporary loss of vision in one eye, and a broken leg. However, the way he collapsed and was gasping in pain as he dragged himself to her suggests hidden internal injuries. Also, Inaho is smart enough to know not to draw your gun unless you’re prepared to shoot. However, he points his gun at Slaine here, knowing that with that concussion and his eye wound, there was no way he could shoot straight. He doesn’t even attempt to fire his gun either, and we know from their last confrontation that Inaho has a more accurate trigger finger. He knew that if he pointed his gun at Slaine, Slaine would automatically respond by pulling the trigger and defending himself. Inaho is pragmatic to a “T”, he pulled his gun for a reason. He wanted Slaine to kill him.
Is Saazbaum dead?
-No, they specifically showed him still being alive and Slaine not taking that final shot. I’m almost sure he’s still alive.
Is Slaine an idiot?
-No, he seems to work mostly on his emotions, the exact opposite of Inaho. He had unknowingly formed a bond with Saazbaum, so even though he didn’t want the man to kill the princess, he wasn’t about to let the man die. Also, in the heat of the moment battle, I doubt he even was thinking about the princess when they crashed through that wall, and he certainly didn’t know she was there. Also, as a child we sometimes want everything on all sides to turn out okay. For neither Saazbaum nor Asseylum to die. However, Slaine learned the hard way, that sometimes it just doesn’t work out that way.
Will Slaine be a good MC?
-It’s amazing what some character development, more focus, and more characters to interact with can do for a character. Also I think a timeskip will happen as well. I think Slaine will do fine. He’s become a much darker, and more complex person. We’ll have to see where he goes from now on, now that he no longer has to chase after the princess. I also think Rayet will be stepping up to the plate as well as a new MC.
Where did Asseylum’s body go?
-I think Slaine took it with him in Tharsis to bury somewhere. In the end epilogue, when Yuki mentions Asseylum, you see a shot of light leave the castle. He’s going to put her to rest, probably in her blue ocean, under the blue sky that she loved.
Hahaha yeah the Dioscuria was OP but super cool tactical dude Inaho got him in close quarters and kicked his ass! Also it was lame how Saazubaum’s machine was just a mixture of all the previous mechs that Inaho defeated LOL
Slaine saves Saazbaum, it gives the count the chance to finally kill Asseylum
Yeah funny how that worked out huh? I mean damn Slaine should have killed Saazbaum long ago, but I get that he had information that Slaine needed at the time.
As far as your predictions for who died and who survived I agree with even though I want Saazbaum to be dead and Slaine to take his spot as the “villain” especially after he experienced that loss that Saazbaum commented on when he fought Inaho!
Princess dead? Yeah it is certainly possible because as you said she did her job and now it is time to move along, I mean what else was she going to do? Clearly she can’t stop this war and she said herself that it was her fault anyway.
Personally I am curious to see how big of a gap in time we will get from this episode and what everyone has been doing since Inaho died, but most important who will be the main focus for the earth side? Rayet? Inaho’s sis? Marito? I guess they could bring in a new cast of youngins…
I’m actually wondering if Saazbaum has all that stuff first and the other knight just copied him? Or if it was the other way around. Saaz is the oldest of all of them except Vlad, and also seems to have the highest ranking of the knights. He’s been acting like their de facto leader since the beginning. Dioscuria’s tech sheet says that it actually has multiple Aldnoah drives, which is probably why it can have so many abilities, while the others all had one.
As to how big of a time gap? Well I’m thinking a few months at the least, a couple of years at the most. We can’t have our main characters be too old now. We must keep them teenagers! Teenagers save the world! 😛
So, I think we might see them at 17-18. I think we’re going to get some new Martian characters, and the main focus of the second season will actually be with Mars. Rayet and Yuki will probably step up to the plate, Eddelrittuo will get to pilot her kataphrackt, and hopefully Marito will now have properly dealt with his PTSD! 😀
LOL yeah? They could have easily copied Saazbaum’s mecha or he copied theirs? Either way hahah
As far as time gaps go yeah a few months works or a few years also works for me! I just want to see a drastic gap and I am also curious as to what the earth will look like when we return in the winter like will it be completely under martian control? That would make for a cool plot.
True on Marito and wow I would love to see Eddlrittuo piloting a mecha <3
I guess this is one way to set a cliffhanger up. Everything leading up to it was epic, action and animation. The shock factor was effective but after letting it set in, I can’t really take in the ending because of the moderate possibility rate that Inaho and Asseylum are still alive. If hanging on by a thread.
Inaho’s fight against Saazbaum, I feel could’ve gone either way. Saazbaum is very capable of being strategically adept as Inaho but it was that he was being blinded by his emotions in the heat of the battle. Inaho got a little more respect from when he just threw his mech riffle and challenged Saazbaum to a knife fight. That actually had a sense of manliness and honor to it.
Where Urobuchi mech shows are concerned (despite him only being directly involved in the first three episodes), Aldnoah.Zero was great and I found it a lot better than Suisei no Gargantia. Straightforward and unapologetic in its population reduction. Now begins the agonizing wait for the second half in 2015. I’m anxious to see what happens next. Plus, there’s the nagging feeling the human race is already three quarters into extinction thanks to the war.
I can’t really take in the ending because of the moderate possibility rate that Inaho and Asseylum are still alive. If hanging on by a thread
It is certainly possible even though personally they should stay “dead” because otherwise it feels like the creative team had in studio fight as to what they want to do with the characters.
Yeah Saazbaum let his emotions cloud his judgement and that helped Inaho win in the end.
hahah ya we gotta wait and it sucks not knowing what is going to happen! Well the counter to Gargantia was he was assisting on that project so I took it as him being held back by the studio which prevented him from Urobutching it up xD
Urobuchi: Good, good!! Everything has gone as I have foreseen!!!
Hahaha… Doing that while sitting on his throne onboard a moon no doubt.
(1 left, where shall it go?)
Staff: So what’s your ultimate plan?
Season 2’s first PV came out today if you want to check it out, but don’t worry, it’s just sound.
We hear Marito, Inko, Rayet, Yuki, and Darzana in that order.
The lines are:
Marito: Crosswell (?, some platoon name) leader launching
Inko: It would be nice to come home alive…
Rayet: I don’t have free time to die right now.
Yuki: I became a soldier to protect you, and to protect the world we live in.
Darzana: To all units, we are proceeding as planned and we are commencing the Earth landing sequence.
Take all of this with a grain of salt of course. We get no images and we learned from Valvrave’s 2nd cour PV that sometimes the finished product is pretty different. 😛
Ill take a look at it later but ya it sounds interesting! Especially that short line by Rayet? That is something for her at least! Maybe she will become more aggressive in the second half.
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Many natural vegetation species have been shown to be negatively affected by ozone. This study has investigated how the presence of competing species in a community affects two common responses to ozone: visible injury and senescence. Monocultures and mixtures of Trifolium repens and Lolium perenne were grown in large containers and were exposed in solardomes to either a rural episodic ozone profile (AOT40 of 12.86 ppm h) or control conditions (AOT40 of 0.02 ppm h) for 12 weeks. The proportion of ozone-injured or senesced leaves was different in the different regions of the canopy. The highest proportions of injured/senesced leaves were in the plant material growing at the edge of the canopy and the upper canopy, with a significantly lower proportion of injured leaves in the inner canopy. The presence of L. perenne increased the proportion of ozone-injured leaves in T. repens at the final harvest, whilst the presence of T. repens decreased the proportion of senesced leaves in L. perenne. In L. perenne, the proportion of injured leaves at the edge and inner canopy decreased significantly when grown in competition, whilst for T. repens the reverse effect occurred in the inner canopy only. Different mechanisms appeared to influence the interaction between response to ozone and competitors in these two species. In L. perenne the response to ozone may have been related to nitrogen supply, whereas in T. repens canopy structure was more important.
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It’s Christmastime EP by Plumb is the playful companion to her Behold EP. Both consist of five songs that mix new with standards. Behold provides the spiritual side whereas It’s Christmastime is holiday fun and nostalgia. Both are excellent! For more on Behold see my separate review.
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As is the case on the title track Behold, which is a beautiful centerpiece. I don’t have any liner notes but I assume that just like “Behold” it’s a new song. Nostalgic images abound against a playful melody. It takes off on the chorus through a boy’s choir providing the background. Their voices soar and become more layered with each repetition making it euphoric.
“Another Year Has Gone By” follows and is probably my favorite. I relish the way this starts and sounds throughout. Listeners are treated to a bit of modern sounding doo-wop. Movie producers take note! This is the song to anchor a holiday romance about faithfulness through the years. It’s pure pop pleasure with tender, loving sentiments. It’s the best love song that I have heard in some time. It includes a tasteful guitar solo towards the end.
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These two EPs earn their place among the best new releases of the season. Listeners can be enriched whenever there is a need for some goodwill and cheer.
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When we design historical war-games we are attempting to reflect some aspects of decision making and model physical actions that real commanders and troops demonstrated during battles. We read a wide variety of sources, often make notes about the events we read about, and we frequently find contradictory information, incomplete accounts, and degrees of variance in the stated outcome of events. The description of the decision of certain general can be highly subjective, and it is not uncommon to find huge gaps and omissions in the description of events. How do we weigh this information? How do we decide what or who to believe? What tools can we use to sort the wheat from the chaff, or the gold from the dross?
The two that I have found are Inherent Military Probability (IMP) and Occam’s Razor.
Inherent Military Probability was first proposed as a tool by Arthur Higgins Burne, an ex-officer in the Royal Artillery, and later, a military historian who authored several books on ancient , medieval, and early gunpowder warfare. (He co-wrote a book on the ECW with Peter Young). HIs original premise was that as you tried to decipher historical evidence and accounts you should apply a test of “What would a trained staff officer of the 20th century most likely have done?” If it wouldn’t make sense to him-it probably didn’t happen that way. If it does make sense then it had to be more strongly credited. This was later amended by some to say that it must make sense to a person in that era as some situations may not have a direct historical corollary to the modern mind.
It remains mildly controversial, and has had some singular successes and failures as an approach, but I think it is an invaluable tool when used correctly. Correct use requires really thinking a account or report through and examining it logically. Ultimately the question is “Does this make sense?” as important as the provenance of the remark, its source, or the authority of the account. It requires judgement and knowledge.
An example of my first use of this in wargaming many years ago is a series of articles I wrote in the old Courier about the use of artillery. At that time in the 70s, many gamers used “Ricochet Sticks” to denote where a ball ricocheted “Over” a unit and had no effect, and where in was low enough to have effect. I thought about this a long time and turned to elementary physics and ballistics to prove that this didn’t make sense. A ball fired from a smoothbore gun at zero elevation will NEVER rise higher than the gun muzzle, and every ricochet will be below the height of a man. If fired at a higher angle their will be fewer ricochets (remember skipping a rock on a water surface?)if any, and they will all be lower than a man, or a man on horse back. In certain extreme cases of terrain, where the target is on the backslope of a hill, or the ball hits say the top of a stone wall, it may fly over a man, but almost certainly will bury in on its next impact. In effect, the IMP of a ricochet clearing a man height is very low and ricochet sticks are representing a nonexistent factor. There was a great kerfluffle by the advocates of this equipment until General B.P. Hughes book, “Firepower” came out about a year later stating the exact same finding. Ricochet sticks disappeared from the wargame table a victim of IMP and physics!
Another such finding in my articles was that during the era of Smoothbore Artillery, heavier weight guns had more effect on a single infantry or cavalry target than lighter guns when firing ball. This was easily dispatched as nonsense when logic and physics was again applied. The size difference in diameter between 4-6-8-and 12 pound field artillery balls was not very much-less than an inch in diameter for all but the 4 lb. and only an inch and a half for that!. That is, the area of effect was nearly identical! (remember they non-explosive rounds) So all artillery hard shot should have equivalent effect on a single target. Where they varied was MASS which made the heavier guns able to penetrate through many more units before the ball’s motion was arrested. They were, for the same reason more impactful on solid objects such as walls, fortifications, etc. They also had a much higher effectiveness with their canister, and a somewhat longer theoretical range, but that was seldom of great use. What they did not have was a higher effect with roundshot on a single unit to their front. IMP-QED!
The above examples are easy manifestations using physics and math, but using an IMP based on your general military reading as to the likeliness of certain behavior bolstered by a general view of people in real life and their reaction to stress and conflict is an invaluable tool for assessing information to be used in a design.
The other tool is Occam’s Razor. This premise was set forward by William of Occam in the 14th century as a means of judging the most logical explanation for a single event. In its simplest form it merely states that, when faced with several explanations or causes for an event, always look the simplest, least involved, and uncomplicated explanation-always. One way to phrase this is when you hear hoof-beats behind you always think of horses approaching, not zebras!
Now, this does not preclude complex answers, or scientific data, but simply says the simplest explanation with the fewest assumptions is a good place to start. This is a conspiracy killer, an answer to Rube Goldberg explanations for events and long involved explanations of why Junior missed school yesterday. The use of Occam’s razor for a war gamer designing rules, or deciding the accuracy of unverifiable reports, is a very handy tool. Go for the clean and simple. Eschew obfuscation!
Finally, I’d like to comment on rule users themselves, and how they effect their own enjoyment of rules. I am open to argument on this at my Yahoo! site, but it strikes me that we have seen a lessening of experimentation and creative growth in rule users, more than in rule designers! I can’t remember a time when, when playing a set of rules I didn’t think of a better way to do something within that rule structure, or come up with a new extension of the rules, or redefine some aspect of their use. Usually I did this to better suit my idea of how things occurred in a period battle, or to make the rules more playable-FOR ME. This also led to my answering a lot of my own questions about certain points of rules that might be unclear- I seldom asked the designer, unless I was impossibly confused. If I liked the core principles of a set of rules, I was more than happy to be creative in order to make them even better for my use!
That appears to be less common among war gamers now. In effect they want their war-games to be the equivalent of oil paintings done by the number. They want to be told where to put a color. They want to be told the exact shade of that color. They want firm lines denoting exactly where the boundaries between colors are. They want to be told the exact and precise nature of the image being created. Tell me the color. Tell me the number. Show me the finished picture.
Even worse, they never even consider different shades and hues, or how to actually paint, but just want to be told what to do. They want all their answers supplied, and they want no responsibility to figure it out or experiment on their own.
What is needed for a great wargame is the gamer must be a creative painter, and throw away the numbered canvas. He must try to grasp the inherent principles of a design which are usually fairly easy to grasp after a reading or two, and a couple of times on the table, but then he should take it on himself to innovate, to try new ideas, and bend the rules to his liking. He should use a set of rules as a base for his own creativity and exploration of history. He should really try to become his own artist rather than always going to the Master for interpretation and certification.
Part of this may stem from the fantasy backgrounds of many current gamers, where there is no real world to use as a touchstone for their ideas, but only the limited universe found between the covers of a 128 page, full glossy, Codex. The gamers using these rules are looking to fit in to a group rather than to strike out creatively and as an individual. They are also constrained by the corporate game publisher’s restricting their ideas to “Official Rules” and “Official Figures.” That is fine for an adolescent, but an adult in a creative hobby should at least try to be creative and an individual and not just a passive recipient of some imaginary construct.
Historical gamers have no such excuse. They are the heirs, as I have stated before, of creative writers such as Stevenson, Wells, Pratt, and Featherstone, and their hobby begs for added entertaining narrative that may include a light hearted comment on the human condition. They are missing so much, if they don’t give up painting by the numbers, and learn to paint!
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Phineas and Ferb: Make it Stop!
At times an issue emerges of such great importance that I feel compelled to take a stand in hopes of bettering our world and insuring the continuation of our species. I am speaking, of course, of the destructive influence of the Disney Channel cartoon, Phineas and Ferb. Children seem to love this show. That is understandable because what are children other than smaller, stupider versions of adults (with blemish-free skin). What surprises me is the number of adults who claim to like the show. I feel it is time for us adult television consumers of taste to stand up for quality cartoon entertainment so that we can go drink martinis on our back porch knowing that our children are inside being raised according to the highest standards children's television programming.
Now, before I lay out the specifics of my case against Phineas and Ferb let me preface this by saying that that it is not the worst cartoon out there (I would watch it over Dora or even The Suite Life with Zak and Cody any day), and I will admit to liking the occasional joke from the show. However, the show is such a blatant example of everything that wrong with most TV animation that I have to single it out.
1. Horrible Art and Character Design
The thing you notice when you first see an episode of Phineas and Ferb is Phineas's big, ridiculous triangular head with his blank expressionless face. Ha, ha! That's so silly! Then it sinks in. They never deviate from the character sheet. Seriously, do a Google image search and the most variety you will see is the occasional frown or sleepy-eyed Phineas. Compare this with the artistic insanity of Bob Clampett or John Kricfalusi where every nuance of emotion is rendered in exaggerated, malleable glory. There is no strict adherence to the character sheet. If the mood calls for a squishy wet Stimpy, there is no limit to the imaginative use of drawing in a Ren and Stimpy cartoon. I imagine that the slave laborers at Disney Animation are whipped if they come up with any sort of drawing that strays from the monotonus look of the characters on the patterned bed sheets that they are cranking out at the other end of the factory.
2. Zero Dimensional Characters
Not only do the characters look bland, they are written with the same committedness to blandness that one finds in a hospice bedside meal. At least in hospice you can look forward to a late afternoon sponge bath from an orderly (hopefully a former member of The Fat Boys). Take a moment to think about some of the great characters of animation such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck or even Spongebob Squarepants. We know these characters. We know that they will each think, emote and act differently given the same situation. All we know about Phineas and Ferb is that they might, er... build... something? This harkins to the experiment posed by RedLetterMedia in their excellent review of the Phantom Menace. In that video, various people are asked to describe characters from Episode I without reverting to their job or physical appearance. It proves to be an impossible task.
Take a look at the main group of kids in Phineas 'n' Ferb, there's the nerdy kid, the bully, the girl with a crush on Phineas. Sure they all have different "jobs," but in the end they all react and behave exactly the same. There's no dynamic or conflict other than the occasional, "I, ‘the bully,’ did something mean to ‘the nerd’ sometime in the past but that's okay, we are all pals just the same." Extend beyond this main group of characters and the same applies. Candice exists only to bring an end to the boys' daily activity, Perry exists only to give Doofenshmirtz an antagonist. I guess that you could argue that Doofenshmirtz has some character to him, but, unfortunately, he's a captive of the rigid and formulaic plots of each episode. Speaking of which...
3. Plots and Jokes Built Entirely on a Formula a.k.a. Boring Story Telling
Okay, now I hear you saying, "Now, Mr. Webmaster Sir, there are plenty of great cartoons out there, like South Park for instance, that are drawn horribly and aren't deep character studies, but dammit they're funny!" True. But unlike that show, Phineas and Ferb relies almost entirely on formulic plots and catch phrases for jokes. The shows are so mechanical and by-the-book that, more often than not, the supposed laughs come from pointing out the slight variances from the standard plot bullet points. This leaves no room for going off the ranch and trying something creative and fun. It's like a half-hour animated jack-in-the-box: keep turning the crank and listen to that familiar little weasel tune... eventually, "Pop!" and the lid flies open and Jack the clown of your nightmares springs up. This can be pretty exciting and fun the first time around, but after you reset the clown and turn the crank again, the only people who will be amused are two-year-olds and the drooling idiots who buy Rihanna albums (sometimes one in the same thing).
Submitted by Robert Gomez on Thu, 12/15/2011 - 20:16 in
What about Adventure Time?
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 20:28
Adventure Time Is Much Better Than P&F
Submitted by Robert Gomez on Sat, 01/07/2012 - 09:08
In reply to What about Adventure Time? by Anonymous (not verified)
Adventure time characters a nice and stretchy (literally), and they each have individual personalities. Though an episode usually revolves around a "quest," they are not formulaic and tied to getting to that next marketing catch phrase on the check list.
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This interview with Galaga creator and design Shigeru Yokoyama offers a unique look at the creation of this arcade classic, early development at Namco, and the storied “golden age” of the arcades in general. It was originally featured on the Galaga 30th Anniversary webpage in 2011.
I’ve also included a short Galaxian interview with designer Kazunori Sawano to the end. Conducted in 1985, it reads as a nice coda 30 years later.
Galaga – 30th Anniversary Developer Interview
with creator Shigeru Yokoyama
A Sequel to Galaxian
—How did Galaga come to be?
Yokoyama: Namco’s first game was Gee Bee, and after that we released Galaxian. Then there was Pac-Man, of course. We produced an especially huge number of Galaxian pcbs, so it was decided that our next games should use the Galaxian pcb hardware too. The first in this line was King & Balloon. After this, because there were still so many Galaxian and King & Balloon pcbs circulating, we again used the Galaxian hardware, but this time to create another “space game”—and that turned out to be Galaga.
—So Galaga was originally going to use the Galaxian hardware?
Yokoyama: Yes, the project began on that premise, and we completed a partially-complete prototype, but Ishimura from Research and Development, who was responsible for our hardware, decided we should use a new board. Then we went back to square one and planned a new game, and that is the Galaga we know today. But yeah, that’s the history behind it.
—It sounds like Galaga had been planned for awhile then?
Yokoyama: Not really. It really all happened over a short span of time. After completing our previous game, we had the initial plans done for Galaga in less than two months, I think.
—You said your first conception of Galaga was a “space game”; you weren’t considering it as a straight sequel to Galaxian?
Yokoyama: Well, we didn’t have any explicit instructions to create a game like Galaxian. However, at the time, other companies were creating their own Galaxian knock-offs, but since Galaxian, Namco had been busy pursuing other avenues via games like Pac-Man and Rally X. And management had expressed a clear desire to us that we make “one more game like Galaxian”, so we took up the challenge.
—Did you study Galaxian much in preparation for making Galaga?
Yokoyama: At the time, I was the best video game player at Namco. When I was a student I played a ton of Space Invaders, and I was legitimately good. At the office it was always me sitting in front of the Galaxian cab. (laughs)
—I feel like your experience there is clearly reflected in Galaga. There’s a number of things that Galaga seems to have inherited from Galaxian, like how when you kill a boss galaga, the other enemies will stop firing for several seconds.
Yokoyama: Yeah, that is true. Another thing from Galaxian is the way the boss galagas will appear with two red guards, and if you destroy the guards before killing the boss, you get a higher score.1 That was something we added later in the development process of Galaxian. When a great player puts on a performance, you see, everyone watching goes “ooo!!” And the heart of that performance is scoring. Galaga didn’t have those elements at the start either, but we added a lot of stuff like that as we went along.
A page from Yokoyama’s planning
docs for King & Balloon.
—King & Balloon is a STG game that came out before Galaga, but is there any connection between the two?
Yokoyama: King & Balloon wasn’t my idea. During the development of Galaxian, Kazunori Sawano, who oversaw game development at Namco, had another idea for a non-space STG. I acted as what you would now call a “director” on that project, and helped out with the design, but the original idea was Sawano’s.
—I see, and Galaga is the game where you did everything yourself, including the initial conception.
Yokoyama: That’s right. Unfortunately, King & Balloon used the same hardware as Galaxian, so it couldn’t do autofire.
In King & Balloon, the enemies steal the King, and that puts you in a state of panic, right? I wanted to reflect that mindset in a game with tons of bullets, but sadly the Galaxian hardware couldn’t do that, so we settled on making the bullets faster than they had been in Galaxian. I was also told to make it autofire, but since we weren’t using sprites, we couldn’t do autofire either.
—I see, interesting. So even at this very early stage of STG, developers were thinking about autofire. And then new hardware came along and you could add it.
Yokoyama: That’s right. With new hardware the impossible became possible.
The “Dual Fighter” Idea
—For Galaga, I understand you worked together with the programmers in coming up with the planning and design documents?
Yokoyama: Yes. First I’d write the spec sheet, making sure that what I wanted to create was technically possible for the programmers. Then the planning and game design docs would get stuffed full of all kinds of ideas… we didn’t really have planning meetings back then at Namco. If your boss, or your boss’ boss, gave you the OK, you’d just start working on it.
—In Galaga, your ship can be captured, and then rescued to be combined with your ship for double the firepower. Was that an idea you had from the beginning?
Yokoyama: No, it wasn’t.
—Was there a hint or suggestion then, that led you to it?
Yokoyama: Back then we always went through the process of creating one or two prototypes. With the first Galaga prototype, enemy formations would appear at the top of the screen, and fly down at you in patterns that were different from Galaxian. It was playable, but to be honest, it was kind of uninspired. Galaxian is all about weaving your way through the gaps of the missiles that are fired at you, but it would be boring if we just rehashed that. The first thing we tried, then, was creating enemies with a different attack style. I can’t remember the movie now, but there was one out that had these beam weapons…
—Like a tractor beam, or?
Yokoyama: Yeah, a tractor beam. Not the kind of laser that destroys things in one blast, but rather the kind you would use to capture something. I wanted something like that to capture your ship, and then you’d be able to rescue that captive some how.
Yokoyama: At first, when you rescued your ship, it gave you an extra life, but that was just a different spin on extends, so I thought it was boring. That was when I thought of the “dual fighter” idea. Then came the question of whether to make them line up horizontally, or vertically.
Yokoyama’s original planning documents, showing the tractor beam idea.
Designing the Challenging Stage
—Vertically? That would have been amazing. (laughs) How did the special Challenging Stage come about?
Yokoyama: Well, Pac-Man had the “Pac-Man Show” intermission cutscenes, and Rally X had the Challenging Stage, so I knew Galaga was going to need some special showy feature like that. But for awhile I just couldn’t come up with anything. I was wracking my brain when our programmer Tetsu Ogawa came to me with a bug he had found, where the enemy formations would appear and then just fly off, without breaking formation. He called me over and said “I wonder if we can find a use for this?” (laughs)
—Hah, so Ogawa thought it was interesting too. (laughs)
Yokoyama: The bug also prevented the enemies from firing. I thought it would be fun to sit there and just blast away at them, so this became the Challenging Stage in Galaga. It was a product of chance.
—But it must have taken a lot of effort to work the the Challenging Stage up into something so elaborate and spectacular.
Yokoyama: At first there was only one pattern they’d fly in, which was the pattern that the bug had originally created. During the course of the development we realized we wanted this to be a game with a lot of replay value, so we decided to add more patterns. I owe a lot of that to Ogawa, who told me he could create more patterns by using some code from another program he had made. Ogawa was a talented programmer, but he also had “game sense”, and many ideas in Galaga were added by him. If I had not linked up with Ogawa, I don’t think Galaga would be half the game it was!
Sprite Design
—Were the enemy sprites something you created yourself?
Yokoyama: Yeah, just the initial conceptual image for them though. At first they didn’t look like this at all—they resembled Galaxian more. They were actually drawn by Hiroshi Ono, a designer who, from Galaga onwards, became famous for drawing these kind of sprites. He became known as “Mr. Dotman”, an authority on pixel design, but these characters were the first he made.
—How many projects were you overseeing as a planner, at the time?
Yokoyama: Around three. Galaga, which I was in charge of everything for, and then Bosconian and Dig Dug, which were left in the hands of my junior colleagues. I helped them out here and there with some of their work.
—Wow, you worked on a lot of different games at the same time. That sounds very difficult.
Yokoyama: For Galaga, I did all the planning docs myself. In contrast, I left all the planning decisions for Bosconian to my juniors. Even Ono had to do more than pixel work, so although he mainly worked as a graphic design specialist, my colleagues and I helped out by drawing some of the minor sprites.
Several of Hiroshi Ono’s favorite sprites that
he made at Namco (L-R: Mappy, Xevious, Galaga).
(taken from a separate Ono interview)
—Were you also the one who thought up the title “Galaga” ?
Yokoyama: No, if I remember correctly, that was actually our design section manager. He told me he wanted to have something that sounded like Galaxian, so he wanted to use “Gala” in the title. The “Ga” also reminded us of moth (蛾 [ga] in Japanese), and I heard “Galaga” has some meaning in English too. Anyway, our President Masaya Nakamura heard the name and approved it. We all really liked how it reminded us of Galaxian, and I said it was a great choice.
—Ah, the “ga” from Galaga means moth, interesting! How about the enemy names, “zako” (minion), “goei” (guard), and “bosu” (boss)?
Yokoyama: Those are just katakana spellings of the traditional names we’d been using for a long time, zako, goei, and bosu. (laughs)
—Hah, you just used them as-is. (laughs) You were saying a moment before that the dual fighter idea first came not from a consideration of the player’s firepower, but from thinking about the enemy’s attacks. That’s the first time I’ve heard that.
Yokoyama: Yeah, but there was one problem with the whole idea. We had reached the sprite limit (back then we called sprites “objects” at Namco) of the hardware. Specifically, if we had two ship sprites on a row, then it wasn’t possible for them to fire two missiles as well. Our solution was to make one 16×16 sprite for the ship and one 16×16 sprite for the missiles, thereby reducing the total sprite count by two.
—Oh, so even though it looks like you’re firing two missiles in dual fighter mode, it’s actually just one sprite? Clever!
Yokoyama: When you power up your hitbox becomes twice as big, and we didn’t really know how that would play out until we tried it ourselves. Once the feature was added, everyone at Namco who playtested it never went into dual fighter mode. They could stay alive longer with the smaller hitbox of a single ship. The tradeoff, of course, was that you could do much better in the Challenging Stage with the dual fighter.
—The key is to go into dual fighter mode right before the Challenging Stage!
Yokoyama: That’s why we made the later stages so that if you don’t kill the majority of the enemies when they fly in during the stage opening, there’s no way you’re going to survive as dual fighter.
The Galaga Cabinet and Control Panel
—Were there any difficulties on the production side, for Galaga?
Yokoyama: Once the pcb changed, we were back to square one and somewhat lost. After that, the biggest thing we argued about was the cabinet.
—The cabinet?
Yokoyama: Until Galaga, our cocktail table-style cabinets for Galaxian, Pac-Man, and others had the stick and buttons laid out vertically, flush with the cabinet siding. Galaga was a game where you would need to be firing repeatedly, and I knew the vertical layout would be awkward. The buttons themselves were really stiff and wide on the Galaxian cabinet too, and hard to use. I consulted with cabinet makers and engineers and told them to lay out the buttons horizontally, using a panel that protruded from the table.
—Wow, you had a lot of authority!
Yokoyama: They made a prototype, and when people tried it out, it readily apparent how much easier it was this way. I said we needed to change the buttons too, and we tried out a variety of different ones.
—Yeah, the buttons became lighter and easier to press from Galaga onwards.
Yokoyama: There was a lot to choose from there: heavy buttons, light buttons, the amount of spring, and durability too… we ordered a bunch and picked out the one we thought was best.
Top: the newer, easier to use
control panel that Galaga ushered in.
Below: the older style, shown
here on a Galaxian table.
—Galaga was the first game to use a control panel with everything laid out horizontally. Did you have to change the shape of the tables too?
Yokoyama: The tables we were going to use were already on location, so there was some objection from management about how they were going to retrofit this control panel. They were complaining it would take too much time. Opinions were divided, with some people at Namco agreeing, and others refusing. I then went around to each department at Namco and let the managers try out the new control panel and see for themselves how much easier it was to play.
They agreed it was better and that this panel should be adopted as the new standard. However, sometime after that decision was made I got really chewed out by a furious executive: “there’s no way *$#%$ way we can sell these!!!!” He told me to change it back right away, but since I now had a lot of people on my side who thought this new panel was better, we ended up using it after all. Thank goodness I won that battle!
—And ever since then, we’ve been using this layouts for arcade cabinets.
Yokoyama: Well, that executive was so angry, at the time even I was wondering, “is this a good idea?” (laughs)
Challenges of the Location Test
—Were there any crazy deadlines or time limits you had to meet with Galaga?
Yokoyama: To be honest, we had zero interest in Namco’s sales or profits, so we didn’t even notice. We basically were allowed to decide the deadlines for ourselves. (laughs) As the game approached completion and the question of a sales date came up, someone else from Namco came by to check in on things, and I think that was when an actual date was set. In that sense it was the most laid back of developments.
—Toru Iwatani, the creator of Pac-Man, has said before that deadlines back then weren’t as strict as they are now, and that you had as much time as you needed to fine-tune and perfect the game. I think that explains why there’s so many masterpieces like Galaga from this era.
Yokoyama: Yes, I think President Nakamura’s magnanimity was a big part of it, but I think Namco could also afford us a bit of breathing room because their previous games like Galaxian and Pac-Man had been such big hits. (laughs)
—Did you get feedback from people about Galaga during the development process?
Yokoyama: We had other employees at Namco test it out and give us feedback, yeah. Once it was completely finished we had everyone come try it, and they all seemed to be really enjoying it. Even the women in the office were really getting into it, so I thought it was all going to work out.
—That’s great, to have that boost of confidence before releasing it into the world.
Yokoyama: Yeah, although I was really worried after the location test failed to pull in a very good income. The average playtime of a single coin back then was about 3 to 4 minutes, but people were playing for 7 or 8 minutes with our game, so the income was lower. There was some grumbling about that at Namco, but I asked them to let us leave it this way. I said the fact that people could play longer would make it popular, and it would still draw a good income. However, from the arcade operator’s perspective, short-term profits were the priority, so in the final commercial versions of we ended up caving to management and doing it their way.
—In point of fact, Galaga did extremely well, and became a long-running hit.
Yokoyama: There was one other thing that gave me confidence. Iwatani was working on another game at the time, but I let him try Galaga, and he told me “You’ve really thought this through, I’m amazed at the detail.” The game balance, the layout of the Challenging Stages, and even little things like the special sound effect you hear when you get a medal for clearing enough stages… seeing that he noticed those things gave me a huge boost. I remember him saying “It’s clear the amount of effort and care you’ve put into those details. I think this is going to be a game people will not tire of quickly.”
The Galaga instruction card.
—Can you tell us a little about the instruction card and art for the arcade release?
Yokoyama: (pulls out instruction card and points to the text) We argued a lot over what to write here. It needed to be something that would get people’s attention.
—Ah, the “secret attack technique” part. You mean the text for it?
Yokoyama: Yeah. The design was done by our graphic designer, but the text was all the planners.
—The first thing you see there isn’t an explanation of how to play.
Yokoyama: No, at first we wrote that—how to move the lever and what the button does—but that was pretty boring. Since the dual fighter feature was the big selling point of Galaga, we decided to put that here, to draw people in.
—That was probably the right choice, since most people already knew about Galaxian and the basics of how-to-play.
Yokoyama: This version is the one President Nakamura liked himself. We kept bringing versions of the instruction sheet to his room, and he’d reject them over and over, until finally he just ordered us to complete it right there in front of him, to his liking. (laughs)
—I’ve heard before that Nakamura really got his hands into the nitty-gritty details of Namco back then, like the Namco logo and such. Your story proves it!
Yokoyama: I also remember that at our first location test, at a game center by Nishiogikubo Station, none of the people I saw playing were using the dual fighter ability!
—Ah. Yeah, I do remember it being like that at first.
Yokoyama: Everyone was just dodging. And we had gone to all the trouble of putting that instruction card up! I thought that would have explained it, you know. (laughs)
Creating Games at Namco
Shigeru Yokoyama.
—Did it take you a long time to think up ideas for games?
Yokoyama: I like to think things through very thoroughly. But I can’t do it at work… it happens at home, or after I’ve left the office.
—I guess there was just too much actual work to get through at the office?
Yokoyama: Yeah. Creating all the game data, writing out our planning documents… Iwatani has a brilliant, quick mind, but if I had to say, I’m rather sluggish in my thinking… I think a lot, and then sit down to write, laboring over how to connect each idea. It takes me a long time to reach any conclusion. So I can’t do that kind of work at the office.
—I think that reflects the extent and depth of your imagination.
Yokoyama: Well, in those days games could be made by one person alone. There’s no way you could do that with the more elaborate developments today. (laughs) In that sense, I was very lucky to work when I did.
—By the way, what games were you into when you were young?
Yokoyama: In middle school and high school I did a lot of bowling, and in between games I played a lot of pinball. I didn’t play video games much.
—Yeah, back in the day you could find pinball machines lined up at any bowling alley.
Yokoyama: When Breakout came out, I started playing video games, but the one that really hooked me was Space Invaders, of course.
—When Galaxian came out, a bunch of other developers released similar STGs. Were there any parts of those games that influenced you?
Yokoyama: Atari’s games were an influence. I hardly paid notice to domestic Japanese games, though. I think it was probably the same way for everyone. We’d check to see what had been released, but we didnt study them.
—Back then it felt to us players like Namco really stood out among the rest. Was there a company-wide understanding about quality or what made games fun?
Yokoyama: I’ve often been asked what the “Namco essence” was, but all of the developers then had very distinct individual personalities—there was no central philosophy of game design. However, the one thing we did all share was a commitment to do things right, down to the last bit. That’s why we playtested our games so thoroughly, both with others and by running simulations ourselves. Not wanting to do things half-assed wasn’t some principle we had as craftsmen or anything; it was part of putting ourselves in players’ shoes and imagining what would be fun for them. I think that helped us stay balanced as developers.
—Always thinking from the player’s perspective… it sounds easy, but I bet it’s actually quite difficult.
Yokoyama: Well, another thing that helped us was that we tried to do what other developers weren’t doing. After Space Invaders came out, everyone tried to imitate its success, including us with Galaga and Bosconian. But we also made different games like Rally X and Dig Dug. If you do something unique, that other’s haven’t done, you’ll find your market there. No one likes simple rehashes.
—Gaplus and later games were made by someone else, right?
Yokoyama: Gaplus was Hajime Nakatani’s debut. He was my junior colleague. From the end of Dig Dug’s development to the release of Pole Position and Xevious, I had a more background role, watching over as my younger colleagues made games.
—Galaga, then, was probably the game you were most deeply involved in the development of?
Yokoyama: Probably. I also made Cutie Q. That was my debut.
—Cutie Q is a great game too, with a deep ruleset.
Yokoyama: After we made Gee Bee and Bomb Bee, we were going to make one more game. So Sawano made Galaxian, Iwatani made Pac-Man, and I made Cutie Q.
—Cutie Q was released before Pac-Man. Maybe it should be called Namco’s first character game, then?
Yokoyama: Yeah, it did come out before. Right around the same time as Galaxian. Iwatani designed the ghost sprites.
Galaga, Still Loved Today
—Do you have any message for young aspiring game designers today?
Yokoyama: Hmm… that’s difficult. (laughs) I’ll share something similar to what I said in the self-introduction I gave at a recent management training event. The games I made were done almost entirely by two people: myself and Ogawa. So we knew every last inch of how they worked. We were able to develop those games with total knowledge and control, but the scale of game development has changed today and that kind of thing is no longer possible. But if you have the chance as a young developer to experience that, I recommend it.
Nowadays you can specialize as a programmer, planner, designer, or musician, but originally a “game creator” was simply someone who wanted to make a cetain game, and he knew and did everything involved: design, music, programming, documentation. I think you grow a lot more as a developer that way.
—Why do you think Galaga was such a long-running hit, personally?
Yokoyama: I think it’s the difficulty balance, and the variation that keeps you from getting bored quickly. Those are the basic keys to a long-lasting game, I think. Also, the fact that it was a simple game—simple enough that no real instructions are needed to play. I think that’s a part of it too.
—Did you spend a lot of time fine-tuning the difficulty?
Yokoyama: Since Galaga isn’t a huge game, we were able to spend a great deal of time on the game balance. We tried out a lot of different parameters: should this be set at 1, or 2?, etcetera.
—And eventually you arrived at a difficulty level that everyone could enjoy.
Yokoyama: Before the location test we let many Namco employees try Galaga out. We had women working at Namco then, and we also had pro-level players—people with very different approaches to how to play games. However, because Galaga has autofire (in contrast with Galaxian, which was a relatively stoic, hard game) it could be enjoyed even by women who didn’t play games much, as a way to release some stress. I thought that was a good thing. For new players, we decided to make the dual fighter easy to get and to keep the game balanced more on the easy side.
Galaga as featured in the 1983 film WarGames.
—30 years later, and people still name Galaga as one of their favorites. What do you think of that?
Yokoyama: Unlike Pac-Man, I’ve long-since grown distant from Galaga. But there’s still many people playing Galaga, via the Namco Museum, and the franchise is still alive with Galaga Legions, and that makes me very happy.
—It’s well-known overseas, too.
Yokoyama: One memory I count among my happiest involves a trip I took to America. I was on a bus tour, and the bus guide actually knew about Namco. I told her that I had made Galaga, and I was deeply moved by how wide its fame had spread. Even this middle-aged bus lady knew it! (laughs)
—Finally, I have one more question: Galaga was developed on hardware with certain limitations. Were there things you wanted to add, if the hardware had had more power?
Yokoyama: In this particular game, no, there is nothing I would add.
—It sounds like you achieved all you wanted.
Yokoyama: With Galaga, I can say “this is perfect.” I feel the same way about Pac-Man.
—It’s wonderful to hear you say that. Galaga, and Pac-Man too, both have a sleek, efficient beauty to them, containing only what was necessary. Thank you for your time today!
Galaxian – 1985 Developer Interview
with designer Kazunori Sawano
“The post-Invaders arcade scene belongs to Namco!” —that was the goal we set, and the pressure riding on us with the development of Galaxian. You could call it the first video game space war visual simulator, with it’s pioneering use of multi-colored sprites.
Our plan was to make a game that anyone could play, not just maniac gamers. With our “simple is best!” mindset, we boldly trimmed away the excess ideas from the initial planning docs. We wanted a game that would keep evolving infinitely, using only two enemy types (4 if you count the color changes).
With such a simple setup, the enemy characters we did have needed varied actions. We programmed them to judge the player’s movements and react accordingly, so it seemed that they had a will and personality of their own, the way they would individually divebomb the player’s Galaxip. I think this element, more than any other, made Galaxian feel new and fresh compared with previous games.
Some might even say it was Galaxian that saved the arcade scene from the doldrums of the post-Invaders lull!
Footnotes ( returns to text)
In Japan, the three common enemy types in Galaga are bosu (boss), goei (guard/escort), and zako (minion). They seem to be called various names overseas (commander, minion, bugs, etc).
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All Eyes and Ears on Your Grade
2018-05-24 2018-05-25 a104010166 687 Views 0 Comments academic accomplishment, Cross-Culturalism, Grades as Everything, issue_2219
The science and nature course at Kang Chiao international School. Provided by Yen-Li Ho.
Adviser：KUANG-KUO CHANG（章光國）
By I-TING SHIH（施怡婷）, HUI-YU CHENG（張惠瑜）, WANG-LING TSAI （蔡宛玲）, YUN-CHEN YANG（楊昀蓁）
It Can be Unpleasant and Painful for Most Schoolchildren
Jenny Chen, an English-major senior at Shih Hsin University, still could not believe and forget what happened to her while in elementary school.
Stunned back then, she recalled that “When teachers announced students’ exam grades and awarded a big hand to the highest-scoring student in front of all other pupils, it really made me uncomfortable. I think grade is very personal, and it shouldn’t be made public.”
That scene appears normal to pretty much every single Taiwanese student, but it drew serious spite from Chen as a strong contrast to her previous different cultural encounters.
Chen said she attended an international school in Indonesia from first grade to third. “Our school issued only an A-to-F report card to parents in every semester,” said Chen. “More importantly, teachers discussed about our academic performances individually, providing us with some learning advice.”
According to a survey of schoolchildren’s learning experience conducted last year by the Children Welfare League Foundation, a non-profit organization devoted to children welfare, nearly 80 percent reported they felt exhausted, and more than 12 percent excessive exhausted.
Ya-Hui Chen, the director of the institution said in a TVBS interview that students in Taiwan face a never-ending torrent of exams. Parents take for granted to compare their children’s grade with others’, imposing more pressures on their kids. As a result, more and more students have to spend much more time attending cram schools to earn better grades.
“After graduating from senior high school, I plan to pursue a bachelor’s degree in America,” said Shuen Chen, an 11-year-old student at Kang Chiao International School.
Shuen said he wanted to study aboard because he has become used to its western educational style. He said he is so afraid that he will not be able to accommodate himself to Taiwan’s college life even though he is confident he will do extremely well in the college entrance examination in the future.
Shuen’s mother, Yen-Li Ho, explained why she has long decided to send her sole child afar to the United States. She said, “I’m nearly 40, and the educational environment I experienced was very rigid. I don’t want my child to learn in such an oppressive system.
“The school teachers have designed a variety of interesting courses for students in Kang Chiao, and Shuen has been exploring the knowledge very actively. “
She said Kang Chiao’s “flipped education” paid more attention to children‘s characteristics, including their teamwork and communication abilities, not just focusing on the grades.
Teaching and learning styles Differ in Western Societies
The parents’ visiting day of Carver Elementary School in L. A. . Provided by Wan-Yu Shih
However, the most typical scene in Taiwan facing most pupils is barely played up in the Western cultures. In the United States, one of the most splendid shows was put on stage at the Carver Elementary School, a public institution in Los Angeles, California. The students arranged a colorful musical show of “Les Miserables,” a famous historical novel by Victor Hugo.
At Carver, Wan-Yu Shih, 11, shares her learning experience from her history courses about the U.S. civil war. She said this assignment required students to garner information and present it to local residents of San Marino City on Feb. 2, the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, the former U.S. president whose slavery emancipation policy led to the country’s civil war.
“That’s so meaningful,” said Wan-Yu. “I really learned a lot from the assignment. Before this class, I don’t like American history at all because it’s too complicated.”
Wan-Yu said that all courses at Carver are oriented with current affairs, hands-on trainings and pursuits of innovation. “It not only leads us to actively explore the knowledge but also encourages us to improve our problem-solving skills.”
She said Carver’s “innovative education” philosophy emphasizes integrating life with humanity development and task-based education system to help school children explore the world, cultivating their self-learning capacity from a variety of modules.
Cross-Culturalism Must-Learned Lesson for Educators
Jenny Chen is graduating from college soon but feels not quite ready for her new life albeit she has gone through numerous school exams. She said, “Sometimes, I got an excellent score on the exam, but my teacher told me I were not the best and should work harder. It really frustrated me. I’m not sure if I can achieve any goals, including applying for a master’s program.”
Li-Ru Chen, CWLF’s CEO, said students are psychologically harmed by the diehard “grades are everything” mentality. It undermines their learning motivation and sense of confidence.
To break this long-established mindset, both Lee and Chih-Heng Chen said, it needs enduring, collaborative effort particularly from educators and parents. Lee said, “In addition to the influence of some older-generation teachers, parents’ old-fashioned thinking about how school children shall be taught and disciplined is the other major obstacle that has prevented our education system from moving forward,” she pointed out
Lee explained further that even today, most parents in Taiwan still hold the opinion that extraordinary academic performance is the necessary building block for a bright and successful future career. As a result, such parents not only are resistant to change in teaching style but are confused about why some teachers intend to practice the so-called “flipped classroom.”
“That is why I spend time writing commentaries online, not only to communicate with the public but to educate parents” Lee said, adding that she remains optimistic. “Overall speaking, our education system is making progress, but it still needs time to reach a new milestone.”
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Wetzell, No. 7 SDSU beat Nevada 68-55 to remain undefeated
SAN DIEGO (AP) San Diego State home basketball games are starting to feel like they did back in the Kawhi Leonard era, when a packed Viejas Arena rocked and the Aztecs reached the Sweet 16 for the first time.
This time, it's a trio of transfers leading the No. 7 Aztecs back into national prominence. New Zealander Yanni Wetzell stepped up with 17 points and a career-high 16 rebounds Saturday night for SDSU, which got hot in the second half and beat Nevada 68-55 to remain the nation's only undefeated team.
The Aztecs pulled within one of the best opening streak in school history, a 20-0 run led by Leonard in 2010-11. That team finished a school-best 34-3.
Points: J. Harris 18.4
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Assists: L. Drew 4.4
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Steals: L. Drew 1.2
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Points: 73.8 (120)
Rebounds: 8.4 (298)
Assists: 14.5 (89)
FG%: 43.2% (209)
FT%: 73.8% (74)
3P%: 38.0% (21)
Rebounds: 29.4 (13)
Assists: 11.9 (128)
FG%: 39.9% (60)
FT%: 71.5% (241)
3P%: 27.2% (4)
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Grey's Anatomy: Why, George?
"Grey's Anatomy" spoilers coming right up...
Oy. As if Izzie's recent behavior towards Callie wasn't disgusting enough, now George (admittedly, a blotto George) falls into bed with her?
So, so many things wrong with this. For starters, the writers had made it pretty clear in the past that George and Izzy didn't think about each in That Way, and while people can do all sorts of stupid stuff while drunk, George's reaction to Callie's accusation suggested that he really is attracted to Izzie but considers her out of his league.
Worse, there's a part of me that feels like George having sex with Izzie in some way justifies all the vile stuff Izzie's been slinging towards his wife in the last batch of episodes. The writers may not go that way -- after George and Meredith had their unfortunate very special time together, both characters came out looking badly -- but on initial reaction, George sleeping with this woman who's been so horrid to his wife is just about the worst thing anyone on this show has ever done. I'm not looking forward to any of the fallout from this, especially if the writers intend for Callie and George to get back together. Yuck.
The rest of the episode was pretty okay, I suppose. Three top-notch guest stars in Roger Rees (Robin Colcord, baby!), Shohreh Aghdashloo and James Gammon (always golden for pissing on Roger Dorn's contract), the long-awaited thaw in the Meredith/Thatcher relationship, and more humanizing of Alex in his relationship with Jane Doe. But the George/Izzie/Callie stuff leaves a very bad taste in my mouth.
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Amen, Alan. Even after the George/Callie fight when they showed George and Izzie together, I still didn't think the show would be dumb enough to go there. Like you said, I'm not at all looking forward to the fallout of this. Why am I still watching this show?
Awful episode. First of all, last time we saw Meredith she was in the hospital after her "near death whatever" (and this kind of dialogue drives me crazy. It was one thing on Buffy, but this show constantly crams down our throats how important and genius these surgeons are. Stop having them talk like 15-year-olds!) But now she's 100% okay and even back at work?! Then there's the fact that Callie reveals herself to be a millionaire and NOBODY mentions that she was LIVING IN A BASEMENT last year. WTF? Finally, the George and Izzie scene...ugh. Totally ridiculous. Didn't we have this exact storyline last year with Meredith? And are we really supposed to believe George is somehow the stud of Seattle Grace? And even if it turns out the characters didn't have sex with each other, it's still such a tv cliche to have them wind up in bed naked leaving us thinking they had sex that I'm close to not watching this show anymore.
I really think Shonda Rhimes is a hack. She claimed on the writers' blog that she's "not entirely playing by the rules of tv here." Has the woman just never watched tv before? Because every storyline this past season has been done a million times before. And usually done better.
I fastforwarded through all of the George-Izzy stuff. Too painful. This show might be getting too daytime- soapy for me.
Kris Eton said...
It's so easy. Just turn it off. You won't miss it. Trust me.
I watched it for awhile last year (never saw it from the beginning), a few episodes of Meredith bugging the heck out of me and the end-of-season episode with the bizarro prom in the hospital was enough to turn me off.
I have never felt freer! So many other good shows on tv....why waste your time?
I enjoyed the episode right up until the last scene. What an awful, awful plot twist. Is the writing staff insane or just creatively bankrupt? I feel like they've bought into the "happy people are boring" myth and are now creating random catastrophes just for the sake of giving the characters new reasons to yell at each other. There was plenty of drama and angst even without Izzie and George sleeping together, but now ... now it's just stupid.
In an ideal world, Callie would follow Addison onto Grey's 2.0. Not that I think the spin-off is a surefire success but Callie really deserves better than the nuts she's surrounded by at Seattle Grace.
Maybe I'm my opinion's colored a bit by Buffy, but I'm going to blame Marti Noxon more than Shonda Rhimes. The things that are going wrong with Grey's Anatomy this season remind me a lot of the complaints made of Buffy Season 6, (when Joss faded away for other projects and Marti Noxon took charge). She was fine (even inspired) as a lowly staff writer, but she has no idea how to manage a show.
velvetcannibal said...
I agree with everything you said about George/Callie/Izzie. I tuned back in to the show because I want to see the setup for Addison's spinoff, but I'll just wait for the finale now.
I can't think of a more gross, blatant character assassination in recent years. George going to the one woman who has been absolutely despicable and disgusting around Callie from the get-go... it's a total slap in the face. He could not have done something more vicious. Honestly, I wonder why they even introduced the Callie character at this point. Are we supposed to hate her and see her as the person in the way of Izzie and George? I think she and Addison are the two most amazing and interesting women on the show, and they need to get out of that hospital with their sanity intact.
I can't fathom why the writers thought this was a good idea. We have gotten nothing but the friend vibe from Izzie and George all this time, and what made the Izzie hating Callie thing interesting was that it had nothing to do with her "wanting" George. Now she's still despicable, and George is too. What the hell were they thinking?
Grey's only works because of its minor characters; the main cast, mostly, are unsympathetic, whiny, and uninteresting. Who are the most intriguing characters on the show? Addison, Calley, and the Chief. Of the main cast, only Alex is really interesting of late. George's back and forth on Calley is ridiculous and almost as obnoxious as Summer and Seth on the O.C. Ugh. If only Meredith had not come back from her "near death whatever" and Izzy had been jailed or sued for killing Denny would this show be truly worth watching.
When I tuned in on Thursday night at 9pm I thought that they were airing a special primetime episode of General Hospital.
The Addison spin off can't start soon enough. George is a tramp, Christina sleeps with male authority figures, Meredith just finished being a tramp and has cooled it for a bit since her "death"... boring.
Shonda must be smoking from Sorkin's crack pipe to think that this show is anything but a second rate soap opera.
Unless they fool me with another "we're actually going to kill Meredith show" this is the last Grey's Anatomy episode for me.
ugh. just gah. GA is awful at the moment. Bring on the Addison spinoff! does Izzie know no limits? and George is a big ol slapper! next up Bailey.. seriously.. this is bad. What does it say about the morals of the show that the only relationships these characters can sustain are those that start and end up in the bedroom in one night stands? Where are the good male/female platonic relationships gone?
George thinking Izzie is out of his league? i dont think so, Callie is out of his league. She is far more beautiful than Izzie on the inside and outside. Izzie is hateful, she is right there down the bottom with George. Gutter huggers both of them. And I'm sad about this because TR and Katherine are fantastic actors and I dont want to hate the characters, but Shondaco is forcing the audience to dislike them big time. Please let Callie go off with Addison to LA and leave this mess behind. She is too good for this crap.
On the plus side, i am liking Mark more and more. Can't wait for him to put McSelfish back where he belongs! Kick him in the junk!!
10:31 PM, March 18, 2007
I thought Callie explained living in the basement to the Chief. She said it got her better surgeries b/c she was always there. The Chief aknowledged it as a strategy, but said she had to move out.
Just like with Lost, a show with such promise in the first season is going downhill fast.
The sad thing about the George/Izzie thing is that I thought the episode was handling it really well for a while. I loved George showing up with booze and saying that Izzie needed to be supportive because there were some times that he didn't like his wife and needed to be convinced otherwise. That was really touching - he was saying, just be my best friend and play the role the way I need you to play it, for once.
And then they went and screwed it up. Oy. There's no happy way out of this one. George and Callie had a legitimate fight to work out - that she hadn't been open about her wealth and had blatantly lied about what the hotel cost. But now it's all tangled up in Izzie and it sucks.
I don't see what's so bad about that. Callie has been treating George in a terrible manner all season, Izzie has been treating her like garbage for the same time. Retrospectively, this development makes absolute sense. Sure, not all friendships are about this type of feelings, but so many of them are, on the other hand.
I'm not saying that this can't end up badly, but my initial reaction wasn't resentment; I really want to see how it plays out.
Geez, this show isn't even a background show for when I do complicated knitting projects anymore! It started as a mindless knitting show where you don't have to look down, and has deteriorated from there. I agree with those who say take Callie and Addison and get them out ASAP. I'd say take Bailey with 'em, but even she isn't the same character anymore. Then again, I read an item about the spinoff pilot being reminiscent of "Nip/Tuck." No thanks! They'd probably make me hate Addison too at the rate they're going.
I actually can't stand Callie. I think I'm the only one. The idea of Izzie and George together is still disgusting, though. I want that whole triangle off my screen.
Yeah Roger Rees! He was the best part of this episode. Two of Angela Chase's English teachers guest-starring on Grey's in one episode? Hee.
I only watch this show because it's the hottest show on tv. But I hate it. I hate these people. They are terrible people. They have the morals of hamsters.
I cant stop watching for some reason. I don't know why. I don't relate to these people. They are bad people.
I disagree. I think that it is a great plot twist, which is why the show is so popular. You can never guess what is going to happen. I am not as invested in Callie, and I think George and Izzie were inevitable. Although they said they didnt think of one another in that way, the show has been hinting at their chemistry for so long. It's a shame that Callie is going to get hurt, but you cant deny love! And I read a spoiler that said that they will fall in love!!
10:37 PM, April 19, 2007
To place the George character ( A Mama's Boy) in any script that portrays him as the kind of guy women just have to have is a ridiculous concept anyway. This had to be created by the Asociation of Substitute Writers.
3:46 PM, April 20, 2007
Anonymouslistly said...
I live in the Netherlands, and here I just saw the episode where Meredith "dies", i was so happy because it could have been a huge and brilliant plot twist. Ofcourse they couldn't do this because she's the main character but I;m so sick of her winy voice and her stupid friends. I love Addison, Alex, Mark and George. But reading your reactions, I think I'm going to hate George in a few episodes.
I'm really happy there's going to be an Addison spinoff, that's awesome! I hope we will get it in Holland.
ok, well all i have 2 say is that i LOVE the idea of izze and gogre, maybe im a sucker 4 the best friend love plot. Me and my friends were joking one time and i got called izze and another one of my friends got called Calli. i just like Izzie with Goerge they seem 2 go together!
Gisela said...
I HATED the triangle from the beginning. George and Izzy, C'mon "seriously". This totally sucks. Callie is a great woman and Izzy is such an ugly spirited woman, constantly attacking her. What kind of a friend is that??? They need to kill this with George realizing true love for Callie who has been so good to him when everyone else treats him like a nobody. I really, truly hope he and Izzy...just don't go there anymore+
Wow, such divergent views about George and Izzie.
I love Izzie and George period. Callie is a great girl, but they married for the wrong reasons, and I take exception to a woman trapping her man when he is obviously in mourning, which is what Callie did. Many of you have commented that Izzie has been behaving badly toward Callie. I have to agree, but it makes sense now that the two of them are smitten. Izzie realized what she was losing when Callie came into the picture.
I do think George is sexy and adorable. I can see what Izzie sees in him. They fit together, in a way that Callie (with her constant complaining)and George do not. As for Izzie being the babe, and George not (supposedly), you don't have to be McSteamy or McDreamy to get the looker. Izzie and George fit together on an emotional level, and they are so cute together too. I can't wait for the next episode.
Hm. I seem to be somewhat of a minority. I think the George and Izzy thing is sooo hot, it's sexy, it's romantic as hell and I love watching them! Thank you writers!!
i think the whole izzie and george relationship was a good move. its provocative, gives viewers something to talk about. not all plot twists need to be positive, characters develop, they have highs and lows, its just Izzie and Georges turn - for better or worse depending on individual opinions. i love secret romances, especially affairs. this whole thing is quite exciting, 'will or wont they get caught...and how...'
plus callie and george should have never got married, it was for the wrong reasons, plus she's always nagging him. i say go for it with "Gizzie". i also hope that they bring back hannah amongst all this, add a little extra drama and secrecy to it all...spice it up.
Meredith and Dereks relationship is repetitive, adding another couple entwined with a affair is exactly what the show needs. i cant wait to see this thing progress, i hope that shonda doesnt give into public opinion....
not to mention: its unlikely but it would be amusing if izzie got pregnant, especially since callie's the one wanting a baby (plus izzies past history) ... it would certainly make an interesting turn thats for sure. i doubt it would happen though, since Higel did "knocked up." u never know though...
at the very least i hope George and Izzie get to be together regardless of all the outcries of fans. all i say is let the writers do their jobs.
I´ve only been watching this show for about a month. My favorite characters are Dr. Bailey and Cristina. I think George and Izzie are both pretty neurotic and each needs someone more normal for a relationship.
Honestly, from what I had seen until this week´s episode I didn´t like Callie at all. She seems to be awfully aggressive and if she wants to smash people up against walls, why not some of the male doctors rather than Meredith, etc?
I don´t like macho women at all and if she does find out about the affair, she may beat George to a pulp with one hand tied behind her back, let alone Izzie. Anyway, it doesn´t seem like the other doctors like Callie all that much. They sure weren´t thrilled about George marrying her and what´s this with Callie´s dad threatening him? No wonder she´s the way she is.
However, Izzie needs to do the right thing and leave George alone to either sink or swim in this marriage. She did the right thing when she told him it meant nothing cuz even if she gets hurt she shouldn´t be a homewrecker-right?
Hey, all you Izzie haters, did you see that Katherine Heigl won the Emmy for best supporting actress in a drama?
Maybe Callie has a rough exterior and a heart of gold? She seemed a lot more like "Roseanne"'s TV daughter "Darlene" in the first episodes I saw. So she and George will be kinda like "Darlene and David", maybe. I can so picture Callie in a leather jacket.
Why does she want to have a baby now when she just got a promotion and when they have only been married a short while? I think she's trying to find some way to hold onto George because she's not sure of him. And I agree about it being weird to make his character such a hot ladies man cuz he's definitely not the type.
Too bad Chandra didn't win, tho. I like Bailey. She's tough on the interns/residents like "ER"'s Peter Benton and "St. Elsewhere"'s
Mark Craig were, but she's a nice person. Christina is a complex and interesting character even tho she is a workaholic.
Other than that it's a good show, but doesn't really compare with "ER", "Chicago Hope", and "St. Elsewhere". I wish they'd focus more on the medical drama and less on the personal relationships.
Here's an idea...instead of Izzie actively pursuing George and trying to wreck his marriage (which he may do a good job of with no help), why not have it be an unrequited love where her character will suffer over it and Katherine Heigl gets to show a lot of emotional range? Izzie can have hot fantasies about George and/or erotic dreams, but not actually pursue him. She can be jealous of Callie without sniping at her, and display many of the symptoms of obsessive lovers. That way Izzie would be more of a three dimensional character with some depth and not the unsympathetic shrew so many viewers see her as.
12:02 AM, September 20, 2007
I can't believe that so many viewers don't like the George and Izzie combo. I LOVE it! I melted with the scene in last weeks episode were they looked like they were about to kiss...ahhh love isn't it great?
I think the George and Izzie relationship is wounderful! George and Callie are not meant to be together. Callie should have known better then to marry George so soon after his dad died.She should have given him more time. Then this whole mess would have been avoided and George and Izzie could be together with nothing holding them back! They are absolutly perfect for eachother! I really hope everything works out and the writters pull in favor of their relationship working out:)
izzie's hot, callie is fat. after george's meredith catastrophe he should get someone as hot as meredith. but the fat callie seems to me like a sad excuse. maybe it's just the shallow me.
izzie and george are soulmates, right from the beginning of the show.
they just do belong together.
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A technosexual is “turned on by tech”2 and is more attracted to sex robots, for example, or a dating app than having a relationship with a person or people they swipe on the app.
Other [related] terms include “digisexuals,” “people whose primary sexual identity comes through the use of technology.”3
The sourced articles below should provide more information on the new type of romance brought on by modern technological advances.
Sex Robots Are Here, But Laws Aren’t Keeping Up With The Ethical And Privacy Issues They Raise
“As a scholar of artificial intelligence, neuroscience and the law, I’m interested in the legal and policy questions that sex robots pose. How do we ensure they are safe? How will intimacy with a sex robot affect the human brain? Would sex with a childlike robot be ethical? And what exactly is a sexbot anyway?”
Francis X. Shen, Associate Professor of Law, University of Minnesota, theconversation.com, 2/12/2019
Government Officials Have No Idea How To Regulate The Growing Sex-Robot Industry
“It is not clear whether anyone in the US already owns a childlike sex robot. But even the possibility of child sex robots prompted a bipartisan House bill, the Curbing Realistic Exploitative Electronic Pedophilic Robots Act, or CREEPER. Introduced in 2017, it passed unanimously six months later.” [Latest Action as of 3/27/2019) “06/14/2018 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.”]
Francis X. Shen, businessinsider.com, 2/12/2019
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Ian Kerner, cnn.com, 3/13/2018
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2. futureofsex.net, 1/26/2018
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Petrusenko, N. (2017). Creating the Revolutionary Heroines: The Case of Female Terrorists of the PSR (Russia, Beginning of the 20th Century). (Doctoral dissertation). Stockholm: Department of History, Stockholm university
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Creating the Revolutionary Heroines: The Case of Female Terrorists of the PSR (Russia, Beginning of the 20th Century)
Petrusenko, Nadezda
Södertörn University, School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, History. Södertörn University, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Baltic & East European Graduate School (BEEGS). Stockholms universitet, Historiska institutionen.
2017 (English)Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
Representing revolutionary terrorists as heroes and martyrs was a typical feature of the mythology of the Russian revolutionary underground at the beginning of the 20th century. This mythology described Underground Russia, the world of the revolutionaries, as an ideal country inhabited by ideal people. The purpose of that epos was to represent the revolutionary struggle, and individual revolutionaries in such a way that they would gain sympathy from the wider public and become role models for other revolutionary fighters. Sympathetic representations of women who committed political violence seem to be especially shocking in the context of Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century, since female violent behavior contradicted the existing gender order.
Employing theoretical perspectives of Critical Discourse Analysis, gender history and intersectionality, the dissertation analyzes the way narratives about the individual life paths of female terrorists of the Party of Socialist Revolutionaries (the PSR), the biggest socialist party in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century, were constructed in their revolutionary auto/biographies. It analyzes how the lives of women from different social and ethnic origins, of different ages, with different life paths, who happened to be united only by their participation in the political terrorism of the PSR, were recounted with the help of narratives used in the Russian revolutionary underground.
The research findings demonstrate that the accounts of the lives of female PSR terrorists were constructed with the help of the dominant narrative that was formed as a conversion story. Within the framework of that narrative, the lives of individual women were adapted to the dominant discourse of heroism and martyrdom, and at the same time were contextualized within the dominant discourse on “good” femininity that existed in the Russian society, and even within the discourse on Jews as perpetual “Others” in the Russian empire in case of Jewish women. Social and ethnic backgrounds as well as individual circumstances of the terrorist women, however, transformed the dominant narrative, and thus created diversity of representations. The discursive practice of writing a revolutionary life accepted by Bolsheviks influenced the discursive practice employed in revolutionary auto/biographies of female terrorists written during the early Soviet period.
Stockholm: Department of History, Stockholm university, 2017. p. 354
Russia, terrorism, women, gender, intersectionality, mythology, autobiography, biography, revolutionary underground, narrative, discourse
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Petrusenko, N. (2014). A Female Agent of Political Violence in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Gendered Representations of Maria Spiridonova. Kaleidoscope: Journal of History of Culture, Science and Medicine, 9, 232-249
Open this publication in new window or tab >>A Female Agent of Political Violence in Pre-Revolutionary Russia: Gendered Representations of Maria Spiridonova
Södertörn University, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES). Södertörn University, School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, History.
2014 (English)In: Kaleidoscope: Journal of History of Culture, Science and Medicine, ISSN 2062-2597, Vol. 9, p. 232-249Article in journal (Refereed) Published
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Russian authorities were facing serious problems because of systematic political terrorism, which was mostly connected to the activities of the Party of Socialists-Revolutionaries (the PSR). The most striking feature of that terrorism was that many of the terrorists were women – a feature that makes it justified to maintain that by taking part in political terrorism women entered the domains that in patriarchal societies were considered to be exclusively male: the domain of violence and the domain of politics. Such intrusion to the male territory was especially shocking for the traditional patriarchal society of pre-revolutionary Russia.Despite this striking feature however, systematic historical research on gendered representations of the Russian female terrorists at the beginning of the 20th century is still in short supply whereas in other academic disciplines portrayals of women as agents of political violence are a frequent topic in the research on contemporary terrorism. To help fill up this void, the purpose of the article is by using the case of Maria Spiridonova, the most famous female terrorist in pre-revolutionary Russia, to see whether the conclusions made by non-historians about gendered representations of contemporary female terrorists can be used for historical research in order to identify eventual distortions in the representations of violent female agency in the past and, thus, obtain deeper knowledge about gender order in historical perspective
terrorism, Russian women, Maria Spiridonova, agency, gendered representations
History Gender Studies
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-25799 (URN)10.17107/KH.2014.9.232-249 (DOI)
Petrusenko, N., Petö, A. & Pachuku, M. (2014). Militarized Gendered Political Agencies in a Historical Perspective. Kaleidoscope: Journal of History of Culture, Science and Medicine, 9, 153-158
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Militarized Gendered Political Agencies in a Historical Perspective
Petö, Andrea
CEU, Budapest, Hungary.
Pachuku, Mimoza
Kosova Women’s Network .
Gender, agency, political violence, identities, Eastern Europe, Russia
Gradskova, Y., Sandomirskaja, I. & Petrusenko, N. (2013). Pussy Riot: Reflections On Receptions: Some Questions Concerning Public Reactions in Russia to the Pussy Riot’s Intervention and Trial. Baltic Worlds, 6(1), 56
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Pussy Riot: Reflections On Receptions: Some Questions Concerning Public Reactions in Russia to the Pussy Riot’s Intervention and Trial
Gradskova, Yulia
Sandomirskaja, Irina
Södertörn University, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES).
Södertörn University, School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, History. Södertörn University, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES).
2013 (English)In: Baltic Worlds, ISSN 2000-2955, Vol. 6, no 1, p. 56-Article in journal (Refereed) Published
History Arts Social Sciences
Azarian, R. & Petrusenko, N. (2011). Historical Comparison Re-considered. Asian Social Science, 7(8), 35-48
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Historical Comparison Re-considered
Azarian, Reza
Södertörn University, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES). Södertörn University, School of Gender, Culture and History, History.
2011 (English)In: Asian Social Science, ISSN 1911-2017, E-ISSN 1911-2025, Vol. 7, no 8, p. 35-48Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Comparative analysis is a mode of research, that due to its outstanding merits is widely used within many fields of scientific inquiry. Focusing on its application in historical research, this article aims to contribute to a more systematic discussion of some of the methodological strategies associated with this mode of analysis. For this purpose, this article presents first a few typologies regarding the functions and leverages of comparative analysis. In the next step different styles in which comparative method is applied are exemplified, with especial attention paid to the comparative studies of large-scale, macro-level societal changes. This article ends then with a critical discussion of the potentials and limitations of comparison as a methodological strategy of generating historical generalisations.
Comparative analysis, historical research
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-15201 (URN)10.5539/ass.v7n8p35 (DOI)2-s2.0-84858208550 (Scopus ID)
Petrusenko, N. (2011). Women in the World of Gender Stereotypes: The Case of the Russian Female Terrorists at the Beginning of the 20th Century. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 1(4), 135-146
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Women in the World of Gender Stereotypes: The Case of the Russian Female Terrorists at the Beginning of the 20th Century
2011 (English)In: International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, ISSN 2220-8488, E-ISSN 2221-0989, Vol. 1, no 4, p. 135-146Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Many contemporary researchers of female violence claim that gender stereotypes dominate works about militant women. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the historical works about the Russian female terrorists in order to find out whether those stereotypes influence its contents and the scholars’ conclusions. Typology of the gender stereotypes that exist in the works about women terrorists is constructed in the article and used for the analysis of the historical literature. The article is concluded with the discussion about what is to be done in order to avoid the gender stereotypes and write a new balanced research on the topic.
Russia, Terrorism, Gender, Stereotypes, Historiography, Female Militancy, Russian Revolution, Russian Women
Petrusenko, N. (2010). Undervisning om rysk historia i Sverige: Vad påverkar en kurs innehåll?. In: Burman, Anders, Ana Graviz, Johan Rönnby (Ed.), Tradition och praxis i högre utbildning: Tolv ämnesdidaktiska studier (pp. 211-221). Huddinge: Södertörns högskola
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Undervisning om rysk historia i Sverige: Vad påverkar en kurs innehåll?
Södertörn University, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Baltic & East European Graduate School (BEEGS).
2010 (Swedish)In: Tradition och praxis i högre utbildning: Tolv ämnesdidaktiska studier / [ed] Burman, Anders, Ana Graviz, Johan Rönnby, Huddinge: Södertörns högskola , 2010, p. 211-221Chapter in book (Other academic)
Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2010
Södertörn Studies in Higher Education ; 1
urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-13639 (URN)978-91-86069-19-3 (ISBN)
Petrusenko, N. (2005). Мифология русской монархии в публичных выступлениях кадетов в 1905-1907 гг. и накануне Февральской революции. In: А. П. Логунов (отв. ред.), Л. Г. Березовая, К. А. Соловьев (Ed.), Революционаризм в России: символы и цвета революции : 100-летию первой русской революции посвящается : сборник статей (pp. 75-87). Moskva: RGGU
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Мифология русской монархии в публичных выступлениях кадетов в 1905-1907 гг. и накануне Февральской революции
2005 (Russian)In: Революционаризм в России: символы и цвета революции : 100-летию первой русской революции посвящается : сборник статей / [ed] А. П. Логунов (отв. ред.), Л. Г. Березовая, К. А. Соловьев, Moskva: RGGU , 2005, p. 75-87Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Moskva: RGGU, 2005
Petrusenko, N. (2005). Публичная деятельность кадетов-депутатов IV Государственной думы по формированию общественного мнения России (1914-1917): Автореферат диссертации на соискание учёной степени кандидата исторических наук. (1ed.). Moskva: [Рос. гос. гуманитар. ун-т]
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Публичная деятельность кадетов-депутатов IV Государственной думы по формированию общественного мнения России (1914-1917): Автореферат диссертации на соискание учёной степени кандидата исторических наук.
2005 (Russian)Book (Refereed)
Moskva: [Рос. гос. гуманитар. ун-т], 2005. p. 23 Edition: 1
Russia, State Duma, Kadet Party
Petrusenko, N. (2004). Формирование массового сознания России в годы Первой мировой войны: образ императрицы Александры Фёдоровны (1ed.). In: Логунов А.П. (Ed.), Массовое сознание и массовая культура в России: История и современность: Сборник статей (pp. 45-52). Moskva: RGGU
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Формирование массового сознания России в годы Первой мировой войны: образ императрицы Александры Фёдоровны
2004 (Russian)In: Массовое сознание и массовая культура в России: История и современность: Сборник статей / [ed] Логунов А.П., Moskva: RGGU , 2004, 1, p. 45-52Chapter in book (Refereed)
Moskva: RGGU, 2004 Edition: 1
Södertörn University, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES), Baltic & East European Graduate School (BEEGS)
Södertörn University, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES)
Södertörn University, School of Gender, Culture and History, History (Closed down 2012-12-31)
Södertörn University, School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, History
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STAY AHEAD OF THE PACK
We don’t follow the trends. We create them. We created and produced the first-ever LA Street Food Fest in 2009, gathering LA’s best gourmet food trucks, old-school food carts, and a star-studded cast of celebrity chefs all in one place. We walked the walk in support of LA’s “Mom & Pop” artisanal vendors before everyone else, hosting the first-ever Artisanal LA event in 2010, showcasing LA’s finest local, sustainable and handmade edibles all under one roof. And perhaps most memorably, we brought the collective vision of Test Kitchen to life in 2011, giving a home to chefs and restaurateurs looking to test new dishes and menu concepts on a hungry audience of Angelenos that’s enjoyed multiple iterations since. Want to know what we’re working on next? Ask, and we may just recruit your support!
We Thrive On Challenging Projects That Produce Bigger Rewards.
Sauce LA is a Los Angeles-based boutique hospitality and lifestyle marketing and PR firm founded by Shawna Dawson in 2009. The firm consults clients, including top chefs, award-winning restaurants, boutique hotels and brands, on the virtues of grassroots, social and viral media marketing coupled with traditional PR. Sauce LA also consults in the areas of business development and management. Sauce is affiliated with Angeleno, Inc, a full service event production company whose events include the LA Food Fest and Artisanal LA. Sauce LA has launched more than fifty restaurant projects, from downtown’s Lazy Ox and butcher shop Lindy & Grundy, to Bill Chait’s Sprout Group restaurants including Test Kitchen, Sotto, Picca, Short Order, Short Cake, Playa, Bestia, Petty Cash and République.
Shawna DawsonFounder / Principal
Shawna Dawson is a native Angeleno, USC grad and a brand, marketing, PR, social and viral media maven with two decades of experience doing business in more than a dozen countries, from the US to Romania to Japan. An avid believer in the power of community, she was blogging in her spare time when she became one of the first to join Yelp where she took the reins as Director of Marketing and Community Manager, spearheading development of the LA market by cultivating a loyal following alongside countless sponsorships, cross promotions and memorable events that more than quadrupled the market in a few short months.
At the helm of the boutique marketing and PR firm Sauce LA, Shawna and her team consult clients, including many of the city’s top chefs and award-winning restaurants, on the virtues of grassroots, social and viral media to complement traditional PR. Shawna and her team have launched more than forty projects of their clients’ and their own in the last few years from downtown’s Lazy Ox and Lindy & Grundy to Bill Chait’s Sprout Group restaurants from Test Kitchen, Sotto and Picca to Short Order, Short Cake and Playa, to Bestia, Petty Cash and Republique, creating a foundation for one of the city’s most prolific press machines to pass the baton to an in house team. The team currently works with a client roster of talent that ranges from top chefs and brands to some of the city’s most iconic, historic restaurants.
Separately, she’s dreamt up and developed her own events like the historic crowd drawing LA Street Food Fest and trendsetting Artisanal LA, a biannual event showcasing the best independent and sustainable chefs, edibles, makers and home goods that’s evolved into a growing brand with regular pop-ups and events with partners like the Producers Guild of America, Coachella, West Elm and Whole Foods. Both brands and their events are going strong into their sixth and seventh years and are still curated, managed and produced entirely in-house.
She’s passionate about supporting and creating marketing opportunities for other small business owners and helping them get from idea to execution. Shawna, her brands and clients have been featured in numerous publications from the Los Angeles Times and LA Weekly to Bon Appétit and New York Magazine and she was most recently recognized by the City of Los Angeles for her work supporting other entrepreneurs through Artisanal LA. She’s partnered with the city’s brightest luminaries on a number of community projects including the recent bid for the Greek Theatre with Nederlander and AEG, and a separate project with Bill Chait set to launch in Spring 2017. She gives her time to teach various groups about marketing and PR, is a Kiva Trustee and a proud board member of a number of local groups and associations.
Shawna’s a lover of all things LA who traded her Carthay Circle digs for the urban foodie hippy haven that is Altadena that she now calls home with her Welshman, their three cats and a feisty four pound rescue dog named Spike.
Adam BurkePartner
Originally from Melbourne Australia, Adam moved to Los Angeles two decades ago when he began his career in live entertainment as a lawyer for concert venues and major event producers, focusing on partnerships, finance, intellectual property and government relations. Taking a more creative turn, in 2006 Adam began organizing civic endeavors and producing live events, with credits including Co-producer of the Mexican Bicentennial of Independence and Executive Producer of the 2016 LA Food Fest which had over 10,000 attendees. Adam other clients have included the City of San Diego, Heineken, the UEFA Champion’s league, and London’s Secret Cinema. Adam has frequented the world’s major festivals and food events and brings an incredible global perspective to every project he works on.
Fran LinscottBrand Development
Fran is a traveler and food lover by nature. Born to Indian and Italian parents, her love of food started young. Her life has brought her from Miami to Maine, New York to Silicon Valley, and now to Pasadena. Fran brings with her experience in a number of different industries including retail management, visual marketing, non-profit administration and event production. She’s all about the details and finding new ways to deliver an optimal consumer experience. She is also passionate about shining a spotlight on local producers and cultural foods and marrying all those elements through our brand and client events. Helping people accomplish their goals brings her great joy.
In her free time Fran loves to travel, take cooking classes, catch movies with her husband, and cook gluten free feasts for her friends and family.
Maryanne Mueller-CursonSocial Media
Maryanne is first and foremost an avid traveler and outdoor enthusiast. She is a graduate of Pepperdine University where she enjoyed the Malibu good life and from there her love for Los Angeles has never stopped growing. She has worked in several industries bringing a unique set of skills from food knowledge, photography, psychology and media outreach. She manages several brands across the top social media platforms, the largest of which reaches over 100k local followers. Her Latin and European heritage has fostered dynamic cultural perspective – she is never afraid to experience exciting cuisine from around the world. Her passion is curating and creating visual content that captures the feel and message of a brand.
In her spare time she loves to document life, and capture moments through different mediums. She will never pass up an opportunity to be with her husband, friends and family.
Restaurant Projects Launched
Leading Event Brands
Years of Building and Launching Brands
In addition to our work with clients, we have 3 event brands drawing more than 30k+ people per year. Our events are industry leaders and trend creators, celebrating the fabulous food culture we know and love.
Artisanal LA
Artisanal LA was launched in 2010 to showcase the best local, artisan food vendors in Southern California. The seasonal shows feature a wide array of edible treats from local butchers to chocolate makers, and programming like hands-on workshops, chef-led demos, expert panels, and speakers educating guests on everything from urban farming to craft beer making, as well as the opportunity to learn about non-profit organizations changing the local food scene in Los Angeles.
The seasonal shows and holiday pop-up shops give attendees the rare opportunity to shop from more than 100 hand-selected food and beverage artisans all in one place, as well as meet up-and-coming food and drink vendors who share a passion for healthy, local, and sustainable ingredients and production. Many artisans have launched their businesses through Artisanal LA prior to even being available at farmers markets. The exciting events make it easy to buy local, support LA’s economy, discover new favorites, meet producers, and join in community while having a ball with the growing number of Angelenos who want to know where their food comes from. 100% of Artisanal LA’s vendors’ products are made right here in Southern California with local and sustainable goods.
LA Food Fest
Our goal when we started the LA Street Food Fest in 2009 was not only to fill a gap in the local food and events scene, but to create community and a platform to support independent small business owners. For that reason, all of our events aim to do much more than just entertain. Historically, each event has benefited at least one local charity (including the LA Food Bank and St Vincent Meals on Wheels) and we host mandatory meetings for our street vendors that cover everything from the basics of food handling and marketing, including keys to generate and keep customers.
Charity and promotional tasting events require vendors to donate their food, labor and time, something we know can be especially challenging for new and less established vendors. At every event, we subsidize the food costs of all of our (nearly 100!) vendors and sponsor entirely the participation of some of our smaller vendors we know otherwise wouldn’t be able to be there. For us, every event is an opportunity to do a little good and to help make this amazing city we call home a little better for it.
In 2016 we launched the all-new LA Food Fest in Partnership with independent promoter Nederlander and Executive Producer Adam Burke.
Coming in 2017… Clean Food Fest
The Clean Food Fest is a new lifestyle festival and brand that celebrates the feel good food we love – and many need – to eat.
Fresh, clean, and free from all of the things a growing percentage of adults and children need or choose to avoid, the Clean Food Fest is a veritable wonderland for anyone with food sensitivities, the health conscious, and those who simply want to go to a food festival and eat their heart out without paying for it the next day. #feelgoodfood
Part food festival, part conference and part marketplace, the Clean Food Fest will bring the city’s best chefs and restaurants making the food you crave, can never seem to find, and don’t want to be “that guy” and have to ask a million questions to special order.
Organic and non-GMO is just the beginning. Everything will be gluten, dairy and soy free, with an easy to read guide and signage for other concerns like rice, corn, nuts, legumes, and other potential allergens. Plus, plenty of options for vegans and vegetarians.
Always free from artificial colors, flavors and preservatives. All proteins will be organic and grass fed. All seafood will meet the seafood watch guidelines and standards. If it gets our stamp of approval, you know it’s #beyondorganic #feelgoodfood.
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On September 10 the Vestry voted to approve the search committee’s recommendation to call Rev. Ryan Mails to be our next Rector. In a joint meeting with the Vestry, the search committee co-chairs, Robert Palmer and Janie Sweeney, reviewed the search process, enumerated the candidates who had applied, and described Rev. Mails’ background, faith, values, leadership style, and skills. The enthusiasm for Ryan’s appointment was unanimous and infectious from the eight member search committee. Their enthusiasm was echoed by our new Bishop, Thomas J. Brown, who gave his blessing to the selection and expressed his eagerness to welcome Rev. Mails to the Diocese.
Reverend Ryan Mails is 40 years old and is married to Marina Mails. They have two children, Henry, who is eight, and Eliza, who is four. Ryan was born and raised in Southern California. He received his BA in History from Wake Forest University, a Masters in Public History from University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and a Masters of Divinity from the University of the South at Sewanee. He currently serves as the Missioner to East Texas in the Episcopal Diocese of Texas and as Priest in Charge of St. Michaels and All Angels Episcopal Church in Longview, Texas.
Members of the search committee spoke of Ryan’s deep and authentic spirituality, his inspiring and thought-provoking sermons, and his ability to listen and to make space for everyone in conversations. He expressed his eagerness to work with St. George’s on its mission and service. Bishop Brown summed up the search process and result as, “Evidence of the Holy Spirit at work.”
Rev. Mails and his family will move to York and occupy the rectory in late November. His first service with us will be December 1, the first Sunday in Advent.
Please join us in expressing our gratitude for the extraordinary work of the search committee: Robert Palmer and Janie Sweeney, Co-Chairs, David Burke, Nancy Daigle, Nancy Davison, Barbara Early, Bobbie Gray, and Kathryn Yingst. Their efforts have ensured that we will have an exciting new chapter at St. George’s.
in Ministry Teams, Parish Event, Parish News /by Rich Swietek
LYRA Vocal Ensemble 9/18
Returning for a fourth time in Maine as part of their North American tour, this five part vocal ensemble presents a definitive interpretation of both Russian Orthodox Church and Traditional Folk Music. They’ll present a lively performance interspersed with touches of history, culture and humor.
Suggested donation of $15 is requested/$10 for students and seniors
You can visit the Facebook event here.
in Ministry Teams, Parish Event, Parish News /by Tiffany Roberts
Stewardship In Action
What comes to your mind when you think of stewardship? Maybe fundraising or a capital campaign? For some of us, we may honestly not really know what it means. As Christian Stewards we gratefully receive all of God’s gifts, cherish and tend to them in a responsible and accountable manner, share them in justice and love with others, and return them with increase to the Lord. Here is an opportunity to share your unique gifts of time and talent…a day of Stewardship in Action! Join your brothers and sisters in labor of love, as we primp and repair small items around our St. George’s home. The Building and Grounds Team will host the day of Stewardship in Action on Saturday, July 28. We will gather @ 8:30, beginning with light breakfast and fellowship, then work shoulder-to-shoulder on a few tasks on our “honey do” list, just until noon. Do you have a talent to share? Want to learn a new skill? Even if just for an hour, all are welcome. For more information, contact your Building & Grounds chair-members Charlotte, Harry or JB.
STEWARDSHIP PRAYER
Generous and loving God,
You call us to be disciples of your Son Jesus
and good stewards of your many gifts.
Open our minds and hearts to a greater awareness
and deeper appreciation of your countless blessings.
Transform us through the power of your Spirit
to nurture a stewardship way of life
marked by faith-filled prayer,
service to our neighbor, and generous sharing.
Teach us to be faithful servants of your gifts.
With Your help, may we return ten-fold
the gifts entrusted to us.
We pray through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Holy Week Schedule & Events
Holy Week Events St. George’s will observe Holy Week with nightly services each day of the week leading up to Easter. March 26 – 28, services are at 7 p.m. Maundy Thursday begins with a meal in the Parish Hall at 6:30 p.m. Good Friday is 7 p.m.
St. George’s Easter Vigil Saturday is March 31 at 8 p.m. Easter Sunday services will take place at 8 and 10:30 a.m.
Maundy Thursday Agape Feast March 29 at 6:30 p.m. Sign Up in Parish Hall. As we mark the day when Jesus broke bread with his disciples for the last time before his death, for the first part of our shared Maundy Thursday service we will break bread together with a Middle Eastern theme. Following the feast, we will gather in the sanctuary for the rest of the service- including the washing of feet, Holy Communion, and the stripping of the altar. Sign-ups include suggestions for dishes, but feel free to bring any dish with a Middle Eastern flavor. Recipes will be available for many dishes. For questions, please contact office@stgeorgesyorkharbor.org.
Easter Sunday for Children. There will be no church school on Easter Sunday,, April 1, so that children can be in service with their families. We will have Easter “busy bags” available at the 10:30 a.m. service for the younger children.
Easter Sunday Light Brunch. On Easter Sunday we will have a light brunch after each service (8 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.) We invite you to bring some finger food to share (we won’t be setting up tables). Quiche, muffins, sliced fruit, Easter bread, pinwheel wraps, deviled eggs, would be good choices. We look forward to seeing you there!
in Church School, Ministry Teams, Parish Event, Parish News /by Tiffany Roberts
Trinity Institute’s 47th National Theological Conference
Deep-rooted partnerships, grounded in core values, are essential to the success of nearly every social justice initiative. At this year’s Trinity Institute theological conference, Values in Action, participants will learn how the impact of our actions—individually and organizationally—can be amplified through values-based partnerships.
St. George’s Episcopal Church will be a partner site for the February 2-3, 2018 conference featuring a keynote address by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, to be held onsite in New York City for individual attendees and streamed across the globe at partner sites—churches, cathedrals, seminaries, and advocacy organizations.
St. George’s Church will offer all aspects of the conference via livestream, and participants will be able submit questions directly to conference speakers via email during the question and answer periods. Onsite reflection groups are coordinated using materials prepared and provided by Trinity Institute.
The Reverend Calvin Sanborn, Rector of St. George’s in York said, “We are delighted to host the 47th National Theological Conference of the Trinity Institute via live-stream. The topic is timely and important. In a world that often seems deeply divided, our ability to make a meaningful positive impact is significantly enhanced when we create partnerships with other organizations that value justice and peace, and promote the dignity of all people.”
In addition to Vargas, founder and CEO of Define American, who has chronicled his life in this country as an undocumented immigrant, other speakers include leading activists, theologians, and authors whose life and work show the power of values in action: the Most Rev. Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church; Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness; poet, theologian, and mediator Pádraig Ó Tuama; and the Rev. Elizabeth M. Edman, author of Queer Virtue: What LGBTQ People Know About Life and Love and How It Can Revitalize Christianity.
The Rev. Dr. William Lupfer, rector of Trinity Church Wall Street, said “We make the greatest impact when we are working toward one purpose following one vision. That vision springs from shared values. Learning to discern our common values requires dedication and intention, but brings great rewards for our congregations, neighborhoods, and the world.”
For more information about attending the conference in person at St. George’s Episcopal Church, please contact Sudie Blanchard (sblanchard@stgeorgesyorkharbor.org) or call the church at 207-363-7376 and leave a message, or register here.
St. George’s Episcopal Church
St. George’s is a welcoming, inclusive, vibrant community where every person of every age is invited to engage in mission and ministry.
Trinity Institute is an annual conference in its 47th year that equips clergy and laypersons for imaginative and catalytic leadership. Trinity Institute conferences present emerging and inclusive theological and social perspectives and engage participants in inquiry, dialogue, and reflection. Participants from all faith perspectives are welcomed. The conference is sponsored by Trinity Church Wall Street, an Episcopal parish in New York City. Recent conferences include Creating Common Good: A Practical Conference on Economic Equality; Listen for a Change: Sacred Conversations for Racial Justice; and Water Justice.
Trinity Church Wall Street
Trinity Church Wall Street is a growing and inclusive Episcopal parish that seeks to serve and heal the world by building neighborhoods that live Gospel truths, generations of faithful leaders, and sustainable communities. The parish is guided by its core values: faith, integrity, inclusiveness, compassion, social justice, and stewardship. Members come from the five boroughs of New York City and surrounding areas to form a racially, ethnically, and economically diverse congregation. More than 20 worship services are offered every week at its historic sanctuaries, Trinity Church and St. Paul’s Chapel, the cornerstones of the parish’s community life, worship, and mission, and online at trinitywallstreet.org. The parish welcomes approximately 3 million visitors per year.
in Ministry Teams, Parish Education, Parish Event, Parish News /by Tiffany Roberts
Youth-Led Mission Trip Cookout, Sunday, June 4 @ 11:30
The youth group will serve burgers, veggie burgers, and hot dogs to raise funds for their mission trip to Kentucky this summer. You are also welcome to sign up in the Fellowship Hall to bring a salad or dessert to help make this a church fellowship event. Suggested donation is $8 per person, or a total of $25 per family.
Renovation Construction Update Photos!
We wanted to share some pictures of all the hard work being done at St. George’s during our renovation!
in Capital Campaign, Ministry Teams, Parish Event, Parish News /by Tiffany Roberts
Six New Stephen Ministers Welcomed
During services on September 11, St. George’s welcomed six new Stephen Ministers. We are so very proud and grateful for all of them. Here’s a little video snippet of their blessing and introduction.
1 Comment/in Ministry Teams, Stephen Ministers /by Rich Swietek
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Welcoming Our New Rector! November 12, 2019
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Why not Chippewa?
In the ten blocks of Chippewa Street located between Ohio on the east and Louisiana on the west is a mostly forgotten and forlorn commercial district. (Take a Google tour yourself here. Head west with Streetview).
In a shrinking city that has more often opted for suburban style retail to compete with its suburbs, these small traditional business districts don't even get a second look.
Yet if you check out the inventory, there's a lot more there than you might expect. Imagine if some of St. Louis's star mega-entrepreneurs decided to buy up the stretch and market it aggressively (think the Gills with Skinker-DeBaliviere and the Grove or Joe Edwards with the Loop). Chippewa is not the kindest of areas in the city right now, being colloquially located near the epicenter of South Side crime. Yet if circa 2000s Manchester can turn around, I have faith Chippewa can too.
The picture above is the south side of the 2700 block of Chippewa. St. Louis streetcar suburbs (such as this Dutchtown-Gravois Park borderline once was) featured 5 or so primarily north-south residential blocks before interrupting the rows of doubles and 4-families with an east-west mostly-commercial street. See Arsenal, then Cherokee, then Chippewa, then Meramec, Bates, etc.
What is important for re-establishing a neighborhood business district today is the presence of not just corner commercial units (which have often been converted to residential-only anyway) but also mid-block mixed use buildings. These are the buildings that encourage people to continue their journey afoot, convinced that more such beacons of commerce exist farther that way.
Chippewa doesn't have a ton of these, but, as the picture shows above, they're there.
Here's a nice corner commercial building at Chippewa and Ohio. After a little renovation, this could really shine.
Here's a unique corner commercial unit just a block west of those previously shown. Again, a bit of a storefront makeover would go a long way in sprucing up this handsome building (although it might be sad to see those kitchy and in no way appropriate Georgian-style ogee arches over the door disappear).
Hopefully, I'll be able to put together a little map of available properties, since the city seems to have a picture of nearly everything on Chippewa. It has a great stock of both residential and mixed use properties that are simply a little worse for the wear. I'd hate to see it get to the point where more properties are demolished. There's already a large vacant lot in the district as well as an autocentric corner at Compton/Chippewa. Luckily, though, this area is now in the Gravois-Jefferson Historic Streetcar Suburb National Register District, which means that any owner seeking a demolition permit must go through Cultural Resources and the Preservation Board first.
With any luck, this old business district could reconnect with the cluster at Chippewa/Broadway/Jefferson, which has been autocentricized, but not, perhaps, to the point of death. A fine row of commercial buildings, the subject of much controversy due to Alderman Schmid's liquor license restrictions, sits on the east side of Broadway just south of Chippewa awaiting full occupancy.
Labels: business districts, Dutchtown, Gravois Park, roads and bridges, South City
Jason Toon said...
Good look at a part of the city I've long felt was overlooked. But it's overstating the case to say "these small traditional business districts don't even get a second look". Almost every small, traditional business district on the south side, from Morganford to Dutchtown to Cherokee to Macklind to Carondelet to the Grove, is seeing increasing investment and activity. And in some cases these were strips that seemed almost completely, permanently dead just a few years ago. I have no doubt that as we speak, somebody somewhere is drawing up plans to turn this stretch of Chippewa into the next South Grand.
I think Pete Rothschild owns a few buildings in this area. Maybe it could be the next big thing someday. Right now though, it's a little scary - it seems much sketchier than other business districts in struggling neighborhoods like Meramec/Virginia, for example. I would think that a rebirth of the business district would have to be accompanied by a massive amount of housing renovations and the stablization of rental properties, since this area doesn't have nearly as much going for it as strips like Morganford, Macklind or The Grove
I would argue that Chippewa is no less dangerous/scary than the Grove circa 1999.
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A test of political will EDITORIAL 08/13/2010
A test of political will
Noynoy Aquino should be in a tight fix over the expanded value added tax (eVAT) that the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) wants to collect on road tolls starting Monday.
For starters, it is a clear breach of his promise not to impose new or additional taxes to raise revenues; a promise that was later revised when it became clear that he would be inheriting a bankrupt government from Gloria to having the tax option as a last resort if other measures to raise revenues fail — although he should have known that when he threw his hat into the presidential ring.
The premise thus was that all other options will be tried in raising revenues such as obliterating corruption in both the BIR and the Customs bureau before Noynoy would consider imposing additional tax burdens to the public..... MORE
Cases piling up FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 08/13/2010
Cases piling up
Cases being brought before the Supreme Court these days against the incumbent administration’s official acts are interesting and make for even more interesting legal and judicial arguments and depending on how these issues are resolved by the SC, could well enrich Philippine jurisprudence.
The latest executive order being questioned today before the high court is EO 1, which is the creation of the Truth Commission, with a petition filed by the allies of Gloria Arroyo, seeking the nullification of the Noynoy’s EO 1 which calls for the investigation of the alleged anomalies committed during Gloria’s term.
The minority’s arguments are pretty good, and appears solid, but then again, everything depends on what the court will say in the end.
That the creation of the Truth Commission is infirm, if not illegal and unconstitutional, has already been pointed out earlier in opinion pieces and commentaries, not because a president is not empowered to create a commission, but because Noynoy, in creating the Truth Commission, insisted on vesting this particular commission with quasi-judicial powers — and all to probe these alleged graft and corruption committed by Gloria..... MORE
No Ramadan respite as unrest rocks Indian Kashmir focus 08/13/2010
No Ramadan respite as unrest rocks Indian Kashmir
SRINAGAR — The fasting month of Ramadan looks set to be one of curfews, protests and hardship for Muslims in Indian Kashmir, which is experiencing a wave of popular unrest directed against Indian rule.
For two months, violent demonstrations have rocked the troubled Himalayan region. Around 50 protesters and onlookers have been killed.
Each fatality has fuelled fresh anger, in what Kashmir’s Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has acknowledged is a “cycle of violence.”
The constant round of protests, strikes and curfews has all but shut down daily commerce in the mainly Muslim Kashmir Valley, hurting small traders and making shopping for basic provisions a major challenge.
With Ramadan starting Thursday, residents have been advised to stockpile essentials in preparation for a difficult month..... MORE
Time for a divorce law? MR. EXPOSE Amb. Ernesto Maceda 08/13/2010
Time for a divorce law?
Gabriela party-list Rep. Emmy de Jesus filed a divorce bill. Lawyer
Evelyn Ursua explained that there is divorce for Muslims under Muslim law since 1977; divorce during Japanese time; divorce before Aug. 30, 1950 and divorce in Spain, Italy and Ireland, Catholic countries.
The Catholic church has indirectly allowed divorce under the guise of annulment. In civil courts, divorce is allowed under the term “declaration of nullity” under the broad term psychological incapacity under Article 36 of the Family Code, which is easy to prove if the two parties agree to the dissolution.
The lack of divorce law has resulted in the corruption of judges who received bribes to allow the dissolution of the marriage or annulment. Under the Gabriela bill, the grounds are:
1. Spouses have been separated in fact for five years;
2. When the parties have been legally separated for two years;
3. Any of the grounds for legal separation has caused irreparable breakdown of the marriage;
4. Psychological incapacity;... MORE
PeNoy, Gloria, et al. — all one family DIE HARD III Herman Tiu Laurel 08/13/2010
PeNoy, Gloria, et al. — all one family
At the gathering for Sen. Sonny Trillanes’ birthday at Camp Crame last Aug. 7, I predicted the “rehabilitation” of Gloria Arroyo within a year or two. I was with Dodong and Princess Nemenzo, NGO leader Manjette, lawyer Argee Guevarra, Oliver Felix (of our guerilla radio Sulo group), and Linggoy Alcuaz at that time. The Nemenzos found this both funny and appalling, as they laughed, doubted and lamented at the same time. Someone interjected: “Sa bagay, the Marcoses are rehabilitated.” To which I hurriedly added that “at least Marcos had the right nation-building program,” unlike Arroyo’s which people believe was pure kleptocracy.
The truth of my prediction is already being seen on radio and in Congress today, as Teddy Boy Locsin glorifies Gloria’s non-imposition of the Value added tax (VAT) on toll ways while the likes of Rep. Neptali Gonzales Jr. shield her from Rep. Walden Bello’s righteous condemnation.
Gloria Arroyo will be “rehabilitated” under the present system because the system itself is corruption incarnate, in which Arroyo is just one of its children. The other children of the corrupt system will naturally come to her rescue, as sure as Speaker Sonny Belmonte will always be by Gloria’s side to escort the one who has been tagged by many youth activists as “President Evil.” But really, she can only be as evil as the system is.
Belmonte, meanwhile, is said to personify the institutionalization of corruption in Quezon City, the alleged basis of which is that he raised the corruption incarnate “pork barrel” and other fund prerogatives of the Office of the Mayor and all councilors to unprecedented amounts (P2 billion for the mayor, P42 million each for councilors). On the other hand, Lakas to Liberal Party turncoat Neptali Gonzales Jr. has been the alternating partner of Mayor BenHur Abalos in the exploitation of Mandaluyong, the latter being the heir apparent to Ben Abalos’ NBN-ZTE “borger” fortune.
Gonzales invokes “parliamentary courtesy” to shield Arroyo. Coming from a most vulgar Congress, it is truly laughable. They are all claimed to be part of the alleged corrupt family of political degenerates running the country. Walden Belo’s party-list group Akbayan may not be much different, maybe just a bit more ethical by some degree. His party-list matriarch Etta Rosales isn’t exactly a paragon of any virtue, having been a chief lackey of Gloria Arroyo during the 2004 illegal proclamation of the “Hello Garci” president. Rosales will be rewarded by the new Gloria Arroyo, i.e. Noynoy “PeNoy” Aquino, with an appointment to the Commission on Human Rights — to carry on the charade of human rights in an essentially plutocratic, oppressive and exploitative corporatocracy.
Already, PeNoy has proposed to raise the “pork” of senators and congressmen for 2011, from P6.9 billion this year to P22.3 billion next (a whopping 223.18 percent or P15 billion increase). This seems incredible since PeNoy campaigned on the promise of “Kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap,” but PeNoy’s Budget Secretary Butch Abad was quoted on it. In fact, one report stated, “Even as the PDAF allocation was increased, the government proposed a reduction of subsidy programs… amid the state’s cash flow problems.”
Those subsidies include those earmarked for the National Food Authority rice purchase. So are they saying that there will be no subsidy for farmers but increased “pork” subsidy for politicians? Everyone knows just how “pork” is the mother of all corrupt funds that politicians dip into, so why is PeNoy increasing this? Perhaps if we put this in context with a new development, a clearer picture on how invisible forces behind PeNoy are reinforcing the edifice of corruption will come about.
This new development is the proposed postponement of the barangay election slated for October on due to alleged financial constraints, together with the simultaneous proposal that it be synchronized with the 2013 national elections.
There are several deleterious effects of these two initiatives: (1) abusive and corrupt barangay officials will not be called into account as a democratic system requires; (2) it will strengthen the indebtedness of the present barangay officials to the present PeNoy regime; (3) these barangay officials will then be used by the current regime to consolidate tyrannical powers in 2013 toward the continuation of the corporatist dictatorship consolidated under Gloria Arroyo; and (4) it will make the “fully synchronized” 2013 elections even more massively chaotic than the already messy elections of 2010.
If the present system is corruption incarnate, then a super-synchronized election aimed at securing it is none other than a perpetuation of this systemic corruption, the evil results of which those jaundiced by the Yellow fever can’t seem to see as continuously ravaging the nation.
For those who still do not know, here’s a sampling of these evils — July 2010 item: Power rates to rise again in August (due to Wesm power horse trading); Aug. 8: Manila Water net income up 34 percent (while people suffer heavier costs); Aug. 9: Robredo wants strengthened Small Town Lottery (cover for jueteng); Aug. 10: AFP suppresses Adm. Feliciano Angue exposé on 2010 elections; Aug. 11: $10-billion offer for Pagcor.
As long as the corrupt system goes on and on — exploiting, inveigling and plundering — PeNoy only continues the legacy of Cory, FVR and Gloria.
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Russia’s top duo fight to save reputation from flames
Catholic Church raises profile in Cuba with icon of virgin
Russia’s top duo fight to save reputation from flames focus 08/13/2010
MOSCOW — Be it dousing fires from a plane or sacking several officers in a single meeting, Russia’s ruling tandem is battling to ensure its hold on power does not go up in smoke in the wildfire crisis.
Image-making has emerged as significant a weapon in the crisis as hoses or water-bombing jets as Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev seek to ensure their popularity survives the crisis intact.
With Russia emerging from the slowdown, the duo may have been congratulating themselves on deftly seeing off the economic crisis as they planned their summer holidays.
But then Russia found itself hit by a heatwave that wrecked 10 million hectares of land and triggered wildfires which have killed over 50 persons and burned down entire villages.... MORE
Catholic Church raises profile in Cuba with icon of virgin FEATURE 08/13/2010
HAVANA — For the first time since the Cuban revolution half a century ago, an icon of Cuba’s patron saint is making the rounds of the island in a sign of a gradual rapprochement between the Communist authorities and the Catholic Church.
The pilgrimage’s send-off took place Sunday at the shrine to the Virgin of Charity of Copper, in a valley peppered with copper mines near Santiago de Cuba, 950 kilometers (590 miles) east of Havana.
Its year-and-a-half journey through the Cuban countryside is a highlight of festivities organized by the church to mark the 400th anniversary of the virgin’s appearance, according to legend, to three fishermen lost in a storm..... MORE
GMA allies seek SC’s voiding of truth body By Gerry Baldo, Benjamin B. Pulta and Aycth S. de la Cruz 08/13/2010
‘Violates equal protection clause and amends Charter’
GMA allies seek SC’s voiding of truth body
By Gerry Baldo, Benjamin B. Pulta and Aycth S. de la Cruz
Members of the House minority bloc yesterday asked the Supreme Court (SC) to nullify the creation of the Truth Commission through Executive Order (EO) 1, on the ground that its establishment is unconstitutional.
This is the third EO issued by President Aquino, through his Executive Secretary that is being challenged before the high court.
Earlier, EO 2 and 3, seeking the dismissal of Palace-claimed appointees and the nullification of an Arroyo issued EO granting government lawyers career executive officer status, have also been questioned before the high court.
Minority leader and Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman and three other senior lawmakers, in a 55-page petition for Certiorari and Prohibition, challenged the constitutionality of EO 1 which formed the “Truth Commission” with Palace-designated head, former Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr.
They asked the SC to issue a temporary restraining order and or a writ of preliminary injunction to maintain the status quo.
Docketed as G.R. No. 193036, the petitioners including Lagman, Reps. Rodolfo Albano, Jr, Simeon Datumanong and Orlando Fua, Jr. posited that EO 1 violates the separation of powers as it arrogates the legislative authority of the Congress to create a public office and appropriate funds for its operation.... MORE
Unless SC issues TRO, toll VAT on, says Palace
Too many spokesmen in Cabinet spoil budget
DoST chief’s appointment raises conflict of interest concerns
Pirate attack on Norwegian ship with 29 Pinoys thwarted
SC rebukes Palace on EO 2 rush, calls for courtesy
Unless SC issues TRO, toll VAT on, says Palace By Benjamin B. Pulta 08/13/2010
Despite being deluged by demands for the government to defer the imposition of the 12 percent value added tax on road tolls, both the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) and the Palace said yesterday that the tax will be imposed on Monday as scheduled unless the Supreme Court issues a hold order.
Unless the SC issues a temporary restraining order (TRO) on the imposition of VAT on tolls nationwide, the BIR will start imposing the tax on Monday, Aug. 16, Malacañang stressed yesterday.
Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda maintained that the 12-percent VAT on toll is not a new tax measure.
Internal Revenue Commissioner Kim Henares said the VAT on tolls should not significantly affect the cost of transporting people and goods.
Henares said the measure will not impact heavily on the public because of the input or output formula.
The substantial amount to be collected by the government will go the programs for the poor, she added..... MORE
Too many spokesmen in Cabinet spoil budget By Aytch S. de la Cruz 08/13/2010
By Aytch S. de la Cruz
In accomodating too many mouthpieces of Cabinet rank, the Palace is in a bind over where to place the new communications offices created under Executive Order 4 to keep the Executive under the bounds of law that bars it from creating a new portfolio agency that gets budget funding.
Yesterday, the head of the new Presidential Communi-cations Development and Strategic Planning Office (PCDSPO) said his office might be placed under the Office of the President (OP).
PCDSPO Secretary Ricky Carandang revealed this to reporters who were inquiring on the budget plans of the the former Office of the Press Secretary (OPS) now called the Presidential Communi-cations Operations Office (PCOO).
The PCOO led by Secretary Herminio ‘Sonny’ Coloma is expected to get the bigger share of the budget of the former OPS according to Carandang as he found out that his office will be placed under OP just like the office of presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda, who also has a Cabinet rank.... MORE
DoST chief’s appointment raises conflict of interest concerns By Aytch S. de la Cruz 08/13/2010
It is now the Aquino administration’s turn to defend itself from the conflict of interest issues that might hound it soon, as Malacañang yesterday confirmed reports that Science and Technology Secretary Mario Montejo is related by affinity to Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr.
The admission was made by presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda during a post-briefing interview but he denied that Ochoa, a close ally of President Aquino, has lobbied for his brother-in-law’s appointment at the helm of the
Department of Science and Technology (DoST).
“Secretary Montejo is in a relatively apolitical department. He is in the DoST and he is qualified to head that agency. There was no politics involved there,” Lacierda said.
He stressed that Montejo was appointed owing to his feats cited by the President in the field of science and technology including some of the inventions that he supposedly made in the past.
“Secretary Mario Montejo is the brother-in-law of Secretary Ochoa but please don’t put any political color because he is more than qualified. Again, the appointing power is the President, not Secretary Ochoa — just to emphasize that point,” he told reporters.
Because of this confirmation, speculations become widespread that Montejo has something to do with Aquino’s decision to sack Prisco Nilo as chief of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (Pagasa) last week..... MORE
Pirate attack on Norwegian ship with 29 Pinoys thwarted By Michaela P. del Callar 08/13/2010
By Michaela P. del Callar
Some 29 Filipino seafarers onboard a Norwegian-flagged ship survived a hostage attack by Somali pirates after it was foiled by European Union forces patrolling the dangerous Gulf of Aden off Somali waters.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said the Filipino sailors could have been among the 81 other Filipino seamen being held hostage in Somalia if not for the “timely action” of the European Union Naval Force (EU NavFor).
In a letter by manning agency ODFJELL Philippines Inc. to the DFA, chemical tanker MT Bow Saga was attacked by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden in the early morning of Aug. 3, when it was proceeding westward in
the International Recommended Transit Corridor in the Gulf of Aden.
Seven armed brigands using a small boat fired shots at the vessel.
The ship’s crew adopted security measures and conducted various counter actions, including evasive maneuvering and water deployment to prevent boarding.
The ship’s captain sent out a distress call and an EU NavFor unit close by responded.... MORE
SC rebukes Palace on EO 2 rush, calls for courtesy By Benjamin B. Pulta 08/13/2010
Not so fast. A little judicial courtesy should be in order.
President Aquino and his spokesman, lawyer Edwin Lacierda, must be red in the face, especially after bragging that, as the Supreme Court (SC) had failed to issue a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on Executive Order (EO) 2 on the so-called Midnight Appoint-ments, the firing of these officers appointed by former President now Rep. Gloria Arroyo has been given the green light.
SC spokesman and Court Administrator Midas Marquez yesterday “advised” Malaca-ñang to put off ousting the alleged midnight appointees despite the absence of a restraining order from the high court.
Calling what he described as “judicial courtesy,” Marquez pointed out that the Palace should put off the implementation of executive orders of Aquino revoking the “midnight appointments” of the Arroyo administration while the case has not yet been finally resolved by the high court.
Marquez, said “It would be more prudent (for Malacañang) to maintain a status quo in the meantime since the Court has already acquired jurisdiction on the issue. What we’re asking is for them (Palace) to just give the Court a little more time on deciding whether it would issue a TRO or not,” he said.... MORE
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Aquino-Cojuangcos using military to harass Luisita farmworkers
The victory achieved by the farm workers in the decision of the Supreme Court ordering the distribution of the land under Hacienda Luisita did not make their life easier as the military continues to harass them.
HACIENDA LUISITA, Tarlac City – Out of fear, Michelle Mandigma, 30, left their home in barangay Balete in October last year. Along with her husband and seven children, Mandigma sought shelter at the office of the Alyansa ng Manggagawang Bukid sa Asyenda Luisita (Ambala).
Mandigma said soldiers had frequented their house located in the middle of the farm since Ambala, of which her husband is an active member, set up the picketline within the disputed land being claimed by the Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC) in July last year.
“For months, they occupied the hut in front of our house, staying there for long periods of time,” Mandigma told members of a fact-finding mission, March 10. Mandigma said that the men wore civilian clothes but admitted to being soldiers. “They would ask us who are the NPAs [New People’s Army] here in the hacienda and who visits the picketline,” Mandigma said. The NPA is the armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP).
The fact-finding mission organized by the Alyansa ng Magbubukid sa Gitnang Luson (AMGL), Unyon ng Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (Uma), Karapatan and other groups revealed that military presence is notable in ten barangays (villages) inside the hacienda owned by the family of President Benigno S. Aquino III. Several units of the military under the 7th Infantry Division of the Philippine Army used barangay halls as their detachments, and occupied even the office of the United Luisita Workers’ Union (Ulwu) in barangay (village) Mapalacsiao.
According to international humanitarian law, soldiers are prohibited from using public places for their operations..... MORE
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/03/12/aquino-cojuangco-clan-using-military-to-harass-luisita-farmworkers/
Public lynching not allowed EDITORIAL 03/13/2012
Public lynching not allowed
Without saying it, impeachment court presiding justice Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile bared his heart the other day on the doubts he holds on the ability of some of the senator-judges in the Senate trial to render an impartial judgment on impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona.
Noynoy’s Senate partymates and some other senators who have been won over to the oust-Corona movement have been and continue to be perceived as aiding the prosecution panel by jumping in whenever the accusers of Corona encounter a dead end either through sheer incompetence or as a result of the rules of the Senate court, which rules, not surprisingly, are being claimed by the same Noynoy senator allies not to apply strictly — to the point of even introducing hearsay as evidence beneficial to Noynoy and his senator-judges, and also polluted and illegally obtained evidence as proof..... MORE
Concrete message: Iran ‘supershield’ to thwart US ‘superbomb’
Pentagon’s joy at getting tons of money for a bigger, badder bomb was, apparently, premature. Iran claims to have invented “super concrete” – of a type that will stop the Massive Ordnance Penetrator from penetrating… well, anything.
Iran is known for being one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world. As a result, their scientists have gotten really good at creating ultra-high performance concrete, or UHPC, which is one of the toughest and most rigid building materials in the world. And like any dual-use technology, it can have military applications as well – something the Iranians are keen to utilize.What they’ve done is the exact opposite of that age-old adage: “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/super-concrete-super-bomb-409/
Bradley Manning treatment cruel, inhuman - UN special rapporteur
The United Nations official investigating the American military’s treatment of Bradley Manning has ruled that the US government imposed cruel, inhuman, degrading and borderline torturous treatment on the alleged WikiLeaks contributor.
The UN’s special rapporteur on torture, Juan Mendez, has completed his 14-month investigation into the detainment of Private First Class Bradley Manning, a 24-year old US soldier. Following allegations that he aided Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks site, Manning was arrested in May 2010 for disclosing classified material and has been in governmental custody for the nearly two years since. Despite a lengthy stint in military prison, Manning was formally arraigned only recently with a series of crimes that could put him away for the rest of life. In that period where Manning was held without charge, the UN now reports that the alleged whistleblower was subjected to reprehensible treatment at the hands of the United States..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/manning-cruel-treatment-un-torture-383/
'Get out!' Students demand US go after Kandahar bloodbath (PHOTOS)
Hundreds of Afghan university students have taken to the streets to protest a shooting spree in Kandahar that left 16 dead. The protesters demanded justice for the victims and a full withdrawal US forces.
About 400 students rallied in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Jalalabad on Tuesday. The mob, which blocked a highway leading to the country’s capital of Kabul, chanted anti-American slogans and demanded a public trial for the shooter. .... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/afghanistan-massacre-shooter-protest-431/
A development manifesto? AN OUTSIDERS VIEW Ken Fuller 03/13/2012
A development manifesto?
Some weeks ago, a reader e-mailed me what amounted to a manifesto for national development. Interestingly, the author is not Filipino but a UK businessman-scientist who’s been resident here for over 20 years. See what you think.
For the agricultural sector, the manifesto proposes that 10 million Merino sheep should be introduced on the land above 700 meters in Luzon, Mindoro and Panay. Each year, these would produce 80 million kilos of fine wool worth $640 million. Including the downstream processing and spinning plants and the fine garment factories, it’s estimated that two million jobs would be created.
On currently idle land throughout the Philippines, it’s proposed that between a million and 1.5 million Red Devon cattle, which do not need to be fed on grain, be introduced for the purpose of beef production, providing $75 million in annual revenue and creating 100,000 jobs in farming, transportation and processing. There are further proposals for fruit tree cultivation, the banning of tobacco production and the development of trout fishing and pine plantations — all generating considerable revenue and jobs..... MORE
Fruit of the poisonous tree VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 03/13/2012
Fruit of the poisonous tree
On the occasion of the impeachment trial ready for resumption, it is both fortunate and important that some kind of a thumb rule adopted by American jurisprudence was invoked for the occasion by an able senator-judge.
This is motivated by the mysterious appearance of a “small lady” alleged to have handed certain bank accounts to a member of prosecution for evidentiary use against the subject-object of the impeachment. This already perplexing production of evidence against the accused was even reinforced by another unseen and unknown individual said to have covertly delivered copies of the same bank accounts to the garage of another member of the prosecution..... MORE
Assault on Tribune reporter triggers wide media condemnation By Pat C. Santos 03/13/2012
Assault on Tribune reporter triggers wide media condemnation
Different media groups condemned the brutal attack on The Daily Tribune Malacaang beat reporter Fernan Angeles who was mauled and shot seven times in different parts of the body by still unidentified assailants with the National Press Club (NPC) putting up a P100,000 reward for the identification of the suspects.
The Tribune issued a statement calling on the government to act decisively in solving the crime and to put up measures to protect journalists from the various risks they encounter in the exercise of their jobs.
We expect the government and the Philippine National Police (PNP) to act with expediency in capturing those responsible for this reprehensible crime, the Tribune statement read.
It also issued a call on the media community to act and seek an end to the culture of impunity that prevails in the country that allows the unabated targeting of journalists that made the Philippines one of the most dangerous places for members of the media in the world..... MORE
Tiangco bares Palace links in House impeach express By Benjamin B. Pulta and Angie M. Rosales 03/13/2012
PORK BARREL USED TO COERCE SIGNATURES
Tiangco bares Palace links in House impeach express
By Benjamin B. Pulta and Angie M. Rosales 03/13/2012
The first witness of Chief Justice Renato Corona in the impeachment trial painted yesterday a vivid picture of how members of the House of Representatives were threatened with their pork barrel being withheld by Malacanang if they questioned the railroading of the impeachment complaint against Corona.
Navotas Rep. Tobias Tiangco took the witness stand for the defense despite vigorous objections from the prosecution panel on his testimony over what happened in last December’s focus which approved the impeachment complaint.
Under direct examination by defense counsel Dennis Manalo, Tiangco said Speaker Feliciano Belmonte told congressmen that the impeachment was ‘non-debatable’..... MORE
9 DENR officials probed for faking Boracay land titles 03/13/2012
9 DENR officials probed for faking Boracay land titles
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Central Office is investigating nine regional and field officials from their branch office in the Western Visayas Region who allegedly issued thirty-one fake land titles in Boracay.
The erring officials, who were not named yet, are the subject of an administrative complaint for grave misconduct.
The respondents were cross-examined by a probe team chaired by DENR Undersecretary for Field Operations lawyer Ernesto Adobo Jr. in a hearing in the pool side of West Town Hotel, Iloilo City from Feb. 29 to March 2, 2012..... MORE
OFWs need police clearance to exit Saudi by Michaela P. del Callar 03/13/2012
OFWs need police clearance to exit Saudi
Filipinos moving from Saudi Arabia to other countries for work or migration were advised by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to obtain a police clearance or they would be barred from entering their new destinations.
A clearance prior to departure is needed if they are moving to Australia, Canada, Europe or the United States, the DFA said, adding it is an entry or residency requirement in these countries for all Filipinos coming from Saudi Arabia.
Those seeking to obtain a police clearance while still in the Kingdom should have a letter of endorsement addressed to the police obtained from the Philippine embassy in Riyadh. The document costs 100 Saudi Riyals..... MORE
QC subsidizes graduation fees of elementary, HS studes By Arlie O. Calalo 03/13/2012
QC subsidizes graduation fees of elementary, HS studes
By Arlie O. Calalo 03/13/2012
The Quezon City government has subsidized the graduation expenses of students graduating this week from public schools in the city, Mayor Herbert Bautista revealed.
He said some P1.4 million has been set aside by the city government to cover the grant of the subsidy, which would entitle each of the city’s 142 schools to P10,000 financial aid.
With the Department of Education’s no-collection policy still in effect, the mayor said, the grant of the subsidy will enable parents to focus more on other immediate needs of the family..... MORE
Oil price hike protests set on Thursday 03/13/2012
Oil price hike protests set on Thursday
Student councils, campus alliances and national youth organizations are calling for campus walk-outs and mass actions against oil price hikes on Thursday, March 15.
In a unity statement, more than a hundred groups under “Kilos na Kontra Kartel at Overpricing sa Langis” or KKK urged the youth and private citizens to join big nationwide protests.
“We are alarmed by the successive price hikes in oil products. The masses can no longer afford the overprice in oil products imposed by the greedy cartel,” said the unity statement..... MORE
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The CHill Zone of T&F: Conway's View From the Finish Line
Coe Attempts to Destroy the Sport
Despite the conditions – a long season and heat from Hell – the recently concluded World Championships was one for the books. One of the best competitions ever. With exciting events and athletes from opening to close. Combine that with the plethora of young stars in the sport, the Olympics being less than a year away, and one would think that track and field is poised for an exciting period of time. A period where we could perhaps make serious inroads into the community of sports fans that we’ve coveted forever.
I mean, why not? We have the kind of talent that viewers like. Noah Lyles, Grant Holloway, Michael Norman, Sydney McLaughlin, Rai Benjamin, Allyson Felix, Will Claye, Delilah Mohammed. Talented, handsome, articulate. Record setters. Athlete’s performing at all time levels. Lots of them!
But instead of talking about the upcoming Olympics. Instead of talking about how we’re going to leverage ALL OF THIS TALENT into what should be the greatest marketing campaign in the history of the sport. Track and field’s top athletes and most fervent fans are decrying the latest moves of the sport’s leadership! Because you see, while we – athletes and fans see opportunity in all this talent, Master Coe has chosen to minimize all this wonderful talent by removing much of it from the sport’s highest level competitions – the Diamond League.
Coe, top executive of the IAAF, has reduced these meets to 50% of a meet by cutting half of the events. Why? Well, in his estimation, sporting fans only have a 90 minute attention span, and therefore we will only spend an hour and a half watching a track meet on television! Someone needs to hurry up and tell the NBA and NFL, because their telecasts routinely run double and sometimes triple that 90 minute window! So do those of baseball, soccer, golf, gymnastics, swimming, lumberjack competitions, and curling. All of which get more television air time than track does! And none of them are trying to reduce their sports. Go figure.
Yet, this year track and field’s premier non championship meets will be held with half the standard events. What’s being dropped? Well, let’s start with the 5000 and 10000 meter events. The 3000 steeplechase. Then take out the discus and triple jump. And finally the 200 meters! So, just what is Coe saying? Verbally he’s saying that he wants the sport to be more “palatable” to television ( see above).
Non verbally he’s saying that Africans don’t matter, since the depth and strength of nations like Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Algeria, et al are in the longer distances – 800 meters and up. He’s also saying that he thinks that taking Noah Lyles, Shaunae Miller Uibo, Daphne Schippers, Christian Taylor, Blessing Okagbare, Divine Oduduru, Ramil Guliyev, Alex Qinonez, Xie Zhenye, Will Claye, Yulimar Rojas, Michael Norman, Catherine Ibarguen, Sandra Perkovic, Daniel Stahl, and Federick Dacres – just to name a few – out of the Diamond League in their premier, and for some their only events, is a good idea! Really? In short in many subtle ways he’s saying that athletes of color are not needed in track and field! He thinks that he can sell the sport better without them than with them! Sorry, but he needs a drug test!!!
The finish of the men’s steeplechase at the World Championships was the closest finish of any track event. Closer than the men’s or women’s 100 meters. Yulimar Rojas’ winning leap in the triple jump made her #2 in history! The 200 meter showdown in Rome between Michael Norman and Noah Lyles was among the hottest showdowns of the season – and Lyles has replaced one Usain Bolt as the sport’s premier showman! Shaunae Miller Uibo stunned fans all year long with exciting runs at every distance. And the year long competition between triple jumpers Will Claye and Christian Taylor was one of the most exciting in the sport. Especially given that they are both within sight of one of the sport’s most venerable world records! Yet Coe believes that he can sell the sport better WITHOUT THEM!
This move, is about much more than marketing of the sport however – though on that note alone it’s a horrible move. Taking these events out of the Diamond League also takes away a major source of income from these athletes, because these are high income meets in track and field. In essence Coe is saying he doesn’t care about the pocket books/wallets of the affected athletes. There are already thoughts that distance runners will give up and take to the roads – beginning a permanent gutting of talent from the sport!
If Coe thinks that the athletes are just going to take this however, he miscalculated. In addition to the rumbling from distance runners, triple jumper Christian Taylor has formed an athletes association that is being met with enthusiasm from his peers. The goal being to give athletes a stronger voice in the sport. I for one believe this is long overdue. There was an attempt to do this back in the 80s. I hope that this time, the athletes see the handwriting on the wall and join in mass, because clearly the fox is indeed in the hen house. And this sport is being destroyed from the inside! The athletes need to stand up and be heard, because as Taylor said in announcing his association, the athletes ARE the sport.
One would think that Coe being a former athlete would understand that. What has become increasingly clear during his tenure however, is that he has no idea what this sport needs. Instead of looking at how the things he and his administration have done that have failed to advance the sport, he’s chosen to take the talent off the track! The irony as I alluded to earlier, is that the sport has the greatest young talent base it’s ever had! Marketing should be easier than its ever been. Presenting two to three hour meets PACKED with talent and excitement should be as easy as rolling out of bed! And we’re entering an Olympic year when everyone is finally looking forward to track and field. This should be a no brainer. Instead leadership is proving not to have a brain – or a clue. And the hue and cry around the world affirms that.
Like Taylor and the athletes, it’s time that we fans stand up and be heard as well. We should use the resources at our disposal to let the IAAF know what we think about the decisions coming out of that office. Twitter, Facebook, various forms of social media and old fashioned letters, emails and petitions. We need to let Coe and company that we do not appreciate their gutting of our sport. That it’s time for them to wake the hell up and make some adjustments. Before they seriously do permanent damage to track and field.
Tags: Claye, Igbarguen, Lyles, Miller Uibo, Norman, Quinonez, Rojas, Taylor, Zhenye
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Finally a 4×1 Victory
The US did it! We won a major 4x1, coming home with gold in Doha. The monkey is off our back! I wouldn't get too excited just yet however. That's one win in the last twelve years. And behind us was the fastest finish for place in places 2-5 - because the world has gotten FASTER in the last decade plus Read More...
Tags: Boling, Gillespie, Holloway, Norman, Williams
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Doha Review
2:30 pm PST
The 2019 World Championships just concluded. And I have to look at it from two perspectives. From the perspective of location, it was an abject failure. Temperature wise it was so hot that the only time to go out comfortably was midnight. Prompting the walks and marathons to be held - at midnight Read More...
Tags: Coleman, Felix, GardIner, Gatlin, Lyles, McLaughlin, Muhammad, Naser, Reese, Taylor
Doha Will Be Remembered for the Four
Sep 3rd, 2019
9:04 am PST
World Championships are the highlight of the sport. They showcase the best that track and field has to offer. During each one, the absolute best of the best rises to the top to create the meet’s most lasting memories. The inaugural championships in 1983 was the debut of Carl Lewis to the world. The followup in ’87 was the debut of Been Johnson Read More...
Tags: Benjamin, Lyles, McLaughlin, Miller Uibo, Muhammad, Naser, Norman, Samba
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Marketing the Face of Track and Field
Between 2008 and 2017 many people considered Usain Bolt to be the face of track and field. The athlete that the IAAF built their promotion around. The sprinter they proclaimed to be the “clean” representation of track and field, because the IAAF felt that such a representation was needed. When Bolt said that it was time to retire, Seb Coe basically said, “woe is me whatever will we do Read More...
Tags: Amos, Benjamin, Holloway, Lyles, McLaughlin, Nasser, Norman, Richardson, Samba
USATF Championships Review
Jul 31st, 2019
For four days America's best track and field athletes got together in Des Moines Iowa to decide who would represent the US at the World Championships. Lots to say, some good, some bad, so let's start with the bad. I'm not sure what the selection process is for championship sites, and I understand that this meet is going to be held in the summer, but how many times have I seen this meet affected by rain? So on Championship Sunday we're hit by rain yet again Read More...
Tags: Benjamin, Championships, Coleman, Felix, Gatlin, Holloway, Houlihan, Kendricks, Lyles, McLaughlin, McNeal, Muhammad, Norman, Roberts, Samba, USATF, Warholm
USATF Preview
We're a little over a week from the USATF Championships. No more competitions to watch. The time has finally arrived. And after months of meets - we still don't know much! With Worlds being so late, some athletes have been very cautious. Then there are the collegiate kids that have already peaked for a championship Read More...
Tags: Claye, Coleman, Gatlin, Harrison, Lyles, McLaughlin, Norman, Richardson, Taylor, USATF
Can the US Top the Podium After A Decade
12:54 pm PST
Ten years. A decade. A lot can happen in 10 years. Ten years ago, the iPhone made its debut - now no one can remember how we lived WITHOUT smartphones. Before that Blackberry and Nokia ruled the cell phone world, and if you were really cool you owned a Razr! Young people today can't remember either of those names with a market dominated by iPhones and Galaxy's Read More...
Tags: 4x1, Baker, Coleman, Gillespie, Lyles, Relays
NCAA Championships Review
It's June, and there have been track meets being run all spring. But the weather has been horrible up to now, and results have been scattered. It seems like every meet has been "so-so" with the occasional "wow" race thrown in. Like we had Michael Norman scream 43.45 at MtSac. Then Noah Lyles and Christian Coleman square off at 9 Read More...
Tags: Annelus, Arkansas, Florida, Holloway, LSU, Oduduru, Roberts, Sani Brown, Sha'Carri, Terry
Grant Holloway – How Many Subs?
There are a LOT of exciting young track and field stars today. Sydney McLaughlin, Noah Lyles, Mondo Duplantis, Gabby Thomas, and Michael Norman to start a list. After watching this past weekends activities however, it hit me that perhaps the most talented athlete out there may be sliding under the radar! I remember when Carl Lewis first emerged Read More...
Tags: Florida, Holloway, NCAA
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The killings in Paris are a direct result of malicious U.S.
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The world mourns the revenge killing of 130 (and counting) on 13 November in Paris. But where have they all been since Tony Blair and George W. Bush raised the false-flag of weapons of mass destruction and started an illegal war in Iraq in 2003? That war, still ongoing, has killed more than one million civilians.
Not to forget the millions more who have been psychologically and physically wounded.
For more than half a century Washington has conducted a policy of plunder throughout the world. Here following is a brilliant summary to help keep you up to speed.
Only when we see the war criminals
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By John Pilger / johnpilger.com
In transmitting President Richard Nixon's orders for a "massive" bombing of Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, "Anything that flies on everything that moves". As Barack Obama ignites his seventh war against the Muslim world since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the orchestrated hysteria and lies make one almost nostalgic for Kissinger's murderous honesty. (More)
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30 October 2015 — I’ve often wondered how the media would respond when eco-apocalypse struck. I pictured the news programmes producing brief, sensational reports, while failing to explain why it was happening or how it might be stopped. Then they would ask their financial correspondents how the disaster affected share prices, before turning to the sport. As you can probably tell, I don’t have an ocean of faith in the industry for which I work.
What I did not expect was that they would ignore it. (More)
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Retired U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel
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31 October 2015 — Sending some 50 US advisers to Syria illegally to train the so-called ‘moderate rebels’ looks like a calculated move. If, or when, someone gets hurt, the US will have a pretext for [more] boots on the ground, believes retired US Air Force Lieutenant Col Karen Kwiatkowski.
RT: Does this deployment mean Americans will be putting themselves in the direct line of fire in Syria?
Karen Kwiatkowski: I think there is a danger of that happening and I think that is part of why they are going there. I think they are looking for an excuse to up the ante, to send more troops and to have a crisis of some sort. Clearly the president has been lying, and so has Ash Carter, about what their real intentions are. For video click (More)
From the Desk of Carl Hall, Alberta Contributing Editor
Edmonton Journal Editorial
Alberta's New Democrat budget shifts tax burden
on those most able to pay, protects social services
something borrowed in budget
28 October 2015 — Taken together, the two fiscal blueprints of this extraordinary year in Alberta politics are a lesson for the ages in the proper conduct of public business.
In March, the last budgetary gasp of a dying Tory dynasty finally confronted the gap between Albertans’ expectations of government and their willingness to pay for it.
Rather than lead the province through another round of slash-and-burn on services like health and education, former premier Jim Prentice’s government faced up to plunging fossil-fuel revenues by violating the taboo against raising taxes. (More)
Wikileaks releases final text
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By 'Malcolm'
10 October 2015 — The latest release today by Wikileaks of what is alleged to be the current and essentially final version of the intellectual property (IP) chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) confirms our worst fears about the agreement. Let’s hope it does not make it to the final draft.
What’s so bad? Limitations and exceptions to copyright, extension of copyright to life plus 70 years despite a broad consensus that this makes no economic sense and simply amounts to a transfer of wealth from users to large, rights-holding corporations. The extension will make life more difficult for libraries and archives, for journalists, and for ordinary users seeking to make use of works from long-dead authors that rightfully belong in the public domain. (More)
TPP trades away our constitutional rights
Changes to copyright terms proposed in the Trans-Pacific Trade
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The Toronto Star
28 October 2015 — Imagine one day the government decides to place substantial amounts of 20th-century cultural heritage beyond reach for most Canadians. “This can’t happen,” you might say, but it did.
Without any legislative debate or public consultation, and buried inside the budget omnibus bill, Stephen Harper’s government bowed down to back-door lobbying from the music industry and extended the term of copyright protection for sound recordings. But this was only a discordant prelude for worse things to come. Recent leaks indicate that during the ultra-secretive negotiations of the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), the government agreed to extend copyright terms for all types of works. (More)
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Lia Tarachansky's documentary on the heart of the Israeli crisis
Lia Tarachansky will be in Toronto Canada with her documentary
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Vol. 10, No. 9 (360)
Canadian voters deny Tom Mulcair
the chance to prove that he's a liar
In their determination to remove 'President' Harper from power before he could further damage the letter and spirit of the country that we know and love, Canadians surged to the polls and dumped Harper in favour of the neo-Trudeau Liberals.
At first the electorate wavered. The polls showing majority support for Tom Mulcair and the New Democrats. But Justin-the-Boxer proved to be the better showman and seduced enough voters to mark their ballots so that The Natural Governing Party would resume its place at the head of the nation.
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Trudeau’s bold change pledge was a ruse
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22 October 2013 — On Monday night many Canadians breathed out a sigh of relief. Then they breathed in a whiff of apprehension. The ousting of the Conservatives was a victory, a rejection of Stephen Harper’s politics of fear and racism. But Canadians now confront a Prime Minister gifted in the art of warm, fuzzy claptrap. They won’t be offered what they dreamed of: that was never an option in this election.
The election’s most revealing poll was scarcely reported by the media. Those voting against Harper – sixty to seventy percent of Canada, a progressive majority holding steady through his decade in power – were asked in late September what kind of change they desired. They answered overwhelmingly: not moderate but ambitious, not incremental but immediate. In other words, most people didn’t just want Harper out: they wanted plentiful jobs, a healthy environment, indeed a far more just and fair country.
The poll’s second finding was just as fascinating. (More)
New boss, same as the old boss?
Liberals mull keeping some new powers for spy service
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By Dru Oja
NB Media Co-Op
23 October 2015 — Justin Trudeau is providing people in Canada with things to celebrate. For starters, he is temperamentally the anti-Harper. Trudeau was seen shaking hands with passersby in a Montreal metro station, took (gasp) unscripted questions from journalists, and announced the withdrawal of Canadian bombers from Iraq and Syria. He reiterated election promises, and there’s some decent stuff in there.
It’s hard not to see these changes as a tremendous relief. And it’s perfectly understandable that a lot of people want to take a breath and celebrate the end of the Harper decade.
We’ll see a lot more stuff like this in the first few months of Trudeau as Prime Minister. The charm offensive will include a lot of positive changes. Some of them will be symbolic, some will have a real impact on peoples’ lives.
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Alex Binkley is a foremost political and economic analyst, whose website is www.alexbinkley.com. Readers will be aware that his columns in True North Perspective have foreseen political and economic developments in Canada. This edition ...
Offering a compliment
1 November 2015 — In the June 15 issue of The Hill Times, my Parliamentary Press Gallery colleague Susan Riley made the then bold prediction that Stephen Harper was toast. The headline invited readers to clip and save the column. Remembering another Riley prediction years earlier about Harper, I did.
The subhead to her long column in June said, "The government has run out of steam, ideas, talent and worst of all for a Prime Minister so fueled by anger, out of new enemies." The column highlights many of the shortcomings in the Conservative camp that became painfully clear during the election three months later. The column can be found on the hilltimes.com website if you want the full read (subscription required). It should be a must for any political junkie.
Unfortunately I didn't save the other column written almost a decade ago for Riley's former employer The Ottawa Citizen. It said that when Harper's time in politics was done, he would sink like a stone because his bullying ways would leave no one who could be bothered to break his fall.
In the aftermath of the trouncing by the Justin (he's just not ready) Trudeau's Liberals, many in the Conservative Party are distancing themselves from Harper. Former cabinet minister Diane Finley has already called for a lessening of the rigid control of the PMO and the return of power to the MPs. We'll probably hear lots more of that.
So far Harper has resigned the leadership but not as an MP. Are we going to see another Diefenbaker spectre haunting the Conservative Party. That worked so well the first time.
Riley saw the great debacle coming. She was pretty well alone in that. There's been very little ackowledgement of her insight. Too bad.
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2.6 billion pounds of Monsanto's cancer-causing
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By Mary Ellen Kustin
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22 October 2015, VANCOUVER — One of the world’s longest-studied glaciers is melting so fast in the heart of the Canadian Rockies that scientists say it is “disintegrating” before their eyes, causing monitoring stations to collapse.
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There is, however, one other mighty European river, lesser known, and perhaps not quite as spectacular as the Rhine/Danube. The Elbe also carries cruise ships but I have hardly ever seen it advertised. Look it up in Google for contact and itinerary. One friend of mine took the cruise upstream from Berlin to Prague and enjoyed it very much. I had the opportunity to read the brochure of the trip written by a very knowledgeable historian and geographer. (More)
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EU Parliament clears a path to give Edward Snowden asylum
By Andy Greenberg
29 October 2015 — Well this is something. After years of pressure from activists, the European Parliament just passed a resolution urging its member states to offer protection to Edward Snowden. That would mean dropping all charges against the whistleblower and shielding him from extradition to the United States.
For Snowden, who’s been holed up in Russia for as long as anybody can remember, this is really great news. The former NSA contractor said as much on Twitter:
Hearing reports EU just voted 285-281, overcoming huge pressure, to cancel all charges against me and prevent extradition. Game-changer.
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) October 29, 2015
The extent to which the European parliament’s actions will actually help to keep Snowden out of U.S. prison, however, remains to be seen. The resolution itself is non-binding, and all of the European nations involved in passing it have extradition treaties with the U.S. (More)
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Classic Quiz
1. True or false? The Yukon Territory community of Mayo holds the record for the coldest temperature ever recorded in Canada.
2. Unscramble the letters to spell this Manitoba city.
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3. Which of these major Canadian cities is the snowiest, according to Statistics Canada?
a) Ottawa b) Sudbury c) St. John’s D) Quebec City
Winnipeg's Bloody Saturday
The first large-scale organized strike in Canadian history began as a dispute between management and labourers in Winnipeg building and metal trades. When negotiations between the two parties broke down, the Winnipeg Trades and Labor Council called a general strike.
Soon, 30,000 workers had left their jobs and joined the picket lines, fighting for better pay and working conditions. The federal government quickly stepped in and leaders of the Central Strike Committee were promptly thrown in jail. Strikers responded by protesting at City Hall. The RCMP charged the crowd on horseback. The ensuing confrontation left nearly 100 injured and one dead, and was later dubbed Bloody Saturday.
Useful Enemies By Richard Rashke
Reviewed by Carl Dow
Useful Enemies is a gold mine for conspiracy theorists that fails because this brilliantly written exposé is backed by thoroughly researched facts, figures, and a narrative that unfolds like a best-selling novel.
During November, as we mourn the loss of the men and women who made the supreme sacrifice in two world wars, and in subsequent blood-letting, it is important to recognize how their sacrifice has been betrayed by those who have since led millions more to death and misery under false flags.
One such example is the decision by the United States following World War Two to open its doors to thousands of former Nazis and Nazi collaborators. Useful Enemies provides us with how the foundations of today's Washington policies were laid in the years between 1947 and 1950. (More)
True North Perspective contributor Kevin Dooley is pleased to invite you to join him in celebrating the publication of his fourth novel, A Dog's Breakfast, on Sunday, November 8, 2015, from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at Daniel O'Connell's Irish Pub, 1211 Wellington Street, in Ottawa. Click here for details.
Media war intensifies
Russia refutes Western claims it hit hospital killing 13
AFP, a French media outlet, was responsible for publishing a piece titled 13 Dead as Russia strike hits Syria field hospital: monitor. The source in the story was identified as the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is run by one man – Rami Abdulrahman. Just recently, Abdulrahman told RT that the last time he had been in Syria was 15 years ago and that all the information for his reports is taken from “some of the Observatory activists” who he knows “through common friends.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry has disputed Western media (MSM) reports accusing Russia of hitting a field hospital in northwestern Syria and killing 13 people. The reports cited “sources” provided by the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
Please take the time to play the videos, especcially the one under MSM attacks on Russia, (More)
Countering the dangerous mainstream media
(mis)perceptions of the bloody Syrian conflict
By Richard Sudan
www.rt.com
10 October 2015 — The Western mainstream media have set a very dangerous precedent in the way they have so far presented the war in Syria.
Up until quite recently, much of the media towed the government line, suggesting Assad and the terrorists must go — even though those same terror groups entered Syria to overthrow the government. The grossly misleading implication here is that the Syrian government, ISIS and other terror groups are one and the same. They are not.
Just recently and coincidentally timed with Russia coming to Syria’s aid, the Western MSM has suddenly changed its tune a bit: (More)
Nudies no more
Playboy magazine to stop
publishing pictures of naked women
‘Provocative’ images will still feature in redesigned magazine, but editors say founder Hugh Hefner has agreed that fully nude shots are ‘passé’
By Amanda Meade
Playboy, sans nudes? When 'I read it for the articles' becomes editorial policy — Clem Bastow
Tuesday 13 October 2015 — In an interview with the New York Times, CEO Scott Flanders said founder Hugh Hefner, 89, had agreed with a proposal to stop publishing images of naked women from March 2016.
The redesigned Playboy, 62 years after it was launched by Hefner, will still feature a Playmate of the Month and provocative pictures of women, but they will be rated PG-13 (a rating that cautions that material may be inappropriate for children under 13). (More)
RT media proves that honesty is the best policy
While Western media wallow in propaganda spin
RT’s 2016 budget announced, down from 2015, MSM too stumped to spin?
10 October 2015 — RT — a publicly-funded, autonomous non-profit organization — has been allocated 19 billion rubles, or just over 300 million USD, in the just-announced 2016 Federal Budget of the Russian Federation.
The budget represents a nearly 2-billion ruble cut from 2015. Western media, usually so eager to discuss RT’s “lavish” financing, has remained surprisingly quiet about this news, at least for now. (More)
Times of Troubles
How anti-Russia 'experts' change tune to suit the market
RT Editorial
20 October 2015 — Recently, The Moscow Times — the Russian capital's only English-language daily — has been on something of an anti-RT crusade. Could this stem from frustration over RT’s success?
Like the British rock band The Smiths, opinions of RT can ‘oscillate wildly’. Pundits hope to convince their readers with harrowing stories that RT is about to take over the world. On other occasions, RT is casually dismissed as an outlet that nobody watches or reads.
Amusingly, it seems that both narratives can apparently co-exist in the same publication. (More)
Coca-Cola spends millions buying scientists
‘to manipulate public’ on sugar-obesity link
09 October 2015 — Coca-Cola has spent millions of pounds funding research institutes and scientists who cast doubt on the link between sugary drinks and obesity.
The soft drinks firm is said to have links to more than a dozen British scientists, including government health advisers, who counter claims that its drinks contribute to obesity.
The revelation of Coca-Cola’s scientific funding comes weeks after the government rejected a tax on sugar-sweetened drinks, despite support from Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies, the British Medical Association, and TV chef Jamie Oliver. (More)
Why you’re out of breath walking up stairs — fit or not
Amy Eisinger
Greatist
24 October 2015 — You can crush a spin class, run a 5K with ease, and power through weight sessions at the gym. But you still get winded climbing a flight of stairs.
The good news is that's totally normal. "It doesn’t mean you’re out of shape," says Jordan Syatt, a certified personal trainer and Greatist expert. "You just elevated your heart rate and need more oxygen." (More)
Pollutants lurking in your house
can make you seriously miserable
The air in your home may be hazardous to your health
By Reynard Loki
AlterNet.org
23 October 2015 — While your home may feel like the safest place you could be, the air may contain a number of indoor air pollutants that can cause respiratory problems like asthma, or even diseases like lung cancer.
Here are six of the most common air pollutants found in homes and ways to reduce or eliminate them. (More)
18 foods you don't need to buy organic
Buying organic helps keep pesticides out of your diet, but it can also drain your wallet
www.AlterNet.org
[Editor's note: The following list, which includes the produce on Environment Working Group's "Clean 15" list plus 3 additional, only considers pesticide residue on the produce itself.]
In 2013, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) tested 3,015 produce samples and found that almost two-thirds contained pesticide residues. The Environmental Working Group (EWG), a non-profit, non-partisan advocacy group for human health and the environment, calculated that USDA tests found a total 165 different pesticides on thousands of fruit and vegetables in the 2013 sampling.
While these findings might increase your desire to always choose organic over conventionally grown produce, in fact, there are many traditionally grown fruits and vegetables that are fine to include in a pesticide-free diet. Of course, there are foods that you should always buy organic, like apples, peaches and nectarines — nearly 100 percent of these fruits have tested positive for at least one pesticide residue. The EWG has produced the Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce, which includes the "Dirty Dozen" and "Clean Fifteen" lists to help you decide what to buy organic and what's okay to buy non-organic.
Why do some types of produce have more pesticide than others? Richard Wiles, senior vice president of policy for the Environmental Working Group says, “If you eat something like a pineapple or sweet corn, they have a protection defense because of the outer layer of skin. Not the same for strawberries and berries.” (More)
NASA studying 2015 El Nino event as never before
All 19 space earth-observation missions gather data
By Kasha Patel
GSFC News
20 October 2015, Greenbelt MD — Every two to seven years, an unusually warm pool of water — sometimes two to three degrees Celsius higher than normal — develops across the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean to create a natural short-term climate change event. This warm condition, known as El Nino, affects the local aquatic environment, but also spurs extreme weather patterns around the world, from flooding in California to droughts in Australia. This winter, the 2015-16 El Nino event will be better observed from space than any previous El Nino.
This year's El Nino is already strong and appears likely to equal the event of 1997-98, the strongest El Nino on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization. All 19 of NASA's current orbiting Earth-observing missions were launched after 1997. In the past two decades, NASA has made tremendous progress in gathering and analyzing data that help researchers understand more about the mechanics and global impacts of El Nino.
"El Nino is a fascinating phenomenon because it has such far-reaching and diverse impacts. The fact that fires in Indonesia are linked with circulation patterns that influence rainfall over the United States shows how complex and interconnected the Earth system is," said Lesley Ott, research meteorologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland. (More)
Greater than the sum of its parts
A new species is evolving right before our eyes
Millions of 'coydogs' thought to roam eastern North America
31 October 2015 — Like some people who might rather not admit it, wolves faced with a scarcity of potential sexual partners are not beneath lowering their standards. It was desperation of this sort, biologists reckon, that led dwindling wolf populations in southern Ontario to begin, a century or two ago, breeding widely with dogs and coyotes. The clearance of forests for farming, together with the deliberate persecution which wolves often suffer at the hand of man, had made life tough for the species. That same forest clearance, though, both permitted coyotes to spread from their prairie homeland into areas hitherto exclusively lupine, and brought the dogs that accompanied the farmers into the mix.
Interbreeding between animal species usually leads to offspring less vigorous than either parent—if they survive at all. But the combination of wolf, coyote and dog DNA that resulted from this reproductive necessity generated an exception. The consequence has been booming numbers of an extraordinarily fit new animal (see picture) spreading through the eastern part of North America. Some call this creature the eastern coyote. Others, though, have dubbed it the “coywolf”. Whatever name it goes by, Roland Kays of North Carolina State University, in Raleigh, reckons it now numbers in the millions. (More)
RT Exclusive: Trail of bodies left behind
by jihadists in Syria running from Russian bombs
10 October 2015 — The Syrian Army has captured the village of Al-Bahsa in the Hama province. An RT crew went to witness the trail of destruction left behind by the militants over their two-month reign of terror.
The village was under control of the Al-Nusra Front, a group affiliated with Al-Qaeda. They retreated on Friday as the Syrian government forces, supported from the air by Russian warplanes, went on the offensive.
Dozens of bodies, many of them with their hands tied and apparently killed execution-style, were discovered by the advancing troops in Al-Bahsa. RT’s Murad Gazdiev and his crew went to the scene to witness the horrors as the battles continued mere kilometers away. (More)
Russia claims success in combat report
More than 1,600 terror targets destroyed
in one month of Russia's Syria operation
30 October 2015 — The Russian Air Force says it has conducted some 1,400 sorties in Syria since the start of Moscow's anti-terror operation September 30 They have eliminated more than 1,600 terrorist targets in one month, Russia's military said on Friday 30 October.
Among the destroyed targets are 249 command posts, 51 militants' training camps, 131 ammunition and fuel depots and 786 field bases, Colonel General Andrey Kartapolov of Russia's General Staff said on Friday.
Twenty-eight of the "most odious" terrorist leaders have been eliminated, the military report said. With the help of Russian airstrikes, the Syrian army managed to free over 50 towns and villages in such provinces as Aleppo, Latakia, Idlib, Homs and Damascus, the General Staff official said, adding that the freed territories make up to around 350 square kilometers (350,000 hectares).
American action in Syria baffles Russian foreign minister
Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister, says he is baffled by what the U.S. is doing in Syria and why the results of its actions are so insignificant. "We have very few specifics that could explain what the U.S. is exactly doing in Syria. With 25,000 combat sorties one could blow the whole of Syria off the map." During a year of American action, the IS has expanded its occupied territory and its firepower. At the request of the Syrian government Russia launched its anti-IS military operation in Syria on Wednesday 30 September.
Despite Islamic State's "considerable losses and mass walkout," it's too early to talk about "complete victory" over the terrorists in Syria, Kartapolov stressed, adding the militants are continuing their stand against Syrian government troops in a number of regions. But "all their [terrorists'] efforts of counter attacks have been timely suppressed by the Syrian Army," the Russian military official said. (More)
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Doom is a first-person shooter with a sci-fi and horror theme developed and published by id Software for MS-DOS on 1993-12-10 as shareware. It's the first game in the Doom series. In the game, you play a space marine stationed on Mars. Scientists have been experimenting with dimensional travel and have accidentally opened a portal to Hell, and released hordes of demons on the planet. It's up to you to fight your way through the demons, enter Hell, and stop them from getting to Earth.
Doom is considered a monumental game being the first hugely-successful multiplayer FPS and breaking ground among 3D games. When it came out, the computer I owned couldn't handle it, so, to make it more playable, I decreased the view port to its lowest size and bumped up turbo to its highest level, but that ruined the feel of the game. It wasn't until a couple years later that I could run the game at its intended size and speed. I really enjoyed Doom, and spent a lot of time making my own levels with Waded, an editor tool.
3.1 Box Art
3.3 Graphics
3.4 Screenshots
I own The Ultimate Doom and have beaten all four episodes on Hurt Me Plenty difficulty.
Best Version: Doom95 for Windows
The game is just a lot of fun to play.
The addition of multi-player, while not necessary, vastly increased the enjoyment of the game.
There were a lot of interesting small features added to the game like monsters that would get mad and hurt each other, enemies near ledges that would fall off, flickering lights, semi-transparent demons, etc.
Each of the weapons has its own strengths and weaknesses. For most of them, there is no way to say that it is definitively better than another.
The game was really spooky at the time, and even today, when I'm playing a new map, I get apprehensive about diving into sludge or walking into a dark room.
The game has very fitting music including heavy metal tracks, and Bobby Prince wisely convinced the developers to include mysterious ambiance as well.
The game allows save scumming. Ordinarily, I appreciate this, but, since the game is meant to be terrifying, and you can save and reload every time you get ambushed, it kills a lot of the tension.
The earlier releases of the game had some pretty bad bugs, but id did a great job patching them over the years.
This art was designed by Don Punchatz and used on nearly all of the boxes for all ports, just with various differences in layout. It features a space marine being rushed by the demons of Hell, some of which have been cybernetically altered. The Doom logo was also designed by Punchatz. The original painting doesn't include the Doom logo which was superimposed on it for the box design.
Game manual.
Game manual (Ultimate Doom).
Poster from The Ultimate Doom.
Masters of Doom. Describes the development process.
spriters-resource.com/pc_computer/doomdoomii - Sprites.
textures-resource.com/pc_computer/doom - Textures.
Title screen.
Doom painted on a fingernail.
Windows 3 mockup.
gdcvault.com/play/1014627/Classic-Game-Postmortem - Postmortem by John Romero and Tom Hall.
youtube.com/watch?v=eBU34NZhW7I - Postmortem by John Romero.
youtube.com/watch?v=HbjOkrrTjhc - Boundary Break.
youtube.com/watch?v=ptHurafdCoQ - John Romero's level design rules.
youtube.com/watch?v=K0nlO87evhY - Longplay, Knee Deep In the Dead.
youtube.com/watch?v=vQdsIQQpHLs - Longplay, The Shores of Hell.
youtube.com/watch?v=74uPgIMQ5eg - Longplay, Inferno.
youtube.com/watch?v=dqan5L1x7JM - Longplay, They Flesh Consumed.
Design Shawn Green, Sandy Petersen, John Romero
Programming Michael Abrash, John Carmack, John Romero, Dave Taylor
Graphics, Art Adrian Carmack, Kevin Cloud
Level Design John Romero, Sandy Petersen, Shawn Green
Music & Sound Effects Robert Prince
Sound Engine Paul Radek
Tools Programming John Romero
Model Development Gregor Punchatz
Creative Director Tom Hall
Box Art Don Punchatz
doomwiki.org - DOOM Wiki.
Retrieved from "http://thealmightyguru.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Doom&oldid=29395"
Video Game Rank - 7
Video Game Graphics Rank - 8
Video Game Sound Rank - 7
Links to ModdingWiki
Video Game Prime Order - Action, Adventure, Strategy
Video Game Genre - First-Person Shooter
Video Game Genre - Shooter
Media Theme - Horror
Media Theme - Science Fiction
Jaguar Games
PC-98 Games
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Multi-Player Versus
Software Distribution Model - Shareware
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Japanese SNES box.
Final Fantasy V is a JRPG developed and published by Square and released on 1992-12-06 for the Super Famicom. It is the fifth game in the Final Fantasy canon. The game was later translated to English and ported to other platforms.
Like most Americans, I did not have access to this game when it came out or even know of its existence. However, many years after its release, I found a translated ROM hack and began playing it. I played the game about half way through and enjoyed it, but the job system was very difficult for the completionist in me to take, and I became bored constantly trying to level up all my characters. At some point, I lost my save game file and gave up on it, and haven't played it since.
I do not own this game and I have not beaten it.
Overall: 6/10
Best Version: ?
The job system is pretty cool. I like the idea of being able to progress with a class and permanently have access to that class's abilities.
The graphics have really been improved since FF4, especially the monster graphics and scenic backgrounds which take advantage of a larger color palette.
Nobuo Uematsu once again delivers a fantastic soundtrack.
There are a whole bunch of items, songs, spells, and various other things to discover throughout the game. It adds a lot of replay value.
The lever puzzle in the fire ship was pretty enjoyable.
I love the head-bob of Boko the chocobo.
The job system ultimately hurts character development. In games like 4 and 6, the fact that a character is a mage stays with them for the whole game. You're constantly reminded they're a mage because they're unable to equip powerful weapons and armor, they're physically weaker, and you frequently use them for magic. This puts a certain depiction of them in your head that matches how they're depicted in the story. However, with the job system, every character can change roles all the time, so it's only the story that gives them stability. Of course, when your supposedly delicate princess is a fighting as a berserker, it ruins that depiction of her in your head.
The classes are terribly unbalanced. For example, a monks completely dominates over berserkers, and, since you get the monk early on, the berserker start out particularly under-powered and you have no incentive to develop it. This makes a lot of the weaker classes kind of pointless.
Most of the job abilities you learn are pretty useless.
I wish you could hold off on a character's action in combat like you can in FF6.
The game is every completionist's nightmare. Not only do you level up the players, but you also have to level up all of their classes. This wouldn't be that annoying if ability points were increased with harder enemies like experience points are, but the average battle only yields 1-2 ABP, and bosses only award 5! This takes forever to reach those 999 levels. Thankfully, hitting level caps are not necessary at all.
The numerous modes of transportation you keep gaining throughout the story, and then losing before you can exploit them, are pretty contrived.
The shops often sell that same weapons, armor, items, and spells for a long time through the game's progression, which is annoying. The game should have either included more upgrades and spaced them out further.
Even when your characters have over a thousand hit points, enemies still reward you with tonics. Other useless items sometimes drop really late in the game.
Dialog boxes are a little better than the previous game, so you don't accidentally skip them with the D-pad, but you have to let off the D-Pad before you can hit any of the other buttons which is annoying to talk and walk at the same time. An, when a thief is in the party, the dash is too fast too accurately control.
Since I run far more than I walk, I would rather have to push a button to walk rather than run.
There is a bug with the NPCs hurrying out of the way when you push them, and they often hurry well after you've passed them, and if you both walk into the same square at the same time, you walk through each other.
Overworld: First world.
Overworld: Second world.
Overworld: Third world.
Final Fantasy V - SNES - Map - Overworld - Third World (Underwater).png
Overworld: Third world (underwater).
English Final Fantasy V
Japanese ファイナルファンタジー Fainaru Fantaji V Final Fantasy V
Retrieved from "http://thealmightyguru.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Final_Fantasy_V&oldid=26766"
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Video Game Prime Order - Strategy, Adventure, Action
Game Mechanic - Playable Female Character
Trope - Damsel In Distress
Trope - Queer Character
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SYKES Welcomes New EDGE Scholars
By Featuresdesk (ICG) on January 6, 2020
Top BPO company in the Philippines Sykes Asia, Inc. has recently announced 30 new scholars as recipients of its annual SYKES EDGE (Educational Grant for Employees’ Dependents) Scholarship Program that extends financial support to dependents of SYKES employees. Apart from the monetary grant, the SYKES Executive Team conducts an annual meet and greet to celebrate the scholars’ milestones and further encourage them to persevere in school and continue reaching their dreams.
Since its inception in 2017, SYKES EDGE has helped nearly a hundred employee dependents achieve their dreams of finishing their education. Now on its third year, the scholarship program picked 15 grantees from Cebu and another 15 from Manila. The scholars received Php 25,000 financial aid for their education, as well as exclusive SYKES merchandise and school supplies to prep them for the academic year.
SYKES employees, also referred to as SYKESers, are given the chance to nominate one dependent─from either children or siblings─ to the educational program. Students in elementary, junior and senior high school, and technical-vocational education are all eligible to apply.
“Education is one of our primary advocacies, and we value its importance and capability to open doors of opportunity. SYKES’ sustainability development model focuses on the contribution of our business towards the improvement of social well-being, resulting to social mobility and reduction of poverty. As Filipinos, it is part of our culture for education to be an aspiration for our loved ones, and since most of our employees are financially supporting their family members’ education, we wanted to pay back their loyalty by helping them achieve their goals through SYKES EDGE,” said Cecile May Venancio, Branding and Communications Director of SYKES APAC.
Unaizah Marie Magdalera (in photo), 17, one of this year’s SYKES EDGE scholars in Cebu, says that one of the reasons she wanted to apply to the program is to help her mother, a SYKES employee, in fulfilling financial responsibilities to their family. She shares that her mother, a single parent, is financing both her and her sister’s education. “With this opportunity, I am able to help my mom with the finances, especially with my studies. With this scholarship, my mother will be able to allot her salary to other important matters,” she said.
Currently in Grade 11, Unaizah is enrolled at the University of Cebu Senior High School, pursuing the Humanities and Social Sciences track. She reveals that she is planning on taking up Psychology in college as she wants to better understand people going through mental health issues and be able to help them overcome their illness.
Meanwhile, Angelo Tesoro,18, a SYKES EDGE scholar from Manila, considers education to be the key to everything in life and sees it as more than gaining knowledge and honing skills. “Aside from being more knowledgeable and equipped to accomplish things as an individual, I want to finish my studies to make my parents proud and make my degree a stepping stone to give back to them what they deserve,” said Angelo, who emphasizes that his parents are constantly supportive of everything he does.
Angelo aims to be a teacher in the future to impart knowledge, academically or otherwise, and influence the youth with life lessons that they can use in the long run. In his own way, he aims to shape the generation after him, which he believes holds the hope to our world.
“This scholarship will certainly strengthen my opportunity and will help me accomplish my current goal, move on to the next, and eventually become a Professional Licensed Teacher,” Angelo explains.
As a top BPO company in the Philippines, SYKES shows its appreciation and gratitude to its employees in more ways than the mandatory benefits expected of a company. With SYKES EDGE opening every year, financial assistance is provided to more SYKESers, which better expands the BPO industry leader’s employee benefits. This unique advocacy inspires more employees and students to always strive towards their goals.
Angelo Tesoro with his father, Sherwin Tesoro
“The SYKES EDGE Scholarship Program serves as a tool for deserving Filipino students to educate themselves and uplift their lives. We hope that they take this opportunity and use it as an inspiration to, in turn, pay it forward to people in need when they achieve success,” said Venancio.
Outside the EDGE program, SYKES is also actively participating in educational support activities including educational facilities renovation, computer donation drives, student tutorials, and school supplies sponsorships. Prior to the program, the multinational BPO company has been providing scholarships to students in various educational levels through partnering with NGOs.
Widely regarded as a top BPO in the Philippines, SYKES excels in more areas than simply providing good customer service and customer satisfaction. Over the past two decades, the organization has spearheaded CSR programs in different sectors across the country, whether through educational programs, disaster relief operations, or any other efforts that extend assistance to people in need and communities in rural areas, orphanages, and public schools, among others.
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New club seeks to empower students to help change lives
Mission club, a new club based upon service and helping others, was founded this year by Prep senior Charlie Raimondi and Villa senior Faith Rebich. The mission statement of the club is “Empowering young students to help change lives,” which greatly reflects and encompasses everything they are trying to accomplish in Mission Club.
“Really we just want to help make a place for students to help other people and a place where maybe we can take on some of the financial responsibilities and help out with kids who really want to go on mission trips,” said Charlie.
Mission Club is an exciting new development for Prep and Villa,and a great way for both student bodies to come together and help affect other lives in a positive way.
“I think it’ll be really helpful for people who maybe can’t afford to go on these trips,” Charlie said. “But even more than that, I think it will be fun and a really good learning experience for all involved to get a little closer with others and with God. If you haven’t done it already you [should] sign up. You won’t regret it.”
As a member of Mission Club myself, I agree with everything Charlie said. It’s a great way to reach out in the community through service work and fundraising for missions in other countries. If you haven’t looked into it, or maybe are on the edge, email Faith or Charlie. Mission Club would love to have you.
Ryan Kirby
Ryan Kirby is the junior editor of The Rambler. He is a member of the Class of 2021. Ryan is also a member of the football team and involved with campus ministry, student government, ITS, mission club, chess club and the theater program.
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"North Polar Ice is Melting" - Story is just Ice Station Hysteria
Here we go again. The Arctic Ocean is clearing just in time for Canada Day and the media is encouraging us to freak out. We Canadians have seen this story before. I think we won't let it rain tears on our July 1st festivities. We news junkies deserve the indigestion we endure from consuming crap news. Why did take a last look at the Net before bidding adieu to my day? My reward was stumbling over this stinker from the INDEPENDENT.
"Exclusive: No ice at the North Pole Independent, UK By Steve Connor, Science Editor. It seems unthinkable, but for the first time in human history, ice is on course to disappear entirely from the North Pole ..."
I also checked for news contagion on the Web and I see that the story is proliferating. Even Mr. Bourque of Ottawa, Canada's favorite news blogger, immediately jumped on the bandwagon, ranking it his top story tonight. Bollocks!
Arctic Sea Ice Minimum - shown early September 2007 (NASA Graphic). NASA has been posting these Polar Minimum shots for years, and also offers sophisticated animations of the event as an online service.
If you can spare ten minutes, the mystery of Ice Station Hysteria is solved for you in an excellent science article entitled THE TOP OF THE WORLD.
Open water at the North Pole is nothing new. Among contributing factors to consider, the sun shines 24 hours a day in the summertime. British and American submarines wash their bowplanes in the North Arctic puddle every summer.
Labels: Arctic Sea Ice Minimum, Bourque.com, Environmentalism, North Polar Ice, Submarines at the Pole
The UN Gang - Vancouver's graveyard dawgs
Is the UN Gang out of business? Unlikely, but at least its leader is buried in a holding cell down in Seattle. As widely reported by Vancouver media, Clayton "Clay" Roueche was scooped up in a slick three way operation mounted by U.S., Mexican and Canadian law enforcement. Roueche is fond of foreign travel and his ability to organize gang R&R activities offshore. He tripped up on a recent junket to Cancun Mexico, where he was to attend a wedding. The attendees included twenty UN Gang members, their wives and girlfriends. His mistake was in thinking there was safety in overflying the United States. Millions of dollars worth of close surveillance and wiretapping paid off, and he was coolly diverted into U.S. custody.
A bonanza of personal material including bank records and private photographs of gang activities were seized when police raided his house in Coquitlam, B.C. It's a tantalizing preview of what was in Clay Roueche's personal scrapbook. A copy set of the Intelligence booty was provided to the Americans and a small sample was offered by federal prosecutors in Seattle at Roueche's arraignment on June 9, 2008.
Several events led to police capture of Roueche. One key development was arrest of Jong Ca John Lee, who is believed to have been the armourer to the UN Gang. Lee's highrise Vancouver apartment was stormed by Vancouver police on June 9, 2007. (Local TV broadcast a police display of automatic weapons and drugs seized. It included a German MG42 belt-fed machine gun). Lee had no previous criminal record but pleaded guilty in September 2007 to 10 counts, including possession of 3.5 kilograms of ecstasy (estimated value $400,000) 900 grams of marijuana, an arsenal and three stolen Canadian passports. He is now in prison.
Criminal yearbook photo - seventy members of the UN Gang formed ranks for a recent photo. Note some wearing sweatshirts or T's with their "UN" logo. The boss, Clayton Roueche, is currently in U.S. custody.
Clayton Roueche, sporting a custom embroidered hoodie, makes his way to the graveside to burn joss for a fallen UN soldier.
Roueche, born and raised in Chilliwack and Abottsford, B.C., is a devotee of Asian martial arts and enjoys all the trappings, including gaudy insignia and Buddhist ceremonial.
This grave of a UN Gang member boldly proclaims him to be a "Warrior of the United Nations". The stone and burial were paid for by gang leader Clayton Roueche.
Another key factor was the fallout from the Apt 1505 murders in Surrey B.C. Public outrage over the fact that two of the six men executed were innocent bystanders, led to an intensified investigation. Police task forces received rare cooperation from gang associates who had previously maintained steadfast loyalty to Roueche, and were thus able to mount the tri-nation operation which culminated in his arrest. It remains to be seen if Roueche's lieutenants will successfully hold the distribution territory in the Fraser Valley and Vancouver suburbs which their boss assembled hit by hit.
At the pre-trail hearing in Seattle Roueche's lawyer offered a raft of testimonials including a statement from his family which claims he is a dutiuful father of three girls. A Buddhist temple in Langley, B.C. (a registered charity) provided a reference letter written by its President, Savath Homsab, which claims Roueche "regularly volunteered in fund-raising and doing all variety works to build up our temple." Roueche's father, Rupert, also provided a letter of support. The UN Gang leader is said to be his "only son," a good boy who in 1993 graduated from Sardis Secondary School in Chilliwack. Roueche put his son Clayton in Tae Kwan Do classes at age 12, with no thought of him using that discipline for criminal purposes.
Labels: Apt. 1505 Balmoral Tower, Clayton "Clay" Roueche, Jong Ca John Lee, Jonothan Bacon, UN Gang, UN Gang photos
My Football Summer - Taiwan Documentary Drama Will Steal Your Heart
Submitted for your viewing pleasure: My Football Summer
(2006). Now on DVD. 103 minutes, English subtitles.
Last night I took in the opening reception for the 2nd Annual Taiwanese Film Festival, now running at the Vancouver International Film Center. The festival opener was a warmly engaging feature length documentary entitled MY FOOTBALL SUMMER. It's a doc I had not heard of, but which I am grateful to have seen. The film offers us a privileged window into the energetic lives of a group of young friends, the football team at Mei-Lun Junior High School in Haulien County. But it's more than just another sport documentary. These boys are from impoverished families living in the mountainous east coast, some of them aboriginal. MeiLun is a boarding school with a devoted staff, who adore their team, and who understand the emotional struggles of youngsters facing a limited future. Onscreen we witness the boys bravely facing up to the challenges of a modern education, but their school also offers a brief glorious life on the soccer field. They are proud of their scars and broken bones, awards they will treasure as adults, though perhaps consigned to careers as "professional weed pullers". The Mei-Lun team becomes their everything, their "Heaven", and it's a very compelling story.
I think it was very astute choice of the TWFF committee to lead with MY FOOTBALL SUMMER. It's a great audience pleaser and we are told that in 2006 the film out grossed several prominent feature films in Taiwan. That's a rather remarkable accomplishment for a "local" documentary about a Junior High School soccer team. (I had a chance to chat with Kai Ling Xue, a young Vancouver film maker who told me she is from Haulien, the setting for this film.) There was some great news for the TWFF committee. Spokesmen for China Airlines and the Taipei Economic Office, the anchor sponsors, informed the audience that the festival will enjoy their continued patronage.
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Labels: Mei-Lun Junior High School, My Football Summer, Taiwan cinema
SHONENKO - the Taiwanese boys who built Mitsubishi aircraft as Japan's defences crumbled
Most elderly Taiwanese live with sad memories of W.W.2. Even though Imperial Japan surrendered before the Allied forces were required to mount an invasion of Taiwan (code named OPERATION CAUSEWAY) a ferocious Air War had been fought over the Japanese colony. Formosa was bombed and strafed continuously between 1944 - 1945 and when I lived in Taipei in the mid-1980s, I was sometimes conscious of the fact that unexploded U.S. bombs sleep in the mud deep beneath the teeming city.
I first understood the power of these living memories when I took some of our Taiwanes relatives on a tour of the aviation museum in Seattle. I recall assuming that only my kids would get a thrill from the visit, but I was wrong. I parked our van close to an outdoor exhibit - a B29 bomber glinting in the hot sun, and the two Taiwanese ladies began a highly animated conversation. My wife offered me translation; her auntie's encounter with the Boeing B29 Superfortress had triggered a flood of memory. She was reliving the afternoon when a U.S. bomber was shot down near her home in southern Taiwan. Auntie described the crash and the contrasting images of a spread of white parachutes floating down, while acrid sooty smoke ascended. She knew that another B29 had dropped the atomic bomb in 1945, thus saving her family from forced participation in any last ditch effort by the Japanese Army to defend Formosa.
Liang-Yin Kuo is a young film maker with a proven talent for recording compelling stories. Among her documentary films are SEARCHING FOR THE DISAPPEARED JAPANESE ZERO (2002) and SHONENKO (2007) which have been broadcast on Taiwan and Japan television.
Many proud Taiwanese film makers have found inspiration in the fabulous history and rich folk culture of their country. Liang-Yin Kuo took her film training at U.S.C. in California, (she has a Masters in Film and Television Production) and returned home to begin her career. After a string of projects on Taiwan heritage she has found a niche for herself. One of her early films was inspired by "grandfather stories". Following the Japanese surrender hundreds of warplanes became available for scrap. Her grandfather recalled that in 1946 he got his start in business by breaking up a Japanese Zero fighter and using the aluminum to make bowls. Intrigued, Kuo partnered with a Japanese classmate at U.S.C. and together they investigated the story.
The work was absorbing and took them on a journey of discovery. In the process of producing the film Ms. Kuo learned much about the traumatic period in Taiwan's history when the Japanese evacuated, only to be replaced by Nationalist Chinese troops fleeing the Communist Revolution. In addition Kuo came to understand the status of the Zero Fighter as something of a cultural icon; only thirty still exist. The film went through several experimental cuts and was at one time 90 minutes in length. In final form it 30 minutes and is distributed as SEARCHING FOR THE DISAPPEARED JAPANESE ZERO. It won a Golden Harvest Award for Best Documentary and was broadcast on Taiwan Public T.V. in 2003.
Liang-Yin Kuo directs a shot for her 2002 film SEARCHING FOR THE DISAPPEARED JAPANESE ZERO. The documentary had its origin in the stories which her grandfather told her about his life during WW2. Taiwan was then a Japanese colony and in 1944-45 bombed and strafed by U.S. aircraft on a daily basis.
SHONENKO - Encouraged by the response to her film, Kuo chose another WW2 subject, and one which contributed to shaping of postwar Taiwan. The experiences of young boys separated from their family and friends, their memories of a sojourn in Japan punctuated by constant threat of being bombing, is a subject which had touched thousands of families across Taiwan and which was well received by modern audiences. For the film Kuo once again teamed with her U.S.C. classmate, Shuhei Fujita. They worked as co-Directors and Fujita assisted in getting doors to open in his country.
After the Japanese Navy lost the decisive Battle of Midway their government rushed the construction of a new naval arsenal, and the development of a fighter interceptor to defend the Home Islands. A program to recruit child workers from Taiwan (boys aged 12 - 14) met with success because families believed the official promise that their sons would receive a good technical education while working as Shonenko. Japan's ambitious plan to recruit 25,000 or more boys was disrupted by American Naval encirclement but in the end some 8,419 Taiwan boys found work building the J2M3 RAIDEN. At wars end more than 7000 boys were repatriated to Taiwan. The world forgot about the Taiwanese Shonenko until a book on the child labourers was published in 2001. Ms. Kuo read it and was quick to realize the possibilities for a film.
The Mitsubishi J2M3 - RAIDEN (Thunderbolt) was codenamed "Jack" by the Allied Forces. It was designed specifically to shoot down long-range bombers like the giant B29. Thousands of boys from Taiwan, aged from 12 to 14, were impressed as labour on the production of the RAIDEN. Now elderly men, the "Shonenko" maintain an active association.
Kuo's project received immediate funding and took four years to research and shoot. Over 40 of the surviving Shonenko were interviewed and Kuo chose eight of them to feature in the film. In addition she located still photos and useful wartime footage in archives in Tokyo and Washington. Kuo prefers to shoot with a Beta Cam and transfer her film to 16 or 35 mm when needed. The result is a film which is continuing to win awards in Taiwan and which is gaining an international audience.
Childhood's End - This photo was sent to worried parents back home in Taiwan. Here more than a hundred "Shonenko" pose in front of their barracks on the grounds of a Mitsubishi aircraft factory.
SHONENKO is a feature documentary at this year's Taiwanese Film Festival which runs at the Vancouver International Film Centre on Seymour Street. It will be screened on Sunday June 22 at 5:50 PM. Tickets are $7. A DVD is selling in Taiwan for NT390 but as yet is not available from Amazon. com.
If anyone knows a distributor in Canada for this DVD , please contact me and I will post the info. Cheers! R.J. Jack in Vancouver.
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Labels: 2nd Annual Taiwanese Film Festival, B29 Raids, Documentary Film, Liang-Yin Kuo, SHONENKO, Shuhei Fujita, Taiwan in WW2
THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI - movie whitewashes story of western paedophile in Wartime China
Critics of The Children of Huang Shi have trashed the new movie on its technical execution - bad script, bad acting, etc. But all agree that Chow Yun Fat steals the picture. I think the critics miss the point entirely. This isn't just a bad film. It's a patently dishonest suppression of historical events which shaped modern China. The film substitutes an orphanage and the rescue of innocents, for the reality - a school for incorrigible boys where pedophilia was a fixture.
Should we care? Well wouldn't we all howl if Canadian movie producers attempted to shoot a script set at the troubled Mount Cashel Boys Home in the 1970s, but was totally silent about the sexual abuse of kids? Wouldn't the media give the Director a hard time if he attempted a patriotic wartime drama with one of our Native Residential Schools as an establishing shot, but ignored what went on inside? How then does Ottawa born Director Roger Spottiswoode believe he can get away with travesty. In his Children of Huang Shi he whitewashed events in far off China which equate with the worst of Mount Cashel abuses.
Roger Spottiswoode, Director of The Children of Huang Shi in Chicago on May 23 to promote his film. The shameful and callous Australia-China co-production whitewashes history for the sake of making a buck. The true story of a Chinese school of horrors, run by a white paedophile and funded by western charities, has been oblitered by a Bio-pic gone very, very wrong. (Patrick McDonald photo)
In interview Spottiswoode claims that the gestation period for this film was eight years. Really? Then how in the hell did he get the story so wrong?
"I try not to make up too much and in some cases, I don’t make up anything at all. It is a balancing act in that you are trying to tell a story of things that really happened and are trying to stay out of the fiction business but at the same time, you have to make it as compelling as possible". The Spottiswoode treatment involves hanging a completely bogus story, and a cast of composite characters, on the shoulders of one man who actually existed. There certainly was a George Aylwin Hogg in China between 1938-1945, and he did work briefly for U.P.I. That is just about as biographical as this film ever gets. He did not witness the Rape of Nanking.
The real George Aylwin Hogg in a photo sent to the publisher of his China memoir. Hogg's book gave broad hints of the paedophilia he witnessed at the school run in Shensi by a notorious New Zealand pervert.
The Children of Huang Shi asks us to accept George Hogg deposited at an "orphanage" in war blasted Shensi province, left entirely to his own devices, and unable to speak Chinese. He is confronted by a feral pack of Chinese youths, all lice bitten war orphans emotionally crippled by their loss or else made prone to violent rages by the Japanese atrocities they witnessed. With patience and love George Hogg "Mr. Pig" performs a miracle. He wins the boys trust (and a Guinness record for learning to speak Chinese) and in a thrilling anti-war gesture he leads the orphans on an epic journey through the mountains, to save them from being drafted into the Kuomintang Army.
The truth is more harrowing, certainly to the careers of myth mongers worldwide. George Hogg had fallen in with Rewi Alley, a New Zealand born operative in a busy espionage ring run in Shanghai by Soong Ching Ling (the bitter widow of Sun Yat Sen). Madame Soong, Alley and their circle had set up a network of training centres, or Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (Indusco), which became the pet charity of Madame Roosevelt and Henry and Clare Boothe Luce. The C.I.C. was a mecca for western do gooders and George Hogg found a home.
Rewi Alley, a New Zealand Runagate of the first water. A productive member of Madame Sun's espionage network, the Chinese Communists allowed Alley to satisfy his taste for sex with boys in exchange for his total loyalty, his expertise in fund raising and his flare for propaganda.
In his memoir I SEE A NEW CHINA, George Hogg gave a few broad hints of Rewi Alley's pedophilia, while assuring readers that he was a great proletarian hero. "The main distinctive feature of Rewi's cave in Shuangshipu is exactly the same as that of his former house in Shanghai - that at any time out of school hours it is filled with boys. ... Boys doing gymnastics off Rewi's shoulders or being held upside down. Boys being given enemas, or rubbing sulphur ointment into each others scabies. ... Boys toasting bare bottoms against the stove (the scar across Rewi's own nether portions testifies to his own indulgence in this form of amusement). Boys pulling the hair on Rewi's legs, or fingering the generous proportions of the foreigners nose."
To Alley's delight scores of boys consented to sex and, like most predators, he managed to conceal his crimes. Or did he? Much was made, then and now, about the fact that seven "headmasters" in twelve months had preceded George Hogg's posting to the C.I.C. school at Shuangshihpu (the alleged abandoned orphanage in the movie). It is quite possible that some of Hogg's predecessors could not stomach Alley's urge to corner students and poke his hand into their shorts. One Rewi Alley biographer argued that he was just a homosexual and NOT a paedophile. Oh... O.K. then.
The "orphanage" created for Spottiswoode's by Chinese set designers simply never existed. And there were no orphans. I'll let Hogg tell it:
"The co-ops... sent their problem cases - usually semi-educated middle class boys who had failed to adapt themselves to worker conditions when their families fell on hard times after 1937. These boys were filled either with consuming self-pity or with burning ambition to use the school as a stepping stone toward long-fingernailed office jobs. ... Nobody quite knew what the school was for, but the boys and the masters themselves both grew to have a sneaking idea that it was some kind of badly organized foreign charity..." As far as I can determine, not a single word of Hogg's memoir is represented in this movie which purports to recreate his China experience. How's that for the claim "Based on a true story". Hogwash!
I must now return this Chinese made DVD to the student who lent it for review. Mike Chuang, if you're sad I don't share your enthusiasm, forgive me! I did at least enjoy all that lovely Chinese scenery. Most of the reviews online are also very hard on the film, but for entirely different reasons. As Lavar Burton concludes on Reading Rainbow... "Don't just take my word on it."
Postscript - I visited the Children of Huang Shi Wiki page and inserted a link to this Blog article. It survived just two days before a brainless Wiki-crow deleted it. That is the fundamental problem with wikis - the dicks of the world, the academics as well as dropouts, post their jellied thoughts and then become full time wiki guardians, pouncing on any dissenting viewpoint.
UPDATE July 6 - I just read the comments left by a Rewi Alley supporter who believes I have been unfair to his Socialist hero. Alley was first and foremost a COMINTERN agent working in Madame Soong's network. His later involvement in Baillie schools allowed him to become a major fundraiser for the Reds, and to pass easily through military lines. The fact that he had a very dark hidden life as a rampant homosexual and child molester just added layers of deception to his makeup.
One of the few investigative biographies of the quirky Kiwi is FRIEND OF CHINA - THE MYTH OF REWI ALLEY . Here is a review written by Canadian author Douglas Brown.
My criticism of Roger Spottiswoode role as film director underscored his boast of having done exhaustive research on Hogg. That is a bogus claim. The fact is that Rewi Alley, working as a professional propagandist, constantly claimed the accomplishments of other Westerners in China as his own. The fact that Rewi Alley supporters, most especially his fan club in New Zealand, refuse to reference George Hogg's memoir I SEE A NEW CHINA in their promotions, shows that the cracks are at last beginning to widen. My Blog was a negative review of the film, which is why a dishonest Wiki crow kicked my link off the film's Wiki page. The fact is that a small clique of "Old China Hands" spent their latter years polishing their own Red apples, and relentlessly erasing better men and women from the historical record. That is a demonstrable fact, but beyond the scope of the Blog article.
The accusation made by "Mike" is that I was bashing Communism in my film review. If that was my motive I would have trashed a few of the "dramatic" moments of the film which were ludicrous. (Item - Chinese Koumintang army officers stuff their men into boxcars and lock all the doors. As the Japs begin strafing and bombing the station the cowardly KMT officers flee. A Red guerrilla officer chooses to ignore the strafing and unlocks the boxcars under fire, thus showing Red compassion for a bitter enemy. Eeeeyuck!)
LITTLE DEVILS - Item - in the movie Hogg's given motive for taking the "orphans" on the dangerous journey over the mountain was to deny their service to Chiang's army. In fact the largest intake of Siao Kuei or "Little Devils" (dubbed "Wild Boys" by the Shanghai press ) was by the Communists and not the Nationalists. The Eighth Route Army alone had more than 20,000 of them. Siao Kuei ranged in age from 11 to 16 and were noncombatants. By 16 they were deemed politically reliable and inducted as Red Fighters.)
Since Communism was vanquished from China almost two decades ago (it is now a fascist dictatorship of the classical model) it is a waste of my sweat to stir old "anti-Communist" rhetoric. I'm an honest Blogger and not a propagandist or film promoter.
I did find it amusing that Mr. Spottiswoode came back thinking the Chinese were in his corner. Even before a print of his new movie hit Canadian shores, Chinese were distributing the DVD here in Vancouver for $2 bucks. The DVD was high. It's the Canadian director's contribution which is poor.
Labels: Chow Yun Fat, COMINTERN, Douglas Brown, George Hogg, homosexuality in China, Little Devils, Rewi Alley, Roger Spottiswoode, Siao Kuei, Soong Ching Ling, The Children of Huang Shi review
2nd Annual Taiwanese Film Festival - June 20 -22, 2008
A rare treat is available to British Columbia film buffs who enjoy Asian cinema. Taiwanese student organizers are preparing to host the 2nd Annual Taiwanese Film Festival - showcasing a medley of drama and documentary titles. The committee members, all S.F.U. or U.B.C. students, have made arrangement with the Taiwan government office in Vancouver to receive a selection of recently produced films, all of them completed between 2005 - 2007, and recipient of national awards or nominations.
The Footprints of Youth is this year's festival theme. A detailed schedule and film list is posted on the TWFF Website.
This year the students' chosen theme is “The Footprints of Youth” and their festival will offer Taiwanese films which explore contemporary or historical aspects of Taiwan youth experience. For example two contrasting works, Love's Lone Flower (drama) and Shonenko (documentary), explore the lasting pain and disruption of the Japanese occupation period which brought WW2 down upon the Taiwanese. Among its many lasting effects the war shattered the lives of countless young Formosans and split thousands of families along generational lines. From those smoking ruins of a Japanese colony arose a vigorous and wealthy industrial nation. I will attend this festival with great interest and have already begun a feature length article on one of the films and its young director.
Venue: Vancouver International Film Centre, 1181 Seymour St.
June 20 - 22. Tickets $7 each.
SHONENKO (2006). "Shonenko" is the old Japanese term for "live in boy worker". The photo shows Taiwanese boys eating in their mess hall at an aircraft factory. Promised an education in Japan, they actually built fighter planes for a Empire which was preparing its "last ditch" defences.
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Labels: 2nd Annual Taiwanese Film Festival, Documentary Film Making, SHONENKO, Taiwan cinema
B.C. Judge throws Bacon to the Dogs
Astonishing. How else can you describe the actions of the B.C. Provincial Court judge who put Jonothan Bacon (age 27) back onto the streets of British Columbia? Bacon was in Abbotsford Court last Friday morning to face charges stemming from his arrest during a 2005 raid on an Abbotsford home. "Police found two machine guns, two handguns, silencers, hard drugs, 40 pounds of marijuana and nearly $100,000 in cash." Judge Donald Gardiner was dismissive of crown evidence and released the accused on a technicality. Two Bacon associates walked at the same time. They are Rayleene Burton and Godwin Cheng. The trio were justifiably jubilant at Gardiner's decision.
I think this is genius at work. I simply have to believe that Judge Gardiner has an ulterior motive. The Court must have decided to defer this travesty to street justice, because by releasing Bacon from custody he is effectively throwing him to the dogs. In September 2006 Bacon was shot in his own driveway, but survived. He's a tough lad but will not survive a second hit, and is he not capable of planning a preemptive strike to save himself? Who dies next? Currently the entire Bacon crime family is under round the clock police surveillance, due to existing underworld contracts on the life of Jonothan's two criminal brothers.
Much of what we know derives from the dogged investigative skills of Kim Bolan, ace reporter at THE VANCOUVER SUN. Last week law enforcement took the unprecedented step of warning the public, through the news media to stay away from James "Jamie" Kyle Bacon (age 22) and Jarrod Wayne Bacon (age 25) because they are certain to be gunned down soon. The younger brothers are temporarily in custody, facing multiple weapons offences stemming from an incident on May 9th involving a Bacon associate who was murdered in an ambush on a Burnaby street. The deceased was driving an armoured Porsche Cayenne registered to one of the Bacon brothers, and had the misfortune to be mistaken for one of them. The parents of the Bacon boys claim they are innocent. Their father David Bacon, an Abbotsford school employee, is now on paid leave and the Mother is Susan Bacon, a manager at Prospera Credit Union. Neither parent showed up at the court house, choosing wisely to protect their anonymity. We are allowed only the photograph of one family member - James.
James Bacon shown disarmed and under arrest in December 2006 at the Castle Fun Park in Abbotsford, B.C. Seven gang members were meeting in the park, four of them wearing kevlar vests and three armed with pistols. The Bacon's and other local gangs have limitless access to assault weapons. Yet legions of fools like Toronto's mayor and Burnaby's council have always targeted law abiding target shooting ranges. One brazen execution murder took place not so long ago on Canada Way in Burnaby, next to RCMP headquarters. L.A. gang bangers are punks compared to our local underworld.
ABBOTSFORD GANGSTERS HAVE MORE MACHINE GUNS THAN A NEVADA SHOOTING RANGE
A display of confiscated WW2 Bren guns and Sten guns (all former Canadian Army stock) as well as modern machine pistols and silencers seized in Abbotsford, B.C. in 2005. Other major arsenals have been uncovered in Burnaby (Eight Rinks) and Winnipeg. How long before an Abbotsford neighborhood gets sprayed by a full magazine of .303 rounds from a Bren gun? It's chilling to contemplate.
A small window (albeit a cracked one) offering some street level buzz in the Fraser Valley communities, is found in a discussion string, "Why the Bacon brothers are hated in Abbotsford". Two Bacon associates, one a female who calls herself "Sarah", do their best to stick up for their friends. It's a slice of unedited Canadian culture.
"It's me Bren Gun !" - A zany image of a movie bad guy ripping off a marijauna grow-op, using a Bren gun. It won't be funny if it happens on some farm in the Fraser Valley. [apologies to Guy Ritchie and Ska Films]
Labels: Godwin Cheng, Jamie Kyle Bacon, Jarrod Wayne Bacon, Jonothan Bacon, Judge Donald Gardiner, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Rayleene Burton, Vancouver Crime
Icelanders refuse to adopt Al Gore's GREEN gospel
Hey, can't a guy take a break? I had decided to give this Blog a rest for a few months and concentrate on other writing commitments. Then today I get an email from some American dude reminding me that I haven't "updated" the Blog for awhile and offering to buy my Blogspot name. "Updated?" Unlike a zillion other bloggers I actually research and write my own material and it does take hours out of my week. I do not have a vast legion of readers, but I enjoy the process of creation and have no reason to quit. So ... no thanks, buddy. Your $$$ I don't need.
Obama Fever. I've got it too.
I love the smell of burnt Clinton in the morning! I couldn't be more thrilled with the Barack Obama's triumph last night than if the man was my own kin. In one sense perhaps he feels like a brother in arms... and if I were an American citizen I would relish the chance to support the "Change" he proposes. I have been following the Clinton file since long before the dastardly duo secured the U.S. Presidency, and suspect I have at hand more reference material on their crimes than any other Canadian. I had long come to accept the dread reality that no man existed who could take them out. But I was wrong, and I will praise that handsome Black hero forever. It is a great public service Obama rendered his nation this week, slaying the Beast called Billary.
ICELANDERS LIVE IN A MOONSCAPE - WHY ARE THEY SO DETERMINED TO SHOOT ANY FAUNA WILLING TO SHARE THEIR TREELESS HABITAT?
As per my blogging habit, I picked up on a news item this evening and let it take me to another land. In Iceland yesterday, police shot a 250-kilo male polar bear which had hitched a ride on pack ice and then swum ashore for some forage. It was the first bear to survive the crossing from Greenland in twenty years. Alas it was slaughtered within hours, all in the name of public safety. You can view the execution on an Icelandic news page, but you must sit through an ad for Icelandic Air. Watch four riflemen get shots on target and then rush to pose with their hapless kill.
If that isn't enough senseless slaughter to provoke disgust for Viking blood lust, consider this: Icelanders have a long history of scoping-out migrant bears and they kill every beast which manages to swim to shore. One British reporter testified that they "take a distinctly unsentimental approach to wildlife". Recall that only a year ago we Canadians were submitted to repeated and hysterical warnings that the polar ice was going to melt off and that polar bears might become extinct.
Well last year unprecedented flows off pack ice choked Icelandic fiords and harbours, putting many residents on polar bear watch. Before yesterday's kill, the last polar bear bagged by the Islanders was in 1993. Previous to that was a bear which swam ashore in 1988. Still further back, a bear made it ashore without a visa in the 1950s and was immediately liquidated. The trophy is now on display in a museum in Husavik. Just four polar bears in a half century and each dispatched without guilt. It seems certain, VANITY FAIR and movie stars aside, that those isolated Icelandic pagans are unwilling to entertain sermons from Green missionaries any time soon. The social gospel of the Reverend Gore has failed to rouse the good old burghers of Reykjavik.
But over in New York, Gore's pronouncements are scripture and Madison Avenue Ad factories are keen to soak up many millions of dollars delivered by acolytes of the handsomely financed Church of Environmental Science. As it happens my favorite magazine, VANITY FAIR, is a major exponent of the Gore movement. I won't hold it against them, as V.F. does far more good than harm, but I can't help bringing up their May 2007 issue. It takes on fresh relevance with yesterday's execution of polar bear number four. I assume that most people remember the silly spectacle of an entire European nation going nuts over a cuddly bear cub. Knut the polar bear is now the icon of the Berlin Zoo, and his fluffy white image was digitally inserted into the cover shot fabricated for use with V.F.'s "2nd Annual GREEN ISSUE". Juxtaposed with the reality of deeply entrenched Icelandic attitude, the arrogance of do good southerner's who are enrolled in a crusade to "save" the North, is truly remarkable.
A faked photo in support of an arrogant cause: In 2007 the image of Knut the Kraut polar bear was Photoshopped to position him at the feet of a mega-celebrity who endorses the Green Philosophy. Leonardo DiCaprio was flown to Iceland for some expensive propaganda work and VANITY FAIR was so proud of its cover they provided a series of production stills on the website.
This shot's not big enough for two celebrities. Knut the cuddly star of the Berlin Zoo couldn't make it. He was too busy with his Blog and TV show.
One of the four great swimmers who have been executed on Icelands shores since World War II. This big fellah guards the lobby of the Hotel Ranga.
Labels: Al Gore, Billary, Global Warming, Iceland, Leonardo DiCaprio, VANITY FAIR
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FBI Has Recovered At Least 2,650 Missing Pieces of Art And Artifacts Since 2004
This Charles Darwin letter was stole in the 1970s and was recently recovered.
The FBI has found at least 2,650 missing art pieces or historical artifacts since 2004, according to a review by News4 Washington.
The bureau’s Art Crime Team, a specialized unit to combat art fraud and theft, recovered the pieces.
Agents recently found a stolen historic letter authored by Charles Darwin in 1870s. The letter was stolen from the Smithsonian Archives in Washington D.C. in the 1970s. It was recovered on May 26.
“It is an important part of our heritage,” FBI Special Agent Marc Hess said. “It may not be worth a lot monetarily, but it’s worth a lot to scholars.”
Other cases involve artifacts, paintings and other valuable works of art and history.
The FBI says art theft and fraud is on the rise.
Posted: June 3rd, 2016 under News Story.
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The FBI is working on technology that would allow law enforcement to track and sort people based on their tattoos.
Gizmodo reports the database would help determine “affiliation to gangs, sub-cultures, religious or ritualistic beliefs, or political ideology.”
The system would be based on an algorithms and big datasets.
The technology would “map connections between people with similarly themed tattoos or make inferences about people from their tattoos,” according to a report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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Secret Service Agents Rush Stage to Protect Bernie Sanders for Second Time This Week
Secret Service agents rushed to protect Bernie Sanders on a stage for the second time in a week.
Sanders was delivering a speech Thursday in Modesto, Calif., when animal-rights protesters shouted at the senator and unfurled a black banner that read, “Animal Liberation is Social Justice.”
Two Secret Service agents jumped on the stage, and the protesters were escorted out.
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DEA Arrests Nogales Police Officer on Allegations of Buying, Possessing Narcotics
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The DEA arrested a Nogales, Ariz., police officer for allegedly buying and possessing narcotics.
Tucson News Now reports that Danitza Hernandez was arrested while she off duty on Wednesday.
She was charged with two felony counts of illegal possession of narcotic and use of an electronic device during a drug transaction.
The Nogales Police Department has placed Hernandez on administration suspension.
The police department said it is cooperating with the DEA.
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Somali Man Accused of Leading Mass Executions Works As Airport Security in U.S.
Yusuf Abdi Ali has been accused of leading mass executions and torture during the country’s civil war in the 1980s.
Despite the enormity of the allegations, Ali managed to pass FBI and TSA checks to work as a security guard at the Dulles International Airport, Fox News reports.
It appears the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority also was aware of some of the allegations in a lawsuit filed by a human rights group in 2006. He was accused of committing crimes against humanity.
“The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority maintains a contract with Master Security to provide unarmed security services,” said Rob Yingling, a spokesperson. “Master Security’s employees are subject to the full, federally mandated vetting process in order to be approved for an airport badge, including a criminal history records check by the FBI and a security threat assessment by the TSA.”
Ali has been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation.
“He oversaw some of the most incredible violence that you can imagine,” Kathy Roberts, an attorney for the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA), which is leading the civil lawsuit, told CNN. “He tortured people personally; he oversaw torture.”
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Samsung Galaxy A80 vs Huawei nova 5T: Which mid-range smartphone should you buy?
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If you’re looking to buy a brand new smartphone for your tech-savvy teenager but don’t want to spend more than a thousand dollars, you’d be happy to know that Samsung and Huawei have both come up with worthy contenders for this market category.
Today, Huawei launched its latest junior flagship smartphone, the nova 5T, pitting it against the Samsung Galaxy A80 which was released in Singapore in July. Both phones are targeted at Generation Z and millennials, so we decided to try them out to see how they measure up.
Design and features
One major aspect that’s important for the younger crowd is the design of the phone. The Galaxy A80 has a curved Gorilla Glass back that comes in three colours: Angel Gold, Ghost White, and Phantom Black. Sleek and clean with an almost completely bezel-less screen, it feels almost like one of Samsung’s flagship models.
Samsung Galaxy A80, L–R: Ghost White, Angel Gold, Phantom Black
The nova 5T, on the other hand, features a flat back with curved edges and a tiny hole punch on the top left of the screen. It has a reflective, holographic back that comes in three colours as well: Midsummer Purple, Crush Blue, and Black. Like some of the phones in the P20 and P30 series, the Midsummer Purple colourway of the nova 5T sports a dazzling gradient. In fact, it is the first Huawei phone which boasts a holographic finish with the “nova” logo subtly embossed all over its back.
Huawei nova 5T, L–R: Black, Crush Blue, Midsummer Purple
The Huawei nova 5T in Midsummer Purple sports a holographic embossed back.
Samsung’s New Infinity Display, making its debut on the A80, is certainly impressive. The screen is almost purely display, and there are no unsightly notches. In this new age of pop-up phone cameras which aim to maximise screen space and viewing experience, Samsung has introduced a rotating camera within the frame itself for a sleeker overall look and better selfie-taking experience.
Samsung Galaxy A80’s rotating selfie camera
When you switch to selfie mode, the frame extends so that the camera is able to rotate. It’s a visually more pleasing step up from shark-fin cameras, but the slider panel is still prone to problems, such as collecting dust and dirt. The rotating part can also be manually manipulated, which may make it prone to damage by restless hands.
With all that in mind, the nova 5T’s punch-hole selfie camera feels a lot more secure, although it is less attractive. Still, with the Huawei Punch FullView Display, its placement is far from random.
Tucked away in the left corner at only 4.5mm, it usually stays in your peripheral vision because the important icons like time and battery life are displayed on the top right corner. Also, when playing games in landscape orientation, it’s completely covered by the hand.
4.5mm hole punch on Huawei nova 5T screen
Samsung is famous for its Super-AMOLED displays, and the colours on the A80 are as vibrant as ever. The nova 5T falls slightly short, but still hits the mark with accurate colours and good contrast levels.
As for their weight and dimensions, the A80 is decidedly bulky at 220g and 165.2 x 76.5 x 9.3 mm. Its size makes it hard to manage with one hand, especially for those with smaller hands – a good portion of its young target audience.
Samsung has elected to put the volume rocker and power buttons on opposite sides of the phone, and the fingerprint sensor on the bottom of the screen is a little counter-intuitive. All of this makes for some rather unwieldy manoeuvring even when trying to perform basic functions.
Meanwhile, the nova 5T has all its buttons on the right side of the phone, and the fingerprint sensor is conveniently located on the power button itself, right where you would normally hold the phone. At 154.3 x 74 x 7.8 mm and 174g, it’s also much more compact and more comfortable for one-handed use.
The nova 5T also includes a facial recognition option. Both phones do not come with a memory card slot or 3.5mm jack, but that’s easily remedied with a USB-C adaptor.
The camera quality on a phone can be make-or-break for younger users. Huawei has been impressing us with its revolutionary smartphone cameras so far, and the nova 5T seems to be keeping up with its quad rear camera.
With the rotating camera, though, the Samsung Galaxy A80 uses its triple camera set-up for its front camera as well. That theoretically puts its selfies at the same quality as its main camera photos.
Both camera set-ups include wide-angle lenses and depth sensors, with an additional macro lens on the nova 5T that doesn’t seem to make much of a difference. They both do great in daylight, but it’s in low-light photos that the nova 5T really surpasses the A80. In brightly-lit night scenes, the A80 tends to overexpose, and its wide-angle shots lose clarity:
Samsung Galaxy A80 (Night mode) on the left, Huawei nova 5T (Night mode) on the right
Samsung Galaxy A80 (Wide angle) on the left, Huawei nova 5T (Wide angle) on the right
The nova 5T also adjusts better to backlight and creates more vibrant, saturated colours. Of course, colour preference is up to the user, but we personally prefer the nova 5T colours as they minimise the need for editing. It’s a plus point for those who take and post lots of photos.
Samsung Galaxy A80 on the left, Huawei nova 5T on the right
We were most excited to try out the A80’s unique selfie camera. One helpful feature is that when taking selfies, you can toggle between wide angles depending on how many people or how much background you want to capture.
Still, the depth or time-of-flight sensor is undoubtedly the best selfie feature of the phone. In Live focus modes, it helps to create the background bokeh effect so popular among Instagram users. The nova 5T also does this in portraits, but because the A80 front and rear cameras are the same, the depth sensor can be used even in selfie videos, and works remarkably well.
However, the A80 appears to have an auto-beautifying or whitening effect in selfie mode, even when the beauty mode is off, producing selfies which appear much more edited and unnatural than we would like. The nova 5T gives a more natural, accurate colour reproduction.
This is strange, given that the same camera set-up is used to take portraits which look much more natural. Several modes also disappear in selfie mode, like Night, Panorama, and Slow motion, which to us defeats the purpose of using the same cameras.
Surprisingly, because of these issues, the nova 5T does much better on the selfie front. Like the night photos taken with the rear camera, it works better with selfies in low light than the A80. It also has an AR lens mode with a bunch of fun 3D filters and effects, similar to those you find on Snapchat and Instagram Story.
Battery life and performance
On a full charge with moderate use, the A80 gets in about 9 hours and the nova 5T about 10. They both charge pretty quickly, and both can get up to 50% in less than 30 minutes. The nova 5T is just slightly faster, but the difference is probably negligible.
Both phones run on Android 9.0 (Pie), with the A80 using One UI and the nova 5T using EMUI 9.1 on top of it. The nova 5T’s GPU Turbo 3.0, in particular, really stands out in graphic-intensive gaming performance, but the A80 runs pretty smoothly as well and is unlikely to cause any issues for casual gamers.
That said, after using both phones for a few days, the A80 simply feels much slower. Whipping out your phone to take a quick selfie with the A80 is more complicated as you need to wait for the camera to pop up. Opening, closing, and switching apps also takes slightly longer on the A80 than it would on the nova 5T. The A80 seems to run best when gaming and watching videos.
We might also be biased because of the irritation caused by the A80’s unreliable fingerprint sensor. More often than not, it took multiple attempts to unlock the phone, and we sometimes defaulted to using the PIN instead. This is where the lack of facial recognition becomes a drawback for the A80. Even the unlocking itself took about twice the time of the nova 5T.
The nova 5T, in comparison, unlocks almost instantly and without any issues. Its fingerprint sensor, as mentioned, is placed in a much more intuitive location, and it also has facial recognition for those who want to use it. Perhaps due to the flagship-level chipset, its day-to-day performance and processing power feels much faster and more responsive than the A80, which uses a mid-range chipset.
Another issue we had with the A80 was the aforementioned volume rocker and power button on opposite sides. Most Gen Z and millennial phone users use their phones to access online content such as music and videos. However, you can’t place the A80 horizontally on a hard surface without accidentally changing the volume or turning off the screen.
Pricing and verdict
Both are phones with lots of great features and pretty designs, but Samsung’s attempt to maximise the A80 screen has come with a bunch of compromises that make it difficult to justify the party-trick camera. Perhaps the only areas in which it performs better than the nova 5T are the display and front camera depth sensor.
This decision becomes even easier to make when you look at the respective prices of the phones. Though the trouble with fingerprint unlocking alone would turn us away, the A80’s problems might be excusable with a cheaper price. But it costs S$898, almost flagship-level price with hardly any flagship-level attributes.
With many other better and cheaper options on the market, it’s hard to see why anyone other than diehard Samsung fans would spring for the A80. Outperforming it at only S$598, two-thirds of its price, the nova 5T is more than a steal. We can’t wait to get our hands on our very own nova 5T phones!
With its predecessor the Huawei nova 3i selling out its most popular colour within an hour of its launch last year, it’s better to be safe than sorry. Pre-order your Huawei nova 5T here from midnight today to 12 September 2019, and receive a pair of Freebuds Lite (worth S$188).
The Huawei nova 5T will be available in stores from 14 September 2019 at selected Telcos, selected Huawei Concept Stores, selected consumer electronics stores and Lazada (Huawei Official Store).
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December 8, 2019 By Herb Wilson in Foraging, Morphology
I have a cleverly designed, multi-purpose tool that fits into a credit card slot in my wallet. This metal tool is roughly rectangular. Three of the corners of the tool are projected out to form a slot-head screwdriver, a Phillips-head screwdriver and a micro screwdriver one can use to repair glasses. Various parts of the center of the card are removed to make a bottle opener and slots to loosen or tighten five sizes of hex nuts. But sometimes the tool can’t produce enough torque to remove a stubborn screw; a good, old-fashioned screwdriver is needed. Similarly, a ratchet or adjustable wrench may be needed to loosen really tight bolts.
I describe this tool as a metaphor for the old adage, which in its entirety is “A jack of all trades is a master of none but sometimes better than a master of one”. Is it better to be a specialist or a generalist?
One of the most important tools that a bird has is its beak. Depending on its shape, a beak can be used to tear flesh, deftly capture small insects, extract nectar from the base of long flowers, crush seeds and even, with the aid of the baleen-like tongue of a duck, filter microscopic algae from the water.
The bill of a European Starling falls on the generalist side of the spectrum of beak function. A starling’s bill is relatively long, stout at the base narrowing to a fine tip. It serves pretty well as a forceps, as a crushing tool and a probing tool for these birds with a notably broad diet.
Most birds have bills that tend to fall on the more specialized end of the spectrum of bill function. The bill of a chickadee is great for capturing small caterpillars in the summer but not powerful enough to crush sunflower seeds. These adaptable birds can feed on sunflower seeds but have to hold a seed against a hard surface with their toes and use their bill as a chisel along the suture line of the seed to get at the tender kernel inside. Compare chickadees with House Finches or Evening Grosbeaks that can rapidly eat large numbers of sunflower seeds with their crushing bills.
To me, the most specialized bills of our Maine birds occur in the two species of crossbills: White-winged Crossbill and Red Crossbill. The upper bill is curved in one lateral direction and the lower bill in the opposite lateral direction. In some individuals, the upper beak bends to the right; in other individuals it bends to the left.
This crossed bill is a perfect tool for extracting seeds from the cones of coniferous trees. Let’s consider the cone of a spruce or fir tree. The cone has a number of overlapping woody scales. These scales serve to protect the seeds, which are located at the base of each scale. Most birds have no chance of extracting a seed from the base of the scale.
Not so for a crossbill. These birds insert their bill between two scales and then open their bills. The bill essentially pries the two scales bracts apart. Then, using its long tongue, a crossbill can reach down to the base of the bract and extract a seed.
The crossed bill is, as you would expect, useless in more standard feeding activities. Crossbills are therefore dependent on the cones of spruce and other conifers.
We know that conifers vary greatly in cone production from year-to-year and from place-to-place. In some years, a particular species in a local region will show the phenomenon of masting, the production of a profusion of cones. We believe this masting is a way to overwhelm seed predators like squirrels, crossbills and some insects.
The dependence of crossbills on cones means these birds live a nomadic existence, wandering widely to find a masting population of conifers when local cones are depleted.
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Women at Conferences
The CSWA has been making an effort to keep track of the percentages of women speakers at conferences. Recently, we featured a conference with a very high percentage of women speakers, right here on this blog. It's great to see that we are making progress. So, when I received the November 14th mailing from the AAS about the upcoming January meeting in Austin, I couldn't help but read the following enthusiastic description about the invited speakers with some amount of dismay:
"After a weekend of workshops and Historical Astronomy Division (HAD) sessions, the main part of the meeting kicks off Monday morning with the Kavli lecture by Lyman Page (Princeton University) on neutrinos and the cosmic microwave background. Over the next four days we'll hear about award-winning research from other eminent astronomers, including HAD Doggett Prize winner Woodruff T. Sullivan III (University of Washington) on the early days of radio astronomy, High Energy Astrophysics Division Rossi Prize winners Peter F. Michelson (Stanford University) and W. B. Atwood (University of California, Santa Cruz) on doing science with the Fermi Large Area Telescope, and Heineman Prize winner Robert P. Kirshner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) on Type Ia supernovae and the accelerating universe.
Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg (University of Texas) and Alan Leshner, chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, will explore the intersection of science, society, and economics in their two invited lectures. Astronomer-astronaut Steven A. Hawley (University of Kansas) will take stock of challenges and achievements in 50 years of human spaceflight. And Linda Tacconi (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics) will close out the week's plenary presentations with her Berkeley Prize lecture on molecular gas in star-forming galaxies in the early universe."
After a bit of investigation, I realized that no, there was actually more than one woman invited to speak at the meeting. It just so happens that only two of the prize winners were women, and it just so happens that one of those women is receiving the woman-only Cannon award, and the other is speaking in the last time slot on the last day of the meeting. That still leaves the question: even if the invited speakers list for the AAS meeting is somewhat gender balanced, why aren't the prizes?
In a similar vein, Female Science Professor proposes boycotting conferences with all-male slates. I wonder if that would really do any good, though, since that might have the effect of skewing the gender balance at that conference to even more all-male. Then again, direct complaints to conference organizers also have a tendency to fall on deaf or denying ears. But then, that's why the CSWA established the conferences webpage in the first place.
EDITED TO ADD: I want to make it clear that I am not at all advocating a boycott of the upcoming AAS Meeting. In fact, I am going myself and look forward to the meeting. (Come see me at the CSWA Special Session on Monday at 2pm!) And I do know that the AAS is sensitive to diversity issues and makes a real effort to achieve diversity of speakers. However, the email advertising the slate of speakers was unfortunate, as it did not give that balanced point of view. So the moral of the story is two-fold: nominate women for prizes, and remember to advertise women as well as you advertise men.
AASWOMEN for November 18, 2011
eds. Joan Schmelz, Caroline Simpson, and Michele Montgomery
1. The Blame-the-Victim Strategy
2. Advice for an Anonymous Individual
3. Meeting with Extremely High Percentage of Women Speakers!
4. Winterbourn Receives New Zealand's Top Science and Technology Honour
5. "Women on Mars" Conference Speaker
6. Addressing the Shortage of Women in Silicon Valley
7. Jobs at Georgia State University
1. Gender Differences in Self-Promotion
2. Sexual Harassment Issue, OCUFA Magazine "Academic Matters"
3. Advice for writing recommendation letters for women candidates
4. Dramatized Examples of Bias: Do They Help?
5. March APS 2012 Professional Skills Development Workshops
8. Access to Past Issues of the AASWOMEN Newsletter
Dramatized examples of bias: do they help?
Although bias is inescapable in human dynamics, I believe it can be recognized and partially corrected like the use of a personal equation by astronomers measuring stellar magnitudes by eye on photographic plates. Dramatized bias refers to dramatic plays that make bias plain enough for anyone to see.
Implicit or explicit bias remains a problem, and refusing to acknowledge it does not make it go away. Sometimes it is as obvious as a sexist remark in a faculty meeting, other times it is the observation by a search committee that "the candidate's research style doesn't match the department". If we're going to achieve equity for all in astronomy (and especially in physics) then implicit bias must be acknowledged and confronted in hiring, promotion, awards, etc.
Many faculty members don't like to hear this. It's the job of a department chair to ensure that equity is not ignored. The question is how to best to assist the chair in communicating these issues to faculty in a way that will be respected.
I've seen three different groups of actors present small plays highlighting implicit bias in the workplace: the Michigan CRLT players, the Harvard Bok players, and CSW Associates. Each group has professional actors who do interactive theater. The first two groups play-act a scene such as a faculty hiring or tenure committee review in which bias is clearly present. The scene is stopped, the audience discusses it, and audience members are invited to replace one of the actors to attempt a more equitable process. CSW Associates doesn't bring audience members into the play, but the actors interact strongly with the audience and reveal their inner thoughts in some powerful moments that help reveal the origins of hidden bias and the complexity of multicultural, real-world situations.
These kinds of workshops have been well received by those who attend voluntarily, or in organizations where employees or students can be "required" to attend -- for example, many business schools are using them as part of required communications and conflict resolution classes. I've certainly enjoyed and benefited from seeing these groups on multiple occasions. Have any readers seen them in astronomy departments or conferences where more than the equity advocates attended? How was that arranged? Could we bring one of these groups to a AAS meeting?
Meeting with Extremely High Percentage of Women Speakers!
As you've probably seen from previous posts and mailings, the CSWA (with input from all of you) has been keeping track of the percentage of conference invited speakers who are women (see http://www.aas.org/cswa/percent.html).
Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting Jorge Moreno, who is organizing a conference on "Interacting Galaxies and Binary Quasars: A Cosmic Rendezvous" (see announcement below). I wanted to highlight here that 76% of the invited speakers for this conference are women (13 women and 4 men).
Jorge explained to me that he is delighted to see so many female astronomers in the list, as well as a few speakers from developing countries. He worries that we are still a long way from gender equality in science, especially in places like his country of origin (Mexico), but he is glad to know that many people are taking steps in the right direction. He feels very lucky to be in this position. He also mentions that he wants to make sure nobody can tell his daughter Camila that she can't pursue a career in science (or in any field she desires).
---------------- Conference Announcement from Jorge--------------------------------------
On behalf of the SOC & LOC, I am glad to announce the workshop "Interacting Galaxies and Binary Quasars: A Cosmic Rendezvous", organized jointly by SISSA and ICTP, in Trieste (Italy). The dates are April 2-5, 2012 and the venue is the Kastler Lecture Hall, on the ICTP campus, next to the sea and a few steps from the Miramare Castle. Registration is now open with December 10, 2011 as the deadline. Please note than in order to keep this event intimate, the meeting will only 40-45 participants in total. Therefore, early registration is desirable. Applications from women, minorities and people from developing countries is particularly encouraged. For more details, please visit the conference website:
http://www.sissa.it/ap/igbq2012/igbq2012/Home.html
Interacting Galaxies and Binary Quasars: A Cosmic Rendezvous.
Interacting galaxies are among the most spectacular events in the cosmos. They affect morphology and may funnel gas into the central regions, thereby triggering star formation and nuclear activity. Likewise, the discovery of binary quasars has accelerated to unprecedented levels in the last few years. The aim of this workshop is to bring together observers and theorists working on either interacting galaxies or binary quasars. By discussing these phenomena from diverse points of view, several interesting science questions will addressed.
VENUE & DATES:
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
Monica Colpi, Francoise Combes, Deborah Dultzin, Tiziana Di Matteo,
Sara Ellison, George Djorgovski, Julie Comerford, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann,
Phil Hopkins, Lisa Kewley, Stefanie Komossa, Jennifer Lotz, Lucio Mayer,
Adam Myers, Patricia Tissera, Marta Volonteri & Qingjuan Yu.
Please forward this announcement to your colleagues and anyone else potentially interested. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions (jmoreno@sissa.it)
Jorge Moreno
Note: This meeting is paid entirely by a SISSA Young Research Scientist Grant.
SOC: I. Aretxaga, V. Avila-Reese, A. Benson, J. Bullock, J. Cohn, M. Geller, Y. Krongold & J. Moreno.
LOC: G. de Lucia, A. Lapi, J. Moreno, P. Salucci & R. Sheth.
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Manspace
One of the risks of being on the CSWA is that my friends regularly send me email that makes me angry.* Like the link to the "Womanspace" article in Nature, as reported on in AASWOMEN last week. The comments were particularly interesting to read. I was glad to see the outpouring of criticism of the article, going on at length about the harm of perpetuating stereotypes, particularly in a high impact journal such as Nature. The letter from Lucianne Walkowicz in this week's AASWOMEN is also well worth a read. All these commenters say what needs to be said better than I ever could.
But the most interesting comment is from Ed Rybicki himself. He completely misses the point of the comments. The article was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, he says. Even my wife found it funny!
Which makes me wonder, do men like this ever see what's wrong in their actions? Is this why people like Herman Cain can claim that they were wrongly accused of sex harassment, because maybe they honestly believe that? I would like to believe that men who commit misogynist behavior, whether it's telling sexist jokes or sexually harassing someone, can be led to see the error of their ways, and that they can learn to become better people. Someday, I would like to see a man say, "yes, I did something wrong. But I've learned from that experience, and it will never happen again." Recovering alcoholics learn to do this, why can't harassers?
I fear that as long as perpetrators of sexism can get away with calling themselves the victim and deflecting responsibility for their actions, this culture will remain "manspace," whether you are talking about scholarly science or political discourse.
*But angry in a good way. Keep those emails coming!
Labels: harassment
AASWOMEN for November 4, 2011
Issue of November 4, 2011
1. 1000+ Subscribers to AASWomen
2. Repercussions for Sexual Harassment
3. Offensive Article in Nature - Your Responses
4. APS/IBM Research Internships for Undergraduate Women
5. SMART Scholarships for BS, MS, and PhD
6. Amelia Earhart Fellowship
7. Women in Aerospace Scholarship
AASWomen for October 28, 2011
Issue of October 28, 2011
2. The Life Scientific: Jocelyn Bell-Burnell
3. Offensive Article in Nature
4. Professional Development at AAS 219 in Austin
5. Women in Science: The Gender Divide Remains
6. White House Video with Advice for Young Women Interested in Science
7. Program Inspiring Young Women to Discover Science
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By Tolstoy, Leo
Title: Anna Karenina
Author: Tolstoy, Leo
Subject: Literature & thought, Literature and history, Literature & philosophy
Collections: Project Gutenberg Consortia Center
Publisher: Project Gutenberg Consortia Center
Graf, L. T. (n.d.). Anna Karenina. Retrieved from http://worldebooklibrary.com/
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything was in confusion in the Oblonskys? house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their f
The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson (by Tennyson, Alfred Lord)
English Literature for Boys and Girls (by Marshall, H. E.)
Jewish History (by Dubnow, S. M.)
Autobiography of a Yogi (by Yogananda, Paramhansa)
The Complete Essays of Montaigne (by De Montaigne, Michel)
Mankind in the Making (by Wells, Herbert George (H. G.))
The Railway Children (by Nesbit, E.)
The Pagan Tribes of Borneo (by Hose, Charles and Mcdougall, William)
Pathology of Lying, etc (by Healy, William)
Songs of Kabir (by Tagore, Rabindranath, Sir)
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Ipswich noisy neighbour who played Grind On Me by Pretty Ricky too loud must pay £500
On one occasion Danielle Moore, of Bittern Close, Ipswich, played the explicit R&B track Grind On Me by Pretty Ricky so loud it could be heard over the television in the flat below.
Moore pleaded guilty when she appeared before South East Suffolk Magistrates Court to breaching a noise abatement notice three times – on November, 12, 23, and December 18.
The 26-year-old, representing herself in court, said since she received a letter from Ipswich Borough Council (IBC) notifying her of the court case she had made huge efforts to keep the noise down in her home.
She told magistrates she has sold all of her stereo equipment and speakers, and only has her TV on low volume. Moore also apologised profusely to the court.
Moore was fined £100 for each of the breaches and must pay £200 towards prosecution costs, as well as £20 to the victims’ fund.
IBC served a noise abatement notice on November 10 after it received complaints about the loud music coming from Moore’s flat.
However, two days later an environmental health officer was called to the flat below Moore’s after another complaint.
The officer arrived at Bittern Close at 8.50pm. She could see Moore’s light was on and the blinds were open and a silhouette of a female could be seen.
After going into the complainant’s ground floor flat she could hear loud ‘rap-type’ music coming from Moore’s property. It could clearly be heard over the television in the complainant’s bedroom.
Shortly after 9pm the music was turned up. At 9.05pm it stopped but started again two minutes later.
On November 23 another environmental protection officer went to Bittern Close at 1.40pm after reports of more loud music in Moore’s flat.
Grind On Me was clearly able to be heard from the living and bedroom areas of the flat below.
Five minutes after arriving the officer heard the occupant of Moore’s flat scream “Argh for **** sake”. The music was still audible despite the screaming.
At 12.10am on December 18 two council officers went to Bittern Close again following a complaint of being disturbed by loud music coming Moore’s property.
The rap music playing was being sung by an unknown male singer.
After around 15 minutes raised voices belonging to a man and woman could be heard.
The music stopped around 12.30am..
Following Moore’s court hearing an IBC spokesman said: “Noisy neighbours can be a blight on people’s lives and we urge residents to report blatant noise nuisance to us via the website www.ipswich.gov.uk and we will investigate.”
Source: Ipswich Star
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Tec4 expands global presence
By Eoin Cuttle On February 19, 2019
Engine treatment company, Tec4 now has a sales presence in seven countries outside the UK having added distributors in Cyprus and Spain.
The company’s UK sales team services the country’s 30,000+ independent repairers.
The new Cypriot and Spanish distributors will offer the full range of Tec4 products to independent repairers, including its preventative maintenance engine treatments, carbon cleaning range and its Workshop Essentials offering.
Tec4’s managing director, Bob Welch commented: “Our international growth demonstrates the success of our product range, not just in the UK but further afield too.”
Along with Spain and Cyprus, Tec4 has a presence in the Netherlands, Finland, Romania, Moldova and Denmark.
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For Immediate Release | July 6, 2018
Contact: Louise Duncan, Interim Special Events Manager
lduncan@avon.org | (970) 748-4065
AvonLIVE! Concerts in the Park
begin on Wednesday, July 11th
Free community concerts are presented by the Town of Avon
Avon, CO – Join us at the Avon Performance Pavilion, at Harry A. Nottingham Park, on July 11 for family fun and music at the AvonLIVE! free community concert. The Subdudes, a well-loved group blending blues, funk, jazz, R&B and rock with a New Orleans flavor, headlines the July 11th show. Another New Orleans band, Flow Tribe, opens the evening’s live music, which begins at 5:30 p.m.
Concert & Event Specials: The concert is free to the public, and in partnership with the Avon Lake Street Market, features street food trucks and tents, beer, wine and spirits, booths with local produce, crafts and gifts, and the Lettuce Patch kids zone. Drinks will be half-price between 4:00 and 6:00 p.m. Mouth-watering options include scrumptious street tacos and quesadillas, tuna poke and Maui chicken, lamb and veggie gyros, sausages, ice cream, popcorn and snow cones. A collection of craft brews, wine, refreshing spirits and non-alcoholic beverages will also be available for purchase.
The Bands: Formed in New Orleans, led by singer/guitarist Tommy Malone and accordionist John Magnie, The Subdudes are a living encapsulation of American music, a vibrant cauldron of sounds that stirs together meaty grooves and jazzy dynamics, soulful R&B swagger, easy vocal harmonies, cheeky rock ‘n’ roll attitude and folky social consciousness. To open the evening’s music, few bands arouse a crowd into a collective shake like the nationwide hit, Flow Tribe. The six-member band’s onstage chemistry reflects a seamless combination of soul and movement that hits the audience within the first few notes.
What: AvonLIVE! Concerts in the Park
Where: Avon Performance Pavilion at Harry A. Nottingham Park
When: Wednesday, July 11th, 4-8:45 p.m.
Park Lawn Opens: 4:00 p.m.
½ price Happy Hour: 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Live Music: Begins at 5:30 p.m.
Sponsors: The Town of Avon is the AvonLIVE! Concerts in the Park presenting sponsor. Additional sponsorship support is provided by The Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa, The Vail Daily & Weekly, KZYR, Jay Peterson of Slifer, Smith & Frampton, and Holy Cross Energy. The Westin is the award-winning resort that is home to Maya by Chef Richard Sandoval, Spa Anjali and an Athletic Club offering more than 60 group exercise classes per week.
Transportation & Parking: The use of public transportation is encouraged, as well as walking or riding a bike to the park. Free parking is available, including Avon Elementary School, Avon Recreation Center, on street parking, and the Beaver Creek Resorts Elk Lot
Food and beverages may be purchased at the event | Please deposit rubbish in the proper trash, recycling and composting bins | Blankets, lawn chairs and picnics are allowed | Alcoholic beverages may not be brought to the park | Marijuana smoking is prohibited | No pets please.
More information: Visit Avon.org/events and AvonLive.com
MEDIA CONTACT: Mike O’Brien, Producer
Peak Performances
mike@gigdigger.com
Copyright © 2018 Town of Avon, Colorado. All Rights Reserved.
1 Lake Street, Avon, Colorado 81620
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Review: Cons De Fee: The Erotic Art of Wallace Wood
CONS DE FÉE: THE EROTIC ART OF WALLACE WOOD
This is a tough book to review because, of course, Wallace Wood was great. Parts of this book, though, are not.
One of THE very best and most influential artists to ever have worked in comics, Wood was jointly celebrated for his sleek and shiny science fiction art, his impish and biting humor art, and his unapologetically sexy and sometimes smutty Good Girl Art, there have been multiple volumes collecting the best of his work in two of those categories, but only one in the latter.
This new volume from Fantagraphics then could be considered an expanded revision of that earlier volume, Naughty Knotty Wood, published by the same company more than two decades ago. Only it isn’t really.
Naughty Knotty Wood has quite a few pieces that aren’t represented here at all. Likewise, this current volume has nearly 100 more pages, many of them taken up by the never before reprinted flat out pornographic strips from Gang Bangthat appeared late in Wood’s life. While they more than fit the topic, a few of them inarguably qualify as the worst things that he ever drew.
But enough with comparisons, how’s THIS particular book, you ask? Well, it has its ups and downs. It’s good to have all this material corralled into one volume. Some of it—Malice in Wonderland, for instance, or some of his Screwcovers—can be counted amongst the best of Wood’s later work.
The Pussycat strip is a delightful revelation when compared to the murky 1968 printing with which most fans would be familiar. The Wood Estate’s J. David Spurlock discusses the behind the scenes story of that and several other unique items in his informative Introduction. He also explains the book’s unusual title, a poorly chosen reference to a long-ago French collection of Woodwork that makes no real sense. This book’s descriptive subtitle alone would have sufficed, rather than tagging it with the silly bit of Euro-naughtiness that’s likely to turn away potential customers.
Editor J. Michael Catron, who handled the completion chores on the recent two volume Fantagraphics collection of Wood-related essays begun by the late Bhob Stewart, presumably provided the info in the Contents as to the original publication of the various pieces in the book. It’s welcome information although I would have preferred it being with the pieces themselves, rather than having to go back and check the Contents whenever I wanted to know more. Also, I was surprised to see one of Wood’s most famous 1970s pieces—the glorious outer space cover of his first self-published Sally Forth collection—listed as “Publication status unknown.”
Spurlock writes a nice bio of Wood at the end but unfortunately it contains some repetitious bits that come almost word for word from his Intro.
In between the Intro and the bio, you’ll find color and black and white girlie cartoons and strips from mags like Gent, Dude, Nugget, Cavalcade, Puritan, National Screw, and Big Apple Comix, along with an underground Wood strip that was also in Naughty Knotty Wood but with a bizarrely rewritten script and even different credits! Would love to have heard the full story behind that.
So, yes, a mixed bag, For Wood collectors, it’s another welcome addition to the seemingly endless library of quality Wallace Wood books. Casual fans might find themselves wondering what all the fuss is about.
It should go without saying that Cons De Fee: The Erotic Art of Wallace Wood is NSFW and is for adults only!
Booksteve recommends for Wallace Wood fans.
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Review: Dare-Devil Aces
Have I mentioned that it’s a good time to be a Wally Wood fan? There have been so many great books covering Wood’s life, art, and career in one or more capacities in recent years that a fan could easily fill a bookcase with nothing but wonderful Woodwork!
The latest of these books is Vanguard’s cleverly titled DARE-DEVIL ACES, subtitled “Commandos and Other Sagas of War.” As you might suspect from that title, this is a collection of Wood’s war-related comics stories. Well, most of them anyway. Avoiding repetition, the already widely printed EC’s and the separately published BLAZING COMBAT pieces are instead covered herein via informative text pieces and some original art pages.
The meat of this volume consists of lesser-known material originally published by Charlton, Harvey, Avon, Tower, and even DC Comics. Military comic books flourished throughout the 1950s and into the ‘60s until ant-Vietnam sentiment began driving many of them out of business. Sgt. Rock and Sgt. Fury managed to hang on a bit longer, as did a few under-the-radar Charlton titles, but the boom had ended.
While the boom lasted, though, Woody contributed some typically attractively drawn pieces, some concurrent to his amazing MAD years, and those often uncredited—but easily recognizable—stories are to be found here.
Storywise, most are lacking in comparison to Harvey Kurtzman’s highly researched war/anti-war EC’s but that doesn’t detract from the enjoyment of Wood’s art, which is really why you’re here. In fact, most of these stories, originally printed on cheap pulp paper (REALLY cheap pulp paper in the case of the Charltons!) have never looked better. The decision to reproduce from the original comics on slick paper goes a long way toward covering up many of the printing flaws of the original comics.
And make no mistake! While some of the examples here might be considered lesser Wood, we’re also treated to The Lone Tiger and Dollar Bill Cash from 1966, considered by many to be some of the artist’s very best work of that decade. And Cannon! Wood’s own paramilitary strip superspy character that ran in the Overseas Weekly for years is represented here by the stories from both issues of Heroes, Inc., done with the great Steve Ditko! Dan Adkins, Maurice Whitman, and Russ Jones are also credited as working with Wood on a number of the pieces at hand.
Available in multiple editions, Dare-Devil Aces is a particularly attractive book and yet another choice addition to that Wallace Wood bookcase from Vanguard Publishing. With more to come, Wood fans might start shopping for bigger bookcases!
https://www.amazon.com/Wally-Dare-Devil-Vanguard-Wallace-Classics/dp/1934331775
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Just announced from Vanguard for 2018, this latest collection in the parade of great books by and about Wallace Wood in recent years!
The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood Vol. 2
Got my contributor copies last week so it should be shipping soon and arriving in stores. You can pre-order here:
https://www.amazon.com/Life-Legend-Wallace-Wood-Vol/dp/1683960688
The Life and Legend of Wallace Wood, Vol. 1
Here at last is the book Wood fans have been waiting for for decades...or at least the first part of it. The late Bhob Stewart called me up out of the blue one daya few years back and we had a long conversation about Wood, after which he asked me to contribute to this book--a partial reprint of his previous book, AGAINST THE GRAIN but with much new material and no longer censored as it was in its original publication. Originally I was asked to write about SHOCK SUSPENSESTORIES but that was changed. In another call, Bhob asked me to write about Wally Wood's contributions to the early color MAD and also to its color comics companion, PANIC. I had the Cochran volumes so I spent a couple weeks revisiting EC at its finest and then sat down to write about it all. I sent it on and Bhob said it was exactly what he wanted. I explained that that was just my first draft and that I would like to revise it a bit. He called again to say it was perfect and asked me to send him a bio on myself so I did. Then I never heard back. At all. Until the news of Bhob's death hit barely a month later. It seems he'd been quite ill for some time although I never could have guessed it from our lively phone conversations.
Long before I had any actual contact with him, I had encountered his work throughout nearly my whole life. I was a huge fan of his Topps products in early grade school, I was obsessed with his CASTLE OF FRANKENSTEIN mag in my teens, I discovered his cheesy movies as a young adult, and admired his place as a comics historian and, in fact, in comics history itself as I grew older and discovered EC. I never would have guessed I'd work with him on what would be his final project.
After Bhob's passing, word eventually came that Fantagraphics would finish the book. As the months dragged on into years, it became two volumes because there was so much good stuff they didn't want to leave any out. And now, finally, it's shipping. Although I have yet to see a copy, I have to presume that with all this attention, this will, in fact, turn out to be the book Bhob Stewart had been working on in a way since the 1950s! The ultimate tribute to Wallace Wood!
At several points along the way, it was conformed to me that my chapter made it into this first volume. Not sure yet if it made the final cut. I hope it's good enough to sit beside the contributions of so many others who admired, knew and/or worked with Wood. I hope it's as good as Bhob Stewart thought it was.
http://www.fantagraphics.com/lifeandlegendofwallacewood/
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Shattuck at Last
Over the years, we attempted with frustratingly little success to find out info on SHATTUCK, the early seventies adult western series created by the Wallace Wood Studio alongside the better-known CANNON and SALLY FORTH strips. Well, proving that all things come to those who wait, here's the Wood Estate's new press release on SHATTUCK.
HOT OFF THE PRESS: Wallace Wood Presents: SHATTUCK. Along with his trademark 1970s Sally Forth and Cannon strips that ran in the Overseas Weekly military newspaper, Wood created a super-rare third strip, a sexy western, produced in 1972, named Shattuck. Wood originally conceived of, co-wrote (with Nick Cuti), and drew the layouts for Shattuck as a vehicle for his studio-mate, Golden Age Captain America artist Sid Shores, but turned it over instead to two young up-and-comers — Howard Chaykin (American Flagg!, Black Kiss) and the now-legendary X-Men artist, Dave Cockrum. Shattuck, the historic, very first credited ongoing feature for both Chaykin and Cockrum, has never been re-published or collected since it first appeared in Overseas Weekly more than 40 years ago. Full of gun-toting femmes fatale, fast-drawing lawmen, and snarling outlaws, Shattuck is a Western romp published in the same format as Fantagraphics’ bestselling Wood production of Cannon. As a bonus, while appearing to be in black and white, the entire book has been scanned from the carefully preserved originals in full-color to mimic as closely as possible the experience of viewing the actual original art, complete with paste-overs, notes, art corrections, etc. Previously enjoyed only by American servicemen in the Vietnam era, Fantagraphics Books and The Wallace Wood Estate and proud to present the missing link in Wood’s oeuvre in a beautifully designed and affordable format.
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DD and Netflix
Perhaps you've heard about the growing controversy that Wally Wood does not receive a credit on the popular Netflix DAREDEVIL series, now in its second season. Okay, he didn't create the character. That's a given. The character existed before Wood ever showed up at Marvel. There are a lot of folks who worked on the DD comics over the years and made contributions that appreciably changed the comic but they didn't "create" the character either so as long as THEY aren't credited, I don't see why anyone should expect Wood to be. Oh. Wait.
The DAREDEVIL comic book has always had its ups and downs but it's always been blessed with a number of creators who have given it some of their best work. That most certainly doesn't start and end with Frank Miller. If one grants that to acknowledge every single writer and artist would be too much to expect, then break it down to only the really important ones who defined the series to come for decades, and that starts with Wallace Wood.
There is no logical reason NOT to give Wood credit on the Netflix DAREDEVIL series.
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Determinants of depression among medical students in two medical schools from South East Nigeria: A screening test
Chinawa Awoere Tamunosiki1, Josephat M Chinawa2, EC Aniwada3, Pius C Manyike4, Ikenna Ndu5, OC Nduaguba5
1 Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu State, Nigeria
2 Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, University of Nigeria, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu State, Nigeria
3 Department of Community Medicine, University of Teaching Hospital, University of , Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu State, Nigeria
4 Department of Paediatrics, Federal Teaching Hospital, Abakiliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria
5 Department of Pediatrics, Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, Enugu State, Nigeria
Josephat M Chinawa
Department of Paediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu State
DOI: 10.4103/anm.anm_24_16
Objectives: This study aims to assess the susceptibility of depression among clinical students from two medical schools from South East Nigeria, using a screening test questionnaire.
Methods: A total of 352 clinical medical students from two universities were enrolled by simple random sampling. A pretested self-administered depression questionnaire was used to evaluate degrees of depression among the participants.
Result: Out of the 352 students studied, 14 (4%) of the students are susceptible to moderate to severe depression while none are susceptible to mild depression.
Among the students, gender and age were not significantly associated with depression (χ2 = 2.896; P = 0.089). Socioeconomic class of the students was not significantly associated with depression (χ2 = 2.186; P = 0.335).
Conclusion: A relatively low number of medical students are susceptible to depression. Depression among medical students is unaffected by gender, age, and socioeconomic class.
Keywords: Depression, depression questionnaire, medical student, Nigeria
Tamunosiki CA, Chinawa JM, Aniwada E C, Manyike PC, Ndu I, Nduaguba O C. Determinants of depression among medical students in two medical schools from South East Nigeria: A screening test. Ann Nigerian Med 2017;11:27-31
Tamunosiki CA, Chinawa JM, Aniwada E C, Manyike PC, Ndu I, Nduaguba O C. Determinants of depression among medical students in two medical schools from South East Nigeria: A screening test. Ann Nigerian Med [serial online] 2017 [cited 2020 Jan 21];11:27-31. Available from: http://www.anmjournal.com/text.asp?2017/11/1/27/225610
Depression is a state of low mood and aversion to activity that can affect a person's thoughts, behavior, feelings, and sense of well-being.[1] The clinical spectrum of the disease can range from simple sadness to a major depressive or bipolar disorder.[2] People with depressed mood can feel sad, anxious, empty, hopeless, helpless, worthless, guilty, irritable, ashamed, or restless and may lose interest in activities that were once pleasurable, experience loss of appetite or overeating, have problems concentrating, remembering details or making decisions, and may contemplate, attempt or commit suicide.[1]
Depression is a major cause of morbidity worldwide.[2] Lifetime prevalence varies widely, from 3% in Japan to 17% in the US.[3],[4] In most countries, the number of people who would suffer from depression during their lives falls within 8–12% range.[3],[4]
Prevalence rates of depression among medical students are variable. For instance, Shawaz et al.[5] documented a 51.3% prevalence rates among undergraduate medical students in India. In the same vein, a survey of 2500 students from 7 US medical schools showed about 53% of students with depression.[6] While Thomas et al.[7] noted a prevalence of moderate depression as 14.3%, Basnet et al.[8] in Nepal documented a prevalence of 29.78% among medical students.
Population studies have consistently shown major depression to be about twice as common in women as in men although it is unclear why this is so and whether factors unaccounted for are contributing to this. According to Nauert, a high prevalence toward depressive symptoms was found among medical students, particularly females.
The risk of major depression is increased with neurological conditions such as stroke, Parkinson's disease, or multiple sclerosis and during the 1st year after childbirth.[6],[7] Other risk factors identified include a family history of depression and poor school performance.[2] Social status has been reported to be inversely related to the prevalence of depression as studies have reported that those in lower socioeconomic class are more likely to be depressed.
Studies on depression among medical students are few and have shown high level of depression among medical students.[5],[6],[7],[8] Moreover, studies done on depression in this setting did not address the degree of depression such as mild, moderate, or severe.
Moreover, a careful search also showed that the work done by the above authors [5],[6],[7],[8] was not principally among clinical medical students.
This study aims at finding out various degrees of depression among clinical medical students and the influence of sociodemographic variables on depression among medical students in South East Nigeria.
The study was carried out among clinical medical students from two medical schools in South East Nigeria. There are seven medical schools in South East Nigeria. The clinical medical students' population of these schools cuts across the various socioeconomic strata in Nigeria.
The study was carried out among medical students in University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu and Ebonyi State University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki, all in South East Nigeria.
Instrument used
A pretested self-administered depression questionnaire (a screening tool) was used for this study.[9] The questionnaire is a 30-item scale. It has a dichotomous response options which are YES and NO. A score of 1 or zero is assigned to some Yes response while a score of zero or 1 is also assigned to some NO response [Appendix 1]. The scores are computed and rated as shown below:
0-9 points: No depression
10-19 points: Mild to Moderate depression
20-30 points: Moderate to Severe depression.
Medical student sampling
Medical students in 4th and 5th year from University of Nigeria and Ebonyi State University were selected from the five medical schools in South East Nigeria by simple random sampling method. The medical students who met inclusion criteria were consecutively recruited into the study. The medical schools were selected by listing all the medical schools in South East Nigeria, and selecting two medical schools using simple random sampling.
The questionnaires were completed by the medical students after the purpose of the study was explained. Confidentiality was assured by informing the respondents not to write their names on the questionnaires. Three hundred and fifty-two medical students were recruited from Enugu and Ebonyi States. Their age and socioeconomic class were obtained. Socioeconomic class was ascertained using the socioeconomic classification by Oyedeji.[10]
The minimum sample size required for this study was calculated using the following formula:
N = Z 2 P (I − P)/D 2
Where Z (i.e., the level of significance) = 1.96; P = Prevalence of children with depression.[3],[4] D = Tolerable error (0.05).
Using the formula above, we determined a minimum sample size of 206 patients. In anticipation of a 15% rate of attrition, the minimum sample size for our study is 270.
Oral informed consent was obtained from the medical students before embarking on the work.
Statistical analysis was with Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 19 (Chicago, IL, USA). Chi-square test was used to test for statistical association of categorical variables. Age was not normally distributed. All reported P values are 2-sided and values <0.05 were assumed as significant.
The mean (standard deviation) age of the students was 24.11 (4.85) years. Of the 352 students studied, 173 (49.1%) were female while 179 (50.9%) were male, giving a male:female ratio of 1:1.
Two hundred and thirty-eight (67.6%) of the study population were from the upper socioeconomic class; 53 (15.1%) from the middle socioeconomic class while 61 (17.3%) were from the lower socioeconomic class [Table 1].
Table 1: Sociodemographics of students (n=228)
Out of the 352 students studied, 14 clinical medical students have moderate to severe depression with an overall prevalence of 4% while none had mild depression [Table 2].
Table 2: Prevalence of depression (n=228)
Among the clinical students, gender and age were not significantly associated with occurrence of depression (χ2 = 2.896; P = 0.089). Socioeconomic class of the students was not significantly associated with depression (χ2 = 2.186; P = 0.335) [Table 3].
Table 3: Associations between sociodemographics of students and depression (n=352)
The prevalence of moderate to severe depression among clinical medical students from University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, is 2.8% while that among medical students from Ebonyi State University is 5%. This is however not statistically significant (χ2 = 1.043; P = 0.307) [Table 4].
Table 4: Comparison of sociodemographics of two medical schools (n=352)
The prevalence difference in depression among medical students from the two medical schools is not associated with their socioeconomic class and age (χ2 = 1.718; P = 0.424) [Table 5].
Medical career, due to its heavy curriculum, demands great concentration, commitment, and discipline from students; this heightens when the students start their clinical postings; in this light, some of the students cannot cope with this didactic syllabus, which consequently alters their mental and physical state. It has been reported that stress, anxiety, and depression experienced by medical students throughout their school year may pose some problems such as low academic performance.[11],[12]
The overall prevalence of moderate to severe depression in the study population was 4% while that no student had mild depression. This finding is similar to that of Fábio et al.[13] who documented the prevalence of moderate to severe depression among medical students as 4.2%. However, Fabio's work was not among clinical students. Although the prevalence of depression varies widely, the prevalence of depression among medical students in this study was within the range of earlier studies.[5],[6] Furthermore, only very few studies classify depression into mild, moderate, and severe. This may account for very high prevalence in some of their findings. For instance, a study on similar topic in Nigeria done over a decade ago showed a very high prevalence rate of 23.3%.[14] In addition, prevalence studies among medical students in India and in the USA showed a prevalence rate of 51.3% and 53%, respectively. Though failure to classify depression could contribute to this variation in prevalence rate, however, improving trends in the standard of living and questionnaire used may also contribute to this difference.
When we compared the prevalence of depression among medical students from the two universities under study, those students from University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, had a prevalence of 2.8% while that among medical students from Ebonyi State University was 5% with no statistical significance. Socioeconomic class and age differences were not able to delineate the reason for these differences. However, the former university medical school with a lower prevalence had about five times the number of lecturers when compared to the later medical school with a prevalence of 5%. Fewer lecturers and facilities may increase the workload and pressure of teaching among these medical students; this may make the understanding of the subject cumbersome and burdensome thus leading to stress and depression in the long run.
The prevalence of depression in this study is lower when compared to the prevalence of 5.2% obtained in general population.[9] However, this finding was refuted by Dahlin et al.[15] and Ibrahim et al.[16] who in their separate studies noted a higher prevalence of depression in general population.
Prevalence rate obtained in this study is also <17.3% noted by Aguocha et al.[17] among resident doctors. Aniebue et al.[14] also noted similar trend.
We noted no link between socioeconomic class and prevalence of depression among medical students. It is pertinent to know that low socioeconomic status (SES) is generally associated with high psychiatric morbidity and poorer access to health care.[18] However, among psychiatric disorders, depression shows a more controversial association with SES. Studies carried out on 51 prevalence studies and five incidence studies indicated that association of SES and prevalence of depression is variable.[18]
We noted in this study that female medical students were more depressed than their male counterpart although this was not statistically significant. Similar findings have been reported by other studies.[8],[15] Although determinants of gender differences in depressive disorders are far from being established, gender-specific risk factors for common mental disorders that disproportionately affect women include gender-based violence, socioeconomic disadvantage, low or subordinate social status and rank and unremitting responsibility for the care of others.[19],[20] Sarah et al.[21] however noted a male predominance in their study. The reason for female preponderance to depression in the adolescent age group has been attributed to differences in coping styles or hormonal changes during puberty.[22]
We noted no association between age and prevalence of depression. This was also corroborated by Jadoon et al.[23] who noted that age, marital status, locality, and total family income did not significantly affect the prevalence of depression among medical students.
The prevalence of depression among medical students in South East Nigeria is 4%. Age and socioeconomic class are not significantly associated with depression.
We acknowledge our participants, the medical students who made out time to respond to our questionnaire.
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Mechanical cause for acute left lung atelectasis after neonatal aortic arch repair with arterial switch operation: Conservative management
Madan Mohan Maddali1, Pranav Subbaraya Kandachar2, Said Al-Hanshi3, Mohammed Al Ghafri3, John Valliattu2,
1 Department of Cardiac Anesthesia, National Heart Center, Royal Hospital, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
2 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, National Heart Center, Royal Hospital, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
3 Department of Pediatric Intensive Care, National Heart Center, Royal Hospital, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
Madan Mohan Maddali
Department of Cardiac Anesthesia, National Heart Center, Royal Hospital, Muscat
Respiratory complications due to mechanical obstruction of the airways can occur following pediatric cardiac surgery. Clinically significant intrathoracic vascular compression of the airway can occur when extensive dissection and mobilization of arch and neck vessels is involved as in repair of interrupted aortic arch. This case report describes a neonate who underwent interrupted aortic arch repair along with an arterial switch operation and developed a left lung collapse immediately after tracheal extubation. Fiber-optic bronchoscopy revealed vascular compression as the real culprit. The child was successfully managed conservatively.
Maddali MM, Kandachar PS, Al-Hanshi S, Al Ghafri M, Valliattu J. Mechanical cause for acute left lung atelectasis after neonatal aortic arch repair with arterial switch operation: Conservative management.Ann Card Anaesth 2017;20:252-255
Maddali MM, Kandachar PS, Al-Hanshi S, Al Ghafri M, Valliattu J. Mechanical cause for acute left lung atelectasis after neonatal aortic arch repair with arterial switch operation: Conservative management. Ann Card Anaesth [serial online] 2017 [cited 2020 Jan 21 ];20:252-255
Available from: http://www.annals.in/text.asp?2017/20/2/252/203937
Respiratory complications due to extrinsic vascular compression of the airways can occur following repair of interrupted aortic arch.[1] Compression of the left bronchus by the descending aorta can result in a dynamic intrathoracic airway obstruction as against extrathoracic obstruction caused by problems related to the vocal cords. This case report describes a neonate who underwent interrupted aortic arch repair along with an arterial switch operation and developed a left lung collapse immediately after tracheal extubation. Fiber-optic bronchoscopy revealed an extrinsic vascular compression as the likely cause for the left lung collapse. The important role that fiber-optic bronchoscopy could play as an initial diagnostic tool for identifying the cause for bronchial compression is highlighted. The child was managed successfully by conservative measures. Approval from the Institutional Medical Ethics and Scientific Research Committee and written consent from the parents for publication were obtained.
A 20-day-old girl baby (weight: 3 kg; length: 48 cm) with D-transposition of great arteries with a large perimembranous ventricular septal defect (8 mm) and Type A aortic interruption underwent single-stage aortic arch repair with arterial switch operation and closure of the ventricular septal defect through a median sternotomy. Tracheal extubation was done after 36 h of mechanical ventilation. Before tracheal extubation, the baby was comfortable, generating about 5 ml/kg tidal volume on synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation with a backup respiratory rate of 10 breaths/min, positive end-expiratory pressure of 5 cmH2O, fraction of inspired oxygen of 0.3, and a pressure support of 8 cmH2O. As the arterial blood gas reports were satisfactory on these settings, tracheal extubation was done, and within a short span of time, the child had complete left lung collapse. This did not improve despite administration of high-flow humidified oxygen-enriched air through a nasal cannula that was delivered at a rate of 2 L/kg. This flow through the nasal cannula was to generate a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) of about 5–6 cmH2O. The lung collapse was attributed to paresis of the left dome of the diaphragm as ultrasound of the chest suggested decreased diaphragmatic movements although they were not paradoxical.
Following tracheal reintubation, fiber-optic bronchoscopy was performed, which showed left bronchial obstruction due to external compression [Figure 1] and [Video 1]. The fiber-optic bronchoscope was advanced beyond the obstruction, and it was found that the bronchial lumen was patent with no significant secretions or mucus plugging. On withdrawal of the bronchoscope, posterior indentation of the left main bronchus was seen in the form of transmitted pulsations from the aorta [Video 2]. This was due to the reconstructed descending aorta that had been pulled up and anastomosed to the distal ascending aorta, causing a pulsatile mass effect on the bronchus. A diagnosis of left lung collapse due to left main bronchial obstruction secondary to compression by the descending thoracic aorta was made. As a reoperation for surgical mobilization of the vessels was not easy, a trial at conservative management was planned. The steps in conservative management envisaged were: (a) conversion from invasive mechanical ventilation to noninvasive ventilation in the form of application of CPAP, (b) gradual weaning from CPAP support to high-flow oxygen-enriched air through nasal prongs and later to face mask oxygenation, (c) control of blood pressure and heart rate to reduce the mass effect of the aorta on the bronchus, (d) constant observation of the child's spontaneous ventilation capabilities, and serial blood gas analysis and urgent chest radiographs when needed. It was decided that any deterioration in the child's ventilation mechanics would warrant some kind of “release” surgery.{Figure 1}
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After 3 h of mechanical ventilation, tracheal extubation was performed. The ventilator settings were similar to those that were used at the time of the first tracheal extubation. Chest radiographs before and after tracheal extubation showed complete reexpansion of the left lung [Figure 2]. As planned, noninvasive ventilation in the form of CPAP (about 9 cmH2O) was applied by nasal prongs with the help of an infant Flow SiPAP system (VIASYS Healthcare, Yorba Linda, CA 92887, USA) [Figure 3]. Baby improved over a period of 6 days on nasal CPAP and was subsequently transferred to high-flow oxygen-enriched air through nasal prongs [Figure 3]. The left lung remained completely expanded even after removal of CPAP [Figure 2]. The blood pressure and heart rate were controlled to age appropriate levels (systolic/diastolic blood pressure: 75–80/45–50 mmHg [approximately] and heart rate: 120–140 bpm) with oral propranolol (0.5 mg TID) and captopril (0.5 mg OD). Computerized tomography (CT) performed on the 10th day showed left bronchial narrowing with segmental collapse of the left upper lobe [Figure 4]. The lung collapse was not identified on the chest radiograph which continued to appear normal. As the baby was not exhibiting any features of respiratory distress and was clinically normal, the child was discharged home. During the 3-month follow-up, the left lung stayed fully expanded, and no further intervention was deemed necessary.{Figure 2}{Figure 3}{Figure 4}
A conservative management regimen for vascular compression of the left bronchus that was initially diagnosed by fiber-optic bronchoscopy and subsequently confirmed by CT is described.
Upper airway obstructions could occur after cardiac surgery, and they exhibit characteristic features when flow-volume loops are constructed. There are three classic patterns of flow-volume loop contours in patients with upper airway obstructions depending on the location and the type of obstruction, i.e., fixed or variable. Fixed obstruction, whether extrathoracic or intrathoracic, causes a decrease in inspiratory and expiratory flows which is evident as flattening of both inspiratory and expiratory portions of the flow-volume loop. Fixed obstruction is seen in cases of postextubation tracheal strictures. Lesions that produce variable obstruction behave differently during inhalation and exhalation depending on their location, i.e., extrathoracic or intrathoracic. Variable extrathoracic obstruction (e.g., caused by vocal cord paralysis or marked pharyngeal muscle weakness) is not affected by changes in the intrathoracic pressures during the respiratory cycle. During inspiration, there is an acceleration of air flow from the atmosphere into the lungs, and the intraluminal pressure decreases compared to atmospheric pressure due to a Bernoulli's effect. This effect results in a limitation of the inspiratory flow which is seen as a flattening of the inspiratory limb of the flow-volume loop. The air is forced out of the lungs through a potentially expandable extrathoracic airway, and hence, the maximal expiratory flow-volume curve appears normal. On the other hand, with variable intrathoracic obstruction due to extrinsic vascular compression as in the present case, the airway narrowing increases during forced expiration which is seen as a normal looking inspiratory limb and a flattened expiratory limb on the flow-volume loop. We did not record flow-volume loops in this baby.
There could be a query if the bronchial narrowing caused by the descending aorta was the actual culprit for the left lung collapse in this child. As stated by the Poiseuille's law, the inverse relationship between the fourth power of radius to the airway resistance could exaggerate the clinical impact of even a small reduction in the radius of the airway lumen resulting in life-threatening airway compromise.[2] In the postoperative period when the aortic pressure was uncontrolled, the airway obstruction might have been more prominent. Under controlled conditions of blood pressure and heart rate, CT pictures confirmed narrowing as already mentioned. This baby exhibited an intrathoracic, extraluminal airway obstruction that was more dependent on the stress in the descending aorta. Once the stress in the aorta was reduced by the control of heart rate and blood pressure, the obstruction probably was gradually relieved. Simultaneous application of positive airway pressure helped in keeping the airway open by producing a stenting effect. Hence, it is proposed that the stretched descending aorta produced the extraluminal obstruction and the lung collapse.
Airway compromise after repair of interrupted aortic arch due to external vascular compression could be a vexing postoperative problem.[1] Aortopexy, arch remodeling, and transverse aortic arch extension using pulmonary artery autograft along with left bronchial sleeve resection are some of the surgical procedures adopted to manage left bronchial compression following interrupted aortic arch repairs.[3],[4],[5] Conservative management with prolonged mechanical ventilation, tracheostomy, and/or bronchial stenting has also been advocated to manage airway obstruction after interrupted aortic arch repair.[6] In the current patient, a trial at conservative management was adopted as the obstruction was not total, and surgical mobilization of the mediastinal and hilar structures would be difficult and probably be of dubious benefit.
The significance of the location of the left bronchus that could contribute to it getting “trapped” in the relatively fixed and narrow space under the curve of the aorta and the left pulmonary artery has been suggested earlier.[7] The space becomes narrower both anteroposteriorly and superoinferiorly when the curve of the arch of aorta that was originally resembling a Roman curved arch is replaced with a pointed Gothic arch formation following anastomosis of the descending aorta to the ascending aorta.[8] The mechanism suggested for the left mainstem bronchial compression after interrupted aortic arch repairs is the anterior and upward displacement of the descending thoracic aorta.[5] During an arterial switch operation, the space under the arch becomes narrow after the Lecompte maneuver (although the pulmonary artery exits the space). The space is further narrowed by the neoaortic anastomosis as the ascending aorta is displaced posteriorly and caudally.
It has been suggested that noninvasive maneuvers such as regular chest physiotherapy and splinting of the malacic segment with either CPAP or bilevel positive airway pressure can overcome bronchial narrowing.[9] In addition, tracheomalacia is considered to be self-limiting with a resolution of symptoms by 2 years of age.[10] This baby was managed conservatively, and it is expected that with growth and maturation of the neonatal airways and growth of the aortic arch, the space under the aortic arch would widen, and the bronchial compression would resolve spontaneously. Children with similar airway problems should be followed up at regular intervals and repeat fiber-optic bronchoscopy and CT would give an insight to the status of the airway and could determine the future course of action.
Intraoperative fiber-optic bronchoscopy could play an important role in identifying larger airway compression during aortic arch repair.
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1 Schreiber C, Eicken A, Vogt M, Günther T, Wottke M, Thielmann M, et al. Repair of interrupted aortic arch: Results after more than 20 years. Ann Thorac Surg 2000;70:1896-9.
2 Bruce IA, Rothera MP. Upper airway obstruction in children. Paediatr Anaesth 2009;19 Suppl 1:88-99.
3 Sakai T, Miki S, Ueda Y, Tahata T, Ogino H, Morioka K, et al. Left main bronchus compression after aortic reconstruction for interruption of aortic arch. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 1995;9:667-9.
4 Prêtre R, Turina MI. Relief of bronchial compression caused by a congenital heart defect by remodeling of the aortic arch. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2000;119:173-4.
5 Mitchell MB, Campbell DN, Toews WH, Khan TZ. Autograft aortic arch extension and sleeve resection for bronchial compression after interrupted aortic arch repair. Ann Thorac Surg 2002;73:1969-71.
6 Davis DA, Tucker JA, Russo P. Management of airway obstruction in patients with congenital heart defects. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol 1993;102(3 Pt 1):163-6.
7 Maddali MM, Junghare SW, Nadarajan K, Kandachar PS, Al-Maskari SN, Valliattu J. Left pulmonary artery stent causes ipsilateral pulmonary complication. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 2016. pii: S1053-077030138-0.
8 Buckberg GD. Basic science review: The helix and the heart. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002;124:863-83.
9 Austin J, Ali T. Tracheomalacia and bronchomalacia in children: Pathophysiology, assessment, treatment and anaesthesia management. Paediatr Anaesth 2003;13:3-11.
10 McNamara VM, Crabbe DC. Tracheomalacia. Paediatr Respir Rev 2004;5:147-54.
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Written by Arus
Time to update your bookmarks! The Unofficial Voltron Force Homepage will be moving to a new domain, with all new content and updates. Arus.org was always a personal domain for me, and I started this site nearly 15 years ago, in an attempt to show my love and provide a resource for other fans to come to. It has been years since I've updated and I wanted to take this chance to start anew.
The new site will cover all the old and the new. Much of the content you see here will be on the new site as well, but I've taken the time to update the content on the new site.
For more information, please bookmark the new url:
http://www.voltron-force.com
I'm looking to open the new site on August 1st. Till then please be sure to check out the official Voltron site at http://www.voltron.com
UPDATE: NEW OPENING DATE IS AUGUST 15, 2011
See you all in a few!
Time Lapse Voltron Painting
Watch this awesome painting done by Robert Burden! Its a 11 foot tall, nearly 7 foot wide, Oil on canvas painting. Robert is an amazing artist that lives in San Francisco, CA, and has based much of his work on the toys that he played with while growing up! Glad to see that Voltron was among the many toys that he remembers!
You can see some more of his awesome work at his website, Robert Burden's Toy Box
Hyaku Ju Oh Golion Volumes Available
Apologize for not updating this site as I should. Busy with work...having a life...jk. A lot of things happen, and priorites shift, but Im trying to return to updating the sites that I need to.
So to start, Hyaku Ju Oh Golion DVD Volumes are now on sale. As you know, this is the original Japanese animated series that the Voltron: Lion Force was based on, and heavily edited from.
From days of long ago... from uncharted regions of the universe... comes a legend... The legend of Golion, the original Japanese show that started it all in the world of Voltron. The five pilots may look the same, but their names and the events that occur are galaxies apart from the series you think you know. Were people evacuated safely? Do robots die? And what really happened to a certain main character?
Revisit the Voltron series as you've never experienced it before, and see what really happened in this newly restored and uncut version.
CHUD.comVoltron Screenplay Review
Chud.com has posted a review of the screenplay draft by Justin Marks , and the reviewer spares no expense at ripping it apart. He provides more details into the story thus far with the script and also agrees that is just the makeup of several other movies into this diatribe of boringness.
Speaking of suicide, there is an oppressive emptiness to Marks's 5/23/07 draft of Voltron; though it cribs heavily from Star Wars, the creative desperation plunges the reader into a metaphorical River Ouse. "If this is the future of mainstream filmmaking," one drones above the pocket-muffled clatter of stones, "then let me be done with it."
As mentioned above, Voltron takes place five years after the Earth has been ravaged by their Robeast overlords. Marks flatters himself by depicting his world as "a cross between Escape from New York and a Vonnegut apocalypse fantasy". He does not cite a particular Vonnegut tome because he clearly has not read one. Better, then, to rephrase his post-apocalyptic setting as "a cross between 1990: The Bronx Warriors and Tom Sizemore's bedroom".
If the excerpt above doesn't give you just the bad vibes about this film, then you'd hate to find out that, The DRULES are the robeasts responsible for attacking the Earth in a 1 day war; that Coran is Allura's father, and they're both over 12,000 years old, and Pidge is a kid who had to fend for himself, making him reminiscent of Molly Ringwald's character in Spacehunter : Adventures in the Forbidden Zone - remember that horrible film?
Okay, I really think its time, just to put the Voltron Live Action movie on the back burner, and let it stew for the next five years. Really, WE dont need a movie about Voltron on the big screen, if its not going to get the due justice it deserves. I rather save all this energy and money and get the series to be redone in animated form, than to waste time on a movie, that is just turning many fans stomachs sour.
Justin Marks, no offense, I know you claim to be a fan, but your "track" record is lacking. Yes you're young, yes you have stars in your eyes, but with your treatment of Voltron, Im not impressed. Get a few films under your belt, first, then come back to handling the "big" licenses so that you learn to respect the material from which you are trying to adapt it from. I think its time that you hand over the writing and take on a partner, so they can go over your work to make sure that you're not getting carried away with stealing the plot devices from 20 movies to make this one movie. Voltron can be ORIGINAL, if you just step back from what you "think" it should be like and realize "WHAT" it should be like.
For now, I wanted to give this a chance, but as more details are released, the more I really do not want to see this film. Its disheartening to see something, you grew up with be destroyed. As I always will state, a movie doesn't have to be made. I do dream of a good live action movie, but I want a movie that captures the magic that I felt when watching the show. And none of that is present in the current version of this screenplay.
Hope to keep up to date with any new movie information that is released.
Updates Coming Soon!
Whew! I've been on a whirlwind of so many activities that I've barely had time to settle down and get down to updating this website! For that, Im sorry. But good news! I was able to attend San Diego ComiCon this year, and caught the Voice actors panel on both Saturday and Sunday. Featured were two cast members of Voltron, Neil Ross (Keith, Pidge, Jeff) and Michael Bell (Lance, Sven). Both were amazingly nice! I recorded both of the panels, and hope to have them posted once I find the cable to capture the footage to my computer.
Beyond that, real life has also kept me busy; my company's soccer team is in 4th place for our first season of play! We hope to do well in the play-offs! And I've been making some custom made items to sell. Im getting ready to get an Artist Table at Kawaii Kon 2008, so Im playing around with what items to sell. I have list ready; I just need to now sit down and make them.
Well, sit back and check back often! Updates are just around the corner. And remember September marks the 23rd year of Voltron!
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Compliance Still Required
The Treasury Department's communication, earlier this month, advised that two provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) would be delayed for one year. These provisions are the Shared Responsibility for employers (Pay or Play penalty tax) [Code § 4980H] and the Reporting of health insurance coverage [Code §§ 6055 and 6056]. While some employers may feel a sense of relief, it is important to realize that this is only a portion of the requirements set to begin on January 1, 2014. Several other requirements are still on target for implementation and continuing to prepare for the impact of these requirements is extremely important.
Today, there are no indications of additional delays. We should remain focused on the compliance deadlines.
Some of the provisions that still require your attention are as follows:
» Health Insurance Exchanges, both federal and state run, are still required to begin open enrollment on October 1, 2013. Employers are required to distribute notices to ALL employees about the availability of coverage through the Exchange by October 1, 2013.
» Benefit requirements for self-funded employers have not been modified or delayed. Coverage will continue to be required in order to remove all pre-existing condition limitations, avoid a waiting period greater than 90 days, remove annual dollar limits, and offer coverage to all dependents under the age of 26. Non-grandfathered plans will also have to comply with clinical trials coverage requirements, provider non-discrimination rules, and apply the out-of-pocket limits.
» PCORI and Transitional Reinsurance fees will also apply to all self-funded plans, just as they did prior to the delay.
» The individual mandate will still be implemented on January 1, 2014. This means that employers who do not provide minimum coverage could still subject their employees to the individual mandate penalty if the employer provided coverage does not meet minimum value requirements.
ACA requirements that take effective as noted below.
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Annual Limits prohibited on essential benefits (Transitional period expires) [PHSA § 2711] Plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2014
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Clinical trial coverage [PHSA § 2709] Plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2014 (exception for grandfathered health plans)
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Pre-existing Conditions Exclusion prohibition (for all groups) [PHSA § 2704] Plan years beginning on or after January 1, 2014 (previously prohibited under at 19)
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Cookie Lavagetto: The First Italian / American Mets Coach & Brooklyn World Series Hero (1962-1963)
Harry Arthur Lavagetto was born on December 1, 1912 in Oakland, California. He attended technical school in Oakland where he graduated & played baseball.
The six foot right handed hitting Lavagetto, began his career in the Pacific Coast League playing with the famous Oakland Oaks.
It was there he got the nickname Cookie, coming from his manager. In 1933 he batted .312 at AA ball Oakland, getting called up to the Pittsburgh Pirates team the next season.
Lavagetto spent three seasons in Pittsburgh as a reserve infielder (1934-1936) batting a best .290 in 1935 while playing in 75 games. He was traded to the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1937 and would play as the Dodgers regular second baseman that season before moving over to third base the next year.
Lavagetto became a star Brooklyn player, making four straight All Star teams from 1938-1941.
In his Dodger years he played on two pennant winners, while driving in over 70 runs in each of his first three seasons. In his Dodger debut he batted .282 with 7 HRs 26 doubles 70 RBIs & a .375 on base %.
After another solid season where he hit .273 in 1938, he had a great 1939 season. Lavagetto batted .300 with career highs in hits (176) which was tenth in the NL.
He also had personal bests in HRs (10) RBIs (87) which were 6th most in the NL & posted a .387 on base %. He had 78 walks ( 5th in the NL) 133 singles (6th in the NL) with 14 stolen bases (4th in the NL) making another All Star team.
At third base he posted the league's third best fielding % (.948%) with 278 assists (2nd in the NL) 136 put outs (3rd in the NL).
That season the Dodgers finished third. In 1940 his average dropped to .257 but he walked 70 times posting a .361 on base %.
In the Dodgers 1941 Pennant season, he hit .277 with 24 doubles 7 triples 75 runs scored & 78 RBIs. That year he played in his first World Series, appearing in three games going 1-10 with three walks.
He served in the military during World War II, missing four full years, returning to the big leagues by 1946.
He was a back up third baseman to Spider Jorgenson in 1947 which would be his final playing season batting .261 in 41 games, getting to another World Series.
1947 World Series: His most famous moment as a player came in Game #4 of the 1947 World Series at Brooklyn's Ebbetts Field. Lavagetto came to bat as a pinch hitter in the bottom of the 9th inning facing pitcher Bev Bevan who was pitching a no hitter.
Although the no hitter was going, Bevan had walked ten batters in the game & there were two Dodger runners on base when Cookie came to the plate. Cookie blasted a double to the outfield wall, breaking up the no hitter and driving in the game winning runs for Brooklyn. It was his last major league hit, as the Dodgers released him at the end of the Series.
In his ten season career he was a Lifetime .269 hitter, with 946 hits 485 walks a .360 on base % 40 HRs 486 RBIs & 183 doubles in 1043 career games.
Retirement: After his playing days, he returned to the Brooklyn Dodgers as a coach when Charlie Dressen was named manager. In a famous photograph, Lavagetto is seen sitting next to Ralph Branca holding up his head with his cap in his hand, at the steps of the Polo Grounds locker room.
The photo was taken right after Ralph Branca gave up NY Giants Bobby Thomson’s famous Shot Heard Round the World HR.
Lavagetto followed Dressen to Washington D.C. coaching the Senators from 1955-1957. He then succeeded Dressen as manger of the team from 1957-1960.
Lavagetto's best finish with the Senators was fifth place in 1960, which was the teams last season in the nation's Capitol. As the franchise moved to Minnesota and became the Twins, Lavagetto became the teams first manager. In June they were in ninth place & he was let go.
Mets Coach: In 1962 he joined Casey Stengel in New York, as an original New York Mets coach in the team’s first two years of their history (1962-1963).
In a famous 1962 Mets story it was Cookie Lavagetto who had one of the best lines of the year. It came during a June game at the Polo Grounds, when Marvelous Marv Throneberry hit a run scoring triple but was called out for missing second base.
Manager Casey Stengel came out to argue with the umpire, as he returned to the dugout he began to argue with Lavagetto who had been coaching at first base. Stengel asked why he didn’t argue the call with him on the field as well. Lavagetto told Casey “forget it Casey, Marv missed first base too.”
After his stint as a coach in New York, he went home to the Bay area and coached the San Francisco Giants through 1967. He also sold therapy equipment in his wife's business. In his spare time his hobby was golf.
Passing: On August 10, 1990 he suffered a fatal heart attack, passing away in his sleep at age 77.
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Philippine Supreme Court Jurisprudence > Year 1953 > October 1953 Decisions > G.R. No. L-5366 October 29, 1953 - PEOPLE OF THE PHIL. v. ALBERTO JORE
PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ALBERTO JORE, ISIDRO SUPOSO, PACIFICO BOOC, EPIMACO AROA and CARMINO CODIÑERA, Defendants-Appellants.
Solicitor General Pompeyo Diaz and Solicitor Felix V. Makasiar for Appellee.
Jesus P. Garcia for appellant Epimaco Aroa.
Fernando Leaño for the other appellants.
1. EVIDENCE; CREDIBILITY OF WITNESSES. — The testimonies of witnesses, who have positively recognized the malefactors and pointed them out to the trial judge, and with no motive falsely to incriminate, should be credited.
2. ID.; SILENCE OF FAMILIES OF VICTIMS. — Judges know that a sense of shame has at times compelled families of the victims to keep silent at first about sexual offenses committed against one of their number. And it often happens that the victim knows the criminal by face only, and afterwards, upon inquiry, ascertains his real name.
3. CRIMINAL LAW; RAPE; VITALITY OF SEXUAL OFFENDERS. — It is not impossible that an accused may be able to rape three girls one after the other devoting 15 minutes for each girl, and this can only be ascribed to his strong physical constitution and endurance.
Accused of robbery with rape, Alberto Jore, Isidro Suposo, Pacifico Booc, Epimaco Aroa and Carmino Codiñera were tried by the Court of First Instance of Cebu and sentenced to 12 years of prision mayor as minimum, and 17 years, 4 months and 1 day of reclusion temporal as maximum, to indemnify the offended party Anisia Pilit in the sum of P430, and to pay the costs.
Originally elevated to the Court of Appeals the record was later forwarded here, because said court opined that the crime should be penalized with life imprisonment.
According to the evidence, Anisia Pilit lived in her house in Barrio Managase, Tabogon, Cebu, with her children Juan, Dominga, Tomasa, Remigia, Epimaco and Tranquilino, all surnamed Urot and a niece, Irinea Puyot. At about 10:00 in the night of March 17, 1948, Pacifico Booc approached said house and called "Nang, Nang, Nang." When no one answered, he again shouted "Ting, Ting, Ting" referring to Juan Urot. The latter answered, and was asked if they had tuba. Juan replied in the negative. Booc then requested water. So Juan aroused his mother, Anisia Pilit, to light the lamp. Carrying the lighted lamp Juan and his sister Dominga opened the door only to face at the threshold, about a meter away, Pacifico Booc, Alberto Jore, Epimaco Aroa, Isidro Suposo. The latter with a handkerchief partly covering his face held a rifle pointed at them. Carmino Codiñera, stepping forward with a mask and revolver in hand, warned Juan and Dominga, that they would be killed if they shouted. Then Codiñera and Suposo climbed up the house while Booc, Jore and Aroa remained as guards downstairs on orders of Codiñera. Taking Suposo’s rifle, Codiñera ordered the later to tie the inmates of the house. After tying the hands of Juan, Dominga, Tomasa, Epimaco, Remigia, Anisia and Irinea behind their backs he herded them together in the middle of the sala. Demanding money from Juan and his mother, Codiñera was informed there was none in the dwelling. Codiñera then approached Juan seized his hair and bumped his head against a post. Realizing that money was not worth his life, Juan asked his mother to surrender their funds. Anisia then got from his son Epimaco a canvass belt containing paper bills amounting to P400. Codiñera grabbed the belt, tore it, pocketed the loot. He demanded from Anisia Pilit the rest of the cash and when the latter replied they had no more, she was required to hand over her keys. As she did not stand up immediately, Codiñera raised his gun saying she would be shot, if she refused. It was then that Codiñera dropped his mask accidentally, and his face was seen. Picking it up and putting it on again, he ordered Anisia to open the trunk, from which he extracted coins amounting to P30. Still unsatisfied he demanded their jewelry, and pulled the earrings worn by Remigia and her mother valued at P30.
Anisia Pilit was then tied again and all those bound in the center of the sala were ordered by Codiñera into the room. Juan, Dominga and Tomasa on the other hand were left tied to the posts, threatened with death if they moved.
Codiñera then untied Tomasa, 22, from the post, fondled her breasts, took her down to the baraka (a room leading to the kitchen), raised her dress, and had carnal knowledge with her by force. After the act, Codiñera covered Tomasa’s face with his hat and called one of his guards to come up. When she moved, the hat covering her face slipped down enabling Tomasa to recognize Epimaco Aroa as he passed the baraka door which was illuminated by the bright light from the sala only six meters away. Aroa placed himself on top of her and again the hat on her face fell even as Tomasa vainly fought his advances. Tomasa stood up after she had been abused, and returned to her room.
Dominga, 28, was Codiñera’s next victim. She was brought to the baraka with hands tied at her back, forced to lie down, threatened with death and then ravished.
Alberto Jore, whom Dominga recognized by the light from the sala as he passed thru the baraka door duplicated Codiñera’s deed and had sexual intercourse with Dominga against her will.
A little later Codiñera took 16-year old Remigia from the room, brought her to the baraka and thru violence destroyed her virginity. Afterwards Codiñera also led her cousin, Irinea Puyot 21, toward the baraka and told Suposo it was his turn. Suposo conducted Irinea to the baraka, where he pushed her to the floor. She resisted, but Suposo threatening to shoot enjoyed her flesh. His lust satisfied, Suposo invited Codiñera to take over. However, Codiñera summoned another guard "because they could no longer resist." Pacifico Booc, responding to Codiñera’s call had sexual intercourse with Irinea thru intimidation.
Before leaving, the outlaws warned the inmates not to report to the authorities or they will all be killed and their house burned. Afraid of a repetition, the entire family of Anisia Pilit hid in the bushes all night, after the defendants had departed.
Alberto Jore and Pacifico Booc returned the following morning and repeated the threat that if they complained to the authorities, they would be massacred.
The foregoing version was established by the testimonies of Juan Urot, Dominga Urot, Tomasa Urot, Remigia Urot, Epimaco Urot and Irinea Puyot.
Isabelo Semblante, cousin of defendant Pacifico Booc reinforced it, because, testifying for the prosecution he declared that in the afternoon of March 16, 1948, he overheard Codiñera, Aroa and Booc discussing their plan to rob Anisia Pilit; and that such conversation took place in the house of Alberto more where Semblante had gone avisiting.
The reality of the robbery is not denied. That the women were actually ravished is confirmed by the doctor’s certificate, Exhibit E of April 2, 1948, finding lacerated hymens with scars about a week old. On the witness stand the physician said that the lacerations had been inflicted about two weeks before April 2nd.
The only issue concerns the identity of the malefactors. The complaining witnesses positively recognized these appellants and pointed them out to the trial judge. And having no motive falsely to incriminate, they should be, and were credited. It is not even insinuated that, before the event, they entertained any ill feeling against these prisoners. On the contrary, Booc, Jore and Aroa were their neighbors and regular tuba buyers. Furthermore, "considering the loss of reputation which a woman suffers by a sexual crime" as defense counsel says, it is hard to imagine these unmarried girls (Tomasa Urot, Dominga Urot, Remigia Urot and Irinea Puyot) concocting a story of defloration — and by married men at that. 1
The vigorous effort of the attorney-de-officio to subject their account to critical scrutiny has been duly noted. Yet a discriminating appraisal of the important facts bearing on the trustworthiness of their crucial testimony yields no sufficient basis for rational disbelief.
In this connection we are reminded that when Juan Urot reported the incident to the authorities he did not mention the rape nor the names of the robbers — notwithstanding assertions of the victims that they had recognized their assailants. However, Pablo Armoco, the chief of police declaring for the defense admitted that Juan Urot had named the outlaws. At any rate judges know that a sense of shame has at times compelled families to keep silent at first about sexual offenses committed against one of their number. And it often happens that the victim knows the criminal by face only, and afterwards, upon inquiry, ascertains his real name.
Isidro Suposo presented no defense. Jore, Booc and Aroa put their wives on the stand to swear that the prisoners had slept with their respective spouses during the night in question. Yet as the prosecution argues, such witnesses are necessarily partial and the husbands could have sneaked out, their felonies to perform, while their wives blissfully slumbered. Beato Mondejar, brother in law of Carmino Codiñera testified that the latter passed the night at his house in Cebu.
But he could not have spoken truly, because contrary to his assertion that Codiñera was in Cebu, Cebu, in the evening of March 16, Codiñera was seen by Juan Urot at the wedding of Maximo Cruz in Tabogon in the very evening of the 16th of March.
Pedro Rivera, a friend of Mondejar, related to the Court that Codiñera and Mondejar were among his guests in a party given by him on March 17, 1948. He also testified that they arrived at his house at about 6:30 o’clock and stayed there about three to four hours.
Bitaliano Cosedo, another witness for the defense, corroborated the testimony of Pedro Rivera that Codiñera was at Rivera’s house attending a party on March 17, 1948. This witness also testified that Codiñera and Mondejar spent around three hours at the house of Rivera.
As the crime took place about 10 o’clock, it is not impossible that Codiñera after attending the party of Rivera in Cebu, proceeded to Tabogon to lead the raiders.
The attorney-de-officio argues:jgc:chanrobles.com.ph
"5. We are led to believe a story that Carmino Codiñera raped three girls (virgins) in relays of 15 minutes each.
6. It simply cannot be done. Hormones, which control the erection of the male organ, cannot be manufactured that fast; and there is a limit to male endurance."
The prosecution replies:jgc:chanrobles.com.ph
"That appellant Codiñera was able to rape three girls one after the other, devoting 15 minutes for each girl, can only be ascribed to his strong physical constitution and endurance. Besides appellant Codiñera did not rape the three girls one after the other, for after he was through with each girl, he was followed by one of his confederates who necessarily must have consumed also 15 minutes, giving him that much time for respite."cralaw virtua1aw library
Now, as nobody timed the performance, what was thought as fifteen minutes could have been twenty or thirty minutes or more. Anyway judicial records disclose similar instances of abundant vitality of sex offenders:chanrob1es virtual 1aw library
In Vogel v. State 138 Wis. 315, 119 N.W. 190, "The evidence showed that one defendant forcibly took the prosecutrix to a clump of trees, that the other defendants followed and all raped the prosecutrix, that defendants thereafter took her down the road about five hundred feet where they again raped her, that thereafter she was brought back to the first place, where the offense was repeated, this series of acts taking place between 11 o’clock at night and 1 o’clock in the morning." (See also People v. Manguiat, 51 Phil. p. 406.)
And on the matter of sexual outlet there are undoubtedly high-rating individuals belonging to the so called "sexual athlete" class of men. Intervals between climaxes may range from 10 seconds to 30 minutes. (See Kinsey, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male pp. 213, 179.)
From the evidence it is clear beyond reasonable doubt, that all the defendants were guilty as principals of robbery with rape penalized by Art. 294 par. 2 of the Revised Penal Code. Having pretended to ask for drink to induce the inmates to open the door, the accused are deemed to have employed craft and disguise, which, coupled with the circumstance of nighttime requires the imposition of the maximum period of the penalty prescribed by law.
Wherefore the appealed decision will be modified by sentencing each of the appellants to life imprisonment. They are also sentenced jointly and severally (1) to indemnify Anisia Pilit in the sum of P460, and (2) to endow each of the ravished women in the sum of P2,000.
Paras, C.J., Pablo, Padilla, Tuason, Montemayor, Reyes, Jugo and Labrador, JJ., concur.
1. Incidentally it maybe observed that the defendants "confessed their guilt" in the justice of the peace court of Tabogon, according to official written statement of the justice of the peace, Pacita P. Jabagat. And in the court of first instance, they did not take the stand.
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Welcome to the Age of Hell: Entrenching Murder as the American Way
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The Washington Post has just laid out, in horrifying, soul-slaughtering detail, the Obama Administration's ongoing effort to expand, entrench and "codify" the practice of murder and terrorism by the United States government. The avowed, deliberate intent of these sinister machinations is to embed the use of death squads and drone terror attacks into the policy apparatus of future administrations, so that the killing of human beings outside all pretense of legal process will go on, year after year after year, even when the Nobel Peace Laureate has left office.
They have even come up with a new euphemism for state murder: "disposition." The new "counterterrorism matrix" is "designed to go beyond existing kill lists, mapping plans for the 'disposition' of suspects beyond the reach of American drones," the Post reports.
In other words, it involves expanding and varying the menu of arbitrary murder, mixing the blunderbuss of drone blasts and night raids with more selective "bullet-in-the-brain," "bomb-in-the-car-engine," "polonium-in-the-pea-soup," and "doping-and-defenestration" approaches. Arbitrary murder by unaccountable elites and their spies, paid for by money taken from ordinary citizens who have no say in and no knowledge of what is being done in their names (and who will be the victims of the inevitable blowback from the state terror and murder campaign): this is now being "codified," officially, formally, as the American way.
To be fair -- and by all means, let us be fair with these butchers -- the term 'disposition' is also stretched to cover a multitude of sins: kidnapping, rendition, indefinite detention, turning captives over to proxy torturers. But it is worth remembering that all of these dispositions -- including the murders, wholesale and retail -- involve "alleged" terrorists, terrorist "suspects," people who have found themselves, for whatever reason (or no reason at all) on one of the innumerable "lists" gathered by whatever method (or no method at all) by the many fatly-funded agencies now involved in "counter-terrorism."
But that's not all, not by a long shot. These codified murders are also being inflicted on people who are not on any list whatsoever: their names, affiliations, beliefs, intentions -- indeed, their dispositions -- are completely unknown to those who kill them. They are the faceless targets of "signature strikes," which allow American death squads to kill people based on "patterns of activity" which may -- or may not -- signal some possible malign intent -- or none -- toward someone -- or no one -- somewhere -- or nowhere. This rigorous process rests entirely on in the magical mind-reading abilities of drone jockeys ogling a computer screen. If the armchair warrior doesn't like the cut of someone's jib, then he squeezes his joystick and turns the stranger into "bug splatter," to use the term favored by our bold defenders of civilization.
Like last year's NY Times piece that first detailed the murder racket being run directly out of the White House, the new Washington Post story is replete with quotes from "senior Administration officials" who have obviously been authorized to speak. Once again, this is a story that Obama and his team WANT to tell. They want you to know about the murder program and their strenuous exertions to make it permanent; they are proud of this, they think it makes them look good. They want it to be part of their legacy, something they can pass on to future generations: arbitrary, lawless, systematic murder.
Perhaps this fact should be borne in mind by all those anguished progressives out there who keep telling themselves that Obama will "be different, that he will "turn to the left," if we can only get him a second term. No; the legacy of arbitrary, lawless, systematic murder is the legacy he wants. It is the legacy he has been building, with remarkable energy and meticulous attention to detail, day after day, week after week, for the past four years. This is what he cares about. And it is this -- not jobs, not peace, not the environment, not equal rights for women and ethnic and sexual minorities, not the poor, not the middle class, not education, not infrastructure, not science, not diplomacy -- that he will apply himself to in a second term. (Along with his only other political passion: forging a "grand bargain" with Big Money to gut the remaining shreds of the New Deal.)
There is little point in going through the Post story and offering detailed comment. The sickening nature of this perpetual-motion death-machine -- and the husk-like inhumanity of those who operate it and the sycophants who applaud it -- are all too plain. Just read the whole thing, and see for yourself. See how these butchers -- our bipartisan elites, our whole respectable, self-righteous establishment -- have trapped us all in an Age of Hell.
UPDATE: Arthur Silber has much more on the moral implications -- and the heartbreaking historical resonances -- of the state murder program. Get over there now, read it -- and weep for where we are, and where we're going.
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According to Ian Rapoport's twitter, Bears receiver Kevin White to be out longer than expected after Sunday's ankle injury. This injury comes just on the heels of White's rookie season-ending injury that kept the receiver out for his entire 2015 season. Per Rapoport, the tweet states "#Bears players expect the ankle
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--Over the last several years, the West Virginia University football team has became known for its speedy wide receivers. The Mountaineers have put Tavon Austin, Stedman Bailey, Kevin White and Mario Alford in the NFL. This season's squad has animated talent in Shelton Gibson, Ka'Raun White, Daikiel Shorts and Jovon
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Last spring, the Chicago Bears scored big in the NFL draft with the selection of wide receiver Kevin White. Unfortunately, as many are well aware of, White suffered a rookie season-ending shin injury before the season was actually started. Bears fans have spent the past year getting to know White
WVU’s Ka’Raun White ready to emerge from the shadows
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--West Virginia University wide receiver Ka'Raun White has always been living in his older brother Kevin's shadow but he is ready to make his own name for himself on the football field. "I just got to keep on making plays, make a name for myself starting off the first game
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--The West Virginia University football team is days away from the season opener against Georgia Southern and the excitement is in the air. "I think everybody is probably in the same frame of mind today," head coach Dana Holgorsen. "I am excited about it being game week. I think everybody
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va.-- West Virginia University has been put on the map because of a talented core of wide receivers over the last few years. With camp underway, the unproven group of receivers have a tall task of replacing Kevin White and Mario Alford. Why should it be a tough task for
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Thomas wakes up in an elevator, remembering nothing but his own name. He emerges into a world of about 60 teen boys who have learned to survive in a completely enclosed environment, subsisting on their own agriculture and supplies from below. A new boy arrives every 30 days. The original group has been in "the glade" for two years, trying to find a way to escape through a maze that surrounds their living space. They have begun to give up hope when a comatose girl arrives with a strange note, and their world begins to change.
Subtitle: NA
Classification: PG
Release Date: 11 Sep 2014
Genre: Thriller / Science Fiction / Mystery
Running Time: 1 Hour 53 Minutes
Distributor: 20TH CENTURY FOX
Cast: Dylan O'Brien, Will Poulter, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Kaya Scodelario, Patricia Clarkson
Director: Wes Ball
Format: 2D, IMAX, 2D ATMOS, 2D D-BOX
Writer: Naseem Randhawa
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Watch this if you liked: "The Hunger Games", "The Lord Of The Flies"
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Young Adult Dystopian films ("Hunger Games", "Divergent", "The Giver") seem to be the new genre craze after the slew of Vampire films (thanks, "Twilight"), but what makes "The Maze Runner" different though, is a testosterone driven male cast that's less about the lovin' and more on the shovin'. It's a show of personalities clashing in order to survive a harsh unknown setting, that's not too far off from being an interesting mash-up of "The Lord Of The Flies" and TV's "Lost". Teen heartthrob, Dylan O'Brien plays the lead Thomas, who does a good job bringing the author James Dashner's lead to life. At the start of the film, audiences may be puzzled with the questions; 'Who is Thomas and why is he sent to The Maze? Who are behind The Maze? And what is The Maze?', but this is normal and the movie serves as a start of something much bigger and deeper than its Maze-y facade. With certain revelations made, further questions are fueled making audiences hungry for more unlocking of sinister secrets as they try to figure out the puzzle that is this suspense-laden film.
The snarky personality clashes between Gally (Will Poulter) and Thomas. Actor Will Poulter was also the annoying kid in "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader" in 2010.
Director Wes Ball has confirmed that the sequel, "The Scorch Trials" is in pre-production. With that, the final movie "The Death Cure" should be next, just like the book trilogy.
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This will be a hit with teens and also for those who have read the books.
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Jeff Bridges Rules Over Evocative "Hell Or High Water"
Like a Waylon Jennings song come to life, Texas thriller “Hell Or High Water” cozies up to life as a dust-covered cowpoke and nonchalantly rolls it over. The exposed underbelly proves an effective conduit for tension and drama for director David Mackenzie (“Starred Up”) and writer Taylor Sheridan (“Sicario”). Armed with a stable of both movie stars and character actors, the unlikely duo (Mackenzie is a Scotsman, Sheridan a native Texan) transforms a pretty ordinary cops-and-robbers yarn into an intriguing hybrid of heist movie and revenge thriller with a side of some exceptionally meaty character work. It’s all a touch familiar, but it works.
Instead of giving us the lowdown off the bat, the movie comes out of the chute with a bang – two consecutive bank robbery sequences – happily stringing us along on informational bread crumbs until we can piece the story together for ourselves. The gist is this: Toby Howard (Chris Pine) is a divorced, down-on-his-luck dad with an especially unlawful plan to save his family’s soon-to-be-foreclosed farm. He and his ex-con brother Tanner (Ben Foster) begin by relieving a handful of bank branches of their drawer money, setting in motion a plan to kill at least two birds with one stone.
A specter of disbelief hangs heavy over some of Sheridan’s plot machinations. But this is, after all, West Texas, a place where people say things like “I gotta shit like an old goat” and mean it, and rent can be paid in dead coyotes. It’s hard to believe these two would conceive of this particular plan – it’s briefly suggested that their lawyer is complicit in it – but it’s not a stretch to think they’d give it a go. Do they ever.
Unfortunately for them, the law isn’t far behind. Jeff Bridges plays Marcus Hamilton – call him talker, Texas Ranger – a motor-mouthed, openly bigoted lawman who doesn’t much care for ski-masked youngsters interrupting his morning coffee. Or his impending retirement. The retirement subplot is every bit as tired as Hamilton is, but it works here because 65-year-old Bridges’ presence is inherently a mixture of irritability and weariness. The Oscar-winner sells it just by showing up.
Much of the film’s alleged humor comes from Hamilton’s rapport with and disdain for his Native American partner Alberto (Gil Cunningham). Like in Clint Eastwood’s “Gran Torino,” the offhand racism is primed to get the wrong kind of laughs. But Sheridan’s screenplay subtly morphs it from outright hostility into something gentler. By act III, the tempestuous bond between Marcus and Alberto has been solidified, retroactively smoothing over some of the rougher dialogue. Cunningham is good and Bridges can’t help but be great, ensuring that the duo is likable through it all.
Bridges’ inimitable screen presence aside, it’s up to the Howard brothers to carry the film. Pine makes for a fine Toby, even if he’s too good-looking to pass muster as a dusty rancher taking his meals in roadside diners. He comes off like a Fashion Week version of a cowboy, just steps removed from a runway or a commercial shoot. But Pine is a natural performer, never less than fully committed to his character’s inner turmoil. Longtime chameleon Foster fares better as Tanner, a short-fused cannon ever at the ready to go off. The character passes on no opportunity to buck any warm feelings toward the brothers on the part of the audience. He a skulking, coiled mess of a man and Foster is happy to oblige.
Incredibly, the film’s sprinkling of supporting players provides just as much joy as its leads. Katy Mixon (“Eastbound & Down”) is great as a feisty waitress and Margaret Bowman (“Bernie”) is wondrous as an even feistier waitress. She nearly walks away with the film in her two minutes of screen time, portraying what could go down as one of the great movie waitresses of all time.
Sheridan’s screenplay and Mackenzie’s direction really come together in two places. Above all, the robbery and getaway scenes are kinetic in ways that lesser filmmakers dream of, transpiring like storyboards brought effortlessly to life. The way the camera careens toward and then away from each of Toby’s getaway cars screams both great screen direction and a director who cares deeply about his writer’s voice.
Then there’s the film’s lone scene between Bridges and Pine. It’s the perfect culmination of the movie’s handful of pulse-quickening sequences of suspense, marrying terrifically substantive writing to two performers given free reign by a director who could’ve easily called for a much more confined reading of the material. The scene teeters on going over the top, but it’s the catharsis the movie demands and Bridge and Pine deliver their dialogue deliciously.
“Hell Or High Water” is only intermittently dazzling, but it brings with it another in a long line of great Jeff Bridges performances and a welcome tweak on genre formula. In crossing potboiler and art film streams, David Mackenzie and Taylor Sheridan have come up with something distinct, if not groundbreaking. No, leave groundbreaking for next time. If this go-round is any indication, God knows they’ll get there.
-J. Olson
Rating: ★★★★ out of ★★★★★ (Very Good)
Release Date: August 12, 2016 (Limited)
Studio: CBS Films, Lionsgate
Director: David Mackenzie
Screenwriter: Taylor Sheridan
Starring: Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine, Ben Foster, Gil Birmingham, Katy Mixon, Kevin Rankin, Margaret Bowman
MPAA Rating: R (for some strong violence, language throughout and brief sexuality)
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We Can Bankrupt the Global Jihad
After the "Arab Spring," Saudi Arabia gave its citizens a raise. Saudis citizens don't pay income taxes. Most of them don't even work. The Saudi government pays them, and to avoid the fate of the leaders in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere, the Saudis increased their citizens' pay and pensions. They committed future funds to these payoffs.
This has presented the counterjihad movement an opportunity to strike a decisive blow into the heart of the global jihad.
Jihadist projects are funded largely through Saudi Arabia and Iran, two OPEC nations. The Taliban is a Saudi oil-money project, for example. So is the Muslim Brotherhood and the OIC. Hezbollah is an Iranian oil-money project.
OPEC is a cartel formed of primarily Islamic countries. OPEC was founded for the purpose of raising world oil prices. Jihadist activities around the world have been on the rise because jihadist funding has been on the rise. The source of that funding is oil profits, which have been on the rise.
What keeps the whole thing functioning is oil's monopoly over the most important commodity on earth — transportation fuel.
In the 1980's, because the rising cost of oil, many new programs were started to create a freer fuel market. Brazil launched its ambitious ethanol program, many new ethanol distilleries were built in America, Roberta Nichols created a massive methanol experiment in California, etc. But in the mid-80's, OPEC flooded the world market with oil in order to drop world oil prices, which made all of these potentially-competitive fuels no longer competitive on price, which crashed Brazil's program, put half the U.S. ethanol facilities into bankruptcy, and prompted California to abandon its methanol experiment.
It was a classic monopolist move. It's the oldest trick in the monopolist's book: Drop your price to send the competition into bankruptcy.
Once their competitors were sufficiently crippled, OPEC started raising the world oil price again.
But competing fuels have recently begun to reappear. Brazil permanently changed to flex fuel vehicles (rather than ethanol-only vehicles) for example, which has protected them from OPEC's manipulations (when oil prices drop, drivers buy gasoline; when oil prices rise, drivers buy ethanol). Brazil's economy is booming.
In the United States there is a growing clamor to use methanol as a fuel, ideally in flex fuel vehicles. Methanol can be made inexpensively from America's abundant natural gas, and can be sold for half the cost of gasoline without any subsidies. If it was available as a fuel, people would buy methanol because it would save them a lot of money. But right now, it is not available as a fuel in the U.S. One bill now in Congress is trying to change that.
So let's say the bill passes into law and methanol becomes available, and people start using methanol for fuel. Gasoline would have to drop in price to compete, or it wouldn't sell. Everything would be wonderful. But...
Wouldn't OPEC just drop the world price of oil to crush this new competitor?
This is where things have changed in an important way. This is our new opportunity. Saudi Arabia controls what OPEC does. The Saudis are sitting on the easiest oil to produce in the world, and therefore theirs is the cheapest oil to produce. Because of this, they dictate what the rest of the OPEC nations will do. But if methanol becomes a fuel in America, Saudi Arabia (and the global jihad movement) will be between a rock and a hard place — and it could be the end of both OPEC and the third jihad.
If the Saudis decide to lower the world price of oil to make the U.S. lose interest in methanol, they would not make enough money to fulfill their commitments to pay off their subjects, who would probably rise up and throw the monarchy out. But if the Saudis keep the price of oil high, they would lose their income, because who would buy gasoline at $4.00 a gallon when methanol is available for half the price of an equivalent gallon? Not many.
Gal Luft, the co-director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, wrote:
Since the beginning of the Arab Spring, Saudi King Abdullah almost doubled his Kingdom's budget, committing billions in subsidies, pensions and pay raises in an effort to keep his subjects from storming the palaces.
This expensive response effectively raised the price of oil needed for the Saudis to balance their budget from under $70 a barrel before 2011 to at least $110 a barrel by 2015.
When oil is $100 a barrel, gasoline is about $3.50 to $4.00 a gallon. Methanol can sell at about $2.00 an equivalent gallon. Oil would have to be $50 a barrel to compete.
In other words, what happened in the 1980's can no longer happen. Saudi Arabia can no longer afford to drop the price of oil low enough to eliminate the competition. If we introduce vigorous fuel competition now in America, it will be the end of oil's monopoly for good, and funding for the global jihad would evaporate as Saudi Arabia and Iran would be forced to struggle to simply stay afloat.
This is an unprecedented opportunity. And you can help make it happen: If you are an American, join the fuel competition revolution. Go to openfuelstandard.org and sign up for their updates and urge your Representative to co-sponsor the bill. If you are in any other country, let your fellow counterjihadists know about this bill and what it could mean for the world, and let everyone around the world urge Americans to pass this bill. The U.S. is the largest consumer of transportation fuel in the world. If fuel competition happens here, it will spread to other countries. And it will be the death knell of the third jihad.
Maybe methanol is a good choice. When we look seriously at alternate energy sourcwes we must be responsible enough to discern those sources that have a track record of failure and unsustainability and avoid them, i.e., "green" examples such as windmills, solar, and the disaster as in Japan of nuclear. It would also be unwise to not look at who will be profiting from the new fuels i.e., Communists and UN globalists who also seek destruction of The West-
I regret to inform you that you overlook one crucial factor: the doctrine of energy equivalence.
For more than a decade, our government has been operating on a doctrine which holds that the cost of a BTU should not vary between alternative fuels. If one fuel is cheaper, the government raises tases on it to bring it up to match the others.
KSA is running short of energy for domestic use, particularly electricity. At the same time, their oil fields are rapidly being depleted.
We can exploit their weakness by increasing domestic exploration and production, not by mythological alternative fuels.
Any solution requires removing the Socialists from Congress and the White House. Until we do that, we can do nothing.
Ben, since right now you can buy CNG at $2.11 a gallon equivalent, clearly the government does not raise taxes to match the others.
Methanol is not a mythological alternative fuel. It is being used in over a million cars in China.
http://www.fuelfreedom.org/blog/the-u-s-and-china-on-methanol-two-roads-converge/
Until we remove socialists from Congress and the White House we can do nothing? That kind of pessimism and defeatism is not helpful to our purpose. Much can be done immediately.
CW, I not only agree with your most of your posts, i also appreciate your attitude of doing something positive rather than just wringing one's hands about the jihad threat.
Stay that way :)
CW wrote:
Annon wrote:
CW not facing the truth means we can't get to the solution.
The UN was started by communists, is currently implementing a global plan for global conquest and spiritual unity. This includes embracing Islamic civilization and merging all cultures into a Babylonian utopia. Until we rid ourselves from the UN globalist/21 century socialists, we will not stop Islam, I agree with Ben.
However, the education must continue and CW does the best job on that.
We can exit the UN state by state, and exit Agenda 21 (21st century socialism, UNESCO secular humanism, Common Core and Islam) with one paragraph.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/memxphicligbxku/state%20withdrawl%20from%20the%20un.pdf
Why do we not do this? We are overrun with Alger Hiss communists in our government.
Walter Sieruk 8:23 AM
If Islam is repsented as a tree then tree then the fruit of this tree are the many different Islamic terror groups. Such as al Qaeda, al Shababa, Anser al Islam, Hamas ,Hezbollah, PIJ, etc. many members of these groups put into practice the murderous violence of Islam’s militant jihadism, Sura 9:112. 47:4.. In the light of this the teachings of Jesus very much apply. For Jesus taught “Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles ? Even so every good tree bringth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringth forth evil fruit. A good tree bring forth good fruit.” After saying this Jesus told them what He told them when He said “By their fruits ye shall know them.” Matthew 7:16,17,18,20. [KJV] In conclusion, Islam is a corrupt tree and also a false religion.
Walter Sieruk 12:48 PM
The murderous violence of the militant jihadism of Islam is based on the Quran.For example as in Sura 9:112. 47:4. An important question: is the Quran the Word of God or is it a fabrication of a Man. Thus, is the Quran the truth or a fiction and a hoax? The jihadists use many verses from the Quran as the Main source of justification for their violence, mayhem and murders. There, the question is clearly given on pages 145 through 157 in THE ISLAMIC INVASION by Robert Morey in which he wrote a section on the Quran with its self-contradictions. Just two of the many he cited are the following “The Quran differs on whether a day is a thousand years or fifty thousand years in God’s sight’ and “Who was first to believe? Abraham or Moses [Sura 6:14 versus 7:143]? The above is inconsistent and illogical. Further, Morey wrote about “The fact that Judaism and Christianity broke up into different sects was used in the Quran to prove that they are not of God [Suras 30:20-32. 42:13, 14]. Yet Islam has broken up into many warring sects and therefore cannot be true if the Quran is right.” Moreover, Morey in his book shows many more contradictions and absurdities in the Quran, there are and how Muhammad incorporated extra Biblical and Jewish folklore along with pre-Islamic Arabian myth and parts of Zoroastrian and Hindu stories into the Quran. Furthermore, the Muslims claim that “the Quran is the direct, literal word of God unmodified in any way by the Prophet who uttered them at the bidding of God.” Nevertheless, in the book UNVEILING ISLAM by Ergun Mehmet and Eethi Caner has shown that the Quran was modified in the following account on pages 45. “Muhammad felt the need to improve on the words of Allah, since he changed Allah’s wisdom for his own on several occasions. A hadith tells of the nonchalant emendations of Muhammad:’ On a number of occasions he [a scribe] had, with the Prophet’s consent changed the closing words of verses. For example, when the prophet had said ‘God is mighty and wise ‘ Adbollah b. Abi Sarh suggested writing down ‘Knowing and wise’ and the Prophet answered that there was no objection. Having observed a succession of changes of this type, Adbollah renounced Islam on the grounds that revelations, if from God could not be changed at the prompting of a scribe such as himself. After his apostasy he went to Mecca and joined the Qorayshites.’ Other writers reveal that later Muhammad and his people did go war with the Qorayshites and he personally killed Abdollah. Obviously Abdollah knew too much and Muhammad wanted Abdollah’s knowledge to die with him.” In conclusion, the Quran is not only a fiction, it’s also a hoax.
The time is also ripe for the building of Thorium Fuelled Reactors.
The principles have been known since the late 1940's, but Uranium as been the fuel of choice because of the nuclear weapons programme. Thorium does not produce by-products for the nuclear weapons programme.
India is developing Thorium Reactors because it cannot buy Uranium Yellowcake easily for its own reactors.
Uranium is expected to run out in 50-60 years, whilst Thorium could replace Uranium and there is enough of it to last 250 years+
It’s Time to Shock O.P.E.C.
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Debate: Ban on extremist political parties
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+ ==See also==
+ *[[Debate: Race-based political parties]]
==External links and resources:== ==External links and resources:==
Is it ever justified to ban extremist political parties?
Extremist political parties can be taken either to mean those on the extreme left or, more normally, those on the extreme right. The normal definition of an extremist group is that they promote hate speech or act as the political wing of a terrorist group, and in this context the term could also be applied to fundamentalist religious groups of the type found most notably in the Islamic world. Care must be taken in giving a clear definition of extremist, and explaining the groups caught under its umbrella. In the past few years a variety of groups which have been labelled as extremist have received increased support in elections in a number of European countries.[1]
Moral standards: Does a society have the right to set moral standards that exclude extremist groups?
Societies have a right to set moral judgements and standards that exclude extremist groups: We can declare things abhorrent and not justified in decent society. Such a function is a role for government in making any laws. A removal of this moral dimension from law making would lead to extreme moral relativism and anarchy.[2]
The very strength and weakness of a democracy is in allowing anyone to challenge it and mold it: If the system regulates itself by declaring who cannot challenge it then it is not pure and it is a betrayal of the very system.
It is difficult to categorize a party as 'extremist' or 'far-right': There is a wide difference in policy between groups such the BNP and Front Nationale, and the List Pym Fortuyn. Alongside repellent views on race there may be policies on topics such as immigration, devolution and policing which challenge the status quo and are worthy of serious political debate.[3]
Harm: Should extremist groups be banned that "harm" other groups? How can this be defined?
Extremist parties can be banned if they express hate speech that causes harm to other groups: Free speech does not exist in a vacuum: It can be restrained specifically in this case on grounds of harm. Extremism as hate speech that causes harm to minorities is a justifiable reason for the curbing of free speech.[4]
Society can develop a general consensus about what extremist views can be deemed "harmful": While there are some things society disagrees on, there are other things that we agree on and can establish as norms, standards, and morals. In setting these norms and laws, we establish that their violation can automatically be deemed "harmful" to society. Disagreement among accepted political parties exists in the area in which societies have not formed a consensus on the "harm" of differing policies. That's why such disagreement is tolerated; we're not sure of the true effects. Yet, if society is able to deem by general consensus that an extremist political party violates these norms, then that party should be deemed "harmful" to society, and excluded from politics.[5]
As long as extremist parties do promote physical harm to others, they should be given freedom to engage in politics: Although politicians in extremist parties may promote intolerance and discriminatory policies, very rarely do they directly call for violent action, so what impact are we seeking to restrain? We already have laws that regulate the conduct of free speech - slander, libel etc. Yet the basic premise of free speech in a democracy must be protected at all cost, or else we risk turning into the kind of society that these extremist groups support. Again, this is unless a clear physical harm can be demonstrated.[6]
"Harm" to society is an overly subjective criteria for the banning of extremist groups from politics: What "harm" are we talking about? If it violent harm, that is one thing. But other forms of harm risk being arbitrary. Non-extremist political parties may claim, for example, that the policies of other political parties are doing society "harm".[7]
Public vs. private: Is it unacceptable that extremist political parties bring their extremist views into the public sphere?
Extremist groups often bring what might be protected in private into the public sphere, which should be restrained: The former is to be preserved, but the latter has an impact on other people, and it is this that we are seeking to restrain.[8]
The difference between public and private speech is hard to distinguish, and so extremists should be given more flexibility: Such a difference is misleading and dangerous. If one is invited into someone’s home, does this make what would be public speech now private?[9]
Rising extremism? Is extremism rising in politics, giving cause for more aggressive measures against it?
Extremist groups are not naturally dying out of politics, so they should be pushed out: The recent rise in popularity of right wing extremist parties across Europe - from Le Pen in France to Pim Fortuyn in Holland, not including the success of the BNP in Burnley council - shows the success that appealing to voters on extremist grounds can have. It is not good enough to say that there is no threat, or that parties are not successful. We have a duty to act against a threat to our society in the form of extremism.[10]
There is no rise in extremism: The BNP threat was localised in the extreme and all candidates in the general election of 2002 lost their deposits. The success of Le Pen was ironically in moderating his extremist message, couple with the fracturing of the Left in French politics, and the Front Nationale didn’t win any French Assembly seats. Likewise, Pim Fortuyn’s party was socially liberal, having the same line on immigration as the Britain’s Labour Party! Such a draconian law as proposed would be a disproportionate response to a limited threat.[11]
Public credibility: is the mere act of allowing extremist groups into politics affording them credibility in the public eye, and perhaps to the detriment of society?
Merely by being allowed to advocate their views, extremist parties are given a veneer of respectability: The fact that the vast majority of people disagree is irrelevant. They cannot be allowed on the same democratic ticket as respectable, pro system groups, because merely in their presence they tarnish the system.[12]
Extremist views need to be defeated in open public debates: No one is disputing the fact that extremist views are repellent. Yet they are often shallow and not logically thought out. Meeting their views and combating them in open and honest debate is the most effective way of highlighting the flaws in the ideology, rather than have them transmitted in a one-sided manner that gives no chance to counter. It gives the impression that there is some validity to the message.[13]
Effect of a ban: Would a ban snuff out extremist groups, or would it empower them?
Banning extremist groups will effectively snuff them out: Those that talk of parties going underground with such banning legislation are wrong. Their censorship will mean that the vast majority of people in the country never have access to them, even if a small hardcore still do, who are probably converts anyway. The parties will never get anywhere without mass support and publicity.[14]
Extremist parties may benefit from being banned, as they may be more effective in the "underground": Such parties benefit from going underground. They can play themselves as martyrs and against the establishment, being denied their chance to have a say. Witness Nick Griffin (BNP leader) and his notorious 'gagged' campaign, and Le Pen’s similar ploys in France. Such anti-state rebellious sentiment will be very attractive to a cross section of the dispossessed and dispirited in society - what New Labour have identified as the 'angry young men' - who provide a fertile ground for votes and support.[15]
Debate: Race-based political parties
External links and resources:
Anti-Nazi League
European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia
Searchlight (international Anti-Fascist magazine)
Front Nationale (France)
Danish People's Party
Freedom Party (Austria)
Northern League (Italy)
National Alliance (Italy)
List Pim Fortuyn (Netherlands, in Dutch)
Extremist Groups : Opposing Viewpoints Tamara Roleff
The Voice of Modern Hatred : Tracing the Rise of Neo-Fascism in Europe Nicholas Fraser
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Happy Days To Come
Buzz Fisher
I had just finished milkin’ the last cow when I heard the phone ring. I ran fromthe barn toward the front door of our house, hopin’ that it might be Pa.
“Yes, sir,” Mother spoke into the receiver, “I’ll send Jimmy right over to fetch him. Thank you for callin,.”
Right away I knew what was wrong. That blasted bull, Blacky, must have gotten out - again. He was probably eating the neighbor’s vegetables right out of their garden. Mr. Foster was always callin’ and complainin’. If we had enough money we could fix the fence, then the animals couldn’t get out. But we didn’t have much money since Pa left - and darn little before. Pa had gone to the city to try and find work: he’d send for us once he had some money saved up. That was a couple of months ago. I reckon’ he’ll be sendin’ for us pretty soon.
“Jimmy,” it was Ma, speakin’ to me. “You go over to the Fosters’ and bring back Blacky. He’s makin’ a mess over there. Mr. Foster says he’s gone and eaten up all their tators and half the corn. He’s gonna get us in big trouble one of these days.”
Since Pa left, I was the man of the house. I was fourteen and almost grow’d. What I lacked in age, I made up for in determination. ‘Least I’d heard some folks say that. ‘See, Wilton’s a real small town and you learn real early that you’ve got to earn your keep. A meal you don’t earn don’t taste near as good. Pa always said that hard work kept him feelin’ young. I say hard work makes me feel older - and sometimes, downright old.
By the time I got over to where Blacky was, he had himself in a whole heap of trouble. He had decided that he wanted some apples so he tried to get ‘em straight out of the tree. Apparently, a swarm of bees didn’t like that idea and were lettin’ old Blacky know it. Blacky was runnin’ around in circles like a chicken with its head cut off. I never seen anything funnier than that half-ton bull bein’ routed by that bunch of hornets. I reckoned I’d better not let him get stung too many times ‘cause he’s got a real mean temper.
I got Blacky’s attention by throwin’ a couple of rocks at him. Just as I suspected, he got real mad and started chasin’ me. I had it pretty well planned out, you see; when he started chasin’ me I just headed towards home. ‘Bout halfway between our place and the Fosters’, there’s a big ol’ swimmin’ hole, and the only thing bees hate more than bulls stealin’ their apples is water.
When we got to the pond, I grabbed onto the tire swing and ol’ Blacky went right into the water as I swung overhead. It didn’t take the hornets too long to vacate the area and that sure made my bull feel better. I guess Blacky was pretty embarrassed ‘cause he just put his head down and followed me home after he got out of the water.
It was near dark by the time I got Blacky put back in the barn and fed and curried. It had been a long day so I went in and went to bed. This bein’ the man of the house was gettin’ tedious. That night, I dreamed that Pa had got settled and we’d be leavin’ here soon. In a way I’d miss it, but I wanted to go back to bein’ a kid.
Pa was off in Denton City and I was here in Wilton, rememberin’ what he had told me just before he left. “Listen, Jimmy, you’ll meet lots of folks in your lifetime. Remember two things, son. First, family is the most important thing in the world and, second, work for your keep. If you take things without earnin’ ‘em, you get lazy. Lazy people don’t provide for their family, Jimmy. And family comes first.
“I know this time is gonna be tough on you. But I know you can handle it or I wouldn’t dare leave. I just want so many things for you and your Ma and Dorothy and this farm’s about played out. So you see why I’m goin’ don’tcha?” All I could do was nod and try to understand. But I didn’t cry, nosiree. Men don’t cry - ‘specially not Carsons.
When I woke up the next mornin’, Pa hadn’t called. I went down to breakfast a little later than usual - about six o’clock. It was Sunday we were allowed to sleep an extra hour. We still did all our chores, just started doin’ ‘em a little later.
Ma and Dorothy were rushin’ around the kitchen tryin’ to get some flapjacks and bacon cooked up. Dorothy was twelve; my little sister was near as growed up as me. She thought she was a bit brighter than me, and she was probably right. I was schooled, too, just didn’t have as much time for studies as she did. She never used her brains ag’in me, mind you, but we both know she could have.
“Mornin’, Jimmy,” Ma said as I entered, “remember after you eat, go get cleaned up and put on your Sunday clothes. Church is this mornin’ and clean is next to Godly.”
I had me a big plate of flapjacks and a few strips of bacon with my mornin’ coffee. If Dorothy kept on cookin’ the way she was then, she’d make somebody a right good wife one of these days.
After I got cleaned up real good, I went and hitched up the team. It was only a mile or so to church and we would be travelin’ along a pretty good trail. The horses pretty much knew the way without any proddin’, but I hooked up the reins out of habit. You never knew when somethin’ would spook the team and you’d need to use whatever control you had to stop them so nobody got hurt.
By the time we got there, the bell was ringin’. I was glad about that. I hated just standin’ around waitin’. There were a few other wagons just gettin’ there and we saw Mr. Foster complainin’ to the other neighbors about Blacky. I went over and apologized again, but couldn’t stop laughin’ on the inside.
The preacher must have heard him too, ‘cause the sermon was about “Love Thy Neighbor.” Pretty fittin’, as far as I was concerned.
We left right after the service. Had to get on home and do the chores, same as always. Sunday only lasted ‘til about eleven, then it was back to work. I sometimes wished that I could stand around jawin’ like the town boys did but Pa always said that small talk was just that - small and meaningless.
5:00 comes pretty early on Mondays. Must have somethin’ to do with that extra hour of sleep the day before - don’t take long for the “lazies” to set in, Pa always said. After a good heavy breakfast I made my way out to the barn for mornin’ chores. Guess I musta scared Blacky ‘cause he snorted once, then let fly with one hind foot, right where I’d just been. I’d hafta be more careful in the future. Same thing had happened to Ol’ Man Fogleby the year before and it darn near killed him. Still couldn’t get any farther than the chair in the kitchen. Good thing his wife had become concerned and come lookin’ for him. As it was, he laid there for nearly two hours. I’d hafta be more careful.
I’d been doin’ these things the same way for so long that I could near do ‘em in my sleep. Throw hay down from the loft, feed the cows, water and feed the hens, then take care of the horses. We had thirty or more hens (dependin’ on how hungry the weasels were) at any given time; used ‘em mostly for eggs and an occasional Sunday dinner. Thirteen cows we were raisin’ either for show or slaughter and what little milk we got out of ‘em.
Six horses; four of them Belgian crosses we used in the fields (best work horses we ever had and Pa was real proud of them.) Than Dorothy and I each had one. Mine was a Palomino, though I didn’t have much time for ridin’. He made a real pretty picture hitched up to the one-horse wagon or sleigh, too.
Dorothy’s was a dandy little Morgan she called Sugar. They spent an awful lot of time together. She’d pack her books and they’d head off for the swimmin’ hole, then she’d just sit there studyin’ while Sugar ran around in the clover, enjoyin’ her freedom for awhile.
Sorry I got sidetracked there; I’ll get back to goin’ to school.
School was in a big buildin’ in town, right next to the church. It was just one room but we didn’t have call for no more. After all, how much space do eleven young scholars need? We were all learnin’ the same things anyway, just in different stages of it. I was the biggest kid in school, about a head taller than Matthew, my closest friend and the second-tallest. Matthew was the son of Elias Broder, owner of E. Broder Emporium (though it weren’t much more than a big hole in the wall, it was the only store for miles around.) Mr. E. Broder had gained the reputation of bein’ the stingiest man in these parts - tighter than bark on a birch tree, Pa always said. Matt was fourteen, too. He’d be the oldest student left in school when Pa called.
The other students included Shawn Randall, Susie Farnham, Johnny Evans, Mary Waite, Charles Jackson, Timmy Everette, Mark (Double M) Michaels, and Christine Jones. We didn’t have much time for socializin’ but everybody knew everybody else in our town - and most of their recent family history, too.
Our teacher was Mr. Coswell. Mr. Coswell was a bunch older than us, of course - some over twenty, rumor had it. He had grown up in Capital City so he was always talkin’ about life in the big town. He sure filled a young man’s head with wonder, the way he carried on. Someday I hoped to travel there; it was pretty near Denton City, or so the map said. Maybe we’d be hearin’ from Pa pretty soon, then I could look over these places with my own eyes, ‘stead of relyin’ on Mr. Coswell’s memories.
After school got out, I raced home ahead of Dorothy to get my chores done. I figured if I was done with them, maybe I’d be able to sneak in a couple hours of fishin’. I loved fishin’ mostly I guess because it got me away from the farm for a while. Than there was Warren, a big ol’ trout that me and Pa had been chasin’ up and down the river as long as I could remember. Never got a hook in ol’ Warren, though. Just too smart for us, I reckon. But that didn’t take the fun out of tryin’ -
made it funner, more likely.
Chores weren’t so bad after school, just collectin’ eggs and such. That only took a few minutes, than I was off till after supper when milkin’ had to be done. Chores out of the way, I was off to the river. Grabbed my alder pole that Pa had made me and dug a few worms in the pasture on the way. I’d fixed myself quite a few poles but none was as good as this one. Kinda fit nice in the hands, if you know what I mean.
I’d only been fishin’ foe a few minutes when Matt showed up. He’d brung a jug of iced tea and offered me some. We did a lot more talkin’ than fishin’ but we did catch a few small trout for supper.
We was talkin’ about school and things when Dorothy showed up on Sugar with her infernal books. Said she’d decided to come to this part of the river instead of to the swimmin’ hole because it had more shade. I figured the truth was she had a bad crush on one Mr. Matthew Broder but I never brought it up. Didn’t reckon I’d get a straight answer anyway.
Ol’ Warren went swimmin’ by a couple times and I tried to get Matt’s attention but it weren’t no use. All his attention seemed to be on my little sister. Just as well, figured. If Matt about Ol’ Warren, everyone else would too, than somebody would prob’ly catch him and there wouldn’t be no reason for fishin’ after that.
It was near sundown when I said my good-byes to Matt and headed home. Me and Dorothy and Sugar all walked home, not sayin’ much. Just mostly thinkin’ and wonderin’ how Pa was doin’, I reckon.
I cleaned my trout out when we got home and packed them for the icebox. Trout taste better if it’s frozen for awhile and, besides Ma already had supper goin’. After supper and the milkin’, me and Dorothy sat down at the table and tackled our home studies. We both had some ‘rithmatic and some readin’ to do. Even though we put our tablets away at the same time, she prob’ly had hers done for quite a while. Sometimes it was real hard to grasp this stuff. But she was smart as a whip.
“Jimmy, did you hear what Mr. Coswell said today? He was talkin’ ‘bout Capital City, says it’s only a few miles the other side of Denton City.” Dorothy had been thinkin’ the same thing I was, I guess.
“We’ll be hearin’ from him real soon,” I said (and I sure hoped my voice had more conviction than my heart did.) “Why, I bet he’s findin’ us a place to live right now.” Dorothy thought about it for a minute, then she started smilin’.
“And I bet it’s gonna be real nice, too,” she said as her better nature took over. She was off and runnin’ now and I sure wasn’t gonna try to stop her. “And I bet we’ll each have our own rooms, and Ma’ll have a sewin’ room and Pa’ll have the smokin’ room he always talked about, too, just like them rich folks do.”
“My, my, how you do carry on, youngins’,” Ma said over the noise of the butter churn. “Long about now, I’d be satisfied in a birdhouse, long’s we could all be together again. Now you kids go to bed. Mornin’ comes early ’round here, you know.”
She was right and we both knew it. Mornin’ always comes early on a farm. We kissed Ma goodnight and headed for bed.
I’d been gettin’ ready for Tunbridge Fair for a couple of weeks. We’d be enterin’ two cattle in the judgin’ this year. I had decided that Milly and Jack would have the best chances of winnin’ the blue, so I spent a good deal of time each day brushin’ ‘em out and bein’ real nice to ‘em.
Tunbridge Fair was about the best thing around every fall and we always had a bunch of fun there. There was always a lot of games and animals, but I went so’s I could look over the newest farm machinery and dream about ownin’ some of it someday. Last year they’d had a new type tiller there and it sure was pretty, though I hadn’t really figured out how it worked yet.
Worst problem with the fair was it always came in the late fall and some of those nights were downright cold, sleepin’ under the wagon the way I did. But still I wouldn’t have missed it for the world. The women folk would be busy for months ahead, sewin’ new clothes and such. They always griped about not havin’ the time for this and that but if you listened real close, you could tell they looked forward to it as much as anybody did. Ma griped right along with the rest of ‘em, but, when fair time came around every year, you could bet we’d all have some fancy new duds.
Tunbridge was south of Wilton by about sixteen miles and we’d be travelin’ with a bunch of families from town. It seemed much better to go in a group, then everyone could share, if need be. Weren’t near so lonesome, neither.
Among our group were the Broders, Waites, Randalls, and Farnhams. I was glad these families joined us ‘cause they have kids my own age and that seemed nice for a change. Matt, Mary, me and Dorothy talked a lot on the way and it made the trip easier.
Pa had always enjoyed the fair and it seemed strange to be makin’ the trip without him.
Mary and me had gotten pretty close and I sure wished that I knew what to do. I had some pretty strange feelin’s and I knew that I’d better control ‘em ‘cause I’d be leavin’ here before long.
“How much further you figger, Jimmy?” Ma was askin’ again. It seemed like she’d been askin’ that same question every hundred yards or so.
“’Bout six or seven miles, I reckon. We can stop for a bit if anybody wants to.” I called back to the other wagons, “Anybody want to stretch a bit?”
“Aye, I could stand to give me legs a stretch.” It was Mr. Randall. He wasn’t Irish, but Pa said he drank like he was. I figgered Pa would know. He and Mr. Randall had been known to tip a few together from time to time.
We pulled to a stop and stretched some. It was a welcome break for us all. Us kids, havin’ been cooped up like we had, took the time to run around and loosen up our sore and tired muscles. All too soon, it was time to go; we climbed back into the wagons and headed out again.
We made pretty good time the rest of the way. Seemed like it was all downhill after that first big hill out of Wilton. Kinda made me dread the return trip ‘cause than it would be all uphill and would take a lot longer, allowin’ time for the horses to rest more often.
All in all, the trip had taken about nine hours and we were settin’ up camp by sundown. Gotta admit I was near beat and kinda went through the motions of unhitchin’ the horses, then feedin’ them and the cattle we’d brought. Ma and Dorothy had been busy fixin’ their bed in the wagon and they dropped my blankets over the side. I was kinda hungry but more than that, I was plum beat. I took my blankets and rolled under the wagon and was asleep almost at once.
I woke up under the wagon about sunup. I started the fire, then got the fire goin’. These late fall mornin’s sure put the slows in the old system till the sun came up real bright, which seemed to be a little later each day. While the coffee was brewin’, I fed the animals, then spent a whole lot of time brushin’ out Milly and Jack.
The cattle judgin’ would start in a couple of hours and I wanted ours to be ready and lookin’ good. Milly was about two and a half and this was her first fair. She was a Holstein and had been Pa’s favorite.
Jack was my Angus; she was four years old and higher than my head. We got her from an old friend of Pas’ and had named her after him. Now I know Jack is a bull’s name, but our Jack didn’t seem to mind. We’d brought her last year and she’d won second prize for Angus. I figgered she might take the blue this year.
By the time I got done with the animals, Ma and Dorothy had breakfast ready. This outdoor cookin’ sure tasted good and I really wanted seconds, but I knew I had to get our stock registered or the whole trip would have been pointless. I took a couple strips of bacon and went over and registered Milly and Jack at the Judge’s table. There were some fine lookin’ cattle there and for the first time I wasn’t so sure of our chances.
The biggest attraction of the fair is that you see so many people there. About half the time is spent renewin’ old acquaintances and the rest meetin’ new people. I took a saunter down the midway see they had a bunch of new games and such this year. Nice to look but I’d lost a bunch of money here last year (my whole years’ savin’s, almost three dollars) and I vowed that wouldn’t happen again. Made up my mind to stay clear of the midway at night but it seemed safe enough durin’ the day. Most of the booths were closed durin’ the early mornin’, anyhow.
The judgin’ started at ten. When it was over, Jack had won the blue and Millie got an Honorable Mention. I was pretty excited the rest of the day and all my friends shook my hand near right off. Even some folks I hadn’t known before seemed real happy for me. A Mr. Townsend from down Whitewater way even offered me fifteen dollars for Milly but I didn’t have the heart to let her go.
I spent some time lookin’’ over the new John Deere plows but they really weren’t much better than what we had.
By then it was after noon and me and Ma had decided it would be better to stay here overnight and head home first thing in the mornin’. We sure didn’t feel like sleepin’ beside the road. And besides, that way I got a chance to see the horse-pullin’ contest.
The contest was won by a pair of young Percherons from Bradley. They sure were pretty - and real strong, too.
The rest of the afternoon we spent lollin’ around and generally just restin’. Around five-thirty, right after supper, Mr. Randall got out a set of horseshoes and pegs he’s brought along. Me and Matt watched the men play for a while, then said we’d take on the winners of the next game. Beat ‘em, too, 21 to 17. But that was our day in the sun as we got clobbered in the next game, 21 to 7.
We turned in early and were ready to head home a little after sunup. Mr. Randall wasn’t quite ready, however. Seemed he’d spent the night on the midway and had finally found his way to the wagons just a couple of hours ago with an awful hurtful head. When everyone else was ready to go, and we had our cattle tied on and everything, I helped Shawn lay his poor old dad in the back of his wagon and we headed out.
We put the Randall wagon in the front on the way home. Nobody said so but we all silently felt that that way, if the old man rolled out or anything, at least someone would see it and could do something about it. For the first twelve miles, though, he didn’t do any rollin’. Just kinda laid there and moaned and groaned to High Heaven. I felt bad for poor Shawn, bein’ shown up like that, and it didn’t help when Mrs. Randall kept cussin’ at the old man for bein’ such a fool.
When we got to the middle of town, the wagons all headed in different directions, their weary passengers all headed home after a hard day’s journey. We got to the farm long after sundown and I had to wake up Ma and Dorothy to go inside. By the time I got the horses unhitched and Milly and Jack back in the barn, I was too tired to unload the wagon so I left it there and just took the things that would spoil.
Ol’ Mr. Benson had done a good job takin’ care of the animals while we were gone and I was thankful for that. Sure wished we could take him on full time but there was just no way we could do it - not even just for his keep.
Ma had left me a sandwich on the table and I did my best to put it away. I was still pretty excited about the Fair and just kept admirin’ the blue ribbon. Soon’s the snack was done, I blew out the light and headed for bed. I’d got all into bed and everything when I remembered something I had to do. I jumped out of bed and hung the Blue Ribbon on the wall of my room where the sun would hit it first thing in the mornin’. Least I’d have somethin’ to show Pa when I saw him again.
Chapter Seven
It had been a couple of weeks since the fair. Dorothy’s birthday had come and gone. I’d made a few trips to the Foster’s to get our strayin’ bull. Dorothy and Sugar had gone to the swimmin’ hole a few times and twice, me and Matt had made it fishin’. Mr. Coswell had continued his discourse on the city about every day. And Pa had called.
That was the most important thing that had happened in quite a while and I can tell you right now that the Carson family was some excited. Pa had found a house in Denton City and had rented it with the option to buy. He figured we should be able to get at least the downpayment out of the farm. He’d found work at a slaughterhouse at a fair wage and, even though he hated the work, said he could manage till something else came along.
Pa called about suppertime on Friday and we knew we’d better be gettin’ ready for the move. As it happened, there was a school play that night and Dorothy was gonna be in it. Did a right good job in it, too. Anyhow, we kinda used the night to say goodbye to all the friends and neighbors we’d made over the years. Saved us a bunch of time, doin’ it all at once like that. You know how women are when they get to jawin’ and if we’d made all the separate stops we should have, we wouldn’ta got moved till Christmas.
Saw Mr. Broder at the gatherin’ and offered him Milly and Jack. He gave me thirty-five for the two and I reckoned that was a fair price so I threw in the chickens - long as he came and gathered ‘em all up.
Next day, Saturday, we got up real early and started packin’ the wagon. While Ma and Dorothy were busy with that, I set about tryin’ to find buyers for the rest of the cattle. Took me three stops but I got ten dollars a head for them. We’d be keepin’ the horses, so that only left Blacky to get rid of.
Turned out it weren’t no trouble unloadin’ him, either. I put a small rope through the ring in his nose and led him out past the swimmin’ hole. Mr. Foster saw us comin’ and he met us out in his front yard, kinda confused like. Said he was used to seein’ me lead Blacky the other way. I had a pretty good laugh over that, than handed him the rope leader. I said, “Mr. Foster, you might as well take ol’ Blacky, here. Guess he likes it here about the best of anyplace around. We can’t take him with us and you might be able to get somethin’ good outta him.”
“Well, now that you mention, I have kinda used to him out there in the garden. Would kinda miss him some, I reckon.” We jawed a bit and when I left he said to stop by if we was ever back in the neighborhood.
I took my time walkin’ back home. It wouldn’t be home much longer. I stopped by the fishin’ hole and peered in at Ol’ Warren, just like I knowd he’d be there. He kinda ambled around the edge of the river and I swear he was lookin’ at me the whole time, kinda sad-eyed, just the way I felt. Then he sorta wagged his tail just like a puppy and was gone.
I hung around the river for a few more minutes till the misty left my eyes, then headed for the house. It sure wouldn’t do no good for the womenfolk to see a Carson man cryin’, even if this particular fourteen-year-old Carson man did feel like it.
We got the wagon loaded by one-thirty or so, then I tied on the horses. I set Ma to drivin’ the team while me and Dorothy rode along beside it, her on Sugar and me on the Palomino. We got near into town when I told them to go ahead, that I’d forgotten somethin’ important. I turned the Palomino on a dime and headed straight back to the farm where I bolted up the stairs two at a time and grabbed the Blue Ribbon off the wall. I was gonna be able to show it to Pa after all. And everything was gonna be okay.
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Which Laminate Flooring Has High Formaldehyde Levels?
Last year the popular investigative news show, 60 Minutes made the public aware of a high amount of formaldehyde levels in some laminate flooring that cause cancer. 60 Minutes uncovered dangerous levels with Lumber Liquidators’ Chinese made product that can raise the cancer risk and create or exacerbate other health problems. Lumber Liquidators is a U.S. company retailer of hardwood flooring in North America, but has manufactured much of its laminate flooring in China. Initially the report showed the risk to be low and not significant enough to be considered a danger. But that has since been revised and noted that their calculations were inaccurate and the risk is significantly higher. The CDC, who conducted the study, put “the risk of cancer (which was originally reported to be 2-9 cases per 100,000 people) ended up being closer to 6-30 cases per 100,000 people.” Because of the findings in this report Lumber Liquidators suspended sales of its laminate flooring produced in China after the 60 Minutes episode aired. But estimates of the number of households that already have the flooring nationwide are as high as hundreds of thousands. The study was brought about by a nonprofit Global Community Monitor, and an environmental attorney Richard Drury. More than 150 boxes of laminate flooring were purchased at stores around California and sent them to three certified labs for a series of tests. The results? While laminate flooring from Home Depot and Lowes had acceptable levels of formaldehyde, as did Lumber Liquidators American made laminates but every single sample of Chinese made laminate flooring from Lumber Liquidators failed to meet California formaldehyde emissions standards. The average formaldehyde level found in Lumber Liquidators’ Chinese made products were more than six to seven times above the state standard for formaldehyde, and they found some that were close to 20 times above the level that’s allowed to be sold.
So what should you do if you have these floors installed in your home? Get your floors tested. Benchmark International is the testing lab that you will want to contact. You can email them @ [email protected].
Also, some sensible tips:
Keep your house filled with fresh air
Avoid smoking indoors (or at all)
Keep the home’s temperature at a comfortably low level to avoid too much heat or mold.
And of course if anyone in your family has been feeling sick and you suspect your floors are the cause, consult an attorney.
Many people who have had their floors tested for high levels of formaldehyde, have torn up the flooring and replaced it. But according to the 60 Minutes piece, don’t expect to have them replaced by the company. There has yet to be a resolution involving replacement from Lumber Liquidators.
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Amount of Vitamin A in Doughnuts
Welcome to the nutritional vitamin a content in 10 different types of doughnuts, ranging from 17 mcg to 2 mcg per 100g. The basic type of doughnuts is Doughnuts, french crullers, glazed, where the amount of vitamin a in 100g is 2 mcg.
2 mcg of vitamin a per 100g, from Doughnuts, french crullers, glazed corresponds to 0% of the vitamin a RDA. For a typical serving size of 1 oz (or 28.35 g) the amount of Vitamin A is 0.57 mcg. This corresponds to an RDA percentage of 0%.
The percentage of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) for vitamin a is based on a 3000 mcg RDA level for a mature adult.
Top five doughnuts products high in vitamin a
Below is a summary list for the top five doughnuts items ranked by the amount or level of vitamin a in 100g.
1. Doughnuts, yeast-leavened, with jelly filling : 17mcg (1%RDA)
2. Doughnuts, cake-type, chocolate, sugared or glazed : 12mcg (0%RDA)
3. Doughnuts, yeast-leavened, with creme filling : 11mcg (0%RDA)
4. Doughnuts, yeast-leavened, glazed, enriched (includes honey buns) : 5mcg (0%RDA)
5. Doughnuts, cake-type, plain, chocolate-coated or frosted : 4mcg (0%RDA)
Following on from the five top doughnuts items or products containing vitamin a we have a more comprehensive break down of Doughnuts, french crullers, glazed, and the highest item containing vitamin a which is Doughnuts, yeast-leavened, with jelly filling. We also give a comparison of average values, median values and lowest values along with a comparison with other food groups and assess the effects of storage and preparation on the 10 types of doughnuts.
At the bottom of the page is the full list for the 10 different types of doughnuts based on the content in different servings in grams and oz (and other serving sizes), providing a comprehensive analysis of the vitamin a content in doughnuts.
Doughnuts, french crullers, glazed - Nutritional Content and Chart
The full nutrition content, RDA percentages and levels for Doughnuts, french crullers, glazed should be considered along with the vitamin a content. This food profile is part of our list of food and drinks under the general group Baked Products.Other important and vitamin a related nutrients are Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate. For this 100g serving in your diet, the amount of Calories is 412 kcal (21% RDA), the amount of Protein is 3.1 g (6% RDA), the amount of Fat is 18.3 g (28% RDA) and the amount of Carbohydrate is 59.5 g (46% RDA). The nutritional content and facts for 100g, which includes Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate is shown in the RDA chart below as percentages of the recommended daily allowance along with the vitamin a levels in doughnuts.
Our proprietary nutritional density score gives a nutritional value out of 100 based on 9 different vitamins, minerals and macro nutrients. Doughnuts, french crullers, glazed has a nutritional value score of 13 out of 100.
Amount of vitamin a per 100 Calories
100 calories of doughnuts, french crullers, glazed is a serving size of 0.24 g, and the amount of Vitamin A is 0.49 mcg (0% RDA). Other important and related nutrients and macronutrients such as Fat, in 100 Calories are as follows; Protein 0.75 g (1.46% RDA), Fat 4.44 g (6.8% RDA), Carbohydrate 14.44 g (11.17% RDA). This is shown in the vitamin a RDA percentage chart below, based on 100 Calories, along with the other important nutrients and macro nutrients.
Content per Typical Serving Size 1 oz (or 28.35 g)
For the food Doughnuts, french crullers, glazed the typical serving size is 1 oz (or 28.35 g) which contains 0.57 mcg of Vitamin A. In terms of the gram weight and total content for this serving the Calories content is 116.8 kcal, the Protein content is 0.88 g, the Fat content is 5.19 g and the Carbohydrate content is 16.87 g. The percentages are shown below in the vitamin a chart, for the typical serving of vitamin a and the related and important nutritional values.
Macronutrients in Doughnuts, french crullers, glazed
The amount of protein, fat and carbs from this food described above is measured in grams per 100g and grams in a typical serving size (in this case 1 oz or 28.35 g), although it is also useful to give the number of calories from protein, fat and carbohydrate which are the most important macronutrients. For this serving in your diet here are the macronutrient calories. From protein the number of calories is 3.5 (kcal).The number of calories from Fat is 45.7 (kcal).The total calories from carbohydrate is 67.5 (kcal).
Mcg of vitamin a in doughnuts (per 100g)
This list of 10 types of doughnuts, is brought to you by www.dietandfitnesstoday.com and ranges from Doughnuts, yeast-leavened, with jelly filling through to Doughnuts, french crullers, glazed where all food items are ranked by the content or amount per 100g. The nutritional vitamin a content can be scaled by the amount in grams, oz or typical serving sizes. Simply click on a food item or beverage from the list at the bottom of the page to give a full dietary nutritional breakdown to answer the question how much vitamin a in doughnuts.
The list below gives the total vitamin a content in the 10 items from the general description 'doughnuts' each of which show the vitamin a amount as well as Calories, Protein, Fat and Carbohydrate. Below, is the top 10 food items shown in the vitamin a chart. This gives a quick and easy dietary comparison for the different items, where each item is listed at the bottom of the page with a nutritional summary.
The corresponding nutritional value for doughnuts based on our density score out of 100 (ranked by the amount of vitamin a per 100g) is shown in the below nutritional density chart.
The corresponding Calories for doughnuts ranked by the amount of vitamin a per 100g is shown below in the doughnuts calories chart.
Average Content for doughnuts
The average (or more correctly the arithmetic mean) amount of vitamin a contained in 100g of doughnuts, based on the list below of 10 different items under the general description of doughnuts, is 6.40 mcg of vitamin a. This average value corresponds to 0.21 % of the recommended dietary allowance (or RDA) in your diet. The averages for the different nutrients are as follows; the average amount of Calories is 401.00 kcal, the average amount of Protein is 5.47 g, the average amount of Fat is 21.79 g and the average amount of Carbohydrate is g.
The median value of Vitamin A is found in Doughnuts, cake-type, plain, chocolate-coated or frosted which in 100g contains 4 mcg of Vitamin A. For this serving the amount of Calories is 452 kcal, the amount of Protein is 4.93 g, the amount of Fat is 25.25 g and the amount of Carbohydrate is 51.33 g.
Highest vitamin a Content per 100g
Using the list below for the 10 different doughnuts nutrition entries in our database, the highest amount of vitamin a is found in Doughnuts, yeast-leavened, with jelly filling which contains 17 mcg of vitamin a per 100g. The associated percentage of RDA is 1 %. For this 100g serving the Calories content is 340 kcal, the Protein content is 5.9 g, the Fat content is 18.7 g, the Carbohydrate content is 39 g.
The lowest amount of vitamin a in 100g is in Doughnuts, french crullers, glazed which contains 2 mcg. This gives as percentage of the recommended daily allowance 0 % of the RDA. For this 100g serving the amount of Calories is 412 kcal, the amount of Protein is 3.1 g, the amount of Fat is 18.3 g, the amount of Carbohydrate is 59.5 g.
The difference between the highest and lowest values gives a vitamin a range of 15 mcg per 100g. The range for the other nutrients are as follows; 72 kcal for Calories, 2.8 g for Protein, 0.4 g for Fat, 0 g for Carbohydrate.
Highest Amount of vitamin a per Serving
Please remember that the above gives an accurate value in 100g for high vitamin a foods in your diet. For example 100g of Doughnuts, french crullers, glazed contains 2 mcg of vitamin a. However, there are other factors to consider when you are assessing your nutritional requirements. You should also take into account portion sizes when you are considering the vitamin a nutritional content.
The food with the highest vitamin a content per typical serving is Doughnuts, yeast-leavened, with jelly filling which contains 4.82 mcg in 1 oz (or 28.35 g). For this serving the Calories content is 96.39 kcal, the Protein content is 1.67 g, the Fat content is 5.3 g and the Carbohydrate content is 11.06 g.
From the list below you can find a full nutrition facts breakdown for all foods containing vitamin a which can be scaled for different servings and quantities. We have also sorted our complete nutritional information and vitamin database of over 7000 foods, to give a list of foods with vitamin a.
Doughnuts List, vitamin a Content per 100g
1. Doughnuts, yeast-leavened, with jelly filling - Vitamin A
Nutritional Value : 13 / 100 food group - Baked Products
17 mcg (1%) 340 kcal (17%) 39 g (30%) 18.7 g (29%) 5.9 g (11%)
Typical Serving size of 1 oz (or 28.35g):
4.82 mcg (0%) 96.39 kcal (5%) 11.06 g (9%) 5.3 g (8%) 1.67 g (3%)
Other serving sizes 1 doughnut oval (3-1/2 x 2-1/2) (or 85g):
14.45 mcg (0%) 289 kcal (14%) 33.15 g (26%) 15.9 g (24%) 5.02 g (9%)
2. Doughnuts, cake-type, chocolate, sugared or glazed - Vitamin A
Vitamin A Calories Carbohydrate Fat Protein
12 mcg (0%) 417 kcal (21%) 57.4 g (44%) 19.9 g (31%) 4.5 g (8%)
3.4 mcg (0%) 118.22 kcal (6%) 16.27 g (13%) 5.64 g (9%) 1.28 g (2%)
Other serving sizes 1 doughnut (3-3/4 dia) (or 60g):
7.2 mcg (0%) 250.2 kcal (13%) 34.44 g (26%) 11.94 g (18%) 2.7 g (5%)
Other serving sizes 1 doughnut and medium (approx 3 dia) (or 42g):
5.04 mcg (0%) 175.14 kcal (9%) 24.11 g (19%) 8.36 g (13%) 1.89 g (3%)
3. Doughnuts, yeast-leavened, with creme filling - Vitamin A
3.12 mcg (0%) 102.34 kcal (5%) 8.51 g (7%) 6.95 g (11%) 1.81 g (3%)
9.35 mcg (0%) 306.85 kcal (15%) 25.5 g (20%) 20.83 g (32%) 5.44 g (10%)
4. Doughnuts, yeast-leavened, glazed, enriched (includes honey buns) - Vitamin A
5 mcg (0%) 421 kcal (21%) 47.93 g (37%) 22.7 g (35%) 6.14 g (11%)
Other serving sizes 1 doughnut hole (or 13g):
0.65 mcg (0%) 54.73 kcal (3%) 6.23 g (5%) 2.95 g (5%) 0.8 g (1%)
Other serving sizes 1 doughnut stick (or 56g):
2.8 mcg (0%) 235.76 kcal (12%) 26.84 g (21%) 12.71 g (20%) 3.44 g (6%)
Other serving sizes 1 extra large (approx 5 dia) (or 122g):
6.1 mcg (0%) 513.62 kcal (26%) 58.47 g (45%) 27.69 g (43%) 7.49 g (13%)
Other serving sizes 1 jumbo (approx 6 dia) (or 157g):
7.85 mcg (0%) 660.97 kcal (33%) 75.25 g (58%) 35.64 g (55%) 9.64 g (17%)
Other serving sizes 1 doughnut and large (approx 4-1/4 dia) (or 75g):
3.75 mcg (0%) 315.75 kcal (16%) 35.95 g (28%) 17.03 g (26%) 4.61 g (8%)
Other serving sizes 1 doughnut and long type (twist) approx 5-1/4 x 2-1/2 x 1-1/2 high) (or 90g):
4.5 mcg (0%) 378.9 kcal (19%) 43.14 g (33%) 20.43 g (31%) 5.53 g (10%)
Other serving sizes 1 doughnut medium (approx 3-3/4 dia) (or 64g):
Other serving sizes 1 doughnut and small (approx 3 dia) (or 31g):
1.55 mcg (0%) 130.51 kcal (7%) 14.86 g (11%) 7.04 g (11%) 1.9 g (3%)
Other serving sizes 1 doughnut (approx 1-1/2 oz) (or 42g):
2.1 mcg (0%) 176.82 kcal (9%) 20.13 g (15%) 9.53 g (15%) 2.58 g (5%)
3 mcg (0%) 252.6 kcal (13%) 28.76 g (22%) 13.62 g (21%) 3.68 g (7%)
Other serving sizes 1 honeybun (4 x 3) (or 65g):
Other serving sizes 1 honeybun (4-1/2 x 3-1/2) (or 78g):
Other serving sizes 1 honeybun (5 x 3-1/2) (or 85g):
4.25 mcg (0%) 357.85 kcal (18%) 40.74 g (31%) 19.3 g (30%) 5.22 g (9%)
Other serving sizes 1 doughnut and medium (approx 3-3/4 dia) (or 60g):
Other serving sizes 1 doughnut (or 63g):
3.15 mcg (0%) 265.23 kcal (13%) 30.2 g (23%) 14.3 g (22%) 3.87 g (7%)
5. Doughnuts, cake-type, plain, chocolate-coated or frosted - Vitamin A
4 mcg (0%) 452 kcal (23%) 51.33 g (39%) 25.25 g (39%) 4.93 g (9%)
Other serving sizes 1 donettes (2 dia) (or 18g):
0.72 mcg (0%) 81.36 kcal (4%) 9.24 g (7%) 4.55 g (7%) 0.89 g (2%)
Other serving sizes 1 doughnut large (approx 3-1/2 dia) (or 67g):
2.68 mcg (0%) 302.84 kcal (15%) 34.39 g (26%) 16.92 g (26%) 3.3 g (6%)
6. Doughnuts, yeast-leavened, glazed, unenriched (includes honey buns) - Vitamin A
4 mcg (0%) 403 kcal (20%) 44.3 g (34%) 22.8 g (35%) 6.4 g (11%)
Other serving sizes 1 doughnut and medium (3-1/4 dia) (or 60g):
2.4 mcg (0%) 241.8 kcal (12%) 26.58 g (20%) 13.68 g (21%) 3.84 g (7%)
7. Doughnuts, cake-type, plain (includes unsugared, old-fashioned) - Vitamin A
3 mcg (0%) 418 kcal (21%) 45.63 g (35%) 23.55 g (36%) 5.87 g (10%)
0.85 mcg (0%) 118.5 kcal (6%) 12.94 g (10%) 6.68 g (10%) 1.66 g (3%)
Other serving sizes 1 doughnut and long type (twist) (4-1/2 long) (or 52g):
Other serving sizes 1 doughnut medium (3-1/4 dia) (or 54g):
Other serving sizes 1 doughnut and mini (1-1/2 dia) or doughnut hole (or 14g):
0.42 mcg (0%) 58.52 kcal (3%) 6.39 g (5%) 3.3 g (5%) 0.82 g (1%)
Other serving sizes 1 doughnut and large (4 dia) (or 71g):
2.13 mcg (0%) 296.78 kcal (15%) 32.4 g (25%) 16.72 g (26%) 4.17 g (7%)
8. Doughnuts, cake-type, plain, sugared or glazed - Vitamin A
3 mcg (0%) 426 kcal (21%) 50.8 g (39%) 22.9 g (35%) 5.2 g (9%)
0.85 mcg (0%) 120.77 kcal (6%) 14.4 g (11%) 6.49 g (10%) 1.47 g (3%)
1.35 mcg (0%) 191.7 kcal (10%) 22.86 g (18%) 10.31 g (16%) 2.34 g (4%)
9. Doughnuts, cake-type, wheat, sugared or glazed - Vitamin A
0.85 mcg (0%) 102.06 kcal (5%) 12.08 g (9%) 5.47 g (8%) 1.79 g (3%)
Other serving sizes 1 doughnut (2 dia) (or 28g):
0.84 mcg (0%) 100.8 kcal (5%) 11.93 g (9%) 5.4 g (8%) 1.76 g (3%)
1.35 mcg (0%) 162 kcal (8%) 19.17 g (15%) 8.69 g (13%) 2.84 g (5%)
10. Doughnuts, french crullers, glazed - Vitamin A
0.57 mcg (0%) 116.8 kcal (6%) 16.87 g (13%) 5.19 g (8%) 0.88 g (2%)
vitamin a and Nutritional Values - Top 221 Foods
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Published by Graham Barnes on September 5, 2014
From one particular point of view – that of money as private property – the idea that money could be treated as a Common Pool Resource (CPR) [1] seems patently absurd. The money I have in my account is mine alone. The more I have of it the more I am concerned that it should keep its value intact until I want to spend it. How can it make any sense that its stored value be shared?
But going forward money is either a reward for past work, or (when issued through the device of credit) an advance secured in expectation of future work. From this viewpoint we can see money as an aspirational commons – a Common Pool Resource backed by our collective efforts, that with the right governance regime could be managed equitably and to mutual benefit.
This article is *not* a specification of a commons-based money-form. Rather it is an attempt to explore the concept of money from a commons perspective.
Some aspects of mainstream fiat money are less than ideal – how it is issued, passed on and accumulated…
i) Allocation of new money. Private banks create money out of nothing and allocate its first use as credit to whomever they see fit. This bank-centric oligopoly can be challenged by new currencies that are effectively controlled by their users [2]. The level of effective control over current money supply and distribution exerted via the democratic process is close to zero.
ii) Influence of old money. A considerable proportion of existing wealth is inherited. Its possession confers no merit whatsoever. It is not a reliable indicator of past effort or innovation. The ‘soft power’ of its owners acts to prevent progressive reform and reinforces inequality. New currencies may be designed so as to prevent capture by this soft power.
iii) Coagulation in Asset-Form. Money coagulates as various asset classes (including money itself). This has two effects that may be considered negative to a sub-economy – firstly it removes currency from being available to exchange trades and thereby reduces economic activity; secondly it encourages the rentier class – those who live by charging for the use of acquired assets rather than by doing any work – allowing outsiders to sequester our assets and rent them back to us. Newly designed currencies may incorporate mechanisms to hinder asset coagulation or manage asset formation to insider (currency user) benefit.
… but one particular aspect – the way it facilitates division of labour – will be hard to match.
The desired result
The Money we are working towards here is a value-led means of exchange – the manifestations of value being decided by its users – the commoners. What follows is a consideration of three important design areas from a commons perspective: convertibility, the equitable allocation of issued money, and how to provide capital investment; followed by a comment on division of labour.
Convertibility
Convertibility we can define as the extent to which the currency design and operation supports or hinders exchange with fiat. If we look at a parallel situation with a more easily thinkable CPR, land, then we can see that the key danger is of a commoner selling their rights to an ‘outsider’ who may not share the values of the community. Elinor Ostrom’s number one key design principle in her rebuttal of the so-called Tragedy of the Commons [3] is “clearly defined boundaries (effective exclusion of external un-entitled parties)”.
A guaranteed fixed exchange rate with fiat, as operated by the proxy-pounds for example, means that currency can be bought by outsiders, but the localised acceptance of the Brixton, Totnes or Bristol Pounds means there is limited scope for outsider disruption. Convertibility is certainly a plus in terms of starting up a currency because a user whose commitment wanes can always bail out and cash in for fiat.
In future, though, we can imagine circumstances where the Preferenced Domain [4] of a currency incorporates some access rights or goods and services that are reserved to (or supplied at a preferential rate to) the users – the commoners. Engineering this will help to attract users. In this context, some means of defining, identifying and excluding ‘un-entitled parties’ is needed.
To address any concern that this form of exclusion is elitist in some way, it is best to consider it as a protective measure – to keep a new developing currency safe from the Deprecated Domain [5] – from outsiders wishing to appropriate it as capital and rent it back to its users. Because that would be a natural course of events in a pure capitalist eco-system. It’s one interpretation of what has happened with fiat.
There is a feasibility issue here too though. In an open market economy there is nothing to stop an exchange developing that would manage supply and demand for our new currency and ‘discover’ a fiat market price for it. This can be addressed via a ‘right to use’ status held independently for each user separate from their currency account balance. Such a right to use would be based on an individual’s reputation – their track record in supporting the values and extending the reach of the currency. This line of thinking was anticipated by Feasta’s co-founder, the late Richard Douthwaite [6]. Interestingly, the role of ‘oracles’ in Bitcoin, as trusted assessors of some external condition that will trigger a payment (or some other blockchain transaction) gets us into the same ground. As assessments required become progressively more subjective and less ‘factual’, reputations of assessors will matter more and more.
Equitable Issuance
For our proxy-pound example, issuance is only achieved by purchasing with fiat. Essentially no new currency is created. Fiat can clearly not be considered a CPR – it breaks every one of Ostrom’s eight design principles [see Annex]. So we are here concerned with currencies that issue new money in some form. The issuance regime of Bitcoin allocates new coins to the miners. It has been argued that this is just substituting a tech-geek oligarchy for a financial oligarchy. Perhaps there is an element of shared-value anti-government sentiment in that community, but rewards appear to be accruing to accounts in an inequitable manner. At its heart is an important development – the blockchain – but Bitcoin is not a value-led currency suitable for treatment as a CPR.
For an equitable issuance regime, we can turn back to ‘to each according to his needs and contributions’. The needs part of this equation can translate into some form of issuance related to a Basic Income or Citizen Dividend (maybe one-off, maybe recurring). The criteria for inclusion could be a combination of targeted audience (geographic, demographic, interest-group) , charter-value sign-up and the completion of some initial tasks appropriate for the particular value-set. A handful of Altcoins are already pre-distributing currency – for example Auroracoin to the citizens of Iceland.
The contributions part implies a continuing, ideally peer-reviewed process assessing the contributions of each user to the currency itself and to its underlying value-set, with appropriate reward levels. There is admittedly a chicken-and-egg problem here in that the pro-currency and pro-value activities have to be assessed ahead of the distribution, and therefore issuers need to recognise that the use-value of the issued currency is at that stage unguaranteed. Work is being undertaken for uncertain reward, energised primarily by the communal shared value-set, and underlining the need for clear articulation of that value-set.
A good issuance regime can make sure there are enough ‘insiders’ with enough currency to circulate to facilitate exchange between users. It cannot, without additional design features, cater for currency to be set aside for capital projects. Arguably it should not do this at all because we know that saving (or hoarding) slows down circulation with a consequent lack of liquidity and exchange. There are after all many asset classes out there competing for investment, and in a money-diverse future new currencies will operate alongside fiat.
But it is tempting to set out to address one of the problems with fiat – that capital is available to most only as a loan at interest. If our new currency can be created out-of-nothing (just like the banks do with fiat) then we have the option of varying the terms. Most of the rationale for interest disappears anyway with ex-nihilo fiat, except for its justification as a ‘hidden subsidy’ for the issuer banks in return for their unholy partnership with government and the operation of a payment clearing system (which could incidentally be run itself as a commons).
The incorporation of any form of capital accumulation and allocation, even for projects which clearly benefit the CPR itself, adds a significant level of complication to the currency. But if investment in the CPR itself is needed, as is likely, external financing brings with it the possibility of part-capture or enclosure by outsiders, so designing-in forward access to capital will have to be attempted.
We have come this far without mentioning Mutual Credit, and have done so mainly to avoid specifically critiquing it in the cause of a wider exploration of the issues. Mutual Credit and Timebanking are both interesting money-form models, but they both illustrate a key issue – that of facilitating the re-combination of labour into the co-operative production of goods (and services).
As individuals we can essentially issue our own currency based on forward commitment of work. Fiat currency effectively allows the capitalist to put a numeric value on individual contributions (via wages) and inputs, add a profit element and set a price. Who performs this role in a mutual credit or timebanking context? And how is this co-operative process governed?
Unless we accept that new CPR-oriented currencies must restrict themselves to exchange between individuals, it seems necessary to complement the core currency design with the governance design of an institution which takes on the ‘capitalist role’ in the management of collective endeavour. To this extent, the institution-type *is* the currency. And if the corporation is the flawed and outdated institution-type of fiat currency capitalism, what might the preferred institution-type of a commons currency look like?
The paradigm of money as a common pool resource may be able to provide insight and encourage radical monetary innovation. The complexity and multi-functional nature of the fiat money form should not be allowed to conceal the fact that the root backing for money is work – past work rewarded and future work pledged. An exchange currency needs a stability of value (non-volatility) but it does not need to provide an appreciating store of value. Fiat money has become a toxic asset class in its own right. Because of the manner in which much of it has been created and passed on , holding it implies no associated merit; it confers increasingly unequal social power which may in turn be exchanged for political and economic influence.
New money forms do not need growth. Designers can choose to exclude or discriminate against deprecated behaviours, recognise and reward behaviour compatible with an explicit transparent value-set, and prioritise the well being of commoner-insiders. In so doing the exemplars created will lay the foundations for a post-modern version of common wealth.
Annex: Ostrom’s 8 principles (from Wikipedia)
Ostrom identified eight “design principles” of stable local common pool resource management:
Clearly defined boundaries (effective exclusion of external un-entitled parties);
Rules regarding the appropriation and provision of common resources that are adapted to local conditions;
Collective-choice arrangements that allow most resource appropriators to participate in the decision-making process;
Effective monitoring by monitors who are part of or accountable to the appropriators;
A scale of graduated sanctions for resource appropriators who violate community rules;
Mechanisms of conflict resolution that are cheap and of easy access;
Self-determination of the community recognized by higher-level authorities;
and In the case of larger common-pool resources, organization in the form of multiple layers of nested enterprises, with small local CPRs at the base level.
[1] A clarification from my Feasta colleague Brian Davey: “A common pool resource is the resource itself. (e.g. the earth’s atmosphere). A commons is a shared set of management arrangements for a common pool resource. (eg a cap and share arrangement organised through a global commons trust). Thus a common pool resource can be managed with privatising principles and arrangements or with commons arrangements and the practice and the values of commoning. Of course a common pool resource can be the subject of an “aspirational commons” – a set of arrangements that does not yet exist either partially or fully but which could be brought into existence or developed.”
[2]: http://www.feasta.org/documents/moneyecology/chapterfour.htm
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_Ostrom#Design_Principles_for_CPR_Institutions
[4]: http://www.feasta.org/2013/11/19/designer-currencies-and-the-preferenced-domain/
[5]: http://www.feasta.org/author/graham-barnes/
[6]: http://www.feasta.org/documents/liquidity_network/2010_LQN_CI_Scan.pdf
Note: Feasta is a forum for exchanging ideas. By posting on its site Feasta agrees that the ideas expressed by authors are worthy of consideration. However, there is no one ‘Feasta line’. The views of the article do not necessarily represent the views of all Feasta members.
Graham Barnes
Graham Barnes is a Currency Innovation Strategist. He is a Director of Feasta and co-organiser of the Feasta Currency Group. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and worked at a senior level in IT and online marketing in a previous life. His current projects include the design and delivery of currencies to be sponsored by a local authority; by a social entrepreneur to complement and enhance a well established sustainability methodology; and by a restaurant chain.
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Mining Industry Puts a Freeze on Mapping of Argentina’s Glaciers (Barrick)
Mining Industry Puts a Freeze on Mapping of Argentina’s Glaciers - IPS ipsnews.net
(Barrick Gold, again ---)
Mining Industry Puts a Freeze on Mapping of Argentina’s Glaciers , By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES, Mar 15, 2012 (IPS) - Since late 2011, scientists in Argentina have been carrying out an inventory of the country’s glaciers, with the aim of monitoring and preserving them. But they have failed to reach the most critical areas, where large-scale mining projects are encroaching on the ice fields.
It was in response to the threat from the mining industry that environmental organisations began to insist on the need for a law to protect the glaciers that run the length of the Andes mountain range in western Argentina.
The first bill was approved by Congress in 2008, but President Cristina Fernández, in office since December 2007, vetoed it on the argument that it affected development in provinces that depend on mining revenue, by limiting economic activities near glaciers.
Two years later, a consensus was reached on a new bill. A law establishing "minimum budgets for the protection of glaciers and the periglacial environment", approved in 2010, declared the ice fields "strategic reserves of water". The law prohibits mining activities in those areas, and requires the protection of glaciers because they preserve water for human consumption and agriculture, as well as maintaining biodiversity and serving as tourist attractions.
The legislation also stipulates the creation of a national inventory of glaciers, to provide "the necessary information for their adequate protection, monitoring and control" by the Argentine government's institute for snow and glacier research, IANIGLA. Furthermore, it specifies that the inventory should begin to be carried out where mining or oil companies are already active, and that polluting activities by these industries should be suspended and the companies fined.
IANIGLA director Ricardo Villalba told IPS that the inventory began to be carried out in late 2011, and has been completed in the central province of Mendoza and is well underway in the southern province of Santa Cruz. But he said work has not yet begun in the central province of San Juan, the site of two major mining projects by Canada’s Barrick Gold, the world’s largest gold mining company.
The director of IANIGLA said the provincial government had decided that experts from the National University of San Juan must carry out the training for the monitoring.
The new glacier law establishes that the activities of the mining and oil industries, major infrastructure works, and the use of chemical substances are prohibited near glaciers or in the periglacial environment, which is a region with widespread permafrost but without a blanket of snow or ice.
By means of a transitional provision, it was determined that the inventory was to start in "priority areas" – where economic activities are already taking place – within 180 days after passage of the law.
But Barrick Gold filed injunction requests in the federal courts, arguing that the glacier protection law was unconstitutional because it blocked economic activity in the province of San Juan, and a federal judge suspended implementation of the law in the province.
Because the legal action questions the constitutionality of the law, it is the Supreme Court that will have the final word. The provincial government tacitly backed the company’s position, and did not ask IANIGLA to urgently begin its work in the province, said Villalba. For that reason, the institute is not yet working in the glacial areas where Barrick is mining for gold.
Barrick has been working the Veladero open-pit gold and silver mine in San Juan since 2005. The mine, which has a projected life of 14 years, is expected to produce 11.4 million ounces of gold, and cyanide is used in the leaching process to separate gold and silver from rock.
As of 2013, Barrick Gold will also be producing another 14.4 million ounces of gold at the Pascua Lama mine, the first binational mining project in the world, located in the province of San Juan, on the Argentine side, and in the region of Atacama in northern Chile.
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“The US measure is naked protectionism – a bad day for the world trade system”, said Axel Eggert, Director General of EUROFER. “However, what’s done is done – the US’ administration seems not to believe that being close, political, economic and geo-strategic partners is sufficient grounds to prevent the EU from being hit”.
“The EU thus needs to act swiftly in its own interest to defend the internal market from the ‘Section 232 effect’ – the impact of steel deflected from the US border to the largest open steel market in the world: Europe’s”, stressed Mr Eggert.
“EUROFER calls for a quickly-deployed safeguard that covers the full product scope that will be affected – and warns that there cannot be country exclusions if the safeguard is to function. However, the purpose is not to exclude imports: it is preventative remedial action against the threat posed by import surges”, added Mr Eggert.
In the first four months of the 2018, imports have surged by 8.4%, almost certainly as a result of the Section 232 effect. 2017 already represented a high-water mark for imports into the EU – making rapid corrective remedial action all the more imperative.
“We regret that the US has taken this unnecessarily damaging step. We support the Commission in its responses to the US’ trade action – and urge all EU stakeholders to remain united in order to face down both the US’ measure and the incoming inundation of deflected steel products”, concluded Mr Eggert.
Charles de Lusignan, Communications Manager, +32 2 738 79 35, (charles@eurofer.be)
A PDF of this Press Release is available: here
Section 232 report
The Section 232 of the 1962 Trade Expansion Act steel report can be found: here
EUROFER press conference on Section 232
If you missed EUROFER’s press conference on Section 232 on 12 March 2018, you can find it: here
EU notice of initiation of an investigation
The European Commission’s notice of initiation of an investigation can be found: here
About the European Steel Association (EUROFER)
EUROFER AISBL is located in Brussels and was founded in 1976. It represents the entirety of steel production in the European Union. EUROFER members are steel companies and national steel federations throughout the EU. The major steel companies and national steel federations in Switzerland and Turkey are associate members.
About the European steel industry
The European steel industry is a world leader in innovation and environmental sustainability. It has a turnover of around €170 billion and directly employs 320,000 highly-skilled people, producing on average 160 million tonnes of steel per year. More than 500 steel production sites across 22 EU Member States provide direct and indirect employment to millions more European citizens. Closely integrated with Europe’s manufacturing and construction industries, steel is the backbone for development, growth and employment in Europe.
Steel is the most versatile industrial material in the world. The thousands of different grades and types of steel developed by the industry make the modern world possible. Steel is 100% recyclable and therefore is a fundamental part of the circular economy. As a basic engineering material, steel is also an essential factor in the development and deployment of innovative, CO2-mitigating technologies, improving resource efficiency and fostering sustainable development in Europe.
The European Steel Association (EUROFER AISBL)
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Kyle Ranks The Marvel Cinematic Universe, Post Age Of Ultron Edition
By: Kyle Pinion Wednesday, May 6, 2015 0 comments
There's a mighty good chance this will be the final time I do this, as I have no plans to see Ant-Man. But after catching Age of Ultron, how do the films stack up for me now?
11. Iron Man 2
This isn't just a bad Marvel movie, it's one of the more disappointing theater-going experiences I've had in a while. Iron Man 2 is muddled, embarrassing, and clearly the result are far too many cooks in the kitchen; be it Robert Downey Jr taking too firm a hand with Justin Theroux's script, Kevin Feige shoe-horning in as much Avengers/SHIELD build-up as he can manage, Mickey Rourke doing... whatever the hell he was supposed to be doing, or Jon Favreau exerting little to no creative control or vision. Even the normally excellent Don Cheadle is a huge step down from Terrence Howard, turning Howard's fairly charismatic Rhodey into a complete personality void. Only Sam Rockwell comes out a winner here, though I like the small cameo John Slattery has as Howard Stark, I wish we'd get more of that.
10. Thor: The Dark World
Speaking of too many cooks, in a recent interview with the Nerdist Writers Panel, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely noted that Thor: The Dark World had as many as 8 screenwriters working on this project. Sadly, this lack of direction really shows, and if there's a movie that screams "made by committee" it is this one. This dull sequel tries its hardest to double down on what pleased the first film's audience (namely Loki and D'Arcy), but does so to the detriment of narrative cohesion. The film does benefit from Hiddleston and Hemsworth having developed tremendous chemistry and following on from the events of The Avengers. But these moments are only a small sliver of a weak whole which is also marred by a poorly fleshed out villain, a continued reliance on the dud of a relationship between Thor and Jane (to the point of making her the major point on which the plot device turns), and some of the worst exposition this side of Green Lantern. I long for the day that Thor gets handed to a team that actively embraces the character and the weird, fun cosmic events that shape his world.
9. The Incredible Hulk
This second stab at a Hulk film (following on the heels of the rather glacial Ang Lee 2003 film) has quite a bit of good in it: Ed Norton making for a pretty compelling every-man, Liv Tyler giving a steady performance with a thankless love interest role, and a nice bit of chase action throughout (with the high point being the almost Bourne-like Rio sequence towards the film's beginning). These benefits are off-set by some really hammy supporting performances, particularly from the two Tim's (Blake-Nelson and Roth) and a mindless third act where a CGI thing fights another CGI thing. It's also chopped to pieces, as one can tell just by watching the deleted scenes, much of which were nice character bits for Ty Burrell's Leonard Samson. Overall, it's not a bad film, but more like casual FX viewing on a random Sunday. Frankly, the bottom-line on this one is that it barely counts anymore, we have a new Bruce Banner as of The Avengers and its highly doubtful that any plot points or characters from this movie are going to return (other than some Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. "wink and nudge").
8. Avengers: Age of Ultron:
An unholy mess of a film that feels more like an obligation than a story that Joss Whedon actually wanted to tell. There's moments of excitement, but so many more problematic elements that completely drag it down, from a poorly defined villain (big surprise) to character arcs that simply do not line up with the films that preceded them in Phase 2 to dreadful action staging and CGI. Age of Ultron, aka "Countdown to Infinity War", has got to go down as one of 2015's big cinematic disappointments. I wrote a whole review, feel free to read it.
7. Iron Man 3
Shane Black and Drew Pearce bring the funny! Iron Man 3 benefits from the momentum provided by The Avengers and is a decent bounceback after the dreadful Iron Man 2. Yeah, Cheadle is still a waste and the Extremis powered bad guys are a little anonymous, but Black injected some authorial life into what could have been another anonymous affair. I also loved the Die Hard-Christmas vibe that is the backdrop for the movie's events, a constant in Shane Black's work. And yes, I thought the Iron Patriot armor was pretty nifty as well. It's the first Marvel movie (other than The Avengers and then later Guardians of the Galaxy) where you can feel the finger-print of its filmmaker throughout, instead of the journeymen that were helming these projects pre-Avengers. The only major detriment to the film, and why it doesn't rank higher, is its fairly dull third act which includes the ridiculous visual of "super-powered" Gwyneth Paltrow, and Guy Pearce (who I love dearly) playing another member of the forgettable Marvel villain brigade. Sadly, my favorite moment in the movie (the Mandarin twist) is also the point at which the film becomes its most generic.
6. Thor
I have really warmed to Kenneth Branagh's sole Marvel effort in recent years. Yes, its production design borders on laughable and Hemsworth has more chemistry with Hiddleston than he does with Natalie Portman (and their romance is written about as well), but there's a level of straight-forwardness on display here that makes Thor a relatively refreshing watch, especially with the growing complexity and interconnectedness of the Marvel oeuvre. Sometimes the power of a simple story is all you need, and Branagh and company nail the glowing majesty of Asgard along with the tried and true "fish out of water" elements that are especially carried by Hemsworth, whose voice is all I hear now whenever I read a Thor comic. Marvel has yet to produce a Thor film that I'd call essential, but this is as good as it gets so far.
5. Guardians of the Galaxy
A lot of fun. The plot itself is no great shakes, and feels a little overly familiar, but James Gunn and a surprisingly humorous cast (Dave Bautista is hilarious as Drax especially) that makes it all come together. The dialogue is razor sharp and full of wit, and Chris Pratt's Peter Quill is probably the heir apparent to Downey's Tony Stark for the "loveable asshole" crown of the Marvel universe. Guardians also benefits from being separated from the other goings-on related to S.H.I.E.L.D., Loki and the Earth-bound concerns of the previous films. Someone could go see this film and know not a lick about The Avengers, and could enjoy it on its own space opera merits. And much like Shane Black before him, you can see Gunn straining the limits of Marvel Studios' house-style, to the benefit of fans. Its also gorgeously shot with meticulously designed worlds and colors galore!
4. Captain America: The First Avenger
The team behind this first Captain America film had a big of challenge ahead of them. How do you portray Marvel's most virtuous character without resorting to outright jingoism? Pulling together a mixture of writers that love the source material (Chris McFeely and Stephen Markus), a director familiar with period pieces (Joe Johnston), and the perfect leading man (Chris Evans) and you have the perfect combo to tackle this challenge. In so doing, they end up creating a fun adventure romp that up to that point was Marvel's most comic-book faithful film. It's still pretty cheesy in parts, but gloriously so and it's incredibly stylized and doesn't fall victim to the "filmed in a rush, looking cheap" trap that Thor did just a few months before. This debut feature for Cap also has my favorite love story in the entire Marvel filmography, subtle, well written and with some great back and forth between Evans and Atwell. Sure, the Red Skull is pretty poorly used, the third act montage is an annoyance, and the film completely whiffs the Steve-Bucky relationship. But, when you've got a film that includes all of the Howling Commandos, crazy World War II era planes, and an awesome show-tune number written by Alan Menken, you have a real winner on your hands, all things considered.
3. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
With its intricately plotted conspiracy storyline, some of the best shot action scenes of recent memory, and fairly compelling pathos (correcting one of the bigger sins of the previous entry). Joe and Anthony Russo take over behind the camera, and not only do they have a great handle on Cap, but they also find significant roles for Nick Fury and Black Widow. Two characters who had nice beats in The Avengers, but were still somewhat enigma-like. This is a movie packed with fun surprises as well, with call backs to a few films in the overall series (creating a sense of real history that matters to these characters) without being bogged down by them. What I think I like best though about this sequel is that its the first of the Phase Two films that doesn't rely on the events of The Avengers to stage its plot. In reality, this movie is probably the first where you didn't even have to see that team-up extravaganza and its story-beats would still make sense (unlike Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World). It's hard not to appreciate that kind of dedication to the character and his slice of the Marvel Universe. It's a heck of a ride.
2. Iron Man
There's a crispness to Iron Man that I just can't shake. I remember going to the theater to see this one in 2008 not expecting a whole heck of a lot and I was blown away. Iron Man was hilarious, exciting, well-paced and on subsequent rewatches all of those qualities still hold up. Just about everything that makes Iron Man work so well can be attributed to the actors. Obadiah Stane is one of my favorite villains in the MCU (admittedly, his only real competition are Loki and Wilson Fisk), mainly because of how loosely Jeff Bridges plays him. Pepper Potts is a very well rounded character because of Paltrow. James Rhodes is actually interesting for once due to the "swaggering stoicism" (is that a thing?) brought by Howard. And Tony Stark goes without saying really, but has there ever been a better meld of character and actor in one of these superhero romps? I love Hiddleston and Evans in their respective roles, but Downey IS Iron Man. Also, the movie is basically completely improvised, again, the story being formed by the strength of the actors involved. Iron Man also set everything into motion for the entire series of Marvel films, but its hard to describe just how exciting it was to see Jackson's Nick Fury appear that first time after the credits rolled. This is a film that captured the public zeitgeist for a short time and is only eclipsed by our next entry in that regard.
1. The Avengers
It made over a billion dollars. Sure, there are some terrible movies that can make that same claim, but clearly something connected with the American public on this one. It's an utter spectacle, but a really well crafted one that gives equal time to basically all of its characters (unless you're Jeremy Renner). Sure, it takes a minute to dispense with the "heroes having a misunderstanding" plot beat or two but its all tempered by such sharp writing throughout that its hard to dock it too many points for the cliche. The underlying threat is strong as well (with Hiddleston really hitting his stride as Loki here), with stakes that feel suitably massive. Joss Whedon brings just enough candy coated coloring to the visual palette that it makes The Avengers a literal comic book come to life and the final results speak for themselves. Is it cinematic brilliance? Not really. Is it a tremendously good time once you're separated from the hype that surrounds it? Absolutely! It's only real misstep was how it handled Hawkeye, and maybe Captain America's costume. Luckily, I understand both have been adjusted for the sequel.
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The Future of Physics and Society
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The present Workshop was supported by the UNESCO–Physics Action Council, the European Physical Society, OMFB, OTKA, MTA and MALÉV. It affirmed the ongoing importance of physics for its own sake and as part of our culture, as a key element in increasingly unified science and as an essential contributor to the solution of environmental and energy problems. The problems faced by physics as an activity and as an educational subject were discussed and actions for both society as a whole and the physics community itself were put forward.
A principal function of the Workshop was to submit a report making recommendations to the UNESCO/ICSU World Conference on Science (WCS), to be held in Budapest, June, 1999. Nevertheless, a great many important points were raised which are addressed to the international physics community rather than to the WCS.
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Join WAFFA for an evening with Han Shen WG’09, Founding Partner at iFly.vc. This talk is part of our series “Know Your Numbers”. Han will share his journey founding iFly.vc, a thesis-driven fund focused on early-stage investment. Together with Han, we will explore the lessons learned both as a founder and a funder. We will talk numbers and learn what to watch out for and how to ensure you have strong numbers to back up your story.
About Han Shen
Han’s career in venture capital started in 2009 and has spanned at VantagePoint and Formation 8, where he was the first hire on the investment team. He led and/or contributed to the investment in Motive Drilling (acquired by Helmerich & Payne), Lucid (acquired by Acuity), Comfy (acquired by Siemens), Oculus (acquired by Facebook), Taxon (acquired by DuPont), and AlertMe (acquired by British Gas). Han has served on the board of multiple portfolio companies including BorderX Lab, Sweet a Little, Motive Drilling, and Grabit, and has closely advised entrepreneurs in building a startup from the ground up. He received the title of “Honorary Employee” (with badge #36) from one of his current portfolio companies to recognize the instrumental role he has played. Earlier in his career, Han worked for Rohm and Haas Company, the largest US specialty chemical company, where he was credited as key inventor of four US patents.
Han earned his bachelor’s degree from Nanjing University, Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and MBA from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania. In addition, Han holds a private pilot license issued by the US FAA and was the Dignitary Champion of International Cherry Pit Spitting Competition in 2002.
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KISS: Paul Stanley welcomes fourth child to family
Paul Stanley is producing the latest KISS album, but he’s also been doing a little producing outside of the band, as well.
People magazine reports Paul and his wife, Erin, an attorney, welcomed daughter Emily Grace Stanley on Tuesday in Los Angeles.
Emily, who weighed in at 7 lbs., 10 oz., joins elder siblings Sarah Brianna, 2½, Colin Michael, 4½, and Evan Shane, 17, Stanley's son from a previous relationship (see family portrait above).
"Erin and I are once again blessed with the addition of Emily Grace to our family," the rocker, 59, says. "I'm not sure she can sing but her first screams let me know she's definitely Daddy's girl."
As for having kids later in life, Stanley says his age doesn't slow him down.
"I may be 59," he told People in February, "but the only rocking chair this rocker is getting ready for is the one for my new baby."
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Theresa Caulkins, glass artist at Studio 550. Courtesy photo.
Artist Communities
Makerspaces for creatives
By Kelly Sennott ksennott@hippopress.com
There aren’t any general art-centric makerspaces in New Hampshire, but if you want to take your art to the next level, there are plenty of different venues where you can do that depending on your preferred media.
Your best bet is to explore art centers and schools that teach it — many will offer open studio time or courses in which you can explore individual projects, like the Homestead Woodworking School in Newmarket ($325, plus materials, two months of classes).
At Terrapin Glassblowing Studio in Jaffrey, you can take classes or rent the studio for $40 per hour, according to its website, which includes bench, pipes, punties, tools and clear glass.
If you want to tinker around with some higher-tech tools, a traditional makerspace might be your best option, and the Port City Makerspace in Portsmouth is full of creative makers, from engineers to furniture designers, photographers to woodworkers, with monthly ($50) or 24-hour access ($80) membership options. Come in with one trade, and you’ll likely learn another either through its class offerings or from another maker.
Current member Nihco Gallo joined with a woodworking background but learned a bit of metalsmithing soon after. The place boasts a woodshop, metal shop, machine shop, garage, 3-D printers and warehouse that can be used as storage space for large projects.
“A lot of members are hobbyists or craftspeople who just need access to tools and realize it’s cheaper and more convenient to join a makerspace than to outfit an entire space, as well as more social and fun,” Gallo said via phone. “I think the makerspaces are appealing to both craftsmen and professionals because they offer a wide range of tools that even the best outfitted hobbyists don’t have in their basements or garages.”
If you’re more into ceramics, Studio 550 Art Center in Manchester offers a variety of membership types for the use of studio space — punchcards (for which prices vary) or unlimited ($145), for which the studio is accessible during open studio hours. Regular class tuition also includes a once-a-week open studio session in which artists can practice or conduct individual projects. The only extra cost is clay and firing.
“Studio membership is more if you can’t make a class or don’t want instruction and are just working on a project,” owner Monica Leap said. “Not everybody wants to take a class. When I left school, I was just looking for a studio to work in.”
Sal Steven-Hubbard uses Studio 550’s space and tools.
“It’s a much better environment to work in than your basement,” Steven-Hubbard said. “And seeing other people’s work on display in the gallery gives you ideas. … It gives me something to strive for.”
Theresa Caulkins is a glass artist who has been with Studio 550 since its inception. The Manchester resident, who teaches both glass art and drawing, said it’s inspiring being part of the Studio 550 makerspace community.
“People come in with challenging new ideas that I never would have thought of on my own,” Caulkins said. “It’s been a really great place for me to meet really good people. I’ve been able to start growing a network, which is imperative as an artist. It’s really been a great foundation for me. We continue to grow every day, and the studio keeps getting more traction.”.
The state also hosts a few communal art studios and centers, like the newly-established Eclective Avenue Creative Art Space in the Manchester Mills, which is currently looking for more members to rent space and hold classes there. There’s also Creative Ventures Gallery in Amherst, which is home to artist studios, classroom space and exhibition events.
Another option is the New Hampshire Creative Club, which isn’t exactly a makerspace — it has no permanent home — but a $50 yearly membership gets you access to monthly creative-based events and helps connect big companies with freelance artists — designers, illustrators, copywriters, creative writers, photographers, videographers and furniture makers.
NHCC president Amber Nicole Cannan said the organization helped her find her current job after being laid off in June. Older members took her under their wing and connected her with the right people to land a position as an adjunct New Hampshire Institute of Art professor. She teaches typography.
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Temperatures across the country have been rising. In some places it’s record breaking and literally unbearable. When the heat is on, there are few things more refreshing than a swim. However, no matter where you are swimming, in the ocean, lake, river, swimming pool or...
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By A. Kam Napier
Published: 2012.05.31 11:00 AM
In 1888, King Kalakaua issued a royal charter, commissioning a magazine. Then titled Paradise of the Pacific, this publication became HONOLULU Magazine, making it the oldest magazine west of the Mississippi.
“The beautiful yacht Hawaii is now on the gentle Pacific, with sails bent to carry her to San Pedro, from which point she is soon to start as Hawaii’s entry in the transpacific yacht race of 1912,” reports Paradise of the Pacific, predecessor to HONOLULU Magazine. “The Hawaii won the last race, in 1910, under the captaincy of C.T. Wilder. It appears this year she is likely to have a harder contest, for there are more entries in sight. The yacht clubs of the Pacific Coast, from Puget Sound to San Diego, are taking an interest in the contest.” The 2012 Transpac was scheduled to run from Los Angeles, Calif., to Tahiti on April 20.
“Easter Sunday, March 28, 1937. The largest crowd in years witnessed an inspiring program of pageantry, song and prayer on the summit of Punchbowl,” observes Paradise of the Pacific. “From nearly every part of Honolulu, for several days preceding Easter, was visible the City’s Symbol of Passiontide, a twenty-foot Cross erected on the summit of Punchbowl and lighted by the United States Army searchlights. The sunrise services were sponsored by the Honolulu Inter-Church Federation. The services were broadcasted by KGU and KGMB.”
“[Canlis,] the ‘most beautiful restaurant in the world,’ now belongs to Spencecliff, and Spencecliff itself belongs to a Japanese tycoon,” writes HONOLULU. “The 24-restaurant Spencecliff chain, started in 1939 by Spence and Cliff Weaver with a hot dog stand called Swankie Frankie, had been in precipitous decline for the last five or six years. Even at its height, Spencecliff had been better known for its coffee shops—Tops, Kelly’s and the late lamented Coco’s—than for its gourmet dining. … It hardly seemed like the kind of corporation to be buying an expensive dinner house of Canlis’s reputation. What had happened was a direct result of the rising yen and the flood of Japanese capital into Hawaii. Spencecliff had been purchased last summer by Nittaku Enteprise Co. Ltd. Of Japan … funding a $10 million renovation of existing Spencecliff properties … and then moving upscale to acquire Canlis.”
The former Canlis site at 2100 Kalakaua is now home to Luxury Row.
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Fruits are part of our history and culture, a way for us to feel connected to our community.
A Local’s Guide to Buying Reef-Safe Sunscreen
Five Hawai‘i brands have created reef-safe sunscreens that are safe for your ʻohana and the ocean.
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