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Dom Joly - Dom Joly pictured arriving at the Radio 2 studio at BBC Western House - London, United Kingdom - Friday 5th June 2015
Stacey MacDougall and Dom Joly - Comedian Dom Joly and his wife at Save the Children's Secret Winter Gala sponsored by Bulgari, a festive fundraising event held at London's Guildhall. The event brought the magical Christmas tale 'Nutcracker and Mouse King' to life, and guests were treated to an elegant evening of fine dining and captivating entertainment to celebrate the wonder of children's literature and raise money for Save the Children's life-saving work - London, United Kingdom - Tuesday 26th November 2013
Dom Joly - Dom Joly wears a prosthetic disguise during a break from filming at day 2 of the 2013 Cornbury Music Festival at the Great Tew Estate - Great Tew Oxfordshire, United Kingdom - Saturday 6th July 2013
Jennifer Metcalfe Quits Tom Daley's 'Splash' After Troubling Week
By Michael West in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 04 January 2013
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The Hollyoaks actress Jennifer Metcalfe has reportedly quit Tom Daley's new primetime diving show, because she didn't want to be seen as a "Samia copycat," - a reference to the former Coronation Street actress Samia Ghandie who is reportedly dating her ex-boyfriend Sylvain Longchambon.
The professional skater split with Metcalfe to be with Ghandie last Friday - according to The Sun newspaper - leaving the Hollyoaks star heartbroken and unable to complete on 'Splash.' It is assumed Samia and Sylvain intend to go ahead with their appearance on Dancing On Ice, which begins on Sunday (January 6, 2013). A source close to Jennifer said, "She feared it looked like she was going head-to-head with Samia."
Metcalfe - who plays Mercedes McQueen on the Channel 4 soap - was scheduled to appear in Tom Daley's celebrity diving show, which hits screens tomorrow evening. The likes of Joey Essex, Jade Ewan, Dom Joly and Linda Barker will attempt to master the art of diving in an Olympic-size swimming pool, leaving the public to vote for their favourite. Vernon Kay and Gabby Logan will present the show, while British star Daley will offer expert help.
Continue reading: Jennifer Metcalfe Quits Tom Daley's 'Splash' After Troubling Week
Dom Jolly Monday 11th April 2011 at the Carphone Warehouse Appys Awards at Vinopolis - Arrivals at the Carphone Warehouse Appys Awards at Vinopolis
Dom Jolly and Ivor Novello Awards - Thursday 20th May 2010 at Grosvenor House London, England
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New bill would prevent DOC from shipping inmates to out-of-state prisons
ANCHORAGE – State lawmakers are pushing back against the Dunleavy Administration’s effort to send Alaska inmates to private prisons in the Lower 48.
Lawmakers demand resolution to ‘existential crisis’ faced by coastal communities in wake of new ferry cuts
ANCHORAGE – Today, several lawmakers who represent coastal communities urged the Dunleavy Administration to fulfill the Alaska Department of Transportation’s mission statement to “Keep Alaska moving through service and infrastructure” by promptly getting two essential Alaska Marine Highway System vessels back into operation.
ANCHORAGE – The Alaska Superior Court issued an order Thursday evening that ruled against the governor’s attempt to reject the Legislature’s forward funding of K-12 education.
Representative Claman to host fall constituent meeting at Anchorage Legislative Office
ANCHORAGE – Representative Matt Claman (D-Anchorage) will hold a fall constituent meeting this Saturday, November 2. The event will be held at the Anchorage Legislative Information Office (LIO) from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
New legislation calls for testing of rape kits within six months
ANCHORAGE – Today, on the final day of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Rep. Geran Tarr (D-Anchorage) announced new legislation that would require rape kits to be tested within six months. Current law requires testing of rape kits within one year.
ANCHORAGE – A group of representatives today sent a letter urging Department of Corrections Commissioner Nancy Dahlstrom to reverse the Dunleavy Administration’s plan to ship hundreds of incarcerated Alaskans to private prisons in the Lower 48.
Lawmakers encourage preservation of athletic programs at UAA, UAF
FAIRBANKS – Today, a group of lawmakers sent a letter to University of Alaska leadership encouraging the preservation of athletic programs at both UAA and UAF, even as the university system grapples with consolidation.
November formally established as Alaska Native Heritage Month
ANCHORAGE – Today, House Bill 126 was signed into law during a meeting of the Alaska Native Brotherhood/Alaska Native Sisterhood Grand Camp at Alaska Pacific University. The legislation permanently establishes November as Alaska Native Heritage Month.
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Protecting Your Rights: Serving Sand Lake, Spenard and Turnagain
• Governor Releases Budget
• Update on Adult Assistance
• Private Prisons & Prisoner Outsourcing Presentation
• Community Events
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
On December 11, Governor Dunleavy released his proposal for the operating, capital, and mental health budgets for Fiscal Year 2021, which will begin on July 1, 2020. The proposal is a marked departure from the budget the governor proposed for FY20.
Governor Dunleavy Releases FY2021 Budget
Last February, the governor proposed over $1 billion in cuts to the operating budget, slashing funding for services ranging from the university to the ferry system to Medicaid in an effort to create a balanced budget that included a $3,000 dividend. This year, in contrast, he has proposed a budget that largely flat funds essential services when compared with projected spending for FY20 (the FY20 budget plus an anticipated $225 million supplemental budget), with funding for many services remaining unchanged from the current fiscal year.
But the governor's proposal for FY21 also includes funding for a 2020 dividend estimated to be $3,170 per person. Paying a $3,170 dividend will cost a total of $2 billion and, given the limited cuts the governor has proposed for FY21, will require draining $1.5 billion from the Constitutional Budget Reserve (CBR), one of the state's last savings accounts. And it would leave just $500 million in that account.
This FY21 expenditure (not counting any FY20 supplemental expenditures the governor may propose) would leave the state unable to cover future deficits projected in the governor's 10-year budget plan (the deficits in future years assume roughly $2 billion or more in dividend funding each year) and would make it difficult for the state to respond to potential emergencies like a major earthquake.
In addition to the 2020 dividend, the governor has indicated that he will request a supplemental payment of roughly $1,400 per person for the 2019 dividend (while the governor has stated that this is his intent, it has yet to be included in writing in any budget proposal). The total cost of the governor's proposed supplemental dividend would be $883 million. When combined with the anticipated $225 million supplemental for state services, the total comes to $1.1 billion in supplemental spending for our current fiscal year.
To pay for the supplemental dividends, the governor has proposed ignoring the statutory limit on draws from the Permanent Fund earnings reserve account (ERA). The statutory limit on ERA spending was passed in 2018 (Senate Bill 26) in an effort to create a sustainable method for funding state government and to protect the Permanent Fund for future generations. Making a draw beyond the SB 26 statutory limit risks lowering the value of the Permanent Fund over time.
While a budget like the one the governor has proposed for FY21 is not sustainable for more than one year, the governor's 10-year budget plan indicates that he is open to considering new sources of revenue like a tax, restructuring the dividend formula, and making further reductions to various state services to achieve balanced budgets in the future.
Though the budget is largely flat-funded, the governor has made reductions (beyond those made in FY20) to offset increases in formula-funded services like education and Medicaid and increases to the Department of Corrections and the Department of Public Safety. The following are some of the services cut (or cuts sustained from the FY20 budget) in the governor's FY21 proposed budget:
$3 million from VPSO Program (sustained from FY20)
$250,000 eliminating funding for Civil Air Patrol (sustained from FY20)
$6.5 million from Behavioral Health Treatment and Recovery Grants (sustained from FY20 with additional $400,000 reduction in FY21)
$3 million from Public Broadcasting (sustained from FY20)
$38 million from Alaska Marine Highway System (sustained from FY20)
$3.4 million from Ocean Ranger Program (sustained from FY20)
$2.5 million from Power Cost Equalization
$1.5 million from Rural Energy Assistance
$3.4 million eliminating Economic Development line item
$5.8 million from Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute
$25 million from University of Alaska (on top of $25 million cut in FY20)
$9.4 million from Pioneer Homes
$16.6 million from Palmer Correctional Center (instead of reopening PCC, the administration is moving forward with plans to send prisoners out of state)
$398,300 from Suicide Prevention Council
$3 million eliminating Emergency Medical Services Grants
$5 million from Pre-Kindergarten Grants
$232,900 from Online with Libraries (OWL)
The following are some of the spending increases in the governor's FY21 proposed budget:
$1.6 million for Office of Public Advocacy
$1 million for Trial Courts
$17.8 million for Department of Corrections Out-of-State Contractual (part of continued efforts to send prisoners out of state. The budget proposal also moves allocations for Electronic Monitoring and Community Residential Centers under the Population Management appropriation, which would allow these funds, totaling $19 million, to go toward funding the out-of-state contractual at the discretion of the commissioner.)
$7.4 million restoring funding for Adult Public Assistance
$27 million restoring funding for Adult Dental Medicaid Services
$9.1 million for Alaska State Trooper Detachments
The governor's proposal is not fiscally sustainable without substantial new revenue or substantial reductions, and it is not a responsible action plan for Alaska. Thus, it will again fall to the Legislature during the 2020 session to come up with a responsible financial strategy that strengthens our economy, supports essential services, and moves Alaska forward. As we saw during the FY20 budget process earlier this year, public input will be critical.
Please email Rep.Matt.Claman@akleg.gov or call our office, 269-0130, with any questions or concerns.
The governor has stated that he would like to hear from Alaskans as the budget takes shape and plans to hold discussions with communities around the state. His office may be reached via email at this web page or via phone: 465-3500.
State Postpones $7.5 million Reduction to Adult Public Assistance
On Monday, December 9, the governor announced that he plans to delay a $7.5 million cut to Adult Public Assistance that would have impacted monthly payments for 19,000 elderly and disabled Alaskans. During the FY20 budget process, the governor initially vetoed $14.7 million from the program. After the Legislature restored the entire sum in House Bill 2001, however, the governor settled for cutting $7.5 million through a second round of vetoes. While this $7.5 million cut to Public Assistance has been delayed, it is likely that the administration will continue to pursue cuts to the program at a future date.
House State Affairs Committee Holds Presentation on Private Prisons & Prisoner Outsourcing
In November, my office reported on the Department of Corrections' (DOC) proposal to send 250-500 incarcerated Alaskans to Lower 48 prisons to serve their sentences. On Wednesday, December 11, the House State Affairs Committee held a hearing that raised questions about DOC's announcement that it would move forward with plans to send prisoners out of state, despite the $16 million legislators appropriated in Fiscal Year 2020 to reopen the Palmer Correctional Complex.
The capacity of the Palmer facility is 388. Instead of taking steps to reopen the facility, which internal department documents indicate would have cost less than the $16 million set aside by the Legislature and could have been accomplished in nine months, the department did nothing during this time period. Had they begun working to open the facility when the funds were initially appropriated, today, the prison would be a month away from opening, bringing with it new employment opportunities in the Mat-Su.
The department's plan to send prisoners out of state will result in a loss of economic opportunities for the state. It also raises safety concerns as prisoners incarcerated in the Lower 48 are more likely to be exposed to sophisticated criminal practices, are farther from family and support networks, and return home more likely to re-offend. Rep. Zack Fields has introduced legislation that would prevent the department from sending prisoners out of state.
Mark your calendars for these upcoming events:
Public Hearing on Naming Lynn Ary Ball Field in Honor of Marty Smith
As part of the Anchorage Municipal Code naming process, the Assembly's Citizen Naming Panel is holding a public hearing on the "Marty Smith Diamond" proposal, which would give the name "Marty Smith Diamond" to the northwest diamond at the Marston Fields in Lynn Ary Park in honor of Marty's long-term commitment to the Anchorage West Little League (AWLL) and the playing fields at Lynn Ary.
Marty was raised in West Anchorage and developed a passion for baseball in his youth. As an adult, he spent many hours volunteering at the Lynn Ary Park fields by coaching, umpiring, serving on the AWLL Board of Directors, and providing leadership as president of AWLL in 2017. He finally stepped down due to cancer, which took his life in 2018 at the age of 51.
In February, I wrote a letter in support of naming the field in Marty's honor and was pleased to see that Turnagain Community Council passed a resolution this month 25-0 in support of the naming.
If you would like to provide input on the proposal, please consider attending the public hearing.
When: Today, December 17 from 5:30-6:30 PM
Where: City Hall Assembly Conference Room 155, 632 W. 6th Ave.
View the Turnagain Community Council event notice for more information.
Brighten the longest night of the year!
Enjoy fat tire bike rides, sleigh rides, food trucks, ice skating, a lighted pet walk, and more.
This event is made possible by: SteamDot Coffee Company, Anchorage Skates, Anchorage Skate Club, Alaska Mill and Feed Inc., Chain Reaction Cycles - Alaska, and Kaladi Brothers Coffee.
When: Saturday, December 21 from 5:30-8:30 PM
Where: Cuddy Family Midtown Park, 201 E 40th Ave.
For more information, visit the Facebook page.
As always, please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.
Rep.Matt.Claman@akleg.gov
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Of course Warren and Sanders are fighting
Joel Mathis
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A few months from now, there is a real chance that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will be the Democratic nominee for president. There is also a real chance that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) will be the nominee.
One thing is certain: It cannot be both of them.
So it shouldn't be surprising that the two candidates — longtime friends and political allies, we've been told — have started taking shots at each other now that the Iowa caucuses are just a few weeks away. There is a more-in-sadness-than-in-anger quality to the fight that is now bubbling up, but the fight was inevitable nonetheless. Elections are winner-take-all affairs. The losers go home. After a year of campaigning and debating, neither Sanders nor Warren want to go home. In our system, you can't do politics without dabbling in conflict and contrasts.
Let's back up and explain how we got to this point. The New York Times and CNN both reported, using anonymous sources, on a 2018 meeting in which Sanders purportedly told Warren that a woman cannot win the 2020 presidential election against President Trump. Sanders denied the allegation — calling it "ludicrous" — but Warren confirmed the story.
"I have no interest in discussing this private meeting any further because Bernie and I have far more in common than our differences on punditry," Warren said.
It probably isn't a coincidence that the Times and CNN stories appeared about a day after Politico reported the Sanders campaign was distributing anti-Warren talking points to campaign staffers, instructing them to tell Democratic primary voters that Warren has little chance of appealing to swing voters in a campaign against Trump.
Sanders offered a non-denial denial. "We have hundreds of employees. Elizabeth Warren has hundreds of employees," he told the Times. "And people sometimes say things that they shouldn't."
Why shouldn't they?
It's true that plenty of Democrats are nervous about the prospect of open disagreement between Sanders and Warren — worried that a battle between the two will divide the party or give Trump ammunition to use during the general election campaign next fall. "You both are progressive champs & our movement needs to see you working together to defeat your corporate Dem opponents — not attack each other," Democracy for America tweeted on Monday, pleading for unity. "Progressives will win in 2020, but only if we don't let the corporate wing or Trump divide us." In other words, progressive Democrats want unity, now.
But that's impossible. The voting hasn't started yet. For Sanders to win, Warren will have to lose — and vice versa. It's possible that both of them might lose to former Vice President Joe Biden. No matter what scenario you conjure, though, the end result is the same: There can be only one winner.
To win elections, politicians like Sanders and Warren must prove to voters that they are better than the other candidates, even if those candidates are otherwise friends. That message inherently means the other candidates are worse. Sometimes campaigns, especially in primaries, leave that contrast implicit — and Sanders and Warren have gone to great lengths until now to avoid criticizing each other — but usually the "I'm-better-they're-worse" message is made explicit indeed. The process is divisive.
That process doesn't automatically give Republicans a win over Democrats. Sanders gave Hillary Clinton a bruising battle for the Democratic nomination in 2016, but she still won the popular vote against Trump. Clinton, in turn, offered hard criticisms of Barack Obama during the 2008 primaries — and he won the general election rather easily. So Democratic fears about the Sanders-Warren divide are probably overblown.
Indeed, what those recent campaigns prove is that unity is possible in primary campaigns, but usually only after a victor has been crowned and the other candidates — and their supporters — have accepted their losses and are ready to be team players again. Sanders campaigned for Clinton in 2016; Clinton became Obama's secretary of state.
Most polls rank Sanders and Warren among the top three Democratic candidates. Each is vying to become the progressive choice for voters who reject Biden's moderation. So this battle was coming, sooner or later. Don't worry, Democrats — once the dust has settled, everybody can be friends again, and allies in the effort to remove Trump from office. Until then, though, it's time to do politics.
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Hearspool 15: The Great Reversal - Momus
10th November 2017 @ 12:00 am - 1:00 am
programme/artist information
This episode focuses on Peter and Alison Smithson, as seen in BS Johnson’s BBC documentary about Robin Hood Gardens, the last project they built in Britain. The episode is also available, unusually, as a film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbXRRRegeeA
During 2013 Momus created a series of radiophonic programmes for Newcastle radio station BasicFM entitled Hearspool. Mesmeric, evocative, and made in the tradition of German neue hoerspiel.
Momus is a Scot who makes songs, books and art. He lives between Europe and Japan.
http://imomus.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momus_(musician)
different time different place different pitch: Something is Going to Happen - Dani Gal & Achim Lengerer
10th November 2017 @ 1:00 am - 2:00 am
The violent, xenophobic riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen shortly after the unification of
Germany. With Wolfgang Richter and Cornelia Schmalz Jacobsen.
A series of radio programs By Dani Gal and Achim Lengerer. Originally commissioned by Documenta 14.
The radio is an acousmatic instrument. Listeners do not see the origin of the sound,
their experience is shaped both by the their own interpretation, and the manipulation
of the producer in a political system.
Our programs work on the space between documentary and Musique concrète.
Each show focuses on political events that are connected to acoustic events. This
creates an acousmatic documentary where the programs become sound-objects.
The programs response to the ‘image saturated society’ discourse, by asking what is
the function of sound as a document in times of live video feeds that can be broadcast
by anyone.
Dani Gal (born 1975, Jerusalem) lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the Bezalel
Academy for Art and Design in Jerusalem; the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende
Künste Städelschule in Frankfurt; and the Cooper Union in New York. His flms and
works have been shown widely, including: Documenta 14, 54th Venice Biennale
(2011), The Istanbul Biennale (2011), The New Museum New York (2012),
Kunsthalle St. Gallen Swizerland (2013), The Jewish museum New York (2014),
Berlinale Forum Expanded (2014), Kunsthaus Zurich (2015) Kunsthalle Wien (2015)
Achim Lengerer works on political questions of speech and language that he
thematizes in performances, radio plays or spatializes within installations and
publications. Lengerer founded different collaborative projects such as freitagsküche
in Frankfurt a. M. and voiceoverhead, with Dani Gal. Since 2009 Lengerer runs the
Berlin based showroom and publishing house Scriptings. Different Artists are invited
– all of which are working with the formats of script and text within their processes of
production. Lengerer is currently working on his Ph.D. at Goldsmiths, University of
London, UK, on the format of the rehearsal as an actual format for socio-political
negotiations.
https://archive.org/details/radia_s28_n370_radiopapesse-dani_gal_achim_lengerer
https://www.fkv.de/en/content/dani-gal-achim-lengerer-voiceoverhead
http://freymondguth.com/?artists=dani-gal-works
http://www.rampub.com/art/978-3-86442-214-0
http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/dani-gal-nacht-und-nebel
Foundsoundscape - Janek Schaefer
It’s been 20 years exactly since I created ‘Recorded Delivery’, which quietly collected sounds of the inner realm of the Post Office in March 1995. Back then I could only use cassettes to capture sound, and there was no internet or digital in my world. Two decades later the technical options are staggering, but simplicity and calm is more in demand than ever before.
Foundsoundscape was inspired by the very first Digital Radio station in the UK, that simply played a recording of a rural location. Radio you could just leave running to add a peaceful ambience to your environment indoors. It heralded a new media paradigm, as digital broadcasting offered more capacity than requred for the first time, and that space needed filling. At the same time on TV, Channel 4 was broadcasting Big Brother live 24hours, and at night I loved to tune-in my analogue TV sets all over the house, and the shed, so I could hear the housemates gently sleeping as I worked through the night. Since then infomercials, and gambling TV have taken over, and I greatly miss that sense of real-time space, that does not demand your attention. Foundsoundscape quietly underscores your environment, by creating new ones from others.
Radio is special as it was the first medium that could be experienced by many people in many places, all at the same time. Foundsoundscape.com is an online radio station that streams live 24hours a day, which can now be broadcast to people all over the globe. Using over 1000 calm & curious location recordings captured by 100+ recordists, the sounds were simply edited, and then played back three at a time at various volumes in shuffle mode, and the result is never the same twice. You often hear the edges of time as files begin or stop playing mid flow. If you listen ever so carefully you can also hear me working in the studio at the end of the garden late at night, as I have a live mic feeding into the mix. I sometimes like to work with tv radio & music playing, to absorb information, give me ideas, create and share. Email me for a shout-out!
My hope is that others will find foundsoundscape enjoyable and leave it running all day & all night long, just like a radio! It’s as simple as that, with one click. A salute to serendipity and shared sonic space. Bookmark it. Play it in rooms around the house. Share it . . Take a break . . .
Every day is different.
Happy Daze.
“It’s lovely Janek. I really like listening to it.
Well done! I’ll link it to my friends.” [Brian Eno]
Massive thanks to everyone who has helped make this possible.
Commissioned by the Sonic Art Research Unit, Oxford Brookes, UK
Programming by Efthymios Chatzigiannis & David Tinapple
Curatorial assistance by Holly Jarvis
special thanks to Paul Whitty
List of the 100+ audio recorders sending sound from every corner of the globe
Selection was from an open call for contributions, via my newslist, & online, & in print media. The first people to send in sound were chosen by serendipity,
and I curated and edited the content. Future participation is by invitation only.
Janek Schaefer
Chris Watson
Philip Jeck
Martyn Ware
British Library Sound Archive
Justin Bennett
William Basinski
Simon Fisher Turner
Holly Jarvis
Gino Zardo
Marc Richter
Arno Peeters
Peter van Cooten
Mike Weis
Knut Aufermann
Michael J. Schumacher
Philip Blackburn
Douglas Benford
Jake Muir
Chris Dooks
Darren McClure
Stuart Bannister
Robin Parmar
Yui Onodera
Lauren Bonn
Frans de Waard
Ben Gwilliam
Stuart Craig
Philipp Ilinskiy
Hiroki Sasajima
Chris Deison
Paul Whitty
Bas Mantel
Richard Chartier
Martin Franklin
John Kannenberg
Peter Cusack
Martin.A.Smith
Derek Holzer
Ben Horner
Nick Fells
Taylor Dupree
Patrick McGinley
Nickolas Mohanna
Charlotte Heffernan
Bobbie-Jane Gardner
Ian Baxter
zhang zhongshu
Tomotsugu Nakamura
Chihei Hatakeyama
Yannick Dauby
William Yates
Chris Koelle
Stephen Vitiello
Rod Stasick
Jonathan Palmer
Gregory Kramer
Rob Dansby
Dave the Rave
Wouter Messchendorp
Robert Svantesson
Omer Eilam
Radboud Mens
Mary Malecka
Danny Lavie
Christopher Bradbury
Stephen Packe
Kevin Wienke
Mark Lyken
Kerry Ware
John Grzinich
Marc Namblard
Graham Dunning
Radovan Scasascia
FOO|OFF
John Wynne
Pete Warren
Craig Goods
Jason Domers
Vijay Sekhon
Robin Russell
Jan van den Brink
Yasuhiro Morinaga
Javier Ucelay Urech
Wayland Iverson
Raquel Castro
Tony Webster
Hanetration
Jez Riley French
Robert Curgenven
Mari & Ben Minto
Cedrick Eymenier
Maggi Payne
Maria Minerva
Victoria Keddie
Marielle Jakobsons
Antye Greie
Maria Chavez
Miya Masaoka
Julie Rousse
Laetitia Sonami
Beatriz Ferreyra
Sarah Angliss
Iris Garrelfs
Dawn Scarfe
Anne Wellmer
La Cosa Preziosa
Amy Liptrot
Signe Liden
Bethan Parkes
Sarah Peebles
Martyna Poznanska
Rowan Forestier-Walker
Alice Eldridge
Amanda Belantara
Poulomi Desai
Helen Frosi
Cathy Lane
Rie Nakajima
Marina Rosenfeld
http://www.foundsoundscape.com/
Radiaphiles: Radio Corax
Here we speak to Ralf Wendt and Jackie Bruce of Radio Corax in Halle (Saale) in Germany.
Mobile Radio offer an overview of independent and not-for-profit community, ‘free’, campus, and pirate stations who provide a wealth of material and perspectives outside of the mainstream media orthodoxy. This series constitutes a major retrospective of the work of the radio art network Radia, whose collective mission is to make radio that transcends the borders and boundaries of land and language. Mobile Radio visit each station in turn to discern their motives and inspirations, and explore the work of one of their associated artists. Produced with support from Goethe Institut.
http://mobile-radio.net/
1. Chelidon Frame – Low Rise (Blackout)
2. B D Owens – Dìlseach
3. Dixie Treichel – Becoming
4. Gael Tissot – Reflets Vibrations
5. Bjorn Hatterud – Prostitute asks God for help, you won’t believe what happens next
6. Bláithín MacDonnell – Something, in parts
7. Adam Pierce – The Jay Pt. II
“Low Rise (Blackout)” is an eight minute piece, entirely made up by using recordings of medium wave signals and synthesized sounds. The result is a mist of noises in which sometimes a word or a sound pops up, making itself recognizable. All this rarefied magma will eventually concentrate itself in a dense soundscape of radio noises.
Chelidon Frame is an experimental electronic project from Milano, Italy. He works with drones, found objects, shortwave radio signals, prepared guitars and looped soundscapes.
Since 2013, he released songs for the compilations promoted by “IFAR”, dealing with Musique Concrète. In 2014, “Antartica” was chosen for Saout Radio’s installation “here.now.where?”, premiered during the V Marrakech Biennale. He also worked on the first and third edition of “Waywords and Meansigns”, an unabridged recreation of “Finnegans Wake”.
In 2017 is selected for an artistic residence at the San Fedele Centre, Milan.
He released three studio albums and one EP.
http://chelidonframe.bandcamp.com/
chelidonframe.wordpress.com/
Dìlseach is an experimental voice composition; an imagined soundscape from the perspective of a cairn terrier (Dìlseach). This work is dedicated to the memory of Isa MacLeod and Dìlseach, from Kyle of Lochalsh.
B. D. Owens is a multi-disciplinary artist based near Helensburgh. He develops his conceptual ideas while walking and writing. Text, layered interpretation and language play are threads that run through his work. Currently, he is examining and challenging the binary doctrines of: Winners & Losers, Losing & Finding and Sameness & Difference. He is graduating with Distinction from the Art, Society & Publics MFA Programme at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, November 2017.
http://www.bdowens.co.uk
A soundscape about the universe at large and my participation in it. The piece is a mixture of original electronic music, found sounds and field recordings. Included on the album EROS, released by 7MNS Music label
A part of CIRCE: The Black Cut Project by Anna Stereopoulou, Athens, Greece It also aired on FSK Radio, Doctore Xyramat show, Hamburg, 2017
Dixie Treichel is a composer, sound artist, theatrical sound designer and radio broadcaster. She is a sonic explorer who likes creating with any and all sounds.
Dixie creates experimental sound art, radio art, audio documentaries, field recordings, acousmatic and electro-acoustic music. She also works with artists in multidisciplinary fields and performs experimental music. Her compositions and sound art have been heard internationally on radio, in art galleries, experimental sound art festivals, new music concerts, theaters and streaming festivals. She is based in Minneapolis, MN, USA.
https://soundcloud.com/dixie-treichel
Reflets-Vibrations (Reflections-vibrations) is the story of a musical development of these two words. Reflets, the first part, is a premonition of what is to come: the sounds of the second part are reused in a much more softer and hidden way. The later part (Vibrations), by contrast, is full of a percussive energy. A danced version of this piece also exists.
Gaël Tissot studied musicology and composition in Toulouse, before being admitted to the composition class of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Lyon. Since 2011, he is a member of the artistic collective éOle in Toulouse (France). He is the author of several international musicological publications. Gaël Tissot was awarded several prizes: Mauricio Kagel 2012 (Vienna) 2nd Prize, Prix résidence 2008 at the Concours international de musique et d’art sonore électroacoustiques de Bourges, etc. His music is played in France as well as in other countries: ISCM World Music Days 2016, Nuits bleues, Tage für neue Musik (Darmstadt), festival Occitània (Toulouse), University of Cologne…
http://www.gael-tissot.com/
This is a sound piece made up of sounds from my own library. My goal with the piece is to make a landscape for metaphysical thinking. The title is from an evangelical christian YouTube video. The piece is a small protest against metaphysics and God being reduced to politics and materialistic greed.
Bjørn Hatterud (born 1977) is a Norwegian sound artist, art curator, critic and writer. He has released music in more than 15 countries, and worked with artists like Maja Ratkje, Conrad Schnitzler and Lasse Marhaug. He is an independent art curator, and art critic. His writing on contemporary art, music, sexuality and working class culture has been printed in most Norwegian news papers and cultural journals. Hatterud lives and works in Oslo, Norway.
In a room above a pub, ‘something in parts’ attempts to root narrative in ideas of displacement, storytelling and to rejoin at once disparate but connected parts. The narrative folds and unfolds itself as objects, places and people are assembled and reassembled. Highly descriptive images of locations and rooms attempt to place the audience in the specifics of place both rooting and un-rooting the listener in their current location. The audience is taken into different spaces through layers which appear to be at once fictional and factual.
Bláithín Mac Donnell’s practice explores the relationship between place, person, narrative and fact. Storytelling is used as a way to ground an intangible image and relocate it in the now. The act of storytelling is performed and intertwines with the idea of image making itself so that the narrative becomes images in the mind. The viewer faced with a one person narrative is forced to call upon their own visual realm and remake the image within their own mind so that the space in which the story is told becomes the image. Bláithín completed her BA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, her MA at The Royal College of Art. Recent performances include The Function Room a gallery above a pub, Tate Modern, a former nucleur bunker in Whitechapel and live on radio for Echo, KtoK fm. Most recently she has presented text pieces at ASP Glasgow.
http://www.blaithinmacdonnell.com
http://cargocollective.com/blaithinmacdonnell
https://soundcloud.com/blaithinmacdonnell
‘The Jay”
He once shot a bluejay through the eye, with a ray from the sun
Turned off he opened his head to the sky, and laughed at the god’s almanac
My how I remember that day, in the moon’s great equilibrium;
forests were at every door
and I’d walk out to the darkening ship.
Days tallied on, to the months and to the years
before long, he would bait the jay
and look to it’s eye
shifting in the lilting sun.
Moons would appear, dancing through the neptune blue fields
once again, praying for something more,
for the ire of the night sake was too black.
Found sound, not field recordings. An audio diary of the images, instruments, and nuances of daily life.
I have been active in the avant garde music community in Michigan, USA for over a decade, as a solo artist and a part of many collectives, releasing numerous recorded works through many different formats and performing on a regular basis across a diverse set of gallery spaces/venues. Over the past year I have been focusing solely on recording a work titled: ‘Music in the Moon Beam,’ which is an audio diary that began the winter of 2017 and will end the spring of 2018. The audio work will be accompanied by a dream diary compiled over the course of the same time.
What interests me is recorded music as sound work, to be absorbed across multiple formats and in diverse environments, not restricted to any contemporary preconceptions of audio consumption.
Works composed primarily with voice, guitar, m
World Travels within One's Mind - Jemnastique
The track starts with a field recording of my university campus a few days before the fall semester started. Then it goes into a recording of the main square in Krakow, Poland I made while visiting family over the summer, Finally I go back to the recording I started with. I added sound that I thought could compliment these recording: nature sounds at the beginning since the university recording is somewhat quiet, busier sounds in the middle, and a soft end. This track represents all the sounds of our world mixing together to create each person’s individual soundscape.
My name is Daniel Jemiolo. My artist name is Jemnastique. I am in the early stages of my music making journey. I make music using field recordings. The field recordings that I use are a combination of personal recordings and ones found on freesound.org. When I make my music, I have a basic idea that I want to try out. I improvise with idea and see what comes out. I only use effects on the sound if I believe that it will enhance the project in some way. In the future I plan to added more produced sounds using the techniques I learn in my computer music classes.
Catastrophe - Astor
10th November 2017 @ 9:40 am - 10:00 am
Assembled from phone recordings made in London and Stockholm throughout summer 2015. Commissioned by ‘Ears Have Ears’ FBi Radio, Sydney, Australia. First aired Oct 2015. Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Astor is the moniker of Mark Harwood, Australian publisher, event curator and sound artist who is now residing in London, United Kingdom. Under this guise he deploys a wide variety of techniques including field recording, musique concrete and electronics. All of these forms are approached with a sense of bypassing the cliches embedded within in order to coerce a sound world which is simultaneously contemporary, foreign, intense, beautiful, unsettling and engaging. Mark has released 2 acclaimed LP’s on Kye (USA) with his third, Lina in Nida on his own Penultimate Press imprint.
different time different place different pitch:Welcome to the Jungle - Dani Gal & Achim Lengerer
10th November 2017 @ 10:00 am - 10:45 am
Freedom Rock was used as a weapon in the U.S. invasion of Panama at the end of
1989 in what was a test case for American wars to come. With Peter Eisner
(Washington Post).
A series of radio programs By Dani Gal and Achim Lengerer. Originally commissioned by Documenta 14
i think we have something in common - Alexander Martinz
“i think we have something in common” is a modular multimedia work examplifying the transformation and extension of a given structure through a feedback system. It is an ongoing project that isolates intimate parts of the human body and recomposes them digitally. The audiovisual results get published at: https://de.xhamster.com/user/trypophile where they become part of the pornographic maelstrom. The necessary profile, its avatar, the comments and interactions are a vital, ever-developing part of the project. They shed light on certain forms of discourse, the codes of the text and the zoning of the system. The audioversion of the project focuses on three characters of the project and situates them in a drone environment.
Alexander Martinz, born 1979 in Klagenfurt, studied Electroacoustic Composition and Transmedia Art. He teaches at the University of Applied Arts, lives and works as a composer and media artist in Vienna, is the voice of Captain Knife and the bassist of Running Fetus. He is interested in the different logics and traditions of audiovisual media as well as in their correlations. Complex transformations of popcultural material can be considered a foundation of his work.
admartinz.tumblr.com
Is It Worth It? - Allan Whyte and Louise Wilson
‘Is It Worth It? is a new sound piece which aims to draw attention to the vacuous political rhetoric encompassing modern day environmental issues. By manipulating political speech, distorting natural sounds and creating new synthesised instruments, the work deals with threats facing the environment, the lack of political will to make change and media’s acceptance of mistruths. The effects of climate breakdown, which include erratic seasonal patterns and increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide, have been proven to alter breeding and migrational behaviours of birds, cause bleaching and destruction of coral reefs, and pollute our water and air. This reality has been borne out of an economic structure which exploits finite natural resources in search of unsustainable capital gain.’
This is a collaboration between Allan Whyte and Louise Wilson. Both graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in Zoology. Allan worked for a nearly six years in environmental policy before leaving to pursue a career in the arts. He has recently received a masters degree from Glasgow School of Art in Sound for the Moving Image. Louise moved to the Netherlands to do a short course in sound art and field recording at the Institute of Sonology in the Hague, before commencing a Masters degree in Ecology at Glasgow, from which she will graduate this November. Her research focused on the use of underwater sound as a tool for assessing the health of rivers
The Buffer Zone
10th November 2017 @ 11:30 am - 12:00 pm
(1) Hagai Izenberg – Chronicles 5
(2) Pytchblend – Breathless
(3) Helen Tookey and Martin Heslop – Glasshouse
(4) Neil Bickerton – Talk To The Engineers and Architects
(5) Mikromedas – OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb_01
(6) Jamie Livingstone – A New Start with Old Beginnings
NM,SK - Sisters Akousmatica
10th November 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Julia Drouhin and Phillipa Stafford, as Sisters Akousmatica, investigate mysterious radio broadcasts known as “the Silent Key”.
Radio: drag the dial across frequencies at any given time, any given place and you will hear a cacophony of sounds. Static, pops and crackles, whistles, the tap, tap tap of the world and the universe going about its electromagnetic business. In between those sounds are stations: broadcasts that are music, news, chatter, cryptic messages and espionage. Stretching out around the world in a network of terrestrial communication, bouncing off the heaviside and landing back again to be collected by radio-listeners – in cars and in kitchens. Sisters Akousmatica are always listening – seeking out the strange broadcasts destined for…? Well, who knows. NM, SK begins to examine some of the recordings they have made in their quest to research “the silent key” – a series of broadcast messages that they discovered in the winter of 2017.
Pip Stafford and Julia Drouhin create curatorial and written international projects concerning collective radio practices, auditory-spatial exploration and the intersection of gender and emergent art forms, to support, promote and cultivate women’s voices in public space. Focusing on the concept of akousma – sound removed from its source – their projects provide a space to examine the possibilities of invisible and ephemeral radiophonic world. They were the recipients of 2016 Next Wave Festival’s Emerging Curator Program presenting Sisters Akousmatica, a women street radio acousmonium with 8 sound artists performing and 2 curators walking for 7 hours in 7 public spaces in Melbourne, in partnership with Liquid Architecture, Signal, 3CR and The Channel.
Sisters Akousmatica has since become an artistic and curatorial umbrella, awarded by the Arts Tasmania’s Artist Investment Program 2016 to produce a retreat for women sound artists, provide workshops (crystal radio and FM transmitter building) and develop new work. Pip and Julia perform as well as an improvised duo Super Occult Cosmophon using radios as instruments, amplified mineral samples, lovingly re-kindled transistor parts and looped sources in acts of sound divination and occult listening to conjure delicate spirit noises and unleash domestic imps. In 2018 Sisters Akousmatica will present XYL as part of Mona Foma in Tasmania.
http://www.thesilentkey.com/
http://www.sistersakousmatica.org
Supported by Creative Scotland and Outset
Boblo Island Redux - Andrew O'Connor
10th November 2017 @ 12:30 pm - 1:00 pm
Boblo Island Redux is a collage of sounds, texts, and music from the larger work of theater called BOBLO. The piece explores the incredible of history of Boblo Island, once home to a grand amusement park that now lies in ruins this small piece of land in Detroit River was once a stop on the underground railroad, used for rum running during prohibition and now home to luxury condos. Boblo Island Redux explores these resonating histories, and the traces of memory left behind. Text by Erin Brandenburg, music by Andrew Penner.
Andrew O’Connor independent radio producer, and sound artist based in Toronto. His work reflects an interest in sound, storytelling, and transmission, and explores these ideas through formal broadcast radio as well as installation art, sound design, and pirate radio. Andrew’s work has been featured across the CBC Radio network, syndicated internationally and was most recently presented at the UK International Radio Drama Festival. He currently hosts and produces a weekly pirate radio show called Disco 3000 on his own low watt FM station Parkdale Pirate Radio.
10th November 2017 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
1. Slugs of Eternity – Yugamorph
2. Radio Noise Duo – Antennas instead of roots
3. Vincent Eoppolo – Virtual Pleasures 1
4. Vile Plumage – Daphne and The Baron are Stranded at the Station: Episode 1
5. Marcelo Armani – Bill Dá-U-Oh
6. Patrick Blake – Piatti
7. Lia Mazzari – Vigiljoch, Chairlift & Whip
“Yugamorph” Released by the “Cian Orbe” netlabel
Our names “horridus” and “David M Paganin”
“horridus”, the driving force behind “devilsclub”, is based in Cascadia, Oregon, USA. horridus has anonymously created experimental electronic music since 2012, although his musical experimentations date back far earlier. Sounds of unbridled complexity emerge from his Hordijk modular system. He distances himself from boring rules, censorship, servitude to money, and the illusion of selling art.
“David M. Paganin” is from West Footscray, Victoria, Australia. The expressive musical themes that interest him relate to human freedom in a post-modern world. Such themes include alienation, psychological repression, the existential vacuum, obsession, rage, absurdity, mourning, regret, neurosis, depression, death and the concept of self. All sounds are intended to be ultimately uplifting, affirmations of human vitality and spirit.
The track is a result of searching for sound structures based mainly on radio noise. The combination of several analogue radios let us produce interference which is controlled by additional devices. The idea is based on searching for various dependence between real-time radio noise and its connections to space, so it becomes a resonator which affects the track sound each time it’s performing.
Radio Noise Duo (Tomasz Misiak and Marcin Olejniczak from Poland) looking for inspiration in electricity, radio noise and amplified everyday objects. Earlier the musicians were associated with groups like kalEka (Misiak) or Monopium (Olejniczak), but they also had some solo projects. Radio Noise Duo is a part of Radio Noise Orchestra- still continuing initiative focused on radio noise in various artistic activities.
Contact via e-mail:
Tomasz Misiak (misiak_76@tlen.pl);
Marcin Olejniczak (marcinolejniczak@onet.eu )
I view my works as a synthesis of various sound art traditions including musique concrete, acousmatic music and radio art.
In my work I strive to present brief moments of the world we are living in. Society in the continuing process of realizing itself. Our relationship with each other, with technology, our morality, spirituality, sexuality, our anxieties and fears. In many ways my works are like sociological and psychological commentaries. My work has been featured on Bernard Clarke’s program Nova on RTE’s Lyric FM, Phaune Radio from Montpellier, France as well as Radio Art International on CHOQ Radio in Montreal. My works were recently presented at the 2017 New York City Electro-Acoustic Music Festival.
https://soundcloud.com/societys-realization
“Daphne and The Barron are Stranded at the Station” is the first episode of a soap. A melodrama. A voyage to the depths. The murk. Drug cults. Inter-dimensional beings. Demonic possession. The dark movements of a Parish Council. Grim business in a market town.
Vile Plumage’ is a collective consisting of Duke Burnett and Peter ‘Bunny’ Cropwell , with occasional input from the ‘Burselm Community Radio Players’.
Our primary focus is the ‘reality oscillation’ – there are no straight lines or static points. Strange myths and urban banality exist at precisely the same co-ordinates. The crowd. You think you recognise those faces… but most of them are doppelgangers. We live in an area called The Burselm. Every Sunday we trudge around the streets, sometimes sheltering in Bingo Hall doorways. Always with the record button pushed firmly down. Sound is transferred directly, MAGICALLY to tape. We butter these recordings with paranormal research. Strictly local. Strictly. These sounds are bashed and boiled into radio shapes. Melodrama. Soap opera. Pulp.
https://www.facebook.com/BurselmCryptRecordings/
Bill Dá-U-Oh is one of the four pieces that integrate the sound installation Concerto Diplomático #0917 (Diplomatic Concert), which was shown between September and November at Adelina Galery, São Paulo, Brazil. This piece is composed of the appropriation of fragments extracted from the youtube channel of Donald Trump’s political campaign speeches in which he talks about the construction of the wall on the US-Mexico border. To these fragments, are incorporated sounds and noises recorded by the own artist during a performance that consisted of breaking a wooden wall of 8m of length with blows of ax.
Marcelo Armani (Carlos Barbosa, 1978) is a sound artist, improv musician and electroacoustic producer. He has recorded recordings in Latin America and is currently represented by label Luscinia Discos, Granada, Spain and Adelina Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil. It is projected in the field of visual arts from 2011, participating in shows with a sound installations projects and artistic residencies by countries of Latin America, Europe, Africa and the United States. He currently lives and works in Canoas, RS, where he also works in sound production for film and video art.
http://marceloarmani.weebly.com
http://elefantebranco.weebly.com
An acousmatic piece composed in November of 2015. The piece explores granular sound worlds within conventional musical instruments. Constructed out of recordings of cymbals and electric guitar, transformed and re-purposed, the sounds are layered with field recordings and synthesised tones. Recognisable and familiar sounds can be heard amongst the layers of the piece, developing into distorted and alien sounds.
Patrick Blake is a student at the University of Glasgow, currently pursuing a Masters degree in Electronics with Music. During his studies, within and without the University, he has explored various arenas of experimental music – from jazz and leftfield pop to electro-acoustic performance and composition. His main musical output can be heard with the bands Neuro Trash and Expert Group, both of which have new material to be released online this year.
https://soundcloud.com/expertgroup
https://soundcloud.com/neuro-trash
Vigiljoch: Chairlift and Whip is the outcome of two field recordings taken in the Italian Alps in August 2017. It is the first document of her research into whip cracking.
Lia Mazzari is a musician, producer and translator based in London. Her work involves live performance and recorded material using field recordings, cello, whip and text. Her event series Silver Road reinforces interdisciplinary experiments in sound and vision and was based in a steel water tank in South-East London until March 2017.
Review Show - Alasdair Fisher
Much modern art, music, theatre, tv, film, literature and radio is marked by a certain slickness, competence and professionalism I often dislike and masks deeper failings. Due to the availability of software and digital recording equipment it is hard to avoid the temptation to achieve this. I wanted to do something marked by a lack of this. Following Borges, Carlyle etc I did this in the form of a review show of imaginary works of varying quality done as much as possible in one take using no software.
Alasdair Fisher is a writer and actor from Glasgow. He has contributed regularly to Lights Out Listening Group events. He appeared on the recent Noise Against Racism compilation under the name Slave Diet.
Twitter: @alasdair_fisher
Soundcloud: Alasdair Fisher
Prayer for a Soundsystem - Ollie Hawker live in the studio
‘When all else fails: pray. Father, we ask in the name of Jesus that, uh, your spirit would,
uh, break through this confusion, Lord, and you would give, uh, wisdom Lord. We ask that
you would heal this soundsystem. We just ask that you would just provide a clarity, Lord,
so that we can hear what we need to hear in the name of Jesus.’
A prayer of healing and of thanks for the instruments of reproduction.
Ollie Hawker recently graduated from the University of Glasgow with an MA in Music,
where he focused on sonic arts and contemporary composition. His work attempts to
combine ‘doggedly determined’ process-based composition with live improvisation.
Radiaphiles: Radio Campus Paris
Here we speak to DinahBird, Nicolas Horber and Julia Drouhin of Radio Campus Paris in France.
Half of the World - Leonie Roessler
All the field recording material was made in Isfahan in February of 2016. I was there teaching field recording and playing a concert as part of Limited Access Festival 6, and used all of my spare time to capture the sounds at the old bazaar and some other places.
The text is a famous poem about Isfahan by Mohammad-Taqi Bahar.
Male voice: Siamak Anvari
Female voice: mine
Leonie Roessler is a composer, sound artist, and performer currently based in The Hague (Netherlands). She holds a master degree in composition from the Royal Conservatory and studied at the Institute of Sonology. In recent years Leonie’s focus has been on field recording. She uses the material to create installation and radio works, as well as backdrops for acoustic music.
leonieroessler.com
The Brain Garden - Stuart Russell
The Brain Garden is a poetic sanctuary within all of our minds. It is the place
we collect and cultivate memories, experiences and try to understand life. Delve
deep into thought as Stuart Russell explores his own internal landscape.
Warning: This programme includes sensitive subjects that listeners may find
distressing. Produced by Stuart Russell with Eyebrow Media.
Stuart Russell is an award winning artist and audio producer, passionate about
creative media. Stuart combines his artistic eye and flair for poetry with
programme making, to create work that excites and inspires the creative mind.
His work features on a variety of platforms including Resonance FM and (in the
past) BBC Scotland. At 22, he was one of the youngest in the country to receive
a British Empire Medal for services to the arts, one of many impressive
accolades.
http://www.eyebrowmedia.com
Sounds Like Scotland - National Library of Scotland
What does Scotland sound like? We have delved into our archives across Scotland to give you a flavour of recordings from our past. These tell a unique story about Scotland, listening in to our environment and to our people. We are grateful to the following organisations for providing audio for the programme: Inverness Museum & Art Gallery, Am Baile, University of Dundee Archive Services, the School of Scottish Studies Archives at the University of Edinburgh, the Elphinstone Institute at the University of Aberdeen, Special Collections at the University of Aberdeen, Vanishing Scotland, Ness Historical Society, Scottish Music Centre, National Library of Scotland, Raretunes, the Scottish Working People’s History Trust, The National Trust for Scotland’s Canna Collection, OurStory Scotland, West Lothian Archives, the University of Stirling and Scottish Borders Archives.
Scotland’s Sounds is a collaborative network of over 100 organisations and individuals who look after sound collections across Scotland. Together we aim to improve the care of the collections, ensuring they are kept audible for future generations, and to share Scotland’s rich sound heritage more widely. Sounds Like Scotland was created as part of the Connecting Scotland’s Sounds project (2016-2017), which was funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and hosted by the National Library of Scotland. This project involved a series of knowledge exchange events about how to manage sound collections, and partnership events for public audiences across Scotland encouraging people to listen to, share, research and re-use sound recordings.
http://www.scotlandssounds.org
LENGHEDIVACJE Ep.3 - Renato Rinaldi
Ten stories for the radio – Five collected stories elaborated into five sound tales
Project by Renato Rinaldi Production and organisation by Hybrida Pieces by Slavek Kwi – Eric la casa – Antje Vowinckel – Ward Weis – Giuseppe Ielasi Funded by Arlef / Agjenzie Regjonâl pe Lenghe Furlane Aired by Frioulian local Radio Onde Furlane
Language is a sound, before being a meaning, and it’s the first human element in a soundscape. The stories have then been selectet according to the ability of the teller in using the language in a dramatic way more than for the stories themselves. For each story we have commissioned a music piece in which the recorded tale had to be the core of the composition. Such transformation could only be possible in the hands of people who doesn’t have access to the meaning of the words. That is why we have chosen musicians the furthest away possible from Friulian geography, culture and language so as to have them relate with a new, as far as this is possible today, sound context.
The Friulian language is a mosaic of units, more often micro-units, territorial, each one with its own linguistic nuances and peculiar sound. The development of such peculiarities is the result of a long and continuous exchange with the environment, which each community entertains while setting its roots in a certain area. Language is a sound, before being a meaning, and it’s the first human element in a soundscape. The project Lenghedivacje endeavours at bringing out the sound of the Friulian language, throughout the collection of recorded material concerning historical or personal events. The stories have then been selected according to the ability of the teller in using the language in a dramatic way more than for the stories themselves. The events told are of course significant also as testimony but are especially extraordinary for the way in which they are “spoken” because they are unique and unique is the language they are using. Inside these stories there is a rich musical potential but in order to bring it out we have pushed the language over the wall of sense. For each story we have commissioned a music piece in which the recorded tale had to be the core of the composition. Such transformation could only be possible in the hands of people who could appreciate exclusively the sound of the language thus deprived of its dramatic element linked to sense. That is why we have chosen musicians the furthest away possible from Friulian geography, culture and language so as to have them relate with a new, as far as this is possible today, sound context. The composers selected for this task are people who routinely work with the sound of language and who use the radio as a means of expression investigating its communication possibilities. Each one of them was asked to work on a music composition starting exclusively form the recorded material assigned to them. The result is a series of compositions created from the phonemes (sound bits) of the Friulian language though enjoyable also away from its understanding.
Collected tales
3a – Ermes Pellizzari – Interview collected in Preone (UD)
He tells his account of the earthquake in september 1976 when he was woken up by a tremour and was then rescued by his dog.
Elaborated into 3b – Linguamoto by Antje Vowinckel – (Germany)
When I listened to the text I didn’t understand anything in the beginning. After two or three times of listening I understood some basic Italian words and I got a hint on the general issue of the recording. But felt helpless and wanted to make a completely abstract musical piece by fragmentizing all the speech. But that would also mean to destroy the characteristic expression of the language. And I wanted to keep it! So I decided to keep single words or phrases that seemed to be somehow dramaturgical keywords or phrases to the narration. And instead of manipulating the language I started to feature these keywords by isolating them, I wanted to free certain words that have a particular melody or human expression from its less significant surrounding. So I only kept single words with lots of breaks that evoke a rythm and emphasize their melodical potential. After introducing the material in this way and show its melodical side I felt able to add melodical material that stams all from pitching a single “huu”. Now even longer phrases can be heard as musical material and are integrated in a general musical concept. I tried to emphasize the musical charasteristics of the Friul language but also tried to destillate and keep dramaturgic turning points of the original story. I found that the concept shows parallels to Manga aesthetic where you have fragments of phrases that are blown up, isolated from the story and integrated in a visual design.
Renato Rinaldi studied acting, composition and electronic music. He has worked extensively in theater, first as an actor and then as a sound artist. As a musician he has composed music for theatre, radio plays and documentaries, video and sound installations. He is interested in composition applied to the relationship between sound /environment. He has also produced radio plays, documentaries and radio reportages, aired by Radio RAI and Radio France. The title literally means cow tongue but it refers to a edible plant: Rumex patientia, known as patience dock, “garden patience”, “herb patience”, or “monk’s rhubarb”, is a herbaceous perennial plant species of the genus Rumex, belonging to the family Polygonaceae. In spring it is often consumed as a leaf vegetable in Southern Europe.
(1) Sabina Van Der Linden – Touch
(2) Paco Dvoi – Children of a Higher Purpose
(3) Vincent Eoppolo – The Primordial Artist
(4) Mark Vernon – Too Old To Dream
(5) Chandeliers – Walk With A Purpose
(6) Edinburgh Leisure – Scorpio Leisure
Pip Stafford and Julia Drouhin create curatorial and written international projects concerning collective radio practices, auditory-spatial exploration and the intersection of gender and emergent art forms, to support, promote and cultivate women’s voices in public space.
Focusing on the concept of akousma – sound removed from its source – their projects provide a space to examine the possibilities of invisible and ephemeral radiophonic world.
They were the recipients of 2016 Next Wave Festival’s Emerging Curator Program presenting Sisters Akousmatica, a women street radio acousmonium with 8 sound artists performing and 2 curators walking for 7 hours in 7 public spaces in Melbourne, in partnership with Liquid Architecture, Signal, 3CR and The Channel.
Sisters Akousmatica has since become an artistic and curatorial umbrella, awarded by the Arts Tasmania’s Artist Investment Program 2016 to produce a retreat for women sound artists, provide workshops (crystal radio and FM transmitter building) and develop new work.
Pip and Julia perform as well as an improvised duo Super Occult Cosmophon using radios as instruments, amplified mineral samples, lovingly re-kindled transistor parts and looped sources in acts of sound divination and occult listening to conjure delicate spirit noises and unleash domestic imps.
In 2018 Sisters Akousmatica will present XYL as part of Mona Foma in Tasmania.
Giallo - ETC
In English-speaking countries, the term “giallo” often refers to the Italian film genre, a particular style of Italian-produced murder mistery thriller-horror film that usually blends the atmosphere and suspense of thriller fiction with elements of horror fiction and erotocism.
The genre developed in the mid-to-late 1960s, peaked in popularity during the 1970s, and subsequently declined over the next few decades. It has been considered to be a predecessor to, and significant influence on, the later American slsher film genre.
The word “Giallo” is Italian for “yellow” The term was derived from a series of cheap paperback mystery novels, popular in post-fascist Italy, which were published with yellow covers.
The ETC project combining electro-acoustic experiments and synthetic modulations.
Soft noise, the collateral effect of an urban environment on individuals from a post-industrial society or as many opportunities to transcribe the unspeakable to the sound plane, et cetera et cetera, the worst remains to come … ETC has toured in Europe, China cetera et cetera
ETC //// Anthony Carcone (bass), Jacques Foschia (radio waves), Harold Schellinx (Korg MS20)
“Atmospheres! Dark, rich atmospheres that quickly sculpt themselves into vast nocturnal worlds so vivid you can see them as you listen”. Guy Maddin
Uhren - Gregory Kramer
Uhren is an album of twelve, individually composed, five-minute clocks, totaling one hour. Using field recordings, found sounds, instruments and an alphabet to percussion converter, each piece references time in content or structure. Some of the sonic materials used include recordings of a prehistoric, winter solstice-measuring monument, a mnemonic device for remembering the number of days in months, two cemeteries, an exhibit of extinct animals, a diner at lunchtime and the first five minutes past midnight.
Gregory Kramer is a multidisciplinary artist working with sound and space. Taking inspiration from his archaeological curiosity of abandoned places and his interest in mythology, he searches for ghosts among the ruins and seeks to unearth evidence of forgotten histories through sound. His sound work uses field recordings, found materials, electronics, instruments and radio transmissions. His work was featured in the Sonom International Sound Art Festival, and he recently composed for a dance piece performed at the Setia Darma Museum of Masks and Puppetry in Bali. He has album releases on Impulsive Habitat and International Winners.
http://gregorykramerstudio.com/
Wondering Soul -Alexander Storey & Gordon Richy Carey
A live-to-air performance from CCA Glasgow. Tickets are free from CCA box office.
http://cca-glasgow.com/programme/radiophenia2017
Wondering Soul explores radio broadcasting materially through live performance, looking at alternative forms of how audio is broadcasted or made public as well investigating the fringes of radio, its liveness, glitches, and ghostly interferences. This exploration or experimentation forms the backdrop to an investigation of sonic phenomena on the edge of human perception which are often characterised in the human mind as supernatural, weird or the eerie. In particular we are focusing on the ghost and the algorithm as similar forms who’s histories might inform an understanding of each other, telling a wider story of broadcast technology and human intimacy.
Alexander Storey Gordon makes drawings, film, text, performative and event based works that articulate the tensions between our bodies, our environment, and others. Crucially, looking at the way these agitations both in the social body and the individual mind are mediated and played back to us through the structures of film and literature.
He graduated with a degree in Printmaking from Grays School of Art in 2010 and has since exhibited widely both within the UK and Internationally. recent exhibitions have included A Apoheny, Intermedia Gallery, CCA, Glasgow, (solo) 2017; Suppose there is A, ICA Singapore (group) 2017; A P A R I Ç Ã O, Phosphorus, Sao Paulo (solo) 2015; and Be Vigilant Dear Friends, Because You Never Know When Your Going To Have Your Eyes Gouged Out, Glasgow Project Rooms 2014 (solo).
Richy Carey is a sound artist and composer. Broadly speaking, his work looks about the way we listen to film, thinking about what the sound of an object or material is, not the sound it makes. He’s currently doing AHRC funded PhD research into the relationship between materiality, language and film sound at Glasgow University.
Recent works and collaborations include Sonorous Objects, with Lauren Gault and Mark Bleakley, Memo to Spring, for Sarah Rose (Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 2017), Special Works School, with Bambitchell (Gallery TPW, Toronto, 2017), Forms of Action for Asunción Motions Gordo (CCA Glasgow. 2017), “You’re saying exactly how I feel” with Tom Walker (TAP Gallery, 2016), There’s something happening somewhere, with Carrie Skinner (Tron Theatre, Glasgow, 2016) and INCONGRUOUS DIVA for Cara Tolmie and Will Holder (British Art Show, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, 2016).
Music and the Shadow People - Andrew O'Connor
10th November 2017 @ 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Music and the Shadow People is a feature length radio play adapted from a text of the same name by composer William Parker. The radio version was produced by Andrew O’Connor for KunstRadio in Austria. The story takes place in a world that is for the most part ruled, dominated, and being destroyed by HE, a world built on lies, a world out of sync with the realities of the universe. It centers around two main characters Stockyman a revolutionary and wanted man, and Johnson Wordless a conscripted soldier in HIS army, as they both seek passage to the “Tone World”.
Pneuma:A Radio Opera in Eight Parts - Daniel Steffey
An opera for radio broadcast, completed/premiered while in residency at WGXC/Wave Farm in upstate New York. The audio material is instrumental and electronic parts taken from live performances and treated/manipulated at various transmission points at Wave Farm.
Christina Stanley – voice
Kelli Rowe – Libretto
1. Overture in AM/FM
2. Phase One – The Introduction of One’s Self
3. Interpolation in the AM Band
4. Phase Two – The Duality of [super]EGO
5. Interpolation in the FM Band
6. Aria for Solo Voice and AM Transmitter
7. Interpolation in the Spectral Band
8. Phase Three – The Disintegration of I
A thin veneer of fake brick cladding and the bitter sensation of loss (2nd) - James Torrance
10th November 2017 @ 11:40 pm - 12:00 am
A specially re-recording version for Radiophrenia of a live hörspiele work performed at Apologies In Advance #7 (V22 Louise House, Forest Hill) on 19th August 2017. A third and final iteration of the piece is being exhibited as a sound installation at the Angus-Hughes gallery in Hackney throughout November.
James Torrance is an audio engineer and occasional radio producer, often found dabbling in the more confused corners of sound art and non-music. He has spent a number of years documenting sounds from London’s modernist housing estates and regularly collaborates with artists and film-makers. Amongst other meanderings, his current solo work presents a bricolage of found sound, phonography and hörspiele oddities.
http://www.soundcloud.com/jamest
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Interview with Alice Eve
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It literally took me all day to read the three scripts… so from the off I was hooked.
How would you describe Gwenda?
The first word that springs to mind to describe Gwenda is ‘desperate’, I don’t think Gwenda is desperate herself but she is in desperate circumstances. It might be ruthless to think that she wouldn’t find love. I don’t know how tough the times were in the 50s but from what I’ve seen, read and heard it was a different time for women so maybe this was her only chance and if it is her only chance then it’s not an ideal situation.
What really drew you to taking on this role?
I respected Sarah from the outset because it literally took me all day to read the three scripts, as there was so much detail in the stage directions. So from the off I was hooked. In the last scene there was a comedic element to Gwenda’s tragedy that was exactly to my taste. What line am I walking ‘am I a joke or am I tragic?’.
What is Gwenda’s relationship like with Rachel?
Rachel is the boss originally, a tough taskmaster and from a very privileged position and doesn’t identify with Gwenda, who is from a lower class than Rachel. Rachel looks down on Gwenda, is quite disdainful of her and maybe thinks she’s common but Gwenda doesn’t give a toss and says, “I’m going to have your husband and she does.” She gets her man but only through a series of quite severe events.
Does she genuinely have feelings for Leo?
She absolutely loves Leo. I think it is a genuine love affair between them because there are so many hurdles along the way. Gwenda is a complete human I couldn’t see a way in which this could work if she didn’t love the man. Certainly having all the stepchildren she is set to have (and none of them like her), she couldn’t enter into that relationship based on anything other than love.
What is her relationship like with Leo’s adopted children?
She definitely likes Tina and they’ve not had any difficult interactions; nor has she had any challenging interactions with Mickey so there’s no history there to worry about but Mary hates her. In that respect she has to deal with Mary but I don’t think it really matters to Gwenda – it’s just irksome. Hester is young and there’s indifference there as well, but there’s a jealousy from everyone because Leo’s such a magnanimous creature who has so much power and is the keeper of the love in the family. In that respect there’s a difficulty for anyone joining a family where there is an established way of doing things and children involved so it is particularly difficult for Gwenda.
What is Gwenda’s reaction to Arthur Calgary’s arrival?
When he first arrives she thinks he is there to help with the wedding, which is quite a funny scene. Then for Gwenda it becomes so much less about Arthur and what he is there to tell them than it is about her impending wedding which his presence can potentially ruin. It becomes very alarming and dangerous for her. He is an obstacle to be removed. He is also odd which jars with Gwenda who is very straight down the line in her life. She is a practical woman who sees Calgary as a very complicated character and she wants Leo to listen to her opinions of him.
What is it like to work with Bill Nighy and what does he bring to the character of Leo?
Bill brings everything to the role, he is a real charmer and as an elegant man himself he brought elegance to Leo.
Describe the era as reflected in the costumes you wear and how it helps you build the character?
Trisha (Biggar) has put such care and attention into the detail of the costumes. That period is such fun for me to play because I’m curvy. So she really fitted everything to my frame, which was incredibly helpful because I really wanted to have a relationship with the costumes and wear them as much as they wear you. I had a bikini scene that was such fun and very colourful and certainly the bikinis in the 50s were far more flattering for a figure like mine than they are now; much less revealing. The costumes were a real highlight and delight for me. With regards to my makeup and hair look it was fun to be a red head, quite freeing. I’ve been dark and blond but never red which has an otherness that I really enjoyed and helped me become Gwenda. She’s a fiery creature so it all helps.
Was everything on the page already in Sarah’s script or did you have to do any additional research for the part?
I always start with the script in the first instance but the most important relationship I have is the one with the director (Sandra Goldbacher). I definitely got into very detailed conversations with Sandra about where Gwenda had been and how she ended up in a room like this with very little income and all of the back story that brings her to the place that she finds herself in now. That’s all part of putting the story together.
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Surgeons Require Additional Palliative Care Education
Healio (09/11/2018) Southall, Jennifer
A study published in Surgery suggests that physicians who do not undergo palliative care training appeared more prone to advising major surgical interventions for patients with advanced cancer. Researchers surveyed more than 100 surgeons and medical physicians who treat patients with late-stage cancerous tumors. Survey respondents with no palliative care training called for major operative interventions considerably more frequently compared with participants who had completed 40 hours or more of palliative care training. One in five of the surgeons said they had no training in palliative care.
According to the researchers, "These findings highlight the need for greater efforts systemwide in palliative care education among surgeons, including incorporation of a structured palliative care training curriculum in graduate and continuing surgical education." In an interview, study co-author Richard Bold, MD — chief of surgical oncology at UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center — observed: "All medical oncologists and medical intensivists had at least some training, including during residency and fellowships, as well as through CME. This gap in education among surgeons starts in residency but, unfortunately, it persists throughout their career."
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Community > Destination: Alpha Centauri
This day in tech: Apollo 14 returns to Earth - February 9, 1971
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Shepard back in space...
Alan B. Shepard Jr.
Edgar D. Mitchell
Lunar Module Pilot
Stuart A. Roosa
Command Module Pilot
Backup Crew
Eugene A. Cernan
Joe H. Engle
Ronald E. Evans
Kitty Hawk (CM-110)
Antares (LM-8)
Prelaunch Milestones
1/21/70 - S-IVB ondock at Kennedy
1/21/70 - S-II ondock at Kennedy
1/12/70 - S-IC ondock at Kennedy
5/6/70 - S-IU ondock at Kennedy
Jan. 31, 1971; 4:03 p.m. EDT
Launch Pad 39A
Saturn-V AS-509
High Bay 3
Mobile Launcher Platform-2
Firing Room 2
Altitude: 118.55 miles
Inclination: 31.12 degrees
Orbits: 34 revolutions
Duration: nine days, two minutes
Distance: 1,150,321 miles
Lunar Location: Fra Mauro
Lunar Coordinates: 3.65 degrees south, 17.48 degrees west
Recovery Ship: USS New Orleans
Apollo 14 launched at 4:03 p.m. EST. At approximately 3:41 p.m. ground elapsed time, or GET, difficulties were experienced in docking with the lunar module, or LM, and six attempts were required before a "hard dock" was achieved. An in-flight televised inspection of the docking mechanism revealed no apparent reason for the malfunction and the system appeared to be functioning normally.
Prior to the powered descent initiation, or PDI, for the Antares landing, a short in the LM computer abort switch was discovered, which could have triggered an undesired abort during the LM's descent. On Feb. 5, Antares made the most precise landing to date, approximately 87 feet from the targeted landing point. The landing point coordinates were 3 degrees, 40 minutes, 27 seconds south and 17 degrees, 27 minutes, 58 seconds west, midway between the Doublet and Triplet craters in the hilly uplands of the Fra Mauro crater, and about 110 miles east of the Apollo 12 landing site.
Due to communications system problems, the first period of extra vehicular activity, or EVA, began almost one hour later than scheduled with Commander Alan Shepard setting foot on the lunar surface at 114 hours, 31 minutes GET. The first of the two EVA periods included ALSEP deployment and lasted four hours, 49 minutes.
The second EVA on Feb. 6 began when the LM egress hatch was opened at 4:15 a.m. EST. During this EVA, Shepard and Edgar Mitchell moved more than half a mile from their LM, conducting selenological investigations, collecting samples and attempting to reach the rim of Cone crater, approximately 300 feet above the landing site. NASA personnel monitoring the EVA estimate that the two astronauts were within 50 to 75 meters of the crater rim when they were advised by mission control to collect samples at that spot and begin their traverse back to the LM. The second EVA lasted four hours, 35 minutes, resulting in a new mark for EVA time by a lunar landing crew: nine hours, 24 minutes. Shepard set a new distance-traveled record on the lunar surface of approximately 9,000 feet.
During the two traverses, the astronauts collected 94 pounds of rocks and soil for return to Earth. The samples were scheduled to go to 187 scientific teams in the United States, as well as 14 other countries for study and analysis.
Orbital science activities were conducted by Stuart Roosa during the lunar surface activities period. He experienced some difficulties with the high-resolution, motion-compensating Hycon Lunar Topographic Camera while attempting to photograph the Descartes area, the landing site planned for Apollo 16.
The liftoff of Antares from the lunar surface took place precisely on schedule. Rendezvous and docking occured only two minutes later than scheduled. The command module Kitty Hawk splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean at 4:05 p.m. EST Feb. 9, exactly nine days and two minutes after launch. The actual landing point was only 1.02 nautical miles off its targeted point of about 765 nautical miles south of Samoa, and four miles from the prime recovery ship, the USS New Orleans. The mission duration from liftoff to splashdown was 216 hours, two minutes.
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Posted on June 7, 2014 by Laura Rozen
US Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns and Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman will lead a US delegation to meet with Iranian nuclear negotiators in Geneva on June 9-10, US and Iranian officials said Saturday.
The bilateral meetings come as negotiators intensify efforts to see if they can reach a final nuclear accord by July 20, when a six month interim deal expires, or if they will need to extend the talks for another six months.
“We believe we need to engage in as much active diplomacy as we can to test whether we can reach a diplomatic solution with Iran on its nuclear program,” a senior U.S. administration official said Saturday, noting that the US-Iran consultations “come at an important juncture” of the negotiations, as the “talks are intensifying.”
The meetings are taking place “in the context of the intensified E3/EU+3 negotiating process,” and are coordinated by European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, her spokesman Michael Mann said Saturday. Ashton’s deputy, EU political director Helga Schmid will join the US Iran consultations in Geneva, he said, and other bilaterals will follow in the next days.
The US delegation will include, in addition to Burns and Sherman, Vice President Biden’s national security advisor Jake Sullivan, deputy US negotiator Amb. Brooke Amderson, senior arms control advisor Jim Timbie, and NSC senior Middle East advisor Rob Malley, among others, a State Department official told Al-Monitor.
Iran will hold separate meetings with Russian negotiators in Rome on June 11-12, Iran’s IRNA news agency reported Saturday.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Saturday announced that Iran would hold bilateral meetings at the deputy foreign minister level ahead of the next P5+1 Iran nuclear talks, due to be held in Vienna June 16-20.
Burns led a secret US diplomatic “back channel” to Iran last year that culminated in the signing of the interim nuclear deal, known as the Joint Plan of Action, in Geneva last November. Burns’ secret team included Sullivan as well as then NSC Persian Gulf advisor Puneet Talwar, now assistant secretary of state for political military affairs, who has been succeeded by Malley. Burns has announced he will retire in October. The EU’s Ashton, the lead international negotiator for the six world powers, is also due to finish her term in October, adding impetus to complete the negotiations by then.
Until now, the US and Iran have not pursued the bilateral channel to advance final deal talks this year, outside of meetings on the sidelines of the P5+1 Iran negotiations in Vienna, US and Iranian officials have said. Notably, unlike the secret US-Iran meetings held in Oman, Geneva and New York last year, the US-Iran meeting in Geneva Monday was announced by both sides.
US officials said Saturday it made sense to bring the bilateral channel negotiators involved in advancing the interim deal last fall into the discussions at this critical time.
“It’s natural for Bill and Jake to join the delegation for this meeting given their history of negotiating with Iran during the Joint Plan of Action talks,” the US official said, referring to Burns and Sullivan. “The elements now under discussion in our negotiations over a comprehensive solution were part of the JPOA. So it just makes sense.”
“If a deal is going to be possible by July 20, the Americans and Iranians have to get down to real, no-kidding bottom lines now, and then go back to the P5+1 with the broad outlines of the deal,” former top Pentagon Middle East advisor Colin Kahl told Al-Monitor Saturday. “These bilateral talks will probably determine whether a July 20 agreement is possible or whether we need to work out an extension.”
“The Iranians, in particular, need to come back with much more flexibility on enrichment, and the U.S. team will also need some creative ideas to address Iran’s ‘practical needs’ argument,” Kahl, now a professor at Georgetown University and senior fellow at the Center for New American Security (CNAS), said, referring to the amount of enrichment capacity Iran will need to fuel power reactors and produce medical isotopes.
Iran, in turn, is concerned about the pace of sanctions relief in a final deal, and has balked at a P5+1 proposal that would unwind sanctions on a phased, step by step basis, over as long as a decade or two. Iran also wants to limit the amount of time it would be required to submit to highly intrusive inspections and transparency measures that it fears could be abused by adversaries to snoop on its defense capabilities.
“The addition of Burns and Sullivan, who were essential to the success of behind-the-scenes diplomacy last year, and the bilateral nature of the talks suggests something may be up,” a former senior U.S. official told Al-Monitor Saturday.
“Together with recent news that [Iran Supreme Leader] Khameini is telling hardline critics to get in line behind Iran’s negotiating team, it seems to suggest that negotiations are entering a very serious phase,” the former American official said.
(Top photo of US Deputy Secretary of State Bill Burns in Wiesbadden in February, 2009 by Reuters. Second photo of US Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman and Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Geneva in November, 2013. Third photo: Secretary of State John Kerry, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, deputy Iranian negotiators Majid Ravanchi and Abbas Araghchi at a P5+1 Iran meeting at the United Nations in New York September 24, 2013.)
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Deal could double Iran breakout time: ex-US official
Posted on November 14, 2013 by Laura Rozen
Washington, D.C.__ A former senior Obama Administration official told the House Foreign Affairs Committee today that the deal proposed to Iran by the P5+1 countries in Geneva last weekend would “double Iran’s breakout time.”
“That means it would take Iran twice as long” to produce enough highly enriched uranium for a nuclear bomb, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East Colin Kahl told the committee. “That is meaningful. The deal puts firm restrictions on Iran building fuel assemblies for the Arak fuel reactor.” It would “increase the inspections regime. [It] serves US and Israeli interests.”
Kahl testified that under the deal presented by six world powers to Iran at the end of a three day meeting in Geneva last weekend, Iran would suspend 20% enrichment, neutralize its 20% stockpile, refrain from building fuel assemblies at the Arak reactor and from installing new centrifuges, allow more inspections of nuclear facilities, as well as restrict the growth of its 3.5% stockpile.
In return for Iran suspending those activities for 6 months as part of the first phase of a two-part deal, Iran would receive under $10 billion in sanctions relief, including on the auto, gold and petrochemical industries, and access to approximately $3 billion in hard currency assets frozen in banks abroad.
The sanctions relief envisaged in the first phase of the deal involves “nothing permanent if the Iranians reverse course,” Kahl, now associate professor at Georgetown University, said. “Nothing [in it] guts the oil and banking sanctions,” which would be subject to reaching a comprehensive agreement that the parties aim to negotiate during the six month first phase.
“The bigger risk is to escalate the sanctions at a sensitive moment of diplomacy and watch diplomacy careening off the cliff,” Kahl warned.
An Israeli official said Wednesday, however, that the Israeli government assessed that the measures proposed in the phase 1 deal would lengthen Iran’s breakout time by only a few weeks, and would potentially offer Iran many billions of dollars more in sanctions relief.
But an analysis by former weapons inspector David Albright shared with Kahl calculated that removing Iran’s 20% enriched uranium increases the amount of time it would take Iran to produce enough weapons grade uranium for one weapon from 1.3-2.3 months to 3.1-3.5 months, Kahl said.
The House Iran hearing came as the Obama administration mounted a full court press to lobby Congress against moving new Iran sanctions legislation now as negotiations with Iran make headway.
American, European and Iranian negotiators said significant progress was made at three days of talks in Geneva November 9-11th, but it would take at least another meeting to close an agreement. A new meeting between the P5+1 and Iran, at the political director level, is scheduled for next week, November 21-22.
Kerry, Vice President Joe Biden and Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met with members of the Senate Banking committee behind closed doors Wednesday to press for a delay in legislation under consideration by the panel to tighten loopholes in existing Iran sanctions.
Advocates of increasing the sanctions now say they would increase western negotiators’ leverage and keep psychological pressure on Iran’s leadership, as well as deter foreign companies looking for a wink to resume business with Iran. But US negotiators insist new sanctions now, when Iran is trying to negotiate a deal, would backfire, and risk Iran retreating from the policy of engagement promoted by the new Hassan Rouhani administration and his foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
New sanctions now could “wind up setting us back in dialogue that has taken 30 years to be able to achieve,” Kerry said as he arrived at the Senate Banking committee Wednesday. “What we are asking everybody to do, is calm down. Look hard at what can be achieved, what the realities are.”
Western officials say that the six powers achieved consensus on a draft proposal that was presented to Iran’s Zarif only in the last hours of the meeting in Geneva. French foreign minister Laurent Fabius raised objections to the text Kerry had been negotiating with Zarif at a meeting hosted by European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in Geneva Friday.
Though US President Obama and French President Francois Hollande, in a phone call Wednesday, stressed their joint support for the unified P5+1 proposal,
French ambassador to Israel Patrick Maisonneuve told a press conference in Tel Aviv Wednesday that “all of the world powers that negotiated with Iran in Geneva fell in line with the French position,” Haaretz’s Barak Ravid reported.
American diplomats–excited about the first sustained, direct US-Iran negotiations in thirty years, and concerned about opposition to a deal from Congress, Israel and Sunni Gulf allies–may have underestimated the ambivalence and even resentment some P5+1 partners may have felt about the five hour Kerry-Zarif-Ashton meeting on a draft accord in Geneva Friday in which other P5+1 powers were not included. Some European allies, led by France, may have sought to slow down what they saw as an overly hasty deal, some sources suggested.
“We are negotiating for more than 10 years,” one western diplomat, speaking not for attribution, told Al-Monitor Wednesday. “I think this complex, sensitive question can afford ten more days of negotiations.”
“We made fantastic progress in Geneva,” he added. “We are not far from an agreement.”
Posted in Politics, Security | Tagged Arak, Ashton, Banking, Biden, Colin Kahl, Congress, Engel, EU, Europe, Fordo, France, Georgetown, Hassan Rouhani, HFAC, Hollande, House, Iran, Israel, Javad Zarif, John Kerry, Maissonneuve, Obama, oil, P5+1, sanctions, Senate, Senate Banking, Wendy Sherman
Some urge U.S. to pursue bigger nuclear deal with Iran
With Iran nuclear talks on hold until after the August inauguration of Iranian President-elect Hassan Rouhani, some U.S. national security experts are urging the Obama administration to pivot from trying to get a small nuclear deal with Iran, to going for a more comprehensive deal.
“Going ‘Big for Big’ now potentially gives Rouhani something substantial to use to claim he got the P5+1 to recognize Iran's ‘rights,’ something his predecessors didn't get, and thus perhaps help him build an elite consensus around a nuclear deal,” former Pentagon Middle East advisor Colin Kahl told Al-Monitor Thursday.
“We should move now to presenting an endgame proposal,” former Obama White House Iran strategist Dennis Ross wrote in the New York Times this week (June 25). “One that focuses on the outcome that we, the United States, can accept on the nuclear issue.”
Negotiations over the past year between six world powers and Iran have focused on trying to get Iran to curb its 20% uranium enrichment in exchange for limited sanctions relief. (See the most recent P5+1 offer to Iran here.)
But Iran, at talks in Almaty, Kazakhstan in April, has said that it wants assurances that it will receive recognition of its right to enrich and the lifting of major US and European banking sanctions in exchange for stopping its 20% enrichment work and continuing to convert its 20% stockpile for medical use.
Rouhani, speaking at his first press conference following his win in Iran's June 14th presidential polls, said that Iran would not agree to suspend its lower level 3.5% uranium enrichment, as it did when he led negotiations with three European powers from 2003-2005. But he did not rule out a halt to Iran’s 20% enrichment, and signaled that Iran may be willing to offer greater transparency of its nuclear program to assure the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that it wasn’t diverting material for a nuclear weapon, in exchange for having its “rights” recognized.
While one U.S. official indicated the argument for pivoting to a comprehensive proposal was getting a new hearing in the Obama administration, U.S. officials wouldn't comment if they thought that position would prevail.
“The P5+1 is consulting on what the next steps should be in this process,” Bernadette Meehan, a spokeswoman for the National Security Staff, told Al-Monitor Thursday. “I would note, however, that Iranian officials have indicated they will not be ready to resume talks until the new President is sworn in in early August.”
Some US partners in the so-called P5+1—the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany—however, have expressed wariness at the idea of putting forward any kind of end-game ultimatum to Iran. “After a ‘last chance’ offer, [then] what?” one western official, speaking not for attribution, said earlier this month. Continue reading →
Posted in Politics, Security | Tagged Alireza Nader, Colin Kahl, Dennis Ross, EU 3+3, Hassan Rouhani, IAEA, Iran, Khamenei, nuclear., Obama, P5+1, Russia, Salehi, UN, Velayati, White House
Tom Donilon to step down, Susan Rice to succeed as NSA
President Obama's National Security Advisor Tom Donilon will step down, to be succeeded by UN envoy Susan Rice, the White House announced Wednesday. President Obama will nominate his former White House advisor and humanitarian expert Samantha Power to be the next US envoy to the United Nations.
The announcement comes in advance of President Obama’s first meeting with China’s President Xi, in California later this week. Donilon has made the US “rebalance” to Asia a focus of his tenure as Obama’s top national security advisor, and traveled to China late last month to discuss the agenda.
The Back Channel reported May 3rd that Donilon was expected to step down this summer, several months earlier than previous reports had suggested. Among his considerations, associates said, was that he had been doing this for over four long years, and family medical issues. (Sources say that Donilon’s wife Catherine Russell, former chief of staff to the Vice President’s wife Jill Biden, is recovering from a medical issue. Obama earlier this spring nominated her to be his next ambassador at large for global women’s issues.)
White House associates say Rice and Power, like Donilon, are trusted Obama advisors who have been in his inner circle of national security confidants going back to his 2008 presidential campaign. As such, sources anticipated a relatively smooth transition and a good deal of continuity on major foreign policy issues.
“I think the interesting thing about this transition is it’s clearly been planned for a long time,” former White House spokesperson Tommy Vietor told the Back Channel Wednesday. “It’s not a shake up. It’s a transition in which Susan and Sam can hit the ground running because they have been doing it for four years.”
“The key to a successful national security adviser is having the President's trust,” former Pentagon Middle East advisor Colin Kahl told the Back Channel Wednesday. “That is what made Donilon such a power player and the same will be true of Rice, who has long been close to Obama.”
It remains to be seen if the elevation of Power to the UN and Rice's move to the White House will shift the Obama administration's thinking towards greater Syria intervention, given their reported roles inside the Obama inter-agency debate advocating for NATO intervention in Libya, and Power’s expertise in humanitarian intervention and as the author of a Pulitzer Prize winning book on genocide.
“Power and Rice are strong and principled advocates of atrocity prevention, but are not the irresponsible liberal interventionists often portrayed,” Marc Lynch, a Middle East expert at George Washington University who advised the Obama 2008 campaign on foreign policy said Wednesday. “They are close to President Obama on foreign policy and will face the same limits and obstacles constraining the current policy on Syria. I wouldn't expect them to rapidly push for a military intervention which the administration views as unlikely to succeed.”
“My sense is, everyone in the government, including Susan and Sam, is going to keep pushing for a better outcome in Syria,” Vietor said. “No one is satisfied with the outcome on the ground.”
“It’s wrong to assume that means military intervention,” he added. “We have a lot of considerations to work through. What you have got are people who have been in the government who understand the role that US diplomatic leverage and military power plays, and how that can often be the single most important thing we’ve got. So it’s certainly a significant set of changes. But it remains to be seen what it leads to in Syria.”
Donilon had been looking for the right time to announce his departure, to make the transition as smooth as possible, aides said. “Tom been thinking about this for a long time,” Vietor said. Rice and Donilon will work together over the next few weeks to manage the transition. Donilon is expected to depart mid-July.
While the administration's re-balance to Asia as well as the US withdrawal from Iraq were top Donilon policy priorities, his imprint as a manager of the policy process is perhaps more significant. Donilon was deeply involved in the day to day running of the inter-agency process, some say with a heavy hand, as well as discipline. Aides say he should be credited with running a national security process in which disparate views were heard and fought over internally, but where notably few high-level cabinet fights erupted publicly.
“Tom Donilon has been an outstanding national security adviser. As an inside manager of the President's national security policy process, Tom succeeded in leading a collaborative and insightful process in which all players – from top to bottom – worked together rather than against each other,” Ivo Daalder, outgoing US ambassador to NATO and a friend of Donilon, said.
“It's a feat very few of his predecessors were able to accomplish,” continued Daalder, who is co-author of one of the defintive studies on the role of the national security advisor, In the Shadow of the Oval Office. “He truly managed a 'no drama' process – one that produced very effective advice for the President and ensured smooth implementation of the President's decisions.” Continue reading →
Posted in Politics, Security | Tagged Asia, Biden, Bush, Catherine Russell, China, Chuck Hagel, Colin Kahl, Heather Hurlburt, Iraq, Ivo Daalder, Joel Rubin, Libya, Marc Lynch, national security, National Security council, NATO, Obama, Ploughshares Fund, Samantha Power, Susan Rice, Syria, Tom Donilon, Tommy Vietor, United Nations, White House
New report outlines containment strategy if efforts to prevent Iran nuclear weapon fail
Posted on May 13, 2013 by Laura Rozen
President Obama has repeatedly declared that his policy is preventing Iran from producing a nuclear weapon. A new report by a former Obama Pentagon official, to be released Monday by the Center for New American Security, argues prevention should be the US policy, but that the United States needs to develop a containment strategy if prevention fails.
Among the key points the report makes is that resort to force in the event diplomacy is deemed to fail could itself trigger Iran’s determination to produce a nuclear weapon—a decision that the US intelligence community this year assessed Iran’s leadership had not yet made.
“Even an operationally effective strike would not, in and of itself, permanently end Iran’s program,” the report’s lead author, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East Colin Kahl, told Al-Monitor in an interview Saturday. “A strike might substantially degrade Iran’s near-term capability to produce nuclear weapons, but it would almost certainly increase Tehran’s motivation to eventually acquire nuclear weapons to deter future attacks.”
Iran might respond to an attack by leaving the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and substantially decreasing cooperation with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors. “Such a move would complicate the international community’s ability to detect Iran’s efforts to rebuild its program,” Kahl said.
For these reasons, Kahl argues, force should only be used if other options for halting Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions fail, if there is clear evidence that Iran is moving toward a bomb, and if every effort has been made to build international support for military action by seeking a diplomatic solution.
Outlining a Plan B containment strategy in the event prevention fails is not without political risks, however, Kahl acknowledged, while emphasizing he is no longer a member of the Obama administration. (Kahl, who served as DASD for the Middle East from 2009 until 2011, is now a professor at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at CNAS. He co-authored the new report If All Else Fails: The Challenges of Containing a Nuclear Armed Iran, with Georgetown graduate student Raj Pattani and CNAS researcher Jacob Stokes.) But the strategic risks of failing to prepare contingency plans would be more dangerous, Kahl said.
“If the administration were seen to be exploring a Plan B in the event that prevention fails, it might create the false impression that they were secretly planning to ‘accept’ a nuclear-armed Iran,” Kahl said. “Nothing could be further from the truth.”
“At the same time, there are also substantial risks associated with sticking our collective heads in the sand,” he continued. “The failure to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons would be bad, but the failure to be prepared for that possibility would be even worse.”
“One of the most important roles a think tank can play is to ask the questions that cannot be asked inside the government,” Kahl said. “I believe, in general, that it is important to plan for the things we don’t want to happen, not just the outcomes we desire.”
Asked to explain why the new report is not in essence arguing the US can live with a nuclear Iran, Kahl responded: “‘Live with’ makes it sound like it would be ‘no big deal’ to simply accommodate a nuclear-armed Iran. That is not the right way to think about it, and it is definitely not what the report argues.” Continue reading →
Posted in Politics, Security | Tagged Center for New American Security, CNAS, Colin Kahl, defense, denuclearization, diplomacy, Georgetown University, Iran, Israel, Jacob Stokes, Middle East, nuclear., Obama, Persian Gulf, proliferatoni, Raj Pattani
Buzz on Obama 2.0 Middle East team
Posted on January 5, 2013 by Laura Rozen
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With President Obama expected to name more cabinet picks next week, including Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense, speculation has begun to turn to who will fill out senior and middle ranks of his second term Middle East team.
Among the questions affecting the transition shuffle is whether acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs Elizabeth Jones will be formally nominated for the post under Secretary of State-nominee John Kerry, or, as seen as more likely, whether someone new will be tapped.
Jones, a career foreign service officer, is, like Kerry, the child of US Foreign Service parents, who spent much of her childhood abroad. A former Ambassador to Kazakhstan, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East, and Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs (2001-2005), Jones came out of retirement in the private sector (APCO Worldwide) to assist in the Near East bureau in 2011. She assumed the Acting Assistant Secretary job for the bureau after Jeff Feltman retired to take the number three job at the United Nations last May, but has not been formally nominated for the job.
Department sources said that some State rank and file officers are troubled that the Benghazi investigation resulted in the impending departure of Jones’ deputy, Raymond Maxwell. A career foreign service officer tapped as the DAS for Libya and the Maghreb in 2011, Maxwell had been scheduled to retire this past September. He stayed on however after the Sept. 11 attacks that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other US personnel to try to get the Maghreb shop, devastated about the loss of their friend and colleague, through. The perception among some in the rank and file is that Jones let Maxwell take the fall, while escaping blame herself, in part because of her long professional relationship with Tom Pickering, the veteran diplomat who chaired the Benghazi Accountability Review Board investigation, department sources who declined to speak for attribution said. Jones and Maxwell did not immediately return requests for comment. A former official subsequently told the Back Channel that Jones is definitely planning to leave.
If Jones moves on, among those rumored to be under consideration to helm the Near East bureau, officials said, is Puneet Talwar, who has served as the Obama administration National Security Council Senior Director for Persian Gulf Affairs. Talwar, the former top Iran and Iraq advisor on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff under then SFRC chairman Joe Biden, is also said to be under consideration to become national security advisor to Vice President Biden. (Current Biden national security advisor Antony Blinken is expected to get a promotion in the new term: among the posts he is discussed for, Deputy Secretary of State, Deputy National Security Advisor, or US Ambassador to the UN, if Susan Rice is named National Security Advisor.) Continue reading →
Posted in Politics, Security | Tagged Albright, Antony Blinken, APCO, Ash Carter, Barbara Mikulski, Benghazi, Beth Jones, Biden, Bill Danvers, Byron Dorgan, Colin Kahl, CSIS, David Wade, energy, Foreign Service, Frank Lowenstein, Hagel, IISS, Iran, Joel Rubin, John Kerry, Jon Alterman, Libya, Marc Lynch, Middle East, NSC, Obama, OVP, Pentagon, Ploughshares Fund, Podesta, Puneet Talwar, Raymond Maxwell, SFRC, State Department, Steve Simon, Tom Pickering, United Nations, Wendy Sherman
Israel not ‘merely bluffing’ on Iran strike threat, ex-Obama official says
Posted on August 15, 2012 by Laura Rozen
A former senior Pentagon official says Israel is probably not bluffing in its latest saber rattling on Iran.
“I think it is more likely Israeli leaders are preparing the Israeli public for a strike, and creating a narrative for the international community that diplomacy and sanctions have failed and thus Israel has no choice,” Colin Kahl, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East from 2009 to 2011, told Al Monitor Tuesday in an interview on the front page.
“There is clearly a crescendo emerging, and there is a lot of detailed, point-by-point argumentation …laying the foundation for a potential strike,” Kahl said. .”
The Pentagon said Tuesday Israel has not made a decision yet on possible Iran action.
“I don’t believe they’ve made a decision as to whether or not they will go in and attack Iran at this time,” Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told journalists at the Pentagon Tuesday, Reuters reported. “With regards to the issue of where we’re at from a diplomatic point of view, the reality is that we still think there is room to continue to negotiate.”
But Israeli leaders are preparing the Israel public for a possible attack on Iran in September-October.
Tel Aviv designated 60 parking garages as bomb shelters Wednesday, amid defensive preparations for possible counterattacks, the Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday.
Israel appointed a new homeland defense chief Tuesday. Ex-Shin Bet chief Avi Dichter was unanimously approved by Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s cabinet in a Tuesday night vote. Dichter was formerly a professional soldier in the elite Israeli commando unit,the Sayeret Matkal, with Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Dichter now holds the key ninth vote in previously reportedly evenly divided ‘Octet’ that will vote if it comes to it on the action.
“Despite Obama’s existing promises to use all means, including military action, to prevent an Iranian bomb, I think Netanyahu and Barak have convinced themselves that they cannot sub-contract out their security on this issue to any US president,” Kahl said.
“At the end of the day, the Israeli leadership is building the case that they can trust no one but themselves on this issue,” he added. Continue reading →
Posted in Politics, Security | Tagged Avi Dichter, Bibi, Colin Kahl, Ehud Barak, Iran, Israel, Netanyahu, nuclear., Obama, Panetta, Pentagon, Shin Bet
Panetta to Netanyahu: US “will not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon, period”
Posted on August 1, 2012 by Laura Rozen
The United States will use all means to ensure that Iran does not develop a nuclear weapon, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told Israeli leaders Wednesday.
The United States “will not allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon, period,” Panetta said at a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem Wednesday “We will not allow them to develop a nuclear weapon, and we will exert all options in the effort to ensure that that does not happen.”
The Pentagon chief is the latest senior Obama official seeking to reassure Israel, amid mounting concern in Washington that Israel is losing patience with the U.S. approach and may move to strike Iran this fall, I report in a piece on the front page.
“The problem we face is, to the Israelis, it looks like we are dithering and that we are going to keep on dithering until they lose their opportunity to act,” said Patrick Clawson, deputy director of research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, in an interview with Al-Monitor shortly after his research organization held discussions with former members of Israel’s strategic dialogue. “That is not confidence-building for the Israelis.”
“The US administration’s attitude is, we’ve got to wait to see if [the sanctions are] working, Clawson said. “On sanctions, … the big question is what political impact they have, not what economic impact they have. It’s hard to know why the Iranians show up for negotiations unless sanctions are responsible.”
Three sets of high-level six-nation nuclear talks with Iran this past spring have failed to date to narrow differences on a possible confidence-building measure that would end Iran’s higher-level 20% enrichment. Washington will not agree to another P5+1 political directors meeting with Iran if there is no serious prospect of progress toward an agreement, sources told Al-Monitor. European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and chief Iran nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili are due to confer this month to see if there’s a basis for further negotiations.
American diplomats said, however, there is significant value to the diplomatic channel despite the lack of progress to date.
“My feeling is it’s very, very important … to see if there is some give in Iran positions,” former US Ambassador to Iraq Jim Jeffrey said Tuesday at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “As we go down to the wire, there is some hope for that particular channel.”
Meantime, some Israeli analysts continue to believe Netanyahu will heed the advice of his military and intelligence chiefs who are warning against unilateral Israeli action.
“The chances for an Israeli strike are very low, given the objections inside the security establishment,” Noam Sheizaf wrote at Israeli online magazine +972. “I think that Netanyahu is now trying to negotiate an American promise to attack by a certain date in 2013. An American led attack would eliminate the risk of political fallout resulting from a military failure, and save Netanyahu the need to fight with the entire security establishment.”
American defense experts are not convinced the threat of an Israeli strike has receded.
“Israeli anxiety and [the] risk of [an Israeli] Iran strike [are] real, but [Israeli] impatience [is] also meant to press the administration in the wake of the Romney trip,” former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East Colin Kahl wrote on Twitter.
(U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak (front, R) greet Israeli soldiers after a joint news conference during a visit to the Iron Dome defense system launch site in Ashkelon August 1, 2012. REUTERS/Mark Wilson/Pool.)
Posted in Politics, Security | Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Bibi Netanyahu, Catherine Ashton, Colin Kahl, EU 3+3, European Union, Iran, Israel, James Jeffrey, Jim Jeffrey, Leon Panetta, P5+1, Patrick Clawson, Pentagon, Saeed Jalili, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Obama campaign aides portray Romney foreign tour as lightweight
Obama campaign advisors set out Monday to cast GOP challenger Mitt Romney’s upcoming foreign tour as a series of offshore fundraisers that lack much in the way of substance.
“We in the United States, Britain and NATO have agreed to a plan to end the war in Afghanistan in 2014,” Michele Flournoy, the Obama campaign’s top foreign policy advisor and former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, told journalists on a call arranged by the Obama for America campaign Monday. “The transition process is already underway.”
“Gov. Romney has articulated opposition to that timeline,” Flournoy continued. “So he fundamentally disagrees with our British friends.”
Romney plans to depart this week for the UK, where he will attend the London Olympics, and meet with British Prime Minister David Cameron. Then he will travel to Israel and Poland, his campaign said. “He is really abroad to learn and to listen,” Romney policy director Lahnee Chen told reporters on a conference call, the AFP reported.
Robert Gibbs, Obama campaign senior advisor, portrayed the Romney itinerary as lightweight compared to candidate Sen. Barack Obama’s 2008 world tour in which he traveled to Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Jordan, Israel, as well as Germany, France and the UK. Obama “made it a priority to visit and talk with our troops in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Kuwait,” Gibbs said. “It was important during the trip to meet servicemen and women, as well as consult commanders in the region to get a sense of the situation on the ground.”
On Iran, which is expected to be a major focus of Romney’s discussions with Israeli leaders, “all we have gotten from Romney is tough talk,” said Colin Kahl, who served as Obama’s Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East, on the campaign call. Continue reading →
Posted in Politics, Security | Tagged Afghanistan, campaign, Colin Kahl, Congress, David Cameron, Iran, Iron Dome, Israel, Michele Flournoy, Obama, Poland, politics, presidential elections, Robert Gibbs, Romney, security assistance, UK, United Nations
Colin Kahl, Brent Scowcroft, Andrew Parasiliti, Seyed Mousavian on how to close a deal with Iran
Al Monitor‘s front page today is teeming with several high-powered original pieces and interviews with policymakers on Iran, Syria, and Egypt:
IISS-Washington director Andrew Parasiliti lays out a roadmap for closing a deal with Iran, urging the U.S. to ‘go big’:
To close the deal and advance the negotiations, the P5+1 could recognize Iran’s right to enrichment in the context of Iran being a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and freeze all pending sanctions on Iran. Additionally, the P5+1 might request a good-faith strategic pause in enrichment while Iran resolves outstanding questions about its nuclear program, which would lead to the removal of those related UN sanctions. … Third, the P5+1 could offer a roadmap for lifting US and EU sanctions in return for Iranian cooperation on its nuclear program. …
Former top Obama Pentagon Middle East official Colin Kahl tells me it’s time for the U.S. to show more of its cards to Iran:
Kahl: It would be helpful to give Iran a better sense of what they would need to do to get a delay of oil sanctions. And what’s the road map for eventual resolution of the nuclear issue. It is appropriate to focus on interim steps to build confidence and make important progress on issues like 20 percent enrichment, but it would also be good to make sure these steps are nested within a broader, more explicit framework that outlines the ultimate path ahead for an agreement that addresses remaining international concerns …
We have probably reached a point where we should put more of our cards on the table, both through ongoing P5+1 talks and through a bilateral U.S.-Iran conversation. The problem is, thus far, the Iranians have not been willing to meet with the US bilaterally.
Brent Scowcroft, GOP elder statesman and former Bush I national security advisor, discusses Egypt, Syria and Iran in an interview with Barbara Slavin: Continue reading →
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ON FRIDAY THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SUGGESTED A CLASS ACTION SUIT BE FILED AGAINST GORE ET AL; TODAY OTHERS AGREE
TAB ON FRIDAY:
* A CLASS ACTION SUIT SHOUD BE FILED AGAINST THE FRAUDSTERS ON BEHALF OF EVERYONE WHOSE TAXES OR FEES WENT UP AS A RESULT OF THE FRAUD AND WHO PURCHASED CARBON CREDITS OR SWAPS.
* AND AS PART OF THE SUIT, THEY SHOULD GET ALL OF AL GORE'S EMAILS.
AND ALL THE EMAILS FROM THE AUTHORS OF THE IPCC.
VIA WEASEL ZIPPERS TODAY: Founder Of The Weather Channel And 30,000 Other Scientists Wanting To Sue Al Gore For Global Warming Fraud:
*******UPDATE: SOME NOW SUGGEST A RICO SUIT IS VIABLE - AFTER ALL, THERE MAY HAVE BEEN A CONSPIRACY FOR OVER A DECADE TO DEFRAUD THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF MONEY:
If what we are seeing unfold is evidence of fraud, a RICO complaint is a possibility, along with what the “discovery” process would reveal. The email and data authors (and massagers, playing “tricks” with the data to “hide the decline” in temperatures) do appear to be true believers in their cause, and often in their data, neither of which is dispositive. They also are candid in ways triggering tortuous arguments explaining how those words don’t really mean what they say. The defenders say the literal readings – that’s plural, not a one-off remark – represent “sinister interpretations” (New York Times), and the implausible is actually the appropriate reading.
For example, we’re now, for the first time, told that calling something the researchers did with data a “trick” to “hide the decline” in temperatures is actually very typical application of common lingo about scientific methods purporting to represent findings. This is the first I have encountered in this context a benign meaning for that. This defense might have currency had not the actions in question already been exposed by private investigations and being, in fact, a “trick” “hiding the decline” in temperatures.
The U.S. taxpayer has much exposure here in the joint projects and collaborations which operated in reliance upon what the University of East Anglia’s Climate Research Unit was doing, on the data CRU have been denying access to and recently claiming simply, if again implausibly, to have lost. As well as on the taxpayer-funded IPCC process, and the peer-review process addressed in these emails as having been corrupted with a particular outcome in mind. Also, there are U.S. taxpayer-funded offices and individuals involved in the machinations addressed in the emails, and in the emails themselves.
The plain reading of what has been revealed so far, if the documents are indeed authentic as a blanket admission yesterday seemed to make clear, does give the appearance of a conspiracy to defraud, by parties working in taxpayer funded agencies collaborating on ways to misrepresent material on which an awful lot of taxpayer money rides. In fact, their centers and careers and reputations ride on there being a “global warming” crisis, or at least there being some semblance of acceptance thereof.
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5 Pak Army Officers Linked to Headley, Arrested
Some serving and ex-military officers are among five people arrested in Pakistan in connection with the LeT plot to carry out a major terror attack in India using American national David Coleman Headley, a media report said today.
"Pakistani authorities had arrested as many as five other people in connection with the (Lashkar-e-Toiba) plot in recent weeks, including some former or current Pakistani military officials," the New York Times reported.
The paper quoted an official, who has been briefed on the investigation, as saying that those arrested remain in custody, but it was unclear what role they played in the expanding plot.
Headley, 49, and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, who were arrested last month by FBI are accused of plotting terror attacks on behest of LeT against India and a Danish newspaper.
"The arrests of Headley and Rana have widened into a global terrorism inquiry that has led to arrests in Pakistan and implicated a former Pakistani military officer as a co-conspirator," the paper quoted officials as saying.
The American intelligence officials believe that some Pakistani military and intelligence officials even encourage terrorists to attack what they see as Pakistan's enemies, including targets in India, it said.
GE Capital completes first sukuk offering of $500m
GE Capital, the finance arm of General Electric, has completed its inaugural sukuk offering of $500 million, tailored for investors across the Middle East, Asia and Europe.
The five-year sukuk had strong demand and makes GE Capital the first US corporate issuer of an Islamic bond. Proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes.
Hasan, al-Awlaki discussed money transfers
The session was scheduled to decide whether he should be jailed after his release from hospital while he awaits trial for the killings of 12 fellow soldiers and a civilian on the Texas military base.
Maj Hasan, 39, who is believed to be paralysed from the waist down after being shot during the attack, has so far been placed in pretrial confinement in a military hospital in San Antonio by his commanding officer.
The hearing comes as new revelations about Hasan's monitored email contacts with an extremist preacher in Yemen deepen questions about whether his behaviour should have set off red flags before the shooting rampage.
He told Anwar al-Awlaki that he "couldn't wait to join him in the discussions they would having over non-alcoholic wine in the afterlife", according to ABC News. He also asked the cleric when jihad (holy war) was appropriate and whether it was permissible if innocents were killed in a suicide attack.
The two men also discussed financial transfers abroad by Hasan in communications that intensified in the run-up to the shootings, The Washington Post reported on Saturday that the emails were obtained by an FBI-led task force in San Diego between late last year and June but were not forwarded to the military, according to government and congressional sources.
Some were sent to the FBI's Washington field office, triggering an assessment into whether they raised national security concerns, but those intercepted later were not, the sources told the newspaper.
"He [Hasan] clearly became more radicalised toward the end, and was having discussions related to the transfer of money and finances," said the source. "It became very clear toward the end of those emails he was interested in taking action."
Hasan Was Worried About Results of Recent HIV Test
Major Nidal Hasan seemed worried about the results of an HIV blood test taken a week before the Fort Hood shooting rampage, according to federal investigators piecing together background details on Hasan's life.
Berlin wants no part in potential 9/11 execution
A legal team is going to New York to prevent the use of evidence provided by Germany in seeking a death penalty. Berlin wants to ensure that promises made by the US are kept if the suspects are found guilty.
A team of observers from the German government is going to New York to oversee the trial of five suspects accused of orchestrating the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States, the news magazine Der Spiegel reported on Saturday.
The federal trial of the suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-defendants was announced on November 13 by the US Justice Department. The government also asserted that it intends to seek the death penalty if the accused are found guilty.
Germany, which does not have a death penalty, provided evidence for the trial on the condition that it could not be used to support a death sentence. Several members of the al Qaeda cell that planned and executed the attacks of September 11 were previously based in the northern German city of Hamburg.
FROM: Islam In Europe - The premier source for news about the Muslim community in Europe.
Large Hardon Spitting Out Proton Beams In Circular Motion
I'm sure everyone is excited to hear the Large Hardon "Big Bang Machine" is up and pulsing again:
GENEVA – Scientists switched on the world's largest atom smasher Friday night for the first time since the $10 billion machine suffered a spectacular failure more than a year ago.
It took a year of repairs before beams of protons circulated late Friday in the Large Hadron Collider for the first time since it was heavily damaged by a simple electrical fault.
Circulation of the beams was a significant leap forward. The European Organization for Nuclear Research has taken the restart of the collider step by step to avoid further setbacks as it moves toward new scientific experiments — probably starting in January — regarding the makeup of matter and the universe.
Progress on restarting the machine, on the border between Switzerland and France, went faster than expected Friday evening and the first beam circulated in a clockwise direction around the machine about 10 p.m., said James Gillies, spokesman for the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
"Some of the scientists had gone home and had to be called back in," Gillies told The Associated Press.
The exact time of the start of the Large Hadron Collider was difficult to predict because it was based on how long it took to perform steps along the way, and in the end it happened about nine hours earlier than expected, Gillies said.
This is an important milestone on the road toward scientific discoveries at the LHC, which are expected in 2010, he said.
About two hours later the scientists circulated another beam in the opposite direction, which was the initial goal in getting the machine going again and moving it toward collisions of protons, CERN said. The LHC also will be used later for colliding lead ions — basically the nucleus of the element that is about 160 times as heavy as a single proton. That should reveal still more scientific secrets.
"It's great to see beam circulating in the LHC again," said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer. "We've still got some way to go before physics can begin, but with this milestone we're well on the way."
But seriously, the Large Hardon is very useful for something other than dumb jokes. Soon, the Large Hardon will teach us whether or not Garrett Lisi's intriguing Theory of Everything is true.
If it is, he's going to change Physics as much as Einstein did.
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HOW LONG BEFORE THE "FREE MUMIA" CROWD IS CHANTING "FREE KSM"?
AND WHEN WILL HOLDER TURN OVER A COMPLETE LIST OF HIS ASSOCIATES AT DOJ WHO HAVE RECUSED THEMSELVES FROM DETAINEE CASES AND DID ANY OF THEM WORK FOR KSM?
IS HOLDER WORKING FOR KSM OR THE USA?
THE CRU EMAILS PROVE THAT THE AGW FRAUD WAS NOT JUST A HUGE HOAX, IT WAS A HUMONGOUS CONSPIRACY
THE EMAILS PROVE THAT THE AGW FRAUD WAS NOT JUST A HUGE HOAX, IT WAS A HUMONGOUS CONSPIRACY.
A CLASS ACTION SUIT SHOUD BE FILED AGAINST THE FRAUDSTERS ON BEHALF OF EVERYONE WHOSE TAXES OR FEES WENT UP AS A RESULT OF THE FRAUD AND WHO PURCHASED CARBON CREDITS OR SWAPS.
AND AS PART OF THE SUIT, THEY SHOULD GET ALL OF AL GORE'S EMAILS.
FOR ASSASSINATING LINCOLN, US CITIZENS WERE TRIED IN A MILITARY TRIBUNAL
IF US CITIZENS CAN BE TRIED IN A MILITARY TRIBUNAL FOR ASSASSINATING A PRESIDENT, THEN FOREIGNERS CAPTURED OVERSEAS CAN BE TRIED FOR ATTACKING THE USA IN WHAT CONGRESS DETERMINED WAS AN ACT OF WAR IN THE SEPTEMBER 18TH 2001 AUMF.
Order Establishing a Military Commission to Try the Lincoln Assassination Conspirators
& The Opinion of the Attorney General Affirming the Legality
of Using a Military Commission to Try the Conspirators Order of the President
PROCEEDINGS OF A MILITARY COMMISSION,
Convened at Washington, D.C., by virtue of the following Orders:
{Executive Chamber Washington City, May 1, 1865.}
WHEREAS, the Attorney-General of the United States hath given his opinion:
That the persons implicated in the murder of the late President, Abraham Lincoln, and the attempted assassination of the Honorable William H. Seward, Secretary of State, and in an alleged conspiracy to assassinate other officers of the Federal Government at Washington City, and their aiders and abettors, are subject to the jurisdiction of, and lawfully triable before, a Military Commission;
It is ordered: 1st That the Assistant Adjutant-General detail nine competent military officers to serve as a Commission for the trail of said parties, and that the Judge Advocate General proceed to prefer charges against said parties for their alleged offenses, and bring them to trial before said Military Commission; that said trial or trials be conducted by the said Judge Advocate General, and as recorder thereof, in person, aided by such Assistant and Special Judge Advocates as he may designate; and that said trials be conducted with all diligence consistent with the ends of justice: the said Commission to sit without regard to hours.
... It is ordered: 1st That the Assistant Adjutant-General detail nine competent military officers to serve as a Commission for the trail of said parties, and that the Judge Advocate General proceed to prefer charges against said parties for their alleged offenses, and bring them to trial before said Military Commission; that said trial or trials be conducted by the said Judge Advocate General, and as recorder thereof, in person, aided by such Assistant and Special Judge Advocates as he may designate; and that said trials be conducted with all diligence consistent with the ends of justice: the said Commission to sit without regard to hours.
2d. That Brevet Major-General Hartranft be assigned to duty as Special Provost Marshal General, for the purpose of said trial, and attendance upon said Commission, and the execution of its mandates.
3d. That the said Commission establish such order or rules of proceedings as may avoid unnecessary delay, and conduce to the ends of public justice.
[Signed]
OPINION ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL POWER OF THE MILITARY
TO TRY AND EXECUTE THE ASSASSINS OF THE PRESIDENT.
BY ATTORNEY GENERAL JAMES SPEED.
Washington, July — , 1865.
SIR: You ask me whether the persons charged with the offense of having assassinated the President can be tried before a military tribunal, or must they be tried before a civil court. The President was assassinated at a theater in the city of Washington. At the time of the assassination a civil war as flagrant, the city of Washington was defended by fortifications regularly and constantly manned, the principal police of the city was by Federal soldiers, the public offices and property in the city were all guarded by soldiers, and the President's House and person were, or should have been, under the guard of soldiers. Martial law had been declared in the District of Columbia, but the civil courts were open and held their regular sessions, and transacted business as in times of peace.
Such being the facts, the question is one of great importance— important, because it involves the constitutional guarantees thrown about the rights of the citizen, and because the security of the army and the government in time of war is involved; important, as it involves a seeming conflict between the laws of peace and of war.
... My conclusion, therefore, is, that if the persons who are charged with the assassination of the President committed the deed as public enemies, as I believe they did, and whether they did or not is a question to be decided by the tribunal before which they are tried, they not only can, but ought to be tried before a military tribunal. If the persons charged have offended against the laws of war, it would be as palpably wrong of the military to hand them over to the civil courts, as it would be wrong in a civil court to convict a man of murder who had, in time of war, killed another in battle.
I am, sir, most respectfully, your obedient servant,
JAMES SPEED.
Attorney General.
To the President
IF US CITIZENS CAN BE TRIED IN A MILITARY TRIBUNAL FOR ASSASSINATING A PRESIDENT, THEN FOREIGNERS CAPTURED OVERSEAS CAN BE TRIED FOR ATTACKING THE USA IN WHAT CONGRESS DETERMINED WAS AN ACT OF WAR IN THE SEPTEMBER 18TH 2001 AUMF:
To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the recent attacks launched against the United States.
Whereas, on September 11, 2001, acts of treacherous violence were committed against the United States and its citizens; and
Whereas, such acts render it both necessary and appropriate that the United States exercise its rights to self-defense and to protect United States citizens both at home and abroad; and
Whereas, in light of the threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States posed by these grave acts of violence; and
Whereas, such acts continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States; and
Whereas, the President has authority under the Constitution to take action to deter and prevent acts of international terrorism against the United States: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
This joint resolution may be cited as the `Authorization for Use of Military Force'.
SEC. 2. AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES.
(a) IN GENERAL- That the President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons.
(b) War Powers Resolution Requirements-
(1) SPECIFIC STATUTORY AUTHORIZATION- Consistent with section 8(a)(1) of the War Powers Resolution, the Congress declares that this section is intended to constitute specific statutory authorization within the meaning of section 5(b) of the War Powers Resolution.
(2) APPLICABILITY OF OTHER REQUIREMENTS- Nothing in this resolution supercedes any requirement of the War Powers Resolution.
Approved September 18, 2001.
READ ALL ABOUT THE LINCOLN PRECEDENT HERE:
The Trial: The Assassination of President Lincoln and the Trial of the Conspirators (Hardcover) ~ Edward Steers Jr. (Editor) "WHEREAS, the Attorney-General of the United States hath given his opinion: That the persons implicated in the murder of the late President, Abraham Lincoln, and..." (more)
MORE ON THE MILITARY TRIAL OF LINCOLN'S ASSASSINS HERE.
TWO HOCKEY STICKS
THEIRS:
MINE IS MORE ACCURATE.
BECAUSE THEIRS IS FRAUDULENT.
AS WE PREDICTED: FATAH DECLARES 3RD INTIFADA
WE PREDICTED THIS ON OCTOBER 8TH -
Fatah had made a strategic decision to declare a third intifada against Israel, movement officials told Nazereth-based newspaper Hadith Anas, citing the failed peace talks as the reason for their resolution.
The newspaper report quoted Fatah Central Committee members as saying that the movement wished to implement a decision made during its sixth convention, which assembled last August in the West Bank city of Bethlehem.
One of the movement's top officials interviewed by Hadith Anas said the third intifada will have a widespread popular base, adding, however, that unlike the previous popular struggle against Israel, which was sparked in September 2000, the movement will not endorse an armed struggle or the use of firearms.
BREITBART DEMANDS ACORN INVESTIGATION FROM HOLDER
BREITBART HAS MORE DIRT ON ACORN; DEMANDS DOJ INVESTIGATE OR ELSE!
EMAILS PROVE AGW DATA WAS DELIBERATELY FAKED
UNBEFREAKINLIEVABLE! AND CONFIRMED: THE DATA WAS FAKED/FUDGED - DELIBERATELY.
THERE IS NO GLOBAL WARMING.
THIS IS A MULTIBILLION DOLLAR FRAUD!
UPDATE: 10:10AM: SO FAR ONLY ONE MSM REPORT - THE BBC - ABOUT THE HACKING AND NOT A THING ABOUT THE EMAILS OR THE FRAUD!
This climate email-hacking episode is generating more heat than light
guardian.co.uk - Bob Ward - 36 minutes ago
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Hacked E-Mails Fuel Global Warming Debate
Wired News - Kim Zetter - 42 minutes ago
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Climate Skeptics See 'Smoking Gun' in Researchers' Leaked E-Mails
FOXNews - 52 minutes ago
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Harrabin's Notes: E-mail arguments
BBC News - 57 minutes ago
In his regular column, the BBC's environment analyst, Roger Harrabin, assesses the arguments sparked by the leaking of information on climate change. ...
Leading British climate centre hacked
Nature.com (subscription) - Quirin Schiermeier - 2 hours ago
One of Britain's leading climate-research centres has had more than 1000 files stolen from its computers and republished on the Internet. ...
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ScienceBlogs (blog) - Carl Sagan - 49 minutes ago
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NPR - Mark Memmott - 4 hours ago
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CRU files scandal reaches print media
Examiner.com - 23 minutes ago
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blogs.telegraph.co.uk:
Climategate: the final nail in the coffin of ‘Anthropogenic Global Warming’? — If you own any shares in alternative energy companies I should start dumping them NOW. The conspiracy behind the Anthropogenic Global Warming myth (aka AGW; aka ManBearPig) has been suddenly …
Link Search: Technorati, Google, IceRocket, and Ask
Discussion: Clusterstock, Pajamas Media, Gateway Pundit and Don Surber
Graham Winfrey / Clusterstock: EMAIL LEAK: Global Warming Researchers Caught Doubting Their Own Claims
Richard Fernandez / Pajamas Media: The CRU Hack — Related link at Pajamas Media: Hacker Releases …
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit: MAN-BEAR-PIG Is Dead!... Emails Prove Global Warming Junk Science …
Don Surber: Climategate — Confidential e-mails and the like have apparently …
Watts Up With That?:
Breaking News Story: CRU has apparently been hacked - hundreds of files released — UPDATE: Response from CRU in interview with another website, see end of this post. — The details on this are still sketchy, we'll probably never know what went on. But it appears that University …
Discussion: Examiner, Pajamas Media, Shout First …, The Air Vent, Tim Blair, Sister Toldjah, The Other McCain, Big Government, Vox Popoli, Winds of Change.NET, Stop The ACLU, QandO, The Corner on National … and Neptunus Lex
Examiner: Hadley CRU hacked with release of hundreds of docs and emails
Charlie Martin / Pajamas Media: Hacker Releases Data Implicating CRU in Global Warming Fraud (Updated)
Kris / Shout First, Ask Questions Later: Environmentalists Exposed As Liars
Jeff Id / The Air Vent: Leaked FOIA files 62 mb of gold
Tim Blair: HOLD YOUR FIRE — Let's wait until we have proof about these …
Sister Toldjah: Global warming alarmists exposed?
Robert Stacy McCain / The Other McCain: Lies, damned lies, and ‘climate change’
Christopher C. Horner / Big Government: Global Warming's ‘Blue Dress’ Moment?
Vox Popoli: AGW/CC travesty confirmed
Armed Liberal / Winds of Change.NET: Wow. Just Wow.
Van Helsing / Stop The ACLU: Leaked Emails Confirm Global Warming Is a Deliberate Hoax
Bruce McQuain / QandO: AGW's Crumbling House Of Cards (updates)
Iain Murray / The Corner on National Review Online: ClimateGate — By: Iain Murray
Lex / Neptunus Lex: Somebody's Got Some 'Splaining To Do
UK climate unit's e-mails hacked — The e-mail system of one the world's leading climate research units has been breached by hackers. — E-mails reportedly from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU), including personal exchanges, appeared on the internet on Thursday.
Discussion: JammieWearingFool
RadicalRon / JammieWearingFool: Uh-Oh — Something told me to bring along my laptop …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
Do hacked e-mails show global-warming fraud? — Controversy has exploded onto the Internet after a major global-warming advocacy center in the UK had its e-mail system hacked and the data published on line. The director of the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit confirmed …
Discussion: Environmental Capital, BizzyBlog, NPR Blogs, Confederate Yankee and The Jawa Report
Keith Johnson / Environmental Capital: Hacked: Sensitive Documents Lifted from Hadley Climate Center
TBlumer / BizzyBlog: Big Hack Attack: Global Warming Exposed as ‘Globaloney’?
Mark Memmott / NPR Blogs: Climate Skeptics Pounce On E-Mails Hackers Got From U.K. Scientists' Files
Confederate Yankee: Hacked Emails Show Climate Change Scientists Committing Fraud
Howie / The Jawa Report: al-Gore's Global Warming Khinspiracy
Andrew Bolt:
Warmist conspiracy exposed? — 8.15 PM UPDATE: The [Hadley] University of East Anglia CRU director admits the emails seem to be genuine: … So the 1079 emails and 72 documents seem indeed evidence of a scandal involving most of the most prominent scientists pushing the man-made warming theory …
Discussion: freerepublic.com, Atlas Shrugs, YID With LID, The Strata-Sphere and Pajamas Media
Marie / freerepublic.com: Speculation on the Hadley CRU Hacking Story...
Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs: Global Climate Change Hoax: The Greatest Fraud in Human History
Sammy Benoit / YID With LID: BOMBSHELL: Stolen Documents Reveal Supression of Anti-Global Warming Science
AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere: Global Warming Con Exposed With Publication Of Emails And Files
Stephen Green / Pajamas Media: Global Warmening Update
RealClimate:
The CRU hack — As many of you will be aware, a large number of emails from the University of East Anglia webmail server were hacked recently (Despite some confusion generated by Anthony Watts, this has absolutely nothing to do with the Hadley Centre which is a completely separate institution).
Discussion: Donklephant, Climate Progress and Tim Blair
Frank Hagan / Donklephant: Climate Email Hacked
Joe / Climate Progress: Here's what we know so far: CRU's emails were hacked, the 2000s …
Tim Blair: HOT POLL — Take a stand on the Great Warmening Hackorama!
Guardian:
Climate sceptics seize upon leaked emails — Hundreds of emails and documents exchanged between world's leading climate scientists stolen by hackers and leaked online — Hundreds of private emails and documents allegedly exchanged between some of the world's leading climate scientists during …
Discussion: Andrew Bolt, Gateway Pundit, Biased BBC and The Air Vent
Andrew Bolt: The global warmist conspiracy - and the Australian link
Jim Hoft / Gateway Pundit: Mann-Bear-Pig... “Hockey Stick” Creator Implicated in Global Warming Conspiracy
Biased BBC: Hadley Hacked — (Update - the Examiner article linked …
Jeff Id / The Air Vent: MSM Catchin' on. — While Real Climate attempts to bullcrap this under the rug.
Michelle Malkin:
The global warming scandal of the century — Anthony Watts of Watt's Up With That? and Stephen McIntrye of Climate Audit broke the story this morning of the hacking break-in at the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit (aka Hadley CRU). — BBC confirms:
Discussion: The Huffington Post, Little Green Footballs, Wonk Room, Hot Air, The Enterprise Blog and FiveThirtyEight
Kevin Grandia / The Huffington Post: Stolen climate science emails just ain't the conspiracy some want it to be
Little Green Footballs: Global Warming Nontroversy of the Day
Brad / Wonk Room: ClimateGate: Hacked Emails Reveal Global Warming Deniers Are …
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Inhofe to Boxer: “We won, you lost — get a life!”
Jay Richards / The Enterprise Blog: A Tale of Two Climate Laymen
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight: I Read Through 160,000,000 Bytes of Hacked Files And All I Got Was This Lousy E-Mail
Chris Horner / Planet Gore on National Review Online:
The Blue-Dress Moment May Have Arrived — By: Chris Horner
Discussion: Dr. Melissa Clouthier
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: An Environmental Disaster Of Epic Proportions
Iwishart / TBR.cc:
HadleyCRU says leaked data is real
Discussion: NewsBusters.org
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org: Possible Conspiracy To Falsify Temperature Data Uncovered
Ronald Bailey / Hit & Run:
East Anglia University Climate Research Unit Hadley Centre …
Discussion: Dean's World
SURPRISE SURPRISE SURPRISE: ALL OF A SUDDEN HEALTH OFFICIALS WANT WOMEN TO GET FEWER CERVICAL CANCER TESTS TOO!
HMMMMMMMMMM... JUST LIKE THE BREAST TESTS:
New guidelines for cervical cancer screening say women should delay their first Pap test until age 21, and be screened less often than recommended in the past.
The advice, from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, is meant to decrease unnecessary testing and potentially harmful treatment, particularly in teenagers and young women. The group’s previous guidelines had recommended yearly testing for young women, starting within three years of their first sexual intercourse, but no later than age 21.
Arriving on the heels of hotly disputed guidelines calling for less use of mammography, the new recommendations might seem like part of a larger plan to slash cancer screening for women. But the timing was coincidental, said Dr. Cheryl B. Iglesia, the chairwoman of a panel in the obstetricians’ group that developed the Pap smear guidelines. The group updates its advice regularly based on new medical information, and Dr. Iglesia said the latest recommendations had been in the works for several years, “long before the Obama health plan came into existence.”
She called the timing crazy, uncanny and “an unfortunate perfect storm,” adding, “There’s no political agenda with regard to these recommendations.”
HMMMMMMMMMMMM...
OBAMA'S KINSLEY GAFFE: TROOPS AS PHOTO OP: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS HOT AIR BY A DAY - FOR THE 4TH TIME IN THE LAST DAY
HOT AIR TONIGHT: Obama to troops: “You guys make a pretty good photo op”posted at 9:42 pm on November 19, 2009 by Allahpundit
TAB THIS MORNING.
BLOG READERS DEPENDING ON HOT AIR FOR GREAT LINKAGE OUGHT TO COME HERE FIRST.
ESPECIALLY ALLAHPUNDIT!
PATTERICO OFFERS LEFTIE LA TIMES COLUMNIST AND ACORN DEFENDER A FREE MEAL
EAT CROW ASSH*LE!
BOOZE GOOD FOR YOUR HEART: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS HOT AIR AGAIN -THIRD TIME TODAY!
HOT AIR AT AROUND 10PM.
TAB AT AROUND 6:33PM.
HOT AIR POSTED ON THREE ITEMS WE DID TODAY - ALL FEW HOURS AFTER WE DID.
WE'RE BETTER THAN ALLAHPUNDIT - EVEN THO' WE'RE PART-TIME.
REGULAR READERS KNOW THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.
SPREAD THE WORD.
EXIT QUESTION: DOES ANYONE THINK ALLAPUNDIT IS STEALING OUR LINKS?
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MORE PROOF OBAMA HATES JEWS: DOWNSIZES WHITE HOUSE HANUKKAH PARTY
POLITICO:
The White House's forthcoming state dinner with the Prime Minister of India is expected to be larger than those of President Barack Obama's predecessor, George W. Bush. But another upcoming White House event will be smaller than in years past: The White House's annual Hanukkah party.
The guest list is expected to be shrunk by more than half, according to the Jerusalem Post. "Though several Jewish leaders expressed understanding for the economic and other reasons behind the cut, they acknowledged that it would likely help feed feelings in some quarters of the American Jewish community that the White House is giving them the cold shoulder."
The move comes on the heels of Obama's cancellation of an appearance before the General Assembly of North American Jewish Federations last week.
REMEMBER OBAMA ALSO SKIPPED THE NATIONAL PRAYER BREAKFAST.
I ASK YOU, AGAIN: IF OBAMA REALLY WAS A CRYPTO-MUSLIM WHO HATED JEWS AND CHRISTIANS AND AMERICA, WOULD HE ACT ANY DIFFERENTLY?
HE'S AS BELLIGERENT AS HE CAN BE WITHOUT COMMITTING OUTRIGHT TREASON IN BROAD DAYLIGHT. OBAMA IS A TRAITOR TO THE FREE WOLRD BY STEALTH.
OBAMA: THE STEALTH BENEDICT ARNOLD.
OBAMA: THE STEALTH TOKYO ROSE.
OBAMA: THE STEALTH ALGER HISS.
OBAMA: THE STEALTH ALDRICH AMES.
OBAMA: THE STEALTH ROBERT HANNSEN.
OBAMA: THE STEALTH LOUIS FARRAKHAN.
OBAMA: THE STEALTH MALCOLM X.
OBAMA THE STEALTH SAUL ALINSKY.
OBAMACARE'S SNEAKY SATURDAY NIGHT SENATE VOTE: THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS SCOOPS HOT AIR - AGAIN
HOT AIR TONIGHT:
Weasel: Reid reportedly scheduling another Saturday evening ObamaCare vote
TAB MORE THAN TWO HOURS EARLIER THIS EVENING:
Reid Says Saturday Vote on Health Care Bill Likely
WHY DO THESE SC*MB*GS WANNA VOTE ON THESE BIG BILLS ON SATURDAYS?
AND WHY WITH SUCH SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME BETWEEN PUBLISHING THEM AND THE VOTE?
COULD THEY BE HIDING SOMETHING?
THEY ARE HIDING A LOT!
REGULAR READERS OF TAB KNOW THAT WE SCOOP THE BIGGIES THIS ALL THE TIME.
HOT AIR HAS A REP FOR LINKING EARLY TO BIG STORIES BEFORE THEY'RE BIG, BUT WE BEAT THEM ALL THE TIME.
THE CHICAGO MACHINE GETS ITS VOTES THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY: IT BUYS THEM ... ER, UM... THAT IS WHEN THEY'RE NOT STEALING THEM!
BUYING: ABC:
ABC News' Jonathan Karl reports:
What does it take to get a wavering senator to vote for health care reform?
Here’s a case study.
On page 432 of the Reid bill, there is a section increasing federal Medicaid subsidies for “certain states recovering from a major disaster.”
The section spends two pages defining which “states” would qualify, saying, among other things, that it would be states that “during the preceding 7 fiscal years” have been declared a “major disaster area.”
I am told the section applies to exactly one state: Louisiana, the home of moderate Democrat Mary Landrieu, who has been playing hard to get on the health care bill.
In other words, the bill spends two pages describing would could be written with a single world: Louisiana. (This may also help explain why the bill is long.)
Senator Harry Reid, who drafted the bill, cannot pass it without the support of Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu.
How much does it cost? According to the Congressional Budget Office: $100 million.
AND STEALING: THE GOVERNEUR TIMES:
GOUVERNEUR, NY - The computerized voting machines used by many voters in the 23rd district had a computer virus - tainting the results, not just from those machines known to have been infected, but casting doubt on the accuracy of counts retrieved from any of the machines.
Cathleen Rogers, the Democratic Elections Commissioner in Hamilton County stated that they discovered a problem with their voting machines the week prior to the election and that the "virus" was fixed by a Technical Support representative from Dominion, the manufacturer. The Dominion/Sequoia Voting Systems representative "reprogrammed" their machines in time for them to use in the Nov. 3rd Special Election. None of the machines (from the same manufacturer) used in the other counties within the 23rd district were looked at nor were they recertified after the "reprogramming" that occurred in Hamilton County.
Republican Commissioner Judith Peck refused to speculate on whether the code that governs the counts could have been tampered with. She indicated that "as far as I know, the machine in question was not functioning properly and was repaired" by the technician.
Commissioners in other counties have stated that they were not made aware of the virus issue in Hamilton County. In Jefferson County, inspectors from four districts claim that "human error" resulted in their "mistakenly" entering 0 votes for Hoffman in several districts, resulting in Owens leading Jefferson County on election night though the recanvas of the computer counts now show that Hoffman is leading. Jefferson County has not conducted a manual paper ballot recount.
In St. Lawrence County, machines in Louisville, Waddington, Claire, and Rossie "broke" early in the voting process on election day. Republican Commissioner Deborah Pahler said that the machines kept "freezing up... like Windows does all the time," and that they experienced several paper jams as well. The voted ballots that could not be scanned were placed in an Emergency Lock Box and re-scanned later at the St. Lawrence County Board of Elections. Election officials in St. Lawrence County were given no advance knowledge of a potential virus in the system.
At least one County official thus far has raised concern that it's possible that ALL of the machines used in the NY-23 election had the 'virus' but only a few malfunctioned as a result. The counts from any district that used the ImageCast machines are suspect due to "the virus" discovered in Hamilton County, last-minute "reprogramming" by Dominion workers, and security flaws in the systems themselves. A manual paper-ballot recount of the vote could resolve computer vote accuracy questions.
THEY BROUGHT GUNS; WE'VE GOTTA GO NUCLEAR!
IT'S TIME TO IMPEACH HOLDER, GEITHNER, AND OBAMA!
Where are they going to put people?
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Maker of Hit Podcast 'Serial' Explores Sale (Benjamin Mullin/Wall Street Journal)
MUSLIM INBREEDING and Jerusalem Derangement Syndrome
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No criminal charge in Sanibel Causeway bicyclist's death
This just in--here's the State Attorney Report.
News-Press 5/18/12 Written by Marisa Kendall
More than a year after Tracey Kleinpell’s death, the state attorney’s office has announced the woman whose truck hit her as she was riding her bicycle will not face criminal charges.
Kleinpell was cycling across the Sanibel Causeway with her husband, Gordon, on May 7, 2011, when a truck drifted out of its lane and struck her. Kleinpell was knocked over the guardrail and into the water, from where she was brought to shore by passing boaters. She was pronounced dead after unsuccessful attempts to resuscitate her.
Theresa L. Shirley, 46, of Bokeelia, was driving the truck. After the crash, she told an investigator she fell asleep at the wheel.
“There was not enough evidence there under Florida law to be able to charge Theresa Shirley with vehicle manslaughter,” said Samantha Syoen, spokeswoman for the state attorney’s office.
Instead, the Florida Highway Patrol will cite Shirley for failure to remain in a single lane. She is due in Lee County court at 8 a.m. Monday.
Kleinpell’s father, George Henault of Fort Myers, said the family is devastated by the decision.
“No words can explain how bad we feel about not bringing charges against her,” he said. “She killed our daughter. It’s as plain and simple as that.”
Shirley could not be reached for comment.
The Florida Highway Patrol conducted a review of the case and requested a warrant for DUI manslaughter. The request was sent to Assistant State Attorney Anthony W. Kunasek a few weeks ago, and May 10, Kunasek determined there was not sufficient evidence to grant the warrant.
A screening of Shirley’s blood showed no alcohol, but found several prescription drugs, according to a memo sent by Kunasek. Shirley tested positive for drugs, including a muscle relaxant and a pain reliever. The drugs were prescribed to Shirley, and the levels in her blood fell within the usual therapeutic range, according to a Florida Department of Law Enforcement lab test.
Witnesses who saw Shirley before the crash and at the scene said she did not appear to be impaired. Medical personnel who responded to the accident described Shirley as lethargic, sleepy and groggy.
Shirley was not given a field sobriety test at the time of the crash, which Kleinpell’s mother, Donna Henault, found unacceptable. To be kept waiting a year for justice and then to have no charges come of the investigation is devastating, she said.
“When I look back at things,” she said, “I just feel like they bungled it.”
Shirley was convicted of DUI in Charlotte County in 2009, according to the Charlotte County clerk of court website. According to the state attorney’s office memo, a prior conviction cannot be used to show any inclination to commit a subsequent crime.
“In order for the state to prove vehicular homicide, the state must prove more than a failure to use ordinary care,” Kunasek said in the memo. “The state must prove the operation of the vehicle driven by Ms. Shirley was done so in a reckless manner, likely to cause death or great bodily harm. Falling asleep at the wheel is insufficient to establish vehicular homicide by itself.”
Donna Henault said in the year since she lost her daughter, the pain has gotten worse. She still can’t talk about it without crying. Since their daughter’s accident, George Henault has needed several heart surgeries, including a five-way bypass.
“This accident is slowly killing him,” Donna Henault said. “The doctor said there is such a thing as broken heart syndrome, believe it or not.”
Donna Henault said she no longer travels across the Sanibel Causeway, because seeing the ghost bike placed there in Kleinpell’s memory is too upsetting. She had to leave the area last week, when Kleinpell’s friends gathered on Sanibel Island to commemorate the one-year anniversary of her death.
The Henaults went to Connecticut to visit their other daughter, Tina Peck, and had a small family memorial. To remember Kleinpell’s birthday May 3 and her death May 7, they went to the beach and released balloons adorned with butterflies and rainbows.
Darla Letourneau, of BikeWalkLee, said she is appalled Shirley will not be charged because it seems like an open-and-shut case, with Shirley clearly at fault. These types of cases have set a precedent that result in no consequences for killing a cyclist or pedestrian, she said.
“We have to figure out how to take this outrage and do something positive,” Letourneau said. “Something has to change.”
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Posted by Darla at 5/18/2012 05:38:00 AM
Labels: bike/ped safety, BWL comments, fatalities, law enforcement, News-Press safety features
Even without a criminal investigation and conviction, couldn't the family (especially the husband) sue Ms. Shirley in civil court? Perhaps under a negligence theory?
TownesLaw September 9, 2012 at 1:42 PM
I read the police reports. Falling asleep, taking a hundred yards to stop, confusion and inablity to comprehend what she had done are all signs that the driver was under the influence of carisoprodol and oxycodone (both listed in the DUI statue by reference to section 893.03) to the extent that her normal faculties were impaired. Normal faculties certainly include being awake and alert enough to drive. The ASA should have asked his medical examiner if that would be the ME's testimony under oath. Having a prescription is not a defense. That ASA was incompetent.
VanRiperandNies January 7, 2014 at 7:05 AM
Tragic incident.
If this had been a Lee county sheriff officer hit instead of a bicycle they would be in jail. If you hit a bike cop you would be cited for the 3 foot rule anybody else who rides a bike in Florida it's too bad so sad.
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Vascular Plants » Dicots » Crassulaceae:
2 subspecies and varieties
Crassula aquatica – wrinkle-seed pygmyweed, water pygmy weed
Distribution: Occurring in scattered localities across Washington; Alaska south to California, east to the Rocky Mountains, and in the southeastern and northeastern regions of North America.
Habitat: Mud flats and vernal pools.
Flowers: April-August
Crassula connata – pygmy weed
Distribution: Known in Washington only from San Juan County; British Columbia south to California, east to Arizona and Texas.
Habitat: Sandy areas, paths and roadsides.
Flowers: May-June
Crassula tillaea – mossy stonecrop
Distribution: Occurring west of the Cascades crest in Washington; British Columbia south to California.
Habitat: Disturbed areas, rock crevices, and sandy areas, often where seasonally wet or moist.
Origin: Introduced from Europe
Flowers: March-April
Rhodiola integrifolia – king's crown, midsummer-men, roseroot
Distribution: In the Cascades and northeastern corner of Washington; Alaska to south to California, east to Colorado.
Habitat: Cliffs, talus and ridges, subalpine to alpine, generally where moist in early summer.
• ssp. integrifolia – King's crown, roseroot
Sedum acre – mossy stonecrop
Distribution: Occurring chiefly west of the Cascades in Washington; British Columbia south to Oregon, east across Canada, and the central, southeastern, and northeastern U.S. to the Atlantic Coast.
Habitat: Disturbed ground at low elevation.
Sedum album – white stonecrop
Distribution: Occurring in scattered locations across Washington; British Columbia south to California, Utah, and in northeastern North America.
Habitat: Disturbed, open areas including fields, lawns, parking areas, and rocky outcroppings.
Flowers: May-July
Sedum brevifolium – short-leaved stonecrop
Origin: Introduced from southern Europe
Sedum divergens – Pacific stonecrop, spreading stonecrop
Distribution: Alaska to California, Olympic mountains and the Cascades
Habitat: Open, rocky areas, mid- to high elevations in the mountains
Flowers: July - Early September
Sedum forsterianum – Forster's stonecrop
Sedum lanceolatum – lance-leaved stonecrop
Distribution: Widely distributed across Washington; Alaska south to California, east to the Rocky Mountains and northern Great Plains in the U.S. and Canada.
Habitat: Usually on rocks or gravel in open, dry areas, from sea level to high elevations in the mountains.
Flowers: May-August
Sedum leibergii – Leiberg's stonecrop
Distribution: Yakima County, Washington, south to northcentral Oregon and east to southeast Washington and western Idaho; along the Snake River.
Habitat: Mossy rocks to open, gravelly hillsides, chiefly in canyons.
Flowers: May - Early July
Sedum oreganum – Oregon stonecrop
Distribution: Occurring on both sides of the Cascades crest in Washington; Alaska south to California.
Habitat: Rock ledges, talus slopes and gravelly ridges in the mountains to occasionally near the coast.
Sedum rupicola – lance-leaved stonecrop
Distribution: In the Cascades and Olympic Mountains of Washington; Washington east to Idaho.
Habitat: Open, exposed places, usually on rocks or in gravelly soil, at moderate elevations in the mountains.
Sedum spathulifolium – broadleaf stonecrop, spatula-leaf stonecrop
Distribution: West of the Cascades crest in Washington except in the Columbia River Gorge where found as far east as Klickitat County; southern British Columbia south to California.
Habitat: Coastal cliffs, and ledges and gravelly soil in the foothills.
Sedum stenopetalum – wormleaf stonecrop
Distribution: Occurring chiefly east of the Cascade crest in Washington; British Columbia south to California, east to the northern Rocky Mountains.
Habitat: Grasslands and ponderosa pine forests to sub-alpine ridges, on dry, gravelly benches, rock crevices and talus.
• ssp. stenopetalum – wormleaf stonecrop
Sedum thartii
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HIRE & PRODUCTION
PROJECTS & SOLUTIONS
ASTRIS LIGHT
Usher Hall Roof Lighting System
Usher Hall Roof Lighting SystemBlack Light2018-02-21T15:49:46+00:00
The historic Usher Hall has been the subject of a multi-million pound redevelopment programme since 2000. The new lighting system we installed was part of the final step of Phase Three of this development programme. The key project requirement was that all aspects of the scheme should be hidden from view when not in use. Using out-of-the-box thinking and state-of-the-art automation technology, we solved this challenge to produce a bespoke solution that fitted the clients’ brief exactly.
The system we designed and installed comprises 14 light fittings mounted on self-erecting masts. The masts are deployed using a pneumatic system similar to that used by American fire and rescue trucks.
Key Project Steps
Design and Consultancy – the project involved a number of unique challenges which required extensive research and feasibility studies. Key technology was sourced from the USA.
Installation – the installation of the new lighting system involved the set-up of custom mountings on the roof of the Usher Hall. We also installed control cabling, a weather -monitoring- station and other associated systems and interfaces.
Commissioning – the system was carefully tested and programmed and then handed over to the client.
We met and exceeded all project goals. The system is fully autonomous and has a manual override and emergency functions built in. The 14 masts each occupy no more than 0.5m x 1.8m of roof space. When deployed the lights rise 5m above roof level and create a stunning spectacle out of the high-level rooftop and copper dome.
The system deploys automatically at dusk and turns off again at two in the morning. The turn-off is designed to save money and reduce the carbon footprint of the scheme. The system is also protected by a monitoring system that shuts it down if the weather exceeds safety levels.
Usher Hall
Service: Installations
Sector: Architectural
Completion: October 2010
Client: City of Edinburgh Council
Kit List:
Mosaic Control System – overall operation of the scheme and interfacing
14no custom pneumatic masts with control units and power supplies
14no Erco Super-wide architectural light fittings with CDM250 colour-referenced lamp to Consultant Specification
Weather station with alarm interface and serial control
POE switch for data and control routing to masts
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