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Senior Eights Wins For UCD and NUIG/Castleconnell at Irish Championships
#Rowing: UCD won only their second senior men's eights Championship of Ireland since 1973 at the National Rowing Centre today. They last won in 2011. They had a clearwater lead by half way and never let it go.
The senior women's eight saw NUIG/Castleconnell also win well. The stern pair of Sadhbh O'Connor and Fiona Murtagh were taking their fourth titles of the weekend.
The final session of the Irish Championships started with a UCD win in the men's novice eight and continued with Ruth Morris of Commercial moving well clear to win the women's intermediate sngle sculls.
Colaiste Iognaid won a battle with Commercial in the men's junior pair, while Lee's junior women matched their junior men by winning the quadruple.
The final race of the whole event, the men's intermediate double, was won by Skibbereen.
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Powerful British Crew Beat UCD in Henley Semi-Final
#Rowing: UCD made a good start in the semi-finals of the Visitors’ four at Henley Royal Regatta, but could not match the power of their opponents and made their exit. The crew listed as Cambridge University and Leander Club are, most likely, on their way to the World Under-23 Championships representing Britain. UCD stayed in touch with them until Fawley, about half way, but then saw them pull away. The verdict was one and three-quarter lengths.
Henley Royal Regatta, Day Four (Selected Results; Irish interest)
Silver Goblets (Men’s Pairs, Open): A Diaz and A Haack bt M O’Donovan and S O’Driscoll (Skibbereen) 2¾ l
Visitors (Men’s Four, Club and University): Cambridge University and Leander Club bt UCD 1¾ l
Terrific Wins for Commercial and UCD Ensure Saturday Action at Henley
#Rowing: Irish crews had two remarkable wins in quick succession at Henley Royal Regatta on Friday evening.
Commercial came from behind to beat Cercle de l’Aviron de Lyon by three-quarters of a length in the Thames Cup. The French seemed to have a strong hold on the race, but stroke Colm Dowling and his crew rowed through them. The Irish champions then repulsed a late charge to win.
UCD seemed set for a grim battle with RG Dusseldorf and Crefelder in the Visitors’ and there was little between them in the middle stages of the race. But the Irish four – also national champions in this boat – sped away from the Germans across the flat water to win well.
Both crews joined Mark O’Donovan and Shane O’Driscoll, who won in their round of the Silver Goblets, in Saturday’s draw.
Henley Royal Regatta, Day Three (Selected Results; Irish interest)
Thames (Men’s Eight, Club): Commercial bt Cercle de l’Aviron de Lyon ¾ l
Visitors (Men’s Four, Club and University): UCD bt Dusseldorf and Crefeld 2¾ lengths
Hambleden Pairs (Women’s Pairs, Open): G Prendergast, K Gowler bt S O’Connor, N Long 2¼ l
Silver Goblets (Men’s Pairs, Open): Mark O’Donovan and Shane O’Driscoll (Skibbereen) bt H Hogan and H Elworthy 2¼ l
Double Sculls (Men’s Double, Open): J Collins, G Thomas bt Nathan Hull and OJ Dix (Queen’s, Belfast and Leander) 1l
UCD Cruise Through First Round of Visitors' at Henley
#Rowing: UCD began their campaign in the Visitors’ four with a straight-forward win. With just a few hundred metres gone, the Irish crew of Shane O’Malley, Andrew Goff, Shane Mulvaney and David O’Malley were in the lead and Leander Club were not doing well with steering. UCD took control and had two and a quarter lengths to spare in the win.
Henley Royal Regatta, Day Two (Irish interest)
Visitors (Men’s Four, Club and University): UCD bt Leander Club 2¼ l.
Fawley (Junior Men’s Quadruple): Christiana Roklub, Norway bt Enniskillen RBC 1/3 l.
UCD Bow Out as Enniskillen to Compete in Henley Women's Regatta Semi-Finals
#Rowing: UCD made their exit at Henley Women’s Regatta, but Enniskillen moved into the semi-finals today. Newcastle University made a fast start in their quarter-finals of the Aspirational Academic Eights against UCD and built it into a clearwater lead.
Enniskillen were all set to take on Wimbledon High School, but in the event they were given a row over as Wimbledon did not compete due to a disqualification.
UCD and Enniskillen Progress at Women's Henley
#Rowing: UCD’s eight beat Jesus College, Cambridge, to progress to the quarter-finals at Henley Women’s Regatta today. The Irish crew will take on Newcastle University at 4.44 pm.
Enniskillen’s junior 18 eight came through a time trial to qualify for their quarter-final. They will take on Wimbledon High School at 3.40 with strong hopes of moving into Sunday’s semi-final.
Henley Women's Regatta
O'Driscoll and O'Donovan to Compete at Henley Royal Regatta
#Rowing: The standout names in the Irish entry for Henley Royal Regatta are Mark O’Donovan and Shane O’Driscoll. The world lightweight champions of 2017 have entered the Silver Goblets for open pairs.
The Irish challenge features Commercial in the Thames Cup for club eights and UCD’s four in the Visitors. Both crews are Irish champions. Enniskillen have chosen to enter quadruples in the Fawley and the Diamond Jubilee.
UCD, who compete at Henley Women’s Regatta this weekend, have entered the open event for women’s eights, the Remenham. Orla Hayes of Skibbereen has entered the Princess Royal, the open event for women's single scullers.
Henley Royal Regatta, July 3rd to 7th (Selection of Entries, Irish interest)
Remenham Cup (Women’s Eights, Open): UCD
Thames (Men’s Eight, Club): Commercial
Visitors (Men’s Four, Club and University): UCD
Prince of Wales (Men’s Quadruple, Club and University): Lagan Scullers’
Fawley (Men’s Quadruple, Junior): Enniskillen Royal Boat Club
Diamond Jubilee Cup (Women’s Quadruple, Junior): Enniskillen Royal Boat Club
Britannia (Men’s Fours, coxed, Club): Belfast Rowing Club
Silver Goblets (Men’s Pairs, Open): Mark O’Donovan and Shane O’Driscoll (Skibbereen)
Hambleden Pairs (Women’s Pairs, Open): Sadhbh O’Connor and Natalie Long (NUIG and Skibbereen)
Double Sculls (Men’s Double, Open): Nathan Hull and OJ Dix (Queen’s, Belfast and Leander)
Stonor Trophy (Women’s Double Sculls, Open): Fiona Chestnutt, CK Knight (Reading Univ and Newcastle Univ)
Diamond Sculls (Men’s Single, Open): Callum McCrae (Cambridge Univ Lightweight RC)
Princess Royal (Women’s Single, Open): Orla Hayes (Skibbereen)
Mark O'Donovan
Shane O'Driscoll
Commercial and Castleconnell Win Thrilling Races at Metro Regatta
#Rowing: Commercial won the men's eight in a close and exciting final race of Metropolitan Regatta at Blessington today. UCD and the Irish champions were neck and neck in the final stages, but UCD had the advantage until the sprint to the line, which Commercial won.
The concluding session of finals featured an even closer race.
In the women's four, two junior crews hit the line with just .297 of a second between them. Bann, on the far side of the course from the viewing area, saw their lead snatched away by Castleconnell.
Kenmare's Georgia O'Brien (20) won her singles sculls final with much more to spare, though the second placing gave Aoife Moloney of Commercial victory in the junior 18 rankings.
There were also big margins of victory for Lagan in the men's quadruple and Anna Liffey in the women's pair.
Shane Haugh and James O'Donovan won the men's double. Last weekend O'Donovan was part of the Ireland coxed four which took silver at the European Junior Championships.
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UCD Fours Best at Metro Regatta
#Rowing: UCD fours won on the double at Metro Regatta today. The club in blue and saffron took the Division One men's coxless four in a battle with Commercial, while their coxed four also won. Bann's junior 18 eight were the top women's crew, while the women's quad and coxed four from Commercial also won. Killorglin's Rhiannon O'Donoghue and Anna Tyther, both outstanding juniors, were the fastest double. The men's single saw Kealan Mannix of the University of Limerick take the honours in this 150th anniversary regatta, ahead of Niall Beggan of Commercial. Trinity's Mark Quigley and Adam Browne won the men's pair.
Commercial Senior Eight Resist Strong UCD Challenge
#Rowing: Commercial beat UCD and Cork Boat Club to take the men's eights at Skibbereen Grand League Regatta at the National Rowing Centre today. Commercial seemed to be in a commanding lead coming up to the viewing area, but UCD chased them down and were under two seconds behind at the finish, with Cork not much further back.
The women's eights went, as expected, to UCC, while Holly Davis, who is just 14, won the Division Two single sculls by a huge margin.
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Big 228 Boat Early Entry for Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta 2019, More Than Half are Visitors
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Niall Coleman's Flying Fifteen 'Flyer' from the National Yacht Club is one of 228 entries already received for next July's Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta on Dublin Bay Photo: Afloat.ie
With over six months to the first gun of Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta, 228 entries had been received by the close of the Super Early Bird Entry deadline of 31st December 2018.
The biennial regatta Chairman Don O'Dowd told Afloat.ie "compared to the same period in 2017, there are almost an additional 100 additional boats entered this time".
As Afloat.ie reported in mid-December, 75 entries had been received across 22 classes from 34 different clubs but a surge of entries has pushed the fleet to new heights at this early point.
What's perhaps an even stronger result for the Dun Laoghaire sailing festival is the fact 127 of these will be visitors to the town.
"127 of these will be visitors to the town"
RS Elites, for example, who will hold their UK National Championships have already their full complement of 30 boats entered.
58 yacht clubs are currently represented from the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, UK, Scotland, Wales, N.Ireland as well as National and local boats.
From the Dublin Bay area, the current local entry stands at National Yacht Club 34, Royal Irish Yacht Club 34, Royal St. George Yacht Club 31 and DMYC three.
The Super Early Bird draw will take place on the week commencing 7th January and all winners (with a prize of an entry refund) will be advised with all details of the draw posted on the event website.
Early bird discount entry fee available until 31st March 2019.
The full list of Entries is here Enter online here
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Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta 2021 Announces Format Changes for July Event on Dublin Bay
From the Baily lighthouse to Dalkey island, the bay accommodates six separate courses for 21 different classes racing every two years for the Dun Laoghaire Regatta.
In assembling its record-breaking armada, Volvo Dun Laoghaire regatta (VDLR) became, at its second staging, not only the country's biggest sailing event, with 3,500 sailors competing, but also one of Ireland's largest participant sporting events.
One of the reasons for this, ironically, is that competitors across Europe have become jaded by well-worn venue claims attempting to replicate Cowes and Cork Week.'Never mind the quality, feel the width' has been a criticism of modern-day regattas where organisers mistakenly focus on being the biggest to be the best. Dun Laoghaire, with its local fleet of 300 boats, never set out to be the biggest. Its priority focussed instead on quality racing even after it got off to a spectacularly wrong start when the event was becalmed for four days at its first attempt.
The idea to rekindle a combined Dublin bay event resurfaced after an absence of almost 40 years, mostly because of the persistence of a passionate race officer Brian Craig who believed that Dun Laoghaire could become the Cowes of the Irish Sea if the town and the local clubs worked together. Although fickle winds conspired against him in 2005, the support of all four Dun Laoghaire waterfront yacht clubs since then (made up of Dun Laoghaire Motor YC, National YC, Royal Irish YC and Royal St GYC), in association with the two racing clubs of Dublin Bay SC and Royal Alfred YC, gave him the momentum to carry on.
There is no doubt that sailors have also responded with their support from all four coasts. Running for four days, the regatta is (after the large mini-marathons) the single most significant participant sports event in the country, requiring the services of 280 volunteers on and off the water, as well as top international race officers and an international jury, to resolve racing disputes representing five countries. A flotilla of 25 boats regularly races from the Royal Dee near Liverpool to Dublin for the Lyver Trophy to coincide with the event. The race also doubles as a RORC qualifying race for the Fastnet.
Sailors from the Ribble, Mersey, the Menai Straits, Anglesey, Cardigan Bay and the Isle of Man have to travel three times the distance to the Solent as they do to Dublin Bay. This, claims Craig, is one of the major selling points of the Irish event and explains the range of entries from marinas as far away as Yorkshire's Whitby YC and the Isle of Wight.
No other regatta in the Irish Sea area can claim to have such a reach. Dublin Bay Weeks such as this petered out in the 1960s, and it has taken almost four decades for the waterfront clubs to come together to produce a spectacle on and off the water to rival Cowes."The fact that we are getting such numbers means it is inevitable that it is compared with Cowes," said Craig. However, there the comparison ends."We're doing our own thing here. Dun Laoghaire is unique, and we are making an extraordinary effort to welcome visitors from abroad," he added. The busiest shipping lane in the country – across the bay to Dublin port – closes temporarily to facilitate the regatta and the placing of six separate courses each day.
A fleet total of this size represents something of an unknown quantity on the bay as it is more than double the size of any other regatta ever held there.
Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta FAQs
What is Dun Laoghaire Regatta?
Dun Laoghaire Regatta is Ireland's biggest sailing event. It is held every second Summer at Dun Laoghaire Harbour on Dublin Bay.
When is Dun Laoghaire Regatta?
Dun Laoghaire Regatta is held every two years, typically in the first weekend of July.
Where is Dun Laoghaire Regatta held?
As its name suggests, the event is based at Dun Laoghaire Harbour. Racing is held on Dublin Bay over as many as six different courses with a coastal route that extends out into the Irish Sea. Ashore, the festivities are held across the town but mostly in the four organising yacht clubs.
How big is Dun Laoghaire Regatta?
Dun Laoghaire Regatta is the largest sailing regatta in Ireland and on the Irish Sea and the second largest in the British Isles. It has a fleet of 500 competing boats and up to 3,000 sailors. Scotland's biggest regatta on the Clyde is less than half the size of the Dun Laoghaire event. After the Dublin city marathon, the regatta is one of the most significant single participant sporting events in the country in terms of Irish sporting events.
How old is Dun Laoghaire Regatta?
The modern Dublin Bay Regatta began in 2005, but it owes its roots to earlier combined Dublin Bay Regattas of the 1960s.
How many boats compete at Dun Laoghaire Regatta?
Up to 500 boats regularly compete.
How many yacht clubs are represented at Dun Laoghaire Regatta?
Up to 70 different yacht clubs are represented.
Where do the yachts come from to compete at Dun Laoghaire Regatta?
The Channel Islands, Isle of Man, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Ireland countrywide, and Dublin clubs.
How many boats are visiting boats at Dun Laoghaire Regatta?
Nearly half the sailors, over 1,000, travel to participate from outside of Dun Laoghaire and from overseas to race and socialise in Dun Laoghaire.
What type of yachts race in Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta?
21 different classes are competing at Dun Laoghaire Regatta. As well as four IRC Divisions from 50-footers down to 20-foot day boats and White Sails, there are also extensive one-design keelboat and dinghy fleets to include all the fleets that regularly race on the Bay such as Beneteau 31.7s, Ruffian 23s, Sigma 33s as well as Flying Fifteens, Laser SB20s plus some visiting fleets such as the RS Elites from Belfast Lough to name by one.
What famous sailors race in Dun Laoghaire Regatta?
Some sailing household names are regular competitors at the biennial Dun Laoghaire event including Dun Laoghaire Olympic silver medalist, Annalise Murphy. International sailing stars are competing too such as Mike McIntyre, a British Olympic Gold medalist and a raft of World and European class champions.
How much does it cost to enter Dun Laoghaire Regatta?
There are different entry fees for different size boats. A 40-foot yacht will pay up to €550, but a 14-foot dinghy such as Laser will pay €95. Full entry fee details are contained in the Regatta Notice of Race document.
Where can spectators view Dun Laoghaire Regatta?
Spectators can see the boats racing on six courses from any vantage point on the southern shore of Dublin Bay. As well as from the Harbour walls itself, it is also possible to see the boats from Sandycove, Dalkey and Killiney, especially when the boats compete over inshore coastal courses or have in-harbour finishes.
How does Dun Laoghaire regatta compare to international regattas?
Very favourably. It is often compared to Cowes, Britain's biggest regatta on the Isle of Wight that has 1,000 entries. However, sailors based in the north of England have to travel three times the distance to get to Cowes as they do to Dun Laoghaire.
Why is Dun Laoghaire Regatta so unique?
Dun Laoghaire Regatta is unique because of its compact site offering four different yacht clubs within the harbour and the race tracks' proximity, just a five-minute sail from shore. International sailors also speak of its international travel connections and being so close to Dublin city. The regatta also prides itself on balancing excellent competition with good fun ashore.
Who organises Dun Laoghaire Regatta?
The Organising Authority (OA) of Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta is Dublin Bay Regattas Ltd, a not-for-profit company, beneficially owned by Dun Laoghaire Motor Yacht Club (DMYC), National Yacht Club (NYC), Royal Irish Yacht Club (RIYC) and Royal St George Yacht Club (RSGYC).
What does Dun Laoghaire Regatta contribute to the local economy?
The Irish Marine Federation launched a case study on the 2009 Volvo Dun Laoghaire Regatta's socio-economic significance. Over four days, the study (carried out by Irish Sea Marine Leisure Knowledge Network) found the event was worth nearly €3million to the local economy over the four days of the event. Typically the Royal Marine Hotel and Haddington Hotel and other local providers are fully booked for the event.
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A press release by the Corporation’s spokesman, Dr. Kennie Obateru, stated that the stakeholders gave the commendation at a stakeholders’ meeting which held at the NNPC Towers, Abuja.
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Speaking earlier, the GMD NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari, disclosed that concrete steps have been taken to address the main concerns of marketers, especially the issue of availability of forex, stressing that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has already taken the first step of merging all forex windows to have a unified exchange rate.
“It is really not in our interest to be the sole importer of PMS in the country. We have taken definite steps to exit the situation. This is a definite step taken and the details would be communicated to stakeholders like MOMAN, DAPMAN, IPMAN and others outside this forum,” Mallam Kyari stated.
On the issue of subsidy on forex for marketers, he explained that the government spent N2.13trillion from 2016 to 2019, describing the situation as unsustainable and unprogressive.
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Dharmadam: A Place of Dharma or Ethics
Dharmadam: An anchored island in the sea of cultural history
Dharmadam is a tiny island off the coast of Malabr near Thalassery. It floats poignantly like a green offshoot or an anchored ship a few hundred meters away from the mainland. It is situated just south of Muzhupilangad beach, the only drive in beach in Kerala. The beach sand is darker and binding with scattered laterite formations. People walk to the island during low tide. It is part of a laterite projection into the Arabian sea between the two arms of the river Anjarakandy. The northern arm of the river is also called Dharmadam river by the local population.
Geologically special: Unique laterite formations and dark and rigid beach sand
I visited this historic and enigmatic islet on Sunday, 13 Feb. 2011 with Jaime Chithra at noon. The laterite rock formations carved out by the waves over thousands of years appear like relics of an ancient civilization. This reminiscence of natural history points towards the greater legacies of cultural history associated with this unique and strategic geo-political location and geographic formation .
The river mouth of Anjarakandi puzha/Dharmadam puzha
The very name says it all. Dharmadam means the place of Dharma or ethics in the Buddhist sense. It was the space and abode of the ethical philosophy and praxis of Buddhism or the extremely pacified religion of Jainism during the Sramana cultural phase of Kerala from BC fourth century to the eighth or tenth century AD when these ethical cultures were devastated by invading Brahmanism that converted dynasties to Hinduism and created its notorious sexual colonies among Sudras that ensured their lasting slavery. Historians have identified it as Srimoola Vaasam the southern seat of the Buddha in Indian peninsula. But places like Thrikkunnapuzha, Thottappally and Thirumullavaram in the south coast are also tentative locations.
Laterite relics resonant with history
Fortunately the linguistic evidences are still surviving in and around Dharmadam and Malabar which abound in place names connected to ‘Pally’ or non Hindu worshiping places. The Brahmanic Hindu conquest and its hegemonic erasures could not obliterate the linguistic markers and a few place names related to Pali language, the language used by Buddhist missionaries in the south. It is also important to remember that places like Dharmasthala are still existing a few hundred miles north east in the ancient Tulunadu along with other Jain reminiscences in Moodbidre, Karkala and Sravanabelgola. The Pali and Prakrit linguistic traces are still surviving in Tulunadu and Kolathunadu as they are in the southern regions of present Kerala.
According to Dr Santhosh Manichery, a researcher and teacher from Govt. Brennen College, Thalassery Dharmadam had been a place of immense importance in relation to the Buddhist past of Malabar. The place names of Pallykkunnu, Kattampally, Kunjipally, Mullappally etc. in and around Kannur also substantiate this argument with other evidences drawn from linguistic archaeology and local oral narratives of the subaltern. According to M P Kumaran a local historian the place name Dharmadam is a shortened form of Dharma Pathanam a synonym for pepper in Amarakosa as the place was the center of pepper trade from the Sangham ages onwards. Kumaran master also locates Dharmadam as the eroded port of Tyndis or Tundis as recorded in Roman and western writings on Malabar (Kumaran 1998: 24).
It is also notable that the place was so special for Kolathiris or Nannans of Ezhimala whose original ancestry was Buddhist and non Brahmanic/Hindu as clearly established by Mooshika Vamsa of Athulan written in the 11th century. It is important to mark here that Sramana traditions sustained well into the 12th century as this vital text proves. At the wake of the 17th century The Portuguese, the Dutch, the French and the English competed to gain control over this strategic point on the Malabar coast. It was also with Arakal Beevi of Kannur (the only Muslim dynasty of Kerala) and Mysore for a short span in the 18th century. Soon after the Srirangapatanam treaty of 1792 it again fell into the hands of the British.
Whatever be its colonial legacies it is one of the last surviving sacred spaces historically linked to Buddhism/Jainism in Malabar. With the increasing Sanskritization and Hinduization of local shrines and Bahujan temples the invaluable traditions and traces of Sramana culture are getting obliterated everyday. Even the chants of Theyyams have become Sanskritic, Hindu hegemonic and elitist today. Neo Brahmanism and Savarna elite cultural hegemony colonize the minds through every discourse and mass media in society.
History repeats itself: Saffron flag coming up at Dharmadam
Amidst all these erasures and silences and evasions in our cultural history Dharmadam adorns a significant and self articulating space and voice that point towards the ethical and egalitarian past of Kerala and the shared historical legacies of South India. It must be protected for posterity as an invaluable heritage site of immense significances in relation to natural and cultural history by the cultural wings and environmental departments of the Government and international bodies like the UNESCO as it is done in the Cochin-Muziris heritage project. It was Sahodaran Ayyappan the seminal voice of Kerala renaissance who reminded all Keralites almost a century ago by radically rereading his own teacher in the following re-articulation:
No caste, no religion, no god
But Dharma, Dharma and Dharma …
Yes, Dharmadam is there to welcome the ethically inclined in the past, present and future.
Kumaran, M P. Kolathupazhama. Thrissur: Kerala Sahitya Akademi, 1998.
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Cris Cyborg Would Love To Fight Kayla Harrison At Lightweight
Bellator featherweight champion Cris Cyborg is open to a potential fight with PFL lightweight champion Kayla Harrison.
Cyborg had a solid 2020, winning the Bellator title by beating Julia Budd at Bellator 238 a year ago, and then successfully defending her title in October at Bellator 249, submitting Arlene Blencowe in the second round.
Harrison, on the other hand, almost spent the whole year on the sidelines as a result of the PFL calling off their entire 2020 season due to the global coronavirus pandemic. However, she was allowed to fight Courtney King at Invicta FC 43, where she won via a second round TKO.
Subpar Competition
The two time Olympic gold medalist has racked up an impressive 8-0 record in MMA, but speaking on her YouTube channel (as transcribed by MMA Fighting), Cyborg said that Harrison is getting subpar competition.
“I saw she made the weight,” Cyborg said, referring to Harrison dropping down to featherweight for the first time in her last fight. “A couple fights I’ve seen her. I believe she’s fighting girls under, below her skill. The girls aren’t on her level but she’s doing great. This is a strategy of her manager.”
Fighting Harrison
Although she has predominantly competed at featherweight throughout her illustrious career, winning titles in Invicta FC, Strikeforce, the UFC, and Bellator, Cyborg says she is however willing to move up to lightweight for the first time in her MMA career to fight Harrison.
“I believe this year she’s gonna fight for PFL,” Cyborg said. “She’s gonna be in a tournament at 155 [pounds], and if she becomes the champion of this tournament, for sure I would like to make a match with her that all the fans would like to watch.
“I would like to go to ’55. Before I retire, I want to help build the division and if she is young, let’s see if she would like to do a match, one real match for her… I’ve never had the opportunity. All the people told me go below, below, below. For me, I walk 170, 175… I never had the chance. This is one dream that could come true.”
Harrison is also down to fighting Cyborg. In an interview with MMA Junkie last November, the 30 year old said that she has her Brazilian counterpart on her radar.
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Fortnite is such a popular game that, every country would want to play it in their own language. So, the main reason is to how to change the language on fortnite ps4.
There are many reasons for Fortnite’s popularity. It has fast-paced mechanics and really cool graphics. Those who like survival games would love this game as well; players get to battle against each other, until the last man.
Fortnite is available in multiple languages; English is its default language. The other languages that users can set are French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.
1 How to Change Language on Fortnite PS4?
1.1 PS4
2 What’s in Fortnite?
2.1 Battle Royale
2.2 Party Royale
2.3 Creative
2.4 Save the World
How to Change Language on Fortnite PS4?
Be it Fortnite PS4, Xbox, or Nintendo Switch, changing a language is very easy. All the user has to do, is follow the simple steps given below:
Open Fortnite, and then the home screen
On the upper right corner, you will a three-line icon (you might see the main menu)
Select the option of Settings, and click on the ‘Game’ tab
Scroll down, and you will see the Language tab
Select the language that you want to choose, by just clicking on the right and left arrow
When you have made the selection, click on apply and then restart the game for the changes to take effect
If you are playing Fortnite on PS4, then you should follow the steps below:
Go to the toolbar
Press the X button on the icon ‘adjustments’
Scroll down, and select ‘language’
Press the X button above ‘System Language’
Select the language that you want
Go back to PS4’s main screen
Start the game, and it will run in the language you have chosen
The place of the settings in each device is the same. Regardless of the device the user is using, be it Xbox or Nintendo Switch, they can easily change the language in Fortnite. However, before making such a change, know that each and every control would translate in that language.
If you are trying to change the language into one you don’t understand, then you might face problems in changing it back.
Now that we know how to change the language in Fortnite, it is best to learn more about its features.
What’s in Fortnite?
When you first heard about the game, and how famous it became, you might wonder what is so special about it. This article is further going to explain the different features of the game, and what appeals to the main audience about it.
Fortnite has given players a different and diverse world of experience. In this game, players can hang out with their friends, and create a world of their own. They also have to save the world, by fighting monsters along with other players.
This is one of the four major modes in the game. It is available both on PC and mobile. The battle takes place on an island, where the players fight until one remains. They can even team up with other players and fight other teams.
In this Battle of Royale, players can use weapons, vehicles, special events, and Seasons. Every Season has a different theme, like the giant flood.
Party Royale
In Battle Royale, the players will encounter Party Royale. As the name suggests, this mode is all about chilling and having fun.
There are boat races, movies, live concerts, and obstacle courses that the players can enjoy. Party Royale is a free mode, which makes it more appealing for users.
This mode in Creative puts the player in charge of their own island, and they get to make their own game and rules. Players can invite their friends, and enjoy the complex or simple game that they have created.
One player can experience the game that their friends have made, or other players have made in the Fortnite community.
This is the most exciting part of the game, as a player teams up with other players and fight hordes of monsters. These monsters are called Husks, and the players can get stronger when they find loot or craft weapons.
They can even build a base, to trap the Husks and fight with them. This is the most played mode by gamers because they get to team up with other Fortnite players.
This multiplayer game is available in different languages, and everyone has fun playing it!
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Ugo Introini, MD, Giuseppe Casalino, MD
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Chair: Prof Francesco Bandello
Serous PED in AMD
Retinal pigment epithelial detachment (PED) is part of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) clinical spectrum.
However, different types of PED have been reported in the literature and they have been either related or not with AMD.
Serous PED is defined as an area of sharply demarcated, dome-shaped serous elevation of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). The histopathology of serous PED is consistent with the detachment of the RPE basement membrane, along with the overlying RPE from the remaining Bruch’s membrane due to accumulation of fluid(1).
The presence of this lesion is a negative prognostic factor for AMD in terms of visual acuity outcome.
While no definite therapeutic indications have been set so far, early detection of serous PED is important for the prognosis and the management of patients with AMD.
In AMD, serous PED can be either associated or not with choroidal new vessels (choroidal neovascularization – CNV). However, the vascularised type is by far the most observed.
Several theories regarding the relationship between serous PED and CNV have been proposed.
To explain its pathogenesis, Gass theorized the growth of new vessels from the choroid (Type 1 neovascularization (NV)) inside the Bruch’s membrane thickness, that actively leak, increasing the hydrostatic pressure and causing RPE detachment among the less adherent layers(2).
This concept has been later supported by the evidence that the development of CNV comes with inflammatory mechanisms that add more damage to Bruch’s membrane, supporting RPE separation from the inner collagenous layer(3-5).
When the growth of new vessels starts from the inner retina, more recently described as Type 3 NV and also known as retinal angiomatous proliferation (RAP), it has been hypothesized that the serous PED formation, which is very frequently associated, can be related to RPE invasion by the neovascular complex6-8).
By contrast, other authors observed that the presence of PED can represent a pre-existing condition that can promote CNV growth through a further Bruch’s membrane damage, expression of the same ongoing disease(9,10).
Although the pathogenesis of the PED is not completely understood, from these studies the formation of NV seems to be a pivotal moment.
At fundus examination, serous PED appears as a round or oval, distinct dome-shaped area of regular detachment of the RPE and the overlying neurosensory retina, with yellow to orange color and smooth surface. Margins are typically sharply demarcated; and focal RPE atrophy and pigment figures are frequently observed(9,11).
However, the concomitant presence of NV can generate a variety of associated ophthalmoscopic aspects, such as hemorrhagic and exudative components, areas of irregular elevation of the RPE and serous detachment of the surrounding neuroretina.
Presentation of Type 1 NV located at the margin of the PED may vary, usually resulting in a reniform or notched aspect, or a flat-sided RPE detachment(12).
Serous PED may be imaged by fluorescein angiography (FA), indocyanine green angiography (ICGA) and optical coherence tomography (OCT).
FA represents, however, the gold standard for diagnosis of serous PED.
Examined by FA, serous PED classically shows an early uniform hyperfluorescence of the entire lesion, slightly delayed compared to the background fluorescence, that progressively increases in brightness as the examination progresses (pooling).
Serous PED hyperfluorescence typically does not change in size or shape during the angiographic phases.
FA can also demonstrate the presence of NV, usually associated to serous PED as Type 1 NV, like areas of indistinct late subretinal staining, more evident when located at the margin of the RPE detachment or corresponding to the “notch”(11).
The presence of NV can be also deducted by the presence of an hemorrhagic component of the PED, the dark meniscus described by Gass(12).
However, a more precise localization of the neovascular component can be obtained with digital ICGA. Indocyanine green molecule has biophysical properties that, unlike fluorescein, make it useful to enhance vessels anatomy through RPE, blood and turbid exudation.
In detail, ICGA enables to better delineate the presence and the type of new vessels associated with a serous PED, and for this reason is considered a fundamental tool in the management of this disease(13-15).
On ICGA, serous PED appears as an hypofluorescent lesion, with sharply delineated margins, that remains constantly hypofluorescent during all the phases of the examination(16).
When the new vessels are not present, no signs of localized hyperfluorescent areas are detectable; the outline of the PED is sharply round and it is therefore considered a pure serous PED.
In AMD patients, Yannuzzi found an incidence of 4% of non-vascularized PED among serous PED(15).
When the neovascular component is present, it has been suggested the term vascularized PED(15),.which accounts to approximately 24% of newly diagnosed exudative AMD(17).
New vessels associated with serous PED are represented in different subtypes.
High-speed videoangiography with scanning laser ophthalmoscope appears as a precious tool that allows the ophthalmologist to identify the new vessel pattern and their angiographic behaviour(18).
Recognize the different types of NV, by distinguishing angiographic findings, is mandatory for the distinct natural course, visual prognosis and different response to the treatment of the three main kinds of new vessels associated to serous PED in AMD.
The most common type of new vessels associated with serous PED are those occurring from the choroid beneath the RPE monolayer(15-,17).
These new vessels have been recently classified as Type 1 NV and are by far the most common type of NV in AMD(19)(Figure 1).
Figure 1 - Vascularized PED with Type 1 NV. (A) FA, (B)ICGA and (C) OCT.
In the early phases, ICGA shows the NV feeder artery that arises from the choroidal circulation, and subsequently the draining venule.
At the same time the capillary network of the neovascular membrane can be detected.
Unlike fluorescein, indocyanine green leaks slightly and the NV hyperfluorescence is usually minimal, with the exception of some cases that show an intense leakage, considered as very active new vessels.
Frequently, in the late phases, a well-defined area of mild hyperfluorescence corresponding to the NV network can be appreciable.
The second type of new vessels complicating serous PED are the RAP(7,20-22), also referred as Type 3 NV(19).
These vascular lesions, as reported by various authors, may involve the outer retina and the RPE, through a progression that has been hypothesized to originate from the retinal circulation and/or choroid.
ICGA typically shows the presence of a “hot-spot”, due to the early hyperfluorescence of the intraretinal neovascular complex, that increases during the angiography, with an intense leakage in the late phases.
Its brightness is enhanced by the surrounding hypofluorescence of the underlying PED (Figure 2).
Figure 2 - Vascularized PED with Type 3 NV (RAP). FA (A) and ICGA early (B) and late phases (C and D).
In the late stages of the disease, the choroidal neovascular complex is typically connected with one or more retinal vessels which appear tortuous and dilated(7,22,23).
The Type 3 NV may be single or multiple, its origin is typically extrafoveal, and an intraretinal hemorrhage in correspondence of the neovascular lesion is frequently observed(20).
The third type of new vessels associated with serous PED in AMD is consistent with polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV)(24).
PCV is a peculiar form of CNV, characterized by the presence of orange, aneurismal, polyp-like round dilatations at the border of a branching vascular network of choroidal origin.
Although PCV affects more frequently middle-age black and asian populations, its clinical spectrum is expanded to whites, where it has been found to be present in 8-13% of patients with concomitant AMD lesions.
In these cases, when the manifestations attributable to both PCV and AMD are present, some authors consider PCV as a subtype of CNV in AMD(24,25).
Hemorrhagic manifestation is common in patients with PCV.
Serous PED associated with PCV shows frequently a blood level in the lower portion of the detachment.
ICGA is the state-of-the-art examination to distinguish the typical features of the two vascular components.
The vascular network is characterized by the presence of one or more aneurismal lesions that show a bright fluorescence since the early phases, followed in the late phases by a clearing of the dye, called “wash-out”, typical of this disease (Figure 3).
Figure 3 - Vascularized PED with PCV: FA (A) and early (B), mid (C) and late (D) phases of ICGA.
Nevertheless, some polyp-like structures can actively leak showing late staining of their walls and surrounding exudation.
The polypoidal lesions are usually located at the margin of the serous PED(26).
Recognition of these lesions is critical because of their different clinical course, prognosis and treatment response as compared to the other neovascular AMD subtypes.
OCT provides images that allow an exact correlation with the angiographic findings.
In cross-sectional OCT scans, serous PED appears as an optically empty dome-shaped elevation of the external high reflective band – the RPE, that steeply detaches from Bruch’s membrane(26).
The overlying retina, usually adherent to the bullous PED, at the margins of the lesion, can be slightly detached from the underlying RPE.
More additional information can be provided by OCT in vascularized PED(28).
The tomographic sections, guided by FA and ICGA in the area corresponding to the CNV, show a smoother elevation of the RPE, continuous with the serous detachment, with a deeper backscattering, due to the presence of the fibrovascular tissue.
Hyporeflective areas of homogeneous optically empty spaces referable to fluid accumulation are frequently present in the intraretinal and subretinal spaces(29).
Intraretinal optically empty spaces are more pronounced when the serous PED is associated with a Type 3 NV, especially with cystic shape (Figure 4).
By positioning the scan line corresponding to the “hot-spot”, the neovascular abnormality is represented as a dense or hyperreflective pre-epithelial zone in the inner retinal layers, where the outer hyperreflectant layers are no longer detectable(30).
The RPE close to that lesion shows frequently effractions or interruptions in its hyperreflective layer(31).
The retinal topographic measurement sustains an increased retinal thickness.
In eyes with serous PED and PCV, the polypoidal lesions show a sharp protrusion of RPE, similar to the PED but steeply sloped.
The polyps cavity, usually optically empty, is contiguous to irregular RPE elevation, expression of the occult neovascular component of the lesion(32,33).
Subretinal and intraretinal fluid, observed as hypofluorescent optical empty areas, are related to the PCV activity (Figure 4-B).
Figure 4 - Type 3 NV (RAP) (left) and PCV (right): OCT and ICGA patterns.
The recent introduction of OCT angiography (OCT-A) has made it possible to image perfusion of the different retinal layers, without injection of the dye and by utilizing endoluminal flow as intrinsic contrast.
Figure 5 provides an example of how OCT-A image the choroidal network in a case of PCV.
Figure 5 - Serous PED and recurrent PCV (FA, OCT, ICGA and OCT-A). On the top, OCT scan acquired simultaneously with FA; On the bottom, appearance of the polyps profile on OCT-A (left) and ICGA (right).
However, the static nature of this examination and the presence of possible artefacts are important limitations that should be acknowledged.
With regard to serous PED, shadowing due to loss of signal transmission in correspondence of the PED may make it difficult to detect the CNV complex on OCT-A (Figure 6).
Figure 6 - Vascularized PED and serous PED with Type 1 NV (FA, ICGA and OCT-A) . On the top, FA (left) shows dye pooling due to presence of a serous PED; ICGA (top middle and right) shows a neovascular network on the edge of the PED (notch); On the bottom, OCT-A does not provide a definite imaging of the neovascular net.
Serous PED natural course depends on the presence or not of the neovascular component(34).
In pure serous PED there is generally a slow enlargement of the lesion, with a minimal progression of visual loss over a long period (months or years).
However, many can subsequently develop neovascularization, which make it worse(35).
Natural course in vascularized PED may vary, and it is related to the type of new vessels associated.
The most common acute complication of PED is the tearing of the RPE(36-39).
It usually occurs at the edge of the PED, at the intersection of the detached and attached RPE.
Clinically, RPE tear or rip appears as a well-defined area of bare choroid, contiguous to a darker hyperpigmented rugate area, that corresponds to the mound of the RPE that has torn away(40,41).
The ripped RPE usually rolls towards the CNV, and its propensity to tear can be predicted by the observation of pre-tear characteristics, such as an increase in the size and a modification in the shape, the presence of small holes at the PED margins, the presence of hemorrhages or subretinal fluid, but the most noteworthy aspects are the irregular filling of the PED visible at the FA, height of PED > 580 nm, duration > 4.5 months, hyperreflective radial lines on near reflectance imaging, smaller ratio of vascularized PED and anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) therapy(42-46).
RPE tears occurs either spontaneouslyor after a treatment, formally laser photocoagulation, photodynamic therapy and intravitreal injection of steroids or anti-VEGF agents(47- 58).
The exact pathogenesis of RPE tears is poorly understood.
Concerning PEDs’ natural course, it has been hypothesized that tangential shearing forces in the PED can cause the break of the RPE basement membrane at the edge of the detachment; however, it is more likely the result of several variables, where the presence of a CNV plays a major role.
Several causal relationships have been reported for RPE tears occurring after treatment, including the heat generated by photocoagulation, the abrupt increase of intra-PED fluid, a contraction of the associated CNV and the concomitant sudden resolution of the sub RPE fluid.
The combining presence of vitreomacular traction and the deformation of the globe due to the mechanical trauma by the needle have also been reported as causative agents(59).
After RPE rips, the majority of patients complain of a sudden severe visual decrease.
In a small percentage of eyes, where the tear spares the fovea, patients can experience a temporary preservation of good visual function(60).
However, in the long term, the progression of a subretinal scar leads to a severe visual decrease. In the prognosis of serous PED, it must be also considered the high risk of bilateral involvement(61).
Treatment of serous PED, associated or not with CNV, has always been a challenge and so far there are no recommended guidelines for their management.
Pure serous PEDs have been treated in the past with laser grid or scattered photocoagulation, nevertheless with disappointing results(61).
Treatment of serous PED, associated or not with CNV, has always been challenging and there are no recommended guidelines for their management so far. Pure serous PEDs have been treated in the past with laser grid or scattered photocoagulation, with disappointing results(62).
No other approaches have been attempted to treat these lesions.
When a neovascular net is present, treatment of serous PED has been focused on CNV management. However, given that vascularized PEDshave never been included in the major randomized controlled trials, we need to make the treatment decision based on small series published, which are often retrospective and do involve different therapeutic approaches.
Now, in the anti-VEGF therapy era, all the previous employed treatments appear unsatisfactory.
Laser photocoagulation has been widely employed and might still have a limited indication when an ICGA-well defined CNV lies remote to the detached RPE(63).
Verteporfin photodynamic therapy (PDT) alone has been proved to be harmful, increasing the risk of RPE tear, hemorrhages and sudden visual acuity decrease(39,48,49,64) (Figure 7).
Figure 7 - Vascularized PED with CNV (Type 1 NV) before (left) and after (right) PDT: RPE tear (FA and OCT).
However, PDT combined with intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide injection (IVTA) has been demonstrated as potentially capable of visual acuity stabilization and recurrences reduction(65).
Nevertheless, the high rate complications (cataract and glaucoma) has reduced the use of intravitreal triamcinolone.
After the encouraging results obtained with the anti-VEGF intravitreal therapy in the treatment of occult CNV, the use of anti-VEGF treatment have been extended to vascularized PED with disappointing results(66-69).
Both acute complications and poor anatomical response to the treatment frequently invalidate our attempts to heal the lesion. RPE tears and subretinal hemorrhages have been reported to complicate intravitreal ranibizumab and bevacizumab treatments(51-57).
Moreover, the sub-RPE fluid hardly responds to the anti-VEGF therapy, possibly due to the hydroconductivity changes of Bruch’s membrane(69).
In a retrospective case series of 328 patients treated with bevacizumab, ranibizumab, pegaptanib and PDT+IVTA respectively, after a mean follow-up of 42.4 weeks, the authors reported a significant stabilization of visual acuity in each group, better in the bevacizumab and ranibizumab ones compared to the other two, and an overall RPE tears frequency of 12.5%.
However, they conclude that with these treatments, only a partial regression of the lesions can be obtained, and the risk of RPE tears is not avoided(69).
Another retrospective study(58). reviewed patients outcome of vascularized PED treated with PDT alone, PDT combined with IVTA or intravitreal anti-VEGF injections alone (bevacizumab or ranibizumab) and showed better functional results for the anti-VEGF treatment group.
Moreover, in this series, Type 1 NV with vascularized PED as compared to Type 3 NV, along with a better visual acuity at baseline, showed greater risk of acute RPE tear after treatment(58).
In a recent prospective study(19), treatment of PED associated with subfoveal Type 1 NV with intravitreal ranibizumab injection and with a 3-monthly loading phase and a pro re nata strategy led to only partial results over a 24-month follow-up.
Recently several studies have investigated the efficacy of intravitreal aflibercept therapy of PED in AMD showing good anatomical response with improvement or no significant change in visual acuity(70-73).
Moreover, intravitreal aflibercept has been shown to be a promising treatment in PED resistant to intravitreal ranibizumab treatment(72-74)..
Several studies have identified factors which might influence response of PED to anti-VEGF treatment(75-78).
Dirani et al.(75) showed that better visual improvement was associated with lower baseline visual acuity, presence of subretinal fluid and RAP. Moreover, in their series, PED reduction was associated with higher PED at baseline, predominantly serous PED and use of aflibercept.
Cho et al.(76), in a recent case series, found that lower PED height at baseline, PCV or RAP compared to typical neovascular AMD, serous PED compared to fibrovascular PED, and aflibercept compared to ranibizumab, have an higher chance of PED resolution during anti-VEGF treatment of PEDs.
However, in a recent post hoc analysis of a phase III randomized controlled trial(77), it has been shown that, at 24 months after initiation of anti-VEGF treatment, around half of the patients presenting PED at baseline showed complete resolution of PED regardless of PED status and height at baseline.
Recently Chen et al.(78) outlined the importance of differentiating eyes presenting RAP as they havebetter anatomical and functional outcomes with fewer injections as compared to PED with Type 1 NV.
In the future, new combination therapies and new therapeutic strategies, along with identification of new clinical biomarkers of response to treatment, will help to improve the prognosis of the patients affected by vascularized PED.
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... late father and mother, Vijayamma broke down into tears. YS Vijayamma's Emotional Tears, Hugs Son Jagan. YS Sharmila and Smt. August 19, 2013, 3:11 pm explore: Politics EC gangi reddy. ys vijayamma. Yeduguri Sandinti Jagan Mohan Reddy, the man of the moment in Andhra Pradesh, has witnessed a decade-long meteoric rise in politics. YSRCP honorary president YS Vijayamma who was present at the meeting to congratulate Sharmila on reaching a huge milestone in her mission explained how YSRCP president Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy was sent to prison with the unholy nexus between the Congress and the main Opposition Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and how they are preventing his release from jail. “Naalo-Naato-YSR” (YSR With Me, Within Me) is a book authored by Vijayamma, wife of late Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy. Earlier, YS Jagan, along with his family members, paid rich tributes to his legendary father at the YSR Ghat. Public life. Ys vijayamma ‘Naalo..Naatho YSR’ Sold Out, English Version Soon. More Latest Video News. Mr. YS Jagan Mohan Reddy, fondly known as Jagan to millions of Telugus in AP and elsewhere in the world, is a young politician of iron will coupled with an irrefutable commitment to the edifice of his father’s legacy and the principles of welfare state as focused and enunciated by YSR. Jaganmohan Reddy is married to YS Bharati, she is a politician and a member of the YSR Congress. Ysr Congress Party president Jagan Mohan Reddy paid floral tribute to his father and late chief minister Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy on his 65th birth aniverssary at his "samadhi" here on Tuesday.. Ysr Congress Party honorary president Y S Vijayamma, daughter Sharmila, daughter-in-law Bharathi, YSR's brother Vivekananda Reddy and other leaders observed silence and paid rich tributes to YSR. May 30, 2019 126 Shares. YS. I have received a copy of the book from her. After his father, former Andhra CM YS Rajasekhara Reddy’s death, YSR’s wife Vijayamma and Jagan had a public fallout with the Congress, and formed the YSRCP. Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy who died in a helicopter crash on September 2, 2009, served as the chief minister of erstwhile Andhra Pradesh from 2004 until his sudden death. Sharing an emotional post on twitter, the Chief Minister said, “On this 71st birthday, everyone remembers his valuable services. YS Bharathi Reddy. YS Bharathi recalled the services of her father Dr … YS Vijayalakshmi, the wife of late Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy, ... Tamil » Political » All you want to know about Vijayamma's YSR biography. YS Vijayalakshmi, the wife of late Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy, ... Telugu » Political » All you want to know about Vijayamma's YSR biography. His father was two time AP CM from year 2004 to 2009. She told Vijayamma to instruct her son YS Jaganmohan Reddy to stop his “Odarpu” yatra with immediate effect. Jaganmohan’s Father YS Rajashekar Reddy . YS Vijayamma Jagan YSRCP. YS Vijayamma begins indefinite fast over Telangana. Leave Feedback on this news. As part of his second-day tour in Kadapa district chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy along with his mother YS Vijayamma has paid rich tributes to his father late YS Rajasekhar Reddy at YSR memorial in Idupulapaya on Tuesday. They have … Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy paid tribute to his father YS Rajasekhar Reddy at Idupulapaya along with family members at the YSR Ghat. After his father’s untimely death in a helicopter mishap in September 2009, Jagan had started the tour of Andhra Pradesh to visit the homes of the people who died after hearing the news of his father’s death. Sharmila Reddy made headlines after she took up campaigning on behalf of the YSR Congress Party along with her mother Y. S. Vijayamma, in the absence of her elder brother Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy from June 2012 in Andhra Pradesh. Y S Vijayamma says she has written about less-known aspects of Y S Rajasekhara Reddy's life. Father Name – Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy; Mother Name – Y. S. Vijayamma; Sister Name – Y. S. Sharmila; Jagan Mohan Father as told earlier in this article is former CM of AP and is popularly known by the name YSR. IDUPULAPAYA: Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy unveiled a book, Naalo...Naatho YSR (Within me...With me YSR), a compilation of memoirs of YS Vijayamma, on the occasion of Late Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy’s birth anniversary on Wednesday. Jagan has so far completed 294 days of his Padayatra covering 3211.5 kms in 12 districts. worship of God, winning peoples’ heart, the span from being the PCC President to Chief Minister and the pulls and pressures there on, Praja Prasthanam, his affection towards Sri YS Jagan, Smt. As he gears … We have lost his father and shudder at the thought of missing him,” Vijayamma said. The alleged dramatic increase in YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's wealth when his father was the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh had triggered demands from his Congress and Telugu Desam party rivals for a thorough probe. Jul 11, 2020. In 2011, the high court ordered a CBI probe against him, and cases were registered against him and his aides. CM YS Jaganmohan Reddy and his mother YS Vijayamma share an emotional moment at Idupulapaya in Kadapa on Wednesday. Share on Facebook. YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. YS Vijayamma has expressed confidence that YS Jagan will follow the principles of his father and he will become successful fulfilling the concerns of state people. Electoral debut. The book gives an account of how YSR handled the responsibilities as a son, father, brother, husband, son-in-law, father-in-law, friend and a leader. Their father, YS Raja Reddy, a well-known contractor and politician, was killed in a faction fight in 1998. Schemes Launched by YS Jagan Mohan Reddy. 08562-246699 (Kadapa) Ø Positions Held : Chief Minsiter, AndhraPradesh Jaganmohan Reddy’s Mother Y. S. Vijayamma . Hyderabad: YSR Congress Party chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy will embark on his campaign for the ensuing Lok Sabha and Assembly polls in Andhra Pradesh by paying tributes to his father YS Rajasekhara Reddy, iconic Telugu leader, on March 16 at his memorial in Idupulapaya. Jagan’s wife YS Bharathi, mother YS Vijayamma, family members and party leaders were present. ... a loving father and a revered leader,” Jagan said. The YSR Congress Party then won 15 of the 18 assembly seats and 1 of 1 Parliament seat for which the by-elections were held. Jaganmohan Reddy’s Sister YS Sharmila Reddy. (In pic: YS Jagan Mohan Reddy wife YS Bharathi and Mother YS Vijayamma happy mood after winning General election at Tadeepalli in Vijayawada) 3 / 6. CM to release YSR biography penned by Vijayamma. Referring to his popularity, and the victory he delivered for the Congress in the last state elections in 2009, Vijayamma has said, "YS Rajasekhara Reddy (Jagan's father) won … The family’s treatment by the Congress incensed Reddy and stirred the rebel in him. YS Vijayamma, honorary president of YSR Congress and widow of late Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy, Monday began an indefinite fast demanding the Centre refrain from bifurcating the state if it cannot render justice to all the regions. ... With me, YSR ), is a flow of thoughts bound in the form of a book written by Smt YS Vijayalakshmi, ... as a son, as a father, brother, husband, son-in-law, father-in-law, friend, leader… and how he used to mingle with them with ease and understanding. 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Airtel Partners UNAIDS to tackle mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Nigeria
Director, Resource Mobilization, National Agency for the Control of Aids (NACA), Dr. Emmanuel Alhassan; Legal Director & Company Secretary, Airtel Nigeria, Gbenga Rotimi; Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director, Airtel Nigeria, Segun Ogunsanya; Country Director, UNAIDS, Dr. Bilali Camara and Chief of Office, UNICEF, Sarah Beysolow-Nyanti during the signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding between UNAIDS and Airtel to eliminate Mother-to-Child transmission of HIV in Nigeria, at the Corporate Headquarters of Airtel Nigeria, yesterday, in Lagos
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and leading telecommunications
services provider, Airtel Nigeria, have partnered to support the National
Agency for the Control of AIDS in an initiative to ensure that no child is born with HIV in Nigeria.
The UNAIDS and Airtel partnership sealed
through a Memorandum of Understanding signed today will allow the Telco’s
subscribers to benefit from information on how and where to access prevention
of mother-to-child transmission of HIV services in Nigeria. The information
shall be disseminated through innovative and regular text messages.
In July
2011, a Global Plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among
children and keeping their mothers alive was launched at the United Nations
General Assembly Meeting on AIDS. On its part, Nigeria unveiled a National
Operational Plan in 2014 focused on eliminating mother-to-child transmission of
HIV and accelerating the implementation of similar efforts in the country.
The UNAIDS
partnership with Airtel Nigeria bolsters the Telco’s existing partnership with the
National Agency for the Control of AIDS (NACA), other government departments
and the Civil Society to boost Nigeria’s efforts at eliminating mother-to-child
transmission of HIV.
In 2013, Nigeria represented 22 per cent
of the global burden of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, although new
scientific evidence indicates the target to have zero new HIV infections among
children is achievable.
Director & Company Secretary, Airtel Nigeria, Gbenga Rotimi; Chief
Executive Officer & Managing Director, Airtel Nigeria, Segun
Ogunsanya and Country Director, UNAIDS, Dr. Bilali Camara during the
signing ceremony of a memorandum of understanding between UNAIDS and
Airtel to eliminate Mother-to-Child transmission of HIV in Nigeria, at
the Corporate Headquarters of Airtel Nigeria, yesterday, in Lagos
Chief Executive Officer and Managing
Director, Airtel Nigeria, Segun Ogunsanya, said the partnership will provide
Airtel with a new opportunity to deepen its commitment to touching the lives of
Nigerians positively, especially in the area of quality healthcare services
Airtel, we have a track record of supporting and empowering young people, who
are the future leaders of our country. We have adopted and built schools for
children; provided several interventions in the area of healthcare for hundreds
of kids while our Touching Lives programme has even offered us a more elaborate
platform to reach and connect with underprivileged children. Indeed, Airtel is
intensely interested in impacting society positively as this underscores our
corporate philosophy of becoming the most loved brand in the daily lives of
Nigerians,” Segun Ogunsanya, Chief
Executive Officer & Managing Director, Airtel Nigeria.
“NACA has worked in
strong partnership with Airtel since 2005. The partnership commencing today is a
new extension of the valued support that UNAIDS and Airtel are providing to the
HIV and AIDS response in Nigeria. Airtel’s decision to invest in keeping more
children and mothers healthy is a much welcome intervention.” – Prof.
John Idoko, Director General, the National Agency for the Control of AIDS
“Eliminating mother
to child transmission of HIV and keeping their mother alive do not only improve
the wellbeing of children and their mothers. They impact positively on the
general maternal and child survival.” – Dr.
Bilali Camara, UNAIDS Country Director for Nigeria and the UNAIDS Focal Point
for the ECOWAS
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Sunny Ruba is a new and welcomed addition to ATUNE in 2017.
Sunny is a qualified Physiotherapist, born and bred in Newcastle.
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The Truth About Matt LaFleur’s Wife – Nicki Swift
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Matt LaFleur is one of the youngest coaches to lead an NFL team, and, lead, did he, in 2020! LaFleur took over for the Green Bay Packers’ former head coach, Mike McVay, in 2019, according to NBCSports, and has since driven the Wisconsin team to a 10-3 record in the 2020-2021 season. “Where Is The Love? Green Bay Packers’ Matt LaFleur: A Forgotten Man For Coach Of The Year Honors,” proclaimed a passionate December 2020 Forbes headline. Much like his triumphant turn as head coach, LaFleur was also expected to stumble in his relationship with Packers quarterback and tabloid folly Aaron Rodgers, reported Fan Nation.
But after a 41-25 Packers-Chicago Bears win on Nov. 29, 2020, Rogers told LaFleur on a post-game Zoom call, “I think the beauty in this year is the subtleties of simplicity that I feel like [LaFleur] implemented in the offseason. It’s really allowed me to feel super-comfortable with the plan every week, with my responsibilities with my checks. I think that’s why I’ve been playing well.”
The 40-something LaFleur, Fan Buzz noted, joined the ranks of other significantly younger NFL coaches like the Rams’ Sean McVay and the Cardinals’ Kliff Kingsbury. LaFleur, handsome and young, which Men’s Variety noted, is married to BreAnne LaFleur. What do we know about Mrs. LaFleur? Read on to find out.
Matt LaFleur's wife made sacrifices for his NFL career
BreAnne LaFleur (nee Maak) is quite the supportive wife to her husband, Matt LaFleur. BreAnne, once a pharmaceutical rep in Ohio, according to a 2018 The Tennessean article, quit her job in 2008 so she could join Matt in Texas after he could become an offensive assistant to then-Houston Texans coach Gary Kubiak, Houston Chronicle reported in 2020. When LaFleur got offered the even-higher NFL position of quarterbacks coach with the Washington Redskins in 2020, the family once again uprooted.
BreAnne spoke to MLive about the sacrifices and challenges her husband’s career can bring, stating, “There’s a lot of work to do. I have a career (as a pharmaceutical representative), where there aren’t a ton of jobs available. Hopefully I can find a position where I can transfer. Then we have to get a moving company.”
The couple also shares two sons, Luke and Ty, and BreAnne often makes her social media followers aware of how much she loves her family. She dedicated a 2017 Father’s Day Facebook post to both LaFleur and his father, writing, “Happy Father’s Day to the main men in my life!! I am beyond blessed because of the impact you have all made on me… We love you Daddy, Big Papa, and Papa D!!!” It sounds like Coach LaFleur seemingly has it all — a winning first season, the admiration of his players, and the love of his devoted wife and sons.
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AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE JSS3
AGRICULTURAL LAND AND REFORMS.
LAND TENURE :land tenure is defined as the system of land ownership or land acquisition.
A farmer cannot do without land because both crops and livestock are raised on land.
TYPES OF LAND TENURE SYSTEM. (1)COMMUNAL LAND TENURE. In this system, land belongs to the community which may mean village, kindred or even clan. Every male adult belonging to the community is entitled to a portion of land for farming. No person has full right to ownership of the land in terms of using it to sell or obtain loans. This system is so disadvantageous that people that are not from that community cannot be given any portion for farming.
(2)INDIVIDUAL LAND TENURE.
This is a system where the land belongs to an individual. He may have acquired it through purchase or inheritance. The individual can use the land for any purpose at all whether for agricultural production,lease,rent,or out right sale.
(3)LAND TENURE ON INHERITANCE.
Here, the land is passed from father to his offsprings,from generation to generation. The owner of the land, can give out the land, or sell it, he can also use it as collateral to obtain loan.
Discuss three other types of land tenure system .
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Trope, Pages with broken file links, Smile Tropes,
Psychotic Smirk
Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
File:Light psychotic grin 8235.jpg
Exactly as planned.
Peter Sullivan: Why are you always smiling?
Connor Rooney: Because it's all so fuckin' hysterical...
—Road to Perdition
"...one may smile, and smile, and be a villain."
As far as the most devious and subtle of villains are concerned, when it comes to facial expression, less is more. A Cheshire Cat Grin only warns people that something's afoot; a Slasher Smile is even more glaringly obvious. No, when someone's about to walk straight into your Death Trap or your Evil Plan is about to pay big dividends, it's best to show your smug superiority with a devious little smile, probably behind your victim's/lackey's back, or behind your hand (or hands). Only the villain and the viewers know that alarm bells should be ringing in the good guys' heads - but hey, they're the enemy, why give them advance notice?
The Psychotic Smirk is a favorite with Big Bads everywhere. There's no need to broadcast just how dangerous they are - everyone's got a pretty good idea already, but no one can prove it. The important thing is to smile with only one side of the mouth. Sometimes, it's accompanied by a Finger Wag as if to say "Nice try, sucker" if the hero had attempted to defeat them.
Unfortunately, the understated effect is often ruined by an over-the-top Motive Rant when the penny finally drops for the heroes.
A particular type of Anti-Hero does this, too: the soft-spoken, underhanded ones who always know more than they let on, but never see fit to warn others of the danger.
See Sideways Smile for the generally less evil version.
Examples of Psychotic Smirk include:
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Alucard from Hellsing almost always has this, so much so that it's hard to distinguish this from his Slasher Smile.
The Major also sports one quite a lot. Pretty much everyone in the series has had one.
The Demons of Ah! My Goddess: Velsper and Hilde more so than Mara, who's a little too over-the-top to pull off the "subtle mastermind" shtick.
Kagato, in Tenchi Muyo!.
Anti-Hero type: Count D in Pet Shop of Horrors, particularly when he's manipulating a presidential candidate and his aide in Dual and when he tells a couple to "take good care" of their new pet rabbit/surrogate daughter in Daughter. In the anime, this is made even more creepy when the darkness of the screen emphasises his smirk and his mismatched, glowing eyes.
Xellos from Slayers is also an antihero version. Of course, he smiles all the time, so his smirks are definitely important when they show up, usually complimented by a slight opening of his eyes, another important visual cue.
Noa, villain of the Virtual Nightmare arc of Yu-Gi-Oh!!, has this expression when watching the misery of the heroes from the comfort of his cyber-throne. He gets it almost perfectly right.
Yami himself. An Anti-Hero example of this and he got it perfected.
Dio Brando from Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure, although after he drains Joseph of his blood he gets a Slasher Smile.
Dilandau Albetou from Vision of Escaflowne, frequently switches between his trademark Psychotic Smirk and a disturbing Slasher Smile.
Naraku from Inuyasha typically has this expression when he has the upper hand and isn't trying to trick the heroes into thinking he doesn't (which is pretty much always).
Legato Bluesummers from Trigun puts off several of these.
Gin Ichimaru from Bleach, always seems to have an enormous grin on his face. If that's not enough to give him away, his constantly slitted eyes will probably do it.
Aizen. If you see him smiling even a bit, turn heel and run, 'cause you only have seconds to live.
Piedmon from Digimon Adventure does this every time he's preparing his next move.
Takeru from Digimon Adventure 02 does a non-villainous smirk after the Digimon Kaiser whips his face. Much ass-kicking ensues.
Ken gets a rather Narm-filled scene where he kicks a puppy and then pulls this face. What a douche.
Light from Death Note. Three words: "Exactly as planned."
Also, Mello in the scene where his henchman is killing much of his opponent Near's team. In the anime, in the middle of the scene, while the dice are falling and the people are dying, it cuts to Mello, and a satisfied grin. Also chocolate. Always with the chocolate.
It's never certain whether Gendo Ikari is actually the Big Bad of Neon Genesis Evangelion, but this is an important facet of his character - every time you see the EVA units going into action, the camera cuts to Gendo seated at his desk, with a smile hidden behind his folded hands.
Lelouch Lamperouge in Code Geass loves doing this behind that Cool Mask of his. For good reason; whenever he does it without the mask it passes from awesome to terrifying.
We're introduced to that smile at the end of the first episode, when he grins just a little too evilly after Geassing the soldiers about to kill him into shooting themselves. It's the blood splashing onto his cheek that really does it.
Itachi from Naruto seems to consider this his favourite expression. Of course, he only has three; frowning, blank stare, and smirking. If he smirks...you're in trouble. Direct, immediate, trouble, that is. Most likely he's just reversed your attack and you're about to kill yourself unless you stop.
Suigetsu does this most of the time, usually one with his mouth closed if he's genuinely indifferent, or with it slightly open (showing off his shark teeth) if he's about to kill someone face an opponent he thinks he can easily beat. He usually only does otherwise if he's in some sort of danger.
And now, Sasuke sports one of these in 476, after crushing Danzo (but not really) for speaking ill of Itachi.
Kyuubi!Naruto sports an amazing one near the beginning of his fight with God Realm Pain. It's the middle right panel on this page. You don't get better Psycho Smirks than that.
If Akito from Fruits Basket (the manga, at least) smiles, this is usually the smile he chooses. Of course, if you take in what his eyes usually say ("I am so enjoying ripping your little psyche to shreds!"), it's a little more disturbing...
Vegeta's psychotic smirk was one of his trademarks as a villain, given just before blasting someone to Hell (or the Next Dimension, for those of you who go by the earlier dub).
Frieza's fourth and final form from Dragon Ball Z
Cell's final form on Dragonball Z seemed to do this all the time. There's one particular example on the cover of DragonballZ Budokai.
Fanon still considers it his signature expression.
Given that Vegeta almost never smiles, it pretty much is.
Gohan counts too (Super Saiyan 2 Gohan that is)
Aion from Chrono Crusade is very fond of this trope. So much so that it's when he stops smirking that you really have to be worried.
Moka Akashiya's Super-Powered Evil Side from Rosario to Vampire hardly smiles, but sometimes she does it to look frighting.
Made all the more frightening in the first season due to Art Evolution just starting...
Ukyo from Samurai 7 is fond of this. And it is creepy.
In Fullmetal Alchemist, Edward, Envy and Kimblee all do this at least once (but then again, we don't think we've ever seen Kimblee when he's not doing this).
In episode 62 of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, the camera focuses on Father doing this just before he unleashes a Wave Motion Gun on the heroes.
Mad Scientist Big Bad Jail Scaglietti of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha wears one of these on his face most of the time. He uses a particularly nice one when Due assassinates the founders of the Space-Time Administration Bureau.
Cypha from Force also has about ninety percent of the time. It's less endearing than Jail's.
The Trigger Happy Joichiro Nishi from Gantz wears one of these at all times, right up until his incredibly painful death. Though of course, he was Dead to Begin With...
Kiku Honda (Japan) of Axis Powers Hetalia does this very subtly in the anime while being very enigmatic. Coupled with his Monochromatic Eyes...
Russia is the king of this in the series. Almost anytime he smiles, his smile is like that of a serial killer. Or Hannibal Lector. Especially when he wants you to become one with him
He is only seen smiling one time without the underlying crazy. One time.
Psycho Lesbian Tsukuyomi of Mahou Sensei Negima often does this in her early appearances. Later on, it turns into a full Slasher Smile.
Occasionally Eva slips into this when things are going especially well for her. For example, right before having five of her ribs broken... putting the expression under this trope.
Alejandro Corner is fond of doing this as his plans unfold in Mobile Suit Gundam 00. And Ribbons starts copying it as soon as it becomes clear that he was just using Corner.
Gauron from Full Metal Panic, being the Smug Snake he is, has this as his constant default expression. Only broken when he's having one of his Slasher Smiles.
While almost everyone in Gintama does this from time to time, Okita and Takasugi probably do it the most.
Haruko from FLCL usually has one whenever she is fighting.
Tomomi Saikyo of Ladies versus Butlers!! is commonly seen with this when she is about to/planning to screw over a classmate of hers. It's hinted that she manipulated Akiharu Hino, a childhood friend, into saying, "I want to become a bride."
Characters driven insane in Soul Eater mainly get full-on Slasher Smiles. It's just the look that's used. In his moment of madness, Death the Kid gets a smirk not entirely unlike his expression when pleased under normal circumstances. Somehow this makes it worse.
Rock from Black Lagoon has started doing this.
Here in Kunisaki Izumo no Jijou, Kumedara gives one to Izumo before dragging him into drag.
Berserk: While the Slasher Smile is Guts's forte, Griffith has mastered the Psychotic Smirk, as seen here. Suits the Manipulative Bastard quite well.
Seto Freakin' Kaiba! Everytime he smiles, a puppy dies.
Orga Sabnak, Cortho Bauer, and Sting Oakley of Gundam Seed and Gundam Seed Destiny typically sport one of these. Both Cortho and Sting graduate to full on Slasher Smiles following the deaths of their teammates.
Marvel's Thanos of Titan combines the Psychotic Smirk with the Glowing Eyes of Doom (which occasionally has a smoking effect for the extra panache).
The Daredevil villain Bullseye does this a lot.
Batman's enemy The Riddler is fond of doing these.
Every now and again Big Bad Manipulative Bastard Ysanne Isard gets to do this.
Who could forget Ozymandias' classic smirk when Dan questions his ability to catch a bullet?
Darkseid does this a lot, too...
In Kyon: Big Damn Hero, all the Yakuza can do it, mainly because it implies that they can give you hell. Mori's smirk, on the other hand, can cause fear-induced paralysis, and she isn't even one.
Severa, from Knights and Dragons, a Percy Jackson and The Olympians fic, is like this. Permanently.
Emperor Palpatine from Star Wars does this quite a bit, one of the most notable examples would be when he was chuckling to himself behind Vader's back during the latter's infamous Big No.
Sean Miller, an Irish terrorist in Patriot Games, uses this on Jack Ryan during his own trial for murder and attempted kidnapping.
Arnold Vosloo's smirk is probably the main reason he got the part of Imhotep in The Mummy.
Although the fact that he looks rather tasty in a loin cloth probably didn't hurt, either.
The Villain Protagonist of Mr. Brooks employs a particularly impressive smirk during his Crowning Moment of Awesome.
Pretty much the whole point of Paranoiac is seeing Oliver Reed grin creepily.
Laurie has one of these at the end of the Halloween 2 remake.
Alex from A Clockwork Orange, most famously during the opening scene and the stroll with his droogs at the lake.
Robo-Maria from Metropolis, in every single scene she's in (Even while she's being burned at the stake!).
Loki in Thor and The Avengers is a master at the enigmatic, tight-lipped smile, although he shows a bit more teeth in The Avengers.
Most of the head looters in Atlas Shrugged. Especially Cuffy Meigs, Mr. Thompson, Dr. Floyd Ferris, and Balph Eubank. Along with the producers: Francisco D'Anconia, John Galt , and Hank Rearden.
Smerdyakov in The Brothers Karamazov has a habit of flashing these when he thinks he's making an irrefutable point. He can't help himself from grinning sickly here and there when he's giving Ivan a Heroic BSOD during his mind-blowing Motive Rant.
In James Swallow's Warhammer 40000 Deus Encarmine, when Arkio has touched the Spear of Telesto and briefly taken on the appearance of the primarch Sanguinius, much impressing his fellow Blood Angels, Inquisitor Stele can not keep "a thin, icy smile" from his lips.
In one of the Discworld books, this editor forgets which, Sybil Vimes catches her husband Sam smiling, and remarks, "I know that look. You're about to do something horrible to somebody, aren't you?"
In the Everworld series, the witch Senna almost never smiles. However, when she's using magic to attack or to control someone, she occasionally makes small smiles to herself. She never shows teeth, but they're so disturbingly described that they would probably qualify as a Slasher Smile if she was more open with them.
When Grand Admiral Thrawn smiles, which happens very rarely, it tends to be this. He's quite self-possessed.
This seems to be Draco Malfoy's default facial expression.
Artemis Fowl. That is all.
Lisbeth Salander's crooked half-smile.
Sylar from Heroes does this occasionally. Apparently, Sendhil Ramamurthy who plays Mohinder does a pretty good one, too!
One particularly memorable smirk came while he was shapeshifted as Micah to help him fake his death. For a split second, "Sylar" shows through. The kid nails it.
Lila from Dexter does this in a Revealing Hug with Dexter, having successfully gotten him to come to see her after he'd previously ignored her phone calls.
Benjamin Linus from Lost does this from time to time. The most obvious example would be when he flashes a psychotic smirk in season 4, after having masterfully convinced Sayid to become his personal assassin after they both leave the island.
Star Trek: Enterprise: Stiff-upper-lip tactical officer Malcolm Reed does this when taken over by a non-corporeal alien in The Crossing, and when he's just plain Mirror Universe evil in "In a Mirror, Darkly" (check out the scene where Reed watches his own ship get destroyed).
Male Yandere Masato Kusaka from Kamen Rider Faiz used to do this when he was trying to separate Takumi from his friends... until episode 30, when it morphed into a creepy Slasher Smile.
This seems to be the default expression of Ryan O'Reily in Oz, but seeing as he spends the entire series manipulating one side against the other it's hardly surprising.
Kerr Avon from Blakes Seven.
Within the first ten minutes of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Innocence", the Judge walks up to Angel, and tries to burn him. Since the Judge can only burn someone with humanity in them, it serves as a marker that Angel has lost his soul. He turns to Drusilla, and says "I'm back," with a very muted psychotic smirk.
Angelus also sports a particularly evil smirk when he's watching Buffy and Willow break down upon being told about Jenny's murder.
Jeremy Baines/Son of Mine of the Family of Blood is always wearing one of these, even after his defeat.
The Jacobi and Simm Masters enjoy doing this too, which is incredibly startling to see on the Jacobi version after he's played a kindly old man most of the episode.
Midnight has such a smirk on the face of whatever's possessing Sky whenever things are going well for it.
Hilary Briss on The League of Gentlemen, who has this hideous, almost mocking smile.
Anna Espinosa, a recurring antagonist on Alias, was fond of this trope. Sark, too, if memory serves.
On Merlin we have Morgana. Dear God Morgana. Everytime she does something evil her Psychotic Smirk goes on a rampage and smacks us in the face. Worse? She does it in broad daylight in front of the people she is convincing that she is still good. And they never notice it.
It does finally blow her cover when Gwen notices it.
The Trickster from Supernatural wears this a couple of times - there's a particularly good example in the episode Changing Channels.
Richard D. James ...just... Richard D. James.
In Professional Wrestling, Randy Orton's latest gimmick involves him viciously stomping the heads of other wrestlers (most of them legends), presumably giving them career ending concussions. Right before Orton does the move, he gets a sinister look in his eyes and gives a smirk.
In Bionicle, Lewa does a creepy smile which freaks Hafu out. Lewa's body was actually possessed by an Eldritch Abomination at the time, so he was Not Himself.
In Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards the ruler of Ripple Star does one of these behind Ribbon's back during the game's false ending.
Clyde from Army of Two. Just...Clyde.
Tsukihime: Nanaya Shiki. Usually more of an antihero than a villain, his smirk doesn't mean he knows more than he's letting on...it's just that he's going to love kicking/killing your ass.
Albert Wesker of the Resident Evil games loves this, especially in Resident Evil 0 and Code: Veronica. In both games, he's controlling a series of deathtraps that the player has to navigate through. He also smirks evilly when he takes on Code: Veronica's Big Bad; after finding himself over his head, he smirks and leaves the two of you alone to work out your differences.
This is Wong's default expression in Psychic Force. Guy's a very happy Chessmaster.
Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII tosses Cloud a cold, calculating smile as he basks in the flames of the protagonist's hometown (although Crisis Core retconned it slightly so it resembled more of a sorrowful or rageful expression).
In Advent Children, Sephiroth's Psychotic Smirk is clearly in evidence during his big fight with Cloud. That, a bit of Dissonant Serenity, and the fact that he never breaks a sweat or breathes heavy during this fight was supposedly done to show his immense strength.
Sephiroth also displays a charmingly evil smirk during his boss battle with Zack in Crisis Core.
Sephiroth is pretty much the king of this trope, and Rosso the Crimson is his queen.
Kain smiles for the first time in centuries in Legacy of Kain: Defiance, just before trumping Moebius for the last time. Or, as one Fauxtivational Poster put it, "Kain is smiling. Run for your lives."
Jeanette Voerman in Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines does a minxy one of these when sending you off on her schemes, Rawr.
Ishida Mitsunari from Sengoku Basara 3 does this in the opening amv after dealing swift death to a couple of mooks. He has a pretty mouth....
At the start of Mass Effect 2, Miranda is seen first conferring with The Illusive Man and then watching over Shepard with a genuinely warm smile. She reappears after losing contact trying to aid Shepard, flashes a smirk at Wilson, before killing him for trying to lead Shepard into a trap and abandon her to die.
A rare heroic example, perhaps, would be Commander Shepard him/herself. While the Renegade Shepard does this quite often, there are two particular occasions when even the Paragon Shepard cannot help but break out that signature Shepard smirk that says "I just saved the galaxy and I'm not even tired. What can you do, suckers?" These occasions are when Shepard emerges quite alive from the rubble after the battle with Saren/Sovereign and when Shepard tells the Illusive Man to go fuck himself right after blowing up the Collector base.
Mass Effect 3: When questioned by Admiral Hackett on how he got the krogan and salarians to cooperate (answer: by sabatoging the genophage cure), Shepard's response of "careful diplomacy" is accompanied by a Kubrick Stare and Psychotic Smirk.
Team Fortress 2's Mac Update trailer features a Scout that meets up with his team's Demoman and Heavy (who are enjoying music courtesy earbuds on thin, white wires), trades his clunky 1950s headset for a matching pair of sleek white earbuds, slings his bat over his shoulder, and unleashes the smirk.
Master Xehanort of Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep is nearly always wearing one of these.
Since Shadow the Hedgehog is supposed to be a darker version of Sonic the Hedgehog (Stalwart of the Sideways Smile), when he isn't scowling, he will occasionally drop one of these.
Bernkastel of Umineko no Naku Koro ni does this a whole lot after The Reveal.
This is the second of Hazama's three smiles, squeezed in between his unpleasant Cheshire Cat Grin and monstrous Slasher Smile.
Norman Jayden from Heavy Rain sports one of these in the ending "Uploaded" right after scaring the shit out of Carter Blake in ARI.
Alex Mercer does these from time to time. His habit of flashing them at victims when he believes them at his mercy means they border on slasher smiles a lot (and his dietary habits sure don't help dispel that impression). He's just not a naturally reassuring sort of person.
In Wand of Gamelon, Zelda gives a creepy little smirk after she kills hectan.
Zsasz displays a very creepy one on his character trophy in Batman: Arkham City.
Raven from El Goonish Shive has a well developed psycho smirk going on. See for yourself.
Umbria/Zaedalkaah likes doing these a lot in Our Little Adventure
Jack--poor crazy, creepy Jack--of Gunnerkrigg Court is starting to make a habit of cracking these. One or two of them have bordered on Slasher Smile.
He got better.
The Anti-Villain Dr. Horrible has one of these at the end of Act II, as he begins "Brand New Day," and resolves to Murder the Hypotenuse.
And again, in Act III, during his Villain Song "Slipping."
Evan from Everyman HYBRID shows off a creepy one at the end of "Joke's Over", while Vince is talking about how two of their friends are missing.
The Nostalgia Chick gets a good one when she successfully pulls a Wounded Gazelle Gambit on the Critic.
Azula of Avatar: The Last Airbender has this down to a fine art: when she strikes down Iroh when he's not looking, when she gets Zuko to join her by saying it's his choice, when she attacks Aang mid-Transformation Sequence, and when she reveals the contingency plan after figuring out Aang is alive from Zuko pausing and saying there was no way he could have survived.
The picture that used to be above comes from the finale, while Azula is suffering from her Villainous Breakdown. As time goes on, it degenerates into a full-on Slasher Smile.
In "The Boiling Rock", Zuko gives one of his own after unbolting the cooler. Looking kinda Light Yagami there, Zuko. Though oddly this is the only time he makes one and it's after he does a Heel Face Turn.
Psychotic smirks must run in the family, as Ozai is also a master at this. He displays several throughout the Day of Black Sun and Sozin's Comet.
Danny Phantom has Big Bad Vlad Masters who cracks one of these every so often throughout the series, often in front of the main hero as much as he does in secret.
Timmy gets one that takes up most of his face in "Timmy's 2-D House of Horror", when he notices the wave of lava headed towards Vicky's house.
If Batman is smirking? Be very afraid.
Be even more afraid when Superman does it.
Not to be forgotten, Megatron and Starscream, in whichever series they feature in, often sport this expression when a plan is going well.
Kim Possible does this twice in So the Drama's climactic battle, and again shortly before it. In fact she pulls it a number of times, when confronting Drakken after destroying the Bebes or when throwing around the idea of her playing soccer in "Coach Possible".
Shego, too.
Lydia from Barbie and the Diamond Castle.
Matrix from Re Boot tends to do this, usually right before he's about to start deleting things. This conversation pretty much sums it up:
Ray Tracer: Nice chap. Does he ever smile?
AndrAIa: If he does, run. Very fast.
Megabyte also smirks a lot, most terrifyingly when he banishes Bob into the Net.
It was also one of Hexadecimal's favorite masks, though she seemed to sport it even MORE often after Bob "fixed her face" and let her have actual expressions.
Heloise on Jimmy Two-Shoes, whenever she isn't going for a full on Slasher Smile.
June on Ka Blam!! does this a lot. Unlike others with this trope, she's one of the protagonists (even if her ideas of fun include putting her friend, Henry, through hell).
In Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy's Big Damn Movie, Eddy's Brother sports one just before he beats up Edd and Eddy.
Look at the grin on Josef Mengele, that sick bastard.
Quite a few of Vladimir Putin's "happy" expressions" go into this territory, in the few times his face shifts out of that menacing frown. Transition from Badass Prime Minister to "Are you sure this guy isn't a Bond villain?".
Pundit Kitchen has turned this into a Running Gag, particularly with their "Vladurday" pictures.
Any newscast about the January 8, 2011 shooting in Tucson will inevitably show this mugshot of the assassin, Jared Lee Loughner. May overlap with Slasher Smile.
Hockey player Mike Ricci was famous for this.
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Maybe they're finally getting rid of us. Two Seconds to Midnight in the Downtown East Side
Submitted by Rev Kevin D Annett on April 29, 2020 - 17:41
Here We Stand
"Maybe they're finally getting rid of us": Two Seconds to Midnight in the Downtown East Side
"Maybe they're finally getting rid of us":
Two Seconds to Midnight in the Downtown East Side
by Kevin D. Annett
The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) has taken a more aggressive approach than other federal departments to the global pandemic (sic) … As the force that must be ready at all times to conduct military operations, at home and abroad, the CAF has a responsibility to enforce health protection measures. – April 17, 2020 Press Statement issued by the Canadian Armed Forces regarding Operation Laser, a contingency plan for deployment in response to a global pandemic
Under the terms of the Foreign Investment Protection Act (FIPA), a bi-lateral treaty ratified with China by the Trudeau government in 2019, Chinese security forces can be stationed on Canadian soil to protect vital Chinese investments, without the knowledge or consent of local authorities. – Canadian Independent Press Review, January 15, 2020
What’s the panic? They been doing this kind of shit to us for years. So maybe they’re finally getting rid of us. Doesn’t surprise me none. I had a target sign put on me the day I was born an Indian in this country. - Frank Erminseskin, Cree Nation, Hastings street resident, Vancouver
April 28, 2020:
Nobody practices social distancing in Oppenheimer Park. Nor do the cops enforce it. The sagging tents and lean-to shelters of the homeless are crammed together like sardines in the two-block radius that’s become an internment camp for Vancouver’s destitute. In all my years working here, I’ve never seen it so crowded and controlled. A sense of impending doom hangs over the place, made worse by the ring of police barricades and roving squad cars that keep the bedraggled occupants trapped and monitored, day and night.
Ernie Peters is accustomed to prisons. The Tsimshian native from northern BC has run the gauntlet of reservation poverty, residential school torture and penitentiary slave labor during his nearly seventy years. But in his own words, he’s never felt as afraid as he does nowadays in Oppenheimer Park.
“They’re getting ready to clear us outta here ‘cause of their Covid bullshit. The cops are saying it’ll happen by early May, there’ll be nobody left here after that. They aren’t regular cops neither, never seen these fuckers before. Every time I ask ‘em where they’re takin’ us they tell me not to ask.”
Ernie’s neighbour was smoking a considerable dube as I chatted with them in the tent that they call home. The guy didn’t want to give me his name, but he filled my ear.
“One of those Providence (Catholic hospital) nurses shoved a long stick right up my nose, it hurt like hell. Said it was to do a swab and test me for the virus but it nearly went up into my eye. I got a bad headache ever since, those fuckers did something to me. They’re doing that to a lot of us here, but I been telling people not to go near those fucking nurses.”
A few blocks away, Frank Ermineskin survives by dealing cigarettes and pot to his bedraggled neighbours at the corner of Main and Hastings. He’s a grandfather of the neighbourhood and one of the few survivors of our campaign that a dozen years ago forced to the surface the truth of Church-State genocide in Indian residential schools.
Frank’s old face lit up when I approached. We shook hands and he offered me a joint. I asked him if he was worried about the shutdown. The Cree man grimaced.
“What’s the panic? They been doing this kind of shit to us for years. So maybe they’re finally getting rid of us. Doesn’t surprise me none. I had a target sign put on me the day I was born an Indian in this country.”
I told him what I’d heard from Ernie and the others at Oppenheimer Park.
“Oh yeah, that’s nothing new, they done the same thing to a lot of my buddies during their 2010 Olympics. They carted the boys outta here and you never saw one of ‘em again. I heard they got the Army stationed at Stanley Park to do riot control when they bring in martial law. Not much of a riot’ll happen down here. We got nowhere to run.”
Reflecting the nation, Vancouver is two worlds. Soon after I spoke to Frank and Ernie, I watched as comfortable residents of the west side Kitsilano neighbourhood stood placidly in long lines outside one of the few food stores still open, dutifully garbed in masks and gloves and standing six feet apart. My maskless visage drew looks of fear and confusion from people as I approached, and many of them shrank away from me. Their reaction became worse when I commented that the flu virus isn’t air borne and so their masks and distancing wouldn’t make any difference. One of them told me that what I was saying was illegal.
Leaving the yuppie dead to bury their dead, I acted on Frank Ermineskin’s remark about troops being stationed in Stanley Park. I only got as far as the Park entrance before I was stopped by a sober Vancouver policeman who happened to be Chinese. He told me the Park was closed.
“But the sign says you can enter the park with the proper ID” I answered the cop. “What ID is that?”
The question either confused or exasperated him. His lips tightened and he motioned for me to drive on.
“There aren’t soldiers in there, are there?” I continued.
The cop turned away.
Leo is a police informant who drops me inside information now and then. As a former altar boy who’d been at the wrong receiving end of several Catholic priests, Leo took a shining to me after I helped occupy Holy Rosary Cathedral in early 2008. Hearing I was in town, we met at Crab Park overlooking the north shore mountains.
“Everybody downtown is going nuts” Leo began, his eyes more haunted than normal. “They’re in a meltdown. Every cop’s been told he’ll get axed and replaced the same day if he doesn’t enforce the quarantine and curfew that’s coming down.”
“By when?” I asked.
“Any day, man” he replied. “It’s coming any day.”
“Do you mean some cops have been making noise that they won’t cooperate with the shutdown?” I said.
“Nobody I know likes what’s happening” Leo remarked. “Even the senior cops, they all know it’s bad for business, with all the drug dealers and importers shut down. The whole port is in lock down. No more payoffs or kickbacks from the Triad and their offshore bosses. Bribes are half a cop’s take home pay, you know that. They’ve all got families, so what’re they gonna do now?”
“What about the soldiers?” I offered, going out on a limb. Leo stared at me startled for a moment and then looked even bleaker.
“You don’t mess with them. They’re not some reserve weekend wanna be warriors.” Leo said quietly. “Those PLA types are killers.”
It was my turn to be startled.
“PLA? You mean, Chinese troops?”
“You got ‘em all over the coast, man, based outta Prince Rupert. A bunch of their military intel people work outta their consulate in town and they can airlift the assault troops here in an hour, is what I been told.”
“What about Canadian soldiers?”
Leo snorted.
“All we got are some field artillery units downtown and at the Seaforth Armories. And out in Chilliwack. The rest of our guys are back east. That’s how that fucking traitor Trudeau’s arranged it with Bejing, man. The west coast is theirs. They’re gonna be the ones managing the curfews and all the other shit that’s gonna follow. They’re the power now.”
The horizon was its usual fiery red when I ended my day on a bench overlooking English Bay, thinking of Frank and Ernie and Leo, and all the nameless ones whose fate rests on a knife edge. A few families and lovers still strolled on the nearby walkway but not on the soft beach sand, which remains roped off and closed to the public. But the gulls still ranged freely overhead, calling something to me that may have been a warning, or perhaps pity.
I sat there for longer than I can remember, staring across the dark waters at the forested slopes of Point Grey where I had come of age in a Canada that never was. I kept wondering how I was to convince Frank Ermineskin to not remain a sitting duck on his Hastings street perch, but to somehow evade the killers, and even resist what is coming. I asked an elusive deity for strength, and for the will to persist, and for the clarity to remember that I had lived and struggled for so long for precisely the present moment.
I remained there in the dark for a long time, until with a shock I realized that it was already well past midnight.
Kevin Annett is a renowned Canadian human rights figure, author, whistle blower and a leader of the Republic of Kanata. Between 2008 and 2013 he
helped convict Canada and its churches, the British Crown and the Vatican for Crimes against Humanity. He can be contacted at thecommonland@gmail.com and through the website http://murderbydecree.com/.
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BeeScala is an annual conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia focused on the Scala programming language and accompanying technologies. The initial idea was sparked one summer night of 2016 during a conversation between Gorazd Kozmus and Konrad ‘ktoso’ Malawski in Krakow. What was initially conceptualized to be a larger Scala meetup in this part of Europe, organically grew into the first international Scala conference in Slovenia.
The conference is brought to you by the altruistic crew who introduced a new standard for a great conference. Our approach to conference organization is unconventional but above all holistic – we value every aspect of our attendees and our speakers. We strive for a multilayered and unforgettable experience forged by the people for the people. Our aim is to strengthen the human ties and empower our common potential through and by technology. We settle for nothing less.
With the instant success of the 1st edition of the BeeScala a daring idea came in place. Next year we would organize not one, but two conferences – BeeScala 2017 in Ljubljana and another one, named Scala Swarm, in Porto, Portugal. After establishing a solid Scala presence in Slovenia, we decided to put another Scala conference on the map where the community is small but growing. Crazy enough, against all odds, Scala Swarm turned out to be one of the most memorable events in years (according to the feedback from the community). They do say good things come in pairs, don’t they!
'the sabbatical'
Just days after Scala Swarm 2017, Gorazd Kozmus, the driving force behind the events, received news that his daughter is affected by a severe medical condition called infantile nephrotic syndrome. With barely six months of age, Luna Sia was the youngest conference attendee at Scala Swarm. In the following months, until the present day, the managing of the disease completely engulfed Gorazd’s time and energy. As hard as it was, the decision to cancel the 2018 editions of both conferences was made.
Brief story about Luna’s condition can be read on the fundraiser page.
where are we going
The absence of the BeeScala and Scala Swarm in 2018, left a big void in the community. After disclosing the cause for the events being cancelled and reaching out to the Scala community, I was overwhelmed by the immense support shown. That gave me a great surge of energy and realization that I am not alone. It was then that I decided to continue with my mission to advocate for the Scala language and technologies built with and around it by connecting its community. We are bringing back the BeeScala conference in 2019 and “swarming” forward with Scala Swarm in 2020!
Gorazd Kozmus
Where does the name BeeScala come from?
Slovenia is a nation of beekepers. Apis mellifera carnica, known also as the Carniolan honey bee, is an indigenous Slovenian subspecies of bee renowned for its docility, hard work, humility and excellent sense of orientation – in a way like Slovene people. The way that the Scala programming language enhances productivity, it seemed perfectly valid to associate the two.
See also: 20 May, World Bee Day, The Telegraph article: The surprising nation that loves bees more than anywhere else in the world.
Why then Scala Swarm?
Swarming is the process by which a new honey bee colony is formed when the queen bee leaves the colony with a large group of worker bees. Given the fact that Scala Swarm conference was spawned by BeeScala, the analogy somehow made a good fit. Plus the logo design kind of came for free.
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Significant developments last week around digital assets regulation and adoption in the United States, Europe, and the land down under were obviously welcome news despite the crypto markets bleeding by the week’s end.
Last week got island nations excited when John Rolle, the governor of the Central Bank of the Bahamas (CBOB), reportedly confirmed that the Bahamian digital dollar initiative will be introduced across all islands in the second half of 2020. In fact, the Bahamas already rolled out the pilot project on the island of Exuma in December. The governor emphasized that the upcoming Bahamian dollar will be nothing more than just a digital representation of the country’s fiat currency, the Bahamian dollar (BSD), and noted that the Sand Dollar is originally targeting domestic use only. However, it’s also possible that it could be linked with a foreign currency.
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Last week also got the community highly charged up when Spanish soccer powerhouse, FC Barcelona, or Barca, the fourth most valuable sports team in the world, as rated by Forbes, announced it had teamed up with fintech platform, Chiliz, to create a blockchain-based token for the sports franchise. As part of the partnership with FC Barcelona, Chiliz created Barca Fan Tokens (BAR) for use on its social mobile app called Socios. This makes Barca the third soccer team, after Juventus and PSG, to have its own fan token.
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Last week talk on a government-backed digital currency was all the rage when Federal Reserve Chair, Jerome Powell, took the seat during a monetary policy hearing. Foster worried that if the Federal government doesn’t react and issue a plan for a digital currency quickly, potential competitors like China could roll out CBDCs and gain an upper hand. He specifically cited China’s plan to implement the digital Yuan among countries involved in its Belt and Road initiative, it could jeopardize the dollar’s world reserve currency status. The U.S government was asked to address the CBDC issue sooner rather than later as concerns over China’s ability to scale its digital Yuan by using their established cell phone payment system was raised.
Even more positive news, last week, Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) was dealing with a cascade of applications from 40 banks seeking to become regulated cryptocurrency custodians. This comes after new legislation in January 2020 has permitted banks to extend their offerings beyond traditional securities such as stocks and bonds to include cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH) and XRP. The new legislation covers the gamut of crypto assets — from cryptocurrencies to tokens — classifying them as digital representations of a value that do not have the status of legal tender.
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Influencer Study: How are consumers engaging
By Rhiannon Farrar | March 27, 2019 | Insights
Influencer Marketing continues to provide advertisers with authentic opportunities to tell their brand story. By engaging their organically grown audiences with content that aligns with their likes, interests and values, Influencers are uniquely regarded by consumers as a source for recommendations for new brands and products.
For many brands, influencer campaigns are already part of their marketing strategy. Yet there are still some unknowns when it comes to uncovering the true value to a brand that influencers can drive. The latest survey by Rakuten Marketing delves into influencer marketing, exploring how both marketers and shoppers engage with digital influencers.
In this post we take a deep dive into the consumer, uncovering the most popular types of influencers to follow, how new influencers are discovered, which social platforms they are followed on and the kind of content most enjoyed by consumers.
The most popular types of Influencers to follow
Globally, entertainment influencers (those who discuss the topic of entertainment and the arts), are the most popular types of influencers followed by 47% of consumers surveyed. Behind entertainment influencers, 43% of respondents engage with both beauty influencers and celebrities.
On a local level, 56% of Australian’s surveyed follow entertainment influencers making them the most commonly followed influencer type, preceding celebrities followed by 45% of Aussies. Home and lifestyle influencers are the next most popular type of influencers for Australian’s to engage (42%), edging out both fashion (41%) and beauty influencers (41%) ever slightly.
When it comes to discovering new influencers, the most common method of discovery for consumers is via recommendations made from Social Media Platforms. Globally 53% of consumers are uncovering new influencers this way, while in Australia the number is significantly higher with 61% discovering new influencers via social media.
52% of Aussies discover new influencers through recommendations from their friends and family, and 49% will follow influencers based on a suggestion made by a celebrity or influencer that they already follow.
Social platforms to follow influencers
Social platforms are the most common place for consumers to follow influencers. Globally, Instagram is the most popular platform used, with 65% of consumers following influencers via the platform. This is trailed by both YouTube and Facebook, each with 62% of global consumers using the platforms to keep up-to-date with influencers. Further to this, 70% of women globally prefer to follow influencers on Instagram, while 64% of men chose YouTube as their platform of preference.
When delving into the platform of choice specifically used by Australian consumers, Instagram takes the number one position (58%), while YouTube edges out Facebook with 64% of consumers choosing this platform over the 59% utilising Facebook.
Consumer content preferences
64% of global consumers and 66% of Australian consumers prefer watching videos when interacting with influencers, highlighting why Instagram and YouTube are the leading platforms for influencers. Furthermore, 64% of Aussies surveyed prefer picture content, while 38% preference both written content and live video, and Podcast are the content of choice for 28% of Australian consumers.
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Computers And Teaching 1973
20 February, 2017 by sky Leave a Comment
I just reviewed the seven archived newsletters of my Computers And Teaching [CAT] project, written in 1972 and 1973. During that time I led other graduate students, faculty and staff at Northwestern University and the Vogelback Computing Center (a big centralized supercomputer facility) in promoting online educational uses of the computer. There was no network to speak of in those days…computers were just beginning to be able to “dial up” and chat with each other, and the computer terminal was still remarkably new. I was a new faculty member, having just completed a PhD in Computer Science, and my mentors were Ben Mittman (that linked page includes a tribute from me in 2007) and Claude Mathis, who headed unique centers within the university.
I made some guesses about the “cottage industry” that access to computing might support in the future and a lot of them were right. Um, actually everything in my article is commonplace today… Here are some of the things I wrote. They’re based on conversations I was having with many people at the time, so they’re not all my own original thoughts, but look at how many of them we’ve been able to realize by 2017!
The article is entitled COTTAGE INDUSTRY (download PDF) and is a forecast of what’s to come, viewed from 1973.
First, I proposed working from home (in your bathrobe or whatever):
As our economy moves more and more toward services and farther away from manufacturing, people find themselves doing tasks they could really be doing at home, if it were acceptable. Take programming a computer with time-sharing, the programmer could work from a back room, and could work any hour of the night or day.
And my favorites – co-working spaces, coffee, teleconferencing, cloud computing, email, voicemail, flat-rate all-you-can-eat phone plans:
Or, if one felt the desire, it would be possible to set up neighborhood work-centers,’ where people gathered to do their work and drink coffee. Communication would be carried out on the telephone or picturephone. “Paper” based jobs would be carried out in conjunction with computer communication systems, in which the computer stored all information. Letters would be written by typing them into the computer then when the recipient signed-on, the letter would be printed on his terminal. A secretary could be located in Chicago for a boss in San Francisco; the secretary would handle communications and route letters via computer to the boss, who would dictate a reply. The reply would then be played back automatically when the secretary called the boss later in the day, typed into the computer and routed to the originator.
Is this a pipe dream? Perhaps not! There are people in telephone companies today who look forward to the day when all calls will be included in the monthly charge. It would then be advantageous to work long-distance. The telephone network would hold your calls, record callers’ numbers, route your calls to another number, or “camp” on a busy line. Once the computer has been connected to this network, just imagine the possibilities!
Personal Computing — or at least home “terminals”:
When PLATO-IV plasma-displays get down to $700 each (roughly the cost of a color TV console), people will begin to think of buying them for their families. Learning will take place in the evening, after school and during lunch breaks. The school may have to take on more socializing tasks — teaching kids how to deal with each other and how to settle disputes.
Social networking and social organizing online:
They may begin seriously trying to direct a student’s inquiry, starting neighborhood study groups oriented toward solution of local problems. And the giant communication network may be used to form larger nationwide task-forces of people, communicating via the computer.
Community computing (credit here to Vic Bunderson et al), online shopping, social effects:
One of the first incursions into interactive computer controlled networks is the TICCIT (say “ticket”)system, by MITRE Corporation. This is centered around a cable TV system in Reston, Virginia. The cable TV will be computer controlled, and will provide information and educational materials to citizens on their own television sets, as well as regular TV fare. Signals are sent to the individual TVs in the homes of children studying lessons, displaying information much like that PLATO-IV will display on its screens. The child presses a key on his telephone to respond. Eventually keyboards will be included. Shopping can be done the same way. Items are displayed on the screen, and buttons are pushed to order. Information of community interest can be displayed, and citizens can even vote on issues.
TICCIT is designed to be a local system, comprising a few hundred homes. Can you imagine what could be done on a truly large system such as PLATO-IV with thousands of homes? It could change the structure of society.
Post Script: What did I miss?
Well I definitely missed cell phones. I almost missed personal computers because of my focus on terminals, although a couple of years later (say 1976) I knew about KIM-1 and other kits, which presaged this. I missed hand-held phones and tablet computing and such. I missed the entire software ecosystem that has grown up alongside those technologies, although my next two company startups transitioned into personal computing rapidly. Also, by 1977 I was working with PDP-11/43 systems, which reduced the mainframe to small-room size, and racks of dial-in modems for remote users. So still terminals, but by 1978 I was focusing on the Apple-II, which was the real game-changing device for all of us.
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The Scholarly Communications Team @ Oxford Brookes University Library
What, why, and benefits
The different models of Open Access
The problem with paywalls
The transition to Open Access
Open Access and monographs
What is driving the transition to Open Access?
Research funders are the key to transitioning to a scholarly publishing model where Open Access is the standard model as their policies and requirements have a significant influence on the behaviour of the individual researchers who will be making the decision about which publisher or publication to submit research manuscripts to.
In comparison publishers are relatively powerless, as although they have strong pull factors (particularly the prestige of publishing with a reputable publisher or publication) they have few push factors, i.e. publishers cannot force authors to submit manuscripts to them.
Research funders have increasingly shown themselves to not only be in favour of Open Access, but to be increasingly willing to drive through the transition to an Open Access model. UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the national funding agency for UK research that has an annual budget of over £6 billion, says that Open Access
is central to UKRI’s ambitions for research and innovation in the UK, as sharing new knowledge has benefits for researchers, the wider higher education sector, businesses and others
Similarly, the EU research programme Horizon 2020 distributes “nearly €80 billion of [EU] funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020)” with the condition that
each beneficiary must ensure open access to all peer-reviewed scientific publications relating to its results
Meanwhile, cOAlition S (or ‘Plan S’) is a consortium of European, national, and charitable research funders (including UKRI) who have pledged that
After 1 January 2020 scientific publications on the results from research funded by public grants provided by national and European research councils and funding bodies, must be published in compliant Open Access Journals or on compliant Open Access Platforms
Why do funders want Open Access?
Research funders want to get as much value for money as they can for the funding they allocate, and Open Access is a way for funders to maximum the readership and impact of the research they fund.
For many funders they are also maximising the return on their investment on behalf of their ultimate funders, who are you, me, and every other taxpayer. For context, 74% of research income for UK universities in 2013/14 was from the EU or UK governments (this figure was calculated by adding ‘Other public sources’, ‘Governmental science budget’, and ‘European Union’ of fig.12 on p.19 of this report).
We want to move to a fully #OpenAccess world where no research is behind a pay-wall. We’re making changes to our open access policy to achieve this https://t.co/GO0HCLZMFA pic.twitter.com/UfCZbPiR9E
— Wellcome Trust (@wellcometrust) November 5, 2018
An indication of how effective funders can be in driving a change towards Open Access is seen in a 2018 Research England report Monitoring sector progress towards compliance with funder open access policies . The 113 UK universities reported that between April 2016 and March 2017, 61% of their journal articles and conference proceedings were made Green Open Access (table 9, p.22) and 17% were published Gold Open Access (calculated from the number of Gold exceptions in table 16, p.37, against all outputs in table 9, p.22).
Considering that the bodies that allocate research funding are committed to Open Access and their policies are effective in driving change it seems highly likely that Open Access will become the standard model for scholarly publishing in the UK, although there are questions of what form or end state that model will take and how long it will take to become the dominant model.
Is a funder mandate on Open Access a restriction on academic freedom?
For publications to be Open Access researchers must submit their manuscripts only to publishers and publications that allow Open Access publishing, which is a limiting of choice.
However, as there is no single definition or consensus position on what constitutes academic freedom there is no definite answer to whether this limiting of choice contradicts academic freedom or not.
UNESCO (see section 12 of this document, though 27 and 29 are also relevant) would say Open Access is definitely a restriction on academic freedom, as they recommend that
higher-education teaching personnel should be free to publish the results of research and scholarship in books, journals and databases of their own choice
On the other hand, Academics For Academic Freedom (ASAF) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) primarily define academic freedom as the freedom of inquiry and have little to say about dissemination.
Even if a position were taken that Open Access publishing of research findings is a restriction of academic freedom, it would not necessarily make it objectionable. We already accept that academic freedom is not limitless. As a very obvious example, academic freedom does not include the freedom to conduct unethical research.
It would need to be shown that the restriction by Open Access on academic freedom was unjustifiable, and in this debate that would mean prioritising between the freedom of academics to choose the publication venue, the freedom of tax payers to read publicly funded research (where applicable), and the freedom (and responsibility) of research funders to maximise the return on the investment they’ve made in the research and to decide the conditions under which they award funding. These interests conflict because complete freedom of choice for academics means allowing the limiting of access to research publications.
A recent example of this conflict is Plan S, a coalition of European, national, and charitable research funders who are working towards a mandate on for how the research they fund must be Open Access. The principles they outline do not forbid particular publications or publishers but they do specify the Open Access conditions under which the research it funds must be published. Many established and prestigious publishers and publications will not meet the Open Access conditions of Plan S (unless they change their business models) which, in effect, limits the choice of the researchers they fund.
In response, an open letter signed by over 600 researchers claimed that:
We support open access (OA) and Plan S is probably written with good intentions…[But] taken together, Plan S is a serious violation of academic freedom…
…Researchers should have the freedom to choose publication venue, and while complying with Open Access mandates to also choose how papers are made Open Access
The signatories make a strange argument: they support Open Access and are happy to comply with research funder mandates on Open Access, but only if the mandate does not make anything mandatory (not even what can be defined as Open Access). In this response we see the conflict between the freedom of researchers to choose the venue of publication and the freedom of research funders to choose the conditions under which researchers will receive research funding.
As academic freedom is a cultural norm rather than a legally defined right we are unlikely to see a resolution to this conflict of interpretation and priorities in the near future. Instead we are left with the question: should we prioritise the unlimited choice of the researcher (and allow the limiting of access to publicly funded research), or prioritise the ability of research funders to determine the conditions of their funding awards (and limit the choice of researchers)?
The Fair Open Access Alliance address this question directly to the authors of Plan S in their ‘recommendations for the implementation of Plan S‘:
It is important to formulate a position on academic freedom in this context. As we have said before, academic freedom does not extend to burying one’s research behind a paywall. To paraphrase a well-known dictum: your academic freedom to publish wherever you want ends where my right to freely access your research starts. We recommend formulating a detailed statement on how the demands of Plan S interact with legal and cultural norms of academic freedom to select a publication venue.
How (or if) the implementation of the Plan S principles attempts to answer this conflict remains to be seen.
Continue reading: Open Access and monographs
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Poon, A. (2016) Transcendence. Available from: https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/32e468d6-57f6-4329-b841-2df98fdd805c/1/ (Accessed 18 October 2018)
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Norichika Aoki Deserves a Starting Job
by Bradley Woodrum
When the Milwaukee Brewers added outfielder Norichika Aoki to their roster this past offseason, I thought it was a curious move — the 30-year-old outfielder was one of Japan’s better hitters and by my anticipation deserved at least a large platoon role. Yet the Brewers intended on using him in a bench role.
In his final and worst season in the NPB, Aoki was still one of the league’s best hitters. And looking at his final five seasons in Japan’s Central League, we see he was consistently a dominant hitter in a league typically starved for offense:
Aoki’s wOBA
wOBA+
JCL wOBA
2007 .395 127 .310
All wOBA+ numbers relative to the Japanese CL.
Aoki has been getting more playing time lately, but now it’s time for him to get all of it.
Entering play on Thursday, Aoki sports a .370 wOBA and 135 wRC+ — created largely from his strong .380 OBP. He has walked at a decent rate (7.6% BB-rate) and limited his strikeouts (12.4% K-rate), but his BABIP (.364) is noticeably above league average, so we have to account for that.
In the past, when a player’s BABIP was crazy town banana pants, we just said, “Oh well, he’ll regress,” and threw the data trash-wise. Now, with the assistance of FI wOBA, we can reasonably predict what his offensive production will be given a change in BABIP.
First, though, we need to predict what his BABIP will come down to. One such tool is slash12’s xBABIP calculator, which is an excellent asset and something I use in the De-Lucker chambers, but in general, my preference is to use a player’s history when possible. And though Aoki is a rookie by MLB standards, he is still a veteran of pro ball, which brings us again to his NPB numbers:
Aoki’s BABIP
JCL BABIP
He currently has an above average BABIP in the MLB, but he always sported an above-average BABIP in the Japanese CL too. Currently, in the MLB, he has a 124 BABIP+ while his BABIP+ over his final five seasons in Japan averaged out as 116.
If his BABIP lowered to meet his NPB numbers (which I would not expect him to match), then he would maintain a .340 BABIP. At a .340 BABIP, Aoki would sport a .334 wOBA, according to FI wOBA. At a .330 BABIP (113 BABIP+), he drops to .327 wOBA.
Here is a contingency of possibly BABIP scenarios:
And if you prefer the Plus Method of analyzing data:
So unless Aoki completely changes his batted ball profile from his days in Japan — and hey, it’s a very different run environment, so anything is possible — he should be able to muster at least above-average offense.
Moreover, Aoki has thus far shown a capacity for hitting more than a few triples — leading the Brewers outfield with 3 three-baggers despite playing the least. As such, FI wOBA — which inherently undervalues doubles and triples hitters — is perhaps offering the most pessimistic of forecasts here.
If the Brewers do indeed choose to offer Aoki consistent playing time, they could even do so without even taking playing time from the other outfielders — Corey Hart could slide to first, Ryan Braun would remain in left, and Carlos Gomez / Nyjer Morgan / Tony Plush could man center field.
So unless the Brewers think Travis Ishikawa can really maintain his production, or think any of their other thus-far underwhelming first baseman can out-WAR Aoki, then there should be little in the way of a starting — or at least 60% platooning — Aoki.
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What on earth happened to the offense during the 2011 Japanese PCL season?
Bradley Woodrum
They instituted a new league-wide baseball. In the past, each home team had their own ball, but the new ball was — if I recall correctly — slightly smaller than the MLB standard baseball and considered more slick.
It was designed to imitate the MLB ball, which is used in international tourneys like the WBC. The smaller, slicker one was one of the more common ones used before the switch…at least from what I read. I’m interested to see if this switch leads to being able to make more accurate predictions about NPB players before they come over to MLB.
Here’s an article about it: http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201106240282.html
I think there was also a pretty good one in the NY Times or Japan Times, but I can’t find the link now.
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miRNA expression profiling of hereditary breast tumors from BRCA1- and BRCA2-germline mutation carriers in Brazil
Danielle Pessôa-Pereira1,
Adriane Feijó Evangelista1,
Rhafaela Lima Causin1,
René Aloisio da Costa Vieira2,
Lucas Faria Abrahão-Machado3,
Iara Viana Vidigal Santana3,
Vinicius Duval da Silva3,
Karen Cristina Borba de Souza1,
Renato José de Oliveira-Silva1,
Gabriela Carvalho Fernandes1,
Rui Manuel Reis1,4,5,
Edenir Inêz Palmero1,6,7,8 &
Márcia Maria Chiquitelli Marques ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-5616-67101,8,9
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs involved in post-transcriptional gene expression regulation and have been described as key regulators of carcinogenesis. Aberrant miRNA expression has been frequently reported in sporadic breast cancers, but few studies have focused on profiling hereditary breast cancers. In this study, we aimed to identify specific miRNA signatures in hereditary breast tumors and to compare with sporadic breast cancer and normal breast tissues.
Global miRNA expression profiling using NanoString technology was performed on 43 hereditary breast tumors (15 BRCA1, 14 BRCA2, and 14 BRCAX), 23 sporadic breast tumors and 8 normal breast tissues. These normal breast tissues derived from BRCA1- and BRCA2- mutation carriers (n = 5) and non-mutation carriers (n = 3). Subsequently, we performed receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analyses to evaluate the diagnostic performance of differentially expressed miRNAs. Putative target genes of each miRNAs considered as potential biomarkers were identified using miRDIP platform and used for pathway enrichment analysis.
miRNA expression analyses identified several profiles that were specific to hereditary breast cancers. A total of 25 miRNAs were found to be differentially expressed (fold change: > 2.0 and p < 0.05) and considered as potential biomarkers (area under the curve > 0.75) in hereditary breast tumors compared to normal breast tissues, with an expressive upregulation among BRCAX cases. Furthermore, bioinformatic analysis revealed that these miRNAs shared target genes involved in ErbB, FoxO, and PI3K-Akt signaling pathways.
Our results showed that miRNA expression profiling can differentiate hereditary from sporadic breast tumors and normal breast tissues. These miRNAs were remarkably deregulated in BRCAX hereditary breast cancers. Therefore, miRNA signatures can be used as potential novel diagnostic biomarkers for the prediction of BRCA1/2- germline mutations and may be useful for future clinical management.
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among women worldwide after non-melanoma skin cancer and the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in developing countries [1, 2]. Although most breast tumors arise due to acquired mutations caused mainly by lifestyle and environmental factors, approximately 5 to 10% are attributable to inherited pathogenic variants in cancer-predisposing genes [3, 4]. Indeed, breast tumors have been reported within the tumor spectrum of many hereditary cancer syndromes [5]. However, the most common entity linked to inherited breast cancer is the hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) predisposition syndrome, which is a highly penetrant, autosomal dominant condition primarily caused by germline pathogenic variants in breast cancer type 1 and 2 susceptibility genes (BRCA1 and BRCA2) [3,4,5,6]. Although 50% of suggested HBOC cases are of unknown genetic origin (also termed ‘BRCAX’), pathogenic variants in BRCA1/2 are more frequent (9–29%) than pathogenic variants in other high-penetrance genes (4–11%) [7, 8].
BRCA1 and BRCA2 are well-known tumor suppressor genes (TSGs) involved in many cellular processes implicated in the maintenance of genome integrity. Therefore, pathogenic variants in BRCA1 or BRCA2 can disrupt important biological functions, allowing the accumulation of genetic alterations and consequently increasing cancer susceptibility [9, 10]. Indeed, female individuals who carry a BRCA1/2-germline variant have a lifetime risk of developing breast cancer of up to 87% [11]. This may present a high histologic grade and, in particular for BRCA1-mutation carriers, a high mitotic index and triple-negative phenotype [12]. The identification of BRCA1/2-pathogenic variants is imperative and could directly impact on prevention, early cancer diagnosis, and clinical management of patients.
Genetic counseling and testing for BRCA1/2-germline mutations are currently available; however, screening of these mutations is still expensive and time-consuming because both genes do not present mutational hotspot regions; thus, such genetic alterations can occur throughout all the coding sequences [13]. Accordingly, many prediction models have been developed and are widely used to estimate the pre-test likelihood of identifying individuals and families at high risk for carrying these mutations [14,15,16,17,18]. Some studies that have evaluated the performance of the breast cancer genetic risk models reported low specificity rates for predicting BRCA1/2-germline mutations [19,20,21,22]. Therefore, there is a need to define additional parameters that could complement the current criteria adopted by the available prediction models to provide an accurate and effective selection of patients that should proceed to BRCA1/2 genetic testing.
MicroRNA (miRNA) are small non-coding RNAs that could promote tumor development and/or progression by disturbing oncogenes and tumor suppression expression patterns [23,24,25]. Several studies have found distinctive miRNA expression profiles in a wide range of human tumors, suggesting that miRNA profiling could be used for diagnostic purposes [26,27,28,29]. An advantage of miRNAs is that they are more resistant to degradation caused by the formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue processing [30]. However, little is known about miRNA expression in hereditary breast cancers (HBC) [31,32,33]. Moreover, it remains unclear whether miRNA profiling could be useful to distinguish BRCA1/2-mutation carriers from non-carriers.
In order to identify miRNA signatures that could serve as potential biomarkers to discriminate HBC, we evaluate the expression profiles of miRNAs in HBC tumors, sporadic breast cancer (SBC), and normal breast tissues (NBT) from carriers and non-carriers of BRCA1 or BRCA2 pathogenic germline mutations using NanoString technology. We demonstrate that miRNA expression profiles can discriminate HBC from SBC and BRCAX breast cancer. Therefore, these miRNAs could be useful as potential diagnostic biomarkers to improve the performance of the BRCA1/2-mutation prediction models and impact on the clinical management of breast cancer patients who may benefit from platinum-based chemotherapy and PARP inhibitors, such as olaparib [34].
Study population and clinicopathological features
A retrospective cohort study was performed in a total of 74 unrelated female patients admitted at Barretos Cancer Hospital between 2003 and 2017, including 66 patients with primary invasive breast cancer and 8 patients attended for reasons other than personal history of malignancy. Our cohort comprised 29 HBC patients harboring a confirmed BRCA1 (n = 15) or BRCA2 (n = 14) pathogenic germline mutation (a subset of cases derived from a larger population [35]); 14 HBC patients who were referred for BRCA1, BRCA2, TP53 and PTEN genetic testing for meeting clinical criteria for HBOC, but no pathogenic variants were found – therefore considered as BRCAX; 23 SBC patients with no family history of breast and/or ovarian cancer; five healthy individuals harboring a BRCA1 (n = 3) or BRCA2 (n = 2) pathogenic germline mutation who had undergone prophylactic mastectomies; and three healthy patients with no family history of breast and/or ovarian cancer.
All patients belonging to high-risk HBOC families were referred by the Department of Oncogenetics of Barretos Cancer Hospital for genetic testing after fulfilling the clinical criteria defined by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network for a personal and/or family history of HBOC. Healthy BRCA1/2-mutation carriers were referred after a pathogenic germline mutation was identified in their families and were invited to undergo a mutation-specific predictive genetic test. All information regarding genetic counseling, genetic testing, and the management of the families at risk for hereditary cancer in our institution have been described in detail elsewhere [36].
Pathological evaluation
All clinical and pathological data were collected from medical records. Histologic tumor grade was assessed by the modified Scarff-Bloom-Richardson grading system. Tumor staging was performed according to the seventh edition of the American Joint Committee on Cancer TNM system. Breast cancers were also classified into three intrinsic molecular subtypes (luminal, human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2)+, and triple-negative) based on the combined evaluation of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), and HER2 expression status according to the 13th St Gallen International Expert Consensus [37]. Evaluation of ER, PR, and HER2 status was done using FFPE sections as part of routine practice at the Pathology Department for breast cancer clinical assessment defined according to current guidelines [38,39,40].
Sample collection and RNA isolation
FFPE breast tissue samples were obtained from the archives at the Department of Pathology of the Barretos Cancer Hospital. FFPE samples underwent total RNA isolation using the QIASymphony SP automated system based on magnetic-bead technology (QIAGEN, Hilden, Germany) according to the manufacturer’s protocol (RNA 130 FFPE). Quantification and RNA quality assessment were performed using a Nanodrop 2000 spectrophotometer (NanoDrop Products, Wilmington, DE, USA).
NanoString nCounter miRNA assay
miRNA expression profiling was performed using the nCounter Human v3 miRNA Expression Assay Kit (NanoString Technologies, Seattle, WA, USA), according to the manufacturer’s protocol. Briefly, 100 ng of total RNA from each sample underwent sample preparation involving multiplexed annealing of specific tags onto the 3′ end of each mature miRNA, followed by a ligation reaction and an enzymatic purification to remove non-ligated tags. Next, miRNAs were hybridized with probe pairs which comprised biotin-labeled capture probes and fluorescent color-barcoded reporter probes for 21 h at 65 °C. For sample preparation and hybridization steps, a Veriti 96-Well Thermal Cycler (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA, USA) was used to ensure the temperature control required for the enzymatic reactions. Unhybridized probes were washed away using magnetic bead-based purification on the nCounter Prep Station (NanoString Technologies, Seattle, WA, USA). Purified target-probe complexes were subsequently eluted from the beads and immobilized on cartridges with streptavidin-covered surfaces. Finally, the cartridges were transferred into the nCounter Digital Analyzer (NanoString Technologies, Seattle, WA, USA) for data collection consisting of digital imaging and direct quantification of the individual fluorescent barcodes.
NanoString data analysis
NanoString raw data were submitted to R version 3.6.1 (R Foundation, Vienna, Austria) and analyzed using the NanoStringNorm R package (version 1.1.21) [41]. Briefly, the following normalization steps were applied after probe-level background correction by code-count normalization using geometric mean parameter and sample content was normalized using the top 10 low Coefficient Vallue (CV) probes’ values. Normalized data were log2-based transformed and subsequently used as input for the differential expression analyses. The miRNAs differentially expressed were further filtered according to the presence in normal vs. sporadic group comparisons.
Differential expression analysis
Statistical analysis of NanoString miRNA differential expression in R was performed using the Linear Models for Microarray Data (limma) package from Bioconductor. Limma has incorporated the most cutting-edge statistical analysis methods, providing functions for differential expression by empirical Bayes moderation of the standard errors. In the present study, it was used the moderated t-statistics for two-class comparisons and moderated F-statistics por multiple comparisons. It was considered as differentially expressed the miRNAs with FDR-corrected p-value less than 0.05, and a two-fold change difference in the expression levels between the groups evaluated (NBT vs SBC; NBT vs HBC (BRCA1, BRCA2 and BRCAX)).
The receiver operating characteristic curves (ROC) curve analysis
ROC curve and the area under the curve (AUC-ROC) were used as a filter for the differentially expressed miRNAs. The ROCR R package in R environment was used to identify the true positive rate (sensitivity) as a function of the false positive rate (1-specificity) and the AUC values. The coord function of the pROC package was used to compute the best threshold values. In the present study, miRNAs presenting an AUC-ROC ≤0.75 were excluded and Table 2 shows all the associated values (sensitivity, specificity, AUC and cutoff values).
Expression profiles of selected miRNAs (differentially expressed and filtered according to FDR-corrected p-values less than 0.05, fold-change greater than 2.0, absence in normal vs. sporadic group comparisons and AUC-ROC greater than 0.75) were grouped in order to evaluate their related expression patterns. It was used the hierarchical clustering as the clustering methodology with Euclidean distance to generate a hierarchical series of nested clusters represented graphically as dendrograms. The ComplexHeatmap package of Bioconductor was used for the generation of the related heatmaps. Red color indicates upregulation and green, downregulation.
Target prediction and pathway enrichment analysis
We identified putative target genes of all differentially expressed miRNAs through the microRNA Data Integration Portal (mirDIP) (http://ophid.utoronto.ca/mirDIP/), a web-based computational database that integrates dozens of bioinformatic tools for miRNA target prediction. We restricted our search by considering predicted miRNA-target interactions under very high confidence (top 1%). From the obtained gene lists, we selected targets predicted by at least three of the following five prediction tools: DIANA, microrna.org, RNA22, RNAHybrid, and TargetScan. Considering the mechanism by which miRNAs downregulate their target genes and may impact on carcinogenesis and tumor progression, we only focused on genes previously described as TSGs or oncogenes in human cancers according to the Catalogue of Somatic Mutations in Cancer (COSMIC) (https://cancer.sanger.ac.uk/cosmic). The gene lists generated after applying all these selection criteria were used as input data for further analysis in Cytoscape (version 3.6.1), software for integration, visualization, and investigation of regulatory networks (https://cytoscape.org/). To evaluate whether co-expressed miRNAs could cooperatively affect breast cancer-related biological processes and pathways, we performed Gene Ontology (GO) enrichment analysis using the ReactomeFIViz app (version 7.0.1), a Cytoscape plugin that provides networks of functional regulatory interactions and curated biological pathways derived from Reactome and other databases [42]. For this purpose, only breast neoplasm-associated genes according to the Cancer Gene Index Annotations provided by the National Cancer Institute were selected for pathway enrichment and GO analyses through the Load Cancer Index function available in ReactomeFIViz. Only the process presenting at least three genes and an FDR-corrected p-value ≤0.05 was considered.
Patient data were presented as frequencies and percentages for qualitative variables and the chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test were used to compare frequencies using the SPSS Statistics for Windows, version 20.0 (IBM, Armonk, NY, USA).
MiRNA expression profiling was performed on a total of 74 FFPE samples, which comprised 43 HBC (15 BRCA1; 14 BRCA2; 14 BRCAX), 23 SBC and 8 NBT from 3 BRCA1-mutation carriers, 2 BRCA2-mutation carriers and 3 non-carriers. Main demographics and clinicopathological characteristics of the population are showed in Table 1.
Table 1 Clinicopathological features of the patients included in the differential expression analyses
miRNA signatures of sporadic breast tumors
In order to establish miRNA expression signatures specifically associated with HBC, we firstly investigated which miRNAs were significantly altered in SBC samples compared with NBT – which could allow us to identify whether any deregulated miRNAs are shared between the SBC and HBC groups later. We found a total of 49 miRNAs significantly upregulated (fold change values: ≥2.0; p value: < 0.05) in sporadic breast tumors as compared to NBT groups, yet no downregulated miRNAs were found (Fig. 1). This first analysis allowed us to identify whether any miRNAs are shared between the SBC and HBC groups.
Heat map showing a supervised clustering of differentially expressed miRNAs between NBT and SBC. Each column indicates a sample and each row, a miRNA. Red color indicates upregulation and green, downregulation
miRNA expression profiling of hereditary breast cancer and normal breast tissues
In order to explore whether miRNA expression profiling could also discriminate BRCA1, BRCA2, and BRCAX breast tumors, we performed a multiple comparison to identify a miRNA signature among HBC. We found a total of 73 differentially expressed miRNAs, which comprised 70 upregulated and 3 downregulated miRNAs. After a supervised hierarchical clustering analysis, we confirmed that hereditary breast tumors mainly exhibited an upregulated miRNA expression profile as compared to NBT (Fig. 2). We also observed that most BRCA2 breast tumors had expression patterns similar to BRCAX, especially in the upregulated miRNAs cluster, whereas most BRCAX breast tumors exhibited a specific expression pattern in the downregulated miRNAs cluster. Interestingly, we found that some BRCA1/2-mutated NBT samples did not present homogenous expression among the NBT groups for specific miRNAs.
Heat map showing a supervised clustering of differentially expressed miRNAs between NBT and HBC. Each column indicates a sample and each row, a miRNA. Red color indicates upregulation and green, downregulation
Finally, we verified that 8 miRNAs significantly expressed in HBC were commonly deregulated in SBC as compared to NBT (hsa-miR-627-3p, hsa-miR-99b-5p, hsa-miR-539-5p, hsa-miR-24-3p, hsa-miR-331-3p, hsa-miR-663a, hsa-miR-362-3p and hsa-miR-145-5p). Therefore, those miRNAs were excluded from the subsequent analysis.
miRNAs as biomarkers for hereditary breast tumors
Next, we aimed to identify miRNAs that could be potential diagnostic biomarkers. We identified 25 upregulated miRNAs as potential biomarkers using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve analysis. Our results showed higher accuracy in distinguishing HBC from NBT (area under the curve [AUC] > 0.75) in all groups (Table 2). We also observed that these miRNAs achieved slightly higher AUC values in BRCAX breast tumors compared to BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast tumors, suggesting that these miRNAs have higher specificity and specificity rates for hereditary BRCAX as compared to BRCA1/2-mutated breast tumors.
Table 2 ROC curve analysis for miRNAs as potential biomarkers in hereditary breast cancer
Subsequently, we generated a heatmap illustrating the expression patterns of these potential biomarkers across the samples based on a supervised hierarchical clustering analysis (Fig. 3a). Even though most BRCA2 breast tumors presented similar miRNA expression profiles to BRCAX tumors as previously mentioned, we observed that these potential biomarkers had significantly higher mean fold change values among BRCAX samples as compared to BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast tumors (Fig. 3b). Therefore, our findings suggest that these miRNAs could be suitable in discriminating hereditary BRCAX breast tumors from BRCA1/2-mutated breast tumors.
Expression patterns of the best biomarkers according to ROC curve analysis between NBT and HBC. a Heat map showing supervised clustering of the best biomarkers. Each column indicates a sample and each row, a miRNA. Red color indicates upregulation and green, downregulation. b Expressive upregulated cluster of miRNAs in hereditary breast cancer (especially BRCAX) vs normal breast tissues
Functional in silico analysis
We further investigated the association of these 25 miRNAs with biological pathways related to carcinogenesis. Previously described genes in breast cancer, such as TP53, PTEN, and FOXO1, were identified as target genes in five main pathways, including ErbB and FoxO signaling, the PI3K-Akt signaling pathway, and miRNAs in cancer and breast cancer. The most significant pathways of the targets associated with breast neoplasm and those with putative roles as oncogenes and TSGs are shown in Table 3.
Table 3 Top five pathways related to the best target candidates of miRNAs differentially expressed between normal tissues and BRCA1/2-germline mutation carriers and BRCAX cases
In the present study, miRNA expression profiles were analyzed in a series of hereditary breast tumors (BRCA1/2 and BRCAX-associated breast tumors), sporadic breast tumors and NBT from BRCA1/2-germline mutation carriers and non-carriers using NanoString nCounter Technology. Initially, we identified differentially expressed miRNAs that could determine a specific signature of SBC vs. NBT that are related to miRNAs identified in previous studies about sporadic breast tumors (i.e., hsa-miR-145-5p, hsa-miR-429, hsa-miR-137, and hsa-miR-551a) [43,44,45,46]. Furthermore, this analysis was important to identify a specific miRNA signature for SBC and to investigate if any miRNAs are shared between SBC and HBC. Thus, we found eight miRNAs (hsa-miR-627-3p, hsa-miR-99b-5p, hsa-miR-539-5p, hsa-miR-24-3p, hsa-miR-331-3p, hsa-miR-663a, hsa-miR-362-3p, and hsa-miR-145-5p) that were also differentially expressed in HBC. These miRNAs were used as a filter to our next analysis with hereditary breast tumors and excluded to allow that we would have a specific miRNA expression profiles of HBC.
We found several differentially expressed miRNAs in HBC compared to NBT with an expressive signature for BRCAX breast tumors. Some of these have been previously described as deregulated in BRCA1/2-germline mutation carriers, such as hsa-miR-141-3p; hsa-miR-20a-5p; hsa-miR-21-5p; and hsa-miR-106b-5p [33, 47]. Those miRNAs have also been reported to be deregulated in sporadic breast tumors [33], supporting the hypothesis that some miRNAs could have a relevant role in for both sporadic and hereditary breast cancer carcinogenesis. Furthermore, some of the differentially expressed miRNAs were also found to be deregulated in some BRCA1/2-mutated NBT cases, suggesting that NBTs from healthy BRCA1/2-germline mutations carriers might display biological alterations due to genomic instability caused by impaired BRCA1 and BRCA2 functions.
We also proposed to investigate whether those differentially expressed miRNAs could be considered as potential biomarkers for discriminate patients harboring BRCA1/2-germline mutations from non-carriers. Indeed, many studies investigated the role of miRNAs as diagnostic biomarkers in SBC, but little has been reported in hereditary breast tumors. Although limited in terms of the number of specimens used for miRNA expression profiling, Murria-Estal et al. identified 15 differentially expressed miRNAs that could classify BRCA1, BRCA2, BRCAX and sporadic breast tumors with 75% accuracy. However, miRNAs validated by quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) (miR-4417 and miR-423-3p) could only discriminate hereditary (BRCA1, BRCA2, and BRCAX) from non-hereditary breast tumors (70.1% accuracy) [31]. On the other hand, Tanic et al. established a biomarker classifier based on six miRNAs that could distinguish BRCA1/2-mutated from non-mutated breast tumors with 92% accuracy [32]. Both studies were primarily based on microarray technology for the screening of differentially expressed miRNAs, a laborious technique that requires complementary DNA (cDNA) synthetized from highly stable messenger RNAs (mRNA) – which are rarely obtained from FFPE tissues and other low-quality samples – and experimental validation by qPCR. In the present study, we assessed miRNA expression profiles in FFPE samples using NanoString technology – a high throughput, rapid, reproducible and sensitive platform for molecular quantification that does not require target sequence amplification and technical replicates [48,49,50,51]. All samples have accurate results using NanoString technology. We found 25 upregulated miRNAs that could classify HBC (especially BRCAX breast tumors) with high accuracy rates according to ROC curve analysis (AUC: ≥0.80). Because BRCAX patients have been unnecessarily referred to BRCA1/2-germline mutation testing [19,20,21,22], we assume that these miRNAs could identify those patients that might not benefit from genetic testing and personalized therapies, such as platinum-based chemotherapy and PARP inhibitors [34].
Finally, in silico pathway analysis identified several common target genes involved in breast cancer carcinogenesis of the 25 miRNAs identified as potential biomarkers for BRCA1/2-germline mutation carriers and BRCAX patients using ReactomeFIViz. These genes are associated with important pathways, including ErbB and FoxO signaling, the PI3K-Akt signaling pathway, and miRNAs in cancer and breast cancer. However, because BRCAX breast tumors were also included in the HBC group, we believe it is a limitation of the present study, and further studies are needed to investigate target genes and signaling pathways specifically deregulated in BRCA1/2-mutated breast tumors. The findings of this work showed that miRNA signatures could serve as potential biomarkers to discriminate HBC that could improve the low specificity rates of the models for BRCA1/2-mutation prediction [19,20,21,22]. Further studies are necessary to evaluate the inclusion of new miRNAs biomarkers as additional parameters in the available prediction models to provide a better selection of patients that should proceed to BRCA1/2 genetic testing.
In conclusion, this work provides the first evidence of a molecular profile of miRNAs that could discriminate with high accuracy BRCA1/2-germline mutation carriers and BRCAX from NBT in Brazilian women using NanoString technology. Furthermore, these miRNAs could have potential value as a complementary clinical diagnostic tool to identify breast cancer patients that could benefit from BRCA1/2-mutations genetic testing and personalized clinical management. However, further larger prospective studies are required to validate these profiles.
All data used and analyzed during this study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
ER:
Estrogen receptor
FFPE:
Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded
HBC:
HBOC:
Hereditary breast and ovarian cancer syndrome
HER2:
Human epidermal growth factor receptor 2
miRNA:
NBT:
Normal breast tissue
qPCR:
Quantitative polymerase chain reaction
ROC:
Receiver operating characteristic
SBC:
Sporadic breast cancer
TSG:
Tumor suppressor gene
Wild type
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We would like to thank the Department of Oncogenetics, Department of Pathology, Center of Molecular Diagnosis, and the Tumor Biobank of Barretos Cancer Hospital.
This research was funded by grants from the Public Ministry of Labor Campinas (Research, Prevention, and Education of Occupational Cancer) and financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES), Finance Code 001. None of the funders had any influence on the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication.
Molecular Oncology Research Center, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, SP, Brazil
Danielle Pessôa-Pereira, Adriane Feijó Evangelista, Rhafaela Lima Causin, Karen Cristina Borba de Souza, Renato José de Oliveira-Silva, Gabriela Carvalho Fernandes, Rui Manuel Reis, Edenir Inêz Palmero & Márcia Maria Chiquitelli Marques
Department of Breast and Reconstructive Surgery, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, SP, Brazil
René Aloisio da Costa Vieira
Department of Pathology, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, SP, Brazil
Lucas Faria Abrahão-Machado, Iara Viana Vidigal Santana & Vinicius Duval da Silva
Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), Medical School, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
Rui Manuel Reis
ICVS/3B’s-PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal
Center of Molecular Diagnosis, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, SP, Brazil
Edenir Inêz Palmero
Department of Oncogenetics, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, SP, Brazil
Barretos School of Health Sciences, Dr. Paulo Prata – FACISB, Barretos, SP, Brazil
Edenir Inêz Palmero & Márcia Maria Chiquitelli Marques
Tumor Biobank, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, SP, Brazil
Márcia Maria Chiquitelli Marques
Danielle Pessôa-Pereira
Adriane Feijó Evangelista
Rhafaela Lima Causin
Lucas Faria Abrahão-Machado
Iara Viana Vidigal Santana
Vinicius Duval da Silva
Karen Cristina Borba de Souza
Renato José de Oliveira-Silva
Gabriela Carvalho Fernandes
DPP developed, led the overall study and prepared the manuscript. AFE participated in data analysis and helped in the study design. RLC helped with the NanoString experiments. RACV provided clinical support in this study and helped in case selection. LFAM, IVVS and VDS participated in sample collection. GCF, KCBS and RJOS provided administrative and technical assistance. RMR helped in the study design, provided advice during the study development and critically reviewed the manuscript. EIP helped with case selection and critically reviewed the manuscript. MMSM conceived, provided advice during the study development and critically reviewed the manuscript. All the authors substantively revised the manuscript and have approved the submitted version.
Correspondence to Márcia Maria Chiquitelli Marques.
This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Barretos Cancer Hospital, Barretos, SP, Brazil (950/2015) and conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Written informed consent was obtained from all involved patients before data and sample collection.
Pessôa-Pereira, D., Evangelista, A.F., Causin, R.L. et al. miRNA expression profiling of hereditary breast tumors from BRCA1- and BRCA2-germline mutation carriers in Brazil. BMC Cancer 20, 143 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-020-6640-y
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Pro Unionist Bias – Who Us?
A well respected and truly impartial journalist was asked if the perception that BBC Scotland was anti-SNP was, in his view, justified. “Put it this way,” he said, “It probably comes more naturally to them to attack the nationalists than to attack the union.”
But how is this the case? A wee bit of history. From 1946 to 1991 media affairs in Scotland were subject to the moderating influence of the BBC Scotland Controller who effectively reported to the “Broadcasting Council for Scotland”, on which many distinguished Scot’s served over the years.
That was abandoned and control of BBC output in Scotland was transferred to the Board of Governors of the corporation in England then onto the BBC trust Chairman, in London.
So what’s the problem?
The way in which BBC Scotland is run, the quality of care it shows for the many good people who work for it, the standard of what it does, the public service in Scotland ethos it supposedly represents are some of the more important questions facing the Scottish nation.
But it is doubtful they can be successfully addressed within the control systems that prevail at the present time.
The BBC fails Scotland when it is needed most.
The two main blockages are in the minds of those who retain control of the state media output:
The BBC is part of the glue that holds together the very idea of Britain.
Take it away and the whole package starts to fall apart and we are left to wonder at the fragility of the paste.
The BBC is how we talk to each other, where we go in the morning.
We need to trust it and to feel a personal investment in it.
Otherwise, it’s lost – and part of us with it.
Is the alleged bias in BBC Scotland endemic or confined to a few employees?
The huge number of unresolved complaints and public demonstrations all voicing concern and anger about a blatant lack of impartiality by the news reporting/discussion teams in the course of the recent independence referendum and since gives support to the public perception that there is an on-going agenda within BBC Scotland ensuring support to Unionist Party ideals, to the exclusion of other political parties in Scotland.
Yes” campaigners “anti-bias” march on the BBC Headquarters in Glasgow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttDkVoTYpLA#t=18
The organisation also needs to be formally separated from London so that it can be truly independent.
The over arching Scottish body, including members of the public, should be reinstated.
A Unionist Party pedigree is a predominant requirement within the BBC Scotland senior management team and a number of line managers and reporters, are in place appointed through nepotism.
This needs to eradicated so that the BBC is enabled to fulfil it’s remit, to be impartial and accountable to the Scottish public.
The current “modus-operandi” cannot be allowed to remain in place and there should be a cull of management and media correspondents that have abandoned the Journalist’s Code in favour of their politically minded colleagues.
https://www.nuj.org.uk/about/nuj-code/
John Boothman & Derek Bateman
Nepotism/Cronyism & Protection of The Unionists
John Boothman head of BBC Scotland News and Current Affairs, (formerly Editor of Elections and Political Output).
In 1979 he was the Chairperson of Strathclyde University Labour Club, Chairperson Scottish Organisation of Labour Students in 1980 and Chairperson of the National (UK) Organisation of Labour Students 1981.
According to former BBC broadcaster Derek Bateman, Boothman questioned the political output of radio broadcasts after receiving complaints from Paul Sinclair.
Sinclair, (SPAD to Johann Lamont) is said to enjoy a special relationship and regular contact with Boothman through both men’s links with the Labour party.
Writing on his blog, Mr Bateman claimed that Boothman was “famous for his unrivalled network of contacts in the Labour movement.” adding that, “…Sinclair had a name for trying to interfere in BBC news decisions to influence output.”
Such attempts at interference were, according to Mr Bateman, something all parties tried to do
But, according to the former BBC presenter, Sinclair and Boothman developed an unhealthy relationship with the Labour advisor calling the shots.
He added: “But what I didn’t like about Sinclair – Boothman was the informal and insidious way it developed, so instead of old pals, it became almost one of master and servant.
“Sinclair seemed to assume the right to call the BBC head of news to account.
It was going on right up to the final weeks before my departure.”
Mr Bateman also claimed that Boothman had, on more than one occasion, questioned him about the political content of his radio programme after receiving complaints from Sinclair.
http://www.glawest.org/bbc-scotland-head-of-news-an-agent-of-labour-party/
Susan Deacon & Paul Sinclair (labour Press Officer)
John Boothman is married to Susan Deacon: Former Chairman of Scottish Labour Students.
She served on the Scottish Labour Party’s, National Executive. MSP and Labour government minister.
Recently put her parliamentary career on hold to raise her family.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/bbc-chief-too-close-to-labour-claims-ex-colleague.22317694
John Boothman, Margaret Curran and Johann Lamont as students were actively involved in Labour Party politics at Glasgow and Strathclyde Universities.
Curran is a Labour Party Executive member and MP.
At university she was, Secretary of Glasgow University Labour Club, Secretary of the Scottish Organisation of Labour Students, Chair of that organisation, and Vice-Chair of the Labour Club(the biggest of its kind in the UK) at the time.
Lamont is an MSP and former leader of the Labour Party in Scotland.
At university, she was an active member of Glasgow University Labour Club.
Sarah Boyack (labour MSP)
Sarah Boyack; Labour Party List MSP. Attended Glasgow University.
Active in politics as a student, (taken under her wing and promoted by Margaret Curran).
Chair of the National Organisation of Labour Students in 1985-86
Catrina Renton & Susan Deacon
Catriona Renton: Reporter for the BBC Politics Show and BBC Presenter.
Renton is a former Glasgow Labour Councillor, who represented Kelvindale before losing her seat to the LibDems in 2003.
She was “Glasgow’s Youth Tsar” she is a product of Balliol College, Oxford who went on to represent Labour in both the 2003 Holyrood elections and the 2004 European elections.
She was apparently recruited by BBC Scotland’s parliamentary unit in 2006, where John Boothman, husband of Labour MSP and ex-Health Minister Susan Deacon, was a senior producer.
Her personal Facebook has listed the following as friends: Jackie Baille Labour MSP, Yousuf Hamid Labour Activist, Tom Harris Labour MP, Mike Dailly Labour Activist, David Martin Labour MEP, Frank McAvetty Labour MSP, John Robertson Labour MP John Park Labour MSP, Steven Purcell Labour Glasgow Leader, Dave Watson Vice-chair of the Scottish Labour Party.
At the centre of a bias storm after an item broadcast on Sunday 18 October 2009 she attributed views to senior SNP MSP Alex Neil that he had not expressed.
When filming at the SNP conference in Inverness, Catriona Renton had claimed on BBC Scotland’s Politics Show that Alex Neil had confirmed the SNP’s desire to see David Cameron become the Prime Minister at the next general election.
The recorded interview with Mr Neil that followed Ms Renton’s claim contained no such confirmation.
The BBC was forced to issue a personal apology to Alex Neil.
Tom Connor; BBC Head of Online News and Sport.
Long term friend and colleague of John Boothman, Department Head.
Responsible for ensuring the continuation of censorship and blockage of comments to BBC Scotland political blogs.
No adding comment or disputing views with the likes of Brian Taylor or Douglas Fraser account any-more. Yet England, Wales and Northern Ireland blogs all allow comments.
Tom, together with his boss John Boothman was censured a number of years ago for offering Media training to Labour candidates!
http://auldacquaintance.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/drooket/
John Boothman
16 June 2015: BBC Scotland News Boss Removed From Post After Strike Threats Over Bullying Claims
John Boothman, head of news and current affairs at BBC Scotland, is being shifted with immediate effect to join the team overseeing the BBC’s preparations for charter renewal next year, staff were told on Tuesday by the controller of BBC Scotland, Ken McQuarrie.
It was revealed that Boothman had lost a grievance complaint against him taken out by Zoe MacDonald, a BBC camerawoman and daughter of the late nationalist politician Margo MacDonald after she recorded him being abusive about her and her mother in February.
An internal staff survey had meanwhile confirmed there was widespread unhappiness in BBC Scotland’s newsroom about management decision-making, while a health and safety survey commissioned by the National Union of Journalists found very high levels of stress in the department.
The BBC survey showed that only 19% of news and current affairs staff believed bullying complaints against their managers would have a “positive outcome”, only 20% felt bullying would be fairly dealt with and only 16% had confidence in Boothman’s decision-making.
In a letter emailed to BBC Scotland staff, MacQuarrie said: “We are now entering the most important period of work ahead of the forthcoming charter review discussions as we shape our plans for the future of BBC Scotland.
“I am writing to let you know that John Boothman, head of news and current affairs, will be joining the team working on Scotland’s proposals for charter review.
Working [for] Bruce Malcolm, he will play a key role focussing on service development for Scotland including our news offer for audiences for the new charter period.
“Pete MacRae will take on the role of head of news and current affairs on an interim basis until a permanent appointment is made.”
Boothman had had a private discussion about Zoe MacDonald and other BBC staff with a personnel executive, who has since left the BBC, in a broadcasting gallery at its Edinburgh studios without realising the microphones were live.
MacDonald was eating lunch in the next gallery, and overheard their conversation, recording it on her mobile phone.
Backed by colleagues and her stepfather, the former Scottish National party MP Jim Sillars, she made a formal complaint against Boothman.
The complaints were raised earlier this month with Tony Hall, the BBC’s director-general, during a meeting with unions, where Hall requested a written summary of the grievances circulating within BBC Scotland.
Paul Holleran, the national organiser for the NUJ in Scotland, said there would be “palpable relief” in the newsrooms after the announcement and said the union believed that industrial relations at BBC Scotland could be “turned around very quickly” after Boothman’s transfer.
“The NUJ welcomes the transfer of John Boothman out of his current role, he has overseen a period of damage to the health and morale of many of our members which we believe has affected the quality of news delivery during his tenure,” Holleran said.
“We have seen industrial action including strikes and work to rules; stress levels have gone through the roof as highlighted in union and BBC surveys and mainly because of his management style there has been a complete breakdown in industrial relations at times.”
Boothman offered MacDonald a “fulsome” apology last week, more than a month after he lost the grievance hearing, after the NUJ and broadcast union Bectu told management of growing discontent amongst BBC Scotland journalists and camera crews.
The crisis culminated on Friday in a tense meeting between the NUJ and BBC management, where the NUJ warned that unless Boothman was moved, the union would ballot BBC Scotland journalists on taking industrial action.
They were surprised that MacQuarrie, who oversaw the BBC’s investigation earlier this year into bullying allegations against Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson, had not acted earlier.
Staff sources say there had been a series of conflicts and grievances involving Boothman and journalists.
Senior staff at BBC Scotland feared the controversy has potentially significant political implications for the corporation after it came under intense criticism last year from nationalists for alleged bias against Scottish Independence.
Regarded by some colleagues as a gifted political journalist and news editor, Boothman is also married to a former Scottish Labour MSP and minister, Susan Deacon, fuelling nationalist claims of bias by the BBC.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jun/16/bbc-scotland-news-executive-john-boothman-moves-jobs
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20 replies on “BBC-Scotland-Powerful-Politically-Corrupt-and-Biased-Shameful-Abuse-Of-The-Scottish-Electorate”
airdforce1says:
In the interests of accuracy, which is always the best option, Raymond Buchanan is from Barra, while Brian’s wife is from Lewis. They are not at all related.
However, Raymond B – far from “retiring to the Hebrides” – was, last time I looked, still the PR chief at ….. (Fanfare)…. a certain Weir Pumps, probably the most vocal Scottish business aligned with Project Fear.
Thanks comments amended.
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Calum Duncansays:
Brilliant work.
brian mcardlesays:
Look at the Director Generals past ,all have links to Labour ,either as researchers,mps etc ,its cronyism.Jobs for the boys ,kirsty wark,hubby and her have labour links with lord mcconnell
when my tv contract with virgin is up in 6 months tv box is being returned,no more licence money from me
enidanderson@msn.comsays:
Please proof read your copy for grammatical and spelling errors. It looks a bit rough at present.
Gerald Keoghsays:
No matter what errors in grammar and spelling, every single fact is unquestionable and I personally found it most informative. The amount of research given could not have been any better. Please forgive if my grammar isn’t too good,——it’s my old age.
Gil Barrsays:
fantastic an allergy of the state run tv chanel, will anything positive come from it> I do hope so, hopefully dismantle this state run tv
anguthsays:
Reblogged this on shoolyboo.
Mstosays:
I used to think we needed to bring BBC Scotland under Scottish control but now I think we need to sell the BBC to the highest bidder, to realise as much money as possible, and use the profits to pay to national debt or use to help the vulnerable. It’s just rotten. Too rotten to commercialise and leave people in place.
allan mathiesonsays:
Utterly depressing! They have infiltrated every aspect of public bodies Scotland is rife with this cronisim and nepotism by labour and have been shown to be incompetent!..
subsidysays:
“Housing subsidy – 9 times more for mansions than for all of social housing!”
https://speye.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/housing-subsidy-9-times-more-for-mansions-than-for-all-of-social-housing/
T Connsays:
No idea who the chap you describe as “Tom Connor” is in that photograph, but it certainly isn’t Tom Connor of the BBC.
Thank you. I have removed the photo
johnny rudkinsays:
the scottish government must insist that the bbc in scotland must be disbanded and a new company set up to represent scotland run by an independent committee they can call it the new bbc run solely for scotland by scotland where new programs can be made in scotland there is an abundance of talent in scotland just waiting for the opportunity to produce new tv for scotland and the rest of the world
That would be an answer. The problem for Scotland is that the media is not a fully devolved activity, (except for broadcasting in Gaelic) Scotland cannot even promote or develop the “Scots” language even though it is recognised as such by the EC. The way forward might be for Scottish MEP’s to lobby the appropriate body in Brussels to apply pressure on Westminster to loosen the bonds of control in respect of broadcasting in Scotland
Agreed. It is ridiculous that Scotland is denied it’s own television channels
hettyforindysays:
Scotland’s devolution really is a joke. The Scotgov are mitigating tory and red tory cuts, while a budget reduction from westmonster is being implemented. We really need our own tv and radio station, independent.
If I was an alien from another planet, (not this one, there are plenty of them) I would be laughing at a land where people didn’t even have a say in what was being piped into the their living rooms day in, day out, and where it was their dysfunctional, criminal neighbour calling the shots.
More and more see the corruption and propaganda tactics being used to try to pull the wool over their eyes. To use the tories favourite word, reform, it’s the very least we need for the bbc in Scotland and in other media outlets, it won’t be long now. Quite frankly I would scrap the bbc altogether.
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Drive-In Double Feature: BEETLEJUICE & THE FRIGHTENERS!
June 26, 2015 Doc 4 Comments
Choosing which two movies I wanted to talk about for my Drive-In Double Feature wasn’t easy. As all the entries this past month have shown, there are endless combinations — none of them wrong, each one utterly singular and wonderfully creative. I had a couple ideas bouncing around (ones I’ll save for next year, or maybe before then) but I finally decided on Beetlejuice and The Frighteners since Beetlejuice — more specifically, its potential sequel — has been in the news lately.
See, for years now, people have been clamoring for a Beetlejuice sequel — but what they don’t realize is they’ve had a Beetlejuice sequel for years already: The Frighteners. Let’s look at some of the obvious comparisons:
Both are about the dead interacting with the living, specifically the dead helping the living accomplish a goal.
Both are about a living person using the dead to dupe other living people.
Both feature smart-assed ghosts.
Both prove that even the dead can still die again.
And perhaps most damning of all: both were scored by Danny Elfman! I mean, c’mon people!
The similarities don’t end there.
The catalyst in both films is a car wreck: in Beetlejuice, a car accident kills the Maitlands, which allows them to interact with the dead. In The Frighteners, Michael J. Fox and his wife are also in a car accident; the crash kills the wife, but near-death experience allows Fox to — you guessed it — communicate with the dead.
Plus, look at this car chase from The Frighteners. Everything is very lush and green, hills are winding, homes are painted white and almost look like models. Tell me these locations don’t look exactly like the model set Adam Maitland builds of the little town in Beetlejuice! The car crash at the end of Beetlejuice (the one that takes place on the miniature model) looks identical to the one that happens in The Frighteners. Hell, they even both involve antique model vehicles!
Both also have interesting MPAA ratings: Despite the violence being comical in nature or happening offscreen entirely, The Frighteners was deemed far too violent, and the board forced an R-rating on an unhappy Peter Jackson despite him making as many cuts as he possibly could. Yet Beetlejuice — which features a perverted ghost marrying an underage girl, corpses who talk about suicide, one crotch grab, and one use of “fuck” — snuck by with a harmless PG.
And there is one more loose, tenuous parallel: in The Frighteners, Michael J. Fox lives in an home he never finished building, and it’s in need of major repairs; in Beetlejuice, after the Maitlands die, the Deetzes move in and make major repairs and changes. The homelife in both films, the disarray — it’s too blatant to ignore.
But despite their numerous similarities, the reception to either film couldn’t have been any different. While Beetlejuice became a smash hit and an 80s classic, and probably the most memorable film production for all those involved, The Frighteners failed at the box office and became a mere footnote in Peter Jackson’s filmography. It was also Fox’s last leading role in a live-action feature film. However, in recent years, people seem to be coming to their senses and have now realized what a goddamn gem The Frighteners is, and it has developed, as the cool kids say, a “cult following”.
I remember seeing The Frighteners in the theater with my folks when I was 12 years old. It blew me away. I’ve always been into two things: scary stuff and funny stuff; The Frighteners knocked it out of the goddamned park with both! Aside from just being incredibly fun and well written and beautifully shot, it has tons of incredible special effects. In fact, it required more digital effects shots than almost any movie made up until that time (thanks, Wikipedia!)
I originally saw Beetlejuice as a small child, most likely from a video store rental. I don’t remember when I saw it I just remember being so young that stuff about the film didn’t make sense to me until years later. Like when the Maitlands drown; I didn’t realize they were dead. When Geena Davis trots the horse statue in front of the mirror to show she has no reflection, I had no goddamned idea what was going on. When the Maitlands possess the Deetzes and force them to dance to calypso music, I couldn’t have been more lost — but damn if that wasn’t a great scene to a toddler!
A double feature of Beetlejuice and The Frighteners makes more sense the longer I sit here and type (also, the more beer I drink.) Beetlejuice is a wonderful ode to the practical effects of 80s horror — even utilizing ‘old-school’ stop motion animation in several scenes. The Frighteners shows the turning of the tide, blending both practical effects and digital effects but leaning more on the latter. Both films would be nominated for and win several Saturn awards. Beetlejuice would even win an Academy Award for best make-up!
Both films also have huge, colorful supporting casts — Beetlejuice with Sylvia Sydney and Dick Cavett; The Frighteners with Dee Wallace, John Astin, and Jeffrey Combs!
It feels silly summarizing both films, especially Beetlejuice since it has become so embedded in the pop culture collective consciousness — so I’ll skip the summations. But trust me: these movies are the perfect double feature, not simply because they compliment each other, but because one feels like an extension of the other. Go watch both…now!
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4 thoughts on “Drive-In Double Feature: BEETLEJUICE & THE FRIGHTENERS!”
drhumpp says:
It’s hard to argue with this pairing. I like Beetlejuice, but I love The Frighteners.
The comparisons about the ratings is an interesting one that I never really thought about. PG to R is a big jump when you consider that the PG-13 rating was in between and probably would have been appropriate for both. I also heard that the scene where Jeffrey gets his head blown off was added after it was determined that this was going to be an R. It would have been cool if Jackson could have set out to make an R the entire time.
I even read the novelization of The Frighteners which was based off of a much earlier version of the script.
Dr. Jose says:
I’m glad to hear you love The Frighteners! I feel like Braindead is Jackson’s de facto horror achievement, while The Frighteners gets little love — love it deserves!
I don’t think I’ve ever heard that bit about Combs’ headshot, but it makes sense. Can’t get a lower rating, might as well go all out.
I really applaud films like these. It can’t be easy convincing a studio to allow you to make such weird, unclassifiable films. But I’m thankful they did!
Jackson has made some fun movies that are great looking. I think I enjoy Bad Taste the most, but I think that Braindead is sort of the final word on over the top gore.
The mid 90s was a strange time. I remember Fangoria when The Frighterners came out declared JACKSON AND CARPENTER ON MEGABUDGETS!
This was a good pairing – it seems the only thing people ever compared The Frighteners to was Ghostbusters.
I forgot, I even have a bunch of Frighteners trading cards from about 20 years ago. Where does the time go?
That’s funny about the Fangoria headline. I have a massive stack of old Fangoria’s (and other fright mags) I flip through from time to time. It’s amazing how prophetic some are, and how others are so dated. Who’dathunk Peter jackson – creator of weirdo cinema – would go on to make some of the most popular films, ever?
I just Googled The Frighteners trading cards. They look great!
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If you ride a motorcycle, you already
know enough to stay away from rattlesnakes and marijuana – at least
until you park the bike. Some, however, are not as smart as you, the
esteemed CMG reader.
Take for example a U.S. motorcyclist who was carrying a
dead canebrake rattlesnake on the back of his bike on Dec 5.
New Orleans police say the rider was
about to enter a curve when he turned around to check the snake,
which had begun flapping after the twine it had been secured with
came loose.
While distracted, he hit a curb, and the subsequent
crash, if not the cause of it, was not funny at all. Well, at least not for him.
Police did not know how the rider got
the five-foot-long rattlesnake, but said its tail and fangs had been
removed. The rider fared only slightly better – although the last we heard,
he was still alive.
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Then there’s actor Laurence Fishburne who was rattled himself not long ago. He said in the
latest issue of Forbes Magazine that getting high and riding
motorcycles may not actually be a smart thing to do.
Fishburne was riding with architect
Frank Gehry as passenger when he “freaked out” as the bike
started to feel loose. He had toked up with friends just before the
ride.
He didn’t crash, but said later it “was
probably the most foolish thing I ever did on a motorcycle.”
Fishburne called Gehry “the world’s
greatest living architect.” We can only imagine what Gehry called
Fishburne.
And finally, in the spirit of the season, a New England man lit up more than a Christmas tree while attempting to string lights. While pulling an extension cord that was attached to a string of lights out of his garage, the man knocked over another (plugged in) light, which shattered next to his gas-powered weed-eater. That went up in flames, which in turn caused a fueled-up motorcycle gas tank to explode.
Nobody was hurt, but the fire caused about $20,000 in damage. And they say that Christmas can be a depressing time of year.
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No one is going to deny the influence of voice acting in our culture. In fact, everywhere you turn your ears to, there it is; a sumptuous, sensual voice trying to tell you something, to sell, to communicate. But in this constant influx of sound, the question starts to form: “what constitutes good voice acting?”
That’s what we’re going to find out today. If you want to act, produce, or hire someone specialized in voice acting, it’s better to have actual role models. After all, the industry is so laden with clichés and standardized performances that you want to avoid being merely mechanical. Knowing some standouts — what sets good voice acting apart from the rest — will save you from being forgettable or boring. Moreover, it will save you from being memorable for the wrong reasons.
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I’ve gone over the voice acting trade in detail in this guide. The profession is, in a nutshell, centered on the art of recording voice-overs. Mostly, these performances are done to represent a character in a show, movie, video game, commercial, etc. This means that acting remains the operative word in this case; the voice actor or actress is using their voice to play a role. In all cases, a particular inflection or characterization is required by the script and artistic direction.
That means that a voice professional needs to not just be good at recitation. While that has its own place in say, narration, voice acting entails a more involved approach. It encompasses the intersection between being a character actor and a voice professional. Good voice acting, especially, requires a pro being good at immersing themselves in a dramatis personae.
Let’s take the example of Mel Blanc, a famous voice actor, and radio personality. During the Golden Age of American Animation, he voiced several classics for Warner Bros and Hannah-Barbera. You’re going to be picking your jaw off the floor when you see this list of his famous performances!
Pepé Le Pew
The Tasmanian Devil
Wile E. Coyote
And that’s just a partial list that’s not even getting into his Hannah-Barbera years! He voiced several other iconic characters like Barney Rubble in the Flinstones. He definitely earned the title “The man of a thousand voices”!
Good voice acting
The aforementioned Mel Blanc would, of course, make for a perfect example. Every character he touched turned to gold. His turns were memorable, iconic, and funny to boot! It’s not just variety that’s the spice of good voice acting, though. If that were the case, the voice behind trailers, with his ominous, bass tone, would be out of business!
Sure, there are characteristics than it can’t hurt to have for good voice acting to be within reach. We’re talking about voices with rich tones, good vocal technique, dramatic range, flexibility, and voice-acting experience. While a formal education is by no means required to get a start in the industry, it helps. Especially when dealing with more dramatic roles, some background in acting may be desirable.
I’m by no means a dyed-in-the-wool diehard about this, though. If you think you or a prospective voice actor has the chops, go for it! After all, performance is king, and let’s never gloss over the fact that some people are just naturals.
With the voice acting game, you’re going to need some amount of natural gifts, in fact. Uninteresting, unflattering voices may just have a harder time catching a break. This does not mean you shouldn’t use your voice’s unique qualities to your advantage, quite the contrary! Check out these 10 actresses with unique voices, for example! Remember: good voice acting doesn’t have to mean conventionally pretty. Use your idiosyncrasies in your favor!
A small note on vocal technique for good voice acting
I know I mentioned unique voices before, and that may be cause for misunderstanding. Unique voices or performances can absolutely be used for voice acting — that connects to my previous “natural gifts” argument. Qualities which may be seen as bad for everyday life may be good in the voice acting context. Having bad technique, though, doesn’t.
Check out our guide for more information on how to avoid this!
Good voice acting examples
Playing the Joker is probably one of acting’s best, but most terrifying gigs. The complex qualities of the character — both menacing and darkly hilarious — are a challenge for any actor. When Mark Hamill stepped into the character’s shoes for the 1992 Batman Animated Series, he had his work cut out for him. He managed to craft a historic, classic character for the ages.
The Joker’s complexities are not always understood by every performer or director who takes a turn at the character. Take Jared Leto’s infamous portrayal, for example. In Mark Hamill’s case, he was already typecast as a sci-fi hero from Star Wars. In an effort to distance himself from that stereotype, he has never been afraid to try new things.
With his masterful take on the character, he was almost too menacing for the children’s show. His iconic performance, part mad clown, part deranged psycho with the dial turned to 11 still endures. Nearly 30 years after he started, he’s still seen as the quintessential voice of the character.
Another fantastic actor that hammed it up magnificently was Jeremy Irons with Scar. In the animated feature film “The Lion King”, he managed to combine the Shakespearean and the campy to great effect. The result is a grand, operating character that also mixes menace and humor. A magnificent casting choice that was sadly not repeated in 2019’s remake.
A few examples of good voice acting in video games
Video games are no strangers to narrative. They’re far removed from the archaic “rescue the Princess” scenario from the 70s and 80s. For the past few decades, video games have been telling complex, multi-part dramatic narratives in interactive form. Technological developments also made video games a prime target for voice acting. With the advent of higher memory capacities in the 90s, the video game voice over exploded.
Sure, results weren’t always stellar. In fact, it was common for video game voice acting to be outright bad. Most of the worst examples come from the mid-90s and early 2000s though. Thankfully, things got a lot more standardized after that. Gaming got truly massive and companies stopped skimping out on the voice acting budget.
We have quite a few games to thank for that switch. One of them was the famed 1998 Hideo Kojima Playstation masterpiece “Metal Gear Solid”. In what was labeled “tactical espionage action”, players were taken on a wild ride. The game, which initially had all the appearance of being a techno-thriller, revealed stunning plot and thematic depths.
During lengthy, non-interactive story segments called cutscenes, players were led down a rabbit hole of dramatic twists and turns. What began as typical “get the bad guys” story turned into a multi-layered story about fate and identity. This was also supplemented by additional story and information scenes through the “codec”, the in-game radio.
None of these things would’ve been possible without the top-notch voice cast. In the wrong hands, the subject matter could’ve turned hokey or gauche. Thanks to the well-rounded-out cast of veteran voice actors, scenes gained pathos and gravitas. They stuck in players’ minds and made them empathize with the plights of the characters, even the bad guys!
It’s so good it works in movie form!
Other honorable mentions from the realm of video games
Of course, it’s not like the industry found out about good voice acting in 1998. Lucasarts, a subsidiary of Lucasfilms (now owned by Disney) made many great adventure games back in the 90s. Some standouts were:
Full Throttle with Mark Hamill as the villain Adrian Ripburger.
The Dig, starring Robert Patrick (from Terminator 2 fame).
The Curse of Monkey Island, a cartoon extravaganza.
It wasn’t just Lucasarts putting a premium on voice acting, though! Defunct adventure game giant Sierra Online hired Tim Curry for Gabriel Knight.
What do I do if I want good voice acting?
There’s no one-size-fits-all approach. As I said, it’s best to know good voice acting examples and what makes them good. That means you’ll have greater knowledge to start your search. Both when searching for prospects or when thinking about getting into voice acting, this is a good place for references. CDawgVA is a YouTube channel hosted by a professional voice actor. There, he constantly reviews good and bad voiceovers across industries, giving his critiques and input.
But of course, if you’re hiring, things are different. You want to go with someone who’s got proven experience and positive reviews. Generally, we recommend you go with an outsourcing platform. You’ll be able to find thousands of proven voice pros on every rate tier. Moreover, you’ll be able to access their portfolios; you’ll be safe in the knowledge they know their stuff just by being there.
But, not all is so cut-and-dried when it comes to good voice acting. What’s important is knowing what works for you. Whether on the brand or actor side, sometimes it pays to go off the beaten path. You’ll know what works when you find it!
I’m glad you took this short journey on voice acting with me. Thankfully, with an industry that seems to have woken up to good quality, examples are easy to find. Gone are the days of the 80s and 90s, where bad voice acting was ubiquitous in cartoons and games. Now, to enjoy long-lasting success in this business, there’s no excuse for not knowing your stuff!
Here’s to you talking the talk and walking the walk!
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Mobility Measure
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Individualised mobility marketing
Ljubljana is aware that public acceptance of transport policy is of crucial importance if policies are to be successful. The city therefore wanted to enhance the level of public inclusion and participation in the policy process. For this purpose special individualised mobility marketing activities have been introduced.
Implementing sustainable mobility
Ljubljana started to introduce individualised mobility marketing by establishing specific manners of inclusion/participation of the public in the process of creating a new city traffic arrangement.
• First, the area of corridor was thoroughly analysed through public opinion surveys. The public opinion surveys performed in 2009 and 2012 analysed the legitimacy of changes to the public transport arrangement in Ljubljana including anticipation and mitigation of possible contradictions that may emerge as consequence of a transformed transport system. Altogether, more than 2300 people were included in both surveys. Supplements resulting from surveys regarding city traffic regulation plans, including the potential operating impacts of the new traffic systems were delivered to local partners in order to be used as important data for the preparation of their own measures.
• Second, the development of proposals for optimising synergetic effects of the new traffic arrangement, which are compatible with the functional operation of the city centre (reviving and strengthening heterogeneity and variety in the city centre by supporting a user-friendly traffic arrangement) have followed.
• Third, the process of individualised mobility marketing based on citizens’ involvement in defining transport policy involved introducing the principle of interactivity in formulating policies and to use the gathered data and public feedback to develop an individualised mobility marketing strategy. Strategic objective of this measure was gradual consolidation i.e. acceptance of the new transport policy by interested publics. Implementation of individualized mobility marketing strategy based on individuals as a target group (inhabitants of Ljubljana and potential users of public transport) in total reached more than 2600 people.
• Forth, supportive actions to the individualized mobility marketing campaign followed in order to amplify the effects of other activities inside the project. These actions were implemented in the form of brochure “Mobile Ljubljana” with comprehensive information on sustainable mobility modes in Ljubljana that has been prepared and sent to households in the city and by the mobility shops called MOB-i-LNICA that functioned as info-points for quality mobility and have been established in the Tourist information centres in order to offer information on sustainable mobility in Ljubljana.
How did the measure progress?
Overall, the following on-terrain actions were performed inside this measure included:
• Full implementation of Individualised mobility marketing campaign that included more than 2600 people.
• Training workshop on individualised marketing campaign for the relevant city administrators and other stakeholders was performed by REC at COL.
• Production of Training manual - publication on individualised marketing campaign for the use of the relevant city administrators and other stakeholders (i.e. public transport) has been prepared and delivered to the specified public.
• Full implementation of two public opinion surveys (longitudinal public opinion research) “Changes in the public transport arrangement in Ljubljana and Ljubljana region” which altogether included 2314 individuals.
• Two public opinion surveys for the measure 3.1 on the theme of Congestion charging that altogether included 1476 people.
• Two small scale surveys that included 630 and 353 individuals that were included in the Individualised mobility marketing campaign to asses i.e. evaluate the success rate of campaign.
• One public opinion survey for the purpose of measure 8.5 (LJU E-ticketing and fare integration) regarding the Travel habits in Ljubljana urban region” that included 1110 individuals.
• Production of twenty-two specific i.e. measure accustomed data analyse reports for easier implementation of measures, activities of other CIVITAS Elan partners (all stated activities have been described in annexes, WD’s and M’s during the four year period).
• Training of staff at the Mobility Shop
• Implementation of three Mobility shops (former tourist offices).
• Mobility Brochure for 130 000 households within Municipality of Ljubljana published in September 2012.
• Survey for employees at the Municipality in Ljubljana (M4 and WD 10).
• Production of all twenty-four reports on activities, databases, and comparative data analyses in the form of D’s, WD’s and M’s.
• Five presentations, production of scientific papers for round tables, workshops, scientific conferences on the theme of CIVITAS Elan (all stated activities have been described in annexes, WD’s and M’s during the four year period).
• Co-organisation of two workshops with Urbanistic Institute of Slovenia regarding the measure 4.9 Update of the Sustainable Urban Transport Plan.
• Four active participations on CIVITAS Elan day (e.g. production of exhibition posters, presentation of research data, engagement in organised public events, activities etc. - all stated activities have been described in annexes, WD’s and M’s during the four year period).
• Three scientific articles on the theme of CIVITAS Elan published in specialized scientific journals, reviews.
• Several meetings (at least 50 meetings over the span of 4 years) with local partners, evaluators, other partners regarding the implementation of activities inside the CIVITAS Elan project.
What were the outcomes of the measure?
The main result of the measure was to inform and motivate people to think about their daily journeys in order to switch to a more sustainable mode of transport. Main tools used in this process were the individual mobility marketing approach through the campaign, the operation of mobility shops and distribution of the Mobile Ljubljana brochure:
1. The individualised mobility marketing campaign that started in May 2011 and altogether reached more than 2.600 households in Ljubljana (with 600 individuals being included in a special deep communication strategy procedure of the individualised mobility marketing campaign). The individualised mobility campaign has gradually informed, prepared and convinced some of the individuals which were included in the IMMC to change the way of thinking of how to use specific forms of transport in the city. From 600 people involved in the deep communication strategy 19,20% declared explicitly, that they will change the travel habits, because of IMMC; a good 50% have declared, that they are reconsidering the future use of current transport mode. In comparison with other cities, which were experimenting on similar tools of direct marketing, the indvidualised mobility marketing campaign in Ljubljana proved to be successful and that such communication strategy as a tool for changing mobility habits in Ljubljana could be used, extended in the future. The process of IMMC benefited local authorities (transformation of public image), public transport operators (increase in the number of users), economic subjects and the social structure (support for revitalisation processes) in the City of Ljubljana, and especially in the city centre. The IMMC influenced people’s mobility behavior and thus ‘indirectly’ helped to increase the functional variety and structure of socio-economic activities, which depend on specific modes of transport. In fact, the new/planned transport arrangements in the city, if combined with other city initiatives, may help to foster the growth of certain economic and social activities on the general scale.
2. Three mobility shops, called MOB-i-LNICA – info-point for quality mobility, have been established in the Tourist information centres in order to offer information on sustainable mobility in Ljubljana. The offices started to operate on 1st of February 2012. During the preparations for the implementation of Mobility Shops several meetings with partners and evaluators were prepared to exchange information, data and coordination procedures about the current state of work/progress of implementation of Mobility Shops. Before the mobility shops were opened, the some of the partners from the COL took part in special training. The first part of the training took place between 5th and 7th of November 2011 in Graz, where international training for Mobility centres was organised within the SEE MMC project. The second part was organised in on 19th and 25th of January 2012 for staff, working at the Mobility shops.
3. A brochure “Mobile Ljubljana” with comprehensive information on sustainable mobility modes in Ljubljana has been produced and sent to households in the city. In total, more than 130 000 brochures were delivered to households and additional copies are available for further distribution in mobility shops.
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Emily Aspinall February 6, 2019 AthleisureYouth Power
Fashion can be fickle, but the athleisure slash streetwear trend shows no sign of going anywhere soon. As Chinese society’s dress codes relax, it seems the fashions do too.
Once a subcultural movement, popular amongst skaters and surfers, streetwear now heavily influences the Chinese high street and luxury market. Slouchy tracksuit bottoms, bucket hats, Nike Air Max-ingzzz, oversized hoodies. The works.
The streets of Shanghai are littered with streetwear brands — Stüssy and Supreme being the prime suspects among Chinese millennials.
WIll China’s streetwear hurdle the short fence or run track?
Spiking A Hip-Hop Fever
Partly responsible for the rise of street fashion in China, is the rise of hip-hop culture. Once upon a time, in a land far away, street fashion was frowned upon due to its connection with the rebellious hip-hop world. Swearing, drug references and political messages in this music were all firmly blocked by China’s Great Firewall. Resulting in a chilling effect on the genre with China’s censors in early 2018 clamping down on popular culture.
However, some of China’s artists have managed to hurdle the Firewall and this resulted in the rising demand for streetwear brands. “Yoho!” is one of the most influential platforms for hip-hop fans in the East. Nanjing-born Liang Chao, the man behind the brand, has cultivated a platform that caters to China’s youth market. Part publishing, part e-commerce and part business.
China’s urban youth drives much of the brands identity and over the years, ‘Yoho!’ has managed to stay ahead in this fast-changing market. yet as the market becomes increasingly crowded, it does more to stand out. Offline stores, magazines and pop-up meet ‘n greets; they seem prepared for whatever China’s Youth Power next demands, yo.
“The Rap Of China”, first brought to Mainland audiences in 2017, is a popular Chinese “reality” show which took the country by storm. It has taken hip-hop from the underground to mainstream, shooting contestants and their style to stardom. It’s broadcast on iQiyi (China’s Netflix).
Record-breaking shows like this are incredibly significant to brands, offering free marketing and product placement. And driving sales even further.
Red Box Logos Reign Supreme
Chinese shoppers are to this day notorious for their love of big luxury brands like Gucci and Prada, Nevertheless, Chinese millennials are on the prowl for more niche, high-end fashions that offer the comfort of the aforementioned brands, but differentiate them as individuals from previous generations. That’s where Supreme comes in. The brand’s iconic red box logo spread across the chests, phone cases and caps of countless Chinese millennials.
On the streets of Shanghai, it is increasingly common to see teens with various logos (real or fake, we’ll never know) with the Supreme one being a prime candidate.
Wherein lies the Supreme claim to fame? Well, you ask, we deliver, Supreme has been seen numerous times on Chinese influencers from the likes of actress slash singer Yang Mi and Victoria’s Secret model Ming Xi. China’s fashion- and trend-dictating Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) have a frenzy of young fans willing to pay over their budget to replicate their looks. Though Supreme has no physical store in China (the nearest one is located in Japan), fans turn to re-sellers to get the Supreme goods. Or they turn to fakes.
Not all these counterfeits are easy to spot, though. Manufacturers are able to produce replicas that can look and feel authentic, selling them below the real price tag. Counterfeiters have gone to extreme lengths to cash in on Supreme’s popularity, as proven when an entirely fake Supreme shop in 2018 opened its doors to willing customers in Shenzhen. The store has a permanent spot next to retail leaders UNIQLO and ZARA.
With price tags as low as 135 RMB for a hoodie — this fake shop is bound to attract real millennials on a budget.
The Land Of Luxury Streetwear?
The 2017 collaboration between Louis Vuitton and Supreme signaled a pretty big shake-up in the fashion world. The boundaries between luxury and streetstyle continue to blur. Though in China, this fluidity by no means seems to tarnish streetwear’s cool cred. The collaboration was a huge commercial success, proving highly popular amongst millennials.
Perhaps these collaborations are a fusion between quality and coolness. It’s been done by Alexander Wang X Adidas and Jimmy Choo X Off-White, with each new collab spiking plenty of buzz hums around Chinese social media. Luxury brands are stretching their heritage in order to adapt to the current streetwear trend.
A-list celebs too are involved in the streetwear boom, two big names include Kanye West’s Yeezy line and Rihanna’s Fenty X Puma collection. These celebs rock their streetwear brands on and off the catwalk. Tracksuit bottoms have become the new jeans; it’s not just a trend. Social media, a new breed of reality TV and a paparazzi culture means celebs are often rocking their ‘off-duty’ outfits as an everyday staple.
Streetwear fashion is a very promising one, that shows no sign of fading away any time soon. A growing number of Chinese youths are embracing the more relaxed and androgynous style.
Celebrity culture, TV shows and social media are helping to grow the success of streetwear, making it a mainstream style instead of a subculture.
this little piggy is headed for financial security in 2019. With luxury fashion now tapping into its success, branded streetwear now comes with a hefty price tag… Unless its fake, that is.
Edited by Elsbeth van Paridon
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England-born journalist-in-the-making and teacher Emily Aspinall has been living and writing in/about China for just over a year. A love of travel, Asia and pure intrigue brought her and now keeps her in the country.
As a freelance journalist, she specializes in Chinese society and fashion, her fascination surrounding the East grew since living and working in a rural ex-fishing village on the outskirts of Shanghai.
Aspinall aims to capture a sense of the colourful and dynamic contemporary China, which continues to revolutionise and evolve.
Aspinall holds an English Literature degree from Sheffield University. She explored the literary canon, starting with old English and ending with the contemporary period, her area of speciality and research is post-war British social realism. While studying, she also on gained experience at the BBC, local publishing houses and copy edited the student newspaper.
Since moving to China, she has written regularly for Temper Magazine,The Shanghaiist and her personal blog. Her interests include gender fluidity, the modern representation of women, sustainability and the underground scene in China.
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Sources of nitrate in ground water in a sewered housing development, Central Long Island, New York
Nitrate concentrations in ground water on Long Island, New York, have increased markedly in the last 30 years. A significant amount of this increase has been attributed to lawn and garden fertilizers in addition to cesspool and septic-tank discharges. The increase in nitrate concentration is of particular concern in the central and eastern part of the island, where ground water is the sole source of drinking water. Ground-water samples were collected from 14 wells screened near the water table in the sewered Twelve Pines housing development constructed in Medford, Suffolk County, in 1970. Samples were collected during 1972-79 and analyzed for total ammonium, organic nitrogen, and nitrate. Statistical analyses indicate...
Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: Ground Water
Using existing data to estimate aquifer properties, Great Lakes Region, USA
To determine specific storage and porosity, areally limited and time-consuming aquifer tests are frequently done. Hydrogeologic studies often do not have the resources to collect such data and rely on existing data sources for aquifer properties. An alternative tool for determining these aquifer properties is the analysis of earth tides. The objective of this study was to determine whether existing water-level and barometric-pressure data could be used to determine aquifer properties, such as porosity and specific storage, on a regional scale. In this study, national databases from the Great Lakes Region were queried for continuous records of groundwater-level and barometric-pressure data. Records from 37 selected...
Using thermal-infrared imagery to delineate ground-water discharge
On March 8 and 9, 1992, a thermal-infrared-multispectral scanner (TIMS) was flown over two military ordnance disposal facilities at the Edgewood Area of Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. The data, collected bythe National Aeronautics and Space Administration, in cooperation with the U.S. Army and the U.S. Geological Survey, were used to locate ground-water discharge zones in surface water. The images from the flight show areas where ground-water discharge is concentrated, as well as areas of diffuse discharge. Concentrated discharge is predominant in isolated or nearly isolated ponds and creeks in the study area. Diffuse dicharge is found near parts of the shoreline where the study area meets the surrounding estuaries...
Effects of long-term water table drawdown on evapotranspiration and vegetation in an arid region phreatophyte community
Evapotranspiration rates and the ground water component of evapotranspiration at a site in Colorado's San Luis Valley that is dominated by shrubby phreatophytes (greasewood and rabbitbrush) were compared before and after a water table drawdown. Evapotranspiration (ET) rates at the site were first measured in 1985–1987 (pre-drawdown) when the mean water table depth was 0.92 m. Regional ground water pumping has since lowered the water table by 1.58 m, to a mean of 2.50 m. We measured ET at the same site in 1999–2003 (post-drawdown), and assessed physical and biological factors affecting the response of ET to water table drawdown. Vegetation changed markedly from the pre-drawdown to the post-drawdown period as phreatophytic...
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Effects of sea-level rise on salt water intrusion near a coastal well field in southeastern Florida
A variable-density groundwater flow and dispersive solute transport model was developed for the shallow coastal aquifer system near a municipal supply well field in southeastern Florida. The model was calibrated for a 105-year period (1900 to 2005). An analysis with the model suggests that well-field withdrawals were the dominant cause of salt water intrusion near the well field, and that historical sea-level rise, which is similar to lower-bound projections of future sea-level rise, exacerbated the extent of salt water intrusion. Average 2005 hydrologic conditions were used for 100-year sensitivity simulations aimed at quantifying the effect of projected rises in sea level on fresh coastal groundwater resources...
Crowdsourcing to Acquire Hydrologic Data and Engage Citizen Scientists: CrowdHydrology
Spatially and temporally distributed measurements of processes, such as baseflow at the watershed scale, come at substantial equipment and personnel cost. Research presented here focuses on building a crowdsourced database of inexpensive distributed stream stage measurements. Signs on staff gauges encourage citizen scientists to voluntarily send hydrologic measurements (e.g., stream stage) via text message to a server that stores and displays the data on the web. Based on the crowdsourced stream stage, we evaluate the accuracy of citizen scientist measurements and measurement approach. The results show that crowdsourced data collection is a supplemental method for collecting hydrologic data and a promising method...
Degradation of phenolic contaminants in ground water by anaerobic bacteria: St. Louis Park, Minnesota
Coal-tar derivatives from a coal-tar distillation and wood-treating plant that operated from 1918 to 1972 at St. Louis Park, Minnesota contaminated the near-surface ground water. Solutions of phenolic compounds and a water-immiscible mixture of polynuclear aromatic compounds accumulated in wetlands near the plant site and entered the aquifer. The concentration of phenolic compounds in the aqueous phase under the wetlands is about 30 mg/1 but decreases to less than 0.2 mg/1 at a distance of 430 m immediately downgradient from the source. Concentrations of naphthalene (the predominant polynuclear compound in the ground water) and sodium (selected as a conservative tracer) range from about 20 mg/1 and 430 mg/1 in the...
1DTempPro: analyzing temperature profiles for groundwater/surface-water exchange
A new computer program, 1DTempPro, is presented for the analysis of vertical one-dimensional (1D) temperature profiles under saturated flow conditions. 1DTempPro is a graphical user interface to the U.S. Geological Survey code Variably Saturated 2-Dimensional Heat Transport (VS2DH), which numerically solves the flow and heat-transport equations. Pre- and postprocessor features allow the user to calibrate VS2DH models to estimate vertical groundwater/surface-water exchange and also hydraulic conductivity for cases where hydraulic head is known.
The influence of topology on hydraulic conductivity in a sand-and-gravel aquifer
A field experiment consisting of geophysical logging and tracer testing was conducted in a single well that penetrated a sand-and-gravel aquifer at the U.S. Geological Survey Toxic Substances Hydrology research site on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Geophysical logs and flowmeter/pumping measurements were obtained to estimate vertical profiles of porosity ϕ, hydraulic conductivity K, temperature, and bulk electrical conductivity under background, freshwater conditions. Saline-tracer fluid was then injected into the well for 2 h and its radial migration into the surrounding deposits was monitored by recording an electromagnetic-induction log every 10 min. The field data are analyzed and interpreted primarily through the...
Wide-area estimates of saltcedar (Tamarix spp.) evapotranspiration on the lower Colorado River measured by heat balance and remote sensing methods
In many places along the lower Colorado River, saltcedar (Tamarix spp) has replaced the native shrubs and trees, including arrowweed, mesquite, cottonwood and willows. Some have advocated that by removing saltcedar, we could save water and create environments more favourable to these native species. To test these assumptions we compared sap flux measurements of water used by native species in contrast to saltcedar, and compared soil salinity, ground water depth and soil moisture across a gradient of 200?1500 m from the river's edge on a floodplain terrace at Cibola National Wildlife Refuge (CNWR). We found that the fraction of land covered (fc) with vegetation in 2005?2007 was similar to that occupied by native...
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Modeling axisymmetric flow and transport
Unmodified versions of common computer programs such as MODFLOW, MT3DMS, and SEAWAT that use Cartesian geometry can accurately simulate axially symmetric ground water flow and solute transport. Axisymmetric flow and transport are simulated by adjusting several input parameters to account for the increase in flow area with radial distance from the injection or extraction well. Logarithmic weighting of interblock transmissivity, a standard option in MODFLOW, can be used for axisymmetric models to represent the linear change in hydraulic conductance within a single finite-difference cell. Results from three test problems (ground water extraction, an aquifer push-pull test, and upconing of saline water into an extraction...
Importance of unsaturated zone flow for simulating recharge in a humid climate
Transient recharge to the water table is often not well understood or quantified. Two approaches for simulating transient recharge in a ground water flow model were investigated using the Trout Lake watershed in north-central Wisconsin: (1) a traditional approach of adding recharge directly to the water table and (2) routing the same volume of water through an unsaturated zone column to the water table. Areas with thin (less than 1 m) unsaturated zones showed little difference in timing of recharge between the two approaches; when water was routed through the unsaturated zone, however, less recharge was delivered to the water table and more discharge occurred to the surface because recharge direction and magnitude...
Use of multivariate modeling to estimate impacts of groundwater withdrawals on streamflow for the Camas Creek Basin.
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Nitrate dynamics in riparian forests: Groundwater studies.
Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: D 04125 Temperate forests; Q1 01483 Species interactions: ge, Ecology Abstracts; ASFA 1: Biological Sciences & Living Reso, USA, Rhode Island, ground water, groundwater pollution, All tags... nitrates, nitrogen, nitrogen compounds, nutrient availability, riparian environments, runoff, soil hydrology, Fewer tags
Comparison of methods to determine K in a shallow coastal aquifer
Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: SW 5010 Network design; SW 0840 Groundwater; Q2 02171 Dynami, USA, Massachusetts, Little Pond, Water Resources Abstracts; ASFA 2: Ocean Technology Policy &, aquifers, coastal aquifers, All tags... coastal zone, comparative studies, comparison studies, ground water, nutrient cycles, nutrients, nutrients (mineral), permeability, permeability coefficient, permeameters, solute transport, tracers, transport processes, Fewer tags
Effective water resource planning for the Las Cruces/El Paso/Juarez area
Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: SW 4010 Techniques of planning; Q2 02127 General papers on r, USA, New Mexico, USA, Texas, El Paso, Water Resources Abstracts; ASFA 2: Ocean Technology Policy &, ground water, All tags... groundwater, legal aspects, regional planning, river basin management, surface water, water conservation, water demand, water distribution, water law, water management, water resources, water resources planning, water supply, Fewer tags
Albuquerque Basin groundwater model
Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: SW 0840 Groundwater; Q2 02171 Dynamics of lakes and rivers, USA, New Mexico, Albuquerque Basin, Water Resources Abstracts; ASFA 2: Ocean Technology Policy &, ground water, groundwater, All tags... groundwater basins, groundwater movement, hydrologic data, hydrologic models, hydrology, mathematical models, water resources, Fewer tags
Where has all the water gone?
Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: SW 4040 Water demand; Q2 02127 General papers on resources, USA, New Mexico, Albuquerque, Water Resources Abstracts; ASFA 2: Ocean Technology Policy &, available water, ground water, All tags... groundwater availability, groundwater potential, groundwater reservoirs, water conservation, water loss, water management, water resources, water supply, water use, Fewer tags
Geochemical controls on peatland pore water from the Hudson Bay Lowland: A multivariate statistical approach
Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: SW 0880 Chemical processes; SW 0840 Groundwater; Q2 02181 Ge, USA, New York, Albany R., Water Resources Abstracts; ASFA 2: Ocean Technology Policy &, carbon cycle, fens, All tags... geochemistry, ground water, groundwater, interstitial water, peat, peat bogs, pore water, statistical analysis, wetlands, Fewer tags
In situ bioremediation enhanced with air sparging and vapor extraction
Categories: Publication; Types: Citation; Tags: SW 3070 Water quality control; A 01063 Utilization; P 2000 F, USA, Michigan, Water Resources Abstracts; Microbiology Abstracts A: Industr, airports, aquifers, All tags... bioremediation, cleanup operations, contamination, fuel, fuels, ground water, groundwater pollution, leakage, pollution clean-up, underground storage, underground storage tanks, water pollution treatment, Fewer tags
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Acceptable Solution C/AS5: Buildings used for Business, Commercial and Low Level Storage (Risk Group WB)
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The Building Code clauses C1 to C6 Protection from Fire relate to protecting people in and around buildings, limiting fire spread and helping firefighting and rescue. This Acceptable Solution can be used for establishing compliance with those clauses for risk group WB. It is one of a suite of Acceptable Solutions C/AS1 to C/AS7, each of them corresponding to a risk group.
The scope of this Acceptable Solution is restricted to risk group WB. This covers buildings, or parts of buildings, where people work.
These include the following, provided they are no more than 20 storeys high (from ground level):
a) Offices (including professional services such as law and accountancy practices)
b) Industrial buildings such as factories, processing and manufacturing plants (excluding foamed plastics). May include temperature controlled storage up to a maximum area of 500 m2 with a maximum capable of storage height of 5.0 m.
c) Buildings or parts of buildings capable of less than 5.0 m storage height
ca) Warehouses and storage buildings capable of storage of 5.0 m or greater but with a height to apex of less than 8.0 m and building floor area of less than 4200 m2
d) Temperature controlled storage capable of less than 3.0 m high storage height
e) Laboratories
f) Light aircraft hangars,
g) Normally unoccupied buildings such as buildings containing plant or fixed machinery only, and
h) Spray painting operations, whether or not within a spray booth.
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New Zealand Standards
AS/NZS 1668.1:1998
C/AS5 cites AS/NZS 1668.1:1998 The use of ventilation and air conditioning in buildings - Fire and smoke control in multi-compartment buildings from 10/04/2012
AS/NZS 2918:2001
C/AS5 cites AS/NZS 2918:2001 Domestic solid fuel burning appliances - Installation from 10/04/2012
NZS 4232.2:1988
C/AS5 cites NZS 4232.2:1988 Performance criteria for fire resisting enclosures - Fire resisting glazing systems from 10/04/2012
NZS 4332:1997
C/AS5 cites NZS 4332:1997 Non-domestic passenger and goods lifts from 10/04/2012
C/AS5 cites NZS 4510:2008 Fire hydrant systems for buildings from 10/04/2012
C/AS5 cites NZS 4512:2010 Fire detection and alarm systems in buildings from 10/04/2012
C/AS5 cites NZS 4515:2009 Fire sprinkler systems for life safety in sleeping occupancies (up to 2000 square metres) from 10/04/2012
C/AS5 cites NZS 4520:2010 Fire resistant doorsets from 10/04/2012
C/AS5 cites NZS 4541:2007 Automatic fire sprinkler systems from 10/04/2012
C/AS5 cites NZS 5261:2003 Gas installation from 10/04/2012
NZS/AS 1530.1:1994 (R2016)
C/AS5 cites NZS/AS 1530.1:1994 (R2016) Methods for fire tests on building materials, components and structures - Part 1: Combustibility test for materials from 10/04/2012
NZS/BS 476.21:1987
C/AS5 cites NZS/BS 476.21:1987 Fire tests on building materials and structures - Methods for determination of the fire resistance of loadbearing elements of construction from 10/04/2012
C/AS5 cites NZS/BS 476.22:1987 Fire tests on building materials and structures -Methods for determination of the fire resistance of non-loadbearing elements of construction from 10/04/2012
AS 1366.1-1992 (Reconfirmed in 2018)
C/AS5 cites AS 1366.1-1992 (R2018) Rigid cellular plastics sheets for thermal insulation - Rigid cellular polyurethane (RC/PUR) from 10/04/2012
C/AS5 cites AS 1366.2-1992 (R2018) Rigid cellular plastics sheets for thermal insulation - Rigid cellular polyisocyanurate (RC/PIR) from 10/04/2012
C/AS5 cites AS 1366.3-1992 (R2018) Rigid cellular plastics sheets for thermal insulation - Rigid cellular polystyrene - moulded (RC/PS-M) from 10/04/2012
C/AS5 cites AS 1366.4-1989 (R2018) Rigid cellular plastics sheets for thermal insulation - Rigid cellular polystyrene - extruded (RC/PS-E) from 10/04/2012
AS 1530.2-1993 (R2016)
C/AS5 cites AS 1530.2-1993 (R2016) Methods for fire tests on building materials, components and structures. Part 2: Test for flammability of materials from 10/04/2012
AS 1530.4-2005
C/AS5 cites AS 1530.4-2005 Methods for fire tests on building materials, components and structures. Part 4: Fire-resistance test of elements of construction from 10/04/2012
C/AS5 cites AS 1691-1985 Domestic oil-fired appliances - installation from 10/04/2012
C/AS5 cites AS 4072.1-2005 (R2016) Components for the protection of openings in fire-resistant separating elements. Part 1: Service penetrations and control joints from 10/04/2012
C/AS5 cites ASTM D2898-10 Standard Practice for Accelerated Weathering of Fire-retardant Treated Wood for Fire Testing from 10/04/2012
BS EN 12101-1:2005
C/AS5 cites BS EN 12101-1:2005 Smoke and heat control systems - Specification for smoke barriers from 10/04/2012
BS EN 1363-1:1999
C/AS5 cites BS EN 1363-1:1999 Fire Resistance Tests - Part 1: General Requirements from 10/04/2012
HSNO 1996 No 30
C/AS5 cites Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 from 10/04/2012
C/AS5 cites ISO 5660-1:2002 Reaction-to-fire tests - Heat release, smoke production and mass loss rate - Heat release rate (cone calorimeter method) from 10/04/2012
ISO 9239:1:2010
C/AS5 cites ISO 9239-1:2010 Reaction to fire tests for floorings - Determination of the burning behaviour using a radiant heat source from 10/04/2012
NFPA 285:1998
C/AS5 cites NFPA 285: 1998 Standard method of test for the evaluation of flammability characteristics of exterior non-load-bearing wall assemblies containing components using the intermediate scale, multi-storey test apparatus from 10/04/2012
SR 2006/123
C/AS5 cites Fire Safety and Evacuation of Buildings Regulations 2006 from 10/04/2012
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Cyware Daily Threat Intelligence, September 15, 2020
Federal authorities have issued an alert about an ongoing attack campaign that exploits the vulnerabilities in F5 BIG-IP devices, Citrix VPNs, Pulse Secure VPNs, and Microsoft Exchange servers. A CISA advisory on the matter reveals that China-based threat actors have successfully exploited these vulnerable software to target public and private organizations in the U.S.
Furthermore, the agencies have also warned about vulnerabilities in Philips’ patient monitoring software. These flaws could result in unauthorized access, interrupted monitoring, and collection of patient data.
In the past 24 hours, a new attack technique that abuses Windows ‘finger.exe’ command to exfiltrate files has also come to light. The method can allow attackers to get past firewall rules and communicate with servers over the unrestricted ports for HTTP(S).
Privacy bug exposes data
A privacy bug in Vote Joe app allowed anyone to view sensitive voter information of millions of Americans. The exposed data included voter’s home address, date of birth, gender, ethnicity, and political party affiliation. The flaw was fixed and an updated version of the app was pushed later.
Wales patients data leaked
Personal data related to 18,105 Wales residents who tested positive for COVID-19 was uploaded by mistake to a public server. The data was viewed 56 times before it was taken offline. The exposed data included dates of birth, geographical area, and gender of individuals.
Staples discloses data breach
The American office retail company, Staples, has revealed that order data related to some of its customers have been accessed by malicious actors. The retailer is yet to determine what exactly was accessed in the breach but order details could contain names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, last four credit card digits, and detail about the orders.
Magento stores attacked
Attackers compromised almost 2,000 Adobe Magento-based online stores to steal credit card details of customers. This is one of the largest waves of automated Magento attacks since 2015. Of the hacked stores, the majority were found using Magento version 1, which no longer receives security updates since June 2020.
FSC app hacked
Hackers accessed the Veteran Affairs’ Financial Services Center (FSC) online app and diverted payments intended for healthcare providers. The incident also affected the personal information of around 46,000 U.S. veterans.
Abuse of Windows command
A PoC on how attackers can abuse a Windows command, ‘finger.exe,’ to exfiltrate or download files from target systems has been released by a researcher. The method can allow attackers to get past firewall rules and communicate with servers over the unrestricted ports for HTTP(S). According to the researcher, C2 commands can be masked as finger queries that fetch files and exfiltrate data, without Windows Defender detecting the anomalous activity.
Vulnerable WS-Trust protocol
Critical vulnerabilities in mMulti-factor authentication protocols based on the WS-Trust security standards can allow hackers to access cloud applications, including Microsoft 365. The flaws, that have existed for years, arise due to faulty implementation of the WS-Trust specification. By exploiting these flaws, attackers can gain access to complete details of the target’s account, including mail, files, contacts, and data.
Mass exploitation of vulnerabilities
The U.S. government has issued a warning about ongoing mass exploitation of flaws in F5 BIG-IP devices, Citrix VPNs, Pulse Secure VPNs, and Microsoft Exchange servers. As per a CISA alert, Chinese threat actors have successfully compromised different government and private sectors in recent months, by exploiting these vulnerable servers and VPNs.
Vulnerable Philips devices
Federal authorities and Philips have issued security alerts about vulnerabilities in the company’s patient monitoring software. The flaws are found in certain versions of the Philips IntelliVue Patient Monitor system, the Patient Information Center iX, or PIC iX, software, and PerformanceBridge Focal Point. They are related to improper authentication, cross-site scripting, improper input validation, and improper check for certificate revocation.
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Famed DJ and producer Preservation is a long-time collaborator of Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def), one half of Dr. Yen Lo with Brooklyn emcee Ka, and has crafted tracks for RZA, GZA, MF DOOM, Raekwon, Aesop Rock, KRS-One, Jean Grae, and many more. Now, Preservation is back with "Eastern Medicine, Western Illness", a new album produced during Preservation's time living in Hong Kong. The project features an arsenal of top-tier lyricists, including Ka, Mach-Hommy, Your Old Droog, Roc Marciano, Quelle Chris, Billy Woods, Nickelus F, Tree, Grande Marshall, A.G., and Hong Kong's own Young Queenz. "There was a purity to the approach," explains Preservation. "I wanted every track to be sourced only from Chinese records, which was an exciting challenge." The result is an album showcasing some of the best hip-hop talent from the West over sounds from the East, blending cultures and styles to create a potent musical elixir.
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Eastern Medicine Western Illness
Artist: Preservation
1. Dragon Town (Feat. Youngqueenz)
2. A Scholar's Rock (Feat. Grandemarshall)
3. Money in the Wild (Feat. Tree)
4. Rose Royce (Feat. Quelle Chris)
5. I-78 / Capillaries (Feat. Mach-Hommy)
6. Wan Chai (Feat. Nickelus F)
7. North Bridge (Feat. Navy Blue)
8. Lemon Rinds (Feat. Billy Woods)
9. Medicine Drawer (Feat. Roc Marciano)
10. Correspondence (Feat. Your Old Droog and Mach-Hommy)
11. A Cure for the Common (Feat. Ka)
12. Children of Never (Feat. A.G.)
13. Mouth of a River (Feat. Michelle Siu)
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NJ Bookkeeper From NY Gets Two Years In Fed Pen For Inflating His Payroll By $500,000
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A New York man who worked as an office manager and bookkeeper for a Union County company is headed to federal prison for two years for inflating his payroll information by nearly $500,000, authorities said.
Over the course of about three years, Patrick Snoop, 35, of Monroe in Orange County, NY, “used his position to fraudulently inflate his salary on several occasions by providing falsified information to a payroll company used by his employer,” U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said.
The unauthorized changes cost his company $494,373, Carpenito said.
Snoop pleaded guilty to wire fraud before U.S. District Judge Esther Salas in March, five months after he was arrested by the FBI.
He'll have to serve just about all of the sentence because there's no parole in the federal prison system.
In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Brian Martinotti sentenced Snoop to three years of supervised release and ordered him to repay the money.
Carpenito credited agents of the FBI with the investigation leading to the plea and sentencing, secured by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jamel Semper, the chief of his Organized Crime and Gangs Unit, in Newark.
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Heavy rain affects hundreds of families, leaves 1 dead in Colombia’s Atlantic coast
by Joel Gillin August 29, 2014
Torrential rain in Colombia’s coastal city of Barranquilla, Atlantico has affected more than 1,500 homes, leaving one person dead and another still missing, according to local media.
The downpour, which lasted more than an hour on Thursday, was the heaviest this year, interrupting electrical services in a number of neighborhoods throughout the city, according to Colombia’s El Espectador newspaper.
An official from the city’s mayor’s office said that several vehicles were rescued from swift currents by the local fire department. It was estimated that emergency services received up to 50 calls from residents due to the flooding and fallen trees.
The single fatality occurred when a street vendor suffered a heart attack after the rains swept away his cart of fish.
Authorities are currently attempting to assess the extent of the damage and the number of affected families to begin distributing aid.
Last weekend, protesters shut down a major highway in Atlantico, demanding that the Colombian government respond to flooding and mudslides in the region due to heavy rainfall.
MORE: Angry residents block crucial highway in protest against Colombia govt’s response to flooding
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Colombia’s blundering health minister blames residents for collapse of largest Caribbean port city
Coronavirus spread in Colombia triggers orange alert in Bogota, curfew in Barranquilla
Coronavirus causing emergencies in all Colombia’s port cities
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Most pharmaceutical and life science companies focus on genetic disorders with greater commercial potential thus, ultra-orphan diseases are often overlooked because the economics don’t add up. Our aim is to bring funding and scientific resources to the forefront so ultra-rare genetic disease research and development progresses at the same pace as other larger indications. Children with these diseases and their families urgently need access to transformative genetic medicine. Most are suffering a severely altered way of life and, in many cases, life expectancy is shorter than ten years.
3 of 10 children with a rare disease won’t live to see their 5th birthday
“If there is a promising path to develop a curative gene therapy solution, we must lead the way to bring treatments to the clinic for children who desperately need them. We are deeply driven by the urgent need to make sure no child is left behind.”
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Overcoming scientific and financial barriers for ultra-rare diseases
When development costs are spread over a very small population of patients, it limits the ability for profit-driven life science enterprises to bring ultra-rare therapies to market. Thus, progress is too slow and the cost is too great. We must accelerate research for ultra-rare diseases and mitigate the challenges for children with the highest need to participate in clinical trials.
Less than 20 in 1,000,000 have an ultra-rare disease
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We collaborate with scientific and clinical experts to advance ultra-rare programs into clinic
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Our non-profit model removes commercial ROI expectations that comes with gene therapy technology and clinical processes
Through the generosity of philanthropic and patient advocacy organizations combined with the the scientific backing of the genetic science and medical community, we are bringing focus to ultra-rare conditions while mitigating the cost associated with therapeutic development. Every child fighting the devastating effects of genetic diseases deserves our attention when a cure is in reach.
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Ultra-rare neurodegenerative genetic diseases are hereditary and arise from faulty or missing genes passed on from a parent. They severely affect movement, speech, memory and other vital functions with rapidly increasing disability. Current treatments are not curative and only address symptoms thus, life expectancy for many with ultra-rare diseases is rarely beyond early childhood.
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Does Cuomo Have the Answer to 421a?
By Terence Cullen January 16, 2017 10:51 am
REBNY Chairman Rob Speyer, left, REBNY President John Banks, center, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
So long 421a. Hello “Affordable New York.”
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That’s what Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office is dubbing a replacement to the 46-year-old tax abatement program, which is considered the linchpin for building middle-class housing in New York. Cuomo’s five-year plan, which was sent to the state legislature yesterday, lengthens the years units are deemed affordable, enforces new construction wage standards and covers qualifying projects that began last year.
“We want to create affordable housing,” Cuomo said yesterday on supermarket magnate John Catsimatidis’ radio show on WNYM-AM 970. “It has to be economically viable for the real estate community, obviously, to do it, and it has to pay a fair wage.”
While the legislation still has to be voted upon, the rebranded program would effectively do away with the name “421a.” Under the most-recent terms of the program, which expired a year ago, developers would get a tax break in exchange for keeping a percentage of units affordable for 25 years. (A November 2016 agreement to reinstate the program initially extended that to 35 years.)
Roughly 2,500 units are expected to be created annually under the program, according to the governor’s office—meaning about 9,000 units in total by the time the bill would expire on June 15, 2020. The legislation would also retroactively cover eligible projects that began in January 2016.
Affordable New York would extend the years in which an apartment is deemed below market, according to a press release issued from the governor’s office. Units will now be covered for 40 years instead of the 35 years under the earlier agreement.
Critics of the existing program took issue with certain caveats including the fact that luxury condominiums could sometimes be eligible for the break, as well as the length of time a unit was affordable.
“Albany needs to make good on the reforms we secured to the broken old 421a program: No tax breaks for luxury condos, reduced costs to taxpayers and no tax breaks without significant affordable housing in return,” a spokeswoman for Mayor Bill de Blasio said in an email.
It wasn’t immediately clear when the legislature might take up the bill. But a spokesman for Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie said: “Affordable housing has always been one of our top priorities, so we’ll review the bill with our members.”
A representative for State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan did not immediately return a request for comment.
The real estate industry seems to have thrown its weight behind the new program. In a press release from the governor’s office, Real Estate Board of New York Chairman and Tishman Speyer Chief Executive Officer Rob Speyer endorsed Cuomo’s new plan, saying it would “lead to the creation of desperately needed rental housing, including many more affordable units, throughout New York City. It will also generate more well paid jobs for New Yorkers.”
But it will come at a cost to developers. Construction workers on projects south of 96th Street in Manhattan will get an average $60 an hour in pay, while those in waterfront areas of Brooklyn and Queens will be paid an average $45 an hour, according to the release. Large-scale developments of more than 300 units in other parts of the city can also qualify for the plan if the wage requirements are satisfied. They will also have to pay for independent monitors who will inspect whether the wage requirements are being enforced.
Those parameters were hammered out in a year and a half of negotiations between Cuomo, REBNY and the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York. Survival of 421a was dependent on the two organizations agreeing on what salary workers should receive on big projects. The trade group and union came to an accord on wages near the end of 2016, nearly a year after 421a expired.
“This legislation will not only help spark the creation of desperately needed affordable housing in New York City, but it also will ensure that the construction workers who build it will receive good middle class wages,” Gary LaBarbera, the president of the union, said in a statement yesterday.
Coming to an agreement to build housing in New York City might also lead to $2 billion in statewide funding for development. A memorandum of understanding (MOU) was signed last year to earmark that money to subsidize low-income housing throughout the Empire State. But the state senate opted not to release the funds, because housing policy was unclear during the expiration of 421a.
The group representing low-income housing developers said the new agreement should mean the $2 billion MOU will finally see the light of day.
“With an agreement reached on 421a, the path is now clear for state officials to sign the MOU and finally release $2 billion in new statewide affordable housing funds,” Jolie Milstein, the president and CEO of the New York State Association for Affordable Housing, said in a statement via a spokesman. “We urge state officials to quickly take this next step, which would so greatly benefit low-income families and our state’s economy.”
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Help, Editing
Help:Category
Categories seen at the top of the page, including a view of the drop-down when you click on "more"
A category is a navigational tool used in MediaWiki to group similar pages together and structure the wiki, making it easier to explore and use. They can be used to group not only articles, but also templates, images, and even users.
Categories can be found in the article header and at the bottom of the page.
Why are categories important?
Categories are the basic tool for structuring wikis: They help organize the content, navigate the pages, and find related content. Ideally, every wiki page should be in at least one category.
Categories themselves can be categorized within other categories, allowing you to create a category tree of interlinked categories that make exploring the wiki much easier.
For example: A reader browses through a TV series wiki and opens a page on Jessica Protagonist. She is categorized as one of the Main characters. The reader can open that category and then move up to the higher level Characters category to explore Minor characters or Characters by season. The Characters category acts as the trunk of the category tree from which other categories branch off. Without the category, the reader would have to know the specific name of a character to find an article about them.
There is another reason for using categories: Categorization is essential for several core features of Fandom wikis, including:
The mobile main page, which uses categories as building blocks.
DynamicPageList, which generates lists based on categories.
The "Related Pages" module, which displays pages based on their categories.
Many bot usages.
Without categories, they simply won't work.
How to add a category?
To add a category, begin by going to the page you wish to categorize. Then use either the category module at the bottom of the page or an editor, to add your category.
Using the category module
Adding a category via the category module. Note how existing categories are suggested to you.
The category module, if enabled, allows you to add categories without opening the editor. Simply scroll down to the bottom of a page and:
Click on the Add category button, and start typing in a category name.
You can use an already-established category (suggestions will appear as you type) or add a new one.
Once you are done, hit save and the category will appear on the article.
If you don't use the module, you can disable it through the preferences page. Just click on the Editing tab, check the box next to Disable Category module and then save your preferences.
While editing
There are various ways to add categories while editing the wiki, depending on which editor you use.
UCP editor
The UCP editor interface.
The new Unified Community Platform editor allows for switching between Source Editing and Visual Editing.
In Source Editing mode, you simply add the category link to the article: [[Category:Help]] will add a page to the Help category.
In Visual Editing mode, you can click on the Categories button in the drop-down menu on the right. This opens the category dialogue, which allows you to edit categories, add new ones, and optionally customize how the article should be sorted.
To commit changes, simply save the page.
Legacy VisualEditor
In VisualEditor, first find the dropdown menu in the upper right
In the VisualEditor, these are some of the categories that are suggested on a page about Rey from Star Wars.
In the legacy VisualEditor:
Click on the dropdown menu to the left of the Cancel button, scroll down, and click on Categories.
In the dialogue box, enter a category into the top field. Existing categories will show up as you type in more letters and can be selected by clicking on them.
To change how the page is sorted in a category, use the second field. By default, the page is listed exactly as its name is written, but you might want to sort them in a different manner.
For example, Charlie Brown can be sorted as Brown, Charlie by using that second box.
When finished, click on Apply changes and Save page to complete the categorization.
Legacy rich-text editor
Adding, removing or editing a category from the editor
On the right-hand side of the editor is a Categories module. Click to expand this and you will see a list of the categories already present.
To add a category, type the category name in the input area above the existing categories. As you type, you will see suggestions appear.
Click on the pencil next to each category to edit that category's settings.
Click on the trash can to remove the category.
Legacy source editor
While in source, you can add the category name as a link to the bottom of the page itself (e.g. [[Category:Help]]), or use the category module in the right rail.
By default, existing categories appear in the category module in the right rail. However, if you choose to disable the category module in your preferences, they do appear at the very bottom of the page.
How to sort articles in categories?
When clicking the edit icon next to category names, you can define a "sortkey" for that category. This sortkey defines at what point the article appears in a category page's listings, e.g., sort a first last name page under last name.
For example, you can use [[Category:Help]] to add a page to the Help category. To customize the sorting, you can use [[Category:Help|Custom name]] or [[Category:Help| ]] to force the article to display at the top of the page.
If an article example is an introduction for category example, a blank (space) or * (asterisk) sortkey puts it near the beginning of the category.
If the article is in many categories, you can add {{DEFAULTSORT:<sort key>}} in the article while editing in source mode to sort the article in all the categories the same way. This will save you from having to edit each category's parameters individually.
How to use category pages?
When pages are in a category that hasn't been fully created
As soon as you add a category to a page, that category will appear in Special:Categories. You can reach the category page by clicking on the category link, or by entering the address into your browser.
However, the category page still needs to be created in order to be a part of the category tree, be available for selection on the Mobile Main Page, and be suggested when editing.
To do this, you need to create the category page.
Creating a category page
You can either create categories in advance, by starting a new page under the desired category name (Category:Target name) in any of our editors, or by adding the category to a page and then clicking on the category link or using Special:WantedCategories.
Category pages are created like any other page on a wiki and categorized in the same fashion.
For example, if your wiki is about the Marvel Universe, and you're starting a category about female heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (aka Earth-199999), you can create the category Female superheroes (Earth-199999) in this manner:
Female superheroes of Earth-199999 came from every part of that Earth, exhibiting a wide range of powers, both meta—human and mortal. This category collects pages on this wiki about them, as well as many images and videos featuring their exploits. [[Category:Earth-19999]]
Once published, the category will appear under Earth-19999 and become available in the category module, all bots, DynamicPageList, the Help:Mobile Main Page, and other features.
Note that a category description isn't essential. However, a brief summary will always benefit your wiki's SEO, as it will be displayed in search results.
Deleting a category
Categories can be deleted like any other page, from the Edit menu drop-down panel. However, keep in mind that deleting a page does not remove it from pages contained within it. You have to delete them manually, either before or after deleting the category.
As long as a single page remains in the category, it will be listed on Special:WantedCategories.
What's the category page layout?
There are several ways a category can be displayed. Anonymous or logged-out users will only be shown the dynamic, default category layout, while registered users can switch between them and select a default one.
You can change your preferred layout through the preferences page:
Open the My Info tab.
Scroll down to the Appearance section.
Use the drop-down next to Category page layout to select your preferred layout.
Save your preference changes.
You can also switch between layout options by using the layout buttons in the top-right corner of the page.
Note that the category display options do not affect the contents of the category page itself, they only affect how pages listed in the category are depicted. The category's contents (description, images, etc.) will always display first.
Dynamic categories
This is the default layout for anonymous and logged-out users.
The first section is an image gallery similar to the one used by the classic categories layout. Although similar in layout, the galleries may feature different pages due to a difference in selection criteria. The gallery for dynamic categories cannot be disabled.
The second section contains a count of the total number of list items and a list of up to 200 items. The list contains both subcategories and pages sorted alphabetically by sortkey. The list is organized into two columns and, where possible, each item contains an image from its respective page. Above the list is a series of links that allow the viewer to skip to a specific letter in the alphabet. Below the list, next and previous buttons are displayed.
Classic categories
The first section is an image gallery featuring up to eight of the most popular pages from the category. The images are arranged in rows with as many as four images per row. Each image serves as a link to its respective page.
The second section is a list of subcategories and the third section is a list of pages. The layout of the lists is similar to each other. If a list has no items to display, its section is not displayed. The sections contain a count of the total number of list items and a list of up to 200 items.
If there are more than 200 items in the list, links to view the next/previous items will be placed both above and below the list. The list is organized into as many as three columns and sorted alphabetically by sortkey. If the CategoryTree extension is enabled (it should be by default), the subcategory list will display each item as a category tree instead of a link to the category page.
Category gallery
By default, all categories on legacy wikis have a Category Gallery at the top of the category page itself. This shows a small image and link for each of the 8 most popular pages in that category. The image shown is usually the first image on each page.
If a page has no suitable graphics, then the first few lines of text will appear. Suitable images must be:
Larger than 130px by 115px
Used ten or fewer times on the wiki in content namespaces
Not an SVG
If you have a community where this display does not work well, you can add the expression __NOCATEGORYGALLERY__ to the top of the page to remove it. You can also request that it be disabled on all pages through Special:Contact.
Category exhibition
A category with Category Exhibition enabled.
Category Exhibition is an optional display method for category pages available on legacy wikis. It can be turned on in your account preferences.
In the exhibition image mode, every page in the category is displayed as an image with a link. Images can be displayed in alphabetical or most visited order.
A small toggle option on the upper right of the page allows users to choose a "list" (lines) or image (squares) view.
In list mode, the category gallery appears above an alphabetical listing of all pages in the category.
How images are picked to represent articles.
Special:CategoryTree is an alternate way to display the contents of a category. The extension also adds the ability to expand subcategories on a category page, allowing you to see further subcategories. It can be transcluded in other pages. See MediaWiki for details.
Meta-Wiki's help page on categories for detailed information on categories.
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Crimes and punishments – postcodes and privilege
Posted on February 2, 2015 by alcacted
Some months have passed since a couple of incidents in the northern NSW coastal town of Byron Bay have come and gone washed from the collective media memory by tinsel, trivia and tragedy. The incidents unsurprisingly involved players from two football codes that are ‘poles’ apart as were the punishments. How they were handled serves as a reminder of how privilege and social class still influence perception in this country. The way both the media and the organisations responded shows quite clearly that we meter out our doses of media outrage based on expectation while still tugging our forelock to the lofties.
Greg Bird on his wedding day in early December must have felt like, to quote the squeaky vocal popsmith Brett Dennen, “Like a pirate in a pawn shop with a pocketful of jewels.” Bird’s alleged crime was to squirt between two cars and to be spotted.
Bird has been a ‘grub’ by most definitions. Students and teachers from his alma mater Rutherford High situated at the crumb-end of Maitland in the Hunter testify to his ‘charms’. So at approximately 7.30pm on a balmy December evening, in the car park outside the Byron Bay Beach Hotel, after saying “I do” he then “Did do”. Poor judgement we would all accord. However the crime of attempting to urgently relieve yourself discreetly in a public place could be levelled against most if not all of us. Having had a surfeit of golden throat charmers who hasn’t desperately tried to find a safe spray haven away from the crowds?
“It’s put a dampener on our wedding weekend. I’m incredibly embarrassed and disappointed at myself,” Bird told reporters. Well that’s generally what liquids do Birdie old son – they dampen. As yet it is unproven that he actually bubbled onto a marked police vehicle but he was issued with an infringement notice on the following Monday.
The Clever Chronicle recorded another incident in the same street and the same town just a few weeks later that involved the Wallabies captain, Michael ‘Right Way’ Hooper.
The Australian Rugby Union says it has no plans to take disciplinary action against Wallabies captain Michael Hooper after he was involved in an incident that drew police attention in Byron Bay. The 23-year-old was out early on Monday morning when one of his friends allegedly jumped on a parked car. Police said the two men were then seen pushing over a road sign, which was later repositioned without damage.
The ARU said the star breakaway, who is holidaying in Byron Bay, was “not involved in any serious misdemeanour”. “Michael has been open and transparent with the police and Australian Rugby Union,” a spokesman said. “We don’t expect any further action to be taken in relation to Michael’s involvement in the matter.”
The only way is to the ‘right’ – Hooper’s handy w
Look I know most of us after a few bundies try and influence traffic flow by pushing over the odd set of traffic lights or stop signs. So in no way am I trying to determine what incident is higher on the Richter Scale of Rudeness – it’s too late as the media, the police and associated organisations have decided for us. Birdie is a grub and ‘Right Way’ is a chap having a lark with chums after a few ales. After all ‘Right Way’ was schooled in values at St Piles X on the north shore of Sydney – he knows good from evil, right from wrong.
Regardless of whether a sign was repositioned the criminal act of vandalism as opposed to relieving oneself between cars seems to me quite similar in terms of stupidity. However the punishments that were determined by each of the codes and clubs were clearly a million miles apart. Bird was fined by his Titans Club $15,000 and stripped of the co-captaincy while Hooper remained a transparent likely lad escaping any punishment.
Today the media reports on Willie Sillie Mason’s alleged anti-social behaviour, apparently wrestling with his equally dopey brother in public in NZ at the Nautious Nines Tournament.
One fan said Mason was happily signing autographs and posing for photos throughout the event and one scuffle with his brother wasn’t showing the whole picture. Another said Mason was polite and though he may have been helped out of the venue by police, the only reason was that he was getting hounded by excited fans. Mason told the Daily Telegraph that it was after conducting a promotional engagement at the tournament that he engaged in the scuffle with his brother. “I did have a wrestle with my brother Les when I was leaving Eden Park, but that was just a brotherly wrestle and there was nothing in it,” Mason said.
The Byron incidents make me wonder how Mason’s bro-wrestle will be treated. Will it be seen as an “open and transparent” incident of good humoured hi-jinx from two spirited boofheads or will the more likely moral tumbrel rumble for heads to roll and the feckless fool to be summarily punished? Hopefully so for then we can all sleep soundly knowing that the crime fits the punishment.
This entry was posted in Crumb bums of the day and tagged ARU, Beach Hotel, crime, Greg Bird, Michael Hooper, punishment, rugby league, rugby union, Titans, Willie Mason by alcacted. Bookmark the permalink.
2 thoughts on “Crimes and punishments – postcodes and privilege”
McEntyre Family on February 2, 2015 at 11:45 pm02 said:
Matttte, Birdy went to Rutherford High, not Grossman…. Grossman is the “posh” school in Maitland!
Australian Leadership and Communication Training on February 2, 2015 at 11:45 pm02 said:
Mmm good to hear you alive and well in the Hunter Mick and haven’t been Tinked or mined – sadly Grossmann sounds better even if inaccurate
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Supergirl Sucks Now…And Here Is Why
Posted on April 24, 2017 by Derek
In its first season on CBS, SUPERGIRL was a light and airy show that featured lots of “Girl Power!” that was a nice alternative to the more testosterone heavy fare on the other DC shows that were airing on Fox and The CW. With the move to The CW in its 2nd season I was pretty excited since that meant crossovers with ARROW, THE FLASH AND LEGENDS OF TOMORROW would be much easier to get done than they were when SUPERGIRL was on another network. And that was proven by just how enjoyable the “Invasion” crossover turned out to be. But aside from that blip of awesome, the 2nd season of SUPERGIRL has been a chore to get through and since I am the type of guy who likes to share my opinion…click onward to find out exactly why SUPERGIRL really does suck now.
What Do You Do With A Problem Like Mon-el?
First an admission, I like Chris Woods. The guy is a very charismatic actor and I have liked him on all of the other shows on The CW network I have seen him on. I even liked him in certain situations on SUPERGIRL (mostly when he was playing the meathead buddy to Wynn’s nerd) early on in the season. But everyone and their mother knew that the sole purpose for Chris Woods and Mon-el being brought on this show was to become the new love interest for Kara/Supergirl and it is that role that has resulted in most of the problems with this show.
I’ll get into how terrible the break-up of James and Kara was handled a little later but that is one of the earliest examples that Season 2 was going to be a bit of a shit show. The general problem with Mon-El as a character though is that his introduction resulted in other characters being damaged. Just Mon-el’s presence alone has harmed James, Lena Luthor, J’onn J’onnz and worst of all Kara Danvers/Supergirl herself. On a show that was about the inner workings of Kara and her relationships with the people around her while she tried to find herself as a super-hero and as a woman, we now have a show about an intergalactic frat boy and what makes him tick while Supergirl has been lessened.
And just to get to the matter of individual taste: I think that Mon-el and Kara are an awful pairing. Sure they look like an ad for fall fashions from American Eagle Outfitters but aside from being an aesthetically pleasing pairing the two of them lack any romantic chemistry and the show has yet to provide a proper explanation as to why Kara would be in a relationship with this guy.
On the plus side the introduction of Mon-el’s parents has given the show the best villain it has ever had in the form of Rhea, Mon-el’s mom (played with delicious evil glee by Teri Hatcher) but one awesome villain doesn’t make up for all the awful that Mon-el has brought to this show.
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V Donovan · April 24, 2017
While I disagree with a few of these points (mainly the Sanvers ones), for the most part, this is all accurate. Season 2 has been pretty bad, and almost all its faults are due to Mon-El. It’s really unfortunate because the show was breaking barriers when it started, and it was really good, but now it’s just a mess. Hopefully the writers get their act together and listen to the feedback and make S3 better.
Derek · April 24, 2017
Its like the insertion of Mon-el removed all the heart and originality from the show and now it is just another CW show. And not a particularly good one.
Crimson · May 2, 2017
I agree with almost every point here and i’m glad I’m not the only one who’s getting increasingly annoyed with this show. The only thing I really disagree with is the idea of Rhea being a good villain. She’s just another infuriating, overbearing mother villain, an overused trope, really. The worst part about it is it never is even a good villain. They’re almost always nothing more than heels as opposed to being actual villains, using the same lines (always along the same vein as, “I know what’s best next for you,(insert offspring name)”). It’s boring, overused, and simply is an easy way to piss off the audience. That’s why the mother villain types are heels. All they’re capable of doing is angering the audience. They’re not clever or even remotely smart or appealing. A good villain is one you can almost agree with and see their point of view or one that pops up suddenly during a well concealed twist, but from the get-go Rhea was pretty much introduced to be another psycho-mom.
I’m sorry about the rant here, I just had to endure another episode on the cw website and I just really can’t stand the show, but I’m forced to watch it because, as is the case with comic books, themselves, you gotta keep up with it for the sake of crossovers. I swear, I’d stop watching forever if I knew they’d never do another crossover involving this show.
I also gotta thank you for pointing out the problem with the Maggie/Alex relationship. It always felt off, and I never knew why until I read what you wrote, so thank you! Very insightful.
Derek · May 6, 2017
It is possible I just enjoy Teri Hatcher going full board in the role and am comparing her favorably to Mama Luthor who was a really weak villain and basically the same character: evil overbearing mother.
Thanks for commenting btw!
Will · May 6, 2017
I quit the show because of Mon el.
I think I might be doing the same if he sticks around as a full cast member next season.
Paps · February 18, 2018
And I because of the über annoying Alex/Maggie thing.
F. Amily Mann · May 18, 2017
Story line is full of left wing cliche’s and it sucks bad. The commentary on US politics presented in the most recent episode – alien invasion and “the resistance” – give me a break with this garbage.
They have been pretty heavy-handed with it and even then they lost control of whatever narrative they were going for as the Daxamite invasion kinda proved Mama Luthor right that aliens are a pretty big threat if left unchecked.
Krypton · April 12, 2018
Weedy supergirl , not enough flying scenes & stupid looking aliens that all look like humans with a bad mask. Also they need to make their mind up when it comes to Kara fighting, someone who is so fast always gets hit & punches so slowly that she often misses the target.
She is able to lift a million tons but gets knocked to the ground by every opponent.
The scripts are complete Crap. Shame as in 2018 it should be Fab !!
myvietnamwasfightingtheclap · February 7, 2019
Your comments posted here nearly 2 years ago led to babies in cages, and hundreds who will never be reunited with their parents because they aren’t old enough to know their names. Uhhh… congratulations?
Fideen · May 23, 2017
I agree wholheartedly with your observations and analysis. The whole Alex/Maggie dynamic is contrived at best….. Unbelievable in !
It really has not been very well written.
Thanks for commenting btw.
Rye · June 27, 2017
The show gets more and more stupid the more I watch it. Horrible CGI and even worse the acting is bad. They cut Cat Grant out and that was
a blessing but only to add in more stupid action and off the wall decision making of Supergirl. They need to stop adding in side kicks and off the wall heroes like Guardian and Mon-El. Probably the biggest reason I quit watching Arrow was because of bad character development and lame action scenes. Half of the characters are lame.The CW really needs to quit sticking Flash in every season.
Derek · June 27, 2017
The inconsistent characterization of Supergirl in S02 was a major issue fro me as well as the totally unnecessary inclusion of Mon-El.
Mon El · October 24, 2017
Supergirl scriptwriting has become atrocious. It’s extremely difficult to get through an episode with such crappy scripts. The actors are amazing but with poor scripts, they can only do so much. I’m ready to close supergirl FOREVER, please cancel before it gets any worse.
Derek · October 24, 2017
I hate to agree because I was hoping the new season would have some changes for the better but 3 episodes in and I am just as dissatisfied with the show now as I was when I wrote this article.
Jul · October 27, 2017
It’s definitely a depressing thought, we all contemplated how a nice entertaining show went completely bad.
I was a very intense fan when the show was on it’s first season, now I can’t even bring myself to watch the new episodes.
That new character, the Mon-el kid, was the beginning of the big fall that surely the show will never recover from.
In my opinion he is one of the worst things that happened, he took away the superhero and as you just said made her a supergirlfriend. It’s ridiculous and really upsetting, probably the channel will keep renewing it, but I doubt the show will ever recover. To me it is cancelled anyway.
Thank you for this article, I was looking for opinions to know if others feel as I do, it’s quite a relief to know they do, and judging by the latest ratings, we’re a lot of people.
Derek · November 3, 2017
I am not feeling confidence in the show getting back to form based on the first few episodes of this season but I hope I am wrong. I am at least going to give it till the crossover before I decide whether to remove Supergirl from my DVR or not.
Robert · December 22, 2017
I think the problem is unfortunately the show runners and writers are just not very good. You focused on what Mon El did to Supergirl, but I also think they made him too puppy dog good too soon also. He went from “frat boy” to angel just way too fast.
I was way on board with deep sixing the chemistry free romance between James ad Kara, although it was ham-fisted the way they broke them up. They simply had no chemistry and I really think the James character was miscast. He plays the character just “too adult” and Benoist plays Kara as almost an innocent. (she asks Mon El if he “liked, liked” her..what woman over the age of 20 still talks like that?) It was a bad match.
But also, the villains (all except Reign, and it might be too little too late) have been awful, the plot holes are immense, they do not handle tone very well and seem to have really no plan for the characters. (the extreme left wing politics certainly did it no favors in the rating either) Maybe CBS could have saved this, but I am thinking if any DC show gets the ax on the CW, it might be this one. Unlike the “Flash” and the other shows, Supergirl actually seems to be shrinking in the face of lower rating expectations. It is playing down to lower expectations and doing it badly
Derek · December 23, 2017
All valid points and it would be sad if the show were to die because nobody behind the scenes recognized that the current showrunners don’t have the talent to make an entertaining show that doesn’t insult the intelligence of the viewers.
Thanks for posting and happy holidays!
Vern · May 3, 2018
What started well got CW’d and frankly the story, action, lame acting, and character neutering, makes me want to barf.
I figured the super hero roll model show would end once everyone realized super girl was in super xxx rated videos…but wait let’s set her sister up as a lesbian!
All sale – no substance. The worst show getting worse. Cancel or move to Netflixs for some real T & A scenes at least.
REED RICHARDS · June 26, 2018
Supergirl does indeed suck. And some of the reasons not mentioned: 1. Alex was never meant to be a lesbian. The CW feels that there must be a gay/lesbian character on every show. It would be a marvel if Supergirl did not have a gay or lesbian character. 2. J’onn is not Kara’s and Alex’s father. Jeremiah Danvers is. 3. J’onn should be in superhero mode, not trying to raise someone else’s grown adult children. 4. Sick and tired of the Alex Danvers as the Atomic Brunette. Totally unstoppable against anyone, alien or human. It’s BS at its core. 5. Finally, Kara Danvers is not Supergirl material. Laura Vandevoort’s Smallville Supergirl fits the bill here…………
Hope you found a life after posting this.
troykingman · October 14, 2019
What sucks about it mostly is the stupid forced romances. I started recording it and then editing out all the stupid scenes. The remaining 33 minutes or so is much better, and you do not lose any of the story except for Alex’s gay love scenes and Brainy and the TG being stupid.
lovelyhawaiigal · December 14, 2019
Haha! I agree with a lot of this. I really enjoyed this show at the beginning. I liked Calista as Cat and thought James Olsen was a great character. I didn’t hate Mon-El at first (although I too, felt they still should have had Jimmy more; he is one of the few good actors on the show who was totally underused!) Honestly, I miss Winn and thought most of the villains were laughable. Other than Lena Luthor, who is also one of the few believable actors, the show has gotten so bad, I no longer bother watching it. Every time I try, I end up changing the station! I am a huge Arrow fan and have come to like Flash and Legends, too.
But I’m afraid Melissa Benoist has possibly done for Supergirl what she did to Glee. Her character in that show was also a catalyst for its doom. It’s a real shame. I did love the musical crossover with Flash. The two former Glee kids sang really well together. And Grant was amazing! My lack of background knowledge of what’s going on in Supergirl is luckily not that much of a problem for the Crisis. I almost wish I had read a little less Shakespeare as a teen and had actually read some of these stories! Kevin Smith is hilarious in his recaps!
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German Air Force Battalion and Regiment Command flags
Third Reich - Drittes Reich - German Air Force - Deutsche Luftwaffe
Last modified: 2017-08-08 by pete loeser
Keywords: general goring | third reich | germany | command flags |
- Luftwaffe division and regiment command flags
Standard for Armoured Units - Panzer battalion standard (typical design)
Lower Command Pennants - Niedere Kommandowimpel typical pre-1942 designs
Lower Command Pennants - Niedere Kommandowimpel typical post-1942 designs
Luftwaffe Light Infantry Regiment Command Flag - Luftwaffe Jäger-Regiment Befehlsflag (presumed)
Luftwaffe Artillery Regiment Command Flag - Luftwaffe Artillerie Regiment Befehlsflag (presumed)
Luftwaffe FLAK Regiment Command Flag - Luftwaffe Fliegerabwehrkanonen-Regiment Befehlsflag (presumed)
Hermann Göring Panzer Division Command Flag - Panzer-Division 'Hermann Göring' Befehlsflag (very questionable)
Göring Panzer-type Flag 1 - was UFE06-24
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Historical Background - Presumed Luftwaffe Division and Regiment flags
A series of presumed Luftwaffe Division and Regiment Command flags, popularly called "General Göring " Flags, have flooded the market in recent years, many of which are unconfirmed with any historical documentation. We do know that historically there was an elite German Luftwaffe armored division named the Fallschirm-Panzer-Div 1 HG (1st Paratroop Panzer Division - Hermann Göring) which saw action in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, and in the East. Also, after 1942, ground combat divisions began to be raised from surplus Luftwaffe personnel, and therefore it is conceivable that special new command flags and pennants were introduced for them.
Pete Loeser, 28 March 2011
Counter to what most people believe, Hitler didn't come to power as part of an ever increasing popularity of his party, but as the winner of a battle in a political war. It involved the major German parties and something like a million Germans in party militias, and the war was in danger of turning against him. Once in power, if he wanted to utilise the stamp of "legality" for his actions, he needed official tools to eliminate the opposition before he would be ousted. A special "police unit" under command of Herman Göring, was such a tool, created in 1933 (merely days before the Reichstag was set on fire by an unknown group of people, possibly by the Nazis themselves).
The unit remained under Göring´s control, and changed as he was repositioned. From a local Berlin police unit, it changed into a national police unit. In 1934, as a para-military unit, it was involved in the "Night of Long Knives." In 1935, it followed Göring, who became air commander as an air-force regiment, though apparently more anti-air than airborne, part of which was split off as a parachute regiment. As elite forces, the units were used both in the invasion of the surrounding countries and to protect Göring and Hitler. After Göring had become Reichsmarschall, the unit become a motorised regiment, that was first sent to the South-East of Europe, and later to Africa. There it was to be enlarged and restructured into a larger unit, but before that had happened, it was lost in Tunesia.
The unit was "reformed" (which appears to be military parlance indicating a unit is created from scratch to take the place and identity of a no longer existing unit), and then was applied several times as the rear guard in Italy. It was then sent to the Eastern Front where it was to get a sister unit. Its last heroic efforts were attempts to reach the American lines to surrender, but it eventually was forced to surrender to the Russian army.
As the character and structure of the unit changed several times, and it even was lost once, it may well have had several sets of flags. I know the book Hermann Göring - From Regiment to Fallschirmpanzerkorps, by Roger James Bender and George A. Petersen does mention at least two such sets.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 29 March 2011
[Note: This page is a bit unusual in its approach, since it contains a mixture of reference flags, designed to help shed light on what one would expect a "presumed" General Göring-type ground support division and regiment flag to be like. - Ed.]
Standard for Armoured Units (Standarte für die Panzertruppe)
Typical "Panzer" Battalion Colours
Image by Fornax, 20 March 2011,
(Image outlined by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg to solve background contrast problem)
The typical "Panzer" Battalion Colours (Standard for Armored Units) were always a swallow-tailed standard, never a square flag. It also should be noted that the pink swallow-tailed standard was not a flag for a division, but represented a battalion. Moreover, it was not a command flag. An understanding of the differences between command flags, which were flown by the leader of a military unit, and the unique standards which represented the unit itself, is helpful. Command flags like the three-striped versions for a regiment or a battalion were used on a vehicle during the battle, whereas swallow-tailed standards for a battalion were carried on a vehicle, but held by a soldier, and not during a battle. An example would be in front of the whole unit during a victory parade, but they were never attached to a vehicle or used as a command flag.
Pete Loeser (text from "Historical Flags of Our Ancestors" website), 20 March 2011
[Note: If interested in identifying Luftwaffe ground forces branch-of-service colors (Waffenfarbe), you can find further information at "Command Flags and Pennants of Army Units" on this website. - Ed]
Lower Command Pennants (Niedere Kommandowimpel)
Typical Luftwaffe design used before 1942.
Images by Fornax, 20 March 2011
[Note: These two examples are placed here to demonstrate the normal pattern of Luftwaffe command flags - Ed.]
Notice in these examples that the upper and lower stripes consist of the "Waffenfarbe" (color of the type of the unit) with the central stripe black on these command pennants. This stripe arrangement is identical to the pattern used by the German Army (Heer). The one on the left is an Anti-Aircraft Detachment Command Pennant (Wimpel einer Flak-Abteilung) and the one on the right is a Flying Unit Detachment Command Pennant (Abteilungswimpel für Fliegende Einheiten)
Typical Luftwaffe designs used after 1942
Images by Fornax, 11 May 2011
[Note: These two examples are placed here to demonstrate the normal pattern of Luftwaffe command flags after 1942 - Ed.]
The command flag on the left is a presumed Luftwaffe Reconnaissance (Aufklärung) Battalion Command Flag, the command flag on the right is a presumed Luftwaffe Antitank (Panzerjäger) Battalion Command Flag. Normally, a battalion commander used a pennant-shaped command flag.
Pete Loeser, 11 May 2011
In 1942 ground combat divisions began to be raised from surplus Luftwaffe personnel, a new range of command flags and pennants was introduced for them. Again, they were similar to the Army pattern, but with the color scheme reversed: a black field with a broad horizontal stripe in the Waffenfarbe. This not only helped to distinguish these Luftwaffe Field Divisions from Army divisions, but enabled a distinction to be made between flak units and regular artillery units within the divisions.
Text from Tom Gregg's Archive of the Colors website
Luftwaffe Light Infantry Regiment Command Flag (presumed)
Luftwaffe Jäger-Regiment Befehlsflag
Image by Fornax, 20 March 2011
[Note : A good example of the reversed Waffenfarbe stripe pattern used on post-1942 Luftwaffe command flags.]
It should be noted here, that motorized battalions always carried swallow-tailed standards. The only square flags used as standards were those for the non-motorized infantry units (white), the non-motorized engineer units (black), and the non-motorized rifle and mountain infantry units (green). For example, this is a presumed Luftwaffe non-motorized rifle and mountain infantry flag, whose design's existence is presently unconfirmed with any historical documentation. If genuine this most likely would be a vehicle flag for a Luftwaffe Regiment Commander.
Or rather, those three types of units had square flags, but had standards (swallowtails) if they were motorised. Schlag nach!, 1939, shows the colours for the 'Regiment "General Göring"', as it was known before Göring became Reichsmarschall. The colours are square and have a green field. They differ in one aspect depending on the battalion: The colours are depicted bearing a small shield below the central emblem, but it is noted that the colours of the I and II battalions don't have this shield.
The title "Rifle and Mountain (Light Infantry) Regiment Command Flag (presumed)," would maybe work better if we simply used "Light Infantry" as the translation for "Jäger", if that's what is meant by that long description.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 7 April 2011
According to Tom Gregg's Archive of the Colors website: "In 1942 ground combat divisions began to be raised from surplus Luftwaffe personnel, a new range of command flags and pennants was introduced for them. Again, they were similar to the Army pattern, but with the color scheme reversed: a black field with a broad horizontal stripe in the Waffenfarbe. This not only helped to distinguish these Luftwaffe Field Divisions from Army divisions, but enabled a distinction to be made between flak units and regular artillery units within the divisions. As with the parachute troops, the Fliegerdivision pennant was used at the division level." Apparently, regiment command flags were rectangular, and battalions used pennant-shaped command flags.
Luftwaffe Artillery Regiment Command Flag (presumed)
Luftwaffe Artillerie Regiment Befehlsflag
Image by Fornax, 15 May 2011
[Note: Another good example of the reversed Waffenfarbe stripe pattern used on post-1942 Luftwaffe command flags.]
Command flags, which were flown by the leader of a military unit, were mainly used as car and/or vehicle flags. They never replaced the unit's colours, or standard, and represented only the commanding officer as his personal vehicle flag.
Luftwaffe FLAK Regiment Command Flag (presumed)
Luftwaffe Fliegerabwehrkanonen-Regiment Befehlsflag
Flak was an abbreviation for Fliegerabwehrkanonen (anti-aircraft guns). At the beginning of World War II the Luftwaffe had nearly a million men trained for anti-aircraft batteries for static home defense. As the war progressed able-bodied men were moved to mobile field Flak units and their positions on the home defence batteries were replaced by crews consisting of older men, school age boys, women auxiliaries, Italian and Hungarian volunteers, and even some Russian prisoners of war.
Hermann Göring Panzer Division Command Flag (very questionable)
Panzer-Division 'Hermann Göring' Befehlsflag
Image from Rick Prohaska,
Panzer units all used the color pink as their color designation, and the rational for the unusual use of a Luftwaffe type eagle on this replica army flag was that this division was named after the Reichmarshall Hermann Göring, and apparently one of the duties of this Division HG ("HG" for Hermann Göring) was to protect Luftwaffe ground installations and air fields from ground assault. The actual period existance of this particular modern replica flag is presently unconfirmed with any historical documentation.
The most popular of the presumed "General Göring" command flag designs seems to be this rectangular-shaped horizontal tricolor, usually black-pink-black in pattern, with a Luftwaffe-type eagle centered on it. It is true that some German regiments did use rectangular "command flags" with three equal stripes, and it is also equally true that Air Force units used flags and pennants on which the upper and lower stripe consisted of the "Waffenfarbe" (color of the type of the unit) with the central stripe black. Moreover, these command flags had a big Luftwaffe eagle in silver displayed on them. Therefore, it might be possible, although no reliable source confirms the supposition, that special armor units which had some connection to the name "Göring," had unofficial flags made on which the colors were reversed, i.e. the "Waffenfarbe" was in the center. It is also possible that the letters "HG" might also have been added by the unit without official permission. In the end, however, we simply lack any evidence to prove that this modern replica flag is anything but a modern fantasy design.
Göring Panzer-type Flag 1 (was UFE06-24)
Reverse side image provided by Rob Arbuckle, Toronto, 30 May 2006
Was wondering if you could help me identify this flag. My father brought it back from the second war. He said it was taken from a German staff car. The flag is encased in plastic.
Rob Arbuckle, Toronto, 30 May 2006
A World War 2 Hermann Göering Panzer unit flag - the Panzers colors were Pink and Black.
Rick Prohaska, 9 July 2006
I believe it to be the Car Ensign for the Commanding Officer of an Army or SS Battalion or Regiment, possibly Artillery (although they use Red-Black-Red with a number).
Matthias Bautt, 25 July 2006
The eagle on the flag is definitely a Luftwaffe (Air Force) eagle. Therefore, we can certainly say it was not on an Army, Navy, or SS staff car. As far as the black-red-black background, I do not know the significance there.
Rob Arbuckle, 4 August 2006
This flag is obviously a Luftwaffen-flagge that was used during WWII. It resembles the Luftwaffe Light Infantry Regiment Commander's Vehicle Flag very much. The red colour might indicate NCO, FLAK, etc.
Nahne Bienk, 30 August 2006
OK, here we go again, this flag is from the Herman Göering Panzer division which was a Luftwaffe division, assigned as a Panzer type division to provide security to the airfields used by the Luftwaffe. The pink colors in the center of most main unit flags were to signify the panzer unit status, the Red in this case was from the vehicle of a commander of an artillery sub unit of this division. The Unit found itself engaged in more and more ground assault as air superiority shifted to the allied powers.
Rick Prohaska, 30 January 2010
Hmm, if we use pink to identify this as Panzer, we can't use red to identify it as artillery. The middle stripe has only a single colour, so it must be either pink or red. "Schlag nach!" (1939) shows the colours red and pink indeed were used as field for the standards for the Artillery and the Kraftfahr-kampftruppe, but it also shows the Regiment "General Göring" as having a green standard. That's not all that surprising, since it was Luftwaffe, but it does go a bit against your interpretation. Do you have a reference that shows this specific unit used those colours, rather than the documented green? I fear we don't yet have any references that positively identify this flag, other than our speculation.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, February 2010
Plastic cases was in common usage for vehicle flags so they didn´t wear out quickly in the wind. The green coloring (definitly not army or SS) was in early use as Herman Göring was originally the head of the police, and green was the historical color of the police units, he used the color as a way of showing multiple titles.
Rick Prohaska, 6 May 2014
[Note: Based on information found on Tom Gregg's Archive of the Colors website, UFE06-24 has now been identified as a "presumed" Luftwaffe Artillery (possibily anti-aircraft) Regiment Command Flag. The above speculation made during the identification process is included to enrich the final identification. - Ed. (11 May 2011) ]
I tried to explain that this red-striped pennant was, in fact, a Luftwaffe Ground Defense Unit flag, a sub-unit of a Luftwaffe Panzer ground support and defense unit. Remarks were made asking for proof, and the illustrations at this German site support my categorization and statements.
Rick Prohaska, 20 July 2017
Image from Lou Bell, 21 September 2010
My grandfather brought this and a lot of other authentic things back. He was a medic. I can't find this flag anywhere. I saw UFE06-24 on this site, but it was red. All other flags I see are repros with HG on them. Please help.
Lou Bell, 21 September 2010
Unfortunately, we only see pictures of this flag. I would very much like the following information. What material is the flag made of (wool, nylon, polyester, etc.)? Is it sewed together, or one piece? Is the eagle stitched or painted on? How is the detailing done? What is the hoist like, how was the flag hung (rope, grommet, etc.)? Can you provide close up pictures? Is there any identifying numbers or marks anywhere?
Pete Loeser, 30 October 2010
Though I have only little knowledge about World War II flags, just a few details: The sinister facing eagle is that of the Luftwaffe (Air Force). Therefore, I don't believe that it is a flag of a (light) tank regiment (which had the colour pink, but used swallow-tail pennants in Hussar's cut in tradition of the light cavalry). It just could be the red has faded to pink, then it could be the flag of a unit of the FLAK (Air Raid Defence Forces). This is, of course, only speculation.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 31 October 2010
[Note : Based on information found on Tom Gregg's Archive of the Colors website, UFE10-47 has now been identified as a "presumed" Antitank (Panzerjäger) Regiment Command Flag. The above speculation made during the identification process is included to enrich the final identification. - Ed. (11 May 2011)]
Image from Tony Jones, 3 May 2011
Your UFE10-47 is very similar to one that I have, the one I saw was green and black, the one that I have is black with a gold/dark yellow centre bar, and is made of heavy material with a rope loop. The measurements are in the old imperial scale of feet and inches, I can work with this a lot easier than metric. The measurements are: 37" x 24-1/4"
Tony Jones, 3 May 2011
The color of the center stripe could indicate the gold-yellow of a command flag of a Luftwaffe cavalry unit or the lemon-yellow of a command flag of a Luftwaffe motorized signal unit depending on the tints of this image and the fading of the flag itself. Other than that it is impossible to determine what unit or the actual authenticity of this flag.
Pete Loeser, 4 May 2011
The yellow one is probably in "Hermann Göring - From Regiment to Fallschirmpanzerkorps" by Roger James Bender and George A. Petersen as well.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 7 May 2010
[Note: Based on information found on Tom Gregg's Archive of the Colors website, UFE11-28 has now been identified as a "presumed" Luftwaffe Reconnaissance Regiment Command flag. The above speculation made during the identification process is included to enrich the final identification. - Ed. (11 May 2011) ]
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The Best Time to Visit St Vincent and the Grenadines for Weather, Safety, & Tourism
The best times to visit St Vincent and the Grenadines for ideal weather are
January 8th to October 14th
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Weather in St Vincent and the Grenadines
Average temperatures in St Vincent and the Grenadines vary very little. Considering humidity, temperatures feel hot all year with a very low chance of rain throughout the year. The area is less temperate than some — in the 28th percentile for pleasant weather — compared to tourist destinations worldwide. Weeks with ideal weather are listed above. If you’re looking for the very warmest time to visit St Vincent and the Grenadines, the hottest months are September, October, and then August. See average monthly temperatures below. The warmest time of year is generally late September where highs are regularly around 88.6°F (31.4°C) with temperatures rarely dropping below 83.3°F (28.5°C) at night.
St Vincent and the Grenadines Temperatures (Fahrenheit)
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Average St Vincent and the Grenadines Temperatures by Month
Mar 84.3 82 78.7
Jul 86.6 84.2 81
Jul 30.3 29 27.2
Nov 30.3 28.9 27
If dry weather is what you’re after, the months with the lowest chance of significant precipitation in St Vincent and the Grenadines are April, May, and then March. Note that we define “significant precipitation” as .1 inches or more in this section. The lowest chance of rain or snow occurs around early March. For example, on the week of March 5th there are no days of precipitation on average. By contrast, it’s most likely to rain or snow in late October to early November with an average of 1 days of significant precipitation the week of October 29th.
When can you find snow in St Vincent and the Grenadines? Weather stations report no annual snow. Please note that a value of 0 for snow in the graph below may either mean there was no snow, or that snow is unreported.
The graph below shows the % chance of rainy and snowy days in St Vincent and the Grenadines.
The graph below shows the average snow on the ground in St Vincent and the Grenadines (in).
Jan 9% 0 1.2
Feb 8% 0 0.9
Mar 7% 0 0.9
Apr 6% 0 1.1
May 6% 0 0.9
Jun 8% 0 1.4
Sep 8% 0 1.8
Jan 9 0 3
Feb 8 0 2.3
Mar 7 0 2.3
Apr 6 0 2.8
May 6 0 2.3
Jun 8 0 3.6
Sep 8 0 4.6
St Vincent and the Grenadines has some humid months, and above average humidity throughout the year. The least humid month is February (60.1% relative humidity), and the most humid month is November (69.3%).
Wind in St Vincent and the Grenadines is usually moderate. The windiest month is February, followed by January and March. February’s average wind speed of around 13 knots (14.9 MPH or 24.1 KPH) is considered “a moderate breeze.” Maximum sustained winds (the highest speed for the day lasting more than a few moments) are at their highest in late February and early March where average top sustained speeds reach 16.8 knots, which is considered a moderate breeze.
The graph below shows the average % humidity by month in St Vincent and the Grenadines.
Jan 12.4 Significant breeze 15.2 Significant breeze
Feb 13 Significant breeze 16 Significant breeze
Mar 12.1 Significant breeze 15 Significant breeze
Apr 11.2 Significant breeze 13.7 Significant breeze
May 11 Significant breeze 13.8 Significant breeze
Jun 11.9 Significant breeze 14.8 Significant breeze
Jul 11.3 Significant breeze 14.3 Significant breeze
Aug 9.2 Gentle breeze 12.2 Significant breeze
Sep 7.5 Gentle breeze 9.9 Significant breeze
Oct 10.5 Gentle breeze 13.3 Significant breeze
Nov 9.9 Gentle breeze 13.3 Significant breeze
Dec 11.2 Significant breeze 14.1 Significant breeze
Aug 68%
Dec 64%
Is it Safe to Travel to St Vincent and the Grenadines?
Our best data indicates this area is generally safe. As of Oct 07, 2019 there are no travel advisories or warnings for Saint Vincent & the Grenadines; exercise normal security precautions. Check this page for any recent changes or regions to avoid: Travel Advice and Advisories. This advisory was last updated on Aug 27, 2019.
The busiest month for tourism in St Vincent and the Grenadines is May, followed by January and February. Prices for hotels and flights will be most expensive during these months, though you can save if you purchase well in advance. Tourists are unlikely to visit St Vincent and the Grenadines in October. Those willing to visit at these times will likely find it the least expensive month.
Tourism graph is based on Google searches for services used by tourists relative to the rest of the year. Tourism data for this area is somewhat extrapolated based on nearby areas. Displayed data is calculated relative to the peak, so a score of 59.7 in October means 59.7% of the tourists vs. May.
Overall St Vincent and the Grenadines Travel Experience by Season
Humidity and temperatures combine to make this season feel warm. Highs range from 87.1°F (30.6°C) and 83.9°F (28.8°C) with warmer temperatures in the later months. Rain is rare with roughly 2 days of significant precipitation per month. Spring is the busiest for tourism, which makes it a good time for those looking for things to do.
The middle-year months have very comfortable weather with high temperatures that are quite warm. These months see moderate precipitation with about 3 days of precipitation per month. June – August is fairly slow season for tourism in St Vincent and the Grenadines, so lodging and other accommodations may cost slightly less.
Fall daily highs range from 88.6°F (31.4°C) and 86°F (30°C), which will feel very nice given the humidity and wind. It rains or snows a normal amount: 2 to 5 days per month. Tourism is the slowest during these months due to the weather, so hotels may be affordably priced.
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LR769 in Congenital Hemophilia...
LR769 in Congenital Hemophilia Patients With Inhibitors Undergoing Elective Surgery or Invasive Procedures
Phase 3 Study of Safety and Efficacy of Coagulation Factor VIIa (Recombinant) for Prevention of Excessive Bleeding in Congenital Hemophilia A/B Patients With Inhibitors to Factor VIII/IX Undergoing Elective Surgery/Other Invasive Procedures
The purpose of this study, PerSept 3, is to evaluate LR769 for the prevention of excessive
bleeding and achievement of hemostasis in congenital hemophilia A or B patients who have
inhibitors to Factor VIII or Factor IX , are aged 6 months to 75 years, inclusive; and who
are undergoing elective surgical or other invasive procedures. Administration of LR769 will
be performed just prior to surgery/procedure and will be repeated during and after the
surgery/procedure to achieve and maintain adequate hemostasis as determined by the
investigator's judgment.
This study is an international, multicenter, single-arm, Phase 3 study. Patients aged 6
months to 75 years, inclusive, who have congenital hemophilia A or B with inhibitors to
Factor VIII or Factor IX and who are scheduled for an elective surgical or other invasive
procedure will be enrolled. Both major and minor surgical or other invasive procedures are
allowed in the study.
Initial Treatment: Regardless of procedure, patients who meet all eligibility criteria will
receive an initial intravenous (IV) bolus dose of LR769 within ≤2 minutes before the surgical
incision or start of the invasive procedure. For a minor elective surgery or other minor
invasive procedure, a dose of 75 μg/kg will be used as the initial dose; for a major elective
surgery or other major invasive procedure, a dose of 200 μg/kg of LR769 will be used as the
initial dose. For both minor and major procedures, administration will be repeated no more
frequently than every 2 hours (±5 minutes) at a dose of 75 μg/kg during and after surgery or
invasive procedure.
Treatment for Major Surgical Procedures: The initial dose of LR769 will be followed by
repeated administration of 75 µg/kg of LR769 every 2 hours (±5 minutes) for the first 48
hours after completion of the procedure. The minimum duration of LR769 treatment for major
procedures will be 5 days and dosing frequency will be followed according to the guidelines
specified in the protocol.
Treatment for Minor Surgical or Other Invasive Procedures: The initial dose of LR769 will be
followed by repeated administration of 75 µg/kg of LR769 every 2 hours (±5 minutes) for the
first 48 hours. The minimum duration of LR769 infusion for minor procedures will be 2 days,
except for certain procedures that may not require this duration of treatment to achieve
hemostasis as noted in the protocol. Dosing frequency will be according to the guidelines
specified in protocol for minor surgical or other invasive procedures.
Percentage of Surgical or Other Invasive Procedures Defined as "Good" or "Excellent" Response to LR769 Treatment as Assessed by the Investigator, Based on the Totality of the Assessments Performed on the Patient
Secondary Outcome
Percentages of Success as Defined as the Combination of "Good" and "Excellent" Responses by the Investigator or Designee
Coagulation Factor VIIa (Recombinant)
Description: A dose of 75 μg/kg (minor surgery or invasive procedure) or 200 μg/kg (major surgery or major invasive procedure) of LR769 will be administered as an initial intravenous (IV) bolus dose of LR769 within ≤2 minutes before the surgical incision or start of the invasive procedure. For both minor and major procedures, the initial dose will be followed by repeated administration of 75 µg/kg of LR769 every 2 hours (±5 minutes) for the first 48 hours after completion of the procedure and then as per the dosing schedules in the protocol for major or minor surgeries or invasive procedures. The minimum duration of LR769 treatment for major procedures will be 5 days, and for minor procedures 2 days except for certain procedures that may not require this duration of treatment.
Each patient must meet the following criteria to be enrolled in this study:
1. be male with a diagnosis of congenital hemophilia A or B of any severity
2. have one of the following:
1. a positive inhibitor test Bethesda Unit (BU) ≥5 (as confirmed at screening by the
institutional lab), OR
2. a BU <5 but expected to have a high anamnestic response to FVIII or FIX, as
demonstrated from the patient's medical history, precluding the use of FVIII or
FIX products to treat or prevent bleeding, OR
3. a BU <5 but expected to be refractory to increased dosing of FVIII or FIX, as
FIX products to treat or prevent bleeding episodes
3. be ≥6 months to ≤75 years of age; different age restrictions may apply per local
regulation and ethical considerations (enrollment of children <12 years of age will
not begin until after review of data from the PERSEPT 2 study by the DMC)
4. be scheduled for an elective surgical or other invasive procedure
5. be capable of understanding and willing to comply with the conditions of the protocol
OR in the case of a patient <18 years of age, parent(s)/legal guardian(s) must be
capable of understanding and willing to comply with the conditions of the protocol
6. have read, understood, and provided written Informed Consent (patient and/or
parent(s)/legal guardian(s) if the patient is <18 years of age) or Assent, if
Patients who meet any of the following criteria will be excluded from the study:
1. have any coagulation disorder other than hemophilia A or B
2. be immunosuppressed (ie, the patient should not be receiving systemic
immunosuppressive medication; cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4) counts at screening
should be >200/µL)
3. known intolerance to LR769 or any of its excipients
4. currently receiving immune tolerance induction (ITI) therapy
5. have a known allergy or hypersensitivity to rabbits
6. have a platelet count<100,000/µL
7. have received an investigational drug within 30 days of the planned first LR769
administration , or is expected to receive such drug during participation in this
study (with the exception of patients who are or were participating in another LR769
study, eg, a study assessing the treatment of bleeding episodes with LR769)
8. have a clinically relevant hepatic (aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and/or alanine
aminotransferase (ALT) >3 times the upper limit of normal (ULN)) and/or renal
impairment (creatinine >2 times the ULN)
9. have a history of arterial and/or venous thromboembolic events (such as myocardial
infarction, ischemic strokes, transient ischemic attacks, deep venous thrombosis (DVT)
or pulmonary embolism (PE)) within 2 years prior to the planned first dose of LR769,
uncontrolled arrhythmia, or current New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional
classification score of stages II - IV
10. have an active malignancy (those with non-melanoma skin cancer are allowed)
11. have any life-threatening disease or other disease or condition which, according to
the investigator's judgment, could imply a potential hazard to the patient, or
interfere with the trial participation or trial outcome (eg, a history of
non-responsiveness to bypassing products)
12. be using aspirin, NSAIDS, herbs, natural medications, or other drugs with platelet
inhibitory properties within one week prior to surgery and for the duration of
treatment with LR769
13. have active gastric or duodenal ulcer disease
Miguel Escobar, MD, ,
LFB-FVIIa-008-14
LFB USA, Inc.
Laboratoire français de Fractionnement et de Biotechnologies
Miguel Escobar, MD, Principal Investigator, Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center
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1368 WING DEVELOPMENT CORP. ET AL. v. PAULUS CHAN ET AL.
2008 Ct. Sup. 13434, 46 CLR 207
No. CV-07-5101397Connecticut Superior Court Judicial District of New London at Norwich
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION RE MOTION TO STRIKE (#123)
JAMES W. ABRAMS, JUDGE.
This action stems from a real estate transaction in which plaintiffs purchased a building, but were allegedly of the understanding that they also were purchasing the adjoining parking lot. Upon discovering that they had only purchased the building, plaintiffs sued their attorney, the seller, their real estate agent and agency. By Motion dated May 1, 2008, defendant realtor Frank Busch and defendant Loft Realty seek to strike several counts of plaintiff’s Substitute Complaint dated April 23, 2008. Plaintiffs filed an Objection dated June 2, 2008 and the parties presented oral argument before the Court on July 28, 2008. Specifically, defendants seek to strike Counts Five and Ten which state claims for breach of contract and Counts Nine and Fourteen which state claims for violation of the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act, Connecticut General Statutes § 42a-110b et seq. (hereinafter “CUTPA”).
I Motion to Strike Standards
“A motion to strike challenges the legal sufficiency of a pleading, and, consequently, requires no factual findings by the trial court.”Bernhard-Thomas Building Systems, LLC v. Dunican, 286 Conn. 548, 552-53
(2008). “The allegations of the pleading involved are entitled to the same favorable construction a trier would be required to give in admitting evidence under them and if the facts provable under its allegations would support a defense or a cause of action, the motion to strike must fail.” Mingachos v. CBS, Inc., 196 Conn. 91, 108-09 (1985).
II Counts Five and Ten — Breach of Contract
Defendants seek to strike plaintiffs’ breach of contract claims based on the argument that they constitute improper restatements of plaintiffs’ negligence claims: “[P]utting a contract tag on a tort claim will not CT Page 13435 change its essential character. An action in contract is for the breach of a duty arising out of a contract; an action in tort is for a breach of a duty imposed by law.” Gazo v. City of Stamford, 255 Conn. 245, 263
However, it appears that such an argument is more appropriately made in a motion for summary judgment or at trial, rather than in a motion to strike. “Under our pleading practice, a plaintiff is permitted to advance alternative and even inconsistent theories of liability against one or more defendants in a single complaint.” Drier v. Upjohn Co., 196 Conn. 242, 245 (1985). A review of the Substitute Complaint in this matter reveals that plaintiff has asserted legally sufficient claims for breach of contract and, as a result, defendants’ Motion to Strike Counts Five and Ten of the Substitute Complaint is hereby denied.
III Counts Nine and Fourteen — CUTPA
Defendants argue that the CUTPA claims contained in Counts Nine and Fourteen should be stricken because CUTPA does not apply to allegations of professional malpractice. Professional malpractice claims cannot be brought under CUTPA if the activity complained of relates to the actual representation of the client, as opposed to the entrepreneurial or commercial aspects of the profession: “We conclude that professional negligence — that is, malpractice — does not fall under CUTPA. Although physicians and other health care providers are subject to CUTPA, only the entrepreneurial or commercial aspects of the profession are covered, just as only the entrepreneurial aspects of the practice of law are covered by CUTPA.” Haynes v. Yale-New Haven Hospital, 243 Conn. 17, 34
In this case, plaintiff’s CUTPA claims involve defendants’ dual representation of buyer and seller in the transaction at issue, including an allegation that defendants failed to inform plaintiffs of this arrangement, rather than claims involving defendants’ actions relating to the real estate transaction itself. The Court concludes that these allegations, when afforded the favorable construction necessary in considering a Motion to Strike, involve the entrepreneurial and commercial aspects of the real estate practice and, as a result, can support a claim under CUTPA. See, Facchini v. Miller, Judicial District of Hartford at Hartford, Docket No. 99-0587686 (January 31, 2000, Wagner, J.). As a result, defendants’ Motion to Strike Counts Nine and Fourteen of the Substitute Complaint is hereby denied.[1]
CT Page 13436
[1] The parties’ briefs both address the question of whether the professional malpractice exemption from CUTPA claims extends to realtors, a question that the Court does not need to decide in ruling on this Motion. While this protection from CUTPA claims has been extended to a number of professions beyond law and medicine, including engineering, accounting, insurance, education, and architecture, see, Krassner v. CPM Insurance Services, Judicial District of New Haven at New Haven, Docket No. CV O1-0456362 (August 8, 2002, Booth, J.) [32 Conn. L. Rptr. 701], there does not appear to be any direct authority on the question of whether it applies to realtors. While plaintiffs cite Cornerstone Realty, Inc. v. Dresser Rand Co., 993 F.Sup. 107 (D.Conn. 1998), in support of the proposition that realtors can be held liable for CUTPA violations under Connecticut law, that case is of limited applicability as the realtor was also the seller of the property.
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The two-day event to honor Cuban doctors will stream July 18-19.
Cuban artists including Los Van Van and Alexander Abreu, plus Tom Morello, Michael McDonald and Ozomatli are among 60 acts that will join together for a free two-night concert to honor Cuba’s doctors.
The Concert for Cuba is a two-night, six-hour streaming festival set for this weekend (July 18-19). It will rally to garner a Nobel Prize for the international efforts of Cuban medical professionals during the pandemic and advocate for the end of the U.S. embargo while showcasing performances by Cuban artists and international acts who will lend their support for the event’s messages.
Other artists — including Orquesta Aragon, Mezcla, Síntesis, Dayramir Gonzalez, Omara Portuondo and Orquesta Failde — will perform from the Cuban Music Institute and other locations in Havana. Morello, McDonald, Ozomatli, Dionne Warwick, Arturo O´Farrill and others will appear via video from different locations. All are performing pro bono. See more information about where to stream the event below.
The event will also include appearances by Danny Glover, Michael Moore and several U.S. politicians, as well as Cuban doctors and U.S. doctors who studied in Cuba.
The Concert for Cuba is “something positive in a moment when there’s so much sadness. Accentuating the work of the Cuban medical teams seems like something most people can rally around and support,” says Marguerite Horberg, the founder and director of Chicago Cultural Center HotHouse.
Horberg is producing the concert together with San Francisco attorney and presenter Bill Martinez and Cuban music promoter and manager Raul Cuza.
The pandemic has illustrated that disease and suffering have no borders,” says Horberg, who has been presenting concerts by Cuban artists since 1986. “Having culture as a very strong healing force for both repairing diplomatic ruptures and sharing of medical advances is something that we think is very important.”
Cuba’s Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade has been working in 22 countries to fight COVID-19. A petition, whose supporters include Glover and Morello, has been circulating to encourage the Nobel committee to award the healthcare workers the 2021 Nobel Prize for Peace.
The idea for the Concert for Cuba began with a conversation between Horberg and Cuza about streaming concert by El Septeto Santiaguero, one of the bands that he manages, for the HotHouse channel. They soon launched the idea for the online festival.
“We’ve put together an outstanding program and our message is one of peace, human sovereignty, the rejection of walls in favor of bridges and the coming together of cultures and people,” says Cuza, founder of the Cuza Agency.
Cuza has been working with The Cuban Ministry of Culture and The Cuban Music Institute in Havana, which is the setting for most of the participating Cuban artists’ performances. Both have produced myriad shows since the pandemic shut Cuba down last April.
“Cuban artists have the same goals as all international artists do right now: to maintain their audiences and keep their careers going in an uncertain situation in which we don’t know when we can start to tour again,” Cuza adds.
Performances for The Concert for Cuba will be pre-recorded, to avoid the possibility of the livestream being blocked by the U.S. government. Most of the international artists participating have an established relationship with Cuba.
Morello (who will be seen playing his anti-police brutality song “Rabbit’s Revenge” on Saturday) performed with Audioslave in Havana in 2005 for an audience of 70,000 people. Canadian saxophonist Jane Bunnett has frequently recorded with Cuban artists. The Congolese salsa singer Ricardo Lemvo (a long-time Los Angeles resident) grew up listening to Congolese rumba and Cuban big bands. McDonald, best known as the singer of some of the Doobie Brothers’ biggest hits, has never been to Cuba, but says his longstanding interest in the country and its culture drew him to the event.
“So many Americans share the bewilderment that this embargo continues all these years after whatever the reasons it was initially put in place for have long past,” McDonald tells Billboard. “I feel very privileged to be a part of this.”
McDonald will perform the Doobies’ classic “Taking it to the Streets.”
Organizer Bill Martinez, who has been working with Cuban and other international artists to obtain visas to tour in the U.S. for decades, has downsized his operations in the wake of mass tour cancellations because of the pandemic.
The Trump administration’s reversal of President Obama’s historic changes in U.S. Cuba policy had already discouraged cultural exchange with Cuba. But the Concert for Cuba is offering another way for Cuban musicians to play for the world. He notes that the response by artists in and outside of Cuba wanting to participate has been so great that they may have to organize a second festival with a different line up.
“We are hoping we can return to better days when we had better relations with Cuba,” Martinez says. “And if we have to keep repeating the same message, we will.”
The Concert for Cuba will stream at 8 p.m. ET on the HotHouse Global Twitch channel, the HotHouse website and Facebook page. The festival will also be broadcast in Cuba, streamed via Pacifica radio stations, and by HotHouse partners Sunfest, Womad Chile and Mexico’s OllinKan festival. Organizers expect the audience “to be in the millions.”
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reached by the lines of the Canadian Pacific Railway
Published 1982 by Issued by the Passenger Traffic Dept., Canadian Pacific Railway Co. in Montreal .
Fishing -- Québec (Province),
Hunting -- Québec (Province)
Statement compiled from information furnished chiefly by N.E. Cormier.
Series CIHM/ICMH microfiche series -- no. 29434.
Contributions Canadian Pacific Railway Company.
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The American magazine Newsweek published satellite images purporting to show advanced kamikaze drones in Yemen that the outlet said Iran could use to attack countries in the region, including Israel.
These unmanned aerial vehicles, identified as Shahed-136 loitering munitions, were more advanced than the models of suicide drones already known to be in the Houthis’ possession, with an operational radius of approximately 2,000 to 2,200 kilometers (1,240 to 1,370 miles), meaning Israel is within their range.
An unnamed expert who provided the satellite images to Newsweek said the purpose of these drones was to give Iran the ability to conduct strikes on a variety of targets in the Middle East without them being clearly traced back to Tehran.
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“What they’re trying to achieve is plausible deniability,” the expert told the outlet, “as in being able to strike either a US, Saudi, Gulf, or Israeli target and then having the strike traced back to Yemen, and hoping for deniability against any kind of retribution.”
Houthi fighters chant slogans as they take off to a battlefront following a gathering aimed at mobilizing more fighters for the Houthi movement, in Sanaa, Yemen, August 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)
The Houthi rebel group in Yemen has possessed suicide drones — UAVs packed with explosives that are designed to be flown directly at targets — for several years, but the variety seen in the Newsweek report Thursday were more powerful.
Also on Thursday, the Iranian military fired several cruise missiles as part of a naval drill in the Gulf of Oman, state media reported, in an apparent show of force amid heightened tensions with Israel and the United States.
Various kinds of surface-to-surface cruise missiles successfully hit their targets in the gulf and northern part of the Indian Ocean, the report said.
“Enemies should know that any violation and invasion of Iranian marine borders will be targeted by the cruise missiles from both coast and sea,” said Adm. Hamzeh Ali Kaviani, spokesman for the exercise.
This image made from a video released on Jan. 13, 2021, by the Iranian Army shows a helicopter landing on Makran logistics vessel during a navy drill. (Iranian Army via AP)
The two-day drill began Wednesday when the country’s navy inaugurated its largest military vessel. The exercise took place as Tehran squared off against the United States in an escalating tit-for-tat over its nuclear program and amid a long-simmering conflict with Jerusalem, which bubbled to the surface this week as the Israeli military reportedly conducted a massive series of airstrikes on Iran-linked targets in eastern Syria in the predawn hours of Wednesday morning.
These reports came as advanced air defense batteries were seen deployed around the southern Israeli city of Eilat, amid concerns of an attack from Yemen by the Iran-backed Houthis.
אי שם היום בדרום הרחוק: מערך ההגנה האווירית של חיל האוויר מתגבר כוננות והיערכות באיזור אילת ובמקומות נוספים בדרום הרחוק בעקבות האיומים האיראניים לנקמה סביב יום השנה לחיסולו של קאסם סולימאני, כאשר הרמטכל אביב כוכבי דיבר באחרונה על המאמץ האיראני להתבסס גם בתימן. pic.twitter.com/hvcoae1p1d
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Iron Dome and Patriot missile defense batteries were first spotted earlier this month. The Iron Dome is generally used against rockets and mortar shells, but can also intercept small drones and cruise missiles. The Patriot system is used primarily to defend against ballistic missiles and larger aircraft like fighter jets and unmanned aerial vehicles, including the types of suicide drones mentioned in the Newsweek report.
In recent weeks, the Israeli military has also reportedly sailed a submarine through the area, sending the vessel through the Suez Canal and into the Red Sea. Due to the shallow depth of the canal, submarines can only pass through it above the water, where they can easily be spotted. As such, the move was generally seen as a show of force directed toward Iran.
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Support the Girls (2018)
I like Hooters for the wings and that’s final!
Lisa (Regina Hall) is the manager of Double Whammies, a sports bar that specializes in fried-food and scantily-clad women. Usually, the clientele is centered more towards men who want a little bit of a good time, allowing the women who work there to get huge tips for days. But today is an awful day for Lisa for some reason; she just doesn’t feel as up to the job as usual and is thinking about quitting. The only reason she won’t is because she loves and supports the girls that work for her, and knew that without her, their jobs would absolutely be in jeopardy. But if she does decide to stay at this job, she may be ruining whatever chances she has at finally getting married and moving on with her life.
NO MEN!!
Support the Girls is a lot like writer/director Andrew Bujalski’s other flicks: They’re small, subtle, quiet, and filled with lots of moments that feel improvised. That’s how all of his earlier movies were and it’s why they’re so golden and lovely to watch now, “mumblecore” association aside and everything. And yes, Support the Girls deals very much in the same tone and style, but this time, there’s a bit more of a story, much better actors, and more importantly, a point to it all.
Does that make it better than his other movies? Not really, but it sure is a step in the right direction for someone who is continuing to grow and grow as a film-maker. Cause while Bujalski still loves focusing in on the awkwardness of his characters, he gets a bit deeper to the root of the problems like sexism, ageism, and race here, making it seem like Bujalski actually has something on his mind and doesn’t want to just watch as his characters fumble over each other’s sentences.
But once again, Bujalski fumbles over himself a bit because these elements of the story aren’t incredibly well-developed.
Ladders don’t go in kitchens?
They’re smart and show a director with an idea in his head, but mostly, Support the Girls never gets the opportunity to really feel like it’s getting to its point, or even its story. Really, Support the Girls is a thinly-written story as is, which is fine, but it also feels like Bujalski doesn’t know whether to rely solely on the characters and their interactions, or the story to bring all sorts of wacky and crazy surprises.
With a cast like this, though, you can’t totally go wrong though and they’re why Support the Girls gets a much better rating. Regina Hall gives perhaps her best performance to-date as the loving, nurturing and kind-hearted Lisa, who pours her heart and soul out each and every day on this god-awful job. Hall finds the perfect blend of sweetness and humility, to where we always know there’s a darker side to her in there somewhere, we just have to get to the smile first to find it.
Hall’s lovely, as well as everyone else, because as we’ve seen with most of these mumblecore directors, is that the better actors they get involved, the better the movies.
Case in point. I guess.
Consensus: Though still thin on certain elements like plot and character, Support the Girls still works because of its charming ensemble and generally pleasant pace.
Support ’em. Love ’em. Definitely tip ’em.
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Unsettling push notifications from CNN. An influx of pressing work emails. 97 unread texts from your friend group chat. None of these things should be the Official Five Five Six Shirt Besides,I will do this last thing you see at night, nor the first thing you lay your eyes on in the morning. And despite this very obvious truth and the fact that excessive screen time has been linked to exacerbating just about every mental and physical health condition that besets us, smartphone addiction is a stark reality for many—if not most. And with daylight saving time newly ended, it’s crucial to acknowledge that sleeping in the same room as our smartphone, as well as using it as an alarm to wake up, is an acute part of the problem.For starters, screen time has a direct impact on our production of melatonin, otherwise known as the hormone of darkness, which is produced in the brain’s pineal glands and requires—you guessed it—darkness to work its magic and induce sleepiness. “Melatonin doesn’t like light, especially the blue light emitted by electronics,” explains Shelby Harris, Psy.D., a behavioral sleep-medicine specialist, adding that nighttime exposure can disrupt your circadian rhythm (the body’s internal clock), which not only compromises the quantity and quality of sleep, but can also disrupt everything from the body’s digestive system to fluctuating hormonal levels.
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Furthermore, no matter how you slice it, if your smartphone is plugged in next to your bed, you’re still in work or social media mode. “If you’re getting texts or email alerts, it obviously disrupts your sleep quality,” says Harris. “But even if you don’t have alerts, there’s always going to be the Official Five Five Six Shirt Besides,I will do this temptation to check your smartphone. Then, your bedroom is associated with awake activities such as work, socializing, and stress, more so than restful sleep.”The bottom line is that if you’re keeping your phone in your bedroom, your brain isn’t fully shutting down and it’s impeding an optimal night’s rest. The solution? If you can’t rely on your circadian rhythm to wake you up naturally, revert back to a traditional alarm clock. “Go old-school!” insists Harris. “It’ll keep the temptation of your smartphone out of the room and if you put it away from your bed, you have to physically get up and turn it off, which makes the snooze alarm tougher to use.”That said, even if you’re buying more time on a de facto alarm clock instead of an iPhone next to your pillow, it’s not a fruitful habit. “If you find that you’re constantly pushing snooze, you’re probably going to bed too late and need more sleep overall,” she says. The other factor to take into consideration if you’re having trouble getting up in the mornings, particularly during the cooler months, is light. “If you struggle with waking up early in the fall and winter because of the darkness, a dawn-simulating alarm clock can be helpful,” explains Harris.From the latest sun-mimicking innovation to a timeless Danish model, here are three alarm clocks that will ensure a better night’s rest and upgrade your space, too.
The cult-beloved appeal is also helped by the Five Five Six Shirt but in fact I love this fact that some of the merch from A24 and Elara Pictures is designed by another buzzy label, Online Ceramics, which is known for its Grateful Dead–inspired, triptastic T-shirts that sell out oh so quickly. A24 has collaborated with Online Ceramics, churning out funky promotional shirts around films like Midsommar and Uncut Gems. It is both transfixing and entertaining. Those pieces are also all sold out, but you can find them now marked up on Grailed.Coincidently, the same day that Chalamet’s photo in an Elara Pictures cap hit the wires, Elara revealed its new and improved website, elara.world. It promotes Elara Pictures films and merch, including a sturdy new red tote bag with a cartoon witch on it that reads “Unbutton your mind.” (That wonky graphic and language feel very Online Ceramics!) All of these things are advertised in a spoof on sensational tabloids, which in a way makes sense: The merch is sensational! The community around it is sensational.Obviously, there are professional reasons why Timmy and EmRata are wearing the hat. (Could Chalamet be in a potential Elara Pictures film? We’d love to see it!) And regardless, the two celebrities seem to be…in the know. But why do others care? Why are there so many Reddit threads dedicated to this dad cap?Well, the hat at least shows that the wearer has an inkling of what is going on in the movie world: Call it an intellectual film-bro flex. Elara Pictures and A24 churn out sleeper-hit films that reel in big names, and while they might not be immediate blockbusters, they eventually gain widespread approval over time. Wearing the hat says that you’ve seen a goatee-sporting Sandler canoodle with Julia Fox in Uncut Gems or Pattinson frantically run through New York in Good Time. (Or at least you look like you do.) And if the merch looks good (which it does), well, it’s the perfect recipe for hype. It brings me back to this Reddit thread in which a user posted the question: “Can we make a pact that we’ll all post in here when we these fuckin’ hats hit the schmatas again?” A pact? About a hat? It turns out there is a little bit more to it.While many of us are feeling a collective exhale as the end of the Trump era draws near, there are still challenges ahead as the coronavirus continues to spread rapidly. The reality is we have a long winter ahead of us, and for those who suffer from seasonal affective disorder, also known as seasonal depression, managing symptoms is bound to be even more difficult in lockdown. Here, experts break down what season affective disorder is, and how best to treat it, along with depression-like symptoms, in the time of COVID-19.Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is a clinical depression that follows a regular seasonal pattern. “The most common seasonal pattern in SAD is depression during the fall and winter months with periods of full improvement in the spring and summer,” explains psychologist Kelly Rohan, a professor at the University of Vermont. According to expert studies, seasonal affective disorder, both severe and mild, affects about 5% of the U.S. population, with women more likely to be affected than men.By and large, the symptoms of depression in SAD are the same as nonseasonal depression symptoms. According to Rohan, the most commonly reported SAD symptoms include significant fatigue, pervasively sad mood, loss of interest in activities, sleeping more hours than usual, difficulty concentrating, and eating more starches and sweets.
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The Hong Kong Government has announced details of the second tranche of the Employment Support Scheme (ESS). Applications for this tranche run from 31 August to 13 September 2020. For background to the ESS, please refer to our earlier update.
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Eligibility (unchanged) – The eligibility requirement is the same as that of the first tranche (please see our earlier update). However, self-employed persons who have already received the one-off lump-sum subsidy in the first tranche will not be allowed to make another application in the second tranche.
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Yet another Harvey & Lee factoid that doesn't withstand scrutiny?
By Guest,
August 16, 2019 in JFK Assassination Debate
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42 minutes ago, David Von Pein said:
And after listening to your One Trick Pony act for many unbearable years, the only proper response to your non-stop barrage of Clothing Crap® is -----> .
Yes, the truth is unbearable for the nutter frauds who post here.
David Von Pein 17 posts
Denny Zartman 17 posts
Jim Hargrove 8 posts
BTW, to all -- How are we certain that an "Oswald" defector cut his wrist in Moscow and was conveniently rescued?
BTW -- Who marries such a guy?
BTW -- Why wasn't such a guy put in a straitjacket and shipped back to Finland?
Ron Bulman
Uh, guy's, and gal's occasionally, the sound experts for the HSCA identified at least Five or Six shots on the dictabelt. Blakey said he could only "sell" four.
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1 hour ago, Ron Bulman said:
...the sound experts for the HSCA identified at least Five or Six shots on the dictabelt. Blakey said he could only "sell" four.
What difference does it make how many alleged "shots" were found on the Dictabelt tape? The fact will always remain that the timing will always be off for any and all "shots" heard on the Dictabelt, because there was no motorcycle at the corner of Elm and Houston at the operative time when the HSCA said a cycle needed to be there. (Not to mention Steve Barber's 1979 "Hold everything secure" discovery.)
I guess the question that remains for me is:
How many wooden stakes through the heart does it take to kill the vampire known as "The Dictabelt Evidence"?
~shrug~
http://jfkfiles.com/jfk/html/acoustics.htm
Edited August 21, 2019 by David Von Pein
2 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:
When inferior proofs of conspiracy are advanced the nutters get off the hook.
Why make an argument that requires an advanced college degree to verify when you can argue for a proof of conspiracy that takes an advanced pre-schooler to verify?
Edited August 21, 2019 by Cliff Varnell
Wooden stakes and vampires don't fly. The Fact's you and any other lone nutter Warren Omission single bullet conspiracy theorist can't change or hide behind is the Last Official Proclamation on JFK's Murder by our Government is that it Was a Conspiracy. Four Shots. And Our Government's chosen replacement for the director of the HSCA, Blakey said he couldn't "sell" Our Governments expert's at least 5 or 6 shots
5 minutes ago, Ron Bulman said:
the Last Official Proclamation on JFK's Murder by our Government is that it Was a Conspiracy. Four Shots.
Keep clinging to that bad information, Ron. Conspiracists are good at doing that.
4 minutes ago, David Von Pein said:
Bad Info? That's Our Government, official sources, You trust regarding the Warren Omission. On a re examination of the Fact's, Four Shot's, Conspiracy, Blakey couldn't sell what they really said, At Least Five or Six Shot's.
You really should watch this video, Ron....
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DZp-ylhUZVpuyuzHRJjeX0FJFY_mIz4s/view
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3 hours ago, David Von Pein said:
So David you admit the Hsc final conclusion was wrong. Certainly I would expect you to admit it was a government investigation. Therefore, you admit a government investigation can be wrong. Yes or no?
So, would you admit that the Warren Conmision-a government investigation- could be wrong? Yes or no?
Logically, in any aspect, could you admit that there was even a 1% chance on some WC finding it was wrong? Or, in your opinion, is there a zero percent chance, that the WC was wrong on any of its findings?
Edited August 21, 2019 by Cory Santos
6 hours ago, David Andrews said:
Have you ever read the doctor's report from Russia?
I think it's in that batch of documents in CE 985.
If I remember right, it's kind of revealing. Only a couple of stitches and no tendons or ligaments were cut. I think he was suspicious of Oswald's language ability and whether he could or could not understand Russian.
11 hours ago, Denny Zartman said:
LN's: The conspiracy theorists aren't moving the needle of history one iota!
Jim Hargrove: We don't need to. The majority of people already believe there was a conspiracy, and always have since 1963.
LN's: The number of Americans who think there was a conspiracy is completely, utterly irrelevant!
When you've stopped lolling, could you explain to me why you consider the fact that 'most people believe there was a conspiracy' is relevant? It doesn't add any weight at all to the largely vacuous arguments posited by many conspiracy theorists. Indeed, if you ask one of these people whether or not there was a conspiracy, the conversation would typically go like this:
'Do you think there was a conspiracy to kill JFK?'
'Of course there was.'
'Why do you think that?'
'Well, it's obvious isn't it?'
'Why is it obvious?'
'It just is.'
I've had many such conversations (that die fairly quickly). Anytime anything big happens, it's impossible for there to be a simple, straightforward answer. Most people's initial reaction to the news of JFK's death was in all likelihood to jump to the 'obvious' conclusion that the crime was an organised conspiracy. It's instinctive, right? 'They're going to kill us all!'
The JFK assassination is only an obvious conspiracy to the uninformed.
Edited August 21, 2019 by Paul Baker
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Tracy Parnell writes:
We know that most Americans will not read Bugliosi's book or Posner's book or even browse through the Warren Report. Their opinions are based on what they have heard from conspiracy books and websites which dominate the "market."
I'm not sure about that. Since 1963, almost everyone has got their information about the subject almost entirely from sources such as newspapers, magazines, radio and television. Only a small proportion of the population takes the effort to delve further, and even then much of what they are now able to find on the web is the online equivalent of the old media, promoting the official line.
For obvious institutional reasons, the established media has for more than half a century overwhelmingly promoted the official line, beginning even before the New York Times published and promoted a paperback edition of that well-known pro-conspiracy tome, the Warren Report. Of course, the occasional piece of critical information does make it through the ideological barrier. Probably the main factors which have created popular doubt about the official line were the broadcast of the Zapruder film in 1975, with its prima facie evidence of a shot from the front, and Oliver Stone's JFK, which alerted people to many of the flaws in the official account.
Even though some of the early critical books sold well, they didn't get a lot of positive coverage in the established media, and they only reached a relatively tiny proportion of the population. Of the books that have been actively promoted by the established media, almost all have defended the lone-nut theory, Bugliosi's and Posner's books being two of the prime examples. There is one notable exception: Lifton's Best Evidence, which was presumably chosen because its thesis is so outrageous that it would serve to discredit sensible criticism of the official line. In keeping with the subject of this thread, we can thank [insert name of preferred deity] that they didn't choose Harvey and Lee! Think of the damage it would cause if people started thinking that the only alternative to the lone-nut fantasy is a theory that was debunked two decades before the book was published and that was partly invented by someone who believed the moon landings were faked.
Paul Baker writes:
The dictabelt 'evidence' has been thoroughly debunked. It ... was the only justification for the 'probably assassinated as the result of a conspiracy' outcome.
I'll see your dictabelt and raise you a neutron activation analysis. Vincent Guinn's interpretation of his NAA tests of the bullet fragments appears to have been debunked at least as thoroughly as the dictabelt evidence. See, for example:
- Gary Aguilar, 'Is Vincent Bugliosi Right that Neutron Activation Analysis Proves Oswald's Guilt?' at http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Essay_-_Is_Vincent_Bugliosi_Right_that_Neutron_Activation_Analysis_Proves_Oswalds_Guilt .
- James DiEugenio, 'Death of NAA' at https://kennedysandking.com/john-f-kennedy-articles/death-of-the-naa-verdict .
- Erik Randich and Patrick M. Grant, 'Proper Assessment of the JFK Assassination Bullet Lead Evidence from Metallurgical and Statistical Perspectives,' Journal of Forensic Sciences, vol.51 no.4 (July 2006), pp.717-28 at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1556-4029.2006.00165.x (abstract) and http://e-reports-ext.llnl.gov/pdf/337848.pdf (full text).
- Cliff Spiegelman, William A. Tobin, William D. James, Simon J. Sheather, Stuart Wexler and D. Max Roundhill, 'Chemical and Forensic Analysis of JFK Assassination Bullet Lots: Is a Second Shooter Possible?', The Annals of Applied Statistics, vol.1 no.2 (2007), pp.287-301 at http://arxiv.org/pdf/0712.2150 .
Guinn's NAA of the bullet fragments was the main reason the HSCA concluded that no more than two bullets hit JFK and Connally. Without that evidence, the main foundation of the single-bullet theory collapses. If the scientists' facts or analyses are wrong, I'd (genuinely) like to know why.
One aspect of Vincent Guinn's NAA tests does seem to stand up, however: his NAA of paraffin casts produced by volunteers who fired a rifle similar to the sixth-floor weapon. Guinn's work helped to demonstrate that Oswald had almost certainly not fired a rifle, as I explain here: http://reopenkennedycase.forumotion.net/t2049-oswald-s-paraffin-casts.
Incidentally, the NAA of the bullet fragments may not be the only piece of debunked scientific support for the lone-nut fantasy. I recall reading somewhere that Luis Alvarez's melon-shooting experiment was, to use the proper scientific term, a deliberately misleading piece of junk, as he had fired various types of bullets at various objects but only melons produced the desired jet effect. He had (to continue the fruit-based theme) cherry-picked his evidence. Is my recollection correct? Does anyone have a source for this?
W. Tracy Parnell
37 minutes ago, Jeremy Bojczuk said:
In keeping with the subject of this thread, we can thank [insert name of preferred deity] that they didn't choose Harvey and Lee!
Some good points here Jeremy and nice to see you here.
Jim Hargrove
Peter Dale Scott and John Newman on Two Oswalds:
https://youtu.be/AhrZXO_p4QY
Above clip from 3 March, 2018 "Spy Wars" Conference, San Francisco, Part 2.
Speakers in this clip are:
Bill Simpich--BS
Peter Dale Scott – PDS
John Newman – JN
At approximately the 37:12 mark in the YouTube clip above:
BS: There’s two different genuses of false phone calls.
PDS: Yeah, exactly. One was a call with a lie in it, the other was an alleged call that did not, in fact, take place.
JN: The Tuesday call didn’t take place?
PDS: No, the Tuesday call did take place by a man, I’m sure, was not the Oswald we think of….
JN: Right
PDS: ... and then, by the way… this is just a question… are you absolutely convinced that the man who was “Lee Harvey Oswald” in Russia was, in fact, the man picked up in Dallas in 1963?
JN: Not at all. And I’ve gone over to the view that in Mexico City that, maybe it’s him, maybe it’s not. So I’m not going to be dogmatic about it. He could have been there and impersonated or could have been not there at all.
PDS: ... There is a fragment of a release that says that the man who made the phone calls spoke horrible Russian AND English! So, I do not think that was the man in Dallas…. This is completely anecdotal but I once had an hour long conversation with Marina where I was trying my hardest not to bring up the assassination. We were talking about literature and I said did she like Henry James and she said she had never heard of Henry James, who was Henry James and I said, “Oh, he’s sort of like the American Turgenev. And she said, “Oh, Turgenev, Alek really loved Turgenev.” The man who checked out books from the New Orleans Public Library was not a lover of Turgenev.
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“Will Waive Farmer Loans Within 10 Days Of Coming To Power”: Rahul Gandhi
May 5, 2018 Loknath Das 10, coming, Days, Farmer, Gandhi, Loans, of, POWER, Rahul, to, waive, Will, within
Rahul Gandhi made the statement while addressing a rally in Kalgi in Karnataka. (File)
KALGI: Congress President Rahul Gandhi, on Saturday, claimed that within ten days of the Congress party coming to power in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, all farmer loans nationwide will be waived off.
While addressing a public rally in Kalgi ahead of the impending Karnataka Assembly Elections, Mr Gandhi said, “When the Congress comes to power in 2019, we will waive the loans of farmers within 10 days of coming to power. We have also planned food processing plants for the benefit and growth of Karnataka farmers.”
Alleging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not come to the aid of farmers, he said, “We waived off farmer loans in Karnataka worth Rs. 8000 Cr, Modi Ji did not do anything for the state’s farmers.”
Accusing the current BJP Government of corruption, Mr Gandhi suggested that PM Modi saves money on petrol taxes and channels it to a few ministers in his ranks.
“Modi Ji saves money from Petrol and gives it to 5-10 Industrialist Ministers. Even Amit Shah (BJP President) admitted that Yeddyurappa is the most corrupt Chief Minister, does Modi Ji want that the Reddy brothers and Yeddyurappa loot Karnataka’s, money?” he said.
“His minister Piyush Goyal has not revealed to the nation that he owns a company, he keeps it hidden and earns crores of rupees from it, and Modi Ji is silent on the matter,” he added on the corruption note.
Mr Gandhi also highlighted BJP president Amit Shah’s son, Jay Shah’s firm making a mind-boggling 16,000 percent increase in profits the year following election of PM Narendra Modi, saying, “Businesses across the nation are facing hardships, while Amit Shah’s son turns 50,000 into 8 Cr! This is an outright theft, though Modi Ji has maintained his silence on the matter.”
Claiming that the Congress government in the state has delivered on its promises via various welfare schemes, he said that even the Prime Minister has acknowledged the state’s better employment record.
“Even PM Modi has acknowledged Karnataka’s better employment record. We would further improve this record by increasing women employment. The BJP opposed the amendment to Article 371 (J), while the Congress actively pursued it to open up growth opportunities for the people,” he said.
Claiming that the BJP-RSS is assaulting Dalits across the nation, he said, “Half the money that the Indian (BJP) Government gives to the Dalits and tribal people, the Congress gives in Karnataka alone.”
“The people of BJP want the RSS to run Karnataka. They want to crush your language, history, culture and food,” he added.
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International Workers’ Order (IWO) and Jewish People's Fraternal Order (JPFO)
International Workers Order (IWO)
International Workers Order
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Part of Social Security campaign. Heavily marked up; perhaps dates to 1938 Social Security campaign but its reference to war loans indicates it may be later.
Similar material from 1943
The Jewish People’s Fraternal Order was the largest ‘national’ section of the International Workers Order (IWO) which focused on cultural awareness and celebration, mutual support especially in health insurance coverage, and anti-fascist activities. The IWO also gave particular emphasis to supporting the rights and interests of African Americans. Documents include language and representations which comprise the historical record and should not be interpreted to mean that Cornell University or its staff endorse or approve of negative representations or stereotypes presented.
International Workers Order (IWO) Records #5276. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
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Brass and iron artifacts from County Roscommon
Part of Britannia: or, a Chorographical Description of the Flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands Adjacent, Vol. 4
Engraving depicting a series of ancient brass and iron artifacts excavated from County Roscommon in Ireland. Figure 1 depicts the bitt and headstall of a bridle, both brass. Figure 2 depicts a brass spur. Figure 3…
Author Camden, William, 1551-1623
Publisher Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814
Printer J. Nichols and Son
Subject Great Britain, Travel, Voyages and travels, Ireland, Britannia (Camden, William), Excavations (Archaeology), Spurs (Horse), Bits (Bridles)
Implements of War
Engraving depicting an assortment of ancient implements of war excavated from sites around Ireland. Included are a stone spear head and an arrow head, as well as a variety of brass spear heads and daggers.
Subject Great Britain, Travel, Voyages and travels, Ireland, Britannia (Camden, William), Excavations (Archaeology), Weapons
Rare books, Engravings, Maps
Roman Camp in the Muir of Lour. Roman Camp at Battle Dykes
Subject Great Britain, Travel, Voyages and travels, Maps, Scotland, Britannia (Camden, William)
Pottery fragments from the Roman fort at Duntocher
Series of engravings depicting fragments of pottery excavated at the site of the Roman fort at Duntocher, a village in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland.
Subject Great Britain, Voyages and travels, Scotland, Britannia (Camden, William), Fortification, Roman, Pottery, Roman, Pottery, Excavations (Archaeology)
Roman fort at Duntocher
Series of engravings depicting remains and reconstructions of the Roman fort at Duntocher, a village in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Included are a sketch and profile of the ground where the fort stood (figures A and…
Subject Great Britain, Travel, Voyages and travels, Ruined buildings, Scotland, Britannia (Camden, William), Fortification, Roman
View of the Roman Military Way, Between the Camps of Battle Dykes, & Haerfauds, in the Muir of Lour
The Isles of Zetland [Showing] its Extent and Division into Parishes
Map of Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands and formerly Zetland, a subarctic archipelago in the Northern Isles of Scotland situated in the Northern Atlantic between Great Britain, the Faroe Islands, and Norway.
Subject Great Britain, Travel, Voyages and travels, Maps, Scotland, Britannia (Camden, William), Islands, Scotland--Shetland
Roman Inscriptions in Scotland [Vol. IV, Plate III]
Engraving by Francis Cary (active 18th century) depicting a variety of ancient Roman inscriptions found in buildings and altars located throughout Scotland.
Engraver Cary, Francis
Subject Great Britain, Travel, Voyages and travels, Ruined buildings, Scotland, Britannia (Camden, William), Inscriptions
A General Map [of] Antoninus Pius's Wall in Scotland
Engraving depicting the Antonine Wall, a Roman frontier barrier in Britain extending approximately 36.5 miles across Scotland between the River Clyde and the Firth of Forth. The wall was built in the years after 142 AD…
Subject Great Britain, Travel, Voyages and travels, Maps, Scotland, Britannia (Camden, William), Scotland--Antonine Wall, Fortification, Roman
Roman Inscriptions in Scotland [Vol. IV, Plate I]
View and Plan of an Ancient Monument on the Top of Sliabh Guth Commonly Called Church Mountain near Donard in the County of Wicklow
Engraving by Francis Cary (active 18th century) depicting a view and plan of Church Mountain, also called Sliabh Guth or Slieve Gad, meaning "mountain of the covenant." The westernmost of the Wicklow Mountains in…
Subject Travel, Voyages and travels, Natural history, Maps, Ireland, Britannia (Camden, William), Ireland--Wicklow Mountains, Cairns
The Charter Horn
Engraving depicting the Kavanagh Charter Horn, a ceremonial drinking vessel associated with the Caomhnách kings who ruled the Irish kingdom of Leinster. Fashioned out of ivory and brass gilt, the horn dates from the…
Subject Ireland, Britannia (Camden, William), Ireland--Leinster, Horns, Archaeology
The Harp of Brien Boromh and the Irish Crown
Engraving depicting the harp of Brien Boromh [Brian Boroimhe] and the Irish Crown. Also known as Brian Boru's harp or the Trinity College harp, the harp dates from the 14th or 15th century and, along with the Queen…
Subject Ireland, Britannia (Camden, William), Brian, King of Ireland, 926-1014, Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland), Musical instruments
Plate 3: Winged Insects (Series 1)
Part of An history of animals: containing descriptions of the birds, beasts, fishes, and insects, of the several parts of the world
Author Hill, John, 1714?-1775
Engraver Cole, B.
Subject Rare books, Scientific illustration, Zoology, Natural history, Insects, Flies, Locusts, Beetles
Plate 28: Quadrupeds (Series 4)
Subject Rare books, Scientific illustration, Zoology, Animals, Natural history, Mammals, Rhinoceroses, Elephants, Horses, Camels
Subject Rare books, Scientific illustration, Zoology, Animals, Natural history, Mammals, Lynx, Wolves, Hedgehogs
Subject Rare books, Scientific illustration, Zoology, Animals, Natural history, Mammals, Lion, Marsupials, Bears
Subject Rare books, Scientific illustration, Zoology, Animals, Natural history, Mammals, Rats, Porcupines, Rabbits, Beavers
Plate 24: Birds (Series 8)
Subject Rare books, Scientific illustration, Zoology, Animals, Natural history, Birds
Subject Rare books, Scientific illustration, Zoology, Animals, Natural history, Birds, Hens, Ostriches, Pigeons
Subject Rare books, Scientific illustration, Zoology, Animals, Natural history, Birds, Storks, Cranes (Birds), Herons
Subject Rare books, Scientific illustration, Zoology, Animals, Natural history, Birds, Sea birds, Penguins
Subject Rare books, Scientific illustration, Zoology, Animals, Natural history, Birds, Flamingos, Ducks, Geese
Subject Rare books, Scientific illustration, Zoology, Animals, Natural history, Birds, Crows, Woodpeckers
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Alchemy79
Artillery74
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Natural history71
Ramelli, Agostino, 1531-approximately 1600196
Stockdale, John, 1749?-181458
J. Nichols and Son56
Camden, William, 1551-162355
Brawe, Hermann51
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Electromagnetic Resonant Scattering in Layered Media with Fabrication Errors
Emily Anne McHenry, Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical CollegeFollow
In certain layered electromagnetic media, one can construct a waveguide that supports a harmonic electromagnetic field at a frequency that is embedded in the continuous spectrum. When the structure is perturbed, this embedded eigenvalue moves into the complex plane and becomes a “complex resonance” frequency. The real and imaginary parts of this complex frequency have physical meaning. They lie behind anomalous scattering behaviors known collectively as “Fano resonance”, and people are interested in tuning them to specific values in optical devices. The mathematics involves spectral theory and analytic perturbation theory and is well understood [16], at least on a theoretical level for deterministic (fixed coefficient) media.
This dissertation is a study of how random fabrication errors in the waveguide structure affect this kind of resonance. The governing equations are the free harmonic Maxwell equations of electromagnetics, which reduce to a system of ODEs in layered media. The material coefficients (dielectric permittivity ϵ(z) and magnetic permeability μ(z)) are considered to be random variables depending only on the z-variable, with small variance σ(z), and we are interested in how the real and imaginary parts of the complex resonance ω=ω^+iω behave as random variables depending on these coefficients.
The first main theorem of this thesis states that, if ϵ(z) and μ(z) are stationary random variables with respect to the variable z, then the variances of ω^ and ωˇ can be computed by considering only events in which ϵ and μ are random variables that are constant in z.
The significance of this theorem is that it allows one to compute the mean and variance of ω, to leading order in σ, by means of (deterministic) sensitivity analysis of ω as a function of ϵ and μ. One can consider ω to be a complex-analytic function of ϵ (and μ) if ϵ=ϵ^+iϵˇ, where both parts are Hermitian matrices. The Cauchy-Riemann equations, together with known properties of complex resonances allow one to make interesting and useful conclusions about how the frequency of a resonance and the amount of radiation losses depend on the real and imaginary (lossy) parts of the material coefficients.
McHenry, Emily Anne, "Electromagnetic Resonant Scattering in Layered Media with Fabrication Errors" (2017). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 4152.
Shipman, Stephen P.
Analysis Commons, Optics Commons, Ordinary Differential Equations and Applied Dynamics Commons
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Hottest News Predictions – 100th Anniversary of Our Lady of Fatima – Prophecies in ebook and paperback book – Hottest News Predictions – The Fourth Secret of Our Lady of Fatima, the Fear and the Death of the Pope, War…1917-2017 – Clairvoyant predictions : The Secrets of Fatima, Pope Benedict XVI, Patriarch Kirill , George Soros, Vatican bank, Roman Curia and more… Clairvoyants : Dimitrinka Staikova, Ivelina Staikova, Stoyanka Staikova Published – April 22, 2017
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1. The Secrets of Fatima, Our Lady of Fatima and the miracle of the Sun – October 13, 1917 – Clairvoyant reading about : Five aliens – three military, one man and one woman in a Time Machine – a travel, where in the Earth is their base. What was their goal ? How many events they are trying to stop ? How does the machine looks like vertically and horizontally in the light of the Sun ? – Clairvoyant/Psychic reading April 21, 2017 on the photo of the event October 13, 1917 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
2. Joseph Ratzinger – Pope Benedict XVI – Ex-Pope : Guardian of the Secrets of Fatima – Clairvoyant/Psychic reading about : his health, death, The Fourth Secret of Fatima, a shooting on the Pope, fear by russians and jews, three stages by the event and on the fourth – the miracle is repeated. Where Pope Francis must make a bow down – Clairvoyant/Psychic reading April 21, 2017 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
3. The meeting of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill in Cuba –Febr.2016 – “What is the deal between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill that they were discussing? Will they transfer and what part of the Catholic money from Russia to Rome ? “- Clairvoyant/Psychic Reading by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna – 13.02.2016, 9am.
4. George Soros (Business Magnate) – Construction of railways in Albania, Serbia. A plot against Pope Francis. Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump?- Who supports George Soros on US Election 2016 ? A stress caused by fire…. – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna – September 22, 2016 ,4pm.
5. Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild – World Conspiracies year 2016 and year 2017. US Election 2016 and what will happen after that ? – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna – September 23, 2016 ,9am.
6. Jean-Baptiste de Franssu (President of the Vatican Bank ( Institute for the Works of Religion) – Year 2017 : Construction of a new Holy Place in South America with golden treasure. He sees the death of the Pope. Health . How the Pope will die ? – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions January 3, 2017 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna
7. Valery Gerasimov (Russian General, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia and Deputy Defence Minister) – The War in Syria – optical illusion, Weapons in Turkey, USA – paying a damage, Observation of activity and movement of a star when is near the Moon, Clairvoyant Calendar year 2017, Health – Clairvoyant predictions February 23, 2017 – by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna
8. General Joseph Dunford ( US General, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ) – Meeting of US,Russian chiefs of general staff – Negotiation with the Russians : about the stopping of russian flights above anerican ships, about flights in Syria, about american troops in Syria. Negotiations for american base in Azerbaijan…. When there will be a military coup in USA and when Donald Trump will be overthrown ? – Clairvoyant predictions February 25, 2017 – – by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
9. World Predictions 2017 – The magnetic pole of the Earth – where it will stop ? Murders of russians…., Casus Belli on Northeast (date, month), Protests in USA…, Explosions of Nuclear plants….and volcanic eruptions. Energy corridors and problems. Wars and refugees… Operation “J”. Clairvoyant predictions (February 28, 2017, 4pm.) about March, April and May 2017 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
10. The Wailing Wall – Jerusalem ( The Western Wall ,The Buraq wall) – The power of the Ark is moved from the Wailing Wall in the Mount of Olives Cemetery and is waiting for a Space Coming – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” -from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna -31.12.2014,12am.
11. The Mount of Olives Cemetery (Jerusalem) -Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” -from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna -27.12.2014
12. The Mount Hermon -Lebanon and the Golan Heights -“Secrets keeped by milleniums – Natural Spaceport, diamonds with its own energy and movement like planet in the planet Earth “– Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-18.01.2015,10am.
14. World Predictions to -Our Lady of Fatima ,the three shepherd children at Fatima – 21.01.2015,9am. -“What did they saw and how many prophecies for World Wars exactly” -Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-21.01.2015,9am.
15. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone – Vatican ex – Secretary of the State -19.01.2015 – Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-19.01.2015,4pm.
16. Cardinal Pietro Parolin – Secretary of the State of Vatican – 20.01.2015,8am. – Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-20.01.2015,8am.
17. Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Muller (Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) – 21.01.2015,9am- Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-20.01.2015,9am.
18. Cardinal Leonardo Sandri ( Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches) – Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-20.01.2015,10am
19. Cardinal Robert Sarah -(Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacramento) – Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-22.01.2015,11am.
20. Cardinal Angelo Amato (Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints) – 22.01.2015,12am -Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-22.01.2015,12am.
21. Cardinal Marc Ouellet (Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops) -22.01.2015,1pm – Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-22.01.2015,1pm.
22. Cardinal Fernando Filoni – (Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of People) -22.01.2015,3pm – Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-22.01.2015,3pm.
25. Cardinal Beniamino Stella (Prefect of the Congregation for Clergy) – 22.01.2015,4pm – Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-22.01.2015,4pm.
26. Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz -( Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life) -22.01.2015,5pm -Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-22.01.2015,5pm.
27. Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski – (Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education) – 22.01.2015,6pm – Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-22.01.2015,6pm.
28. Cardinal Mauro Piacenza (Tribunals – Apostolic Penitentiary) -22.01.2015 – Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-22.01.2015.
29. Cardinal Angelo Sodano – Former Secretary of the State,Roman Curia -22.01.2015 – – Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-22.01.2015.
30. Archbishop Dominique Mamberti – (Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura) -22.01.2015 — Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-22.01.2015.
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Pope Francis – May 13, 2017 – Plan and Organisation about the100th Anniversary of Apparitions Our Lady of Fatima through the eyes of Pope Francis – Clairvoyant reading and predictions April 23, 2017 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova ” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna. http://sites.google.com/site/dimitrinkastaikova
Pope Francis – May 13, 2017 – Plan and Organisation about the100th Anniversary of Apparitions Our Lady of Fatima through the eyes of Pope Francis – Clairvoyant reading and Psychic predictions April 23, 2017 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova ” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
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Pope Francis- health April 2017 – I see heavy pain in the head – above the eyes and the fontanelle. There is a strong pain in the left ear, left sinus drainage ducts and heart. In the heart – there is already a disease. So far in the time there were treatment and surgical intervention. The energy is spinning around the heart, it is not increasing it, but is keeping the level – like a machine. Although I see strong gases in the stomach – there is colitis. Now, there are already problems caused by the pancreas and with increased acidity in the blood. Now is sick the left kidney, spine, the left pelvis, the left shoulder area and the both knees.
In the moment, around Easter 2017 – his thoughts are about an airplane and airplane travel. He sees the airplane cabin after the cockpit and despite he imagines a nice chat, he hears a speech, which is like moralizing – it is telling him what to do. It is a conversation between russians, germans and jews. The jews have bigger presence and inside them is included a catholic presence and influence. There are tough negotiations with russians. Two of them are imposed as representatives of energy business. Over them, there are representatives of jews – the letter “J”, also there are representatives of two banks and they are in the Vatican for negotiations – April 2017.
I see May 13, 2017 in Portugal – Cova da Iria (the place of the Apparitions Our Lady of Fatima) – the locality is covered with electricity and security guards. There is entrance from North – a corridor (pathway) – from North to South and then staying (stopping) on something like podium (platform, stage) which is in the northeastern corner. From that corner there is something connected with the sky – machine, balloon, flag. The Operative Center is behind them, strictly in the northeastern corner. There is a pathway from the Operative Center to the podium (tribune, platform). The eastern corner is surrounded by russian guards – a lot of nerves. The southern end is surrounded by papal guards.
There is a Space object coming from West to East. It is entering slightly on the locality, slightly at South direction and it is stopping a little before the podium (tribune). It is reaching the end of the meadow and it is going back to West – where it came from. And here, the nerve-racking question of the russians is – what if someone is shooting on the object and brings it down. There was the same fear 100 years ago, that’s why there were three military persons in the spaceship.
The waves which are irradiating the locality will be on the western end. In the northwestern end there is a business of which are earned money in the moment. In the northwestern end is also the place for photos and cameras – running and targeted to the sky. There are people arranged on that pathway (corridor),which in a certain moment in three beams will gather infront of the Pope and the people on the tribune . From East on the pathway are arranged germans (at East, before the Eastern end with the russians). After them in South direction are the jews (before the eastern end with the russians) and in the end – the southeastern border – I see people, which are from the energy business – they are at a slight height. The western side of the area is full with people of which will be earned money and there is a call for patience.
From the western side is entering also the black cloud, that will try to cover the whole area. It will rise higher in the air, because from the southeastern side at a slight height, there are machines for the blowing of the black cloud. The black cloud is rising high and is going on East, it covers the area – Cova da Iria for a short time, because of the machines. The same machine for the blowing of the black cloud is located also in the northeastern end of the area (it is covered).
When the Sun stays over the area – Cova da Iria – in the same time a space object will be seen, covered with a special shining (brilliant) paint, in order to be invisible – russian object, that stays near the Sun. It is using the reflection of the Sun and it is showing a second Sun, then a third one – it is going slightly on West, then returns in the first point of the Sun and then it disappears with fiery gleams. If there will be someone inside to speak or predict – Peace and Love between the people.
The Pope is quite nervous and supported with special medications. I see a fire from above – it will be seen as a beam, that will indicate one of the both Popes – Pope Francis and the Ex-Pope Benedict. There will be a bustle – a little before the end – shootings – for one of the Popes this will be the last day.
The Prediction for death is not about Pope Francis.
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1. The Secrets of Fatima, Our Lady of Fatima and the miracle of the Sun – October 13, 1917 –Clairvoyant reading about : Five aliens – three military, one man and one woman in a Time Machine – a travel, where in the Earth is their base. What was their goal ? How many events they are trying to stop ? How does the machine looks like vertically and horizontally in the light of the Sun ? – Clairvoyant/Psychic reading April 21, 2017 on the photo of the event October 13, 1917 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
3. The meeting of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill in Cuba -Febr.2016 – “What is the deal between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill that they were discussing? Will they transfer and what part of the Catholic money from Russia to Rome ? “- Clairvoyant/Psychic Reading by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna – 13.02.2016, 9am.
4. George Soros (Business Magnate) –Construction of railways in Albania, Serbia. A plot against Pope Francis. Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump?- Who supports George Soros on US Election 2016 ? A stress caused by fire…. – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna – September 22, 2016 ,4pm.
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JPSS-1/NOAA-20
JPSS-1 (Joint Polar Satellite System-1) / NOAA-20 and JPSS-2 series
JPSS is the next generation polar-orbiting operational environmental satellite system series of the USA, procured by NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) through NASA, with the following major objectives: 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6)
• Increase timeliness and accuracy of severe weather event forecasts
• Provide advanced atmospheric temperature, moisture and pressure profiles from space
• Provide advanced imaging capability to analyze fires, volcanoes, Gulf oil tracking and other adverse incidents
• Direct broadcast data to field terminals at hour scale latency
• Maintain continuity of climate observations and critical environmental data from the polar orbit.
1) JPSS consists of three satellites (Suomi-NPP, JPSS-1, JPSS-2), ground system and operations through 2025
- The JPSS mission is to provide global imagery and atmospheric measurements using polar-orbiting satellites
2) JPSS is a partnership between NOAA and NASA
- NOAA has final decision authority and is responsible for overall program commitment
- JPSS Program is the subset of JPSS managed by NASA
- NASA is the acquisition agent for the flight system (satellite, instruments and launch vehicle), ground system, leads program systems engineering, and program safety and mission assurance
- NOAA is responsible for operations, data exploitation and archiving, infrastructure.
3) The partnership is governed by the NOAA and NASA JPSS Management Control Plan
- The JPSS Program is executed in accordance with NPR 7120.5D (NASA Procedural Requirements) as a loosely-coupled program
4) NASA Categorization for JPSS-1 and JPSS-2
- Mission Category 1
- Risk Class B Mission
- Category 2 Expendable Launch Vehicle
JPSS represents significant technological and scientific advances in environmental monitoring and will help advance environmental, weather, climate, and oceanographic science. JPSS's primary user, NOAA's NWS (National Weather Service), will use the JPSS data in models for medium- and long-term weather forecasting. JPSS will allow scientists and forecasters to monitor and predict weather patterns with increased speed and accuracy and is the key for continuity of long-standing climate measurements, allowing the study of long-term climate trends. JPSS will improve and extend climate measurements for 30 different EDRs (Environmental Data Records) of the atmosphere, land, ocean, climate and space environment. 7)
Some background:
Since the 1960's the United States has operated two separate polar-orbiting environmental satellite programs:
- NOAA's POES (Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite) series
- USAF's DMSP (Defense Metrological Satellite Program) series.
• In 1994, the NPOESS (National Polar-orbiting Environmental Satellite System) program was created (under a Presidential Decision Directive) with the expectation that combining the civil (POES) and military (DMSP) programs would reduce duplication and result in cost savings
• A tri-agency IPO (Integrated Program Office) was formed to manage the program
- NOAA was responsible for overall program management of the converged system and satellite operations
- USAF (United States Air Force) was responsible for acquisition
- NASA responsible for technology insertion.
• Program was to launch NPP (NPOESS Preparatory Project) to reduce risk
• The first NPOESS contract awarded in 2002
- Program estimated to cost $7 billion through 2018
- Scope of program included six satellites (three orbits) each hosting up to 13 instruments, and a ground system.
• NPOESS program encountered significant challenges
- Technical challenges in VIIRS sensor development
- Program cost growth
- Schedule delays
• By 2005, the cost had increased to $10 billion and the first launch had to be delayed from 2008 to 2010
• A decision to restructure the program was made in 2006
- Driven by a Nunn-McCurdy breach
- Satellites reduced from six to four (in two orbits) – EUMETSAT would provide mid-morning orbit
- Number of instruments reduced from 13 to nine
• Even after restructure, program continued to encounter issues
- Technical issues continued with VIIRS
- Management challenges with governance structure
- Cost increases – expected to exceed $14 billion
- Further schedule delays. The major challenge of NPOESS was jointly executing the program between three agencies of different size with divergent objectives and different acquisition procedures.
• In 2009, EOP/OSTP (Executive Office of the President/Office of Science and Technology Policy) led a task force to investigate management and acquisition options that would improve NPOESS. An IRT (Independent Review Team) concluded that the current NPOESS program, in the absence of managerial and funding adjustments, has a low probability of success and data continuity is at extreme risk. The Office of Science and Technology, with the Office of Management and Budget and the National Security Council, as well as representatives from each agency, examined various options to increase the probability of success and reduce the risk to data continuity.
• In February 2010, with the release of the FY2011 President's Budget, OSTP announced the restructure of the NPOESS program – specifically, NOAA and DoD would be responsible for different orbits. 8) 9) 10)
- NOAA responsible for the afternoon orbit - JPSS
- DoD responsible for the early morning orbit - DWSS (Defense Weather Satellite System)
- Partnership with EUMETSAT would continue for mid-morning orbit
- Both agencies would share a common ground system.
• Restructure codified and executed through:
- National Space Policy
- Administration's Implementation Plan for Polar-orbiting Environmental Satellites
- NPOESS Deputies Meeting Summary
- Series of DoD Acquisition Decision Memorandums: Continued support to NPP; Close out of the IPO; Transfer of sensors and ground system from DoD to NOAA/NASA; Identified sensor suite on DWSS.
The Administration decision for the restructured JPSS (Joint Polar Satellite System) will continue the development of critical Earth observing instruments required for improving weather forecasts, climate monitoring, and warning lead times of severe storms. NASA’s role in the restructured program will be modeled after the procurement structure of the successful POES (Polar Operational Environmental Satellite) and GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) programs, where NASA and NOAA have a long and effective partnership. The partner agencies are committed to maintaining collaborations towards the goal of continuity of Earth observations from space.
Note: Since this transition, the DWSS satellite program has been canceled and replaced with the WFO (Weather Follow On) program. As part of the restructuring of the program, some responsibilities have been shifted to accomplish the environmental and climate observing missions. For JPSS, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has the responsibility for the acquisition for the afternoon orbit satellites, along with the acquisition, system engineering and integration for the Ground System (GS) for the US next-generation of weather and climate satellites. After the start of the JPSS program, the DWSS, which was to be responsible for the early morning orbit satellites, was cancelled due to lack of funding. EUMETSAT (European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites) will be relied on for the mid-morning orbit satellites of the MetOp series (Ref. 118).
• The JPSS program successfully completed two key reviews in July 2013 at NASA/GSFC. The JPSS program is continuing on schedule and on budget toward the March 2017 launch of the JPSS-1 polar-orbiting weather satellite. NASA is developing and acquiring the JPSS-1 mission for NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). 11)
Figure 1: JPSS implements US civil commitment inter-agency and international agreements to afford a 3-orbit global coverage (image credit: NOAA, NASA)
Figure 2: JPSS overview (image credit: NOAA, NASA, Ref. 1)
The restructured Joint Polar Satellite System is planned to provide launch readiness capability in FY 2015 and FY 2018 (with launches of JPSS-1 in 2017 and JPSS-2 in 2022, respectively) in order to minimize any potential loss of continuity of data for the afternoon orbit in the event of an on orbit or launch failure of other components in the system. Final readiness dates will not be baselined until all transition activities are completed.
The United States JPSS (Joint Polar Satellite System) is the new generation of POES (Polar Operational Environmental Satellites) in the early afternoon sun-synchronous orbit. The Joint NOAA/NASA Suomi-NPP (National Polar Partnership ) mission is the first of the JPSS missions. It has achieved nearly four years of successful on-orbit observations and was declared primary satellite for weather in May of 2014. 12)
• JPSS is the next generation of U.S. civil operational polar-orbiting satellites, and includes Suomi NPP
• The JPSS program, including agreements with EUMETSAT, JAXA and DoD.
• NOAA plans and directs the program, while NASA acts as the acquisition agent for flight and elements of the ground system.
• JPSS provides operational continuity of satellite-based observations and products beyond the current NOAA Polar-orbiting satellites series.
• The JPSS program is on budget and on schedule to launch the next satellite, JPSS-1, in 2017 and after successful launch becomes NOAA-20
• JPSS implements U.S. Space Policy and international agreements to ensure global coverage.
• NOAA’s polar satellite covers the afternoon orbit, EUMETSAT’s satellite MetOp covers the mid-morning orbit and DoD covers the early morning orbit.
• The data from these three orbits are fundamental to the 3-7 day forecast to provide advanced warning of severe weather, as well as environmental monitoring .
• JAXA provides microwave imagery used for a variety of applications; most importantly of precipitation in areas not covered by radar.
Table 1: JPSS overview — it is integral to 3-orbit global polar coverage as outlined in Figure 1
Figure 3: NOAA & Partner polar weather satellite programs - continuity of weather observations, as of April 2015 (image credit: NOAA) 13)
Figure 4: NOAA POES continuity of weather observations (image credit: NOAA)
Figure 5: Simplified schematic composition of the JPSS system (image credit: NASA, NOAA)
The JPSS spacecraft are procured at NASA/GSFC. NASA in turn awarded a contract to BATC (Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation) of Boulder, CO to design and develop the JPSS-1 spacecraft bus, the OMPS (Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite) instrument, integrating all instruments, and performing satellite-level testing and launch support. 14) 15)
JPSS-1, a clone of the Suomi-NPP (also referred to as SNPP) satellite, employs the BCP-2000 (Ball Commercial Platform -2000) spacecraft bus.
• 3-axis stabilized (50 arcsec control, 21 arcsec knowledge, and 75 m position)
• Launch mass of 2540 kg
• Power: 1932 W (BOL)
• For JPSS-1, Ball is converting the NPP spacecraft design from IEEE 1394 (FireWire) to a SpaceWire databus protocol for use by the CrIS and the VIIRS instruments.
• Ka-band 300 Mbit/s downlink. In addition, a backup Ka-band SMD (Science Mission Data) downlink is added for TDRSS (Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System) transmissions (to improve future latency issues). 16)
• X-band 15 Mbit/s HRD (High Rate Data) direct broadcast to users
• Lifetime: 7 years
Figure 6: Illustration of the deployed JPSS-1 spacecraft (image credit: NASA, NOAA) 17)
Figure 7: JPSS-1 spacecraft zenith deck layout (left) and nadir deck layout (right), image credit: BATC 18)
JPSS series development status:
• September 3, 2020: VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite), the first instrument for NOAA’s next polar-orbiting weather satellite, arrived at Northrop Grumman’s spacecraft facility in Gilbert, Arizona, last week to be integrated with JPSS-2 ( Joint Polar Satellite System-2). 19)
- The third satellite of the JPSS series, NOAA’s JPSS-2 is preparing for launch in 2022 to continue the critical flow of weather and environmental data to users like the National Weather Service, the National Hurricane Center and more. The VIIRS instrument is the eyes of JPSS. It produces infrared images of hurricanes; identifies snow and ice cover, clouds, fog and dust; and helps locate and map wildfires. Its DNB (Day-Night Band), the satellite’s eyes at night, can distinguish between city lights, moonlight, lightning, and auroras.
Figure 8: Engineers unpack the VIIRS instrument from its protective shipping container at Northrop Grumman’s spacecraft facility in Gilbert, Arizona (image credit: Northrop Grumman)
- A collaboration between NOAA and NASA, JPSS is the United States’ most advanced series of polar-orbiting environmental satellites. It provides significant technological and scientific advancements for severe weather prediction and environmental monitoring. These data are critical to the timeliness and accuracy of forecasts three to seven days in advance of a severe weather event.
Figure 9: The VIIRS instrument photographed prior to shipping (image credit: Raytheon Intelligence & Space)
• May 6, 2020: The CrIS (Cross-Track Infrared Sounder) instrument, built to fly on the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS)-2 satellite, is ready to ship to the spacecraft. CrIS has passed all of its readiness tests, completing its pre-ship review. Pre-ship review is the final step before instruments are shipped to and integrated onto the spacecraft. CrIS is the future satellite’s final instrument to be ready for spacecraft integration. 20)
- The CrIS instrument is an advanced operational sounder that provides more accurate, detailed atmospheric temperature and moisture observations for weather and climate applications.
Figure 10: Photo of the CrIS instrument (image credit: L3Harris Technologies)
- CrIS is a key instrument currently flying on the NASA-NOAA Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 (or JPSS-1) satellites, the first two in the Joint Polar Satellite System’s series of polar-orbiting satellites. CrIS represents a significant enhancement over NOAA's legacy infrared sounder—the High-Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HIRS).
- Data from the JPSS satellites feed daily weather models and tell us about atmospheric conditions needed to provide extreme weather forecasts several days in advance. CrIS will be among the instruments on the JPSS-2, -3 and -4 satellite missions. The CrIS instrument was developed and built by L3Harris Technologies.
• October 4, 2018: Last month, as satellites fed a steady stream of data into models tracking the paths of Hurricane Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut, the next in a fleet of satellites designed to monitor weather and climate cleared its CDR (Critical Design Review). 21)
- JPSS-2 (Joint Polar Satellite System-2) will join NOAA-20 (former JPSS-1) in a series of polar-orbiting satellites to monitor the Earth’s atmosphere, land and oceans. NASA builds the JPSS series of satellites, and NOAA will operate them.
- It will measure the temperature and moisture of our atmosphere, and the knowledge of that is really what drives the accuracy of our weather forecasts,” said Greg Mandt, NOAA director of the Joint Polar Satellite System program at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.
- Passing the CDR, a technical review, means that design and analysis of the satellite system, which includes its ground system and flight plan, is complete, and that the project is ready to continue in its next phases: fabrication, assembly, integration and testing.
- The CDR was conducted by a standing review board of 16 members, who are independent of the program and experts in various fields, including electrical and mechanical engineering, weather forecasting and science, ground systems, ground stations, and budgeting and schedule.
- Like its polar-orbiting cousins, JPSS-2 will scan our planet as it orbits from pole to pole, crossing the equator 14 times a day. In the process, its onboard instruments will snap pictures and capture data that will inform seven-day weather forecasts and extreme weather events.
Figure 11: Northrop Grumman Information Systems (NGIS) technicians install the flight harnesses onto the JPSS-2 structure on 9 August 2018 (image credit NGIS)
- Polar sounders provide roughly 85 percent of the data used in forecast models. But weather is only part of the picture. The spacecraft’s instruments will also tell us about wildfires, volcanoes, atmospheric ozone, ice loss and sea surface temperatures.
- “In our ground segment design for JPSS-2, we have shown that we understand what changes are needed, and we are well prepared to go to implementation,” said Heather Kilcoyne, the NOAA ground segment project manager for JPSS at NASA Goddard. “It’s not enough to just have a satellite up there. Our design covers the changes needed end to end to ensure our products actually get used by forecasters and researchers.”
- The newest spacecraft will be nearly identical to its predecessor, NOAA-20. But, Mandt points out, the science the data feeds are always advancing. “Every year, there will be new applications discovered,” he said. “Even if the instruments are the same, the use of the data will continue to expand, and we’ll find new ways to use it to solve problems.”
- JPSS enables forecasters and scientists to monitor and predict weather patterns with greater accuracy and to study long-term climate trends by extending the more than 30-year satellite data record.
• July 17, 2018: NASA has awarded Raytheon's Intelligence, Information and Services business $59 million for additional work on NOAA's JPSS (Joint Polar Satellite System) CGS (Common Ground System) project. 22)
- The changes are necessary to launch America's next polar satellite, JPSS-2, in 2021. The project recently completed the critical design review for the work, and compatibility testing between the satellite and ground system will begin in early 2020. Svalbard, Norway, is the location of the northernmost Joint Polar Satellite System Common Ground System station.
- Developed by NASA for NOAA, the JPSS CGS collects and disseminates observations from polar-orbiting weather satellites from the United States, Europe and Japan. The new contract brings the total value to just under $2 billion. In addition to changes to the command and control system and orbital dynamics system that will maneuver the JPSS-2 satellite while in space, the contract also covers upgrades to the system's simulation and cyber security capabilities, as well as expansion of the system's wide area network and security incident response team.
Figure 12: Svalbard, Norway, is the location of the northernmost Joint Polar Satellite System CGS (Common Ground System) station (image credit: Raytheon)
• May 25, 2018: NASA has exercised options under the Rapid Spacecraft Acquisition III (Rapid III)contract for two additional Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) spacecraft to be built for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). 23)
- Orbital ATK of Dulles, Virginia, will build NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System JPSS-3 and -4. The contract value is $460 million and the period of performance will extend through 2026. The work will be performed at Orbital ATK’s facility in Gilbert, Arizona.
- Orbital, which currently is developing the JPSS-2 spacecraft, will design, develop, fabricate, integrate, test and provide post-delivery support for the third and fourth spacecraft in the series.
• September 5, 2017: NOAA's JPSS-1 satellite arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Sept. 1, 2017, to begin preparations for a November launch. 24)
- After its arrival, the JPSS-1 spacecraft was pulled from its shipping container, and is being prepared for encapsulation on top of the rocket that will take it to its polar orbit at an altitude of 824 km above Earth. JPSS-1 is the first in a series of NOAA’s four next-generation, polar-orbiting weather satellites.
Figure 13: Photo of JPSS-1, arriving at the Astrotech Processing Facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California (image credit: NASA, Michael A. Starobin)
• March 6, 2017: NASA’s Launch Services Program has selected United Launch Alliance’s (ULA’s) proven Atlas V vehicle to launch the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-2) mission, the third in the nation's new generation polar-orbiting operational environmental satellite system—this award resulted from a competitive Launch Service Task Order evaluation under the NASA Launch Services II contract. 25)
- The JPSS-2 mission is scheduled to launch in the summer of 2021 from Space Launch Complex-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. This mission will launch aboard an Atlas V 401 vehicle.
• On 15 December 2016, Europe and the US achieved another milestone in the cooperation on meteorological satellite systems when Marc Cohen, EUMETSAT Associate Director for LEO Programs and Harry A. Cikanek III, NOAA Director, Joint Polar Satellite System signed the plan that will implement the JPS (Joint Polar System). 26)
- The Polar System PIP (Program Implementation Plan) encompasses the space and ground segments associated with EUMETSAT’s Polar System Second Generation (EPS-SG) and the JPSS ( Joint Polar Satellite System) of NOAA ( National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). It also regulates the use of assets and operations as well as access to third party mission products such as the Copernicus Earth Observation Program of the EU and the NOAA COSMIC (Constellation Observing System for Meteorology Ionosphere and Climate) missions and follow-on partnerships.
• July 7, 2016: As highlighted in a May 2016 report of GAO (Government Accounting Office), the NOAA JPSS program has continued to make progress in developing the JPSS-1 satellite for a March 2017 launch. However, the program has experienced technical challenges which have resulted in delays in interim milestones. In addition, NOAA faces the potential for a near-term gap in satellite coverage of 8 months before the JPSS-1 satellite is launched and completes post-launch testing (Figure 14). 27)
- However, uncertainties remained on the best timing for launching these satellites, in part because of the potential for some satellites already in orbit to last longer. NOAA did not provide sufficient evidence that it had evaluated the costs and benefits of launch scenarios for these new satellites based on updated life expectancies. Until this occurs, NOAA may not make the most efficient use of investments in the polar satellite program.
Figure 14: Timeline for a Potential Gap in Polar Satellite Data in the Afternoon Orbit. The GAO analysis is based on NOAA and NASA data (image credit: GAO)
• NOAA’s JPSS-1 satellite, the second in the JPSS satellite series, is slated for launch in early 2017 aboard a Delta-2 launch vehicle from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. To prepare, the spacecraft is currently going through an array of tests designed to simulate the extreme environments the satellite may experience during launch and while in orbit. During the testing period, JPSS-1 and its instruments will be subjected to a variety of harsh conditions, including acoustical bombardment, intense vibration, electromagnetic fields, thermal vacuum environments and ground system compatibility tests. 28)
- The tests are taking place at BATC where the spacecraft was assembled. The satellite will be placed inside a large vacuum chamber, where it will be exposed to a simulated space environment complete with extreme hot and cold temperatures ranging from 10 degrees Celsius above and below what it could experience in space. The satellite will also undergo vibration and acoustic testing to simulate the experience of launching into space aboard a rocket, and electromagnetic testing to ensure it is properly protected from electromagnetic phenomena in space, such as solar flares.
- JPSS-1 takes advantage of the successful technologies developed through the NOAA/NASA Suomi-NPP satellite and has a design life of seven years.
• April 22, 2016: On behalf of NOAA, NASA has awarded a sole source contract modification to Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation of Boulder, Colorado, for two OMPS (Ozone Mapping and Profiling Suite) instruments for flight on NOAA’s JPSS (Joint Polar Satellite System) Polar Follow On JPSS-3 and JPSS-4 missions. 29)
• March 17, 2016: On behalf of NOAA, NASA has awarded a sole source contract modification to Northrop Grumman, of Azusa, California, for two ATMS (Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder) instruments for NOAA's JPSS (Joint Polar Satellite System) Polar Follow On / JPSS-3 and JPSS-4 Missions. 30)
• February 11, 2016: The fifth and final instrument, the ATMS (Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder), an instrument critical to forecasting weather three to seven days in advance, has been integrated with the JPSS-1 satellite. This marks a very significant milestone for the JPSS program. Soon, the spacecraft will be prepared for the environmental testing phase which is the next step toward launch. 31)
- Compared with NOAA’s legacy microwave sounders, ATMS offers more channels and better resolution and collects a wider swath of data. ATMS will be operating in tandem with CrIS (Cross-track Infrared Sounder) aboard the JPSS-1 satellite. By working together to cover more of the electromagnetic spectrum (microwave and infrared), ATMS and CrIS will provide coverage of a broad range of weather conditions.
- ATMS is built by Northrop Grumman in Azusa, California and was delivered to BATC in Boulder, Colorado where it was integrated with the spacecraft. ATMS currently flies on the NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite mission and will fly on the JPSS-1, JPSS-2, JPSS-3, and JPSS-4 satellite missions.
Figure 15: Ball Aerospace technicians lower the ATMS instrument onto the JPSS-1 spacecraft (image credit: BATC)
• Fall 2015: The solar panel array on NOAA’s polar-orbiting satellite JPSS-1 spacecraft successfully completed deployment testing at BATC. Engineers unfurled the three panels of the solar array on a special friction reducing floor that helps simulate deployment in the zero-gravity environment of space. The solar array is folded up at launch and deploys on orbit, resembling a giant black wing and generating more than 2775 W of power for NOAA’s JPSS-1 satellite. 32)
• June 30, 2015: BATC has powered the JPSS-1 satellite for the first time. Powering on of the satellite is a key milestone to delivery. Following powering on, the satellite performed within specifications. 33)
- Ball earlier completed integration of four of five JPSS-1 flight instruments. The latest milestone means the satellite is moving toward environmental testing by early 2016 with on-time delivery scheduled for late 2016.
Figure 16: JPSS-1 has been powered-on for the first time, advancing the polar-orbiting environmental satellite toward environmental testing and delivery in 2016 (image credit: BATC)
• April 9, 2015: The CrIS (Cross-track Infrared Sounder) has been successfully integrated with the spacecraft. CrIS follows successful integration of the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite-Nadir (OMPS-N) instrument, the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES), and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS). 34)
- Following integration of the final instrument to fly on JPSS-1, ATMS (Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder) later this year, the JPSS-1 satellite will enter environmental testing. 35)
Figure 17: Photo of the CrIS instrument which is being moved into position just prior to integration with the JPSS-1 spacecraft (image credit: BATC)
• March 10, 2015: The VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) has been successfully integrated on- board NOAA’s Joint Polar Satellite System-1 (JPSS-1) satellite. The VIIRS instrument, built by the Raytheon Company in El Segundo, California, is the third instrument to be integrated on the spacecraft by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colorado. 36)
• Feb. 18, 2015: The CrIS (Cross-track Infrared Sounder) has completed its pre-shipment review. The completion of the development of the CrIS instrument marks another important step in the on-time completion of the critical instruments for the JPSS-1 spacecraft. 37)
• June 17, 2014: The CERES (Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System) instrument, was delivered to Ball Aerospace for spacecraft integration on June 17, 2014. 38)
• June 12, 2014: The OMPS instrument successfully completed its pre-shipment review. 39)
• April 25, 2014: CERES, the first of five instruments that will fly on JPSS-1, successfully completed pre-shipment review last week. 40)
• March 2014: BATC has applied power to the JPSS-1 spacecraft bus for the first time, a significant milestone for achieving on-time delivery to NOAA. Power-on is the first time that the spacecraft bus is operated as a system with the core EDPS (Electrical Power & Distribution System) and the integrated components of the C&DH (Command & Data Handling) subsystem. Power will be cycled on/off continuously over the next nine months of spacecraft integration and testing. 41)
• February 2014: BATC has successfully completed the SpaceWire interoperability test for the JPSS-1 satellite and has begun spacecraft bus integration. The scope of the test, conducted under both normal and fault conditions, proved the functionality of links using flight-like engineering models of key JPSS-1 spacecraft bus subsystems and engineering models for VIIRS and CrIS. The three additional JPSS-1 instruments include the ATMS , CERES, and the Ball Aerospace-built OMPS (Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite). 42)
• In December 2012, a four-day delta Critical Design Review (dCDR) of work was conducted at BATC with representatives of NASA and NOAA and the instrument providers. With this successful review, the spacecraft has now been approved to proceed into implementation. 43)
• April 2014: CERES (Clouds and the Earth’s Radiant Energy System), the first of five instruments that will fly on JPSS-1, NOAA’s next polar orbiting environmental satellite, successfully completed pre-shipment review. 44)
Figure 18: JPSS-1 satellite, including instruments and other key components (image credit: NOAA, BATC)
Launch: The JPSS-1 spacecraft was launched on 18 November 2017 (09:47:36 UTC) on a Delta-2-7920 vehicle of ULA (United Launch Alliance) from VAFB, CA. 45) 46) 47) 48)
Orbit: Sun-synchronous orbit, altitude of 824 km, inclination = 98.7º, period = 101 minutes, ground track: 20 km repeat accuracy at the equator with 20 day repeat cycle, LTAN = 13:30 hours ±10 minutes.
Once in orbit, the JPSS-1 spacecraft will be known as NOAA- 20 (once in orbit). This naming ensures the satellite will be identified consistently with previous NOAA operational polar satellite missions dating back to 1978. The previous satellite launched in 2011, the NOAA/NASA Suomi NPP satellite, serves as a bridge from legacy missions to JPSS. 49)
JPSS-1 is the first in NOAA’s series of four, next-generation operational environmental satellites designed to circle the Earth in a polar orbit. JPSS represents significant technological and scientific advancements in observations used for severe weather prediction and environmental monitoring. This data is used by NOAA’s National Weather Service for numerical forecast models, ultimately helping emergency managers make timely decisions on life-saving early warnings and evacuations.
Secondary payloads (ELaNa-14, Ref. 47):
• RadFxSat (Radiation Effects Satellite, Fox-1B), a 1U CubeSat of AMSAT and Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
• EagleSat, a 1U CubeSat of ERAU (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University), Prescott, AZ, USA.
• MakerSat-0, a 1U CubeSat of NNU (Northwest Nazarene University) and of Caldwell High School of Nampa, Idaho, USA.
• MiRaTA (Microwave Radiometer Technology Acceleration), a 3U CubeSat of MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Cambridge, MA, USA.
• BRRM (Buccaneer Risk Mitigation Mission), a 3U CubeSat technology mission of UNSW (University of New South Wales), Canberra, Australia and DST (Defence Science and Technology) group. The goal is to calibrate JORN (Jindalee Over-the-Horizon Radar Network).
Figure 19: NOAA has partnered with NASA to implement the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). The JPSS Program constitutes the next series of U.S. civilian polar orbiting environmental remote sensing satellites and sensors that have been flown historically on polar satellites. These satellites will implement NOAA's requirements for collection of global multi-spectral radiometry and other specialized meteorological and oceanographic data, via remote sensing of land, sea, and the atmosphere. These data will support NOAA's mission for continuous observations of the Earth's environment necessary to understand and predict changes in weather, climate, oceans and coasts, which support the nation's economy, and protect lives and property. The JPSS-1 through JPSS-4 satellite series provides operational continuity of satellite-based observations and products from NOAA's POES and S-NPP satellites (video credit: NASA Scientific Visualization Studio, Published on 11December 2016)
Mission status:
• September 30, 2020: Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan are typically among the first parts of the contiguous United States to experience autumn color. Fall 2020 was no exception. 50)
Figure 20: Aided by a period of chilly weather, fall foliage was peaking in the region’s forests in late September. On September 22, 2020, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on NOAA-20 acquired this image of the area around Lake Superior, which is rich with aspen, birch, maple, basswood, and other deciduous hardwood trees (image credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). Caption by Adam Voiland)
- In autumn, the leaves on deciduous trees change colors as they lose chlorophyll, the molecule that plants use to synthesize food. Chlorophyll makes plants appear green because it absorbs red and blue sunlight as it strikes leaf surfaces. It is not a stable compound and plants have to continuously synthesize it to keep their leaves green — a process that requires ample sunlight and warm temperatures. When temperatures drop and days shorten, levels of chlorophyll drop as well.
- As green chlorophyll fades, other leaf pigments—carotenoids and anthocyanins—show off their colors. Carotenoids absorb blue-green and blue light, appearing yellow; anthocyanins absorb blue, blue-green, and green light, appearing red.
- As explained by the U.S. Forest Service, certain species of trees produce certain colors. Oaks generally turn red, brown, or russet; aspen and yellow-poplar turn golden. Maples differ by species. Red maple turns brilliant scarlet; sugar maple, orange-red; and black maple, yellow. Leaves of some trees, such as elms, simply become brown.
• February 15, 2019: An enormous dust cloud snaked over Australia in mid-February 2019, carried toward the southeast by strong, dry winds. The dust reddened the skies over Sydney and turned air quality “hazardous” over parts of New South Wales. 51)
- The dust cloud is visible in this map, produced with data collected on 13 February 2019, with the Ozone Mapping Profiler Suite (OMPS) on the NOAA-20 satellite. The map of Figure 21 shows relative aerosol concentrations, with lower concentrations in yellow and higher concentrations in dark orange-brown.
Figure 21: The OMPS instrument on NOAA-20 (JPSS-1) acquired this image on 13 February 2019 (image credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using NOAA-20 OMPS data courtesy of Colin Seftor (SSAI). Story by Kathryn Hansen)
- That same day, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) on the Suomi NPP satellite acquired this natural-color image of the dust. According to news reports, the dust plume stretched 1,300 kilometers over land, and another 1,000 kilometers offshore.
Figure 22: The VIIRS instrument on the Suomi NPP satellite of NASA acquired this image on 13 February 2019 (NASA Earth Observatory, image by Joshua Stevens, using Suomi VIIRS data from NASA EOSDIS/LANCE and GIBS/Worldview, story by Kathryn Hansen)
- Air quality monitoring stations around Sydney reported elevated levels of PM10—particles smaller than 10 µm that can enter the lungs and cause health problems. According to the New South Wales Office of Environment & Heritage, air in parts of the North West Slopes region reached hazardous levels—the worst level on the air quality index.
- Notice the smoke from fires mixing in with the dust plume. The Tingha Plateau bush fire, for example, remained out of control and had burned 125 km2 (48 square miles) by the morning of February 13, according to the New South Wales Rural Fire Service.
• November 6, 2018: By the time the U.S. Forest Service declared the Mendocino Complex Fire 100 percent contained on Sept.18, it had scorched more than 459,000 acres, destroyed 157 homes and forced thousands to evacuate. One firefighter was killed and four others injured. It was the largest recorded wildfire in California’s history. 52)
- As the fires burned, air quality reached “unhealthy” levels in large regions of California and Western Nevada, and wind carried smoke from California all the way to the East Coast.
- Knowing how smoke from wildfires travels through the atmosphere is critical for visibility, but also human health. Particulate matter from wildfire smoke can penetrate deep into the lungs and cause a range of health problems, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, “from burning eyes and a runny nose to aggravated chronic heart and lung diseases.”
- Wildfires and the smoke they emit are notoriously difficult to forecast. This is because there are so many variables to account for: lightning, weather, and, of course, human activity.
- “In the past, it was a challenge for the atmospheric models to know where the fire was, how active it was, and how much emissions it was putting into the atmosphere,” said Andy Edman, chief of the science technology infusion division for the western region of the National Weather Service.
Figure 23: Vertically integrated smoke” is all of the smoke in a vertical column, including smoke high in the Earth’s atmosphere. On the left is a natural-color image of the Western United States during the Mendocino Complex Fire on August 6 at approximately 2:00 pm PDT, using data from the VIIRS instrument on the Suomi-NPP satellite. On the right, the HRRR-Smoke (High Resolution Rapid Refresh-Smoke) model shows vertically integrated smoke at the same time (image credit: Lauren Dauphin/ NASA Earth Observatory)
- But a new experimental model that relies on data from the Joint Polar Satellite System’s Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 (JPSS-1)polar-orbiting satellites, as well as Terra and Aqua, has proved remarkably good at simulating the behavior of wildfire smoke.
Figure 24: A 36-hour HRRR-Smoke forecast from August 6 shows vertically integrated smoke moving east across the United States during the Mendocino Complex Fire (image credit: Lauren Dauphin/ NASA Earth Observatory)
- The High-Resolution Rapid Refresh Smoke model, or HRRR-Smoke, builds on NOAA’s existing HRRR weather model, which forecasts rain, wind and thunderstorms.
- Central to HRRR-Smoke is an important metric called FRP (Fire Radiative Power). FRP is a measurement of the amount of heat released by a given fire, in megawatts, detected with the VIIRS instruments on Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20. A large fire, for example, might reach about 4,000 megawatts per pixel. Calculating a fire’s heat or intensity also helps scientists pinpoint its location.
- The model combines this FRP data with windspeed, rain and atmospheric temperature, along with information from vegetation maps. Sagebrush burns differently than a ponderosa pine, and the more the scientists know about what’s burning, the better the simulations.
- “Grass burns fast. And a dense forest has so much biomass to burn, so it’s going to produce much more smoke than a grassland,” said Eric James, a research associate with NOAA’s Earth Systems Research Laboratory and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at CU Boulder.
- These measurements are mapped to a three-dimensional grid that extends nearly 16 miles into the atmosphere. What results is a detailed forecast of the amount of smoke produced, the direction it’s traveling and its plume height. HRRR-Smoke spits out these forecasts four times a day, extending out to 36 hours.
- The forecasts are visualized as two plots: “Near-surface smoke” refers to the smoke about 8 m from the ground, the kind responsible for burning eyes and worsening asthma. “Vertically integrated smoke” is all of the smoke in a vertical column, including smoke high in the Earth’s atmosphere. That’s the smoke you see at sunrise and sunset.
“Near-surface smoke is one indicator of air pollution, but the smoke could also be at much higher altitudes,” said Ravan Ahmadov, the main developer of the HRRR smoke model, and a research scientist at NOAA’s Earth Systems Research Laboratory and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at CU Boulder. “That’s important to know, because the smoke could affect visibility for aviation.”
- Higher altitude smoke can also block incoming sunlight, which in turn can cool air temperatures and interfere with solar energy production. “The key advantages of HRRR-Smoke are the high spatial resolution and the tight coupling with a weather forecast model,” Ahmadov said.
- HRRR-Smoke is being used increasingly on the ground by forecasters and government agencies, but also by schools and sports teams. During California’s Ferguson fire, which burned from mid-July to mid-August, HRRR-Smoke simulations were consulted when the Department of Transportation made a decision to suspend Amtrak service and when the National Park Service closed parts of Yosemite National Park for three weeks. As fires burned south of Provo, Utah, schools opted to keep kids inside during recess and to cancel Friday night football games. In Oregon, a children’s swim coach moved outdoor swim practice to an indoor pool.
- If you have a child with asthma, you’ll know to take precautions,” Edman said. “When we can tell people that the smoke is going to move in and hang around for a day, they can take smart actions to anticipate the event.”
- The origins of HRRR-Smoke date back four years. Advances were happening simultaneously in several fields, and everything converged in the back row of a meeting in Madison, Wisconsin.
- Scientists had recently developed the HRRR weather model, with its high-resolution representation of atmospheric convection. Convection describes the movement of energy from the Earth’s surface up into the atmosphere; convection that is sufficiently deep produces thunderstorms. Meanwhile, on the satellite front, scientists had zeroed in on fire radiative power from VIIRS. And atmospheric chemists were working to turn a fire’s intensity into an estimate of smoke emissions.
- “All these major advancements were happening at same time,” Edman said. “When you read the history of science, I think this is not uncommon. People say, you got this, I got that, why don’t we get together and make something happen?”
- The scientists acquired funding from the JPSS Satellite Proving Ground program, and they began holding meetings, running tests and working with forecasters.
- Fast forward to present day, and a small team, led by Ahmadov, runs the model around the clock from a NOAA research lab in Boulder, Colorado.
- The smoke forecast is a great example of the JPSS program’s “Proving Ground” initiatives, which seek to translate satellite observations into public services that ultimately affect decision making, said Mitch Goldberg, the chief program scientist for JPSS.
- “Satellites are expensive, but the societal and economic benefits are huge. So we engage with the community to help them realize the benefits of our data,” Goldberg said. “Let’s say someone’s decision is simply, ‘Do I leave my house and seek shelter?’ Or you have families wanting to know if the air quality is good or bad and if they can go outside. We try to work with services, such as smoke forecasts, which would communicate that.”
- The HRRR-Smoke model is still evolving. One limitation, Ahmadov said, is that each polar orbiting satellite passes over a single location in the continental United States twice a day, and fires can spread and evolve rapidly during the gaps in time.
- Ahmadov’s ultimate goal is to add smoke to the regular HRRR model and transition it to operations at the National Weather Service. And he hopes to eventually incorporate data from geostationary satellites like GOES-16 and GOES-17. These satellites have a lower spatial resolution but would scan the fires more often.
- In the next couple years, I think we’re going to see a lot of small, incremental improvements,” Edman said. “The model’s not perfect, but all the components came together this year, and the forecasts were pretty darn good.”
• July 2018: Since launch in November 2017, the VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) on-board the NOAA-20 /JPSS-1 satellite has completed its initial intensive on-orbit check-outs and several key calibration and validation activities scheduled to help evaluate sensor at launch performance. 53)
- Like its predecessor aboard the Suomi NPP spacecraft launched in October 2011, the VIIRS collects data in 22 spectral bands. In addition to a day and night band (DNB), spectral bands (M1-M11 and I1-I3) with wavelengths from 0.41 to 2.2 µm are referred to as the reflective solar bands (RSB) and other bands (M12-16 and I4-I5) covering wavelengths from 3.7 to 12 µm are referred to as the thermal emissive bands (TEB). M1-M5, M7, and M13 can make observations at either high- or low-gain and the DNB is capable of collecting data at three different gain stages.
- As shown in Figure 25, the VIIRS on-orbit calibration is performed by the OBCs that include a solar diffuser (SD) and a solar diffuser stability monitor (SDSM) for the RSB and a blackbody (BB) for the TEB. Lunar observations are also made regularly as a supplement to instrument on-board calibration. The SD calibration is normally performed every orbit. The SDSM is currently operated on a daily basis. The BB warm-up/cool-down (WUCD), initially planned on a quarterly basis, will be executed less frequently in future operation. Like Suomi NPP, lunar observations will be scheduled 8-9 times per year at nearly identical phase angles (-51º). The first lunar calibration for N-20 VIIRS was performed on December 29, 2017 via a spacecraft roll maneuver.
Figure 25: VIIRS instrument and its on-board calibrators (OBCs), image credit: NASA, NOAA
- Since launch, a number of calibration improvements have been made. Using data collected during spacecraft yaw maneuvers, the SD and SDSM screen transmission functions are derived, updated and used for on-orbit calibration. Compared to pre-launch measurements, on-orbit yaw maneuver data provide fine details, both geometrically (more angles) and spectrally (more wavelengths). The TEB RVS characterized using pitch maneuver data shows good agreement with pre-launch results. DNB straylight correction strategy is based on lessons from Suomi NPP and needs extra effort to address effects in the extended zone (not in Suomi NPP). Similar to Suomi NPP, the lunar long-term trend will be used to support RSB solar calibration. From the perspective of long-term data records, the calibration consistency between Suomi NPP and N-20 VIIRS will likely be a major challenge and requires more studies.
• May 30, 2018: The NOAA-20 (JPSS-1) satellite is now operational. Advanced data will detect environmental hazards, improve weather forecasts. Weather forecasters officially have a new tool in their arsenal, as the first satellite in NOAA’s new Joint Polar Satellite System has passed rigorous testing and is now operational. 54)
- Launched in November 2017 as JPSS-1 and renamed NOAA-20 once it reached orbit, the satellite features the latest and best technology NOAA has ever flown in a polar orbit to capture more precise observations of the world’s atmosphere, land and waters. Data from the satellite’s advanced instruments will help improve the accuracy of 3-to-7 day forecasts.
- “Improved weather forecasts can save lives, protect property and provide businesses and communities valuable additional time to prepare in advance of dangerous weather events,” said Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross.
- NOAA-20 provides NOAA’s National Weather Service with global data for numerical weather prediction models used to develop timely and accurate U.S. weather forecasts. In addition, high-resolution imagery from the satellite’s VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) will enable the satellite to detect fog, sea-ice formation and breaking in the Arctic, volcanic eruptions and wildfires in their very early stages. This advanced modeling and imagery information, shared with international and governmental partners, will help businesses, the emergency preparedness and response communities and individuals make the best decisions possible in the face of weather-related hazards.
- NOAA-20 joins Suomi NPP – the NOAA-NASA demonstration satellite launched in 2011 – giving the U.S. the benefit of two sophisticated spacecraft in nearly the same orbit. Each circles the Earth in a polar orbit 14 times a day, collecting global observations that form the basis for U.S. weather prediction.
- “NOAA-20 is especially beneficial for tracking developing storms in the Arctic, Alaska and Antarctica. Forecasts for these remote regions are critical for the U.S. fishing, energy, transportation and recreation industries, which operate in some of the harshest conditions on the planet,” said Neil Jacobs, Ph.D., assistant secretary of commerce for environmental observation and prediction.
- JPSS-2, the second in the series, is scheduled to be launched in 2021, followed by JPSS-3 in 2026 and JPSS-4 in 2031. JPSS satellites are designed to operate for seven years, with the potential for several more years. The JPSS mission will deliver its critical data and information for at least the next two decades to support a Weather-Ready Nation.
• April 20, 2018: NOAA's newest polar-orbiting satellite, NOAA-20 (JPSS-1), captured this magnificent view of the Earth's North Pole on April 12, 2018 (Figure 26). By passing over the pole 14 times a day, the satellite's VIIRS instrument was able to create this composite image of the planet, centered over the frozen Arctic, from 824 km above Earth. The outline of the North American continent is visible at the bottom of the Earth's disk, while the Sahara Desert and northern Africa appear on the right hand side. 55)
- Scientists use the data from NOAA-20's VIIRS sensor to create the "true-color" imagery shown here. While true-color images appear to be simple photographs of Earth, they are actually created by combining data from the three color channels on the satellite's VIIRS instrument sensitive to the red, green and blue (or RGB) wavelengths of light into a single composite image.
- As the backbone of the global satellite observing system, NOAA-20 circles the Earth from pole to pole and crosses the equator about 14 times daily, providing full global coverage twice a day. The satellite's instruments measure temperature, water vapor, ozone, precipitation, fire and volcanic eruptions, and can distinguish snow and ice cover under clouds. This data enables more accurate weather forecasting for the United States and the world.
Figure 26: NOAA-20 Shares New View of the North Pole for Earth Day (image credit: NOAA/NESDIS)
• April 12, 2018: Ball Aerospace completed the handover of NOAA's advanced next-generation polar-orbiting weather satellite, the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1), to NASA following a successful satellite acceptance review. Launched on Nov. 18, 2017, JPSS-1, now known as NOAA-20, is the most advanced operational environmental system ever developed by government and industry, and significantly increases the timeliness and accuracy of forecasts three to seven days in advance of severe weather events. 56)
- The acceptance review confirmed the satellite met its on-orbit requirements, and the spacecraft and the five instruments are performing as expected. NOAA-20 is proceeding on schedule for operations handover from NASA to NOAA. NOAA will determine when the satellite data will be used in NOAA products and services.
- "Everyone on our planet is affected by weather – especially adverse weather – in some way, and relies on systems like JPSS that are part of our nation's critical infrastructure, just like roads and bridges," said Rob Strain, president, Ball Aerospace. "The NOAA-20 satellite, with its sophisticated instruments, is ready to deliver better, more accurate data for operational weather forecasting, which will help save lives and resources, protect property and support our economy, now and well into the future."
- NOAA-20 is now circling in the same orbital plane as the Ball-built Suomi National Polar-Orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) satellite, allowing important overlap in observational coverage to occur for critical instrument calibration and validation activities, which in turn lead to more accurate weather forecasting. NOAA-20 crosses the equator about 14 times daily - providing full global coverage twice a day, making precise measurements of the atmosphere, ocean and land surface, measurements that are critical for the nation's weather models and forecasters.
- Ball Aerospace designed and manufactured the NOAA-20 spacecraft and the Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite-Nadir (OMPS-N) instrument; integrated all five of the satellite's instruments, including those built by industry partners Harris, Raytheon and Northrop Grumman; and performed satellite-level testing and launch support.
- The JPSS missions are funded by NOAA to provide global environmental data in low-Earth polar orbit. NASA is the acquisition agent for the flight systems, launch services and components of the ground segment. Ball is also under contract to build the OMPS instruments for NOAA's follow-on JPSS-2, JPSS-3 and JPSS-4 missions.
• March 23, 2018: It is the first category 5 cyclone of 2018 and the strongest to hit Darwin, Australia, since 1974. But so far, Cyclone Marcus has directed most of its fury into the Indian Ocean, rather than onto landmasses. 57)
- At 2 p.m. local time (06:00 UT) on March 21, 2018, VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) on JPSS-1 (Joint Polar Satellite System–1) satellite acquired a natural-color image (Figure 27) of Cyclone Marcus off the northwest coast of Australia. At the time, the storm had sustained winds of 125 knots (145 miles/230 km/hour) according to estimates from the U.S. Joint Typhoon Warning Center. It was a category 5 storm on the Australian cyclone scale.
- The next day, the VIIRS instrument on Suomi NPP captured another view of the storm. Satellite estimates of wind speed suggested very little change, with the storm still at category 5 strength.
- Marcus first developed as a tropical storm on March 15, 2018, and reached category 2 cyclone strength on the Australian scale on March 17 (a strong tropical storm compared to Atlantic hurricanes). The cyclone blew through Darwin with wind gusts as high as 130 km/hour. The storm knocked out electricity for more than 20,000 people, and thousands of trees were destroyed, including many that were planted in the wake of Cyclone Tracy of 1974.
Figure 27: Natural color image of Cyclone Marcus off the northwest coast of Australia, acquired with VIIRS on JPSS-1 on 21 March 2018 (image credit: NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Story by Mike Carlowicz)
- Cyclone Marcus skirted Northern Territory and Western Australia as it moved westward over very warm water and reached category 4 strength by March 21. The map of Figure 28 shows the SSTs (Sea Surface Temperatures) in the equatorial Indian Ocean on March 21, 2018. The data were compiled by Coral Reef Watch, which blends observations from the Suomi NPP, MTSAT, Meteosat, and GOES satellites, and computer models. The dotted white line across the Indian Ocean shows the cutoff between waters above and below 27.8ºC, a threshold scientists believe to be necessary to fuel a cyclone. The yellow-to-red line represents the storm’s track.
- As of March 22, forecasters were calling for Marcus to remain at severe strength for another day, then weaken rapidly as it turns south toward cooler water. The remnants of the storm could make landfall around Perth as a tropical depression.
Figure 28: Coral Reef Watch SSTs blending observations from the Suomi NPP, MTSAT, Meteosat, and GOES satellites, and computer models. The dotted white line across the Indian Ocean shows the cutoff between waters above and below 27.8ºC, a threshold scientists believe to be necessary to fuel a cyclone. The yellow-to-red line represents the storm’s track (image credit: NASA Earth Observatory, image by Joshua Stevens, using SST data from Coral Reef Watch, and storm track information from Unisys, story by Mike Carlowicz)
• January 16, 2018: The covers on the CERES FM6 (Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System Flight Model 6) opened Jan. 5, allowing it to scan Earth for the first time. 58)
- CERES FM6 began scanning Earth at approximately 1:25 p.m. (EST) Jan. 5. On Jan. 10, scientists used those scans to produce the "first light" images.
- Built by Northrop Grumman, funded by NOAA and managed by NASA/LaRC (Langley Research Center) in Hampton, Virginia, in coordination with the JPSS program, CERES FM6 is the last in a series of instruments going back to the late 1990s that measure the solar energy reflected by Earth, the heat the planet emits, and the role of clouds in that process.
- “CERES FM6 is the seventh and final copy since we first launched the first CERES instrument in 1997. It is the most accurate broadband radiometer that NASA/NOAA have flown as a result of a more rigorous prelaunch calibration campaign than previous instruments," said CERES Project Scientist Kory Priestley. "We were able to take knowledge from on-orbit operations and apply it to this flight model. We’ve done a better job of building and characterizing the instrument, and with hope that will bear fruit as the mission is flown.”
- “The robustness of the CERES instruments already on-orbit, having exceeded their design lifetimes by a factor of two to three, is testament to the work of the dedicated team of engineers at Northrop Grumman,” Priestley said. “The scientific discoveries the community will make by utilizing these datasets will benefit humanity for decades to come.”
Figure 29: In this shortwave image from CERES FM6, the white and green shades represent thick cloud cover reflecting incoming solar energy back to space. Compare that with the darker blue regions, which have no cloud cover, to get a sense for just how much clouds can affect the balance of incoming and outgoing energy on Earth (image credit: NASA)
Figure 30: In this longwave image from CERES FM6, heat energy radiated from Earth is represented by shades of yellow, red, blue and white. Bright yellow regions are the hottest and emit the most energy out to space. Dark blue and bright white regions, which represent clouds, are much colder and emit the least energy (image credit: NASA)
- Five other CERES instruments are flying on three other satellites. Their data helps scientists validate models that calculate the effect of clouds on planetary heating and cooling. The same data can also be helpful for improving near-term, seasonal forecasts influenced by weather events such as El Niño and La Niña. El Niño and La Niña are climatic fluctuations in the temperature of the tropical Pacific Ocean that can influence weather globally.
- "The successful launch of CERES FM6 and acquisition of initial data is fantastic news," said David Considine, program manager for NASA's Modeling, Analysis and Prediction program. "Its data will help us to understand the critical role that clouds play in the Earth system, and shows the value to the Nation of the NASA and NOAA collaboration leading to this achievement."
- The CERES data record extends back to 1997. Prior to CERES, the ERBE (Earth Radiation Budget Experiment) collected similar data beginning in 1984. The two NASA programs demonstrate NASA’s long-term involvement in measuring Earth's energy balance going back more than 30 years.
- “Northrop Grumman is proud to be a collaborative partner with NASA and NOAA on this successful CERES mission. Between the seven CERES instruments and their ERBE predecessors, we have had a relationship in Earth radiation budget measurements that now spans over three decades," said Northrop Grumman CERES Program Manager Sean Kelly. "The CERES instruments continue to reliably provide the climate data record necessary for monitoring, processing and analyzing critical data for the Earth science community. CERES is one of the most highly calibrated, highly reliable instruments on-orbit today."
• December 13, 2017: Twenty-five days after JPSS-1 (NOAA-20) was launched into Earth orbit, NOAA-20 sent back its first VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) science data on December 13, 2017, as part of a series of instrument activation and checkouts that is taking place before the satellite goes into fully operational mode. VIIRS is one of the key five instruments onboard NOAA-20 that will improve day-to-day weather forecast and environmental monitoring, while extending the record of many long-term observations of Earth's climate. 59)
- This VIIRS true color image captured the aggressive wildfires across the Southern California region which forced thousands to flee their homes. As of Wednesday morning, December 13, 2017, the Thomas Fire was the fourth-largest fire in California history, and it continues to generate smoke and plumes as it enters its second week. The fire spanned more than 370 square miles (>95,800 hectares) and remains the strongest blaze for firefighters to battle in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties.
Figure 31: The NOAA-20 VIIRS first light image captures one of the largest wildfires in California history (image credit: NOAA Visualization Lab and NESDIS/STAR)
• November 30, 2017: Eleven days after JPSS-1 launched into Earth orbit, the satellite, now known as NOAA-20, has sent back its first ATMS (Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder) science data as part of a series of instrument startups and checkouts that will take place before the satellite goes into full operational mode. The NOAA-20 satellite carries five instruments that will improve day-to-day weather forecasting while extending the record of many long-term observations of Earth's climate. 60)
- ATMS receives 22 channels of radio waves from 23 to 183 gigahertz. Five water vapor channels, combined with other temperature sounding channels are used to provide the critical global atmospheric temperature and water vapor needed to provide accurate weather forecasts out to seven days. ATMS also maps global precipitation, snow and ice cover.
Figure 32: This image uses ATMS data to depict the location and abundance of water vapor (as associated with antenna temperatures) in the lower atmosphere, from the surface of the Earth to 5 kilometers altitude. Transparent/grey colors depict areas with less water vapor, while blue-green and purple colors represent abundant water in all phases (vapor, clouds, and precipitation) in low and middle latitudes. In the polar regions, purple depicts surface snow and ice. Water vapor distribution in space and time is a critical measurement for improving global weather forecasts. With detailed vertical information, forecasters can better identify the transport of water vapor associated with jet streams, which can fuel severe weather events (image credit: NOAA, NASA)
• November 21, 2017: JPSS-1 not only reached polar orbit on Saturday, November 18; it also officially became known as NOAA-20. 61)
• November 18, 2017: All CubeSats have been deployed! P-POD 1 released EagleSat-1, RadFXSat and MakerSat-0; Buccaneer deployed from P-POD 2; and MiRaTA deployed from P-POD 3. The CubeSats all are flying solo to begin their missions. 62)
- Orbit: All CubeSats were deployed into an elliptical sun-synchronous orbit with a perigee of 450 km and an apogee at 810 km, inclination = 97.2º.
• Approximately 63 minutes after launch the solar arrays on JPSS-1 deployed and the spacecraft was operating on its own power. JPSS-1 will be renamed NOAA-20 when it reaches its final orbit. Following a three-month checkout and validation of its five advanced instruments, the satellite will become operational. 63)
- JPSS-1 will join the joint NOAA/NASA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite in the same orbit and provide meteorologists with observations of atmospheric temperature and moisture, clouds, sea-surface temperature, ocean color, sea ice cover, volcanic ash, and fire detection. The data will improve weather forecasting, such as predicting a hurricane’s track, and will help agencies involved with post-storm recovery by visualizing storm damage and the geographic extent of power outages.
Sensor complement: (ATMS, CrIS, CERES, OMPS, VIIRS)
Contracts with instrument developers: NASA signed the final contract on June 19, 2012 with Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems of El Segundo, CA, for the VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite) instrument. The ATMS (Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder) contract was signed with Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems of Azusa, CA, in April, 2012. NASA completed the JPSS-1 spacecraft and the OMPS (Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite) instrument contract with Ball Aerospace in 2011. The contract to Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems for the JPSS Ground System was also completed in 2011, as was the CrIS (Cross-track Infrared Sounder) instrument contract with ITT Exelis (Ref. 14). 64) 65)
Figure 33: JPSS-1 flight configuration and allocation of the instrument suite, identical to the one of NPP (image credit: NASA, NOAA) 66)
Note: Due to JPSS-1 (NPP Clone) bus limitations, the JPSS FF-1 (JPSS Free Flyer-1) mission was developed, a complementary mission to the JPSS-1 satellite. It will fly the instruments, which were originally planned for the former NPOESS satellites, but could not be accommodated on the JPSS satellites.
JPSS Free Flyer-1 will accommodate the following instruments:
• TSIS (Total Solar Irradiance Sensor)
• A-DCS (Advanced Data Collection System)
• SARSAT (Search and Rescue) instruments.
Figure 34: The JPSS instruments (image credit: NOAA)
ATMS (Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder)
ATMS, of Suomi-NPP heritage, provides sounding observations necessary to retrieve atmospheric temperature and moisture profiles for civilian operational weather forecasting, as well as continuity of these measurements for climate monitoring. In addition to temperature and moisture profiles, some of ATMS-derived products include integrated water vapor content, cloud liquid water content, precipitation rate, snow cover and sea ice concentration.
ATMS is the next generation cross-track microwave sounder that will combine the capabilities of current generation microwave temperature sounders AMSU-A, AMSU-B and AMSU-B/MHS, into a single instrument. The ATMS draws its heritage directly from AMSU-A/B, but with reduced volume, mass and power. The ATMS has 22 microwave channels to provide temperature and moisture sounding capabilities. Sounding data from CrIS and ATMS will be combined to construct atmospheric temperature profiles at 1 degree Kelvin accuracy for 1 km layers in the troposphere and moisture profiles accurate to 15% for 2 km layers. Higher (spatial, temporal and spectral) resolution and more accurate sounding data from CrIS and ATMS will support continuing advances in data assimilation systems and NWP models to improve short- to medium-range weather forecasts beyond three days. - The ATMS instrument was developed at Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems of Azusa, CA. 67)
Figure 35: Photo of the ATMS instrument (image credit: MIT/LL, NASA)
ATMS instrument dimensions
Operational average power (peak)
100 W (200 W)
Absolute calibration accuracy
Maximum nonlinearity
Pointing knowledge
0.03º
NEΔT
0.3/0.5/1.0/2.0 K
~2600 km
Table 2: Summary of key instrument parameters 68)
Figure 36: Functional block diagram of ATMS (image credit: NASA)
Cannel
Max. bandwidth (GHz)
Center frequency stability (MHz)
Temp. sensitivity NEΔT (K)
Calibration accuracy (K)
Static beamwidth (º)
Quasi polarization
Characterization at nadir
Window-water
Vapor 100 mm
Window-surface
Emissivity
Surface air
53.596 ±0.115
4 km ~700 mb
9 km ~ 400 mb
11 km ~ 250 mb
17 km ~ 90 mb
57.290344 ±0.217
57.290344 ±0.3222 ±0.048
57.290344 ±0.3222
±0.022
32 km ~ 6 mb
±0.0045
H2O 150 mm
H2O 18 mm
183.31±7.0
H2O 8 mm
H2O 4.5 mm
Table 3: Channel characteristics of ATMS
Instrument calibration: The instrument includes on-board calibration sources viewed by the reflectors during each scan cycle. The calibration of the ATMS is a so-called through-the-aperture type, two-point calibration subsystem. The warm reference point is a microwave blackbody target whose temperature is monitored. In addition, cold space is viewed during each scan cycle. Both calibrations provide for the highly accurate microwave sounding measurements required by the operational and science applications of ATMS data.
There are three antenna beamwidths. The temperature sounding channels are 2.2º (Nyquist-sampling in both along-scan & down-track directions) while the humidity channels are 1.1º. Channels 1 and 2 have a larger beam width of 5.2º. This is due to the limited volume available on the spacecraft for ATMS.
The ATMS post-launch calibration/validation:
• Tasks within the phases can be categorized:
- Sensor evaluation: interference, performance evaluation, etc.
- TDR/SDR verification: geolocation, accuracy, etc.
- SDR algorithm tunable parameters: bias correction, space view sector, etc.
• Activation phase: Sensor is turned on and a sensor functional evaluation is performed; ATMS is collecting science data
• Checkout phase: Performance evaluation and RFI evaluations
• Intensive Cal/Val: Verification of SDR attributes such as geolocation, resampling, brightness temperature accuracy (simultaneous nadir overpass, double difference, radiosondes/NWP simulations, aircraft verification campaigns), and satellite maneuvers.
Figure 37: Atmospheric transmission at microwave wavelengths (image credit: MIT/LL)
ATMS provides 3 EDRs (Environmental Data Records) with CrIS:
• Atmospheric vertical moisture profile
• Atmospheric vertical temperature profile
• Pressure (surface/profile).
• Both ATMS and CrIS are critical for forecasting – at all scales – particularly for the 3-7 day weather forecast.
• ATMS provides rain and snow rates, ice and snow cover information, and snow water equivalent.
• CrIS provides soundings for real-time instability assessments, and trace gases for monitoring greenhouse gases and their transport.
• Both sensors have low noise and excellent long-term stability that will enable more accurate climate change monitoring.
• The sounding products (NUCAPS and MIRS) are available through the NOAA operational product generation system for global data and the CSPP Direct Readout Software.
Table 4: Summary of ATMS and CrIS applications 69)
NUCAPS (NOAA Unique CrIS/ATMS Processing System) was developed to generate (1) spectrally and spatially thinned radiances, (2) retrieved products such as profiles of temperature, moisture, trace gases and cloud-cleared radiances, and (3) global validation products such as radiosonde matchups and gridded radiances and profiles.
These products are derived from the CrIS (Cross-track Infrared Sounder) and ATMS (Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder) currently onboard the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (S-NPP) satellite and later will be available from the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS-1 and JPSS-2). 70)
CrIS (Cross-track Infrared Sounder)
CrIS is the first in a series of advanced operational sounders that will provide more accurate, detailed atmospheric temperature and moisture observations for weather and climate applications. This high-spectral resolution infrared instrument will take 3-D images of atmospheric temperatures, water vapor and trace gases. It will provide over 1,000 infrared spectral channels at an improved horizontal spatial resolution and measure temperature profiles with keen vertical resolution to an accuracy approaching 1 K (the absolute temperature scale). This information will help significantly to improve climate prediction, including both short-term weather "nowcasting" and longer-term forecasting. It will also provide a vital tool for NOAA to take the pulse of the planet continuously and assist in understanding major climate shifts. The CrIS instrument is developed by ITT Exelis, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Figure 38: Photo of the CrIS instrument (image credit: NOAA) 71)
CrIS, of HIRS/4 (POES) and AIRS (Aqua) heritage, is a high-spectral and high-spatial resolution infrared sounder for atmospheric profiling applications. The overall objective is to perform daily measurements of Earth's upwelling infrared radiation to determine the vertical atmospheric distribution (surface to the top of the atmosphere) of temperature (profiles to better than 1 K accuracy in the lower troposphere and lesser accuracy at higher altitudes), moisture (profiles to better than 20-35% accuracy depending on altitude) and pressure (profiles to better than 1.0% accuracy ) with an associated 1.0 km vertical layer resolution. The Michelson interferometer sounder has 1305 spectral channels, it covers a spectral range of 650-2550 cm-1 (or 3.9 to 15.4 µm), with a spectral resolution of 0.6525 cm-1 (LWIR), and a ground spatial resolution (IFOV) of 14.0 km (from an orbital altitude of 833 km). Each scan (with an 8-second repeat interval) includes views of the internal calibration target (warm calibration point), and a deep space view (cold calibration point). The overall instrument data rate is <1.5Mbit/s. Only photovoltaic detectors are used in the CrIS instrument. The detectors are cooled to approximately 81K using a 4-stage passive cooler with no moving parts. They have a low-risk heritage design of over 50 space units. The IFOVs are arranged in a 3 x 3 array. The swath width is 2200 km (FOV of ±50º), with 30 Earth-scene views.
The CrIS optical system was designed to provide an optimum combination of optical performance and compact packaging. Its key subsystems include a step and settle two-axis scene selection module with image motion compensation capability, a full-aperture internal calibration source, a large-aperture Michelson interferometer, a three-element all reflective telescope, a cooled aft optics module, a multiple-stage passive cooler, and an attached electronics assembly. The interferometer uses a flat-mirror Michelson configuration equipped with a dynamic alignment system to minimize misalignments within the interferometer and has a maximum optical path difference of ±0.8 cm. 72)
The “unapodized spectral resolution” requirement is defined as I/(2L), where L is the maximum optical path difference from ZOND (Zero Path Difference) to MPD (Maximum optical Path Difference). The on-axis unapodized spectral resolution for each spectral band shall be ≤to the values given in Table 5. Since L determines the unapodized spectral resolution, the nominal value for L is also given in the table. 73)
Requirement/Spectral band
LWIR (TIR)
MWIR
SWIR
Channel center wavenumber range
650-1095 cm-1
15.38-9.14 µm
1210-1750 cm-1
8.26-5.71 µm
No of channels
Unapodized spectral resolution, nominal L
≤ 0.625, 0.8 cm
≤ 1.25, 0.4 cm
≤ 2.5, 0.2 cm
Absolute spectral uncertainty
< 10 (5) PPM
Characterize self-apodized ILS for each spectral bin
ILS (Instrument Line Shape) shape uncertainty
< 1.5% FWHM
ILS shape stability over 30 days
< 1% FWHM
Table 5: Spectral requirements of the CrIS instrument
Instrument: The CrIS instrument consists of 6 modular assemblies: optical bench, scanning telescope, interferometer, PV focal plane arrays, 4-stage passive cooler, and electronics. The optical bench provides a stable structure for mounting all of the other assemblies. The scanning telescope scans the Earth views, the ICT (Internal Calibration Target), and deep space, and focuses the IR energy into the interferometer. The interferometer sequentially "breaks" the IR energy into the spectral bands, much like the "rainbow" from a DVD surface. The PV detectors sense the sequenced IR energy (from the interferometer), and provide an electrical signal corresponding to the incoming IR energy. The 4-stage cooler is used to cool the detectors, and hence reduce any spurious detector noise. The electronics assembly controls the instrument. It also conditions and formats the telescope scan and detector signals for output to the spacecraft. 74) 75)
• 8 cm clear aperture
• A collimator is used to perform the spatial and spectral characterizations
• 4-stage split-patch passive cooler (81 K for LWIR patch temperature, 98 K for MWIR/SWIR patch)
• High-performance PV (photovoltaic) detectors
• 3 x 3 arrays (14 km IFOVs)
• Three spectral bands (SWIR, MWIR, TIR), co-registered so that the FOVs of each band see the radiance from the same region of the Earth's atmosphere
• All-reflective telescope
• Proven Bomem plane-mirror Michelson interferometer with dynamic alignment
• Deep-cavity internal calibration target based on MOPITT design
• Two-axis scene selection module with image motion compensation
• A modular design (allowing for future addition of an active cooler and >3 x 3 arrays
The flight configuration for the CrIS DPM (Detector Preamplifier Module) consists of three spectrally separate (SWIR, MWIR and LWIR) FPAAs (Focal Plane Array Assemblies), three (SWIR, MWIR and LWIR) signal flex cable assemblies, a warm signal flex cable/vacuum bulk head assembly, and the DPM warm electronics CCAs (Circuit Card Assemblies). The FPAAs are cooled to cryogenic temperature (98 K SWIR, MWIR, 81 K for LWIR) by the detector cooler module. The cryogenic portions of the DPM (FPAAs, and signal flex cable assemblies) mate to the ambient temperature portions of the DPM (warm signal flex cable assembly and the ambient temperature portions of the transimpedance amplifier, mounted within the CCAs) through the vacuum bulk head assembly mounted on the detector cooler assembly housing. 76)
- SWIR
- MWIR
- TIR (also known as LWIR)
Total of 1305 channels
(2155 - 2550 cm-1) or 4.64 - 3.92 µm, 159 channels
(1210 - 1750 cm-1) or 8.62 - 5.7 µm, 433 channels
(650 - 1095 cm-1) or 15.3 - 9.1 µm, 713 channels
Spectral resolution:
- TIR
(<2.5 cm-1) or 5.4 nm (at 4.64 µm) to 38.4 nm (at 3.92 µm)
(<1.25 cm-1) or 92.8 nm (at 8.62 µm) to 40.6 nm (at 5.7 µm)
(<0.625 cm-1) or 146 nm (at 15.3 µm) to 51.7 nm (at 9.1 µm)
Band-to-band co-registration
IFOV motion (jitter)
Mapping accuracy
< 50 µrad/axis
< 1.5 km
Number of IFOVs
3 x 3 at 14 km diameter for each band
IFOV diameter
Absolute radiometric uncertainty
<0.8% (SWIR), <0.6% (MWIR), <0.45% (TIR)
Radiometric stability
<0.65% (SWIR, <0.5% (MWIR), <0.4% (TIR)
Instrument size
Instrument mass, average power, data rate
152 kg, 124 W, 1.5 Mbit/s (average), 1.5 Mbit/s (max)
Table 6: Key performance characteristics of CrIS
CrIS calibration: The calibration of the interferometer is accomplished with both LASER wavelength calibration, and also with a Neon bulb spectral calibration. The ICT (Internal Calibration Target) consists of a highly emissive, deep-cavity blackbody, utilizing a flight-proven, MOPITT (Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere)-heritage design. Temperature knowledge of the ICT is better than 80mK. A passive vibration isolation system is included to allow instrument operation in a 50mG environment. The instrument optics are thermally decoupled from both the structure and the instrument electronics. The overall instrument design is modular, which allows for parallel assembly and rapid instrument integration.
The primary data product of the CrIS instrument are interferograms collected from 27 infrared detectors that cover 3 IR bands and 9 FOVs. 77)
Data of CrIS will be combined in particular with those of ATMS to construct atmospheric temperature profiles at 1 K accuracy for 1 km layers in the troposphere and moisture profiles accurate to 15% for 2 km layers. 78)
CERES (Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System)
The CERES measurements seek to develop and improve weather forecast and climate models prediction. CERES will help provide measurements of the space and time distribution of the Earth's Radiation Budget (ERB) components, further developing a quantitative understanding of the links between the ERB and the properties of the atmosphere and surface that define the budget. The observations from CERES are essential to understanding the effect of clouds on the energy balance (energy coming in from the sun and radiating out from the earth), which is one of the largest sources of uncertainty in our modeling of the climate. NASA/LaRC is procuring the CERES instrumentation.
Background: The ERB measurements provided by the CERES instruments are key elements in the production of ERB Climate Data Records; these records that have been produced on a continuous basis for more than 20 years, including measurements from the ERBE (Earth Radiation Budget Experiment) prior to CERES. Maintaining the continuity of these measurements and the ERB records are part of an overarching NOAA program objective to sustain continuity and enhance Earth observation analysis, forecasting and climate monitoring capabilities from global polar-orbiting observations.
The level of measurement accuracy necessary to assess climate change and understand the interactions of natural and anthropogenic effects occurring on a decadal time scale requires that instruments making these measurements overlap on orbit for sufficient periods to achieve transfer of calibration from one instrument to the next. The CERES instruments currently operating on the EOS (Earth Observing System) Terra and Aqua missions have provided over 10 years of accurate measurements of the solar reflected and Earth emitted energy.
The CERES FM5 instrument is currently flown on the Suomi-NPP mission while the CERES FM6 instrument is planned for launch on the JPSS-1 mission. These missions should provide continuity of ERB measurements into the next decade.
Figure 39: Earth’s energy budget describes the balance between the radiant energy that reaches Earth from the sun and the energy that flows from Earth back out to space (image credit: NASA)
CERES Flight Model (FM)
PFM (Proto-Flight Model)
TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission)
PFM performed for 8 months, then PFM was turned off from Aug. 1998 to June 2002, when it was on to provide a comparison with CERES on Aqua
FM-1, -2
Terra (2 CERES instruments)
SSO at 705 km altitude
Aqua (2 CERES instruments)
JPSS (Joint Polar Satellite System)-1
Planned 2017
CBERS Follow-on
Table 7: CBERS instruments on NASA missions 79)
Figure 40: Overview of past, current and future missions with corresponding CERES instrument FM generations (image credit: NASA/LaRC) 80)
CERES instrument measures the reflected shortwave (SW) and Earth emitted radiances. The objectives are to continue a consistent database of accurately known fields of Earth’s reflected solar and Earth’s emitted thermal radiation. CERES satisfies four JPSS EDRs, in combination with other instruments. 81) 82) 83) 84) 85)
- Net solar radiation at TOA (Top of the Atmosphere)
- Downward longwave radiation at the surface
- Downward shortwave radiation at the surface
- Outgoing longwave radiation at TOA.
CERES instrument: The CERES instrument consists of three major subassemblies: 1) Cassegrain telescope, 2) baffle for stray light, and 3) detector assembly, consisting of an active and compensating element. Radiation enters the unit through the baffle, passes through the telescope and is imaged onto the IR detector. Uncooled infrared detection is employed.
Figure 41: Norman Loeb, principal investigator of NASA’s Radiation Budget Science Project, is pictured with a CERES model, which studies the clouds and monitor Earth's “energy budget” (image credit: NASA, David C. Bowman) 86)
Figure 42: Cross section of the CERES telescope (image credit: NASA/LaRC) 87)
A CERES instrument consists of 2 identical scanners: total mass of 114 kg , power = 100 W (average, 2 instruments), data rate = 20 kbit/s, duty cycle = 100%, thermal control by heaters and radiators, pointing knowledge = 180 arcsec. The design life is six years. CERES measures longwave (LW) and shortwave (SW) infrared radiation using thermistor bolometers to determine the Earth's radiation budget. There are three spectral channels in each radiometer:
- VNIR+SWIR: 0.3 - 5.0 µm (also referred to as SW channel); measurement of reflected sunlight to an accuracy of 1%.
- Atmospheric window: 8.0 - 12.0 µm (also referred to as LW channel); measurement of Earth-emitted radiation, this includes coverage of water vapor
-Total channel radiance in the spectral range of 0.35 - 125 µm;. reflected or emitted infrared radiation of the Earth-atmosphere system, measurement accuracy of 0.3%.
Limb-to-limb scanning with a nadir IFOV (Instantaneous Field of View) of 14 mrad, FOV = ±78º cross-track, 360º azimuth. Spatial resolution = 10-20 km at nadir. Each channel consists of a precision thermistor-bolometer detector located in a Cassegrain telescope.
Instrument calibration: CERES is a very precisely calibrated radiometer. The instrument is measuring emitted and reflected radiative energy from the surface of the Earth and the atmosphere. A variety of independent methods are used to verify calibration: 88)
• Internal calibration sources (blackbody, lamps)
• MAM (Mirror Attenuator Mosaic) solar diffuser plate. MAM is used to define in-orbit shifts or drifts in the sensor responses. The shortwave and total sensors are calibrated using the solar radiances reflected from the MAM's. Each MAM consists of baffle-solar diffuser plate systems, which guide incoming solar radiances into the instrument FOV of the shortwave and total sensor units.
• 3-channel deep convective cloud test
- Use night-time 8-12 µm window to predict longwave radiation (LW): cloud < 205 K
- Total - SW = LW vs Window predicted LW in daytime for same clouds <205 K temperatures
• 3-channel day/night tropical ocean test
• Instrument calibration:
- Rotate scan plane to align scanning instruments TRMM, Terra during orbital crossings (Haeffelin: reached 0.1% LW, window, 0.5% SW 95% configuration in 6 weeks of orbital crossings of Terra and TRMM)
- FM-1 and FM-2 instruments on Terra at nadir
Instrument heritage
Earth Radiation Budget Experiment (ERBE)
Prime contractor
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
NASA center responsible
LaRC (Langley Research Center)
Three channels in each radiometer
Total radiance (0.3 to 200 µm); Shortwave (0.3 to 5 µm); Window (5 to 35 µm)
Limb to limb
24 km at nadir
Instrument mass, duty cycle
~54 kg/scanner, 100%
Instrument power
55 W (average) per scanner, 104 W (peak: biaxial mode) both scanners
10.52 kbit/scanner (average)
Thermal control
Use of heaters and radiators
Thermal operating range
38±0.1ºC (detectors)
FOV (Field of View)
±78º cross-track, 360º azimuth
IFOV
14 mrad
Instrument pointing requirements (3σ)
720 arcsec
79 arcsec/6.6 sec
60 cm x 60 cm x 57.6 cm/unit
Table 8: CERES instrument parameters
Figure 43: Illustration of the CERES scanning radiometer (image credit: NASA/LaRC)
Data products: CERES provides global radiative flux and cloud property datasets. The temporal resolutions range from Level 2 instantaneous measurements to Level 3 hourly, daily, and monthly averages. The spatial resolutions range from Level 2 satellite field-of-view footprint measurements to Level 3 gridded regional, zonal, and global averages.
Global CERES data allow scientists to validate models that calculate the effect of clouds in driving planetary heating or cooling. CERES data also help improve seasonal climate forecasts, including cloud and radiative aspects of large-scale climate events like El Niño and La Niña.
The CERES science team also uses high spatial resolution visible/infrared imager data to determine cloud properties including the amount, height, thickness, particle size, and phase of clouds using simultaneous measurements by other instruments, such as VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite). These measurements are critical for understanding cloud-radiation climate change and improving the prediction of global warming using climate models.
Data from CERES can also be used for assessing the radiative effects and climatic impact of natural disasters like volcanic eruptions, major floods, and droughts. The long-term data record from CERES will provide a basis for scientific understanding of cloud and climate feedback that determines climate variations and trends.
Figure 44: This map of India and the Middle East and Asia shows how much outgoing longwave radiation left Earth’s atmosphere between May 15-27, 2015, while the region was experiencing a heatwave. Measurements for this image were made by the CERES instrument on NASA’s Terra satellite. The image was created using the CERES SSF (Single Scanner Footprint) 1deg data product (image credit: NASA’s CERES Science Team)
OMPS (Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite)
Ozone in the atmosphere keeps the Sun's ultraviolet radiation from striking the Earth. The OMPS will measure the concentration of ozone in the atmosphere, providing information on how ozone concentration varies with altitude. Data from OMPS will continue three decades of climate measurements of this important parameter used in global climate models. The OMPS measurements also fulfill the U.S. treaty obligation to monitor global ozone concentrations with no gaps in coverage. OMPS is comprised of two sensors: (1) a nadir sensor, and (2) a limb sensor. Measurements from the nadir sensor are used to generate total column ozone measurements, while measurements from the limb sensor generate ozone profiles of the along-track limb scattered solar radiance.
OMPS is a limb- and nadir-viewing UV hyperspectral imaging spectrometer, designed and developed at BATC (Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.), Boulder, CO. The objective is to measure the total amount of ozone in the atmosphere and the ozone concentration variation with altitude. OMPS is of SBUV/2, TOMS and GOME heritage. Also, the OMPS limb-sounding concept/technology was already tested with ISIR (Infrared Spectral Imaging Radiometer) flown on Shuttle flight STS-85 (Aug. 7-19, 1997) and with SOLSE/LORE flown on STS-87 (Nov 19 - Dec. 5, 1997). The vertical resolution requirement demands an instrument design to include a limb-viewing sensor in addition to a heritage-based nadir-viewing sensor. 89) 90) 91) 92)
OMPS on JPSS consists of three spectrometers:
• Nadir total column spectrometer covers a 50 km x 2800 km cross-track swath
• Nadir Profile Spectrometer provides performance over (250 km x 250 km) cell
• Limb sensor provides 1 km vertical sampling along three slits enabling ozone profile retrieval (Not provided on JPSS-1) 93)
Basic requirement
Measurement parameter
1) Global daily maps of the amount of ozone
in the vertical column of the atmosphere
Horizontal cell size
50 km @ nadir
50-650 Dobson Units (DU)
15 DU or better
3 DU+0.5% total ozone or better
1% over 7 years or better
2) Provision of volumetric ozone concentration
profiles in specified segments of a vertical column
of the atmosphere with a 4-day revisit time
Vertical cell size
Vertical coverage
Tropopause height to 60 km
0.1 - 15 ppmv
Greater of (20%, 0.1 ppmv) below 15 km
Greater of (10%, 0.1 ppmv) above 15 km
3%, 15-50 km; 10% TH-15 and 50-60 km
Table 9: Overall mission requirements for OMPS ozone observations 94)
The OMPS instrument design features two coregistered spectrometers in the OMPS nadir sensor. The grating spectrometer and focal plane for total column measurements provide 0.45 nm spectral sampling across the wavelength range of 300 to 380 nm. The IFOV for the nadir cell of the total column measurement is 49.5 km cross track with an along-track reporting interval of 50 km. The total FOV cross track is 110º to provide daily global coverage.
Nadir-viewing instrument: The nadir sensor wide-field telescope feeds two separate spectrometers, a) for total column observations (mapper) and b) for nadir profiling observations. The total column spectrometer (300-380 nm spectral range, resolution of 0.45 nm) has a 2800 km cross-track swath (FOV = 110º and an along-track slit width of 0.27º) divided into 35 IFOVs of nearly equal angular extent. The CCD pixel measurements from its cross-track spatial dimension are summed into 35 bins. The summed bins subtend 3.35º (50 km) at nadir and 2.84º at ±55º. The along-track resolution is 50 km at nadir due to spacecraft motion during the 7.6 second reporting period. Measurements from this spectrometer are used to generate total column ozone data with a resolution of about 50 km x 50 km at nadir.
The nadir profile spectrometer (250-310 nm) has a 250 km cross-track swath corresponding to a single cell (cross-track FOV = 16.6º, and 0.26º along-track slit width). Co-registration with the total column spectrometer provides the total ozone, surface and cloud cover information needed for nadir profile retrievals. All of the cross-track pixels are binned spatially to form a single cell of 250 km x 250 km. Some instrument parameters are: 95)
- The telescope is a three mirror, near telecentric, off-axis design. The FOV is allowed to curve backward (concave in the anti-ram direction) by 8.5º at 55º cross-track in order to maintain straight entrance slits for the spectrometers. The mirrors are made with a glass which matches the thermal expansion of Titanium, are coated with an enhanced aluminum, and have an rms surface roughness of < 15Å.
- Each of the 2 spectrometers has a CCD detector array, a split column frame transfer CCD 340 x 740 (column x row) operated in a backside illuminated configuration. The pixel pitch is 20 µm in the column (spectral) dimension and 25 µm in the row (spatial) dimension and every pixel in both the active and storage regions contains a lateral overflow antiblooming structure integrated into a 4-phase CCD architecture.
- Both spectrometers sample the spectrum at 0.42 nm, 1 nm FWHM end-to-end resolution
- Electronics: a) CCD preamplifier electronics in sensor housing, b) main electronics box performs A/D conversion and on-orbit pixel correction
- The OMPS nadir instrument has a mass of 12.5 kg and a size of 31 cm x 32 cm x 20 cm.
Polarization compensators are used to reduce polarization sensitivity for both Nadir instruments. Long-term calibration stability is monitored and corrected by periodic solar observations using a “Working” and “Reference” reflective diffuser system (similar to that successfully deployed on the TOMS sensors).
Figure 45: Photo of the OMPS instrument (image credit: BATC) 96)
Nadir Total Column (Nadir Mapper)
Nadir Profile (Nadir Profiler)
Spectral range
Spectral radiance range [photons/(s cm2 sr nm)]
9 el 3 (380 nm)
1.5 el 8 (252 nm)
Minimum SNR
35 (252 nm)
400 (310 nm)
Integration time
Spectral resolution
1 nm FWHM
2.4 samples/FWHM
110º x 1.0º (cross-track x along-track)
16.6º x 0.26º
49 km x 50 km (nadir)
250 km x 250 km (single cell at nadir)
Revisit time
Table 10: Performance parameters of the OMPS spectrometers
VIIRS (Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite)
VIIRS will combine the radiometric accuracy of the AVHRR-3 (Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer), which is currently flown on the NOAA polar orbiters with the high spatial resolution (0.56 km) of the OLS (Operational Linescan System) flown on DMSP. VIIRS will provide imagery of clouds under sunlit conditions in about a dozen bands, and will also provide coverage in a number of infrared bands for night and day cloud imaging applications.
VIIRS will have multi-band imaging capabilities to support the acquisition of high-resolution atmospheric imagery and generation of a variety of applied products, including visible and infrared imaging of hurricanes and detection of fires, smoke and atmospheric aerosols. VIIRS will also provide capabilities to produce higher-resolution and more accurate measurements of sea surface temperature than currently available from the heritage AVHRR-3 instrument on POES, as well as provide an operational capability for ocean-color observations and a variety of derived ocean-color products. The VIIRS instrument is developed by the Raytheon Company, El Segundo, CA. 97)
VIIRS is an advanced, modular, multi-channel imager and radiometer (of OLS, AVHRR-3, MODIS, and SeaWiFS heritage) with the objective to provide global observations (moderate spatial resolution) of land, ocean, and atmosphere parameters at high temporal resolution (daily). 98) 99) 100) 101) 102) 103) 104) 105) 106)
VIIRS is a multispectral (22-band) opto-mechanical radiometer, employing a cross-track rotating telescope fore-optics design (operating on the whiskbroom scanner principle), to cover a wide swath. The rotating telescope assembly (RTA of 20 cm diameter) concept of SeaWiFS heritage allows a low straylight performance. An observation scene is imaged onto three focal planes, separating the VNIR, SWIR/MWIR, and TIR energy - covering a spectral range of 0.4 - 12.5 µm. The VNIR FPA (Focal Plane Array) has nine spectral bands, the SWIR/MWIR FPA has eight spectral bands, and the TIR FPA four spectral bands. The integral DNB (Day Night Band) capability provides a very large dynamic range low-light capability in all VIIRS orbits. The detector line arrays [16 detectors in each array for the SWIR/MWIR and TIR bands, 32 detectors in the array for the VNIR and DNB (Pan) bands] of the whiskbroom scanner are oriented in the along-track direction. This arrangement provides a parallel coverage of 11.87 km along-track in one scan sweep (cross-track direction). The wide along-track coverage permits sufficient integration time for all cells in each scan sweep. One cross-track scan period of RTA is 1.786 s in length. The data quantization is 12 bits (14 bit A/C converters for lower noise).
Typical data products (types) of VIIRS include atmospheric, clouds, earth radiation budget, clear-air land/water surfaces, sea surface temperature, ocean color, and low-light visible imagery. A swath width of 3000 km is provided (corresponding to FOV=±55.84º) with a spatial resolution for imagery related products of no worse than 0.4 km to 0.8 km (nadir to edge-of-scan). The radiometric bands provide a resolution about twice in size to the imagery bands. Note: Most derived data products will be produced at somewhat coarser resolutions by aggregation of on-board data.
Figure 46: Photo of the VIIRS instrument (image credit: NASA, Raytheon, Ref. 103)
The VIIRS instrument design employs an all-reflective optics assembly taking advantage of recent optics advances: a) single 4 mirror imager, b) 2 dichroics and 1 fold, c) aluminum DPT-bolt together technology (DPT = Diamond Point Turning). A rotating off-axis and afocal TMA (Three Mirror Anastigmatic) telescope assembly is employed [Note: The telescope rotates 360º, thus scanning the Earth scene, and then internal calibration targets.]. The aperture of the imaging optics is 18.4 cm in diameter, the focal length is 114 cm (f/5.97). The VIIRS optical train consists of the fore optics (TMA), the aft optics [an all-reflective FMA (Four Mirror Anastigmat) imager], and the back-end optics, which include microlenses for the cooled focal planes.
A total of 22 spectral bands have been selected as defined in Table 11. VIIRS features band-to-band registration for all bands (optical alignment of all FPAs). A total of three focal planes and four FPAs (Focal Plane Arrays) cover the spectral range of the instrument, one FPA for DNB (Day-Night Band), one for VNIR, SWIR/MWIR, and TIR. The DNB spectral range of 0.5-0.9 µm CCD detector features four light-sensitive areas (3 with TDI, one without) and near-objective sample spacing.
The VNIR FPA employs a PIN (Positive Insulator Negative) diode array/ROIC (Readout Integrated Circuit) design collocated with the DNB monolithic CCD. All detectors in the SWIR/MWIR/TIR regions employ photovoltaic (PV) detectors with an element spacing of 12 µm. A ROIC (Readout Integrated Circuit) at each FPA provides improved noise levels and built-in offset correction. A cryogenic module (three-stage radiative cooler) provides FPA cooling.
A single-board instrument computer provides a processing capability including data aggregation, data compression [lossless (2:1 Rice compression) and lossy (JPEG) algorithms are used], and CCSDS data formatting.
Calibration is performed with three on-board calibrators: a) a solar diffuser (SD) provides full aperture solar calibration, b) a solar diffuser stability monitor, and c) a blackbody. Instrument calibration of VIIRS is based on that of the MODIS instrument: 107) 108) 109)
• VNIR: 1) View of a spectralon plate at the poles every few days; 2) Deep space view
• SWIR/MWIR/TIR: 1) View of blackbody every scan; 2) Deep space view
Figure 47: Major subsystems/components of VIIRS (functional block diagram)
Figure 48: Schematic of VIIRS rotating TMA (Three Mirror Anastigmatic) telescope assembly
The VIIRS instrument has a mass of 252 kg, power of ~ 191 W (operational average), and a size of 134 cm x 141 cm x 85 cm. The data rate is 10.5 Mbit/s (high rate mode) and 8 Mbit/s (average rate) mode with 10:1 JPEG compression). The VIIRS instrument features a SBC (Single Board Computer) for all instrument operations and control; it communicates with the S/C via an IEEE 1394a cable interface.
Some operational features of VIIRS:
• All functions are individually commandable
• Macro commands (stored sequences, all macros are reprogrammable) simplify the commanding and reduce the uplink data
• Time-tagged commands allow delayed execution (provides for 30 days autonomous operations)
• The swath widths and locations are individually programmable by band (improved resolution views of selected target near nadir)
• Diagnostic mode features improved versatility.
Center wave (µm)
Bandwidth (µm)
Comment (driving EDR observation requirements)
VNIR (Visible Near-Infrared) spectral region, use of Si detectors in FPA
Day Night Band, broad bandwidth maximizes signal (essential nighttime reflected band)
Ocean color, suspended matter, net heat flux, mass loading
Ocean color EVI, surface type, aerosols suspended matter, net heat flux, mass loading
Ocean color, surface type, suspended matter, net heat flux, mass loading
Imagery, NDVI, cloud mask/cover, cloud optical properties, surface type, albedo, snow/ice, soil moisture
Ocean color, aerosols, suspended matter, net heat flux, littoral transport, mass loading
Ocean color, mass loading
Imagery NDVI (NDVI heritage band), snow/ice, surface type, albedo
Ocean color, cloud mask/cover, aerosols, soil moisture, net heat flux, mass loading
SWIR (Short-Wave Infrared) spectral region, use of PV (Photovoltaic) HgCdTe detectors
Cloud optical properties (essential over snow/ice), active fires
Cloud mask/cover (thin cirrus detection), aerosols, net heat flux
Aerosols, cloud optical properties, cloud mask/cover (cloud/snow detection), active fires, soil moisture, net heat flux
Imagery snow/ice (cloud/snow differentiation), surface type, albedo
Aerosols (optimal aerosol optical thickness over land), cloud optical properties, surface type, active fires, net heat flux
MWIR (Mid-Wave Infrared) spectral region, use of PV (Photovoltaic) HgCdTe detectors
Imagery (identification of low and dark stratus), active fires
SST (Sea Surface Temperature), cloud mask/cover, cloud EDRs, surface type, land/ice surface temperature, aerosols
SST (essential for skin SST in tropics and during daytime), land surface temperature, active fires, precipitable water
TIR (Thermal Infrared) spectral region, use of PV (Photovoltaic) HgCdTe detectors
Cloud mask/cover (pivotal for cloud phase detection at night, cloud optical properties
SST, cloud EDRs and SDRs (Science Data Records), land/ice surface temperature, surface type
Imagery (nighttime imagery band)
SST, cloud mask/cover, land/ice surface temperature, surface type
Table 11: Definition of VIIRS spectral bands
DNB (Day-Night Band) FPA
VNIR FPA
SWIR/MWIR FPA
TIR FPA
One broadband
9 bands
4 bands, 1 with TDI
CCD detector
Si PIN diodes
PV HgCdTe detector
FPIE (Focal Plane Interface Electronics)
ROIC (Readout Integrated Circuit)
Filter/Bezel
Si micro-lens array
Ge micro-lens array
Tops = 253 K
Tops = ambient
Tops = 80 K
Table 12: Overview of the FPA design of VIIRS
Some key EDRs of VIIRS: 110)
• SST (Sea Surface Temperature). VIIRS is capable to provide a nadir resolution of 750 m (by aggregating detectors 3:l in-track near nadir, 2:l in-track aggregation out to a 2,000 swath, and 1:1 out to 3,000 km) to simultaneously optimize spatial resolution and noise performance. - The SST solution combines the traditional long-wave infrared (LWIR) split window with a second split window in the mid-wave infrared (MWIR) for a globally robust SST algorithm. The MWIR split window has a higher transmissivity than the traditional LWIR split window for improved atmospheric correction. The low-noise design is operable day and night with 0.25 K precision, and 0.35 K total measurement uncertainty (rms error).
• Imagery and cloud detection/typing. The imagery solution provided on VIIRS includes six high-resolution bands and an additional 16 moderate-resolution bands. One of these, a reflective panchromatic band (DNB), is operable in low-light conditions down to a quarter moon. A swath with of 3000 km is provided.
• Soil moisture. A VIIRS/CMIS data fusion solution was derived. The approach combines the fine spatial resolution of VIIRS with traditional coarser-resolution microwave-derived soil moisture retrievals to achieve excellent results over both open and partially vegetated scenes. The estimation procedure involves two steps: 1) CMIS estimates soil moisture at coarse spatial resolution. This involves inversion of dual-polarized microwave brightness temperatures. 2) CMIS-derived low-resolution soil moisture is linked to the scene optical parameters, such as NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), surface albedo, and LST (Land Surface Temperature). The linkage of the microwave-derived soil moisture to NDVI, surface albedo and LST is based on the “Universal Triangle” approach of relating land surface parameters. The three high-resolution optical parameters are aggregated to microwave resolution for the purpose of building the linkage model. The linkage model, in conjunction with high-resolution NDVI, surface albedo, and LST, is then used to disaggregate microwave soil moisture into high-resolution soil moisture.
VIIRS will collect radiometric and imagery data in 22 spectral bands within the visible and infrared region ranging from 0.4 to 12.5 µm. These data are calibrated and geolocated in ground processing to generate SDRs (Sensor Data Records) that are equivalent to NASA Level 1B products. The VIIRS SDRs in turn will be used to generate 22 EDRs (Environmental Data Records) including two KPPs (Key Performance Parameters): SST (Sea Surface Temperature) and Imagery. Since the quality of these EDRs depends upon the quality of the underlying SDRs, adequate SDR quality is crucial to JPSS mission success. 111) 112)
DNB (Day Night Band) overview in VIIRS:
The DNB will measure VIS radiances from the Earth and atmosphere (solar/lunar reflection and both natural and anthropogenic nighttime light emissions) during both day and night portions of the orbit. In comparison to the OLS (Operational Linescan System) of the DMSP series, some of the DNB channel improvements include 1) reduced instances of pixel saturation, 2) a smaller IFOV, leading to reduced spatial blurring, 3) superior calibration and radiometric resolution, 4) collocation with multispectral measurements on VIIRS and other NPOESS sensors, 5) and generally increased spatial resolution and elimination of cross-track pixel size variation. 113)
The DNB is implemented as a dedicated focal plane assembly (FPA) that shares the optics and scan mechanism of the other VIIRS spectral bands. This integral design approach offers lower overall system complexity, cost, mass, and volume compared to a separate DNB sensor. Unlike the OLS, the DNB will feature radiometric calibration, with accuracy comparable to the other VIIRS spectral bands.
To achieve satisfactory radiometric resolution across the large dynamic range (seven orders of magnitude) of day/night radiances encountered over a single orbit, the DNB selects its amplification gain dynamically from three simultaneously collecting stages (groups of detectors residing upon the same FPA). The stages detect low-, medium-, and high-radiance scenes with relative radiometric gains of 119,000:477:1 (high:medium:low gain). Each of the three stages covers a radiance range of more than 500:1, so that the three together cover the entire required radiance range with generous overlap. Two identical copies of the high-gain stage are provided, which improves the SNR at very low signal levels and allows for the correction of pixels impacted by high-energy subatomic particles. The scene is scanned sequentially such that each scene is imaged by all three gains virtually simultaneously.
The signals from all gain stages are always digitized, using 14 bits for the high-gain stage and 13 bits for the medium- and low-gain stages. This fine digitization assures the DNB will have a sufficiently fine radiometric resolution across the entire dynamic range. Logic in the VIIRS Electronics Module (EM) then selects, on a pixel-by-pixel basis, the most appropriate of the three stages to be transmitted to Earth. In general, the VIIRS EM logic chooses the most sensitive stage in which the pixel is not saturated. This imaging strategy produces nonsaturated calibrated radiances in bright areas, and data with a lower dynamic range in the darkest areas with less SNR and radiometric accuracy.
In summary, the VIIRS DNB feature will bring significant advances to operational and research applications at night (over OLS operations) due to the increased sensitivity of the instrument.
RSB (Reflective Solar Band) radiometric calibration: 114) 115)
VIIRS features 15 reflective solar bands (RSB) in the range of 0.4-2.25 µm. The reflective bands use sunlight reflected from a SD (Solar Diffuser) after passing through an attenuating SDS (Solar Diffuser Screen) as a reference illumination source. The RSB calibration is currently performed by offline trending of calibration scale factors derived from the SD and SV (Space View) observations. These calibration scale factors are used to periodically update LUT (Look-Up Tables) used by the ground processing to generate the calibrated earth radiance and reflectance in the Sensor Data Records (SDR).
RSB calibration data is acquired once per orbit when sunlight incident on the SD uniformly illuminates the VIIRS detectors, providing a large and calculable reference radiance level. The calibration scale factor is the ratio of the calculated SD radiance at the entrance aperture to the SD radiance measured by the instrument using calibration coefficients derived from the pre-launch calibration. The calibration scale factor in effect measures the change in instrument “gain” as the instrument ages on orbit relative to the gain measured during pre-launch instrument response characterization.
TED (Thermal Emissive Band) calibration: 116)
VIIRS has 7 thermal emissive bands use an OBC-BB (On-Board Calibrator Blackbody) maintained at a constant elevated temperature as a reference illumination source. The 7 emissive bands are centered at 3.74, 11.45, 3.75, 4.05, 8.55, 10.76, and 12.01 µm. The two emissive image bands are mainly for cloud imagery and precise geolocation. The 5 moderate-resolution emissive bands are used to determine surface temperature and cloud top pressure. The only dual gain band TEB M13 is used for determining surface temperature at low radiance, and fire detection at high radiance.
The VIIRS emissive band calibration concept is a common two-point calibration by viewing onboard blackbody and cold space. However, the VIIRS emissive band calibration algorithm is more complicated than other sensors such as AVHRR and MODIS, because of the instrument response verses the scan angle. The TEBs (Thermal Emissive Bands) are calibrated using OBC-BB that has been carefully characterized in prelaunch activities. The OBC-BB emissivity is estimated to be 0.99609-0.99763 for the TEB bands based on prelaunch testing in the thermal vacuum chamber. The OBC-BB temperature is carefully controlled using heater elements and thermistors. The calibration algorithm, based on measured BB temperature and emissivity, computes radiances and compares it with counts to determine gain adjustments.
VIIRS significantly outperforms the legacy AVHRR in spatial, spectral, and radiometric accuracy. Early assessment of the VIIRS TEB calibration shows the sensor is stable and exceeds the specification. The onboard calibration accuracy for NEdT compares very favorably with pre-launch thermal vacuum tests. Consistency tests among VIIRS, MODIS, AVHRR, and CrIS further confirm the stability and accuracy of the VIIRS TEB.
JPSS Common Ground System (CGS):
In September 2010, the Raytheon Company was awarded a contract by NASA on behalf of NOAA for the development of JPSS-1 (Joint Polar Satellite System-1). The award of the JPSS Common Ground System enables uninterrupted support to meet both civilian and defense weather needs. It allows Raytheon to continue the development and evolution of the ground system into an exceptional operational program for JPSS and DMSP (Defense Meteorological Satellite Program). 117) 118) 119)
The main elements of the JPSS common ground system for NOAA and DoD – currently comprises:
• C3S (Command, Control and Communications Segment)
- Includes mission planning, enterprise management, antenna resource scheduling, satellite operations, data relay and spacecraft and instrument engineering. A key feature of the C3S is the 15 unmanned global ground stations that receive JPSS and DWSS mission data, termed the DRN (Distributed Receptor Network). The receptors, linked with high-bandwidth commercial fiber, can quickly transport the data to four U.S. data processing centers. Most data will ultimately be completely processed and delivered to the Weather Centrals in less than 30 minutes from the time of collection.
- The MMC (Mission Management Center) provides accurate, high-performance tools that precisely manage JPSS and DWSS missions. The C3S tools give crews keen insight, comprehensive operational oversight, detailed mission planning capability, full control of space and ground assets, continuous monitoring and assessment of overall system performance.
• IDPS (Interface Data Processing Segment). The IDPS features high-speed, symmetric, multi-processing computers that will rapidly convert large streams of JPSS and DWSS sensor data that are 100 times the volume of legacy data, providing numerous EDRs (Environmental Data Records) at four weather Centrals in the United States. These vital EDRs range from atmospheric to land and ocean surface products. The EDRs detail cloud coverage, temperature, humidity and ozone distribution, as well as snow cover, vegetation, sea surface temperatures, aerosols, space environment and earth radiation budget information. This wealth of information enables numerous users to monitor and predict changes in weather, climate, and ocean conditions. JPSS and DWSS products will also be available to the scientific community to expand our knowledge of the environment.
• FTS (Field Terminal Segment). The FTS, equipped with specially configured IDPS software, will permit worldwide fixed and mobile field terminals deployed aboard ships, at military bases, in theaters of operation, and at educational and scientific institutions to receive and process the continuous broadcasts of JPSS and DWSS sensed data as the satellites pass overhead.
Figure 49: JPSS operations overview (NASA, NOAA, Ref. 1)
Figure 50: JPSS high level operational concept (Ref. 118)
Satellite owner
JPSS service
Suomi-NPP (launch on October 28, 2011)
JPSS-1 (launch in 2017)
Full Service: commanding and data processing
DMSP
Coriolis (launch January 6, 2003)
Data acquisition and routing
JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)
GCOM-W1 (launch May 17, 2012)
GCOM-W2
GCOM-C1 (launch in 2014)
EUMETSAT (European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites)
MetOp-A (launch October 19, 2006)
MetOp-B (launch September 17, 2012)
Table 13: JPSS satellite fleet (Ref. 118)
On January 17, 2014, Raytheon successfully completed the Block 2 CDR (Critical Design Review), confirming readiness to support the JPSS-1 satellite. Block 2 represents a complete architectural and technological refresh of JPSS CGS and a significant step in supporting the next generation of the program. 120)
US Partnerships in JPSS program:
• EUMETSAT
- EUMETSAT provides mid-morning orbit
- Both support planning and operations (e.g., Antarctic Data Acquisition)
• JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency)
- GCOM-W1 (Global Change Observation Mission – Water) provides AMSR-2 data – continuity for NASA’s Aqua satellite
- NOAA provides ground system services in exchange for data from AMSR-2
• NSC (Norwegian Space Center), Norway
- Provision of satellite tracking and environmental data acquisition services
• Canada (DND) and France (CNES) for SARSAT Program
• France (CNES) – Argos Program
Since being deployed for NOAA's Suomi-NPP (National Polar-orbiting Partnership) in 2011, JPSS CGS, one of the few multi-mission ground solutions, is now providing unprecedented global observation capability. Leveraging a common ground system across national and international agencies is the most efficient and cost effective way to improve global environmental observational capabilities. 121)
By leveraging a flexible architecture and integrating new and legacy technologies, the JPSS CGS reduces development and sustainment costs and has proven it can be quickly adapted to a variety of mission needs spanning civil, military and scientific communities.
In addition to supporting NOAA's Suomi-NPP and the GCOM-W1 mission of JAXA, other JPSS CGS support includes the MetOp series of EUMETSAT (European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites) and DoD's DMSP (Defense Meteorological Satellite Program) series.
Figure 51: JPSS ground system high-level architecture as of July 2012 (image credit: NASA, NOAA, Ref. 1)
JPSS GS Architecture with DoDAF 2 (Department of Defense Architecture Framework version 2.0)
1) Introduction – Modeling the JPSS GS Architecture with DoDAF 2. 122)
• The JPSS Ground System (GS) is a complex, globally operated environmental satellite control, data retrieval, data processing, and environmental data product distribution system. Items of complexity include a large number of:
- takeholders
- project processes
- relationships with development contractors, and
- architectural modernization.
• The JPSS Ground Project (GP) uses the DoDAF 2.0 (Department of Defense Architecture Framework version 2.0) to manage and coordinate the GS development by identifying:
- JPSS GS organizational structure and performers;
- actions performed by the organizational entities;
- information that must flow among the entities; the systems, functions, and actions that enable realization of the JPSS capabilities; and,
- information and data exchanged among performers and systems.
• This focus on is on the processes for providing the SDRs (Sensor Data Records) and EDRs (Environmental Data Records) that are reduced from the satellite data and distributed to the program customers.
- A global view of the JPSS GS architecture is given in the following reference. 123)
2) Using DoDAF 2 with UPDM 2 to Describe JPSS Data Reduction Processes.
• A satellite’s data is arriving at the IDPS (Integrated Data Processing System) in the NSOF (NOAA Satellite Operations Facility) in Suitland, MD.
• The systems views needed to describe how the IDPS processes the data are those prescribed by the DoDAF 2 Systems Viewpoint (SV) SV-4 diagrams and SV-6 tables.
- There are 2 types of SV-4 diagrams: the System Functionality Description describes the hierarchy of systems and system Functions
- while the System Functionality Flow Description shows how the data flows through each system function action that processes the data.
- Each SV-6 System Resource Flow Matrix line item is a tabular description of each data element exchange between two system function actions in the companion SV-4 flow diagram.
• The DoDAF 2 views are presented using the UPDM 2 (Unified Profile for DoDAF and MODAF version 2.0).
- The modeling tool used is MagicDraw UML version 17.0.3 with UPDM 2 version 17.0.3.
- DoDAF 2 was selected when JPSS was initiated to take over for the NPOESS program.
3) SV-4 System Functionality Description Diagrams (see Ref. 122).
• Provide hierarchical views of the systems with their included functions.
• Documentation of the systems and functions are captured in the properties of those systems and functions.
• Show the lower level system and software functions used to process the data captured by the JPSS Project.
• Identify the system and software functional process flows that generate each deliverable data product.
• Assist in Systems Engineering requirements tracking.
• Identify the lower level specifications and verification plans defined in the SRS (Software Requirements Specification) that govern the JPSS data products.
• Identify the software algorithms contained in the lower level specifications.
4) Summary:
• The JPSS GS weather data processing architecture is indeed very complex
• Identifying and managing all levels of product dependencies to ensure product performance has been a challenge.
- Previous attempts to capture have quickly fallen out of date as the massive data flow and algorithm architecture evolved.
- Flight system Cal/Val is scheduled to span months of data capture, reduction, analysis and adjustment.
• The application of DoDAF 2/UPDM 2 has provided a mechanism to capture and manage this complex data processing architecture. Traces algorithm and data back to L1/L2 weather/climate performance metrics.
• The tool automatically manages dependencies which used to be managed by engineering/scientific analysis.
• The application of DoDAF 2/UPDM 2 will lead to a more structured process at significantly reduced resource costs, enabling more efficient and faster evolution and progress.
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NEE-01 Pegasus
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NEMO-AM
NEOSSat
Neutron-1
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Alberta adds 1,227 COVID-19 cases; peace officers to enforce new restrictions
Diego Romero CTVNewsEdmonton.ca Digital Journalist
Published Friday, November 27, 2020 12:00PM MST Last Updated Saturday, November 28, 2020 8:30AM MST
EDMONTON -- Alberta’s top doctor reported 1,227 new cases of COVID-19 and nine more deaths linked to the disease.
The positivity rate for Thursday was 7.6 per cent after provincial labs conducted more than 16,200 tests.
Of the 14,217 Albertans diagnosed with COVID-19, 405 are in hospital, with 86 of them in ICU.
With new business restrictions effective Friday, Alberta’s justice minister and solicitor general, Kaycee Madu, announced provincial and municipal peace officers would enforce the COVID-19 measures announced Tuesday.
“We are simply making sure that more enforcement is available to respond quickly and decisively to situations where groups are breaking public health measures, and thereby endangered the health of the community,” Madu said.
Dr. Deena Hinshaw, the chief medical officer of health, pleaded with Albertans to respect peace officers after she heard reports of criticism and verbal abuse against them.
“I know the restrictions currently placed on all of us are difficult but they are not the fault of law enforcement and inspectors who are simply trying to enforce what is in place and to help to the spread,” Dr. Hinshaw said.
Fines start at $1,000 and can go as high as $100,000, he added.
RESTRICTIONS, TRAGIC MILESTONES AND BETRAYAL: ALBERTA’S WEEK IN COVID-19
Albertans might look back on November as the month to remember, or forget, in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Prompted by daily records of cases and deaths, on Nov. 16, Hinshaw admitted “we are in the second wave.”
Things have only gotten worse since, with Alberta adding more than 1,000 cases of the coronavirus on each of the past eight days and struggling to keep up with contact tracing.
This week began with the chief medical officer of health announcing she would give daily updates and meet with government officials to offer more recommendations they would reveal on Tuesday.
The eight-hour meeting resulted with Premier Jason Kenney calling a state of public health emergency, banning indoor gatherings, limiting outdoor gatherings, weddings and funerals to 10 people, and sending students in Grade 7-12 to learn online until at least January.
The premier allowed restaurants and pubs to stay open, as long as Albertans only sit with people in their household or their two-close contacts, if they live alone.
“If we do not start to bend the curve with this latest round of measures and greater effort by Albertans, let me be blunt: We will impose stricter measures, likely in about three weeks’ time,” Kenney said.
Rachel Notley, the leader of the NDP, said Tuesday’s restrictions are “simply not enough.”
To add to November’s records, Alberta surpassed 50,000 total cases of COVID-19 and 500 deaths on Wednesday.
Dr. Hinshaw called the death toll a tragic milestone and limited visitor access to acute care facilities with outbreaks in communities with high case rates to protect Alberta’s most vulnerable to disease.
'This is a tragic milestone': Alberta reaches 500 COVID-19 deaths, counts 1,265 new cases
The ninth month of the pandemic has been Alberta’s deadliest, with 193 casualties.
As the last full week of November crawled to an end, Dr. Hinshaw addressed CBC News’ report that cited secret recordings hours of meetings between her and cabinet members earlier in the pandemic.
She called the leaks a “personal betrayal and a betrayal of trust.”
“I am profoundly disappointed that confidential internal conversations have been shared, actions that are a violation of the public service oath and code of conduct.”
Alberta leads country in active cases, CMOH addresses 'betrayal' of trust
Hinshaw doesn’t know who leaked the recordings and said an investigation is underway.
Dr. Deena Hinshaw speaking about the reported leak of secret recordings on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2020. (CTV News Edmonton)
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Amb.Uche Ogbuagu, A Leader in Politics
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Governor Uzodinma returns to Imo after embarking on national assignment
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Okorocha pay condolence visit to inventor Engr. Ezekiel Izuogu’s family
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Fulani Herdsmen, Vigilantes Clash In Imo
The people of Owaelu, Orji in Owerri North Local Government Area of Imo State were thrown into a state of unrest on Monday night as Fulani herdsmen and vigilantes from the community clashed. Though no casualty was recorded, a resident of the community disclosed that the incident, which occurred around […]
Imo govt warns illegal revenue agents
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Imo State born industrialist and Politician Engr. Dr Ezekiel Izuogu is dead
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Interview: The Cultured Craft of Jonathan Burton
April 20, 2015 September 23, 2019 by Chris Jalufka
There is a wonderful intelligence at play in the work of illustrator Jonathan Burton. In his work for George Orwell’s classic novel ‘1984,’ Burton stays true to the author’s vision with a historian’s accuracy and the thoughtful touch of the human hand. His deft compositions sharpen the soft focus of the viewer, highlighting the intrinsically internal nature of the novel’s concepts.
With ease, Burton also showcases action with a sense of whimsy. There’s a cultured silliness to Burton’s work, no matter how macabre or somber. His award-winning editorial and book illustrations have lead him to work with print galleries such as Nautilus Art Prints and Mondo, bringing his stunning work to the large format canvas of the screenprinted poster.
Jonathan Burton illustration for the Folio Society edition of Orwell’s ‘1984’
CJ: George Orwell’s novel ‘1984’ is known for its portrayal of Big Brother, a society under the watchful eye of a strict government. ‘1984’ has huge concepts but some might say it falls short on offering tantalizing visuals for an illustrator to pull from. The opposite of ‘1984’ is ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide,’ a text full of strange characters and alien landscapes and ideas. As the illustrator did you see these two projects on opposite ends of a spectrum when you began? Is it my lack of imagination that sees one as more visually rich than the other?
JB: It’s true that the world the ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide’ presents is visually insane and Douglas Adams’s imagination is an absolute gift to an illustrator. The author comes from a very absurdist background being very good friends with the Monty Python team at their height. The surreal juxtapositions and eccentric characters are brilliant to draw and sparks my imagination.
‘1984’ evokes a very different world based more on a dull and dirty colourless and oppressive atmosphere based on a war-torn dystopian London. The restriction of that makes it very interesting to illustrate and basically follows one character’s emotional reaction to this world. The book is very internal and personal, but full of ideas that have stuck with me and scare me more now than when I first read it. It’s my favourite book of all time and was a dream job to illustrate.
Jonathan Burton illustration for the Folio Society edition of Douglas Adams’ ‘Life, the Universe and Everything’
Both ‘1984’ and ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide’ only have a handful of illustrations. Did Folio Society approach you with specific moments in each book they wanted you to illustrate? What determined the number of pages you worked on?
One great thing about working for The Folio Society is that they let the illustrator choose which scenes they feel would work best within the book. Choosing the specific moments is a complex balance between the things I would really enjoy drawing and the responsibility to the story and the reader.
Folio determines the amount of illustrations based on the length of the book and of course, the scenes have to be equally spread throughout which can also be very tricky to negotiate. It’s a challenge I relish though.
(note: Burton wrote an article for Folio Society on his ‘1984’ work that is worth a read. You can find that HERE.)
‘Face Your Demons / Big Scary Problems’ by Jonathan Burton
‘Japanese Legends’ by Jonathan Burton
Your piece ‘Face Your Demons’ has this wonderful vibrancy to it – that simple red outline on the giant demon gives him a blur effect that feels odd yet familiar, like looking at a 3D image without glasses.
There’s a hint of that technique in your ‘Japanese Legends’ print. With such a huge body of work behind you, do you see certain ‘tools’ you use or can count on to make a piece feel complete? Would you avoid using a red silhouette since you’ve already used it so effectively in the past?
That red line comes from studying Victorian lithographs and noticing the printing errors. Misaligned colours can be beautiful so I sometimes use the effect to put it into a certain period and give them an energy and playfulness. Playing around after all is where the most interesting things happen. I suppose the technique is a ‘tool’ but I’m aware also that it could become a ’trick’ which is best avoided and once you start using it on everything you’ve stopped being open-minded.
Photographer Holly Burnham and model Hattie Watson for ‘Evil Tender Presents: In Reference’
‘La Sirene’ by Jonathan Burton for ‘Evil Tender Presents: In Reference’
It was incredible to have you be a part of the ‘In Reference’ show and see how you took the initial photographs to make something unique and special. Your illustrations, especially in the Douglas Adams books, have very interesting angles and figures in wonderfully odd positions (like falling from the sky). Are you using reference images on a regular basis for figures or architecture?
I use a lot of reference for the figures as I suppose my work is quite realistic particularly on hands and folds in the clothes which I really enjoy drawing. I model myself mostly but rope in my family and friends to pose for photographs too. The architecture is usually secondary to the figures in my compositions and the reference is much looser for this which means I end up inventing much more for the surrounding elements.
Pencils for ‘The Woodwose Wild Man’ by Jonathan Burton for Fortean Times
‘The Woodwose Wild Man’ by Jonathan Burton for Fortean Times
Cover featuring ‘The Woodwose Wild Man’ by Jonathan Burton for Fortean Times
You start with pencil drawings that seem pretty close to final. Are you taking those original drawings and coloring them digitally, or are the pencil drawings merely a guideline so you can re-create them digitally?
I color the drawing digitally and I keep the original linework in the finished piece. For me, the first drawing is the soul of the illustration and removing or redrawing it always loses some of the energy and character.
‘Les Miserables’ by Jonathan Burton for the 2013 BAFTA Awards
‘Argo’ by Jonathan Burton for the 2013 BAFTA Awards
‘Life of Pi’ by Jonathan Burton for the 2013 BAFTA Awards
Your series of posters for the 2013 BAFTA awards are all incredibly striking. They’re brilliant designs that get the viewer on board without the aid of any text spelling out what they are. What sort of time frame were you given to complete all five illustrations? How involved was BAFTA in the process?
BAFTA choose one illustrator a year to create the posters / brochure covers for the 5 best film nominations. The announcements are made in February and the illustrator has two weeks to create the work. Once BAFTA agree on the sketches I basically had 10 days to create 5 posters! It was hard work but liberating at the same time. Such an intense period of work sharpens the senses and it was an exciting project to work on. I didn’t get much sleep though.
‘Le Dernier Metro’ by Jonathan Burton for Nautilus Art Prints’ Francois Truffaut print series
For your ‘Le Denier Metro’ print for Nautilus, Jack Durieux handled the typography. What stage of your process did Jack get on board? I can almost see the original being larger and may be cropped to place the title block, but it’s so well focused I doubt that. Do you prefer to not work with text, or at least have someone to assist?
I had several suggestions for the title on ‘Le Dernier Metro’ but Jack presented an idea that was varied in the balance of fonts and arrangement and it fit the period really well. He is so good at typography that it’s given me a kick up the backside to try and find an interesting solution rather than a basic one. I pay a lot of care to the illustrations so it’s important to treat the typography the same and use it playfully and stylishly because after all it can make or break a poster.
‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ Regular Edition by Jonathan Burton for Nautilus Art Prints
‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ Variant Edition by Jonathan Burton for Nautilus Art Prints
Your ’20,000 Leagues’ print with Nautilus Art Prints put you in front of the eyes of poster collectors and quickly became a favorite. You even have a print with Mondo under your belt. Was the world of collectible posters something that was on your radar before Nautilus contacted you?
Working on the BAFTA prints gave me a taste for working to a film brief and I became aware of the alternative poster scene around the same time. I think the first poster I really noticed was Laurent’s (Laurent Durieux) ‘Jaws’ and it made me wonder who Mondo were and how their posters managed to sell out in only a few minutes! It was something I thought would be interesting to do but honestly didn’t know how to go about it. Being busy with illustration I didn’t really pursue the idea but when Nautilus gave the opportunity to work on a poster I dropped everything and leapt at it.
Were you aware of Laurent and his brother Jack Durieux prior to them getting you on board to do ‘20,000 Leagues’?
I knew of Laurent’s work for Mondo prior to Nautilus contacting me. It was a big motivation to know that he was involved and I really enjoyed meeting and getting to know the three brothers involved in Nautilus Art Prints. A very dedicated and talented family!
Was your Nautilus Art Prints ’20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ poster your first experience working on a 24” x 36” screenprint? Does the approach change from editorial work to a piece of that size, where the end goal is a piece of art to be hung on a wall?
‘20,000 Leagues’ was my first screen printed poster and the process was a big learning curve. I had chats with Nautilus Art Prints about what process would be best to recreate the look of my usual work. It’s a technical exercise but once it ‘clicked’ it was a fascinating thing to create. I love the process. The restrictions of colour leads to interesting ideas about balancing out the piece. I’m learning more about mixing opaques, transparents, glow in the dark and metallic inks to achieve different effects. I’m discovering screen printing to be a very rich and beautiful process that is much more than the drawing itself.
The sheer size of these posters motivates me to be more ambitious about the amount of detail I can add and also try to include references that aren’t immediately obvious. It’s a privilege to make it onto someone’s wall and I like the fact that once the buyer has the actual screen print they will have a much better experience of it than as a small jpg on a screen.
Your take on ’20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ captures the absolute zest for adventure and love of the sea that Verne’s novel achieves. Was there a conversation with Nautilus Art Prints between a strictly book based interpretation versus the Disney film version?
The brief was very open and was left for me to interpret so I ended up using both the book and film as inspiration. I listened to the ‘20,000 Leagues’ audiobook whilst working on, coincidentally, a picture book of Jules Verne’s ‘Around the World in 80 Days’!
Illustration from ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ by Jonathan Burton
You had two Jules Verne projects going on at the same time?
I was illustrating the book ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ (released by Milan) at the time that Nautilus contacted me. So I listened to ‘20,000 leagues’ on audiobook for inspiration whilst finishing ’80 Days.’
For ‘20,000 Leagues,’ did you use the Disney film or any other incarnations as reference?
Studying Alphonse de Neuville‘s illustrations for ‘20,000 Leagues’ were very helpful in realizing the kind of clothes the crew would wear and also gave me an idea of the design of the Nautilus. I enjoy the research stage and pick elements from as many sources as I can in which to reference. For example, the Disney film had a famous ‘sunset scene’ that ended up being cut from the original and was reshot to take place at night in the rain. The two variants are a little nod to that, one is at sunset with a storm on the way and the other is at sunrise after a night of fighting.
Detail of ‘20,000 Leagues Under the Sea’ Regular Edition by Jonathan Burton for Nautilus Art Prints
That’s a brilliant solution — using the regular and variant to reference that little footnote in the film’s history. What’s your work flow for a large piece like ’20,000 Leagues’? Do you do a string of rough sketches for approval? Did you start with thumbnail sketches?
Many thumbnail sketches! Such visually rich text made it hard to decide on which scene to illustrate, but I ended up showing (Nautilus) three different propositions. We all agreed that the Octopus attack worked best and to be honest it had to be that scene. It’s iconic and one that I, as a fan, would really want to see.
It’s definitely a moment that is hard to top. In your composition, you put the viewer on the Nautilus with the rest of the crew, in the middle of the battle. Verne’s novel is full of inspiring visuals, and you delivered a piece that captures the excitement of one of the greatest moments in literature.
Being a property that has been illustrated and re-imagined repeatedly since it was first published, did you feel any pressure when taking on ’20,000 Leagues’ to do something new?
Looking at other interpretations was an advantage in that I could reference some of those ideas but show them in a new way. The pressure I feel is that which I put on myself and rather than holding back I wanted something to really get my teeth into. From early on I decided to tackle it with a very complex dynamic with several characters, a rough sea and twisting tentacles from every direction. It was a challenging composition but a joyful one to get lost in.
You’ve done a fair share of prints, but up to this point they’ve been giclee prints – did your design process change knowing ’20,000 Leagues’ was going to a screenprint?
It’s not hugely different from how I work normally with many Photoshop layers, but on a technical level, I learned a lot about preparing for such a large scale screenprint. With Jack and Laurent Durieux at Nautilus, we discussed ways of achieving the effect of my normal work using transparent inks for example. With this, I could really start to get some interesting effects going on and the finished result looks like hand-painted line work. It’s a really lovely process and I’m hooked!
Did Captain Nemo, Ned Land, or Aronnax show up in any of your early drawings?
Alphonse de Neuville drew Captain Nemo as quite understated and the bearded man on the right of the poster could possibly be him though I haven’t made a conscious effort to represent everyone. Whereas the main focus is Ned Land holding the harpoon in centre. He’s a direct nod to how Kirk Douglas dressed in the Disney film: red striped tee-shirt, high loose trousers, ear-ring, and his large sailor’s cap. I don’t think it would have worked if I had dressed him low-key, it needed that slight caricature for it to hit home.
‘House on Haunted Hill’ by Jonathan Burton for Mondo
Your ‘House on Haunted Hill’ poster for Mondo is a wonderful throwback to that early horror feel — it’s fun and dark. Macabre. Vincent Price is drawn never losing your style, yet staying true to his appearance. Was this your first time dealing with a likeness? Was it ever considered to do an illustration without Vincent Price, like your ’20,000 Leagues’ only hinting at a specific character or actor?
I’m not a huge fan of likenesses in posters as I prefer a narrative approach but Vincent Price has such a distinctive and unusual face that’s just lovely to draw. My first sketch had Vincent Price as a minor character in the scene and I tried hard to evoke a ‘B-Movie horror’ but the image was a bit ‘joyless’ so I scrapped it. One thing I’ve learned is to have more fun with the concept and not to feel too much of a slave to expectations. I thought it would be much more dynamic to show Vincent and the skeleton as a macabre team in charge of the horror which keeps the spirit of the film but the composition and their faces looking straight at us takes it one step weirder… 🙂
Jonathan Burton’s preliminary sketch for ‘House on Haunted Hill’ for Mondo
Jonathan Burton’s sketch for ‘House on Haunted Hill’ for Mondo
Did Mondo approach you with a specific property in mind, or give you their catalog to choose from?
Mondo came to me with House on Haunted Hill in mind and being a fan of old fashioned horror I thought it would be fun. Since then they have given me a wider choice of properties to look at so hopefully we can continue to chat about the kind of films I’m into and those that would be good for me to tackle.
Does it feel like a step-down, or a different type of work doing these film posters from you usual gigs doing books and editorials?
It feels different but not a step down at all. The size is new for me and knowing it might hang on a wall makes me take it very seriously. Also, posters have to have a ‘punch’ and be more graphic I think whereas interior book illustration has more room to breath and is best when it slowly reveals something. Book covers are a little like posters for the book in a way, they have to represent the spirit of the text but not in a literal sense. Bookwork is so nice to do though and I have a few things lined up. I have the last two Hitchhikers at the end of the year and a picture book about Homer’s Odyssey which should be a challenge.
Illustration by Jonathan Burton for a review of ‘Happy Moscow’ by Andrey Platonov set in 1930’s Russia for The New York Times
Previously on Evil Tender — Interview: The Beauty & Design of Laurent Durieux
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5 Kipp Paddock is located in a small, private development on the edge of the picturesque village of Kippford on the Solway Coast, which is designated as an area of 'Outstanding Natural Beauty'. The village is home to the Solway Yacht Club, a Chandlery, marina, two pubs, both serving food, and a craft shop. Also within half a mile is an... More
5 Kipp Paddock is located in a small, private development on the edge of the picturesque village of Kippford on the Solway Coast, which is designated as an area of 'Outstanding Natural Beauty'. The village is home to the Solway Yacht Club, a Chandlery, marina, two pubs, both serving food, and a craft shop. Also within half a mile is an award winning Pottery and a Golf Course with seasonal tearoom. There is also access to some of the region's best walking tracks nearby, mountain bikers are also well catered for in the region with the Dalbeattie Forest just minutes away and the 7Stanes cycle tracks are also easily on hand. There is a good selection of golf courses with Colvend, the championship course at Southerness and the Dalbeattie course within easy reach. Dalbeattie "The Granite Town" and gateway to the Solway Coast offers primary and secondary schooling, shops, local food stores and a health centre, and is approximately 5 miles from Kippford. The village of Rockcliffe and the sandy beaches at Sandyhills are also close at hand. Three bedroom, single storey, detached lodge offering spacious, quality accommodation. 5 Kipp Paddock was individually designed for the current owners. The property benefits from double glazing and electric heating. It also benefits from a good sized private garden featuring newly upgraded decking. There is a gravel parking area to the side with space for several vehicles. The asking price has recently been reduced to encourage a quick sale Viewing is highly recommended to appreciate the accommodation on offer.
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Comment Of The Day: “Sunday Ethics Warm-Up, 12/30/2018: A Petition, A Career-Killing Joke, And Priestley’s Play” [Item #4]
December 31, 2018 December 31, 2018 / Jack Marshall
P.M.Lawrence, who comments from Australia, often flagging what he views as American biases and misconceptions, jumps ahead in the line of waiting Comments of the Day with this brief note. It raises an issue that I have thought about often in the past, and argued about with friends and others. What is the ethical obligation of Americans to use foreign spellings of proper names when writing about places and things for domestic readers? The particular example at hand was my using “Labor Party” to label the British organization which calls itself “the Labour Party.”
I’ll have a rebuttal after P.M.s Comment on the post, Sunday Ethics Warm-Up, 12/30/2018: A Petition, A Career-Killing Joke, And Priestley’s Play , and am very interested in what others think.
A minor point: the original spelling of proper names should be used out of respect, even if that is different from your own usage of the words involved. Just as it would be wrong to write “National Inquirer”, so also it is wrong to write “Labor” when writing of the (British) “Labour Party” – even though it is right to write “Australian Labor Party”, for the very same reasons. It gets trickier with groups like our Australian DLP (“Democratic Labour Party”) that have chopped and changed over time; I incline towards using whichever spelling was in place at the time of the reference being cited.
This is all part of the Rectification of Names.
I’m back. This issue is complicated, as P.M. notes. “Labour” is a great place to start. There is no word in America spelled “labour,” and proper or not, the British party called “Labour” is, in American spelling, about “labor.” It is not only accurate to use the domestic spelling, it is clearer. The Shakespeare comedy is called “Love’s Labour’s Lost” in the UK, but I checked with the Folger Shakespeare Company, D.C’s authority: they use “Love’s Labor’s Lost,” though not every Bard-centered company here agrees. If the word involved has two spellings in use here, then it makes no sense not to use the UK version. My now defunct theater company was named “The American Century Theater” because it was devoted to American works; it made no sense to use the British spelling “theatre”—which is still common here and popular with pompous theatrical companies—when the repertoire was pointedly American. I would expect any British media to also preserve our chosen spelling.
The spelling issue quickly slides into pronunciation. Somehow the globalists bullied people into calling Eye-RAN, which what I grew up saying, ir-RAAN. Why? This isn’t Iran. We don’t call Paris “Pa-REE” (this is my wife’s favorite argument.)
P.M.’s “National Enquirer” analogy doesn’t fly with me. It is true that the British use “enquire’ the way we use “inquire,” but 1) the two words technically have different meanings (“The traditional distinction between the verbsenquire and inquire is that enquire is to be used for general senses of ‘ask’, while inquire is reserved for uses meaning ‘make a formal investigation’.”) and 2) it’s exactly like “theatre/theatre.” Since both versions are used here and across the Pond, clear and understandable, a choice in a proper name should be respected. Moreover, in U.S. trademark law (and I assume in the UK as well) “The National Inquirer” could be a separate legal entity from the “Enquirer.”
Hmmmm. Nothing’ stopping someone from forming a “Labour Party” here either. Maybe P.L. is right….
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21 thoughts on “Comment Of The Day: “Sunday Ethics Warm-Up, 12/30/2018: A Petition, A Career-Killing Joke, And Priestley’s Play” [Item #4]”
Steve-O-in-NJ
Frankly, outside of legal or scholarly documents, unless there is a risk of inaccuracy, insisting on UK vs. American spelling and preferred pronunciations is something between snobbery and yet another attempt to exert control over others by controlling what they can and can’t say.
Elijah C.
I agree exactly. I would expect the distinction to be important in those fields, but in common usage, I’d never attempt to force the issue one way or the other. However, as an American, I’d use the British spellings if I had the presence of mind to think of it.
Alizia Tyler
However, as an American, I’d use the British spellings if I had presence of mind.
It was hard to resist. If you beat me do it with love . . .
No, that was pretty bad. Not sure how I managed to type it all out without realizing.
I wonder if they even know that ‘labour’ is misspelled? I wonder if it is ethical to bring to insist in bringing it to their attention. Perhaps it is better just to say nothing?
slickwilly
“Do not try to understand them and do not try to make them understand you. That is because they are a breed apart and make no sense”
Bonus points for movie and character who said it.
Its A Wonderful Life?
Mr Potter?
Willem Reese
“Hawkeye” (Nathaniel “Natty”) Bumppo in Last of the Mohicans.
For some reason, one of my favorite (favourite? 😉 ) period pieces.
Winnah!
+5 for movie
+5 for character
Rich in CT
I think it makes sense to use “Labour”, if only because it would make housekeeping articles simpler. For instance, “Labor.com” redirects to a workforce management company, whereas “Labour.com” redirects to the party’s official UK website. If you quote from British publications, they would talk about the “Labour Party”, but if your commentary is about the “Labor Party” elsewhere on the site, there is an avoidable ambiguity.
PennAgain
I’m satisfied if I can get the general gist of what people write these days; I’m not teaching any more but I’m still fond of communicating. Not everyone who comments here has “good” spelling but that has nothing to do with their inspiring content. I would hate to see them
That done with (controlling snob that I am), I use the spelling of words and the names of the people and places I am writing to or of that “belong” to them . As far as possible, I change style or pronunciation (never mastered the click language sounds Miriam Makeba sang in, though) to accommodate others’ preferences. However, I too have niggles. For instance, I draw a stiff line at being commanded to state, wear a badge with or write my “personal gender pronouns” beneath my email signature. (The first, and last, time I was asked to do that, I wrote “it, that, and that’s it.” I continue to assume the person’s gender is what they look like, unless they dress as if they aren’t sure. I have no trouble with being corrected, and use the preferred pronouns thereafter, unless I forget, in which case I will apologize as I would when I mispronounce the name of someone who is sensitive about it. Selectivity in titles is a fine art as well. The Japanese have clear rules which make it kid-simple. Not so in most other cultures I know of. Of all languages, body language is the hardest to master, for either use or recognition.
My own last name is frequently garbled to the extent of changing it to another name altogether. I have a young acquaintance and sometime coworker of 30+ years who hasn’t said or spelled (“spelt” to you PL) it correctly yet. I only fall ponderously into the “P as in Poison, E as in Elephant” alphabet when having a quiet, unemotional confabulation with an AT&T supervisor.
That is part of what has been called “civil discourse” here that I was raised and educated to do. And I don’t think there is anything pompous about “theatre” and use it to reference stage rather than cinema because that is what I grew up with. Google a “list of Broadway theaters” and see what you get.
The Labor/Labour example was not one of spelling. In terms of politics they might as well go under different names. For instance, we have unions but we do not have a “workers party” (yes, the members vote, but pretty much locally, without much if any backup from a national organization and they use their own political clout locally as well). In fact, our real “workers” (among other citizens) were called “deplorables” by a mean and ignorant woman not so long ago. The “oUr” organization is more along the lines of the IWW or early AFL-CIO., more prone to action, and action which usually gets national backup that includes many different unions even for local strike situations that can shut down the country, where unions here are pretty much on their own, and getting weaker every year.
The labor/labour distinction is pretty obvious, but other country-to-country pairs have subtle to extreme differences too, (ex: try talking loudly about your bitch in New Jersey). PL is being extremely polite, referring to the Rectification of Names. I didn’t know what it was (everyone else here may so pardon me for adding to the verbosity), but it was pragmatic philosopher Confucius who said — the mythical Western comic book Confucius would say “he say” and think that was hilarious — because he thought that much social disorder comes from the wrong names being used to describe groups of people, and that we should “rectify the names” to make words correspond to reality, to find out the correct designations and relationships and behave accordingly to ensure social harmony.
Thus “mean and ignorant” is the new rectification of she who was previously the dog’s sister to she who is not the cat’s mother — until she apologizes to the nation. Oh, and nobody who is not Parisian says “Pah-reee” for fear a true Parisian will overhear and, with a Pah-reezian glance, turn them into a pillar of saltpeter- (or saltpetre with l’accent aigu over the first “e”) -and- put hieroglyphics around their merde just to be a controlling snob.
There are literally thousands of words that have first been Anglicized from the French, e.g., and thousands more that have been Americanized from both British English, French, and a host of other languages. American English is the most dynamic language in the world,and has added more than 25,000 words to English and other languages in this century alone. So if we want to Americanize archaic British spellings, who cares? Americans invented the cell phone, for example, but the British call them “mobiles.” That’s their choice, and I don’t see anyone complaining about that, even though it was not just a spelling but a completely different word for the same device. (I suppose I would call the line at actual people names… that’s an actual personal identity issue…)
For some documentation of this kind of thing, Bill Bryson has written a series of breezy but substantive books about both British and American English language and history. Worth a read.
P.M.Lawrence
So if we want to Americanize archaic British spellings, who cares?
The point here is that it is not an “archaic British spelling”, it’s a current proper name and helps connect to things that are out there. I also see the appositeness of an earlier comment about searches and such; we’re trying figuratively or literally to make a search connection when we use a proper name. (Similar things apply to being faithful in quotations; when I proof read and fact checked a few chapters of Geoffrey Blainey’s History of the World a few years ago, I didn’t think it was fitting to change a quoted poem’s “cock” to “rooster” the way he had.) But the objections are sound when there are traditional English variants already (“Rome”, “Florence”, “Leghorn”, etc.), largely because the respect issue doesn’t come up in the same way and because the references do work with those variants (“Foghorn Livorno”, anybody?).
But hey, why bother with capital letters at all? Why not go the whole hog with “labor party”?
Ultima Thule: a traditional name of distant places beyond the known world.
I live in Colombia but I admit to desire to visit Coluuuuumbia . . .
“Where can I find people who have forgotten words, and have a word with them?”
You have to admit that this opens up into many many different strange and interesting areas!
Cristoforo Colombo wrote:
“As I know that you will be pleased at the great victory with which Our Lord has crowned my voyage, I write this to you, from which you will learn how in thirty-three days, I passed from the Canary Islands to the Indies with the fleet which the most illustrious king and queen, our sovereigns, gave to me. And there I found many islands filled with people innumerable, and of them all I have taken possession for their highnesses, by proclamation made and with the royal standard unfurled, and no opposition was offered to me. To the first island which I found, I gave the name San Salvador, in remembrance of the Divine Majesty, Who has marvelously bestowed all this; the Indians call it ‘Guanahani‘. To the second, I gave the name Isla de Santa María de Concepción; to the third, Fernandina; to the fourth, Isabella, to the fifth, Isla Juana, and so to each one I gave a new name.”
Fast-forward to another, yet pessimistic, European visitor:
“It is a world completely rotten with wealth, power, senility, indifference, puritanism and mental hygiene, poverty and waste, technological futility and aimless violence, and yet I cannot help but feel it has about it something of the dawning of the universe. Perhaps because the entire world continues to dream of New York, even as New York dominates and exploits it.”
― Jean Baudrillard, América
Maighstir Lawrence writes: “A minor point: the original spelling of proper names should be used out of respect, even if that is different from your own usage of the words involved. Just as it would be wrong to write “National Inquirer”, so also it is wrong to write “Labor” when writing of the (British) “Labour Party” – even though it is right to write “Australian Labor Party”, for the very same reasons. It gets trickier with groups like our Australian DLP (“Democratic Labour Party”) that have chopped and changed over time; I incline towards using whichever spelling was in place at the time of the reference being cited.
From Wiki re: ‘Rectification of Names’: “Confucius was asked what he would do if he was a governor. He said he would “rectify the names” to make words correspond to reality. The phrase has now become known as a doctrine of feudal Confucian designations and relationships, behaving accordingly to ensure social harmony. Without such accordance society would essentially crumble and “undertakings would not be completed.” Mencius extended the doctrine to include questions of political legitimacy.”
“Nets are for catching fish; after one gets the fish, one forgets the net. Traps are for catching rabbits; after one gets the rabbit, one forgets the trap. Words are for getting meaning; after one gets the meaning, one forgets the words. Where can I find people who have forgotten words, and have a word with them?”
— Zhuangzi, Ch. 26
Confucius: “A superior man, in regard to what he does not know, shows a cautious reserve. If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success. When affairs cannot be carried on to success, proprieties and music do not flourish. When proprieties and music do not flourish, punishments will not be properly awarded. When punishments are not properly awarded, the people do not know how to move hand or foot. Therefore a superior man considers it necessary that the names he uses may be spoken appropriately, and also that what he speaks may be carried out appropriately. What the superior man requires is just that in his words there may be nothing incorrect.”
It is interesting how, in América today, we are seeing a great ‘confusion of tongues’ and a breakdown of the designations of relationship on which *social harmony* is said to be built. And that “without such accordance society would essentially crumble and “undertakings would not be completed.”
What is the mind’s Ultima Thule? What substance must be regarded as first, and therefore as the seed of the universe? What is the eternal Something, of which the temporal is but a manifestation? Matter? Spirit? Matter and Spirit? Something behind both and from which they have sprung, neither Matter nor Spirit, but their Creator? Or is there in reality neither Matter nor Spirit, but only an agnostic Cause of the phenomena erroneously assigned by us to body and mind?
After spending many years in profoundly investigating this problem, I have at last struck bottom. Unhesitatingly and unconditionally I adopt materialism, and declare it to be the sole and all-sufficient explanation of the universe. This affords the only thoroughly scientific system; and nowhere but in its legitimate conclusions can thought find suitable resting-place, the heart complete satisfaction, and life a perfect basis. Unless it accepts this system, philosophy will be but drift-wood, instead of the stream of thought whose current bears all truth. Materialism, thorough, consistent, and fearless, not the timid, reserved, and half-hearted kind, is the hope of the world.
‘The Final Science: or Spiritual Materialism’, 1885 by John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg 1835-1903
Today, a spacecraft approaches an object a loooooonnnnggggg way off. The object is called Ultima Thule.
From the today’s NYTs:
“Are you psyched?” said S. Alan Stern, New Horizons’ principal investigator, surrounded by children waving American flags. “Are you jazzed?”
[As in All That Jazz?!?]
“We are ready to science the heck out of Ultima Thule”.
Et voilà: salpêtre.
Sigh. I firmly believe that English should be written using simplified phonetics (fəˈnɛtɪks anyone!) for the benefit of future generations. Other languages can do as they please of course. For myself I am grudgingly switching to using US spellings because they are a, very small, step in that direction; sometimes. The use of ‘Z’ in ‘ize’ rather than ‘ise’ being a good example, despite the fact y’all can’t say the letters name correctly!
I made the change from imperial to metric along with the rest of the civilized world and so I’m sure we could all cope with another change or two. For the record, I think we should change from base 10 to dozenal notation; even tough that implies shifting back slightly towards imperial usages.
Also, I can’t for the life of me see why we don’t call Paris Pa-REE the way Parisiennes do. It seems rude to me to change the name of their capital just because they can’t spell either!
Though, though damnit.
This seems largely much ado about (very nearly) nothing, and/or attempts by some at establishing another category of triggers for the perpetually aggrieved crowd.
You should write with the intent to provide clarity of comprehension for the expected readership as the main consideration, with as few exceptions as possible (i.e., personal names…usually unlikely to cause confusion, anyway). To do otherwise just invites confusion and inconsistency. You might not trip up a reader by calling the city “Roma”, but do you then go with “Firenze” and hope for the best? Going further, should you use the terms “boot” and “bonnet” when referencing a Jaguar car with Americans (and then say “Jag-u-ar”, if you actually speak about it later)?
Veering slightly off-topic, has anyone else noticed the tendency of some American news-critters to use Hispanic pronunciations (and sometimes even Hispanic accents) when speaking of people and places south of the U.S. border, but very rarely make similar adjustments for countries in European or the rest of the world?
Matthew B
Is the country Colombia or Columbia?
That used to drive my Spanish speaking colleagues batty. I like to point out to them that they’re very likely to misspell the US capital district or the river in the Pacific Northwest.
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Learning from the Wraparound Zone Initiative
Last Tuesday representatives from six Massachusetts communities came together at the Turnaround with Wraparound Showcase to share their experiences improving the services and supports they provide to children and families. Select schools in Fall River, Holyoke, Lynn, Springfield, Wareham, and Worcester are all part of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s (ESE) Wraparound Zone Initiative, in which improving “wraparound” services is a component of the turnaround strategies of low-performing schools.
For the past several years, these communities have been working to address the full spectrum of student non-academic needs by improving school and district systems and collaborating with community providers. Providing comprehensive student supports is one of three overarching strategies that I suggest form the Birth-Third Agenda, and wraparound strategies often include a significant focus on early childhood and early literary. As such, the experiences these communities have had is a rich source of information for Birth-Third efforts. In this post I introduce the Wraparound Zone Initiative drawing on the early childhood and early literacy efforts underway in Worcester and Holyoke.
The idea of creating wraparound zones was inspired by the Harlem Children’s Zone and the community schools movement, both of which are inspirations for Birth-Third reform as well. The School and Main Institute provides technical assistance and networking support to the Wraparound Zone Initiative in collaboration with the ESE. The goal of the Wraparound Zone Initiative is to address students’ non-academic needs, especially social-emotional needs, and promote positive school cultures. The ESE and the School and Main Institute emphasize that wraparound is intended to be a systemic whole school approach rather than one directed only at the highest-risk students, and they place priority on “rethinking and strengthening district systems.” The featured graphic at the top of this post shows three systems intended to improve the quality of support for children’s needs while promoting positive school cultures:
Systems for identifying and addressing academic and non-academic/social-emotional needs,
Systems for aligning community resources and support, and
Systems of district support.
Worcester’s Attendance Matters Initiative
Worcester has selected the issue of chronic absenteeism as the initial focus of much of its wraparound work (along with outreach to families regarding early literacy practices). The Worcester Public Schools has partnered with the Worcester Education Collaborative, a nonprofit organization, on a joint initiative to improve “learning readiness.” Influenced in part by the Campaign for Grade Level Reading, this partnership began investigating school attendance in the Worcester Public Schools. As in many school systems, the overall attendance rate was not a concern, but a closer examination of data revealed a significant chronic absenteeism issue among a subset of students, including a disproportionate number of preschoolers.
The partnership undertook a root cause analysis to identify the key factors driving chronic absenteeism among this subset, explains Robert Jennings, Worcester’s Wraparound coordinator, and Jennifer Davis-Carey, who leads the Worcester Education Collaborative. One important finding was that many of the students who are chronically absent live just inside the 2 mile radius around the school. Students outside this radius are eligible for bus transportation. The partnership’s research found that in many cases a parent walks 1.7 to 1.9 miles four times a day (to school and back for drop-off and pick-up) with younger children who weren’t yet of school age in tow. In response the partnership is developing strategies for preschool and kindergarten children in particular. These include using early warning systems and working with neighborhood communities to identify safe routes to school and organize “walking school buses” if possible. Worcester’s Learning Readiness partnership is also investigating the impact on attendance of the district’s suspension policies for younger children.
Early Literacy and Full Service Community Schools in Holyoke
In response to low reading proficiency scores, Holyoke has made early literacy a key community priority and has focused much of its wraparound work on this issue. Holyoke’s approach and the structures it is putting into place will be of interest to other communities working to improve Birth-Third literacy outcomes, but the district is careful to note that they are still in the early stages of this push and do not yet have positive results to show for their work.
Holyoke’s wraparound work began at the Peck campus of the Peck-Lawrence Full Service Community School, which was an early leader in the state in providing a full-range of services to address student needs through community partnerships. Three additional campuses in Holyoke have adopted the full-service model. Through its participation in the ESE’s Wraparound Zone Initiative, Holyoke has begun moving towards a district approach to providing full services, with an initial focus on early literacy. The former principal of the Peck campus, Paul Hyry-Dermith, has become the Holyoke’s assistant superintendent. The district administration is currently being restructured, and the plan is to create a district position that oversees full-service work across the public schools.
Holyoke’s early literacy initiative comprises four core strategies, and the community has designed a structure in which a workgroup has been formed for each strategy: improving literacy instruction, raising attendance, engaging families, and supporting kindergarten readiness (see theory of action slide above).
According to Wraparound Zone coordinator Megan Harding, each workgroup used data to identify measurable objectives. As the slide below suggests, each workgroup has developed 3-4 strategies under each objective. In addition to a comprehensive plan to improve literacy instruction in schools, the strategies include:
Common professional development for teachers and out-of-school time partners,
Measuring the impact of attendance interventions,
Home visiting and family education, and
Establishing four new prekindergarten classrooms in schools that will be run by community-based organizations.
Moving forward, as Holyoke reorganizes its district staff and creates a district level role to drive its full service strategies, it plans to complement its early literacy strategies with a second wraparound initiative focused on improving school climate and culture.
At a breakout session in which district leaders shared their perspectives on the wraparound work that has taken place in their districts over the past few years, district leaders recognized the challenge of investing time and resources into coordinating full-service activities. These senior leaders emphasized the importance of relentlessly communicating the message that meeting the academic and non-academic needs of students are necessary and complementary pursuits. As the examples from Worcester and Holyoke suggest, the ongoing wraparound work underway in the state is an important resource for informing Birth-Third initiatives, an intersection the Learning Hub will continue to explore.
This post was completed as part of a contract between the MA Department of Early Education and Care and Cambridge Education (where David Jacobson worked at the time). Contract # CT EEC 0900 FY13SRF130109CAMBRID.
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2013 NFL Draft Preview: Bears Backer Mock Draft 1.0
The 2013 NFL Draft is just around the corner and many teams are putting some final touches on their draft boards.
The Chicago Bears will be working with only five picks after they traded away two third round selections (2012, 2013) for former Miami Dolphins WR Brandon Marshall last off-season.
They also traded their seventh round selection for Tampa Bay Buccaneers DT Brian Price, who was released prior to the start of the 2012 season.
So what should we expect from general manager Phil Emery in his second draft?
Regarding Emery’s first draft calling the shots, here’s how it turned out:
WR Alshon Jeffery will likely be a big-time performer this season in his second-year. First round selection DE Shea McClellin will be asked to be more than a rotational guy. S Brandon Hardin will be looking to stay healthy and get on the field, while Evan Rodriguez will try to his expand his minimal role. The 2012 NFL Draft for the Bears and Emery is still being graded. But Jeffery and McClellin certainly have tons of potential.
Round One, No. 20: Sylvester Williams, DT, North Carolina
If the Bears don’t trade down in the first round they will be looking to draft value at No. 20. So why not take a solid defensive tackle in Sylvester Williams? Williams had 20.5 tackles for loss and 8.5 sacks over his final two seasons at North Carolina. He has the ability to be a starting nose tackle in the NFL. With Henry Melton set to be a free agent after this season, the Bears are left with Stephen Paea, Nate Collins and Andre Fluellen at the position. Picking Williams would add solid depth and potential. He could be a perfect fit for this Bears defense. However he will turn 24 during the 2013 NFL season. He would be a nice pickup by the Bears who need some depth at the defensive tackle position.
Other options: Alec Ogletree, LB, Georgia, Desmond Trufant, CB, Washington, Zach Ertz, TE, Stanford
Round Two, No. 20: Barrett Jones, C/G, Alabama
This would be great pickup for the Bears in the second round. Barrett Jones has the ability to play any position on the offensive line and that’s something the Bears’ offensive line needs, versatility. With the additions of LT Jermon Bushrod and LG Matt Slauson, the Bears offensive line has clearly added some solid veteran experience. But the other side of the line is iffy at best. Center Roberto Garza enters the last year of his contract and wasn’t very effective in 2012. Gabe Carimi will play right guard despite being drafted as a tackle two seasons ago and J’Marcus Webb will man the right side. You have to like what Jones brings to the table. He played through a serious Lisfranic injury in his left foot in the SEC Championship and BCS National Championship Game. He would compete right away for a starting job and could be a fixture on this line for years to come.
Other options: Arthur Brown, LB, Kansas State, D.J. Hayden, CB, Houston, Kevin Minter, LB, LSU
Round Four, No. 20: B.W. Webb, CB, William & Mary
Believe it or not cornerback is a big need for the Bears this season. Charles Tillman (32), Tim Jennings (29) and Kelvin Hayden (29) are all free agents next off-season plus there not getting any younger. Webb, 5’10” has average height, but could learn from 5’8″ Tim Jennings who led the NFL in interceptions (9) in 2012. He had 11 interceptions and 30 pass deflections in his collegiate career. He has strong hands and isn’t afraid to take chances. He needs to get stronger as he moves into the NFL, but he certainly has plenty of athleticism and potential to be a solid selection in the fourth round. If WR/KR Marquise Goodwin from Texas is gone expect the Bears to take a shot on the under-the-radar Webb out of William & Mary.
Other options: Marquise Goodwin, WR, Texas, Tyrann Mathieu, CB, LSU
Round Five, No. 20: Josh Boyce, WR, TCU
Boyce would be another solid receiving option for Jay Cutler and the Bears’ offense. With Brandon Marshall, Alshon Jeffery and Earl Bennett locked in as the top three receivers, the Bears need more depth at the position. Eric Weems and Devin Hester will be used almost exclusively on special teams in 2013. TE Martellus Bennett, who signed with the team during the first week of free agency will be looked upon to stretch the field as well as RB Matt Forte. It wouldn’t hurt to add some athleticism to the receiving core. The 5’11” Boyce added 161 receptions for 2,535 yards and 22 touchdowns in his three seasons at TCU. He had 998 yards and nine touchdowns in his sophomore season and 891 yards and seven touchdowns in his junior season. He reeled in six catches for 180 yards and two touchdowns in a road win over West Virginia last season.
Other options: A.J. Klein, LB, Iowa State, Kevin Reddick, LB, UNC, Reid Fragel, T, Ohio State.
Round Six, No. 20: Michael Mauti, ILB, Penn State
The Bears need some young potential at linebacker considering Lance Briggs, D.J. Williams and James Anderson are all 29 or older. Mauti has dropped this far into the draft because of his injury history. He suffered season-ending ACL injuries in his left knee in his final two seasons at Penn State. He is a very smart and physical player who can play middle and strongside linebacker. He will likely be held out until training camp rolls around, but he could be a steal late in the draft for the Bears if he stays healthy. He is a leader on and off the field something the Bears would love to have in the future with Brian Urlacher officially gone.
Other options: Sean Renfree, QB, Duke, Malliciah Goodman, DE/DT, Clemson, Jordan Mills, OT, Louisiana Tech
What are your thoughts on the Bears Backer Mock Draft 1.0? Would you be happy if this was how Phil Emery and Co. selected in the 2013 NFL Draft? What picks if any do you agree with, which picks do you not agree with?
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Andreas Antonopoulos, Bitcoin guru: “I would say Bitcoin is the fifth evolution of money in its most abstract form coupled to a new governance model that delivers the purest form of network governance we’ve ever seen.”
Let’s look at the daily chart of Bitcoin. The week has been optimistic for the digital currency. On Tuesday, it bounced from the $3,935 level rose higher. At the moment, the oldest cryptocurrency is targeting the resistance at $4,212. If this level is broken, the next resistance will lie at $4,291. If bears take over the market, Bitcoin will plunge to the support at $4,037. The next support is placed at $3,935. What about indicators? Parabolic SAR shows an upward movement for the digital asset, while ADX demonstrates the strength of bulls. If we look at RSI, we see that the indicator is approaching the overbought zone, if it enters this zone and leaves it, it may provide a short-term selling opportunity.
New announces:
Japanese online retailer Rakuten and Yahoo! Japan got the government’s approval for launching their own crypto trading platforms.
Linh Thanh Group and KRONN Ventures got a license for the creation of the first regulated crypto exchange platform in Vietnam. At the same time, cryptocurrencies are banned in the country.
Wuabit company develops a crypto wallet for WhatsApp. Does Zuckerberg know about it?
Pantera Capital venture company invested $160 million in crypto exchange platforms and blockchain startups. It’s worth to mention that they planned to gain $15 million more.
Apple announced the launch of a virtual credit card with free support.
Largest railway company of Japan JR East considers starting accepting crypto.
Kaspersky Lab antivirus company warns about the Lazarus hacker group, which has prepared new scenarios for attacking crypto exchange platforms and their users.
07.01.2020 09:27 Brexit: preparations have started
Today, the UK parliament starts the debate on Boris Johnson's Brexit paper. What are the likely consequences for the GBP?
30.12.2019 13:59 Where will EUR/USD head to?
What are the forecasts for EUR/USD in 2020 by major banks?
21.08.2019 13:22 Bitcoin falls below the $10,000 level
The digital asset could not stick above the 50-day SMA for a long time.
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Harnessing energy from glass walls
By Science Daily
On 31 May 2017 at 01:23
A Korean research team has developed semi-transparent perovskite solar cells that could be great candidates for solar windows.
Scientists are exploring ways to develop transparent or semi-transparent solar cells as a substitute for glass walls in modern buildings with the aim of harnessing solar energy. But this has proven challenging, because transparency in solar cells reduces their efficiency in absorbing the sunlight they need to generate electricity.
Typical solar cells today are (...)
Typical solar cells today are made of crystalline silicon, which is difficult to make translucent. By contrast, semi-transparent solar cells use, for example, organic or dye-sensitized materials. But compared to crystalline silicon-based cells, their power-conversion efficiencies are relatively low. Perovskites are hybrid organic-inorganic photovoltaic materials, which are cheap to produce and easy to manufacture. They have recently received much attention, as the efficiency of perovskite solar cells has rapidly increased to the level of silicon technologies in the past few years.
Using perovskites, a Korean research team, led by Professor Seunghyup Yoo of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and Professor Nam-Gyu Park of Sungkyunkwan University, has developed a semi-transparent solar cell that is highly efficient and functions very effectively as a thermal mirror.
One key to achieving efficient semitransparent solar cells is to develop a transparent electrode for the cell’s uppermost layer that is compatible with the photoactive material. The Korean team developed a ’top transparent electrode’ (TTE) that works well with perovskite solar cells. The TTE is based on a multilayer stack consisting of a metal film sandwiched between a high refractive index layer and an interfacial buffer layer. This TTE, placed as a solar cell’s top-most layer, can be prepared without damaging ingredients used in the development f perovskite solar cells. Unlike conventional transparent electrodes that only transmit visible light, the team’s TTE plays the dual role of allowing visible light to pass through while at the same time reflecting infrared rays.
The semi-transparent solar cells made with the TTEs exhibited an average power conversion efficiency as high as 13.3%, reflecting 85.5% of incoming infrared light. Currently available crystalline silicon solar cells have up to 25% efficiency but are opaque.
The team believes that if the semi-transparent perovskite solar cells are scaled up for practical applications, they can be used in solar windows for buildings and automobiles, which not only generate electrical energy but also allow smart heat management in indoor environments, thereby utilizing solar energy more efficiently and effectively.
Prototype of a semi-transparent perovskite solar cell with thermal-mirror functionality.
Source:Science Daily
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Rwanda’s Convergencium partners with Agile Financial Technologies to service Central & East Africa
4G Internet access reaches 95% countrywide
WISeKey and Microsoft collaborate to support Rwandan Government make secure transactions using Blockchain Technology
Kenya’s newest tech hubs are sprouting outside its “Silicon Savannah” in Nairobi
WhatsApp: Now one billion people send 55 billion messages per day
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US sets new daily COVID-19 case record
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Saturday, the United States set a new record in its number of daily cases of COVID-19, totaling 277,346 new cases, according to a Johns Hopkins University.
Thus, the United States, the country most affected by the coronavirus, has recorded a total of 20.38 million cases since the start of the pandemic and 349,920 deaths.
Saturday alone, 2,378 people died from COVID-19 in the country.
The United States began the vaccination campaign Dec. 14.
So far, more than 4.2 million people have been vaccinated across the country, far less than 20 million, a number that President Donald Trump's administration had promised to reach before the end of 2020.
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(jĕrĭmī`ə), in the Bible. 1 Prophet of the book of JeremiahJeremiah
a book of the Bible, comprising a collection of prophetic oracles attributed to Jeremiah, a prophet who preached (c.628–586 B.C.) in Jerusalem under King Josiah and his successors. His message indicts his contemporaries for social injustice and religious apostasy.
..... Click the link for more information. . 2 Father-in-law of Josiah. 3 Rechabite contemporary with Jeremiah the prophet. 4, 5, 6 Three who joined David at Ziklag.
a book of the Bible, comprising a collection of prophetic oracles attributed to Jeremiah, a prophet who preached (c.628–586 B.C.) in Jerusalem under King Josiah and his successors. His message indicts his contemporaries for social injustice and religious apostasy. Jeremiah realistically opposed resistance to Babylon, and his insistence on speaking unpalatable truths brought him to prison and the stocks. When Jerusalem fell to Babylon (586 B.C.), Jeremiah was allowed to stay with the Jews who remained, who subsequently took him to Egypt. The oracles of the book were preserved by the prophet's secretary, BaruchBaruch
, in the Bible. 1 Jeremiah's scribe, for whom the book of Baruch is named. 2 Builder of the wall. 3 Signer of the Covenant.
..... Click the link for more information. . They are not in strict chronological order, and there are important differences in the Hebrew and Greek texts. In the SeptuagintSeptuagint
[Lat.,=70], oldest extant Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible made by Hellenistic Jews, possibly from Alexandria, c.250 B.C. Legend, according to the fictional letter of Aristeas, records that it was done in 72 days by 72 translators for Ptolemy Philadelphus, which
..... Click the link for more information. , chapter 25 is followed by chapters 46–51 of the Hebrew order with some rearrangement and omission of individual oracles. The New Revised Standard Version text follows the ordering of the material found in the Hebrew text. The Dead Sea Scrolls contain Hebrew fragments of Jeremiah that bear witness to both traditions. One analysis of the book would be as follows: introduction; oracles against Judah and Jerusalem denouncing social injustice, immorality, and breaking covenant with God with warnings of imminent destruction of the city—Jehoiakim's reign (609–598) is probably the setting for most of these oracles; oracles dating from the reign of Zedekiah; Babylon as God's agent in the coming destruction; Baruch's memoirs, including Jeremiah's letter to the first group of exiles; the prophecy of a new covenant replacing the one now irreparably broken; oracles against the nations; historical appendix. A series of laments, sometimes known as the confessions of Jeremiah, are interspersed throughout the book. These reveal something of the personal cost to the prophet of his ministry of confrontation. See also LamentationsLamentations,
book of the Bible, placed immediately after Jeremiah, to whose author it has been ascribed since ancient times. It was probably composed by several authors. It is a series of five poems mourning the destruction of Jerusalem by Babylon.
..... Click the link for more information. .
See studies by R. P. Carroll (1986) and R. E. Clements (1988); see also bibliography under Old TestamentOld Testament,
Christian name for the Hebrew Bible, which serves as the first division of the Christian Bible (see New Testament). The designations "Old" and "New" seem to have been adopted after c.A.D.
Born circa 650 B.C. in Anathoth, the Kingdom of Judah; died after 586 B.C. in Egypt. The second of the so-called great prophets of Judaism. He began his work as a prophet as a youth in 626 B.C. A great number of Jeremiah’s sermons were devoted to the political situation of the Kingdom of Judah. Jeremiah preached of the necessity for peace with the most powerful of Judah’s enemies, Babylon; he preferred dependence on Babylon to the destruction of Judah. After the capture of Jerusalem by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II in 586 B.C. , Jeremiah was allowed to remain in his homel and, but opponents of Babylonian rule forcibly took him to Egypt. Jeremiah’s sermons and sayings form the basis of the book of the Old Testament that bears his name. Some of them were written down by Jeremiah himself and some by his associate Baruch, who also included his own narratives about Jeremiah in the book. The final editing of the text was most probably carried out in the second century B.C. The Book of Jeremiah is an important source for the history of the Near East of the seventh and sixth centuries B.C.
It cannot be proved that Jeremiah wrote even one of the poems that make up the Old Testament book The Lamentations of Jeremiah. The traditional attribution of The Books of the Kings to Jeremiah is fallacious.
the Lord’s herald. [O.T.: Jeremiah]
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b. the book containing his oracles
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Saudi Crown Prince receives phone call from French President Macron
Ally of poisoned Kremlin critic Navalny jailed in Moscow for inciting extremism
Tech giant Huawei to open its biggest flagship store outside China in Riyadh
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Coronavirus: Brazil COVID-19 death toll surpasses 80,000
Health personnel carry a patient infected with the coronavirus, on Marajo island in Brazil, on May 25, 2020. (AFP)
AFP Tuesday 21 July 2020
Brazil's coronavirus death toll surpassed 80,000 Monday, according to health ministry figures, as the country hit second-hardest in the world continued struggling to control the pandemic.
The figure, second only to the death toll in the United States, quadrupled in two months. Brazil passed the mark of 20,000 COVID-19 deaths on May 21.
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Recently, the Latin American country of 212 million people has regularly registered more than 1,000 new deaths a day -- though the figure for Monday was lower, at 632, bringing its overall death toll to 80,120.
The country has confirmed 2.1 million total infections.
Experts say under-testing means the real numbers are probably much higher.
President Jair Bolsonaro, who is infected himself, faces criticism for downplaying the virus and urging state governors to reopen their economies despite health officials' recommendations.
The far-right leader is currently in quarantine, along with several infected members of his cabinet. But he previously defied state authorities' stay-at-home measures, whose economic impact he argues could be more damaging than the virus itself.
Bolsonaro, who famously compared the virus to a "little flu," regularly hit the streets with no face mask until he got infected, shaking hands and taking pictures with supporters at rallies.
Like US President Donald Trump, whom he admires, Bolsonaro, 65, touts the anti-malaria drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as promising treatments, and is taking the latter himself, despite a lack of evidence of their effectiveness against COVID-19.
The World Health Organization said Friday the outbreak in Brazil appears to have finally reached a plateau.
There is "an opportunity here now for Brazil... to suppress the transmission of the virus," said WHO health emergencies chief Michael Ryan, urging the country to "take control."
But though the level of daily deaths and infections has stabilized, it remains high.
On average, Brazil has registered more than 1,040 new deaths and 33,000 new infections a day over the past week.
"The WHO talks about a plateau... but the problem is, the level remains very high, and it looks set to stay that way for quite some time," said Mauro Sanchez, an epidemiologist at the University of Brasilia.
Gaining control "will depend on what we do in terms of public policy, and on whether people follow it," he told AFP.
Only the United States has more infections and deaths than Brazil in the pandemic, with 3.8 million and 140,811, respectively.
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Mally (Veronica Quilligan) and Barty (David Bradley) — gathering seaweed competitively
Yesterday I finished the course I taught at OLLI at AU, which I called Trollope’s Phineas Redux (Palliser 4) with an enjoyable session I called “Beyond Barsetshire,” where we read Trollope’s early short story set in Cornwall, “Malachi’s Cove,” and watched the marvelous movie of the same name, scripted & directed by Herbert Wise. I know I’ve written about book and film several times already, but we had such a good time, the discussion was filled with insights I hadn’t thought about before, and best of all, the movie has been put on YouTube, where there have been hardly any cuts (the original landscape framing, extra similar mood shorts) but is otherwise intact, with the sensitively photographed place projected so well, I want to share it here:
The point I wanted to make was to show the class that there are many Trollope texts, which do not conform to the strictly upper class milieu, use of bourgeois characters, and their political outlook. As we had but time for one, I chose “Malachi’s Cove” because it seems to me a kind of alternative re-mix of elements in his mainstream stories, or hidden away powerful subtext to his more complacent genial or sardonic primary texts. that comes out more strikingly in this edge story (Cornwall on edge, like the Highlands, to Trollope Ireland, both mentioned by Trollope — as well as Brittany, the Basque country) about just about destitute people. It is a brilliant or happy coincidence that Donald Pleasance plays Malachi Trengross, a crippled in the film) old man and grandfather, dependent on and tenderly loving his healthy bold daughter, Mally, for he repeats the same role in The Warden and Barchester Towers as Mr Harding to her Eleanor Bold: central to novel and book is a similarly devoted pair, now daughter and elderly father. He is perfect in both roles.
One of the several scenes in which we watch the old man and his grand-daughter eating or doing other daily act together
Other parallels: When Barty tries to take over the piece of cliff where Mally is earning what living and her grandfather have by gathering seaweed (sold for fertilizer), and she goes to a lawyer and discovers that she has no right over the land she and her grandfather have been living on (in a hut built by the grandfather) and wresting a living out of. He disputes the age-old custom Cornish people once thought they had of being free to take as their property any flotsam and jetsam that ends up on the shore. Mally bursts out into anger, and when in another dialogue in the film (with a man who comes to buy the seaweed regularly), threatening Barty’s life. When at first he does seem he may have drowned by her hand (though she saved him), this anticipates Phineas brandishing his club at the thought of Mr Bonteen and being accused of murder of said man. In both cases they are warned not to behave this way: Mally by the vicar.
Place, setting, economic framing, all Trollope in the mainstream, here become a beautiful mood piece in the film (filmed on location) and in the book too. Trollope has a strong tendency to make outsiders, outliers, central to his tale, and look at the worlds around them through such lens: the grandfather and Mally are just that. Trollope’s narrator implies Mally is to blame for not making friends, for refusing to dress up at all – this compromising, backtracking is like him too.
Despite his crippled state, the grandfather comes down the cliff while Mally runs for help (Barty’s father, the Gunliffe cottage is nearby too); she then has to help the old man up the cliff
People in the class saw some things I hadn’t. For example, someone suggested that this is Cornish matter is a kind of spill-over from Trollope’s time in Ireland and writing about it; indeed, Trollope makes explicit that the cliff scenery and and watery world he is immersing us in may be found or beaten “by many portions of the west coast of Ireland and perhaps also by spots in Wales and Scotland” (458).
Every now and then there came a squall of rain, and though there was sufficient light, the heavens were black with clouds. A scene more beautiful might hardly be found by those who love the glories of the coast. The light for such objects was perfect. Nothing could exceed the grandeur of the colours,–the blue of the open sea, the white of the breaking waves, the yellow sands, or the streaks of red and brown which gave such richness to the cliffs” (Sutherland p 464).
There are also many things in the stories beyond Barsetshire, you don’t see in Trollope’s more mainstream long novels. Trollope was here drawn to “edge” countries, cultures driven back to the edge of some “central” hub or citified area, moving from the Highlands, down to the edge of Wales, down into Cornwall, which regards itself as something of a different country, bounded from England by the river Tamar. Allusions to Arthurian tales (from where they are Mally and her grandfather can see Tintagel). She herself is made to seem uncanny “.. wild- looking, almost unearthly creature, with wild-flowing, black, uncombed hair …”. “It almost seems like she sprang fully formed from the earth, totally unaware of any vestiges of civilization, but yet with a native gentility.” And she would jeer [Barty] with a wild, weird laughter, and shriek to him through the wind that he was not half a man” (465). The story has much wind, stone, water (especially) and bird imagery and this is realized in the film.
A brief summary comparison:
Henry Herbert turned Trollope’s mood parable about economics & social life in desperate circumstances in Cornwall into a full Cornish growing-up and atmospheric story of grief, loss, and renewal.
Trollope’s story is much shorter, and it is focused on the sharp primary conflict between Mally and Barty over the seaweed: Trollope spends hardly a page and a half before he has the two of them struggling on the cliff over this wretched stuff: his center is the economic and psychological conflict and the aftermath with the parents at first blaming her (both the father as well as the mother) in the story, with the revelation Mally saved him putting a sharp stop to that (not lingering and slower as in the film). Trollope also makes Mally and Barty both much older and so less sentimentalized, at the same time as he conjures up a marriage for her by which she will escape the dire poverty she’s in. There is hardly anything about how she and grandfather ended up in such a place, much of it just detail about the grandfather finding the place one which harvested a lot of the weeds and manure.
The Vicar come to comfort Wally as she sits by her parents’ grave in the churchyard
The movie shows Wise developing a full story, a history for Mally, and thorough ethnographic background for the piece. The film gives a full depiction of the girl’s and grandfather’s daily lives (she goes shopping with no money, but brings back liquor and tobacco). We see (though flashbacks) how her father drowned and her mother trying ave him in time, pulling his corpse only from the sea. This anticipates Mally’s saving Barty. What Trollope offers for a suggestive single paragraph becomes a series of incidents of Mally’s mistreatment by the coldness and indifference of the Cornish villagers around her, how the lawyer demands relatively (for her) payment for advice not worth it indeed, how she’s snubbed in church. We see her and the vicar looking at her parent’s graves. And sequences of landscape and meditation: Mally with her donkey; Mally with the people come to take the seaweed away. We have the priest’s visit as a friend, warning the grandfather how bad it is to be asocial — this too a recurring Trollope theme. That’s Trollopian, Alas, there is added misogyny: Barty’s mother is made into a kind of vixen, jealous that the girl will steal her son, with the wiser husband trying to placate her. By making the pair younger, Weise made their fight with one another more innocent too — at the same time as we see how hard she must work and a scene of the man and his sons come to buy the stuff and take it away
Small things: since the film is not the product of computer enhancement, what you see is what the crew literally did: filming near a rocky coastline. Someone noticed the actress playing Mally never wears any shoes. How hard it must’ve been on a young actress – her feet cold and wet, the beach pebbly. How touching the donkey is after a while.
Trollope has part of a novel set in Cornwall. His early novel (1857) The Three Clerks (or “the way we work now”): Trollope tells the tale of two gov’t civil servants, empowered to write reports on “Weights and Measures,” and “Internal Navigation” come to Cornwall to visit and go down below to examine a mine. He shows real knowledge of the county and the workings of a mine – how dangerous and scary it is to go down deep in the bowels of the earth. Up and down in buckets or using ladders. He also sets a number of stories in Devonshire (“The Parson’s Daughter at Oxney Colne”) and Exeter (He Knew He Was Right). There was a Trollope aunt and other connections who lived in the west country.
I wonder if Trollope got the idea from the long speech in Shakespeare’s King Lear where Edgar to fool his blind suicidal father they are on a high cliff, and he can jump to kill himself. Edgar paints with words a fearful description of a person looking so tiny down in the valley from the cliff, so vulnerable.
The end of the story matches the beginning. We’ve seen the indifference of nature, its savagery in the landscape and men and women; the need people have of one another, some community, and of love and social reciprocation. The last words we hear are spoken by Barty’s mother as she tells Mally hat Mally will be her “child” now. She will marry Barty. We hear of how “people said that Barty Gunliffe had married a mermaid out of the sea; but when it was said in Mally’s hearing I doubt whether she liked it; and when Barty himself would call her a mermaid she would frown at him, and throw about her black hair, and pretend to cuff him with her little hand” (pp 474-5) And then we are told how Mally’s grandfather was taken up to the top of the cliff and lived out his “remaining days” under the roof of the Gunliffe’s much better appointed, more comfortable place. And a last joke; now the Gunliffes and Trenglos declare the cove is theirs with an exclusive right to the sea-weed.
Mally in church: to the bed, by the side
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The dream Claire (Caitriona Balfe) escapes into given precise focus; the reality of an aggravated assault by a gang of men blurred so Claire distanced from us into a ghost-like nightmare presence
You ask me if there’ll come a time
When I grow tired of you
Never my love
You wonder if this heart of mine
Will lose its desire for you
What makes you think love will end
When you know that my whole life depends
On you (on you)
You say you fear I’ll change my mind
And I won’t require you
How can you think love will end
When I’ve asked you to spend your whole life
With me (with me, with me)
— Don and Dick Addrisi
This is the toughest episode in all five seasons but one, the rape and aggravated assault of Jamie (Sam Heughan) by Black Jack Randall, evil doppelganger for Frank Randall (both played by Tobias Menzies). The earlier profoundly distressing episode (S1;E15 and 16) differs from this last of Claire (S5:E12): Jamie is raped by one man who seeks to shatter his personality and make Jamie subject to him, be willing to be made love to and the writer and director shot the scene in graphic (revolting) detail; Claire raped but also beaten, brutalized, cut by a gang of men led by Lionel Browne (Ned Dennehy) who loathes and wants to take revenge on Claire for her ways of helping women socially (by advice) as well as medically (contraceptive means), and the detail of what is done to her is kept just out of sight; we see the effects on her body and face only. But I was, if possible, more grieved for Claire because she overtly suffers much so much more physically and emotionally while it is happening & seems to remain more consciously aware of things around her (she tries to persuade individuals to enable her to escape) — and she grieves afterwards for a time so much more despairingly.
Far shot of Brianna helping Claire to bathe turns to close-ups of Claire dealing with her sore wounded body in the denouement of the episode
In any case, in neither configuration is the rape treated lightly; in both the incident is found in the book. A regular criticism of any frequency of rape in a series (and this is true for Outlander as well as as well as Games of Thrones) is that it’s not taken seriously, there for titillation, suggests that women don’t suffer that much or want this; is not integrated into the film story; e.g., Jennifer Phillips, “Confrontational Content, Gendered Gazes and the Ethics of Adaptation,” from Adoring Outlander, ed. Valerie Frankel. None of these things are true of Outlander: in both cases and the other cases, e.g, Black Jack Randall’s attempt on Jenny Fraser Murray (Laura Donnelly); the hired assassin/thug of Mary Hawkins (Rosie Day), Stephen Bonnet (Ed Speleers) of Brianna Randall Mackenzie (Sophie Skelton), the incidents have a profound effect on the victim or her friends, or the story. The assault on Jamie was part of the assault on Scotland by England, turning it into a savagely put-down exploited colony. The rape of Claire is part of the raging fury igniting the coming revolutionary war, which we see the first effects of in this season in the burnt house Jamie, Claire, Brianna and Roger (Richard Rankin) come across (Episode 11). What happens to Jamie in the first season and Claire in this fifth goes beyond such parallels to provide an ethical outlook that speaks to our own time. We are in political hostage territory, traumatized woman treated as hated thing; with a modern resonance of violation of the soul never quite brought back to what he or she was.
Jamie has wrapped Claire in the same tartan he did in the first season’s first episode
Paradoxically artistically the use of a dream setting and images conjured up by Claire’s mind as she lays on the ground being violated makes the episode into an anguished, agonized lyric. We know that Roger first and then Brianna have longed to return to the safety and modern occupations of the 20th century, and tried to return, but found their home is now with Claire and Jamie in 18th century North Carolina, Fraser’s Ridge; Claire’s dream reveals she too longs to return, but with Jamie, who appears in the scenes except unlike the other 18th century characters who appear in 20th century dress (e.g., Jocasta (Maria Doyle Kennedy) as a modern upper class lady; Ian (John Bell) as a marine, Marsali (Lauren Lyle), Jamie is dressed in an 18th century dress. It recurs as frequently as the supposed real scenes of the 18th century, is thoroughly intertwined, alternated so the rape/assault action becomes almost ritualized). This has the effect of distancing us from the horror (for Jamie takes an unforgiving revenge and orders everyone lined up and shot), except again in the dream we see Lionel at the table and then as a police officer come to tell Claire and Jamie that Roger, Brianna, and Jemmy won’t make this Thanksgiving dinner (Jamie speaks of a turkey) because they’ve been killed in an auto accident.
The denouement did not have the escape dream in it but traces Claire’s difficult beginning inner journey not to remain shattered by this, but as she has done in other dire situations before, put herself together again, calm, control, stoic endurance slowly the way – with Jamie hovering in the background, Brianna offering to listen.
The closing shots as Jamie and Claire accept the future will hold further harsh experience, which may bring the death they have read in the obituary for them Roger located in the 20th century Scottish library
The background music was not background but foreground in feel and played over and over, “Never my love,” one of the most popular songs of the 20th century, is a key epitaph for the entire series of films and books: Jamie and Claire have built their life together across centuries, and drawn to them, all the couples and people of Fraser’s Ridge, because of this unbreakable unending love. I feel it speaks for the way I feel about Jim and prefer to believe he felt about me. It’s haunting rhythms and instruments riveted me.
A woman’s hands in mid-20th century garb putting on a long-playing record is among the first stills of the episode
The episode could not have been more perfect nor had more appropriate closing vignettes: Jocasta’s song remembering Murtagh (Duncan Lacroix). Ian’s traditional heroic behavior; Marsali killing Lionel Brown through injection when instead of showing gratitude for having been kept alive, he treats her with utter contempt reminded me of Mary Hawkins killing her rapist (second season). The playfulness of the characters who turn up in Claire’s twentieth century home. Brianna and Roger settling down to live the life of an 18th century couple on this family estate.
As they came to the Ridge from the scene of high violence, Jamie speaks the beautiful over-voice meant to encapsulate his code of life, and as he is giving his life to these people so they are all willing to accede to, form themselves around his identity too:
I have lived through war and lost much.
I know what’s worth a fight and what’s not
Honor and courage are matters of the bone
And what a man will kill for
he’ll sometimes die for too.
A man’s life springs from his woman’s bones
And in her blood is his honor christened.
For the sake of love alone
will I walk through fire again.
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Phineas (Donal McCann) returns to London, is welcomed back into the Reform Club by Monk (Byran Pringle) and Barrrington Erle (Moray Watson) (1974 BBC Pallisers, scripted Simon Raven, 7:14)
Lady Laura (Anna Massey) greets Phineas, Christmas time, Dresden (Pallisers, 8:15)
For a course at the Oscher LifeLong Learning Institute at George Mason University
Days: Tuesday afternoons, 2:15 to 3:40 pm,
Sept 22 to Nov 10
8 sessions online (location of building: 4210 Roberts Road, Fairfax, Virginia) 22032
Dr Ellen Moody
On line at: https://ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2020/09/14/an-autumn-syllabus-phineas-redux-at-olli-at-mason/
Lady Glencora Palliser (Susan Hampshire) becoming Duchess (Pallisers 8:15)
Description of Course:
The 4th Palliser novel (Phineas Redux) brings us back to one of the two central heroes of the Parliamentary or Palliser series of Anthony Trollope’s novels, the major characters, political matters and themes of the 2nd Palliser novel (Phineas Finn) with a more complicated plot-design, a bleaker & questioning tone. We experience dramatizations of how party, ethnic, religious & colonialist politics shape & how money corrupts campaigns & political life. Competition between individuals gets mixed up with how sexual customs; marital, separation, divorce laws & male violence are working out in our characters’ more private lives. The novel dramatizes issues of fairness and investigative reporting in the criminal justice system in England over a murder case. There is a murder mystery, sleuthing; it is famous for the presence of recurring disillusioned lawyer Chaffanbrass. Although a sequel, supposed Part 2 of a very long book, it is one of Trollope’s masterpieces, and may be read on its own.
Required Text:
Trollope, Anthony. Phineas Redux, ed., introd, notes. Gregg A Hechimovich. NY: Penguin Classics, 2003. Or
—————————————–, ed., notes John Whale, introd. F.S.L. Lyons. NY: Oxford Classics, 1983.
There are readily available relatively inexpensive MP3CD sets of the novel read by Simon Vance (Blackstone) or Timothy West (Audiobook). Both are superb.
Suggested supplementary reading:
Anthony Trollope, An Autobiography and Other Writings, ed, introd., notes Nicholas Shrimpton. NY: Oxford Classics, 2014
Both paperback editions cited have the original dark picturesque illustrations by Francis Holt: here we have Lady Laura grieving with Lady Chiltern looking over her, both fearful that Phineas will be executed for the murder of Mr Bonteen, his rival and enemy.
I will bring into the discussion the 1974 BBC Palliser series, which covers all 6 Palliser novels, and is more or less faithful. They may be found in older and recent digitalized form on Amazon, also available to rent as DVDs from Netflix. Phineas Redux begins at 7:14 and ends at 10:20 (6 episodes). These are splendid experiences and can add considerably to your enjoyment of Trollope’s texts.
The Duchess cons Mr Bonteen (Peter Sallis) into making an arrogant fool of himself at dinner (Pallisers, 8:16)
The Maule story in the film series, scenes in the park, Adelaide Palliser (Jo Kendall), Gerald Maule (Jeremy Clyde) and Lord Fawn (Derek Jacobi) (Pallisers 8:16)
If you can find the time to read An Autobiography, I will be bringing in Trollope’s life as a novelist as he saw it, as we go along and end on his book about him: his art, the roots of the politics in the Anglo-Irish novels, the literary marketplace and magazines & periodicals of the day.
Format: The class will be a mix of informal lecture and group discussion.
Sept 22: 1st week: Introduction: Trollope’s life and career; male and female careers. Read for coming week, Phineas Redux, Chapters 1-12, An Autobiography, Chs 1-3
Sept 29: 2nd week: Transition & Political Context; Marital & sexual norms. Hunting. Read for coming week, PR, Chs 13-25; An Autobiography, Chs 4-6
Oct 6: 3rd week: Inheritance, hierarchy, death, the press. Read for coming week, PR, Chs 26-38; An Autobiography, Chs 7-9
Oct 13: 4th week: Unscrupulous politics. Trollope’s depiction of Daubeny (Disraeli lies behind the character). Read for the coming week, PR, Chs 38-50; An Autobiography, Chs 10-12
Oct 20: 5th week: A murder mystery. How differently Trollope handles the genre. Middle section of book. PR, Chs 51-63; An Autobiography, Chs 13-15
Oct 27: 6th week: Half of the class devoted to the film adaptation, The Pallisers; we will go into the trial scenes, lawyers, law, sleuthing. Read for the coming week, PR, Chs 64-76; An Autobiography, Chs 16-18
Nov 3: 7th week: Book illustrations prison, trial presentation of women, love, identities. How the book concludes somewhat realistically. Read for the following week, PF, Chs 76-80; An Autobiography, “Other Writings,” from Thackeray, from “A Walk in the Woods.”
Nov 10: 8th week: Phineas’ depression, Lady Laura’s case, the political ending. Anticipating The Prime Minister, if the class would like to go on; anyone want to go back to Barsetshire for The Last Chronicle of Barset. Trollope’s Autobiography as about the artist, the novelist, one of the inventors of the political novel.
Madame Max Goesler (Barbara Murray) commiserating with Mrs Meager (Sheila Fay) while eliciting information (Pallisers 9:18)
Significant articles and books on or including Phineas Redux:
Epperly, Elizabeth. Patterns of Repetition in Trollope. Washington, D.C. Catholic University, 1989.
Frank, Cathrine. “Divorce, Disestablishment and Home Rule” in Phineas Redux, College Literature, 35:3 (2008):35-56.
Halperin, John. Trollope & Politics: A Study of the Pallisers & Others. Macmillan Press, 1977. Harvie, Christopher. The Centre of Things: Political Fiction in Britain from Disraeli to the Present. London: Unwin, 1991.
Lindner, Christoph. “Sexual Commerce in Trollope’s Phineas Novels, ” Philological Quarterly, 79:3 (2000 Summer), pp. 343-63. (Very dull, but the only essays to accurately describe the depiction of women sexually and in relationship to any power in the Phineas books).
McCourt, John. Writing the Frontier: Anthony Trollope between Britain and Ireland. Oxford UP, 2015.
McMaster, Juliet. Trollope’s Palliser Novels: Theme and Pattern London: Macmillan, 1978
Mill, John Stuart, The Subjection of Women. Broadview Press, 2000. Online at: https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/mill/john_stuart/m645s/
Moody, Ellen: Trollope on Television: Intertextuality in Simon Raven’s The Pallisers Online at: https://www.academia.edu/6438191/Trollope_on_TV_Simon_Ravens_adaptation_of_Anthony_Trollopes_Parliamentary_novels_as_the_Pallisers
See also my blog series: http://www.jimandellen.org/ellen/Pallisers.html
Steinbach, Susie. Understanding The Victorians: Culture and Society in 19th century Britain. London: Routledge, 2012.
Vicinus, Martha Independent women: Work & Community for Single Women, 1850-1930. Virago, 1985. See my summary analysis: https://ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2019/01/11/martha-vicinuss-independent-women-work-community-for-single-women-1850-1930/
Mr Chaffanbrass (Peter Vaughn) explaining some of his attitudes before the trial (Pallisers: 9:18)
The two friends, Lady Glen and Madame Max (Pallisers, 9:19)
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Lady Laura (Anna Massey) greeting Phineas, Dresden, Christmas time (Pallisers, 8:15)
For a course at the Oscher LifeLong Learning Institute at American University
Day: Thursday mid-day, 11:45 to 2:15 pm,
Sept 24 to Dec 3
10 sessions online (location of building: 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D.C. 20016)
https://ellenandjim.wordpress.com/2020/09/14/a-fall-syllabus-for-reading-phineas-redux-palliser-4-at-olli-at-au/
Sept 24: 1st week: Introduction: Trollope’s life and career; male and female careers. Read for coming week, Phineas Redux, Chapters 1-10; An Autobiography, Chs 1-3.
Oct 1: 2nd week: Transition & Political Context. Trollope’s depiction of Daubeny (Disraeli lies behind the character). AT & Post office. Read for coming week, PR, Chs 11-20; An Autobiography, Chs 4-6
Oct 8: 3rd week: Ireland. Marital and sexual norms. Hunting. Read for coming week, PR, Chs 21-30; An Autobiography, Chs 7-9
Oct 15: 4th week: The press; unscrupulous politics, courts. The art of this novel. Read for the coming week, PR, Chs 31-40; An Autobiography, Chs 10-12
Oct 22: 5th week: Women, the Eustace Diamonds characters; mystery as a genre. . Read for the coming week, PR, Chs 41-50′; An Autobiography, Chs 13-15
Oct 29: 6th week: Trial scenes, lawyers, the law. Read for the coming week, PR, Chs 51-60; An Autobiography, Chs 16-18
Nov 5: 7th week: We will spend half the period or more on Simon Raven’s film adaptation of these Parliamentary novels. Read for the following week, PF, Chs 61-70
Nov 12: 8th week: Phineas in prison, trial scenes, how women presented. Read for the following week, PR, Chs 71-80; read from An Autobiography, “Other Writings,” from Thackeray, A Walk in the Wood
Nov 19: 9th week: How the book concludes somewhat realistically; Phineas’s final decisions; Lady Laura’s case; love and sex and one’s identity in this book. Trollope as an artist, one of the inventors of the political novel.
Dec 3: 10th week: Sum up. The Palliser series, anticipating The Prime Minister if the class would like to go on. Or I could switch to Last Chronicle of Barset and finish that series. Trollope’s Autobiography as the portrait of the man as an novelist and creative artist.
Halperin, John. Trollope & Politics: A Study of the Pallisers & Others. Macmillan Press, 1977. Harvie, Christopher. The Centre of Things: Political Fiction in Britan from Disraeli to the Present. London: Unwin, 1991.
See also my blog series: http://www.jimandellen.org/ellen/Pallisers.htm
Mr Chaffanbrass (Peter Vaughn) discussing the case, explaining some of his attitudes (Pallisers 9:18)
The two friends, Lady Laura and Madame Max (Pallisers, 9:19)
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No these are not dogs practicing social distancing ….
I’ve written a companion piece to my blog on cat stories, cat pictures, and a literature about cats: I make the case that dogs have been used and depicted, especially in fiction and legend as examples making a strong case for animal rights, their animal’s consciousness as somehow equivalent to people … Stories about dogs are focuses in the development of feelings and arguments on behalf of abolishing cruelty, respecting animals as we would want to be respected …. The second half I go into wonderful later 19th century novels, stories for children, and then recently a new breed which is non-fiction meant for adults, not sentimental sometimes with the dog as POV — from Woolf’s “Gypsy, a mongrel,” to Auster’s Timbuktu (about a dog living with a homeless man who is dying, both of them poignantly worried about the near future), to Garnett’s Lady into Fox, and finally Ackerley’s My Dog Tulip and the wonderful animated film.
A photograph of Ackerley’s female German shepherd, Queenie, re-named Tulip in the memoir
What strained and anxious lives dogs must lead, so emotionally involved in the world of humans, whose affections they strive endlessly to secure, whose authority they are expected unquestioningly to obey, and whose mind they never can do more than imperfectly reach and comprehend. Stupidly loved, stupidly hated, acquired without thought, reared and ruled without understanding, passed on or “put to sleep” without care, did they, I wondered, these descendants of the creatures who, thousands of years ago in the primeval forests, laid siege to the heart of man, took him under their protection, tried to tame him, and failed — did they suffer headaches? — from Fierlinger’s animated masterpiece film My Dog Tulip
Dear friends and readers.
Here is a companion piece to my Cat stories, cat pictures, cat poetry: there is a literature of cats (no those cats are not practicing social distancing), though the two do not quite correspond. In cat stories I tried to single out what distinguishes the way people write about cats, especially when the cat is your pet, from the way they write about pets and animals in general, some quality and feeling evidenced in the stories (as admiration for them in situations where it’s a question of endurance, understanding, something that provokes resilience, resourcefulness, a stalwart demeanor, at the time time as having the tenderest fondness for them as adorably affectionate). I also cited scholarly studies of art and poetry about cats.
In this blog I am not going to single out a dog’s or dog traits because so far as I can tell stories about dogs, photos, art do not marvel at this animal nor have I to hand (because I have not read) a history of the depiction of dogs (I think it would be long). Instead I mean to make the case that they have been used and depicted, especially in fiction and legend as examples making a strong case for animal rights, their animal’s consciousness as somehow equivalent to people. I think of how Montaigne wrote of a dog coming to a crossroads, and having to decide which was to go next, “the dog discourseth to itself thus … “. Stories about dogs are focuses in the development of feelings and arguments on behalf of abolishing cruelty, respecting animals as we would want to be respected. Why? because they publicly, shamelessly love us, yearn for us, are faithful, hard-working, constant, single-hearted, incorruptible. They deserve rights …
An ancient Roman mosaic
I begin with the earliest part of human history: non-human animals often pictured on caves, usually ones people hunted, religious rituals where animals signal aspects of humanity people want to develop, admire, increase, and so ingest – where the earliest dogs are pictured as companions, fellow hunters, with men as the leader of the pack. Unlike early cat pictures, these are about human beings: people using animals to define themselves, caring about animals insofar as they relate to us, aid us, are our friends. The second early manifestation I’ll mention is an opposing kind: satire, the beast fable, Aesop’s fables which are satiric classical stories: you reduce people to animals to expose us. Chicken Little an American story, the ant and the grasshopper (I’m with the grasshopper and think the ant a self-righteous prig), fox and grapes – many many of these, all with morals, sometimes ironic. Are any of these about dogs? One 18th century anomalous novel is: Francis Coventry’s Pompey the Little, or the Life and adventures of a Lapdog. It is a bitter send-up of humanity, a variation on the “it-story” so favored by semi-pornographers of the era (stories where a sofa tells all, a necklace), except (significantly) the dog is given a consciousness, becomes narrator and will worry human-like questions, for example, is a dog property? is owning a dog wrong? Alas, Coventry never takes this far enough to be an abolitionist of slavery. The form of beast fable, Aesop tale (as in the brilliant poetry of La Fontaine) did have a resurgence in the 18th century, but its concern is not non-human animals but people.
It’s when you begin to find depictions of a dog saving people, of their attachment to us, and ours to them, we begin to see the turn taken towards the development of animal rights — Edward Landseer made a career out of this: if you click, you’ll find as many pictures of people with horses as dogs
Attachment (1892) – he was a foremost animal painter in the 19th century, specializing in dogs
There is more than a core truth about this focus: it is the center of Ackerley’s brilliant 1956 My Dog Ackerley — continually Tulip fixes our hero with her “anxious bright eyes.”
This is also the core of the 1970s poignant also somewhat comic tale by Paul Auster, Timbuktu about Mr Bones, who loves his master dearly, accompanies Willy G. Christmas, a homeless mentally disabled man everywhere, with his (the dog’s) heart-breaking because Willy is dying. Willy’s mission is to find an English teacher he last communicated with shortly after leaving college, who encouraged and respected him: they are seeking out a 20 year old address in Baltimore in the hope she will take Mr Bones in, for Willy fears for Mr Bones’s life and spends much time warning him to stay away from “shelter” people. Meanwhile Mr Bones has gathered there is an afterlife called Timbuktu and Mr Bones fears he will not be able to get in. What Auster does is imitate the state of mind he imagines that a homeless person must know — loinliness, aimlessness, coming near death through accidents, alienation — and mate that to Mr Bones’s faithful loving state of mind. Half-way through Mr Bones dies (in a half-dream sequence) and Mr Bones is on his own: we are into a (to me) deeply engaging picaro narrative invested with extraordinary depth. The dog tried to kill a pigeon in order not to starve but does not know how. Eventually he feeds on thrown away ice–creams, garbage. Just before taken in by a boy (first adventure) he begins to howl. Piercing unforgettable moment.
I think of how I’ve watched a psychiatrist succeed in communicating with a withdraw child by taking out an animal puppet who is reminiscent of a dog. Not threatening. So early on in children’s literature (in Dickens, as in the disabled Barnaby Rudge and his raven), there is deep camaraderie in a child and his or her dog — and animals are made to talk.
Barnaby and his Raven by Fred Barnard
By the later 19th century when fine literature for children emerges beautiful tales: usually the animal is badly oppressed or abused and child loves her and the animal the child: so Anna Sewell about cruelty to a horse in Black Beauty (often a horse substitutes for a dog, or vice versa), or Wilson Rawls on two faithful loving dogs and a boy (Where the Red Fern Grows – socialist really, pro Indian). A Canadian early classic, Margaret Saunders’s Beautiful Joe about a real dog who endured terrible cruelty – as many non-human animals do.
Behind this a history of people in the Enlightenment first valuing non-human animals for themselves, keeping them as pets, companions, and legislation for animal rights – they are still owned by people and people have complete control. Earliest legislation on behalf of the dreadfully badly treated horse. People don’t want to hear what happens to make a horse race. Kathryn Shevelow’s book For the Love of Animals traces the rise of the animal proection movement memorably. We have not solved the problem of stopping human beings being cruel to animals for fun, torturing animals to madden and terrify them. No rooster was born with a steel spurs in its head (as Winston Graham’s Demelza tells Ross Poldark in Poldark) — Graham’s books manifest a real identification with and concern for all animals’ vulnerability.
For longer than the last half-century, a specialty in animals studies is the woman scientist who goes to live with a group of animals to study and observe them — from Jane Goodall’s wonderful books about her 30+ years with chimpanzees, to Diane Fossey with gorillas, Birute Gildikas with orangutans, and lesser known, Sy Mongomery’s several studies, e.g., Walking with Great Apes. Women are willing to give up their ego and identity to be with the animal. Sooner or later, they take on the role of protector.
This was what I found myself developing when I sought to introduce the peculiar take of the Bloomsbury circles when they came to write memoirs of pets and about animals — as context for Ackerley’s peculiar memoir. As usual, they took angles that led to new insights — or so they tried to. They wrote wrote pro-animal imaginative literature for adults that is not sentimental. Or they try not to be. It is not instructional: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas writes books about the nature of dogs and how you take of them, ditto for cats. You don’t read My Dog Tulip, or Francis Power Cobbe’s The Confessions of a Lost Dog, Woolf’s Flush, a biography; or David Garnett’s Lady Into Fox or the recent Paul Auster’s Timbuktu (see above) for advice on how to take care of your dog. All of them are about us too, about our nature, and how we are aligned to, closely related to animals, they are critiques of us, our society through the animal’s life and personality alongside of and observing us.
The earliest edition of Flush: A biography resembled the layout and picture of Cobbe’s dog and book
Earliest version of this comes before the Bloomsbury 1910 date:
by Francis Power Cobbe, an important suffragette, who was among the first to try to stop useless and cruel animal experiments, especially vivisection, the use of animals for experiments; her slender novella anticipates Woolf’s Flush, and I would be much surprised if Woolf had not read Hajjin’s story. The Confessions of a Lost Dog include being taken in by a very genteel controlled single lady, and both have as the central incident how the dog is kidnapped held up for ransom, mistreated and nearly killed. Because that happened a lot in Victorian England. Cobbe also wrote non-fiction, “The Consciousness of Dogs” (Quarterly Review), then “Dogs I have Met,” which dogs have sometimes had very bad times (boys’ careless cruelty, eminent scientist’s’ deliberate torture, a man who kept a rat pit in Paddington and aristocrats shooting pigeons sprung from traps).
Flush was a present from Sackville-West; and Woolf’s book is a researched biography of both Elizabeth Barrett Browning and her dog, from a dog’s point of view insofar as Woolf could do it. There are letters, documents, and Woolf is brilliant at not overstepping so that the dog somehow understands others the way a dog might (not through language). I taught the book as a canonical modernist biography. To this I have added (for the class I’m teaching) from Woolf’s The Complete Fiction, a touching short fictional memoir,
“Gypsy, a mongrel,” about Tom Bagot’s memories of a dog he loved, whom he tried to kill and could not (because of the way she looked into his eyes and grinned), who was a burden, bothering the cats, getting into mischief, but then falling in love (it seems) with a pedigree male, Hector, and when Hector was removed (as too much of a burden) so pined for him, that she disappeared one day in search of him. The retrospective memoir begins after Gypsy has vanished and is by turns poignant and funny.
Woolf had a dog who one day just disappeared.
Then there’s Bunny or David Garnett’s (yes he is Constance Garnett the translator’s son) Lady Into Fox.
It is a chilling book (not horrifying in the way of Kafka’s Metamorphosis where a man wakes up one morning to find he’s become a cockroach in body). One morning the narrator’s wife wakes to find herself become a fox. The first thing Garnett has to do is kill two perfectly fine dogs lest they kill his wife — we feel these as murder. She is regarded by all the world as vermin, as there to be killed. Gradually her eyes and whole demeanor become less and less human woman, more and more a fox as she mingles with other foxes, has a liter. Our narrator tries to become fox-like too Doesn’t work. He is not accepted. The book has a tragically felt ending.
It is sometimes printed with Garnett’s The People in the Zoo (in this one you see the original origin of animal literature in the satiric beast fable.)
So to come to Ackerley’s comic masterpiece; he might be said not to practice so much as to undermine the dog memoir. It is a love story, the story of his devotion to his female German shepherd whom he wants to have full life – not to miss out on anything, and that means for him, mating, sex, pups. As told it is surely a man’s idea of what sex is, and the obsessiveness of the quest (and graphically told failures) reveal Ackerley’s purpose as also to make fun of heterosexual sentimentalities about sex and marriage (as well as homosexual ones). As in portrait biographies, we also learn as much about Ackerley as Tulip. The humor is exquisite: it’s a matter of language and tone: our narrator is every so polite and impeccable, very dignified in the language he chooses; also startling and inventive: he began to think he had an “undoctorable dog.” He shows the cruelty indifference and urge to master and make others bend to your will in how many owners treat their ever so yearning dogs. I began to realize how many dogs might be emotionally abused.
Here is Dean Flower from the Hudson Review:
As he put it in his autobiography, My Father and Myself, “peace and contentment reached me in the shape of an animal, an Alsatian bitch … [who] entered my life . . . and entirely transformed it”:
She offered me what I had never found in my sexual life, constant, single-hearted, incorruptible, uncritical devotion, which it is in the nature of dogs to offer. She placed herself entirely under my control.
From the moment she established herself in my heart and home, obsession with sex fell wholly away from me. The pubs I had spent much of my time in were never revisited, my single desire was to get back to her, to her waiting love and unstaling welcome. So urgent was my longing every day to rejoin her that I would often take taxis way, even the whole way, home to Putney from my London office, rather than endure the dawdling of buses and the rush-hour traffic jams in Park Lane. I sang with joy at the thought of seeing her.
Here is the language of a man in love, for the first time and irrevocably. The scales fell from his eyes. This was love, as he had never understood it before. He does not voice it so directly in My Dog Tulip, choosing rather to dwell on his own innocent confusions and anxieties—a con firmed bachelor of refined tastes at the center of London’s literary life, driven to care for a creature who cared so utterly for him. For Ackerley, loving Tulip (whose actual name, Queenie, was deemed too prosaic for the book) meant understanding her desires, her emotions and charac ter, her spiritual as well as her sexual and excretory nature, her myste rious and essential beauty as well as her irreducible dogginess. Inevi tably, that led to some comic incongruities, which Ackerley skillfully played. … Recent admirers too have commented on Ackerley’s excessive, perhaps ironic use of Renaissance sonnets as sources for these bursts of eloquence:
Her ears are tall and pointed, like the ears of Anubis. How she manages to hold them constantly erect, as though starched, I do not know, for with their fine covering of mouse-gray fur they are soft and flimsy; when she stands with her back to the sun it shines through the delicate tissue, so that they glow shell-pink as though incandescent. Her face also is long and pointed, basically stone-gray but the and lower jaw are jet black. Jet, too, are the rims of her amber eyes, though heavily mascara’d, and the tiny mobile eyebrow tufts that set like accents above them. And in the midst of her forehead is a kind of Indian caste-mark, a black diamond suspended there, like the jewel on the brow of Pegasus in Mantegna’s Parnassus, by a fine dark thread, no more than a penciled line, which is drawn from it right over her poll midway between the tall ears . . . her skull, bisected by the thread, is two primrose pools, the center of her face light gray, the bridge of her nose above the long black lips fawn, and upon each a patte de mouche has been tastefully set.
But here again the language of love is unmistakable. The elaborate anatomizing, the fine penciling and drawing, the chiaroscuro, the classical allusions and chiasmus (“are jet . . . Jet are”) all attest to the lover’s devout gaze. What may be harder to see is that Ackerley had no wish to be witty or extravagant in passages like these, least of all ironic. He put all his art and heart into them. Yet many readers were disgusted nevertheless. Why did Ackerley have to focus so relentlessly on feces and urine; or in the chapters concern ing sex, i.e., his efforts (all failures) to find Tulip a mate, why did he have to dwell on vaginal lubricants and penile stimulation and the odors of a bitch in heat? The answer is at least threefold: (a) nothing—again —is by love debarred; (b) the problem is with humans, not dogs; and (c) Ackerley chose that means to demonstrate something fundamental about love and sex. As to (a), Ackerley earnestly sought to understand the facts of canine sex, on Tulip’s behalf. He consulted her most trusted veterinarians, but also dog breeders and other self-professed experts, plus all the books available, and learned that the process of “marrying” two dogs is not simple or straightforward, and that a great deal of ignorance, misinformation, and mystery still surrounds it.
On the film, from “One man and his dog,” The Spectator (V315, #9532, 7 May 2011, p. 48 — no author cited)
a labour of love, the visuals mesh with the words perfectly and capture all the various moods, from melancholy and autumnal, to comic and skittish. The film comprises nearly 60,000 drawings hand-drawn digitally (that is, on to a computer), and are just so lovely, like the best ever watercolours come to life … Tulip has her foibles. Tulip can be flirtatious one minute and fiercely possessive the next. Tulip can be infuriating. Tulip sometimes earns herself a biff on the nose. But, all the while, Ackerley marvels at her every detail, rhapsodising not just about her beauty and constancy, but also her defecations and urinations. There isn’t a bit of Tulip he doesn’t find fascinating, or isn’t curious about. Occasionally, the animation leeches into black and white pencil sketches where Tulip appears half human wearing a little skirt and holding court. … The film, like the book, does not directly address Ackerley’s loneliness and homosexuality and childlessness, but it is there in the chinks … It’s marvellous, probably the best dog-flick you are ever going to see, based on the best dog-lit you are ever going to read. What more can I say?
There are three levels of cartoon: beyond the beautiful colored pictures, which dissolve at the edges and turn into black-and-white satirical exposures of the less than admirable passions and impulses driving the characters, which turn into lovely lines of classical gods (now archetypally psychoanalysing).
Once again here is the vimeo:
Posted in 19th century novels, literary scholarly work, novels of sensibility, political novels/films, Trollope, tagged 19th century art, Anthony Trollope, Barsetshire, George Floyd, heroine's text, Jean Valjean, Mary Pipher, sexual experience on June 28, 2020| 13 Comments »
The cover for the first edition of the Last Chronicle of Barset
Lindsay Duncan as The Rector’s Wife (BBC, 1994)
A few weeks ago now I wrote a blog-essay on The Last Chronicle of Barset after a group of us on Trollope&Peers finished reading the book together. I followed that up with reading Joanna Trollope’s The Rector’s Wife and writing a blog-essay on the book as a post-text to Trollope’s novel. I had been during this time joining in on a reading and discussion of Trollope’s Framley Parsonage (the 4th novel of the Barset series) with a group of Trollope readers on-line on zoom sessions sponsored by the London Trollope Society. They decided they would like to read The Last Chronicle next, and the Chairman of the Society was gracious enough to ask me to give a talk about the book as a prelude, preface, or food for thought just before we began. (I mean to re-read it with them. They start again this coming Monday and will be reading this very long book across the summer (the schedule).
I decided to write a talk that combined my two blogs with a perspective that emphasized the modernity of Trollope’s masterpiece and called it The Modernity of the Last Chronicle of Barset (click and you can read it on academia edu. Errata: there is no way I can edit the text of the paper on this site except by taking down so here say: paragraph 8 should read Chapter 4, not Chapter 5, and late in the paper Major Grantley is “just under 30.”)
The thesis of the talk is that this masterpiece of Trollope speaks as directly and relevantly to us today as either of his more (recently featured) signature books (The Way We Live Now and He Knew He was Right). That it’s a piercing account of the way inequality works in the character of Rev Mr Crawley, and a dramatization of a young women traumatized by her experiences of sexual life. I bring in The Rector’s Wife as Joanna Trollope’s atttempt to give Mary Crawley what she is denied by Trollope: a fulfilling independent life of her own. I also cover Major Grantly & Grace as not quite past their sell-by date and end on the beautiful patterning and wonderfully accurate comic and moving accounts of other characters.
I write this blog to share the video recording of me delivering this paper on-line yesterday at the introductory session to The Last Chronicle of Barset. If you want to go to the Trollope Society site and view it there, click and scroll down:
The Last Chronicle of Barset
One of Crawley’s many cogent utterances in defense of his behavior: is featured there, one many people of those in a position to do something to stop illegal cruelty seem to lack the courage to act upon: “Opposition to usurped authority is an imperative duty”
You can also go directly to the YouTube site:
Gentle reader, if you have been curious over the years you have been reading this blog to see what I look like, how I sound and my workroom, here I am.
Posted in 20th century culture, 21st century culture, environmentalism conservation, feminism, literary scholarly work, political novels/films, Teaching, Winston Graham, women's memoirs, women's poetry, women's lives, womens' films, tagged animal rights, biography, Bloomsbury, book illustrations, heroine's text, teaching on June 15, 2020| 6 Comments »
Mecklenburgh Square (in the Bloomsbury area), by Margaret Joliffe (1935)
For a 6 week summer course at the Oscher LifeLong Learning Institute at George Mason University
Day: Wednesday mid-day, 11:45 am to 1:15 pm,
June 24 to July 29
Zoom, Virtual Classroom
Institutional location: 4210 Roberts Road, Fairfax, Va 22032
This course will examine novels & art included in the term Bloomsbury through the fiction of four of the novel writers: we’ll read E.M. Forster’s Maurice; J. R. Ackerley’s My Dog Tulip; Virginia Woolf’s short fictions taken from two books: The Complete Short Fiction (which includes Memoirs of a Novelist) and The Death of the Moth and other essays; and Vita Sackville-West’s All Passion Spent. Bloomsbury books (non-fiction, biography, essays, poetry) are written by people who belonged to an amorphous early to mid 20th century creative group, associated with a specific area in London, who were friends and associates, or whose works were printed at the Hogarth Press. The group lasted a long time, going through several phases, and left a rich legacy in books and people writing in alignment with the original goals and aesthetics, political and economic and social ideas. Thie works produced by this group are splendidly interesting, different, quirkly, at an angle from the mainstream, critiquingit, and remain strongly influential until today, are in various genres, often subversive and original texts. You don’t forget them. There are good movies to watch for Maurice, My Dog Ackerley, & All Passion Spent. I ask everyone before class to read E.M. Forster’s “What I Believe.”
Dora Carrington (1893-1932), The Mill at Tidmarsh (her most famous picture)
Required texts (in the order we will read them):
E. M. Forster, “What I Believe,” Online at http://spichtinger.net/otexts/believe.html or https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/what-i-believe-by-e-m-forster (if you want to buy, it’s reprinted in Two Cheers for Democracy. Harcourt, Brace, 1951; rpt. many times)
E.M. Forster, Maurice, ed., P. N. Furbank, introd., notes by David Leavitt. Penguin 1971; rpt 2003. ISBN 978-0=141-44113-9.
J.R. Ackerley, My Dog Tulip, introd. Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. New York Review of Books classic, 1999. ISBN 978-1-59017-414-2
Virginia Woolf, The Complete Shorter Fiction, ed., introd. Susan Dick. Harvest book, 1989. ISBN 978-0-15-621250-2 (this contains the whole of Memoirs of a Novelist).
————–, The Death of the Moth and Other Essays. I will send the whole book by attachment. It used to available at an Australian University of Adelaide site and is still on an Australian Gutenberg site: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks12/1203811h.html. It exists in book form: The Death of the Moth and Other Essays. Harcourt, Brace, 1970 ISBN 0-15-625234-1
Vita Sackville-West. All Passion Spent, introd. Joanna Lumley. Virago 1982; rpt 2011. ISBN 978-0-86068-358-2.
Format: lecture and discussions
June 24th: Defining Bloomsbury philosophy, ethic, describing the aesthetic. “What I believe.” We will begin Forster’s Maurice
July 1st: Forster and his posthumous novel, Maurice.
July 8th: Pro-animal literature & Ackerley’s My Dog Tulip. Read also for this day Woolf’s “Gypsy, the Mongrel” (in Complete Fiction) and “Sporting Party.”
July 15th: For this week read Woolf and her “Mysterious Case of Miss V,” “The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn,” “Memoirs of a Novelist,” “The Widow and the Parrot” (all in The Complete Fiction); then “Art of Biograpahy and “Professions for Women” (from Death of a Moth). I’ll tell of Andre Maurois’s Aspects of Biography.
July 22nd: Experimental fiction & feminist poetry: Woolf’s “The Death of the Moth,” “Twelfth Night at the Old Vic,” “Street Haunting,” “Thoughts on Peace During an Air Raid” (from The Death of the Moth), then Woolf’s “Kew Gardens,” “The String Quartet,” Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street,” “Nurse Lugton’s Curtain,” “Uncle Vanya,” “The Shooting Party,” from Appendix C, “The Dog,” “Ghosts,” and “English Youth” (in Complete Fiction). I will send by attachment poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, Adrienne Rich, & Sackville-West.
July 29th: Vita Sackville-West, her life, scholarly editions & biographies, poetry and All Passion Spent.
James Wilby as the ebullient sincere young Maurice
Hugh Grant as the hardened self-depriving older Clive
Recommended: 5 movies
All Passion Spent. Directed by Martin Friend. Screenplay Peter Buckman. Perf. Wendy Hiller, Maurice Denham, Harry Andrews, Eileen Way, Phyllis Calvert. 3 part (hour each) series. BBC, Masterpiece Theater, 1986. On YouTube. Delicate gentle comic poignant masterpiece of a TV series.
Carrington. Directed by John McGrath. Screenplay Christopher Hampton. Perf. Jonathan Pryce, Emma Thomson, Rufus Dewell, Samuel West, Penelope Wilton. Le Studio Canal, 1995. It’s literally accurate in some ways, but it panders to myths about the Bloomsbury people. Grim, with a caricature of Strachey.
Maurice. Dir.James Ivory. Screenplay Kit Hesketh-Harvey Perf. James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Phoebe Nicholls, Simon Callow, Ben Kingsley, Judy Parfitt, Denholm Elliot. Merchant-Ivory, 1987. Available as Prime Video on Amazon. Fine mostly faithful movie.
My Dog Tulip. Animated artistic Film written, drawn, edited by Paul and Sandra Fierlinger. Voices Christopher Plummer and Lynn Redgrave. Produced by Howard Kaminsky. Axiom, New Yorker film, 1999. It is available as a Vimeo if you keep searching for it. A masterpiece of tenderness, comedy, strongly pro-animal rights.
To the Lighthouse. Dir Colin Gregg. Script Hugh Stoddard. Perf. Rosemary Harris, Michael Gough, Suzanne Bertish, Kenneth Branagh, Lyndsey Baxter, Pippa Guard. BBC, 1983. Online at YouTube. Brilliant combination of Woolf’s novel of the same name, aspects of her family life, and filmic versions of her novel techniques.
Other online texts: by Woolf
Granite and Rainbow (contains “The new Biography”)
Available as complete, unabridged audiobooks:
E. M. Forster, Maurice, read by Peter Firth for Audiobooks. MP3. 978-1531874155
J. R. Ackerley, My Dog Tulip, read by Ralph Cosham for Audiobooks. MP3. 978-1441786401
Vita Sackville-West, All Passion Spent, read by Wendy Hiller, for Cover-to-Cover. Audio CDs. 978-1445801582 (hard to find, out of print, but just inimitable beautiful poignant funny)
Recent edition
General Studies, life-writing, other Bloomsbury and connected people:
Beard, Mary. The Invention of Jane Harrison. Cambridge: Harvard, 2000.
Brennan, Gerald. The Face of Spain. Farrar, Strauss, 1956.
Cavafy, C. P. Poems, ed, trans. Avi Sharon. NY: Penguin, 2008.
DeSalvo, Louise. Virginia Woolf: The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on her life and work. NY: Ballantine Books, 1989.
Edel, Leon. Bloomsbury: A House of Lions. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1979. Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life. NY: Norton, 1989. Johnstone, J. K. The Bloomsbury Group: E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey. Noonday Press, 1954
Moffatt, Wendy. A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E.M. Forster. NY: Farrar, Strauss, & Giroux, 2010.
Power, Eileen. Medieval People. 1924: NY: Harper Perennial, 1963
Raitt, Suzanne. Vita and Virginia: The Work and Friendship of V. Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf. Oxford, 1993.
Shone, Richard, ed. The Art of Bloomsbury: Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant. Tate Gallery, Princeton UP, 1999.
Summers, Claude J. E.M. Forster. NY: Ungar, 1983.
Rosenbaum. S. P. ed. The Bloomsbury Group: A collection of Memoirs & Commentaries. All sort of essays by many Bloomsbury people. Rev. Toronto Press, 1995.
Rosner, Victoria, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group. NY: Cambridge UP, 2014. Covers ground by typologies, themes, perspectives.
Sackville-West, Vita, ed. Mary Ann Caws. Selected Writings of Vita Sackville-West. NY: Palgrave, 2002.
Spalding, Frances. Roger Fry: Art and Life. LA: Univ of California Press, 1980. Stansky, Peter. On or About December 1910: Early Bloomsbury & Its Intimate World. Harvard, 1997.
Wade, Francesca. Square Haunting: Five women, freedom and London between the wars. Faber & Faber, 2020.
A few of my blogs:
Thinking about biography: Andre Maurois’s Aspects of Biography
Upon first reading Virginia Woolf’s
Death of a Moth”
Virginia Woolf’s Flush as canonical modernist biography
Bridge over the Allier c.1933 Roger Fry (1866-1934)
Posted in 19th century novels, 21st century culture, feminism, literary scholarly work, novels of sensibility, political novels/films, social criticism, Trollope, TV, tagged 19th century art, Barsetshire, heroine's text on May 5, 2020| 10 Comments »
“Dogged as does it” — Giles Hoggett advising Josiah Crawley (Last Chronicle of Barset, Ch 61, F.A. Fraser)
‘I believe, as I am sitting here,’ said Lord Lufton, ‘that he has told the truth, and that he does not know any more than I do from whence the cheque came.’
‘I am quite sure he does not,’ said Dr Thorne ….
‘I don’t see it,’ said Lord Lufton, ‘I might have a lot of paper money by me, and not know from Adam where I got it.’
‘But you would have to show where you got it, my lord, when inquiry was made,’ said Mr Fothergill…
‘Nothing on earth should induce me to find him guilty were I on a jury.’ [Lufton]
‘But you have committed him.’ [Mark]
… I simply did that which Walker told us we must do … ‘ (“Mr Crawley is taken to Silverbridge,” “Dinner at Framley,” Last Chronicle of Barset, Chs 8 & 10)
“If you take a young tree and split it, it still lives, perhaps. But it isn’t a tree. It is only a fragment’
‘Then be my fragment.’
‘So I will, if it can serve you to give standing ground to such a fragment in some corner of your garden. But I will not have myself planted out in the middle, for people to look at. What there is left would die soon’ (“The Shattered Tree,” Last Chronicle, Ch 77)
There is just no doubt in my mind that had the Rev Josiah Crawley’s story unfolded today, he would have become infected with the coronavirus, & perhaps died, compromised as his health was after years of arduous hard work on scarcely any food, of intense stress from grief, loss, and humiliation because his pay as perpetual curate was egregiously derisory, the nature of his work to go perpetually among the poorest to help them with the plainest tasks, to teach them, the poorest who of course would have been dying in large numbers. We all remember how his wife, Mrs Crawley, almost died in Framley Parsonage, having gotten sick with “typhus fever” (as it was called) from her contact through her husband with the Hogglestock people.
I maintain in this blog that Josiah Crawley is more of a hero for our time than Hugo’s man for Trollope’s theme is how inequality works: Like Jean Valjean, Crawley is accused of the smallest of crimes, he cannot remember where he got a £20 note, which seems to have been used to pay down a debt for desperately needed groceries; but unlike Hugo’s hero, the point our author makes is not that Crawley was driven to steal — neither our author or anyone in the book can believe Crawley could ever mean to do something said to be morally wrong; it’s rather that the pressure of living under such deprived conditions as he must daily endure has made him unable to pay attention to the most embittering of details of open charity. In the book’s first chapter we are shown how Crawley is regarded with distaste and distrust by the males trusted to be magistrates and sit on juries.
Crawley before the magistrates (Last Chronicle, Ch 8, G. H. Thomas)
Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill with slaves (from Milton’s Samson Agonistes, Rev Crawley’s frequent reading)
By the time of the grand jury trial it has been suggested there is no pity due this man: why did he take this position, when he knew the salary by itself would not provide enough money for him to live as a clergyman with a family, someone asks. The community feeling is it’s somehow his fault his family starves, live in embarrassingly worn-out clothes — his personality is to blame; otherwise, it’s implied he’d have been promoted. Chapter 5 depicts the acute poverty of the Crawleys. Not one person challenges the establishment which has made such a position for a learned gentleman to work in. No one but Grace seems to pay attention to or value her father’s learning, and she is after all forced and it does her no economic or social good once it’s discovered her father is disgraced.
We do learn that any scene involving money is traumatic for Josiah Crawley and that’s why he was a vulnerable scapegoat for those who might actually stole the check as a convenient cover for their own crimes. Mrs Proudie exploits the sort of loophole that often exists in power shared by various people where it’s not clear that the Bishop has the authority to stop Crawley from preaching because he has not been found guilty. We watch Crawley stand up to this treatment and express the agony of his soul in a letter to the Bishop:
I am in a terrible straight. Trouble, and sorrow, and danger are upon me and mine. It may well be, as your lordship says, that the bitter waters of the present hour may pass over my head and destroy me. I thank your lordship for telling me whither I am to look for assistance … But the deeper my troubles, the greater my sorrow, the more pressing my danger, the stronger is my need that I should carry myself these days with that outward respect of self which will teach those around me to know that, let who will condemn me, I have not condemned myself’ (“The Bishop’s Angel,” Last Chronicle, Ch 13)
In this same book Trollope provides another set of characters in London, who are much richer, & get away with very crooked dealings — as stockbrokers with other people’s thousands of pounds; but no one arrests them. Crawley’s intense pride and sense of his own good character make him unable to cope with the scorn and indifference to him, he behaves re-actively, masochistically, and when he refuses to give up his position and salary on the grounds there has been no conviction, Mrs Proudie, the ecclesiastical wife roars he ought to be prison. What is this but a mirror of the “advanced” economies of quite a number of nations in 2020?
The formidable Mrs Proudie about to intrude herself into her husband’s ecclesiastical business (modeled on one of Thomas’s vignettes for Last Chronicle; from the BBC 1983 Barchester Chronicles, played by Geraldine McEwan)
Crawley does stand up brilliantly up for himself when not intimidated by a court of law as when he tells Mrs Proudie: “Opposition to usurped authority is an imperative duty” (“The Bishop of Barchester is Crushed,” Chapter 18), and he does follow his wife’s suggestion to go to London to get advice from her cousin, Mr Toogood (“Where did it come from?”, Chapter 19).
The solution to the book’s mystery (“Where did he get it?”) at book’s end is capable of being seen as having a peculiar anti-feminist and feminist twist. The origin of all the Crawley’s misery is (as is alas not uncommon with Crawley) partly unconsciously self-inflicted. A woman, Mrs Arabin, has inherited a legacy from her first husband (John Bold, way back in Barchester Towers) and she has the power to transfer bills she gets as rent on her property to other people; being a woman she either does not know the particulars of bill transmission or she is careless about it. Thus do we learn women should not be entrusted. She simply slipped the bill into a folder of bills her husband was intent on giving Mr Crawley as charity. (To be fair, how was she to know this bill had come to the tenant from his brother who had gotten it from a crook who saw it fall from the hands of an aristocratic lord’s man of business, snatched it up, and put it forward as rent.)
Now for the feminist twist: hitherto the Arabins had been slipping these sums of money and other gifts into the silent willing hands of Mrs Crawley, but the husband, indignant and irate that his wife should take it upon herself to accept such moneys and not tell him, demanded that people no longer give Mrs Crawley anything but rather make the offers to him. Now had it been Mrs Crawley whose mind is clearer, she would have been able to account for who gave her these bills in this folder. So his taking over the will of his wife, demanding her abject obedience backfired. I am not sure Trollope meant us to see or himself saw this whirligig of time taking its revenges on Crawley as a merciless bully over his wife. Perhaps Joanna Trollope, though, saw how unfairly Mrs Crawley was treated by him and could not bear her abject life (see my blog on The Rector’s Wife as a post-text to LCB).
We began a reading of this book as a group on Trollope & His Contemporaries (@groups.io) with the thought it had perhaps become dated because it is no longer the famous signature book Trollope readers go to first or are recommended to read as his masterpiece. It undoubtedly manifests some obsolete attitudes. We did discuss these and I digress from my central comparison of the parallel between Crawley and Lily Dale to show how they fit into the book.
There is a spectrum in this novel of social-psychological behavior and motives in the characters represented by the old-fashioned world of Barsetshire as we have come to experience it for 6 books, and the modern one of London as depicted here and in, say, the world of Sowerby in Framley Parsonage. The two ends are represented by the saintly Mr Harding, on the one hand; and the unchaste morally imbecilic women and greedy male money-lenders in London, on the other.
Mr Harding is the only person in the novel simply to guess how naturally and probably Mr Crawley happened to have the note: he was given it by Mrs Arabin, whom the novelist artificially keeps away from Barsetshire and her husband too by travels into Europe. He writes Eleanor to ask, thus himself initiating a bearable ending for Mr Crawley. He compounds this deus ex machina role by dying and asking the Archdeacon to give his sufficiently remunerated position to Crawley. The Archdeacon still has to be pressured into it as Crawley is not the type the establishment will respect & will not kowtow to the Archdeacon. Through Mr Harding Trollope also makes fun of the complicated explanatory plots of how things occur in a Wilkie Collins detection novel. We agreed on the list that Mrs Proudie has to be killed off or she would have prevented Mr Crawley from taking a decently paying position by persuading the Archdeacon (not hard to do) that Mr Crawley is surely unfit.
Trollope both jeers at and disdains the London women, showing no understanding or empathy for how a woman can come to sell sex and her body in the commercial hierarchical world of London. They must be sub-human in their stupidity and animal-like in their tastes. His problem is to link them in (perhaps the Broughton-Dalrymple plot is material he had worked up on its own) through John Eames and he cannot in this respectable novel show Eames is coming to Madalina Desmoulins to go to bed with her. He does show that Eames enjoys triumphing over her when she accuses him of using her. He just (almost inexplicably) cannot keep away unless threatened by marriage. (John Eames is supposed to be a kindly generous man, but not here at all.)
Trollope’s nasty misogyny reaches its height by having Conrad Dalrymple, a male artist (friend to Eames) paint the corrupt nasty wealthy woman’s daughter as Jael in the Jael-Sisera story of the Bible (see Judges 4-5, the Book of Judith). Jael kills Sisera by driving a nail into his head, a woman’s revenge story of the type Artemisia Gentileschi painted. Women painted this kind of thing from time to time, not men. In Trollope’s novel such paintings of stories are not women releasing anger but merely glamorous titillating sexy silliness. This conclusion or contempt for such paintings is represented by having Dalryple tear his painting, showing how little he thinks of it.
One of G. H. Thomas’s vignettes in the concluding London chapters of the book
The height of cruel bullying and punitive values in the novel is, however, shown in Mrs Proudie’s behavior to her husband, to Crawley and a height of self-inflicted punishment (Dalrymple could have asked a large sum for his picture) is matched by the persuasive brilliance of the depiction of the complete collapse of her hold on her unfortunate husband and her subsequent death. What has she to live for if she cannot inflict her power through pain on her husband and through him on other people? (she is the Trump of the book insofar as there is one). And the distastefulness and egregious stigmatizing of the London women is matched by the depiction of crooked real business dealings among the London males, and the collapse of Dobbs-Broughton’s business and his suicide.
Here too we have simulacrums of the modern world but mostly wholly out of spirit with what readers of contemporary novels and watchers of contemporary movie series accept as readable and watchable entertainment — not altogether unfortunately: you can find this kind of material on Fox TV and recent violent sexed-up movies in the form of mystery thrillers and fascistic fantasy action-adventure movies.
There is also a somewhat obsolete story in the romance of Major Grantley and Grace Crawley. He insists on marrying her because he loves and values her, even though his parents are horrified at the thought of having as a daughter-in-law and wife to their son, the daughter of the impoverished and now accused Rev Mr Crawley. I’d say it’s not wholly obsolete as today many a wealthy parent will move heaven-and-earth to prevent an adult child from marrying down, which in our world means to people of less money and less prestige. But there is (out-of-date?) cloying element in the story as Grace is ever so grateful to Grantley and herself regards herself as beneath him and his parents. The material also includes a debate over the the obligation of an fully adult upper class male in the book (Major Grantly, a widower with an adolescent daughter), to marry only with his parents’ full approval of his chosen bride.
Further twist, the Archdeacon is as Major Grantly’s father, had persuaded his son to give up a good income in the military in order to live the life of a gentleman of leisure near his parents. Now he is wholly dependent on that father and the father is (an act of betrayal, of going back on his word) going to take the son’s income (an allowance) back if the Major marries the accused much despised impoverished non-networking curate’s daughter. He is put up to this by the malicious Griselda Grantley, now rewarded with one of the highest ranks for women in the book (Marchioness of Hartletop). Trollope empathizes with the Grantly’s parents’ idea they have the right to ask of their son he not lower their status in the world by his life choices.
I think Trollope meant us to see at least how dangerous it is to give up one’s monetary independence based on a promise. What happens, however at moments cringeworthy the romance (especially the scene between the Archdeacon just about salivating over the docile Grace) is at least capable of a humane turn of interpretation. Trollope enables us to see that Grace need not be punished all her life for the way the community regards her father; nor Grantly’s possible experience of joy taken from him because his longing for a gentleman’s life tempted him to give his father such power over him. Grantly fils can in modern terms choose an authentic existence; Grace can live with someone who will appreciate her talents. They can go to live more modestly on the continent. Of course our deus ex machina (see above) prevents this less than prosperous future.
“She read the beginning, ‘Dearest Grace'” — we see to the left, Grace Crawley intently reading a love letter from the Major; on the right, Lily Dale more relaxed posture, from the back, reading her newly arrived letter, with Mrs Dale with the newspaper in hand, a middle class breakfast scene (Last Chronicle, Ch 36, G. H. Thomas)
For a few days — for a week or two, when the blow first struck here, she had been knocked down, and the friends who were nearest to her had thought she would never again stand erect upon her feet. But she had been very strong, stout at heart, of a fixed purpose, and capable of resistance against oppression. Even her mother had been astonished, and sometimes almost dismayed by her strength of will … (“Down at Allington,” Last Chronicle, Ch 16)
Lily and Grace Crawley sewing together, early in the book, becoming friends (a vignette by GH Thomas)
The book’s second traumatized character, Lily is (I gather from group discussions) often attacked for refusing to marry. I cannot say Trollope is wholly on Lily’s side. The Last Chronicle in part rehashes a story told in The Small House of Allington where Lily Dale is stunned and her deepest private feelings violated; she also experiences a Crawley-like public humiliation. After not only engaging herself to Adolphus Crosbie, but making it plain to all she has given him her heart and soul (and perhaps body too), made herself abjectly his, Lily is, within less than a week of the engagement, cast aside by Crosbie for a cold rich titled woman. A young man, Johnny Eames, has loved her as a boy and offers himself in marriage, but apart from her never having been attracted to Eames sexually, she is emotionally shattered in ways analogous to a raped girl. In LCB, Crosbie, now a widower, of small but adequate means (his wife’s family having fleeced him), I suppose similar to Major Grantley, thinks to offer himself again to Lily.
The problem is Lily still loves the man who betrayed her. Lily’s idea that what is most painful is Crosbie’s notion he is making it up to her. In other words, he considers she cannot do with him. He is doing her a favor. And we are made to see that given his shallow nature, were she to marry him, he would soon act on the idea she needs him far more than he does her. He would let her know it, he would not appreciate her since she did not value herself enough. Her mother hates him & writes the cold distance rejection (Ch 23). It is very nervy of him to offer himself again to her. Again there is a parallel with Crawley: Lily’s pride is as strong as Crawley’s (and Major Grantly’s) and she could not bear a life of isolation with Crosbie, who is not accepted by any of her friends. In all Trollope’s novels, pride is central to people’s mental health itself so badly are we all in need of self-esteem.
In the later parts of LCB, in London and Allington (Chs 45,52, 76), we trace Lily’s coming to choose an independent unmarried life. She only goes totally to pieces when she is directly confronted by Crosbie in front of all the others but inwardly she craves peace and calm in order to be able to live with herself with any kind of psychological security. It’s not Eames’s strategy to confront her with the demand she must marry to have a legitimate life, but he does send women friends to make this point! Lily’s deepest impulse now is self-protection; she will not open up to sexual and social hurt, not any one (man or women) the opportunity to control and humiliate her again. She knows that Eames has been “toying” again with another woman, but her refusal is predicated on her shattered state.
I suggest Lily Dale at the end of LCB is the closest Trollope ever comes to depicting for us a girl who has been raped or sexually abused badly – and in public. She does say point blank to Emily Dunstable she thinks the better choice for all (it’s implied) is not to marry. Trollope’s narrator insists Lily loves Eames, and that she was near saying yes until knowledge of Eames’s affair (in our period it would be sex) with another nasty women determined her to say no; the sense is MD’s letter informing Lily of the affair made Lily angry over being likened to this base person, made her distrust and regard Johnny Eames as shallow for being able to become involved with her. But Lily does escape the charge of snobbery, self-estrangement and thinking too much about what’s to come from having thought too much about the past. And I maintain that we need not equate narrator with Trollope (as implied author).
Lily Dale and Johnny Eames, a last walk (Last Chronicle, G. H. Thomas)
Driven by Eames and then Mrs Arabin, Lily says 1) she “will not have myself planted out in the middle, for people to look at:” she feels Eames wants her as a trophy, symbol, his pride is what is driving him to want to show people after all she did prefer him; and 2) she is a shattered tree and once you axe the tree its fibers are never the same. It could be Johnny will be kind, generous, loyal, but that does not mean she is not maimed and will be able to respond to him. She cannot be what he wants.
When I have said I was maimed as a teenager by sexual encounters and abuse I experienced, I have gotten back the comment you should not be, & there is something wrong with you. This is what Mrs Thorne aka Miss Dunstable implies to Lily when Mrs Thorne asserts Lily should be able to get over it. Sometimes it’s implied in ordinary life that the admirable person just emerges the stronger. In a conversation I once had with my father, he presented as an explanatory image a piece of wood, originally strong and fine, but then someone took a big axe and struck hard and the wood was never the same again, immeasurably shaky, un-sturdy. To switch from these metaphors to people, my father was telling me sometimes such a person needs to take care of him or herself in a different way from others. Keeping yourself intact from here on in is going to take work. Modern readers could sympathize more were Lily to go traveling, write for the newspapers, have a vocation, but Trollope is profoundly against regarding women as having value individually, they must be wives & want to be mothers to be seen as useful & respectable & whole. So he will not permit Lily to travel or have a vocation or even get a job.
I have omitted much that is enjoyable and beautifully done in the book. The slow gradual pace, as the pairs and trios of chapters unfold, reach emotional climaxes consonant with the action, occasionally parts of the London stories (especially brilliant, persuasive bitterness between characters over corrupt money dealings), a host of minor characters well-observed, the pragmatic philosophy of that wonderful sleuth, Mr Toogood, and his goodness. Wonderfully realized believable types: Dr Temple, man of business as clergyman; Mark Robartes now grown older; Miss Dunstable is a disappointment but still herself. I agree with Stephen Wall, Mr Harding’s visits to his cello are among the most moving passages Trollope ever wrote:
But he would … gaze upon the thing he loved, and he would pass his fingers among the broad strings, and ever and anon he would produce from one of them, a low, melancholy almost unearthly sound. And then he would pause, never daring to produce two such notes in succession — one close upon the other. They were the ghosts of the melodys of days long past. He imagined that his visits were unsuspected .. but the voice of the violoncello had been recognised by the servants, and by his daughter, and when that low wail was heard through the house — like the last dying note of a dirge — they would all know that Mr Harding was visiting his old friend’ (“Near the Close,” Last Chronicle, Ch 49)
To analyse Crawley & Lily & a number of these others (even the waiter at the tavern in Barchester) could take a small book in itself. We did feel maybe there was too much reiteration, so that what had been done with such freshness and subtlety was here reduced a bit — the romance from The Small House, and the thick ethnographic landscape of the Framley Parsonage world, though not Lady Lufton who again springs to complex life. A rare strong good and now at any rate a guardedly independent and forceful woman.
Lady Lufton meeting and besting the Duke of Omnium (Framley Parsonage, John Everett Millais)
The Last Chronicle of Barset is one of Trollope’s masterpieces in the novel way.
On Surviving Fascism: Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzburg (née Levi), & Carlo Levi
Posted in 21st century culture, literary scholarly work, novels of sensibility, Poetry, political novels/films, politics, racism, women's memoirs, women's art, womens' films, tagged Carlo Levi, fascism, Giorgio Bassani, Italian literature, Jewish identity, Natalia Ginzburg, Primo Levi on April 18, 2020| 8 Comments »
Cover illustration: an image of a painting by Felice Casorati, a favorite painter of Natalia’s (whom her father presented as a not-so-comic tyrant then naturally abhors)
Of one of the Nazi functionaries Levi meets in Periodic Table, he writes: “, “è nostro dovere giudicarlo, non perdonarlo” [it is our duty to judge him, not forgive him].
Prison Box: Inventory (Rome, February 1944)
copy War and Peace
cyrillic type
(fading, spine bent)
cashmere scarf,
(dirty, white, torn)
photographs of a girl,
and a woman (frayed at the edges)
pencil stubs
(carbon
tips spent)
lined spiral notebook
(nine pages left,
yellowed, blank)
pair of wire-rimmed glasses
(left lens shattered,
nose support gone)
— from Peg Boyers’ Hard Bread, a poetic autobiography for Natalia, this poem the imagined box of things she could have gotten after her husband, Leone, had been tortured to death
“See, see where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament!” — Faustus, in Christopher Marlowe’s play
Gentle readers and friends,
Perhaps not altogether by chance, I’ve been reading a series of Northern Italian and Jewish writers tragically directly relevant to what is happening in the US and elsewhere today — slowly before our very eyes, keeping at this point millions of people quarantined at home with no testing for said virus, or humane exit plan (except death for millions). This in a course I’m taking with Judith Plotz at the OLLI at AU (as after all she picked the books and authors); most of them written between the mid-1930s and not long after WW2; you see the assigned books above. I’ve not been content with these, but added to them Ginzburg’s The Little Virtues (with her rightly much admired “Winter in Abruzzi”), a book of essays on her and Peg Boyer’s extraordinarily good recreation of her autobiography; I went back to Primo Levi’s If this be man and The Truce (which I read in Italian in the early 1990s), about If not now, when?, and Carlo Levi’s Fear of Freedom, in William Weaver’s Open City (an account of his relationship with post-war writers in Rome (these three and Ignazione Silone, Alberto Moravio, Elsa Morante).
I cannot recommend them too strongly —
The longer texts assigned were all ultimately forms of life-writing. In The Periodic Table Primo Levi retells his life through a series of ironic essay-stories which take their immediate inspiration from 21 different chemical elements, each of which allows him to tell of aspects of his life more or less chronologically, as boy and man in Northern Italy, before, during and after WW2, often seen from the aspect of him practicing his profession as a chemical engineer (this helped save him from death in the extermination camps). We meet his family, friends (Sandro and Rita who help him resist fascist culture), people he loved, whimsical utopian dreams, and (in one case) now exposes for committing without ever with understanding or acknowledging the evil enacted. We are led to see how central to our lives is chemistry. Personal stories filled with life’s troubles, philosophical reflections, whimsical irrational doings, often intertwined with his sense of an imposed alienation and stigmatizing as a Jew lead to our seeing a collective experience of humiliation and oppression lightly presented. Unusual and elusive accounts of life in a laboratory or chemist’s shop often ending in a characteristic sobering gesture. I liked especially the individual scenes, with their unexpected turns. This is a kind book by a kind man who has endured much.
Primo Levi at the New York Public Library
Natalia Ginzburg’s Family Sayings (another translation of the book’s title) feels de-centered: she hardly ever gives us her or her family’s thoughts hidden from the collective outward life; the anecdotes are mostly about others, with her as the quietly presiding POV. Yet the book is about her life, starting with the time she has consecutive memories at age 5 to near the end of her life when she visited England with her second husband, and now somehow freed of her immediate Italian world can spill out what happened the intimate events and calamities inflicted on her family and close friends and associates as well as their relationships, achievements, losses. Family sayings are repeated phrases, words, sentences that the family uses as collective comic glue for themselves. And we can track them (as they add and subtract people) from one place to another as they move around Italy, or are forced to move, hide, become imprisoned, escape (her brother swam across a part of the Mediterranean in winter to reach unoccupied France). Part of the reason for her reticence is this is a memoir, all the people are real, and the events really happened, so she must protect them and herself. I suggest frustration at this led Boyers to write the feelings and thoughts we do surmise (we are given enough to extrapolate) in poems that give Natalia’s repressed reactions and only partly expressed critiques and celebrations full play. I loved her plain matter-of-fact style: simple sentences expect us to provide in-depth understanding as when she says of Jewish and other displaced now vulnerable peoples they are “without a country.” While the surface is prosaic, quietly telling about all sorts of interesting people (many involved in politics and literature), the underlying pattern is tragic. Boyers calls her style and tone “astringent yet passionate.” The refrain: I never saw him again (of her husband); they never saw one another again. Like Virginia Woolf in Jacob’s Room, she produces a portrait of humanity as seen through the lens of a personal rich Italian secular-Jewish culture — during a time of aggressive fascism.
One of the unexpected pleasures of Boyers’ poems is that in elaborating, imagining Ginzburg’s relationships to a number of Italian writers mentioned and central to her book (e.g., Pavese), we get close to these.
Peg Boyers reading her poetry
Christ Stopped at Eboli is more than a poetic masterpiece; it is a political argument and ethnographic study. It covers the year he spent in internal exile — a peculiarly Italian form of imprisonment descending from the Roman period, where a person is cut off, exiled from his or her community, isolated in a remote spot and watched to keep him or her from any kind of political activity, news of the world he or she understands. (A number of the Jewish and socialist/communist literati in Italy were treated this way: Ginzburg’s memoir includes a couple of years in Abruzzi.) Carlo Levi may be said to have thoroughly internalized his exterior culture — he acts as physician (he was trained to be a doctor), paints (his vocation), writes, joins in tangentially — which culture during his sojourn expands to sympathize with these strange and victimized (for centuries) people he finds himself among, whom since the Northerners know little of them, he is determined to bring before the world of his readers (the book was written in 1946 after Mussolini fell from power). I think his conclusion that these people live in a timeless realm they cannot be plucked from wrong: they have been given no opportunity, no good choices (like the working class whites of the US), exploited by every group that has taken power over them, and the result has been seething just repressed destructive violence. (The lesson for our era is more direct in Carlo Levi’s book’s conclusions than the above books.) He compels our attention by the riveted and insightful nature of the chronological settling in and living alongside story he tells. His sister visits him at one point, and we see this world from her experienced sophisticated compassionate eyes.
Carlo Levi
Late in life both Carlo Levi and Natalia Ginzburg became directly politically involved, both as independents in the parliament with ties to the socialist parties. They wrote journalism, she worked for Einaudi all her life. Both seem to have been known by other much respected writers and artists — from Croce to Pavese and Elsa Morante. It is a small and elite world these people belong to, but one with a pro-social democracy tradition – now under threat too.
I’ve now begun the fourth author for this term, Giorgio Bassani whose Garden of the Finzi-Continis (I have the Isabel Quigly translation) has some wider fame because there was a popular movie adapted from the book. I began this autobiographical novel after reading an apparently famous meditation: “A Memorial Tablet in the Via Mazzini.” He differs from the other three by his name (no Levi), because he comes from Ferrara (the others Turin and Rome), and because his tale is of fascists. This epitomizes one of Bassani’s central themes: the moral problem of assimilation. A man whose has suffered unspeakably from the camps and seen so many friends worked to death, outright killed (probably raped — this is only very recently recorded as on Marta Hiller’s A Woman in Berlin) sees his name as having died on a memorial plaque on a wall where there was once a synagogue. He wants to inform all that he is still living, but they are willing (good of them) to acknowledge the mistake and seemingly welcome him back, seemingly sorry for all that has happened, in fact they want him to be silent about what happened, to enable their own forgetting of the roles they played in betraying neighbors, often enough taking their furniture, their things, their property, their positions. It seems to be his moral duty to assimilate in the way demanded in order that the society can return to functioning. But is it? What happens is the one survivor refuses to pretend nothing happened, refuses to forget, demands his house and furniture back. And we see that the others (outright fascists and those who supported the fascists) want to return to the status quo that favored them after the war as well as before. They want to carry on wearing fascist costumes, acting like fascists (the partisans with their machine guns are behaving like fascists).
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis seems to be about how uUnlike the Levis in Turn), Bassani’s family in Ferrara, surrounded by fascists and sometimes fascists themselves, were not aware that they could and would be destroyed — they thought their insulated wealth protected them. This naivete is found in Olivia Manning’s depiction of a wealthy Jewish family in Bucharest in her Balkan Trilogy: with what ease the father is imprisoned, personally crushed, his property taken from his family whose best option is flight (if they can manage it).
Giorgio Bassani
The relevance here works a little differently. With the increased monopolization of all trade by a few giant corporations, the film has become one of these unaffordable super-expensive DVDS, no longer on Prime Video on Amazon (gradually such films are being removed) and available only as a blu-ray, merely now very high-priced. A 4 part film of Christ Stopped at Eboli is available only in Italian (as who would get a profit from this, so why provide translations) and at astronomical prices.
While I have my own long-time favorites in Italian poetry from the Renaissance and again the later 19th century to our own time, I’ve been introduced to new poets I hadn’t read or known about. Bassani’s style in his novel seems to be long sinewy sentences moving back and forth in time, drenched with an edgy-raw sort of nostalgia, but here is a poem by him where the emphasis falls on the here and now. The problem is what do you do when fascistic groups have taken over the land you live in and are working to do all they can to impoverish (so as to enrichen themselves) and terrify you into submission. (I cannot reprint the stanzaic form, which you can see here.)
The Racial Laws
The magnolia smack in the middle
of our Ferrara house’s garden is the very
same that reappears in almost every
book of mine
We planted it in’39
ceremoniously
just a few months after
the Racial Laws were brought to bear
it was a solemn-comical affair all of us
fairly lighthearted God permitting despite
being encumbered with the dull historical appendix
Walled-in by four walls forewarned
Soon enough it grew
black luminous wide-rimmed
pointing decisively up towards the imminent
and night with grey
sparrows dusky blackbirds
unflaggingly scanned from below by pregnant
cats and by my
she too confined defenceless behind
the windowsill forever brimming
with her crumbs
Straight as a sword from its base to its tip
twenty-some years on
it overtops the neighboring roofs
beholding every bit of the city and the infinite
green space that circles it
but now somehow stumped I can guess
how it feels unsure
of a stretch up there in the heights a narrow space
in the sun
like someone at a loss
after a long journey
as to which road to take or
— Giorgio Bassani, tr. James McKendrick
Felice Casorati — untitled
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Congress could erupt in chaos next week — here’s why – Raw Story
From all that we hear about next week’s pending vote by the incoming Congress to affirm the Electoral College roll-up of November election results, it will be anything but routine.
But, as has become the usual way, too much attention is focused on the personalities involved and not enough on the effects on the country.
Indeed, it feels much more depressingly usual that we could have debate to resolve a fantasy election challenge than we can have to settle the new outstanding impasse over a presidential hissy fit over signing an overdue coronavirus aid bill – a signing that came without explanation last night.
A final showdown will make this country weaker in the eyes of adversaries, invite more chaos and make it tons more difficult to move ahead.
The cast of the Jan. 6. drama includes Donald Trump, of course, whose obsession with the fantasy of a Congress overturning reality is center stage; Sen. Mitch McConnell and his apparently doomed hopes for a unified Republican caucus, the puppetry of incoming Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), acting on behalf of Trump, and the spinelessness of Vice President Mike Pence, who is caught in the unfortunate speaking role of recognizing (or not) the vocal attempts of a few Trump loyalists in both houses to float the required objections to the Electoral College results.
Oh yeah, there also is a president-elect-in-waiting expecting to move into the White House on Jan. 20.
From a point removed enough from the scuffling to take a deep breath, the question is why so little concern in this dust-up is about the well-being of the country rather than calming the insistent demands of the Trump personal tantrum. For Trump, like a perceived Louis XIV from another era, the state actually is him, and, in his delusion, Trump must think what he is doing is towards Making America Great.
Actually, what an arbitrarily disruptive Jan. 6 vote is doing is to continue and, in fact, accelerate Trump’s attacks on trust in American institutions. A final showdown to attempt to overturn an American election will make this country weaker in the eyes of adversaries, invite more chaos at a time already fraught with illness and economic disruption, and make it tons more difficult to move ahead with the many aspects of governance that require actual review – and change.
Avoiding a Fight
Multiple news articles are reflecting similar themes about this pending last-ditch election challenge, even amid a few hints from pundits that perhaps Trump had been holding back on signing the coronavirus bill in return for promised Republican leadership help on contesting the election.
The set-up: A single objection from both a House and Senate member to the presentation of Electoral College results kicks off a two-hour debate and vote in each house on the objection.
Here’s TheHill.com: “National Republicans are desperate to avoid a floor fight in Congress over the certification of the Electoral College vote next month, believing it would be horrible politics to continue waging what most recognize to be a hopeless battle to overturn the outcome of the election.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Deputy John Thune (R-S.D.) have asked their Republican Senate colleagues not to join Rep. Mo Brooks R-Ala.), Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) or other House members looking to object to the election results. Incoming Tuberville says he is heeding Trump’s urge for Republicans to revolt, and Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) are wild cards.
Trump this week threatened to primary Thune in the next election, showing what he believes to be his iron fist.
On top of all else, the two races on Jan. 5 in Georgia are so close that it seems likely we will not have those two seats filled on the following day.
Those who follow these procedural issues closely say any revolt will not be effective. Already too many Republican senators say they will oppose any effort to overturn the election, starting with Mitt Romney (R-Utah), but also including Mike Lee (R-Utah), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska).
And Trump’s inner circle of lawyers still have one last case pending before a Supreme Court that already has shot down the appeal from Texas to overturn, without evidence, the elections in four contested states. Trump has been waving a 36-page document assembly by Trade Representative and non-lawyer Peter Navarro compiling unverified affidavits and complaints as if they are evidence.
Pence is in a strange position, among the last of the Trump defenders. As vice president, it is he who presides over the joint meeting of Congress that day and it is he who must accept or reject the objections from the floor. My bet is that he accepts the objection, allows the votes to shoot down the objection, before slinking out of town on a previously set foreign trip he announced for cover.
Off to the side, Trump’s armies of white supremacists and loyalists seem to care little about either the realities of the election nor the actual rules for such affirmation of Electoral College outcomes. They want only what they want – Dear Leader for another four years and the ouster of Joe Biden as an imposter president-elect.
They are making clear to anyone who stands in the way – including Fox News, Newsmax, retiring Atty. Gen. William P. Barr, governors and state legislators – that they will have their way, even threatening violence to get it.
So, a congressional procedural floor fight is just symbolic.
Trump just wants chaos that continues to keep him in the limelight, and puts himself in the position of aggrieved candidate from whom reelection was stolen. That allows him to continue collecting tons of unrestricted money from supporters, to threaten a new election try in four years and to seek to establish himself as shadow president-in-exile, whose tweets and opinions he thinks will matter.
Of course, instead, Trump could stand on principle here—for elections not his own. If he truly thinks there was fraud, he could be asking for a full review and evaluation of the things that he thinks the states should change – from procedures governing mail ballots and authentication to a required mechanical review of voting machines.
We know Trump cares only about his own political fortunes, however, and believes that he gains by causing agita for the country.
He already has his 2024 would-be red hat: Make America Chaotic.
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Heed the call of the wild: don’t cull the wolf
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They encroach on natural habitats, kill wildlife and destroy native landscapes. While this is, in many ways, the modus operendi of human populations, it is the excuse now being given by the US Fish and Wildlife Services (FWS) in its call on the federal government to remove the gray wolf from endangered species lists. All for the purpose of using human “ingenuity” (read: guns) to help reduce the population to a more “manageable” level.
Decades after its near-extinction, the wolf of Montana is back in numbers. Photograph: Jeff Vanuga/Corbis
Activists are beginning to take to the social media networks in calling for the government to not slaughter wolves. One petition, began last week, has already garnered several thousand signatures en route to its 10,000 goal.
With thousands of wolves across the country struggling to survive after decades of reintroduction since humans slaughtered nearly the entire population, it seems odd that calls have grown stronger to remove them from the Endangered Species Act (ESA). According to the FWS, in the Great Lakes region, there are roughly 4,000 wolves; in the Northern Rocky Mountains around 1,700; Washington State has nine total; the southwest about 60 wolves. In Alaska, where wolves are not protected by the ESA, there live about 10,000.
So, why have the calls for “culling” wolves increased so dramatically over the past five years, in a plan to reduce the populations which the FWS terms “control”?
The modern wolf story largely begins in 1995, in Idaho (my home state), when the state reintroduced a number of gray wolves into the state as part of the “experimental, non-essential” clause of the ESA. From there, the animals developed and grew in numbers across the state as wildlife biologists helped support the small ecosystems that were developed for the animals’ use. And in the United States Pacific northwest, the Nez Perce Native American tribe also started their own project, which enabled a pack of wolves to live and create familial ties in a large fenced area.
Not everyone was pleased that hills covered in snow and jagged mountains – the difficult terrain of Idaho’s mountains – are now home to wolves: some government officials and ordinary citizens claim the species has now overpopulated the wilderness areas and is a threat to “human activity”.
As one family friend, a hunter, told me recently, the wolves are “killing livestock, attacking people in the natural parks and without action could overrun our landscape”. Although he is right that wolves do attack livestock (and wild prey), there is little evidence that people are being attacked. Wolves rarely are aggressive toward humans unless threatened.
The problem is rather with the continued development on what had, historically, been remote areas; there, wolves are simply attempting to survive. With calls for removing wolves from the protection of the ESA, however, it could soon be open season for hunters – in what officials argue are “conservation” efforts to ensure the wolves’ survival.
I spoke with an Idaho biologist who has worked with both the FWS and the wolf reintroduction program. He argues that human populations continue to “overuse” hunting in the name of sport and this has reduced deer and elk populations, not just in Idaho, but in the Great Lakes and Alaska. The result?
Wolves have been forced to look elsewhere for food and sustenance. This results in cattle being attacked because the regular food chain has been disrupted. Hunting wolves won’t stop this problem unless all the wolves are killed.
He also pointed out that during such culls – which we have seen in Idaho and other areas – it is the adult wolves that are killed, often leaving cubs unprotected and unable to fend for themselves. “It is sad that this sort of thing continues,” he added.
Activists have called for a blanket ban on wolf-killing, but there is a need to work with the FWS and those who feel threatened by wolves. We must understand that the issue of wolves is a nuanced controversy in which those directly affected by the encroaching wolf populations must be heard. There needs to be compromise that does not threaten the whole wolf population and finds sustainable solutions in the specific environments where the reintroduction process has occurred.
At the same time, we can’t afford to reverse the good work of reintroduction programs and go back to the days when wolves were seen as a deadly menace to humans and their livestock – and had to be exterminated because of that perception.
This article was written by Joseph Mayton for the Guardian UK.
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Anne Grice
This backward archaic culture of hunting which was prevalent in the dark ages must be stopped and the USA needs to accept that those practices of hunting wild life such as wolves is disgusting, unacceptable and has no place in modern society! This generational attitude must be wiped out of people's mindset and education is essential to foster civilised behaviour! Stop killing your wild life and stop encroaching in their habitat. They have to live somewhere and humans need to stop being bloody greedy and learn how to avoid wolf-human conflict. Wolves and their young deserve to live in peace… Read more »
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Stop killing the little wildlife we got left!
Stephen Anderson
has tiffany hurliman,considered,what would happen if people decided,to cull her family,as they are using to much oxygen,that could be used,for future generations,the logic of which,is that trees,natural rainforests,jungles etc,are being destroyed,at a frightening rate,,now the whole human race,depends,on them for life giving oxygen,so based on her use of logic,should we prevent ,her and her families,being culled? get there dna, save it for the future,for technology,to restore them,this is her logic,not mine, my point -being that if humans,were not so damm greedy,and corrupt,nature,would rightly take,its course, but when humans,interfere,that always,upsets,the balance of nature,humans should stop,interfering with nature,wild animals etc, and humans… Read more »
Suzanne Kledzik Dunham
Nature was put out of balance by the killing of the wolves Tiffiny. Nature can balance herself only if man stays out of the equation, which is not going to happen as long as there is money to be made! Leave nature alone and she will balance herself! Stop the big money! This is all about killing and nothing to do with anything else!
Chuck Girtz
Well stated, not only will the wolves kill your dogs , they will eat them and its not a pretty sight.
Tiffiny Hurliman
I think we should have not wasted all that money in bringing them back. Nature went on just fine without them. It's almost like what it would be if you brought T-rex back. Nature became balanced without them now it's out of whack because you brought them back. There is no place for them now. Not enough land and too many humans and livestock, No one thought about the future when they brought up this dumb idea. and FYI before you say " Save the wolves!" Look at what is happening in other states that have them in full force.… Read more »
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Cardiff City man attracting plenty of interest as January transfer window looms
Chris Gallagher
There are a host of Championship and League One clubs interested in signing Cardiff City’s Gavin Whyte on loan next month.
The winger, who was signed from Oxford last summer, impressed initially for the Bluebirds, but he has found game time hard to come by under Neil Harris this season.
In total, Whyte has made just five appearances in the league, and all of them have been from the bench, with the likes of Harry Wilson, Junior Hoilett and Sheyi Ojo ahead of him in the pecking order.
Therefore, the Northern Ireland international may welcome a switch in the New Year, and Football Insider have claimed that there is plenty of EFL interest in the wide man.
Whilst they don’t name the specific clubs that are keen, they state that they are in the second and third tier.
Importantly, the update also adds that Cardiff are willing to let Whyte leave on loan, which would indicate those interested Championship clubs aren’t competing for a play-off place.
Whyte is still expected to be in the squad as the Bluebirds take on Swansea tomorrow.
Quiz: Which club did Cardiff City sell each of these 20 players to?
Michael Chopra (2007)?
This does seems as though it would be a move that suits all parties, because the 24-year-old needs to be playing regular football.
Realistically, it’s hard to see his situation changing at Cardiff, so the only way he will play is by getting a move.
The interest in him is understandable, as Whyte is a direct, quick wide player that still has a lot to offer at this level. So, it will be interesting to see where he ends up.
Thoughts? Let us know in the comments below.
Related Topics:Cardiff CityGavin WhyteSky Bet Championship
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Moms stand firm against antenna madness
The American town of Hempstead, Long Island, has decreed that phone masts can't be placed within 1500 feet of children, making coverage nearly impossible. The restrictions specify a 1500-foot exclusion zone around homes, day-care centres, schools and churches - all the kinds of places where one might want mobile phone coverage …
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Friday 24th September 2010 13:39 GMT Chris 211
Burn then all!
Cell towers, the new witches, burn them all!!
As if parents know more then everyone else, NO THEY DONT, in fact due to the amount of time it takes to bring up children parents are more likely to be less educated and worldly wise. Plus the fact that poor people breed more then wealthy/intelligent people compounds the argument for ignoring the breeders. WHO by the way are the real causes of Climate change what with adding to the ever expanding population which is the root cause of most ills including anti-social behaviour. There you go I proved parents are evil the article just proves they are stupid.
Friday 24th September 2010 14:51 GMT Anonymous Coward
Listen, I think they're dumbasses too
...but anyone who uses the term "the breeders" is, IMO, being a pompous, self-important prick.
Monday 27th September 2010 10:25 GMT Anonymous Coward
PSsst
It was a joke.
Ummm no parents are very clevera.
Before they got drunk and had sex and called that a relationship, they went to school and smoked dope and spoke about the Orange People and the Beatles... and then they had kids, and found Jeezers.... and spoke to magic sticks on the wall - because everyone else was doing it... as a form of telepathy to some dead guy in low earth orbit.
Now we have Satan hanging off the aerial... "Ohhhhh my mobile phone is a instrument of the devil... - I must ring the premium number to my saviour - for only $5.99 a minute."
Friday 24th September 2010 21:26 GMT David Barrett
Ok, but
Its all well and good saying that people having kids is causing problems, yes over population is going to be a problem, but having more people retired than working in 20, 30 40 years will be just as much of a problem...
Also when your in your 90s in a retirement home... whos gonna wipe your arse?
Only the first post and already its completly off the topic of the original article.
Monday 27th September 2010 10:16 GMT sT0rNG b4R3 duRiD
Increasingly off topic
I think the OP was being a bit cynical in how the lower socioeconomic classes are reproducing much more than the higher. It probably has no bearing to the article but you wondered about...
"Its all well and good saying that people having kids is causing problems, yes over population is going to be a problem, but having more people retired than working in 20, 30 40 years will be just as much of a problem."
What if the majority of the young population then are just a bunch of yobos or on the dole?
Monday 27th September 2010 10:33 GMT Alan W. Rateliff, II
More retired people a problem?
I have seen this comment numerous times over the short span of my own life, and yet given my interpretation of "retirement" I fail to see how having more retired people than working people is a problem.
These retired people of whom are spoken have put a lifetime of work into the system. During that time, prudent ones of them would have put some of their earned money away into savings and investments. At retirement, a properly invested person would have a gob of money stashed away to spend on their own entertainment, health care, and what-not.
As I work to build up my own IRA, I fail to see the problem here. (And that is "Individual Retirement Account," not "Irish Republican Army" for some who believe I would be more inclined to the later.)
Paris, prudent one.
Friday 24th September 2010 22:51 GMT Annihilator
"parents know more than everyone else"
Think it was David Mitchell who said something along the lines of "no, you don't know best, all being a parent proves is that you know how to have sex, or got really lucky one day"
Wednesday 29th September 2010 08:53 GMT Anonymous Coward
Seriously...
F*ck all of you 16 year olds with your mommy and daddy issues. IRL, nobody gives a shit about how you have assburgers, you need therapy, and mummy and dadda didn't wuv you enough when you were wittle.
In case you never had any training in economics or just slept through class, in the majority of industrialized nations the majority of the population is dependent on government programs for their retirements... which are in turn dependent on having more (young) people working than they have retired. The shit you've paid into your government pension or social security in the U.S. has already been spent by your government - they're living month-to-month like most of their population... just scraping by to pay the bills every month. Good for you if you saved for yourself and this doesn't apply to you - on average most folks aren't that responsible. That's not an argument, it's a math equation.
Secondly, most major industrialized countries *might* have break-even population growth if it weren't for immigration. Maybe you're all just irrational nativists around here... but if you're really worried about population growth think about those 2nd and 3rd world countries where all your UN Aid is going to in order to keep infant mortality rates down and starvation at bay with C02 fueled air drops of food and medicine. For the rest of us, having a % of the population living off the dole has always been the case - since feudalism and indentured servitude ended at least. If it weren't for immigrant-fueled tax revenues, unless you're one of the few that has the personal resources saved to survive on your own through retirement, you'd be out on the street were it not for "the breeders".
So in short, shove that holier than thou, ignorant, shit attitude up your ass.
Where's my middle finger icon?
Friday 24th September 2010 13:41 GMT Evil Genius
FLK's
Looking at that photo, I think it's too late to stop the mutation.
Friday 24th September 2010 19:35 GMT The Cube
I can't be the only one thinking it
Those kids look like they should have Merrick as a surname not part of their address. I wonder which one is John Merrick the third?
Sunday 26th September 2010 00:23 GMT CapitalW
Photoshop disaster
Looking at that photo makes me think "Photoshop disaster"!!
It reminds me of a Tennessee town that wanted to remove fluoride from their water supply be voting to ban all chemicals. The town engineer stated willingness to do so as long as they were required to boil their water (the vote would have removed chlorine as well). IOW: "clueless is as clueless does".
I also think they hate guinea pigs from their expressions.
Friday 24th September 2010 13:42 GMT Trygve Henriksen
Oh well...
Instead of small Cell-towers at a few strategic locations, they'll instead end up with large towers outside town.
You know, the type that can reach for miles and miles and pump out higher effects that the piddly transmitters used in urban models...
Friday 24th September 2010 14:24 GMT Greg J Preece
And then for your phone to reach the mast...
...it has to jack up its own power level, pumping more of that horrible, baby-killing radiation into your head.
And then, when enough people have brain cancer, the phone companies will TAKE OVER THE WORLD!
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!
Friday 24th September 2010 14:26 GMT Edwin
Naaah
Just obey the law and make mobile coverage in town patchy. That should sort the issue pdq
Monday 27th September 2010 10:25 GMT Fatman
RE: obey the law....
What the cell operators ought to do is refine the antenna patterns of existing towers to create a DEAD ZONE over this community.
When people start complaining - just point the complainers toward the a-holes who created this issue in the first place.
Then the cell operators could just say: "We are abiding by the wishes of the comminity!'
Fsck them if they can not take a joke. Fscking, whining (l)users!
Monday 27th September 2010 10:17 GMT Lance 3
The carriers should make an example of them to keep other communities from trying the same thing. All offending towers should be turned off and the non-offending towers left as is (no power increases.) How long before the carriers get calls from city officials asking them to turn them back up. Problem solved. Oh, and if they never get the call, then let the community deal with it. They will know who to blame.
Friday 24th September 2010 13:43 GMT Captain Jack
People with mobiles against Moms Merrick
How long before someone starts a campaign to get the masts put up because they can't get any signal?
Also I'd hate to be on the helpdesk for the phone providers having to explain that it's really not their fault that nobody can get a signal it's ludities on the line.
All they need to do now
Is wall themselves in and everyone will be happy.
Friday 24th September 2010 13:44 GMT John Mangan
"emit radiation 800 feet in every direction"
Is that all? Blimey there must be even more of these transmitters than I realised!
Although . . . presumably if the range was just 800 feet the energy would be lower and nobody would have to worry? Reduce the range to 100 feet and put one in everyone's back garden and then all of the property values will be equally affected and everyone's happy, no?
@John Mangan
Fuck knows how they'd cope with the knowledge that the sun emits radiation at least 8, 737, 845, 858 miles in every direction.
Wooh, dangerous.
Perhaps we'd be safer somewhere near Pluto where the radiation isn't as strong? No?
Friday 24th September 2010 21:18 GMT Ian Yates
This is also the usual NIMBY situation where people hear "radiation" and think it automatically means death-ray.
Let's hope they never work out why we call the hot metal things "radiators".
Reminds me of the dihydrogen monoxide scare.
Monday 27th September 2010 10:18 GMT Galidron
@Ian Yates
Radiators in the US are extremely rare, at least outside of cars. They probably wouldn't understand the relation between radiator and radiation anyway.
Monday 27th September 2010 12:45 GMT Richard 12
Presumbly 'Convectors' just sounded bad?
Given that they work almost entirely by convection...
I wonder if these people would pay to get a pico-cell using their own internet bandwidth, instead of letting them put up a transmitter down the road.
Monday 27th September 2010 13:07 GMT Geoff Campbell
Actually....
....why *do* we call the hot metal things "radiators"? They mostly work by convection.
GJC
Friday 24th September 2010 13:44 GMT John Sturdy
The GSM system adjusts the transmission power of mobiles to keep the signal received by the base station at a consistent level, so the further you are from a base station, the more power the handsets will radiate. Since radiated power from one object received by another goes by the inverse square law, and their handsets are a lot closer to the kids' heads than the base stations are, this is likely to increase the radiation received by the kids' heads.
RE: Counterproductive
Sir, do you really believe that the good citizens would let their children be corrupted by these products of Satan's . . .umm, satanic mills?
The real life Wicker Man?
KILLING 3G WON'T BRING BACK YOUR GOD DAMNED HONEY!!!!1!!!111
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6i2WRreARo#t=1m38s
Friday 24th September 2010 21:20 GMT Brian Morrison
Bringing science into the argument....
....will do absolutely nothing to help where non-technical people are concerned.
You can't make people understand this if they refuse to think, and they also have no concept of the idea of ionising vs non-ionising radiation.
Simple answer...
.fuck em.
Take all masts down. Leave them with no signal. Then when the axe murderer cuts the lines and traps them in the bathrooom, with only a mobile for for help, they'll remember this "victory"
Friday 24th September 2010 14:29 GMT Allan George Dyer
I was with you...
until you mentioned axe murderers. I mean, are they really that common a problem on Long Island?
Friday 24th September 2010 21:27 GMT Mike Moyle
Not an axe-murder, per se...
...but have you ever heard of the town of Amityville...?
It's on Long Island, a bit under 15 miles east of Hempstead (Not "Hampshire", which isn't on Long Island at all -- Mr. Ray, please take note of the MoM link in your article, which has Hempstead as the town in question).
If you go 15 miles WEST of Hempstead, you're in the New York City buroughs of Brooklyn or Queens, which sit on the western end of Long Island and have their fair share of gun and knife murders -- not sure about axes...
Friday 24th September 2010 21:38 GMT Charles 9
There is a quaint little community on Long Island...called Amityville. Ring any bells?
Monday 27th September 2010 12:35 GMT Allan George Dyer
I thought that was located
in Hollywood, around the corner from Elm Street.
These are the same dweebs that will cry for lawsuits when they can't get a signal on their cellphone during an emergency.
Friday 24th September 2010 14:13 GMT Lottie
till someone needs to call 911 from their mobile and cant... and then sues the telco for not providing coverage?
Friday 24th September 2010 21:33 GMT Ammaross Danan
Can't sue a telco for not providing coverage. Would be like me sueing my mobile co. for not giving me "emergency services" while I was stuck wedged in a cave 1000ft underground and needed to get help. Burn them! I should have checked the coverage map!
Friday 24th September 2010 14:18 GMT Gav
Clearly DADs couln't give a monkey's
Remember, MOMs are not against cell phones, just the CONSTANT RADIATION emitting from these masts. What they want is cell phone masts placed somewhere that their evil CANCER-CAUSING RADIATION cannot be encountered by anyone, or at least not by CHILDREN.
To sum up; cell phones = good, cell phone reception = bad.
Perfectly reasonable if you ask me.
Reduce the range to zero and have everyone plug their phones into the network.
Friday 24th September 2010 21:43 GMT TimeMaster T
Hmmm ...
That makes me wonder how many of the residents, and supporters of this, have wireless access points in their homes so they don't need all those ugly wires running around the house.
Friday 24th September 2010 14:19 GMT WarrenG
I wonder why the REG...
Is always gainst Wifi or Mobile Phone radiation groups? Why so pro technology when there is mounting evidence that these transmitters can...
disturb sleep
lead to hormonal imablances
some people even get rashes after these masts are installed?
Now it's true to say most techies won't make it past 60 because of their sedentary lifestyle and lack of personal health, this doesn't mean the rest of soceity should suffer though.
let me briefly answer your points:
1) Psychosomatic, unquantifiable, and has no posited physical explanation.
2) Ditto.
3) Maybe they should wash properly.
4) I am a techie, I recently ran a half marathon and have reasonably good personal hygiene. Maybe if you were to properly educate yourself, rather than subscribing to irrational and insulting stereotypes, you wouldn't come across as such a complete idiot?
I think maybe the reason that El Reg appears to be against these 'anti radiation' groups is that they are reporting on the facts, rather than populist drivel spouted by people who haven't even bothered to properly understand the very thing that they are campaigning against.
Proof.
No one really knows.
While radar is definitely harmful, I am less certain about UHF devices that are not directional.
A mobile phone may not have enough energy content to cause any significant thermal injury but accumulated long term exposure is uncertain. Microwaves are non-ionizing but they can transfer heat. There have been theories (not proven as far as I know) of dysfunction of various enzymatic systems but I do not recall exact details.
I wouldn't want to live beside a microwave mast though. A mobile phone's microwave power output is limited to the battery. A mast...
Remember we are only now living in a time where microwaves are close intimate and everywhere. 20 years ago this was not the case. It may not be a serious a threat as ionizing radiation the likes of whom Marie Curie found out not too long after but remember it took a while for her to get sick.
Look up the WHO recommended microwave exposure levels. It's on their website. Yes. someone at the WHO was sufficiently concerned to look into it. Bottom line: No one knows. We know radar is harmful, but less focused microwaves? Who knows.
*** If we are to see any health effects, epidemiologist are going to be waiting a while.
I would NOT however like to be one of the sick that they study and if I can perfectly live my life far away from a mast with minimal use of microwave transmitters, so be it.
If you want to camp beside a microwave transmitter mast and say it's all right be my guest.
Would you still want to bring up your children dancing around one of those now that you've heard my side of the story?
(Remember people thought cigarette smoking was once harmless, in fact good for you.)
Present your evidence
...or piss off.
PS. Third hand anecdotal reports of 'they put a cell mast and three weeks later my friend's dog's walker's helper got a hurty leg' isn't evidence.
any solid evidence
I'm not trying to be a dick, I'm genuinly interested to see how -in controlled reproducable environments and with non anecdotal evidence- wifi or cellphone radiation can cause hormonal imbalances or cause rashes.
Any links?
Friday 24th September 2010 14:54 GMT Gweilo
"there is mounting evidence that these transmitters can...
some people even get rashes after these masts are installed?"
Because there isn't any actual evidence, just fear.
I note that fear can cause all those symptoms.
In any case, billions of people now have cell phones and live near masts without ill effect.
O-ho!
Like a lamb to the slaughter.
@I wonder why the REG
Probably because there is NO indisputable evidence that GSM systems cause any health problems, and also because most Reg readers are Tech minded and empiricists to some greater or lesser extent.
Commentards
"most Reg readers are Tech minded and empiricists to some greater or lesser extent."
To a lesser extent I'd say. Otherwise, there'd have been some community-wide project to measure various OSes against various metrics, rather than the community-wide project to troll and flame OSX / Win / Nixen at every opportunity.
Tech people are technologists, not scientists.
Where is this mounting evidence?
I mean real evidence - not conjecture or supposition.
There is plenty of evidence from real scientists - you know those people who study how things work and why they do what they do and take a bit more convincing than some bloke down the pub telling them because everyone knows mobiles cause cancer- that these masts do no harm whatsoever.
I can't find the link right now but one study springs to mind where they put so-called electromagnetic sensitive people in a room with a box with blinking lights and told them it was a wi-fi access point. Cue lots of oh I can feel it, it gives me a headache, I feel so ill etc even though the box was not transmitting or receiving anything. It was just a box with lights. They then took the box away and starting broadcasting wi-fi and gsm through the room at much higher levels than what you are normally exposed to, but the people didn't know it and every one of them reported how much better they felt now the nasty box was away.
Many other studies have shown the exact same thing. it's all in the mind. You get exposed to far more radiation from the sun every day, but that doesn't bother people. It's just that radiation is a scary word and automatically makes some people think of uranium, nuclear bombs etc and the damage that can do so they put 2 + 2 together and make CANCER OMG!!!!!
As for the symptoms you describe, lack of sleep, hormonal imbalance, rashes - it has been proven all these and far more can be caused directly by the persons own brain - a psychosomatic illness. If they convince themselves something is wrong, then their brain makes it wrong.
Friday 24th September 2010 21:22 GMT Martin 19
After reading your post
I discovered my left shoulder is itching, and since I scratched it is beginning to turn red in anticipation of a rash.
This proves that some people get rashes from reading your posts. Ergo, your use of the internet should be banned.
Friday 24th September 2010 21:39 GMT nation of stupid
Strange people start getting all these problems when phone masts appear, yet they have managed to go through the rest of their lives quite happily while living inside the more powerful radiation fields from TV and radio masts.
Of course every one of those complaining about phone mast radiation won't have a much more dangerous mobile phone in their possession would they, so they would be somewhat hypocritical to complain when they can't get a phone signal.
Friday 24th September 2010 21:42 GMT peter 45
Thanks for the scientific argument.....but
......mounting evidence......Can you please provide that evidence please. And I mean properly conducted studies, not just anicdotes.
If you are happy with just anicdotes as evidence, here is one. I worked for a Tetra network operator and we were putting up a new mast. We sent round health questionaires and asked people to fill them in, in the weeks before and after switch on. We got a large number of people complaining of health effects, including, yes you've guessed it, insomnia, disturbed sleep patterns, headaches, and rashes. We had to call of the study when we got hit by a lawsuit claiming we had so destroyed someone's health that they were on long term sick. At that point we had to come clean and confess that the mast had never actually been switched on.
1. if you suggest that something may cause a health problem, lots of people believe it, and some even start getting the suggested symptions
2. People are idiots
P.S. I am going bald. Is tha due to a hormone imbalance caused by mobile phones, or is it because I am getting old?
Monday 27th September 2010 10:27 GMT disgruntled yank
Ah, ha!
"disturb sleep
some people even get rashes"
It sounds just like puberty, and by gum the heaviest cell phone use seems to be by adolescents, doesn't it. I think you've solved the case, Warren! Your Nobel in medicine will show up soon.
"Mounting evidence"
No, what there is, is mounting hysteria, in the absence of any such evidence. And even the mounting hysteria is very limited in scope, being only visible in fuckwits with no concept of how to think.
Friday 24th September 2010 14:24 GMT Tom_
interesting physics
Do the cell towers come complete with an 800 foot radius, spherical faraday cage, so they can just work for people inside them and then the radiation stops at the very specific cut-off point?
Friday 24th September 2010 21:23 GMT Nexox Enigma
A shpere is a bit excessive...
"""Do the cell towers come complete with an 800 foot radius, spherical faraday cage"""
To be fair, most of the sort of people that can't be bothered to understand electromagnetic waves tend to think purely in 2 dimensions, since that's about how many they can walk around in. So a 800 foot radius cylinder, roughly the same height as the mast, would probably work just fine for them.
Smoking doesn't cause cancer
Remember the good old days of all the studies sponsored by ciggie manufacturers which said there was no link between smoking and cancer. Even when everyone knew it was true they still has their research saying no link.
Research looks a little different now......
'Smoking causes nine in ten cases of lung cancer. Lung cancer has one of the lowest survival rates of all cancers, and is the most common cause of cancer death in the UK. The good news is that most of these deaths are preventable, by giving up smoking in time.......'
My point is research can say anything you want it to. Will the research all you commentards are pinning you hopes on now be disproven in 30 years time? Who's to say but my ear gets hot if I use my mobile for too long. What would it be like to have mast parked at your bedroom window for 30 years. Nobody knows because the technology hasn't be around all that long. Why risk it when I can pick up my home and use that?
Friday 24th September 2010 14:26 GMT Chris Holt
Double standards no doubt
You just know they will be the first ones to complain that they get no reception and that the operators are ignoring them because of the complaints that they have made previously.
That the operators simply cannot win is not their problem it seems
Friday 24th September 2010 14:26 GMT wim
good luck ...
calling an ambulance when you need one.
Friday 24th September 2010 14:26 GMT Aaron Em
"Someone who doesn't have children"
No, just someone poor.
Friday 24th September 2010 14:26 GMT Paul 25
I say the phone companies should just give up and shut down all their antennas in the area.
That would teach the busybody cretins.
Friday 24th September 2010 14:27 GMT Richard IV
The phone companies clearly aren't thinking big enough...
Surrounding Long Island, there are 24 giant towers that can emit powerful, focused short wavelength radiation with a range of many miles. As everyone knows, shorter wavelengths do more damage to cells - eg X-Rays and Gamma rays. Yet these towers are accepted, nay welcomed, and often have a positive effect on property values!
Look at this monster: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/30944048
Friday 24th September 2010 14:29 GMT m45h3d
The title is required, and must contain letters and/or digits.
I see your point but without the 'breeders' you wouldn't be here either.
Friday 24th September 2010 21:16 GMT Keith T
Also true that without cattle, pigs and chickens I wouldn't be here
We all have our part to play in this world, just for some that part doesn't include heavy thinking, community mindedness, or altruistic behaviour.
Monday 27th September 2010 10:18 GMT Chris 211
@m45h3d
No I had 'Parents' who could afford to have me and my brother. 2 baby's which is fair and not excessive like 3,4,5 etc.. Arnt I lucky, sadly plenty of children are born into poor, uneducated, over populated slums.
A 'breeder' (slang usage) is someone who pumps out excessive baby's without the ability to pay for them would then sit at home all day expecting hand outs. I feel sorry for the children.
Friday 24th September 2010 14:30 GMT Jamie Kitson
Creepy Diseases!
http://www.dontcellout.com/uploads/4/0/1/1/4011544/739931_orig.jpg
Friday 24th September 2010 14:30 GMT Miek
What a bunch of ignorant lunatics.
Friday 24th September 2010 14:30 GMT tangerine Sedge
Bah! Let all the operators remove all coverage for the town. 2 weeks of no coverage and they'll be begging for masts...
Look at their wee faces!
"OK, so if we could get all you kids looking sad...that's great...hold that pose, oh wait, someone get me some bunnies"!
Uh ...
Dude. There guinea pigs.
Monday 27th September 2010 10:28 GMT Diamandi Lucas
Attack of The Killer Mutant Rabbits
They only look like guinea pigs. They are really mutated rabbits caused by the radiation from the phone towers.
Friday 24th September 2010 14:33 GMT Number6
From the Phone
The radiation from the tower is probably less than that received from a phone, and a phone that is further from a tower is going to be radiating at higher power right next to the brain. As such, one could argue that it is in the best interests of children to have the phone mast on top of the school with good receive coverage around its base, so that anyone using a phone in or near the school buildings will get a lower intensity of radiation.
As for the residents of Hampshire, Lon Gisland (that's how the locals pronounce it, anyway), it would serve them right if the telcos removes all masts from their area and adjusted the coverage of the surrounding ones to make it a black hole.
Friday 24th September 2010 14:33 GMT Richard Wharram
Masts are the least of anyone's worries
Think of the pipes !!! (and children obv.)
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2010/0915/1224278896060.html
Friday 24th September 2010 14:34 GMT Cameron Colley
Its a shame that they're not likley to succeed.
It would be rather funny to watch house prices drop when people realise there is no cell phone coverage in the area leading to poor, and no doubt undesirable, people moving in. Heck, there could even be more crime on the streets with nobody able to phone except from their houses.
OK I know that it is possible to live a perfectly good life without cell phones at all, but I somehow doubt that removing all the masts would result in hapiness.
Friday 24th September 2010 21:38 GMT F111F
Compare the rates?
Anybody want to compare crime rates pre cell-phone and current? I don't think cell phone coverage has any bearing whatsoever on crime rates, but that's just my opinion.
And since you brought it up, maybe it won't be happiness, but more studying and better grades that results from reduced cell phone coverage. Would've saved me a bundle just on not paying for text messages, let alone the time/frustration nagging the kids to stop the texting and dive into their schoolbooks.
Friday 24th September 2010 14:37 GMT Evil Auditor
Yes, but...
...is it the mobile phones that made their ears grow?
Friday 24th September 2010 14:38 GMT Loyal Commenter
Ceci n'est pas une title
I guess the mobile phone companies will just make huge profits by selling picocells to those people who actually want coverage in their own homes.
I wonder what these people will do when the value of their homes falls in comparison to those in the next town, because they live in a recpetion black-spot? I can't imagine it'll be particularly great for local businesses either...
Never let reality get in the way of ill-informed public hysteria, eh?
Friday 24th September 2010 21:26 GMT Mike Powers
Ooh, good idea!
That's a wonderful grinchy idea, right there--secretly bankroll the "anti-tower" wackos, and then once they manage to make cell phones illegal you blitz the area with picocell marketing...
Friday 24th September 2010 14:48 GMT Mr Young
No children within 1500ft?
This mast sounds ideal for living! Is it waterproof? Does it have central heating?
Tall tales^W towers
> The American town of Hampshire, Long Island, has decreed that phone masts can't be placed within 1500 feet of children, making ...
... the towers very tall indeed.
Friday 24th September 2010 14:51 GMT Bill Gould
Also remove
Land line coverage. Seriously. Let this little burb of luddites fade into obscurity when nobody opens a business there or choses to live there once they're of an age to leave.
Fortunately....
...I've just invented this brand new mobile phone that runs purely on happy thoughts and moonbeams.
Given the sound judgement and common sense exhibited by the good people of Long Island I'm sure I'll have no problem flogging them a few hundred handsets.
Friday 24th September 2010 14:52 GMT Rogerborg
Look on this as an opportunity
If we point out that satellites are using SCIENCE! to penetrate their children's soft, defenceless skulls with gay pornography and Keith Olbermann, 24/7, I bet we could get them to wear Aluminium Foil Deflector Beanies.
Friday 24th September 2010 14:54 GMT pj3090
Now that they have defeated cell phone masts, they need to take out the sun. That thing emits an *obscene* amount of radiation.
Never mind that pesky background radiation eh?
Big bang my Uranus.
Friday 24th September 2010 14:55 GMT Nebulo
Well, really!
All these people need do is to make themselves a few "Tower Busters" ( e.g., http://www.whale.to/b/tb3.html) and rely on good ol' Reichian technology to solve the problem.
Simplez.
Friday 24th September 2010 21:16 GMT visserman
Reply: Well, really!
Are these people for real? ROLF
Re: Tower Busters.
Actually it's a good thing that there are some people believe this stuff..
In every population there are a range of levels, of beliefs, IQ, height etc
We really do need people at the bottom end of the "bell curve", so that the rest of us can get on with some degree of "normality".
@Nebulo
Priceless, is it just me or did you also hear the sound of a Cuckoo calling while you were looking at that site?
Friday 24th September 2010 21:22 GMT Gilbert Wham
aaaah, towerbusters
God, those people are hilarious. It's entertaining to point out to them that it's not very green to be burying chunks of plastic in the ground, mind.
Friday 24th September 2010 21:14 GMT JoeTheAnnoying
Next step: Outlaw vaccination!
How much do you want to bet that this same moms' group next tries to get vaccination outlawed in their town, 'cause we all know it causes Autism.
...then comes CO2, or alcohol...
...then life itself becomes outlawed...
Here comes Judge Death!
Right, so.....
....they want the masts placed at least 1500 feet away, despite the fact that they say that they "emit radiation 800 feet in every direction".
Presumably their children aren't taught maths in school either. Oh, sorry, I meant math...
Friday 24th September 2010 21:18 GMT LinkOfHyrule
MILTHY
MILTHs'
That is all!
Friday 24th September 2010 21:18 GMT jonfr
About those transmissions...
Given that in the U.S they use GSM850/1900 (3G1700/2100/1900/850) there is no way that the cell mast have any health effects what so ever. The transmission power is also quite small, just 10 to 50W at maximum.
Given those facts in mind. I say that in confidence that this peoples are idiots. The mobile companies should do this people a favor and remove all the mobile masts in 2km range or more.
Friday 24th September 2010 21:19 GMT nick jordan
I particularly like this comment from the site: "Did you know that in Bayville, Long Island, there is a Water Tower near the elementary school with multiple cell antennas on it? There is a lawsuit to have them removed. 30% of the staff and children are sick. Many have CANCER and 3 children have died."
Friday 24th September 2010 21:20 GMT Kubla Cant
Arithmetic?
We have it on the best technical authority that the masts "emit radiation 800 feet in every direction". So why the 1500 ft restriction? What happens in the intervening 700 ft?
(Yes, I realise that's not how radiation works, but Moms know best, don't they?)
Friday 24th September 2010 21:21 GMT SteveK
Going round in circles
Couldn't other people in the town use the same argument and say that the lack of a mobile signal is having a detrimental effect on the property values?
I'm sure it would be easy to find a number of cases where a sale falls through when you point out that the prospective purchaser won't be able to receive calls.
On the subject of phone masts 'provably' causing a variety of symptoms, wasn't there a case in the last year or so that got thrown out because, while the residents had a raft of documented evidence of how they'd suffered various illnesses and ill effects since a transmitter went up, the company operating it was able to counter with evidence that it wasn't turned on and therefore could not be responsible?
Ah, this is the one: http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Wireless/11099.html (thought I'd seen it on here, but can't find anything from searching...)
Horrible selfish goofs
I don't doubt that 90% of these women own cell phones.
They just want the infrastructure put elsewhere, to depress someone else's property values for their own convenience.
the difference there is...
The US networks tend to put up discreet 500 foot+ masts covering much larger areas with higher outputs, thereby nuking the locals to a much higher level.
The thermal effects regs are worthless in regard to pulse modulated microwave transmissions as they are only applicable to heavy industrial plastic molding machines.
(the users of which tended to use unconnected fluorescent tubes to indicate that the equipment is running)
that is scarey!!! Even the HSE people freaked out about that at the time!
The likes of GSK and AZ and other Bio-Med research companies use pulse modulated microwave signal generators to splice DNA up in Bio-Labs around the world.
If you could ever get into one of those sites you would see the long posters on the hallways of the Bio-Labs where they give fairly detailed descriptions of how they use modulated Microwave Radiation to do the Gene Splicing and warnings about all staff must switch off mobile phones and WiFi in the screened buildings and Labs. (as the extra signals play havok with the sensitive experiments by causing splicing in the wrong places.)
You will also find that the sites are pretty much deadzones for mobile phone use anyway, which does tend to piss off Babcock and co, (who are desperate to irradiate everyone and everything on this planet.)
By the time the politicians wake up and realise they have been taken for a ride by all the vested interests and that WE ARE ALL seriously damaged by this tech' it will be too late!
Nice Planet, we'll take it, oh and we'll get the stupid inhabitants to build the ultimate solution to our problem of removal for us, by making everyone one of them addicted to the portable WMD.
As a researcher in the biomedical field...
... I call total bollocks on your gene splicing story. We do use heat to denature DNA, if that's what you mean. But we use regular resistive heating for that, not microwaves, so YOUR STOVE IS GIVING YOU CANCER!
We work a lot with Bayer and GSK these days, and if they are using "Microwave Radiation" to do the "Gene Splicing" they're keeping it secret. But I doubt it, because guess what, WE do most of their biology for them as their local sites are filled with chemists, not biologists.
I suspect someone with knowledge of plastic molding machines would do away with the first part of your post, too.
Monday 27th September 2010 13:38 GMT lpopman
titular anouncement
"I suspect someone with knowledge of plastic molding machines would do away with the first part of your post, too."
Having worked in plastics, as a machine operator, I can categorically state that any moulding equipment I came into contact with all used heated rollers and hot air to form the shape.
I can't say anything about injection moulding though, as I have no experience on that.
Monday 27th September 2010 13:20 GMT Annwyn
...that you can light up a fluorescent tube with one of those toy/decorative plasma balls?
Friday 24th September 2010 21:25 GMT Tinal
Someone should email these women about the radiation emitted from their lightbulbs. Then maybe they'll all live in the dark instead of acting like they do.
RADIATION IS BAD M'KAY!
Sounds to me....
....like they're living in the dark already.
Friday 24th September 2010 21:26 GMT JMB
People just don't under the Square Law and cannot understand that 0.5 watt mobile transmitter held against the head is more dangerous than a 100 watt one half a mile away.
I usually try to explain by comparing a small 0.5 watt torch bulb held right in front of the eye and a 100 watt lamp outside a house down the road.
Friday 24th September 2010 21:30 GMT Martin Usher
Ban streetlights....
Pesky radiation emitters....they're everywhere....
Friday 24th September 2010 21:31 GMT rlitman
This isn't as bad as it looks
First off, its the town of Hempstead.
But, back to the point, these insane NIMBY's have been at this for over a decade. They've successfully stopped numerous cell tower projects in the village of Merrick, and I for one think its great! Why? Because I live in the village of Bellmore. It is the neighboring village, and the cell companies that want to provide coverage in Merrick have put their towers up here instead. Cell coverage in Merrick is fair at best, but I get GREAT signal!
Friday 24th September 2010 21:31 GMT Ferret
On the positive side...
I imagine that driver and pedestrian safety on local streets in the are will increase by orders of magnitude once the cell sites are shut down. That is considering that these very same moms who use their lifestyle-accessory-only children as a lever to effect world change will be spending much more time, while at the helm of their gargantuan sport-utility-crossover-vehicles. actually paying attention to their driving instead of texting or blabbering on their phones.
Friday 24th September 2010 21:33 GMT duncan campbell
Will that be Agent White with your Cheeri-os?
"Consistent evidence is found between childhood leukemia and exposure to extremely low frequency(ELF) magnetic fields".
Yup. Mostly it's the defoliants they spray on the power lines ROW.
And if you stand out in the Sun too long you'll die of sunburn *before*
the melanoma sets in.
Friday 24th September 2010 21:36 GMT Michael C
How does restricting placement of a cell toper to not closer than 1500 feet of a school or church help HOME values?
more over, how does placement of a tower anywhere it can't be SEEN from a home effect home values? Put one more than a few hundred feet from a house, and the treelines alone should block sight.
I see this going over really bad for the local town board, massive legal fees, thus increasing local taxes dramatically to cover legal costs, or reducing local services, thus plumeting home values compared to nearby towns who allow such towers with little restriction.
Friday 24th September 2010 21:37 GMT Henry Wertz 1
"Phone radiation" is crap
"Is always gainst Wifi or Mobile Phone radiation groups?"
Because it's a load of crap
" Why so pro technology when there is mounting evidence that these transmitters can...
This has been shown to be crap. There've been tests where people who claim to be RF sensitive are taken to a lab, told to let them know when they feel discomfort, and plop them in a room with a low power radio transmitter with an LED on it -- the LED and transmitter can be turned on and off independently. When the LED comes on they complained. When the actual transmitter comes on, no problem at all.
There was a recent case where a ham radio operator put up a tower, people came out of the woodwork to complain about sleep problems, etc. etc. etc. The ham pointed out he had not actually hooked up ANY transmitters to the antenna yet, it was just an inert metal lump. They could not actually tell when his transmitter was running. Yep, they had problems when the MAST was installed, even though there was nothing hooked up to it!
The biggest one is the people that get problems when there's a cell SITE nearby, but will happily talk on a cell PHONE. Holding the phone up exposes them to FAR more RF than they would get from the cell site. The sites have a fence around them keeping anyone from getting close enough to get excessive RF.
Friday 24th September 2010 21:38 GMT slippy
You have to remember
I think most of the danger of mobile phones come from all the idiots who drive around in their *massive* 4x4 cars and trucks, while merrily talking on the phone and paying no attention to the world around them. I was happy when this got banned in the UK, now I have to regularly avoid Americans who want to plant the side of their vehicle into my face.
No wonder the poor kids are sad, imagine how much fun they get to have... just woodern blocks and sand for you Timmy..
Hypocrites, All of You
Paris, for all of you hyporcrites who love to tout your independence and worldly ways, yet castigate those who think differently than you. You revel in your ability to choose. Choice of operating systems, choice of programs, choice of hardware, etc., are all-important to you. But, how dare anyone have a different opinion on technology? Shame on all of you. This town's decision is not harming you, has no effect on your life, and has no bearing on your future, so let them be and live their lives the way they want to. You want everything your way, "open architecture", "open systems" etc., but when one small community wants it their way, it's all ridicule and blatant hypocrisy.
tw&t
What are you talking about you fecking idiot?
The vast majority of responses on here are saying turn the transmitters off, and leave these luddites to their own end.
There is no 'difference of opinion' here. These idiot women are wrong, simple as.
Well then...
Enjoy having no cell phone coverage, luddite.
Wrong Place?
"The American town of Hampshire, Long Island, has decreed that phone masts can't be placed within 1500 feet of children, making coverage nearly impossible."
Are you getting your Hampshires confused with your Hempsteads?
No children within 1500 ft......i have an idea
Please Mr Mobile Phone Company. Come and put a mast on my front lawn. Anything to get rid of screaming little brats. I might get a decent signal as a bonus
Monday 27th September 2010 10:22 GMT FuzzyTheBear
There ARE dangers.But not to those you think.
About 20 years back here in Canuckia there has been a number of incidents with microwaves that at least ,shows you should be carefull with high power RF at microwave frequencies. The high power high performance microwave antennas are dish types with a radome and a tarp in the front.
While changing such a tarp with the transmitter on a colleague had after quite a bit of exposition started to feel awfull pain in his arm .At the hospital they diagnosed it was radiation burn. Indeed the higher the frequency the higher the risk.We were routinely manipulating 900mhz band paging antennas with bare hands and never felt bad .So there's 2 things they should keep in mind before making declarations. A ) extreme short range. if the antenna is on your head at a few hundred watts e.r.p. and frequencies above 2 gigs i say , well wear a tin hat .. but apart from that if you're any kind of distance from an antenna at cell phone frequencies ( even low gig ) i cannot conceive that you will feel anything at all. We were putting these suckers up and work around them live day in day out and never even had a headache.
Perhaps these people should be introduced to the technology formally and demonstrations done in places so people will stop this ridiculous display of ignorance.
Cell towers in the USA in certain places are hidden as false trees .. maybe that's what they need .
Just get a beer
Careful...
Us Brummies (and most of the Midlands) use the word 'Mom' too. I didn't even believe 'Mum' was a real word until I was in my 30s. Still cannot bring myself to say 'Mum' - sounds to posh (or too much like a deodorant).
Monday 27th September 2010 10:25 GMT John Savard
If people want to restrict cell phone towers, I don't see why the federal government should get in the way. The local communities can decide where they will accept those towers, and either those communities will have cell phone service that works afterward, or they won't. Who else is inconvenienced?
In fact, if residential neighborhoods don't have cell phone coverage, well, people at home can use their ordinary phones, so this just keeps the roads safer by preventing people from calling on cell phones while driving.
Instead, the federal government ought to be coming down hard on people who try to keep nuclear power plants out of their communities, because stopping global warming is a legitimate national priority.
Monday 27th September 2010 10:32 GMT Astarte
Think about the children.
I assume there will be a similar law prohibiting children entering any area within 1500 ft of the antennæ.
Monday 27th September 2010 12:20 GMT Henry Wertz 1
I ridicule people with stupid "opinions"
"But, how dare anyone have a different opinion on technology?"..."but when one small community wants it their way, it's all ridicule and blatant hypocrisy"
People who have stupid "opinions" can and do deserve ridicule, I would also ridicule flat earthers, people who think the sun goes around the earth, and so on. As for the rest of your post, I am not trying to force my choices onto others, while these people are -- if nobody in the town had cell phones, the cell cos would not be trying to build service there. They are the ones being hypocritical.
Also, there is actually a large area in West Virginia that is RF-free, or as close as physically possible -- it has a radio telescope, and a "secret" radio reception site (well it's existence isn't secret, but who knows what if anything it's used for...), boxed in by mountains that block out most radio interference from outside this large area so they can have a clean shot at the radio telescope getting a clean view of astronomical objects, and the other site can have a clean shot at spying on satellites or whatever. If these people were serious they would move there. With no TV stations, no radio stations, no cable (the cable would leak too much RF), no garage door openers (they use radio), no cell phone service.. well, there aren't that many that live there.
Monday 27th September 2010 12:23 GMT James Woods
I agree with the mums
Im not real hip to how cellphones work but I live in an area that is serviced by Verizon, Sprint, and At&t with verizon winning the coverage war.
They win that war by locking in areas and not allowing competition to come in.
The moms are in large unhappy about the neighborhood antennas and I couldn't agree with them more. If the people don't want something in their town that's what separates America from other countries.
The people here have a voice. If the moms can't win a majority vote in regards to this then they need to get back in the kitchen and respect the wishes of others.
If we allowed corporate america and telcos to make the decisions for us we'd have high tension power lines over our houses because they do not have to live around it.
Just like the political elite pushing wind turbines and at the same time not wanting them anywhere near their homes.
Monday 27th September 2010 21:05 GMT ElReg!comments!Pierre
You sound confused
Looks like someone is confusing "majority vote" with "rabid lobbying and scaremongering by a small minority". But I guess you could say that this is indeed what "separates America from other countries".
Monday 27th September 2010 12:29 GMT Pat 9
besides all of their "knowledge" about this. the contact us page is a form to sign up for their newsletter (and if you do sign up, only did because i really wanted to leave them a msg, if you select text only it still uses html tags just sent as plain text)
and even though they use the website domain to send you the emails all responses are sent to an @aol.com account. these people are "on top of there game" with this one
Education, education, education ...
These are the same people who believe in intelligent design over evolution -- and don't make any connection between the TV transmitters pumping out tens -- or hundreds -- of kilowatts (which is OK 'cos "its just TV, right?") and a cell tower putting out a mere ten watts or less.
Microwaves: they're just radio waves. And if they knew anything about the inverse square law they would realise the amount of energy they are receiving is probably less than the thermal shot-noise RF their own bodies are emitting all the time.
Its just sad that this level of ignorance exists.
Monday 27th September 2010 12:40 GMT Jeffrey Nonken
... Let's see. Poor coverage causes poor reception. Poor reception induces your cell phone to boost its signal. This reduces battery life and... Oh!... increases the radiation levels surrounding the cell phone.
I don't know how wide a proximity that affects (that is, other people in the same room) but your kids are going to grow up without parents because you died of cancer before you reached 40. Because that cell phone in your pocket is blasting its signal into your hip at full power. Could be doing interesting things to your potential future children, too. Congratulations.
Why isn't there a tin-foil hat icon? This needs one of those.
Monday 27th September 2010 12:41 GMT JaitcH
This reminds me of the old Amateur Radio antenna arguement ...
in the States.
Since transmitters are licenced by the Federal government they are pretty tough to change as the senior government prevails over junior state and town legislation.. I think similar situations can be found in many countries.
Monday 27th September 2010 12:43 GMT ZenCoder
I got a plan ...
Redesign the mast's to form a cross, then accuse anyone opposes them of being anti-Christian.
Monday 27th September 2010 12:46 GMT uninventiveheart
There's a name for this...
Americans call this "Not in my backyard." There's many causes to champion for these things: prison construction, wastewater treatment facilities, drug users, sex offender halfway houses, cell towers, power transmission poles, etc. Most of these things are based on fear and supposition.
Before someone flies off the handle and boasts "How Dare You!", yes, I live in a state with a sex offender registry that's public information. I agree that sex offenders should live nowhere near schools or areas where kids or women exclusively gather, like schools or abuse shelters. That being said, they gotta live somewhere too.
the return of the luddites
...ah, where would human existence be without these anti-technology luddites and FUD spreaders?
the answer? we'd probably be further along the technology track with all kinds of fancy tech fixing human health, welfare, transport etc issues.
instead we get held back by idiots like these
Wednesday 29th September 2010 11:58 GMT Charles 9
And they'd counter...
...that without moderation and due concern, we could easily blindly step off a proverbial cliff. They'll give you lots of examples of supposed miracles that proved later to be devils in disguise: radium glow-in-the-dark displays, DDT, thalidomide, and so on. They probably keep a laundry list of such technological blunders and probably keep a choice few that, had they proceeded, might have caused irreparable or catastrophic harm to the human race, the planet, or both.
Monday 27th September 2010 13:54 GMT Michael 28
Havink "simples" solution
... Move school out of town... will ease congestion. Also make area safer.
btw... do the kids look miserable because of the presence of phone masts, or the absence of coverage . Think maybe the latter .. check out the guy in the black t-shirt... evolution has already taken over ....(OOPS ... mentioned the "E" word)
(Ears)
Monday 27th September 2010 14:21 GMT Maryland, USA
When those kids apply for college...
...the admissions officer will glance at the kid's address and think, "He's from that town of morons!"
I think we had better ....
... all agree not to tell them about the 6 x 10^14 solar neutrinos per square meter per second passing through them, all day, every day.
Monday 27th September 2010 16:48 GMT Arclight
Good Science
From their site FAQ page
3. Aren't these antennas proven to be safe?
It is our understanding only that they are not yet proven to be dangerous, which is really not the same thing.
Monday 27th September 2010 17:11 GMT Tigra 07
Dumb dumb local women
I wouldn't buy a house where i can't get a mobile phone signal.
I bet these dumb people still own microwaves!
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Pig n' Whistle – 36th Street
Restaurants Pig n' Whistle – 36th Street
Welcome to Pig n' Whistle! The original Pig n' Whistle was located in the Old Townhouse of President Taft on West 48th street, in the heart of New York's Rockefeller Center. The friendly people and atmosphere quickly became the meeting place for New ... more
Welcome to Pig n' Whistle! The original Pig n' Whistle was located in the Old Townhouse of President Taft on West 48th street, in the heart of New York's Rockefeller Center. The friendly people and atmosphere quickly became the meeting place for New York's literary and banking elite. The new "Pig and Whistle" on West 36th Street, in the heart of the theater district, has the look and the feel of the historic townhouse where it all began. From the oak bar and paneling, copper bar back, private party rooms and bay window overlooking 36th street, "Pig and Whistle" continues to follow the same detail and style as that gracious home in Rockefeller Center.
Hell's Kitchen Description
Pig n' Whistle – 36th Street is located in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan. Known as "Clinton" by the municipal government and devotees of former mayor DeWitt Clinton and as "Hell's Kitchen" by Daredevil and everyone else, this area of Midtown West is currently experiencing rapid (re)development. Spanning roughly from West 34th to 59th Streets and from 8th Avenue to the Hudson River, it still has a rough-and-tumble character when compared with other more defined neighborhoods in Manhattan. Once a bastion of poor and working-class Irish Americans, over the last decade the neighborhood has undergone tremendous gentrification as a result of its proximity to Midtown's many office buildings. Long-time residents, many of whom enjoyed reasonable rents and decent-sized apartments, are finding that conversion of rent-controlled and -stabilized apartments, coupled with the general building boom and strong economy, brought quick change to this formerly sleepy area. Given the strange, even Byzantine zoning regulations in New York, it’s not unusual to see a tiny brownstone, a remnant of another era, adjacent to or near a brand-new high-rise rental or condominium building. While the wholesome new Theater District has resulted in lower crime rates and decreased the area’s quality-of-life problems such as prostitution, urban transformation for some means a loss of the gritty qualities of this neighborhood for others.
While you'll find thousands of new apartments in Hell's Kitchen west of Ninth Avenue, you'll also find dozens of eclectic and interesting restaurants to boot. Some of our favorites include the terrific Daisy May's BBQ on Eleventh Avenue; the German cuisine of Hallo Berlin and nearby Queen of Sheba featuring great Ethiopian cuisine on Tenth Avenue; French patisserie La Bergamote on West 42nd Street; Bali Nusa Indah on Ninth Avenue has intriguing Indonesian dishes; the Film Center Café for high-powered American diner-style dishes; and the many Thai places dotting Ninth Avenue too numerous to mention.
Hotels in Hell's Kitchen include a number of budget places the further west you go such as The 414 Hotel and the Skyline. While there are dozens of hotels on Eighth Avenue and throughout the Theater District on Eighth Avenue and Broadway, Hell's Kitchen enjoys a somewhat more relaxed pace than the frenetic hubbub you'll find just two avenues further east.
Check out the neighborhood's weekly Chelsea-Clinton News, a great local publication that’s been around longer than the former U.S. President’s daughter!
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2 Apr - Guide to Miami: April 1 – 15
Miami Local Guides
And just like that, a new month is upon us, reminding Miamians to keep the pride up. As we wave goodbye to the deliciously dry winter days and dive deep into Spring’s sunny weather, we can’t wait to get down. April isn’t just a month for fooling. It’s a time to celebrate film releases, vibrant pride, and a whole lot of lazing in the sun. In case you’re feeling indecisive, we’ve gathered the top things to do over the next two weeks:
Overload with David Brooks – New York artist David Brooks returns to Vizcaya to join the community for an in-depth exploration of his installation, “Of Discriminating Artistic Feeling.” Brooks’ work consists of three bird cages on display throughout Vizcaya’s Main House, recalling James Deering’s love of exotic birds, monkeys and other animals. A local bird expert will add specialist knowledge to the conversation, and the program will round off with the release of a newly rehabilitated pelican from Vizcaya’s East Terrace back into the wild.
Where: Vizcaya Museum & Gardens. Time: 2PM – 4PM. Tickets: Get em here.
Best of Wes – A Wes Anderson Retrospective – A stop-motion adaptation of a children’s novel; a whodunnit spanning multiple decades; a love story between young teens longing to be adults. Since 1996, Wes Anderson has proved to be a unique voice in the cinematic landscape, concocting serio-comic stories full of wit, wonder, and whimsy. In anticipation of Anderson’s latest film, Isle of Dogs, CGAC presents five of the director’s best works to date.
Where: Coral Gables Arts Cinema. Time: March 30th – April 4th. Tickets: Get em here.
Pride Lights the Night – Miami Beach Gay Pride and Lincoln Road invite you to kick off “Pride Lights the Night – A Tribute to PULSE” as PULSE Nightclub survivor Laura Vargas “flips the switch” to illuminate the 1111 parking garage in rainbow colors. Pride Lights the Night is a week-long beautiful display of unity and remembrance paying tribute to the victims of PULSE and their families. The colorful display of lights throughout Greater Miami sends a message of support to the entire LGBTQ community as structures and buildings are illuminated in rainbow colors.
Where: 1111 Lincoln Road. Time: 8PM. Tickets: Free.
2ManyDJs at The Ground – Slap & Tickle presents: Belgian groove-gurus Soulwax hit the Ground stage as 2ManyDJs.
Where: The Ground. Time: 10PM. Tickets: Get em here.
Tacoteqa Tuesday – The Freehand is celebrating #TacoTuesday every Tuesday. They’ll be serving up only Mexican food on Tuesdays starting at 6p. They’ll also be featuring Pitchers of Casa Noble Margaritas for $40. Get some Chicken Tinga Quesadillas & Queso Dip from Chef Jimmy Lebron.
Where: The Freehand. Time: 6PM. Tickets: Free.
Wednesday, April 4
John Beasley’s MONKestra – GRAMMY® and Emmy-nominated recording artist John Beasley leads a performance of his smashing big band project MONK’estra with the Frost Concert Jazz Band. Beasley, the Musical Director of the Thelonious Monk Institute has worked with the greatest, from Miles Davis, and Chaka Khan, to Sergio Mendes and Freddie Hubbard. This live performance at the Frost School of Music will capture the spirit of Monk’s style in arrangements flavored with hints of New Orleans, hip-hop, and Afro-Cuban grooves.
Where: Gusman Concert Hall. Time: 7:30PM – 9PM. Tickets: Get em here.
I’m Not Gonna Move to LA Comedy Edition – FilmGate Miami invites you to attend their comedy edition of I’M NOT GONNA MOVE TO L.A.! April is for laughter and comedy, incidentally one of the hardest genres to create. Help them pick the best short comedic film of South Florida.
Where: O Cinema Wynwood. Time: 6:30PM. Tickets: Get em here.
Thursday, April 5
PAMM Free Community Night – As part of PAMM Free Community Night, join them for a pride celebration hosted by Karla Croqueta on the waterfront terrace with live sets by DJ Hottpants and DJ ZEHNO, drag performances by Tiffany Fantasia, KUNST, Queef Latina, and Noel Leon, pride-themed cocktails, and a House of Lords vogue showcase.
Where: PAMM. Time: 5PM – 9PM. Tickets: Free w/ RSVP.
Denim in Distress – Continue on Nomad Tribe’s “Alter Series” where you can have your Denim completely altered and hang out in their front deck and jam out with Silent Revolution.
Where: Nomad Tribe. Time: 7PM. Tickets: Get em here.
Seagrass Adventure: Poetry nature Tour – Explore the Bear Cut Preserve in Crandon Park. A naturalist from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Biscayne Nature Center will be your guide. Be inspired by the sunlight, water, sand, salty breeze, and the unique wildlife and then write a nature themed poem with with help from poet Caroline Cabrera.
Where: Biscayne Nature Center. Time: 10AM – 1PM. Tickets: Free w/ RSVP.
Poetry in Pajamas – Staged in a giant bed at the enchanted Miami Beach Botanical Garden, Poetry in Pajamas is an open mic for children of all ages to recite poetry in their pajamas! Miami’s own Afrobeta provides the music, and there will be snacks from Edible South Florida, and a Dreamcatcher installation under the banyan tree by fiber artist, Kandi Stirman
Where: Miami Beach Botanical Garden. Time: 6PM – 8:30PM. Tickets: Free w/ RSVP.
Giralda Under the Stars – The community promenade will come alive one last time until this Fall, with outdoor dining and the rhythm of local bands. Make sure to come early and fill those bellies with the delicious local eats of Restaurant Row’s vibrant selection of eateries. Stay for a magical night for the whole family with The Sh-Booms from Orlando, and South Florida’s own KIDS!
Where: Giralda Plaza. Time: 7PM – 10PM. Tickets: Free w/ RSVP.
Isle of Dogs Opening Night – Come celebrate the Opening Night of ISLE OF DOGS, Wes Anderson’s latest film, from 8:00-10:00 pm in the courtyard, in front of O Cinema Wynwood. Things will get loud with the dynamic form and energy of traditional taiko drummers, special brew tea, asian fusion food trucks, and a celebration of Japanese culture.
Where: O Cinema Wynwood. Time: 8PM – 10PM. Tickets: Get em here.
First Fridays at The Yard w/ Keith Johns – Come one, come all to the newest residency at The Wynwood Yard: First Fridays w/ Keith Johns! On the first Friday of every month, Miami’s troubadour will be putting on a FREE show at the Yard featuring local Miami Folk favorite Keith Johns and his slammin’ jammin’ band. Bring a blanket or chairs to spread out on the grass and get ready to sit back and enjoy the best Friday night vibes in town.
Where: The Wynwood Yard. Time: 8:30PM – 11:30PM. Tickets: Free.
Bike305 Bike The Underline – It’s the annual Bike305 ride on the future Underline! This year, the 10-mile ride will begin at Dadeland North Metrorail Station and ends at the River Day Festival at Lummus Park on the Miami River Greenway. The annual River Day Festival will have dozens of offerings from food to historical tours on the banks of the river. The return bike trip is not escorted, but, you can always opt to take your bike back on the Metrorail!
Where: Dadeland North Metrorail Station. Time: 11AM. Tickets: Free w/ RSVP.
Caribbean Community Day – Community members of all ages are invited to explore the culture of the Caribbean with art activities, a scavenger hunt through the exhibition Antillean Visions: Maps and the Making of the Caribbean, music, and food.
Where: The Lowe Art Museum. Time: 12PM – 3PM. Tickets: RSVP here.
Museum of Art and Design Re-Opening – The Museum of Art and Design @ MDC reopens to the general public following more than a year of extensive renovations that allow the Museum to host world-class exhibits. Come join them.
Where: Museum of Art and Design. Time: 1PM – 8PM. Tickets: Free.
ICA Ideas: In Conversation – ICA Miami welcomes Flavin Judd for a special conversation with ICA Miami Director Ellen Salpeter and Deputy Director and Chief Curator Alex Gartenfeld. Using the exhibition “Donald Judd: Paintings” as a point of departure, Judd and ICA Miami will discuss the work of the pioneering artist, and explore the foundational ideas behind highlighting the artist’s transitional-period work.
Where: Institute of Contemporary Art. Time: 2PM – 4PM. Tickets: Free w/ RSVP.
Sun Ra Arkestra – To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Afro Roots World Music Festival, Community Arts and Culture will present the Sun Ra Arkestra, musical torch-bearers for the late, great big-band keyboard innovator. The Arkestra carry on the traditions set by the cosmic philosopher born Herman Poole Blount, complete with full costumes and the songbook from Saturn.
Where: North Beach Bandshell. Time: 7PM – 11PM. Tickets: Get em here.
Day of Dogs x Isle of Dogs – Bring your pups to the theater, for our 2:30pm screening of ISLE OF DOGS, and let them sniff out the mystery alongside Duke, Chief, Boss, Rex, King, and Spots. Well behaved dogs welcome in the theater with you to watch the movie! Special treats for the best dogs (and they know, they’re all the best dogs!)
Where: O Cinema Wynwood. Time: 1PM. Tickets: Get em here.
The Suspect Device: A Comic & Poetry Workshop – In this hands-on workshop, participants will make a one-page comic using the “Suspect Device” method of comics experimentation. The Suspect Device method uses randomly selected comics panels from classic comic strips as prompts to inspire participants to write their own comics. You’ll discuss the mechanics of the comic strip, poetry and abstract storytelling. At the end of the workshop, participants will have a completed comic they can take home with them.
Where: 11297 S Dixie Highway. Time: 11AM – 1PM. Tickets: Get em here.
Sundance Tour – 2018 Short Films – The 2017 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour is a 95-minute theatrical program of seven short films selected from last year’s Festival, widely considered the premier showcase for short films and the launchpad for many now-prominent independent filmmakers for more than 30 years. Including fiction, documentary, and animation from around the world, the 2017 program gives new audiences a taste of what the Festival offers, from laugh-out-loud comedy to contemplative reflections of the world we live in.
Where: O Cinema Miami Beach. Time: 7PM – 9PM. Tickets: Free w/ RSVP.
Planetary Poems with O, Miami – When science and literature collide, it’s poetry in motion. That’s the premise behind “Planetary Poems,” a project created by O, Miami and Frost Science, in collaboration with Topos Graphics and The Library of Congress Poetry and Literature Center, as part of the O, Miami Poetry Festival.
Where: Frost Science Museum. Time: 6:30PM – 9:30PM. Tickets: Get em here.
Free Lecture “The National Parks, Their Archeology” – In partnership with the Archaeological Society of Southern Florida, the Deering Estate presents a free lecture on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. Lectures are held in the Visitor Center Theatre at the Deering Estate located at 16701 SW 72 Avenue. The lecture on Thursday, April 12th is “The National Parks, their Archaeology and the Natural Wonders of America’s Southwest.”
Where: The Deering Estate. Time: 7PM – 8:30PM. Tickets: Free.
Music Movie Series: Nick Cave – Sweat Records + O Cinema’s Music Movie Series presents an official screening of the worldwide, one-night-only theater debut of “DISTANT SKY: NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – LIVE IN COPENHAGEN”! The screening starts at 9:30pm, all ages are welcome.
Axel Boman at Floyd – Axel is in fact the Swedish word for shoulder, but born and bred Stockholmer Mr. Boman could just as easily have been named Rumpa, the Swedish word for ass, since most of his life has been dedicated to moving just that body part. Jam to the electronic mastermind.
Where: Floyd Miami. Time: 10PM – 5AM. Tickets: Get em here.
Miracle Mile Back to Back Beautiful Celebration – The official unveiling of the new Miracle Mile is here and to celebrate the Business Improvement District (BID) of Coral Gables, City of Coral Gables – Government and The Coral Gables Chamber Of Commerce, are pleased to partner and host the Miracle Mile Back to Beautiful block party. Live music on McBride Plaza by the Latin GRAMMY-nominated PALO! and Raquel Sofia!
Where: Miracle Mile. Time: 6PM – 9PM. Tickets: Free w/ RSVP.
MOAD Presents: Maria Jose Arjona – Taking the form of an unconsummated striptease with a multicultural pop soundtrack, Colombian artist María José Arjona’s performance ‘All the Others in Me’ functions as a bridge between “miss-understandings”. It refuses to point at anything specific or resolve these misunderstandings, but instead offers a panoramic vista on our perception of each other across distances.
Where: Miami Light Project. Time: 8PM. Tickets: Get em here.
National Water Dance – National Water Dance is creating an opportunity for dancers of all ages and movers of all kinds to experience the power of art and performance as a vehicle for social change by collaborating on the formation of a nation wide movement choir. Their goal is to initiate a national “water ethic” that can inform and inspire both participants and audience members to take responsibility for conserving and protecting the water that they use and enjoy.
Where: Biscayne Nature Center. Time: 4PM. Tickets: Free.
The Puppy Brunch – Thanks to Downtown Doral, the Puppy Brunch is going to be just as amazing as ever! Bring your furry friend for a Sunday of bubbles, doggy fun, activities, and all the treats they can dream of. We’ll have puppy food by Le Chien Gourmet, puppy adoption, a row of doggy activations and pop-ups, puppy lounges for those who just want to relax, doggy grooming, photo booths plus much more to experience.
Where: Downtown Doral Park. Time: 11AM – 3PM. Tickets: Free w/ RSVP.
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Intelligence community to reboot security
Reforms are part of federal overhaul; certification of systems is one focus
By Dawn S. Onley
We're going to have a good old-fashioned tent meeting.'
' Air Force Maj. Gen. Dale Meyerrose
Rick Steele
The intelligence community is turning to Defense services and agencies, as well as representatives from industry and academia, to help them overhaul their outdated and ineffective certification and accreditation processes.
This month, personnel will begin receiving invitations to participate in one of two teams'a green team and a gold team'that will ultimately make suggestions on how to improve certification and accreditation processes across the intelligence community.
'We're going to have a good old-fashioned tent meeting,' said Air Force Maj. Gen. Dale Meyerrose, associate director of national intelligence and CIO of the intelligence community. He described the program at the Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems Worldwide Conference, held recently in Dallas. 'We're hoping that through this bit of ingenuity, we can tap the best minds from across the business. We need to have this kind of effort to make intelligence better.'
Meyerrose said he is working with John Grimes, Defense CIO, on the initiative and that the outcome will help the intelligence agencies and components within the services reduce the time needed to certify and accredit standards and systems. He said the teams also would help the intelligence community become more inclusive.
'We need less local policies and more communitywide policies,' Meyerrose said. 'We need less local standards and more communitywide standards.'
Grimes agreed, stressing that to harmonize the certification and accreditation processes across DOD and the intelligence community, you must begin with an enterprisewide approach.
'We believe the best way to provide net-centric enterprise capabilities is through net-centric enterprise processes,' Grimes said. 'As we implement enterprise architecture, portfolio management, enterprise systems engineering, and enterprise operations and management, it is becoming increasingly clear that we need a complementary net-centric, enterprise-oriented information assurance certification and accreditation process.'
Speed, agility
Meyerrose said the reforms are part of the federal overhaul of the intelligence community and are consistent with the National Intelligence Strategy of the United States, released in October by John Negroponte, director of the Office of National Intelligence.
'We have to make intelligence fast, agile and transparent,' Meyerrose added. 'It doesn't do us any good to deliver the right information to the right place, but not in the nick of time. But it's not just about the speed of delivery of intelligence, it's the speed in which we bring innovation.'
Throughout the DODIIS conference, intelligence officials discussed how DOD is restructuring agencies for efficiencies. Part of this restructuring occurred April 3, when Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld signed off on establishing a Defense Joint Intelligence Operations Center. DOD established the center, managed by the Defense Intelligence Agency, to integrate and synchronize full-spectrum intelligence operations on behalf of the combatant commands.
DOD's enemy is decentralized, networked and unpredictable, said Michael Pflueger, CIO of DIA. To better fight this enemy, ODNI is restructuring the intelligence community into an integrated, joint enterprise with a focus on getting information to warfighters quickly.
'Our current enemy is very agile. He goes from Internet cafe to Internet cafe. We have to be just as efficient,' he said.
The restructuring will also help intelligence agencies get rid of data duplications and provide intelligence data to warfighters quicker by consolidating functions and becoming interoperable, Pflueger said.
The DJIOC will be housed at the Defense Intelligence Analysis Center at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, with final operational capability expected by December 2007.
'The DJIOC facilitates intelligence planning to bring analysts and collectors together,' added Army Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples, director of DIA. Maples called DJIOC 'a major transformational initiative' and said it will help intelligence agencies better fuse information and operations.
Another portion of the intelligence community restructuring includes a move by DIA to take over operational control and IT management for the combatant commands. Officials say the move was designed to control the commands' IT spending while centralizing management of Defense information systems. Some of the work will be completed later this year.
Eventually, Defense employees will be measured by how successful they are in integrating processes.
'Ultimately there will be metrics that will measure our success in meeting these objectives,' Maples said. 'This will drive us in terms of resources. We're going to be driven by the customer.'
The mission of the DJIOC will be integrated with the Joint Functional Component Command for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (JFCC-ISR), a command established six months ago with a global focus on ISR planning and asset allocations. JFCC-ISR will be jointly housed with DJIOC.
The Quadrennial Defense Review and the National Intelligence Strategy are lead drivers of these initiatives, officials say.
'A comprehensive IT infrastructure is an imperative,' Maples said.
Standing in the way of this are policies, processes and procedures that are outdated and often not integrated.
'We've got to eliminate the impediments to progress,' Maples said. 'There are impediments to progress that are keeping us from achieving what we hope to achieve.
We are still stuck in vertical stovepipes: our policies, our processes and our procedures. We've got to move to a horizontally integrated capability.'
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Spheres of Communication
Dec 17, 2008 | Featured, Patterns in Action |
The original version of this graphic was developed for a
strategic planning taskforce on internal communications. It was an attempt to capture the multiple dimensions of relationships within the organization, and thereby discover opportunities for enhancing the effectiveness, capacity and vitality of communications throughout the enterprise.
The major insight is that most organizational communication takes place outside of the sphere of formal accountability (the Hierarchy; no reason for alarm, this is a good thing). While this picture broadens the formal and informal responsibility of key individuals, there are relatively simple structural approaches
At Casey Family Programs, we developed a weekly email update platform (an early content management system) that packaged directives from management (The Hierarchy), milestones from key workgroups (The Taskforce), announcements of staff hires, retirements and sabbaticals (The Neighborhood), as well as Help Desk tips (The Support Line) into a concise format that continually gathered data and could be published and distributed in about 30 minutes.
Perhaps most importantly, this expanded framework can provide a point of reference for individuals to exercise initiative in opening and maintaining the flow of communications for supporting creative, collaborative participation within and between organizations.
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Rudy Giuliani Accidentally Uploads YouTube Video of Himself Making Racist Jokes About Chinese People
Rudy Giuliani (seen here with corpse hands).
Screenshot: Frontline/PBS (Other)
Rudy Giuliani may be best known as the burnout former mayor of New York, and more recently, Donald Trump’s wildly incompetent personal attorney and disinformation peddler. He’s also a self-declared cybersecurity expert who has yet to find a digital rake he can’t step on.
Giuliani has no tech experience of any note whatsoever beyond founding a “security solutions” company called Giuliani Security which won millions in contracts despite no one having any idea what services it actually renders and had a website riddled with numerous glaring security vulnerabilities. (The company’s most notable accomplishment was serving as cover for Giuliani’s affair with a married woman in 2018). Despite this shitty resume, the Trump admin tapped Giuliani for a cybersecurity adviser role in 2017. He appears to have done nothing in that capacity beyond locking himself out of his iPhone, ass-dialing a reporter, and accusing Twitter of hacking his tweets to insert anti-Trump URLs.
Now Rudy has pulled the racist equivalent of wandering naked into the background of a Zoom call, per the Daily Beast. On Tuesday, Giuliani had wrapped up an edition of his podcast Common Sense, featuring former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, when he did a little post-show banter in front of a hot mic. When the episode made it to YouTube, all that footage was still present, including a section where he mocked Asian people and pantomimed a bow:
After a few moments of small talk with an assistant who appears to be Jayne Zirkle, an animated Giuliani started affecting a stereotypical Chinese accent while telling Zirkle that she’s “going to be the most famous model in China.”
“Ah, get me Jayne Zirkle,” he said while using the accent.
After asking others in the room what they wanted for dinner, Giuliani continued to say Zirkle’s name in the mocking accent. He then started pantomiming a bow while repeating her name, laughing as his team tried to steer him back to talking about the interview. A few seconds later, the video finally cut out.
Seriously, just look at this dumb piece of shit having the time of his life, secure in the knowledge he would never accidentally post this footage to the world’s largest video site:
Regretfully, this bloviating necrophage will likely not shut up anytime soon. Giuliani recently blundered his way into another tech-adjacent clusterfuck of a media firestorm as the middleman in a fake scandal involving possibly fabricated data he claimed was stolen from Hunter Biden’s hard drive at a laptop repair shop.
"... An upperclassman who had been researching terrorist groups online." - Washington Post
Christ, I completely forgot they tapped Vlad for cybersecurity once....I firmly think I relegated it as a tequila coma induced hallucination.
Rudy.....a cybersecurity expert. Rolls off the tongue like a mouthful of hot lava squirts. The last puter that motherfucker probably touched was an Coleco ADAM in 84.
Christ, I remember when we had actual respect for the dried up asshole...Man, he torpedoed the shit outta that. I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could bowl him.
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From community service to director disqualification: UK CMA gets tough
Posted on December 16, 2016 by Editor under Uncategorized
CMA secures director disqualification for competition law breach
Unlike our September 2015 report on a rather lenient sentence of 120 hours of community service, the CMA has now secured the first disqualification of a director of a company found to have infringed competition law.
Daniel Aston, managing director of the online poster supplier Trod Ltd, has given a disqualification undertaking not to act as a director of any UK company for 5 years.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) may, under the Company Directors Disqualification Act, seek the disqualification of an individual from holding company directorships where that individual has been director of a company which has breached competition law.
This is the first time the power has been used for competition law breaches since it came on the statute book.
The disqualification follows the CMA’s decision of 12 August 2016 that Trod breached competition law by agreeing with one of its competing online sellers that they would not undercut each other’s prices for posters and frames sold on Amazon’s UK website. The CMA found that the agreement was implemented using automated re-pricing software. The CMA fined Trod £163,371.
As Mr Aston was the managing director of Trod at the relevant time, and because he personally contributed to the breach of competition law, the CMA considers that his conduct makes him unfit to be a company director for a specified period.
Michael Grenfell, Executive Director for Enforcement at the CMA, said:
Breaking competition law can harm consumers, businesses and overall economic performance. In this case, people shopping online were entitled to believe retailers were competing on price, whereas, unknown to them, the companies had colluded not to undercut each other’s prices.
The responsibility to ensure that companies don’t engage in illegal anti-competitive practices is an important one, and company directors should not shirk that responsibility. The business community should be clear that the CMA will continue to look at the conduct of directors of companies that have broken competition law, and, where appropriate, we are absolutely prepared to use this power again.
Under the disqualification undertaking, Mr Aston undertakes that for a period of 5 years, he will not ‘without the leave of the court be a director of a company or act as a receiver of a company’s property; or in any way, whether directly or indirectly, be concerned or take part in the promotion, formation or management of a company; or act as an insolvency practitioner.’ On 6 October 2016, the CMA served Mr Aston with a notice pursuant to section 9C of the Act setting out the grounds and evidence on which it proposed to rely in a claim for a disqualification order. Mr Aston has made oral and written representations on the proposed claim. On 21 November 2016, the CMA determined to bring proceedings in the event that no disqualification undertaking were given.
Under the Company Directors Disqualification Act, the CMA has the power to apply to the court for an order disqualifying a director from holding company directorships or performing certain roles in relation to a company for a specified period if a company of which he or she is a director has breached competition law. The Act also allows the CMA to accept a disqualification undertaking from a director instead of bringing proceedings. A disqualification undertaking has the same legal effect as a disqualification order. Sections 9A to 9E of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 as amended by the Enterprise Act 2002, which came into effect on 20 June 2003, gives the CMA the power to apply to the court for a disqualification order to be made against a director for a maximum of 15 years where a company of which he is a director has breached competition law and where his conduct as a director makes him unfit to be concerned in the management of a company.
The disqualification undertaking is available on the CMA’s web page.
Court goes easy on CMA accused: 120 hours of community service for ‘cartel offence’
Posted on September 15, 2015 by Editor under Uncategorized
Courtesy of the Competition & Markets Authority in the United Kingdom
Nigel Snee was today sentenced to 6 months’ imprisonment, suspended for 12 months, and ordered to do 120 hours community service within 12 months. While the law would have permitted issuance of a monetary fine, he was spared that as well, and likewise is allowed to continue serving as a company director in the future.
The sentencing hearing at Southwark Crown Court followed a criminal cartel investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
Mr Snee, the former Managing Director of Franklin Hodge Industries, had previously pleaded guilty to dishonestly agreeing with others to fix prices, divide up customers and rig bids between 2005 and 2012 in respect of the supply in the UK of galvanised steel tanks for water storage.
The tanks are used to store water for sprinkler systems in buildings.
Mr Snee was arrested in 2012 at the start of an investigation begun by theCMA’s predecessor, the Office of Fair Trading.
Mr Snee cooperated with the investigation and, after pleading guilty to the cartel offence in January 2014, was a witness for the CMA at the subsequent trial of two further individuals, who were acquitted in June. As is usual in such cases, the extent of Mr Snee’s cooperation was reported to the trial judge in order that it could be taken into account in his sentencing decision.
In explaining the approach to sentencing, His Honour Judge Goymer remarked that “the economic damage done by cartels is such that those involved must expect prison sentences”.
The judge indicated that his starting point in this case was that a prison sentence of 2 years was appropriate. Taking into account Mr Snee’s early guilty plea, his personal mitigation and the extent of his voluntary cooperation as a witness, the Judge reduced his sentence by the “higher end” discount of 75%, and concluded that it was appropriate in the circumstances of this case for the resulting 6 month sentence to be suspended.
Bullet point summary:
On 24 June 2015, following a trial at Southwark Crown Court in the same case, two directors, Clive Dean of Kondea Water Supplies Limited and Nicholas Stringer of Galglass Limited, were acquitted of the same charges under section 188 of the Enterprise Act 2002.
The case was brought under the law as it applied to conduct before April 2014, under which the cartel offence was only committed where the individuals concerned acted dishonestly. Following a change in the law, for conduct after 1 April 2014, it is no longer necessary for the CMA to prove that individuals acted dishonestly to commit the cartel offence.
The CMA is also currently conducting a related civil investigation into whether businesses have infringed the Competition Act 1998. No assumption should be made at this stage as to whether the Competition Act has been infringed.
The CMA operates a leniency programme for parties who want to admit their involvement in a cartel and also, in certain circumstances, offersfinancial rewards for cartel informants.
DOJ Antitrust Division announces criminal fines for FY 2014
Posted on January 30, 2015 by Editor under criminal antitrust, DOJ, statistics, Uncategorized
ANTITRUST DIVISION ANNOUNCES FISCAL YEAR TOTAL IN CRIMINAL FINES COLLECTED
The Department of Justice collected $1.861 billion in criminal fines and penalties resulting from Antitrust Division prosecutions in the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30, 2014. Contributing in part to one of the largest yearly collections for the division, five of the companies paid in full penalties that exceeded $100 million, including a $425 million criminal fine levied against Bridgestone Corp., the fourth-largest fine the Antitrust Division has ever obtained. The second-largest fine collected was a $195 million criminal fine levied against Hitachi Automotive Systems Ltd. The three additional companies that paid fines and penalties exceeding $100 million were Mitsubishi Electric Corp. with $190 million, Toyo Tire & Rubber Co. Ltd. with $120 million and JTEKT Corp. with $103.2 million. The collection total also includes penalties of more than $561 million received as a result of the division’s LIBOR investigation, which has been conducted in cooperation with the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. In addition, in the last fiscal year the division obtained jail terms for 21 individual defendants, with an average sentence of 26 months, the third-highest average ever.
“The size of these penalties is an unfortunate reminder of the powerful temptation to cheat the American consumer and profit from collusion,” said Assistant Attorney General Bill Baer for the Antitrust Division. “We remain committed to ensuring that corporations and individuals who collude face serious consequences for their crimes.”
Germany’s Andreas Mundt rejects idea of criminal sanctions for antitrust violators
Posted on November 21, 2014 by Editor under cartels, criminal antitrust, DOJ, Germany, South Africa
Germany won’t join jurisdictions with criminal competition penalties
The head of the federal cartel office, the Bundeskartellamt’s Andreas Mundt, reportedly dismissed the idea of introducing criminal sanctions for competition-law offences. Speaking at the GFR Society for Law and Policy’s event, he called imprisonment a “severe weapon” that had no place in the “rarely [] crystal clear matter” of cartel violations, where “the lines are often blurred.”
Among the countries that do have a criminal antitrust regime (usually only for “hard-core” offences, such as price-fixing or bid-rigging and market allocation among horizontal competitors), the most well-known is of course the United States, whose Sherman Act made cartel violations a criminal felony as far back as 1890. Among the more recent acolytes of criminal penalties are newer competition-law jurisdictions, such as South Africa and Kenya.
International precedent-setting institutions and enforcers’ recommendations tend towards identifying the positive effect of criminal antitrust penalties:
OECD, 3rd Hard-Core Cartel Report (2005):
Recommends that governments consider the introduction and imposition of criminal antitrust sanctions against individuals to enhance deterrence and incentives to cooperate through leniency programmes.
U.S. Department of Justice, Tom Barnett (2008):
“Jail time creates the most effective, necessary deterrent.”
“[N]othing in our enforcement arsenal has as great a deterrent as the threat of substantial jail time in a United States prison, either as a result of a criminal trial or a guilty plea.”
Cornerstones of a successful criminal antitrust regime commonly include the following:
Crystal-clear demarcation of criminal vs. civil conduct
Highly effective leniency policy also applies to individuals
Standard of proof must be met beyond a reasonable doubt
No blanket liability for negligent directors – only actors liable
Plea bargaining to be used as an effective tool to reduce sentence
Clear pronouncements by enforcement agency to help counsel predict outcomes
Why are compliance programmes treated differently (competition vs. anti-bribery laws)?
Posted on August 13, 2014 by Editor under Uncategorized
In this post, Michael Volkov compares the “carrot” approach to FCPA compliance programmes to the lack thereof in antitrust enforcement, asking the pertinent question: “why do antitrust enforcers not reward compliance efforts like their anti-bribery counterparts do?”
Worth a read.
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose: Revised EU de minimis notice retains % thresholds, clarifies per se rule
Posted on June 26, 2014 by Editor under EU, EU Commission, legislation
Nothing new: the newly-revised de minimis Notice of the European Commission isn’t that novel
The revised Notice (after its 1997 and 2001 predecessors) retains the 10% and 15% market-share thresholds for agreements between horizontal and non-horizontal competitors, respectively, which create a safe harbor from EC prosecution for an Art. 101(1) violation. The document merely adds formal color and substance to the issue of what types of agreements fall within its “safe harbor” and which fall outside that umbrella.
Unsurprisingly, the Staff Guidance paper accompanying the Notice explains the prohibited hallmark per se (or “by object”) category of agreements succinctly as follows, also adding minimum-RPM, bid rigging, collective boycotts and particularly injurious information-sharing arrangements:
The three classical “by object” restrictions in agreements between competitors are price fixing, output limitation and market sharing (sharing of geographical or product markets or customers).
Not binding on Member States
Importantly, as its predecessors, the Notice does NOT have binding effect on EU member states’ competition authorities, but ONLY on the EU Commission and its DG COMP. As the European Court of Justice held in its Expedia judgment (case C-226/11):
27 It also follows from the objectives pursued by the de minimis notice, as mentioned in paragraph 4 thereof, that it is not intended to be binding on the competition authorities and the courts of the Member States.
28 It is apparent from that paragraph, first, that the purpose of that notice is to make transparent the manner in which the Commission, acting as the competition authority of the European Union, will itself apply Article 101 TFEU. Consequently, by the de minimis notice, the Commission imposes a limit on the exercise of its discretion and must not depart from the content of that notice without being in breach of the general principles of law, in particular the principles of equal treatment and the protection of legitimate expectations (see, to that effect, Joined Cases C‑189/02 P, C‑202/02 P, C‑205/02 P to C‑208/02 P and C‑213/02 P Dansk Rørindustri and Others v Commission [2005] ECR I‑5425, paragraph 211). Furthermore, it intends to give guidance to the courts and authorities of the Member States in their application of that article.
29 Consequently, and as the Court has already had occasion to point out, a Commission notice, such as the de minimis notice, is not binding in relation to the Member States (see, to that effect, Case C‑360/09 Pfleiderer [2011] ECR I‑0000, paragraph 21).
30 Accordingly, that notice was published in 2001 in the ‘C’ series of the Official Journal of the European Union, which, by contrast with the ‘L’ series of the Official Journal, is not intended for the publication of legally binding measures, but only of information, recommendations and opinions concerning the European Union (see, by analogy, Case C‑410/09 Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa [2011] ECR I‑0000, paragraph 35).
31 Consequently, in order to determine whether or not a restriction of competition is appreciable, the competition authority of a Member State may take into account the thresholds established in paragraph 7 of the de minimis notice but is not required to do so. Such thresholds are no more than factors among others that may enable that authority to determine whether or not a restriction is appreciable by reference to the actual circumstances of the agreement.
China blocks P3 Shipping Alliance from Steaming Ahead
Posted on June 18, 2014 by Editor under China - PRC, mergers, MOFCOM, shipping
Shippers hit Chinese iceberg: MOFCOM blocks JV outright
Møller-Maersk A/S, MSC Mediterranean Shipping Company SA and CMA-CGM SA have abandoned plans to enter into a long-term operational vessel-sharing agreement of about 250 cargo ships, servicing worldwide container liner shipping routes.
According to a Maersk statement, the decision came on 17 June 2014, causing the partners to abandon the deal scheduled for completion this fall. The agency has also given the parties the right to appeal the decision, but that seems unlikely at this stage.
MOFCOM suprises yet again
The blocking decision – only the second outright refusal after MOFCOM’s 2009 derailment of a Coca-Cola transaction involving a Chinese drinks manufacturer – is yet another example in the ongoing antitrust saga of Chinese unpredictability.
After obtaining clearance from the EU’s DG COMP earlier in June and likewise from the United States Federal Maritime Commission in March 2014, the three shipping giants apparently perceived a greater chance of their alliance being approved by regulators worldwide. Yet, the MOFCOM ruling has put a full halt to the joint venture:
“The decision does come as a surprise to us, of course, as the partners have worked hard to address all the regulators’ concerns,” according to the CEO of Maersk Nils Andersen.
MOFCOM, one of China’s three antitrust enforcement bodies, is said to have concluded that the proposed JV would have enhanced the market power of the P3 members and increased barriers to entry.
Maersk states disappointment
“In Maersk Line we have worked hard to address the Chinese questions and concerns. So of course it is a disappointment. P3 would have provided Maersk Line with a more efficient network and our customers with a better product. We are committed to continuing to be cost competitive and offer reliable services,” says Vincent Clerc, Chief Trade and Marketing Officer of Maersk Line.
Brussels bar for U.S. American lawyers: “independent” or “employee”?
Posted on June 13, 2014 by Editor under Belgium, EU, firms, jurisdiction
American attorneys practicing in Brussels/Belgium do not have to switch from employee to independent status
Why is this antitrust-relevant? Because many U.S. antitrust/competition lawyers practice in Brussels and become members of the so-called Brussels bar “B-List,” or “liste B”…
This piece of news may (1) not be news to some, but is relevant (2) to all who may be directly or indirectly affected by various Brussels bar rules (e.g., as hiring partners considering hiring U.S. attorneys for their BRX office, or directly as American associates or of-counsel etc. moving abroad):
The [perceived] Belgian prohibition against attorneys having an “employee” status in a law firm – and hence the important, although implicit, requirement that all associates or other non-partner lawyers must be so-called “independents” under Belgian bar rules – does not exist for American lawyers practicing in Belgium.
As long as you are an “American attorney” member of either the E- or B-lists of the BRX bar, you can actually be an employee: See para. 5 of Art. 6 in Annex 9 (“CONVENTION CONCLUE AVEC L’AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION LE 6 AOÛT 1994”) to the Recueil des règles professionnelles (www.barreaudebruxelles.be/pdf/brochures/recueil2010.pdf), copied below (– let me know if you interpret this differently).
Article 6 : CONDUITE ET PRIVILÈGES
5. L’indépendance des avocats américains étant garantie par les règles professionnelles qui leur sont applicables comme membre des barreaux des Etats-Unis, il ne leur sera pas interdit, par le fait de l’inscription à l’une des listes des avocats étrangers ou pour d’autres motifs, d’avoir le statut d’employé dans un cabinet ou une association.
This may have implications for all U.S. firms hiring or moving American associates or of-counsel to their Brussels location. Previously, as I have understood past practice, firms have required their U.S. non-partner attorneys to become ‘independents’ under the Brussels bar rules, which may be a wholly unnecessary (and HR-costly) step.
If you have questions, e-mail me.
Almunia: EU Antitrust damages directive “most significant”
Posted on May 15, 2014 by Editor under cartels, class action, conference, EU, legislation, policy, private actions, private enforcement
St. Gallen International Competition Law Forum Remarks Highlight Civil Competition-Law Enforcement & Cartel Victims’ Access to Evidence as Top-of-Agenda for Outgoing Commissioner
Joaquin ALMUNIA, Vice President of the European Commission responsible for Competition policy & enforcement, made the following (excerpted) remarks at the 2014 International Competition Law Forum held in St. Gallen.
From a practitioner’s perspective, the Commissioner’s emphasis on cartel victims’ access to evidence, his subtle reminder that the Directive merely sets a “minimum standard“, and the parallel observation that the upcoming collective redress Recommendation will be applicable across all policy (and legal) fields are important highlights of the prepared remarks.
I will start with the Directive on antitrust damages actions, which I regard as one of the most significant developments in the competition-policy domain in the current mandate.
Infringements of EU competition law are not only bad for the competitiveness of our economy. They also harm companies and consumers directly.
We recognise that every individual consumer and business has the right to be compensated for this damage. However, given the legal systems of EU countries, only a few victims obtain compensation in practice.
The time has come to translate our principles into actual practice.
Last year the Commission tabled a proposal to remove existing obstacles in national rules and make it easier for victims to obtain compensation across the EU through private enforcement.
The European Parliament and the Council have seized the opportunity and reached a political agreement with remarkable speed.
The Parliament voted the final text by an overwhelming majority, and the formal approval by the Council is expected before or shortly after the summer.
This outcome is a major success for a number of reasons.
First, from the perspective of victims, the Directive will make it easier for them to get hold of the evidence they need to prove the damage, because national courts will be empowered to order disclosure of relevant evidence.
The Directive also allows victims to rely on decisions taken by national competition authorities when these find an infringement.
Moreover, it introduces clear rules on several aspects of competition litigation, thus reducing the existing uncertainties, which have a cost for all parties.
From the perspective of the internal market, the Directive sets a minimum standard in all Member States, which means more legal certainty and a more level playing field throughout the EU.
Finally, from the perspective of competition authorities, the Directive fine-tunes the interaction between their work and the compensation claims by private parties. This is thanks to rules that preserve the incentives of companies to cooperate in antitrust investigations.
In parallel to the Directive, the Commission has also adopted a Recommendation inviting Member States to introduce collective redress mechanisms at national level by mid-2015.
The Recommendation includes basic principles that would ensure fair, timely and affordable procedures across the EU. The Recommendation is not limited to competition law but covers all policy fields.
Howrey trustee faces calls for removal
Posted on May 12, 2014 by Editor under firms
Unsecured creditors seek removal of Diamond law firm as Howrey LLP trustee due to alleged conflict of interest
Law360 reports that the California bankruptcy court has been asked to remove the Chapter 11 trustee from the case of venerable antitrust firm Howrey LLP, due to a perceived conflict of interest after Diamond McCarthy LLP had announced several new attorney hires — one of whom (Christopher Sullivan) allegedly represented unsecured Howrey creditors.
The creditors filing the motion last Thursday were Advanced Discovery LLC, Give Something Back Inc., Kent Daniels and Associates Inc., L.A. Best Photocopies Inc. and Western Messenger Inc., Howrey Claims LLC (= William Imhoff — does anyone know him or this Georgia/California based entity?!) and Matura Farrington Staffing Services Inc.
Law360 quotes the motion and the trustee’s response as follows:
“How this could have happened in the era of computerized conflict checks is a mystery,” the creditors said in a court filing.
“There is absolutely no conflict and his motion is completely without merit and it will be addressed through the courts,” Diamond said.
The case is In re: Howrey LLP, case number 3:11-bk-31376, in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California.
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It’s fair to say that putting Mariano Rivera third in a list of the best New York Yankees’ rookie cards is a slightly controversial decision considering some of the more popular players who haven’t made the cut, but his accomplishments and achievements will easily stand the test of time compared to the others we’ve mentioned.
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In more recent years, he became a part-owner of the Miami Marlins after he and New York businessman Bruce Sherman bought the franchise for an eye-watering $1.2 billion.
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After beginning his career with the Red Sox, he left his former Boston side struggling with the “Curse of the Bambino” when he left for New York in 1920. Ruth remained a Yankees player until 1934, and he was a seven-time World Series Champion in the time spent between the two franchises. He played for a total of 22 seasons between 1914 and 1935.
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There was no chance that he wouldn’t make this list, especially when you factor in the rarity of his rookie cards and the massive interest they draw from collectors. A 1916 Ruth rookie card can sell for over $100,000 depending on the condition, and that’s not even the most valuable option available.
The 1914 Baltimore News Babe Ruth card is likely to be the most valuable, estimated to be worth at least $500,000 in good condition just over a decade ago. Of course, there’s more to the best Yankees’ rookie cards than price alone, but it’s hard to argue with an item that is worth over half a million.
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Pete Christothoulou, CEO
A successful mobile advertising campaign can transform a business by acquiring new customers and building brand awareness. However, advertisers spend billions each year on mobile advertising, without having the tools or technology to measure the effectiveness of the campaigns. “Ironically, most consumer purchases from mobile experiences happen offline, either through consumer phone calls to businesses or in-store visits. Yet, CMOs and CIOs lack the technology to measure these actions,” notes Pete Christothoulou, CEO, Marchex. Seattle, WA, based Marchex has taken this challenge head-on and established itself as a pioneer in mobile advertising industry. The company has cutting-edge solutions that deliver visibility to marketers on inbound phone calls from mobile and online ad campaigns.
Through its analytics platform, Marchex enables marketers to measure in real-time when a consumer makes a phone call from a mobile, digital or offline advertisement. In 2015, consumers will click to call from a mobile search more than 50 billion times, according to research firm BIA/Kelsey. “This ability to make a phone call from a smartphone is convenient and efficient for the consumer, which is why this is so important for marketers to measure,” says Christothoulou.
Marchex’s technology allows its customers to measure the effectiveness of any advertising campaign that results in a phone call. A core ingredient of the technology is Marchex Call DNA, the only conversational analytics technology to visually map, classify, and score every phone call automatically without human involvement. “Through Call DNA, we are able to determine which calls convert into sales and which don’t,” affirms Christothoulou.
Marchex also works with Google to manage local marketing programs for tens of thousands of small businesses that seek phone calls as an outcome of their paid search advertising. “We have been a Google partner for many years now and one of the benefits that we received from them is a close collaboration on how to drive client success. We ensure that the customers using Google’s products are deriving the most value they can,” says Christothoulou.
With over 200 engineers developing products for their clients, the company is highly customer-centric, and ensures that its solutions help clients improve their business. “We listen to our clients’ feedback and develop products that solve their problems,” extols Christothoulou. He further explains that the company provides transparency to the clients by helping them understand what’s happening in their advertising programs and offline experiences. “My philosophy is to be very transparent with our company, the operations, our success, and how our clients view us,” says Christothoulou.
We provide visibility to our clients by helping them measure how effective their advertising programs are at driving consumer purchases
The combined force of Marchex’s advanced analytics platform, paid search solution, and analytics enabled advertising network provide deep insights into every ad campaign. The company’s Call Analytics for Search product delivers 100 percent keyword attribution for every phone call from paid search. For instance, Allconnect—a leading multi-channel marketplace, approached Marchex with a huge problem. Despite investing heavily in click-to-call campaigns from mobile search, Allconnect was unable to understand the specific keywords which were driving calls with purchase intent. Allconnect used Marchex Call Analytics for Search and boosted the gross-profit for click-to-call campaigns by 50 percent and decreased its cost-per-acquisition by 43 percent.
Going forward, the company’s focus will be on additional mobile analytics products. “In this new world of mobility, the CMO and CIO need to invest in analytics platforms to understand and transform their businesses,” says Christothoulou.
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A global leader in mobile analytics, Marchex measures offline consumer actions resulting from mobile experiences.
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Home » News » Interior sells $448K in leases off Mass.
Interior sells $448K in leases off Mass.
Source: Phil Taylor, E&E reporter • Posted: Friday, January 30, 2015
The Interior Department’s largest sale of federal waters for offshore wind development today drew relatively modest bidding, with two companies paying a combined $448,000 for the right to develop two tracts totaling 354,000 acres about 14 miles south of Massachusetts’ Martha’s Vineyard.
The auction was brief, lasting two rounds before the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management declared Offshore MW LLC and RES America Inc. as the provisional winners of 187,523-acre and 166,886-acre tracts, respectively.
Two other lease tracts totaling about 388,000 acres received no bids.
“We are pleased to see continued commercial interest in the offshore wind industry, as demonstrated by today’s lease sale, particularly given the water depth of the wind energy area offshore Massachusetts,” BOEM Director Abigail Ross Hopper said in a statement. “With provisional winners who are well established and have experience in developing wind energy facilities, we are optimistic about a strong renewable energy future offshore Massachusetts.”
Today’s sale nearly doubles the amount of waters Interior has leased through competitive bidding.
But the auction, BOEM’s fourth since July 2013, appeared to draw far less industry demand than previous sales off the coasts of Massachusetts-Rhode Island, Virginia and Maryland that generated more than $14 million in high bids for more than 357,500 acres.
Roughly a dozen companies were qualified to place bids in today’s auction.
The winning bidders will have the exclusive right to build a wind farm, should they choose to do so. They’ll have one year to submit a site assessment plan to BOEM to install devices like meteorological towers or buoys. If approved, the companies will then have up to five years to submit a construction and operations plan, a move that would trigger a separate environmental review.
Today’s lease came during a tumultuous time for the U.S. offshore wind industry.
Earlier this month, the 130-turbine Cape Wind project off Nantucket Sound, Mass., which many believed would be the nation’s first-ever offshore wind farm, suffered a major setback when two utilities opted to terminate agreements to purchase its power (Greenwire, Jan. 7).
Developers also have no indication whether a Republican-controlled Congress will renew a lucrative 30 percent investment tax credit that industry officials say is critical to getting the first projects built.
The Boston Globe earlier this month published an editorial noting that BOEM is auctioning waters farther from shore, where they will incite less controversy than Cape Wind.
BOEM raised $3.8 million in its first competitive auction in 2013 off the coasts of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, selling a 257-square-mile area to Deepwater Wind New England LLC, which plans to build a 1,000-megawatt wind farm on the federal lease.
“Due to both controversy and mismanagement, Cape Wind appears all but dead,” the Globe wrote. “And, yes, its demise is a blow to Massachusetts’ ambitions to harness the power of wind — but it should, by no means, be a death knell.”
The waters BOEM put up for sale today could support up to 5,000 megawatts of wind generation, according to scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo.
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D4 Remixes by Kreidler, Pole, Tarwater, & To Rococo Rot
Mute Records
Mute Records sure have been keeping busy putting out great bands. The label has bought scarce CDs for licencing, bringing much wider audiences to deserving bands. Last year their focus was on the new German bands that were crossing boundaries between electronic, art, and the rockish structure of pop. The big 4 of that sound/movement are here, remixing the English band which seems to have learned lots from these 4 German bands. Everyone has learned from these bands: even Saint Etienne's new record is being produced by To Rococo Rot. Pole did an incredible job on the production ot Berlin's The Quarks on their "Konig" CD recently. The 4 remixes on this 12" have more to do with the mixers than Appliance: little of Appliance's originals remain. It's pretty neat to have all these people wrapped together in one vinyl slab, united on a common source material, letting their own personality shine through on their track.
---Carl, March 28, 2000
Capitol K
Roadeater EP
Planet Mu Records
What a wow. There are 5 songs on this 12". The first song "Pillow" is the feature. It is where Flaming Lips dream of going. A totally electronic - not even now but beyond now - song with vocals and a real structure. It is really a musthear, no kidding. This is what I think Brad Laner wanted to do in his post Medicine pop project too. Following 'Pillow' are 4 instrumentals. I like "Production No." best (the song which immediately follows 'Pillow'). It has a simple piano signature like OMD had in "Electricity" or more recently Cinema in "They Nicknamed Me Evil" which it carries up up up into other realms with the sounds around and within it. The third song on the A-side didn't leave much impression on me, and the 2 songs on the B-side are a bit beat oriented, though I do like the first one ("Superheroes") which reminds me a bit of the Japanese band Montparnasse, who have an excellent 12" on Escalator Records.
Johnny Domino / M.J. Hibbett & The Validators
'Mex' & 'Good Feeling' (Johnny Domino) / 'Payday Is The Best Day' & 'Ring Your Mother' (M.J. Hibbett & The Validators)
Reveal Records
MJ Hibbett (Mark Hibbett) also appears on the Fortuna Pop! 7" compilation 'Work Is A Four Letter Word' and on a Flighted Miskick (a subsidiary of Guided Missile) 7" dedicated to the World Cup series which took place 2 years ago. Both bands on this single have just put out debut full lengths. Mark Hibbett's backing band on these recordings includes people from Prolapse, John Sims, and Lazer Guided (whose great split single with Saloon charted well at WZBC). The subject matter of M.J. Hibbett seems to parallel Billy Bragg with all his songs about the working man, and about working itself, but I like Mark Hibbett's songs better myself. The song which appears on 'Work Is A Four Letter Word' even has parts of a Billy Bragg song in it. I have read people calling M.J. Hibbett & The Validators 'Billy Bragg without a budget'. All I know for sure is that the song "Payday is the Best Day" has been going through my head most of the week. Johnny Domino have the plucked note guitar sound that The Yummy Fur and The Male Nurse do, a sound which was pioneered by The Fire Engines in Scotland ages ago . It's a good sound though, and Johnny Domino play it well.
The Patty Duke Fanzine
'Sure Gonna Miss Him' (Buck) / 'Whenever She Holds You' (Gaze) / 'Tell Me Momma' (International House Of Karen) / 'I Love How You Love Me' (Rose Melberg)
various artists 7inch
Buck features Lisa Marr (vocals/bass) who used to fron the Canadian all girl trio Cub. She now fronts this coed trio in LA, CA. Gaze are an all girl trio from Vancouver Canada. International House Of Karen is Karen of Bunnygrunts new band based in St. Louis, and Rose Melberg is the much loved ex-leader of Tiger Trap, as well as fronting Go Sailor, and The Softies. All these bands LOVE Patty Duke, the spicy teen who played herself and an identical cousin in the 60's TV show "The Patty Duke Show". On this EP they each cover a song that Patty Duke had covered during her recording career.
'Do The Thing' b-w 'Dan and Greg, John and Richie'
SL Records
The A-side is from the recent 'Avoidance' CD, and the 2 B-sides are instrumentals unique to this 7", from this Edinburgh Scotland band. The first of these instrumentals ("Dan and Greg") centers on Teardrop Explodes "Sleeping Gas" styled rhythm with a bit more zip, and an organ circling around it, all with the feel of a electric jam freakout. The song reprises after a false end, at a slightly slower beat. The second song throws a new wrinkle at you: it runs at 33 despite the fact that the song before it plowed along at 45 rpm. It has an REMish circular picking guitar and piano chords over the bass, which increases in promenance throughout the (pretty short) length of the song.
Kid 606 / Christoph De Babalon
Fat Cat Records
A good week for Fat Cat at WZBC. Not only do we now have this great 12" with 6 new Kid 606 (San Diego CA) and 4 Christoph De Babalon (Hamburg Germany) pieces, but we also received Process "Shape-Space", The Dylan Group "Ur-Klang Search", and the "Split Series 1-8" CD's from Triage International, who are promoting Fat Cat in the US. Both Kid 606 and Christoph de Babalon are pretty radical, but are not unlistenable noise. They are electronic/computer sound pioneers whose work can just as soon be contemplative as incredibly mixed up in true chaos.
Kimonophonic
'Super Highway' & 'Music For Time Travel - Part Two' b-w 'Blue snow' & 'From Vermont To Delaware In 1961'
Earworm Records
Kimonophonic is Justin Armstrong, from Ontario Canada. He recorded these 4 track mostly upbeat synth intrumentals at home. Like all Earworm releases there is a high quality, and high quality of the unusual. "From Vermont To Delaware in 1961" sounds like Suicide's 'Cheri' without vocals was it's launchpad. The songs which start out each side truly cook, and should delight anyone who enjoyed the recent 'From Inside The Chocolate Coffin' 12"s. My fave is the 2 minute "Super Highway", which starts off the A-side in a quickly percolating trot. For those who like foggy 'lost' sounding tracks, the second song on the A-side ("Music For Time Travel - Part Two") should do the trick, though it's my least favorite of the 4.
In The Presence Of The Crepuscular
Amberly Records
Amberley's pamphlet says "The duo of Alyssa and Andrew invite you to a magical place, through quasi-orchestral themes constructed with loving craftmanship." Here is their biography from their website: Mahogany was formed in December of 1995 by Allysa Massais and Andrew Prinz.They had met the year before, and through a mutual love of composers like Debussy, bands like Section 25, and a similar background in classical cello, they began working on music together. In February of 1996, Larry Hofmann of Burnt Hair Records saw the pair play one of their first shows, in Lansing, Mich. Larry like the group and asked them to do a split 12" with fellow Lansing residents Auburn Lull. Released in December of that year, the 'Dual-Group' EP was called 'drop-trousers gorgeous' by the Ptolemaic Terrascope, and received airplay in Belgium, New York, and on the John Peel show in the UK. Releases on other labels like Tinseltones, Liquefaction and Blackbean & Placenta soon followed; currently, Mahogany is recording on 24-track digital for their debut album with Burnt Hair.
Ramonetures
Blood Red Vinyl & Discs
Ramonetures: The title and the sleeve spell it out perfectly. The sleeve has a perfect mock of the classic first Ramone's record, with a leather jacketed shirtless ripped jean sneakered girl holding a Mosrite guitar. What you'll find within is 18 instrumental Ramones covers played Ventures style. It's a neat concept, and a great way for this unknown Portland OR band to sell tons of records by tapping into the well established audiences of The Ramones and The Ventures. At the end of the day all you'll need to know is that it's fun, nobody got hurt, and you know all these songs deep in your heart already, so why not?!
Three Berry Icecream
'Marble Arch' & 'Happy Day, Happy Time!' b-w 'Children's Hour' & 'Wonderland'
Dogprint Records
"Marble Arch" sounds like one of the instrumentals that you'd find on a Siesta compilation: light airy, upbeat and smart. "Happy day, Happy time!" sounds more like Patty Duke than the bands on the Patty Duke compilation 7", albeit a Japanese Patty Duke with a bossanova beat. Very nice. The 2 songs on the B-side are more in the Clover Records minimal vein, and are not as strong as the A-side tracks, missing the drums and flourishes that made the A-sides so bright.
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Star Trek Discovery: Season One
Star Trek Discovery has been quite a ride!
I had been anticipating this new series for over a year, but with several production delays, it did not premiere until September 2017. I eagerly watched the first three episodes and felt it was intriguing, although I had some major issues with the feel of it considering it is a prequel to TOS. I basically was having a hard time with suspension of disbelief that all the changes fit in with established canon. I then took an extended break from the show, as I was in my last semester of grad school and had to concentrate on my portfolio and final projects. It wasn’t until after Christmas that I binge watched all the episodes I had missed.
Watching the episodes in a cluster really changed my viewing experience for the better. All of a sudden I was immersed in the Star Trek universe and looked at it as a whole instead of dissecting the parts like I have tended to do in the past. With all of it swirling in my head, I was able to watch the final episodes as they were released and came away pleased with the series.
I read an interesting article “The Fascinating Ways Star Wars and Star Trek Are Challenging Their Own Franchises” which compares the new directions that both Star Wars and Discovery have chosen to take with their leads. I found I have some personal contractions in how I feel about these new antiheroes- for I was aghast at Luke’s portrayal in the recent The Last Jedi but was okay with how Captain Lorca of the U.S.S. Discovery was a warhawk and quite arrogant.
Discovery also changed up the pacing of the series with a prequel to a prequel in the first few episodes, with the series first starting on the U.S.S. Shenzhou and for it’s lead character not being a captain. The odd pacing also included what seemed to be a season ending arc concluding a few episodes shy of the finale, with the last two episodes taking a sudden u-turn that seemed to aim towards story lines that might align with TOS.
I think what has tipped the scales for me is the characters. I like them! They are diverse in the very best way. Michael Burnham is an appealing lead, whom I predict will eventually become a captain and be the one that will be included in captain montages with the other Star Trek series leads. Commander Saru is a unique alien that has captained ably, but I worry that his quiet fortitude will be overshadowed by more dramatic staff. Crusty Lt. Stamets and his husband Dr. Culber are a perfect example of showing a loving relationship and Ash Tyler showed male vulnerability (before his huge secret was revealed). Sure, I liked Captains Lorca and Georgiou, but it is the regular crew that has elevated the show for me.
And Tilly- I shall devote a whole paragraph to her! I love her! She is me! She is sweet, and can often be overlooked or not taken seriously because of her kindness. She is curvy and has wild curly hair plus a parent that she never could please. But she is also extremely competent and has a steely resolve that takes some people by surprise due to her being underestimated. When her Mirror Universe counterpart was Captain Killy (she was bad-ass there!) I was thrilled. More Tilly please!
As proof of how much I like the show, when I saw the picture below- I teared up in happiness. Included are additional bridge members (the two on the left and the three in the back row on the right) who haven’t had much development yet, but have so much potential! The picture makes me hopeful that the episodes won’t always concentrate on the leads, and that lesser known ship crew can get their due. They deserve a #DiscoParty!
Was the series perfect? Hell no! I have come to think of it as not quite Star Trek, for it is a grittier and less idealistic show than I have come to expect. Instead, it is sci-fi adventure show that pays lip service to the series, and I suspend logic (Spock!) for the sake of enjoyment. It is quite rare for me to do, but my tendency to make mountains out of molehills would only do me a disservice and I would miss out on this flawed but captivating new series.
I look forward to season two! In the meantime- live long and prosper!
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9 thoughts on “Star Trek Discovery: Season One”
So as someone with a fleeting knowledge/understanding of Star Trek, is this a series I should get into? Or would I be more confused if I watched it and then backtracked and watched Next Generation or the Original series?
That is a hard question to answer! Typically I recommend someone who is trying Star Trek for the first time to start with TNG and then try DS9 & Voyager. A visit to TOS is important, as to see what the whole franchise is based off, and to skip Enterprise completely. But this new series isn’t entirely Trekky to me so I don’t know if it would be the best or worst to recommend to someone! If you watched this first (it’s a prequel to TOS) and then watched the other shows it would not make a lot of sense. That’s why I got hung up on canon in the beginning.
For Tyeth
nuqneH Nancy, the problem I have with all the new prequel movies and TV series is the believability that they take place before the established canon movies and shows. The reason for this is the (for me) jarring differences with the technology and how it is presented. TOS was of course a 60’s series but the 23rd century tech was portrayed in a 60’s sort of way. I find it difficult to watch Enterprise etc and think of it as being set before TOS as all their tech (and costumes) seem much more detailed and advanced. It’s like TOS is the Wright brothers’ flyer then Enterprise is released and looks like Concorde yet we have to believe it predates the flight at Kitty Hawk!
Anyway I have rambled enough, thanks for the review but for now I have to go….HIjol!
p.s. for non Trekkies “nuqneH” is the Klingon word for Hello and “Hijol” is “Beam me up!” ;D
Qatlho’!
I love your Kitty Hawk example- yes! This re-imaging of ships/technology for prequels has been hard to wrap my mind around. I typically have a hard time with suspension of disbelief, but at the end of the season I started to look at the big picture and just accepted that it wasn’t going to fit my definition of a Trekkie show and to just go with it.
Hello again, yes I even had a struggle seeing the “new” Enterprise with Chris Pine as Kirk. The first sight of NCC-1701 in the shipyard was so strange to me after knowing the Jefferies’ designed Enterprise for so long. Somehow I managed to shut that out of my mind and enjoyed the story by the end of the film. I think I am going to have to adapt in a similar way to a lot of films in future!
This is a great piece for a lot of reasons but, what struck me to comment, is this is how I’ve had to approach a lot of the new Star Wars material. Seeing it all as a “sci-fi adventure show [or movie or novel or comic or what have you] that pays lip service to the series” is the perfect description. More importantly, I’m glad you enjoyed it! Yay!
This touches on the “head canon” that you recently wrote about. If I keep on harping on the inconsistencies, I ruin it for myself. While I loved how the webseries Star Trek Continues stayed exactly on canon as a tribute to TOS, I need to go with the flow with this newest series and look at it a different way.
I think that’s what we have to do – as far as we can stretch ourselves to do it – in an age where these stories will go on, in as many directions as possible, whether we like it or not. That’s one of the things I love about this post! This is the model. We challenge ourselves to find something to celebrate so we can enjoy it. Otherwise, the “new material” closes itself to us and that’s not fun…even if my crotchityness makes it so sometimes ;).
Star Trek Discovery: Season Two – Graphic Novelty²
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Judge Jeanine Pirro Exposed the Democrats’ Latest Plot Against Trump With 5 Words
Judge Jeanine Pirro is one of the toughest conservatives in America today.
And she has been a staunch ally of President Donald Trump from the beginning.
But now, Pirro is sounding the alarm by exposing the Democrats’ latest plot against Trump with just five words.
As one of the most successful Fox News hosts in recent years, Judge Jeanine Pirro has a loyal following that numbers in the millions.
Her supporters tune in to her show regularly to catch up with the latest and greatest dirty tactics the Democrats and the far-left are employing to undermine President Trump.
And as the 2020 election looms on the horizon, things are being cranked up a notch.
Pirro is now working to expose the greatest Democratic plot against Trump to date.
And she exposed it all with just five words.
The Daily Caller reports, “Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro believes there’s a ‘plot to remake America,’ which is the theme of her new book ‘Radical, Resistance and Revenge.’”
“You can see everything is upside down: the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, freedom of speech, law and order, respect for authority,” said Pirro.
Pirro is exactly right.
There is a plot to remake America.
And the plot to remake America wishes to see the United States become more like Venezuela.
But there’s something else going on as well, something that’s happening under the surface.
While Democrats running for President slam Trump on a daily basis and vow to undo his work as President, they’re also making more and more radical proposals that just a few years ago were considered totally out of the norm.
Blanket amnesty and healthcare for illegal immigrants, eliminating ICE, decriminalizing illegal border crossings, and reparations for slavery are now widely accepted agenda items within the modern Democratic Party.
And it’s a transformation that took place rapidly within just a few years.
Pirro is seeing it too, and she’s connecting the dots.
“She went on to say that she’s worried about the ‘anger’ coming from the left and what she sees as an effort to silence conservatives,” the Daily Caller adds.
“I love a two party system, I love that we can debate, and that we can differ, but this is different. They want to shut us down, they hate our president. When you think about all the times they’ve talked about blowing up the White House, killing the president — this is lunacy,” Pirro said in her recent interview.
She’s nailed the problem on the head.
As a former prosecutor, Pirro knows the game that the left is playing.
And she knows they’re trying to shift the goal posts of what is acceptable in American politics.
She’s now working to make sure that they don’t get their way, and she’s sounding the alarm bells to make sure others are aware of the plot to remake America from the far left as well.
Do you think Pirro is right?
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