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Parish Partners in Faith
Accreditation & Reports
Year End Report
2021-22 Registration
K-8 New Student Registration
Registration Fee Payments
Tuition Assistance: K-8th Grade
SAC Program (onsite before and after school care)
Preschool Offerings
Mrs. Connor's Twitter Page
Mrs. Haarstad's twitter page
Mrs. Lattery's Twitter Page
Mrs. Johnson's Twitter Page
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7th- 8th Grade
Knight Life
Multi-Age Learning Opportunities
Girls' Fastpitch Softball
Night of Knights Auction
SMS Family Resources
Infinite Campus Portals
2020 -21 Calendar
Liturgy Schedule
Handbooks/Processes
Tuition Incentive Programs
Social Worker Support
Sports Boosters
Daily Home Screening For Students
Decision Tree For People With Covid Symptoms MDH
Athletic Policy
Travel Release Form
2019-20 Sports Physical Form - valid for 3 years
Athletics are a tradition at St. Mary’s for our 6th-8th graders. Our Athletic Department is an integral part of the school, with the goal of enhancing the complete education of our student-athletes. Participation in our sports programs helps foster the development of students’ physical selves, as well as personal growth from lessons about discipline and team building. Our teams compete with several other schools in the Tri-County Conference.
On the side bar, click on the sport you are intersted in to learn more.
AFTER SCHOOL SPORTS PROGRAM
All students in the sixth through eighth grades are eligible to participate in the following sports:
Fall: Floor Hockey (Boys & Girls) Volleyball (Girls)
Winter: Basketball (Boys and Girls) Cheerleading (Girls and Boys)
Spring: Baseball (Boys) Softball (Girls)
Participation in after school sports programs requires a $50 fee for St. Mary’s students that covers participation for the entire year. Our dedicated Sports Boosters cover the expenses for the athletic programs.
PHILOSOPHY OF ATHLETICS AT ST. MARY’S
Our philosophy is to maintain and grow St. Mary’s School’s reputation for sportsmanship, team spirit, and competitive drive, both in our efforts improving individuals and in our work as a team.
St. Mary’s School views athletics as an integral part of the educational process. St. Mary’s will provide positive models of coaching excellence and sports programs that promote the ideals of sportsmanship, participation, competitiveness, high performance, and Christian character, with Christ as our witness.
Through the administration, coaching staff, parents and fans, the St. Mary’s sports program strives to influence the student athlete in a positive manner. All programs enable each participant to compete primarily for the love, enjoyment, education, appreciation and lifetime benefits of sports in a Christian atmosphere and not solely for winning or personal gains.
The intended outcomes of the St. Mary’s Sport experience are:
To learn and apply Christian character
To promote school unity and spirit
To improve individual skills in a sport through teamwork
To continue demonstration of sportsmanship
To enhance the image of St. Mary’s School
I. Enrollment
The student must be enrolled at St. Mary’s.
A student expectation form must be completed.
The student must have had a physical exam within the last three (3) years.
II. Athletes whose progress in school becomes a cause for concern may be ineligible to participate.
Students are expected to maintain a “C” (74%) in each class. Missing homework and/or a grade below a “C” in a class may result in missing a game or practice. Effort and progress toward improving the grade may be taken into consideration..
III. Athletic Policy
Athletics is used to promote school spirit and pride.
The ideals of fair play and sportsmanship are of prime importance to coaches, athletes and parents.
Coaches are encouraged to give every team member the opportunity to participate.
IV. Lettering Procedure
Participation in three (3) or more sports in one year entitles the athlete to the St. Mary’s “M”.
Athletes receive only one (1) “M” while attending St. Mary’s.
Athletes who have previously lettered are awarded sports pins to indicate the sport in which they participated.
Only one (1) pin per sport is awarded. Successive years of participation are awarded with certificates.
Those athletes who do not letter receive participation certificates.
Students participating in sports at OJHS will be acknowledged in the Sports Banquet booklet.
V. Insurance – St. Mary’s insurance does not cover athletic injury.
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Of JD Allen, Giovanni Russonello in The New York Times said, "Mr. Allen has become one of today's most exciting tenor saxophonists not by trying to spotlight his own virtuosity... but by defining a new way of playing in a group." Allen's current release, "Toys / Die Dreaming," is his 14th as a leader and builds on his already rich recorded legacy. His compositions exhibit his philosophy of providing short melodies as the basis of both solo and group improvisation; "Get in and get out," as Allen likes to say. This gives his music a remarkable ever-transforming feel, as if the improvisation was actually part of the composition itself. To bring his music to life, Allen requires players of the utmost talent and creativity and he has certainly found them in bassist, Ian Kenselaar and drummer, Nic Cacioppo. "I found the bad boys of this generation, as far as I'm concerned," says Allen, "guys who are not afraid to dip their toe in the avant-garde a little bit, and then turn around and play the tradition." But tradition to Allen is a development, an unending arc of creativity which begins at the dawn of jazz and to which he is the latest contributor to the music's evolution.
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Watch recorded webinars in which Stanford faculty, industry experts, and senior researchers go beyond the course curriculum to address emerging topics in academia and trends.
Featured Webinars:
Colloquium on Computer Systems - 2015 Seminar
Stanford Seminar - Awni Hannun of Baidu Research
"Deep Speech: Scaling up end-to-end speech recognition" - Awni Hannun of Baidu Research Colloquium on Computer Systems Seminar Series (EE380) presents the current research in design, implementation, analysis, and use of computer systems. Topics range from integrated circuits to operating systems and programming languages. It is free and open to the public, with new lectures each week. Learn more: http://bit.ly/WinYX5
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Stanford Seminar - Shah Selbe of National Geographic Society
-Shah Selbe, National Geographic Society In this seminar, entrepreneurial leaders share lessons from real-world experiences across entrepreneurial settings. Speakers include entrepreneurs, leaders from global technology companies, venture capitalists, and best-selling authors. Half-hour talks are followed by a half hour of class interaction. Learn More: http://stanford.io/V5YQ0b
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-Jennifer Pahlka, Code for America In this seminar, entrepreneurial leaders share lessons from real-world experiences across entrepreneurial settings. Speakers include entrepreneurs, leaders from global technology companies, venture capitalists, and best-selling authors. Half-hour talks are followed by a half hour of class interaction. Learn More: http://stanford.io/V5YQ0b
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"Service Robots Are Here" - Steve Cousins of Savioke Colloquium on Computer Systems Seminar Series (EE380) presents the current research in design, implementation, analysis, and use of computer systems. Topics range from integrated circuits to operating systems and programming languages. It is free and open to the public, with new lectures each week. Learn more: http://bit.ly/WinYX5
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"Computational Epidemiology: The role of big data and pervasive informatics" - Madhav Marathe of Virginia Tech Colloquium on Computer Systems Seminar Series (EE380) presents the current research in design, implementation, analysis, and use of computer systems. Topics range from integrated circuits to operating systems and programming languages. It is free and open to the public, with new lectures each week. Learn more: http://bit.ly/WinYX5
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__label__wiki | 0.738173 | 0.738173 | Man of peace?
Nasty Naik to stir up trouble
Zakir Naik
When Geert Wilders wanted to come to the UK there was quite an upset. All sense of reason was abandoned leaving the field clear for the likes of Lord Ahmed to make threats about the visit. Well here comes more trouble in the shape of Dr.Zakir Naik. If this man comes to the UK it will be interesting to see who complains. According to the Times one city on the tour is Sheffield. Now as Nick Clegg is the MP for Sheffield Hallam, it will be an issue on which he can be expected to speak, but what can he say? Is the new Deputy PM in a bit of a fix here? Perhaps whatever he says inflames rather than cools the issue down: "I agree with Nick" maybe a remark from the past now. Nulabour and the previous government has always set itself up as an expert on subjects such as social cohesion and the BNP. Well now is their chance to speak up, as unlike in the general election there are no votes hanging on this issue, one of the joys of being in opposition, I'm sure we all await their words of wisdom!
Lord Ahmed
New politics, some get it, some don't
First one to go
So the Nucoalition has come of age, it's lost, with the resignation of David Laws, its first member; so what happens next? Well first we must remind ourselves this is all a bit new. The oft overlooked voter weighed up the options on polling day and went radical by giving mixed signals, hence the coalition. This we may assume came as a bit of a shock to some; indeed the LibDems were still kidding themselves till very late in the day that they could form an alliance with Nulabour, before realising the voters wouldn't like this and going with the Tories. It would seem Laws was privately kidding himself too. If he's so clever, as we are frequently told he is, then why didn't he prepare himself and his private affairs for government?
David Blunkett
New leader sought to solve old problem
Would-be Nuleaders, much merriment
Well hidden, deep in a desert of South Western USA is the Boneyard. This is a ghostly place where the US military stores its unwanted aircraft see HERE. By contrast the political scrapyard in which Nulabour waits to be recycled is, for those who want to see it, in full view. Although it would be wrong to say we are all agog, as most of us are not. Put simply Nulabour has slipped off the nation's radar, this is a geeks only story. Even so it's very interesting (how sad!).
Diane Abbott
No to ID cards means just that, nothing less
Civil liberties are central to a healthy society
No means no!
There was so much wrong with Nulabour, ID cards and the database to support it were just typical. The Nucoalition will, we are told, do things differently; the plan is to sweep away the ideas of population control with Stalinesque tendencies but this has already attracted attention and the rearguard action and fight back has begun. My friends who listen to a lot of BBC Radio 4 tell me that the ever helpful beeb is always mentioning the 'value' of DNA to us all, or talking up the police and how difficult their task will be without draconian powers. Typical is the article in the Telegraph by Alasdair Palmer 'Why the coalition is set to bring us a rise in crime'.
NO2ID
Merkel makes a mess of it
Stupid German crashes euro
goodbye, auf Wiedersehen?
Just weeks ago all of the UK political parties had their own somewhat unrealistic hopes and fears for the future following the general election. A hung parliament was indicated by some polls, however, the variations between polls was too great to take this to heart and there were distractions. Typical was the term balanced parliament, this is ridiculous, what does it mean and what was wrong with the old term? A hung parliament means just that. But balanced implies beneficial equilibrium, this is contrary to what a democracy needs. It must be possible for a majority to make changes, did some media guru invent the term?
George and Marta
Brussels Laid Bare
Eurozone finance chief Jean-Claude Juncker has given his backing to controversial plans for Brussels to vet the budgets of all 27 EU countries before they are put to national parliaments, see here
Seeing that the Court of Auditors in Brussels has refused to sign off the EU budget for 14 years, this is a bit rich. Marta Andreasen, the whistleblower former chief accountant to the EU, writes in her book 'Brussels Laid Bare', that:
the EU's accounting system is massively open to fraud as nearly all its transactions are impossible to trace. Even more serious, I was asked blatantly to contradict financial regulations by signing off accounts, despite knowing them to be untrue. I was not granted the freedom to address these shortcomings, and, worse, actively discouraged from alerting others.
One to watch?
Or should that be one to avoid?
On again!
When Michael Portillo left parliament in 2005 he went full time into the media. I have an awful feeling that's what will happen to Lembit Opik who lost his seat recently. Failed politicians with no sense of shame tend to flourish in the media. I say tend to, there are exceptions, Neil Kinnock springs to mind. He was on after the Nulabour General Election meltdown doing the rounds, one studio after another, explaining something, I'm not sure what though and doing it badly as is the Kinnock way. But I still think the general drift here holds true. Just imagine Portillo gets influenza or gets stuck the other side of the world due to some volcanic ash cloud, how's Diane Lardybott going to cope with sitting next to Opik on the Daily Politics Show sofa, or for that matter Andrew Neil? The BBC has fallen in love with the LibDems so an ex-LibDem MP with a working knowledge of asteroids, well what could be better, or worse?
Lembit Opik
Michael Portillo
Life without Elvis, life without government
Hung parliament hangs out, just fooling around?
Better looking than Clegg?
One of the facts behind the present political turmoil is that for each hour that the UK gets along without a 'proper' parliament so spreads the notion that the political elite are not as essential as they would have us think. Prior to the election we were told the sky would fall in unless a strong government was elected, clearly this is not so. How the world financial markets will react in the early hours of Monday morning, then throughout the week, remains to be seen. As it now seems that Nulabour will be on the way out by then, perhaps there will be a breathing space.
How different all this is from the first days of Nulabour in 1997. Then Tony Blair told us his Chancellor, Gordon Brown, would "hit the ground running". This was essential to undo all those problems left behind by the previous government, unlike now; by contrast these days Brown is a lot slower to move, some say he plans to glue himself to the No10 office chair! Also, the longer the waiting-for-government stage goes on, the weaker and less relevant Brown and Nulabour become.
But what of our man Clegg? The latest news is that he has set a deadline for the conclusion of talks with the Tories. So is Clegg pushing the Tories or are his supporters pushing him? Setting a deadline this way may look tough, or perhaps he thinks it does, it may also be foolish.
Alistair Darling
Cleggmania
Hung parliament dynamics
The UK's third world moment starts here
MPs, hang the lot of them!
So the polls have spoken, possibly the fraudsters too although as is the way with politics in the UK (think immigration) this will be swept under the carpet for as long as possible. The spinners working for all parties must be close to exhaustion. The Nulabour team have gone from the impressive to the downright delusional, the party's fate looks sealed. For the Lib Dems (and the BBC?) it must have been hard to see the TV 'success' fail to transfer into votes. Although this was bound to happen due to the weakness of Lib Dem understanding of the way a majority of people in the UK view their love of the EU. The pollsters will now begin all sorts of backtracking, anything but face the facts, they got it wrong. For the Tories there will now be the 'if only moment', rightly too. They made many mistakes and will get, if they continue to be foolish, only one chance.
Hung parliamnent
The UK economy still under a cloud
Cuts versus snips, debate, like air travel, suspended
More hot air than in a TV debate
"Is it all over?", asked a friend from overseas. I stated to explain, the date of the election and so on, but was cut short, the enquiry was about the crisis in Greece. Could the euro now said to be "saved", was the single currency and so by implication the EU, going to make it? So it's back to this post and its theme. At the time that post was written it did seem that the UK general election would come before any decision on the Greek problem. Indeed, all of the party leaders might have preferred it that way. For now, with just days to go before polling day, a decison has been reached to help Greece. However, while the EU and IMF may have made decision, that's not the same thing as a solution to the problem. There will have to be massive cuts in the costs of the Greek state. Obviously this will not be popular with the Greeks and to seek a perspective on this, comparisons will be made with other countries. And naturally, (ha, ha!) the problems of Greece and the UK are not at all similar, are they? So, rather like the Greeks spent years pretending they could go on as before, so can we; boom and bust are behind us, a thing of the past right?
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Llano County Courthouse
RESCUE ON THE COURTHOUSE STEPS
Texas courthouse history cuts a wide swath through our heritage past. With 254 counties, Texas counts more courthouses than any other state in the country. Our earliest courthouses date from the mid-19th century, placing them among the first permanent structures built in our counties. Many Texas courthouses are listed in the National Register of Historic Places, are designated as Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks, and State Archeological Landmarks. Our courthouses reflect Texas history in their styles, construction materials, and architectural detail. However, old buildings require special care and can be lost without it. Lose a courthouse and we lose a vital link to our community’s past.
The Texas Historic Courthouse Preservation Program (THCPP) is one of the largest and most far-reaching initiatives ever conceived by a state government. Using state funds provided by the Texas Legislature, the grant program assists communities across Texas with courthouse preservation, renewing the buildings’ use as viable government centers and breathing vitality into town squares—making a visit to one of these magnificent buildings a dynamic experience. The Texas Historical Commission (THC) has partnered with counties to restore dozens of courthouses so far. Additional funding is necessary to restore the remaining courthouses in need. Does your old courthouse need some tender loving care? Your state legislators and the THC can help!
Mobile Tour
Explore restored courthouses with the Town Square Walk Around mobile tour, featuring a rich blend of images, videos, maps, and useful visitor information for exploring historical sites across Texas.
County courthouses featured in the mobile tour include: Cooke (Gainesville), Denton (Denton), Old Red (Dallas), Ellis (Waxahachie), McLennan (Waco), Williamson (Georgetown), Hays (San Marcos), Comal (New Braunfels), Bexar (San Antonio), and La Salle (Cotulla).
To explore all THCPP restored courthouses in Texas, use the interactive map and links below.
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__label__cc | 0.559145 | 0.440855 | Australia news Australian economy Australian politics Business Climate Science Coalition Coronavirus outbreak Environment Fossil fuels
Covid commission boss Nev Power steps back at gas company amid conflict of interest concerns
The Morrison government commission has promoted gas as a key way to boost the economy after the coronavirus crisisThe head of the Morrison government commission tasked with coming up with plans to revitalise the economy after the coronavirus crisis, Nev Power, is to step aside from his position as deputy chairman of a gas company over conflict of interest concerns.“Because of the perceptions of conflict of interest he has stepped back from participating in board meetings and will not participate in the decisions of the board” of Strike Energy, a spokesman for the National Covid-19 Coordination Commission said on Friday… Source – Full Article https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/may/23/covid-commission-boss-nev-power-steps-back-at-gas-company-amid-conflict-of-interest-concerns
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__label__cc | 0.739657 | 0.260343 | Mobile App Design Tutorial – Weather App – Part 2
January 16, 2020 September 11, 2020 by softmunk
Welcome back to the second part of this tutorial on Gravit Designer. In the first part we took a general look at Gravit and set everything up, created the background image in the weather app and the status bar, and then started to make the initial elements of the design’s content.
Let’s continue where we left off.
Sunny With A Chance Of Rain
Having created the main text layers of the content area in part one of this tutorial, let’s continue with the weather conditions for the different times of day.
Figure 1: The weather app, completed.
Start with a simple circle of 56 pixels in diameter (remember to hold Shift), with a white 2-pixel inside border, with no fill outside of the “Status bar” group (figure 1a). Move it to “32” (X) and “368” (Y) in the “Position” fields in the Inspector.
Because we want to reuse this style for other shapes, we will create a new “Shared Style.” This allows you to sync all styling properties between various layers and to update changes with a click. To create a shared style, click on the dropdown field for “Style” in the Inspector that says “No shared style” and select “Create New Shared Style.” Now you can define which properties you want to take over — let’s keep everything checked. For the name, use “Icon outline.”
Figure 1a: The base for the different weather conditions is a white circle with a border. Create a “Shared Style” in the Inspector, so that you can bring over the styling to other elements.
Let’s turn to the icon itself now, a sun partly covered by a cloud. It consists of various shapes combined into a single form, and a few paths (for the rays).
First, the cloud (figure 2). Draw a rectangle (R) with a size of 28 × 14 pixels, with fully rounded corners (“7” — drag the slider all the way to the right) inside the circle. Because aligning the various parts of the icon to the grid wouldn’t make sense, switch it off for now with Alt + Command + G (on Windows and Linux, Alt + Control + G). Before we continue, use the zoom function with Z to zoom into the rectangle so that it’s easier to work on the following steps. If you intend to zoom in with Command + +instead, then select the shape beforehand so that Gravit Designer takes it as a reference when zooming and zooms to its center.
Note: Before drawing the rectangle, make sure that the circle isn’t selected or else it will take over all of the properties, including the shared style. This is important for when we add new shapes later: If another element is already selected, then all of its properties will be taken over; if nothing is selected, then the new element will be drawn with a default gray fill and no border. That’s also the style you can use for the rectangle for now.
Now add an ellipse (E) above the rectangle that is 15 × 15 pixels in size, that is away 3 pixels from the left edge of the rectangle and that juts out 7 pixels at the top. Clone it with Shift + Command + D (or, on Windows and Linux, Shift + Control + D), resize it to 12 × 12 in the Inspector, and offset it 10 pixels to the right and
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__label__wiki | 0.875738 | 0.875738 | Cambridge Analytica Scandal Sparks Data Privacy Changes to Facebook and Instagram
By Rhiana Jay
IMAGE: Sarah Grillo/Axios
Data privacy is an age-old concern in the digital sphere. This week’s digital updates revolve around data privacy concerns for Facebook.
The fallout from the Cambridge Analytica story is continuing to damage Facebook’s reputation, and the social giant is scrambling to regain the trust of billions of users worldwide. Having seen their platform compromised by third-party influence, Facebook may be facing a long and winding road to redemption.
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App Developers Will Have Their Access to User Data Reduced
Mark Zuckerberg has been questioned in depth about how he plans to better protect data privacy on his platform. It appears that app developers are in the crosshairs, as Facebook have announced that their access to personal data from Events, Groups and Pages APIs will be severely limited.
These data privacy changes will be enacted in the next few months, but Facebook have already cracked down on apps that target Facebook login information. As of now, all applications that request access to data such as likes, check-ins, photos, posts, events and similar must be approved by Facebook first. While the platform has been reviewing applications since 2014, they promise that the approval process will be significantly tightened going forward.
Access to specific personal information such as religious or political views, relationship status, work or education history and similar will be completely out of reach to app developers.
Users who have had their data compromised by a third party will receive a personalised message that looks like one of the above, depending on the nature of the breach that took place. This example is specific to the ‘This Is Your Digital Life’ app that was used to share data with Cambridge Analytica.
Ad Targeting via Email Without Consent Will Be Eliminated to Improve Data Privacy
Facebook announced at the end of March that they will launch a certification tool to keep marketers in check when it comes to ad targeting. Marketers and agencies will be required to pledge that the information they have received has been rightfully obtained.
All agencies using email for ad targeting will have to affirm … ‘I certify that I have permission to use this data.’ Custom Audience data will also be protected, with sharing across business accounts shut down by the platform.
A Facebook spokesman noted to TechCrunch that there have always been safeguards in place to ensure that data is used with consent, but the new certification tool will make requirements more prominent to advertisers.
Instagram Removes Support for Older API Platform and Limits Data Availability
With their parent company Facebook under siege, Instagram have also sought to alleviate data concerns by shutting down their older API. Instagram had already announced in January that support for the older platform would be gradually removed, but they’ve gone ahead and removed capabilities effective immediately.
The photo platform has also greatly reduced the amount of data that developers can draw from the Instagram API. The API limit has been cut from 5,000 calls per hour to a mere 200, impacting the way app developers learn about user habits and interactions.
While most of the anger regarding data privacy has been directed at Facebook, subsidiaries like Instagram are taking no chances in cutting off the potential for data abuse.
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Social media evolves constantly and rapidly. The events of recent months are a timely reminder for marketers and users about the importance of ethical practice regarding data privacy.
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__label__wiki | 0.981147 | 0.981147 | Vivendi confirms Dailymotion bid
By Andrew McDonald
7th April 2015 @ 11:35
Vivendi has confirmed that it has made an offer for Orange-owned video site Dailymotion, as Hong Kong-based telecoms company PCCW ruled itself out of the running.
In a one-line statement issued today, French media giant Vivendi said it had “submitted an offer to Orange regarding Dailymotion”, following press reports that it has made an offer valuing the French video site at some €250 million (US$271.1 million).
The news comes after PCCW said it would not bid for the business, claiming in a statement that “the French government’s preferred search for a European solution discourages international companies’ participation”.
The French government is a 25% shareholder in the video site.
According to a report in French paper Le Monde, Vivendi is aiming for a complete buyout of Dailymotion and plans to integrate the site into its business.
Reports from last month claimed that Orange was set to enter into exclusive talks with PCCW to sell a 49% stake in Dailymotion.
Orange has been searching for an international partner to broaden Dailymotion’s reach for a number of years.
However, a 2013 move to sell a 75% stake to Yahoo was reportedly effectively blocked by government minister Arnaud Montebourg, who was keen for France to retain majority control of the site.
Back in May 2014, Vivendi-owned pay TV business Canal+ was reported to be in talks with Orange about taking a stake in Dailymotion.
Vivendi’s other assets include Universal Music Group and German subscription video-on-demand site Watchever.
Meanwhile, Vivendi remains in a clash with activist shareholder P. Schoenfeld Asset Management.
Tags: Canal+, Dailymotion, PCCW, Vivendi, Watchever
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TV and film productions are no longer exempt from UK Covid-related travel restrictions, meaning that cast and crew travelling to Britain will now have to self-isolate for 10 days. The job category was one of several removed in the latest update to the UK’s exemption list in the early hours of Monday morning. As well […]
Netflix adapts trio of Dr Kendi books for mix of projects
Netflix has partnered with author and scholar Dr Ibram X. Kendi to produce three new projects based on his books, with the works presenting an examination of racism across different formats, genres and age groups. Stamped From The Beginning is a hybrid documentary/scripted feature, based on his book Stamped From The Beginning: The Definitive History […]
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Game Maker is a downloadable platform which streamlines the development of 2D computer games in the classroom. The developer of Game Maker is YoYo Games and they have released a number of different versions of Game Maker commonly used in schools. This tutorial was written for the free version of Game Maker: Studio which can be downloaded from http://www.yoyogames.com/. In order to download, free registration with Yoyo Games is required. If you require advice or assistance choosing the correct version of Game Maker, please contact Texchellent on [email protected]
This course consists three modules. It begins with the applications of object oriented programming to create new elements (gems) which build on the properties of previously created elements. The course then goes on to create monsters which have their own unique movement dynamics and collision conditions which deplete the health of our explorer. Then we cover the creation of multiple levels and 'portals' which take the explorer from level to level.Next we tackle some advanced concepts like the creation of a new monster which has the ability to sense a clear path and chase the explorer. Finally, we explore animations and program in some realistic movement animations and explosions. Below is a specific set of student outcomes for this module: :
Health and the Implications of Collisions With Monsters:
Display a health bar in a Game Maker room.
Program health to change in response to different conditions in the game such as collisions.
Explain the purpose of the No More Health event.
Program my room to restart when health runs out in my Game Maker game.
Creating Additional Rooms
Create a new Room in Game Maker.
Create Signpost and Lock objects.
Transition to the next room when a condition is met or a collision event is called.
Use Nested If Statements to test or create more advanced decision making.
Check whether another room exists in a game.
Advanced Parent Child Relationships and More Monster Intelligence
Create a new monster as a child of the existing monster and override its movement.
Design an algorithm to make a monster follow the explorer when it has line of sight.
Use the Set Variable action to set values for variables and the Test Variable question to query these values in an algorithm.
Write an Expression with some sample code to check whether a condition is true.
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Nat graduated with a Bachelor of Information Systems from The University of Melbourne in 2003 and spent two years working as an International Fellow, teaching programming and database concepts at Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Singapore. Following that, Nat worked as a Solution Consultant for one of Microsoft’s implementation partners in Singapore during which time he qualified as a Microsoft Certified Professional. In 2008 Nat completed a Post Grad Diploma in Teaching from The University of Melbourne and then spent five years working as a teacher of Information Technology and Mathematics at Caroline Chisholm Catholic College. During this time he wrote four Game Maker text books and completed additional coursework towards a Master of Teaching. In 2014 Nat traveled to the Northern Territory and worked as a ICT Coordinator at Centralian Middle School where he taught games programming and robotics
Creating The Health Bar (13:40)
Creating Additional Rooms (19:32)
PCR Algorithms and Monsters (11:07)
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Chris’ work is instantly recognisable - with its strong text based messages filled with political opinions and self-empowerment statements. Many pieces have hidden messages and references for dedicated music fans, with titles and references to bands such as Husker Du, Jimmy Cliff, The Rolling Stones and The Wu Tang Clan.
Chris formerly trained as a silversmith and as a tattoo artist whilst running his own skateboard shop. Many die-hard skaters recognise his work from his days of custom artwork for skateboards. He now works full time as an artist but remains greatly influenced by tattoo culture, as well as ‘religious iconography, music, nature, the struggle and little birdies.’
Since 2005 he has worked almost solely in the labour intensive medium of lino prints in his Worcester studio. The eternal symbols of hearts, skulls and flowers being reproduced in one of the most ancient forms of printmaking (hand cut prints) make his work much more than a simple homage to tattoo art. It is possible to see both the themes and images of 17th century woodcuts being dragged into the modern age through bold block colour and contemporary statements invoking various counter-cultures.
Every part of the printmaking process: the drawing, cutting and printing of each design, is done entirely by hand. This means that no two prints are the exactly same: there will always be subtle differences in each print due to the hand printing process. The prints are also sometimes hand coloured using acrylic or watercolour paint. Most are released as signed, numbered editions.
He has produced work for Gravis, Volcom, MPORA, Howies, Nokia, el Jimador tequila and designed the Poetry of The Deed album cover for Frank Turner.
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Author(s): Jeff Anderson
League champions 18 times, FA Cup-winners six times and League Cup-winners six times: in Europe: UEFA Cup-winners four times and European Cup-winners four times. It's a record that makes Liverpool the most successful English Club. From A to Z, The Official Liverpool FC Illustrated Encyclopedia chronicles the highs and lows of LFC's stunning story and serves as an unequalled source of reference. From Alan A'Court and the Academy through to Christian Ziege, not forgetting the Beatles, Kenny Dalglish, Gerard Houllier, Yosser Hughes, Kevin Keegan, the Liver Bird, Michael Owen, Ian Rush, Abel Xavier and everyone else in between, this is a comprehensive alphabetical journey through over a century of sporting heroics set against the backdrop of life on Merseyside. But most importantly it is a story of incredible passion and pride. For Liverpool Football Club somehow manages to inspire not only its own fans, but also followers of football the world over. For millions, Liverpool Football Club is a special place and this is its own special story.
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__label__wiki | 0.695362 | 0.695362 | The USA’s 12 Best Places for Book Lovers
The USA is full of cities that bibliophiles will adore | © Chatchai Kritsetsakul / Shutterstock
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From massive independent bookstores to grand libraries to fascinating events and festivals, these cities are brimming with literary activities for every bibliophile. Read Culture Trip’s guide to find out where your book-loving heart will lead you next.
Austin is a lively city that book lovers will thoroughly enjoy. Any visit to Austin must include a stop at BookPeople, an independent gem voted best bookstore in Austin for over 15 years. With two floors, bibliophiles can spend hours on end perusing the shelves for the next book they plan on devouring. The city also hosts several events throughout the year, including the Texas Book Festival, which represents many authors and genres, and delights everybody who visits. The Harry Ransom Center, which features literary exhibits, is another must-visit for book lovers.
BookPeople is the largest independent bookstore in Texas | © GSPhotography / Shutterstock
So many incredible authors – including Jack Kerouac, Edgar Allen Poe and Sylvia Plath, to name but a few – are associated with Boston, whether it be their place of birth or where they lived and found inspiration. With so much talent coming out of this city, it’s unsurprising that Boston has a wonderful literary scene to explore. Today, the city features many libraries, including the venerable Boston Public Library, and bookshops providing book lovers with hours upon hours of curiosity. One of the must-visit bookstores is the Brattle Book Shop, which deals in used books, making it an ideal stop for customers on a budget.
Acorn Street used to be the home of Boston artisans | © Sunny Chanruangvanich / Shutterstock
While Charlottesville may not be as large as many of the cities featured on this list, the home of the University of Virginia offers a lot of literary activities, making it a great destination for readers. There are various writing classes offered for budding authors, exciting events, including the annual Virginia Festival of the Book, which features exhibits, panel discussions, readings and much more, plus the town has bookshops sure to stimulate the mind of any book lover. Daedalus Bookshop, which features used books in many genres, is one highlight found in Charlottesville.
Sunrise over Charlottesville | © Bram Reusen / Shutterstock
The literary scene in Iowa City is thriving. Between the University of Iowa, whose graduates and faculty members have earned several Pulitzer Prizes in literature, the celebration of writers and the great bookstores, this college town was the third city to become a UNESCO City of Literature. A wonderful and well-deserved distinction, it is the only City of Literature in the USA, making it a must-visit destination for any book lover. And while the bookstores are not as plentiful as in other cities on this list, the shops they do have are impressive, including the multistory Prairie Lights.
Old Capitol, Iowa City | © Billwhittaker/WikiCommons
While one might think of filmmaking when it comes to Los Angeles, this California city and its surrounding areas are also a paradise for literary buffs. Dozens of independent bookstores specializing in a wide variety of genres from film to food to travel and more can be found throughout the city. One great option for book lovers is Skylight Books, an eclectic shop showcasing fiction, a variety of art books on film, music, regional culture and history, and much more. Literary events abound throughout the year too, with popular celebrations such as The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, which is the largest book festival in the country.
Hollywood Boulevard at sunset | © View Apart / Shutterstock
Minneapolis and St Paul, Minnesota
The birthplace of iconic authors Anne Tyler and F Scott Fitzgerald, Minneapolis and St Paul – also known as the Twin Cities – have a great literary history. It still has an impressive reputation today, with Minneapolis being named the most literate city in the USA, knocking Washington DC into second position. Home to small presses, the area also features several independent bookstores that will delight any book lover. For the largest selection of books sold by an independent dealer, visitors will want to head to Magers & Quinn Booksellers, which sells a variety of new, used, rare and collectable books. Literary tours are offered as well, including a walking tour of the area where Fitzgerald grew up.
State Capitol of Minnesota in St Paul | © Henryk Sadura / Shutterstock
New Orleans counts Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner and Anne Rice among its former residents. This diversity has given rise to an intriguing place where book lovers can explore the city’s past and the present. Bibliophiles can meander the streets of the French Quarter, where they will find charming old bookstores – such as the cozy Faulkner House Books — at which to spend hours combing the shelves for rare finds, or they can frequent one of the stimulating literary events held throughout the year. For example, the New Orleans Literary Festival, which honors Tennessee Williams’s memory, is an annual celebration that incorporates theatrical and cultural elements.
French Quarter, New Orleans | © f11photo / Shutterstock
Portland is a beautiful city with something for everyone, from art lovers to foodies to bookworms. From a park displaying sculptures of characters from Portland native Beverly Cleary’s books to independent bookstores big and small, this Pacific Northwest city is brimming with literary landmarks. Bookshops of all sizes are thriving, proving that residents and tourists alike love their books. One of the most popular choices for books in Portland is Powell’s, and it is easy to see why — the store stocks more than 1 million books, ensuring that there is something for every reader.
Powell's City of Books is the largest independent bookstore in the world | © Chuck Taylor / Flickr
New York City is the largest city in the USA and it should therefore come as no surprise that it’s a book lover’s paradise. The city is home to numerous great publishing houses, incredible libraries – the New York Public Library is a must-visit – plus many fantastic independent bookstores that will keep bibliophiles busy for days on end. Cookbooks, children’s books, fiction, non-fiction, travel – the subjects showcased throughout the city are endless. For those short on time, Strand, one of the best-loved independent stores, boasts “18 miles” of books, including new, used and rare varieties, making it a great one-stop destination.
Central Park | © T photography / Shutterstock
The City by the Bay has long been a popular destination with bibliophiles. For those book lovers with an interest in the Beat Generation, the North Beach area is not to be missed. Head to City Lights, the iconic independent bookshop brimming with books on world literature, the arts and progressive politics, before exploring the neighborhood to find hangouts that were popular with Jack Kerouac and his contemporaries. San Francisco also has an outstanding nine-day literary event known as Litquake, which is the largest independent festival of its kind on the West Coast.
San Francisco, the City by the Bay | © Jorg Hackemann / Shutterstock
Pacific Northwest gem Seattle is brimming with independent bookstores that will delight anyone’s imagination. While many of them are general bookshops with something for everyone, there are several specialty shops with a specific target group in mind. Readers visiting the Emerald City will find a variety of unique bookstores dealing in everything from mysteries to cinema to anti-authoritarian to travel and much more. A book lover’s visit to Seattle would not be complete without stopping by the Elliot Bay Book Company, an iconic establishment featuring approximately 150,000 books.
Downtown Seattle skyline | © F11photo / Shutterstock
Best known as a political hub and the nation’s capital, Washington DC is also a great destination for any lover of books. A bibliophile’s paradise, the Library of Congress – with its collection of over 160 million books and other materials – is the largest library in the world and every year since 2001, it has presented the National Book Festival. A one-day event with best-selling authors giving talks, panel discussions, book signings and more, the festival is one of the best literary celebrations in the USA. Independent bookshops abound too, with Politics and Prose, which is known for its great selection of events, being one highlight.
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__label__cc | 0.637182 | 0.362818 | Portugal Looks to Treble Aquaculture Production
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by Lucy Towers
31 August 2016, at 1:00am
PORTUGAL - Portugal's Ministry of Marine Affairs is looking to double its aquaculture production by 2020 and treble it by 2023.
The government also hopes to ultimately treble the investments made in the sector from €58 million to nearly €150 million.
This growth is hoped to be achieved through the entry into force of a set of measures, reports Publico.
Minister Ana Paula Vitorino says that expectations are more realistic than ambitious given the huge growth potential of the sector.
The Aquaculture + plan seeks to show the commitment of the government to overcoming the problems that prevent the emergence of more entrepreneurs in the industry.
"There is a high demand in the EU for seafood and therefore room for a growth in exports. It is also important to reduce our own imports," the minister said.
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Corey Groves and LeBron James are seen at the Staples Center. (Instagram / @coreylakerfan)
TORONTO -- An Ontario teenager, whose wish of shaking hands with LeBron James came true last Christmas Day, has died following a battle with cancer.
At the age of 17, Corey Groves of Brampton was diagnosed with highly aggressive stage four sarcoma cancer in the summer of 2019. He was told he had a year to live.
Following his diagnosis, Groves was granted a wish from the Children’s Wish Foundation. Being a superfan of the Los Angeles Lakers, the teenager immediately knew his one wish would be to meet his hero, LeBron James – not for an autograph or a jersey, but simply for a handshake.
Grove’s wish came true on Dec. 25, 2019 in Los Angeles with the help of the Lakers organization and Toronto Raptors’ superfan Nav Bhatia.
Speaking about his interaction with the NBA superstar a couple days later, Groves recounted that “as soon as I went into the arena my eyes locked on him, and he just looked directly in my direction.”
Groves said he tried to stay calm and act as if James was an average, normal person.
“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” he said. “I wanted it to be flawless.”
On Monday, on his Instagram page, a family member confirmed Groves had lost his battle with cancer at the end of last month.
“Corey was a stand up boy, a scholar and a gentleman,” his aunt Sherry wrote. “He saw the good in everyone and the beauty in everything.”
“He will be sadly missed by so many.”
The online post went on to thank everyone who helped make Groves’ wish come true and encouraged people to share photographs, videos or interactions with the teenager to keep his memory alive.
“He tackled life head on and refused to stop until his last breath, on Halloween 2020. His only wish was to shake the hand of his hero. Corey is and will always be our hero.”
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‘Crazy stories tend to happen’: Brampton teen fighting cancer recounts meeting LeBron James
Ontario teen's dying wish of meeting LeBron James comes true on Christmas Day
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__label__wiki | 0.75072 | 0.75072 | Toyota Corolla Altis: World’s best-selling car oozes quality with minimalist design Loaded with new features, the latest iteration of this wildly popular car is bound to make a splash in Brunei
Three variants of the 2020 Toyota Corolla Altis. Photo: Rasidah Hj Abu Bakar/The Scoop
Get ready, the latest version of the world’s best-selling car has finally launched in Brunei.
The all-new Toyota Corolla Altis was unveiled on NBT Brunei’s microsite, making it the first digital car launch in the sultanate.
Designed with sportiness in mind, but with the comfort of a sedan, the Corolla Altis has become a timeless classic.
We got to take the latest Corollla Altis out for a spin this weekend, and here’s what we found.
Getting behind the wheel
Whether you’re speeding down on the highway or manouvering the narrow roads of your neighbourhood, the all-new Corolla has a lower centre of gravity that provides enhanced vehicle stability and less roll during cornering.
Its improved suspension system also means the car is easy to handle, making turning effortless and stable.
The Corolla comes equipped with Toyota Safety Sense, a bundle of active safety features designed to help protect the driver and passengers. This includes dynamic radar cruise control, automatic high beam, a pre-collision system and lane departure alert.
The all-new Corolla Altis was launched in Brunei on January 2, 2020. Photo: Faiq Airudin/The Scoop
Engine prowess
Both the 1.8L and 1.6L models come with the 4 cylinder in-line 16 valve, but the 1.8L version comes with a higher engine capacity of 1798cc and 138 horsepower, while the 1.6L model has a capacity of 1598cc and 121 horsepower.
These modifications give the 1.8L model better acceleration performance, while the 1.6L engine is better suited towards daily driving.
“Young professionals looking for a car between the ranges of Toyota Vios and Toyota Camry can go for the Corolla Altis. The sedan boasts advanced technologies and amazing comfort, refinement and luxury,” said NBT Toyota trainer Amran Junaidi.
The All-New Corolla Altis 1.8L model was unveiled during an exclusive media event at Regal Blue Production House. Photo: Faiq Airudin/The Scoop
Not sacrificing style for comfort
The interior is designed with minimalism in mind, which can be seen by its practical dash setup and dynamic driving capabilities.
Quality materials are used in the upholstering — leather seats with stitching and a satin chrome finish, while the 10-inch infotainment screen enhances the passenger experience.
The interior of the 2020 Toyota Corolla Altis. Photo: Faiq Airudin/The Scoop
There is also ample headroom and legroom, while trunk space measuring 470 litres — and it’s also accessible from the back seat.
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FAITU#49
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FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN THE UNIVERSE
(FAITU#49)
Georgia Theater, Athens, GA
One Set: It’s a Jungle in Here > Beeah, Syeeda’s Song Flute > Worms > Open Outro > Chubb Sub, Bass Solo > Bemsha Swing / Lively Up Yourself, Listen Here, Moti Mo
One Set
Possibly opening for Aquarium Rescue Unit; Possible Incomplete Setlist
Medeski & Martin @Lucille’s, Knoxville, TN
1993-09-18.dsbd.1.t-flac16 [TSP1993#2]
– ONE SET (tracks 1-8) –
Was anybody at this gig? We have notes indicating this *may* have been an opening set for Col. Bruce & The Aquarium Rescue Unit, but not sure — it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s where this gig’s energy came from! (And there is a small announcement blurb at the very end of the Moti Mo track where the guy (sound like Al Schnier from moe., but that can’t be right) begins announcing the next act, but it cuts before you hear the band name! HA!) It’s honestly been a while since I listened to this show, not wanting to spoil the early gig listens with too many listens, but I’m listening right now and the band is HOT and on FIRE. The set *may* also be incomplete, but there’s 80min+ music here, so that seems pretty accurate if they were the opener for Col Bruce + ARU.
Recording begins on pretty much the first chaotic note of It’s A Jungle In Here, from the album by the same name — which is a slightly more edgy sounding and raw version of the tune that eventually becomes Sequel on the album FRIDAY AFTERNOON IN THE UNIVERSE. The trio bite right into this early MMW-groove and we can hear why we were all captured by these guys early on — a feel that matures with age, but for me contains no less intensity — and IAJIH is just raw energy getting this set rolling on a high note.
MMW c.1993
Beeah is up next, sliding smoothly right out of the final notes of IAJIH. Again, Beeah benefits from the band’s young hunger in this performance and they just attack the groove, making perhaps for a more intense-than-usual mid-section of Beeah where things really heat-up. The outro section of the tune has some beautiful early work from Wood on his stand-up bass, until we hit that pulsing section that wraps-up the tune tightly.
Mr. John Coltrane’s vibe enters the set next in the form of Syeeda’s Song Flute, also knodding to the band’s early name “Coltrane’s Wig” — a name John recently mentioned that Col. Bruce was rather fond of. Syeeda’s has a slightly slower tempo than the tune takes on in later years, but Chris’ bass has a PHAT sound giving some real ummph to the tune.
MMW @Lucille’s, Knoxville, TN 1993-09-12
The aftermath of Syeeda’s yields Worms! One of the more wacky melodies in the band’s arsenal, Worms is always welcome for its crazy vibe — I’ve only ever caught it once, but it was WILD! These early gigs see numerous performances, since the band’s repertoire was only so big, but they are most certainly already playing the game of “how can we make this version differ?”, and we love that attitude! Worms doesn’t quite finish properly, but rather bursts into an Open Outro exploring the space in the room, until the familiar Chubb Sub groove begins and take us swirling into a dance party. At this point, Chubb Sub hasn’t quite found its niche as a closing or encore tune, so we find it more mid-set at times making for some cool vibes and energy.
Next John steps to the mic (he used to do that) and introduces the impending Monk/Marley medley they’re about to bust out. So first we get Chris showing us his early chops on the stand-up as the Bass Solo plods along until he hits that wonderful line and Bemsha Swing is, well, in full swing! Love these early versions of the medley too, with that young energy and the keys’ sounds at this time … cool shit …
Listen Here is up next, a tune by Eddie Harris — you might know another tune he’s known for, Freedom Jazz Dance, made famous by Miles Davis; also played by Jerry Garcia’s Legion of Mary group, for those of the Dead persuasion. MMW’s take on Listen Here adds bit more pep to the tune compared to the original by Harris — along with a sinister Beeah tease c.6:43-7:03 — but it’s such a fun melody and boppin’ tune! Shame MMW never really played it much … I think this is the only known performance … fits perfectly with the MMW sound though. And gonna have to check out some more Eddie Harris! For now, you can Listen Here for his version:
Closing the show, as it often does when it makes an appearance, King Sunny Ade’s Moti Mo takes the crowd out, once again with John acting as the reluctant announcer … I’ve never had the pleasure of catching this tune live, which is pretty rare at this point, but in the early-mid ’90s it was frequently played (cool version with horns, led by Steven Bernstein, on the album IT’S A JUNGLE IN HERE). It’s always patient, it’s always beautiful, and it’s always a welcome vibe: MOTI MO! Here’s some interesting tidbits about King Sunny Ade’s versions, which are more appropriately titled Mo Ti Mo:
Originally recorded in 1974 in Ade’s first self released record, the song is a plea to his fans, “My people gather round me, this journey I am on, is it carrying me forward or backward?”
The original chorus in 1974 was Mio Mo meaning, “I don’t know.” When the song was re-released for Island Records on the cusp of international success, the chorus was changed to Mo Ti Mo which means, “Now I know.”
… and you can check out that 1983 version right here:
The mic moves to Billy at the end of the show as he thanks the crowd, etc … There’s some weird stuff right at the end of the last track, where we hear that announcer I mentioned earlier welcoming the following mystery act (Col & ARU?), but it cuts and that’s that …
Most of us into MMW love these early years … and this show is a perfect example as to why, so tune in or download and enjoy an old school Friday Afternoon In The Universe …
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__label__wiki | 0.558927 | 0.558927 | VOX defends a National Hydrological Plan that guarantees water throughout Spain and the Tajo-Segura transfer
The deputy of the VOX Valencian Community Parliamentary Group and spokesperson for VOX in the Agriculture Commission, Jose Luis Aguirre, has stated that VOX defends a National Hydrological Plan that guarantees water throughout Spain and of course, the Tajo-Segura transfer that would benefit the farmers of the Valencian Community.
José Luis Aguirre has regretted the position taken by all political groups, except VOX, in Castilla La Mancha, where they have renounced the Tajo-Segura transfer in order, in the long run, to be able to implement an ideology and exercise command of water in Spain in based on the 2030 Agenda promoted by the left to favor the hegemony of radical environmentalist globalism. A pact that harms the Valencian Community.
Given this, VOX requires the execution of a National Hydrological Plan that effectively guarantees the necessary watershed interconnection and transfers in any part of the national territory, guaranteeing the possibility that from the Tagus water can be taken from other parts of Spain more needy like the Valencian Community.
Aguirre has explained that “andWater is a good of all, indispensable and generator of wealth and life, and so, We demand a plan that covers all the hydrological demands of the regions of Spain and a national water supply system that integrates watershed management and guarantees access to water for all Spaniards”.
The deputy considers that it is essential, as our colleagues in the Congress of Deputies say, end the water war between territories, promote plans to improve knowledge of underground water bodies, a National Irrigation Plan through the use of water, interconnect basins through transfers to turn Spain into a great sink for CO2 by irrigating 2.5 million hectares and thus combat excess CO2.
"VOX is not going to renounce, for any sectarian, partisan or territorial interest, that water reaches all corners of Spain on equal terms. We do not want the rights of Spaniards to use water to be violated or restricted, invoked by the false 2030 Agenda or under the excuse of climate change”.
Aguirre has indicated that, once again, “The PP-PSOE Government is guilty of the separatist and regionalist parties and their anti-national and unsupportive barons and interests”.
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Legislative District 28 Candidate Forum to be held in University Place
October 4, 2010 By Ben Sclair
The Tacoma-Pierce County Chapter of the League of Women Voters will host and moderate a Legislative District 28 Candidate Forum on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010 at University Place City Hall, 3715 Bridgeport Way West, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Legislative District 28 is represented by two positions: Incumbent Troy Kelley and Steve O’Ban are vying for Position 1 while incumbent Tami Green and Paul Wagemann are seeking Position 2. The forum is scheduled to last for approximately one and a half hours.
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Two Wrongs Making a Right-SBTU-Punisher Meets Archie!
September 24, 2014 Dean Compton 11 Comments
Hey, folks! I hope you have enjoyed the last couple of weeks as Sparky Ryan brought you the history of the Marvel UK incursion into the states from the early 90’s. I had a great time with some of those books back in the day, and his work was a great trip down memory lane, but now your good 90’s comics aficionado and pal Dean Compton is back, and I am back just in time for one of my favorite elements of this blog…THE SUPER BLOG TEAM UP!!!!!
If you weren’t around last time or haven’t had the chance to look at the Super Blog Team Up subpage here, the SBTU (I ain’t gonna keep typing that out folks; I ain’t getting paid by the word. Hell, I ain’t getting paid at all!) is a quarterly gathering of sorts where many blogs publish on the same day about the same topic. At the bottom of my random meanderings, make sure you click the links and take a gander at what all the great folks have shared in SBTU. We all work really hard, and we all appreciate every view and comment we get. Except for the ones from spammers. It’s really sad how excited I will get when I get a notification for a comment, only to find it is poorly written spam imploring me to spend some money on something to filter out spam comments. As an aside to this aside, I think I’d like spam comments better if their grammar was correct.
But I have digressed so far that one might believe this not to be a blog about comic books at all! You’d be sorely mistaken! As I was saying about SBTU, the concept is that all of these blogs look at the same subject on the same day. This time, the subject is Team Up, Tear Down, and from the second I heard that, I could not help but think of the team up that never should have happened, but somehow tore down every preconceived notion one would have about this comic working or being good. I am talking about the time comic book hell froze over. I am talking about Punisher Meets Archie…
That’s the most honest blurb in the history of comments; many, myself included, dreaded this one.
The dread was punctuated with the entire “why are they doing this?/oh my god, they’re ruining everything/they don’t know what they’re doing” mentality that seems to permeate every fanboy’s good sense at some point. This time, though, our cynical malaise seemed justified (to the max, as we would say in the 90’s) because how could this be readable, let alone good? I mean, it’s Punisher Meets Archie, for Christ’s sake!
The answer to the question of how could it be readable or good can be found on the credits page:
Indeed, that is the fine talent of the late John Buscema and the late Stan Goldberg combined with one of the best inkers of all time, Tom Palmer, to bring you this tale. You see, the first element of this endeavor that would have doomed it to disaster, would have been seeing the character drawn in a style dichotomous to what we usually see with them. Punisher in the Archie style would have made all the Punisher fans angrier than Hulk driving a compact car while he is stuck in rush hour traffic. Now try getting that image out of your head!
Conversely, seeing Archie done up all grim and gritty would have made Archie fans feel angry and betrayed as well. I’d come with some metaphor or simile for the anger of Archie fans, but based on their choice of comic fare, I am unsure that they get angry. I mean, nothing in that world can’t be solved with just a waltz down to the choklit shop, right?
So that solved one problem, but the elephant in the room would have to be how one would mesh such strikingly disparate worlds without compromising the integrity of either, or in Punisher’s case, without compromising what was left of the integrity of an emotionless and psychopathic mass murderer who was being used as a guest in seemingly every book at Marvel to increase sales. We talked about his ubiquity here at The Unspoken Decade when we covered Darkhawk. I mean, who could possibly bridge this chasm?
According to both of the publishers involved, enter Batton Lash:
If they had gone with the whole metal detectors story that Victor mentions, it would have been a debacle on the level of the Segway, a vehicle that PEOPLE STILL RIDE.
Batton Lash concocted a premise that would work for both universes, and the only caveat that any Punisher fan might have a quarrel with is the fact that Punisher is working with the feds in order to bring in our villain, and he has agreed to bring this quarry in alive.
Being the gigantic Punisher fan I am, I understand their point. Frank Castle ain’t known for playing nice with the feds. It’s basically the real world equivalent of teaming up Kruschev and Kennedy. That’s something that just won’t and should not work; however, if one thinks about it, Punisher is always compromising. I have seen numerous Punisher team-ups with Spider-Man, Daredevil, and Captain America where Castle agrees not to kill anyone (one example being The Omega Effect). I think too often, folks think Punisher=murderer, and while yes, he is indeed a serial killer, what one should really think is Punisher=Force of Nature. While Punisher would greatly prefer to murder his adversaries, it is much more important for him to achieve his goals. This means making temporary alliances, such as the ones I named earlier (or even the times he makes temporary alliances with criminals, such as in Punisher: P.O.V. ) in order to get done whatever it is that Punisher needs to get done at that time. That’s what makes him a force of nature to me; he allows nothing, not even compromise, to stop his forward progress.
So to me, this isn’t a big deal, although again, I get why some Punisher fans cannot sign off on it.
The twist of the story, though, is almost 100% an Archie gag, and man, it is a good one.
No character in an Archie comic book has ever looked sleazier, and that’s saying something because REGGIE MANTLE is an Archie character.
So Punisher heads for Riverdale in search of the mookiest doppelgänger in the history of mooks, doppelgänger, and mooky doppelgängers. Of course, this leads to trouble due to our mook’s resemblance to Archie. Also, call Guinness and let them know I just set the record for more uses of mook in a paragraph.
Are these the first crosshairs in the history of Archie?
Could it really end this quickly? Nope. This is a crossover folks, and you don’t need ‘ol Dean Compton to let you know that crossovers can’t end this fast, especially not when there are 48 PAGES! NO ADS! to fill! So in what is the biggest swerve since Vince Russo ran WCW (WARNING: WRESTLING JOKE), Archie was only shot by a water gun. In true Archie fashion, though, this instance leads him into a disagreement with Veronica!
What does Archie mean about his costume being ridiculous? Isn’t that what he always wears?
So, in true Archie fashion, having already asked one of the ladies out, Archie goes with his second choice, Betty.
I feel really badly for Betty here; who likes being second best? Betty is a pretty lady; she’s nice, she’s funny, and she’s smart. Why does she just wait for Archie to call her AFTER he has ruined his chances with Veronica? Betty should play second fiddle to no one, and neither should anyone reading this. Learn from Betty, folks!
Punisher in the meantime, heads for Riverdale, very unaware of it and very prepared for it to be a cesspool. Even his super genius partner, Microchip, apparently has never heard of Riverdale, despite it being a suburb of New York and how, with a name like Microchip, he is required to know EVERYTHING. That’s one of the few things I learned from 80’s movies.
Of course, it takes little time for Archie’s doppelgänger to insert himself into Archie’s circle in Riverdale, and of course, what would an Archie comic be without Veronica (or possibly Betty) making Archie jealous via the most emotionally devastating weapon in the history of mankind:
THE DATE WITH ANOTHER GUY!
How did Mr. Lodge and Veronica miss Melvin’s act of child abuse that occurred right in front of them?
Emily and I often watch this show, American Greed, on CNBC that focuses on how folks scam rich people, and we both find it shocking how easy rich folks get scammed. Like, it seems that the only thing required to scam a rich person is to know one and to then ask them for money.
Mr. Lodge is no exception, as it seems that Melvin just SHOWS UP and tells him of his business exploits, and Lodge cannot unlock all of his safes and vaults fast enough. Also, doesn’t it seem like acquiring a business would be small potatoes to Mr. Lodge?
Speaking of safes and vaults, wouldn’t you like to see Uncle Scrooge and Mr. Lodge have a crossover? I have seen Mr. Lodge do regular swimming in one of those old timey swimsuits that are always hilarious, but I bet he could swim though coins just like Uncle Scrooge.
BAM! There’s the premise! They can have a coin swimming race. You. Yes, you. Call Archie and Disney and let them know about my idea and tell them to GET IT BOOKED.
Still, fun times are happening, at least until Punisher shows up and has the emo Punisher moment he always has that we all love him for. It is the one shred of humanity that makes us feel compassion for everyone’s favorite skull-chested psychopath…
Punisher’s last shred of humanity causes him to pass over a malt, which would have led him to those guys in the corner, something I believe would cause even Riverdale denizens to take notice. Alas, Pop’s dedication to the dollar and fear of government overrides his sense of danger, and those shadow punks take Archie, who is apparently upset that his second choice for a date dared not to wait for him to see if he called her. Well, Archie is about to have bigger troubles anyhow.
Archie’s patriotism is not be questioned, but neither is Jughead’s insatiable power to mooch.
I wonder what Pops is hiding that he doesn’t want to be audited. Maybe Riverdale ain’t so squeaky clean after all!
While Archie’s life is in danger, the faux Archie shows up at the dance with Veronica. He quickly shows the biggest difference between him and Archie is that he’s such a giant dick that perennial dick Reggie Mantle is put off by him. If Reggie Mantle thinks you’re a creep, you must be a creep on a galaxy level. Or at the very least, the type of person Punisher likes to kill catch for the feds.
Reggie’s smile as he puts his arm on Melvin always makes me smile. It is the best creepy smile in the history of comics, and if you disagree, you can start your own blog and talk about it.
Man, Betty is awesome. She’s the only one who wonders where Archie is and what’s going on. Archie is making our crossover complete, as Punisher follows the criminals who kidnapped him. Get ready Archie, because you are about to meet The Punisher.
Yes, Archie, The Punisher.
That may be the image that makes the book. Also, Punisher would probably have had an easier time differentiating Melvin and Archie if he had, you know, OPENED HIS EYES.
Of course, no matter how ominous that panel may look, Punisher at some point decides that pointing a gun is just a smidge safer if one opens their eyes, and he realizes that Archie is not his prey.
Archie manages to get away with an assist from his pal Jughead, which I love. In the face of imminent death, Jughead and Archie are best friends, and he finds a way to help his pal. We’d all like to be that person; perhaps you can find the Jughead in you. I have done so via massive consumption of fast food. You’ll have to find your own path, however.
For real though, this is an incident that exemplifies what I spoke of when I sad that Batton Lash showed us these characters together without violating the integrity of either set of characters, and this little bit with Jughead helping Archie speaks volumes to that.
Archie does exactly what America’s favorite whitebread teen would do, or also what most sane folks would do, and that is telling the cops that Punisher is loose in Riverdale and that some mob guys have kidnapped him.
Hopefully, you have not been as big an idiot as Mr. Andrews has when he has called the police in the past.
I am not sure that Archie blew that guy’s cover so much as the uniformed cop did when he informed the entire world that he was an undercover cop, not a spy.
Why are Archie and Jughead winking like they got over on the cops? I mean, not only are the cops obviously not going to help, but you asked them for help. You didn’t fool anyone.
I do enjoy the touch here where Archie’s concern is for his parents, not himself. Again, Lash shows us Archie’s character simply and naturally.
Also, that is the worst undercover cop ever. He looks like every stranger I was warned about in elementary school, and he would fool no one into believing he is not with the fuzz.
Of course, once we see Punisher interact with Riverdale’s finest, we see that maybe they don’t know much about policing, possibly because they have no crime.
Riverdale cops don’t put up with anything. They hadn’t even run the tags and they were already demanding that Microchip get out of the van! Where’s Occupy Riverdale to deal with this?
Archie goes to the dance where his doppelgänger is, and that’s when we see some gunplay and some great infiltration skill displayed by Punisher. Also, Archie and his pals are sharp, except for Jughead, who has more courage than brains, it seems.
Do they really need Reggie to warn Veronica? Wouldn’t that really just take one of them?
Punisher gets emo again during his infiltration of the school, and he also stumbles upon the reason that Betty tolerates so much from Archie. Graffiti.
The way he is looking at that sign, I feel as though Punisher would murder a litterbug to maintain Riverdale’s innocence.
Melvin proves he is not Archie in another way, but the really fun thing is the little Easter Eggs stuck in everywhere. One of my favorites is a conversation between Katy Keene and Millie the Model!
But let’s not make light of Veronica sticking up for herself, or the cluelessness of Mr. Weatherbee. How can folks really confuse this guy for Archie once they are up close?
Mr. Weatherbee’s response to being physically accosted is to make sure his tie is cool. That seems appropriate.
Punisher’s infiltration works like a charm, maybe too charming, as Miss Grundy basically offers to marry Frank Castle on the spot, while Flutesnoot gives Castle the cover he needs to continue to monitor this dance, as Riverdale High is expecting a new gym teacher.
Also, the caterers now have guns and are after Melvin, but you’ll have to read that to find out how that happens; I can’t give it all to you, folks!
Mr. Weatherbee know that if the food ain’t out for the guests, a party will die.
Miss Grundy knows what she wants when she sees it! You have got to like that! Miss Grundy is also a woman who would never let you down and definitely carry her fair share in a relationship (probably more, as my beloved Emily does. Check out some of her work under the Archives!)
Oh Moose, you want to help so badly.
Punisher and Archie finally find themselves able to sort out their identity crisis, and they pool their resources, which leads to what s, in my mind, the funniest moment in the book. Archie’s War Journal. To think of it is to chuckle, but to read it is to laugh until one’s ribs ache.
Jughead apparently managed to pay off his tab, as he is waving that hamburger around like that drunk guy at 4th of July parties does. You know the one.
There’s lots more, but if I keep going, I am just going to wind up ruining the entire book for you! The last image I shall leave you with is one of the best Easter Eggs in the book, that being the Spider-Man/Shield crossover!
Note that I said Shield, and not S.H.I.E.L.D. Shield, for anyone who doesn’t know, is an old patriotic Archie character, and I believe he is the first patriotic superhero, predating even Marvel’s Sentinel Of Liberty, Captain America himself! At this point of the 90’s Shield had been in limbo since the end of DC’s Impact Comics line (which we will definitely be covering here at The Unspoken Decade and soon!). I don’t known when the next time after Archie Meets Punisher we would see him, but I do know it would be a while. We also have Sonic the Hedgehog, which Archie licensed and published. If memory serves, it was quite successful for quite some time, and it had appeal to multiple markets, as kids like my cousin would buy it, even though they did not care for comic books in general, because it had Sonic, Tails, and all the characters from that universe in it.
It only happens in balloon form, but it happens, kids. It totally happens.
To find out how Archie, Punisher, and the gang save the day, you’ll just have to read the rest yourself. Normally I have no qualms about spoiling comic books published twenty years ago, but in this case, I don’t want to reveal all of the magic.
There’s a true art to combining franchises that is usually done in a heavy-handed manner and appears clumsy. Take a gander at the first Aliens vs. Predator movie if you need to reminded. Actually, don’t. I don’t want to ruin movies forever for you.
In this case, the amalgamation of the Archie/Punisher universes is done so effortlessly that one almost instinctively knows that this was a lot of hard work, as nothing so slick could ever be easy. Lash, Goldberg, J. Buscema, and Palmer are to be commended over and over for taking these two wrongs and making them into something right.
I also cannot help but believe that this was the genesis for Archie publications like the Afterlife with Archie zombie stories or the recent death of Archie in Life with Archie. Hell, without this comic book, we might not even have had the adult Archie stories in Life With Archie that preceded his demise.
I think this is the first time in a long time that Archie Comics stretched what an Archie comic could be, and while it may not have paid immediate dividends, it did impact the line in the future. For Punisher, not so much, as he dove right into another crossover right after this one. In fact, despite my saying that was the last image earlier, here’s one more. Check out the rest of the Super Blog Team Up at the links under the pic, and thanks for dropping by the Unspoken Decade!
Super Blog Team-Up 4: Team Up, Tear Down
Bronze Age Babies: FF/Doom, Red Skull/Cap, Joker/Batman
In My Not So Humble Opinion: Solomon Kane and Conan!
Between the Pages: World’s Finest Couple: Lois Lane/Bruce Wayne
Flodo’s Page: Green Lantern and the Little Green Man
Superhero Satellite: Superman & The Masters of the Universe
Longbox Graveyard: Thing/Thing
Superior Spider-Talk: Spider-Man and the Coming of Razorback
The Daily Rios: New Teen Titans/DNAgents
The Middle Spaces: Super-Hegemonic Team-Up!
Chasing Amazing: A Once in a Timeline Team-Up
Retroist: Dr. Doom/Dr. Strange
Fantastiverse: Superman/Spider-Man
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Verizon on its way to be the best carrier in the United States. Image: Business Insider.
London-based company Open Signal has released its annual report on carrier coverage and download speed. Tied for the first spot are two telecom giants, Verizon and T-Mobile.
AT&T and Sprint still struggle to keep up, while Verizon holds a slight advantage over T-Mobile in 4G LTE network availability but ties with them entirely on download speed. The report states in its conclusion that both carries “won or shared” every category.
The report states in its conclusion that both carries “won or shared” every category.
Verizon, who has always had the second place in previous years concerning download speed, but it is now enjoying a well-deserved edge over its closest competitor. The company plans to put out two Android Wear watches in the coming months.
T-Mobile’s 3G Internet is faster than Verizon’s
From a survey of 169,683 users who had the Open Signal app installed on their phones, average LTE network speeds for Verizon clocked at 16.9 Mbps while T-Mobile phones produced about 16.7 Mbps.
The only real field in which one company beats the other is 3G speed. T-Mobile currently leads the race with an average speed of 4 Mbps, with AT&T in second place.
However, Open Signal notes that 3G is an indigent performance indicator, given that most users have ditched 3G to start using 4G.
T-Mobile is the best carrier in the US for 3G users. Image: The Verge.
Verizon is the king of 4G
81% of US residents, according to Open Signal, already have access to LTE networks. Sprint, one of the underdogs, moved up from about 70% nationwide coverage of this technology to 76.8%, which is a huge improvement.
However, the market leader is still Verizon, who’s making use of its LTE-Advanced network upgrade. In particular regions, such as New York City, 4G speed from this carrier can go as high as 22 Mbps, which other phone companies just cannot match.
The yellow-clad company also takes the prize for lower latency rates, meaning that websites and videos load faster on its network. T-Mobile will have to implement a similar 4G LTE technology in the coming months if they wish to stay on top as well.
Source: Open Signal
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“We encourage our students to do no harm, do good and practice their purpose with passion,” says Tracy Fitzsimmons, the first woman to lead United Methodist-related Shenandoah University. A web-only photo courtesy of Shenandoah University.
Tracy Fitzsimmons, the first woman to be president of United Methodist-affiliated Shenandoah University in Winchester, Va., is preparing students to change the world based on values espoused by Methodism’s founder John Wesley.
The first words every student hears at convocation and the last words every student hears at graduation, according to Fitzsimmons, are Wesleyan theology: “Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.”
Fitzsimmons shows how one United Methodist-related college president is using Wesleyan values to give students a foundation for their education and future.
When she stepped into the presidency of Shenandoah in 2008, her children were in diapers. Being a mother and closely involved in student life keep her grounded and focused on the goal of building future leaders, she said.
“We are here to form and transform young people,” said Fitzsimmons, who at 46 is one of the youngest college presidents in the commonwealth.
“My favorite semester every year is the fall when I teach. It’s important for me to stay in touch with the students and remember why we do what we do,” she said.
Growing beyond boundaries
Fitzsimmons earned an undergraduate degree in politics from Princeton University, magna cum laude, and a master’s degree in Latin American studies and doctoral degree in political science from Stanford University. She was a tenured faculty member at the University of Redlands in California before joining Shenandoah in 2001 as dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. She later became vice president for academic affairs and, in 2006, senior vice president.
In addition to being president, she serves on Shenandoah’s faculty as professor of political science. Her courses of study have ranged from development and disaster relief to world politics and poverty among global youth. She places great importance on giving students the opportunity to grow beyond campus boundaries.
Shenandoah has an enrollment of just more than 4,000, with about 2,290 undergraduate students.
‘Purpose with passion’
The school offers a broad course of study to enhance spiritual and religious life and reflect its Wesleyan heritage, which dates back to its founding in 1875.
“Our programs are aligned with the values of The United Methodist Church,” said Fitzsimmons. She and her family belong to Reliance United Methodist Church in Winchester. “We encourage our students to do no harm, do good and practice their purpose with passion. They are able to live this out through community service such as feeding programs, volunteering and mission trips.”
She has personally led mission trips to Haiti in support of the College Catherine Flon, a K-12 school of 4,500 students in a suburb of Port-au-Prince. Shenandoah has pledged to help rebuild the school damaged by the devastating earthquake of 2010.
Fitzsimmons encourages students or families looking at colleges or universities to consider a United Methodist-related institution, where the college experience can strengthen the Wesleyan foundation formed in childhood.
“When parents or churches can’t be there for college students, our United Methodist-related schools are,” she said.
Ginny Underwood is a freelance writer based in Yukon, Okla., and a former executive director at United Methodist Communications.
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“The first of these words speak more about the actual event of redemption, while the second speaks specifically of the means of redemption, and the mode of atonement in the shedding of the blood of Christ, with direct relation to the covenant will of God for his people. When interpreted in the light of Jesus’ other statements about the salvation or redemption of human life and of their obvious Old Testament allusions, the general meaning is quite clear. No one can provide for himself or for another a means of salvation which will be accepted in exchange for his life or soul. but this is precisely what Jesus claims to do: to give his life as a sacrificial propitiation or ransom (λύτρον), thereby giving an interpretation of his life and death in terms of both of cultic atonement and of the suffering servant. Jesus declares that he has come as the servant to mediate God’s covenant with his people and offer his life in an act of sacrifice that will emancipate the lives of many (i.e. of all, as St Paul interpreted it). It was his whole life, and above all that life poured out in the supreme sacrifice of death on the Cross, that made atonement for sin, and constituted the price of redemption for mankind.”
81. Mark 10.45 “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
cf. Mark 8.35 “For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.”
Matt. 20.28 “just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”
Matt. 16.25f “For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.”
Luke 9.24f “For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it.”
Job 33.24 Then let him be gracious to him, and say, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom’;
Job 33.28 ‘He has redeemed my soul from going to the pit, And my life shall see the light.’
Ps. 49.8-9 “For the redemption of his soul is costly, And he should cease trying forever—That he should live on eternally, That he should not undergo decay.
82. Mark 14.24 “And He said to them, “This is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.”
Matt. 26.28 “for this is My blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sins.”
Luke 22.20 “And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood.”
cf. 1Tim 2.6 “who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time.”
Titus 2.14 “who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.”
Ex. 24.8 “So Moses took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, and said, “Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words.”
Is. 42.6 ““I am the Lord, I have called You in righteousness, I will also hold You by the hand and watch over You, And I will appoint You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the nations,”
Is. 49.8 “Thus says the Lord, “In a favourable time I have answered You, And in a day of salvation I have helped You; And I will keep You and give You for a covenant of the people, To restore the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritages;”
Is. 53.10ff “But the Lord was pleased To crush Him, putting Him to grief; If He would render Himself as a guilt offering, He will see His offspring, He will prolong His days, And the good pleasure of the Lord will prosper in His hand. As a result of the anguish of His soul, He will see it and be satisfied; By His knowledge the Righteous One, My Servant, will justify the many, As He will bear their iniquities. Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great, And He will divide the booty with the strong; Because He poured out Himself to death, And was numbered with the transgressors; Yet He Himself bore the sin of many, And interceded for the transgressors.”
Is. 55.3 “Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen, that you may live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, According to the faithful mercies shown to David.”
Jer. 31.31ff “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. They will not teach again, each man his neighbour and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
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83-85. For citation details see the book.
86. Irenaues, Adv. Haer., 3.11.1, (3.10.3); vol. 2, p. 35; 3.19.6 (3.18.7) p. 100f; 4.24.2ff (4.13.2) vol. 2, p. 181ff; 4.27.3-28.1 (4.16.3-5) vol. 2, p. 190ff; 5.1.1ff, vol. 2, pp. 314ff; 5.14.1, vol. 2, p. 314; 5.17.1ff, vol. 2, p. 369ff; 5.21.1ff, vol. 2, pp. 380ff.
87. Cf. Ad Diognetum 7.4; 9.4
88. Irenaeus Adv haer. 3.8.2, vol. 2, p. 28f; 3.17.4 (3.16.4), p.85; 3.19.5f (3.18.6), pp. 100f; 3.32.2, (3.23.1) p. 125; 3.36.1, (3.23.7) p. 129; 5.1.1ff pp. 312ff; 5.21.1ff pp. 380ff.
89. Irenaeus Adv. haer., 3.5.3, vol. 2, p. 20; 3.17.9f (3.16.9), pp. 90f; 4.10.1 (4.5.4), pp. 156f; 4.17 (4.8.3) pp. 166f; 4.34.2 (4.20.2) p. 214; 5.1.1ff pp. 314ff; 5.2.1f pp. 319ff; 5.14.2 pp. 361ff; 5.17.1 pp. 369f.
90. See Oscar Cullmann, The Earliest Christian Confessions, tr. by J. K. S. Reid (out of print), and my essay, ‘The Deposit of Faith,’ SJT, vol. 36, 1983, pp. 1-28.
91. Athanasius Fest Ep., Easter AD 338, 10.10 – 1Cor. 5.7; also Ep., 14.7 (typo?). Cf. Origen In Jn., 28.5 (Greek only).
92. Athanasius, De inc., 9f, 16, 20ff, 25, 31.
93. De inc., 37, cf. 9
94. Hebrews 2.14f; Athanasius De inc., 10, 20; De decr. 14; Con Ar., 2.9, 55; Ep., 2.7; 16.7 (N/A); Ad Adel., 7
95. Origen (Greek/Latin only), In Matt., 16.8; cf. In Rom., 2.13; 3.8, 24??; 4.11 but also in In Lev., 9.10 & In Jn., 28.14
96. Thus also Adamantius, De recta fide, 1.27 (N/A); and Gregory Naz., Or., 45.22, 39.13; Carm. theol., 10.65f (N/A).
97. Athanasius Con Ar., 1.41, 59f, 64; 2.7, 14, 55, 68ff, 75f; 3.31-35, 56f; 4.6f; De dec., 14.
98. Athanasius Con Ar., 1.41; 2.7-10; cf. Ad Epict., 5f; Ad Adel., 4ff; Ad Max., 3f.
99. Thus Eusebius of Caesarea, Dem ev., 1.3, 10; 4.12; 8.2; 10.1; cf. the expositions of Origen, In Lev., 9.10; 14.4; In Num., 24.1; in Jn., 6.53; In Rom., 3.24. See also Augustine, In Ps., 39.12.
100. F E Brightmann, op. cit., vol. 1, The Eastern Liturgies, pp. 318, 378.; Chrysostom, In Heb., 6.20 (typo??); 9.25f. For characteristic reference in the liturgical tradition to the priestly of Christ, see Apostolic Constitutions, 2.4.25, 26; 5.2.6; 6.3.11; 6.6.30; 7.2.38; 7.4.47; 8.2.12; 8.5.46
101. Augustine De Trin., 4.14.19
102. Gregory Naz., Or., 4.5f (typo??); 38.16
103. Gregory Naz., Or., 30.20
104. Gregory Naz., Carm., 2; Or., 30.21; 38.16
105. Gregory Naz., 45.22; cf. 39.13; and Carm., 10
106. Gregory Nyss., De perf. Christ., MPG, 46.264A; De occ. Dom., MPG, 46.1165B-D; Con Eun., Jaeger, vol. 2, p. 140 (N/A)
107. Gregory Nyss., Or. cat., 16, 24f, 27f; Con Eun., 2.12f, Jaeger, 2, pp. 373-386. Cf. 3.10.10 (N/A); ‘He who knew no sin was made sin for us and in order to free us from the curse, he made our enmity against God his own slaying it in himself, as the apostle expressed it (the enmity was sin), and becoming what we are he reunited humanity to God through himself.’ Jaeger, 2, p. 239f (N/A).
108. Gregory Nyss., Or. cat., 22-26; Basil, In Ps., 7.2; 48.3f.
109. Contrast Augustine, for the expiatory and propitiatory elements in the atonement made the idea of compensation to the devil unthinkable – De Trin., 4.14.17; De Civ. Dei, 10.22; Enchir. 41.
11o. 2Cor. 8.9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.
111. Irenaeus, Adv. Haer., 5. praef., vol. 2, p. 314; Cf. John Calvin:’This is the wonderful exchange (mirifica commutatio)) which out of his boundless kindness he has entered into with us: by becoming Son of Man with us he has name us sons of God with him; by his descent to earth he has prepared our ascent to heaven; by taking on himself our mortality he has bestowed on us his own immortality; by taking on himself our weakness he has made us strong with his strength; by receiving our poverty into himself he has transferred to us his riches; by taking on himself the burden of our iniquities with which we are weighed down, he has clothed us with righteousness.’ Inst., 4.17.2; also 4.17.3 & 42. Cf Luther, de lib. christ., WA, 7, p. 25.
112. Ad Diog., 9.2
113. Origen, In Matt., 12.28, with reference to Matt. 16.26 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?;
Mark 8.27 Jesus went out, along with His disciples, to the villages of Caesarea Philippi; and on the way He questioned His disciples, saying to them, “Who do people say that I am?”;
Is. 43.3f; “For I am the Lord your God, The Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I have given Egypt as your ransom, Cush and Seba in your place. “Since you are precious in My sight, Since you are honored and I love you, I will give other men in your place and other peoples in exchange for your life.
1Pet 1.18f; knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.
1Cor. 6.20. For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.
Cf. Adv. haer., 5.1.1, vol. 2, p. 315.
114. Athanasius Con Apol. 1.17.
115. Cf. Irenaeus, Adv.haer., 3.6.2, vol. 2, p. 22f; 3.19.2 (3.18.2), p. 95f, etc.
116. See, for example, Athanasius, Con Ar., 1.41-45. This inseparability in the early Church’s thought of the death and resurrection of Christ was in the use of the word pascha (πάσχα) to refer both to Christ’s passion and to his resurrection.
117. Gregory Naz., Or., 1.5. See also Athanasius, Con Ar., 1.41; 4.6-7; De decr., 14; Ad Epict., 6; Ad Adel 4. But cf., Gregory Nyss., Or. cat., 24, where he strangely misuses the concept of ‘exchange’ (ἀντάλλαγμα) in his theory of a ransom paid to the devil.
118. Romans 8.32 He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?
119. Clement of Alex., Quis div, salv., 31; cf. 27, 36-39.
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Adam Mossoff’s Senate Testimony on PAEs, Demand Letters and Patent Litigation
Adam Mossoff — 15 November 2013
Below is the text of my oral testimony to the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, the Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance Subcommittee, at its November 7, 2013 hearing on “Demand Letters and Consumer Protection: Examining Deceptive Practices by Patent Assertion Entities.” Information on the hearing is here, including an archived webcast of the hearing. My much longer and more indepth written testimony is here.
Please note that I am incorrectly identified on the hearing website as speaking on behalf of the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property (CPIP). In fact, I was invited to testify soley in my personal capacity as a Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law, given my academic research into the history of the patent system and the role of licensing and commercialization in the distribution of patented innovation. I spoke for neither George Mason University nor CPIP, and thus I am solely responsible for the content of my research and remarks.
Chairman McCaskill, Ranking Member Heller, and Members of the Subcommittee:
Thank you for this opportunity to speak with you today.
There certainly are bad actors, deceptive demand letters, and frivolous litigation in the patent system. The important question, though, is whether there is a systemic problem requiring further systemic revisions to the patent system. There is no answer to this question, and this is the case for three reasons.
Harm to Innovation
First, the calls to rush to enact systemic revisions to the patent system are being made without established evidence there is in fact systemic harm to innovation, let alone any harm to the consumers that Section 5 authorizes the FTC to protect. As the Government Accountability Office found in its August 2013 report on patent litigation, the frequently-cited studies claiming harms are actually “nonrandom and nongeneralizable,” which means they are unscientific and unreliable.
These anecdotal reports and unreliable studies do not prove there is a systemic problem requiring a systemic revision to patent licensing practices.
Of even greater concern is that the many changes to the patent system Congress is considering, incl. extending the FTC’s authority over demand letters, would impose serious costs on real innovators and thus do actual harm to America’s innovation economy and job growth.
From Charles Goodyear and Thomas Edison in the nineteenth century to IBM and Microsoft today, patent licensing has been essential in bringing patented innovation to the marketplace, creating economic growth and a flourishing society. But expanding FTC authority to regulate requests for licensing royalties under vague evidentiary and legal standards only weakens patents and create costly uncertainty.
This will hamper America’s innovation economy—causing reduced economic growth, lost jobs, and reduced standards of living for everyone, incl. the consumers the FTC is charged to protect.
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Second, the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) and courts have long had the legal tools to weed out bad patents and punish bad actors, and these tools were massively expanded just two years ago with the enactment of the America Invents Act.
This is important because the real concern with demand letters is that the underlying patents are invalid.
No one denies that owners of valid patents have the right to license their property or to sue infringers, or that patent owners can even make patent licensing their sole business model, as did Charles Goodyear and Elias Howe in the mid-nineteenth century.
There are too many of these tools to discuss in my brief remarks, but to name just a few: recipients of demand letters can sue patent owners in courts through declaratory judgment actions and invalidate bad patents. And the PTO now has four separate programs dedicated solely to weeding out bad patents.
For those who lack the knowledge or resources to access these legal tools, there are now numerous legal clinics, law firms and policy organizations that actively offer assistance.
Again, further systemic changes to the patent system are unwarranted because there are existing legal tools with established legal standards to address the bad actors and their bad patents.
If Congress enacts a law this year, then it should secure full funding for the PTO. Weakening patents and creating more uncertainties in the licensing process is not the solution.
Lastly, Congress is being driven to revise the patent system on the basis of rhetoric and anecdote instead of objective evidence and reasoned explanations. While there are bad actors in the patent system, terms like PAE or patent troll constantly shift in meaning. These terms have been used to cover anyone who licenses patents, including universities, startups, companies that engage in R&D, and many others.
Classic American innovators in the nineteenth century like Thomas Edison, Charles Goodyear, and Elias Howe would be called PAEs or patent trolls today. In fact, they and other patent owners made royalty demands against thousands of end users.
Congress should exercise restraint when it is being asked to enact systemic legislative or regulatory changes on the basis of pejorative labels that would lead us to condemn or discriminate against classic innovators like Edison who have contributed immensely to America’s innovation economy.
In conclusion, the benefits or costs of patent licensing to the innovation economy is an important empirical and policy question, but systemic changes to the patent system should not be based on rhetoric, anecdotes, invalid studies, and incorrect claims about the historical and economic significance of patent licensing
As former PTO Director David Kappos stated last week in his testimony before the House Judiciary Committee: “we are reworking the greatest innovation engine the world has ever known, almost instantly after it has just been significantly overhauled. If there were ever a case where caution is called for, this is it.”
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4 responses to Adam Mossoff’s Senate Testimony on PAEs, Demand Letters and Patent Litigation
Adam Mossoff 17 November 2013 at 7:51 pm
WT – In a 5-minute presentation, I could not go in-depth into the statistical study issues, and I do address this far more in my written testimony, in which I spend several pages of single-spaced text addressing the issue you raised. I recommend that you take a look at the written testinony of which this one part is just a 2-minute summary. In short, the current “studies” by RPX, Patent Freem and the “study” done oriignally for the GAO and then it discarded because it could not use it in good conscience, are all unscientific and unreliable (to put the point politely). More important, and this is the issue I discuss at length in my written testimony, costs are always symmetrical, and there has not been a single study of the impact that FTC regulation woudl have on legitimate patent owners, patent licensing or legitimate patent litigation against real infringers. Not a single one. The asymmetry in the current policy debates is striking and this fact alone reveals the degree to which this is not a balanced, reasonable assessment of the issues, as best revealed by the nonobjective rhetoric that dominates this debate and which I have written on extensively both here at Truth on the Market and elsewhere.
WT 17 November 2013 at 6:07 am
You critique the empirical evidence on patent trolls. Yet you say things like this — “impose serious costs on real innovators” — that are not supported by any empirical evidence whatsoever, and certainly not any empirical evidence that is of higher quality than what you criticize elsewhere.
dbhalling 17 November 2013 at 1:09 pm
dbhalling 15 November 2013 at 9:44 am
1) The last time the FTC stuck its nose into patent licensing we ended up with the nine no-nos. These people are not competent to rule on anything about patents.
2) Actually there is a lot of evidence that the patent litigation explosion is a myth. Here is one such paper: Cotropia, Christopher Anthony and Kesan, Jay P. and Schwartz, David L., Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs) Under the Microscope: An Empirical Investigation of Patent Holders as Litigants (November 10, 2013). Illinois Program in Law, Behavior and Social Science Paper No. LBSS14-20; Illinois Public Law Research Paper No. 14-17. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2346381
3) The basis of this whole argument is that there a large numbers of incorrectly issued patents. There is absolutely no objective evidence for this position and there are some papers on point. I believe Pat Choate is one economist who has written on this. | cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line10539 |
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by admin 28 February, 2015, 1:12 pm 0 Comments
In the following pages Village publishes the Ansbacher dossier which ‘Authorised Officer’ Gerard Ryan has been attempting to submit to the Public Accounts Committee. We print it because it seems to us there has been a whitewash to prevent investigation of its mostly tightly documented allegations of widespread offshore untaxed bank accounts being held by the political ascendancy.
It’s time the role of lawyers, toffs, prosecutory authorities and a range of political parties – and their grandees – in the debasement of Irish society, was recognised. It’s been all too convenient to load all the blame on the buccaneers in Fianna Fáil, but they were supported by the professional establishment and the local gombeens of international finance. The Ryan dossier paints a picture which its compiler clearly feels extends to the contemporary.
Most of the substance is printed in Village, though it has been necessary to redact a lot. A few tracts have been edited out, and the appendices omitted, for reasons of space.
In publishing, we are confident that we have avoided defaming anyone and have attempted to be fair to all, alive or dead. In this context we note that Mary Harney has claimed that she closed down Ryan’s investigation only after it got bogged down and only to ensure that it was not waylaid after she left office. “I made it clear, regardless of who might have been involved, it had to be investigated correctly and thoroughly”, she has said, adding that departmental records would prove this, that the bonuses offered were entirely bona fide and that she did not direct that letters drafted by Ryan not be sent to Des O’Malley, Ray Burke and Liam Lawlor. Des O’Malley has said he opened a Guinness and Mahon account only as a blind trust to ensure his business affairs were handled at arm’s length while he was a Minister. The family of Declan Costello has asserted that he opened his (onshore) account because the main banks were on strike at the time (1976), and he needed to bank a recent inheritance. The transactions appendixed to the dossier are certainly compellingly consistent with this. The Moriarty and Mahon Tribunals are no doubt unimpeachable.
Village is well aware that it is illegal under s21 of the 1990 Companies Act to publish or disclose any information, book or document relating to a body obtained by an authorised officer under the Act. We have therefore removed ‘information’ relating to it. Happily moreover, Mr Ryan and other media have beaten us to Ansbacher. There is no difference in law between publishing the dossier and publishing extracts or summaries of it, if they relate to Ansbacher.
So the Irish Times has reported that Ryan “had discovered in 2003 records of a deposit account in Guinness and Mahon in the name of Declan Costello…Mr Ryan suggested in the dossier that Mr Costello had had “a major undisclosed conflict of interest” while he led the High Court investigation into the company”.
The Irish Independent reported that the Ryan dossier claims:
• “Declan Costello held an account with Guinness & Mahon bank, which was at the centre of the offshore tax evasion scandal.
• Former Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael ministers held Ansbacher accounts, which were not revealed by an investigation into the offshore tax evasion scheme.
• The Moriarty Tribunal did not properly investigate Ansbacher – a state of affairs that undermines the integrity of the tribunal and the reliability of its findings.
• Des Traynor was the accountant who set up offshore Ansbacher accounts, allowing hundreds of well-heeled individuals to evade tax.
“Mr Declan Costello had a major conflict of interest”.
And the Sunday Times has printed allegations of a “cover up”; and named Helen Downes as being in charge of updating the ‘black briefcase files’ where “the names of the Cayman account holders were kept in a separate safe from the lists of their ‘very substantial’ account balances, to avoid any chance of the senior politicians being identified”.
Some of the dossier appears unfair and we have eliminated it.
Unlike many media we have not unfairly reiterated the names of alleged Cayman account holders that have entered the public domain – as they were received by the Authorised Officer as mere hearsay from a junior employee in Ansbacher. Not, in any event, that all Cayman account holders failed to pay tax.
Furthermore we believe the Authorised Officer makes some inferences about Costello and O’Malley that are not justified by the evidence adduced in the rest of the dossier. Nor does he prove his allegations that the Moriarty and perhaps Mahon tribunals were compromised in their lack of zeal in pursuit of Ansbacher, though Village has always questioned the extent to which the tribunal reports managed to probe and explicate all the allegations presented to them, even if in the end the tribunal reports were afforded a blind imprimatur by a gormless press. The tribunals were inert in the absence of investigatory powers, with Mahon in particular relying too much on unreliably dysfunctional whistleblowers, and ultimately toppling too few among the still powerful.
It is necessary also to be fair to the prosecutors: one of the problems for authorities is that the investigations came too late and were hampered by the blanket immunities conferred by a cynical tax amnesty in 1993, though Revenue still expects to extract €250m from recalcitrants. The gardai did in fact investigate ‘Ansbacher’ but not the secret ‘black briefcase’ with its dozens of allegedly dodgy accounts. The fraud squad was advised such an investigation would be barred under the terms of Bertie Ahern’s 1997 Taxes Consolidation Act which prohibits them or the Revenue prosecuting offences more than ten-years old; and the DPP decided not to prosecute the more general claims of Ryan, following submission of a Garda file.
The Ryan dossier is creditable but it remains unresolved. Uniquely we have published it – in the hope this might help this process. We have published but we have been careful and fair. We do not expect to be damned. •
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__label__wiki | 0.697403 | 0.697403 | Home » Augmented Reality » Dr. Ketaki Shriram, CTO for AR Gaming App Krikey, Named to Forbes “30 Under 30” List for 2020
Dr. Ketaki Shriram, CTO for AR Gaming App Krikey, Named to Forbes “30 Under 30” List for 2020
Krikey, an Augmented Reality (AR) mobile gaming company and app inspiring real life action through the use of AR games, today announced San Francisco-based co-founder and CTO Dr. Ketaki Shriram was named to the annual Forbes “30 Under 30” List for 2020. Under Shriram’s leadership, Krikey has built and launched more than 30 AR games and objects in less than two years and developed the first-to-market app that enables users the ability to record, edit, and share their gaming experiences.
“Being recognized as a disruptor in the AR gaming space is humbling and inspiring,” Shriram, 28 years young, shared. “I’m a believer in using gaming for good and see huge, real life possibilities for leaving the world in a better state than we adopted it through the use of gaming and technology. Our whole team has worked hard over the last several months and this honor truly belongs to all of Team Krikey.”
The 2020 list features a diverse group of young entrepreneurs described as individuals “who have made it their mission to change the world.” Over 15,000 online submissions were received for only 600 slots making it a 4% acceptance rate.
Awarded in the Games category, Dr. Shriram is pushing technological boundaries of a typical AR game by using her PhD studies from Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab to inspire empathy and create real-world behavior change through immersive, location-based AR games. A thought leader in the AR gaming industry, Dr. Shriram recently spoke at Unite Copenhagen.
Shriram’s responsible for Krikey’s customized use of Unity’s ARFoundation to generate critical elements of AR experiences giving Krikey app users the opportunity of “being in the game” thereby influencing their real world behavior. In AR game WINGSPAN, its first location-based AR game built with Google Maps, sponsored by the National Audubon Society, Krikey created its own ecosystems for users to walk into the virtual forest, or even kneel down next to a bird, increasing user-empathy for the animals and the surroundings.
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__label__wiki | 0.633863 | 0.633863 | Tuesday’s Headlines
Former transportation secretary Ray LaHood predicts that Congress will move forward on a bipartisan transit funding bill (Axios). And just in time for the D.C. Metro, which is losing $2 million a day and considering serious cuts just a week after restoring nearly full service (Washington Post).
The survival of private bus companies that carry 10 million children to school is threatened by the pandemic, which has many students learning from home. They’ve been left out of federal relief packages and are asking for $10 billion in emergency aid. (New York Times)
Uber says it will be more transparent about safety information on self-driving cars after the National Transportation Safety Board partially blamed the company for a 2018 crash in Tempe that killed a woman crossing the street. (Bloomberg Law)
People are nervous about autonomous vehicles but are willing to give them a try. (Mobility Lab)
Despite the various and sundry “infrastructure weeks,” President Trump’s promise to invest $1 trillion never came to fruition. (NBC News)
Delays on the Gateway tunnel project underneath the Hudson River have raised the cost by $275 million. (New Jersey Herald)
The lack of gridlock on San Diego freeways despite more people getting back in their cars shows that, in normal times, putting just 10 percent of drivers on public transit could extend road capacity for 100 years. (Pacific)
A new transportation authority in central Virginia will build bus rapid transit and pedestrian and bike infrastructure, and also, unfortunately, widen roads using new sources of tax revenue. (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
A Cleveland city council proposal would replace its existing Complete Streets ordinance with one with more teeth. (News 5)
Sacramento will reveal plans Wednesday for a new multimodal transit hub downtown. (KCRA)
Kansas City will stop putting people in jail for unpaid parking tickets. (KTVO)
Everything’s bigger in Texas, including the freeway interchanges. One in Houston is the same size as Siena, Italy, which has a population of 30,000 residents (Texas Monthly). The article also has some interesting info about how the Cold War influenced sprawl.
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LaHood Vows to Avert Federal Transpo Bankruptcy and Pay For It
By Elana Schor | Jun 4, 2009
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By Damien Newton | Feb 22, 2010
Senate environment committee chairman Barbara Boxer (D-CA), at podium, with Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood at her right, joined Metro bus repair staff and transit officials on Friday. (Photo: LA Streetsblog via Flickr) Friday was billed as a day to discuss the next long-term federal transportation legislation, but the day turned in to a stirring defense […]
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Sparks Fly as Lawmaker Grills LaHood on Columbia River Crossing Transit
By Tanya Snyder | Apr 16, 2013
From the beginning of today’s hearing, Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee made it clear they weren’t going to let Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s last appearance before them be an easy one. While the hearing’s purpose was to examine the department’s budget request, the tough questions LaHood fielded on the budget were nothing compared to […]
LaHood Reaches Out to Transit Industry, Lamenting ‘Lousy Economy’
By Elana Schor | Mar 15, 2010
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood sought to commiserate with the cash-strapped transit industry today, declaring the Obama administration an ally of local rail and bus agencies even as the "lousy economy" clouds prospects for passage of a new long-term federal transportation bill. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood (Photo: Getty Images) In an address to the American Public […] | cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line10555 |
__label__wiki | 0.940472 | 0.940472 | Beijing: Beijing lashed out in India on Wednesday after the country banned another batch of Chinese apps for national security reasons. This is the latest pain point between two nuclear-armed neighbors.
In June, a deadly clash occurred in a disputed border area, killing 20 Indian soldiers, the number of Chinese casualties is unknown, and tensions between Beijing and New Delhi remain high.
India banned 43 Chinese apps on Tuesday — including some from e-commerce giant Alibaba — for threatening “sovereignty and integrity”.
China said it had “serious concerns” about the move and India’s “so-called pretext of upholding national security”.
“The relevant methods clearly violate market principles and WTO guidelines, and severely harm Chinese companies’ legal rights and interests,” said foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian at a regular press briefing in Beijing.
“India should immediately redress these discriminative methods to avoid even bigger damage to bilateral cooperation,” he said.
New Delhi has previously withdrawn 59 Chinese applications from its huge domestic market-including the popular video-sharing platform TikTok-September banned 118 Chinese mobile applications.
The latest version of the banned apps include Alibaba’s AliExpress and delivery service Lalamove, as well as dating and live streaming services.
Alibaba’s investments in the booming Indian online market include digital payment platform Paytm and online grocery store BigBasket.
Anti-China sentiment has soared in India since the clash and sparked calls for a boycott of goods from the neighbouring country.
India’s imports from China, dominated by toys, cosmetics, home appliances, auto components and steel, totalled $74.9 billion last year, according to New Delhi.
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__label__wiki | 0.927726 | 0.927726 | NASA sets launch date for SpaceX U.S. manned mission to space station
By admin on Apr 21, 2020
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) set a launch date on Friday, May 27, which was the first US astronaut mission in the soil in nearly a decade.
NASA Administrator Jim Bradenstein tweeted that the billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk ’s space company SpaceX will ride on his Falcon 9 rocket from Florida, Send two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station-this is the company’s first manned flight mission.
“BREAKING: On May 27th, @NASA will once again launch American astronauts using American rockets from American soil!” Bridenstine wrote on Twitter.
NASA has previously stated that the mission will be launched sometime in May. The mission will be conducted by NASA astronaut Bob Behnken, 48, and Doug Hurley, 52, in the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule to the space station.
Like most high-profile tasks, the new date may be delayed. If everything goes according to plan, the mission will mark the first time NASA has launched astronauts from US soil since the space shuttle was retired in 2011.
Since then, the space agency has relied on the Russian space program to transport astronauts to the space station.
After ten years of hard work, next month’s mission is to test the crew for the last time, and then regularly deliver personnel to NASA according to its civil servant plan, the Commercial Crew Plan. Boeing (BA.N) is developing its competitive Starliner astronaut taxi as the agency’s second space journey.
The agency is considering whether to extend Benken and Hurley ’s stay on the space station from the originally planned week to six months to ensure that American astronauts continue to work at the station.
The timetable for the crew plan has been delayed for several years, and the initial crew launch was originally scheduled for early 2017.
The research and development of Crew Dragon and Boeing ’s Starliner aircraft was forced to be delayed, forcing NASA to buy more aircraft seats from the Russian Space Agency, and this cost became more and more as Moscow reduced its Soyuz program to twice a year high.
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by: By The Associated Press
St. John’s has canceled men’s basketball games scheduled for Sunday against Sacred Heart and next Tuesday versus Fordham because of positive COVID-19 tests in both those programs.
Instead, the Red Storm (3-0) will now host Stony Brook on Sunday afternoon at Carnesecca Arena on campus. Fans are not permitted to attend games there through at least the end of December.
The school said Tuesday it was ”still in the process of filling the vacancy on its schedule caused by the Fordham cancellation.”
St. John’s was supposed to play at No. 17 Texas Tech on Thursday night in the Big East-Big 12 Battle but scrapped the trip due to coronavirus concerns. Instead, the Red Storm will face BYU (3-1) on Wednesday in ”Bubbleville” at Mohegan Sun Arena in Connecticut as part of the Roman Legends Classic.
College basketball is coming back to Madison Square Garden this month.
In a matchup between the past two NCAA champions, Villanova and Virginia are scheduled to square off Dec. 19 in the heart of New York City, the arena announced Tuesday.
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, no fans will be allowed to attend the Holiday Hoops Classic – the first college game at The Garden since the Big East Tournament was stopped at halftime of a March 12 quarterfinal between St. John’s and Creighton.
MSG normally hosts a string of early season events featuring top programs from around the country, but all the restrictions and uncertainty created by COVID-19 this year has left many teams scrambling for available opponents and venues as they schedule on the fly.
Virginia and Villanova plan to meet in midtown Manhattan six days before Christmas, keeping a date with each other that had been booked for the Big Apple long ago.
Villanova (3-1) is ranked 12th in this week’s AP Top 25. The Wildcats won the national championship in 2016 and 2018.
Virginia (2-1) is No. 15 and won the 2019 national title.
West Virginia says no fans will be allowed at its men’s and women’s basketball games in December, except for essential personnel and the families of players and staff, due to recent spikes of COVID-19 cases in the state.
The university initially had capped fan attendance at 20% of capacity at 14,000-seat WVU Coliseum, or around 2,800.
”To say that we are disappointed is quite an understatement, but the decision not to allow spectators in December is the correct one at this time for the safety of our fans, staff and student-athletes,” athletic director Shane Lyons said.
The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference has postponed its 2021 swimming and diving championships and canceled its 2021 indoor track and field championships.
The decision comes following Tuesday’s Council of Presidents meeting. MAAC Commissioner Rich Ensor says the members looked at various options for indoor track and ”regrettably saw no viable option under the current circumstances presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Ensor says the conference plans to conduct its rescheduled men’s and women’s cross-country championships in March. Administrators are looking at an April date for swimming and diving.
No. 17 Texas Tech has replaced a men’s basketball game that was canceled because of COVID-19 concerns.
The Red Raiders (2-1) will now play Troy at home in a non-conference game Friday night.
That is a night after the Red Raiders had been scheduled to play at home against St. John’s, but the Red Storm pulled out of that game earlier this week.
The Denver Nuggets informed season ticket holders on Tuesday that no fans will be allowed into Ball Arena when it opens later this month because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In an email sent to season ticket holders, the Nuggets said the team along with Kroenke Sports and Entertainment ”will continue to work closely with state and local authorities to navigate the safest return to hosting fans in Ball Arena.”
The news comes amid an ongoing broadcast impasse between Altitude and Comcast that prevents most fans in Denver from watching games at home.
No. 19 Richmond’s men’s basketball is pausing all activities and its game at College of Charleston on Wednesday night has been called off due to COVID-19 concerns within the Spiders program.
Charleston said Tuesday it will look to reschedule with Richmond or find another opponent to make up the lost game.
Charleston said in a release that coronavirus testing and contact tracing issues for Richmond led to the decision.
Richmond was coming off an upset of then-10th-ranked Kentucky this past Sunday and entered the national rankings Monday.
Michigan’s football team did not meet in person for a second straight day after coach Jim Harbaugh said there had been an increased number of presumptive positive COVID-19 tests.
Michigan (2-4) is scheduled to host Maryland (2-2) on Saturday. The Terrapins are coming off their first game since a coronavirus outbreak within the program led to two games being canceled.
Stanford’s football team is heading for a long trip to the Pacific Northwest because of new COVID-19 protocols in Santa Clara County.
The new rules prohibit practices and games for contact sports for three weeks. The Cardinal are traveling to Seattle on Wednesday to begin preparing for Saturday’s game at Washington.
They will then spend the following week in Corvallis, Oregon, before playing Oregon State on Dec 12. That game had originally been scheduled to be played at Stanford but has been moved because of the new rules.
The Ohio State football team is resuming full practices again in preparation for Saturday’s game at Michigan State.
Ohio State said in a one-sentence statement that the team would ”resume organized team activities” on Tuesday afternoon.
The Buckeyes will do so while managing COVID-19 issues, and will be without coach Ryan Day, who tested positive last week. Defensive line coach Larry Johnson is assuming head coaching duties for the week and for Saturday’s game in East Lansing.
Ohio State chose to cancel its game at Illinois last week because of an unacceptable number of COVID cases among players and staff in the program.
No. 3 Ohio State (4-0, CFP No. 4) needs to play this week and next week against Michigan to have enough games in to be eligible for the Big Ten title.
Kentucky starting safety and Southeastern Conference interceptions leader Kelvin Joseph has become the first Wildcat to opt out and will focus on preparing for the NFL draft.
The redshirt sophomore, whose four pickoffs also rank fourth nationally, announced his decision Monday nighton social media. Joseph thanked Kentucky coaches, teammates and the community for the opportunity as well as LSU, where he had 12 tackles and a pass breakup in 2018 before transferring and sitting out last season per NCAA transfer rules.
The North Baton Rouge, Louisiana, native added, ”I know it was a short stay, but it’s BIG BLUE NATION ALL DAY!”
Joseph also had 25 tackles, a tackle for loss and a pass breakup in nine games. His announcement ironically comes hours after Kentucky coach Mark Stoops noted his team being one of the few to not have players opt out. (
Elon says its men’s basketball team has paused activities due to a positive COVID-19 test within its program.
The program announced the decision Tuesday. It said the case was within its Tier 1 personnel group, which includes athletes, coaches and support staff.
Team members and within that group have begun a quarantine period of at least 14 days. That means scheduled games against Mercer, No. 6 Duke, Howard and No. 14 North Carolina have been postponed.
Elon says it has conducted additional testing after receiving the positive result.
Vanderbilt women’s basketball has canceled its home game Wednesday night against Texas Tech because of COVID-19 issues within the Commodores’ program.
The Commodores announced the cancellation Tuesday, a day after the men’s basketball team withdrew from a pair of games in Connecticut and paused its activities due to a positive test within its program.
The women’s basketball team now has had its first three games of the season canceled. Vanderbilt’s next game is Saturday at Little Rock and remains on the schedule.
The University of Colorado has ordered its men’s basketball program to pause activities for COVID-19 reasons and the Pac-12 has postponed the Buffaloes’ conference opener at Arizona that was set for Wednesday.
The Pac-12 said it would work with both schools to find a mutually agreeable makeup date.
Athletic director Rick George said the status of other upcoming games is dependent on contact tracing and subsequent testing of players and basketball staff this week.
The last time the Buffaloes’ regular season was interrupted was in December 2006 when back-to-back home games were canceled because of a snowstorm.
Oklahoma plans to open its men’s basketball season on Thursday against Texas-San Antonio after a week-long delay.
Oklahoma was scheduled to play the Roadrunners last Wednesday, but the Sooners paused team activities after a spike in COVID-19 cases.
Oklahoma’s game against Central Florida scheduled for last Saturday was postponed, and Oklahoma and Florida mutually agreed to cancel their game scheduled for this Wednesday.
Iowa State will allow about 15,000 fans at Jack Trice Stadium for the Cyclones’ football game against West Virginia on Saturday.
Athletic director Jamie Pollard also announced about 1,400 fans will be allowed at Hilton Coliseum on Sunday for a women’s basketball game against No. 1 South Carolina and a men’s game against DePaul.
Pollard said the decision was made after a discussion with university leaders following reviews of state and local COVID-19 positivity trends and hospitalization rates.
Only families and guests of athletes and staff could attend the Nov. 21 football game against Kansas State and the first three basketball games at Hilton.
Prairie View A&M has canceled men’s basketball games against UNC Greensboro and Western Kentucky at the Wade Houston Tipoff Classic in Louisville because of COVID-19-related issues.
The Panthers were scheduled to play UNCG Tuesday night and WKU on Thursday in the multi-team event. UNCG will instead play Winthrop on Tuesday. WKU stated in a release that it is working to arrange a replacement game.
The cancellations reduce the Tipoff Classic schedule from 16 to 14 games. Duquesne and Little Rock are also participating with host Louisville in the event that ends Friday.
A college basketball game between Colorado and Arizona scheduled for Wednesday has been postponed due to COVID-19 issues within the Buffaloes’ program.
The Pac-12 said Colorado does not have the minimum number of scholarship players available due to positive coronavirus tests and contact tracing protocols.
The conference will work with both programs to reschedule the game.
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by By TERESA M. WALKER / Jan 19, 2021
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''The decision was made out of an abundance of caution to ensure the health and safety of players, coaches and game day personnel and in consultation with medical experts,'' the league said.
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Brahms: The Boy II (Blu-ray review)
May 16th, 2020 by Peter Paras
Katie Holmes is stuck at home with a possibly possessed doll; as are the rest of us, if we’re so inclined to check out the sequel to 2016’s surprise horror hit The Boy. Brahms: The Boy II was released about a month before the global pandemic would keep nearly all humans on planet earth indoors. Some would fill their time with cute, adorable fare like Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Others swung the other way, with more horrific forms of entertainment. In this era, mileage will vary on wanting to intentionally be trapped for nearly ninety minutes with Annabelle’s better-dressed spiritual sibling. I have kept up with the thrills (Contagion really holds up!). So does this Blu-ray release have inventive new ways to make us uncomfortable spending time looking into the dead-eyed stare of a creepy porcelain boy? Review after the jump.
After a burglary leaves a mother and her son in shock, a relocation to the English countryside feels like the right move. And it would be if Liza (Katie Holmes), her husband Sean, and their son Jude (Christopher Convery) didn’t move onto the Heelshire grounds. Sure, they’re staying in a small home off to the side, but the notorious mansion is only a few yards away.
Fans of The Boy will remember that four years ago, Greta (Lauren Cohan, on a break from The Walking Dead) was hired to take care of a doll in that big, spooky place. Things didn’t go well for her, so odds are the moment Jude finds that doll named Brahms in remarkably good condition, things are about to get creepy.
The main hook of the first film was the central mystery. The doll was to be cared for by Greta, which meant changing Braham’s clothes, preparing his meals, reading to him before bed, etc. At first, Greta thinks she’s getting paid a lot to be a “fake” nanny, but then things start to go missing, and doors slam in the middle of the night. Could it be that the doll is possessed?
The big reveal was pretty convoluted. From this reviewer’s POV, the last act was disappointing. What started as a weird tale about a person trying to get over PTSD (she was a survivor of domestic abuse) became a kind of silly soap opera about an old-timey family’s dirty secrets.
And yet, like Annabelle, the doll as a visual representation of suppressed fear and anger did work. I hoped that like Oujia and Annabelle, the sequel would be a significant leap over the original. It’s not, but I do think it’s better if only slightly. Those sequels were given new filmmakers to helm them like Mike Flanagan (Ouija: Origin of Evil), who later did the fantastic Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House. Both Boy movies are directed by William Brent Bell. He definitely has a talent for making the doll unnerving while allowing the actors to reach for higher levels of despair than most studio horror movies do.
Katie Holmes brings joy and anger to a mother who wants best for her son but is wary of the cost. The home invasion opening left Jude to be mute, communicating to his parents with only a writing pad. Holmes brings generosity in the early scenes. She clearly thinks Brahms is disturbing (but hey, that doll CAN rock a suit), so she goes along with Jude’s therapist’s advice to let her son indulge in weird behavior. (Like making his meals, reading to him…) Eventually, Liza unravels, and while Boy II isn’t The Babadook, Holmes effectively makes us afraid of her. Who knew little Joey from the Dawson’s Creek had it in her?
As Jude, Convery (Stranger Things) is stronger in the first half in a mostly wordless performance. His cherub-like face and tiny mannerisms make him likable from frame one. Yet we also see how Jude struggles with is self-imposed isolation. He wants to be a good kid but is pulled into the “friendship” of Brahms. In the last section, though, well, I’m not sure the actor knows how to sell a campy performance.
The script by Stacey Menear (who also wrote the first film) is great at setting up situations that quickly escalate. He also knows how to let Brahm dictate the narrative even though it’s an inanimate object… for the most part. The tonal shift leading into the finale makes me think if they did make a third film, it could be totally full-on bonkers. Boy, I’d be on board for that.
Encoding: MPEG-4 AVC
Aspect Ratio: 2:39:1
Clarity/Detail: Brahams’ porcelain face is super sharp. The few outdoor scenes also boast excellent detail amongst a lush forest.
Depth: The rooms are small, which adds to the claustrophobic nature of horror, but visually, space is well rendered.
Black Levels: Black levels are mostly strong, but there are a few moments where crushed blacks were evident. Holmes’s dark hair would sometimes disappear in a dimly lit room.
Color Reproduction: The Boy films tend to revel in colors that can be described as “tasteful.” The bold green that adorns the family’s walls or the strong reds that pop Jude’s sketches are faithfully represented.
Flesh Tones: Flesh tones are natural and well rendered.
Noise/Artifacts: None were present that affected the viewing experience.
Audio Format(s): DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 16-bit), French, Portuguese, Spanish all 5.1 Dolby Digital
Subtitles: English SDH, Spanish, French, Portuguese
Dynamics: From the jump scare music booms to the tiny whispers of a boy talking to his doll, the range is solid for a thriller like Brahams. The tiny clinks when Holmes taps Brahm’s face is perfectly creepy.
Low-Frequency Extension: There are plenty of low hums throughout that add to the tension.
Surround Sound Presentation: Sounded strong with my Sony soundbar.
Height: From Brahms spooky mansion to the hallways of a modern British home, the use of spacial sound is solid.
Dialogue Reproduction: Dialogue is loud and clear.
Brahams: The Boy II has three extras, and only two are on the disc. The content is fine, but considering Katie Holmes hasn’t been in a whole lot lately (let alone horror), I was bummed there was no behind-the-scenes featurette or commentary track supplied.
Director’s Cut: Only available via the digital copy, this cut is four minutes longer than the theatrical version.
Alternate Ending (HD, 8:25): Though it plays out for nearly ten minutes, this is almost identical to the original ending, except it doesn’t have the final scene. I do, however, prefer the look of the doll here (although the VFX work is clearly not finished) more than in the final version.
Deleted and Alternate Scenes (HD, 9:32 total runtime): Six scenes. The best (and shortest) concerns a doll maker.
While not the leap in quality that other new horror franchise sequels have recently been, Brahams: The Boy II is still an improvement over the original. And both films have had made terrific casting choices in their leading actresses. Holmes delivers an engaging performance. And the decision to lean into the supernatural more does work for fun B-movie thrills. The tension works, the cast is solid, and Brahams’ always looks dapper. For horror fans like myself, that is mostly enough.
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China is winning the trade war and its exports have never been higher
China was already outperforming every other major world economy last year as the coronavirus pandemic upended the globe. It looks like the country’s relatively sure footing also gave it the edge in its trade war with the United States.
The world’s second biggest economy closed out 2020 with an overall trade surplus of $78 billion for December, according to official customs data released Thursday. China’s overall surplus for the year hit a record $535 billion, up 27% from 2019. Exports, meanwhile, rose to an all-time high.
“Amid all the noises on de-coupling and de-globalization, somewhat unexpectedly, the pandemic has deepened the ties between China and the rest of the world,” wrote Larry Hu, chief China economist for Macquarie Capital, in a research report.
Louis Kuijs, head of Asia economics at Oxford Economics, attributed China’s gains largely to the country’s management of the pandemic, which broke out in the Chinese city of Wuhan just over a year ago. He added that China has benefited from a lot of demand for protective gear and electronics as people around the world worked from home.
“After having recovered from its own Covid-19 crisis, China was open for business when the pandemic triggered huge demand in the US (and other countries) for Covid-19 related goods,” Kuijs said.
China’s trade relationship with the United States, meanwhile, became even more imbalanced: Beijing’s trade surplus with Washington rose to $317 billion in 2020, a 7% increase from the year prior and the second highest amount on record, according to Iris Pang, chief economist for Greater China at ING. The amount is just $7 billion shy of 2018 levels, when Trump launched a blistering trade war to right what he called a lopsided relationship with the world’s second largest economy.
“Judged by the surge of US imports from China in 2020, it seems fair to say that Trump’s trade war with the country failed,” Kuijs said.
The good trade news comes days before China is expected to announce GDP figures for the end of 2020 — another likely positive showing. Analysts widely expect that China’s economic growth will pick up even more during the last three months of the year. Analysts polled by Reuters expect Chinese GDP to increase 2.1% for all of 2020.
“As [China] plays a critical role in many supply chains and remains a fundamentally very competitive place to produce, it is much easier said than done to ‘decouple’ from it,” Kuijs said.
China’s future isn’t without its challenges, though. Analysts point out that President-elect Joe Biden likely won’t reverse some of the pressure on the country after he takes office next week.
“The Biden government will take a different, less combative and more steady approach to China,” Kuijs said. “But it is politically not possible for Biden to remove the tariffs on Chinese goods any time soon.” | cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line10578 |
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Date of birth 20 March 1975
Place of birth Birmingham
Nationality English
Position Defender/Left back
This tough-tackling left back featured regularly for Kidderminster Harriers in their inaugural season in the Football League.
Scott was handed the penalty taker's duty at Aggborough but he had to wait until the penultimate game of the season before the club were awarded a spot kick and then found that, by the time he had arrived to take the kick, Drewe Broughton had already stepped in.
He is a versatile left-sided player who can also take a more attacking role if required.
Loan / Trialist
Torquay United 06 Jul 1993 26 Mar 1997
Colchester United 26 Mar 1997 30 Jun 1999
Kidderminster Harriers 17 Sep 1999 30 Jun 2004
Tamworth 13 Aug 2004 30 Jun 2006
1995-96 Torquay United League Cup 2
2000-01 Kidderminster Harriers FA Cup 3
2000-01 Kidderminster Harriers LDV Vans Trophy 1
2000-01 Kidderminster Harriers League Cup 1
2000-01 Kidderminster Harriers League Division 3 34
2004-05 Tamworth FA Cup 1
Please note: Career stats are based on performances in the Premier and Football Leagues and (in most cases all) internationals.
20 Sep 1995 Norwich City v Torquay United L 6-1 League Cup 2nd round 1st leg
04 Oct 1995 Torquay United v Norwich City L 2-3
Agg: 3-9 League Cup 2nd round 2nd leg
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Pennsylvania’s Drug-Free Cannabis Festival Will Host Families, Hippies And ‘Bong Hits For Jesus’
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Organizers want the event to be inclusive, family friendly. A day in the park where anyone of any age can listen to music, enjoy nature and be among thousands of friends.
That means the April 22 event in Scranton, Pennsylvania, will be drug-, alcohol- and weapons-free.
More than 10,000 people are expected in Nay Aug Park between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. It’s the event’s fourth year. And it is quickly outgrowing the venue.
That’s not surprising: A Gallup poll from fall 2017 says most in America agree with their cause, and that the number is growing.
The bands at the 2018 Pennsylvania Cannabis Festival will be mellow, according to co-organizer Jeff Riedy.
That’s clear from their names: Mother Nature’s Sons, Cheezy & the Crackers, and Bong Hits for Jesus are among the acts performing.
There will be vendors: munchies, tie dye and incense will be readily available. (That’s just the start of the variety offered by a planned 280 vendors, including numerous advocacy groups).
But aside from a planned area for medical marijuana patients to legally medicate, there won’t be cannabis at “PennCannaFest.”
Jeff Riedy hopes one day there will be. The “long-time” marijuana user, activist and co-organizer said the plant helps keep him calm and off pharmaceuticals. He serves as the executive director of Lehigh Valley NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
But for now, the cannabis festival is simply a day for like-minded people to gather, to relax in nature and to make their voices heard on an issue they care deeply about: Legalizing marijuana.
What’s the point of a cannabis festival without cannabis?
According to Riedy: advocacy and community.
The official website for the event says it is a “public event to raise awareness for the legalization of cannabis in Pennsylvania.”
Riedy said that will play out in a variety of ways.
There will be advocacy groups there trying to educate the public about their cause.
Those groups want to change the law. In particular: Riedy said he’s sick of the stiff penalties for possession of marijuana. He believes your life can be ruined if you’re caught with even a small amount.
Although an admittedly vocal user of the drug, Riedy said he’s never had a run-in with the law.
The thought that cannabis — a substance he said has so many benefits that he could talk about it all day — could get him or anyone else in legal trouble: That just doesn’t seem right to him.
He suspects the laws aren’t changing because money is swaying the opinions of lawmakers.
One of the biggest opponents to people who share Riedy’s view? U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
“We need grown-ups in charge in Washington to say marijuana is not the kind of thing that ought to be legalized, it ought not to be minimized, that it’s in fact a very real danger,” Newsweek has quoted Sessions.
Riedy disagrees. And he said he hopes to use the event to affect real change. He is planning to direct the masses in attendance to call lawmakers about specific legislation at various times throughout the event.
“Hopefully 10,000 voices is stronger than $10,000 that would come out of the pockets of big pharma in Harrisburg or Washington,” he said.
But the day isn’t all work. It’s mostly about enjoying the company of others.
Riedy said the people who support marijuana legalization tend to be an “inclusive group of people”; they’re “level-headed” and they’re “mellow,” he said.
So when 10,000 of them get together to share a Sunday afternoon in the park, enjoying good food, interesting vendors and music they love … Riedy thinks it’s going to be a good time.
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Posted on April 11, 2016 by Thom Hickey
Had I been born in Louisiana in the 1920s I know what I would have done with my life if I had survived World War Two intact and by fair means or foul accumulated a decently thick bankroll.
I would have bought a roadhouse on the outskirts of New Orleans.
Let’s call it, ‘The Blue Parrott’. And, all the dollars I spent and all the hands I hired would have had but one aim – to make the Parrott the jumpinist, jivinist, most joyful Joint for hundreds of miles around.
On the door and looking out for trouble before it becomes TROUBLE is an ex Marine called Tiny who stands six foot six and weighs in at 250 pounds. Tiny stormed the beach at Guadalcanal and came home with a limp and a chest full of medals.
Tiny never gets mad but he does get mean. No matter how drunk the drunks get and no matter how tough they think they are when they’re drunk no one, no one, thinks they can take Tiny down. Tiny maintains good order.
Behind the bar is Pops. Pops has looked sixty years old since I was six. He always will. Pops has heard and nodded sympathetically at every hard luck story ever told as he pours another shot of alcoholic redemption. Everyone know Pops understands. Everybody loves Pops. Pops has never touched a drop.
Out of sight in the Kitchen is Ferdy our chef. Ferdy don’t talk much. In fact he rarely says a word. Nobody cares about that because Ferdy can cook. Really cook.
So people who don’t come for the booze or the company or the music come anyway because they can’t resist Ferdy’s food. He will have you licking your lips just inhaling the aromas from his Gumbo, Jambalaya, crawfish étouffée and shrimp creole.
In the corner there’s a Wurlitzer Jukebox primed to pump out Hank Williams, Joe Turner, Louis Jordan and Harry Choates until the wee small hours.
I must, of course, have live music. A Roadhouse needs a House Band. So, I want a Band that’s has rural roots and city smarts.
I want a Band that folks will want to dance to, to listen to, to cry into their drinks to, to fall in love to, to remember the good and bad times in their lives to, to stare out the door and dream of another life to.
A Band people come to see the first night they get home from the Service or the Slammer so they can believe they really are home.
I want a Band that can whip up a storm one minute and lull a baby to sleep the next. I want a Band that you can stand to listen to three nights a week for year after year.
I want the Band to have a front man who makes people feel good just looking at him.
I want a drummer who lives in and for rhythm.
I want saxophone players who can play pretty or down and dirty as the song demands.
I want a guitar player who never shows off but is so good he makes other guitar players despair and consider taking up the banjo. I want a Bass player who everybody feels but nobody notices.
I want a piano player who has the left hand of a deity and the right hand of a angel on a spree. I want the piano player to sing with such relaxation that it seems like he is making up every song on the spot.
I want the Band to have a secret weapon in a songwriter and arranger who knows all the music of the past and has worked out a way to make the music of the future from it.
I want Fats Domino, Earl Palmer, Herb Hardesty, Red Tyler, Lee Allen, Ernest McLean, Frank Fields and Dave Bartholomew.
I want, and will have, the best damn Band that ever came out of New Orleans – The Fats Domino Band!
Well, well, well …. Wah, Wah, Wah, Wah, Wah, Wah.
Baby that is Rhythm and Blues and Baby though you didn’t realise it at the time – Baby that is Rock ‘n’ Roll.
By my reckoning Fats Domino’s, ‘The Fat Man’ recorded in December 1949 in New Orleans and co-written with Dave Bartholomew and blues history is the first great record of the 1950s.
Some things are immediately apparent. Fats Domino sings with overflowing charm while his piano combines surging boogie-woogie with irresistible triplet flourishes. Right about here the great Earl Palmer invents Rock ‘n’ Roll drumming with his driving backbeat which lifts the Band and our spirits until his final fill decisively says, ‘That’s All Folks’ and you rush to cue it up again.
For the musically sophisticated there’s an excellent analysis of the crucial role of Fats Domino’s Band in the development of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ned Sublette’s book, ‘The Year Before The Flood: A Story of New Orleans’.
For the rest of us all we need to understand is that Earl Palmer’s bass and snare drum attack owed a lot to the style of New Orleans Parade Bands and that the way the whole Band locked into its rhythmic parts drew on Cuban, ‘Latin’ traditions to create something new under the sun in the Crescent City.
Listening here it’s abundantly clear that this is a Band that really does know its way around and that we should sign up now for a glorious cruise into the future. Of course, New Orleans picked up on Fats first with some 10,000 citizens putting their money down to buy, ‘The Fat Man’ in the first fortnight after its issue. A million or so sales followed as the entire United States fell under Fats’ spell.
We scroll forward half a decade now to a record which still sounds dew fresh 60 years after it was recorded in 1955. ‘Ain’t That A Shame’ was an instant classic and the passage of time has only added to its charms.
Fats grew up speaking Creole French and that must be a factor in his immensely winning vocal style. The Lower Ninth Ward where Fat’s family settled after moving Vacherie still retained a country feel despite its proximity to the city. So there always remained something of the relaxed rural about Fats nature.
Maybe that explains why I can’t think of anyone in the entire history of Rock ‘n’ Roll who exudes such bonhomie as Fats. As soon as he starts to sing the clouds part and the sun lights up clear blue skies. It’s an amazing gift he shares with his great New Orleans forebear Louis Armstrong. His piano adds further shimmer and dazzle.
Herb Hardesty has a lovely sax part here which always has me sets me gleefully swaying along with him and the Band. It seems the recording was compressed and speeded up to ensure favour with the mainstream (white) audience. Well, that sure worked!
‘Ain’t That A Shame’ is regularly used in movies to evoke the1950s most notably in George Lucas’ best film, ‘American Graffiti’.
Not too long after it was issued at 251 Menlove Avenue Liverpool the first song full time teenage rebel and would be rocker John Lennon learned to play was none other than, ‘Ain’t That A Shame’. John would formally tip his hat to Fats in his essential covers record, ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll’.
Following the major success of ‘Shame’ both through Fats version and Pat Boone’s cover the doors to the pop world swing widely open and Fats, always guided by Dave Bartholomew, took full advantage with a series of huge hits that had global impact.
Blue Monday tells a tale we all know all too well. Oh, I’ve had many, many, of those Sunday mornings when my head was bad yet I still grinned at the apparition in the mirror and concluded as the Seltzer fizzed that it was all worth it for the time that I had.
Naturally while reflecting that the awful ordeal of Monday would have to be faced I consoled myself that Fats knew and understand my feelings and somewhere in the grooves of his song lay the promise of the next, sure to be even better, weekend to come. This is one of the great vamping grooves that engages you from the get go to the thumping valedictory chord.
Blueberry Hill had been recorded many times before Fats took permanent ownership of the song in 1956. Fats and the Band invoke a bitter sweet recollection of the trajectory of love; part rural reverie, part lazy post love making langour. Their collective vocal and instrumental sound glides you through the song like an expertly piloted pirogue.
One last song. From the pen of superb singer and songwriter Bobby Charles the hypnotic marvel that is, ‘Walking to New Orleans’. String arrangement courtesy of Milton Bush. The relaxation maintained throughout with the sure groove could only be Fats Domino. This is one of those songs that the entire family sings along to when we are on long car journeys!
Fats Domino was and remains the King of New Orleans. The unique rhythmic signature of the city resounds joyfully through every bar of every Fats Domino recording.
They ought to put a statue up in the Lower Ninth and name a Square and a Bridge or two after him. He deserves nothing less.
Some personal memories to conclude.
In the late 1970s I went to see Fats Domino in concert at London’s Hammersmith Odeon. I only decided to go at the last minute and despite my silver tongue couldn’t persuade any of my hipper than hip friends to accompany me.
I was marooned up in Row YY at the very back of the Upper Circle. Friendless and far from the Bar. None of that mattered once Fats opened up with, ‘I’m Ready’. For the next hour or so as Fats played standard after standard with wit, playful power and affectionate authority I transcended to a state of near nirvanic bliss.
It was a rain soaked night but I waited for an hour after the show outside the Stage Door just to call out, ‘Thanks and God Bless You Fats!’ as he got into his bus.
That night remains one of my benchmark nights for musical excellence and personal happiness. Thanks and God Bless you Fats.
Now that there is more than a distinguished tinge of grey in my beard I lean more and more on the sovereign, reliable pleasures of life.
A good night’s sleep next to the woman I love; a mug of fresh brewed coffee in the morning, a walk on the common, the poetry of Herbert, Heaney and Hopkins. A glass of Malt Whiskey as the sun sets. The films of John Ford and Buster Keaton and the good humoured, life affirming, music of Antoine Fats Domino.
And, echoing Fats I’m ready, willing and able to follow this regime until someone puts out the big light.
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A current assessment of the SolarWinds hack
Hartmut Pohl[1]
The attack was first detected by the affected IT security company FireEye[2] around December 8, 2020; FireEye warned against the use of its security products, but denied that stored, unpublished vulnerabilities (zero-day vulnerabilities) had been read. The perpetrators manipulated an update of the network monitoring platform Orion of SolarWinds Inc. in such a way that a backdoor (currently two have already been published – may be more next week) was installed in the approx. 18,000 of the approx. 300,000 customer systems (supply chain attack). Customers are the public sector in the USA, Great Britain and the world's largest companies in all sectors (defense companies, technology companies, banks, consulting, pharmaceutical/chemical, telecommunications and raw materials companies) in North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and in Germany[3] too like all the states of the European Union.
Given the immense impact of the attack (copying of data and programs and manipulation of programs), the attack is likely to continue to be studied in detail[4] - and also imitated, and attack documentation (despite an expected very high price) will be sold like hot cakes to criminals and interested security agencies. Companies and authorities should therefore prepare themselves by taking preventive measures. The probability of occurrence is rated internationally as very high.
U.S. federal agency systems were also compromised in the attack, with the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issuing an emergency directive instructing all federal agencies to immediately shut down affected Orion products.
The SolarWinds cyberattack is not an isolated incident. Microsoft[5] alone has sent more than 13,000 warnings to customers in the last two years. The aim of the backdoor installation is to remotely control systems globally at this manufacturer's customers. At present, the perpetrators seem to be only partially concerned with financial success (extortion). This also applies to attacks in the healthcare sector; they are currently not (yet?) targeted specifically at individual patients.
The methods used by perpetrators are consistently at a very high technical level and demonstrate years of experience. Such specialists can be found not only in all industrialized countries, but also in so-called developing countries. However, such attack techniques are not researched and taught at public universities. The first criminal attempts date back to the beginning of the 1970s in Germany.
Summary and ideas
Attacks on IT systems are increasingly being carried out by companies specializing in them.
By escalating to the many victims of an attack (here approx. 18,000) the expenditure for the attack preparation sinks to about 500 K$ with an expected revenue of currently 500 - 10,000 K$... in each case per victim. Prefinancing is possible by organized crime or intelligence agencies. Further such technically well-crafted attacks can therefore be expected.
The attackers planned and implemented the attack over about 3 years. Between the first unauthorized access and the spying out of data and programs alone, about 6 - 18 months pass; this has already been pointed out by international studies (also in German-speaking countries).
An illusion is the frequently encountered opinion that once IT production is up and running again, the attack has been averted. In any case, restarting is not a sign of averted attacks. Unless at least the exploited attack points such as undetected security vulnerabilities (zero-day vulnerabilities), backdoors, covert channels and the like have been eliminated, renewed attacks must be expected. This is likely given the market power (technical capabilities, core personnel) of commercial hacking companies. The powerlessness in the face of the hacking companies also shows the helplessness of the affected U.S. government agencies.
Theoretically, only companies whose financial creditworthiness was considered sufficiently good by the perpetrators were attacked. The perpetrators attacked repeatedly (when the opportunity arose).
1. Current situation on the Internet
Politicians and also decision-makers largely lack an understanding of the risks of attacks on (their own) IT. Accordingly, the IT manager is asked whether everything is safe. Therefore, independent advice from 'outside' is not sought at all. Especially since the attackers usually proceed cautiously to conceal the attack from the victim for up to several years.
2. Perpetrators
Of course, it was the Russians (Pompeo knows); but it was the Chinese (Trump guesses). Much speaks for Korea - but only because a Korean word was 'found' in the source code (maybe rather North Korea)? If you can't think of anything else, the hackers were at least 'close to the state'. All this is nothing more than the usual political propaganda of politicians (cf. the 'rogue states'), which can only be clarified in a technically extremely complex way.
Basically, a typification of perpetrators according to script kiddies, freaks, hackers, crackers, etc. seems outdated. The diverse and complex attack possibilities require competencies and personnel in all areas of cybersecurity that cannot be provided by individual companies, municipal administrations or private individuals[6].
In the last 5 years, companies have developed internationally that carry out new attack procedures developed worldwide according to the motto 'Crime as a Service (CaaS)’[7] against payment for clients.
A distinction between perpetrator groups[8] such as script kiddies, insiders, hackers, hacktivists, cybercriminals, state-sponsored groups, 'intelligence agencies' (government institutions such as security agencies) are a thing of the past: Increasingly, hacking groups are commercialized - i.e., attacks are carried out by specialized companies under contract for a fixed fee or a revenue share of, say, 30% (ransomware). A corporate structure with minimal departments such as personal, marketing, accounting and production etc. is in place. Thus, it is carefully analyzed whether and how the company intended as a victim is actually liquid to the desired extent (profit orientation). The personnel strength of attack companies is up to 20 employees - with up to 15 IT specialists; free-lancers are brought in for special tasks.
3. Affected parties
Many U.S. federal ministries and companies have come forward or been published. The German Federal Office for Information Security (Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik BSI) has informed affected German companies. In fact, probably 18 - 35 thousand SolarWinds customers[9] are affected, with a total of more than 300,000 worldwide.
4. Attack targets
The reports about reached attack targets are diffuse. Apart from marketing statements, it must therefore be assumed that valuable company data were spied out (security tools, exploits, medical devices) and that manipulations were also carried out on control data of production processes (IoT[10]) for vaccine production[11] and for the production of chemicals and medicines: Sabotage. Use for terrorist purposes cannot be ruled out - but has not yet been proven. One of the targets is likely to be data in (private and public) clouds (e.g. Microsoft Office 365 accounts).
5. Attack sequence
Overall, this hack seems to have a technical significance comparable to the ongoing (!) hack on the German Bundestag[12], Stuxnet[13] or NSA[14]. These attacks together show used techniques of the state of the world attack technology; here only the SolarWinds hack is referred to:
A. The first evidence[15] of unauthorized manipulation of Orion updates dates from October 2019 - also about 14 months before the attack detection.
B. The exploited attack points of SolarWinds systems are as yet undisclosed or even unidentified. The only possible attack points are unpatched, unpublished, or even undiscovered vulnerabilities. Experience shows that unpublished (zero-day vulnerabilities) - at least vulnerabilities not known to SolarWinds or at least not patched - are exploited for this purpose (initialization of the attack: March to June 2020). As long as this entry point is not identified and patched, the following steps can be repeated at will by the attackers.
C. The two (or more) groups of attackers make themselves independent of this vulnerability by installing (at least) two backdoors in the SolarWinds system. These backdoors are not published or identified by SolarWinds.
D. To make the tampered update appear authentic, the update is correctly digitally signed[16]. Code signing is one of the most important security measures of global software companies. If the signature can be forged, it opens the door to any abuse of authentication and integrity checking in the first place.
E. In the source code of the update, the malicious code is obfuscated (steganography); in operation, the runtime environment is checked to see if it is a corporate network or, say, an analyst's workstation.
F. With an update for the SolarWinds Orion Business Software manipulated with almost 4,000 lines of code[17], a backdoor was installed in the customer system (Orion Monitoring Software) for the first time[18]. As long as a backdoor is not identified and closed, the following attack steps can be repeated at will.[19] This applies analogously to the second backdoor that has been published meanwhile[20], as well as to any further backdoors.
G. Further backdoors are realistic. As long as not all backdoors are identified and patched, further similar attacks must be expected.
Through the backdoor, further - possibly also updated - code from a command&control server is infiltrated or a (also permanent) connection between attackers and the target system is generally established. Thus, files are transferred, executed, the system is parameterized, system services are activated and deactivated, and computers are rebooted. The transport protocol is similar to the SolarWinds protocol.
H. The backdoor is conveniently embedded in one of the SolarWinds modules installed in the target system. If the attackers know of other software (such as standard software from vendors like Microsoft) in the target system, the backdoor can be installed there as well. An attack lasts as long as the backdoor can be exploited. In other words, the built-in backdoor is the linchpin. Attackers build in several backdoors for resilience reasons; after identifying a (first) backdoor, the victim often believes that the attack has been repelled and is therefore over. In some cases, they even ask for 'proof' why they are still looking for further backdoors.
Of course, further steps by the attackers are possible, such as copying and deleting (all) data of the attack victim and encrypting (ransomware). Copying of security information is especially relevant when unpublished security holes are collected - e.g. for law enforcement purposes. Even before the investigation was completed, such theft was denied by FireEye.
I. After this attack was discovered, the backdoor was identified by the manufacturer and closed with a (signed patch); it can be assumed that the attackers do not use the (closed) back-door anymore. At this time we can only speculate about the use of other backdoors.
J. There is often more than half a year between the installation of the backdoors and their exploitation - the period can also last up to 18 months. The decisive factor for this duration is that the attackers want to be sure that the victim does not notice their attack.
Basically, it cannot be proven that a system is backdoor-free. This means for the mentioned hacking cases like NSA, Bundestag a proof cannot be provided. And it also does not mean that the cases are actually closed. However, the attackers will move cautiously not to give any hint of their activities.
6. Damage and amount of damage
No serious damage assessment can be made because of the person-year effort. Official estimates are likely to remain secret.
The attackers also used novel malicious code that was not (yet) stored in the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) multi-billion dollar intrusion detection system 'Einstein'.
A cleanup of the known manipulations is expected to take far more than 6 months.
However, the USA also attacks other states in this form[21].
7. Protective measures after attack detection
The manufacturer recommends updating to the latest Orion Platform version 2020.2.1 HF 1 as soon as possible to ensure the security of the environment. However, it is doubtful whether a simple update of the Orion Platform is sufficient to eliminate an infection, given the complexities involved. Anyone who has used the compromised software builds has no choice but to check and forensically analyze the affected systems. The signatures of the two published backdoors are available for this purpose.
Identifying backdoors is easy if they are at least partially known, as in this case. It is more difficult to identify more backdoors, especially those that have not yet been detected or have not yet been published. The latter requires a sophisticated methodology. It is easier to identify backdoors that misuse documented input or output interfaces.
The scope of recovery measures depends on the value of the processed data and controlled processes (risk analysis) and ranges from a simple update of the Orion software to immediate disconnection from the Internet, installation of new devices and software, and a check of all stored data; after all, attack software can be stored anywhere - in (standard) software, in firmware and microcode of devices and controls, and also in data. Only after a new really comprehensive check can the system be put back into operation.
Simply attempting to restart without further action can be negligent. Anti-virus programs and installing the latest updates etc. can also help against this particular attack[22]. However, these measures are unlikely to detect modifications to the attack. Affected parties should carefully consider whether the successful attack should be made public.
8. Preventive measures
Commercial and government intrusion detection systems are of little use if they fail to detect documented attacks. Legal measures[23] such as the requirement to report attacks within 60 calendar days fall completely flat in the face of detection of attacks only after at least 6 months up to 18 months - 13 months in the SolarWinds case. The impression is created that the U.S. authorities are developing excellent attacks, but are not in a position to adequately protect themselves against attacks by third parties.
In Germany, great emphasis is placed on surveillance (decryption of all communications) of citizens - monitoring Internet traffic and protection against criminals seems neglected. The recurring crypto debate can therefore be described as a distraction of citizens from the real risks of the Internet.
Politicians must ask themselves how they intend to guarantee the fundamental right to physical integrity[24] - for example, in hospital cases and in the supply of vaccines[25]. Attacks such as the SolarWinds case discussed here can no longer be detected, investigated or even repelled, even by well-funded companies.
The aim of politics must be to identify attacks and warn companies and authorities in good time by pointing out previously unpublished security loopholes, backdoors and covert channels. Such an initiative belongs in the IT security law.
Two basic techniques for identifying backdoors and covert channels[26] are the analysis of a system's resources and a thorough static source code analysis. Experience shows that only 30% of covert channels can be detected thanks to tools.
Not very helpful is the Microsoft suggestion[27] to create a signature about the attack practiced in SolarWinds and compare it with current data streams - comparable to anti-virus programs. This may detect the SolarWinds hack, but hardly any other.
A constructive approach to the topic is the 'Internet Governance Forum' (IGF)[28] of the United Nations and the 'Council to Secure the Digital Economy' (CSDE) of the IT and telecom industry.
9. Final assessment
The total damage can only be estimated by those affected (companies and authorities) with great effort - and only if logs have been created automatically at various levels.
Further, attack vectors - beyond the 2 published backdoors - are still likely to be identified - possibly not even using the Orion software; in any case, all statements such as "was not spied on, not sabotaged" are not technically justified. In addition, the 'usual' security errors can be seen, such as publication of passwords, too long reaction times after malware detection.
If the impression is given here that this case is one of the few exceptional ones, the impression is wrong. Comparable attacks - perhaps not with this scope - are commonplace. Accordingly, 5 days after the case was published, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an emergency directive asking U.S. agencies using SolarWinds products to forensically analyze the case and block network traffic to addresses outside the organization. Agencies without the appropriate expertise should immediately shut down the products due to possible compromise.
This paper represents the released executive summary of a confidential audit report security testing a German company.
[1] Prof. Dr. Hartmut Pohl, Geschäftsführer der IT-Sicherheitsberatung softScheck GmbH Köln – Sankt Augustin
https;//www.softScheck.com Hartmut.Pohl@softScheck.com
[2] https://bit.ly/35gbyb5
[3] For example, the source code base of Windows (Microsoft) was successfully accessed (https://bit.ly/2JA91AC); so far unconfirmed (but probable) are accesses to the supply chain, which - as with the access to the SolarWinds supply chain - enabled backdoors in over 85% of all computers in the world. The political and economic consequences were studied decades ago (https://bit.ly/3rK8ZHN), but were not understood: Worldwide, almost all computers and thus the Internet can be shut down by attackers within a few days or even abruptly. Terrorist interests (sabotage) cannot be ruled out.
[4] https://bit.ly/38NCIH1
[5] https://bit.ly/34YHuQP
[6] https://bit.ly/3o2ZO2Y
[7] https://bit.ly/2WW1jE2
[8] https://bit.ly/353iecp
[9] A rough (unconfirmed) overview of CISA can be found on the Internet (https://adobe.ly/386Cvj1): Belkin, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Deloitte (since June 20019), FireEye (with CIA involvement), Intel, Nvidia, Siemens, VMware. A number of US government agencies were also compromised by the malicious software. For example, the hackers reportedly managed to penetrate the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Treasury, the Department of Commerce and the Department of Energy, and the systems of the U.S. Atomic Weapons Agency, airport networks such as Austin, the NSA, ... Thus, the sectors affected are telecommunications, aerospace, and defense and health care. Furthermore, companies in Great Britain and Turkey are mentioned, as well as cloud/hosting providers in particular, such as Amazon, DigitalOcean, Microsoft Azure. Also, the UK National Health Service, the European Parliament and NATO.
Classic ransomware attacks, on the other hand, seem to be those on Aida, Funke, Hetzner, Symrise, etc. The German government stated that there were no accesses to its systems.
Simultaneously, Microsoft has also admitted to a successful attack - although it has not published how long the attackers have been active in Microsoft networks. (https://reut.rs/352s1PQ)!
Since the attack took place months ago, some companies no longer have the forensic data that is essential for a full investigation.
[10] https://bit.ly/382txUb
[11] https://bit.ly/382Sq1Y
[12] https://bit.ly/3pHJl4n
[13] https://bit.ly/2L7igZy
[14] https://bit.ly/38QBUB4
[15] https://bit.ly/38Prwd3, https://on.wsj.com/3hIujZG
[16] For reasons of practicality, the message (in this case the update) is first hashed and this hash value is encrypted into a check digit using a (strictly secret) private key from SolarWinds. Only with the corresponding public key the check digit can be decrypted again, so that the update appears authentic from SolarWinds and unchanged. The unauthorized use of the signature method therefore requires that the attackers could read and use the private key without authorization!
[17] https://bit.ly/38Prwd3
[18] Backdoor or trapdoor. Concealed (undocumented) sequence of instructions (programs, program parts in hardware, firmware, microcode and/or software) that enables access to an IT system by bypassing the security system (access control system).
[19] Therefore, a kill switch was installed on the associated command & control server, which automatically deletes the back-door when called by the manipulated software. https://bit.ly/350NqZQ
[20] Web shell 'Supernova' embedded in Orion code by another attacker.
[21] In June 2019, The New York Times reported that U.S. Cyber Command had penetrated Russian electric utilities deeper than ever before and deployed malware. https://bit.ly/38MwOG3
[22] https://bit.ly/34ZsUZh
[23] https://bit.ly/2MoRjBl
[25] https://bit.ly/3aVA84z
[26] Covert channel. Logical channel that is not intended for information transmission - nevertheless enables unauthorized and covert (non-documented) transmission, i.e. exchange of information and thus violates the security policy of the IT system. Two classes of covert channels are distinguished covert storage channels and covert timing channels. A covert channel is a channel that allows information to flow between at least two cooperating entities in a manner that is contrary to the security objectives - without being controllable by access control, i.e. it violates the security policy.
[27] https://bit.ly/3834v76
[28] https://bit.ly/3o3kPKK
Prof Dr Hartmut Pohl
softScheck GmbH Köln
Internet Governance Forum' (IGF)
US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)
Windows (Microsoft)
airport network Austin
According to soothsayers, the world faces the beginning of the apocalypse in 2021
Surely humanity is used to a lot from psychics, fortune-tellers and prophets who emerge from the historical mothballs every year again to deliver the spooky predictions for the next twelve months.
This time, however, it seems different.
The seer from the Balkans, called Baba Vanga, accurately foresaw the events of the past twelve months almost 30 years ago. It should be noted that Baba Vanga has been dead for three decades.
She predicted Corona or COVID-19. Many of her predictions did not come true in the predicted years, but they did come true later, such as the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, the 2004 tsunami disaster in Thailand, and other events that instilled great fear in humanity.
Unfortunately, the seer from the Balkans has nothing good to report for the year 2021. Strange events that will cause Vladimir Putin to fall victim to an attack to be carried out by an employee of his bodyguard.
She has no good news for Donald Trump either, the American autocrat will suffer from a mysterious disease. This disease disintegrates his brain, as the woman put it when she was alive, leaving him a deaf, disoriented man.
Unfortunately, things don't look good for humanity either. In the year 2021, when the Earth's orbit is also supposed to shift due to a strong solar flare, there are violent floods everywhere and fights for living space.
Further trouble threatens humanity, especially in Europe, from invading marauders who are gradually depopulating Europe with chemical weapons and then taking it over. There are to be fierce terrorist attacks on the continent. These acts of war are to continue until 2025, leaving the continent of Europe simply deserted. Allegedly, three dragons will unite into one and wipe out humanity. There has also been speculation about whether biological weapons will be used to fight in Europe.
After these changes, Europe's economy is said to collapse completely.
There is to be famine and constant warfare.
In addition, it is reported by Baba Vanga that the first mission of humans to Venus is being prepared. However, this is being done secretly and behind closed doors.
However, she had one piece of good news for the year 2021, that a cure for cancer will be found, literally this disease will be locked up with iron. As she put it.
The seer from the Balkans had the same visions about the year 2021 as the seer Alois Irlmaier and the prophet and doctor Michel Nostradamus had already had in the Middle Ages. All three prophesied a year of catastrophes for 2021. We know from Baba Vanga that she had a hit rate of about 85% in her predictions. We can only hope that she was wrong in 2021 and that none of the bad events will actually happen.
Baba Vanga
tsunami disaster
Alois Irlmaier
Michel Nostradamus
North Korea's propaganda channel portrays the country as an outpost of the Garden of Eden
Published in North Korea
Strange propaganda channel
For those who didn't know, North Korea has found an instrument of international self-promotion. In YouTube.
The unknown beauty from the channel, depicting the horribly distorted life in North Korea, portrays the country like a branch of paradise.
None of the insane video shoots correspond to the lived truth in Kim's socialism and the sectarian structure of the Juche, the state doctrine in North Korea.
Of course, this channel completely misses the realities and does not show the concentration camps, the hunger, the oppression, but simply the delusion of the regime in Pyongyang. Human rights are trampled on in the country just to ensure the possibility of survival for the Juche and its vile officials.
Here are some of the Echo of Truth videos that one can only marvel at.
Echo of Truth
Kim Jongun
Published in Book Blog
About the futility of war
The adventures of a German female soldier in Afghanistan are the focus of the story.
Afghanistan, a country of opposites, at war for decades without peace. The helplessness of the German armed forces, which ultimately only implements political decisions, but quickly realizes that the liberated people did not want to be liberated and cannot and do not want anything to do with Western-style democracy. In the end, what remains are destroyed ideals, a broken health and illusions of a better world that cannot exist because it is not wanted.
Afghanistan is set in the mountains of the Hindu Kush, in a German armed force military camp. It is about the ephemeral friendships, about the troubled relationship with the Americans, about enemy encounters and offers of peace. About dead mercenaries and tattered peacemakers who have all gathered in the country to wage war and ultimately lose it. The young soldier's story is about the madness called war - of a non-commissioned officer who goes treasure hunting and slowly loses his mind. Death is like the friendly neighbor who goes his way between faith and money. In the end, everyone is left as a loser. Even at home that has long ceased to be one.
From February 1, 2021, in our shop as an e-book.
German female soldier
Pashtun
Die Stem van die Apartheid (2/1999) - Shadows of the Night- the Murder of Dr Robert Van Schalkwyk Smit
Published in Cold Case
Die Oranje Vrystaat
The Vrystaat smells of spicy bushes, not Diesel like yesterday on the army truck, past ostriches and zebras, along with dull-faced SADF soldiers sitting on the back of the truck being carted to the front. Cannon fodder for a proxy war between the great powers.
Ossewabrandwag
I have realized in the last few hours reading the newspaper cuttings, South Africa is ruled by a cult. Ossewabrandwag - my people, my God.
The eagle looks like one of the NSDAP.
Interestingly, this organization was founded in February 1939 and wanted to enter the war on the side of Germany. The Afrikaner Broederbond is recruited from this Afrikanerdoom environment, and it formed the National Party of South Africa (NP). The sect party provides the prime minister, in this case the obstinate and extremely dangerous P W Botha, called the Great Crocodile, even less flattering in Afrikaans: Die Groot Krokodil . He was born in Paul Roux, just over 100 km from here. He is a concrete-headed racist and capitalist. Botha will not release Mandela from prison in his lifetime. Nazis survived here in other guises. Scary to think if Hitler had won the war.
In the folder I received from the editor are also newspaper cuttings of a crime that, as one of The Star's journalists in Johannesburg lately wrote, was one of the most heinous in recent decades. That may be saying something if people are allowed to be tortured to death. Just disappear in a bright blue Ford Granada or a yellow SUV on the loading bed. Or simply slaughtered at home, tortured to death in police stations. Etc.
The murder of Dr Robert Van Schalkwyk Smit - the trail leads to Germany
One of the great mysteries is the death of Dr Robert Van Schalkwyk Smit and his wife Jeanne-Cora. The case is still fermenting in the collective popular soul of the Boers here. Since this regime in Pretoria can only be cracked from within, Smit became an absolute risk for the party. But this risk had a long history.
What had happened?
Smit was one of the most successful South Africans who, although he also came from the political sect of those who rule this country harshly, also wanted to expose corruption. This was, of course, about "Muldergate" and also about other dirty tricks that the NP came up with for its internal opponents.
There are countless rumors.
The rumor that is probably closest to the truth is that of the two German murderers who, for whoever, were deliberately directed to the scene of the crime, committed the ugly deed and then disappeared again.
The trace of the writing on the wall "RAU TEM" (Randse Afrikaanse Universiteit - Tegnies En Moord) "leads into the circles that remained of BOSS. Who knows who gave the order? Probably in their midst are also exiled Rhodesian's who just lost their homeland three years ago with the "Lancasterhouse Agreement".
"RAU TEM" is said to be a group of the Boss (Bureau for State Security) (Buro vir Staatsveiligheid (BSV)) and there is nothing good to report about the terrorist group that has meanwhile been dissolved in the "Muldergate" affair.
It is interesting to note that two years before the murder, when the South African embassy in Germany moved from Cologne to Bonn Auf dem Hostert 3, the secret nuclear papers disappeared without a trace under the eyes of the GSG 9 (!). The Bonn public prosecutor's office and the South African Secret Service (!), which was acting on German soil in this connection, jointly came to the conclusion after intensive investigations that the papers were gone.
Former South African Embassy in Bonn / Germany
Von Foto: Eckhard Henkel / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 DE, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, Link
It is also interesting to note that Foreign Minister Pik Botha and Van Schalkwyk Smit were neighbours in Washington when both were on equally diplomatic missions for the Republic.
By <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41529430" class="extiw" title="d:Q41529430">William Fitz-Patrick</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.reaganlibrary.archives.gov/archives/audiovisual/contactsheets/1963.jpg">Photograph 1963-18A, White House Photographic Office: 1981-89 Collection</a> (see large PDF with description and link to photo contact sheet <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://reaganlibrary.archives.gov/archives/audiovisual/WHPHOTO1981.PDF">here</a>. From the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/">The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum</a>, Public Domain, Link
There was probably a nuclear axis between Bonn, Brasília and Pretoria. Smit, otherwise top of the class of the NP, was well-informed about the red threads of corruption. Perhaps he was blackmailing Dr Eschel Rhoodie, the propaganda chief of the NP.
Van Schalkwyk Smit was, of course, no orphan. He ran the country's largest insurance company, Santam, and was certainly involved in countless actions of the apartheid regime in Pretoria as the head of it and as the representative of the International Monetary Fund.
Van Schalkwyk Smit is said to be the originator of the trick that is being carried out by the thousands in Mauritius, the Seychelles, Taiwan and Hong Kong through South African shell companies.
The goods subject to the embargo are simply exported to the respective countries and from there to South Africa. This is also how the sanction of the Federal Export Office in Eschborn near Frankfurt is to be circumvented. In addition, there are dozens of flats all over the world through which almost everything is sold and bought.
What took place that evening in Springs in the Transvaal can only be conjectured. The police, when they do investigate, always investigate favoring the Botha government and its regime lackeys.
Allegedly, the perpetrators stayed for hours in the bungalow in Springs and literally tortured the victims there. Or even returned once because they had forgotten to take something with them. It was probably about documents from the nuclear deals. The investigations are so watered down that no one knows anymore what Pretoria pretended to be in the case, what the result should be or was. Dr Van Schalkwyk Smit came later home.
By this time, his wife must have already been executed by countless knife wounds and targeted shots to the head, following a torture. Smit died shortly afterwards. Whether the perpetrators were looking for something or just had a targeted murder mission remained entirely open in the investigations of the South African police. The statements of the lead detective, a brawny Boer, range between Smit was dragged halfway down the lower floor and Smit was already dead when he tried to unlock the door in the hallway.
A leaked report said that the flat, mainly the kitchen, had been searched. The perpetrators also left the inscription "RAU TEM" there. It is unlikely that documents on South African government corruption were stored there. As Dr Eschel Rhoodie said in England last year, there are said to have been countless bank accounts in Switzerland, he was on the run via Ecuador to Great Britain and from there to France, where he was then arrested.
Did Smit know before his death to report what was then exposed months later as the "Muldergate Affair" in 1977 in Pretoria?
Millions of South African rand, currently worth between US$ 1,20 and US$1,50 per Rand, which a high purchase value, had been embezzled to influence the press, to falsify the news in a way that was desirable for a dictatorship that wanted to stay in power for a long time. The Citizen or The Burger was chosen for this purpose. An idea that came from the head of BOSS, Hendrik van den Bergh. One of the most odious figures and guarantors of the South African dictatorship.
Allegedly, according to an inquiry report, Balthazar Johannes "B. J." Vorster, Botha's shamed predecessor, was involved in the whole story. Now he lives in Cape Town. Isolated and reviled by the local Boer celebrities.
The mastermind and string-puller for the government in Pretoria was Connie Mulder (Petrus Cornelius Mulder), an obscure character even for the brown henchmen in Pretoria.
They unceremoniously excluded him from the NP holy grail when things got too hot.
The Washington Post reported on the bad who-dunnit penned by the propaganda department a few years ago. And yet journalists here on the ground think that South Africa's only opposition paper, the Rand Daily Mail, has been completely undermined and the Boers are taking revenge on Helen Zille's article on the death of (Bantu) Stephen Biko.
The only credible lead
Mad Mike Hoare and his gang of murders
No one has had any real interest so far, but perhaps that will change in the years to come. Through a statement to the Erasmus Commission, a former judge of the Transvaal Supreme Court came into action who knew a South African Airways pilot who gave a statement about two Germans who had come to South Africa from Lutton Airport (UK) for the £40,000 job to murder van Schalkwyk Smit and his wife. These two Germans were part of Mad Mike Hoare's Commando 5 in the Congo. There, daily murders with the leaving of graffiti was normal, as one can see from numerous pictures of the time.
So, it is not surprising that the chief of the mercenaries in the Congo known as Mad Mike, whose most famous platoon leader was the unfortunately "legendary" Congo Muller, is also said to have been involved in the murder of the van Schalkwyk Smit couple. This, however, leads back to the influence of the South African government, which did not want to get its hands dirty with overseas mercenaries.
What the South African Airways pilot really knows only means that he has testified that two Germans accepted the order to murder the couple. This murder must have come from the "Muldergate scandal" with the accounts held in Switzerland and Germany. To make matters worse, evidence from Dr Eschel Rhoodie is said to be in a secure location, presumably in a Swiss bank vault.
This fact was reported by the New York Times, one of the absolute opponents of apartheid, as early as 1979, but unfortunately this lead, which is the most credible and the most likely, was not followed up. Mad Mike, the Irishman, had carried out similar actions in the Congo during the Katanga crisis. Countless of his comrades-in-arms were Germans who were better off fighting in the Congo in the 1960s than facing prosecution by the courts in Germany for crimes committed during the Nazi era.
A staircase joke of history is that Matt Mike now lives in South Africa and not so far away from what happened in Springs, in the Johannesburg area. What Schalkwyk Smit and his wife could know, the perpetrators certainly took with them. Congo-Muller, however, who revealed his true soul in a pathetic interview, drove off to the next battle with a skull and crossbones on his bonnet whenever he was needed for a murder in Katanga.
It would have been a simple step to find out who Mad Mike's mercenaries were from Germany and compare them with the entry documents to the Boer Republic. The clarification of the heinous crime, however, was not wanted. The murder of Schalkwyk Smit and his wife was desired to deter the enemies within.
Now that the shadow of night is settling over the Vrystaat, I am going to the takeaway and will eat a Boerewors and drink a Castle Lager.
CongoMüller
Erasmus Commission
Commando 5 by Mad Mike Hoare
Rand Daily Mail
The Burger
Hendrik van den Bergh
Balthazar Johannes Vorster
Auf dem Hostert 3
Petrus Cornelius Mulder
Springs/ Transvaal
Pieter Willem Botha
JeanneCora Smit
German contract killers
Dr Robert Van Schalkwyk Smit
Buro vir Staatsveiligheid
Die Groot Krokodil
Afrikaner Broederbond
Sarel Cilliers Bridge
Kronstaad
National Party South Africa
Muldergate
Lancasterhouse Agreement
Boss (Bureau for State Security)
Dr Eschel Rhoodie
Paul Roux
The Star (Newspaper) in Johannesburg
Santam
Heirlooms missing: A reader asks for help
Pearl ear clip with diamonds, private photo, kasaan media, 2020
Unfortunately, the photos are years old, and they cannot be displayed better with all the effort of modern technology.
One of the readers has lost her jewelry. How, that is not clear. When - also not.
It may have happened within the last five years.
But the personal value is high and connected with many memories, which are purely personal.
She asks for help from everyone who can contribute something. She is not rich, but these pieces mean a lot to her.
Hints, if someone has seen the pieces somewhere. Or knows them.
Please use the comment function. Many thanks to all.
A reward is not offered.
A comparative piece, private photo, kasaan media, 2020
hints requested
bracelet with bird and coins
Pearl clips
Perhaps Trump sets the execution method for himself - The legacy of Donald Trump (1)
Published in Headlines
Trump's whimsical legacy - that of a break clown
Accountant of death
On 24 December this year, there will be a new regulation on how prisoners are to be executed at federal level. Trump himself still wants to make the execution of eight prisoners possible, contrary to all traditions that a president who has been voted out of office does not allow this to happen.
Now the execution continues with gas, electric chair and lethal injection. This speaks for a high degree of sadism and Trump's personal pleasure in letting people die. A master of life and death. Like other right-wing despots in history.
In the final phase of Trumpism, the President's duties revolve around the death of his countrymen. It is characteristic of Trump to still determine these absurd possibilities of execution.
Trump, as the world knows, is great at murdering and destroying.
He leaves a trail of blood all the way to the White House, which runs like a red thread through the whole country.
That's all he was capable of.
He used every opportunity to remember Gettysburg and the Secession.
According to Trump, a way must therefore be found to finally bridge the gap between white, rich, black and poor in the United States of America. After all, to guarantee liberation from National Socialism in the 1940s, the United States sacrificed some 170,000 of its compatriots, thus laying the foundations for being a nation of world renown.
Donald Trump sacrificed 250,000 of his fellow countrymen to remain in power and not to expose himself to personal trials. Trump was a disgusting sexist with the claim of corruption and because he could not do better, also with the claim of a nationalist spoiled to the point of caricature, who no longer knew and could not find his way behind his fascism à la Trump.
Electoral fraud with Trump
The OSCE had observers all over the US. Therefore, Trump's bold claim about the third world country USA cannot be true because nobody has observed the alleged election rigging.
The Donald Trump brand no longer exists. At best the man who in the USA demanded genocide for his ends, like a Roman emperor in the arena celebrated by the eternally disappointed. Trump's speeches are strongly reminiscent of those of the dictators of the 1920s and 1930s. He vilifies the New York Times, he vilifies anyone who does not agree with his sometimes already stupid opinion. Even Richard Nixon, who was called Honk, was an absolute boon against him.
Trump worked with the Mafia. The Mafia had been his backbone since the early 1970s. Organised crime taught him the contempt that he now held against the law and his critics. Any demagogy was just what he needed to stay in power, and to earn a little more from the suffering he inflicted on the people, and that ultimately enabled Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to get into the White House.
Political Mafia boss and sexist trump
Will Donald John Trump be on trial when he returns to New York?
Yes, he will be on trial because America as a state must prevent such a president from running for office in 2024 because the Republicans must get out of the Nazi corner and basically serve the democracy that has always been built up.
The political Mafia boss Trump must stand trial.
How can it be, even if there is little truth in the accusations, that countless women who were once sexually assaulted by the self-confessed narcissist and psychopath are now coming forward?
How can it be that he pays hush money to a porn star like Stormy Daniels if he wants nothing to do with her?
Whoever claims that Donald Trump never started a war in the world may be right, he was too stupid to do so. He called for war in his own country, and this is something we know from Nicolai Ceausescu and Erich Honecker, from despots like Hitler.
And Trump must be careful not to become a victim of his execution methods, if he can be proven to have committed the Covid-19 genocide out of greed, which is otherwise the case with Trump and his lackeys.
That is his legacy.
Covid19 Genocide
electric chair
execution methods
Trump falsifies the presidential election in front of everyone
Update November 4th, 2020
LIVE: President Donald J Trump https://t.co/J7hhaUPUf0
— Team Trump (Text VOTE to 88022) (@TeamTrump) November 4, 2020
Trump has given the USA the characteristic of a dictatorship
Trump obstructs the election: As expected, Donald Trump declared himself the winner before the votes were counted. He forgot to mention that countless votes in the post offices have not yet been counted. How an incumbent president can declare himself the winner by electoral fraud is understandable to anyone, but it shows that Trump followed this plan from the beginning. Trump attacks legitimate vote-counting efforts and claims fraud without proof. For the normal observer, it looks more like the Democrats will win the election. From Georgia, for example, news is coming in that the election is incomplete. Meanwhile, Trump is trying to prevent votes that have not been counted from being counted. Even the Republican electoral lawyer calls Trump's claim an "agonizing moment"
The American Civil War of 1861-65 has not yet been dealt with, however much the generations that followed strove to forget Richmond, Gettysburg and all the other bloody battlefields.
Now Trump comes along and tweets his hatred from his soul.
Trump is the most wretched thing that mankind has produced. He serves white racism in unrestrained disgust for his profit.
He is a repugnant despot who has driven more than 200,000 Americans to their deaths. Through personal greed. It is a good third of the victims of the Civil War of 1861-1865. Trump accepts tens of thousands more victims to remain in power because he has to fear personal consequences for his actions.
He is a murderer and must therefore be punished. Everything else from the right are protective assertions to keep a disgusting despot in power. Trump has sold himself as the man with billions, he owns nothing, he is nothing. He only wants to win the election because otherwise he would end up in prison. That is where he must end up. He has torn the country apart. He has not kept any of his election promises, except those that have personally brought him money. Whoever votes for Trump chose terror from his ranks, disinformation, injustice, probably civil war. Those who vote for Trump vote for the contempt of a godless man who cages children. Whoever votes for Trump votes for the right-wing thugs who attack an opponent on the road. Who chooses Trump chooses the lie and the clan, the right-wing racists and the thugs. He manipulates the courts, threatens judges and tramples the law underfoot. Now he even plans purges in his second term of office, etc.
Trump is a perverted monster, he has more than 200,000 Americans on his conscience. He has facilitated an American genocide. He, the self-promoter, doesn't care. Trump is the most disgusting specimen of man at the lowest level of what is called civilisation. Trump thinks of himself and his corrupt lying clan.
He forces the 2nd US civil war and knows nothing about Gettysburg because he does not care about human life. Trump morally rapes the minorities in the USA every day because it brings him profit, not because anyone understands what he is doing.
Trump prefers to play golf and blackmails the weakest in society. He was close friends with one of the most disgusting child molesters in society: Jeffrey Epstein. He hates women, he hates everything that doesn't make money. Not one of his brazen election promises has he kept. He has exposed the USA to international ridicule. He is a demagogue like Mussolini, and we have long pondered what positive things he has done during his term of office. Unfortunately, nothing came to our minds. Not even after days of searching.
Whoever elects him will again choose the blood of the battlefields! The American people do not deserve that.
Vote for Biden to find your peace.
Child Abusers
Racists
TrumpTrain
Donald Trump - a disgrace to humanity
MAGA "Make America Great Again" was the motto of the psychopath driven by political and confused hallucinations who for years led the white, racist America. In contempt for humanity, which at the end of the Covid-19 genocide, Trump worked just for his re-election, could only disgust a normal person. But Trump was known for his failures decades earlier. Everyone who voted for him knew what a narcissist he was.
By U.S. Government - https://www.whitehouse.gov/featured-videos/video/2017/01/20/inauguration-45th-president-united-states, Public Domain,
Already at his inauguration he saw what others did not see. His magnificence, framed by the Ku Klux Klan, went down in the history books in Washington. The speech itself was the weakest that was made in modern times. None of the promises were fulfilled by Trump.
Trump even danced on stage during the election campaign, thousands of Americans were fighting for survival against the epidemic at that time. Humility did not suit him, but he chose the dance of the devil on the graves of the Covid-19 victims. Victims who, through his unconditional will to be re-elected, had to give their lives. This was well known to the right-wing financial anarchist from the White House.
An American president who should be held responsible for every dead person. Later in court. The American people must and should hold a dictator to account. They must stop the next despot, from the right or the left, from trampling democracy underfoot, as Trump did in all his political ugliness and disinformation. In fact, he did nothing else, except for the tirades on Twitter and the puppet theatre that gathered around the American autocrat.
He was always great, always to be found in the superlatives of his achievements. None of his deeds during his term of office could achieve anything. Except the rift through American society, which will not heal for decades.
Trump hated Obama and everything that Obama had certainly done right in his time. The would-be dictator could not understand environmental and climate goals. He isolated America all over the world for a few more dollars, installed guys like Grenell in Germany, for example, who cynically presented American politics.
A president who wants to break with the custom of taking power peacefully because anything that does not confirm his election must be fake.
He made America small. Donald Trump managed to destroy the American dream. Of course, he did this not because he is simply a self-promoter and a right-wing hate criminal who never distanced himself from right-wing paramilitaries, but because it served him and his ailing companies. Trump was not the one who invented democracy, but the one who wanted to erase it from the American minds.
The relationship with some dictators in this world improved, regardless of whether Trump was now perceived as repulsive by his other allies. NATO, an alliance that had lasted for decades, had become a carcass in recent years.
He wanted to exchange Puerto Rico for Greenland after a hate speech. Or sell it or buy it in addition.
Some of what Trump said filled democrats of all nations with increasing nausea.
The disdainful mammon
Money meant everything to Trump. In his day, financial interest was put above human rights. He caused millions of Americans to starve. His bizarre appearances in front of the White House and elsewhere were often reminiscent of those of a military junta in Latin American countries where civil war had broken out in the 1970s as a result of the despots of the time. Trump also promoted this in his country. Not tired of comparing his racist achievements with Lincoln's abolition of slavery, of classifying his dirty, perverted imagination as incomparably higher and of looking for a suitable rock on Mount Rushmore for himself to sculpt. He would have liked best to remove those that actually belonged to Rushmore. Trump certainly does not belong in the ranks of those who had to see the polarizing despot as their successor. He dismantled everything and led the USA as a Mafia family.
The Cosa Nostra from Trump-Plaza and its Don
Anyone who elects Trump to office for another four years will have to accept that he will undermine democracy in the United States and vote for a lifetime dictatorship of the Trump clan.
Donald Trump has proved in recent years as president that he is neither up to the job nor capable of understanding the simplest facts. He befriended dictators like the North Korean Kim Jong-un, a show without results.
Trump cultivated a radical hatred of everything he was intellectually unable to process. And there was a lot of that. He, Donald John Trump, is responsible for the fact that the antifa and the radical left in the USA became so strong. With his stupid speeches, with his decrees via Twitter and his dance around the fountain of money.
One cannot deny that Trump put the worst qualities a person can have at the top of his list of priorities. Out of sheer stupidity and greed, Trump decided to glorify Covid-19 against all warnings of a harmless cold.
He wanted to build a wall against illegal refugees in the south of the USA to stop the storm. He did this not for political reasons, but for profit for one of his bankrupt companies, and for this he imprisoned children with publicity.
A commercial for Trump's Eternity, which he used in a kind of republican fascism.
Part 2 : The difference between "Sleepy Joe" and Trump
Elections USA 2020
KuKlux Klan
The Brexit lie 1/8
Published in Brexit
(AmcC/BAlR/MCvtH/HvM)
In the beginning was REFCO!
What reads like the part of a thriller that could have been written by a best-selling author took place in reality. In Europe since 1996. The consequences are still present today and are now more topical than ever. Nigel Farage has urged Boris Johnson to drop the Brexit plan before the new elections in Britain. It is the ridiculousness of an entire system that has not yet grasped that nationalism is outdated. In the middle of the decade before last, the continent of Europe, which had just been pacified and united, was about to enter a new era-after the fall of the Iron Curtain.
Anti-Hero Farage
Twenty years later, however, one of the protagonists of the exit from the EU is undoubtedly Nigel Paul Farage, who is not at all embarrassed and always one lie ahead. A snobbish misinformer of the former UKIP movement, a ghost obviously blinded by his disinformation, he is the sad anti-hero of his stories.
It is not enough to walk around the constituency in a fine twist with a melon and umbrella. Like any nationalist, Farage has no prospects for the future. No supporting vision.
A coward and bon vivant who accepts the death of thousands of people, the demise of a state structure that has been built up over a thousand years to realise himself and make a little profit from the sting of hatred of British nationalists.
In 2017 Farage dared to attend an AfD event in Berlin-Spandau, of all places, where the German war criminals were once imprisoned. Even the inviting Beatrix von Storch knew about the impact of the performance at this historic location. Her grandfather was the former Reich Minister of Finance under Hitler, Johann Ludwig Count Schwerin von Krosigk. In 1949, he was sentenced to ten years in prison as a war criminal in the Wilhelmstrasse trial, which was part of the Nuremberg Trials.
Farage knows how to provoke like any right-wing populist. That is what he does best.
Pekunia non olet
Sure, Farage had and is pursuing a goal. A conservative world view favouring his wallet. A stringent nationalism that corresponds to his pecuniary world view.
But what do Nigel Paul Farage and REFCO have to do with what follows, the Brexit?
Farage's life was marked by his belonging to right-wing sentiments. According to the British Independent, he is said to have sung out loud and publicly about National Socialist tendencies against Jews from his earliest youth. His abbreviation NF is said to be the abbreviation of the National Front, reported numerous serious British newspapers. And not just once. The Farage problem came with an announcement. From his person, from his hatred against Europe, from his greed motivated contempt for humanity resulted the decided Brexit campaign.
Already in 2013, articles about Farage's right-wing sentiments were published.
His political convictions are and were his personal affair. But Farage was looking for a way to denounce, like any right-wing populist. The best way was through propaganda. The freedom to abolish democracy and to enrich himself personally.
Like a painful parasite, Farage sat in the ivory tower of the European Parliament and could carve out his poisonous comments, which had nothing to do with the European idea or reality. Farage saw himself as an imitation of the former Nazi leader, hated and shunned, Oswald Mosley in the 1930s. He also played this role to the point of vomiting in the EU Parliament.
Farage during one of his inhuman and bizarre appearances in the EU Parliament
War chest of the brown henchmen
Before his dubious political career, Farage worked for one of the most cynical corporate networks in post-war history, Refco, nicknamed Raffco, which, as a broker for thousands of investment companies, officially left an airborne loss of $166 billion. The investors' money disappeared without a trace. This was intended to happen.
It was the second biggest bankruptcy in the history of the USA, but the biggest one is still to come. The United Kingdom. Or the pitiful remains of a kingdom from which even the capital London now wants to get out. Bizarre enough, it reminds one of the intrigues of the Tudors.
Uninhibited gambler
Farage comes from a generation of unscrupulous and uninhibited brokers, bankers, gamblers and disinformers. The Farage species had already gained a wealth of experience with Drexel Burnham Lambert, another bank that had been conducting air transactions since the 1980s. They sold the most worthless papers even in Europe, junk bonds from companies that had been set up overnight to sell these papers the next day, which the sellers knew nothing could ever be sold except for business in letterboxes. Except the profit for the brokers, of course.
The question must be allowed, what is or rather was with Farage Limited? Were funds from investment scams moved into Brexit associations?
King of the competition
Farage, a dependent lapdog of the nationalists, who did not get his will to make further windy brokerage deals, which would have only brought profits to the brokers, only losses to the investors. That was the plan. He rode the wave of big investments and bankruptcies from one company to another after the last one had gone bankrupt.
It's a bit like with the Brexit. Betting on the downfall.
It was only the tip of the iceberg: Farage knew, according to his statements, following the statements of countless "headliners" in the industry, already from 1996 onwards, that the business of his top bosses at Refco was not in order, that no money had been placed on the stock exchange. No cattle or sugar lots, no Nigerian oil, no gold options, no soya oil had been brokered. These goods simply existed only on paper, at prices that could not exist in a reasonable economic cycle. But billions disappeared, missing from the war chest of the then perplexed nationalists and political bigmouths. Billions evaporated into the accounts of those who now want to take over the economic system.
And yet everything was and still is fine for them and their followers.
Contaminated
The proven projector among the "Brexiteers", who sat in the European Parliament since 1999 and knew only one goal: The destruction of Europe for shabby nationalism. This and much more he must now take up the cause of having ruined his country as well through fascism and deliberate disinformation. Farage, the gambler, doesn't flinch because Refco's farm was already burning more often, and he didn't want to have known anything about it when his boss, Phillip Bennett, was in trouble in the USA after Refco went bankrupt.
Nasty account 1997- London Royal Dorchester Hotel
Sometime in the late summer of 1997, the crème de la crème of European investment fraudsters met in London's Royal Dorchester Hotel for their annual accounting. There, the richest fish trains were "having breakfast" with bloody roast beef and plenty of champagne. At the same tables in the ballroom where the royal family had sat years before.
Also, from the London shore party: William Pepper, David Coakley, Jimmy Dottington, Brian Maurice Cowley, Michael Eberlein, Russell La Rue, Jochen Abramcyk and numerous so-called brokers from Germany, representatives of Man Financial and LFG. All of them worked to Refco through countless detours.
Here or there, according to tradition, a murder was decided upon by one of those present and the criminal structure of the international option business was celebrated with a last good bottle from the richly sorted vaults. Eberlein had just landed another deal - First Futures Brokers Limited. Paul Matthew Atkins was of great help to him at the time.
Despite the bankruptcies of dozens of companies, the cut made that year was a good one. The one or other billion could be shifted to Panama or to Belize, to the Bahamas. There was a lot to talk about on this warm evening, 1997, in London. Via so-called founding agencies, thousands of these micro-brokers were to be created to skim off as much money as possible for the nationalists' war chest.
The favourite game of those who had gathered there at the tables in fine dinner jackets was, apart from the turkey with a wonderfully spicy stuffing served in the second course, racism, the lived contempt for humanity. Behind closed doors they talked about those who were to say goodbye to those who now wanted to take over the sceptre.
Dare round of the open violation of human rights
In the intimate circle, the penetrating mocking of the deceived clientèle was the good tone of the patheticness of a self-appointed Mafia class that feared only itself and the rising price of cocaine. Here millions of gratuities were handed out under the table in bulging envelopes, cash, which had previously been scammed on the grey capital market throughout Europe.
These deals were already going extremely well from the mid-1980s. Years earlier, investigators and unidentified persons working in this matter came across documents from the holdings of the Bremen company Contracta Futures Warentermin-Handels- und Beratungs-GmbH (plus Contracta Rohstoffhandel Beratungs- und Vermittlungs-GmbH) of a Volker Brüggemanns company, which had already expired at that time. Whole crowds of helpless investigators had been attacking the option traders. Brüggemann was on trial in 1995, and he also lost this battle. That evening, two years later, in London, no one took pity on him.
Brüggemann, who was once a Fleurop boy, had swung himself up to become a patron of TuS Walle in Bremen with a pretty gold chain around his neck. In women's handball he looked like a misplaced suburban pimp to the team.
There were one or two moles among the assembled at the Dorchester who kept the illustrious guest list for their use that evening and passed it on to an office in the French province just days later. Also, present was a representative of the European Business Bank LTD., which allegedly had its headquarters at Memduh Asaf Sokak No.11, Lefkosa, Kibris, Via Mersin 10, in the Turkish occupied part of Cyprus.
This man operated under different names which always sounded similar, and he called himself Karabatsziakis or Karambatziakis. The political division of Cyprus had made such an outgrowth possible. But this did not help him - the RK/ OK from the Federal Republic of Germany was after him. This bank had been set up for the sole purpose of money laundering and drug trafficking and for making payments to terrorists. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of one of the largest investment fraud firms in the Federal Republic and a bank for drug barons, such as the Indian Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, one of the godfathers of Islamic terror, suspected of involvement in the 1993 attack in Bombay.
But Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar weaved the networks of terror out of money laundered from investment transactions in Europe. Only in 2015, when the bustling Indian was suspected in Pakistan, did an investigation by the US Congress reveal that Kaskar, who was already a fugitive at the time, had received money from brokers to forge a strategic alliance with Islamists of all stripes.
They needed terror and had lost the BCCI. Through their accounts, the trail led to banks and major brokers. Their accounts still existed at Safras Republic Bank of New York in Monaco, but one had to be more careful.
Back then, in 1997, nobody in Europe thought of Islamic terror. The nebulous structure was too far away.
The active and certainly hard-working official of the RK / OK in the Federal Republic Embassy in Nicosia certainly did everything to put an end to the hustle and bustle. Under the file note diary number 97/ Nic044 the lively money laundering in Cyprus could unfortunately not be ascertained. However, the accounts of numerous other investment fraud companies led in this direction. WBB International Limited laundered more than DM 14 billion of its own money through the accounts of EBB in Lefkosia, allegedly, if one trusts the unidentified persons who started investigating at that time. According to the Düsseldorf public prosecutor's office, the damage in Germany amounted to DM 6 billion, not including the damage caused by IBB Gesellschaft für Vermittlung von internationalen Termingeschäften mbH, Ambros, Phoenix Kapitaldienst. The companies were subsidiaries of WBB, which were initially nourished by churning.
Cyprus roof hatches
At the end of April 1997, a woman turned up in Cyprus asking for information about the bank. She checked into a hotel on the nearby Osmanpasa Cadessi as an English woman. The following night several people looked around the EBB's offices. The bank had no business operations and was represented by a secretary. The accounts led back to Monte Carlo to the then Republic Bank of New York, the empire of the seriously ill Mogul Edmond Jacob Safra, also Raphael Edmond Ezra Safra, just as he needed it. Even back then on the beautiful Côte d'Azur, people mumbled about possible connections to Arab terrorists. 15 years later the murmurings became facts. Again the name Refco was mentioned with the sinister financial transactions.
In the office in European Business Bank Ltd., the unknown British woman had come into possession of numerous papers from countless other brokers and banks. Astonishing were the copies from the German investigation files, the time from Hobson House, 155 Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BJ, which concerned Jochen Abramcyk and Michael Klausmeyer, Ulf Christof Zeretzke. Also through Zeretzke's other London firm, A.F.M., which has been linked to numerous other frauds. This also included documents from the files of the criminal investigation officers or prosecutors, plus documents from the Bermuda authorities there in a loose assortment of paper.
Düsseldorf nights are long
A list of what else happened in the Horten skyscraper at Berliner Allee 52 in Düsseldorf, where envelopes filled to the brim with money changed hands, was provided. Apparently someone at the public prosecutor's office in Düsseldorf had been bribed by a feeder, so the investigations that had been initiated were continued with a certain "official reluctance".
On several occasions, as the brokers at the time told , French investigators had mingled with the boar in the local companies, but had found rather pitiful evidence for bold theories. More and more investigations were also carried out for money laundering. There was also an informant at the Republic Bank of New York in Monaco, in the realm of Edmond Safra and his followers, and at HSBC in Geneva and New York.
By קבוצת נכסים ובניין - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link
The information was enough for the unknown to dig up the whole scene all over Europe.
The Lebanese banker Safra, who later died under the most mysterious circumstances, was already an absolute risk from 1995 on, which the brokers tried to get rid of from their circles.
The considerably weakened right-wing populists, the dregs of human civilisation, needed a war to end the incipient freedom of mankind. Every day, more money came into the coffers of the sponsors, who, like Farage, washed guys to the surface.
Continue with part 2 of the Brexit Lie
Ambros
Nigel Paul Farage
Phoenix Kapital Dienst
Man Financial
Edmond Jacob Safra
Raphael Edmond Ezra Safra
Republic National Bank of New York
HSBC Geneva
Republic Bank of New York in Monaco
IBB Gesellschaft für Vermittlung von internationalen Termingeschäften mbH
Brian Maurice Cowley
European Business Bank Ltd
Royal Dorchester Hotel
Farage Limited
Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar
Contracta Futures Commodity Futures Trading and BeratungsGmbH
WBB International Limited
UKIP Movement
Ulf Christof Zeretzke
Jochen Abramcyk
97/ Nic044
Osmanpasa Cadessi
Volker Brüggemann
Drexel Burnham Lambert
Rightwing populists
Oswald Mosley
Johann Ludwig Graf Schwerin von Krosigk
Michael Klausmeyer
David Coakley
Michael Eberlein
First Futures Brokers Limited
Memduh Asaf Sokak No11
Via Mersin 10
William Pepper
Jimmy Dottington
Right Populist
Karambatziaki
Karabatsziakis
LFG
Phillip Bennett
TuS Walle
Russell La Rue
Raspberry Sin
Published in Featured
Confidently, this question can be answered after enjoying this piece of cake with a clear yes.
It represents the finest pâtisserie art, pure luxury.
So much has be said in advance.
This palate enjoyment has been so exquisite that we want to share the recipe with all readers.
More than the ingredients and the approximate preparation we could not get out of the pastry chef, his helping hands. And that was very hard to do.
100 gr. Fresh raspberries
Mascarpone 4 spoons
3 ribs of black, very bitter chocolate
1 spoonful of bitter instant coffee
Half a spoonful of brown sugar
An ice cube
Mix the Mascarpone with the instant coffee and the ice cube to a cream, slowly add sugar. Form the viscous mass into an egg.
(Alternatively you can add cognac) Then cool, preferably in the deep freezer. Meanwhile, heat the chocolate in a pot until it melts creamy. Afterwards pour the mass over the prepared Mascarpone eggs- garnish with the raspberries and small balls of Mascarpone. Finally, sprinkle the pistachios over the finished dessert.
Exceptional it looks and tasts with small flacs of black chocolate.
patisserie art
New sex games in the Alpine Panorama for the Royal playboy from Thailand?
Update: 18 October 2020
Rama X. is already packing his bags again, while his people go out onto the streets the next day. The eccentric monarch leaves again on October, 20. On this day he wants to return to Germany. Enjoying the Bavarian country air. The protest movement is crushed by a massive police presence.
More sex games with his current concubines await the blue-blooded playboy in the Alpine panorama.
Meanwhile, a huge police force is formulating its brutal slaying against the protest movement.
Here are some scenes from the reality of Bangkok today:
Victory Monument, Bangkok. #ThailandProtests https://t.co/wQCnki7r48
— Newley Purnell (@newley) October 18, 2020
#ThailandProtests #ThailandNews #WhatsHappeninglnThailand #whatishappeninginthailand #ม็อบ18ตุลา https://t.co/oOys9Ytzz5
— ordinaryone .lll. (@Aryin16) October 18, 2020
#MilkTeaAlliance #HKsupportsThailand #ThailandProtests
Showing our support to our ally!!! Stay strong and safe. God bless https://t.co/hOrmiel0Ri
— angryhker (@dumbccp) October 18, 2020
While the Thai people are starving and suffering, His Serene Highness is occupied with the different kinds of his playmates. Every protest is considered an insult by the obvious psychopath Rama X.. This insult is punished with15 years in prison. Yesterday, demonstrators tried to storm the car of the shaking monarch.
One wonders whether these brutal operations in Germany were planned in the pseudo-asylum of the royal torturer. If so, Rama X would be intolerable for Bavaria, for the Federal Republic of Germany, which he and his countless playmates are anyway.
The unloved monarch should stay in Bangkok
In Thailand, the protests are raging. Rama X, the rich but ruthless monarch sees only his advantage and runs away from the protests. Where to? He flies back to Bavaria.
But now it was time to settle the business in Thailand as well, the whole family was flown to Thailand without further ado while nobody else could travel. Among them, as reported at the gala, is his 15-year-old son, Dipangkorn Rasmijoti, 15, with a jet of the Thai Air Force.
The sexual escapades of the blue blood who puts his concubines in prison and otherwise interprets any criticism of his pompous behaviour as an insult to majesty are enough. Apparently, the king conducts his inhuman politics from German soil. The ambassador of Thailand has been summoned to the Foreign Office several times in this context.
Meanwhile, the torture monarch is also damaging Bavaria's reputation in the world, nothing more of understanding for the "Thai-Kini" living in filthy luxury. It is time to ask Rama X, who is apparently far removed from reality, to leave Germany.
Historical freedom of jesters in Bavaria
Rama X, the Thai monarch, gradually becomes a nuisance in the Federal Republic of Germany. While everyone kept to the initial restrictions imposed by the government, the monarch flew back and forth. Once to fly to Thailand for festivities. Then again, he headed for various airports in the Federal Republic and practised the pilot manoeuvre of touch and go with his passenger plane to satisfy his urge to renew his flying licence instead of going for a walk in semi-domestic Bavaria. As if that wasn't enough, the comical king, who had a Boeing converted into a flying luxury palace for himself, obtained a special permit from the city of Garmisch-Partenkirchen when the exit restrictions were imposed. This allowed him to stay at the Hotel Sonnenbichl, despite having his residence in Bavaria. Why, was not clear even to the Court rapporteurs, who reported on the increasing number of absences of His Majesty.
Not only since yesterday has the bustling monarch from Bangkok become a filou. We recall that his Boeing was once chained to a pledge seal at Erding airport with unpaid debts, until His Serene Highness loosened more than 30 million euros. Maha Vajiralongkorn was still a prince at that time and had been living in a villa in Tutzing on Lake Starnberg for years.
He recently took the parade of his faithful at Munich's Erding airport with a barely belly-free top. Rumour has it that he had conveniently got rid of his tired girlfriend from the private sphere by simply having her arrested and giving her a whimsical story about an acid attack as justification. Before that, the man, now crowned king in gold panties, had dumped his three wives.
But the Free State of Bavaria has experience with blue-blooded troublemakers, as can be guessed from the story of Ludwig II.
Now, however, the comical king, who resides in Bavaria with his court, i.e. courtiers, lackeys and concubines, and who until now could only be described as a little odd, is mutating into a skilled torturer in diplomatic status. This, however, only behind closed doors because the blue-blooded man mercilessly persecutes anyone who has anything to criticize about him and his white royal uniform jacket.
As one could gather from numerous well-informed circles, the strange king had numerous persons from his entourage flogged on the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany. This is said to have happened on the fourth floor of the picturesquely situated Hotel Sonnenbichl. Torture is forbidden even for kings in Bavaria! What sounds like a horror fairytale became reality during the Corona crisis in Germany. The brutal monarch with a penchant for eccentricity in protected status is to watch the films of courtly punishment for his own pleasure later on. But that is not all. According to a report by the British journalist Andrew Gregor Mc Marshall, the aristocrat who has fallen out of his role maintains a kind of torture prison in Thailand, where he has unpleasant characters tortured for a long time and then has the films shown in a kind of "best of" when he lives in his villa on his native Starnberg Lake.
All the circumstances of the monarch now call numerous human rights activists to the scene because Rama drives his royal fantasies of omnipotence too far. It seems that Rama maintains the Thai torture prison because of his palace in Bangkok, as new investigations now reveal. Here the belly-free monarch is said to take particular pleasure in the suffering of arbitrarily imprisoned prisoners who are forced to drink urine, suffer from sleep deprivation and eat worms. While Rama appreciates the hearty Bavarian cuisine, there are countless prisoners who are literally gnawing at the hunger cloth.
Rama X. is certainly not as easy to stroke as Rama's name, and in recent years there have been increasing reports of royalty's failures in apparent exile. Rama is not squeamish with critics of his decadent courtly excesses. The man with the name Maha Vajiralongkorn, unpronounceable to Europeans, followed his father Bhumibol, who was very popular with the Thais, on the throne in a kind of fantasy costume garnished by a crown on his head. It is otherwise known about the bon vivant at the gates of Munich that he married his former bodyguard some time ago. Your Majesty will be merciless, as his master of ceremonies recently threatened in the social media if criticism of the ruler is made. A journalist was arrested when the monarch returned to Zurich from a trip to his old homeland.
The question is, what can be done about the king?
Sources: PICTURE
Andrew Gregor Mc Marshall
own researches
Maha Vajiralongkorn
Hotel Sonnenbichl
Rama X
ThaiKini
GarmischPartenkirchen
The life of the salmon
Published in Environment
For R.
We want to open this article for everyone to post contributions in English language for the protection of wild salmon. The contributions can be sent as photos, film or simply as text.
Write us what you think about farmed salmon.
In a world we live in, no one should have to fear publishing their thoughts just because they face the power of lawyers, lawsuits or attempts at bribery.
Capital has had its day. There are people who dislike this form of power and who resist its use.
The Earth's heritage is more important than fast euros.
The salmon is only synonymous with the environmental sins we leave behind for the next generation. Not to mention the children of our children.
It is unacceptable that large international corporations torture the creature salmon and systematically poison the consumer throughout Europe.
A predatory fish cannot feed in cages on pesticides, antibiotics and cheap food made from plant ingredients. Without respect for the creature animal that must die for our food.
In addition, fish are threatened by epidemics, such as the infectious anaemia of salmon (highly contagious ISA virus) caused by keeping them in cages. Because salmon kept in aquacultures is so poisonous that it is inedible, it also kills wild salmon in the surrounding area. It also causes numerous diseases, such as diabetes mellitus.
What remains are underwater worlds in Chile, Norway and elsewhere that look like a poisoned desert.
When consumers protest, the EU sets pesticide levels high. No.
If you have money like hay, you should find ways to breed these fish naturally, not in dirty and miserable environments.
Big business should be obliged to repair the underwater damage at their expense. And they should do so quickly before further damage occurs.
Beneficiaries are a few who are only interested in money, but not in nature, health or even species protection.
Although they emphasize this fact time and again. Nobody believes the corporations any more.
Now consumers must act.
And us.
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__label__wiki | 0.738411 | 0.738411 | The Last of Us characters, The Last of Us Part II characters, The Last of Us: American Dreams characters,
The Last of Us: Left Behind characters
The Last of Us: One Night Live characters
The Last of Us playable characters
The Last of Us Part II playable characters
Ellie Williams (non-canon)
Kiddo (by Joel)
Baby girl (by Joel)
New Kid (by Riley)
Wolf (by Seraphites)
Brick Master (by herself)
Herding Master (by herself)
Babe (by Dina)
El (by Dina)
Age(d)
13 (American Dreams)
14 (Left Behind, The Last of Us)
19 (Part II)[1]
Occupation(s)
FEDRA preparatory school student (formerly)
Jackson County patrolman (formerly)
The Military (preparatory school, formerly)
Fireflies (informally)
Unnamed father
Anna (mother)
Dina (ex-girlfriend)
Cat (ex-girlfriend)
JJ (adopted son)
Joel Miller (adoptive father)
Tommy Miller (adoptive uncle)
Maria Miller (adoptive aunt)
Agnostic[2]
Resides
Boston, Massachusetts (formerly)
The Farm, Wyoming (formerly)
Jackson County, Wyoming (presumed)
Weapon(s) used
Switchblade, Hunting Rifle, 9mm Pistol, Ellie's Pistol, Bow, Revolver, Shotgun, Silenced Submachine gun, Watergun, Machete, Molotov Cocktail, Nail Bomb, Smoke Bomb, Trap Mine, Pipe, Hammer, Torch, Backpack, Gas Mask
Human (infected, immune)
160cm[3][4](The Last of Us)
The Last of Us: Left Behind
The Last of Us: One Night Live
Mo-capped by
Ashley Johnson (One Night Live)
After all we've been through...Everything that I've done, it can't be for nothing.
Ellie is the focal character in the The Last of Us franchise. She serves as the deuteragonist of The Last of Us, the playable protagonist of The Last of Us Part II[1] and The Last of Us: Left Behind, and the main character in The Last of Us: American Dreams. A nineteen-year-old survivor, Ellie is "mature beyond her years" as a result of the circumstances of her environment.[5] She is voiced and motion captured by Ashley Johnson.
1.1 Background and early life
1.2 Events of American Dreams
1.2.1 Fall, 2032
1.3 Events of Left Behind
1.3.1 Summer, 2033
1.4 Events of The Last of Us
1.4.1 Three weeks later
1.4.2 Fall
1.4.3 Events of Left Behind
1.4.4 Winter
1.4.5 Spring
1.5 Events of The Last of Us Part II
1.5.1 Receiving a guitar
1.5.2 Life in Jackson
1.5.3 Losing Joel
1.5.4 Hunting Abby in Seattle
1.5.5 Hillcrest
3 Skills and abilities
3.1 In The Last of Us
3.2 In The Last of Us Part II
4 Design and appearance
5 Relationships
5.1 Joel
5.2 Riley Abel
5.3 Marlene
5.4 Anna
5.5 Tess
5.6 Bill
5.7 Henry
5.8 Sam
5.9 Tommy
5.10 Maria
5.11 David
5.12 Abby
5.13 Sarah
7.1 American Dreams
7.2 Left Behind
7.4 The Last of Us Part II
8.1.1 Concept art
8.1.2 Official stills
8.3.2 Reveal trailer
8.3.3 E3 2017
8.3.3.1 Promo stills
A brave, 14-year-old girl, Ellie has grown up in this harsh world and it is all she has ever known. She’s an orphan who was raised in a boarding school run by the military within the bounds of the quarantine zone. Naïve and curious about the outside world, she is wise beyond her years and highly capable of taking care of herself and those around her. Obsessed with comic books, CDs, and other pop culture, her knowledge base is filled by the remnants of a world that no longer exists.
— Official description[6]
Background and early life
Ellie was born sometime between 2018 and 2019, by which time fungal pandemic had spread throughout America. As a result, she grew up in an oppressive military Quarantine Zone in Boston, Massachusetts, with little knowledge of the world before infection. Before she died, Ellie's mother, Anna, asked Marlene to watch Ellie. However, Ellie did not meet Marlene until she was 13 years old.[7]
According to Ellie, at one point in her life, she drove a car.[8]
Events of American Dreams
Fall, 2032
Ellie looking out the bus window.
Shortly after turning 13, Ellie arrives at the Boston Quarantine Zone on a bus, to the sight of the military scanning a man for infection. She thinks nothing of it until the scan reads positive and a man is forced to his knees at gunpoint. This sight frightens her.
Once she is safely inside the gates, she and the other survivors leave the bus. She is approached by a soldier who knows her. He warns her not to pull any of her "old stunts" once she has settled in and tells her that he can no longer look after her. Ellie asks that he take her with him, but he refuses, citing his responsibility to his own family.
Enraged, Ellie declares she can take care of herself without his help. However, shortly after she is caught in a fight with a group of boys who attempt to steal her belongings. Ellie provokes them, but is saved by a teenage girl as their leader prepares to attack her. The girl intimidates the boys enough to scare them away.
She asks Ellie what they wanted with her, and Ellie implies they meant to steal her belongings. She dismisses the girl when she tries to give her advice on how to function in the Quarantine Zone, inquiring whether or not she looked like she needed help. The girl notes she has "trust issues" and calls her "new kid." Seconds later, she advises Ellie to flee before quickly leaving. Ellie is confused by what she means and is caught by one of the authority figures in charge of the school. In his office, Ellie is flippant with his show of authority despite the open reading of her rap sheet in previous homes.
He assigns her to cleaning duty. While she is in the middle of scrubbing a bloodied jeep, she reaches for her Walkman and finds it missing from her jacket pocket. She realizes that the girl from earlier stole it from her and throws a fit, baffled by how she could have taken it without Ellie noticing.
A moment later, she notices an amputated finger near the wheel of the jeep and is quick to imagine the fight that must have occurred. She dumps the water on the tire and goes to confront the girl about her Walkman. In the mess hall, Ellie demands that the Walkman be returned to her, but the girl feigns ignorance. Ellie, however, continues to press the matter until the girl gives it up with a backhanded comment about her poor taste in music.
Ellie watches as the girl sneaks out.
Later that night, as Ellie lies awake in bed, she hears footsteps outside her room. She gets dressed and peers outside her door in time to catch the girl disappearing through an exit. Ellie follows her discretely and successfully sneaks up on her. Surprised to find Ellie behind her, the girl demands that she go back to her room.
Ellie refuses; she wants her to show her a way out of the school and tells her to stop calling her "new kid." The girl hesitates for a moment before she obliges her request; she asks if she can keep up and Ellie remarks that keeping up is "not an issue." The girl finally calls Ellie by her given name, asking her not to make her regret bringing her along. The two manage to escape the building and cross the yard without being noticed. Climbing over the fence, Ellie asks how the girl knew her name. The girl states that she has "her ways" and introduces herself as Riley. Riley asks if she is ready for what is next and Ellie responds in confirmation.
Ellie and Riley on the rooftops.
Ellie struggles to keep up with Riley as she leads her across the rooftops. When Riley comes to a stop, Ellie, out of breath, asks if that is all the challenge she has to offer. Ignoring the question, Riley asks if Ellie ever thinks about her future. Ellie assumes she is being facetious and inquires if she means future as seen in science fiction. Riley repeats the question and asks Ellie what she intends to do with her life. Ellie does not see much of a future for herself and Riley says that her mentality is exactly how the Quarantine Zone's authority figures want people to think.
Confused, Ellie asks Riley what she intends on doing with her life. Riley tells Ellie she turns sixteen in three months and she intends on using that time to find out. Ellie demands to know what else life might hold for them, but Riley ignores the question. She asks Ellie if she has ever ridden a horse before and Ellie tells her “no." Riley leads Ellie through the window of an abandoned mall. As they travel through the vacant building, Ellie spots a mannequin standing behind a broken window display and takes a moment to mock its posture before she moves to rejoin Riley.
Ellie stops to look at Raja's Arcade.
Moments later, she spots an arcade just a few feet away from them. She asks Riley to wait up and ventures inside, where she spots an old game called “Triple Phoenix” and proceeds to enthusiastically describe the television show it was inspired by.
Riley dismisses her enthusiasm, saying the game is for children. She then begins to describe "The Turning," a violent fighting game with a female character named 'Angel Knives.' Ellie points out the fortune of the kids that were born before the infection, never catching Riley's somber expression. Riley decides they are wasting time and leaves the arcade.
As Ellie follows, she stops to imagine what the arcade would have looked like before the infection hit and immediately after before moving on. Riley takes her to a camp where she meets her friend, Winston, a resident of the mall. Winston berates Riley for bringing another friend to the mall, knowing it will only cause him trouble. Riley assures him Ellie is cool and introduces the two formally. In exchange for bringing him whiskey, she asks that he teach Ellie how to ride a horse.
Ellie follows Riley to the stables; the girl explains to her how to behave around horses and tells her to make sure Winston takes her around the whole mall on Princess. As Riley prepares the horse, Ellie asks if she is trying to get kicked out of the Quarantine Zone by causing trouble.
Ellie riding a horse for the first time.
Riley tells her she does not want to be put into general population where people receive terrible jobs and little rations to survive. Once the horse is ready to go, Winston helps Ellie climb into the saddle and warns Riley to behave as they head out. Ellie asks Winston about his life before the infection and listens to the older man reminisce about his childhood roaming the mall and skipping school, enthralled by his memories.
They return to Winston’s camp to find Riley reading a magazine. Dismounting from the horse, Ellie thanks her for bringing her to the mall. Moments later, an explosion occurs outside the mall, prompting Winston to find his unit. He orders Riley and Ellie to return to the school before he departs. Ellie, shaken by the events unfolding around her, agrees with Winston, but is ignored by Riley. She turns to find her friend fiddling with a walkie-talkie. She realizes she was used to distract Winston and begins to shout at Riley when they both overhear that there may be Fireflies in the area. Riley becomes excited at the prospect of meeting the Fireflies, but Ellie believes she has lost her mind. Instead of arguing with her, Riley leaves without her. Shocked, Ellie remains there for a moment before following after Riley.
Watching the wounded Fireflies from the roof.
Following Riley, the pair reach a place overlooking a battle between the military and the Fireflies. Seeing that the Fireflies are losing, Riley decides to give them a chance to escape. Ellie is shocked to find that Riley managed to steal some smoke bombs when Winston was distracted. The pair throw the smoke bombs at the military, allowing the Fireflies to retreat safely. The girls cheer, but the military spots the pair and opens fire on them.
Ellie and Riley quickly flee into an alleyway outside the mall behind a dumpster. Ellie is irritable despite Riley's assurances that they will be safe. However, a Runner appears and attacks Ellie first.
Riley reacts by hitting it with a stone before it can do anything, but the Runner, having discovered her, begins to attack Riley and pins her to the ground. He seems to bite her before Ellie kills it with a brick. Ellie inspects the area and finds that only Riley's jacket was torn. Riley displays a brief moment of defiant bravado, but right afterwards admits she was terrified of turning and cries into Ellie's arms.
The Fireflies that retreated from the fight soon spot the girls. Riley tries to explain that they were the ones who threw the smoke bombs, but is knocked unconscious by one of the members. Ellie is furious, but is later blindfolded and captured, with one of them shocked that Ellie was involved.
Ellie wakes up to the Fireflies arguing about whether or not they should disobey orders. Ellie is able to shake the bag from her head and can see three men arguing. She slips out of the rope which is binding her hands behind her back and reaches for a shard of glass when Marlene enters.
One of the Fireflies asks her how another one of their members, named Kerry, is doing. Marlene informs him that the doctor believes she has a chance of surviving. Marlene removes the binds from Ellie's legs with a knife and Ellie demands that Riley is untied. The Fireflies comply and Marlene hands Ellie an envelope with the instructions to open it when she returns to the school. Ellie sees Riley and Marlene argue before three armed men turn up and demand that they pay the toll for being in the smuggler's tunnel. The men become hostile and suddenly attack, with Ellie pulling a frozen Riley away from the firefight.
Ellie notices a way out but Riley refuses to leave and runs for a gun near one of the men. Before she can grab it, he pulls her back by her hood. However, before he can harm her, Ellie hits him with a brick. He turns his attention to Ellie and while he does so, Riley grabs the gun and shoots him, knocking him to the ground. When he opens his eyes, Marlene has a gun pointed in his face and shoots.
While Ellie is restrained by another Firefly member Riley and Marlene argue even more about the former wanting to join up. Marlene threatens to kill Riley as this will be her fate as a Firefly, prompting Ellie to bite the Firefly's hand and point his gun at Marlene. Marlene says that she wasn't really going to kill Riley. She fires a warning shot and Marlene says her name. When asked how she knows her name, Riley responds by saying she knew her mother and that the envelope was a letter from her mother. Marlene continues to tell her that she has had people watching Ellie as she promised her mother she would. She asks Riley for advice on what to do and Riley tells her to lower the gun.
Ellie gives Marlene the gun and Marlene tells her that her mother was called Anna, and she would tell her more about her mother when the time is right. Marlene points to a ladder and tells Ellie and Riley it leads to behind the school. Before they leave, Marlene gives Ellie a switchblade and tells her that it was her mother's. The two girls leave and, after Riley tells her that there is no way out, Ellie gets angry and suggests running away. Riley gets upset and says that all this will give them is another way to die. Riley walks off and Ellie follows, over the fence and into the school. Riley says she will see Ellie the next day.
A while later, Ellie is listening to music. She has read the letter and picks up the knife before hugging it to her chest.[7]
Events of Left Behind
Summer, 2033
Sometime after returning to the school, Ellie and Riley parted ways after getting into an argument. Riley disappears from the school and Ellie assumes that her friend has been killed when she doesn’t return. In the meantime, Ellie is drafted into the military and keeps a marginal connection with Riley’s friends. Sometime during Riley's absence, Ellie visited Winston's camp at the mall and spent some time with Princess, unaware she was being observed by Winston.[9]
Ellie is surprised by Riley.
Six weeks later, she is taken by surprise by the sudden return of Riley, who pretends to be infected and bites her on the neck. Relieved, but upset, Ellie asks where her friend has been and Riley reveals that she’s become a Firefly. Riley, understanding her friend is upset, promises to tell her what happened while she was gone if she leaves the school with her. Reluctant, Ellie gets dressed and follows Riley out of the school.
Outside the school grounds, they evade a coming patrol by ducking into an abandoned building. Traveling through the building, Ellie asks how Riley found the Fireflies. Riley recounts how she followed Trevor, a Firefly Ellie bit when they first met Marlene, and was ambushed and taken directly to Marlene, who allowed her to join her cause.
When Riley asks if Ellie has made friends with anyone at the school or kept up with her friends, Ellie is evasive, but tells her that she doesn’t really talk to anyone since she left. Entering another room, Ellie spots a Firefly symbol and jokingly asks if Riley has "found the light." Riley tells her friend that with the Fireflies she is not a soldier like Ellie. Overhearing a loudspeaker transmission on the state of the quarantine zone, Riley tells Ellie that the military is lying about the number of infected that continue to appear in the zone. She nearly reveals that she had to kill someone who’d become infected, but veers from the subject.
Ellie and Riley explore the mall.
Crossing the rooftops, they evade another patrol and climb down through the window into the mall. When Riley asks if she remembers the first time she brought her here, Ellie asks why she brought her back. Riley evades the question and continues onward. Spotting a poster of a water gun, Ellie tells Riley that she attempted to get their water guns from "Corporal Dickhead's" office, but she got caught in the process of escaping. Riley tells her to give up on getting them back, but Ellie remains determined to steal them back.
Arriving at Winston’s camp, Ellie tells Riley that she heard that Winston had died of a heart attack, a rarity for survivors. Exploring his tent, Ellie discovers a photograph of Winston in his youth and comments on his looks. Riley discovers a bottle of alcohol and offers Ellie a drink.[10] After Riley drinks in his memory they leave his tent and spot the saddle belonging to Winston’s horse, Princess.
Ellie discovers a photograph of Winston in his youth.
Ellie tells Riley that Princess was likely taken by someone and lamented on the horse’s well-being, knowing it was easily spooked around strangers. Moving on, they attempt to find their way to the other side of the mall, Riley using a metal beam to lift up rubble from the fallen-in roof. As she pulls the beam up, creating a small passageway, the weight causes the tunnel to collapse on itself, making it impossible to pass to the other side. As they're looking around trying to find another way through, Ellie spots an open window over the door of a store and helps Riley climb inside. Ellie enters the store a moment after Riley opens the door and is startled by the mask her friend found inside. Riley gives Ellie a werewolf mask and reluctantly Ellie obliges her friend when she demands that she "fucking roar" when she refuses to concede with her antic’s. The two explore the store full of Halloween paraphernalia, trading masks and marveling over the odds and ends, including a fortune-telling skull.
Leaving the store, Riley suggests that they play a game. If either one of them knocks all the windows out of their car (Riley, blue, Ellie, red) they get to ask each other a question.[11] Ellie beats Riley and asks why she left the school. Riley vaguely admits to being “in a weird space” and that she didn’t tell anyone she left. When Ellie questions if she is “just anyone” to Riley, her friend insists that they’re almost to their destination and moves on.
Riley and Ellie fooling around in the photo booth.
Heading into the back of the mall, Riley explains that the military lied about the power in the city and that there was still power inside the mall. Entering a room, Riley opens a junction box and motions for Ellie to flip the switch. Doubtful it will work, Ellie restores power to the mall and the two head toward the exit. There, Ellie hesitates and admits to being aware of Riley’s attempts to win her back. Riley apologizes for the things she said before she left, to which Ellie evades the moment by calling her friend a "sap." They exit the back of the mall and head for the illuminated carousel.
Ellie climbs aboard the carousel and rides for a brief moment before she asks Riley to join her. Riley barely gets to ride for a moment before the carousel loses power. Noting her friend's disappointment, Ellie tells Riley she enjoyed the ride. A moment later Riley reveals she got Ellie another joke book. The two depart from the carousel as Ellie picks and chooses jokes to tell until they come across a photo booth. Entering, the two fool around with the machine's settings and are confused by the prompt soliciting Facebook.com. They attempt to print the photographs out, but are denied by an error prompt. Moving on, Ellie overhears Riley whistling. When she attempts to mimic her friend, Riley tells her "it's about practice".
Ellie imagines playing as Angel Knives in "The Turning".
They head to the top floor and enter Raja's Arcade. Ellie is disappointed by the fact that the "Turning" gaming cabinet is broken, but Riley helps her visualize how to play the game, by describing the actions and button prompts for the character Angel Knives to fight against her opponent, Blackfang. Riley's help leads Ellie to victory, but Ellie decides it's time for her return to the school, despite Riley's insistence to continue on further into the mall. Ellie tells Riley she doesn't have any more strikes left for sneaking out to the mall, and Riley admits that she's being relocated to another Firefly hideout.
Ellie pretends to not be bothered, but when Riley pushes the issue, Ellie demands why she was brought to the mall. When Riley's answer of just wanting to see her isn't satisfactory, Riley is at a loss of what to say. Frustrated, Ellie tells Riley to "go" and Riley decides to investigate the music regardless of Ellie's protests. Ellie goes after her and finds Riley inside a department store, admiring the view. Enraged, Ellie asks whether or not Riley feels guilty for the fight they had before she disappeared.
Riley denies any admission of guilt as a motivator for crossing hostile territory to see her again, but admits she was trying to make things work between them again. Dropping her backpack on the ground, Riley reveals that she got their water guns back and was nearly shot in the process.
Ellie decides that the two play a game with their water guns.[12] Afterward, Ellie reminds Riley that she has to return to the school and her friend offers to "walk her home". As they prepare to leave, Ellie encourages Riley to leave and that they'll see each other again one day.
A moment later, Riley asks whether or not Ellie still has her Walkman. When Ellie answers in the affirmative, Riley takes the Walkman and hooks it up to one of the audio systems in the store. The two climb on top of a counter and begin to dance. After several moments, however, Ellie stops, suddenly saddened, and sincerely asks Riley not to leave her. Riley removes her pendant and drops it on the floor as her answer. Ellie then kisses Riley. She apologizes almost immediately after, but Riley expresses that there's nothing to be sorry for.
Ellie moments after she's bitten.
As Ellie and Riley try to figure out what to do next about each other and the Fireflies, they are caught off guard by the sudden arrival of Runners attracted to the sound of the music. They manage to escape and barricade the door, but the infected begin to swarm the mall. Riley leads Ellie through the mall up to the higher floors, evading close calls with the infected who catch up to them.
Riley leads them out of a window onto scaffolding. As Ellie catches up to Riley, the shelf she uses to climb tips over and she falls onto the ground. She defends herself against the infected until Riley can arrive to help her; however, her friend is ambushed by another infected. Recovering, Ellie jumps on the back of the infected and slits its throat. Ellie assumes the worst is over now that the infected are dead, but Riley brings attention to the injury on her arm. Ellie realizes she's been bitten, and Riley reveals her own bite on her left hand.
Knowing that the bite means certain death, Ellie becomes enraged and destroys several pots with a pipe. Riley tries to console her friend by telling her the two options they have to deal with their situation; they could commit suicide, or they could wait out the infection together and fight to stay alive with what time they have left. Riley says she prefers the second option. When Ellie asks if there is a third choice, Riley simply answers, "Sorry." The two then leave the mall.[9]
Though the two resign themselves to the end and chose to wait together until they die, Riley is the only one of the two that succumbs to the fungal infection; Ellie survives.[13]
Although Ellie is immune, she still carries a mutated form of the infection inside of her. She is later taken under Marlene's wing at the sight of this miracle for both of them. Ellie and Marlene later plan to head for Salt Lake City in order to reverse-engineer a cure for the infection, which Ellie agrees to since she feels that it will relieve her of survivor's guilt of Riley. At the time, though, she does not know the exact location of the Firefly lab.
Ellie shows no signs of being affected by the fungus, though her bite does have small fungi growing around the mark. She does not show any other significant reactions to her bite.
Events of The Last of Us
Three weeks later
Joel and Tess meet Ellie for the first time.
Around the time Marlene and Ellie planned to leave Boston for Salt Lake City. Marlene is injured during her search for the smuggler Robert, a man she had initially hired to escort Ellie out of Boston. Desperate to get her out of the city, Marlene hires two well known, feared, and experienced smugglers, Joel and Tess, to escort Ellie out of the city before the military wipes out the Fireflies. She arranges for a small team of Fireflies to meet the three at the Capitol building. Although Ellie insists she's staying with Marlene, the Firefly refuses, hoping that Joel will live up to Tommy's recommendation.[14]
While Tess goes with Marlene to verify the weapons Marlene has promised the pair, Ellie is taken by Joel to an apartment close to the outer wall. While making their way there, Joel asks where her parents are and why Marlene is so fixated on her, among other things. Ellie avoids answering why she is being smuggled but does inform Joel that her parents died and that she's 14.
Once at the apartment, having avoided the military patrolling to see if anyone is out after curfew, they wait for Tess to arrive. By nightfall, she arrives, the trio deciding to commit to embarking outside the Zone.[15]
The trio soon leave the zone, Ellie is in disbelief that she's "actually outside". Her joy is cut short when her and the others are captured by a military patrol. The soldiers check them for traces of infection, causing Ellie to panic and stab one of the soldiers. The man knocks her down, preparing to shoot but Joel tackles the man and kills him, saving Ellie's life. With the soldiers dealt with, Joel and Tess find that Ellie is infected, but are forced to bring Ellie along when another patrol approaches.[16]
Avoiding the soldiers as they search for them, the trio manages to escape, taking a brief rest. There, Ellie reveals that the Fireflies have "their own little research lab out West", causing Joel to chuckle at the thought of such a thing. Ellie is angered by him but he ignores her as he asks Tess what they should do next. However, Tess actually believes what Ellie claims, desiring to deliver her as requested. Ellie watches as the two briefly argue before following them towards the outskirts.[17]
Joel and Ellie admire the view., almost at their destination.
After a night of facing Infected, the three are almost at their destination. After crossing plank to reach another building, Ellie is taken aback by the view, her child-like wonder briefly reminding Joel of Sarah. They reach the rendezvous point in the Capitol Building, but they find only bodies of Fireflies and the military closing in. Revealing that she has been infected, Tess insists that Ellie and Joel continue on their own while she buys them some time. Ellie feels guilty about this, but Joel ignores her comments about the issue.[18]
The pair with Bill in Lincoln.
The two later reach a town where Joel believes they can meet Bill, a mechanic who owes Joel a favor and can provide them with a car. Ellie reveals during their journey to and through Lincoln that she has never been in the woods until that day nor has she seen real fireflies. She learns that Joel has also never been to Lincoln, making finding Bill difficult. When Joel gets stuck in one of Bill's traps, Ellie works to free him from, avoiding the approaching Infected and providing Joel with ammunition to cover her.[8]
Once Joel is free, a masked man arrives, saving the pair from the approaching Infected and escorts them to a safehouse. Once there, Ellie thanks the man and tries to shake hands. However, the man is irritated by their presence. Having disabled many of his traps and alerting an overwhelming swarm of the Infected to their presence in the process, Bill subdues both of them, fearful that they have been bitten. While Bill checks Joel, Ellie manages to break free of her restraints and beats Bill with a pipe, but Joel quickly gets up and stops Ellie from causing further harm. After a brief argument, Joel asks Bill for a car. Bill agrees to put together a car for the two, but tells them that once it is done, he owes Joel no more favors. Joel agrees to his terms, using the given keys to unlock Ellie from the handcuffs.[19]
They head toward a church which Bill has converted into an armory. As Bill and Joel converse while loading shotguns, Ellie investigates a pile of comics and magazines on a shelf. She secretly takes two of them, a pornography magazine and a Savage Starlight comic book. While putting them away, she is caught by Bill who proceeds to shout at her. Ellie tries to defend herself, lying that she was "just fixing [Bill's] stupid pile". In response to the man's ranting, she replies with an obscene gesture, much to Bill's anger. He turns to Joel, stating she will get him killed.[20]
As the pair go to leave, Bill threatens her, but she slyly says she "doesn't need any of [his] shit". Ellie and Joel learn that they have to reach the local high school, as a military vehicle crashed there a while ago, with a new battery still inside.
They leave the church, Ellie noticing a pile of burnt cadavers. Joel tries to dissuade her from staring but she claims she has "seen worse". While making their way through a block full of Infected, Ellie proves to be useful when she can fit through small gaps in doors and over railings. Bill even remarks that "maybe [they] should have given her a gun". When they do reach the school, they find the battery in the truck is gone. With no other options, they fight their way out the back of the school, having to kill the strongest of the Infected - a Bloater - to do so.[8]
The three make it to a house. While Joel and Bill bicker, Ellie finds a seemingly operational truck in Frank's garage. She is rudely ordered out by Bill, who checks to see if it is working, finding the battery drained but the cells alive. He and Joel proceed to kill several Infected on the street but manage to make it to the top of a hill, where Ellie finally starts the truck.[21] Hopping in the back, the pair signal Ellie to keep driving, since more Infected are on the way. They safely make it back to Bill's church.
Bill makes Ellie stop the truck and goes to leave, Joel getting out to say goodbye. Both briefly remark that Ellie held her own against the Infected, but Bill still believes Joel will die soon. Before leaving, he gives Joel a siphon hose so he can obtain gas from abandoned cars. The pair drive on in the direction of Pittsburgh.
During the start of the journey, Ellie spends her time in the back reading the Savage Starlight article she stole from Bill. Despite saying she isn't tired, she falls asleep during the journey. When, she wakes up, she finds Joel has driven all the way to the blocked entrance to Pittsburgh. Joel detours into the city itself, but are ambushed by a group of hunters. Although they crash, they escape thanks to Joel killing some of the attackers.[22]
As they make their way through the city, Joel spies a truck with a mounted machine gun being used by the hostile survivors to kill "tourists", the hunters word for unknown survivors. The two bond as Joel answers Ellie's questions regarding life before the disease destroyed the world. One question in particular, regarding a Dawn of the Wolf poster, causes to reveal he saw the "dumb teen movie" right before the outbreak. Wanting to know why, Ellie asks such but he dodges the question, claiming he can't remember, wanting to avoid telling Ellie he once had a daughter. To "lighten the mood", Ellie reveals a jokebook she possesses, quoting several jokes from it as they go to take their minds off of the dangers in the world, if all too briefly.
Ellie eventually becomes separated from Joel when the pair climb an elevator shaft, the elevator giving way, sending him plummeting to the bottom. Ellie, safe on the ledge, tries to climb down to Joel but he makes her stay put, wanting to make his own way to her. Becoming worried and impatient, Ellie makes her way through the hotel, going back down to try to find Joel. She does so, appearing at the last second to save Joel from being drowned by a hunter; shooting the hunter dead.
She admits her sickness at having "shot the hell outta that guy". However, Joel tells her off for disobeying him, causing Ellie to shout at him, frustrated he won't at least thank her. Joel coldly ignores the question, wanting to press on. As they walk, Ellie tries to explain why she ignored his order but just gets more frustrated at Joel's response.[23]
They soon come to some abandoned scaffolding. Joel grabs a hunting rifle from the side, telling Ellie to stay behind cover. They see a group of hunters below, unaware of their presence. Ellie wants to help but still thinks Joel will not let her. To her chagrin, he does so, giving her the hunting rifle, testing to see if she "can handle that". Despite admitting she has only ever shot a rifle at rats, Joel trusts her with the job of covering him. He also thanks her for saving him, warming up to her. Ellie warms back, pleased Joel is start to bond with her.[24] After they kill the hunters, Ellie both feeling impressive but sinister for having killed them, Joel finally feels Ellie has earned the right to carry a pistol, though he declares it is "for emergencies only". She admits she knows how to take the safety off, ensuring Joel she will be "careful".[25]
Soon after, The pair encounter the Humvee in person when traversing through the streets, managing to out run it despite its heavy fire power. The two decide to enter a building via the balcony in order to get off the streets.
A confrontation results in new allies.
While doing so, Joel is grappled from behind by what he presumes is another hunter Ellie watches as Joel overpowers him, quickly informing him a boy has a gunned trained on him. Joel subsequently ceases his assault. Once acquainted with the two, Henry and Sam, they agree to chat at their safehouse.[26]
Once there, Sam offers her blueberries, having found "a whole stash of them". She gladly accepts, the pair trying to toss blueberries into their mouths while doing so. By nighttime, she wakes Joel, the pair joining Henry and Sam on the way to the bridge.[27]
Ellie listens as Joel and Henry converse.
They make it to the bridge but, as she is pulled up by Henry over a container, the Humvee once again returns. She tries to get Henry to pull Joel up but the man panics, racing off with Sam. Although she could go with the brothers, she jumps back down to Joel; "we stick together." After barely dodging the Humvee's bullets, they come to a halt when they find the upper section of the bridge has fallen through. With the Humvee pounding against the vehicles blocking its path and Joel unable to discover a safe escape, Ellie takes matters into her own hands. Though she knows she can't swim, Ellie recklessly jumps off of the bridge, causing Joel to do likewise. Barely afloat in the water, she calls for Joel's help, her carer managing to grab her only to be knocked out when crashing against a large rock.
Miraculously, Ellie survives, Henry returning to the two in time to save them. He carries them to the shore someway from the bridge, reuniting them with Sam. After a brief confrontation, the group start toward the sewers to the radio tower.[28]
They escape the hunter area through the sewers and suburbs. The pair has slowly bonded with the brothers but this ended when Sam became infected and Henry commits suicide out of grief for killing his brother.[29]
Ellie and Joel riding Callus
Joel and Ellie move on to Jackson County, where Joel believes his brother Tommy, a former member of the Fireflies, can show them their location. Just as the fall draws in, the two find Tommy in a dam providing electricity to a revived permanent community.[30] During their stay, Ellie learns from Maria of Sarah, Joel's daughter who tragically died at the start of the outbreak. She also sensed that Joel planned to leave her with Tommy, leading her to run away to an abandoned ranch house. When Joel catches up to her, the two have a heated argument where it became obvious to both of them how much they have bonded and cared for each other during their travels.[31] Joel eventually changes his mind and sticks back to accompany Ellie.[32]
With Tommy's direction, Joel and Ellie reach a university where the Fireflies are thought to reside. The Fireflies are, however, nowhere to be found, instead the two are met with a large group of both infected and cannibals. During a brutal fight, Joel is impaled in the abdomen and leaves the fighting to Ellie.[33]
Ellie manages to hide Joel in an abandoned mall, where she dresses his wound with her old shirt from the Summer and some duct tape she finds when rummaging in the drawers. She then decides it will buy her and Joel some time, and goes to find something to stitch up Joel's wound with while Callus keeps an eye on him.
After climbing up a broken escalator, Ellie finds an abandoned store in the mall, Weston's Pharmacy. Ellie hopes to find medicine, but to her disappointment, it has been picked clean of any useful supplies. Heading to the checkout aisle, and finds a first-aid kit behind a locked door. From a note Ellie finds on the ground, she finds that the pharmacist "went crazy", and that one of the employees, unaware of the Cordyceps outbreak, locked him in an American Princess Store next door, and locked away the keys to the first aid kit as well. The note gives the combination to the American Princess Store, 35-30-31. Ellie finds the infected corpse, and removes his key, along with a picture of the man and his daughter in a photo booth.
As Ellie leaves the store, she comes upon a lone Clicker, and quickly kills it with her switchblade. She unlocks the door and quickly opens the first aid kit, but is disappointed to find it is empty, its supplies stolen by other survivors. Ellie kicks it out of frustration, but her disappointment quickly turns into excitement when she finds a crashed military helicopter, convinced it will have something she can use to stitch up Joel's wound. Puzzled on how to get up there, she finds a gate, but it is locked, and the button used to unlock the gate has no power to it.
She finds cables, and remembers Joel's advice to follow them. She attempts to start the generator, but finds it is out of gasoline. Ellie finds an empty gas can in a flooded parking garage, and after killing some Stalkers, fills it up from gas taken from a truck. Ellie refuels the generator, and manages to get the electricity running. Two more Stalkers come running in knee-deep water, but a power line falls into the water, electrocuting the Stalkers in the process. Ellie has to find her way to the other side of the parking garage without touching the water, or she'll "get fried to a crisp."
Ellie, after encountering and killing more Infected, makes it back to the gate. She jumps onto the helicopter, and is relieved to find medicine, embracing the med kit, stating that she's not going to let Joel go. She makes her way back after being ambushed by Cannibals and Infected multiple times, having to quickly distract some when they find the place where Ellie hid Joel and Callus. After killing the Cannibals and The Infected, she makes her way to Joel, who is still alive. After telling him she's an "expert-ish" at sewing wounds, she manages to sew up his wound. She then ties him to a blanket on a sled, and then ties the sled to Callus, and starts to ride him.[9]
She eventually gets them both to the Lakeside Resort. There, Ellie hides Joel in a house to take care of him, while also going outside to hunt for food.
Ellie aims her bow at David and James as they approach her.
Ellie first encountered David when she was hunting a deer during the winter. She was immediately cautious around him and his friend James. David offers to exchange supplies for a share of the meat from the deer that Ellie had tracked and killed. Ellie demanded antibiotics in return, threatening them with a bow and arrow if they tried anything. James left to get antibiotics at the group's settlement and reluctantly left David alone with Ellie. David and Ellie then took refuge from the cold weather and David asked for Ellie's name. Despite his help in giving the medicine, she doesn't reveal her name.[34]
Infected soon attacked their shelter. David helped Ellie fight them off and complimented her skill with a rifle. As they worked their way through the nearby buildings, fighting off several waves of Infected, Ellie's attitude toward him softens slightly.
After completely clearing out the buildings, he and Ellie return to their original refuge. He discusses the philosophy that everything happens for a reason, to which Ellie strongly disagrees. David decides to prove his theory by revealing that it was in fact his men who attacked Joel and Ellie at the university. A returning James overhears the conversation and holds Ellie at gunpoint, but David demands Ellie be given the medicine and set loose, and James reluctantly complies. Ellie returns to the nearby town she had taken refuge in. While there, she administers the medicine to Joel then goes to sleep.[35]
David, having let Ellie leave, has his men track her down. His men mention that they are under strict orders from David to keep her alive, but these orders were ignored when they found out from James that Joel slaughtered half of the raiders at the university. Ellie, riding Callus, attempts to get away from David's group and they begin tracking her which ultimately results in Callus getting shot and killed. While trying to flee on foot, Ellie makes her way through a lodge but David finds her in the dining hall and renders her unconsciousness.
Ellie watches James butcher a human body.
When Ellie regains consciousness in her holding cell, she witnesses James chopping up a corpse on a bench and discovers that David and his group are cannibals. Ellie is visibly disgusted and is hostile toward David. They argue and Ellie reluctantly eats the food that David gives her, claiming that it is venison, nothing more. David pleads with Ellie that he has her best interests in mind, and offers her a place in his group. He then affectionately touches Ellie's hand (he is implied to be a hebephile). Now realizing his intentions, Ellie breaks his finger and attempts to retrieve his keys, to which David responds by slamming her against the cell bars and threatening her life.[36]
The next day, David and James arrive and pin Ellie down onto the table attempting to slaughter her for food. Just before David strikes her, Ellie exclaims she is infected and states that David is infected too because she bit him before she was thrust upon the table. David at first is skeptical, but Ellie insists that he should roll up her right sleeve to show him her bite wound. Upon finding out from Ellie that she is infected, James becomes frightened and disgusted but David claims it must not be real because she would have turned sooner. James weakens his grip on Ellie's left hand and David begins to observe his bite from Ellie.
David examines Ellie's bite.
Ellie takes this chance to grab a butcher knife with her left hand and strikes it towards James' throat, killing him. James' death infuriates David, where he retaliates by firing at Ellie with his gun, missing every shot.[37] Ellie escapes from the room as David grows increasingly frustrated and proceeds to hunt her down again, asking her where she is going and boasting "This is my town" in a demented tone.
David eventually finds Ellie at a decayed restaurant, struggling with her as she attempts to escape from his people out the back door and commenting that she is easy to track. He holds her at gunpoint after throwing her to the ground, asking her how she managed to escape alive. He is momentarily distracted by the building being lit on fire by a lantern knocked over during their struggle.
As the restaurant slowly goes up in flames, he locks the exit and taunts Ellie, telling her that she has nowhere to go and would need to take the keys from him if she wanted to leave. David proceeded to stalk her throughout the restaurant, taunting her creepily and expressing his disappointment that she did not accept his offer to join the group. Ellie simply expresses more of her disgust at David and his obvious insanity as she hides behind the dining booths attempting to take the keys from him by subduing him with sneak attacks.
After Ellie stabs David from behind once with her switchblade, he throws her off and attempts to shoot her with his revolver, missing as she takes cover. He then draws a machete from a back sheath and continues to stalk her, attempting to shoot or slash her to death. He makes use of broken plates on the floor throughout the building to find Ellie if she steps on them.
She manages to elude David and stabs him two more times, causing him to panic and bash her into a table behind him before grabbing her hair and throwing her to the floor. Despite being stabbed multiple times in the upper torso, David is still able to run and threaten Ellie. He and Ellie then black out beside each other.
Ellie weeps as Joel holds her.
When they regain consciousness, David is the first to recover. He taunts a weaker Ellie as she crawls towards his machete underneath a cabinet, saying that it's okay to give up. At this time, he doesn't notice the machete he dropped is a short distance off. He strikes Ellie again and pins her down while grabbing her firmly by the throat and nearly strangles her to death.
Ellie manages to reach the machete underneath the cabinet and slashes his arm. Gaining an advantage, Ellie proceeds to violently hack at David's head multiple times, seemingly in a state of rage and hysterics, until Joel suddenly arrives and pulls her away from his corpse, embracing and consoling her as she begins to break down in tears.[38]
After all we've been through. Everything that I've done. It can't be for nothing.
— Ellie to Joel upon reaching Salt Lake City
The spring arrives as Joel and Ellie reach Salt Lake City, the intended final destination on the 27th of April, 2034. Ellie has now turned fifteen years old.[39] During the first half of the trip, Ellie is still shaken by the events from Winter, remaining distracted and quiet. Joel, after sharing a heartfelt moment with Ellie, tells her they can turn back now and return to Tommy's. Ellie thanks Joel, but declines, explaining that after everything that they've been through, it has to be worth something.[40] While encountering multiple Infected in an abandoned tunnel, Joel is trapped in a submerged bus.
Ellie on the operating table.
While encountering multiple Infected in an abandoned tunnel, Joel is trapped in a submerged bus. Ellie tries to help him, but is unsuccessful and almost drowns. While Joel is preforming CPR to save Ellie, Fireflies arrive and, after demanding his surrender, they knock him unconscious. Ellie is revived and immediately taken to be studied on Marlene's order, which may grant the Fireflies the ability to reverse-engineer a vaccine to the lethal fungus. But in order to do so, the mutated Cordyceps must be extracted from Ellie's brain via surgery, killing her in the process.
Joel is told this information by Marlene. He is immediately opposed and demands Marlene find someone else. Marlene refuses, reasoning that there is no one else and no other choice, and it has to be done to save humanity from extinction. She instructs the Firefly guard, Ethan, to escort Joel out of the hospital; If Joel were to resist, Ethan is granted permission to kill him.[41] On the way out, Joel manages to kill him, and make his way through the facility, managing to save Ellie from the operating room.
After fleeing the Fireflies by taking an elevator down to the parking garage, Joel is then confronted by Marlene, who attempts to intimidate Joel by coming up with terrible scenarios that could happen to Ellie, such as death by being torn to pieces by a pack of Clickers, sexual assault and/or murder committed by thugs. She then tries to reason with him, saying that "It's what she'd want, and you know it". Still unwilling to give Ellie up, Joel then shoots Marlene. Later on, Ellie eventually awakes inside Joel's car on the way out of Salt Lake City, wondering what happened during the time she wasn't conscious.[42]
Ellie questions Joel's explanation.
Joel and Ellie finally reach Tommy's settlement, where Joel remarks that they can return to a somewhat normal life. Before that, Joel tells Ellie what happened with the Fireflies during the time she was unconscious. She appears depressed and seems to have survivor's guilt, so (to alleviate said guilt) Joel claims there were dozens of other immune people being studied by the Fireflies, and that it had done no good in helping to find a cure.
Upon reaching the settlement Ellie tells Joel that on the day she was bitten, she was with a friend who also got bitten. She states that they promised to wait together until the end, and that she's still waiting to turn and join her friend. She asks Joel to "swear to me that everything that you said about the Fireflies is true." Joel replies, "I swear". Although she accepts this, it is left ambiguous as to whether or not Ellie believes him.[13]
Events of The Last of Us Part II
Receiving a guitar
In the weeks after their arrival, Ellie and Joel settle into life in Jackson.[43] One evening Joel visits Ellie's home, a converted garage in his backyard. Joel knocks and calls for Ellie from the doorway, but Ellie does not hear him because she is drawing and listening to her walkman. He enters, and nudges her chair with his foot to get her attention. Ellie is startled, and chides Joel that he "almost gave [her] a heart attack."
Ellie drawing.
Ellie asks Joel why he is visiting, and Joel says he is just checking in. He mentions that people in Jackson are impressed with how Ellie has been helping out. As they talk, it becomes clear that there is still some tension between Ellie and Joel, indicating she is unsatisfied with Joel's answers about the Fireflies ending their search for a cure. Joel starts to tell Ellie about a joke Tommy told him that he thought she would like, but he can't remember it. Ellie interrupts him, noting that it is late and she needs to get up early. Joel says he will get out of her hair, but he has something to show her. He steps outside, and returns soon after with a gift.
Joel singing for Ellie.[43]
"What's this?" Ellie asks.
"Some folks call this thing here a gee-tar." Joel says, dramatizing his Texan accent. He asks Ellie if she would like to hear something, and she says yes. Joel says she needs to promise not to laugh, which she does. Joel sings Future Days by Pearl Jam for her. The lyrics, which include lines of seeing "future days/Days of you and me" seem to resonate with Ellie, and she softens listening to Joel sing.
Ellie with her new guitar.
When Joel finishes the song, Ellie says that it "didn't suck." Joel chuckles and says he will take what he can get. He then holds out the guitar to Ellie, and says it is hers. Ellie initially tries to refuse, saying that she doesn't know anything about playing guitar, but Joel reminds her that he promised to teach her. Ellie is touched that he remembered, and accepts the guitar. Joel says they can have their first lesson tomorrow night, and Ellie agrees.
Joel makes to leave, but Ellie stops him as he reaches the door, asking if he remembered the joke. Joel thinks for a moment, then smiles and asks "What is the downside to eating a clock?" Ellie shrugs, not knowing the answer. Joel provides the punchline, "It's time consuming." Ellie smiles and says that is dumb. Joel chuckles and agrees. He lingers a moment longer, then wishes her goodnight and shuts the door. Ellie looks pensive for a moment. She then plucks at the strings of her new guitar.[44]
Life in Jackson
From 2034 to early 2038, Ellie lives in Jackson, becoming acquainted with Dina, another resident of the community. Ellie and Dina's friendship develops and, along with Jesse, the three help other Jackson residents patrol the outskirts to defend against hordes of Infected and any wandering marauders that could pose a threat. At some point, Ellie gets a tattoo of a moth covering the bite on her arm that she received in Boston years earlier. Ellie's ex-girlfriend Kat gave her the tattoo after she covered the bite mark with an acid scar so nobody would know that she was bitten.[45]
Ellie stands proud at having pushed Joel in the water.
On her sixteenth birthday in 2035, Joel takes her to an abandoned museum in Jackson. On the way there, he has her practice her guitar, insisting she will get better once she develops calluses to make playing less strenuous. Halfway there, he pushes her into a lake, wishing to have her practice swimming. Ellie chides him for doing so and later does likewise to him while they pair are watching a nearby deer. Once at the museum, Ellie is in awe at the full-sized statue of a Tyrannosaurus Rex in front of the museum. To Joel's concern, she climbs it to the top of it's head, roars and then jumps into the water beneath. Climbing from the lake, Joel takes her inside and two look around at all the other dinosaur statues.
Ellie takes a worn-out guidebook from the entrance and uses it to read up on all the different types of dinosaurs. She also finds numerous hats in the area and tries them on, and makes Joel wear one. Joel resists but Ellie makes him wear it, insisting he should because it is her birthday.
Ellie goes into space.
Later on, they climb to a higher floor, where an space exhibit is found. Having wanted to be an astronaut for years, Ellie remarks that it is her favorite room as she plays with the numerous interactive activities and reads up on the various space suits and rocket ships, impressing Joel with her knowledge. She eventually finds a space capsule that she climbs into. Joel joins her, in awe at all the technology still intact within it. Ellie wishes she could fly into space, prompting Joel to take out a cassette tape. Ellie asks what is on it but he insists she play and close her eyes while she does. As it starts, it is a recording of NASA's Apollo 11 launch. Ellie sits back, eyes closed, and allows herself to imagine flying into space and seeing the moon. Once the recording ends, Ellie thanks Joel for her best birthday present. Upon exiting the pod, Joel gives her a badge to signify her success in landing back down on earth.
Ellie thanks Joel for her birthday present.
Not wanting the day to end, Ellie insists the pair check out the other building in the museum. Joel reveals he hasn't cleared one of them of Infected but Ellie swims and climbs inside anyway. While looking around, Ellie finds messages written on the wall from a man who apparently hid out there. She eventually finds his corpse and a suicide note, revealing he was a former Firefly and came to the museum in the hopes of "finding the light" only to lose all hope that humanity could be saved. She enters the next room and is tackled by a boar trapped there. Hearing her cry, Joel forces his way into the room. Ellie claims she is fine but stares at a Firefly insignia on the wall with the word "Liars" written below it. Joel coaxes her to leave and forget about the group.[46]
A year later, Ellie is on patrol with Tommy, lost in thought about the fact that she is dating her friend Kat while wondering about Joel's possible reaction to that and confused how that is affecting her relationship with Dina. Tommy has her snipe far-away Infected to take her mind off her worries. Once done, he asks why she seems uneasy with Joel but she dodges the question.
Ellie learns the teenagers died from Infection.
The two return to the lookout at the lodge where Joel is playing Ellie's guitar. He reveals her strings need changing, confusing Ellie, unaware the strings could wear down from extensive playing. Tommy suggests the pair search a music store in downtown while he keeps watch at the lodge. Despite some animosity, Ellie agrees.
While riding down, Joel talks about he found some issues of Ellie's Savage Starlight comics and read them, admitting their not exactly his favorite fiction but good reads all the same, brightening Ellie's mood. Once down the road, Ellie and Joel find their path to the store blocked, forcing them to cut through a nearby hotel. Inside, the pair find it filled with spores. Despite not needing a gas mask, Joel insists Ellie wear one in case they stumble upon other survivors. While inside, they take down numerous Infected before a Bloater ambushes them. The Bloater nearly kills Ellie but Joel attacks it with his machete, chopping it's arm off and slaying it, saving Ellie.
Ellie asks Joel if he was lying.
Finding their way into a diner, Ellie discovers two bodies on the floor, one shot dead and the other a mutated Clicker. Joel quickly leaps forward, pinning the Clicker down and shooting it dead, saving Ellie once more. Ellie thanks him and then reads a note next to one of the bodies. The note, and the fact the bodies were wearing backpacks marked with the Jackson community's signature "J", confirms the pair were two teenagers who ran away in an effort to find the Fireflies and help "save the world" only to be attacked and Infected by a horde, causing their deaths. Further ridden with guilt, Ellie confronts Joel about what happened at the hospital in Salt Lake City. Joel insists there were other immune patients but Ellie calls his bluff to which Joel retorts that other immune people could be hiding such like he makes Ellie do. He then shuts down the conversation before Ellie can argue further. The pair then leave to fetch Tommy to help carry the corpses back to their families in Jackson.[47]
Ellie declares she is done with Joel.
Soon after, Ellie returns on her own to St Mary's Hospital in Salt Lake City, sneaking out in the middle of the night and leaving a note for Joel. While there, she finds it abandoned and discovers a tape recording left behind by Mel, a member of Fireflies, that stated she was the only one immune, and that the only doctor who could make a vaccine was dead. While sitting outside listening to the tape, Joel arrives on his horse and rushes to Ellie, hugging her while chiding her for running away. Ellie pushes him away and demands he tell her the truth, threatening to leave him forever if he lies once again. After much hesitation, Joel finally reveals the surgeons were willing to kill Ellie to make a vaccine, so he stopped them. The news devastates her and, although she agrees to ride back to Jackson, she declares she will sever her ties with Joel for good.[48]
Losing Joel
Two years after Ellie's discovery, she attends a celebration within the village church. Jesse, another attendee, approaches Ellie at the bar. He comments how Joel lectures him on his patrol routes, particularly when Ellie is out on patrols with him. The two watch as Dina, Jesse's ex-girlfriend, dances with a man to "Little Sadie", by Crooked Still.
Ellie tells Joel she does not need his help.
Having finished dancing, Dina approaches Ellie and Jesse, taking a swig of Ellie's drink and dragging her onto the dance floor. While on the dance floor, Dina tells Ellie that everyone watching them dance is jealous of her. Ellie says that she's "just a girl" to which Dina kisses her passionately, claiming that they should be terrified of her. Soon, Seth approached them and berated them for kissing. However, when Ellie and Dina walked away, Seth made a homophobic remark, causing Ellie to round on him. Joel, seeing the incident, rushed forward and shoved Seth, ordering him to get out. Maria and Tommy then handled Seth while Joel attempted to help Ellie. However, Ellie was still upset at Joel and rejected his help, much to his dejection.[49]
Ellie finds Joel on his porch.
Later that night, Ellie came to Joel's house, finding him playing his guitar and drinking coffee on his porch. The conversation starts with Ellie awkwardly asking Joel where he got the coffee, to which he responds that he traded for it with a group of travelers the previous week. However, Ellie quickly warns Joel not to get in her way, saying she doesn't need him to defend her or harass Jesse about patrols just because she goes on them with him. Joel, wishing to change topic, asks if Dina is Ellie's girlfriend. Ellie, tears in her eyes, denies it. Joel though presses that, regardless of Dina's intentions, she would be fortunate to have Ellie as her partner. Ellie lashes out, shouting about how Joel robbed her life of meaning by preventing her death to secure a vaccine at St. Mary's hospital. Joel stands up straight, declaring that even if God gave him a chance to change what happened, he wouldn't because he does not regret saving Ellie's life. Ellie then declares she may never forgive him for what he did, but relents that she wants to at least try. Joel, growing emotional, says he would like her to do that. Ellie then leaves as Joel slumps down, slowly starting to cry.[50]
Ellie decides to forgive Joel.
The morning after, Ellie is awoken by the sound of Jesse knocking her door. Despite Ellie kissing his ex-girlfriend last night, Jesse is still friends with Ellie as his relationship with Dina has been long over. They enter a bar, where Ellie meets with Seth and he apologizes for his behavior, claiming he had been drinking. Ellie, Tommy and Dina prepare to head out on patrol to relieve Joel and Tommy. Ellie meets with Dina and the two reconcile after last night, after Ellie ran off after their kiss. However, their discussion was interrupted by couple of children having a snowball fight. Ellie and Dina, without hesitation, decides to join the fight and proved victorious.
Ellie and Dina prepare to go on patrol.
Later on patrol, Ellie and Dina come across a mutilated moose carcass, realizing it was attacked by Infected. The two begin to hunt Infected who are nearby. While investigating an abandoned market, the two are attacked by a group of Clickers, but manage to deal with them stealthily. A huge snowstorm appears, and Ellie and Dina decide to take shelter in a nearby library, which also served as the hideout spot of Eugene, Dina's former partner, which had a bunch of (now dead) marijuana. They find some fresh weed hidden in a jar, and the two decide to smoke and wait out the storm. Eventually they start making out.
Ellie riding Shimmer.
Later, while laying together, they are found by Jesse (visibly uncomfortable with them laying together yet surprised to see bunch of weeds laying around) who alerts them that Tommy and Joel never showed up to the lookout where they were supposed to be relieved. Ellie suggests that the three split up to look for them.
Ellie kisses Dina.
While riding on her horse, Ellie comes across the WLF's lodge with the group of dead Infected on the other side of the gate. Praying to herself that Tommy and Joel are okay, Ellie sneaks her way inside the lodge, hearing noises downstairs. She comes across the WLF soldiers with a severely beaten Joel, and tries to save him, but is quickly subdued. Ellie pleads for them to let Joel go, watching helplessly as Abby finishes Joel off by smashing his head with a golf club. Watching Joel die before her eyes causes her hearing to go out, as she is unable to hear the WLF's conversation as she cries frantically while threatening them that she will kill them. Suddenly, she is knocked out as she is kicked across the face. Later, she is woken up by Dina and Jesse, and Dina apologizes to her as she lays eyes on Joel's corpse.
Ellie forced to watch as Abby kills Joel.
After returning to Jackson, Ellie is in a traumatized state after what has transpired, and Tommy approaches her in her room. Ellie and Tommy argue about Ellie wanting vengeance, figuring out the WLF is from Seattle, but Tommy is nervous about the required manpower for such a mission leaving Jackson vulnerable. Ellie informs him that she is leaving for Seattle, with or without Tommy or anyone else. Tommy asks her to give him a day to talk to Maria, in order to find out if she can spare enough soldiers.
"You go. I go."
Later, Ellie finds out that Tommy has left for Seattle on his own, and Maria has locked down the stables. Maria finds a note from Tommy, asking Maria to stop Ellie from following him. Knowing Ellie is just going to sneak out anyway, Maria allows her and Dina to head to Seattle on their horse, asking them to bring Tommy back in one piece, but notes that she cannot spare anyone else to go with them.[44]
Hunting Abby in Seattle
Ellie and Dina arrive at the outskirts of Seattle on Shimmer. They follow the highway to reach the FEDRA wall marking the edge of the Quarantine Zone. With no easy way in, Ellie climbs to the top of the wall. After getting down, Ellie reroutes power in a generator to briefly open the gates so Dina and Shimmer can enter before it slams shut. She also finds a note that reveals the WLF have an outpost at the Serevena Hotel. Finding the gate they must pass to reach the hotel, the pair realize they need to retrieve gas elsewhere to power the generator. They ride deeper into the city to search the area for fuel.
The pair find disused M939 trucks on the collapsed highway, full of areas to explore. Ellie and Dina spot a synagogue surrounded by abandoned military vehicles and dead military personnel. They decide to search it for gasoline. The pair enter the building through the back, avoiding Infected. Dina mentions how her sister Talia used to take her to synagogues to pray. Ellie finds the fuel tank empty, so they decide to continue searching the district. They then head to the courthouse and clear out the Infected in the parking garage. Ellie refills the fuel tank and heads back to the gate to power up the generator. After clearing the Infected in the building, Ellie enters a room to find a deceased Nick tied to a chair, alongside another WLF soldier. She deduces their capture, torture and deaths were Tommy's handiwork. Dina locates a gate code written in blood on the ground. Knowing where to go, they leave the hotel and go through the East gate on Shimmer. However, they trigger a mine while hopping over barbed wire, which cripples Shimmer and topples the pair from the horse. Ellie watches as WLF soldiers pursue Dina and their platoon leader Mike shoots Shimmer dead. Ellie attempts to reach for her rifle but Mike knocks her unconscious.
A while later, Ellie awakens in a school, tied to a table with Jordan watching her. Recognising Ellie from Jackson, he threatens to slit her throat if she does not tell him how she found the WLF and whether there were more people on the way. Ellie mocks his scar and insists he cannot stop her vengeance. Mike soon arrives and plans to kill Ellie per their leader Isaac Dixon's orders but Jordan protests, wishing to interrogate Ellie. Before Mike can shoot her, Dina climbs on to the glass roof above them and shoots him dead. However, Jordan draws his gun and shoots the glass, causing Dina to fall. He proceeds to strangle her. Ellie cuts herself free with a shard of fallen glass, grabs her switchblade, races to Jordan and stabs him in the neck, letting him bleed out. Now free, Dina warns Ellie that the gunshots have alerted more WLF soldiers but Ellie focusses on taking Jordan's letter and a photo of Leah. WLF soldiers arrive, forcing the pair to fight their way out of the school. Resting in a nearby apartment, Ellie shows Dina the photo and has her read the letter. The letter reveals that Leah was posted in the TV station, so Ellie checks the map to locate it.
On their way to the TV station, the pair find Tommy's mutilated horse and a group of dead Infected. Ellie takes this as a sign Tommy is close. When they arrive at the TV station, they find WLF soldiers hanging and disemboweled from the ceiling, killed by Seraphites, who have used blood to cover the walls in their insignia. Ellie and Dina find Leah dead upstairs and Dina does not find anything worth taking on her corpse. However, Ellie finds photos of the group of people who killed Joel in Leah's bag. Ellie specifically recognizes Abby as Joel's killer. However, a nearby radio cries out that a WLF support platoon are inbound, intent on finding the Seraphites. Dina and Ellie attempt to sneak out of the building but the arriving WLF patrol ambush them. With no other choice, Ellie and Dina put on their gas masks and flee into an underground, Infected-filled metro.
A squad of WLF soldiers follow them in and a battle ensues between the WLF and the Clickers in the area. Ellie and Dina continue onwards, encountering more Infected, including several Shamblers. The pair make it to the street level but a train car Ellie is walking through collapses, resulting in Ellie falling into the spore-infested station and her gas mask breaking. A Runner then attacks Ellie but Dina jumps down and saves her. Dina notices Ellie's cracked mask and attempts to give her own mask to Ellie but Ellie stops her from doing so. Ellie then removes her mask, revealing that she is immune as she does not cough or succumb to the infection. Before she can explain, a horde of Infected charge at the pair, forcing them to flee to the upper levels. They make it out alive but Dina grows weak and collapses to the ground. Ellie picks her up and helps walk her to a nearby movie theater.
While resting in the theater, Ellie explains that her story about being immune to the Cordyceps fungus was true. She asks Dina to say something but Dina reveals that she is pregnant. Angered that Dina kept it a secret for long time, Ellie decides to let her rest while she ensures the theater is safe. Eventually, she finds a radio and turns the power on to listen in on WLF conversations. However, she cannot figure out how to find the right frequency, so uses a set of keys to enter the show room. While there, Ellie finds an acoustic guitar backstage and takes it to play and sings Future Days by Pearl Jam.[46]
The next day, Ellie finds Dina in the radio room vomiting, brought on by morning sickness. To comfort Dina, Ellie rubs her back. Dina then reveals to Ellie that she fixed the radio and used it to learn that Owen Moore went AWOL from the WLF base but that Abby had not been mentioned yet. Dina also reveals the WLF classify the areas in Seattle by numbers. A transmission then comes through stating a lone male trespasser was spotted at "fourteen", an area Dina deduces is Hillcrest. Suspecting the trespasser might be Tommy, Ellie decides to go there to help him. Though Dina wants to join her, Ellie insists she stay given she is physically weakened because of her pregnancy. Before letting Ellie depart, Dina takes off her hamsa bracelet and ties it on Ellie's wrist, telling her it is for good luck. Although she does not believe in luck, Ellie accepts it and kisses Dina before heading out to Hillcrest.[47]
Ellie reaches the abandoned suburb of Hillcrest in search of Tommy on her own. Hearing explosions and gunfire to the north, she hurries to find him. She kills and sneaks her way through abandoned shops until she reaches the residential neighborhood of Hillcrest. When exploring one of the houses, she gets ambushed by a Stalker, but breaks free and kills it, taking the bow on its back for herself. She sneaks through the neighborhood behind the house, but is forced to run and fight for her life as WLF reinforcements show up in response to an ongoing situation further down the hill. As she jumps from a window down onto the ground, a man grabs her from behind and pulls her into a house. As soon as he lets go, Ellie turns around and discovers that it was Jesse who stopped her from getting caught.
Jesse reveals that he came by himself to help Ellie, but was ambushed by the WLF on his way there. He and Ellie agree to take out the patrolling WLF and steal one of their trucks to escape from Hillcrest. As they do so, more WLF soldiers are alerted to their presence, and a squad give chase in a truck. Ellie shoots the driver, resulting in both trucks crashing. Ellie and Jesse's truck still runs, but the noise of the crash alerts a horde of Infected. They drive away as quickly as possible to escape the Infected, but a Clicker climbs onto the hood of the truck, making driving difficult. Ellie kills the Clicker, but Jesse loses control of the truck and eventually crashes into a lake. The two swim out of the sinking vehicle and up to the surface. Having escaped the WLF patrol, they return to the theater where Dina is waiting for them. Dina embraces Jesse and questions him about how and why he was in Seattle. Ellie, seeming jealous, goes upstairs to treat her injuries alone.
Personality and traits
Having been raised in an environment where modern standards and values have deteriorated, Ellie is considerably rash, foul-mouthed, impulsive, and temperamental, and is unfazed by the notion of using violence as a means to an end or profanity as a way of expressing how she feels. However, she manages to maintain a particular innocence as she has yet to see the darkest sides of human nature and retains a palpable trust in people. This serves as the juxtaposition to Joel's wary, morose, and cynical outlook on post-pandemic life. She apologized to the soldier scanning her moments before stabbing him in the leg and hoped to incapacitate him and Ramirez with non-lethal means.[16]
Ellie is also perceptibly clever and witty, and will do whatever it takes to keep Joel and herself alive. She has good survival instinct and she can be resourceful. She takes orders from Joel, but all the while makes it clear she does not "need any babysitting at all".[51]
Ellie is enthusiastic about the outside world, given her confinement to her quarantine zone during her childhood. She is obsessed with things she collects from others, illustrated through her interest in music, movies, books, and video games. She frequently remarks her amusement upon finding interesting collectibles throughout her trip, which often clashes with Joel's physical indifference.
Ellie seems to adhere to no religion, as seen when she claims that she goes "back and forth" when asked by Sam if she believes in an afterlife. She says that she would like to believe it, but admits "I…guess not."[29]
Ellie also suffers from a case of monophobia (fear of being alone) and states to Sam that she fears losing others she cares about such as Joel. She openly admits to Sam that "ending up alone" is what she fears most.[29] The cause of this phobia stems from her estranged father, deceased mother, and the deaths of her best friend Riley and hired guardian Tess. Coincidentally, both were victims of the fungus and both had gotten infected while in her company. Soon after admitting her fear to Sam, he too, joins the list. This also links into her survivor's guilt she expresses to Joel when returning to Tommy's, where she expresses her guilt that they all died from the disease yet she continues to survive.[13]
Ellie showed difficulties in positioning herself as a young kid in an adults' eyes, and sometimes even tends to "supervise" adults. She also takes "justice" into her own hands on her relationship with anyone, and does not think she requires any adults' consent. This self-parenting trait is related to her time spent in an orphanage, where she had learned to fend for herself. An example is when Joel falls on an iron rod. Though not shown, she takes Joel (by horse) to an abandoned mall in order to find supplies to stitch his wound up. Afterward, she takes him to an abandoned house on a sled attached to her horse and continues to nurse him back to health, while at the same time getting them food, and medicine from David.[34]
Ellie's sexuality indicates that she is interested in women romantically. It's been confirmed by creative director Neil Druckmann that she is in fact a lesbian.[52] She shares a kiss with Riley in Left Behind[9] and in The Last of Us Part II, she is romantically involved with Dina, and prior to the events of the game, was with a girl named Cat.[53]
Years later, Ellie became more mature and less talkative, but still retaining her sense of humor. However, after witnessing Joel's death by the hands of the WLF, she swore revenge. Her journey to Seattle and the ensuing tragedies she witnessed caused her to become bitter and broken, suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
In The Last of Us
Initially, Ellie is fairly unskilled in survival techniques. She cannot swim, a hindrance to herself since swimming is crucial, given the amount of water bodies in the locations she travels. She carries a switchblade, which is her only weapon until she is trusted with a gun by Joel. Her youth leads Joel to initially doubt her competence so he does not grant a firearm to Ellie until she saves him by shooting a hunter, and only afterwards does he teach her how to use a hunting rifle. Later on, she becomes more proficient in combat, sporting a number of weapons such as a pistol, rifle, bow, and explosives, along with her trademark switchblade.
Ellie is occasionally a playable character, much in the same way Joel is throughout the game. She is at first armed with a bow, which she uses well. Her stealth capabilities are similar to Joel's, and she even has a less-honed version of the listening mode that Joel has. Compared to Joel, however, she has limited hand-to-hand combat skills, as she struggles to defeat fully-grown men, having to rely on stunning them with a brick or bottle to gain an upper hand. She also lacks the strength to grapple human enemies and Infected, meaning she is unable to use the former as a human shield. She is relatively inexperienced compared to Joel, as she is often surprised when alone and is easily snuck up upon; David remarks she is "easy to track", the man successfully strangling her unconscious despite her drawing her switchblade on him. She also struggled to defeat David in a fight, nearly strangled to death, only defeating him by using his own machete against him.
As an NPC, Ellie is effective as a partner, since she can spot and warn Joel about nearby enemies. She is also can not be spotted unless Joel is spotted and at times fight alongside him. On rare occasions, she may give Joel ammunition or a health kit. She can also attack hostile survivors with her switchblade who grapple with Joel (both Infected and human) and occasionally dazes the latter by throwing bricks and bottles at them to give Joel an advantage. Given her light frame, Joel often lifts her up over high ledges and obstacles, where she can then obtain a nearby ladder so Joel can access the once inaccessible areas.
Ellie's most important, and unique, ability is her complete immunity to the fungus. Due to a strange mutation in her brain that developed following her initial infection, she became immune to the bites and spores of the Infected. Despite this infection the Infected do not recognize her as one of their own so they still attempt to kill her. It is presumed that if she was properly studied, some form of cure or countermeasure for the infection could be created. This is never clarified, however, since the study would result in her death, which Joel would not allow.
In The Last of Us Part II
By The Last of Us Part II, Ellie has finally learned how to swim and play the acoustic guitar and sing.[44][46][47][48] Her capabilities with firearms has greatly improved and she can handle a large variety of guns with ease. She is physically stronger, enabling her to use human enemies as shields and she can craft arrows,[47] as well as use larger melee weapons such as machetes and hammers, which she can disarm from the Seraphite[54] though her preferred close range weapon is her switchblade.[46] She is rather reliant on it, struggling to best Abby in hand-to-hand combat with out the blade.[55]
However, her strength has limits and foes will break out of her grasp if she doesn't act quickly enough.[47] While capable of overpowering normal sized individuals, it does take quite a bit of effort on Ellie's part to do so. Notably, both Nora and Nick were able to pin Ellie down at the Baldwin lodge[44] and Nora successfully fought Ellie off at the Seattle hospital.[47] Against Infected foes, Ellie has a hard time escaping their grasp and several times has been overpowered by them despite her best efforts, notably needing Dina to intervene when a Runner tackled her.[46] Her speed and agility has also greatly increased and is her best asset, easily able to outrun or easily chase down anyone pursuing or running away from her regardless of the terrain or environment by being able to slide or vault over obstacles with ease.[47] Her reflexes have also improved quite drastically enabling her to swiftly dodge and evade deadly attacks with minimal effort on her part by just barely moving enough of her body out of the way of the attack. Her reflexes are swift enough to dodge multiple attacks at the same time from multiple attackers.[46][48]
Her years of battling the infected and bandits have made her far more resilient then most people due to her having sustained numerous injuries over the years have heavily scared up her body.[48] She is able to push herself beyond exhaustion and fight through simple cuts, blunt trauma and open wounds all the way up to being shot by arrow's and simply pulling the arrow out and continuing as if nothing happened or being slammed through a window and falling out of a building and landing in a river and kept pushing on.[47] Ellie's physical resilience was displayed in Santa Barbara when she was impaled on a broken tree branch in Santa Barbara, passing out and waking up several hours later. Despite the injury, she proceeded to fight off and killing two Rattler bandits then proceeding to the Rattler's base and killed many inside.[55]
Despite these improvements, Ellie struggles when facing against a physically superior opponent such as Abby, who was able to overpower and defeat her with brute strength.[56] During their final confrontation, Ellie was able to best a severely weakened Abby, although Abby did bite off two of her fingers during the fight.[55] As a result of the incident, Ellie's ability to properly play guitar has become impeded.[50]
Design and appearance
A redesigned Ellie as seen in the SpikeTV VGA 2012 trailer.
Ellie is described as having auburn hair and being 5 feet 3 inches (160.02 cm) by a deceased Firefly. Ellie has bright green eyes, fair skin with freckles, a scar on her right eyebrow, and a thin stature. When asked in an interview about her eyebrow scar, Neil Druckmann states that there is a story behind her scar, but says that he won't share the story yet. She gained the scar before American Dreams, Left Behind, and The Last of Us took place. Several years after the events of The Last of Us, Ellie's hair became darker and she now sports a tattoo on her right arm. Her jawlines are now more refined and became taller in appearance. Her voice became deeper as well.
At the end of The Last of Us (or as a pre-order bonus), different clothing options for Ellie can be unlocked.
It was revealed in the Truck Ambush cinematic commentary[57] that Ellie had been redesigned to bear a greater resemblance to Ashley Johnson in appearance and personality. Neil Druckmann, the game's creative director, spoke of the change, saying "after delving further into the game's narrative over the past few months, we decided to modify Ellie's model to better reflect Ashley's personality, and also resemble a slightly younger teen more fitting to the story. We're happy with the final result shown in the cinematic we have released today, and we hope the fans like her too."[58]
During her final confrontation with Abby in the second game, the former WLF member bites off parts of Ellie's pinky and ring finger on the left hand.
Ellie's 2033 model.
Ellie in her Fall clothing.
Ellie's Jackson model.
Ellie's Seattle model.
Ellie's Wyoming model.
Ellie's rain model.
Ellie's Santa Barbara model.
Ellie's Farm model.
Upon meeting Joel, Ellie originally has a rocky relationship with him. Ellie struggled to make him trust her, the man initially believing that she was lying about being immune to the infection. She was unable to talk about anything personal with him, the man shutting her out when she brought up matters like Tess and Sam's deaths. As time passed, Ellie establishes not only a daughter-father relationship, but a bond of protection with Joel.
One of the strongest aspects of the pairs relationship is Ellie's fear that she may lose Joel, like she lost Riley, Tess and Sam to the world they live in. She fears of being alone again, making their bond rather precious to her, remarking that losing Joel would "make [her] more scared", fearful she would always lose people she was close to. Furthering this, Ellie feared Joel would abandon her like in Pittsburgh; she was unable to wait by herself for him in case he "got in to trouble". It is also on display when the two first arrive at Tommy's town and Ellie is shown to be extremely uncomfortable leaving Joel and going with Maria. This fear, however, dissolves after Joel changes his mind and commits to her while they overlook Tommy's town following their argument at the ranch house. After this encounter, Ellie trusts that Joel will not leave her, evidenced in how she waits with Callus while Joel searches the University.
When Joel considers leaving Ellie in Tommy's care, Ellie is disappointed with Joel. However, when the parting moment finally comes, Joel is unable to part without Ellie. At one point, Joel states he is going to teach Ellie how to play the guitar and how to swim. When Ellie finally began whistling he responded to this event saying in a sarcastic joking tone "Oh good, something else you can annoy me with."
Ellie pushes Joel away.
Ellie also cares greatly for Joel, displayed in how she cares for him while he is injured, just as he has cared for and sheltered her throughout their story. This demonstrates that Ellie is willing to do everything she can to keep him alive, even if that means risking her own life in the process.
Ellie also becomes rather precious to Joel, the man using any means possible to protect her and keep her safe. He tortures two of David’s men to find out where Ellie is being kept, going so far as to kill them after gaining the information he needed.
Although at first Joel doesn't want Ellie to mention Sarah, saying, "you [Ellie] are treading on some mighty thin ice here," Joel warms up to Ellie considerably. Ellie initially struggled to make him mention Sarah or even get him to confess he had a daughter, having to find out of her own volition. Eventually, Ellie finally manages to discuss Joel's past with him, even Sarah. It culminates when Ellie gives Joel the picture of Joel and Sarah, Joel doesn't give it back, like he did when Tommy tried to give him the picture. In the final moments of the game, Joel makes several comparisons between Sarah and Ellie, saying that they would have been good friends and would have liked each other.
Whether being selfish, or not wanting to lose another 'daughter' to the whim of another, Joel chose to save Ellie and try and start some semblance of a normal life again. Therefore, Joel grows controlling towards Ellie, unwilling to let her decide her own fate. This creates a small rift in their relationship with Ellie doubting Joel's claims that the Fireflies have "stopped looking for a cure".
Weeks later at Tommy's community, however, the relationship recovers with the two bonding once more when Joel plays a song for her and gifts her a guitar, keeping his promise to teach her how to play.
Years later, Ellie eventually forces Joel to tell her the truth of the Hospital by threatening to leave, to which he reluctantly does. Ellie is distraught over the revelation that a cure was possible but Joel stopped it by massacring everyone in the hospital, causing her to declare that she and Joel "are done." Ellie returns to Jackson but keeps her distance from him. Despite the revelation, Ellie still deeply cared for Joel and eventually wanted to try and forgive him for what he did in the hospital.
Upon learning Tommy and Joel never checked in, she went out looking for them. When forced to watch Joel being beaten to death Ellie begged for Joel to fight back but he was unable to do so and when he was killed, she became emotionally broken and vengeful, swearing to murder everyone who killed Joel and starting her down a dark road of vengeance and revenge. When finally getting the opportunity for revenge, Ellie ends up sparing Abby after recalling her final conversation with Joel, where she told him she wanted to work on trying to forgive him which implies Ellie at that point understood why Joel saved her. Ellie realized the bond Abby and Lev share is similar to the bond she and Joel had.
Riley Abel
Riley Abel is the first to befriend and trust Ellie after her arrival to the Boston military zone. The two eventually develop romantic feelings towards each other and share an intimate relationship.[59]
However, their relationship starts off roughly; though Ellie was grateful for Riley's assistance when she is ganged up on by bullies, she is not appreciative of Riley's stealing her Walkman and nor constantly referring to her as a "kid". However, when the two choose to escape the zone together, Ellie and Riley open up to each other.
Ellie with Riley.
Riley reveals her desires of a future beyond the zone with the Fireflies. Riley's bravado emboldens Ellie on their short journey outside the zone, so much so that she is willing to risk her own life to save her in any given situation. This is partially the cause for Ellie's sadness and confusion when Riley leaves without notice to join the Fireflies.
When Riley finally returns to Ellie after forty-six days, Ellie is somewhat upset with Riley over the extended absence, which caused Ellie to believe that Riley was dead. However, Riley tries to make it up to Ellie by taking her exploring through a mall early in the morning. Over the course of the excursion, the two begin to rekindle their friendship.
When Riley tells Ellie that Marlene is having her sent to a group of Fireflies in another city, Ellie tells her friend that she should go and follow what she's always wanted to do. Though, as their time together progresses, Ellie's feelings for Riley grow stronger; she eventually pleads Riley to stay with her, the pair even sharing a spontaneous kiss.
When their hopes of escape are dashed, Ellie continues to support Riley's beliefs even though her friend has lost hope herself. Riley's resulting death from Cordyceps infection affected Ellie deeply, motivating her to put her immunity to good use.
Ellie once described Marlene as "just a friend, I guess." Ellie treats Marlene as her surrogate mother after her parents died. She was looked after by the Firefly for only a short time, as Marlene distanced herself from her; she never made direct contact until Ellie was a teenager. Ellie does not know of Marlene's decision to sacrifice Ellie for a chance for a vaccine.
The pair were close enough that Ellie didn't want to part from her with Joel and Tess and felt a need to protect her when she saw Joel enter the room with a visibly wounded Marlene. She also worried for her safety, asking Tess if Marlene was okay and even asks Joel about her from time to time.
Anna was Ellie's mother, although they never were able to personally connect with each other following due to her premature death. Ellie is always curious to know about her mother and cherishes the switchblade and letter that Anna left her. Anna expresses in her note that she is grateful and proud of her daughter, Ellie commenting "I'm trying to do you proud".
Tess met Ellie when she met Joel, being introduced by Marlene as the 'cargo' they would be smuggling out of the city. Despite attempting to attack her during their first meeting, Ellie formed a quick attachment to Tess during the mission and turned to her for questions, answers, or instruction. She initially bonded with Tess more than Joel, the woman protecting her when in the derelict building and talking to her more than Joel.
Although Tess was skeptical of Ellie's immunity, she soon accepted it to some degree. Later, in the Capitol Building, Tess expressed her complete belief that Ellie is immune, having compared how her bite was worse (despite only being an hour old) to Ellie's three-week-old (but healed) bite to Joel.
Tess was willing to die to ensure Ellie's survival, though only due to her value as a potential cure, sacrificing herself to buy time for the pair to escape the armed forces that had ambushed the drop-off point. Ellie was quick to object their leaving her and physically showed guilt about her death following the attack. When she tried to talk about it and apologize to Joel, he cut her short and suggested it'd be best if they "just keep [their] histories to [themselves]".
After this, Ellie mentioned Tess again when she confessed her survivor's guilt to Joel, demonstrating that she remembered the woman even a year on, and was still mentally scarred by her death. Ellie's philosophy of "it can't be nothing" was also influenced by Tess, not wanting to waste the chance Tess gave them to find a cure she so desperately desired.
Ellie's relationship with Bill was initially one of hostility, as the first act Bill did towards Ellie was handcuffing her to a pipe. Both often loathed each other and shared a mutual dislike. However, since Bill owed a favor to Joel, Ellie reluctantly worked with him. Seeing her as a hindrance rather than helpful, Bill repeatedly expressed his anger at Joel's decision to escort Ellie. He constantly insulted her when given an excuse and even shouted at her when she was, in her words, "fixing [his] stupid pile", secretly stealing some of his items.
After they obtained the truck however, Bill admitted that Ellie held her own against the infected, but still saw her as a burden.
Ellie had always maintained a respectful air when with Henry. She considered Henry (and by extension Henry's brother, Sam) allies and always managed to persuade Joel to trust them. She initially attacked him on Joel's defense when they first met, though softened to him when she saw his brother. She didn't prefer him to Joel though, abandoning Henry to return to Joel when they were separated in Pittsburgh.
In the sewers, Ellie was willing to protect Henry when they were separated from Joel and Sam, and forced to run away from many Runners and Clickers, killing some of them. Although Henry became closer to Joel as time passed, he still liked the girl, joking about his fantasy of riding a motorbike.
Henry cared about Ellie enough that he reluctantly saved her from an infected Sam, but he committed suicide shortly after Sam's death.
Sam was the only character Ellie met on her cross-country journey to be near her age. As a result, the two bonded quickly, playing with blueberries and cracking jokes. He enabled her to feel like a child again, like she felt with Riley. The pair also played a brief game of darts and football, bonding through their childish traits.
The night before Sam died, he asked Ellie what she was afraid of. She told him that she thinks scorpions are creepy, trying to be reflective, but opened up when she realizes how serious Sam was; she admitted she was afraid of ending up alone. The pair then discussed the idea of an afterlife, both reluctantly admitting they don't believe in it.
In the morning, Ellie was attacked by an infected Sam, saved by Henry though expressed her guilt of surviving over Sam due to her immunity to Joel several months later.
Later, the pair come across a small child's grave with a teddy bear on top of it in Wyoming. Ellie expresses regret at having forgotten to put the toy robot on his grave before they left. When Ellie took out the toy robot that she gave him from her backpack she said "I should have said something different to you." implying that she regretted saying certain things to him when they had their final conversation.
While Tommy is initially happy to see Joel, he does not know Ellie, so he doesn't start a conversation with her. Tommy correctly guesses that Joel tracked him down because of her, and becomes confrontational when Joel implores him to take Ellie off his hands. After the bandit attack, Tommy, seeing the relationship between the two, reconsiders and is willing to take Ellie to the Fireflies.
However, Ellie doesn't want to part with Joel, and steals one of Tommy's horses. Tommy then helps Joel chase after her; they eventually find her at an old ranch. Tommy lets Joel and Ellie talk about their issues while he keeps watch. He overhears their argument, but interrupts them when he spots bandits.
Tommy asks if Ellie needed help getting on the horse, expressing some general consideration for her. After returning to Jackson County, Joel decides to escort Ellie himself. Tommy understands and offers Joel, and by extension Ellie, a place at Jackson for when they return, indicating that Tommy did grow fond of Ellie in their short time together. He even tried to persuade Joel not to take her, indicating he didn't mind the journey after getting to know her.
Tommy inadvertently briefly became a bridge between Joel and Ellie, unintentionally isolating her when she and Joel arrived at the dam; Ellie was left out as Tommy and Joel were reunited, only being remembered by Maria - someone who has no attachment to her.
In the years that followed, Tommy and Ellie became close, with Tommy treating her as an adopted niece and improving her marksmanship by teaching her about elevation and bullet drop. Tommy continued to serve as a bridge between the two. Following Joel's death, Tommy is the only other person apart from Ellie who fully feels the trauma of Joel's death. He becomes protective of Ellie, not wanting her to make the dangerous journey to Seattle with him, planning to take revenge by himself.
While in Seattle and finally reunited, Tommy was content with the damage they did to the WLF and was making plans for them to leave before they were ambushed by Abby due to Ellie murdering all of her friends. Following their defeat and once again being spared by Abby, Tommy uses his resources and connections to track her down and reminds Ellie that she made him a vow that she would kill Abby for him due to Tommy's injuries not allowing him to be out in the field anymore. When Ellie refused, Tommy burst out in anger, enraged that Ellie would dare live a comfortable life and allow Abby to live despite what she had done to them, leaving their relationship on sour terms.
Ellie and Maria first meet when Ellie and Joel attempt to push open a gate. Maria and her guards confront them before Tommy shows up and diffuses the situation. Maria seems to take an instant liking to Ellie, offering to let her take some horses for riding. She also says that she would rather eat with Ellie than go oversee the generator. When Joel told Ellie to go eat with Maria while Joel and Tommy went to tend to the generator, Ellie showed reluctance.
However, when the bandits attacked the facility, Ellie and Maria were forced to cooperate to survive (since the story was told from Joel's point of view, this section is unclear) but it is known that they took cover and protected each other in the common room office.
It is assumed that the pair bonded, because when Tommy tells Maria he wants to help guide Ellie to the Fireflies, Maria's anger is directed at Joel, but Ellie feels guilty about the argument and runs away with a horse. It is possible that Maria still likes Ellie and may even still like Joel, since Joel decided not to hand Ellie over to Tommy and Tommy stayed at Jackson.
Ellie's relationship with David has been the source of a traumatizing experience for her. It is also rife with tons of irony. David allows Ellie to leave with the penicillin, which she uses to heal Joel, who later goes on to help Ellie kill most of David's group. David also tries to keep Ellie alive, but she later kills him.
David often talks to Ellie in a patronizing tone and treats her like a child. When they first meet, David offers to exchange supplies for a share of the meat from the deer that Ellie had tracked and killed, saying that his group needed the meat because they had many women and children to feed. He emphasizes the phrase "many women and children" several times in the hopes that Ellie, being a young girl, would feel sympathy for them. He is also the only person who calls Ellie out for her coarse language. After his group captures Ellie, he offers her a place with them. When Ellie reacts with rage and disgust, he tries to calm her down like he was talking to a wild animal. He ignores the fact that Ellie doesn't like him and tries to touch Ellie, calling her special.
Eventually, David loses his faith towards Ellie when she breaks his finger and attempts to steal his keys. As Ellie kills more and more of his men, (including his right-hand man James), David grows more fixated on her and makes several attempts to kill her. David meets his demise when he was violently hacked on the head with a machete by Ellie after he attempts to strangle her. Killing David was arguably when Ellie lost the majority of her innocence, it was the first time she had killed someone more than to protect herself but actually wanted to kill them.
Despite his violent death, his actions left a mark on Ellie, making her distant and quiet towards Joel, yet more determined to reach the Fireflies. She became so emotionally engaged with the act that she was unable to recognize Joel during and afterwards, displaying her vulnerability and her spiritual devastation, all because of David.
Despite only meeting in person a total of three times, Ellie's relationship with Abby was defined by revenge, animosity and loss. Their first encounter was Abby's murder of Joel, with Ellie being forced to watch. The event caused Ellie to adopt an immense loathing for everyone involved, as she would go on to kill four of Abby's friends (Jordan, Nora, Owen, and Mel) in her pursuit of revenge against Abby.
Ellie's second encounter came at the theater, shortly after murdering Owen and Mel. At this point Ellie believed Abby killed Joel because he prevented the world from having a cure for the fungal infection. Abby took vengeance on them, killing Ellie's friend Jesse, shooting Tommy and beating both her and Dina. However, at Lev's request, Abby spared the two women, leaving Ellie with a warning to never let her see her again.
Their third and final encounter was in Santa Barbara. Ellie spent months tracking Abby, unable to forgive her, only to save her and Lev from the Rattler gang. Despite Abby no longer feeling animosity towards her, Ellie was determined to exact revenge on Abby, and threatened the weakened Lev at knife-point so that she agreed to fight, revealing her moral boundaries had been shattered by her rage for Abby. However, Ellie experienced a moral epiphany during the duel and decided to spare Abby and begin a path towards forgiving her actions.
Even though Sarah died twenty years before Ellie met Joel, Ellie learns about her through Joel's sister in law, Maria. While the two never met, Ellie understands what Sarah's death meant to Joel and how he has seen some aspects of his daughter in Ellie during their journey to find the Fireflies. At first Joel does not want Ellie to mention Sarah, saying that Ellie is "treading on some mighty thin ice here". Later on though, Joel warms up to Ellie considerably when talking about Sarah.
Throughout the game, Joel has made several comparisons between Sarah and Ellie. Joel's first impression of Ellie was that she was twelve, like Sarah. He was also reminded of Sarah when Ellie was in awe of the view of the Capitol building, briefly thinking back to her in the moment.
When Ellie gives Joel the picture of him and Sarah, Joel doesn't give it back, like he did when Tommy tried to give him the picture. In the epilogue, Joel makes several comparisons between Sarah and Ellie. Ultimately, Joel says that they would have been good friends and would have liked each other, implying that he finally sees Ellie as his "second" daughter. He even called her "baby girl" just like he did with Sarah.
Ellie calling out enemy location to Joel.
In the first game, Ellie can be quite helpful to Joel in many situations. Whenever discretion is needed Ellie will never compromise the player's position; she will stay out of sight and keep quiet while keeping up with Joel. Also, she can assist Joel in combat by calling out enemy positions depending on their location in association to Joel's. For example, she will say "to your left!" if an enemy is to the left of Joel.
If the enemy is behind something and Ellie is able to see them they will be outlined in red, showing their location through walls and such. This is similar to Joel's listening mode. She can also help to attack the enemy by throwing objects to stun them, giving Joel opportunities to attack. Depending on the situation, Ellie will need assistance from Joel if she is unable to wrestle herself free from an attack.[60][61] There are certain scripted events in which Ellie can be killed if the player does not reach her in time. Ellie will also sometimes stab an enemy in the back with her switchblade if the enemy is strangling Joel, thus allowing Joel to break free.
After killing a Hunter that was trying to drown Joel, she begins to take a more active role in combat, particularly helping Joel to kill them by shooting them herself or by stabbing enemies who are grappling Joel.
There are many times when Ellie will need Joel's help to reach somewhere or something that is too high for her to reach by herself. In those cases, Joel will usually lift Ellie up on his shoulder and boost her up.
Ellie: "I warned you not to touch my stuff. But I would've pulled my punches if I knew how fragile you were."
Winston: [mumbling] "That girl… she's trouble if I ever saw it…"
Ellie: "Yeah… I like her."
Ellie: "So… any chance of convincing you that this is a really bad idea?"
Riley: "No chance in hell."
Ellie: [aims gun at Marlene] "Get the fuck away from her."
Marlene: "Ellie–"
[shoots at wall beside her]
Marlene: "Take it easy, Ellie."
Ellie: "You know what? Fuck this letter. Fuck the Fireflies. Fuck the soldiers. Fuck everyone in this city. Let's run away. Leave this zone. I hear there are other places, places that–"
Riley: "Stop. [sobbing quietly] Leave the zone? All that'll do is give us a different way to die."
Ellie: "I haven't seen you… in I don't even know how long."
Riley: "Forty-five days. Well, forty-six, technically…"
Ellie: "Why did you bring me here?"
Riley: "I wanted to see you."
Ellie: "No, why did you bring me here?"
Ellie: "Okay. First… I'm gonna destroy you. And then we'll talk."
Ellie: "Oh, shoot! Oh, shoot, what did I just do? Did you see those skills?"
Riley: "Okay."
Ellie: "Someone should revoke that dog-tag!"
Ellie: "So… who am I to stop you?"
Riley: "The one person that can."
Riley: [taking Ellie's walkman] "What's in it?"
Ellie: "That tape you gave me."
Riley: "You really will be miserable without me."
Ellie: "Shut up."
Ellie: "Don't go."
Ellie: "We're not murderers. We just survive."
Ellie: [looking outside the QZ] "It can't be any worse out there, can it?"
Ellie: "Man… I shot the hell out of that guy, huh?"
Ellie: "To the edge of the universe and back. Endure and survive."
Sam: "What are you scared of?"
Ellie: "Let's see… Scorpions are pretty creepy. Um… being by myself. I'm scared of ending up alone."
Ellie: "Everyone I have cared for has either died, or left me. Everyone – fucking except for you! So don't tell me that I would be safer with someone else, because the truth is I would just be more scared."
Ellie: "Tell them that... Ellie is the little girl... that broke your fucking finger!"
Joel: "So...this everything you were hoping for?"
Ellie: "It's got its ups and downs, but… you can't deny the view though."
Ellie: "After all we've been though. Everything that I've done. It can't be for nothing."
Ellie: "Her name was Riley, and she was the first to die. And then it was Tess, and then Sam…"
Ellie: "Swear to me. Swear to me that everything that you said about the Fireflies is true."
Joel: "I swear."
Ellie: "Okay."
Ellie: "I'm gonna find… and I'm gonna kill… every last one of them."
Ellie: "Joel, get up. Joel, fucking get up. Please stop! Please don't do this..."
Ellie: "I'm leaving tomorrow. And if you want to come with me, great."
Tommy: "You have no idea what you're walking into. You don't know how large that group is, how armed--"
Ellie: "I don't care. You can't talk me out of this."
Ellie: "After you took me out of the Firefly hospital, you said there were dozens of people like me."
Joel: "Yeah. Yeah, that's what they told me."
Ellie: "I've never met another immune person before. Have you?"
Ellie: "Where's Abby?"
Nora: "I'm fucking dead anyway. Why would I tell you anything?"
Ellie: "Because I can make it quick. Or I can make it so much worse."
Ellie: "If you lie to me one more time, I'm gone. You will never see me again."
Ellie: "I'm just a girl. Not a threat."
Ellie: "I have to finish it."
Dina: "You don't owe Tommy anything."
Ellie: "I don't sleep. I don't eat. I'm… I'm not like you, Dina."
Ellie: "I was supposed to die in that hospital. My life would've fucking mattered. But you took that from me."
Ellie: "I don't think I can ever forgive you for that. But I would like to try."
Early artwork of Ellie.
Concept art from Game Informer.[62]
Ellie in the mini-series, American Dreams.
Ellie with Joel.
Initial conception of Joel and Ellie.
Official stills
The Ellie PSN avatar.
Joel and Ellie
Ellie in the VGA trailer 2011.
Ellie attacking a Clicker with her switchblade.
Ellie with her switchblade.
Joel and Ellie running away from The Infected.
Ellie after the first time she kills someone.
Second promotional shot.
Ellie captured with Joel and Tess by soldiers.
Ellie applying the penicillin into Joel.
Ellie confesses her survivor's guilt to Joel.
Ellie with Callus.
Ellie and Joel talking.
Ellie meets a giraffe.
Ellie using a bow and arrow.
Ellie watches Joel threaten Henry.
Ellie looking through a file.
"After all we've been through?"
Joel and Ellie talk about "bad dreams".
Ellie riding Callus.
Ellie killing a Cannibal.
Ellie with a rifle.
Ellie aiming her bow at David and James.
Ellie seeing the Bloater in the Winter chapter.
Ellie and David at the fire.
Ellie holding David at gunpoint.
Ellie in the woods, fleeing from David.
David pins Ellie.
Ellie with David.
Ellie stabs a Hunter.
Ellie warning Joel.
Joel teaching Ellie how to use a rifle.
Ellie turns away from Joel, saddened that she was of no use to the Fireflies.
Ellie's bike mark at the end of game.
Second Left Behind poster.
Riley returns to the school.
Riley with her gun and Ellie with her switchblade.
Ellie kisses Riley.
Concept art of Ellie for The Last of Us Part II
Concept art of Ellie's tattoo
Reveal trailer
Ellie's tattoo
Ellie playing the guitar
Joel finds Ellie and looks on as she plays her guitar.
Last shot of Ellie.
Ellie looks on at the dance in Jackson.
Ellie dancing with Dina.
Ellie hiding from her pursuers.
Ellie, seconds before executing a Seraphite in a brutal fashion.
Ellie using her bow and arrow.
Ellie kills a Seraphite.
Ellie guns down an axe-wielding Seraphite.
Promo stills
Ellie in Part II.
Ellie, seething with hatred.
Joel and Ellie find a guidebook.
Ellie remarks that she never saw the Fireflies.
Joel and Ellie fight Infected in Jackson.
Ellie with a guitar in Seattle
Ellie remembers how much Joel loves her.
Joel and Ellie are apart.
Ellie is the only known human to be immune to the Cordyceps Brain Infection.
In Left Behind, during the exploration of the Mall (more specifically, the photo booth), Ellie types her surname. Though it is encrypted, it can be seen that her surname consists of eight letters.
The Japanese game manual lists her last name as "Williams", which is also eight letters. Although any mention of her last name was removed by Naughty Dog early in development and is not considered canon.
Ellie has a habit of rubbing her nose and wringing her hands together, especially in situations that could be seen as stressful. This implies towards a nervous tic.
Players can browse through Ellie's artifacts while she is playable in The Last of Us. When browsing, Ellie will comment on specific items, this includes Anna's letter, Riley's pendant, and other interactive objects, such as her own switchblade. She loses only one artifact from her backpack by the end of the game, Joel and Sarah's soccer photo, which is given to Joel.
When playing as Joel, Ellie is invisible to enemy AI until they spot Joel. This was an intentional design choice made by Naughty Dog so that her own AI would never accidentally give away Joel's position.
Ellie's alteration.
Ellie used to bear a striking resemblance to Canadian actor Elliot Page (who was then known as Ellen Page), who stars in another PlayStation exclusive game, Beyond: Two Souls (released roughly four months after The Last of Us), but had her appearance altered as an attempt by Naughty Dog to better portray her age and actual voice actress. Page jokingly said that he didn't appreciate Naughty Dog "ripping off" his likeness due to his appearance in Beyond: Two Souls.[63]
Ellie owns a joke book that she will read aloud during downtime in the hopes of lightening the mood during the Pittsburgh and The Suburbs chapters of the first game. These character interactions can only be triggered during the second half of the Summer portion of the game. Listening to all will unlock the That's All I Got trophy. Her joke books are available as artifacts in Ellie's Backpack. To find them, players have to play as Ellie in either the winter chapter or the epilogue and check the Collectibles inside her backpack.
The Sony Walkman Ellie used during the American Dreams series is also available as artifact in Ellie's backpack.
The ending of The Last of Us is somewhat similar to the beginning, albeit reversed. In the prologue, Joel and Sarah start off at home, and then use the car to escape the infected, which eventually crashes, forcing Joel to carry Sarah, who is eventually shot by the soldier. Sarah then dies in Joel's arms. Near the end of the game, an unconscious Ellie (reminiscent of the dying Sarah) is carried by Joel out of the hospital away from humans and into a car. The duo then drives 'home', home being Tommy's settlement.
Neil Druckmann also stated in an interview that it was intentional for the opening shot to begin with Sarah, and the ending shot to end with Ellie.[64]
The ending shot for Left Behind also ends with a shot of Ellie's face.
Druckmann has stated that, while Joel is the protagonist of The Last of Us, he personally viewed the story as Ellie's bildungsroman.
In the initial version of the game, Ellie was supposed to kill Tess, who was originally the main antagonist.
In Left Behind flashbacks, she doesn't swear nearly as much as in The Last of Us. This increase could be based on the stress of Riley's death.
Ellie's joke book was given to her by Riley as seen in Left Behind.
The picture found in Ellie's room in Left Behind was taken by Riley's camera, we later know that in an optional segment in Left Behind, Ellie had broken Riley's camera sometime after the picture was taken.
Ellie states that when she was a kid, she had a coloring book, and thought the gnomes in it were cute, but fairies startled her.
In Left Behind, Ellie has a flashlight when she is with Riley, but in the main game, Ellie finds her flashlight in the "The Outskirts" chapter. It's possible she lost her flashlight between chapters, and had to find a new one.
During The Last of Us, if the player stands idle, wastes ammo, etc., Ellie will make a comment on it, such as "Ok... you're standing around and this is awkward."
The tattoo on Ellie's arm in Part II was designed by tattoo artist Natalie Hall. Before being put in the game, it was tested on the arm of UI artist/designer Alexandria Neonakis.[65]
Red seems to be Ellie's signature color in the first game since her outfits in the main game contain a piece of clothing that is red or close to red, whereas in Part II her color appears to be blue.
Upon completing the first game and randomly after that point, in the background of the main menu the player will see Ellie's switchblade lying against the window.
When Ellie is grabbed by a Bloater whilst playing as her in The Last of Us, she does not share the same animation that Bill, Joel, or any accompanying characters that are present with Joel in the various Bloater encounters whereby the Bloater rips their jaw apart or head being crushed. Bloaters instead kill her by a hook-punch to the head.
However in the sequel, Ellie's death animation will vary, ranging from neck breaking to jaw ripping.
Ellie's hobby appears to be drawing as she drew many points of interests and other people's faces in her journal and her room. Furthermore, she is a skilled artist.
↑ 1.0 1.1 Polygon - The Last of Us Part II
↑ "The Suburbs" chapter: "I go back and forth. I mean, I'd like to believe it... I guess not."
↑ Firefly Map
↑ Note: According to Game Designer Rodney Reece on Twitter, she is actually 5 ft 4 and 165 cm (Accessed 13th of September, 2020)
↑ First look at The Last of Us to PlayStation 3
↑ PlayStation
↑ 7.0 7.1 The Last of Us: American Dreams
↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 "Bill's Town"
↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 Left Behind
↑ The player will have the option to “accept” or “reject” the drink
↑ The player, however, will have a choice of three questions and a dismiss option to choose from if they beat Riley
↑ Depending on the player, Ellie can either beat or be beaten by Riley
↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 I Swear
↑ We're smuggling her?
↑ Killing Time
↑ 16.0 16.1 I'm not infected
↑ What if it's true?
↑ Just go
↑ I need a car
↑ Let's get on with it
↑ He was my partner
↑ He ain't even hurt
↑ I feel sick
↑ You're welcome
↑ How'd I do?
↑ I'm Henry...this is Sam
↑ Welcome to my Office
↑ I saved you
↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 What are you scared of?
↑ How you doing, baby brother?
↑ I'm not her
↑ Adios
↑ The University
↑ 34.0 34.1 Name's David
↑ You're Going to Make It
↑ By Any Means
↑ I Believe Him
↑ It's Me
↑ E3 2018 - Exclusive Interview with Neil Druckmann
↑ It Can't be for Nothing
↑ Find Someone Else
↑ You Can't Save Her
↑ 43.0 43.1 For an alternate version of these events, see The Last of Us: One Night Live
↑ 44.0 44.1 44.2 44.3 Jackson (Part II)
↑ - Halley Gross interview about ellie's tattoo
↑ 46.0 46.1 46.2 46.3 46.4 46.5 Seattle Day 1 (Ellie)
↑ 47.0 47.1 47.2 47.3 47.4 47.5 47.6 47.7 Seattle Day 2 (Ellie)
↑ 48.0 48.1 48.2 48.3 Seattle Day 3 (Ellie)
↑ The Farm (chapter)
↑ 50.0 50.1 The Farm (epilogue)
↑ Exclusive First In-Game Screenshots Of The Last Of Us
↑ Druckmann on Ellie's sexuality
↑ The Last of Us Part II, E3 2018 (Accessed 12th June, 2018)
↑ The Last of Us Part II - E3 Gameplay Demo
↑ 55.0 55.1 55.2 Santa Barbara (chapter)
↑ Seattle Day 3 (Abby)
↑ The Last of Us - The Truck Ambush Trailer
↑ The Last of Us: A Tale of Two Ellie
↑ Is Ellie Gay? Naughty Dog’s Neil Druckmann Weighs In on The Last of Us: Left Behind
↑ "Ellie can also be of use to Joel's defense, but is not invulnerable. Right off the bat Joel has to come to her aid as she is squirming with a large hunter. However, as the game progresses, she learns to take care of herself by finding items around the environment and using them to her and Joel’s advantage…" -- neogaf,
↑ The Last Mysteries of The Last of Us
↑ Game Informer
↑ Ellen Page AMAA on Reddit
↑ Venture beat interview
↑ GameSpot - The Last of Us 2: New Art Shows a Closer Look at Ellie's Tattoo
Characters and groups in The Last of Us: American Dreams
Ellie · Riley Abel
Winston Asher · Princess · Marlene
Survivors · The Infected · Fireflies · The Military · Smugglers
Marlene · Kerry
Winston Asher · Princess · Corporal "Dickhead"
Roberta Coen · Anna
Characters and Groups in The Last of Us
Joel Miller · Ellie · Sarah Miller
Tommy Miller · Tess · Robert · Marlene · Bill · Henry · Sam · Maria Miller · Callus · David · James · Ethan · Jerry Anderson
Survivors · Fireflies · The Military · Smugglers · Hunters · Bandits · Cannibals · Federal Disaster Response Agency · Center for Disease Control
Runners · Stalkers · Clickers · Bloaters · Jimmy Cooper · Joe Warren · Sam
Marlene · Jerry Anderson · Ethan · Kari · Marc · Andrea · Roger · John · Greg · Tania · Robin · Riley Abel · David Michael Vigil · Ben Glueck · Philip Liu · Joseph Lenz · Michael Kiper · Melinda Davidson · Shiyao Jiang · Hui Wang · Alex Raymond Vincent · Peter Mrozik · Kazden Risk · Colby Reed · Lucas Rios · Josh Scheffler · Robert Righetti · Eddie Fuentes · Matthew White · Ryan Oliverio · Brent Pino · Hope Pino · Alex Rohner · Joe Warren · Erik Griggs · Sadie Pearle Hickman · Travis Kristof · Paul D. Braun · Katerina Perich · Nicole Hoo · Natalie Hoo · Bryony Stewart-Seume
FEDRA / Military
Ramirez · Waters · Private Atwater · Private Shah · Private Coolidge · Jeremy · Pam · Captain Mastros · Colonel Mackenzie · Winston Asher
Joel Miller · Tess · Robert · Ellie · Ronnie · Mark · Maryanne · Terrence · Malick · Donovan · Derek
Bill · Frank · Bob · Brad · Rachel · Ezra · Gadget · Karen · Officer Jones
Reuben · Eva · Jack Sullivinsky · Ish · Susan · Kyle · Danny · Kara
Maria Miller · Tommy Miller · Earl · Houser · Steve · Buckley · Callus
Heather · Cheryl · Lev Benioff · Arthur Munroe
David · James
Other Survivors
Louis · Will Livingston · Kathryn McCormack · Anna · Lucia · Hanna · Graham
Characters and Groups in The Last of Us: Left Behind
Riley Abel · Joel Miller · Callus
Survivors · The Infected · Fireflies · The Military · Cannibals
Runners · Stalkers · Clickers
Marlene · Riley Abel · Melanie
Winston Asher · Princess · Major Banks · Regan Francis · Eugene Ellis · Sean Brendon · Larry Caulfield
Tino · Anna · Laura · Pharmacist
Characters and Groups in The Last of Us Part II
Ellie · Joel Miller · Abby Anderson
Jerry Anderson · Tommy Miller · Jesse · Maria Miller · Dina · Shimmer · Nora Harris · Mel · Manny Alvarez · Owen Moore · Jordan · Leah · Nick · Marlene · Alice · Isaac Dixon · Yara · Lev · JJ
Survivors · Fireflies · Seraphites · Washington Liberation Front · Federal Disaster Response Agency · The Military · The Ravens · Rattlers · Center for Disease Control
Runners · Stalkers · Clickers · Bloaters · Shamblers · Rat King
Maria Miller · Tommy Miller · Joel Miller · Jesse · Eugene Linden · Dina · Ellie · Seth · Shimmer · Japan · Buckley · Cat · Gustavo · Alex · Greg · Bonnie · Chad · Willy · William · Astrid · Tara · Adam · Sidney · Kristen · Mina · Robin · Claire Linden
Isaac Dixon · Abby Anderson · Owen Moore · Mel · Nora Harris · Manny Alvarez · Jordan · Nick · Leah · Mike · Whitney · Alice · Bear · Pat · Kieran · Zelda · John · Derek · Gavin · Alison Cole · Sandra · Emma Patterson · Jason Patterson · Mr. Alvarez · Marcus Wilson · Luis Sanchez · Hugo Gonzalez · Roger · Davis · Carter · Wilson · Young · Hernandez · Danny · Wright · Ross · Price · Marquez · Whyte · Miller · Tina · Chevy · Jules · Rebecca · Rue · Sal · Jo · Woods · Ji-So Huang · Andre Dominguez · Chris Marsh · Adam Peters · Melissa · Misha · Sam · Jensen · Marta · Paul · Foster · Cam · Lewis · Sally · Eddie · Matt · Vicky · Kent · Scott
Seraphites
Lev · Yara · Emily · Yara and Lev's mother · Seraphite Prophet · Jimmy · Emmett · Zachary · Karen · Edmund · Cabel · Ezra · Marcus · Duncan · Constance · Walter · Harper · Lyra · August · Lucia · Eva · Moira · Henry
Aaron · Colin · Kyle Peters · Leon Travis · Neal Grant · Zivah Saunders · Viv · Raul · Heather · Fran · Staci · Dewey · Boris Legasov · Sofia Legasov · Uli · Dale · Alfie · Yolanda · The Brandmans · Ruby · Ellen · Simon Vickers · Paige Vickers · Tom · Beth · Randall · Bo · Jiao · Mei · Will · Quinn · A.J. Malidore · Barnes · Josephine Roberts · Sam · James · Julia · Heidi · Horace · Erin · Sheryl · Jake · Susie · Scott (Seattle) · Don Carter · Kayla Higashi · Steven
Marlene · Jerry Anderson · Kari · Abby Anderson · Owen Moore · Mel · Nora Harris · Manny Alvarez · Nick · Leah · Jordan
Ward · Carmelo Torres · Benny · Paul Douglas · Miller · Perez · Green · Adams · Avery · Seb · Victor · Irina · Mali
Pat · Large Rattler · Small Rattler
Andrew · Logan · Ori · Arnie · McKenzie · Jenny
Sarah Miller · Bill · Talia
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__label__cc | 0.671857 | 0.328143 | Anambra Legislature Bemoans LGAs’ Poor Compliance With Procurement Law
Kenechukwu Ofomah
Awka – Anambra State House of Assembly Committee on Tenders Board and Procurement says the poor enforcement of the state procurement law by the Transition Committee Chairmen in charge of the Local Government Areas (LGAs) of the state, is capable of undermining accountability and transparency in the various areas.
Chairman of the Committee, Mr Chuka Ezenwunne disclosed this on Monday during an oversight interaction with the TC Chairmen.
When the TC Chairmen were invited recently to appear before the House Committee, they were requested to present key documents which include list of capital projects, procurement plan of LGAs, cash flows, evidence of due process and adverts for contract bidding.
Documents provided during the session revealed that the Council bosses have been engaging in direct labour for procurement and contracting processes in contrast with the State’s Procurement Law 2011.
According to Ezenwunne, the procurement and contracting processes of the various LGAs is totally unacceptable to the State Legislature, as available records of the LGAs showed that they had been engaging directly in procurement and contracting processes.
“This is against the due process as stipulated in the State’s Procurement Law 2011 as amended.
“The Committee has a duty to monitor and ensure that Government Ministries, Departments, Agencies (MDAs) and the LGs follow due process in their procurement and contracting processes.
“The essence is to help government to save money, fight corruption, block leakages, promote transparency and accountability in the public procurement process for the purpose of good governance, which is the hallmark of any serious system,” he said.
Ezenwunne said the committee would write to the state’s Bureau of Public Procurement to organise training for procurement personnel of MDAs and LGAs on the provisions of the procurement law.
In his words, “The training is necessary so that they can understand what the law requires of them and do the needful. By next year, we will not be lenient with any defaulting LGA.
`If we get this right, it will promote efficiency, transparency, accountability and value for money in the public procurement process.”
Reacting on behalf of the Chairmen, Mr Nnamdi Nwadiogbu of Oyi LGA apologized to the committee, promising that they would go back and enforce the law on procurement.
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__label__wiki | 0.569147 | 0.569147 | BBC Asks Dr. Willie Soon to Respond to Climate Conspiracy Claims
The BBC has belatedly decided they need at least a little input from one of the targets of their latest big oil climate conspiracy propaganda piece. Dr. Willie Soon does not hold back in his response.
Note some of the links take you to a “You are leaving the mail.com service” page. This is a harmless artefact caused by copying Dr. Soon’s email, click continue to see the referenced document.
Dear Ms. Keane,
I am wary of responding to your false allegations, since your questions seem somewhat loaded. Disappointingly, they appear to repeat the dishonest and misleading claims of the former Greenpeace USA research director, Kert Davies (now running the so-called “Climate Investigations Center”), whose research we have shown to be disingenuous in Section 2 of our attached 2018 report on Greenpeace (Attachment 1). Unfortunately, the premise of your series seems to be the dangerous conspiracy theories promoted by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway in their 2010 book Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change and their 2014 film of the same name. I’ve attached a short 3-page .pdf (Attachment 2) summarizing just a few examples of the poor scholarship and bizarre hypocrisies in Oreskes & Conway’s conspiracy theories.
The BBC has an established history of stifling genuine scientific inquiry and nuanced debate on climate change since its infamous 2006 Climate Change – the Challenge to Broadcasting? seminar, as described in detail in Andrew Montford’s short book The Propaganda Bureau and summarized in various blogs in 2012, e.g., here, here, here and here.
It is also regrettable that you attempted to contact me in such a roundabout way, i.e., by going through the Heartland Institute, rather than emailing me directly here at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. I am not pleased that you saw fit to circulate your letter, with its numerous libellous comments, to a third party.
The BBC seems to encourage the unethical pseudo-journalistic practice of selectively quoting and cherry-picking out-of-context interviewees who disagree with the narrative of the program, in order to make the interviewees seem foolish or uninformed. Richard North, summarized this unethical practice well in this 2011 essay: https://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2011/01/on-being-stitched-up.htmlThis was a particular concern when I considered whether to reply to your allegations.
I am hoping that you have more journalistic integrity than your BBC colleagues who have carried out unethical “hatchet jobs” in the past. I suspect that you may not be planning to “fairly and accurately reflect any comments” as you promised me.
Nonetheless, given the number of false allegations you are threatening to broadcast, I feel compelled to respond. I have copied this letter a number of friends and colleagues who might be interested to see the questions you have asked me and my responses.
I have copied and pasted your letter to me below. Your letter is in bold face: and my responses are in Roman face.
Will you change course in your grave misunderstanding on this timely subject and uphold honest debate and discussion on climate science?
Willie Soon
Phoebe Keane
BBC Radio Current Affairs
BBC New Broadcasting House
Portland Place
Dear Wei Hok ‘Willie’ Soon,
My Chinese name given by my father is Wei-Hock. There is no need to put a quote on Willie as this is my name.
I’m making a BBC Radio series about the way oil companies have over emphasized the uncertainty around climate change. The series will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the UK and we intend for it to be available as a podcast internationally and may appear as an online article. It is a 10 part series, each episode is 15 minutes long.
The series is currently titled ‘How they made us doubt everything’ and will discuss how the oil industry has carried out a campaign to make us doubt climate change. It explores how it drew on a ‘playbook’ of tactics developed by the tobacco industry and PR company Hill & Knowlton to make us doubt the connection between smoking and cancer. We’ll set out that these tactics weaponised doubt and enabled both the tobacco and oil industries to undermine science, but also has fed into a broader sense of distrust in facts and experts which has spread far beyond climate change.
I should strongly urge you to reconsider the current premise of your proposed series which seems to be based on the flawed conspiracy theories promoted by Naomi Oreskes & Erik Conway in their 2010 book (and 2014 film), “Merchants of Doubt”. I would recommend you read the attached 3-page critique (Attachment 2) of this pseudo-scientific conspiracy theory by Oreskes & Conway.
Instead, if you genuinely want to address the vested interests who are most seriously hindering and undermining scientific inquiry into climate change, I would urge you to read our 2018 analysis of the anti-science, anti-education and ultimately anti-environment behaviour that Greenpeace has engaged in. In particular, I would refer you to Section 2, in which we specifically review the dishonest and insidious misinformation campaigns which Kert Davies spearheaded while he was Greenpeace USA’s Research Director. I’ve attached a .pdf copy (Attachment 1), but you can also download a copy from the Heartland Institute’s website here: https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/analysis-of-greenpeace-business-model.
We’d like to offer you the opportunity to respond to the points we intend to broadcast. We therefore draw your attention to the following:
1) You received millions of dollars for your research through 2000 up to 2015 from fossil fuel interests including Southern Company, American Petroleum Institute, Exxon Mobil Foundation. Is that the case? Would you like to respond?
WS: This is definitely not the case. I have definitely not “received millions of dollars for your research through 2000 up to 2015”. My employer, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is simply not that generous. Frankly, if making money was my main priority, I would not have gone into science. Indeed, if I did not care about science or the environment, maybe I would have found it more lucrative to work for an advocacy group like Greenpeace, which as we discuss in the attached report has an annual turnover of about $400 million.
My salary has come from the Center since I started as a staff position in 1997. Until about 2008, I had no involvement in where the Center received its funding. After my immediate supervisor retired in 2009, one of my additional duties was to write grant proposals on behalf of the Center, which has received funding from many sources including government, industry, charities, foundations and many others. This includes the three groups you mentioned, amongst many others.
However, most employees (including me) receive their salary through the Center. This has the advantage that our research is uninfluenced by the Center’s funding sources. In any case, I am a scientist. I believe it is important to follow the science wherever it leads. I appreciate that there probably are some “scientists” out there who might alter their research results to facilitate vested interests, but the idea is abhorrent to me.
2) Kert Davies of the Climate Investigations Centre says your research was used to slow down progress on climate change. Would you like to respond?
On the contrary, in my opinion, the dishonest and unethical misinformation spearheaded by Kert Davies of the Climate Investigations Center (and previously Greenpeace USA) has been used to slow down progress on genuine climate change research. See for example, Section 2 of our Greenpeace attached report, where we describe what he did through his “ExxonSecrets” campaigns.
3) Our guests outline that this played into a broader campaign to misrepresent the data on climate change, leading to many people doubting legitimate climate change science. Would you like to respond to this?
Again, on the contrary, in my opinion, it is the misinformation promoted by Kert Davies and others like him that is “leading to many people doubting legitimate climate change science”. Often the original sources of this misinformation seem to have arisen from people associated with campaigning groups who have a vested interest in downplaying the extensive ongoing scientific debate within the scientific community on many aspects of climate change: for instance, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, the David Suzuki Foundation (in particular, see the DeSmogBlog website co-founded by the Chair of this foundation, James Hoggan), the Union of Concerned Scientists, etc.
If you visit the websites of any of these groups, you will quickly find that many of their campaigns explicitly rely on the assumption that “97% of scientists agree” and “the science is settled”. In fact, as Legates et al. (2015), of which I was a co-author, demonstrated that the widely-quoted Cook et al. (2013) paper that purported to find 97.1% of 11,944 peer-reviewed climate papers published in the 21 years 1991-2011 all agreed that climate change is mostly human caused, was based on flawed analysis and bad science. Upon a close inspection of their data, they had only found 64 papers or 0.5% of their sample had explicitly argued that climate change was mostly human caused. A subsequent examination showed that only 41 of these, or 0.3% of the original sample, had made that statement. On the other hand, 27 papers concluded the exact opposite that i.e., climate change is mostly natural. Vast majority of the papers did not make any statements one way or the other. For more details on the 97% consensus myth, please read here.
As we discussed in our Greenpeace report, these campaigns can be very lucrative for the campaigning groups. As a result, an honest reporting of the messy and contentious scientific debates that continue to this day within the scientific community would directly harm their claims of “scientific consensus” and “settled science”.
Our case study of Greenpeace showed that it has an annual turnover of about $0.4 billion, and that from 1994-2017 they spent $521 million (i.e., more than $0.5 billion) on their “Climate/Climate & energy” campaigns. In comparison, Greenpeace’s “ExxonSecrets” campaign (led by Kert Davies) claimed that ExxonMobil allegedly spent $1.8 million/year over the period 1998-2014 on “funding climate denial” and that this supposedly substantially altered the public discourse on climate change. I encourage you to read our complete analysis in the report. Meanwhile, consider that if Kert Davies were correct that the alleged $1.8 million/year from ExxonMobil on “funding climate denial” has substantially altered the public discourse on climate change, what was the impact of Greenpeace’s $31 million/year expenditure on “Climate/Climate & energy” campaigning, 17 times greater than Exxon’s alleged expenditure?
4) You have been characterised as downplaying the impact of human activities on climate change. Is that a fair portrayal of your work?
No, definitely not. My climate change research considers all of the plausible mechanisms for climate change that are discussed in the scientific literature. I’m not sure of what definition you have in mind, but to me “downplaying” means making something appear less important than it really is. If that’s the same definition you are using, then that is the exact opposite of my research. My research involves trying to find out exactly how important each of the many proposed climate change mechanisms are in current, past and future climate change.
It is true that many scientists (in particular, several of the main computer modelling groups) have “downplayed” (to use your word) the role of solar variability and other forms in recent and historic climate change. So, by not downplaying these important factors, my work often leads to more nuanced, and in my opinion, more accurate and reliable, conclusions.
Indeed, several of my recent publications have argued that the current global and regional temperature datasets have substantially underestimated the role of a specific local form of human-caused climate change, i.e., the urban heat island phenomenon. The Urban Heat Island is a well-recognized form of local climate change that has nothing to do with greenhouse gas emissions, but is definitely a result of human activities. This is an underappreciated problem because even though urban areas only comprise 1-2% of the planet, many of the weather stations used in current global temperature datasets and most of the ones with the longest records are urbanized. This appears to have led to a sampling bias: the trends of the sampled data are unrepresentative of the global trends.
Your response would be appreciated in writing to the above by 7th July 2020 so we can fairly and accurately reflect any comments you wish to make, where appropriate. Please respond to: [redacted]
For your information we also intend to report:
1) That a 1995 draft primer to the Global Climate Coalition dismisses solar variability, which we describe as your main thesis. The primer says it’s ‘accounted for 0.1 degrees C temperature increase in the last 120 years, it is an interesting finding, but it does not allay concerns about future warming which could result from greenhouse gas emissions.’ [SOURCE: Primer sent from L S Bernstein, Exxon Mobil, Environmental health and safety department, to members of GCC, 21ST December 1995. Made publicly available as part of the court case ‘Green Mountain Chrysler Plymouth Dodge Jeep v. Crombie’ 2005.]
Are you implying that the Global Climate Coalition had already in their 1995 document reached “the definitive answers” on the complex and challenging problem of the attribution of recent and future climate change, a year before IPCC’s Second Assessment Report and nearly 20 years before its fifth? Are you suggesting that all scientific research into climate change since 1995 is redundant?
I’m not sure how you think science works, but that is utter nonsense. Climate change is a complex multi-causal phenomenon, and scientists have been debating the relative importance of different factors since the 19th century, particularly following the discovery of the ice ages.
The role of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is in many ways the easiest to assess, because according to the Antarctic ice core estimates, atmospheric CO2 has increased near-exponentially from pre-industrial concentrations of nearly 0.03% to a little above 0.04% today. In contrast, the role of the Sun is a much more challenging subject: there is much ongoing debate over which estimates of past “Total Solar Irradiance” (TSI), i.e., solar output, are most reliable. There are also ongoing debates over the various mechanisms by which solar variability influences the Earth’s climate.
If you are interested in learning more about the ongoing debates in the scientific literature over this, I would recommend reading our comprehensive 2015 review paper: Soon et al. (2015), Earth-Science Reviews, Vol. 150, p 409-452. You can download a copy from my CfA website here. If you don’t have time to read the full 44-page article, which is technical in places, there is a simpler overview here:
https://ceres-science.com/content/Evaluating_human-caused_and_natural_contributions_recent_global_warming.html
However, one of the problems inherent in the research of those groups who “downplay” (to use your word again) the role of solar variability in recent and historic climate change and instead focus on CO2 as the “primary climate driver” (as the current computer models do), is that they find it very difficult to explain climate changes before about 1950, as CO2 seems to have still been only 0.031% then.
A consequence of this is that in order to try and fit the historic global temperature trends in terms of CO2 as the primary climate driver, researchers have had to:
a. Increase the modelled “climate sensitivity” of global temperatures to CO2 concentrations; and
b. Revise the estimates of past climate changes to downplay the climate variability before about 1950.
A bizarre result of these attempts to “shoehorn” CO2 as the primary climate driver is that even the IPCC’s latest (Fifth) Assessment Report still suggests that the “Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity” (ECS) to CO2 could be anything from 1.5 °C to 4.5 °C. This year (Meehl et al, 2020, Zelinka et al. 2020) it is reported that the sixth-generation models of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project find the spread to be 1.8-5.6 °C. ECS is the expected global warming that would occur from a doubling of CO2.
In a recent scientific paper that we published in March, we showed that the value of this metric has major implications for international climate change policies. If ECS is at the higher end of the IPCC’s “likely” range, then the 2015 Paris Agreement would be broken in a few decades if we continue “business-as-usual”. However, if ECS is less than 2 °C, then if we continued “business-as-usual” for the rest of the century, the Paris Agreement wouldn’t be broken until at least the 22nd century. That seems to me a pretty important point that the BBC should be discussing.
In case you’re interested, you can download our 2020 “Business-as-usual” paper here: Connolly et al. (2020), Energies, Vol. 13, 1365. Again, it is a rather long paper. However, I hope you appreciate by now that these are complex problems, and that there is a lot of ongoing scientific debate within the scientific community on these issues.
2) That you published a paper in 2006 relating to Polar Bears which concluded that there was no reason for alarm for their continued safety. Please let me know if that’s incorrect.
WS: Incorrect.
I’m not sure what “2006” paper you are referring to. I did co-author three scientific papers which looked at polar bear populations around that time, but none in 2006. It is possible that you’re referring to Dyck et al. (2007) as that was accepted for publication subject to minor revisions in October 2006 (after a lengthy peer review process), but it was not officially published until April 2007.
In any case, that was not the conclusion of the paper.
I also co-authored a follow-on paper, Dyck et al. (2008), in response to some comments on the 2007 paper, and I was a co-author on a separate paper, Armstrong et al. (2008) which also looked at forecasting of polar bear populations.
The three papers are:
· Dyck et al. (2007), Ecological Complexity, Vol. 4., p 73-84. Pdf available here.
· Dyck et al. (2008), Ecological Complexity, Vol. 5, p 289-302. Pdf available here.
This was a response to comments in Stirling et al. (2008), Ecological Complexity, Vol. 5, p 193-201. Pdf available here.
· Armstrong et al. (2008), Interfaces, Vol. 38, p 382-405. Pdf available here.
I would recommend reading the papers to find out the exact details of what we found in those papers, in particular, the Dyck et al. (2007) which I suspect is probably the “2006” paper you were referring to. However, in brief, two researchers (Ian Stirling and Andrew Derocher) and colleagues had published a series of papers in which they concluded that the primary factor in the local polar bear populations in the western Hudson Bay region was global warming from increasing CO2. Specifically, they argued that the long-term spring-time warming since the 1970s in the region was: (a) due to increasing CO2, (b) was reducing local sea ice cover and (c) leading to reductions in local polar bear population.
We looked at the basis for their claims and realized that their analysis was scientifically flawed for multiple reasons. For instance, they apparently hadn’t realized that while the Arctic has warmed since the 1970s, it followed a period of Arctic cooling from the 1940s-1970s, and there was a similar warm period to present during the early 20th century. If their theory was correct, then the polar bear populations should have responded accordingly during those pre-1970s periods. They didn’t. Instead, we found that the local polar bear populations appear to be more influenced by other factors, such as the numbers of bears that are allowed to be hunted.
More recently, I have co-authored a study in which we reconstructed Arctic sea ice cover back to 1900, and found that the variability in Arctic sea ice cover is a lot greater than the IPCC had assumed in their latest reports: Connolly et al. (2017), Hydrological Sciences Journal, vol. 62, p1317-1340. I also co-authored a study in 2019 in which we compared the observed snow cover trends for the entire Northern Hemisphere since 1967 to the trends which the IPCC computer models say should have occurred – according to their assumption that CO2 is the primary climate driver. The results were shocking. The current computer models are unable to explain the observed trends in snow cover for either winter, spring, summer or fall. None of the 196 computer model simulations that the IPCC used for their most recent report succeeded in replicating the observed 1967-2018 trends for any of the seasons. The paper is: Connolly et al. (2019), Geosciences, vol. 9, 135.
As a result, these two recent papers reveal that the computer models which Stirling and Derocher as well as the IPCC had been relying on for their analysis of the Arctic seriously “downplayed” the natural variability in Arctic sea ice and seriously “up-played” the role of CO2in recent trends.
BBC Radio Current Affairs; [redacted]
A final thought: I think it important that you should understand that science is not a matter of mere politics: it is an earnest, continuing and rigorous search for the objective truth. In this reply I have given you some indication of the fact that your underlying premise – that there is only one scientific viewpoint on the climate question and that all other scientific opinions are bought and paid for by vested interests running counter to the vested interest of the BBC – is in all respects wholly false.
Are you a campaigner for a cause that is rooted in such bad science, or are you a proper journalist willing to ask real questions? The moment you begin to look at the climate question not through the eyes of blind faith, not through the lens of political zeal, but through the searing prism of logic and scientific method, you will realize that there are two sides to the climate question based on the data currently available.
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What a great response
Dodgy Geezer
I fear that this is (mostly) a poor response.
It is all completely accurate, but it fails to respond in the proper bureaucratic manner, and therefore leaves Dr Soon open to being misquoted. Remember, this is not about science – it is about communicating with an enemy. My detailed comments are below:
1. You are charged with receiving millions of dollars for research from Evil Big Oil. Saying that ‘it is not the case’ is not true – the HSC DID receive that money. The BBC can now claim that you denied receiving any money, and then show the grant allocations, making you look like a liar.
2 – You are charged that ‘your research was used to slow down progress on climate change’. Saying that Greenpeace did the same is no defence. Note that they say that your research ‘was used’ – that means that they can get a quote of yours from a real extremist group and smear you by association.
3 – As 2) above. They are blaming you for the use other people made of your work. This is a clever trick – if you complain that you are not responsible for what other people say they will immediately ask you to disavow them, and then use that statement to smear the others…
4 – This is a good response. It won’t stop them presenting you as ‘believing in human activity as a cause of warming’, however.
1 – Essentially, they intend to say that ‘the science is settled’. So your comment that it isn’t can just be brushed aside. They are certainly not interested in learning anything from you.
2 – They also want to smear you as not caring about Polar Bears. Again, they do NOT want to read the papers – they would not understand them and would simply be bored if they tried. You respond properly by telling them that they are incorrect, but you go on to give far too much information. They will mine this for anything else that they can smear you with…
Reply to Dodgy Geezer
If someone intends on misquoting and misrepresenting what one says, there is nothing you can do to go through them to address those smears. Replying as he did here is fine, since they will just keep smearing him if that is their intent. In this case silence would be worse, because then they’ll use your silence as a smear that you couldn’t rebut their accusations. Just recognize they’ll just keep smearing and distorting the new responses, but don’t remain silent. They want their adversaries to be cowed and remain silent to their lies.
What You have to do is get your unalteredmessage out through another party, as Dr Soon has done here (WUWT) and also via HeartLand’s channels.
beng135
If someone intends on misquoting and misrepresenting what one says, there is nothing you can do to go through them to address those smears. Replying as he did here is fine, since they will just keep smearing him if that is their intent
Exactly. Dr Soon did all he could do. Won’t make any difference to the corrupt BBC & their sycophants, but at least his response is out in the public where some rational people will see & understand it.
Samuel C Cogar
Reply to beng135
“ but at least his response is out in the public where some rational people will see & understand it.”
I don’t think the BBC targets rational people.
I truly believe that Dr. Willie Soon has made a terrible mistake by responding to queries from MS Phoebe Keane that she was GOING TO produce a BBC Radio series about the way oil companies have over emphasized the uncertainty around climate change, which, when completed will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the UK.
Phoebe Keane now has Willie Soon’s response to whatever question or comment that she cares to “pair-up” with when recording her BBC Radio series. It will probably result in an “out-of-context” comedy.
“….If someone intends on misquoting and misrepresenting what one says, there is nothing you can do….”
To a point, Lord Copper.
I did not work in the UK Cabinet Office/Treasury for 20 years without learning some of the tricks that are used. The first point to note is that this is not a dispassionate search for the truth – it is far closer to a game of tennis. Each side serves and returns a message – trying to position their opponent in such a way that they have to give in. Each side needs to consider the weaknesses and strengths of the other’s case, and provide returns which, ideally, put your opponent on the back foot.
I do not intend to devote a long time to considering an appropriate strategy for this case. It can require deep thought! But the BBC obviously require some validation from Dr Soon before broadcasting, otherwise they would not have made this request, and Dr Soon should be careful not to give them the validation that they require. Expanding the process into a conversation might have helped – rather than giving the BBC a set of possible papers about Polar Bears to chose from, for instance, he could just have stated that their references were in error and requested the BBC to state just which paper they were talking about. It is never a good idea to provide lots of extra information in these discussions – any lawyer will tell you that….
As always, the UK TV series ‘Yes Minister’ is full of useful hints….
Dodgy Geezer !
You ARE the real “Bernard Woolley” and I claim my Five Pounds !
ex-KaliforniaKook
Excellent comment, Dr. Geezer. That was one of my biggest faults during my engineering career – giving the Government customer too much information. They were amazing at being able to twist my meanings – and sometimes my words. Please understand that much of the US Government contracting force wants the contractor to fail. It makes them look like a real watchdog – someone who is really on the ball.
I still remember the day (14 years into my career) when I first heard the Government call into a telecon with this greeting: “Good morning, McDonnell Douglas! This is Colonel (redacted). How can we help you succeed today?” I nearly fell off my chair. I remember looking to one of my new teammates. What kind of treachery was this? He quietly assured me this customer wanted us to succeed. I was flabbergasted, and not quite believing, but he and his team were true to their word. Two other customers later in my career had the same interest, and enforced that interest on their systems integration teams. Those were awesome programs – all about achieving the improbably.
But most of the time: answer the question as briefly as possible, and if possible, have your contracting people (lawyers) do the talking. They know little technically, so won’t/can’t say much. Dr. Soon, God bless him, likely gave them ammunition, as they can parse and edit his responses, and who in the press is going to honestly fact-check them?
Ah, yes. The NYT or WaPo.
ALLAN MACRAE
My friend Willie copied me and others on his response to Ms Keane. I replied as follows:
From: Allan MacRae
Sent: July-13-20 9:41 PM
To: Soon, Willie; Phoebe Keane
Subject: RE: reply to your letter on BBC radio series, Willie Soon right of reply
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/07/12/climate-wars-try-removing-the-word-denier-from-a-wikipedia-entry/#comment-3034361
“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.” – Albert Einstein
There are more than 25 credible dis-proofs of the climate-and-green-energy scam, but as Einstein said, one would be enough. The catastrophic global warming/climate crisis was never real – it was always a false narrative, concocted by the extreme-left to achieve their political objectives. The left lie all the time – it is their core competence.
THE CATASTROPHIC ANTHROPOGENIC GLOBAL WARMING (CAGW) AND THE HUMANMADE CLIMATE CHANGE CRISES ARE PROVED FALSE
By Allan M.R. MacRae, B.A.Sc.(Eng.), M.Eng., January 10, 2020
https://thsresearch.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/the-catastrophic-anthropogenic-global-warming-cagw-and-the-humanmade-climate-change-crises-are-proved-false.pdf
– Allan MacRae
Sent: July-14-20 2:54 AM
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/07/06/duke-energy-dominion-abandon-the-8-billion-atlantic-coast-pipeline/#comment-3030178
It’s all a leftist scam – the enviro BS including the phony court challenges, the full-Gulag lockdown for Covid-19, paid-and-planned protests by Antifa and BLM – it’s all lies.
We published that the climate-and-green-energy rant was a false narrative in 2002, and by 2012 or earlier I wrote that there was a covert agenda, Now the greens are admitting that climate-and-energy was false propaganda, a smokescreen for their totalitarian objectives.(*1)
The green objective is to destroy prosperity and move the USA into a planned economy – with a few rich at the top looking down on the many poor peasants. That model now describes most of the countries in the world. Europe and Canada are far down that path, and the USA will follow if Biden and the Demo-Marxists are elected.
Published 4July2020
In 2002 Dr Sallie Baliunas, Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian, Dr Tim Patterson, Paleoclimatologist, Carleton U and Allan MacRae TOLD YOU SO 18 YEARS AGO:
http://www.friendsofscience.org/assets/documents/KyotoAPEGA2002REV1.pdf
1. “Climate science does not support the theory of catastrophic human-made global warming – the alleged warming crisis does not exist.”
See Michael Shellenberger’s 2020 confession “On Behalf Of Environmentalists, I Apologize For The Climate Scare”. https://quillette.com/2020/06/30/on-behalf-of-environmentalists-i-apologize-for-the-climate-scare/
2. “The ultimate agenda of pro-Kyoto advocates is to eliminate fossil fuels, but this would result in a catastrophic shortfall in global energy supply – the wasteful, inefficient energy solutions proposed by Kyoto advocates simply cannot replace fossil fuels.”
See Michael Moore’s 2020 film “Planet of the Humans”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE
Regarding Michael Shellenberger’s 2020 condemnation of the false climate scare and Michael Moore’s 2020 film slagging green energy schemes based on intermittency and diffusivity, I say “better late than never”. The irony is that “the Michaels”, who were wrong for decades, have more credibility with their recent conversions than those of us who were never deceived by the leftists’ climate-and-energy scams. We never lied to you.
The Michaels are now under attack by their former green comrades, who want to preserve their false climate and green-energy scams that have so effectively deceived the pubic and our politicians and squandered trillions of dollars. The Michaels both deserve kudos for having the courage to tell the truth, especially considering how radically they have changed direction from their former positions.
The leftists have already started their counterattack – censoring Shellenberger’s article in Forbes magazine and attempting to block Moore’s film on YouTube. The Michaels are being cancelled.
1. WHAT THE GREEN NEW DEAL IS REALLY ABOUT — AND IT’S NOT THE CLIMATE
By Allan M.R. MacRae, B.A.Sc., M.Eng., July 19, 2019
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/07/20/what-the-green-new-deal-is-really-about-and-its-not-the-climate/
2. THE COST TO SOCIETY OF RADICAL ENVIRONMENTALISM
By Allan M.R. MacRae, B.A.Sc., M.Eng., July 4, 2019
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/07/04/the-cost-to-society-of-radical-environmentalism/
Reply to ALLAN MACRAE
Apologies to Moderator – I forgot to delete the links.
How very very careless of you Allan 😇
I had to apologize. The last time I left in links they made me cut off my little finger.
Sent: July-15-20 11:00 PM
To: Phoebe Keane
Cc: Soon, Willie
Ms. Keane:
Your story is discussed here.
wattsupwiththat.com/2020/07/13/bbc-asks-dr-willie-soon-to-respond-to-climate-conspiracy-claims/
The expectation is that despite the true facts that have been provided to you, you will still publish a pack of slanderous lies about Dr. Willie Soon.
As I’ve written previously, “The left lie all the time – it is their core competence”. I understand your position – When you are a leftist, lies are all you’ve got! “When all you’ve got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” But a lie is still a lie – that would concern you if you were an honest person.
You may not have noticed, but the world is finally waking up to leftist falsehoods. “The Michaels”, Shellenberger and Moore, have finally told the truth about the abject failure of global warming alarmism and green energy scams, facts that we have known for decades and published in 2002!
The rats are leaving the sinking ship – it’s time to re-think your position, your pack of lies. Don’t be the last to jump ship.
Regards, Allan MacRae
Your analysis is spot on, Dodgy Geezer. Also, contacting Dr Soon via the Heartland Institute provides an opportunity to use ‘guilt’ by association.
It won’t change one thing about this broadcast.
This is by the same producer Phoebe Keane on The Why Factor? Why is climate change so politicised?
https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/why-is-climate-change-so-politicised/id561904920?i=1000436061869 made in 2020.
Keane’s new BFF is none other than Naomi Oreskes aided by a stream of political and psychological BS from Daniel Sarewitz and Sander van der Linden. Democrats came out as heroes and Republicans came out as ditherers on climate change.
This podcast was totally one sided and that’s what will happen to the Willie Soon podcast.
Anthony Robb
As a Brit I’m ashamed of the BBC and have spent many fruitless hours complaining about their climate change coverage. The BBC’s responses never once attempted to address my specific points – they were dismissed time after time with repeated invocations to ‘the consensus’ and authority. Attempts to point out that consensus and authority have often held back scientific progress and should never be used to counter real scientific observations simply produced further references to authority and consensus.
Willie Soon is gifted, honest and good-natured and I, too, doubt very much that he will get a fair hearing at the BBC – no matter how watertight or forceful his reply.
It seems to me that his reply was in very much keeping with his scientific integrity and gentlemanly principles. The people in charge at the BBC are scoundrels and will stick to their guns no matter how strongly the argument is made against them. Perhaps a deluge of quite specific complaints from WUWT followers might be the best way to show the BBC that it is not a big oil conspiracy but genuine science which motivates the doubters.
David Yaussy
Ditto. Thoughtful and well-written, with just enough of the well-justified impatience that comes from working hours on a response that you know will be misrepresented.
Accurate, but ultimately, pointless response to the BBC who will continue to be complete advocates for climate catastrophe alarm in all their broadcasts, whatever the facts. Also, the reply has far too many words of more than one syllable for many BBC journalists to be bothered to read. Hopefully, the BBC will not be funded through the public purse for much longer.
“The BBC has an established history of stifling genuine scientific inquiry and nuanced debate….”
One might ask with genuine interest and the intent to get a simple answer: exactly what is it that the media in general and in this case, BBC specifically, are afraid of?
No one is addressing this, which in my view is a mistake. What ARE they afraid of?
TonyN
“What ARE they afraid of?”
I suspect it is to do with their pension fund, which IIRC went nap on renewables. A risky move with no obvious upside that will result in smaller pensions , and the possible loss of management autonomy.
Reply to TonyN
I would argue that they’re afraid that the general public might take notice, and after a cursory review, take note of the absolute lack of credibility they have shown. Then wonder why they’re paying for such tripe.
Toby Ellenor
This question strikes at the heart of the problem, what ARE they afraid of ?
Is somebody giving them money to publish things, are they being coerced or are their Jobs and Pensions on the line if they do not push the Global Warming narrative and lastly, does the EU in Brussels have any interest in this ?
They’re not afraid of anything except individualism, Sara.
They’re collectivist radicals convinced of their rectitude. They suppress because anyone who disagrees with them is ipso facto wrong and evil.
But in every case, the “issue” is not the issue. The issue is power. Toadyism is the only accepted position, and even that does not guarantee safety.
Were they to get true control, look for a return of baldly political executions.
Andrew Dickens
What are they afraid of? That isn’t the right question. The fact is that hardly any BBC employees have any sort of scientific background or training. And there is a strong culture of Groupthink in the organisation. Effectively, they are brainwashed. There is no chance that the BBC will ever change their opinions on the subject of climate change – there is too much face to be lost.
Any BBC employee who does not toe the policy line is swiftly cancelled, silence, sacked, whatever. The weird thing is, they all think they are right, and that anyone who disagrees with them is either stupid or else paid by evil Big Oil organisations to express their opinions.
There is no chance of Willie Soon’s views getting fair treatment on the Radio 4 programme.
Reply to Andrew Dickens
I’ll go further than that, and say there is no chance of any such programme on Radio 4 ever being broadcast at all. Though the shill greenwash Producer may be keen, higher-ups will be trembling in their chairs at the response and the logic of Dr. Soon, and at the comments in here, lest their sinecure schemes and scams be exposed to the irascible Public’s steely gaze.
It is certain that if such a series was broadcast, such proselytising for climate alarmism would lead to a barrage of complaints about unwarranted BBC profligacy, and could precipitate the end of cozy junkets around the Globe for Senior BBC Management.
They are Marxists. So they have the fragility of not controlling other people.
fatherup
As an Englishman I would like to apologize for you having to respond to such a shoddy organization as the BBC, please keep up the good work.
Paul S Webb
Phillip Bratby
Reply to fatherup
The BBC has become increasingly biased. It has been taken over by the left-wing Green Blob. It should be defunded and allowed to wither away. The BBC is an embarassment.
Reply to Phillip Bratby
The BBC still produces some fabulous programmes on Tv and radio. 99% of these have nothing to do with climate change. Of that small fraction that do, yes indeed the BBC are shockingly biased. They seem to be run by very woke eco warrior
Ron Long
tonyb, if you are correct about some redeeming aspect of the BBC is correct, it places them light-years ahead of CNN. When you watch CNN start a report, you start wondering how will they blame Trump for this? And then they do it, and it is so stupid you wonder who their audience is (other than the morbidly curious like myself). Is Dr. Willie Soon the real deal or what? By the way, I sat on an Executive Advisory Committee for CONOCO, and we never discussed bad or fraudulent conduct, totally to the contrary.
In my opinion, the “fabulous programmes” make up a relatively small percentage of BBC output. There is hardly a programme which is not influenced in some way by left/liberal propaganda. Even Countryfile has got in on the act. So the 99% is a large percentage of a small output. There are plenty more issues on which the BBC uses its output to put forward propaganda. One such issue is assisted suicide. And now they are beginning to push three-way relationships (2 men/one woman – 2 women/one man). And has anybody seen a programme on BBC in which President Trump is protrayed positively? Then there is health. The BBC made a programme in which they interviewed a nuber of heath “experts”. All crticised the UK Conservative government. All of them were exposed as having links with either the Labour Party or other anti-government groups.
https://order-order.com/2020/04/28/panoramas-ppe-investigation-party-political-broadcast/
Reply to Alba
Looking at the schedules for tonight during evening viewing times there are five interesting sounding programmes on BBC 4′ two on BBC 2 ans one on BBC1
There are also half a dozen radio programmes worth listening to.
The overwhelming majority of BBC programmes have nothing whatsoever to do with climate change. Those that do are extremely irritating but they are small in number
Gerry, England
Not every BBC programme promotes global warming but just about every programme promotes their leftish woke agenda in some way either by content or the people they employ.
There is some heartening news that they are making cuts to their news staff, it may not be many but it is a start.
Other good news this week has been the lefties and BBC house newspaper The Guardian is cutting staff as revenue drops and their losses increase.
climanrecon
The climate and other woke campaigning is present in most BBC output, they decide the answer in advance, undertake relentless promotion, and fail to allow contrary voices, except when attempting to smear them.
Reply to climanrecon
Marxists always seek to silence dissent.
“they decide the answer in advance”
Extremely evident from the “reporter’s” questions.
John Endicott
The BBC still produces some fabulous programmes on Tv and radio
and of what few of those that remain have sadly been infected with left-wing “woke” propaganda/politics, many fatally so.
tonyb, if that’s true, then they should have no trouble finding people who are willing to pay for that “fine programming”.
As much as I respect a lot of your work this comment about the BBC is totally wrong. The BBC produces no watchable programs at all. They used to but not any more. All of the programs have been modified to include LBTARHXIMGTASYKUJ global warming, BLM etc. A while back I saw a clip from a children’s program where kids were stood in front of a red painted box which they called a fossil fuel boiler and it was shaking and rattling.
The kids were forced to say …. yes, you guessed it “It’s really good we have the windmills and solar panels outside “.
Their gardening programs are more about handicapped, black communities, green rooves, etc.
Tonyb – As a long time viewer of these ‘fabulous’ BBC programs i am forced to disagree. BBC used to produce fabulous programs. Everything they produce now is laden with liberal propaganda and social engineering. I’ve stopped watching their programs.
I disagree. The response is both accurate and appropriate. Dr Soon is well aware that it will be presented in very limited bites and out of context. Yet recent defections from the group think CAGW cult will likely cause some to actually read the response in whole, including the links.
They will and have slandered Dr Soon regardless. What better to fight lies with then truth? Dr Soon has presented that opportunity. He has provided the water, no one can force another to drink.
Technetium99
Worth leading a better informed “BBC-free” life, like the ABC-free lives the majority of us lead here….we turned off in great numbers years ago when ‘their ABC’ began promoting their alarmist and myopic programs based on bad science. Bliss…
MikeHig
Tony b; while the BBC may put out some good material, it’s my understanding that much of it is bought in from independent production companies.
The BBC produce surprisingly few programs these days. A large number are bought in from external companies now.
The BBC has been left-wing for a long long time.
fretslider
What an embarrassment the BBC is
Charles Nelson
Reply to fretslider
Defund the BBC.
As another Englishman, I second that.
As I am nearly 75, I was looking forwards to no longer paying the license fee, but now they have taken that away.
I couldn’t care less about the money. What I do care about is being forced to pay for a left wing propaganda organisation that is the enemy of the truth.
Reply to Chris Wright
Don’t pay it. I stopped after a few years when I lived in the UK.
Don’t worry, the money they are getting from you is going to be spent on a £100 million ‘diversity’ policy.
Richard (the cynical one)
She’s gonna choke on all those facts, Willie! That’s too much solid food for an unweaned infant. She needs her pablum thin and bland.
Philip Mulholland
Reply to Richard (the cynical one)
The phrase “culturally inept” comes to mind.
Reply to Philip Mulholland
it’s actually racism ironically
Poor Willie has errored; he has assumed that she can read and understand logic; if she could she would not be working at the BBC.
A thorough and appropriate response, Dr. Soon.
mikebartnz
I just don’t understand why this dead horse is still being flogged to death as it died ages ago. I suspect that the horse was never even born.
Reply to mikebartnz
For whatever reason, this reminds me of Lieutenant Kije. A slip of the pen resulted in the creation of Kije and the ruse took on a life of its own.
It also reminds me of, “Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.” link
The result is a house of cards that eventually has to collapse in on itself. Future generations will wonder how we were so stupid.
I remember being shown various examples of bad science, one of which was the work of Samuel George Morton on human skulls. The question is still argued over whether Morton actually cooked his data or just misinterpreted it. In any event, his work warped the progress of science for generations.
reminds me of Lieutenant Kije.
There was a similar MASH episode where some “Captain” was invented, then rumored, and the whole camp went bonkers preparing for a visit by this heroic “Captain”, who was completely imaginary.
“…[H]is work warped the progress of science for generations.”
Just like Sigmund Freud.
Reply to jorgekafkazar
Who, apparently, wore slips.
I suspect that the BBC will report “failed to respond”.
Reply to lee
It will actually report:
” We gave Dr Soon an opportunity to respond, but he produced a long technical comment which did not address our central complaint that he does not agree with the consensus and is therefore a bad scientist…”
IanH
Reply to IanH
Yes, he’s grasped the essence of Green denialism so perfectly, I’m beginning to look slanchwise at Dodgy Geezer. 🙂
Sabotage is best done from the inside…
kakatoa
I hope the BBC, or another investigative group, has a chance to explore the effectiveness of Research Activism (1). I concur with G. Couch’s thoughts-
….”Those who stop questioning, especially their own theories and work (or hinder others testing them) have lost the right to claim a “scientist” title.”….
1) https://i2insights.org/2020/07/07/researcher-activism-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-29949
That was my first thought – ‘declined to appear’!
But what a superb reply from Dr. Soon.
I should imagine his first point would have rattled their woke-correctness and the rest will be sadly over their heads.
We made multiple attempts to solicit a response from “Dr” “Willie” “Soon”, but his rambling and delusional reply came too late to be included prior to our production deadline. Take it from this trusted journalist that there was nothing relevant in his belated reply.
Indeed. She said “Your response would be appreciated in writing to the above by 7th July 2020”. I’m curious as to how little time prior to that date she sent her “questions” (IE how much time she gave for a respond) I’m guessing not very long.
Reply to John Endicott
Especially since she didn’t send it to Dr. Soon directly, but had it passed to him through a third party.
WilliamO
I think you have too be British to understand the BBC and its utter bias. Anyone who doesn’t tow the party line is buried on the scrapheap and never used in any TV broadcasting from any channel in the UK.
But from this lockdown when Neil Fergusons models where found to be writing on the back of a crisp packet on a Sunday night at 5pm, and him being found too be knobing a ultra left wing destroy the world brigade married woman during his lockdown. So what did the BBC do when wondering if a second wave was coming… Thats right back to Mr. Ferguson to say his models seen this. OK Neil right.
OldCynic
‘ The series is currently titled ‘How they made us doubt everything’ and will discuss how the oil industry has carried out a campaign to make us doubt climate change. ‘
I suspect that no matter how lucidly and truthfully you write, your response will be simply ignored.
If the BBC were to accept what you have written, there would be no series – unless they were to experience a ‘road to Damascus’ conversion and rename it “How Greenpeace tried to discredit the oil industry’. I cannot see that happening because that is not the way to ensure a weekly paycheck and eventual promotion when working for the Woke.
Reply to OldCynic
Agreed, the BBC will proceed as originally intended and Dr. Soon’s response will be ignored. But I’m glad it was posted here, because it’s now a great reference source for the rest of us.
Miket
Reply to Art
Agree on both counts (unfortunately for the first). But definitely a great reference source.
The BBC and Oreskes: birds of a feather.
Reply to Ken
Oreskes 238 of 928 papers endorse AGW. Despite claims 928 because no papers actually refuted AGW. 😉
Sara Hall
What a lazy, ignorant woman!
Reply to Sara Hall
Uber Karen ie Phoebe.
John Culhane
She has been busy on twitter collecting fodder for her part of this BBC smear campaign also targeting Chevron
https://twitter.com/Phoebe_Keane/status/1277726785778696194
Here is what you can expect (from last year) using Naomi Oreskes as the source.
Why is climate change so politicised?
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/bbc-world-service/bbc-the-why-factor/e/60200598?autoplay=true
John Dawson
Reply to John Culhane
Hmmm – it seems her tweets are no longer able to be viewed by the public – only her approved followers. Funny that……
I’m making a BBC Radio series about the way oil companies have over emphasized the uncertainty around climate change.
The biggest lie going around. Obviously not the slightest bit of investigative journalism going on here. He is just parroting Noemi Klein.
4 Eyes
If Phoebe had any decency at all and just a little bit of journalistic competency and stop trying to be an activist herself she would also make a radio series addressing the way alarmist scientists have exaggerated and distorted the certainty of their so called science. And then let the public decide rather tell us what to think. She could ask Willie for his knowledge of their shenanigans and ask the alarmists to support scientifically all their assertions i.e. put the boot on the other foot. She would be surprised and rather incredulous I am sure. She could then ask Lindzen and Curry and many others for their comments. In time she might realize just how big and powerful Big Green is and just how devious some politicians have been.
Tim Groves
Reply to 4 Eyes
If Phoebe had any decency at all and just a little bit of journalistic competency, I doubt she would survive very long at the Beeb.
Reply to Tim Groves
Indeed, just a little bit of journalistic competency is enough to send her to the unemployment line.
gbaikie
I would think that, “could be anything from 1.5 °C to 4.5 °C”
is creating “uncertainty around climate change”.
Reply to gbaikie
Yes, that 1.5C to 4.5C ECS estimate is a “big” uncertainty that hasn’t changed in decades. You would think they could refine this number a little after decades of trying. But no, now they are increasing the uncertainty with their latest science fiction effort.
The “Science” definitely is not settled.
I am sure Paul Homewood will put in a complaint against the BBC if they misreport Dr Soon. Paul has had a lot of practice and has been winning.
Eric Frei
Congratulations Dr Willie Soon with that response. You ripped her a new one!
The questions were pre-loaded and she tried to set you up for a fall. Strategically wise move CC’ing people in on it and publishing it. You can see the lack of research and knowledge ….. she could have approached in a much better way but in her head you were the boogeyman, but now when she plays the “mirror mirror on the wall whose the fairest” game she knows what she is.
Reply to Eric Frei
Keane won’t even pretend to read Soon’s response. She will just have her aides sift through the response for phrases to misquote or take out of context.
Fighting propaganda with truth presupposes people want to hear the truth. Over half the population gets their “dopamine hits” daily by reading the (poorly crafted) lies….gives their worthless lives some sense of meaning…by being allied with the “good” people who care about the oppressed. A case of the arrogant feeding the arrogant.
Chris Curwen
Phoebe Keane is on LinkedIn. She is a graduate in English Literature and Drama, with a Masters in “Broadcast Journalism”. She obviously doesn’t have a clue what she’s talking about where the science is concerned, and appears to be putting together another of the BBC’s hatchet jobs on a real climate scientist. The whole basis of her series is preconceived and biased assertion. I suggest those of us who can do so should monitor the proposed radio series and complain to the BBC and the UK’s Ofcom about bias whenever it occurs.
Reply to Chris Curwen
If only she would stick to stuff like Shakespeare was gay, etc.
Michael in Dublin
While someone with a good language degree does not have the required scientific insight to question many claims made by scientists, that person should have the ability to reason carefully and logically and see flaws in the way a scientist reaches conclusions. A literature graduate works with a complete manuscript and usually has details about the writer and background. This is key to interpretation – not reading back today’s controversies and thinking or personal feelings into the text.
Today’s scientists looking at the climate are faced with the difficulty of not having “a complete manuscript” but as it were many fragments that they want to piece together. Dr. Soon recognizes this: “Climate change is a complex multi-causal phenomenon, and scientists have been debating the relative importance of different factors since the 19th century.” If this journalist only had 49 fragments totaling 985 words (5%) of Shakespeare’s play “Julius Caesar,” would she be able to reconstruct the basis of the play and recognize how the dramatist has used the historical narrative? I think not. Sadly, the degrees that Phoebe Keane completed seem to have failed to equip her to pursue a course of rigorous and coherent reasoning.
I hope this analogy will be helpful.
OweninGA
Reply to Michael in Dublin
You are describing classical literature analysis. That is sooooo last century. Now the hip academics all perform their analysis through the filter of current thought. Being “Right” means being able to analyze the text in such a way that the “current truth” is reinforced. Politics is more important than such minor concerns as the physical a psychological struggles of man.
Reply to OweninGA
Sadly, what I learned from classical languages in the seventies about the relation of patterns and how this correlates with meaning appears to be ignored in modern language studies. Languages are all fascinating – as fascinating as the pure sciences are to those who love them. However, what is done to language by activists, politicians and the media totally perverts language.
Foundational in all communication is that meaning is determined by the written or spoken context not by some meaning from a totally different context or some subjective impression. A word may occasionally have a particular connotation but there is usually an indication in the context. If language can mean whatever someone feels, this makes clear communication impossible. A good example is the vague use of the phrase “climate change” with no recognition that we have a number of very different climate zones that all have four seasons. What does this phrase mean in relation to these zones? Simply averaging temperatures across all of these is misleading at best.
“Simply averaging temperatures across all of these is misleading at best.”
A point I’ve made repeatedly over the years, always falling on deaf ears.
AGW is Not Science
“A good example is the vague use of the phrase “climate change” with no recognition that we have a number of very different climate zones that all have four seasons. What does this phrase mean in relation to these zones? Simply averaging temperatures across all of these is misleading at best.”
Well, by “Climate Change,” they of course mean by implication “caused by humans” – and they have largely succeeded in implanting that inference in people’s minds through the endless use of propaganda.
As far as it being misleading, just think of how much MORE misleading it is when they show their scary looking temperature change “graphs” in 1/10th of a degree Celsius increments, when they are based on data collected from instruments measuring to the level of FULL degrees, and with a margin of error about as big as the supposed amount of “warming” of the meaningless “average.”
Apparently a ‘Drama Queen’ looking for her calling.
Yep, and I think she’s found it – it’s raising the profile and furthering the career of Phoebe Keane, nothing more.
John McCabe
An excellent response, likely to be teased and twisted by the disgraceful BBC scum into whatever they want it to sound like.
Garland Lowe
Great response, but I think it was a waste of time. If the BBC reports on any of Dr. Soon’s responses, they will spin it to question Dr. Son’s credibility.
Reply to Garland Lowe
Journalists are a dying breed. Most have become activists in search of clicks and followers.
Reply to Derg
‘Journalists’ are obviously part of the world’s oldest profession…
Responses like this are never a waste of time. “Cast your bread upon the waters”, with every confidence, as somebody once said, that it will eventually float back to you, not only buttered but thickly spread with your favourite jam!
One of these days some reporter with a First in English and an analytical mind will decide to do a little digging and again come face to face with the question “why have these lying b******s — including my own employer! — been lying to me all this time?”
At that point — and it will come — it all becomes worthwhile. But only if people like Willie and Anthony and Paul Homewood have persisted in doing the thankless groundwork in the meantime.
Ralph Dave Westfall
Note the arrogantly condescending tone of the BBC letter. It assumes that all the allegations are true, and that Dr. Soon is some kind of criminal whom they are graciously deigning to allow to respond even though the matter is already conclusively settled.
Reply to Ralph Dave Westfall
It is clear the program has been completed and Phoebe is “generously” providing Dr Soon a heads up that his misdeeds will be part of a major “expose”.
The best weapon against such tactics is to insure widespread awareness of Dr Soon’s reply. But as Mark Twain suggested “A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes.” Phoebe has the Bully Pulpit.
Thank you Dr Soon for a well balanced response to an obviously charged and biased position letter from the BBC. As others have done, can I as a native Brit, apologise for you being asked to respond to such a discredited agenda pushing organisation such as the BBC.
Over the coming months the BBC will be rolling out its latest policy of disgrace. That is to charge the over 75 year olds’ for watching and listening to the BBC output. The older pensioners were previously exempted from paying for the BBC propaganda but now “Autie” thinks it is time to charge them? The response from the UK government to this latest foot shooting exercise, by the Biased Broadcasting Corporation BBC, will be to remove criminal penalty authority from the BBC’s fee collection service. The result of that change will stop people going to jail for failure to pay £157/year to the BBC. The jailed cohort for failure to pay the licence fee are mostly young poor women with no money to spare. Perhaps the BBC are hoping to add 80 year old pensioners with no money to their jailbird stats.
You have a greater patience than many of us Dr Soon, keep up the great work you do, and rest assured very few people actually watch or listen to the BBC despite what they claim.
Reply to Rod Evans
The licence isn’t to watch the BBC. That would not be unreasonable. You need it to watch any live TV from any source, even from abroad, and also for the BBC’s catch-up service iPlayer.
Reply to RobH
I hear what you say Rob and I know that is the general background to the licence fee. It does beg the question then, why do the BBC think they have the sole right to decide, those over 75 should be forced to now pay, with pain of imprisonment if they don’t pay the BBC’s demands?
The BBC are trying to have it both ways aren’t they?
You need a licence to tune in to all terrestrial broadcasting, or so they tell us, but only the BBC holds the right to define the price and the authority to impose jail for those who do not pay up. How very woke of them…..
Michael Boyles
When your pension is, in part, dependant on investments in renewable energy schemes (the claimed antidote to CO2 emissions) what else can you expect from the biased BBC?
Reply to Michael Boyles
Yes, what will happen to pension funds when the renewable energy schemes racket is fully exposed?
Not much relevant. The BBC is a religious organization, they believe in Politics.
Paul from Oz
The ABC in Oz has got to be even worse.
There is NO way that the ABC would invite a response by an evil denier of the apocalypse.
The thought would not enter their tiny ,well remunerated souls.
Thomho
Reply to Paul from Oz
Paul is right-our ABC is even worse
WUWT readers may be staggered to learn that the first time anyone ever suggested that the huge bushfires in OZ in December – January were predictable because of the drying effects of the Indian Ocean Dipole, which had been explained by our Bureau of Meteorology, was first mentioned by Michael Manne as a guest on the ABC’s Q and A program earlier this year.
That was the first time the IOD was ever mentioned on the ABC.Up to then (and still is) it was of course climate change that caused the fires was a given in any ABC discussion programs
Geraldine Doogue, one of the ABC’s better presenters on her Saturday morning radio program, confessed she had never heard of the IOD -well of course she hadn’t How could she when she works at the ABC
Two words sum up Dr Soon:
thorough and meticulous
No scientist could wish for a higher accolade.
That makes 97.
My guess is they will cherry-pick to suit their narrative
The full list of programmes is here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000l7q1/broadcasts/upcoming
Ulick Stafford
If he is interviewed Willie should record the entire interview and post to YouTube or other site. I have no doubt they would talk to him for hours to try and get one ‘incriminating’ soundbite.
It is unfortunate that real journalism seems to be dead, if it ever lived in the first place.
Reply to Ulick Stafford
Students go into journalism “to make the world a better place”…according to Marx.
There are no jobs available for real journalists…unless John Solomon needs some help.
Andrew Conway
Great response. Well said.
My advice is to ignore the Bonkers Biased Corpse. They are a propaganda outfit with no interest in the truth. They use the Lewandowsky tactic: tell blatant lies, knowing that even if they are eventually forced to retract, only a very few will ever hear the retraction and the audience will only remember their lies.
No, she should not ask Curry or Lindzen for their comments on real science, she should ask Mann and Oreskes for their comments and see how they justify their psuedo science.
John V. Wright
As a former journalist in the UK I can tell you that BBC ‘journalism’ is a disgrace to the profession. People like little Phoebe have no concept of truly investigative reporting. Unlike true journalists, she will not approach this programme with an open mind – indeed, the tone and content of her priggish email to Dr Soon will have professional, time-served journalists cringing with embarrassment.
The other thing, of course, is that even if Phoebe did try to produce a balanced account she would damage her long-term career prospects with her employer. You have to ‘play the game’ to get on at the BBC. Dr Soon’s careful and fact-packed response is, of course, lost on little Phoebe – it’s too difficult to her head around. She will parrot her findings, as far as she is capable of understanding them, back to her producer who will carefully guide her next steps.
But thanks for the response Dr Soon. By the way, this empty-headed, unthinking, uninvestigative, biased, nodding donkey approach to the issues of the day is prevalent in all aspects of the BBC’s output and has to be suffered every day by the British people.
Peter F Gill
Yet another English Graduate and Drama Queen tackles “Climate Change”. This time Phoebe Keene will have a read problem with Willie’s response. One can almost feel for her. She has effectively asked Willie has he stopped beating his wife hoping for a one word answer that would sink him. Instead she has got something that, given her agenda, she can at best only try to misrepresent. I can imagine those heated discussion that she will be having with that other notorious English Graduate, Roger Harrabin. We will have to wait and see. This could be very interesting.
Look at her introductory remarks – “making a series about how big oil has influenced the debate away from human caused global warming”.
Thus the question has already been decided – it were t’ oil cumpnies wat did it.
Typical BBC very biased reporting. Decide the question first then look for support for the BBC’s already decided position on the issue.
The BBC is long past its sellby date.
Brian j in UK.
leowaj
Reply to Brian Jackson
“it were t’ oil cumpnies wat did it.”
I totally read that with a Northern accent, Brian. Made me laugh!
Matt_S
It is simpler than this. Smoking, lead in petrol, CFCs, are dangerous at any level.
If temperature response is low, CO2 is a benefit to the planet. This is well known established science going back centuries. In this 100% of scientists agree.
If temperature response is high, CO2 is a potential risk to the planet. This is very young science with no real proof, just postulation.
This is why the BBC cant lump climate change and smoking in the same basket. This is their fundamental dishonesty. Point this out to them, and this alone. It devastates their argument.
Reply to Matt_S
“lead in petrol,”
Yes, obviously it was the lead that damaged the brains of the current generation of teachers, leading to the creation of the ‘woke’ generation that didn’t learn to think.
I am of the belief that the use of mutagenic poison gases in WWI has done a number on successive generations of UK thinkers. Either that, or the application of similar poisons to ivy covered walls in academia has profoundly damaged their occupants’ brains.
Climate history plainly shows CO2 to have NO “climate driving” power. 17 times as much as today’s level couldn’t induce the “runaway global warming” that is supposedly going to be cause by 400+ ppm today. 10 times as much as today (and INCREASING to 11 times as much as today) couldn’t STOP the Earth from descending into a full blown ICE AGE from a “hot house” period.
The supposed “effect” of CO2 on temperature depends on the all-important scientific caveat “all other things held equal.” Here in the real world, this purely hypothetical effect does not exist, since the required condition of “all other things” remaining unchanged has never existed, does not exist now, and will not exist in the future. The Earth’s climate feedbacks are plainly negative, offsetting feedbacks, not positive, amplifying feedbacks, else the Earth would have turned into Venus long before there were humans to blame it on, based on historical CO2 levels.
Reply to AGW is Not Science
Thus we must deny the accuracy of paleoclimate proxy data, hypothesize a low TSI in eons past, deny that there has ever been any substantial variation in climate since the start of the current interstadial, invoke mega volcanoes to account for cold events, and generally torture the data until they say what is expected.
mikewaite
If the BBC is concerned about expressions of doubt about climate change, doubts fuelled by claims (spurious) of millions of dollars from the oil gas and coal companies to scientists such as Dr Soon , what will they make of the latest item picked up at Notricks zone by Kenneth Richard :
https://notrickszone.com/2020/07/13/most-of-the-globe-could-experience-no-warming-for-30-years-due-to-temperature-driving-internal-variability/
looking at the paper (open access from Environ Res Lett)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab7d02/meta
and the abstract:
On short (15-year) to mid-term (30-year) time-scales how the Earth’s surface temperature evolves can be dominated by internal variability as demonstrated by the global-warming pause or ‘hiatus’. In this study, we use six single model initial-condition large ensembles (SMILEs) and the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 5 (CMIP5) to visualise the role of internal variability in controlling possible observable surface temperature trends in the short-term and mid-term projections from 2019 onwards. We confirm that in the short-term, surface temperature trend projections are dominated by internal variability, with little influence of structural model differences or warming pathway. Additionally we demonstrate that this result is independent of the model-dependent estimate of the magnitude of internal variability. Indeed, and perhaps counter intuitively, in all models a lack of warming, or even a cooling trend could be observed at all individual points on the globe, even under the largest greenhouse gas emissions. The near-equivalence of all six SMILEs and CMIP5 demonstrates the robustness of this result to the choice of models used. On the mid-term time-scale, we confirm that structural model differences and scenario uncertainties play a larger role in controlling surface temperature trend projections than they did on the shorter time-scale. In addition we show that whether internal variability still dominates, or whether model uncertainties and internal variability are a similar magnitude, depends on the estimate of internal variability, which differs between the SMILEs. Finally we show that even out to thirty years large parts of the globe (or most of the globe in MPI-GE and CMIP5) could still experience no-warming due to internal variability.”-
The paper continues a series on the possible significance of internal variability and the importance of considering it in the general climate change debate .
I am sure that the paper will attract the customary “Nick-picking” but if it generates a debate, the rumours of which drift back to the BBC, perhaps it might spur a more objective approach by the latter. Probably a forlorn hope alas.
Great response, but I think it was a waste of time. If the BBC reports on any of Dr. Soon’s responses, they will spin it to question Dr. Son’s credibility and motive.
BBC crap journalism on full display.
My God and the brits are forced to pay for tis. There are elderly people in prison for refusing.
Alan Tomalty
Willie should have reported on Dr Susan Crockford’s book and paper : that the polar bears population is higher than ever. https://susancrockford.com/ Crockford, S.J. 2015. “Global polar bear population estimate about 26,000 (20,000-32,000), despite PBSG waffling.” http://polarbearscience.com/2015/05/31/global-polar-bear-population-size-is-about-26000-20000-32000-despite-pbsg-waffling/ [Critique and deconstruction of the IUCN PBSG population estimates]
As a Brit I am utterly disgusted that I am forced, by law, to pay for these insults and defamation.
Moderately Cross of East Anglia
So the BBC have started to get desperate as its collective deliberate deception of the public on climate change has failed to convince most British people that there is any kind of real emergency. Going after individual targets to intimidate others is now what the BBC intends and I fully distrust their real motives for approaching Dr Soon, whatever the glove puppet producer thinks she has been instructed to do.
I think Dr Soon should issue a public letter setting out why the BBC deserves no trust or confidence from him or anyone else on the basis of their track record or motives and refuse to help them.
I would compare being asked to help the BBC on a programme about climate change to being invited to roll about in a vat of sewage. The BBC is a disgrace and needs defunding by a public who increasingly despises it.
I always feel so good after reading or listening to Dr. Willie Soon, and he didn’t fail me this time either.
On small thing I may question, is his last statement:
you will realize that there are two sides to the climate question based on the data currently available.
My assumption is that there is a huge amount of viewpoints. Even here on WUWT there are as many opinions and “facts” as there are colors in Bifrost.
I am going to complain again, expressing my shock and horror that the British Broadcasting Company should have so carelessly smeared itself on a global basis thereby affecting the reputation of my country. (I always tick the box requiring a reply. BBC is running a couple of months astern at the moment. Keep it up)
Dudley Horscroft
Chris Curwen July 13, 2020 at 11:51 pm stated:-
“Phoebe Keane is on LinkedIn. She is a graduate in English Literature and Drama, with a Masters in “Broadcast Journalism”. She obviously doesn’t have a clue what she’s talking about where the science is concerned, and appears to be putting together another of the BBC’s hatchet jobs on a real climate scientist. The whole basis of her series is preconceived and biased assertion.”
I, rather differently from most responders to date, don’t blame Phoebe Keane for this. I would suggest that she was given a brief and put in charge of the project. That she may not have been aware of the details of the climate change controversy is very likely, given her background. As such, “she was dropped in it.”
It would be very interesting to see what comes of the program, and if it becomes a reasonable summary of the assertions that “the oil industry has carried out a campaign to make us doubt climate change.” Will it support that alleged campaign, or will it expose the reverse campaign by ‘alarmists’. Whose tactics weaponised doubt? Have the ‘climate alarmists’ managed to undermine science, and create a “sense of distrust in facts and experts which has spread far beyond climate change”?
Unfortunately here in Australia it seems impossible to get the BBC – you have to sign up and pay MONEY – would it be possible for someone in the UK to record the program and then put it on You Tube for us all to see and hear?
Ivor Ward
If you have ever tried to make a pig go backwards you will know what it is like to try and change a closed BBC “mind”.
John K. Sutherland
Reply to Ivor Ward
Ivor Ward. To make a pig go backward, put a bucket over its head and watch it back up, with speed. I recovered two escpaed pigs that way.
Larry in Texas
Well done, Dr. Soon. Well done. The BBC should be privatized and confined to the dustbins of their own distorted arguments. Why hasn’t Boris Johnson already done away with the TV license fee in the UK? If I were a Brit, I wouldn’t be paying that ridiculous license fee. Not with the propaganda BBC puts out on a daily basis.
Reply to Larry in Texas
The problem is that it’s classed as a tax, and it’s a criminal offence to evade it. You can only legally not pay it if you never watch any live TV from any source, even from outside the UK. They do enforce itz same conviction can meant a criminal record.
Having once again had to respond to the nonsense that he gets ‘millions’ from evil ff/oil barons, I’d lay odds that the BBC will still stick to their meme and continue to slander (libel?) Willie. What will it take to shut down such a fake story?
I am not sure why Dr. Soon objects to being contacted through the Heartland Institute. The Heartland
Insitute has a prominent webpage entitled “Who We Are – Willie Soon” and on it it states clearly
“Contact Willie Soon” and gives the email address “media@heartland.org”. So if Willie Soon does not want
to be contacted this way then all he needs to do is stop accepting payment from the Heartland Institute and to be removed from their website.
Krishna Gans
Reply to Izaak Walton
You know, it’s usual to have a private and a job email account.
To be asked privately, it’s usual to use the private email account.
Izaak,
I didn’t get the impression or imagine Willie was objecting to the Heartland institute in any way. He was saying it is a strange way to contact someone via the club or association they support, rather than via their place of professional employment of direct mail to his home.
From this entire article you took that away?
That’s the only thing the troll could grab onto.
He’s like Nick, looking for a way to distract attention from the real issues.
I am not sure why Dr. Soon objects to being contacted through the Heartland Institute.
Isn’t it obvious Izaak? It’s right there in the response.
“I am not pleased that you saw fit to circulate your letter, with its numerous libellous comments, to a third party.”
Clearly Dr. Soon objects to the “libellous comments” included in the letter about him and proffered to the Heartland Institute via the BBC conquistadoress. If you were a member of prestigious organization like Heartland, would YOU want some assuming BBC hack indiscriminately pushing conspiracy theories about you to that organization?
I mean, good grief he said right there in the letter???
Again if Dr. Soon doesn’t want to be contacted through the Heartland Institute he needs to change their website where it states “Contact Willie Soon” and gives the email address “media@heartland.org”. Furthermore the Heartland Institute is not a third party but an employer of Dr. Soon.
And he might make it easier for people to contact him. For instance his Google Scholar page states “no verified email address” and he is not listed on the Harvard Staff directory nor does he have his own webpage at the Harvard Centre for Astrophysics. If I was a reporter trying to meet a deadline then I would spend a reasonable amount of time trying to find an email address for Dr. Soon and failing that go back to the Heartland Institute which is the only place that lists a contact address for him.
– For instance his Google Scholar page states “no verified email address”
As an alumni of University College London I have an uclmail dot net email address granted to me as graduate of the college. One purpose of this address is to allow me to demonstrate my bone fides as an independent researcher. I have tried many times to get Google Scholar to recognise that this is an address rising from a legitimate academic location. Does Google Scholar respond in any way?
So, like Willie Soon I too have no recognised email address on my Google Scholar profile. Just to add insult to injury Google Scholar recently asked me to add an email address. Can I do so? No, the automatic system still fails to recognize my uclmail address as being authentic, but they send emails to my private address!
Again if Dr. Soon doesn’t want to be contacted through the Heartland Institute . . .
Well, “again,” that isn’t exactly what he said is it? What he said was, “It is also regrettable that you attempted to contact me in such a roundabout way, i.e., by going through the Heartland Institute, rather than emailing me directly here at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.” And in context his main issue with that method was the libelous material he believed the individual “circulated” to the 3rd party, Heartland.
Sounds to me like the inside story is this person may have attempted to contact others before Dr. Soon, and included the offending material in her attempt to contact him through them. For example, forwarding her “journalistic” request to others to forward to Dr. Soon.
Furthermore the Heartland Institute is not a third party but an employer of Dr. Soon.
Interesting, is this because you know better than Dr. Soon himself who are his “employers” and how he should reference them?
And he might make it easier for people to contact him. For instance his Google Scholar page states “no verified email address” and he is not listed on the Harvard Staff directory nor does he have his own webpage at the Harvard Centre for Astrophysics.
I guess it really isn’t for you or I to decide on his behalf whether Dr. Soon should “make it easier for people” to contact Dr. Soon, or would you disagree? Beyond this I assume you mean “make it easier” because no real journalist would ever think to access Harvard’s contact page to call and speak with someone who can direct them to Dr. Soon?
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/about/contact
If I was a reporter trying to meet a deadline then I would spend a reasonable amount of time trying to find an email address for Dr. Soon and failing that go back to the Heartland Institute which is the only place that lists a contact address for him.
I don’t think you should be a journalist, Izaak. Even I can find Dr. Willie Soon without Heartland, and I’m just a simpleton. It would appear neither you nor Phoebe are particularly suited for the craft, if your defense of her actions is accurate.
If I’m on a deadline I’m going to do a Google search and then call Harvard. But that’s just me, what do I know, I’m not a journalist? Maybe it’s required one do it the hard way. Maybe it’s required one include libelous material in one’s 3rd party contact requests, and first forward that to whomever one may in their search for a particular individual. I wouldn’t, but then I’m not a “journalist.”
Now just to be clear, I can’t speak to whether or not she included the libelous material maliciously. I’m happy to believe that she’s pretty much what you’ve described her as here, i.e., a bit of a “blonde,” and not too smart, if you get my drift.
The web address you give is a generic one that does not list Willie Soon explicitly. In contract the Heartland Institute webpage entitled “Who we are — Willie Soon” has an
explicit link stating “contact Willie Soon”. If Dr. Soon does not wish to contacted through the Heartland Institute then he should ask them to remove that link. I assume that he is aware of it and the web page and approves of it. Thus he only has himself to be blamed if he gets contacted that way.
The web address you give is a generic one that does not list Willie Soon explicitly.
Why does it have to again? In context that web address was given after I said this: “Beyond this I assume you mean ‘make it easier’ because no real journalist would ever think to access Harvard’s contact page to call and speak with someone who can direct them to Dr. Soon?”
So you would argue that the web address where one could make a phone call to contact Dr. Soon doesn’t list Dr. Soon explicitly and thus should prevent our wondrous BBC reporter of various feminine issues turned investigative powerhouse climate change reporter from satisfaction in contacting him?
Because the first return in a Google search for “Willie Soon” lists him at Harvard?
If Dr. Soon does not wish to contacted through the Heartland Institute then he should ask them to remove that link.
“Again,” I don’t think that’s what he’s saying, Izaak. I think he’s looking for interested parties who wish to contact him via 3rd party websites to forego including libelous allegations in those contact requests. Hardly an unreasonable desire don’t you agree?
Maybe he should put a disclaimer on that link at Heartland:
“If you’re a member of the BBC’s distinguished ‘Female 0rgasm,’ ‘Pain During Sex,’ and ‘Why Do We Cheat’ turned powerhouse investigate reporter of climate change journalism team, who’s oddly extraordinarily inept at research using the world’s #1 search engine to discover where I’m actually employed full time, and you wish to contact me via this 3rd party website without thinking about the libelous material that exists in the body of your email, please refrain from doing so. Please send your callous requests to dr.william.soon@tardbox-journalists.com”
What about that?
I’m joking of course, but I mean really, Izaak. Are you so obtuse as this?
No, he’s just a troll who is looking for anything to latch onto to distract from the substance of Dr Soon’s reply. Sad and Pathetic.
Xenophon
In less than two minutes with a search engine, I found this page: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/contact/ssp
where Dr. Soon’s email address at the Center for Astrophysics is clearly indicated. Any “journalist” who deliberately chooses to contact him via the Heartland Institute rather than the CfA — his primary employer! — is clearly choosing to grind their axe…
A few years ago BBC staff were forbidden, on pain of dismissal, to broadcast anything which contradicted the “concensus” on CAGW, on the grounds that the science is settled.
If Phoebe broadcasts Dr. Soon’s replies she faces being sacked.
Oldsirhippy
Many thanks to Dr Soon for an excellent and measured response to Phoebe Keane’s request.
Dr Soon’s response must have taken a significant amount of his valuable time. I do hope that Ms Phoebe Keane reads all the information provided and takes serious note of them.
Thank you Dr Soon, I learned a great deal from all that information.
Barry Rathbone
Whilst I enjoyed the reply it was an opportunity missed.
One of the key points of the entire issue is getting the likes of the BBC to afford a platform allowing skeptical views parity with preachings of cagw credo. A briefer, less technical answer bereft of the prickliness MIGHT have opened that door. With a hat tip to President LB Johnson “Better to have your enemy inside your tent pissing out than outside pissing in.”
“I’m making a BBC Radio series about the way oil companies have over emphasized the uncertainty around climate change”
A great detailed technical response by Willie, but this opening line gives away that it’s an obvious setup and stitch up. The reality is that the oil companies have become part of the big green rent-seeking woke brigade many years ago and the only conspiracy worth chasing here is the one being run by outlets like the BBC who continue to push this empty barrow to sideline climate dissidents.
If I was Willie I would have responded politely “No, but if you ever get around to doing a radio series on how the BBC over-emphasises the certainly around absurdly implausible climate doomsday predictions, then please count me in”.
My guess is that The BBC will go ahead and make the programme it wants to make, and that this letter of enquiry to Dr. Willie Soon will be forgotten. Dr. Soon’s response(which of course has now been wisely, and widely shared on forums such as this one) cannot be misinterpreted to fit the required narrative, so the Beeb simply won’t mention it.
We should give due respect to Phoebe Keane for contacting Dr. Soon with regards to the upcoming series by the BBC though the series is likely meant to be just another propaganda hit job.
Dr. Soon’s excellent response is an absolute smack-down and tactfully presented.
Stein Storlie Bergsmark
a great response from you to this attack! Should be very hard to overlook.
Now I am very curious about Keane’s response!
JohnC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-53395619/coronavirus-how-to-talk-about-conspiracy-theories
Over the past four years 3.5 million Brits have stopped paying their TV licence.
The BBC are now making pensioners over 75 pay the TV licence fee for the first time.
Why pay to be brainwashed by this hypocritical and biased organisation, who preach
Liberal/ Left wing views. and pay themselves and presenters huge salaries and expenses.
UK-Weather Lass
Mainstream media, wiki, public and private corporations large and small now exist with unhealthy consensus beliefs particularly about climate science. It is now okay to be part of a consensus belief whether that belief is right or wrong. Whatever happened to diversity, independent thought and free spirit?
The BBC has been in decline for a long while now and it isn’t alone. The chancers will continue with the trash for as long as it keeps them going but judgement day is going to arrive sooner than they think.
My heart goes out to the long list of scientists (including Willie Soon) who retain their independence and their conscientiousness by sticking with the whole science and not allowing themselves to be conditioned into agendas they know to be unsafe just to keep their jobs and incomes.
I hope those who think they are keeping safe by following a consensus belief will come to realise what harm their weaknesses cause them. Difference of opinion and debate are healthy for all of us and you stifle them at your peril. The BBC once knew that very well indeed.
Reply to UK-Weather Lass
There is no place for individual thought and opinion in a Marxist utopia. Agree…or else.
Don Vickers
Dr Soon and Dr Ridd are in my opinion the only people whom hold scientific integrity above all else.
I am sure there are many others but they are the stand out ones I personally can see whom have suffered the most.
Freddie Stoller
Mr. Soon, this is what we call mopping the floor with your opponent! I will guarantee you there will be not a single counter argument but lots of ad hominem.
Gene Doebley
I really enjoyed this article, not just because of the science Dr. Soon presents but because Dr. Soon does a great job in beating the snot out of the BBC reporter. My hat is off to him.
What the BBC needs is something like this MUST READ about the New York Times :
Why New York Times praises ‘cancel culture’ but skips over its own racist history: Goodwin
https://nypost.com/2020/07/11/ny-times-praises-cancel-culture-but-skips-its-own-racist-history-goodwin/
It sure looks like science is to be cancelled, the Renaissance, De Cusa’s De Docta Ignoranta, Leibniz, …
Is this what Prince Charles means about the Great Reset which he will keynote the Davos Crowd soon?
Can’t decide whether BBC or NYT gets the biscuit, though.
Very smart response to the letter, posting it publicly along with your comments. You not only refute all BBC allegations ahead of time, but you have also pointed out flaws in their reasoning and approach. Their upcoming project can now be judged against your advice. And no doubt found wanting.
If they go ahead with what they intended, they are sure to make fools of themselves. But because of your fair warning, it won’t be inadvertently this time. It can only be intentional. LMAO.
Note how the BBC’s intentions are clear from the start?
Despite asking Willie for his views, that has less to do with seeking answers from both sides (because they don’t accept there’s two sides of equal importance in the climate ‘debate’) and more to do with journalistic protocols of seeking the opinion of the subject of your hit piece.
Rest assured they’ll also seek to use Willie’s answers against him.
I stopped paying their TV tax at least 5 years ago and strongly suggest any UK citizen’s on here do the same. Hitting them where it hurts is our only available response.
Reply to CheshireRed
Yes, “Hitting them where it hurts” is analogous to putting a bucket over a pig’s head.
Ouluman
The great British Broadcasting Corporation was a bastion of common sense and source of information without hidden agenda well into the 1980’s and early 90’s. Since then it has ceaselessly embarrassed itself with poor quality journalism and almost outlandish policies that have moved it further and further to the left. It does not care that its core has been tarnished and will care even less about the public opinion that will be alienated by forcing licence fees on the over 75s. The only thing it cares about is supporting minorities and ensuring that their voice is heard so loud that it drowns out any views of the silent majority. There is no attempt for balance or reasoned debate anymore. Indeed the Biased Blame Culture machine will roll on until its demise when the public finally get fed up and turns to online streaming where they actually have a choice of what to see and listen to.
Reply to Ouluman
I used to tune in to the short wave BBC World Service to get the real news….because the US news services had been compromised by Leftists. That was back in the ’70’s and early 80’s.
Now, the BBC is totally corrupted just like everything the Left touches. Leftism is incompatible with the truth.
As usual,Willie Soon proves himself to be a shining light even among a galaxy of shining lights in the climate arena, alongside Richard Lindzen,John Christy,Anthony Watts,Will Happer,Roy Spencer,yes-and Tony Heller-,TimBall,Judith Curry,Christopher Essex,Jennefer Marohasy and many more.But for 30 years the BBC has ignored and\ or belittled such real scientists preferring to peddle the work of charlatans such as Mann,Santer and co.
However ,the BBC is under pressure like never before.There is a “defund the BBC” petition circulating and the decision to force the elderly to pay license fees is proving very unpopular.There is also a new Director General.Might I humbly echo a previous comment and urge all who can to listen to the proposed programmes
and complain-“call them out “-on each and every lie,inaccuracy,obfuscation and bias. Swamp them using their own complaints procedure.It’s time consuming and frustrating(I know!) but it just might effect some change.
Oh for a televised debate between John Christy and Tony Heller versus Mann and …well anyone really!
Thanks for your good posting. I am highly convinced about your good will.
However I am not entirely happy with your answer to the funding question. And do not believe it will resolve the issue.
The question does not say that your personally received money from the three groups, just that your research did.
Could you plz specify the quantities:
1. what was the total funding of the institute from 2000-2015?
2. How much did the three groups contribute?
3. How much funding for your research projects in the period
4. Did any of the three groups contribute directly to this amount, and if, how much?
5. What was your salary in the period? I know it is a private matter, but you can give a wide range
Reply to Karl Iver Dahl-Madsen
KID em? Is that the best you can do?
David Lilley
KIDM, you might understand the issue a little better if you take a look at this thread.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/04/10/calling-all-supporters-of-willie-soon/
Perhaps Dr Soon should have pointed out that Exxon-Mobile is a great beneficiary of climate alarmism. As coal plants get shut down they are replaced with natural gas which Exxon-Mobile sells.
John Furst
Thank you Dr. Soon!
Your very professional, patient, point-by-point reply is perfect!
You showed what exactly the best scientists do…clear, thoughtful, alway open, public discussion, respectful, morally grounded, seeking truth through process of logic and quantification.
It is to your great honor and to the honor of science that you did take the time to respond so thoroughly.
Rolf H Carlsson
What a bliss to have access to internet and be able to share real science, e.g. as presented by Willie Soon, and many others. I am Swedish and forced to pay for the pathetic Swedish epigon of BBC, financed by me as a tax payer. Like most traditional media, state-controlled Swedish-TV/Radio has been taken over by the so-called politically correct (a poisonous mix of postmodernism and Neo-Marxism). Of course, they are in the front-line of climate hysteria and the real scientists are never interviewed or given a chance to give a science-based view of climate realities.
Except for here on WUWT, this excellent response from Dr. Soon will get “Cancelled”…never see the light of day. The truth isn’t helpful to the BBC’s current Climate Crisis Propaganda message.
The BBC is “full on” 100% Government Funded Leftist Propaganda…just like the PBS is here in the States.
There is nearly zero journalism being done by the “propaganda class” today.
Their ugly lying Authoritarianism is leaking out for more people to see. But Leftists eat up the propaganda like candy…makes them feel good reading or listening to any lie that helps destroy Western Civilization.
It’s a shame Willie’s rational explanations are wholly wasted on Phoebe, a vacuous junior official of the BBC and arts graduate, who will simply make up some response that doesn’t reflect the facts she hasn’t read, this is not unusual.
The public, and the BBC, will never get through the first layer of detail. They believe you can debate scientific reality of laws, and that models are the same as proven science, rather than someone’s crude guess, based on a agenda as are climate models…that that are wrong in fact and their assumptios dispriven byy the science of the last 20 years.
Communications need to be FAR simpler, at a lay level, and pointing out the factual reality, not defending against spurious accusations that are simply ad hom attacks, all these vacuous know nowts like Phoebe have. She is well named (I know, Ad hom). Only the truth matters, not who pays to support what.
It is easy to disprove the models as gross exaggerations whose predictions have failed for 40 years, and state what the reality is. On the observations.
FYI The UK Energy and Climate change act was written by a former FoE activist with an English Literature degree, a clueless delusional with a science free agenda, Baronny Worthington.
This is a big part of the reason why none of the act actually relates to the engineering reality of how best to deliver a sustainable , affordable, controllable, grid compatible, and low CO2 if it mattered, grid energy supply. It was simply written to say CO2 controlled the climate and the only way to make that less was heavily subsidised renewable energy, which energy sources intensity and intermittency make the whole edifice’s delusional thinking pre failed on the basic physics and engineering.
But the politicians are also an ego driven maths and science vacuum, raised to believe they can make their own laws of physics, preferably providing well paid untaxing jobs for the MInisters and senior civil servants responsible with lobbyists and related business after office. It’s legal to profit from the fraud on the energy using public they passed into law, and many have already done it, Huhne, Hendry, Gummer, Yeo an are all beneficiaries of this legalised fraud, on the fact, of the public. At the local national level this was never about the climate or energy supply sustainability.
And anyway the defensive response is the wrong way to argue the truth against lies. If you understand the reality in such depth, it is better in my view to tell people something they can understand and check -m and use as a fact – that destroys the assertive lies at the top level.
The supporting premise is so easy to prove a deliberate lie since the ice cores became available from Greenland and Antarctica, also the other proxies like tree rings and cosmogenic radionuclides.
Now is not unusual for the end of the warming phase of the natural cycle of rising and falling temperatures, up and down 2 degrees every 1,000 years short term, and get a lot colder long term in the ice age cycles. On the records of many ice ages.
In the last warm phase the Vikings farmed Greenland, before that civilisations blossomed in the Roman and Minoan periods of this interglacial, so nothing unusual is happening. And what is happening is not anything humans can change, just defend against. But some can exploit for power and fast buck.
Simple facts best destroy the clearly false idea of runaway or unusual warming. The data does not support this. 40 years of satellite measurements have proven the IPCC models are wrong, on the facts. But clear denial of the models MUST succinctly state what is actually happening and attack the deceit head on with a better truth, not just defend. And it must be said in the same reply, or the moment is lost. Politicians and communicators know this. Scientists don’t. I have been all three so have some idea about this.
Their science fails because the UN politicians started by creating and funding the brief of proving trace gasses caused climate change, to facilitate political control of energy use, which is not how science works.
They didn’t know what natural change there was when they claimed it was CO2 causing observed change, and secondly they deliberately discounted these natural effects to attribute them to CO2, which is why models do not predict reality we observe. Then they miss the opportunity to explain what is happeneing now is normal and seen in the record. WHY?
Few of our realist illuminati seem able to make simple clear points to unscientific people, who currently hold simple false beliefs they have been told they must believe by authority, and do not have the formation to self validate. The simple truth needs communicating pro actively in a way that Phoebe might be able to understand, when given the chance, NOT by scientific references, and able to be put into a populist media format as a comprehensible reply.
In a populist democracy we either learn to communicate the simple truths of climate and energy as self evident to lay people, or fail in magnificent and ultimately pointless academic righteous detail. IMO
Alastair gray
This nasty little aparatchick is clearly a waste of a skin and a biassed and dishonest little trollope to boot would that i may have the chance to do so in the future.perhaps in the gulag because when therevolutioncomes toadies like her will be first to be chucked under the bus. Keep an eye on this doubleplus ungood indivaidual . She is on a path to be prime minister
YallaYPoora Kid
Where my Aussie compatriot embarrassments Mr Stokes and Ms Griff to make their usual rebuttals and misleading statements about Willie Soon’s excellent response to the BBC?
Crickets. . .
Marcus Allen
Thank you very much, Dr Soon, for your comprehensive response to such an impertinent enquiry.
I am about to be charged by the BBC for the privilege of using their output so I will listen to the programmes. Should any reference to the ‘97% of scientists agree’ be made, without clarification, a complaint will be sent.
I could almost feel some degree of sympathy for Phoebe but I am resisting it. She is caught between a rock and a hard place so cannot win no matter what she does, unless she is an honest journalist when her career at the BBC is likely to be a short one.
Dearest “Phoebe”,
“In the interest of journalistic fairness and balance, how about a series investigating how the extremely well-funded Climate Alarmist Industry including numerous once-respected “news” enterprises such as yours has for decades engaged in a climate disinformation campaign engaging such tactics as ad hominem, and Appeals to Authority and to “Consensus”, in addition to smearing the reputations of scientists and other lovers of science and truth? Indeed, the enormity and breadth of this campaign would mean that a 10-part series would only scratch the surface, but that’s a good thing, right? I am certain that a journalist with your knowledge, skill, and journalistic integrity could do this subject justice, and just think of the accolades it would bring.
I anxiously await your reply.”
Oops, I think my sarcometer just broke.
From the article: :I also co-authored a study in 2019 in which we compared the observed snow cover trends for the entire Northern Hemisphere since 1967 to the trends which the IPCC computer models say should have occurred – according to their assumption that CO2 is the primary climate driver. The results were shocking. The current computer models are unable to explain the observed trends in snow cover for either winter, spring, summer or fall. None of the 196 computer model simulations that the IPCC used for their most recent report succeeded in replicating the observed 1967-2018 trends for any of the seasons.”
The BBC should do a separate report on the failure of the climate computer models to recreate reality, as described here by Dr. Soon. If they want to know the truth, that is.
Eyes Wide Open
“Pound sand!!!” would have been more direct and to the point . . . .
I wonder since there are quite a few episodes being prepared. . . are the partisan activists operating within the BBC setting the table for someone else (like XR) to launch another round of court cases in order to force their agenda on the public by using the legal system to do an end run around parliament by letting activist judges make new laws (or interpret existing law in novel ways)?
I also wonder with the substantial disruption to various governments finances driven by their own recent lock down policies mean certain parties are more interested in trying up governments to keep big greens cash flow going despite any other priorities that need urgent attention?
I have no answers to those questions but it does seem to me the nature of the questions asked Dr. Soon implies the BBC operators are acting on behalf of an external party.
Rolf Mellberg
So sad, BBC used to be a symbol for quality an integrity. Nowdays it could be the perfect tool for a resurrected Goebbles.
It’s time to start suing for libel.
Of course, that assumes that it is still possible to find an honest court room.
David Roger Wells
‘phoebe.keane@bbc.co.uk’ Why the email was redacted is beyond me because BBC email addresses are easy to work out as are most email address.
I submitted a 4mb FOI request to the BBC and they replied quoting legislation which in effect allows the media to lie and cheat with impunity and escape sanction. Remember the BBC was set up by the government of the day to refute allegations in the free press. Which at the time was a free press which government felt might be a threat to the supposed sincerity of government propaganda. Its a habit that the BBC cannot change.
Rona Fairhead Chairman
BBC Trust Unit
180 Great Portland Street
W1W 5QZ
Ref: In A Warming World? CAS-3804754-4BMKZY, CAS-3823472-HT8CSo, CAS-3834353-KBPPY8, CAS-3837243-N96JZ9. Appeal 001/DRW.
Hypocrisy. President Obama the High Priest of catastrophic Co2 warming leading to a climate change apocalypse fuels Air Force 1 complete with 2 C17’s, four helicopters, 500 security staff and enough bomb proof Beasts to consume the planets remaining resources just to fly from Washington to Seattle for a $1500 a plate fund raiser for Hilary Clinton.
David Attenborough and Neil Oliver fly to Australia to enjoy some blue water scuba diving then relax under similar blue skies to weep buckets about bleached coral.
Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio transit the planet in private jets to collect environmental awards for their prolific promotion of scaremongering rhetoric.
40,000 delegates including most of the UN, UNEP, UNFCC, IPCC and Presidents of Atolls all flying first class at our expense to pontificate about catastrophic warming that is not happening and damage from Co2 induced climate change for which there is no evidence.
Christina Figueres had to redefine the purpose of the GCF because when asked Atolls could not provide any evidence of damage caused by Co2 induced climate change because their climate had not changed and there was no damage. So now we have to pay trillions to Atolls to adapt to climate change by building wind turbines. I am so pleased.
Presumably none of these people know that a 747 consumes 4,000 gallons of aviation kerosene just to take off and for a round trip UK/Australia burns 144,000 gallons of kerosene whilst Obama’s trip consumed 500,000 gallons and emitted Co2 as a result.
But all of this is OK because these scions of virtue are saving the planet which means that they can side step accusations of gross hypocrisy and conspicuous consumption and hopefully avoid the strictures they advocate for ordinary folk desperate just to heat their homes in winter and feed their children at a price they can afford.
After four decades of BBC scaremongering about Co2 causing warming:
1. Sea levels have risen since the end of the last glaciation 11,000 years ago
2. But there has been no acceleration in the rate of rise for 90 years
3. Tide gauges show no acceleration despite Co2 up from 0.03% to 0.04%
4. Worst case scenario 6” rise by 2100
5. The Arctic is not ice free as predicted
6. Antarctic sea ice continues to grow
7. The Polar bear population has risen from 4,500 to between 30,000 & 50,000
8. Ocean PH remains at 8, 7 is neutral
9. Global average temperature is 1.4F warmer than 165 years ago
10. Atmospheric Co2 has risen by 1 part in 10,000 over 200 years
11. Global average temperature is 1.8F warmer than 200 years ago
12. Ocean warming is 0.02 C per decade, 0.16C by 2100
13. 8,000 years ago temperature was 2C warmer than today with Co2 at 200ppm
14. Today we are 2C colder with Co2 at 401ppm
15. Minoan, Roman & Medieval warm periods were all warmer than today
16. Antarctic ice cores show temperature always rises before Co2 rises
17. How does Co2 creep out from under ice half a mile thick to warm the atmosphere to melt the half mile thick ice?
18. Temperature rose at the same rate between 1910 & 1940 as between 1970 & 2000
19. Co2 could only have been an issue after 1980
20. 25% of all Co2 ever emitted was emitted between 2001 & 2010
21. Gavin Schmidt of NASA said for the Co2 hypothesis to hold water the lower troposphere needed to warm first, it has not.
22. No indication of Co2 induced warming in 35 years of satellite monitoring
23. Divergence between modelled predictions and observations continues to grow
24. 2015/16 El Nino ends with La Nina expected
25. Sea temperatures falling in response to the end of El Nino
26. No proven relationship between forest fires and warming of just 1.4F
27. IPCC confirms no evidence to support claims of more extreme weather
28. Hurricanes, typhoons, cyclones, storm, flood, drought, tornadoes and loss of life from natural disasters all down
29. Insurance claims have risen only because there is more infrastructure at risk
30. Atmospheric Co2 remains at just 0.039%
31. Co2 is not carbon pollution because you cannot have oxygen free Co2
32. Vibration rotation spectrum of Co2 15 micron band
33. Atmospheric methane CH4 is just 0.00017%
34. Water vapour remains constant – no rise – 99% (78% nitrogen & 21% oxygen)
35. UK emits 1.1% of global Co2 emissions
36. 96.6% of Co2 emissions are natural just 3.4% is the result of fossil fuel usage
37. 7.5 billion people breathing emit 23% of all Co2 emissions
38. Global energy consumption equates to 160,000 TWH’s annually
39. Only 21,000 TWH’s consumed for electricity generation
40. Therefore 13% of 3.4% equates to 0.0052% of Co2 emissions related to electricity generation
41. Therefore closing down all fossil fuelled electricity generation across the planet would only mitigate 5 thousandths % of Co2
42. Hence the reality that even if all Paris COP mitigation is put in place maximum temperature reduction by 2100 would not exceed 0.02 degrees C
43. This number is not measurable and even if it was we could never say whether it was the result of spending trillions of dollars and devastating people’s lives and economies or the result of natural variation
44. 3.8 billion people across the planet still have no reliable source of electricity and cook their food over dried animal dung, fact
45. Yet the BBC cite 30k, then 40k then 50k people in the UK suffer a premature death from air pollution without being able to name one single mortality
46. 4 million die across the planet from COPD because Obama and the World Bank deny developing countries the funds to build low cost super critical fossil fuelled electricity generation based upon the idiotic belief that Co2 has the potential to cause catastrophic warming leading to apocalyptic climate change
47. The BBC in 1974 said that Co2 would cause the next ice age, it did not, they it said that Co2 would cause catastrophic warming it has not
48. Every time the BBC’s predictions fail to materialise they and their alarmist green environmentalist cronies just move the goal posts hoping that we would forget the malignancy of their paranoid delusion, we have not
49. Wind turbines and solar panels the supposed solution to a problem we don’t have today are generating just 3.65 GW’s which I suppose for an investment of £100 billion the BBC would say it is a bargain
50. For the previous two weeks 7,000 wind turbines have not managed to exceed 0.8GW’s
51. Without gas coal and nuclear the lights would have gone out
52. Based upon output turbine generated electricity when related to capital cost is 16 times more expensive than gas or coal hence £10 billion each year in green subsidies and £13.9 billion in environmental levies.
53. Just because someone does not believe in your God or what he wants you to believe does not give you the right to use the word sceptic as a term of abuse
54. You have the right to your own beliefs but not to manufacture your own facts or present your beliefs as facts and if you don’t know the difference between fact, fiction and belief then arguably you are not a fit person to indulge in the pursuit of the scientific method.
55. Shooting the messenger does not invalidate the content of the message
56. Ignorant pontificating about recent weather trends is misleading & a scientifically illiterate exercise. Especially true when related to the instrumental record that covers just 25% of the globe for at best 120 years. Earth is about 4.54 billion years old so the sample size is 0.000002643172%. Our atmosphere weighs 11,710,000,000,000,000,000 pounds, Co2 0.039% of that positive feedback or not this number is insignificant.
57. BBC weasel words: – can, clearly, could, conjectured, considered, expected, may, might, perhaps, possibly, projected, robust, unprecedented. – “Experts suggest…” “It has been said that …” “Research has shown…” “Science indicates …” “It can be argued…” “Scientists believe….” “Scientists say..” “A high level of certainty” “Models predict….” Catastrophic, apocalyptic, dangerous warming, rising sea levels, typhoons, cyclones, flood, drought, extreme weather and tornadoes. Context, as if?
58. Drip feeding suffuse generalisation across the BBC’s wide spectrum of broadcasting could easily be recognised as subliminal messaging for the purpose of brainwashing intimidation and indoctrination, why should we pay to be brainwashed into believing that Co2 is the ultimate 21st century antichrist when there is no evidence to support that myth?
The agreement made at the COP in Paris did not include air and sea travel being a cynic I must assume that this means President Obama and maybe Hilary Clinton, Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Klein, David Suzuki, Christina Figueres and every other political elite across the planet will be able to continue burning kerosene to tell us that we should not because otherwise we are putting Gods work at risk, as if.
There have been no plagues of lice or frogs in fact not one single claim made by alarmists to persuade ordinary folk to believe that Co2 is the 21st century antichrist has come to fruition but the BBC continue to use terms such as “on a warming planet” and “scientists say” but these terms are never qualified by data, the issue is never put into context.
If it is not the intention of the BBC to propagate scaremongering rhetoric on behalf of the green donation and rent seeking fraternity allied as they are to the private equity funds, rich land owners, foreign wind farm operators and grant reliant pseudo scientists desperate to persuade gullible vested interest politicians easily bewildered by the mere mention of the words climate change and the effect it might have on their already tarnished reputations especially if Co2 is exonerated. Then why does the BBC never put its suffuse generality into context by citing the numbers which are easily available?
If there was no intent to deceive license fee payers into believing that Co2 had the potential to cause an apocalypse, then why did the BBC on numerous occasions stand Roger Harrabin in front of a back lit coal fired power station hoping that we would believe that white steam exiting the steam turbine was in fact black carbon pollution? This was an act of deliberate and premeditated misrepresentation with an intent to deceive which if practised by a Plc would result in a criminal conviction for misrepresentation or in the case of the BBC could be seen as an abuse in public office.
When the BBC responds to a complaint it tries to give the impression that everyone is entitled to their views and opinions in an attempt to avoid admitting that facts do indeed exist. In the past the BBC has said that within the average news broadcast there just is not enough time to cover all of the issues that would take at least two hour long documentaries. Maybe the BBC should contact President Obama because he has spent the last 8 years and $80 billion trying to prove that Co2 and humanity has the potential to cause a climate apocalypse and failed so knowing the BBC could resolve the issue in just two hours would be a revelation beyond his wildest dreams.
Then we have “consensus” “settled science” “97% of scientists agree” claims that have nothing whatsoever to do with the scientific method just pure political manipulation to advance the political initiative promoted by Maurice Strong to use Co2 as the vehicle to mobilise his intent to redistribute wealth and resources from the poor in the developed world to the rich in the developing world. In the same way that wind turbines in the UK recycle hard cash from the working poor to enrich the already rich private equity funds, land owners and foreign wind farm operators. Dong are proceeding with a £10 billion float on the back of £10 billion being paid each year in green subsidies by UK home owners and another £13.9 billion in environmental levies plus the carbon floor tax which is 4 times the EU average.
Alarmists switched their narrative from CAGW to climate change simply because their hysterical rhetoric was easily contradicted by 35 years of satellite monitoring.
Now alarmists could abuse their opponents as climate change deniers which really is not very clever because their opponents had never denied that our climate had changed they just questioned the belief that Co2 had the potential to cause run away warming.
Metaphorically speaking Al Gore and his green acolytes needed to shoot the messenger because they didn’t like the contents of the message and trying to get a gullible public to believe that denying climate change was the same as denying the holocaust seemed like a good idea except that it didn’t have the desired effect. Though the BBC condoned this offensive behaviour for quite some time before they realised it was offensive. Though the more offensive alarmists still believe that this type of abuse will eventually win through but I doubt it.
When NASA, NOAA shout it’s the warmest year “Eva” they like the BBC never refer to the satellite data because that data contradicts what NOAA and NASA want us to believe because they are 100% reliant upon federal funding. They have to deny the evidence provided by their own instrumentation on their own satellites because it is in their interest, support President Obama or die from lack of funding. In fact, Gavin Schmidt goes out of his way to critique the work of Dr John Christy of Alabama State University and is always proven wrong.
Advanced micro wave sounding units mounted on NASA and NOAA satellites monitor temperature across 360 degrees of the planet twice daily from ground zero to 8 km’s including oceans, deserts, forests and both poles land based station coverage does not. It is recorded fact that land based station data is affected by land use change, UHI and has been updated and edited to create a warming trend which the raw data does not reflect.
Rod Liddle and Peter Sissons have said that the BBC really does believe that all it needs to do to push a particular story line is to pay someone with a PhD to front the program and mouth a bunch of rhetorical gibberish completely absent of any substance and then if anyone complains they just act stupid and blame the guest.
If the BBC had nothing to hide then why did it pay Jones and Nurse – two geneticists – to rewrite its editorial standards to try and make license fee payers believe that its prejudice and bias towards anyone who contradicted their global warm propaganda was entirely justified because “there was a consensus” and “97% of scientists agreed” that 1 part in 10,000 extra of Co2 would cause an apocalypse when 4 decades later not a glimmer.
Deception is deception and deceit cannot be disappeared just because the BBC employs to members of the Royal Society to try and legitimise its deceit. The Royal Society has a long history of trying to demonise Co2 as the harbinger of our doom and they are just as guilty of deception in that respect as the BBC.
Is There a “Consensus” in Science? Remembering the Late Michael Crichton. “I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.
“Let’s be clear: The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.
“There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period. . . .
“I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way. .”
Dr Tim Ball. “I was as opposed to the threats of doom associated with global cooling in the 1970s because it was bad science as I am today about warming. Compare the similarities of impending doom in Lowell Ponte’s 1976 book The Cooling with what alarmists are saying today.”
“It is cold fact: the global cooling presents humankind with the most important social, political, and adaptive challenge we have had to deal with for ten thousand years. Your stake in the decisions we make concerning it is of ultimate importance; the survival of ourselves, our children, our species.”
Change the seventh-word “cooling” to warming and it is the same hysteria designed to panic people and prevent logic, but 180 degrees removed. One promoter of the book wrote,
“The dramatic importance of climate changes to the worlds future has been dangerously underestimated by many, often because we have been lulled by modern technology into thinking we have conquered nature. (Really?) But this well-written book points out in clear language that the climatic threat could be as awesome as any we might face, and that massive worldwide actions to hedge against that threat deserve immediate consideration. At a minimum, public awareness of the possibilities must commence, and Lowell Ponte’s provocative work is a good place to start.”
These words of warning exploited the false threat of cooling were written by Stephen Schneider, the person who became the major spokesperson of global warming just a few years later. The IPCC dedicated the Synthesis Report of the Fifth Assessment Report to him. They wrote,
“Steve Schneider, born in New York, trained as a plasma physicist, embraced scholarship in the field of climate science almost 40 years ago and continued his relentless efforts creating new knowledge in the field and informing policymakers and the public at large on the growing problem of climate change and solutions for dealing with it. At all times Steve Schneider remained intrepid and forthright in expressing his views. His convictions were driven by the strength of his outstanding scientific expertise.”
“Lead Author, Coordinating Lead Author and Expert Reviewer for various Assessment Reports and a member of the Core Writing Team for the Synthesis Report of the Fourth Assessment Report (FAR). His life and accomplishments have inspired and motivated members of the Core Writing Team of this Report.”
The IPCC brought him back to help write the deceitful FAR Synthesis Report because of the disasters exposed by Climategate and the collapse of the Kyoto Protocol. He explained why he was the perfect person for the job in a 1989 Discovery magazine article
(This is what the BBC have swallowed hook line and sinker.) “On the one hand we are ethically bound to the scientific method, in effect promising to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but, which means that we must include all the doubts, caveats, ifs and buts.
On the other hand, we are not just scientists, but human beings as well. And like most people, we’d like to see the world a better place, which in this context translates into our working to reduce the risk of potentially disastrous climate change.
To do that we have to get some broad-based support, to capture the public’s imagination.
That, of course, entails getting loads of media coverage. So we have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts we might have. This double ethical bind which we frequently find ourselves in cannot be solved by any formula. Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective and being honest.” Dr Stephen Schneider, Discover, October 1989.
Here is what former United Nations climate official Ottmar Edenhofer, who co-chaired the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change working group on Mitigation of Climate Change from 2008 to 2015 said.
“One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole,” “We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy,”
Schneider likely knew, or should have known about Christiana Figueres, Executive Secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, who said.
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,”
Clearly the BBC have remained committed to every word that Dr Stephen Schneider has written. In 1974 The ice age is due now anytime” – Professor George Kukla, Columbia University, 1974, The Weather Machine. In 1989 its Co2 induced run away global warming, does anyone in the BBC have even a remote clue what they are talking about?
Conclusion. There is no verifiable evidence that Co2 has caused runway or catastrophic warming that could lead to a climate apocalypse. Unless the BBC can provide evidence which is verifiable that is not couched in suffuse vague generalisations of cant and humbug then the BBC should in future to resist the temptation to spend licence fee payers money on the proliferation of empty rhetorical scaremongering propaganda.
The BBC needs to state exactly why it believes that paying fees to minor league celebrity pseudo scientists who relish in plastering their ego’s across the internet to promote themselves as really lovely people whose interests are blue water diving, exploring the Arctic and Antarctic and living their dreams but at our expense. When their main purpose in life appears to be undertaking research that allows them to cultivate new and meaningful scare stories that will encourage HMG to give them another grant and persuade the BBC to pay them more money to foster the illusion that Co2 is the ultimate antichrist and therefore ordinary folk will have to suffer even more pain and misery at the hands of HMG just to try and eke out a living. This behaviour is inexcusable. Why should we pay the BBC to be lied to?
As Maurice Strong said and Ottman Edenhofer confirmed this obsession with Co2 and climate change has nothing whatsoever to do with the protection of our environment and wind turbines can never ever be a solution to Co2 induced warming even if Co2 did cause catastrophic warming.
Wind turbines can kill millions of birds and bats but believing they are a reliable source of electricity generation is just as bonkers as believing that Co2 has the potential to cause an apocalypse.
As Angela Merkel has proven beyond reasonable doubt after four decades and nearly one trillion euros Germany still generates 81% of its energy from coal and only 2.8% from wind and solar and that is why Merkel has gained an exemption from the EU to mine and burn lignite until 2070 and is moving whole towns and villages to get more of it, whilst continuing to import more coal from Russia, South Africa, Australia, Columbia and America.
Wind turbines generate about 1.3% of our global electricity demand and solar is estimated at about 0.3% and this is after spending globally $2,687 billion on wind turbines since 2004 by the time we spent another $2,687 billion to reach 2.6% the original 250,000 wind turbines will be beyond economic repair because they only last 20 years.
Google engineers after two years of research have confirmed that during its short life of about 20 years a wind turbine can neither mitigate enough Co2 of generate sufficient energy to compensate for the volume of Co2 emitted and energy consumed during its manufacture and deployment so in simple physical terminology they represent a net loss to the planet. The only reason for their existence is to impose upon ordinary folk the all consuming ideology that Co2 is entirely detrimental to all life on the planet.
This stance is a complete fantasy without Co2 life on planet earth dies the same day we cannot exist without it. Plant osmosis begins shutting down at just 180ppm and had we not began consuming fossil fuels there is good reason to believe there would not be sufficient atmospheric Co2 to allow crops to grow and life on earth to continue. To imply differently is pure environmentalist gibberish but what else would you expect from the scientifically illiterate BBC made clear by the pompous bellicose meanderings of David Attenborough’s YouTube pontification, all form and no substance.
Being green is a huge speculative rip off funded by subsidies paid overwhelmingly by ordinary working people who gain no benefit whatsoever from handing over huge sums of cash to private equity funds, Siemens, Vestas and green speculators whose profit is guaranteed from here to eternity by governmental diktat.
Why does the BBC believe it has the right to take money from its licence fee payers to fund bellicose scientifically illiterate propaganda to the benefit of private equity funds, land owners, foreign wind farm operators, Bob Ward, Grantham Institute, Guardian, George Monbiot, Naomi Klein, David Suzuki and Al Gore when the net effect is entirely detrimental to the people who pay the BBC’s wages?
What does the BBC believe that the supposed rights of hard line environmentalists and those who make extreme profit from environmentalism and pseudo scientists specifically “modellers” whose very existence is entirely dependent on being able to get another tax payer funded grant which does mean they have to create another speculative scare story to comply with the current environmentalist bleeding heart UN need to impose Agenda 21 with its complicit reliance upon IAM’s to impose their climate based mechanisms one world rule for all mentality.
The elite are never at risk from their own deliberate manipulation and deception but the ordinary family in the eyes of Ehrlich, Malthus, Gore and the BBC’s own humanity hating Attenborough remain the focus of their attention, the root cause of everything that is wrong with the planet, they have to be subdued at any cost and if the demonization of Co2 can help them accomplish that task then so be it.
The 2050 obligation under Ed Milibands climate change act means ripping out every gas fired central heating system across the country to be replaced by inefficient unreliable and expensive electric heating totally reliant on the unreliable and intermittent generative abilities of wind turbines and solar panels. Before that time smart meters will be installed in every house whether we like it or not to allow our electricity supply to be cut off if the wind turbines fail to generate sufficient electricity to meet demand. All of this nonsense was put in place when alarmism convinced muddle headed illiterate superstitious politicians and greenies that the planet would go so warm that winters and snow would be something of the past so that turbines and solar panels could supply our moderate need for heating. Under the Maurice Strong green model industry would not exist so there would be no need for a reliable and consistent form of electricity but unfortunately for us and for their Alice in Wonderland fantasy the planet and our climate has not connived at their conspiracy.
The BBC swallowed this myth and the idea that to maintain its audience ratings it needed to distribute misleading propaganda that supported the green myth whilst at the same time avoid complaints from greenies who complained bitterly and violently every time sometime tried to make them aware that their beliefs were contradicted by fact. We know that you can never argue with a belief but the BBC have an obligation to educate, inform and entertain not a self serving right to lie cheat and deceive.
Maurice Strong and Stephen Schneider cultivated the fantasy and the UN, UNFCC, UNEP and the EU recognised the opportunity to exploit environmentalism to their one world one rule equality for us whilst behaving themselves like a worst case example of the Chinese Communist Party and Stalin. Like Obama and American preaching to the planet about human rights people have been locked up in Guantanamo Bay for 20 and 30 years without a trial relying only on a belief that they are dangerous. Whilst even though drugs for capital punishment have mostly become unavailable leading to States searching the internet for black market drugs to enforce the death penalty when there is explicit evidence that a large percentage of people on death row did not commit the crime they were convicted of.
Summary justice based upon belief enforced by the don’t do as I do, do what I say mentality gleefully promoted by the BBC – David Attenborough is a classic example – which as a prominent leftie organisation is only too happy to comply with whilst making grandiose claims of wanting to be independent, as if?
For the BBC there never was an ambition to be judged as the gold standard for journalism, it long ago rejected all traces of intellectual curiosity and a healthy scepticism and replaced it with a deranged appetite for bias prejudice and blatant hypocrisy which has resulted in treating every issue from a different starting point with programming related to our climate being treated as a substance light frigid ideology immersed in glib generality where reality never sees the light of day and that is not science. It is ghoulish infantile propaganda and license fee payers should not be asked to support this level of insane immorality, it is unacceptable and it is beyond time for the BBC to accept this fact and move on.
There may be typographical errors and my grammatical abilities might not reach the BBC’s extremely high standards in this respect but they are not good reasons to dismiss my appeal and by comparison with the BBC I use numbers, give specific references and put subjects into context. If you can state specifically where the data I have provided is inconsistent with data that you might rely upon as a means of dismissing my appeal then you need to identify exactly what the issue is, the source of your data and why you believe your data is more relevant than the data I have provided if you cannot do this then you are toast.
Supporting documentation relevant to Appeal 001/DRW is provided in following emailed attachments.
Meanwhile in retrospect:
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/03/11/one-of-the-very-first-global-warming-films-the-greenhouse-conspiracy/
Rod Liddle has said that the BBC deliberately sets up interviews with people it knows will say exactly what the BBC wants us to hear so that subsequently it can disassociate itself with what has transpired whilst in secret rejoicing at the outcome of its contrivance believing that we are too thick to recognise and understand its deceit.
“We were masters of the techniques of promoting our point of view under the cloak of impartiality. The simplest was to hold a discussion between a fluent and persuasive proponent of the view you favoured, and a humourless bigot representing the other side. With a big story, like shale gas for example, you would choose the aspect where your case was strongest: the dangers of subsidence and water pollution, say, rather than the transformation of Britain’s energy supplies and the abandonment of wind farms and nuclear power stations. And you could have a ‘balanced’ summary with the view you favoured coming last: not “the opposition claim that this will just make the rich richer, but the government point out that it will create 10,000 new jobs” but “the government claim it will create 10,000 new jobs, but the opposition point out that it will just make the rich richer.” It is the last thought that stays in the mind. It is curiously satisfying to find all of these techniques still being regularly used forty-seven years after I left the BBC.” (Sir Anthony Jay)
“I absorbed and expressed all the accepted BBC attitudes: hostility to, or at least suspicion of, America, monarchy, government, capitalism, empire, banking and the defence establishment, and in favour of the NHS, state welfare, the social services, the environment and state education. But perhaps our most powerful antagonism was directed at advertising. This is not surprising; commercial television was the biggest threat the BBC had ever had to face. The idea that television should be financed by businessmen promoting their products for profit created in us an almost spiritual revulsion. And when our colleagues, who we had thought were good BBC men, left to join commercial broadcasters, they became pariahs. We could hardly bring ourselves to speak to them again. They had not just gone to join a rival company; they had sinned against the true faith, they were traitors, deserters, heretics.
This deep hostility to people and organisations who made and sold things was not of course exclusive to the BBC. It permeated a lot of upper middle class English society (and has not vanished yet). But it was wider and deeper in the BBC than anywhere else, and it is still very much a part of the BBC ethos. Very few of the BBC producers and executives have any real experience of the business world, and as so often happens, this ignorance, far from giving rise to doubt, increases their certainty.” (Sir Anthony Jay)
CAS-3843673-020C5J. Full Complaint: CAS-3837243-N96JZ9, CAS-3823472-HT8CS0, CAS-3834353-KBPPY8, CAS-3804754-4BMKZY, CAS-3707407-MRSKS8, CAS-3691043-KX56F2, CAS-3690744-8XQ0C7, CAS-3689289-XM732K, CAS-3687285-F089K2, CAS-3713299-CL8QKP, CAS-3691043-KX56F2, CAS-3690744-8XQ0C7, CAS-3695656-171GHJ, CAS-3710768-ZYQG6K, CAS-3613914-Q54SVR, CAS-3695656-171GHJ, CAS-3689289-XM732K, CAS-3687529-2X2FSK, CAS-3687285-F089K2, CAS-3686266-9S0NN0, CAS-3686007-3L35KX, enough or do you want more? BBC weasel words: – can, clearly, could, conjectured, considered, expected, may, might, perhaps, possibly, projected, robust, unprecedented. – “Experts suggest…” “It has been said that …” “Research has shown…” “Science indicates …” “It can be argued…” “Scientists believe….” “A high level of certainty” “Models predict….” Catastrophic, apocalyptic, dangerous warming, rising sea levels, typhoons, cyclones, flood, drought, extreme weather and tornadoes. What the BBC and its paid contributors never say is what exactly constitutes extreme weather, where did it happen and when and why is it extreme now when before Co2 mania it was just weather. If sea levels are rising, then the BBC should say by how much over what time period and the same with temperature otherwise the BBC is just guilty of scaremongering. Leonardo dicaprio accused of hypocrisy because of a private jet round trip of 8,000 miles to collect am environmental award. Al Gore, Attenborough, Klein, Figueres, Neil Oliver, David Suzuki, 40,000 COP delegates then all fall into the same category. Yes or No?
CAS-3707407-MRSKS8: 3634267 3612773 3695656 Did the BBC pay 2 geneticists to legitimise the BBC’s want to deceive its audience, yes. Do atolls float yes. Is there evidence to support the assertion that atolls have suffered in any way from a temp rise of 1.4f in 165 years NO, hence the GCF was amended to pay for adaptation not compensate for damage. Has the BBC adopted a drip feed mentality devoid of rigour & detail to impose belief that Co2 causes climate change without causing warming first YES. Spare me the false sympathy why would I be disappointed when your response is so easy to predict? Only recidivist crybabies run to Mummy Trusts ample bosom begging for absolution for sins of omission, gutless pathetic. How is it possible the we should be required by criminal sanction to pay for 17000 misbegotten halfwits incapable of recognising the fundamental difference between fact and faction between religion and science and be comfortable with being lied to on a daily basis to promote the mawkish fiction of human inspired global warming which needs to ignore 4.54 billion years of history in order to promote its cause. Just explain to me in detail why I should have to pay the BBC to lied to by the BBC. Simon Reeve in Greece OMG the Greeks are burning lignite infecting the atmosphere why instead of buying German tanks didn’t they invest in solar panels instead complete forgetting that solar panels only work for a few hours a day. Why does the BBC use our money to pay technically illiterate imbeciles to promote its green paranoid obsession? If you want to spend my money responsibly then just admit your infantile stupidity what could be cheaper than that?
CAS-3691043-KX56F2: Ashton Jones Nurse V 64 million licence fee payers
Full Complaint: 3676207 Steve Jones “BBC wedded to false balance” John Ashton “BBC should explain how its decision to give a platform to (Bob) Carter serves the public interest. Otherwise it will be undermining its “friends” – ? – when it needs them most and throwing scavengers a piece of its own flesh”. Steve Jones “This goes to the heart of science reporting – you wouldn’t have a homeopath speaking alongside a brain surgeon for balance as that would be absurd. It’s just as absurd to have a climate sceptic for balance against the work of the overwhelming majority of climate scientists”. Pots kettles and black. Neither would you expect a geneticist to pontificate about climate science. Bob Carter produced evidence which contradicted what the BBC IPCC Met Office wanted us to believe. The IPCC was not formed to conduct impartial research into our climate its specific remit – Maurice Strong – was to find a way of making humanity responsible for warming to promote Strong’s anti-capitalist agenda fully supported by Jones Ashton Klein Schneider UN UNEP UNFCC EU. Bob Carter was not a “scavenger” denier or sceptic his only crime was to raise his head above the parapet and provide evidence that contradicted what Jones and Ashton need us to believe in order to protect and defend the reputation and grant income of their peer group to advance their anti-capitalist agenda to our detriment. With friends like Jones & Ashton the BBC does not need enemies. Jones & Ashton need to vilify and abuse their challengers because they know they cannot contradict the evidence. It is not due undue or false balance to present satellite data & the only friends the BBC has are the millions of people who pay its wages. If Ward or Jones phone to complain just tell them to sod off, who are they anyway and who cares what they think believe or say. The only thing as Jones says that matters is evidence that is why the BBC should use satellite data, why does the BBC want to frighten its audience anyway?
Complaint Summary: BBC not innocents at large
CAS-3690744-8XQ0C7: 3670225 “We’ve reported on the various views surrounding climate change over a long period. However, it is not always possible or practical to reflect all the different opinions on a subject within individual programmes. Editors are charged to ensure that over a reasonable period they reflect the range of significant views, opinions and trends in their subject area.” So you want me to believe that the BBC having paid Jones & Nurse to rewrite its editorial standards in an attempt to legitimise its deceit related to AGW imposing due impartiality to ensure that only the “views” of those with a vested interest in the promotion of AGW were given air time now wants me to believe that it quoted a Met Office/NASA press release without attribution and that this was just an accidental act of innocents at large naive gullible unable to comprehend the significance of its malfeasance, really? It is the BBC that always every time in response to a complaint that chooses to conflate scientific fact to views & opinions in the hope and expectation that this assertion will nullify & neutralise the context of the complaint allowing the BBC to avoid censure for false representation and deceit. The BBC knows that every prediction made by the Met Office – including no more snow – has failed to manifest itself. AGW morphed into climate change simple because the Met Office & NASA recognised it could not contradict the validity and accuracy of satellite data. If the BBC were innocents at large there would have been no reason to pay Jones & Nurse to legitimise their desired deceit and use heavy weight lawyers in an attempt to silence an OAP who intended to release the names of those attending a conference organised by Harrabin. https://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/HHRG-114-SY-WState-JChristy-20160202.pdf Just quote satellite data in future and then no more complaints, what is so difficult??
Complaint Summary: 2015 3rd warmest satellite era behind 1998 & 2010
CAS-3689289-XM732K: Let me get this right your belief is that the BBC needs to debauch and misrepresent science fact in order to appease the whim of a specific minority who believe that the only way to impose and enforce their belief upon the majority is to deny us evidence that fundamentally contradicts their belief? That the BBC yielded to pressure from this minority to the extent that it was felt reasonable to pay 2 geneticists to rewrite its editorial standards to ensure that the BBC’s allegiance to this minority was set in stone to the extent that the BBC is now 100% committed to the imposition of belief instead of accurately reporting simple scientific fact? That the BBC believes that its allegiance to this minority overrides and exceeds its clear obligation to educate inform and entertain its licence fee payers. That the BBC believes it is right and proper and to our benefit that the BBC is allowed to deliberately manipulate the way in which it exploits its broadcasting spectrum to make false representations that diminish our understanding to our detriment and to the absolute benefit of reputation privilege and profit of that specific minority who believe that it is their absolute right to distort and manipulate the behaviour of the BBC to achieve their specific political ambition? That the BBC is 100% ideologically committed to the notion that its allegiance to broadcasting data which directly benefits specific vested interests is legally morally and ethically justifiable in the promotion of their cause even though it is against the public interest and fundamentally contravenes our human rights? If the BBC wants to behave like the political wing of the IRA so be it. But if so it needs to end its reliance on the licence fee and face the world as it is and maybe then it will recognise exactly what its obligations and allegiances should be. Bob Ward & RS do not pay your wages we do.
CAS-3687529-2X2FSK: BBC is deliberately manipulative when it states climate change without attribution in the hope and expectation that apathy will extend belief that climate change is caused by Co2 even though there is no evidence to support this supposition. Name dropping NASA & Met Office and paying PhD’s to mouth platitudes is again contrived to deceive impose belief and discourage ordinary folk from challenging their narrative and risk being slapped down by supposed authority. The BBC only resorts to self-indulgent subliminal contextualisation of the climate alarmist narrative because it is desperate to avoid getting assassinated by explicit numbers which it knows its rhetoric cannot refute. Our climate has been changing for 4.5 billion years fact but to enforce belief that Co2 is the primary cause of it alarmists need us to believe that change before 1970 was natural but everything after that date was AGW as if? Fact NASA GISS NOAA Met Office Tyndall BAS & rent seeking PhD’s rely 100% for their survival on grants and therefore have vested interest in ensuring that their output fully supports government diktat but the BBC whilst wanting to be the same is different. We have to pay the BBC for having a TV in our house and risk criminal sanction if we do not therefore its allegiance – if any – should be 100% in favour of its licence fee payers but instead it pays 2 geneticists to rewrite its editorial standards to legitimise deceit which is 100% detrimental to its audience and rejoices in defending that irony, in effect taking the p….
Complaint Summary: Minus 57 degrees 6.4 million cubic miles of ice, Antarctica.
CAS-3686266-9S0NN0: Guardian article. Mendacious Ashton’s only concern is that his duplicity might be revealed by the BBC discussing the climate fraud with Lawson & Lilley. Educate inform and entertain. False bias is a construct promoted by Jones & Nurse to ensure that free speech insofar as climate matters are concerned never sees the light of day on the BBC and the media in general. Alarmists hate the Mail because unlike the Guardian & the BBC they cannot exert any control over what it prints. The Mail allows free speech alarmists hate the very idea because they know – as does the BBC – how manipulative they need to be to advance their anti-capitalist agenda. The irony is that the BBC is so overwhelmed with noble cause corruption that it never contemplates the fact that we pay the BBC to tell us lies which directly benefit a narrow minded psychotic clique who given free reign would use Agenda 21 to deny those who fund the BBC their human rights. Bob Carter did no more than cite data that fundamentally contradicted the belief driven hype promoted by alarmism which is unacceptable to alarmist attack dogs like Ward who is paid to demonise anyone who dares to critique the orthodoxy. When someone tries to steal your money they first frighten you to suspend disbelief and then give you a simplistic solution. Alarmism uses the same technique citing every normality as an abnormality to invoke fear and then offer a supposedly simplistic solution to avoid disaster stop emitting Co2. A grotesque act of exploitation in which the BBC has been happy to participate to the detriment of the people who pay its wages, obscene. We pay the BBC not the Royal Society Guardian Grantham EU UN and we have an absolute right to get the data and if Ward & Ashton don’t like the truth, tough. Jones & Nurse are just establishment shills all sceptics do is reveal data that contradicts the hype that is not a crime. I don’t recall the BBC asking my permission to use my licence fee to fund my indoctrination?
Complaint Summary: Stupid scaremongering illiterate drivel
CAS-3695656-171GHJ: Heap of c..p! Is it climate change, will it get worse, are we all going to die?? Co2 is 0.04% of our atmosphere or 0.4% of 1% which is trace gases 99% is water vapour 78% nitrogen & 21% oxygen Co2 is 85% saturated not well mixed and water vapour has remained static with a slight downward trend which fundamentally contradicts what Heap was trying to make us believe. Co2 has no effect on the jet stream or the current El Nino & temp has risen by just 1.4F in 165 years & remained flat between 2001 & 2010 when 25% of all Co2 ever emitted was emitted. Ignorant pontificating about recent weather trends is misleading & a scientifically illiterate exercise. Especially true when related to the instrumental record that covers just 25% of the globe for at best 120 years. Earth is about 4.54 billion years so the sample size is 0.000002643172%. Our atmosphere weighs 11,710,000,000,000,000,000 pounds Co2 0.04% of that positive feedback or not this number is insignificant. Heap is intent on distributing highly politicised propaganda to narrow focus and incite fear and panic by emoting normality as abnormality without giving detail that would correct his deliberately misleading generalisations, fraudulent false representation. IPCC AR5 WGI Chapter 2 “In summary, there continues to be a lack of evidence and thus low confidence regarding the sign of trend in the magnitude and/or frequency of floods on a global scale”. If you decide through free choice to live in a house situated on a flood plain, then you should at any time expect to be flooded. People have free choice where they decide to live and their free choice is not everyone else’s problem. Heap on every occasion made possible by the BBC remains intent on behaving like an ignoramus who is willing to spout scaremongering propaganda on the proviso that he gets a fat fee from licence fee payers, unacceptable contrivance.
Complaint Summary: Manipulative mendacious duplicity
CAS-3687285-F089K2: You cannot conflate scientific fact to opinion & belief. As explained NASA/GISS/NOAA/Met Office use land station based data which covers just one third of the planet excluding oceans forests and deserts with sparse coverage of both poles & therefore subject to UHI and land change whereas satellite data relates to a 360-degree coverage of the planet from ground zero to 41kms and specifically lower troposphere which Gavin Schmidt says should warm first if the Co2 hypothesis is true, it has not. The BBC refuses to use RSS/UAH data because it does not support its alarmist cause, who pays your wages? Satellite data has not been subjected to manipulation to create a warming trend where no trend existed in the raw data and the BBC comment said 2015 was the warmest year which is not true. Minoan Roman & Medieval warm periods were hotter than today & 8000 years ago it was 2C warmer than today with Co2 at 200ppm. 2015 was the 3rd warmest year after 1998 & 2010, fact RSS/UAH confirms. The data you cite relates to hundredths of a degree the result of millions of calculations outweighed by a margin of error 20 times the supposed increase which the satellite record contradicts. We are not talking here about views or opinions we are talking about scientific fact which the BBC cannot refute. With climate the BBC adopts a fundamentally difference approach to gene cutting where specifics are discussed but with climate the approach is deliberately manipulative because the BBC knows its mendacious rhetoric can be easily contradicted by fact. Climate change only exists because RSS/UAH data contradicts AGW. What exactly is the point of lying to your audience if not to emote fear and trepidation within it for the benefit of a narrow clique of psychotic crazed green zealots? You cannot excuse mendacity by bearing false witness to editorial standards specifically rewritten to legitimise deceit, a lie is a lie not excusable by deceit.
Present the following to Roger Harrabin and ask him to analyse the content.
With the El Niño-related uptick in the February 2016 GISS Land-Ocean Temperature Index, Figure 1, alarmism has reached beyond the Spinal Tap 11 volume setting, up to 20. (For those in need of a chuckle, the YouTube video of related portion of This is Spinal Tap is here. Thanks to Rob Reiner and Christopher Guest for that very funny scene.)
Reply to David Roger Wells
Jeez David that was impressive. When did you send that to old Rona, and did she reply to any of it?
Hi Rod when they finally ran out of infantile excuses eg “it would take at least 2 one hour documentaries to describe the climate” “we cannot within 3 minutes of the allotted time give a full appreciation of the climate” “everyone is entitled to their opinion” I got this:
CAS-3837243
Dear Mr Wells,
I am responsible within BBC Audience Services for the complaints service provided by our contact centre. I have been reviewing the history of your complaints to the BBC.
I apologise for the formality of this email but I have decided that the BBC Trust’s Expedited Complaints Procedure should apply to your complaints from today. In order for this to happen I need to provide you with certain information according to the protocol laid down by the BBC Trust.
The BBC Executive and the Trust may use this Procedure only where a complainant has a history of persistently or repeatedly making complaints which fall into one of the following categories:
(a) are trivial, misconceived, hypothetical, repetitious or otherwise vexatious;
(b) fail to raise an issue of breach of any relevant Guidelines or Policies (eg in the case of an editorial complaint, the Editorial Guidelines; in the case of a fair trading complaint, the Fair Trading Policies and Framework);
(c) use gratuitously abusive or offensive language;
(d) are shown on investigation to have no reasonable prospect of success; or
(e) after rejection of the complaint at an earlier stage (eg Stage 1), are persistently and repeatedly appealed unsuccessfully to the next stage (eg Stage 2).
I believe that your complaints fall into category (a) in that they are repetitious and misconceived, and also categories (b) and (d). In order to apply the Expedited Complaints Procedure, I am required to follow the notification requirements laid down by the BBC Trust:
1. I am providing you with a link to the copy of the General Complaints and Appeals Procedure, which contains detail of the Expedited Complaints Procedure (in Annex2 ):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/governance/complaints_framework/general.html
2. I have decided to apply this Procedure because of the volume of your complaints and the consequent demands they make on the time of complaints advisers when most of them have not suggested breaches of BBC guidelines:
(i) In January 2016 our records show you made 13 complaints, 12 in February and a further 6 since then. Over 140 have been made in your name since 2011.
(ii) Many of the complaints are comments or views and mostly about climate change, also with some other issues, but to which we have previously provided replies and some of which were subsequently escalated;
(iii) Most have not suggested a breach of the BBC’s published standards, or a significant issue of general importance which might justify further investigation, and have not been successful on escalation.
3. I intend to apply the Procedure from today to 15 June 2018.
4. You may appeal against this decision. If you wish to do so you should contact the BBC Trust within 20 working days of receiving this reply. Details are in the Expedited Procedure to which I have provided a link above.
I should explain that if a future complaint from you falls into any of the categories (a) (b) (c) (d) or (e) the complaint will not be acknowledged and so may be rejected without notifying you or providing any reasons. If on the other hand it does not fall into these categories and suggests a possible breach of any relevant Guidelines or Policies, the complaint will be investigated in accordance with the Complaints Procedure that applies.
I’m aware that you may still have complaints to which the BBC may not yet have replied. The BBC will of course answer those and other complaints submitted before the date this Expedited Complaints Procedure was applied.
Keith Jones,
Head of Communications and Complaints,
BBC Audience Services.
That’s not a comment, it’s an epistle.
Please don’t be so terse. You are almost as bad as ‘Drive-by’ Mosher.
The above is an example of me being polite to the BBC. I have made a total of 340 separate complaints numerous appeals but no answers. When I submitted a 4mb FOI request they replied saying in effect the media legislations allows them to lie and cheat. The BBC is an aberrant nonsense without morality ethics standards knowledge discipline or scientific understanding.
Sent to Phoebe by email today, this is just one paragraph to set the scene:
Inscribed on the wall of BBC broadcasting house “If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear”. The BBC choose to misinterpret this phrase to give the BBC the right to castigate Co2, deplore and scandalise human use of fossil fuels and paint ordinary folk into the dock for causing damage to the climate. What George Orwell meant was that people had the right to tell organisations like the BBC and anyone else that they were talking through the back of their heads when the proceeded to indulge in illiterate propaganda to advance a political objective. The BBC was created because government at the time felt threatened by the idea that journalism if allowed free reign would frustrate governments want and desire to promote its own propaganda needed to distort, brainwash, intimidate and harass ordinary folk into believing that what government said was true. Now the BBC cannot get out of the habit of lying through its teeth. Free speech which is what the BBC advocates but behind the scenes it employed Prof Steve Jones to rewrite its editorial terms to widen the paradigm of false balance and due impartiality to give the BBC even wider discretion as to what false balance and due impartiality really meant insofar as the BBC was concerned. Now the BBC can be as partial, biased and prejudiced as it wants yet remain within the guidelines set out by Prof Jones who said after his deployment that the BBC needed to be even more prejudiced and biased insofar as climate was concerned to ensure the audience was completely overwhelmed and infatuated with the belief that humans were catastrophically influencing the climate posing a threat to the planet.”
When Prof Jones was interviewed by John Humphrys after the debacle over Lord Lawson saying to Justin Webb that the climate had cooled a little – at the time of speaking it had – and has not reacted to continued increases in Co2 emissions. Justin Webb was referred to Ofcom who criticised and abused Justin Webb for not ridiculing Lord Lawson sufficiently to make him recant and say that it really was warming catastrophically in line with BBC’s veteran climate analysist Roger Harrabins frequent catastrophic incantations. Humphrys asked Prof Jones for his comments about Lord Lawson and Justin Webb and Prof Jones said “I call them deniers” to which Humphrys said “thats a bit religious isnt it “. Since then Prof Jones has never been on the Today program again.
Lord Krebs is another clown the BBC leveraged for ages. On BBC Countryfile Krebs said “we have to grow plants to suck all of the Co2 out of the atmosphere because Co2 is destroying the planet” then Krebs said “we have to kill all of the cows because methane is destroying the planet” then “we have to grow plants to eat instead of meat”. I emailed Countryfile “If we suck all of the Co2 out of the atmosphere – an impossible feat – how do we grow plants to eat instead of meat”. Dr Jim Al Khalili BBC Quantum Physics “Oxygenic photosynthesis generates 16,000 tons of new vegetation every second of every single day”. But what Al Khalili because of his contractual arrangement with the BBC declined to mention that unless we have elevated levels of atmospheric Co2 the oxygenic photosynthesis is not sufficiently prolific to allow photosynthesis to function.
What ordinary folk dont understand about the BBC is the extremely tight reign they exert over any who is a guest, they are told exactly what they can and cannot say. Guests on programs are read the riot act and if they dare to contravene the BBC’s editorial standards they never come back. If guests make a gaff which is still within guidelines but makes the BBC look more stupid than it is they never come back either.
I follow up every BBC guest and point out the defects insofar as science fact allows and most of the time they do not return. Those from Grantham field their secretaries and refuse point blank to enter into any discussion which tells multitudes about their knowledge and understanding of climate, they like Greta are good at spouting rhetoric but when their rhetoric is challenged they run away.
Lol…I spit soda onto my keyboard.
mabbeck
D.R.W.
I really do hope that you have actually sent this to the B.B.C. If you haven’t, please do. It’s what I’ve been
wanting to say in a long while, but haven’t been able to put into words.
Reply to mabbeck
The BBC are so fed up with my complaints that they have banned me from making complaints so I send individual programs emails. My assumption is that they are put straight in a spam folder and are never read but what else can you do?
“…but what else can you do?”
Why, repost all those queries and responses in here for us to copy and paste, and reiterate. They can’t ban us all, at least in the short term, and not without some difficulty. Multiple complainants are much more difficult to ignore and dismiss, especially if there are Duly Elected Legislators amongst those complainants. 😏
Richard Saumarez
Brevity is the soul of wit.
Eee bah gum, David !
What a Tour de Force !
Your response was deserving of an article in its own right !
“How the BBC connives with “Greenwash” advocates to lie and distort true science” ….. or some such title.
Your persistent diligence is an example to us all, yet such questioning, and responses will never be read by BBC propagandists, way down in here in these columns. May I respectfully suggest that your entire discourse be republished as an article in its own right. Please see the headings at the top of WUWT main page, and the link to Submit an Article for publication. Your logic defies any refutation it seems to me.
…. Jack
Jon R
Willie is a hard worker, willing to get down in the sewer with a roto rooter and clear the pipes. Hope he gets a nice hot shower after.
Great response. I sure hope a separate letter was sent to the BBC management by a lawyer explaining that more libel against Dr. Soon will not be tolerated especially now that they have been informed of the facts.
That is a great idea, probably the only approach with a chance of making a dent in the sleek bodywork.
RobR
My favorite quote: “Are you suggesting that all scientific research into climate change since 1995 is redundant?”
Ba bam!
“… there are two sides to the climate question based on the data currently available.”
Indeed, there is an old saying that there are two sides to every story. Those, like the BBC, that only provide one side, are providing their listeners with a half-truth.
A waste of time and electronic ink…An assassin isn’t interested in the truth, merely in finding more material to quote “out of context”. While Dr. Willie Soon is basically compelled to reply (any honest scientist would) it’s not going to change one brain cell of the people involved in the character assassination plot.
Luckily, just about any decently educated person no longer believes a thing the BBC says anyway.
Eric Eikenberry
“Your questions are libelous in nature and, if aired on any BBC media format, will force me into legal action to protect my work and reputation. Please see my cited papers below for information regarding the issues surrounding the fraudulent claim that climate science is “settled”. Thank you for your time.”
There is the response Mr. Soon should have provided to this “journalist”.
Justin Lueken
Dr. Soon, I fear your thoughtful and educated responses are but “Pearls Before Swine…”
Y’all understand that Phoebe’s greatest claim to “Journalism” are articles on The Female Orgasm, Painful Sex, and the Highest Village in Scotland…
https://muckrack.com/phoebe-keane/articles
Forgive if posted earlier.
Reply to Justin Lueken
Only the best and brightest to deal with the most critical challenge facing our time right?
Three cheers for Dr. Soon. If they misrepresent anything you said I hope you will sue the pants off them.
An excellent response by Dr Soon. It may stop the activist BBC from maligning him but it won’t stop them propagandizing against the oil industry. The real story here – the one the y should be doing- was laid out by the Dallas Morrning News and others.
“The narrative of an organic movement of environmental defenders taking on Big Oil has been depicted by some as a David-versus-Goliath showdown. But as more and more facts emerge, it is becoming increasingly clear that Exxon has been unfairly maligned by a group of activists and lawyers driven by politics but bereft of facts.” (Aug. 3, 2018)
Jon P Peterson
WOW, I just saw Joe Biden’s Climate change policy talk on TV, (all lies) a 2 trillion dollar program – Idiot !
It would do well for his people to read Willie Soon’s letter to the BBC for a start. Trump should read it !
Hope trump has some climate facts in his mind for the “debates”.
– JPP
Reply to Jon P Peterson
Just saw the president’s reply to the Biden talk today.
Someone should tell President Trump not to use the word “Carbon”, that’s a democrat term for CO2.
As far as I know, carbon is not a greenhouse gas. Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is a greenhouse gas.
From now on President Trump should never refer to the democrat term carbon as a greenhouse gas.
Someone should emphasize that to him, that CO2 is a gas and also that it is NOT pollution.
He should ask Biden at the debate “about what percentage of the atmosphere is carbon dioxide” !!!
He should also ask Biden if CO2 is pollution – that would get him!
Just sayin. . .
Looks to me as though Phoebe Keane has quoted directly from the Wikipedia page of “Willie Soon”; {sic} . . .
. . . and if she thinks such pages are reasonable with respect to anything or anyone not fully into the CO2-Global Warming concept, she is a complete simpleton.
I suggest she start reading material from early 2008 from “denier” web sites. It is said that one can master a subject with 10,000 hours of trying.
18 years * 300 days/per *2 hours/per = 10,800 hours
Bless your little heart, Phoebe; get started.
Personally, I loved it when Willie corrected Phoebe over her use of ‘Willie’ (steady now!). I just so wanted him to come back and call her by name: ‘Dick’. (with the ‘ ‘)
Jean Parisot
I might have included a summary of the remedies available for malicious libel under UK.
Everyone at the BBC knows that private money taints scientific inquiry, but government money does not.
Do NOT speak to the media. “No comment!” is a bad response as it implies you have something to hide. If you must say anything, a better (and safer) response is: “I don’t speak to the media.” It implies that you don’t trust them and calls their integrity into question.
The trick is to control the message
If pressed on specifics relative to you/your work, the safest response is: “I have addressed that issue on my blog/web page. You may quote that material.” Ensure your published comments come with a copyright statement that permits others to quote your material, as long as they include links to the source. If they can’t quote you out of context, it’s unlikely they’ll quote you at all. After all, they don’t want the public to know your side of the debate. The media depends on people trusting it. They need an opposing viewpoint to appear “fair and balanced”. But that opposition has to be under their control.
Mr Soon should have issued a short statement that, as Paul refers to above, contained his concern over media bias. In my opinion he has given the enemy way too much ammunition.
If they then want to quote him they will have to use his statement and they can’t wiggle out of it by saying he refused comment.
Play the b@stards at their own game.
Reply to Climate believer
David Roger Wells -What a warrior! Send your original comment(long but spellbinding!) to every British politician you can find.But especially send it to Dominic Cummings .He is gunning for the BBC.
Reply to Wolf at the door
DMC may well read this entire article, and the significant comments about the BBC’s chicanery by DRW. I think DMC may well have a “Spider” trawling the Web for ANY derogatory articles concerning the Balderdash Bureaucracy Channel. 🤔
Paul in uk
Brilliant letter by Willie Soon, well done.
It seems to me that central to where they’re coming from is the idea that questioning, spreading doubt, undermining, questioning facts, experts is somehow very wrong and must be stopped and that this is also causing dangerous delays. I would suggest the opposite, that it is a most important or vital part of the process to avoid dangerous mistakes and make breakthroughs that could revolutionise our understanding and prevent future disasters.
For me the priority is getting to the truth, but also in situations like this speed is so important so I understand people’s fears of anything that appears to slow progress, but I wonder if the real delay and danger is caused by those seeking to prevent the proper process and silence others.
A request: After the BBC piece airs, could we get an article that compares Dr. Soon’s responses to what the BBC actually broadcasts?
Allan Murray-Jones
This is scary. I live in the UK, but do not watch BBC TV and listen much less to BBC Radio than 5 years ago.
What the BBC ‘journalist’ (actually propagandist) is scary. How can the BBC pay for this sort of rubbish?
Until this, I used to say that if the BBC became a pard for service I would pay. Not any more. Defund the ideologues!
You may be interested to know that Ofcom (i.e. the, BBC Ombudsman) is investigating a complaint I have made at the use and support of mental child abuse by the BBC in support of a campaign to promote the AGW-scare (BBC Complaints – Case number CAS-5942192-B7V5Z1, Ofcom ref. no. 889203 ).
My submission to Ofcom includes this,
“I have complained to the BBC about its support and promotion of mental child abuse being used in a campaign. The BBC has failed to address my complaint at the child abuse and has attempted to deflect consideration onto the BBC’s assertion that the child abuse is justified by the nature of the campaign. Although the campaign is egregious – and probably contravenes the BBC Charter – I am not complaining about the campaign: my complaint is at the child abuse.
I assert that
(i) child abuse cannot be justified by its being used to support any campaign
and, anyway,
(ii) the BBC’s excuses for the campaign are without merit.”
Please note that the BBC has replied to my complaint by repeatedly failing to mention the subject of my complaint but – instead – by proclaiming that its behaviour is justified by the its promotion of ‘”climate change'” alarmism.
(BBC Complaints – Case number CAS-5942192-B7V5Z1, Ofcom ref. no. 889203 ).
Can not find your case. The Ofcom website search engine is dire.
I wonder by what right or authority or mandate or law the BBC has to conduct political campaigns.
If you email me (richardscourtney@aol.com) I will send you my submission to Ofcom. It includes this,
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__label__wiki | 0.762596 | 0.762596 | DUNDALK, Md. - Purple Friday for the Ravens has taken off in the Baltimore area. But are you ready for Orange Wednesdays? One local woman thinks you should be.
Nancy Cook from Dundalk wants to start a tradition where people wear orange on Wednesdays. She says she picked "hump day" to try and help the O's get "over the hump."
"I think maybe it's better to support the person that is the underdog," she says. "The person that needs a lift up and I'd like to see our town turn into a supportive group and be wearing a sea of orange because I think it would give confidence to our young players. I think it would make our older players happy."
Cook pitched her idea to the Orioles, but got a thumbs down from the team. So she turned to social media and hopes to gain momentum for Orange Wednesday that way.
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Woman proposes Orange Wednesday
DUNDALK, Md. – Purple Friday for the Ravens has taken off in the Baltimore area. But are you ready for Orange Wednesdays? One local woman thinks you should be.
Nancy Cook from Dundalk wants to start a tradition where people wear orange on Wednesdays. She says she picked “hump day” to try and help the O’s get “over the hump.”
“I think maybe it’s better to support the person that is the underdog,” she says. “The person that needs a lift up and I’d like to see our town turn into a supportive group and be wearing a sea of orange because I think it would give confidence to our young players. I think it would make our older players happy.”
View video & read the full article on ABC2 News – click here
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Doklam: China's provocative steps escalating tensions, says US lawmaker
By Press Trust of India | Washington | Last Updated at August 10 2017 13:34 IST
The US has maintained its silence on the Sikkim standoff between the armies of India and China Expressing concern over the Sikkim standoff between India and China, an influential US lawmaker has accused Beijing of taking provocative steps that have resulted in the escalation of tensions between the two Asian giants.
"I'm very concerned about what is happening on Doklam Plateau. I believe that China has taken certain provocative steps that have escalated into the current standoff on the plateau," Raja Krishnamoorthi, the Congressman from Illinois, said.
Krishnamoorthi, 44, just returned from a short trip to India during which he met Prime Minister Narendra Modi this week and had a discussion on a wide range of issues.
He said the standoff issue did not come up during his meeting with the prime minister in New Delhi.
Talking about his views on the standoff, he said, "I have urged a diplomatic solution, a peaceful diplomatic solution to the current standoff, and I'm very hopeful that it can come about."
"It's very important that no country take provocative steps, especially in border disputes in the region," said Krishnamoorthi in response to a question.
The US has maintained its silence on the Sikkim standoff between the armies of India and China.
"We have seen these reports (on the standoff). We refer you to the Governments of India, China, and Bhutan for further information," a State Department spokesperson told PTI when asked about the American stand on the current Doklam standoff.
The US last month also had avoided commenting on the Sikkim standoff.
Meanwhile, analysts here criticised China for its aggressive stance.
Will Edwards, an Asia-Pacific and defense analyst at The Cipher Brief, recently wrote that the Chinese road could have serious strategic implications for India's defence of its home territory due to a geographic feature that leaves India vulnerable.
"Allowing the Chinese road project to continue could provide Beijing with an avenue for its troops to strike the 'Chicken's Neck', a narrow strip of land connecting India's northeastern states to the rest of the country that could be severed in the event of conflict," he wrote.
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__label__cc | 0.674573 | 0.325427 | Unusual mass renormalization in FeSi studied by high-resolution photoemission
T. Saitoh, A. Sekiyama, T. Mizokawa, A. Fujimori, K. Ito, H. Nakamura, M. Shiga
We have studied the electronic structure of FeSi by high-resolution photoemission. At room temperature the spectra show no energy gap while a gap opening was observed below ∼150 K accompanied by the gradual paramagnetic-to-nonmagnetic transition. From analysis of the spectral lineshape using a model self-energy, we find that considerable band narrowing occurs near the band edge, probably due to electron correlation, giving a qualitative explanation to the unusual electronic and magnetic properties.
Solid State Communications
Published - 1995 Aug
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Saitoh, T., Sekiyama, A., Mizokawa, T., Fujimori, A., Ito, K., Nakamura, H., & Shiga, M. (1995). Unusual mass renormalization in FeSi studied by high-resolution photoemission. Solid State Communications, 95(5), 307-311. https://doi.org/10.1016/0038-1098(95)00277-4
Unusual mass renormalization in FeSi studied by high-resolution photoemission. / Saitoh, T.; Sekiyama, A.; Mizokawa, T.; Fujimori, A.; Ito, K.; Nakamura, H.; Shiga, M.
In: Solid State Communications, Vol. 95, No. 5, 08.1995, p. 307-311.
Saitoh, T, Sekiyama, A, Mizokawa, T, Fujimori, A, Ito, K, Nakamura, H & Shiga, M 1995, 'Unusual mass renormalization in FeSi studied by high-resolution photoemission', Solid State Communications, vol. 95, no. 5, pp. 307-311. https://doi.org/10.1016/0038-1098(95)00277-4
Saitoh T, Sekiyama A, Mizokawa T, Fujimori A, Ito K, Nakamura H et al. Unusual mass renormalization in FeSi studied by high-resolution photoemission. Solid State Communications. 1995 Aug;95(5):307-311. https://doi.org/10.1016/0038-1098(95)00277-4
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Lawyer Pay
Median Starting Pay for Associates Is No Longer in the Six Figures; Figure Drops 35% in Two Years
July 12, 2012, 11:56 am CDT
Updated: New law grads in private practice are no longer taking home median paychecks in the six figures.
The erosion in BigLaw jobs is depressing the salaries for all class of 2011 law graduates, according to new statistics from NALP–The Association for Legal Career Professionals.
Law grads from the class of 2011 are earning median pay of $60,000, a 5 percent drop from 2010 and a 17 percent drop since 2009. Average pay is $78,653, a 15 percent drop since 2009. The figures are for grads who found full-time employment in jobs lasting at least a year.
The drop in starting pay is even more pronounced when only private practice jobs are considered, according to a press release. Median pay for 2011 law grads in private practice is $85,000, an 18 percent drop from 2010, when the median was $104,000, and a 35 percent drop since 2009, when the median was $130,000. Average pay in private practice is $97,821, a 15 percent drop since 2009.
“This drop in starting salaries, while expected, is surprising in its scope,” NALP executive director James Leipold says in the press release. “Nearly all of the drop can be attributed to the continued erosion of private practice opportunities at the largest law firms.”
Starting pay of $160,000 is still the norm at large law firms, but the share of BigLaw jobs has dropped, putting downward pressure on the median, the press release says. In addition, some large law firms are hiring new grads in staff attorney positions at salaries less than $100,000.
Nearly 60 percent of 2011 law grads who obtained jobs in private practice were working in firms of 50 or fewer lawyers, compared to 53 percent of 2010 grads, and 46 percent of 2009 grads. (The figures don’t include grads in solo practice.) Meanwhile, only 21 percent had jobs in firms of more than 250 lawyers, compared to 33 percent two years ago. The private-firm employment figures include both part-time and full-time jobs, permanent and temporary jobs, and those that do not require bar passage.
Other class of 2011 findings:
• More law grads are going solo. Three percent of all jobs, and 6 percent of law firm jobs, were reported as solo practice. The figures were about half that in 2007 and 2008.
• The number of employed graduates working for a legal temp agency—about 2 percent—is at its highest level since NALP began tracking this kind of job in 2006. In 2009 and 2010, the percentage was about half that.
• Nearly a quarter of employed graduates are seeking a different job. In 2008, the figure was 15.9 percent.
Last month, NALP revealed that only about 65 percent of 2011 law grads were in jobs requiring bar passage, the lowest percentage ever measured by the organization. “Obviously these statistics paint a pretty dismal picture,” Leipold said in the press release. “In many ways the class of 2011 bore the worst brunt of the impact of the recession on the entry-level legal job market, particularly in the large firm market.”
Prior class of 2011 coverage:
ABAJournal.com: “Only 65 Percent of 2011 Law Grads Have Jobs Requiring Bar Passage, a Record Low”
Updated at 10 a.m. to add that the statistics on law grads in large and small firms include those in part-time, temporary jobs.
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__label__wiki | 0.863612 | 0.863612 | Conservative MPs Michael Barrett and Pierre Poilievre hold a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on July 29, 2020. The federal Conservatives want MPs to create an anti-corruption committee to investigate the WE Charity issue. Barrett, the Tory ethics critic, says the new forum would press for answers to lingering questions about the controversy. In the meantime, the Conservatives plan to press the House of Commons ethics and finance committees this week to resume looking at the matter. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Conservatives want an anti-corruption committee to probe WE Charity controversy
Conservatives plan to press House of Commons ethics and finance committees to resume looking at the matter
The federal Conservatives want MPs to create an anti-corruption committee to investigate the WE Charity issue.
Tory ethics critic Michael Barrett says the new forum would press for answers to lingering questions about the controversy.
In the meantime, the Conservatives plan to press the House of Commons ethics and finance committees this week to resume looking at the matter.
They say the proposed new anti-corruption committee could soon take over the probe of the Liberal government’s choice of WE Charity to administer the the multimillion-dollar Canada Student Service Grant program.
Opposition MPs have been grilling the government for months over the now-abandoned program because of WE Charity’s close connections to the families of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Bill Morneau, the recently departed finance minister.
The Liberals have consistently said it was federal public servants who recommended the grant program be administered by the youth group, but the Conservatives say there are still unanswered questions.
“Canadians deserve answers,” Barrett told a news conference Monday. “We deserve accountability.”
The office of Liberal House leader Pablo Rodriguez noted that Trudeau, his chief of staff, the clerk of the Privy Council and various public servants have already appeared at committee.
The government will remain focused on protecting the health and safety of the public, the office said, adding: “Canadians deserve better than the Conservatives’ partisan games.”
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__label__wiki | 0.862808 | 0.862808 | Adiós Wu Lei? China’s greatest footballer on verge of leaving SIPG for Spain
Jeff Beresford-Howe
This is your WEF home for all things SIPG. This week, Jeff Beresford-Howe looks at the end of an era in Shanghai.
It’s been a typical off-season in Chinese football: teams dissolved, ownership jailed, all manner of chicanery when it comes to player moves, and of course arbitrary and unexplained rule changes.
But for the most stable club in the CSL, the champions SIPG, a thunderbolt struck on Sunday. Wu Lei, who’s been on the pitch for the Red Eagles for twelve years, the club’s all-time leading goal scorer, the boy who made his debut for SIPG at the age of 14 and as a man became the best player in China, appears to be about to join La Liga side Espanyol. Official confirmation is expected to come very soon, but the story is all over the Chinese sports media.
Chinese-owned, relegation-threatened Espanyol celebrated the news by getting hammered by Real Madrid, their third straight loss, and they won’t get any immediate benefit from signing Wu. He has a badly separated shoulder, sustained against Kyrgzstan in the Asian Cup, which requires medical attention. It’s not known what financial benefit, if any, will accrue to SIPG in this deal.
(Wu, on the other hand, stands to make some coin if China gets serious about intellectual property laws; besides his salary for Espanyol, Wu retained the rights to his image.)
Who will replace Wu?
What we know is that in the sclerotic Chinese domestic transfer market, replacing Wu and his 27 goals last year is impossible. Even if there was a Chinese player good enough to fill his shoes – and there isn’t – it’s unlikely that SIPG could get their mitts on him.
The current cohort of attackers on the SIPG roster includes the Brazilian stars Hulk and Elkeson, only one of whom is likely to play in any particular match because of CSL restrictions on foreigners, and a bunch of unproven Chinese players:
Lye Wenjun, at 29, is Wu’s heir apparent. He was quite effective in part-time duty in 2018, with seven goals, but has never played more than 1500 minutes in a season in six years in Shanghai.
Chen Binbin, at 20, will likely continue to be the beneficiary of the modified U23 rule. (CSL teams still have to start one U23 player, and play at least three, but it’s no longer tied to the number of foreigners who appear in a match.) Chen managed no goals in about 900 minutes in 2018, but he’s fast, the most reminiscent of Wu Lai stylistically on the current SIPG roster, and he did manage five assists.
Hu Jinghang is 21, and has been loaned out to Henan the last two seasons, where he accomplished practically nothing.
Wei Lai, 21, was loaned out to Shanghai Shenxin last year, where he got one goal in 13 matches, that a garbage time strike against Zhejiang Greentown.
Li Shenglong is 26 and has accumulated a grand total of 293 minutes of match time in five years on the SIPG roster. He has two goals in that time, one of them against Shenhua in the 6-1 rout in 2017.
Zhu Zhongrong is 30 and has been loaned out by SIPG each of the last three seasons, the last two to League Two sides. He has managed 20 goals in that period, and it’s at least possible SIPG will want him this year as an experienced back up to Lye Wenjun.
Press reports have linked SIPG with two possible foreign reinforcements. Marko Arnautovic was supposedly going to leave West Ham for SIPG, but that possibility is now dead. Sky Sports is reporting that Dimitri Payet, the 31-year-old Frenchman who is on the Marsailles roster, is drawing some interest from SIPG. Payet has four goals this year in 19 matches and 83 lifetime in the highest-level European leagues.
The news about Wu was likely greeted with grins in Beijing, where Guo’an has been especially active in the new, KHL-inspired market for foreign players applying for Chinese passports, and Guangzhou, where Evergrande, whose aging roster probably wasn’t up to challenging SIPG with Wu still in town, and Fuli, who may now have the league’s best attack (and maybe the worst defense) are waiting.
The Asian Cup and SIPG
SIPG had four players in Abu Dhabi for the Asian Cup in January.
Wu Lei was the heart of the Chinese team in the tournament. He was ineffective against Kyrgzstan and sustained the separated shoulder in that match, photos and x-rays of which horrified fans all over the internet. For whatever reason – CFA pressure? Personal pride and nationalism? Ethically questionable doctors? – Wu chose to continue to play in the tournament with the help of pain-killing injections.
He was stunning against the Philippines, scoring maybe the two best goals of the tournament, but then, after taking the day off against South Korea in a dead rubber group match, played perhaps the worst professional match of his life in the first knockout match against Thailand. He missed chance after chance – easy chances – against the porous Thai defense, and was reduced to sheepish, embarrassed grins by the end.
Odil Akhmedov captained and was the best player on the pitch for the Uzbekistan team which made the quarterfinals, only to go down on penalties to Australia, partly because the Uzbek coach, Argentinian Hector Cuper, inexplicably left Akhmedov off the list of players for the shootout. Akhmedov scored a goal in the group stage against Oman.
Yan Junling was the keeper for all five Chinese matches and was a non-factor. The goals he gave up were not goals he had much of a chance to stop, and his saves mostly didn’t require any of his considerable skills.
Shi Ke, playing an interior defensive role, struggled against South Korea and Iran, the two high quality teams China played in the tournament. He was also one the players named in a WeChat post, supposedly from a Chinese player, which raced around the internet alleging that four Chinese national team members placed bets on Iran prior to the 3-0 victory for the Islamic Republic against the People’s Republic. There has been no official confirmation or denial of the charge.
Highlights of Wu’s incredible performance against the Philippines:
Yet more ticket shenanigans
After SIPG put season tickets on sale in December for ¥700, the club announced a price increase in January, requiring all season ticket holders to send in ¥300 more, in exchange for which they will receive a t-shirt (with a gold star, of course) and a scarf. Irritated fans who declined were refunded their ¥700 and will have to buy individual match tickets, when and if they become available.
Fans had to re-submit all their personal information in order to pay the ¥300, but foreigners faced an obstacle: SIPG didn’t bother to reconfigure the ID number box to accommodate passport numbers.
Foreign fans yet to get their hands on a ticket have until January 31 to join the SIPG bats’ fan club – details here.
The Super Cup against Beijing Guo’an is at Suzhou Olympic Sports Center, Saturday night, Feb. 23.
SIPG’s Champion’s League dates for group play have been set. They’ll be at the stadium on March 6 against Kawasaki Frontale, April 23 against Sydney FC and May 21 against either Ulsan Hyundai, Perak (Malaysia) or Kitchee.
A little more than a month ahead of the first match of the CSL season, there is no news on the CSL schedule.
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3 best presidential election games for Windows 10
by Madalina Dinita
Former Managing Editor
The United States presidential election of 2016 is scheduled for Tuesday, November 8, 2016. There are plenty of apps that allow you to stay updated on US Presidential Debates, such as the CBS News app. If you are really into politics and you also like games, you can now play a series of election simulation games.
These presidential election games are quite fun to play, they don’t have a high price-tag and don’t require huge computer resources. If there is one particular presidential election candidate you don’t like, now you have the change to literally crush him/her.
Here are the best election games
The Political Machine 2016
This game allows you to create your own ideal candidate and run for President of the United States as one of over a dozen presidential candidates. If you want to win, you need to learn how to deliver the best speeches, hire unsavory operatives, and basically do whatever it takes to win on election day.
All is fair in love, war and politics. Mudslinging is a very common election practice and you too are going to learn to use your power and money to purchase ads and influence voters.
You can play as one of several pre-made past and present candidates like Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, and more. Just like in real life election campaigns, you should prepare for the worst. Torrid affairs, natural disasters, email scandals, and other random events can come out of nowhere and change the direction of the campaign for better or worse.
Each and every word you say matter, and the sophisticated underlying simulation model uses census data and real issues to test your political savvy.
You can play The Political Machine for only $9.99 from Steam.
President Infinity
President Infinity challenges you to become the most powerful political leader in the world. President Infinity is a sophisticated strategy simulation and navigating through the maze of game options is not an easy task.
President Infinity includes both the general election and primaries, and you can choose from over 40 candidates and 4 parties. If you’re more of a nostalgic, the game also allows you to play in one of the 2016, 2012, 2008, 1980, 1972, 1968, and 1912 election campaigns. You can also play in simulation mode, where you can run trials of an election campaign and see what the average results are.
President Infinity is heavily focused on election strategies, so if you’re looking for a funny election game, you should rather choose The Political Machine. If you want to play a tough, complex, sometimes puzzling game where the election success is guaranteed only by a perfect strategy, than President Infinity is the right game for you.
You can purchase President Infinity for $19.95 from 270Soft.
Topple Trump
You can play Topple Trump directly on your Windows 10 computer’s browser, there is no need to download it. Topple Trump is not a strategy game, your main task is to guess the missing words in real quotes spoken by Presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Long story short, wrong answers gain points for the Republicans, while right answers gain points for the Democrats. The game is a funny reminder of Trump’s political ideas, exploiting the Presidential candidate’s outrageous remarks.
Trump is well-known for his talent for saying unthinkable things generating headline after headline and the game tries to keep up with all his strange remarks.
You can play Topple Trump for free on KBHGames.
These are the 3 best Presidential election games you can play on your Windows 10 computer. If you’ve played other election games that you think should be on this list, share your thoughts in the comment section below.
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Written by Peter Kearns on February 26, 2015
A nearly new regular column in which freaky Peter Kearns casts a spell on a bunch of new album releases! You’ll wake up screaming!
One reader recently said they didn’t understand some of the terminology I use. It’s a fair comment. I would like for any musicians reading this to get something out of it, but equally for the reader with a general interest or curiosity to also take something away. Generally, I find reviewing to be a good playing field to bring up virtually anything at all. It’s a fine line between being understandable and abstruse. But I would hope you might be inspired to explore some references further. After all, music and its history are still fascinating subjects. If it all stopped tomorrow, we’d still have oodles of musical subject matter for decades to come. Warning: Minor moments of audio gobbledygook coming below.
ASAF AVIDAN – Gold Shadow (Rock-Pop-Folk/Israel) (Telmavar)
The minor keys of the folk music of Asaf Avidan’s homeland of Israel colour this fusion of western pop, world music instrumentation and dramatic orchestration resembling a John Barry 1960s movie soundtrack. The token pop songs, though worthy, are dispensed with early, followed by dark strident pieces reflecting themes of awareness and wisdom when caught in the fray, and distrust of pretenders that hide in plain sight. Overshadowing all is that voice, at once high, compelling and pointed, as if reprimanding your desire to leave before giving you your wings. It combines the catch-me-if-you-can elusiveness of Earth Kitt with the melancholy resolve of Shirley Bassey – very unusual for a male voice. On ‘The Labyrinth Song’, Asaf sounds like a possible future Regina Spektor after decades consuming cigarettes and whiskey. This entire concoction is fascinating and is received as being totally natural with not a hint of contrivance. A-
FATHER JOHN MISTY – I Love You, Honeybear (Indie folk/USA) (Sub Pop)
Former Fleet Foxes drummer Joshua Tillman aka Father John Misty described this concept as being about himself “engaging in all manner of regrettable behaviour”. So considering the trouble taken to list his numerous transgressions, you’d have thought more care would’ve been taken in order to make meaning clear. Take this example from ‘Holy Shit’: “Ancient holy wars, Dead religions, holocausts, New regimes, old ideas, That’s now myth, that’s now real”. An accomplished lyricist would develop something in connection with one or more of these solid ideas rather than merely listing them. That shopping list bears a lot of wasted opportunity.
The occasional profanity also serves to obscure the point and just plain irritate. I’m not against profanity in songs, far from it. But like any word, its use should be perfect for the moment, and not a feeble attention-getting device. But then, Father M did write ‘Holy Shit’ on his wedding day – sometimes a great song’s just gotta come out – so I guess he was pressed for time.
In tandem with the release of I Love You, Honeybear, the artist’s label Sub Pop released the following official statement:
“Due to its length and the wide audio spectrum of the recording, we at Sub Pop, together with Father John Misty, decided that the album sounded much better cut at 45 RPM over 2 pieces of vinyl. Though we all prefer the listening experience of a single piece of vinyl, we decided in this case to prioritise audio quality (an admittedly very subjective determination).”
Audio sound quality is subjective? I don’t think so. Audio fidelity is either high quality or it’s not. As for the ‘wide’ audio spectrum they mention – this is sheer hype. The spectrum itself, at least for the human ear, is as wide as from 20hz-20khz, that’s it. Mention it if the audio band is narrower than that, Sub-Poppers, but don’t try to pull the wool over my eyes by promising me something impossibly larger than life please.
Ironically, in this case the sound quality is indeed superior to the music, regardless of the praise a string of stateside critics are heaping on Papa John’s sincere, occasionally pretty but ultimately underwhelming dud. There are high points – for example, the accomplished lead vocals carry the light song-writing in an Andrew-Gold-sings-John-Denver kind of way. But I can imagine the pleasant voice here on some really strong material. We’d really have something then. Meeehh, this record got me all bent out of shape. I hope the wind doesn’t change. C-
JIM WHITE VS. THE PACKWAY HANDLE BAND – Take It Like A Man (Bluegrass/USA) (Yep Roc)
I first became enamoured with country/swamp musician Jim White after hearing the growling fretless bass and evil tremolos of ‘Still Waters’ from his 2004 documentary Searching For The Wrong-Eyed Jesus. Since then his music has continued to pervade a dark, twisted American-gothic romance that spits humour in one eye and skewers the other. On this collaboration with Georgia’s Packway Handle Band, the humour is to the fore. Or maybe it just seems that way due to the lightness of the bluegrass quintet accompaniment. Still, there’s no denying a line like, “A bar is just a church where they serve beer”, or the killer, “Gravity won’t fail but you will let me down”. Other lyrics are delightfully ambiguous such as the following entire lyric; “Blood on the fiddle, blood on the bow, Blood on the fiddle, I told you so, Blood on the fiddle, you oughta know, Blood on the fiddle, let’s go let’s go”. Crucial information is being left out. Maybe it has something to do with one of those skewers. B
MADONNA – Rebel Heart (Pop/USA) (Live Nation/Interscope)
It’s doubtful that any of us go to Madonna in search of philosophy or modesty, but failed attempts at both still appear. On the best song here, ‘Joan Of Arc’, Madonna says she’s not Joan of Arc, but she sure as hell has been beatified on most of these songs. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist the pun.) Joan of Arc was posthumously beatified and eventually canonised, which all basically means the big cheeses ultimately forgave her. This could be what Madge expects for herself if the line ‘I’m not Joan of Arc, not yet’ is anything to go by. To attempt to decipher these lyrics as Madonna’s own words could be a mistake considering half her stuff has four or five authors. Even part of a seemingly autobiographical lyric like ‘Joan Of Arc’ coming from a collaborator’s pen makes it unclear who said what and reeks of putting words in her mouth. Suffice it to say, Madonna’s lyrical content only strengthened when her ever-elevating success provided her with a life that became interesting song fodder. Though not a singer/songwriter per se, her best songs are the ones where it seems she’s trying to figure herself out. So in spite of the present preponderance of weaker material, sleep-inducing beats, autotune, the obligatory Nicki Minaj duet, and the unbelievable lyrical admission that critics can make her cry, I’ll refrain from pointing the bony finger at Madonna too much, even though I am dying to give her a poke. C
THE UNTHANKS – Mount The Air (Folk/England) (Rabble Rouser)
This time out The Unthanks recorded in their own facility – an unused Northumberland granary building, and released on their own label despite offers to continue with majors. After two years of work, the results reveal music of a traditional folk base that lifts off to an ever-widening panoptic aerial landscape view. The use of orchestra gives the proceedings a real depth and avoids the landlock that can arise from a glut of traditional characters like Celtic violin trills and up-tempo compound time, both of which are kept to a tasteful minimum and pretty much saved for the instrumental closer, ‘Waiting’. But even then the inventive combination of glockenspiel and tabla offsets them.
Mount The Air is pristinely recorded and the final mastering EQ is beautiful. But at around the 7m:30s mark in ‘Foundling’, the volume brick wall obviously kicks in and temporarily destroys the dynamics. Over the past decade this sonic decline has become widespread. When an industry practice becomes ingrained in this way, it’s those down the line that suffer most – those like The Unthanks sweating their butts off building studios so they can control their work, only to get to mastering time and have the music squeezed through a straw for the sake of a few more db of over-all level. It’s particularly offensive in acoustic music of this nature. However, in this case its effect is sporadic and momentary and doesn’t infect the album quality as a whole – one of those qualities being the ability to restrain the desire to over-decorate, enabling the music’s natural translucence. A-
INVISIBLE FAMILIARS – Disturbing Wildlife (Alt-pop/USA) (Other Music)
Though augmented by additional musicians including the album’s producer and Steely Dan trumpeter, Michael Leonheart, the debut of Invisible Familiars (Sean Lennon’s recent backing band) sounds more like band leader Jared Samuel is busting out on a solo record. It has the aloof solitary goulash of ‘80s Prince at his most eccentric, and the happy concern of an Adrian Belew water-colour like Mr. Music Head. All is reined in by a tight pop approach and the clear ability to know when to stop adding building blocks. An additional flare for a Neil Finn-esque hook makes Disturbing Wildlife’s most accessible moments ineffably infectious. A happy marriage of commerce and the clever. One to watch. A- PETER KEARNS
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- 8/10
What’s that about Pink Floyd? Excuse us, but this is a different wall, and here to tell you all about it is TOBY WOOLLASTON.
After the bombastic bluster of his previous outings, director Doug Liman (Mr & Mrs Smith, Jumper) has dialled things back to create a svelte psychological war thriller that is surprisingly good. It certainly suggests that Liman should investigate this introspective and minimalist brand of film-making more.
This compressed thriller thrives on its simplicity. It’s 2007, and the war in Iraq is coming to an end. Two American soldiers scope the scene of a possible sniper attack on an Iraqi oil line, but when Matthews (John Cena) gets shot and Isaac (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) finds himself pinned down behind the titular wall, a deadly game of cat and mouse begins.
The plot follows a well-trodden path, but Liman thankfully avoids oversimplifying his archetypal characters. It is perhaps no surprise that the antagonist is a chatty sniper who likes to keep communication lines open between himself and Isaac’s radio. Together the two serve and volley semantics, and the occasional bullet. But the conversation also allows us to get to know each character.
The irony of a simple story set against the backdrop of what was a complex war is further enhanced by cinematographer Roman Vasyanov, whose crystal clear vision with the camera keeps things within the bounds of the film’s modus operandi. Vasyanov is no stranger to filming war settings, but here the action is vacuum-packed and presented with a still camera that is predominantly locked in place, like a sniper rifle, offering only tilts and pans, rather than your usual handheld chaos.
The film is further held together by Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s (Nocturnal Animals) performance. Centre of frame for the majority of the movie, Taylor-Johnson gives a convincing performance that expresses a decidedly human side to his character.
Liman has provided a good example of how directorial restraint can be more provocative than the blustering noise of his previous outings. In its quietness, The Wall is a tense experience that is well worth wearing out the edge of your seat for.
Toby Woollaston
Toby is currently a film reviewer for the New Zealand Herald and NZME’s regional media. A film enthusiast since Alien made him shit his pants as a nine-year-old, Toby recently completed a Masters thesis on the phenomenology of the cinema of Darren Aronofsky. So he is well qualified to tell you that phenomenology is a load of boring bollocks… but Aronofsky is quite interesting. | cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line10626 |
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AACRAO, ACE Survey Finds Uncertainty About Current College Student Fall Enrollment Plans, Optimism About Completing Spring Coursework
A national survey administered to more than 2,000 currently enrolled U.S. college students finds that nearly one in five are uncertain about their plans for re-enrolling in the fall, or definitely are not going at all. However, 82 percent of students say they will be able to complete all or most of their spring coursework as planned, while just 5 percent indicated they will not be able to complete any courses as planned.
The survey, conducted during March and April, was commissioned by the American Council on Education (ACE) and the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) as part of a forthcoming white paper for ACE's National Task Force on Transfer of Credit.
As the above infographic shows, asked about how COVID-19 is impacting fall enrollment plans, a total of 12 percent are uncertain or no longer plan to enroll at all. Meanwhile, an additional three percent say they are planning to enroll in the fall to make up classes not completed in the spring due to COVID-19, meaning it is not clear those students are planning to fully re-enroll. Finally, three percent say they were not planning to enroll previously and that has not changed.
All that totals 17 percent of students who are uncertain or definitely not returning, a mixed picture for institutions already suffering significant financial losses due to the pandemic and adding to a very uncertain portrait of what fall enrollment might look like.
These findings are relatively consistent with other surveys completed on prospective college students. For instance, Inside Higher Ed reported on a number of similar surveys, noting that among them, a Maguire Associates survey found 12 percent of prospective students indicated they are considering delaying enrollment to spring or fall 2021, and a Primacy survey found that 29 percent strongly or somewhat agree that “I have considered deferring attending college until COVID-19 passes." Another example cited in that story, a survey by the Art & Science Group, found that 17 percent of high school seniors indicated they definitely or likely will change their plans to attend a four-year institution in the fall, instead planning to take a gap year or enroll in a program part time.
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Weak pullback mean random attractors for non-autonomous $ p $-Laplacian equations
Anhui Gu
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China
Received April 2019 Revised May 2020 Published September 2020
Fund Project: This work is partially supported by NSF of Chongqing Grant No. cstc2018jcyjA0897, the FRF for the Central Universities Grant No. XDJK2020B049 and K.C. Wong Education Foundation and DAAD
In this paper, we obtain the existence and uniqueness of weak pullback mean random attractors for non-autonomous deterministic $ p $-Laplacian equations with random initial data and non-autonomous stochastic $ p $-Laplacian equations with general diffusion terms in Bochner spaces, respectively.
Keywords: Weak mean random attractor, general diffusion, random initial data, stochastic $ p $-Laplacian equations.
Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35B40; Secondary: 35B41, 37L30.
Citation: Anhui Gu. Weak pullback mean random attractors for non-autonomous $ p $-Laplacian equations. Discrete & Continuous Dynamical Systems - B, doi: 10.3934/dcdsb.2020266
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England: Full Info on the UK Ban Live Exports Consultation. Finishes End of Jan 2021.
Sorry – it’s long but ……………
Defra (consultation) wording:
The current rules aimed at protecting animal welfare in transport are derived from directly applicable EU law, Council Regulation No 1/2005. The Regulation sets out the requirements that anyone transporting animals in connection with an economic activity must comply with. There are growing concerns that the current requirements for the transport of animals do not reflect the latest scientific evidence on how best to protect animal welfare during transport.
We are consulting in England and Wales on ending live animal exports for slaughter and fattening that begin in or transit through England or Wales, and further improvements to animal welfare in transport.
The Government is committed to the welfare of all animals and to making further improvements to animal welfare in transport and has a manifesto commitment to end excessively long journeys for slaughter and fattening. Now that the UK has left the EU, the Government can explore alternative options to better protect animal welfare during transport. As part of changing the current regulatory regime that sets the standards for animals in transport, it is right that we should gather the views of all interested parties.
The Farm Animal Welfare Committee (FAWC, now known as the Animal Welfare Committee) have reported to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs on the welfare of animals during transport. This report took into account the responses to the 2018 Call for Evidence on controlling live exports for slaughter and improving animal welfare during transport, and the scientific systematic review conducted by the Scotland’s Rural College and the University of Edinburgh on the welfare of animals during transport and at markets.
The Government has reviewed the FAWC report and is now consulting to seek views on ending the export of livestock and horses (this will not apply to poultry) for slaughter and fattening in England and Wales, where the journeys begin in or transit through either country, in addition to introducing further improvements to animal welfare in transport more generally.
WAV Comment:
Take part in the online consultation by clicking on the following link:
Note – we are currently unsure if (only) UK residents can undertake this; but we encourage folk outside of the UK, who are anti live export, to try ! – apologies if you are unable; as we say; may be UK residents only.
https://consult.defra.gov.uk/transforming-farm-animal-health-and-welfare-team/improvements-to-animal-welfare-in-transport/consultation/intro/
These are the consultation questions which you will need to respond to. Hopefully; this advanced insight will give you a feeling of what (the questions asked) is required.
IMPORTANT – We (WAV) do not expect everyone to provide answers to every question.
Some questions are really directed at transport operators – livestock hauliers etc – Questions 19 – 19 for example. You do not have to respond to anything like this – only the questions for which you can do a response. Your input to the consultation will still be considered even if you doo not answer everything. The main point to remember is that you are on the animals side and want to get live exports stopped regardless of the animal species. This is what needs to be reflected (included) in your responses when you do them. This is the real point – we need to make it clear that we want this sordid trade stopped from the UK.
Best wishes with your responses; the fact that you are taking part is a big bonus.
And remember – you have until the end of January 2021 to respond. Note that you can complete part of the consultation; save; and then return at a later date. It does not all have to be done in one session. Please see the consultation pages to enable you to save and return later.
Personally; this is a big thing for me and many other campaigners – brilliant Jane; brilliant Liza, wonderful Trudi; and all the others who a too many to mention – just brill !. Many who have now passed and are not here to hear the news of this. I personally have done live export campaigns and investigations from the UK for the last 30 years. Been there, seen it; heard it and smelled it you could say; horses, pigs, calves, sheep and more. They do not deserve to be treated as they currently are during transport – it is time for it to stop.
Above – A Dutch ‘Wetering’ horse transporter exits the port – Photo Mark
I did a big investigation report (5 undercover trails) with several other EU investigation groups on the trade back in 2010; presented to the EU and UK parliament, (with regard the EU) who threw it back in our faces and basically trashed the whole 120 page thing. You can read one of the 5 undercover trail reports by going to About Us. | Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) and scrolling down to all the livestock transporter / calf pictures are where you will find a link to the report. Alternatively, go direct to Microsoft Word – JH.04.03.2010_REPORT on NON-COMPLIANCE with RESTING TIMES in relation to CONTROL POST at F-HEAUVILLE.doc (wordpress.com) to read just one of the five investigations into live calves being shipped from Ireland to France. It makes bad reading. The failures to comply with rest times etc (as defined in EU ‘legislation’ !) for example justifies why we need to get this disgusting trade stopped asap. Your involvement in the consultation can help this.
Well that’s it from me;
Do what you can; for those in transport;
Regards Mark (WAV)
Kent; England.
In memory of great campaigner friends now departed – including the great Mike from London – we shared some fantastic times:
And John from CIWF:
England: Another Terrible Loss – John Callaghan. – World Animals Voice
The following is the basic outline of all the questions which are asked in the consultation.
(Your) Name and e mail.
Organisation if you represent one. Note – individual citizens can also take part – you DO NOT have to represent an organisation.
Live Animal Exports
4. Do you agree that livestock and horse export journeys for slaughter and fattening are unnecessary? Please explain your views.
5. Do you agree that in order to prohibit livestock and horse export journeys for fattening where the animal will be slaughtered soon after arrival, these export journeys where animals are slaughtered within 6 months of arrival should be prohibited? Please explain your views.
6. Do you agree that the only exceptions to prohibiting live export journeys should be for poultry live exports, and animals going for breeding or production that will not be slaughtered within 6 months of arrival? Please explain your views.
7. What would be the financial impact to your business or organisation of no longer being able to export livestock or horses for slaughter or fattening? Please explain any impacts provided.
8. What alternatives would your business or organisation explore if it was not able to export livestock or horses for slaughter or fattening?
Maximum Journey Times
9. Do you agree with the proposed maximum journey times as outlined in Table 1? Please explain your views and highlight any potential regional impacts that your business or organisation might experience.
10. Do you see a need for any exceptions to the maximum journey times and, if so, why? Please provide evidence.
11. In the case of such exceptions, what requirements should be put in place to ensure animal welfare is protected?
12. What would be the financial impact to your business or organisation due to new maximum journey times being implemented? Please explain any impacts provided.
13. Including loading, unloading and stops, how long is your average journey for the livestock, poultry or horses that your business or organisation manage?
14. Do you agree that a new journey should not start until a minimum of 48 hours have elapsed after the previous journey? Please explain your views.
15. Do you agree that there should be a minimum 7-day rest period for cattle? Please explain your views.
Thermal Conditions and Ventilation
16. Do you agree that we should prohibit both short and long poultry journeys when the external temperature is outside of a temperature range of 5-25oC, unless the vehicle is able to regulate the internal temperature within this range for the duration of the journey by means of a thermo-regulation system, and that this temperature range should be 5-25oC? Please explain your views.
17. What would be the financial impact to your business or organisation of prohibiting both short and long poultry journeys when the external temperature range is outside of 5-25oC? Please explain any impacts provided.
18. Do you agree that we should prohibit both short and long livestock and horse journeys when the external temperature is outside of a temperature range of 5-30oC, unless the vehicle is able to regulate the internal temperature within this range for the duration of the journey by means of a thermo-regulation system, and that this temperature range should be 5-30oC? Please explain your views.
19. What would be the financial impact to your business or organisation of prohibiting both short and long livestock and horse journeys when the external temperature range is outside of 5-30oC? Please explain any impacts provided.
20. Do you think that there are other species that should be considered as vulnerable and have a smaller external temperature range applied, outside of which journeys cannot take place? Please provide evidence.
21. What proportion of your current transportation vehicles have the facility to regulate temperature and provide ventilation?
22. For your vehicles which do not have the facility to regulate temperature and provide ventilation, what would be the cost of retrofitting to enable them to regulate temperature and provide ventilation?
23. Are there any other steps that can be taken to ensure animal welfare can be maintained in extreme weather? Please provide evidence.
Space Allowances
24. Do you agree that we should use allometric principles as a basis for future space allowance calculations? Please explain your views.
25. Do you think that reforms to space allowances based on allometric principles should apply to both short and long journeys? Please explain your views.
Headroom Allowances
26. Do you agree with the proposed species-specific headroom requirements?
27. Do you think that the proposed species-specific headroom requirements should apply to both short and long journeys? Please explain your views.
28. What would be the financial impact to your business or organisation of the proposed headroom requirements for both short and long journeys? Please explain any impacts provided.
Sea Transport
29. Do you agree that we should prevent animals from being transported in rough weather at sea and that animals should not be transported during Beaufort Wind Force 6 or above? Please explain your views.
30. What would be the financial impact to your business or organisation of prohibiting transport during Beaufort Wind Force of 6 or above
31. Do you think that there should be any exceptions to the previously mentioned proposals alongside the specific exceptions already outlined, excluding the proposal to prohibit live exports for slaughter and fattening? Please provide evidence.
32. What conditions should be met in order to ensure animal welfare is protected in the case of other exceptions?
33. Do you think that it should be possible to obtain permission to use an exception on an ongoing basis to avoid the need for transporters to apply before every applicable journey?
This completes the consultation. Submit your answers in accordance with the site instructions.
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Clean Slate! Kylie Jenner Unfollows Sofia Richie and More Friends on IG
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New year, new feed! Kylie Jenner unfollowed all but 28 accounts on Instagram after ringing in 2021.
Celebrities’ Biggest Social Media Fails
Eagle-eyed fans noticed that the Kylie Cosmetics CEO, 23, recently stopped keeping up with friends including Sofia Richie, Fai Khadra, Rosalía, Harry Hudson, Victoria Villarroel, Ariel Tejada and Yris Palmer on the social media app. The move does not appear to be related to any drama, however, as Jenner mostly follows just family members now.
Kourtney Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Khloé Kardashian, Rob Kardashian, Kendall Jenner, Kris Jenner, Caitlyn Jenner, Brandon Jenner and Brody Jenner are among the two-plus-dozen people who still appear in the “Following” section of Kylie’s account. In addition, she continues to follow on-off boyfriend Travis Scott, BFF Anastasia “Stassie” Karanikolaou, Kourtney’s ex Scott Disick and Kris’ longtime boyfriend, Corey Gamble, as well as her business pages and a few fan accounts.
Kylie Jenner Through the Years
Khadra, for his part, recently traveled to Aspen, Colorado, with the Kardashian-Jenner family, so it appears that he is still on good terms with Kylie. He has also been regularly commenting on the makeup mogul’s Instagram posts, most recently calling her “the goosiest girl in town” on Tuesday, January 5.
Kylie’s latest social media purge came nearly two years after she made headlines for unfollowing Khloé’s boyfriend, Tristan Thompson, and onetime best friend Jordyn Woods on Instagram. In February 2019, the NBA player, 29, cheated on the Revenge Body host, 36, by kissing the influencer, 23, at a house party. Khloé subsequently broke up with Thompson, but Us Weekly broke the news in August 2020 that they got back together after quarantining with their 2-year-old daughter, True, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A source exclusively told Us in February 2020 that Kylie “has been doing well since her and Jordyn’s friendship ended,” noting that the drama brought her closer to other pals including Karanikolaou, 23, Villarroel, 28, and Palmer, 30.
“They all just have a fun time together, like any other close group of girlfriends,” the insider added at the time. “They laugh a lot and share similar interests and are supportive of one another. Kylie is very sweet and down to earth, and so are her friends.”
Woods, for her part, said on PrettyLittleThing’s “Behind Closed Doors” podcast in November 2020 that she was “very happy with the people” in her life, adding, “Everything comes full circle.”
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__label__wiki | 0.76691 | 0.76691 | New L.A. County quarantine order for travelers now official – Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles County has become the latest county in California to impose a mandatory quarantine on long-distance travelers.
At least two other counties — Santa Clara and San Francisco — have similar mandatory orders. The California Department of Public Health on Nov. 13 issued an advisory urging Californians to stay home or in their region and avoid nonessential travel, including for tourism or recreation.
The regional stay-at-home order prohibits hotels and other lodging companies from offering rooms to people visiting for tourism and leisure.
The moves are part of a desperate effort to slow the spread of COVID-19, which is pushing hospitals to the breaking point. L.A. County has seen an unprecedented surge in both cases and deaths since November and has emerged as one of the nation’s leading hot spots.
Source: New L.A. County quarantine order for travelers now official – Los Angeles Times
Author wpanewsPosted on January 4, 2021 Categories HealthTags California, Coronavirus
California crash: seven children killed in head-on collision | California | The Guardian
Two adult drivers also died when vehicle swerved into path of Ford carrying the children, authorities said
Seven children and two adult drivers were killed in a head-on collision between an SUV and a pickup truck in central California on New Year’s Day, authorities have said.
The children, who were between six and 15 years old, were part of two related families travelling in a 2007 Ford F-150 pickup when it was hit by a Dodge Journey on State Route 33 between Avenal and Coalinga around 8pm on Friday, the Fresno county coroner’s office and the California highway patrol said.
Source: California crash: seven children killed in head-on collision | California | The Guardian
Author wpanewsPosted on January 3, 2021 Categories Autos, CrashTags California, fatalities
Woman survives car crash off a cliff, landing on San Francisco beach – CNN
(CNN) A woman was transported in “serious condition” after a car went off a cliff onto a beach in San Francisco on Christmas morning, according to tweets from the city’s fire department.
The car went over a cliff at Fort Funston and flipped onto the beach, the San Francisco Fire Department tweeted around 12 p.m. ET.
Fort Funston is a former harbor defense installation located in southwest San Francisco and features “200-foot high sandy bluffs,” according to the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy.
It is unclear how far the woman fell or what caused the car to go off the cliff.
Source: Woman survives car crash off a cliff, landing on San Francisco beach – CNN
Author wpanewsPosted on December 26, 2020 Categories Autos, CrashTags California
Nuro set to be California’s first driverless delivery service – BBC News
California has given the go-ahead for a commercial driverless delivery service for the first time.
Robotics start-up Nuro plans to start its driverless delivery operations as early as next year.
It previously tested its R2 vehicles in the state in April, but the permit will let it charge people for its service.
The firm’s vehicles will be limited to 35mph (56km/h), and will be restricted to operating in “fair weather” conditions.
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“Issuing the first deployment permit is a significant milestone in the evolution of autonomous vehicles in California,” said California Department of Motor Vehicles director Steve Gordon.
“We will continue to keep the safety of the motoring public in mind as this technology develops.”
Nuro was founded by two former Google engineers and has funding from Japanese firm Softbank.
Nuro’s autonomous vehicles will take to the streets as early as 2021.
Source: Nuro set to be California’s first driverless delivery service – BBC News
Author wpanewsPosted on December 25, 2020 December 25, 2020 Categories Autos, News, TechnologyTags California, driverless
Wildfire breaks out at Southern California’s Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base – CBS News
Evacuations orders have since been lifted after Santa Ana winds brought dangerous gusty and dry conditions to the region.
Source: Wildfire breaks out at Southern California’s Camp Pendleton Marine Corps base – CBS News
Author wpanewsPosted on December 25, 2020 Categories Disasters, FiresTags California
L.A. May Issue Countywide Emergency Order, Strict Measures, Says Mayor – Deadline
Los Angeles is now the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is the most infected county of the most infected state in the most infected country in the world.
In the pandemic’s spring wave, New York held that distinction — and it still is the state to have seen the largest single daily number of deaths. But given that the tally of daily cases and hospitalizations continue to skyrocket in L.A. and the fact that ICU availability was 0% in Southern California on Thursday, Los Angeles is unfortunately catching up.
On Thursday, another 14,418 Covid-19 infections were confirmed in L.A. County. The new cases lifted the countywide cumulative total to 581,519. In a county of 10 million people, that means 1 in 20 residents has had the virus.
Even more shocking, Los Angeles County is now seeing more daily cases than entire countries, including onetime hotspots such as Spain, Mexico, Poland and Portugal.
L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti revealed Thursday evening that city testing results were “seeing a seven-day positivity rate of an alarming 19.6%. Some of our sites have a positivity rate as high as 30%,” he said. For L.A. County, the seven-day rate was 13.7%.”For comparison, at the very beginning of the pandemic, California-at-large had a 40% test positivity rate. But that was when the state was conducting about 2,000 tests a day. And since lower testing numbers tend to produce higher test positivity rates, for L.A. to have 19.6% test positivity even as it is now delivering nearly 41,500 tests a day is frightening.
In the past week, San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties have, respectively, registered 1,415 and 1,102 average daily cases per million residents. Those are the highest rates in the country among counties with at least 1 million residents. Riverside County has the fourth-highest daily cases per million. That data is per an aggregator of government statistics used by the CDC called USAFacts.
Source: L.A. May Issue Countywide Emergency Order, Strict Measures, Says Mayor – Deadline
Author wpanewsPosted on December 18, 2020 December 18, 2020 Categories HealthTags California, Coronavirus
Stockton 15-year-old dies after shot at Burger King drive-thru, police say
A 15-year-old boy died Friday after a shooting at a drive-thru in Stockton, according to police.
Police said a mother and her 15-year-old son were in the drive-thru when the suspect walked up to their car and shot into the passenger side window several times.
The 15-year-old was taken to a nearby hospital where he later died from his injuries, police said. It is unclear if the 15-year-old’s mother was injured in the shooting.
Police currently have no motive or suspect information.
Anyone with information on the shooting is urged to call the Stockton Police Department.
The 15-year-old’s death marked the 50th homicide in Stockton this year. At this time last year, officers investigated 32 homicides, police said.
Of the 50 homicides this year, 15 were domestic violence, six involved homeless people, nine were gang-related, seven were robbery or narcotics-related and 13 were of unknown causes, police said.
Source: Stockton 15-year-old dies after shot at Burger King drive-thru, police say
Author wpanewsPosted on December 5, 2020 Categories CrimeTags California, fatalities, shooting
LA is told stay in their homes effective immediately | Daily Mail Online
LA residents are ordered to stay in their homes: Mayor Garcetti tells 4million citizens to remain indoors, restricts travel, closes non-essential businesses and says it’s ‘time to cancel everything’ as hospitalizations and cases surge
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti ordered the city’s 4 million residents to stay at home Wednesday night
The mayor told the public to ‘cancel everything’ and banned all travel, including walking and bicycling
Non-essential businesses were ordered to close and officials threatened to arrest those breaking the rules
There are, however, a long list of exemptions included in the Mayor’s order
People can leaves their homes if they need to engage in a number of the exempt activities such as visiting certain businesses and exercise, including at beaches and on trails
Businesses that are exempt from the order include healthcare operations, supermarkets and convenience stores, liquor stores, gas stations, banks, hardware stores, handymen services and laundromats
Retail stores that follow the county’s in-person shopping health protocols are allowed to remain open. Indoor capacity, however, must be limited to 20 percent and be closed between 10pm to 5am
Personal care establishments such as hair and nail salons, tattoo parlors and tanning salons must limit indoor capacity to 20 percent
Garcetti’s order mirrors a directive put in place by Los Angeles County health officials last week
During a press conference, Garcetti said Los Angeles County saw increase of 5,987 new cases on Wednesday
40 new deaths were reported, bringing county’s toll to 7,740, which could hit 11,130 by end of the year
According to Garcetti, 2,572 Angelenos were hospitalized as of Wednesday; there are only 479 beds left across county and at current rate, health officials are predicting county will run out of beds in next 2-4 weeks
Source: LA is told stay in their homes effective immediately | Daily Mail Online
Author wpanewsPosted on December 3, 2020 Categories Health, News, OpinionTags California, Coronavirus
New monolith found in Atascadero, Calif., on mountain | Fox News
The third strange monolith, possibly made of stainless steel, to appear out of nowhere all across the world was found Wednesday in California.
Source: New monolith found in Atascadero, Calif., on mountain | Fox News
Author wpanewsPosted on December 3, 2020 Categories UnexplainedTags California
Eastvale, California, Amazon evacuated and six sent to hospital after unknown smell, company says – CNN
Six people were taken to the hospital and hazardous materials teams were called in after employees reported an unknown smell at an Amazon fulfillment center in Eastvale, California, the company told CNN.
Source: Eastvale, California, Amazon evacuated and six sent to hospital after unknown smell, company says – CNN
Author wpanewsPosted on November 29, 2020 Categories Disasters, Health, News, OpinionTags amazon, California
Sacramento, Calif. Black Friday mall shooting: Two teens dead
A shooting at a Sacramento mall Friday killed one person and left another with life-threatening wounds and police were looking for the attacker.
Source: Sacramento, Calif. Black Friday mall shooting: Two teens dead
Author wpanewsPosted on November 29, 2020 Categories Crime, News, OpinionTags California, fatalities, shooting
Former House Republican wrests California seat from Dem incumbent | Fox News
Former Republican Rep. David Valadao reclaimed his seat in California’s 21st District, defeating Democratic incumbent Rep. T.J. Cox.
Source: Former House Republican wrests California seat from Dem incumbent | Fox News
Author wpanewsPosted on November 29, 2020 Categories Opinion, PoliticsTags California, Election 2020
Los Angeles issues stay-home order as coronavirus surges – POLITICO
Los Angeles County announced a new stay-home order Friday as coronavirus cases surge out of control in the nation’s most populous county.
The three-week order takes effect Monday. It came as the county confirmed 24 new deaths and 4,544 new cases of COVID-19. The five-day average of new cases was 4,751.
Nearly 2,000 people in the county are hospitalized.“We know we are asking a lot from so many who have been sacrificing for months on end,” Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said. “Acting with collective urgency right now is essential if we want to put a stop to this surge.”The order advises residents to stay home “as much as possible” and to wear a face covering when they go out. It bans people from gathering with people who aren’t in their households, whether publicly or privately.
Source: Los Angeles issues stay-home order as coronavirus surges – POLITICO
Author wpanewsPosted on November 28, 2020 Categories HealthTags California, Coronavirus
Long lines form outside Palm Beach County coronavirus testing site
It appears that many people are looking to get tested for coronavirus to keep their holiday safe.
Source: Long lines form outside Palm Beach County coronavirus testing site
L.A. County nears new stay-home order as COVID cases rise – Los Angeles Times
The specter of another COVID-19 shutdown is looming over Los Angeles County, as another record-high number of daily coronavirus cases Monday pushed the region over its self-set threshold for issuing a new stay-at-home order.
When such an order will be handed down, or what precise form it will take, is unclear — though the county director of public health, Barbara Ferrer, said Monday that “for sure we’re not going back to all of the restrictions that were in place in the original Safer at Home order.
“We’ll be working with the Board [of Supervisors] to determine additional safety modifications,” she said, describing the new health order as a “targeted Safer-at-Home order.”
The board is scheduled to meet Tuesday.
Source: L.A. County nears new stay-home order as COVID cases rise – Los Angeles Times
Author wpanewsPosted on November 24, 2020 Categories Health, News, OpinionTags California, Coronavirus
L.A. County suspends outdoor dining at restaurants as coronavirus surges – Los Angeles Times
In a devastating blow to Los Angeles’ struggling restaurant industry, L.A. County public health officials on Sunday announced they will suspend outdoor dining at restaurants amid a surge of new coronavirus cases.
Customers dine in the Hollywood Riviera area of Redondo Beach. L.A. County has suspend outdoor dining Sunday due to the rise in coronavirus cases. (Wally Skalij/Los Angeles Times)
Few segments of the L.A. retail economy have been hit harder by the pandemic than the once-booming dining world, with many landmark names closing in recent months and many more on the brink. After they were forced to close indoor dining rooms in the spring, many eateries got a lifeline when officials allowed them to serve outdoors, often in patios and makeshift dining halls built in parking lots and streets.
The new rule takes effect at 10 p.m. Wednesday and restricts restaurants — along with breweries, wineries and bars — to takeout and delivery only for the first time since May. It will remain in place for at least three weeks, officials said.
Wineries and breweries can continue retail operations.
“The persistent high number of cases requires additional safety measures that limit mixing in settings where people are not wearing masks,” Barbara Ferrer, the L.A. County health director, said in a statement.
Officials had warned earlier in the week that the new rule would be imposed if the five-day average of new cases reached 4,000, or if hospitalizations topped 1,750 per day.
Source: L.A. County suspends outdoor dining at restaurants as coronavirus surges – Los Angeles Times
Author wpanewsPosted on November 23, 2020 Categories Business, Food, Health, News, OpinionTags California, Coronavirus
Fire Crews Respond To Beverly Crest Home Of Actor Denzel Washington
Despite a thorough search of the 28,887-square-foot residence with thermal imaging cameras, fire crews found no active fire at the home Wednesday night.
Source: Fire Crews Respond To Beverly Crest Home Of Actor Denzel Washington
Author wpanewsPosted on November 13, 2020 Categories FiresTags California
Dodgers claim first World Series title in 32 years, rallying past Rays in Game 6
Dodgers win first World Series since 1988 after beating Rays in Game 6.
Los Angeles has officially transformed into Titletown.
For the second time in October, the city claimed a major sports championship as the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Tampa Bay Rays, 3-1, in Game 6 of the 2020 World Series. Of course, the LeBron James-led Lakers already brought home the NBA title after topping the Miami Heat in the NBA Finals.
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The Dodgers triumph ends a 32-year championship drought for one of MLB’s most decorated franchises. Not since Kirk Gibson and Orel Hershiser became postseason legends in 1988 has the team’s season culminated with a celebration. It some ways, the wait felt a lot longer. Probably because the Dodgers have fallen short time and time again since becoming perennial World Series contenders in 2013. Now, all of that built up pain and frustration can give way to jubilation.
Source: Dodgers claim first World Series title in 32 years, rallying past Rays in Game 6
Author wpanewsPosted on October 28, 2020 Categories Baseball, SportsTags California, Dodgers, Rays
Expert Says State’s Thanksgiving Gathering Guidelines Are ‘Right On The Money’ – CBS Los Angeles
California is telling people to gather with no more than three households present and that Thanksgiving dinner must be held outside.
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — Many people in California have voiced their opinions on Governor Newsom’s Thanksgiving gathering guidelines, with many saying the state has gone too far.
The state is telling people to gather with no more than three households present and that Thanksgiving dinner must be held outside.
“The recommendations are right on the money for what we are looking for, for infection control,” said Erin Bromage, a professor of immunology and infectious diseases at the University of Massachusetts.
Source: Expert Says State’s Thanksgiving Gathering Guidelines Are ‘Right On The Money’ – CBS Los Angeles
Author wpanewsPosted on October 27, 2020 Categories Food, News, OpinionTags California
San Francisco archbishop holds exorcism where protesters toppled Junipero Serra statue | Fox News
A Roman Catholic archbishop performed an exorcism in Northern California on Saturday morning at the site where racial injustice protesters toppled a statue of 18th-century Spanish missionary Junipero Serra days earlier.
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Review: Halsey Street by Naima Coster
January 28, 2018 / Simon McDonald
Debut author Naima Coster has written a breathtaking novel that navigates emotional minefields with realism and grace. An early contender for book of the year.
Set against the landscape of gentrifying Brooklyn, Naima Coster’s freshly rendered family saga explores how familial ties fray and bind again in tumultuous circumstances. Penelope Grand, former artist and current waitress, reluctantly returns home from Pittsburgh to care for her ailing father, Ralph, who lives secluded in his house on Halsey Street. Penelope’s discontented mother, Mirella, abandoned Ralph after an accident that almost crippled him, returning to the Dominican Republic in an attempt to live the life she always dreamed of. But Ralph’s been unhappy for some time, a ghost in a shell since even before his tumble down the stairs, when his iconic record store closed. Penelope’s return doesn’t serve as the restorative act she intended. Indeed, perhaps their fissures run too deep.
Penelope sublets a place a few streets from her childhood home, but this isn’t the Brooklyn she remembers. Her landlords are new to the block, having just moved from the West Village, and they are perfect embodiment’s of the shift in populace. The Harpers are a young, white, wealthy family, as equally attracted to the neighbourhood because of its history as they are wary of it. Penelope has always felt a deep sense of dislocation within herself, and it’s a gut-punch to realise her home will never again be what it once was. Still, for the sake of her father, Penelope commits to her new life in Brooklyn, until a postcard from her estranged mother forces her to deal with a past she’d tried to forget.
Halsey Street alternates between Penelope’s perspective and Mirella’s, moving back and forth in time, charting the history of the Grand family, from Mirella and Ralph’s early courtship and the inaugural days of their marriage, Penelope’s dismal freshman year at the Rhode Island School of Design, her childhood trips with her mother to the DR, and in the present day, their final shot at reconciliation.
Coster’s psychological acuity belies her status as a debut author. Halsey Street is empathetic but never sentimental, and dares to probe the dynamics of a fractured family, whose crevices can’t be blamed on a single person, rather shared amongst its three members. There were moments when I loathed these characters and their selfishness, but of course, it’s those infallibilities that make them so relatable. This is a rich and layered story, and the only disappointing thing about it is that, at time of writing, there are no plans for an Australian release.
Imprint: Little A
Publisher: Amazon Publishing
Publish Date: 1-Jan-2018
Country of Publication: United States
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Biopic of Mahavir Singh Phogat, who taught wrestling to his daughters Babita Kumari and Geeta Phogat. Geeta Phogat was India's first female wrestler to win at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, where she won the gold medal (55 kg) while her sister Babita Kumari won the silver (52 kg). Written by Dibyayan_Chakravorty
Genre : Action, Biography, Drama, Sport,
Actor : Aamir Khan, Sakshi Tanwar, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Aparshakti Khurana, Zaira Wasim, Suhani Bhatnagar, Ritwik Sahore, Girish Kulkarni, Ravi Aneja, Anurag Arora, Mahesh Balraj, Vivan Bhatena, Anmol Charan, Badrul Islam,
Director : Nitesh Tiwari,
Country : India,
Rating(15)
American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the dominating race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.
Country: USA , France
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, Sport,
Based on the true life experience of Billy Moore who survived his Thai prison ordeal by becoming a Muay Thai boxing champion.
Country: France , UK , Cambodia , USA , China
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport,
Based on a true story. A young boxer, Emilio, from the wrong side of the tracks with big dreams of winning the Golden Gloves boxing championship, finds himself at a cross roads after being locked up. As he fights his way back into the winning circle he gets a second shot at the championship title. As he is toe to toe in the ring with his competitor he'll throw all the punches and be the last man standing.
Jet Li's Fearles
104 min | 141 min (Director's cut)
Martial arts legend Huo Yuanjia became the most famous fighter in all of China at the turn of the 20th Century. Huo faced personal tragedy but ultimately fought his way out of darkness and into history, defining the true spirit of martial arts. His self-discovery, and the choices he made, inspired his nation. The son of a great fighter who did not wish for his child to follow in his footsteps, the bullied Huo Yuanjia resolves to teach himself how to fight - and win. Years of training enable him to ace match after match in his home region of Tianjin. But as his fame as a martial arts master grows, so does his pride. After an ill-advised fight leads to another master's death, members of Huo's family are slain in revenge. Grieving and ashamed, Huo wanders the country in shock. Near death, he is rescued by women from an idyllic village, and is offered simple kindness and generosity that help him heal and regain his equilibrium over a period of several years. Huo realizes that the future ... Written by Rogue Pictures
Country: China , Hong Kong
Weeds on Fire
The 1st FFFI Winning Film Projects Create Hong Kong (CreateHK) of the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau first launched the First Feature Film Initiative (FFFI) in March 2013 to identify new talents through a competition on screenplay and production proposals. In the year of 1984, Sino-British Joint Declaration was signed and the future of Hong Kong became unclear. In the stream of history, this story of a baseball team beneath the Lion Rock had gradually been forgotten: In that year, 'Shatin Martins', the first Hong Kong youth baseball team, was formed. The 10 young players were living an uneasy and restless life as Hong Kong. Being humiliated by one defeat after another, the faith of 'Shatin Mart their strong rival, the Japanese Buffalo ins' hanged in the balance. However, the hardship only brought out their bravery to surmount themselves and overcome the struggles. Living in the golden age, these players ignited their glory with every game as they grew together with their ...
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Sport,
Hands of Stone
Follows the life of Roberto Duran, who made his professional debut in 1968 as a 16-year-old and retired in 2002 at age 50. In June 1980, he defeated Sugar Ray Leonard to capture the WBC welterweight title but shocked the boxing world by returning to his corner in the November rematch, saying 'no mas' (no more). Written by Anonymous
Country: Panama , USA
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__label__wiki | 0.955419 | 0.955419 | N Korea lifts ban on UN inspectors
Decision follows announcement that Pyongyang will resume nuclear-programme dismantlement.
South Korea's chief envoy Kim Sook said disablement could begin on Sunday [AFP]
Reactivation threat
Up to late last week, the North had threatened to reactivate the plutonium reprocessing plant at the Yongbyon site.
It told International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors to remove the organisation’s seals and subsequently banned them from monitoring first the plant and then all the facilities located at the sprawling site.
The North rescinded all inspection rights on Thursday, but the three-member IAEA team had been allowed to stay on at their guesthouse in Yongbyon.
North Korea’s Yongbyon nuclear complex has been at the heart of the controversy [EPA]
And one of the diplomats told The Associated Press news agency that Pyongyang approved visas late last week for members of a new team once the tour of those on location is over – even as it appeared to be making moves to restart its atomic activities.
That suggested that the North’s threat to stop dismantling its nuclear programme and restart it was a negotiating ploy meant to wrest concessions from its five interlocutors engaging the reclusive communist country on the issue.
North Korea stopped scrapping its nuclear programme in mid-August in anger over Washington’s failure to remove the government from the terror list and began moves toward restarting its plutonium-producing facility.
The US had said North Korea first had to allow verification of the declaration of its nuclear programmes it submitted in June.
In de-listing North Korea on Saturday, Washington said Pyongyang had agreed to all its nuclear inspection demands.
Six-party talks
The de-listing is expected to prompt the US, the Koreas, China, Russia and Japan to reconvene the stalled six-party talks aimed at persuading Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear programmes in return for energy aid and other benefits.
The delisting came after days of intense internal debate in Washington and consultations with US negotiating partners.
But Japan’s finance minister branded the decision “extremely regrettable”, Japanese media reported on Sunday.
“It’s extremely regrettable, and I believe abductions amount to terrorist acts,” Shoichi Nakagawa said in Washington at the G7 meeting of finance ministers.
“I don’t think the United States made the decision after a close consultation with its ally Japan.”
Monica Villamizar, reporting for Al Jazeera in from Washington, said “it is an unprecedented agreement and very surprising” because of North Korea’s recent expulsion of nuclear inspectors and testing of missiles.
N Korea removed from US terror list
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Erdogan warns EU may face ‘terror threats’ if Tripoli gov’t falls
Turkish president urges Europe to support Ankara’s moves in Libya, days after he ordered deployment of troops there.
Erdogan has accused renegade General Haftar of fleeing Moscow and said he would 'teach [him] a lesson' if he resumed fighting [AP Photo]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned Europe it could face new threats from “terrorist” groups if Libya’s United Nations-recognised government in Tripoli were to fall, in an article published in Politico.
In the article released on Saturday, the eve of a Libya peace conference in Berlin, Erdogan said the European Union’s failure to adequately support the Government of National Accord (GNA) would be “a betrayal of its own core values, including democracy and human rights”.
“Europe will encounter a fresh set of problems and threats if Libya’s legitimate government were to fall,” Erdogan wrote.
“Terrorist organisations such as ISIS [ISIL] and al-Qaeda, which suffered a military defeat in Syria and Iraq, will find a fertile ground to get back on their feet,” he added.
“Keeping in mind that Europe is less interested in providing military support to Libya, the obvious choice is to work with Turkey, which has already promised military assistance,” Erdogan continued.
“We will train Libya’s security forces and help them combat terrorism, human trafficking and other serious threats against international security,” he added.
Renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar’s eastern-based forces have been engaged in an offensive on Tripoli for more than nine months targeting the GNA led by Fayez al-Sarraj. The fighting has killed more than 2,000 people, including some 280 civilians, and displaced tens of thousands of others.
In a joint initiative, Turkey and Russia have brokered a ceasefire but Haftar walked away from talks in Moscow this week aimed at finalising the truce agreement.
A furious Erdogan warned on Tuesday that Turkey will not refrain from “teaching a lesson” to Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) forces if their attacks against the GNA continue.
Both the LNA and GNA conditionally agreed to a truce brokered by Turkey and Russia last week, however, new fighting has been reported.
‘Mistake of historic proportions’
Erdogan’s government backs al-Sarraj and the Turkish parliament approved the deployment of troops to Libya earlier this month after the signing of controversial security and maritime deals between Tripoli and Ankara.
Sources told Al Jazeera about 180 Turkish forces are believed to already be in Libya acting as military advisers and trainers.
“So far, the Turkish military hasn’t stated anything about the potential size of the deployment to Libya to support the GNA, but we’re told the military will not be involved in combat,” said Al Jazeera’s Sinem Koseoglu, reporting from Istanbul.
“To leave Libya at the mercy of a warlord would be a mistake of historic proportions,” Erdogan wrote in his article, in a veiled reference to Haftar.
His article comes a day before the key conference on the Libya crisis in Berlin, which is expected to be attended by representatives of Libya’s warring sides and several world powers.
Germany’s foreign minister, Heiko Maas, said Haftar supported the temporary ceasefire and was also willing to attend the conference, but it remains to be seen.
All eyes on Berlin as Libya rivals, world powers set for talks
Representatives from Libya’s warring sides, as well as from several nations, due to meet in latest bid to end fighting.
UN Libya mission ‘concerned’ over threats to block oil exports
The call comes after Libya’s national oil company warned against attempts to blockade ports ahead of the Berlin summit.
En route to Berlin, Haftar holds talks with top Greek officials
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Ruger 10/22 Competition under test: what can the semi-auto rimfire rifle from the Ruger Custom Shop do?
Ruger 10/22 Competition under test: a semi-auto rimfire rifle from the Ruger Custom Shop
The young Ruger Custom Shop not only sells large-caliber pistols and revolvers, but also fine semi-automatic small-caliber rifles that promise lots of shooting fun. What happens when one of the world's most famous rimfire rifles meets the in-house custom shop? We have tested a Ruger 10/22 Competition.
A contribution from Stefan Perey 10/05/2020
Michael Fischer
Rapid rimfire: the Ruger Custom Shop 10/22 Competition autoloading rifle in .22 LR.
One of the world's most successful semi-automatic rimfire rifles is known to be the Ruger's 10/22 model, which has been built in huge numbers since 1964 until today and for which countless tuning companies offer specialized retrofit parts. It is a pleasing fact that, for example, a Ruger 10/22 Carbine with black synthetic stock can change hands for just around 300 USD. So the match version from the Custom Shop presented here is almost sinfully expensive, at a retail price of 899 USD. However, you should also consider that highly bred match rifles based on the 10/22 platform from renowned tuning gunsmiths like Volquartsen Firearms cost twice as much. So what can you expect from the autoloading rimfire rifles of the original manufacturer's upper price range?
ULI GROHS
The 10/22 Competition from Ruger's own tuning shop with its distinctive painted laminated wood stock weighs 6 lb/2700 g.
The Ruger 10/22 Competition in detail
The heart of the carbine is a receiver made of a 6061 T6 aluminum alloy, which makes this material an ALMgSi alloy. Although the strength is not as high as that of the 7075 T6 aluminum alloy, the 6061 can be cold formed much better. The 7075 T6 aluminum alloy is often used for AR-15 rifles receivers. This alloy is not required for a rimfire gun and therefore Ruger's choice of material is certainly appropriate. The CNC machined receiver was heat treated, stress relieved and anodized. The integral optics rail on the top of the receiver is machined from solid billet. Like the Picatinny rail of the Ruger Rimfire Precision bolt-action rifle, it has a 30-MOA tilt, so that as a shooter you have a sufficient elevation adjustment range even at longer distances. Inside the rifle a blowback action does its job. A cold hammered, 16-1/8" (410 mm) long, fluted bull match barrel is threaded with a 1/2"-28 pattern for standard muzzle accessories. The Ruger 10/22 Competition is supplied with a muzzle brake, but other muzzle attachments or suppressors can also be retrofitted. The laminated stock, painted in a speckled black-grey finish, has an adjustable cheek rest that can be moved vertically and horizontally, ensuring a relaxed head position when shooting with a riflescope.
The receiver of the Ruger 10/22 Competition was cleanly embedded in the stock with a large contact surface.
The 10/22 action freed from the stock without the inserted box magazine.
Complete equipment: that's what he Custom Shop 10/22 offers
The small rifle is rounded off by a Ruger BX match trigger, which had a measured pull of 2.8 lb/1280 g and crisp characteristics with minimal overtravel and positive reset. Oversized controls such as the cocking handle, magazine release and safety push button improve the handling characteristics, which is particularly advantageous in dynamic shooting disciplines where the time factor also plays a role.
Ruger Custom Shop 10/22 Competition – All data, prices and details
Model: Ruger Custom Shop 10/22 Competition
Operating System: Blowback
Caliber: 22 LR
Barrel: 6.12"/410 mm long, fluted bull match barrel with 1-16" twist and ½"x28 UNEF muzzle thread
Painted laminated wood stock with adjustable cheek rest and sling studs
Magazine: Box magazine with a 10-round capacity
Trigger: Ruger BX match trigger, 2.8 lb/1280 g measured pull weight
Safety: 2-position push-button cross bolt safety on the trigger guard, acting directly on the trigger
Overall Length: 36”/91.5 cm
Weight: 6 lb/2700 g
Price: 899 USD
Detail of the blow back system of the Ruger Custom Shop 10/22 Competition with the cocking handle removed.
A simplified maintenance
Another clever feature of the Ruger Custom Shop 10/22 Competition is the disassembly procedure, which makes maintenance and care of the rimfire match rifle easier. But before you can see this, the action must first be freed from the stock. To do this, two receiver screws on the underside of the painted wooden stock must be loosened. With its large, straight surfaces, the receiver lies firmly in the stock. As we expected from a custom shop gun, the main components were assembled with minimal play. If you now hold the receiver in your hands, the trigger assembly can be taken out after removing the disassembly pins. If you now pull the cocking handle including the bolt backwards, you reach the disassembly position. With a little pressure downwards, you can immediately hold the bolt, the spring guide rod, the recoil spring and the cocking handle as individual components in your hand.
The trigger assembly of the Ruger 10/22 Competition fixed with disassembly pins can be easily removed.
In this way you can clean every component perfectly. When reassembling, you should then follow the correct sequence: first the spring is pushed onto the guide rod and then it is positioned in the receiver. Then the cocking handle comes through the ejection port and the guide rod is pushed through it. Now the rod can be inserted in its notch. Then the cocking handle is pulled backwards. This must be pulled back until the catch with the corresponding recess can be inserted again from above. Sounds complicated, but the necessary steps can be done in a few minutes.
With the Ruger 10/22 Competition in .22 LR on the shooting range
The logo of the young Ruger Custom Shop is emblazoned on the rear of the 10/22 Competition receiver.
Fitted with Leupold PRW2 mounting rings, Sightron 6-24x50 SIII Long Range Tactical riflescope and UTG bipod, we moved to the shooting range with the compact Ruger 10/22 Competition. The cheek rest adjustment mechanism adopted from the Ruger Precision Rifle (RPR) series facilitated an ideal setting for an accurate shot. According to the manufacturer's specifications, the barrel chamber was also modified in order to optimize case feed and extraction. In this respect we can only report that the small rimfire semi-automatic carbine was able to digest any type of ammo without complaint and even with intensive shooting without cleaning there were no malfunctions. This rifle did not react sensitively to dirt. With the right cartridges,you can punch really small groupings into the target with the Custom Shop 10/22 Competition, which does not have to hide behind the results of small caliber semi-auto rifles. We produced an 0.31”/8 mm grouping at 50 m with the RWS 100 match cartridge. 0.47”/12 mm was the grouping circle we were able to produce with the RWS pistol match ammunition. However, we also achieved respectable results with ammunition types that are cheaper than the RWS 100 Match, such as the Federal Target Champion. With this cartridge, which is ideally suited for training, we achieved a 0,55”/14 mm grouping circle.
The adjustable cheek rest on the short stock of the Ruger 10/22 Competition.
The integral optics mounting rail on the receiver of the 10/22 from Ruger with 30 MOA forward tilt.
Ruger 10/22 Competition: wrap-up
It is not without reason that the Ruger 10/22 is one of the world's most popular autoloading rimfire rifles. With the models from the in-house tuning shop, the young classic was refined in detail once again. With its adjustable stock, match trigger, match barrel and sophisticated equipment, a lot of shooting fun with impressive performance is guaranteed. Compared to the standard models, which are available for a little more than 300 USD, you will have to dig deeper into your pockets. Because our test model presented here costs 899 USD – but in our opinion it is worth every cent.
Text: Stefan Perey and Michael Fischer
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International Trade & Regulatory Advisory: CFIUS Reform Passes Senate Ushering in Expanded U.S. Investment Regime; New Export Controls on the Horizon
Senate passage yesterday of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA) paves the way for increased scrutiny of foreign investment by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and procedural changes. Our International Trade & Regulatory Group breaks down the key provisions of FIRRMA and the Export Controls Act of 2018.
New category of “other investments” subject to CFIUS review
Changes to the CFIUS review process
New export controls on “emerging and foundational technologies”
On August 1, 2018, nearly one year after Congress first introduced legislation to reform the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) review process, the Senate passed the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA) by a vote of 87-10. It is expected that President Trump will sign the legislation in the coming days. FIRRMA, which is part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (NDAA), was introduced to “modernize and strengthen” the statute authorizing reviews of foreign investment by CFIUS. Also included in the NDAA is the Export Controls Act of 2018 (ECA), which codifies existing export control regulations and promises new controls on “emerging and foundational technologies.” In its final form, FIRRMA expands CFIUS’s jurisdiction, provides for short-form filings, makes filing mandatory in some cases, authorizes the imposition of filing fees for the first time, and codifies and clarifies many existing CFIUS practices.
Expanded CFIUS jurisdiction
FIRRMA will expand the jurisdiction of CFIUS to cover additional investments. Current law authorizes CFIUS to review investments that result in foreign “control” of a “U.S. business.” FIRRMA expands the scope of “covered transactions” (i.e., transactions subject to CFIUS’s jurisdiction) to include new categories of transactions.
Certain “other investments” involving critical technologies, critical infrastructure, and sensitive personal data of U.S. persons. In addition to affirming CFIUS jurisdiction over transactions in which a foreign person acquires control of a U.S. company, FIRRMA subjects a new category of “other investments” to CFIUS jurisdiction. “Other investments” include non-controlling investments in U.S. companies involving critical technologies,[1] critical infrastructure,[2] and the sensitive personal data of U.S. persons that provide a “foreign person”: (1) access to nonpublic technical information possessed by the U.S. business; (2) board membership or observer rights; or (3) any involvement, other than through voting shares, in substantive decision-making related to critical infrastructure, critical technologies, or sensitive personal data of U.S. citizens. CFIUS is directed to define “foreign person” for purposes of these investments to limit the provision’s application. In doing so, FIRRMA will require CFIUS to consider “how a foreign person is connected to a foreign country or foreign government, and whether the connection may affect the national security of the United States.” FIRRMA also specifically excludes from “other investments” indirect investment by a foreign person through investment funds or limited partnerships notwithstanding the foreign person’s membership on the fund’s advisory board or a committee fund when the fund is managed by a U.S. person and foreign limited partners have no control over the fund.
Real estate investments. Pursuant to FIRRMA, CFIUS will have jurisdiction to review certain real estate transactions (including sales, leases, and concessions) that involve property located in close proximity to (or otherwise permitting surveillance of) sensitive U.S. government and military facilities, or which involve airports or maritime ports, except for real estate that is a “single housing unit” or located in an “urbanized area.” Although CFIUS already reviews some of these transactions, FIRRMA will authorize CFIUS review of short-term leases or greenfield transactions where such transactions raise proximity concerns. The practical effect of this provision is not clear. As with “other investments” involving critical technologies, critical infrastructure, and sensitive personal data of U.S. persons, CFIUS must define the term “foreign person” to limit to the scope of real estate transactions subject to CFIUS review to investments by certain categories of foreign persons.
Changes in rights and transactions designed to circumvent CFIUS. FIRRMA will give CFIUS jurisdiction over any changes in rights of an existing investment that would result in foreign control of the U.S. business.
Additional national security factors
Current law sets forth various factors that CFIUS may consider when conducting its national security analysis. Although FIRRMA does not modify or expand these factors, the “sense of Congress” in the bill’s preamble suggests that CFIUS may consider additional factors in its national security analysis of a “covered transaction”:
The involvement of a “country of special concern that has a demonstrated or declared strategic goal of acquiring a type of critical technology or critical infrastructure that would affect” U.S. leadership in areas related to national security.
The “potential national security-related effects” of the cumulative control of, or a “pattern of recent transactions” involving, any one type of critical infrastructure, energy asset, critical material, or critical technology by a foreign government or foreign person.
The foreign person’s history of complying with U.S. law.
The control of U.S. industries and commercial activity by foreign persons as it affects the capability and capacity of the United States to protect its national security.
Whether the transaction is likely to provide a foreign government with access to “personally identifiable information, genetic information, or other sensitive data” of U.S. citizens in a manner that threatens national security.
The likelihood that the transaction will exacerbate or create new cybersecurity vulnerabilities in the United States or “is likely to result in a foreign government gaining a significant new capability to engage in malicious cyber-enabled activities against the United States.”
Many of these factors already play a role in CFIUS assessments. As to the first factor regarding the involvement of “a country of special concern” with a “demonstrated or declared strategic goal of acquiring a type of critical technology or critical infrastructure,” many observers believe Congress was primarily concerned with Chinese investment, which is already a focus of CFIUS scrutiny.
Changes to CFIUS review process
The vast majority of CFIUS reviews begin when the parties to a transaction submit a joint voluntary notice (JVN). Under current practice, parties are expected to submit a “draft” notice to CFIUS before the commencement of the official 30-day review period, which provides CFIUS and the parties with an opportunity to resolve any concerns about the draft and finalize the JVN. This informal review process has become a source of unpredictability for parties as the “prefiling” phase can drag on for several weeks. Once the 30-day initial review period ends, CFIUS may clear the transaction or initiate a 45-day investigation period. FIRMAA will alter the current process and practice resulting in reviews that may be shorter or longer.
Establishment of abbreviated notifications. FIRRMA will create a new short-form filing or “declaration” that would allow parties to file an abbreviated notice of five pages or less at least 45 days before the completion of a transaction. CFIUS will be required to respond within 30 days by (1) clearing the transaction; (2) requesting that the parties file a formal notice; (3) informing the parties that CFIUS is unable to complete action based on the information provided and the parties may file a written notice; or (4) initiating a unilateral review of the transaction.
Requirement for mandatory filings. Under current practice, most filings are voluntary. FIRRMA will require at least a declaration for investments involving access to U.S. critical technologies by foreign persons in which a foreign government owns, directly or indirectly, a substantial interest. The bill does not define “substantial interest,” and instead directs CFIUS to define the term through regulations.
Changes to timeframe for review. FIRRMA should create more certainty with respect to the pre-filing phase for parties that stipulate that a transaction is a “covered transaction” by requiring that CFIUS either accept a notice within 10 business days of submission or explain why a notice is incomplete. In addition, FIRRMA will lengthen the initial review period from 30 to 45 days, followed by, if necessary, one 15-day extension for “extraordinary circumstances.”
Imposition of filing fees. Currently, there is no fee to notify a transaction to CFIUS. FIRRMA will authorize CFIUS to charge a fee not to exceed the lesser of 1 percent of the value of the transaction or $300,000.
Judicial review of CFIUS decisions. FIRRMA will require that a civil action challenging a CFIUS action or finding be brought in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Increased authority for transactions posing national security concerns
FIRRMA will update current procedures available to CFIUS for dealing with transactions raising national security concerns, though in many instances these updates merely codify existing CFIUS practice.
Process for identifying non-notified, non-declared transactions. FIRRMA will formalize CFIUS’s practice of searching for and identifying non-notified transactions and requiring those parties to file a notice.
Authorization for mitigation measures for voluntarily abandoned transactions. FIRRMA will authorize CFIUS to impose mitigation conditions to effectuate abandonment on any party to a covered transaction that has voluntarily abandoned the transaction.
Authorization to impose mitigation measures for completed transactions during pendency of review. FIRRMA will authorize CFIUS to impose interim mitigation measures to address a national security risk pending completion of the review and/or investigation of a completed transaction.
Codification of CFIUS authority to suspend transactions and refer transactions to the President. FIRRMA will authorize CFIUS to suspend a proposed or pending covered transaction that may pose a national security threat while CFIUS review or investigation is ongoing.
Increased mitigation oversight. The use of independent monitors is explicitly authorized under FIRRMA, which is consistent with existing CFIUS practice. In addition, FIRRMA will require CFIUS to maintain a compliance plan for covered transactions that require mitigation.
Periodic review of mitigation agreements. FIRRMA will require CFIUS to periodically review the appropriateness of mitigation agreements and take action to terminate or amend a mitigation agreement if a threat no longer requires mitigation.
Early versions of FIRRMA would have subjected outbound transfers of intellectual property and associated support to CFIUS review. This approach was strongly opposed by the U.S. technology industry and jettisoned from the final bill. Instead of making such transactions subject to CFIUS review, the NDAA provides for expanded controls for “emerging and foundational technologies” that are “essential” to U.S. national security, pursuant to the Export Controls Act of 2018 (“ECA”). In addition, the ECA repeals and replaces the lapsed Export Administration Act of 1979, which is the basis for U.S. export controls and has been continued since its expiration by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).[3]
The ECA directs the President, in coordination with the Secretaries of Commerce, Defense, Energy, and State, to establish a “regular, ongoing interagency process to identify” technologies that should be subject to export controls established by the Department of Commerce (“Commerce”). This interagency process appears intended to fill a perceived gap between current export regulations and technologies that the U.S. government considers highly sensitive but that are not yet subject to export restrictions. It is not yet clear how the process contemplated will differ substantively from similar activities already undertaken by the agencies or how the outcome of the newly contemplated interagency process will be projected to the private sector.
The ECA directs the Secretary of Commerce to take into account the potential end uses and end users of the technology as well as countries to which exports from the United States are restricted in determining the appropriate level of control. Such considerations are already deeply embedded in the EAR, but the identification of emerging and foundational technologies that are essential to U.S. national security and the definition of such items in regulations will be important to the business community. The history of export regulations and the reform of those regulations teaches that the introduction of proposed new controls can unintentionally capture a wider swath of items and, therefore, impact the business plans and compliance management efforts of companies in multiple sectors. At a minimum, the ECA will require a license before any such technologies are transferred to a country subject to an arms embargo, which would include technology transfers to China.
The ECA will also authorize the Secretary of Commerce to compel various disclosures by certain applicants for licenses or other authorization for the export, re-export, or in-country transfer of emerging and foundational technologies. Applications submitted by or on behalf of a “joint venture, joint development agreement, or similar collaborative arrangement” may be required “to identify, in addition to any foreign person participating in the arrangement, any foreign person with significant ownership interest in a foreign person participating in the arrangement.”
The ECA will leave some discretion to the Secretary of Commerce in deciding whether to impose export controls on emerging and foundational technologies. The ECA explicitly states that the Secretary of Commerce is not required to impose controls on the export, re-export, or in-country transfer of emerging and foundational technologies in a number of ordinary-course commercial transactions that would not result in the transfer of technical knowledge to foreign persons:
The “sale or license of a finished item and the provision of associated technology” if the U.S. person “generally makes the finished item and associated technology available to its customers, distributors, or resellers.”
The “sale or license to a customer of a product and the provision of integration services or similar services” if the U.S. person “generally makes such services available to its customers.”
The “transfer of equipment and the provision of associated technology to operate the equipment if the transfer could not result in the foreign person using the equipment to produce critical technologies.”
The procurement by the U.S. person of “goods or services, including manufacturing services, from a foreign person … if the foreign person has no rights to exploit any technology contributed by the [U.S.] person other than to supply the procured goods or services.”
Any “contribution and associated support” by a U.S. person to “an industry organization related to a standard or specification, whether in development or declared.”
The ECA will require Commerce to consider the impact of a proposed export on the U.S. “defense industrial base” in issuing export licenses and deny any request that would have “a significant negative impact” on the defense industrial base. License applicants will be required to provide information on the impact of the proposed export on the defense industrial base in their applications.
[1] “Critical technologies” includes “emerging and foundational technologies” identified through the new and enhanced export controls provided for under the ECA.
[2] FIRRMA defines “critical infrastructure” to mean “systems and assets, whether physical or virtual, so vital to the United States that the incapacity or destruction of such systems or assets would have a debilitating impact on national security.”
[3] The ECA largely codifies the Commerce’s current practices regarding controls on “dual-use” items with both civilian and military applications via the EAR as well as existing authorities and procedures by which Commerce regulates the export, re-export, and in-country transfer of items for national security and foreign policy reasons. The law also codifies the civil and criminal penalties for violations of export controls established under the IEEPA.
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Rocky Russo’s charges failed to make up any ground on the Corpus Christi IceRays for the fourth and final playoff spot on the South Division after the Ice Rays lost to the Odessa Jackalopes.
There was no scoring in the first period between Amarillo and Shreveport, but it was a fast- skating, free-flowing affair. The Mudbugs had 18 first period shots but many of them were from long distance. Brett Abdelnour had the Bulls best chance on a play in front of the net.
Shreveport jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead thanks to a pair of markers 45 seconds apart. First it was Roberts Baranovskis who wired a shot past the stick side of goaltender Jason Grande and then Jay Fiewell tipped one home at the side of the net. The hometown Mudbugs outshot the Bulls 18-9 in the second period.
The Bulls made a game out of it to start the third period as Trey Bagwell scored off the face off on the power play just 38 seconds into the action. However, the one goal lead was short-lived as Jacob Holmers scored just 22 seconds later. It was a frantic finish through the remainder of the period with the Bulls unable to get any closer. Cameron Cook tallied into the empty net to round out the scoring.
The Shreveport Mudbugs outshot the Amarillo Bulls 53-23. Each team had a power play goal on two opportunities.
The two teams conclude their weekend match-up tomorrow (Saturday) night at George’s Pond Hirsch Coliseum. Fans can tune into the action with Denis J. Puska on CBS Sports Radio 1440, and online at www.amarillobulls.com beginning with the Bulls Warm Up Show at 6:45 pm. The puck drop follows at 7 pm. Fans wishing to catch the Hockey TV broadcast of the game can tune in with Mudbugs broadcaster Chet Yoder.
This road swing is part of a two week stretch for the Amarillo Bulls and they won’t be back at the Budweiser Bull Pen in the Amarillo Civic Center on Friday, Feb. 9 and Saturday Feb. 10 at 7 pm. Friday is the Family Four Pack for $44 and the Bring A Bud Pack for $22, while Saturday is First Responders Night with booths on the concourse, a vehicle parade and much more. Tickets are available at the Bulls Office located at 301 South Polk, Civic Center Box Office and all Panhandle Ticket locations including United Supermarkets or online at www.amarillobulls.com or www.panhandletickets.com.
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The January transfer window is by the corner and we have for you the links doing the rounds in the media.
Today, there is this one claiming that Arsene Wenger is showing interest in a former Manchester United star who every Gunner will be delighted to see at the Emirates Stadium.
He scored a number of mind-blowing goals while still plying his trade at Old Trafford but as a result of some reasons which I can't explain, he was loaned out to Real Madrid before later making a permanent move to Bayern Leverkusen.
The 27-year old Mexican forward has not disappointed at his new club so far having bagged a total of 18 goals in 24 appearances. Yes, you heard me right. I guess your're like: "What were they smoking at Manchester United to sell out such an asset?' Well I have no answer to that yet.
Enough of the suspense! It is no other person than Javier Hernandez who is popularly referred to as Chicharito.
If we are to go by reports, then this guy may find himself at Arsenal come January. To look at it from another angle, this deal looks like what will not be happening in the nearer future. He is performing well at his present club, so I think only a very tempting offer will make them let go of him. Let's keep observing.
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Film industry remembers Silk Smitha on her 60th birthday
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Actress Silk Smitha passed away in the year 1996, but film industry has not forgotten her. If the actress was alive, she would have celebrated her 60th birthday today. Many movie groups online have been sharing memories on her films, her hit songs and more on the occasion. The actress, who was lovingly called ‘Silk’ by her fans, was found dead in her apartment in Chennai in 1996 and it was adjudged a suicide. Silk Smitha, who was born Vijayalakshmi Vadlapatla in a Telugu family in Eluru, entered film industry as a supporting actress. It is after working in the film ‘Vandichakkaram,’ a Tamil movie that was released in the year 1979, that she got her stage name ‘Silk Smitha.’ Her role in the film was also named ‘Silk.’ Soon after, she is said to have become a sought-after sex symbol in movies. She has done about 450 movies in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi languages. A few of her popular dance numbers in Malayalam are from the films ‘Spadikam,’ in which she performed with Mohanlal for the popular song ‘Ezhimala Poonchola’ sung by K S Chithra and Mohanlal himself; the song ‘Puzhayorathil Poonthoni Entheela,’ from the film ‘Adharvam’… Read full this story
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Fellow Professor Paul Myles was interviewed for an article in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald on 17 December about the effects of the pandemic in response to an Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report.
Professor Myles, director of anaesthesia and perioperative medicine at The Alfred hospital, said ear, nose and throat procedures blew-out because there was a higher risk of COVID-19 complications.
The Monash University Professor led a national taskforce screening surgery patients for coronavirus to determine if it was safe to recommence surgeries in Australia. More than 3000 Australians were
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Auckland anaesthetist Dr Jack Hill featured in a New Zealand Herald article on 14 December about the successful use of a rare emergency procedure to save the life of a pregnant mother and baby.
Nearly 20 Auckland DHB staff had less than five minutes to prepare and complete an emergency surgical cricothyrotomy.
Dr Hills says "as an anaesthetist, you train for it but you never think you will actually have to do it. It was an absolute last resort and no one knew if it would work," he said.
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Arabology Podcast Available (March 17, 2015)
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Arabology 9.7 aired on March 17, 2015 and highlighted gorgeous Sufi music + Oud instrumentals and songs + a live performance by the Stanford Middle East Ensemble. Listen or download below or at https://soundcloud.com/arabology/arabology97
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Songstress Elizabeth Ayoub Combines Arabic Music with Latin Beats and More
The youngest daughter of Lebanese immigrants, Elizabeth Ayoub grew up in Venezuela speaking three different languages and with musical influences ranging from Quranic verse to Fairuz to Simon & Garfunkel and Barbra Streisand.
Her first album, Prelude, was a true work of art and brought together a wide variety of musicians from the Latin and Arab world–from Grammy-award winning Bacilos drummer JJ Freire, to world class Cuban bassist Jose Armando Gola, to guitarist-extraordinaire Jose Elias, to Oud player Bassam Saba (who once played with the Lebanese legendary singer Fairuz).
Soon thereafter, World Connection and Times Square Records signed Elizabeth Ayoub after watching her perform in Detroit at the Arab-American National Museum. Traveling between Madrid and Beirut, her second album titled Oceanos y Lunas emerged and contained songs in Spanish, Arabic, French and English.
Here’s what iTunes had to say about Elizabeth Ayoub's Oceanos y Lunas:
“In an example of the impact of world politics on culture, the parents of singer Elizabeth Ayoub emigrated from Lebanon before that country’s civil war, settling in Venezuela before her birth. Given that heritage, her music, not surprisingly, mixes Arabic and Latin styles, and she sings it in Arabic and Spanish, when she’s not venturing into English or French. In the arrangements, the guitars mix with ouds, but no matter what the instrumentation, the approach is gentle and folkish, and as a songwriter Ayoub (as revealed in the translations of her lyrics in the CD booklet) sticks to generalized longings for romantic love. Occasionally, the music veers toward American country-folk, notably in “Je T’Attends,” which, with its repeated use of the phrase “don’t know why” (sung in English) suggests Norah Jones, and “Volver.” But American country singers don’t usually sing their choruses in French followed by the wordless expression “ya leyli.” Ayoub is a poster child for international understanding, and her music should have pop appeal across cultures.”
Below is a video made by 'World Connection' which spotlights Elizabeth Ayoub's music and includes an interview with her: (Link at http://youtu.be/U095jDKizHg?t=47s)
Here is a breathtaking song that Elizabeth Ayoub recorded in Arabic; it is titled 'Ya Oud' and taken from her second album Oceanos y Lunas:
You can hear many more samples of Elizabeth Ayoub's music at http://ohmytracks.com/#/music/Elizabeth+Ayoub
Elizabeth Ayoub Official Web Site: http://www.elizabethayoub.com/
Elizabeth Ayoub CDs on Amazon: Click HERE
Elizabeth Ayoub on Twitter: twitter.com/elizabethayoub
Elizabeth Ayoub on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/elizabethayoub
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Circular Amphitheatre / NONETOTEN DESIGN LAB
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Lead Architects:Chihyuan Hung, Kuanyi Tai
Client:Junior high School
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Text description provided by the architects. In order to improve the aesthetics of the campus and surrounding communities, the TAIWAN Ministry of Education takes into account the natural environment, the local culture, the needs of the school and the overall aesthetics of the education field, highlights the regional environmental characteristics of the school, and creates a beautiful and co-educational field between the campus and the adjacent community. A "public aesthetic education field" that goes beyond the wall.A series of campus aesthetic movements called “Ministry of Education and Education” was held.
Under the premise of Taichung City, An-he National Middle School invited the design team to conduct the operation of the case. In a school campus with music and performance teaching characteristics, the design team hopes to have the sensory characteristics of the sound as a design performance. Focus on redesigning the prototype of the theater type, changing from the classic end-frame stage to the circular open theater.
By interlacing the interior and the circular space, the overall shape is designed with the concept of the turntable, because The sound is the existence of a human body without a dimension. The space is divided into three parts (outside and inside) by the composition of four ring parts, which have different (same) spatial experiences, so that the experiencer has different visual and auditory feelings among the three. At the same time, there is the possibility of listeners and performers. What is more interesting is that the entire theater structure itself is actually a large speaker. With a hollow circular tube as a resonance chamber, the whole device can become a large speaker. form an unique acoustic experiences.
The outer material part of the space, in order to create a barrier to the visual space, the overall structure uses galvanized steel pipe wrapped around the orchid mesh. Through the space that cannot be directly penetrated by vision, but to hear the sound, create a new performance communication style. The performer can perform in the circle or practice as a musical instrument. The listener outside the circle cannot directly see the performer and feel it in a purely auditory way.
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Let the school not only be the place where the children learn, but also the field of community residents' activities. Often the activities of the community and the schoolchildren are misplaced. Through such a device, they can pull up their bridges and pick up the technology indifference. A little warm.
The device re-given the new vocabulary of music through the environment, making nature a new movement. In addition to the auditory feast of music, we let the sound not only stay at the level of hearing, but as the music spreads, imagines, and forms in reality. Just like the surrounding terrain also dances with the voice, the whole environment is filled in the field called music.
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Pipelines and frontlines – cooperation and conflict in eastern Ukraine
Opening event on 17.09.2019, 17:00
Are you used to getting water running from the tap? But what if your water system was operated by your armed adversary? In the 21st century, armed conflicts often take place in highly urbanised settings and throw up problems we are not used to considering. How do you send utility bills if the consumers live on territory controlled by enemy armed groups? How can the water company repair a shelled infrastructure in the territory where the enemy is in charge? How can its employees work across a frontline? How do you make sure people are not deprived of one of life essentials’ – water?
We will discuss issues, which encourage conflicting parties in Ukraine to cooperate, on September 17 at 17:00 with Dr. Sophie Lambroschini, researcher in contemporary history of East-Central Europe at the Marc Bloch Centre in Berlin, Camilla Corradin, People in Need, Mark Buttle, UNICEF, WASH cluster coordinator, Andrey Klochko, Voda Donbasu and Galina Pavlovskaya, teacher living in a village on the frontline. Discussion moderated by Stefan Melle, DRA.
The event marks the opening of the exhibition “People live here” by photographer Albert Lores, whose work (in cooperation with NGOs providing water to the war-affected in eastern Ukraine) explores what the water means for people living in the small locations along the frontline. “People live here”. This is what people who lived along the contact line wrote on their gates back in April 2014, when hostilities in eastern Ukraine began. These few words were a warning for the military to avoid shelling, or settling into their homes. Five years later, these inscriptions still hold true. Amid continuous fighting, which has often deprived people of one of life’s essentials – water, people live here, still. The Donbas area is highly industrialised, yet it has always been classified as water scarce. This is why engineers in the 1950s designed a massive water system carrying water more than 300 km, all the way from the Siverskyi Donets river, to Mariupol city. Prior to the conflict the system was already around 70 years old, with over-designed pumps, and pipelines that needed replacing. Since conflict started, lack of access for repairs, damage caused by shelling and explosions, and the difficult economic situation in eastern Ukraine now mean that water supply to 3.2 million people hangs in the balance
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Due to the limited space please register with nataliya.novakova@austausch.org to attend.
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Sometimes all we need is a quiet wide-open space to sit back, relax and enjoy the simple things in life. Start planning your dream nature escape with these ten secluded stays.
By Ute Junker
With so many wild spaces scattered across the continent, Australia is a wonderful destination to go off-grid; places where you can let go of the urge for constant digital connection and instead focus on the natural beauty around you. Not all of the escapes on this list are completely tech-free, but if you are ready to switch off and unwind, these back-to-nature getaways will help you get there.
Wake up to whales in Ningaloo Reef
Whale shark season stretches from mid-March to mid-July.
If you can live without TV and mobile phone coverage, but not without piping hot water and 500-thread count sheets, Sal Salis is your kind of bush camp. Located in Western Australia’s Cape Range National Park near Exmouth, a two-hour flight from Perth, these glamping tents are picturesquely perched between the ocean and the bush. Spend your days exploring the marvels of the Ningaloo Reef, the world’s largest fringing reef, by snorkelling the house reef where colourful fish swim through vibrant corals. Or if you're looking for friendly giants, head out on a boat to swim with marine animals such as manta rays, turtles migrating whale sharks and humpback whales.
Sleep amid the vines outside Canberra
Naked Cubby Co, Majura, Australian Capital Territory © Naked Cubby Co/Shan Bawden
The Canberra region is home to 140 wineries.
You don’t have to go far to escape Australia’s cities. Just 20 minutes’ drive outside of Canberra, the Mount Majura Vineyard takes things back to basics with its old-school glamping option, the Naked Cubby Co. No, you don’t have to take your clothes off – here, “naked” simply means that this is a totally tech-free zone.
Named after winemakers Edgar and Frank, there are just two tents located in suitably scenic corners of the property, each one equipped with the old-fashioned basics – beds, books and board games – that let you savour the stillness and the joys of good wine and company. Better yet, rates include breakfast in bed.
Find stillness on Bremer Island
Banubanu Wilderness Retreat, Bremer Island, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory © Oliver Thompson/Banubanu Wilderness Retreat
A vast wilderness in the north-east corner of the Northern Territory, Arnhem Land lures visitors with its rich Aboriginal culture and its world-class fishing. At Banubanu Beach Retreat on Bremer Island, which features glamping-style bungalows overlooking the Arafura Sea, you can enjoy both.
A 15-minute flight from Gove Airport (reached by plane from Darwin) brings you to this unspoilt island; once you are here, there is little to do other than stroll the beaches, fish for Spanish mackerel and coral trout, and learn more about the Indigenous Yolngu culture. The fan-cooled rooms are simple but comfortable, and meals are a highlight, with the resort’s chef serving up superb seafood tinged with tropical flavours.
Relax among the treetops in New South Wales
At Paperbark Camp on the scenic New South Wales South Coast, 2.5 hours south of Sydney, it’s all about savouring your surroundings. Stay in one of their safari-style tents and you may wake to the sight (and sounds) of a kookaburra perched on a nearby branch. The tents themselves are indulgent – each one has hardwood floors, a comfortable bed draped with an alpaca throw and an open-air bathroom – but here it’s about the simple joys of the wild, whether that’s stretching your legs on a bush hike or enjoying a gentle kayak in the creek.
Unwind on a tropical island in Queensland
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It’s not just your phone you leave at home when you head to Wilson Island – it’s the children, too. This adults-only, tech-free island on the Southern Great Barrier Reef, near Gladstone, hosts just nine glamping tents and is designed to let you slow down and rejuvenate. You might start the day with a snorkelling session, exploring the colourful marine life that surrounds the spectacular Great Barrier Reef. If that sounds too energetic, you may prefer to lie back in a hammock while the breeze dances through the leaves of the palm trees.
Drift off to sleep on the Great Ocean Road
Pebble Point Glamping, Great Ocean Road, Victoria © Pebble Point
If you didn’t know they were here, it would be easy to overlook the glamping tents at Pebble Point, hidden away as they are in the coastal scrub surrounding the village of Princetown. This low-key bush retreat, 2.5 hours south-west of Melbourne, makes a great base for exploring Australia’s most iconic drive, the Great Ocean Road. The majestic 12 Apostles are within walking distance; alternatively, you may decide to head out on a coastal cliff walk, explore the lush Otway Ranges, or simply sit on your private deck and savour the fresh salt-tinged air – and maybe even spot an echidna.
Go wild on Tasmania's King Island
Kittawa Lodge, King Island, Tasmania © Kittawa Lodge
King Island may only be 50 minutes’ flight from Melbourne, yet it feels like it could be the end of the Earth. The deserted beaches, melaleuca forests and wetlands are great for hiking, but this laidback Tasmanian island is also home to three superb golf courses and a surprisingly lively arts scene. Yet when you are holed up at Kittawa Lodge, which features two architecturally designed, self-contained oceanfront cottages, it is easy to imagine that you are the only people left on the planet. Your magnificent solitude will only be disturbed by the red-necked wallabies hopping about outside your cliff-top villa.
Sleep under canvas on Kangaroo Island
Wandering Souls, Kangaroo Island, South Australia © Wandering Souls
Just a 35-minute flight from Adelaide, Kangaroo Island is known for having some of Australia’s best wildlife spotting; it also has one of Australia’s most memorable glamping experiences. With Wandering Souls, you can choose a tent to suit your style: the designer interiors range from tropical flair to boho chic. That’s not all you get to choose. You can also decide where your tent is going to be pitched: along a deserted beach, perched above a vineyard, or conveniently located near the settlement of Kingscote in the island’s north-east. The one thing you don’t have to do is set up the tent yourself: the Wandering Souls team will take care of that.
Stargaze from your bathtub in Tasmania
Thalia Haven, East Coast, Tasmania © Thalia Haven/Marcus Walters
Tasmania is one of the best places on Earth to see the Aurora Australis (Southern Lights).
Set on a secluded headland on Tasmania’s east coast, a stone’s throw from Freycinet National Park, the wind- and solar-powered Thalia Haven rental cottage, which has four bedrooms built from ancient stone, lets you immerse yourself in nature. Wake up to the sound of the sea, and enjoy long walks on your own private beach before grilling up some fresh fish for lunch on the outdoor fire. Treat yourself to a long soak in the outdoor bathtub, where you can enjoy stargazing with spectacular views of the Milky Way. It is hard to believe that such tranquillity is available just a couple of hours’ drive from Hobart.
Retreat to Queensland's ancient rainforest
Nightfall camp, Lamington National Park, Queensland © Nightfall camp
The tents at the solar-powered Nightfall camp are truly luxurious, with king-size beds, vintage baths and rotating fireplaces. However, the camp’s real draw is its setting, nestled in the midst of one of Queensland’s ancient rainforests, 90 minutes south-west of the Gold Coast. Choose your activities to match your energy levels: you might spend the day hiking rainforest trails in nearby Lamington National Park, enjoying a massage by the river rapids, or even watching for the elusive platypus in the crystal-clear creek. In the evenings, a gourmet meal cooked over the open fire is a perfect end to a relaxing day.
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Stunning new Ford Evos concept previews design direction of Blue Oval's future models
by Mark Tisshaw
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Ford’s extraordinary new 2+2 GT fastback concept, shown off at the Frankfurt motor show previews the design of every future model from the Blue Oval – and opens debate as to whether the firm is ready to reinvent the iconic Capri for the 21st century.
Ford has now completed the roll-out of its Kinetic design language – first seen on 2005’s Iosis concept – across its range. The Evos, with its sleek Aston Martin Vantage-style profile, a length the same as the current Focus and the width of today’s Mondeo, is the preview for ‘Kinetic 2.0’, a more premium and technical interpretation of Kinetic design.
"Our message is clear: Evos shows the evolution of Ford’s Kinetic design and you will see every element from it on our future production cars," says Ford of Europe’s executive design director Martin Smith, who deflects comparisons to the Capri by saying he "doesn’t mind what it’s called".
Ford chose a coupe as the basis for displaying its Kinetic 2.0 design principles as "it’s the most ambiguous way to show a design," according to Smith. "We don’t have a coupe in our line up and if we were to show Kinetic 2.0 at this stage on a four-door saloon or a supermini everyone would say, ‘that’s the new Mondeo or Fiesta’. It’s hard to pigeonhole Evos and say it’s the next anything as we don’t have a coupe at the moment."
Stefan Lamm, the concept’s exterior designer and the man behind the looks of the Mk2 Focus RS, says the idea of Kinetic 2.0 is to give future Fords a more technical, refined and premium look in a volume marketplace full of fussy ‘me too’ designs.
"Evos is short for evolution," says Lamm. "We looked at Kinetic cars and tried to simplify them." Chief among the evolution of Kinetic design at the front for Evos is a simpler, higher-set, one-piece inverted trapezoidal grille that is flanked by much smaller laser-cut LED headlamps. In the bottom corners of the lower front fascia sit two neatly integrated simple ‘ring’ fog lights.
Lamm believes this new "face of Ford" will work on any of its future models if the size of the grille is correct. The skinny headlights are unlikely to make it onto a small Ka or Fiesta-sized car due to cost reasons, but all the other features will appear across the range.
In profile, the ‘Red Hot Chilli’ coloured-Evos has short overhangs and a ‘shark fin’ effect at the front and the rear. The A-pillars are noticeably thinner than on Ford’s current Kinetic cars and likewise the front windscreen is much more rounded than before, a nod to GT cars of the 1960s and 1970s.
Gullwing doors
This being a concept car, Evos does have a party trick purely for Frankfurt showgoers and one not destined for the next Fiesta or S-Max. At first glance, Evos, with its conventional shutlines, appears to be a three-door, but it is actually a four-door – with Mercedes SLS-style gullwing doors front and rear.
"A three-door GT coupe is not clever or innovative," says Lamm, "and a four-door gives you better rear access." The gullwing doors’ hinges are as well hidden as the shutlines thanks to a one-piece glass roof that also makes up the front and rear windscreens.
Elsewhere at the rear, a high-set light strip runs right across with lights as slim and as well sculpted as those at the front. "You could see this light treatment in a Mondeo," says Lamm.
It is at the rear where the Evos’s role of sporting GT is most pronounced thanks to a Focus ST-style style central exhaust and large diffuser. These are finished in the same satin-aluminium effect as the side skirts and front splitter, a finish chosen over polished chrome as the latter is ìnot modern enoughî and wouldn’t give the Evos the same desired sense of lightness as the satin look.
While the interior of the Evos may look futuristic and pure concept car, several elements of it will make their way into Ford’s next round of production cars. So expect to see digital instrument panels adopted by all future Fords, along with a 6in or 8in touchscreen on the centre console that controls navigation, heater and entertainment controls. Ford of Europe’s interior design chief, Ernst Reim, says: "We wanted to reduce the amount of 'hard keys'. The result is a design that is cleaner and simpler, and has an improved interface."
Powering the front-wheel drive Evos is a development of the plug-in hybrid powertrain found in the upcoming Ford C-Max Energi. This set-up consists of a 2.0-litre Atkinson cycle petrol engine, electric motor and high-voltage lithium-ion battery pack.
No power and performance figures have been given, but it would be impossible to imagine such a set-up not providing at least 300bhp, sub 6.0sec 0-60mph performance, less than 100g/km Co2 emissions and fuel economy nudging 60mpg.
While Ford is pushing the exterior and interior design and technology story behind the Evos concept at Frankfurt, the firm has also touched on innovative dynamic developments that will be showcased in the car.
‘Adaptive vehicle technologies’ read the road ahead and adjust Evos’s powertrain, steering, suspension and braking systems accordingly. It also logs its driver’s driving style and can adapt and hone itself according to any situation to "take driving engagement to the next level".
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On Friday night, with the Marlins losing 5-4 to the Rockies in the top of the sixth and Josh Roenicke on the mound, Giancarlo Stanton hit an important home run. It wasn't important because it tied the game, although the Marlins would go on to win by one run. This was a matchup between two last-place teams, so the outcome was about as inconsequential as the outcomes of baseball games come. It was important because it looked like this:
We know Giancarlo Stanton hits long home runs. The average home run Stanton has hit this year has left the bat about four miles per hour faster, and traveled nearly 12 feet further, than the average NL home run. But this home run was different. This one beat out all the ones before it.
According to ESPN Home Run Tracker (formerly known as Hit Tracker), Stanton's homer, had its flight not been interrupted by the stands, would have traveled 494 feet by the time it returned to field level. That's nine feet farther than this Cameron Maybin homer from July, which had been the leader in the clubhouse for 2012. In fact, it's farther than every other home run hit in the regular season or playoffs since this Wladimir Balentien blast from October 2, 2009, which went 495. It's the fifth-longest homer hit since the start of the 2006 season, when Hit Tracker began keeping track.
I know what you're thinking: Stanton had help. The game was at Coors Field, and a Rockies pitcher was pitching. But although the altitude tacked on 12 feet, according to Home Run Tracker, the wind was blowing in, apparently pretty hard, which took away 13. The home run's "Standard Distance," which "factors out the influence of wind, temperature, and altitude," was 488 feet. Even at sea level, this would have been the longest home run hit this season. And while a Rockies pitcher was pitching, it was one of the hardest Rockies to homer off of. Roenicke entered the game having allowed only 0.6 home runs per nine innings this season, the 16th-lowest rate among pitchers with at least 70 innings. His career home run rates in both the majors and minors were also 0.6 per nine. Stanton had some factors in his favor, but the conditions definitely could've been better.
The clip of Stanton's homer has a strong supporting cast. Roenicke, who looks like a beaten man immediately after bat makes contact with curveball. The infielders, who crane their necks to watch the ball soar over their heads. The outfielders, who take a step or two toward the track to show that they totally tried to catch it. But the stars are Stanton, who doesn't seem to swing especially hard, and the ball itself, which forces our eyes to follow it. Remember where it went. It might be a while before we see one take a longer trip.
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SGreenwell
I think the best reaction is that of Wilin Rosario, who's catching, who essentially and immediately says, "Oh ****!"
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onetimeforall
Two Wladimir Balentien references on BP in a week (referenced by Goldstein in talking about Gallo on Monday).
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I75Titans
Mark McGuire hit the facade of the Rockpile in the Homerun Hitting Contest before the All Star Game in Denver in 1998, advertised as a 505 ft. shot. That's right behind Stanton's mammoth homer. But that's easily the longest homer I have seen in 17 season of projectile-watching at Coors Field.
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PunDeck
Giancarlo Stanton #Strong
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ThreeSix
but does it really count against Rockies pitching?
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EricMeeker
Tommy Hutton on the Giancarlo Stanton HR: "I think he figured out that(shortarm) delivery of Josh Roenicke quite well." LOL
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You’ve heard of antihistamines, but have you heard of an low-histimine diet?
Dietitian Leslie Langevin had no idea her body could develop an allergy to everyday foods she was used to enjoying until a glass of red wine sent her to the ER for anaphylactic shock. Not long after that, she had a similar reaction to a turkey burger with cheese and barbecue sauce and knew that she wasn’t going to be able to ignore her new dietary issues.
Because Langevin already worked in food, she was able to determine that she needed to eat low-histimine foods, or foods that aren’t as likely to trigger her body’s natural anti-inflammatory response. Over the following year, she connected with other people who have similar inflammation-related health issues, from IBS and Celiac to rheumatoid arthritis and interstitial cystitis, and started developing recipes that were low in acid, dairy and other ingredients that have been linked to inflammation and irritation in the body.
The cookbook, “The Anti-Inflammatory Kitchen Cookbook: More Than 100 Healing, Low-Histamine, Gluten-Free Recipes” (Sterling Epicure, $24.95), is appealing even if you aren’t eating a low-histamine or anti-inflammatory diet, and she makes a compelling case that we could all cut back on the refined sugars and gluten.
Cornmeal Waffle Egg Sandwiches
These delightfully savory breakfast sandwiches are a mash-up of fried eggs and waffles with syrup. Choose omega-3-fortified eggs or organic eggs to boost your omega-3 levels, which can reduce inflammation. Using half olive oil and half butter allows the rich taste of butter to shine in the finished dish but with less saturated fat. The scallions add antioxidants and a nice bright taste to balance the earthiness of the waffles. Corn flour is finely ground cornmeal, and it’s available in the baking aisle.
— Leslie Langevin
1/4 cup extra-light olive oil, plus 1 tablespoon for frying
2 eggs for the batter, plus extra for frying
1/2 cup corn flour
1 cup All-Purpose Flour Blend (recipe below)
2 tablespoons chopped scallions, plus 1 tablespoon for garnish
1 1/2 cups milk of choice
Maple syrup, for serving (optional)
Heat the waffle iron. In a mixing bowl, combine the butter, oil, 2 eggs, cornmeal, corn flour, flour blend, scallions, maple syrup, baking powder, salt and milk. Mix together until smooth.
Prepare the hot waffle iron with olive oil spray and pour roughly a third of the batter onto the iron. Close the iron and cook until the built-in timer indicates that the waffle is ready or that the outsides have browned. Set aside or keep warm in a 200-degree oven.
In a skillet over medium heat, heat the remaining oil and fry the desired number of eggs, cooking them until they are somewhere between runny and hard yolks.
Place a fried egg each atop a waffle quarter, then top with a second waffle quarter. Drizzle with maple syrup, if desired, and garnish with scallions. Serves 6 or more, depending on how many fried eggs you want to make to go with the waffles.
All-Purpose Gluten-Free Flour Blend
This flour blend works well in most baked foods. The secret is xanthan gum (or the ground chia seeds) which helps the gluten-free flours stick together. It acts like gluten does in wheat flour, and you can use it in a 1:1 ratio to replace standard all-purpose flour. Mix up a big batch and keep it on hand to use on all kinds of recipes. You can substitute 3 tablespoons of ground chia seeds for the 3 teaspoons of xanthan gum.
1 cup of brown rice flour
1 cup of white rice flour
3 cups of tapioca starch
3 teaspoons of xanthan gum
Combine ingredients thoroughly and store in an airtight container or resalable plastic bags for up to 1 month.
— From “The Anti-Inflammatory Kitchen Cookbook: More Than 100 Healing, Low-Histamine, Gluten-Free Recipes” by Leslie Langevin (Sterling Epicure, $24.95) | cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line10709 |
__label__wiki | 0.81559 | 0.81559 | BGP Advisors' Partner Ruth Epstein Quoted by Bloomberg
BGP Advisors co-founder Ruth Epstein was featured by Bloomberg this week in an article about investing opportunities in the cannabis space.
When asked why the Medmen Opportunity Fund II stood out among many investment alternatives in the space, Epstein is quoted as saying, "They were looking at markets where there was a lot of disruption and where there’s not a lot of transparency."
The article, penned by Jennifer Kaplan, notes what many experienced investors appreciate about MedMen - the Wall Street bona fides of its co-chairman, Chris Leavy. Leavy served as chief investment officer of fundamental equities at BlackRock, the world’s largest money manager. Before that, he was chief investment officer of equities at OppenheimerFunds.
The presence of Leavy, 46, who took one of the biggest stakes in MedMen’s first fund, is a big deal for investors who might otherwise be hesitant about a cannabis fund, Epstein said.
“That was the thing that really pushed me to pull the trigger,” she said.
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__label__cc | 0.713714 | 0.286286 | Netanyahu: Iran Behind Today’s Israeli Embassy Attacks
By Aaron Klein
Klein Online
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu squarely blamed Iran for the two seemingly coordinated car bomb attacks against Israeli embassies in India and Georgia today.
Calling Iran “the world’s top initiator of terror,” Netanyahu said that over the past few months “we have seen attempts to hurt Israelis in Azerbaijan and in Thailand. All of these incidents were stopped with the help of local [authorities].”
Netanyahu said that in each of the recent attempts “Iran and its proxy Hezbollah was behind the attacks.”
Israel, he added, “will continue to work with local security forces to stop attacks and will act with a strong hand” and systematically fight international terror, “which comes from Iran.”
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman took it a step further, warning that Israel knows exactly how to identify those responsible for the attacks and how to identify those who carried them out.
Four people, including the wife of an Israeli diplomat, were wounded today when a car bomb exploded outside of Israel’s embassy in the Indian capital of New Delhi. The embassy is reportedly located close to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s official residence.
Also today, a Georgian worker employed by the Israeli embassy in Tbilisi alerted police after noticing a suspicious object attached to a car assigned to the Israeli envoy to the country. The object turned out to be a grenade-like explosive device, according to Israeli officials.
Both of today’s attempts come one day after the fourth anniversary marking the targeted elimination of Hezbollah’s deputy leader, Imad Mughniyah, which the Islamist organization blames on Israel.
Israeli officials note that Hezbollah takes orders directly from Iran. Any Hezbollah attack on an Israeli target would be ordered by Tehran.
Today’s attacks follow the assassination of several nuclear scientists in Iran. Tehran has blamed Israel and the U.S. for those assassinations.
Israel says Iran behind India, Georgia attacks • Reuters
Moment car of Israeli diplomat's wife explodes into a fireball in suspected revenge attack for Iranian nuclear scientist's assassination • Daily Mail
Israel embassy staff targeted in bomb attacks • Euronews
Iran denies role in bomb attacks on Israeli embassies • Jerusalem Post
Lieberman: We Know Who Did It • Arutz Sheva
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__label__cc | 0.646569 | 0.353431 | BLOG Growth tips
How Remote Working Companies Can Create Strong Cultures Despite the Distance
Oliver Bridge wrote this on Feb 17, 2020
Distributed teams give companies the ability to hire the best talent for the job, taking relocation off the table, and helps companies save money on investing in office space and purchasing all of the furniture and tech to outfit the space.
Those managing remote teams are responsible for nurturing, guiding, and supporting team members from afar. But just like any long-distance relationship, it takes both creativity and commitment to make it work.
In this article, we'll look at some strategies that real brands have used to build an influential culture no matter where workers are located.
We'll talk about communications tools, building digital communities, hosting remote meetings, and of course, how video plays a role in bringing far-flung teams closer together.
What is a Distributed Team?
A distributed team is pretty much what it sounds like. Instead of housing the entire organization under one roof, distributed teams are made up of employees that work remotely and are spread all around the country or even the world.
That means that you might have a marketing manager based out of San Francisco, with a team based out of NYC, London, and India. Unlike a company with a dedicated home base that employs remote workers, a distributed team means that just about everyone on the team works remotely. There is no home base.
The rise of the distributed team has led to some new workplace challenges, including the following:
Little clarity around roles and tasks
Employees operate on their own schedules
It's difficult to track employee performance
Hiring the right resources
Missing accountability program
There's often a lack of boundaries
People don't feel as though they're part of a team
That said, challenges vary by organization. If your workplace is more traditional and depends on several people working together throughout the day, the problems are more significant.
Though in some cases--think a marketing team comprised of writers and editors, or a software development team with individuals working on their projects--may require less frequent communications.
With that in mind, let's discuss some ways to improve culture without driving your team crazy with constant notifications.
Set Boundaries and Expectations from the Get-Go
Remote teams, just like their in-house counterparts, need to define healthy boundaries between their work and personal lives. According to Buffer's 2019 State of Remote Work report, unplugging after work was the top challenge for those remote workers surveyed.
If you have certain expectations when it comes to working hours, be sure to discuss work schedules with your team members. Even if you don't care so much about when people get work done, it's a smart idea to get a basic sense of when various team members tend to be "on" versus "off."
After all, notifications and chat messages tend to be more disruptive than their inbox-bound counterparts.
Ask yourself the following questions:
Should there be "standard" communication hours for the entire team?
If not, will you schedule regular check-ins or meetings?
What tools will you use to keep in touch? Skype? Slack? Something else?
How often will you meet?
Answering these questions will help you establish some communication policies that you can use to create a team guidebook that everyone can access.
Additionally, it's worth noting that remote teams need to work extra hard to create their own sense of communication norms.
According to this 2018 piece published in The Harvard Business Review, companies like Merck have established a series of acronyms such as "No Need to Respond (NNTR)" or "Four Hour Response (4HR)" that lend some certainty to the expectations associated with virtual communications.
The article also points out that individual teams might also develop their own set of norms that dictate how Slack should and should not be used.
Or, it might define the use of Facebook Groups, Google Docs, or Whatsapp communications. And for individuals, you'll want to accept that there will also be personal norms to consider, like the writing style, tone, and typical turn-around.
Work Toward Establishing a Culture of Accountability
It's a common misconception that it's harder to track and control results when you're managing a distributed team.
Remember, proximity doesn't guarantee productivity. And as such, you can't focus too much on hours worked; instead, emphasize outcomes and track what’s working.
This means focusing on the project, the day-to-day deliverables, and deadlines. Communicate project goals and milestones to your team, and trust them to deliver. Then, you'll judge their performance based on how well they meet deadlines and the quality of the work they submit.
It's also worth pointing out that accountability starts during the hiring process. Meaning, you'll need to hire the right people--you know, motivated self-starter types, and continuously reinforce your values with cultural values like holding people accountable for meeting deadlines or providing regular updates.
Be sure to clearly document your accountability expectations in your employee handbooks and corporate Wikis reiterating these values in your regular internal communications.
Use Video -- Often
According to a recent study, 55% of companies found that video conferencing tools made collaboration with remote colleagues easier, while 50% of respondents felt that video helped them be more innovative.
While video conferencing tools like Skype, Zoom, and GoToMeeting are staples of the remote workplace, consider taking things a step further by using tools like Bonjoro to send short video messages to communicate ideas instead of email.
Managers can use video to communicate policy changes, provide instructions, and offer quick updates and how-tos in a way that far-off employees can understand more easily.
Beyond sending your team video communications, you’ll also want to make sure you provide them with the tools and know-how to use video to ask questions and communicate with colleagues.
While video might not always make up for the lack of physical contact among distributed workers, it offers a more “human” alternative to email, where it’s easy to forget there’s a real person on the other side of the screen.
Empower Your Team To Make Decisions
Building on this last point, it can be hard for managers to let go and allow your remote teams to make critical decisions. In many cases, larger organizations keep the big choices in-house, which can leave remote staff feeling like they're playing second fiddle to their in-house teammates.
One of the most significant benefits of working with a distributed team is that you'll gain access to a diverse set of skills and viewpoints. Empowering decision-making, regardless of location, stands to be a competitive advantage for your organization.
Open Access to Leadership
In another HBR article, researchers found that leaders who were regarded as being the "best collaborators" or "sources of information" were the most likely to be disengaged from their colleagues.
When managing distributed teams, you lose out on conversational moments with your teams, which can lead to apathy among your employees.
As such, you'll need to make more time for employees to ask questions and receive feedback one-on-one. We recommend establishing a window of availability where your team can contact you--be it for a short video chat, phone call, or Slack session to discuss whatever's on their minds.
If you're working with a smaller team, consider scheduling a weekly one-on-one conversation where they can discuss their issues, ask any questions, and provide each employee with individual instructions.
Working remotely can make employees feel that they're contributions aren't visible to leadership or that the company doesn't care about their professional development, which, of course, doesn't exactly lead to long-term loyalty. Scheduling regular conversations, particularly video calls, can help put those feelings to rest.
Companies with an entirely distributed workforce are becoming increasingly common, and even those that haven't fully embraced the model may allow flexible remote working or use freelancers or remote staff to augment their in-house teams.
While managing a remote team can come with some unique challenges you won't find in a traditional set-up, it's important to understand that it starts with a shift in mindset, a willingness to trust those employees that you can't physically see 24/7, and embracing the right communication tools.
The Toptal Playbook for Remote Work
After writing this article we came across a phenomenal playbook from the team at Toptal, all about how to create and manage your remote team. It's full of deeply actionable insights and guidance on everything from recruiting remote workers to building team culture, and tooling. Highly recommended reading!
How to Build Effective Communication Culture in Remote Teams
Why We Put Honour At the Heart of the Bonjoro Culture
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__label__cc | 0.677786 | 0.322214 | Author: Logan, T. M.
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From T.M. Logan, the bestselling author of Lies, comes 29 Seconds, a sensational new thriller that explores what happens when a split second thought of revenge takes on a life of its own.
“Give me one name. One person. And I will make them disappear.”
Sarah is a young professor struggling to prove herself in a workplace controlled by the charming and manipulative Alan Hawthorne. A renowned scholar and television host, Hawthorne rakes in million-dollar grants for the university where Sarah works - so his inappropriate treatment of female colleagues behind closed doors has gone unchallenged for years. And Sarah is his newest target.
When Hawthorne's advances become threatening, Sarah is left with nowhere to turn. Until the night she witnesses an attempted kidnapping of a young child on her drive home, and impulsively jumps in to intervene. The child’s father turns out to be a successful businessman with dangerous connections - and her act of bravery has put this powerful man in her debt. He gives Sarah a burner phone and an unbelievable offer. A once-in-a-lifetime deal that can make all her problems disappear.
No consequences. No traces. All it takes is a 29-second phone call.
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__label__cc | 0.733621 | 0.266379 | love-under-two-wildcatters
Love Under Two Wildcatters (MFM)
by Cara Covington, Morgan Ashbury
The Lusty, Texas Collection 2
121 Ratings (4.5)
Contemporary Menage a Trois/Quatre Western/Cowboys
[#287 Siren Ménage Everlasting: Erotic Cowboy Ménage a Trois Romance, M/F/M]
Twenty-first century women don’t need a man—or two or three—to make their lives complete. That’s been Susan Benedict’s mantra for some time now. The sadder truth is, she doesn’t know if she'll ever find any men as important to her as her relatives are—both past and present.
Enter Colt Evans and Ryder Magee, two rough-and-tumble wildcatters who arrive with more on their minds than just drilling a well on Susan’s property.
Soon Susan finds herself discovering the thrill of love under two wildcatters, but there are a couple of catches. First, Susan discovers her brothers sent the wildcatters, hinting at a bonus if they could romance Susan away from her self-imposed isolation. Then someone seems determined to destroy all Colt and Ryder have built up over the years.
Will Colt and Ryder be able to uncover their enemy and conquer Susan’s mistrust before it’s too late?
Note: There is NO sexual relationship/touching between the brothers.
Morgan Ashbury/Cara Covington is a Siren-exclusive author
Cover Art by Les Byerley
Buy Audio Book at:
Amazon | Audible
Once again, Cara Covington is fantastic. What an awesome addition to her wonderful series.
Have to agree with other reviewers: The initial sex scene felt very premature and unbelievable. The female character, Susan, wasn't adequately explored before she took on two men she had met moments before. Once I got past that issue though, I really enjoyed the book and revisiting Lusty, TX. I did think that too much time was spent dwelling on the daddy/mental issues of the man trying to kill our trio, but appreciated that those segments were clearly delineated and was able to pass them over later in the story as I found them too repetitious. A good and entertaining read. BUY.
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5 FALLEN ANGELS: "Susan Benedict has given up the idea of finding the perfect relationship. She's decided to content herself with fixing up her ranch. However, her brothers have other ideas for her. When they take it upon themselves to fix her up, the scene is set for the sparks to fly. Colt Evans and Ryder Magee are longtime friends who grew up as brothers. From their hard start on the streets to their company today, they have only been able to count on each other. That changes when they meet Susan. They fall head over heels in love, never knowing that a threat from their past is out to get them. When a mad man targets Susan, will they be able to save her in time? Right from the start, Ms. Covington had my attention. With a short scene, detailing the beginning of their lifelong friendship, I was in love with Colt and Ryder. Once they meet Susan, I was laughing out loud at the double entendres that filled their first encounter. Susan is written as a strong woman who knows what she wants and doesn't hesitate to go after it. And once they all realize how fast the initial attraction has blossomed, there is no pussy footing around. They are all adults, and they have no illusions that it will be a walk in the park, but they are willing to do the work to make a relationship work. Of course, per Ms. Covington's trademark, there are plenty of outside distractions and dilemmas to keep this book hopping. She always manages to catch my interest with her steamy hot love scenes and the tender, romantic side that each male seems to possess. Once again, we get to meet other wonderful characters in the Lusty, Texas Collection. By the time I'm done reading one book, I know enough to be eagerly awaiting the next. It's enough to keep me interested for a long time to come. If you haven't already, it is time for you to check out the Lusty, Texas Collection!" -- Ursula, Fallen Angels Reviews
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She stepped out from under the overhang of her front porch so the driver of the truck could see her. She didn’t need a mirror to know what this unseen person would be seeing when she stepped into view. She’d tugged on her oldest pair of blue jeans and donned her rattiest shirt before she’d started scraping the paint off the trim. It didn’t make any sense to wear anything but rags when all she’d had on the agenda for the day was being alone with some hard, dirty work.
The truck slowed as it neared, finally coming to a screeching halt about ten feet from where she stood. Two doors swung open at the same time, and a man stepped out of each.
Susan slowly lowered her hand as she looked from one to the other of them. Tall, muscular, one with blond hair, the other with dark hair peeking out from beneath twin battered Stetsons. In a move that seemed choreographed, they each peeled dark sunglasses away from penetrating eyes and gave her the once-over, hot gazes leaving nothing unscorched.
Susan swallowed as her slit released moisture onto her panties and her nipples tightened.
The driver cocked his head to one side, his gaze zeroing in on her traitorous breasts before focusing on her eyes. “Are you the woman who’s looking for a couple of really good drillers?”
“You must be Texan.” Only Texans, in her estimation, could brag about their sexual prowess and make it sound like innocent conversation.
“Yes, ma’am, just a couple of strays from El Paso looking for a warm, willing woman to take us in.” The driver managed to say that with a straight face.
Susan could tussle with the best of them. Having four brothers meant there wasn’t much a man—or two—could toss her way that she couldn’t handle. “I don’t know. I’m seeing a lot of rust, there. I’m thinking the equipment might be past its prime, maybe doesn’t even work anymore. I’d be too afraid the intense action of nonstop drilling might prove too much and the bits might break.”
“Well, now.” The passenger spoke for the first time. Susan could see his dark eyes sparkling from where she stood. “You’ll pardon me for saying that sounded like a challenge. If you give us a chance to loosen things up a little and lube them down, we’d be pleased to give you our very best shot.”
Susan felt her female parts heat to the point of producing steam. It had been a long time since she’d engaged in this kind of heavy-duty flirting. Damned if she hadn’t missed it. She decided to push it just one little bit further. “I don’t doubt you’d be pleased, cowboy. Question is, would I be?”
“Darlin’, we absolutely guarantee complete and total satisfaction.” Being Texan, the driver had no lack of self-esteem.
“We’ll see.” Would they? Had Susan just committed herself to taking these two men for a ride when she didn’t even know their names?
They were tempting, very tempting. Before she could get herself into any more trouble, she took one step forward and held out her hand. “Susan Benedict. Am I to assume my brothers sent you?”
“Colt Evans. This is my partner, Ryder Magee. And yes, Alex and Josh sent us.” Colt shook her hand then stood to the side.
Ryder stepped forward, accepted her hand, and completed the introductions. “Ma’am.”
“I haven’t done anything to cause my brothers to seek revenge, so I’m going to assume you’re the real deal and know how to work that thing,” Susan said, nodding toward the rusting portable drilling rig in the back of their truck.
“Don’t you worry none, we know how to handle our equipment,” Ryder said.
She snapped her gaze to him. His angelic expression was really very well done. Beside her, Colt coughed, but she knew the sound of a cutoff laugh when she heard it.
Susan sent Ryder a considering look. “That’s what they all say.” She shook her head.
Colt stepped forward and reached out toward her hair. She stood perfectly still, her gaze locked with his as she waited to see what he would do.
“I’ve heard of painted ponies. You’re the first painted woman I’ve ever met, Ms. Benedict.” He used a delicate touch to pull a few paint flecks from her shoulder-length blond hair.
“You’re the first man to compare me to a pony, Mr. Evans. I’ll have to think some before I know how I feel about that.”
“Well, now,” Ryder stepped closer, “there are some similarities. The very best ponies are lithe and lean and just made to be ridden.”
“Once they’ve been taken in hand and tamed, of course,” Colt added.
A twenty-first century woman should be outraged at such talk. Outraged, insulted, and ready to land a couple of well-earned slaps on smug male faces.
Susan sighed as she felt her arousal climb. She guessed it was time she stopped lying to herself.
She might live in the twenty-first century, but her female parts clearly wept for an earlier time, a time of manly men who knew how to be true masters in the saddle.
Colt didn’t care that they’d just met Susan Benedict. At that moment in time, he didn’t even care that her brothers had more or less set them up with her. The only thing he cared about was getting her naked and between them as quickly as possible.
He moved down, moved in, and captured her lips with his. He meant to keep the kiss simple, a claiming and a tasting and a promise of things to come.
Come. God, the taste of her went straight to his cock. His libido soared like it hadn’t done since he’d been a randy teenager bent on laying as many sweet young things as he could talk out of their panties.
She gave herself to him, opening her mouth, sucking his tongue into hers, and then giving him her own so that he knew this instant conflagration wasn’t his alone.
He had to pull back, take a gulp of air, or he’d be inside her before she could draw her next breath. He sent Ryder a look the other man obviously had no trouble reading, for it took him mere seconds to tip Susan’s head back and lay his mouth on hers.
Colt’s fingers actually shook as he worked to lift her shirt out of his way. Her lace-covered breasts filled his hands as if they had been made for them. Her nipples hardened into tight little buds. More than anything, he wanted to suck on them, to pull them into his mouth and roll them between his tongue and the roof of his mouth and see how elongated he could make them.
Ryder raised his head and shot a one eyebrow-raised glance at Colt.
Colt nodded, and together, they quickly skimmed Susan’s clothes off her. “We’ll slow down, honey,” he promised. “Just as soon as we’ve each had you.”
Susan licked her lips and then proved she wanted what they wanted. “Please hurry!”
Her lips glistened red and wet, her breasts beckoned, plump with pretty pink nipples that had hardened into granite peaks. Her tiny waist flared into lusciously feminine hips. A sparkle at the side of her navel snagged his attention. He reached out and, with one finger, stroked the round little diamond-studded ornament she wore there.
“Sexy,” he said, confident she knew he meant the entire package.
Susan stood between them, naked and practically vibrating, and Ryder’s hands were doing a good job keeping her fires lit. Colt reached into his back pocket, yanked out his wallet, and plucked out one of the condoms he’d put there just that morning. Then he dropped his jeans and skivvies, sat on the nearest chair, and reached for Susan.
Spreading his knees, he pulled her close between them. The fingers of his left hand reached up and combed through her silky blond hair, his nails scraping her scalp gently as he brought her to his mouth. Her taste quenched a thirst too long unsatisfied, and he used his tongue to drink and drink. With his right hand, he stroked her slit and then slid a finger into her, testing her moisture.
“You’re wet and tight, baby doll.” Colt’s words came out a little rougher than he’d intended. Something about the soft, hot woman under his hands seemed to bring out the primitive in him. He leaned forward and captured her right nipple between his lips. First his tongue and then his teeth teased that pebbled point until his fingers felt more of her juices trickling onto his fingers. He let her go with a wet plop and nuzzled the valley between her breasts. “How long has it been since you’ve had cock?”
She’d closed her eyes and begun to ride his fingers as they moved in and out of her. The clasp of her tunnel and the lush swelling of her pussy worked together to bring him to the very edge of ejaculation. With his question, her eyes opened, her lips pouted. She looked down at his engorged cock. She licked her lips and reached toward it. “It’s been so long. Please, I want to taste you.”
“You will. But first…” His hand left her head and took up the condom. He used his teeth to tear into the foil and, with one hand, was able to roll the protection into place. He raised his gaze and noticed Ryder had dropped his clothes, rolled on his own condom.
His friend pressed himself against Susan’s back then placed his hands on her waist.
“Up you go,” Ryder said.
“Impale yourself on me, baby doll.” Colt inhaled sharply because the scent of her juices reached him now, making him even hotter. “Give me your hot little cunt.”
“First you’re going to ride Colt, then I’m going to ride you.” Ryder’s voice, husky, strained, told Colt he was sorely triggered, too.
“You’re ours, Susie Q. From this moment on. Now fuck me.” The silk of her thighs slid against his, and the heat of her pussy teased, making his cock twitch in anticipation. Then he groaned in pure pleasure when the hot, tight sheath of her cunt slowly swallowed his cock.
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Boron in Ceramics, Enamels, and Glazes
BETTER FIT, BETTER FRITS
Boron has been an essential ingredient in ceramic glazes and porcelain (vitreous) enamels for centuries. Borates initiate glass formation and reduce glass viscosity, helping to form a smooth surface and reduce thermal expansion. These qualities help to ensure a good fit between the glaze or enamel and the item it covers. Borates also increase the refractive index (luster), enhance mechanical durability and resistance to chemicals, and help to dissolve coloring agents.
Borates are also incorporated into frits to render them insoluble. The resulting material is then mixed with other materials, including water, and finely ground to make a suspension that can be applied to the surface of the desired substrate. After application, the substrate is dried and fired to fuse the glaze or enamel onto the surface. Frits also basically “premelt” the ceramic glaze before the firing process, helping to obtain a high-glaze gloss even when using very short firing cycles.
Glazes: Thin, glassy coatings that are fused onto the surface of ceramic substrates, such as wall and floor tiles, and tableware like bone china and porcelain
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Boric oxide as a flux and former
In glazes and enamels, boric oxide reduces melting temperature and improves the fit between the glaze and the ceramic or metallic body. The resulting glaze or enamel is attractive, lustrous, and durable. Borates are typically used in glazes for two categories of ceramics: Tiles and tableware.
Tiles: Wall, floor, and sometimes clay roof tiles
Tableware: Porcelain, china, stoneware, and earthenware
Although borates are a part of many tableware glazes, 20 Mule Team® Borax boric oxide (B2O3) is primarily used in glazes for ceramic wall and floor tiles. Because the raw materials that supply this oxide are soluble in water, they must first be rendered insoluble by incorporating them into ceramic frits.
Boric oxide can form a glass on its own, but in glazes it functions as both a flux and network former:
The value of boron as a flux has been recognized for years, and it is a regular component of recipes for low-temperature (< 1100°C) glazes. In glazes with B2O3 contents below 12%, boron does not increase the thermal expansion coefficient, enabling the production of glazes that behave appropriately at the temperatures used in current manufacturing processes. Other fluxing oxides (eg, alkalis, alkaline earths) are network modifiers rather than network formers and so increase the thermal expansion coefficient. Lead oxide can be a former or modifier but is no longer used in ceramic tiles because of its toxicity.
In glaze technology, borates are the second-most important network former (after silicon). Boric oxide reduces surface tension, does not crystallize from melts, and tends to hinder the crystallization process of other phases. These effects are useful in the production of glazes with high gloss: Low surface tension produces a flat glaze surface, and most crystalline phases in a glaze reduce the surface flatness and gloss. Boric oxide increases the gloss or brilliance of a melt but does not increase the refractive index. Borate also has a strong solvent action on coloring oxides, and boron glazes are good bases for glazes that are colored by dissolved transition metal oxides.
Correctly used, boric oxide can also greatly improve chemical durability, mechanical strength, and scratch resistance. Many types of glaze would be impossible to produce without boric oxide; for example, glazes formulated for single- and double-fire wall-tile manufacture.
Porcelain enamels: Similar to glazes but used on metal substrates such as pots and pans, household appliances, metal bathtubs, storage tanks and silos, architectural panels, and signs
Copper and aluminum can be enameled by using borate-based frits, but enamel frits are primarily used on steel and cast iron.
Frits for ceramics and enamels
The boric oxide content of a frit depends on the type of glaze for which the frit is intended:
For glazes that are used in ceramic-tile manufacturing, the higher the firing temperature the lower the frit’s B2O3 content
High temperatures or long firing cycles mean a high-heat work, which reduces the amount of boric oxide allowable in the glaze
Excessive boric oxide can result in pinhole defects
Frits: Glassy materials that are rich in silica (SiO2), obtained by fusing different crystalline materials at high temperatures (up to 1550°C) and then rapidly cooling the melt
Tile Manufacturing Processes and B2O3 Content
B2O3 Content in Frit (% by Weight)
Firing Conditions (Temperature/Time) /th>
Wall tiles, traditional double firing 8 – 20 980–1000°C / 360–720 minutes
980–1000°C / 360–720 minutes
Wall tiles, fast double firing 4 – 10 1060–1080°C / 30–55 minutes
Wall tiles, fast single firing 3 – 6 1100–1120°C / 35–55 minutes
Stoneware floor tiles, fast single firing 0 – 3 1140–1180°C / 35–55 minutes
The popularity of traditional double firing has plummeted because of rising energy and labor costs; single firing is now the norm. The type of frit and borate that are suitable for double and single firing varies, as does the average boric oxide content of the frit. In double firing, which benefits from the use of sodium oxide (Na2O) in the frit, a sodium borate is the best choice. In single firing—especially for wall tiles— sodium oxide is typically not desirable, so a non-sodium borate is preferred.
Sodium borate helps to produce low-viscosity frits for enameling of metals—principally steel, cast iron, and aluminum. Enamel frits differ from ceramic frits since the properties of the substrate are quite different. Ceramic bodies are typically fired at temperatures above 1100°C and have a low thermal expansion coefficient. Enameled steel is fired at around 800°C and has a thermal expansion coefficient twice that of ceramic bodies. Therefore, enamel frits are much softer (less viscous) than ceramic frits and have a much higher thermal expansion. To achieve these qualities, enamel frits contain more boric oxide and much more sodium oxide than ceramic frits do.
Optibor® boric acid is a common primary source of boric oxide (B2O3) for production of frits for single-fired wall tiles and for lead-free frits.
Neobor® borax pentahydrate’s purity; high, consistent level of boric oxide (B2O3); and 21% sodium oxide (Na2O) (a powerful flux) makes it a popular choice for frits for double firing and for floor-tile frits for which sodium is a benefit.
Boron in Ceramic vs Metal Frits
Enamel (steel or cast iron)
Typical B2O3 content 5% (fast single firing) 14%
Typical Na2O content 0.5% 14%
Preferred borate Non-sodium Sodium
Predominant furnace type Continuous Batch
Fusion temperature 1500°C 1250°C
Firing temperature > 1100°C (fast single firing ) ~ 800°C
Quenching method Water Chilled rolls
Advanced materials: High-tech ceramics and engineering ceramics
Modern materials science enables the production of advanced ceramics including boron carbide, boron nitride, and metal borides such as titanium diboride, zirconium diboride, and aluminium diboride. These advanced materials are characterized by their extreme hardness, wear resistance, and heat resistance. For example, boron carbide is the third hardest material known and boron nitride can withstand temperatures above 2000°C (3632°F).
These industrial materials are also lightweight and machinable, so they are highly valuable in a variety of high-tech, industrial, and engineering applications. Boron-based high-tech and engineering ceramics are used in ballistic armor for tactical and armored vehicles, helicopters, aircraft, and personnel protective vests. Because of their extreme heat resistance, they are ideal for containment and processing of molten metals in metals manufacturing and foundry applications—and even heat shielding for spacecraft. And, their unique structure enables them to be used for neutron shielding.
High-tech ceramics are produced with high-precision manufacturing processes that demand uniform chemical composition, so a high degree of consistency and reliability is essential in the borates used for these products.
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This hard, glassy, granular product is excellent when forming flux or glass, where it helps to increase yield and reduce energy consumption. Learn More
With lower transportation, handling, and storage costs, this concentrated sodium borate is used in glass, fiberglass, cleaning products, and flame retardants. Learn More
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__label__cc | 0.725427 | 0.274573 | Stories from February, 2014
Is Setting Up a Direct Debit a Cost-Effective Way of Giving?
Direct debits are another popular way to donate regularly – 61% of Which? members who give to charity on a regular basis do it this way. They are easy to arrange – just give your chosen charity your details and they will set up the monthly donations from your bank account. For larger charities, you can often set one up yourself online.
Many people donating via direct debit are initially signed up via street and door-to-door fundraisers – ‘chuggers’ as they are sometimes known as. This method of fundraising can often raise hackles, as some people find it intrusive or question whether it is a good use of charity money.
The Public Fundraising Regulatory Association (PFRA) report that the cost for a charity of recruiting a donor via door-to-door or street fundraising is typically £75-£140. If you were to donate £5 a month, it might take more than two years for the charity to recoup this – so, on the face of it, it does not look a particularly effective way to give, especially if you switch causes periodically.
The PFRA, however, say that it is an effective way for charities to fundraise. Its spokesman said that in whatever way a donor responds to an appeal from a charity, there will be a period of time before the amount the donor gives covers the cost of what the charity spent to get the donor to give in the first place.
But the key message is that, if you want you money to go further, cut out the middleman and set up the direct debit yourself.
[Taken from Which? Magazine, December 2013]
Payroll Giving: a Cost-effective Way to Give
One of the quickest, simplest and most hassle-free ways to give to charity is straight from your salary. If you are employed and pay income tax via PAYE, this is known as payroll giving. As donations are taken out of your pre-tax salary, it is a cost effective way to give. Donating £50 a month via payroll giving will cost you £40 if you are a basic rate taxpayer, and just £30 if you are a higher rate taxpayer.
To donate via payroll giving, your employer needs to be registered with an approved payroll giving agency. The three biggest are Give As You Earn, Charities Trust and Charitable Giving. You can donate to any charity you like and it is the responsibility of the agency to arrange it for you.
The three agencies charge administration feeds of either 25p/month or 4% of your pre-tax donation. Many employers will cover the cost of the admin fees and some will even match part or all of your donations. Check what arrangements exist in your company.
Table: Payroll Giving From your Salary
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A UK First: Cryoscopic Diagnosis of IPF
Dr Mikolasch in action
We are delighted to report that, in early February 2014, UCLH diagnosed idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis from a minimally invasive cryoscopic lung biopsy. This is a UK first and was made possible by Breathing Matters. The cryoscopic lung biopsy (CLB) was performed by Dr Theresia Mikolasch (Breathing Matters ‘Lawrence Matz’ Clinical Fellow) under the supervision of Dr Neal Navani at UCLH. The cryoscope was part-funded by Breathing Matters with monies donated in memory of Ana Timberlake and Dr Mikolasch, who has driven this project forward, was funded by the Lawrence Matz Memorial Fund.
By working with patients and relatives to address their concerns, Breathing Matters has developed a crucial area of our service to meet patients’ needs.
This is important for:
1. The Patient: who undergoes a day case procedure as opposed to a surgical lung biopsy, thereby avoiding hospital admission, unslightly and painful scar and a chest drain.
2. The histopathologist: who said the quality of the tissue and preservation were excellent and much better than other minimally invasive biopsies due to the freezing during the procedure.
3. Our ILD research programme: We now have access to lung tissue that is removed, but is excess to that needed for clinical diagnosis.
Where do we go from here?:
-A multicentre study to investigate the role of early CLB in the patient pathway in idiopathic ILD.
-The resulting increase in tissue samples will be used to expand our complementary basic science programme.
Filed under: General, Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, Interstitial Lung Diseases, Sarcoidosis
Pulmonary Fibrosis Wish List
£5 – Equipment to take blood for testing antibodies for a patient with IPF
£50 – Allows us to grow individual fibroblasts (these are the cells that produce the scarring) in the laboratory from the lungs of patients with IPF to do further studies.
£500 – Allows us to isolate the platelets from patients with IPF so that we can examine them in the laboratory and compare them to platelets from people with normal lungs.
£5000 – Provides all the equipment and running costs for a ‘Western Bot’ which allows us to look at abnormal proteins in the lungs of patients with pulmonary fibrosis.
£50,000 – Pump priming a blue sky research proposal: Allows a senior clinician to undertake a substantial period of research (a year or more) as a named research fellow to develop an hypothesis that is then submitted for full funding (£300K+) from a medical research charity.
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__label__wiki | 0.570381 | 0.570381 | Bristol City FC
These stats suggest how much better Bristol City are likely to do this season compared to 2016/17
The Robins have the slimmest of chances of winning the league but will finish higher than last season
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Bristol City have a two per cent chance of winning the league according to leading US sports statistics site FiveThirtyEight.
The data journalism site - linked to the New York Times - has calculated every Championship side's likeliest finishing position in the league this season by examining goals scored, adjusted goals, shot-based expected goals and non-shot expected goals.
And after all the mathematical equations the Robins are predicted to finish 14th in the Championship with 61 points.
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That would be some decent progress on last season's 17th placed finish but might underwhelm City fans given the club's good start to the season of just one defeat in the first six games.
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In particular, the side from Ashton Gate are given an 8 per cent chance of being promoted, and a 9 per cent chance of being relegated along with that 2 per cent chance of finishing in the top two.
However, a 14 per cent chance of making the play-offs is given, and it's worth remembering that Huddersfield went up last season with similar rated chances.
Manager of Cardiff City Neil Warnock (Image: Harry Murphy/Getty Images)
The predicted automatic promotion sides are Cardiff City and Middlesbrough.
Tyreeq Bakinson and Rory Holden impress as Bristol City U23s take on Huddersfield U23s
Sheffield Wednesday will be edged out of the playoffs by Derby County, Wolves, Hull and Leeds United in that order.
Burton Albion, Bolton and Birmingham are the relegation favourites according to the high-level mathematics, with Harry Redknapp's large recruitment having an adverse affect on the Blues' fortunes.
Regarding Bristol City, the statistics measure the Robins' conceding of goals as being a weakness, while the attack is rated average.
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The side from Ashton Gate only have a 25 per cent chance of winning at Molineux tonight, with Wolves favourites with a 47per cent chance, while Derby County are tipped to get something from BS3 at the weekend.
There is also an outstanding chance of getting three points at home to Bolton but equally likely is losing to Norwich on 23 September, as each match is broken down by result percentages. | cc/2021-04/en_middle_0086.json.gz/line10735 |
__label__wiki | 0.83031 | 0.83031 | Bills’ Josh Allen, Cole Beasley lead first-place Buffalo Bills to rare victory on Monday Night Football
The Buffalo Bills entered their Week 13 game against the San Francisco 49ers winless in their past seven games on Monday Night football since the turn of the century.
However, streaks are intended to be broken.
The Bills snapped their winless streak with a 34-17 success Monday over the 49ers behind a lifelong night from wide beneficiary Cole Beasley, who set a profession high with 130 yards – 113 of which coming in the primary half. Bison likewise got a close ideal exertion from quarterback Josh Allen, who finished 32-of-40 passes for 375 yards and 4 scores as the Bills played their most complete round of the period.
“Yeah, yeah it was (our most complete game). I’m always looking for more and I love the fact that our players are as well,” head coach Sean McDermott said. “So we’ll go back to the drawing board this week but I thought the takeaway by Tre White was key down the stretch and the answer when they scored down the stretch — all complementary football, right there.”
Allen likewise set an establishment precedent for culminations through 12 games, passing Drew Bledsoe. It denoted his third game this season with four score passes, tying Jim Kelly for the most in a solitary season in group history.
Albeit the majority of his prosperity this season has come against man inclusion, he set a profession high with 284 passing yards against zone inclusion Monday, finishing 92% of his passes with two scores.
“I got into a zone today. When it’s spinning off your hand and you know what the ball’s doing, what the tail’s doing, that’s kind of what I felt today,” Allen said. “I understood where my guys were. Coach Daboll called a great game plan, our guys did a great job of executing and, yeah, in a dome type of setting with no wind and no cold, you know, when the ball’s spinning off your hands you feel like you have supreme control and that’s kind of what I felt tonight.”
Allen’s certainty streamed to his beneficiaries, especially Beasley, who piled up 113 getting yards in the principal half, alone.
“It just gives you the confidence to go out there and win. You know he’s going to find you,” Beasley said of Allen’s performance. “I was a little disappointed in my play last week. I was excited for another chance to play better for my teammates. Any time you’ve got a guy like that throwing to you, you never want to lose a route or let him down, because you know he’s looking for you and he’s going to get it there.”
Buffalo hadn’t won on Monday Night Football since Doug Flutie drove it to triumph against the Miami Dolphins on Oct. 4, 1999. The Bills were the main establishment since the beginning of 2000 that hasn’t won a Monday Night Football match-up. They recently played the New England Patriots on Monday Night Football in 2018, losing 25-6.
“All wins are good wins but I’m happy for our organization and I’m happy for our fans,” McDermott said. “I’m sure everyone in Buffalo stayed up late to watch it.”
The Bills assembled a 10-point halftime lead yet had battled to a – 47 point differential in the second from last quarter entering Monday’s down. They coordinated the 49ers point-for-point this time around, anyway prior to doing likewise in the final quarter.
McDermott said the Bills’ electric first half, in which they outgained San Francisco 277-122 and got 20 first downs to the 49ers’ 9, invigorated the group and enlivened them not to let a similar second from last quarter hush happen.
“I simply think the players have a decent degree of mindfulness for it,” he said. “They were started up in the storage space at halftime to return out there and put their stamp on this game.”
The win keeps the Bills steering the ship of the AFC East, with a one-game lead over the Dolphins with four games remaining. They’ll stay in the group’s spotlight one week from now when they have the 11-1 Steelers on Sunday Night Football.
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__label__wiki | 0.959847 | 0.959847 | Dallas cop testifies at her murder trial in neighbor’s death
In this Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019 photo, Amber Guyger, center, walks flanked by security while arriving for her murder trial at the Frank Crowley Courthouse in downtown Dallas. Security has been ramped up around the white former Dallas police officer’s high-profile trial for murder in the killing of her unarmed black neighbor. The Dallas Police Association says threats have forced the group to hire private security for Guyger and her lawyers. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
DALLAS (AP) — Four Texas officers carrying handguns wait in the dim early morning light for a petite 31-year-old woman to arrive.
When Amber Guyger emerges from a black SUV, she is guarded by men with dark suits and close-cropped hair. The armed officers join them, forming a perimeter around Guyger as she walks toward a side door of the yet-to open Dallas courthouse.
The tension is palpable in Dallas as the white former police officer is on trial for murder in the fatal shooting last September of her unarmed black neighbor, Botham Jean.
Dallas Police Association President Mike Mata says the intense media attention and controversy around Jean’s death have led to threats that prompted them to pay for additional private security for Guyger and her attorneys. He declined to discuss the threats.
The concern about police safety follows an attack three years ago that left five Dallas officers dead. A man angry over the killing of black men by police across the nation, opened fire at the end of a protest, in the deadliest incident against U.S. law enforcement since 9/11.
As Guyger prepares to testify at her trial, there also is anxiety that if she is acquitted it could spark unrest in Dallas like in Ferguson, Missouri, where no charges were filed against a white policeman who killed Michael Brown in 2014, and protests spawned the “Black Lives Matter” movement.
“There’s definitely that kind of foreboding sense of a storm coming,” said Changa Higgins, a community activist. “If this trial doesn’t get the kind of outcome that people want, and that they really need to have hope, then we may see the same type of reaction that we’ve seen historically around the country when people lose hope, and feel like they have nothing to lose and they can’t look to the justice system to get justice.”
The basic facts of the unusual shooting are not in dispute. Guyger walked up to Jean’s apartment — which was on the fourth floor, directly above hers on the third — and found the door unlocked. She was off duty but still dressed in her police uniform after a long shift when she shot Jean with her service weapon. Guyger was later arrested , fired and charged with murder.
Guyger’s lawyer’s have called the killing a “tragic, but innocent” mistake and say she fired in self-defense after confusing Jean’s apartment with her own and mistaking the 26-year-old accountant from the Caribbean nation of St. Lucia for a burglar. Prosecutors have questioned how she could have missed numerous signs that she was at the wrong apartment.
Dallas police have limited the time off scheduled for officers during the trial, which overlaps the Texas State Fair, but declined to comment further on security preparations. Mayor Eric Johnson said through a spokesman that it would be inappropriate for him to discuss the case while the trial is ongoing. In January, a judge issued a gag order, barring the lawyers involved from speaking about the case in publicly.
A jury will have to decide whether Guyger committed murder, a lesser offense such as manslaughter or criminally negligent homicide, or no crime at all. Even before the jurors were sworn in Monday, the strain of the case was visible.
Inside the courthouse, a crush of people passed through two security screenings before gathering outside the room where the trial is being held. Members of Guyger’s and Jean’s families were allowed in first, but reporters and activists jostled for the few remaining seats, with many being turned away. At various points, a sheriff’s deputy raised his voice to tell people not to push.
The Dallas County Sheriff’s Department, which handles security within the courtroom, has brought on additional officers for the trial. A department spokesman, Raul Reyna, declined to elaborate on their security procedures.
The county Fire Marshals oversee security in the rest of the court building. They are having four officers come in early and four stay late during the trial, said Fire Marshal Robert De Los Santos, who likewise would not give more detail on how the courthouse is secured.
De Los Santos said there have been other cases where his officers have taken similar precautions. But the Dallas Police Association president said Guyger’s trail is the first they’ve had to hire security for their lawyers or an officer.
There have been other police shootings “but it has never reached the level of this,” said Mata.
Threats in court cases with national prominence are not unusual, according to Herman Weisberg, a former New York City Police Department detective and security consultant.
Weisberg got Harvey Weinstein in and out of a New York City court before the movie mogul changed lawyers in his sexual assault trial. He said things are “pretty comfortable” inside court but that coming and going through crowds of protesters and reporters can be dicey for defendants and their lawyers alike.
“I’ve got several cases going where the attorneys might as well have done the alleged act themselves,” Weisberg said.
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WASHINGTON (KETK) - A Texas man arrested for storming the Capitol on January 6 threatened to shoot his children if they turned him in, according to recently released federal court documents.
Guy Reffitt has been charged with obstruction of justice and knowingly entering a restricted building without lawful authority.
by Billy Gates, Russell Falcon / Jan 19, 2021
AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Tuesday, Gov. Greg Abbott is holding a press conference on the state's COVID-19 vaccination rollout from Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston.
"Never before in the history of the state, have we been able to vaccinate so many people in such a short amount of time," said Abbott during the conference. "... it's remarkable because we've been involved in COVID vaccinations for less than five full weeks."
Here’s how Texans are honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. Day during the pandemic
by Wes Rapaport / Jan 18, 2021
AUSTIN (Nexstar) — People around the Lone Star State did not let the COVID-19 pandemic deter them from celebrating the contributions of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Monday.
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16-May-2018 Colombo Gazette
Government doctors are to stage a token strike tomorrow against the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Sri Lanka and Singapore.
Sri Lanka FTAs: stupidity or treachery?
The President of Sri Lanka expressed that his government will safeguard the local industrialists. In several occasions, he has mentioned that the government does not want to go for trade agreements that are deleterious to the country’s economy. However, in January this year, the president was seated in the high chair clapping when the bilateral trade agreement with Singapore is signed, which liberalized the country’s service sector effectively for the first time.
Govt. responds to Sri Lanka-Singapore FTA detractors
14-May-2018 Daily Mirror
In response to concerns raised by some professional associations last week concerning the Sri Lanka-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (SLSFTA), the Development Strategies and International Trade Ministry in a detailed response said the movement of natural persons from Singapore has not been opened except for intra-corporate transferees in senior management and business visitors linked to investments.
Professionals say Sri Lankan govt. rushed into Singapore FTA
In Sri Lanka, the top professional bodies representing engineers, architects, town planners and quantity surveyors and other related professions this week charged that the government has rushed into signing the Sri Lanka-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (SLSFTA) without having proper legal frameworks in place to ensure job security of local professionals and the possible entry of under-qualified overseas professionals.
FTA with Singapore detrimental to Sri Lanka: JO
9-May-2018 Daily Mirror
The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) signed with Singapore is detrimental to the country because it would allow the flowing in of cheap labour from countries such as India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, the joint opposition said today.
Sri Lanka Thailand to begin talks on FTA from May
7-May-2018 Economic Next
Sri Lanka and Thailand will begin talks on setting broad parameters for a free trade deal from May 2018, officials said.
Sri Lanka to "redouble" efforts on China, India free trade deals
28-Mar-2018 Bloomberg
Sri Lanka will “redouble” efforts to strike a free trade deal with China and conclude and expanded trade pact with India as part of the island nation’s strategy of becoming an Indian Ocean hub for investors and multinationals, the country’s top diplomat says.
Sri Lanka president on China’s Belt and Road plan
12-Mar-2018 NHK World
Sri Lanka’s president has warned that China’s Belt and Road economic initiative should not be allowed to pose a threat to the international community.
Suspend Indo-Sri Lanka Economic and Technology Co-operation Agreement (ETCA) talks: PNF tells President of Sri Lanka
21-Feb-2018 Mirror Citizen
Professionals’ National Front (PNF), a collective of professional organizations, yesterday requested President Maithripala Sirisena to suspend talks on the Indo-Sri Lanka Economic and Technology Co-operation Agreement (ETCA) scheduled for February 21 in New Delhi.
Sri Lanka seeks deeper ties, free trade agreement with China
12-Feb-2018 Modern Diplomacy
Sri Lanka wants a longer-time period to negotiate a free trade agreement with China as it is concerned about the economic impact of a rushed deal on their small country, the Sri Lankan ambassador said.
SL-S’pore FTA sparks investment interest among NZ firms
9-Feb-2018 Mirror Business
The recently signed Sri Lanka-Singapore Free Trade Agreement has been able to create a lot of enthusiasm among New Zealand companies operating in Singapore.
Sri Lanka eyeing longer talks with China on FTA
5-Feb-2018 Reuters
Sri Lanka wants a longer-time period to negotiate a free trade agreement with China as it is concerned about the economic impact of a rushed deal on their small country, the Sri Lankan ambassador said on Sunday.
Mode 4 not opened in FTA Singapore rejects SL request
31-Jan-2018 Ceylon Today
The Singapore government has rejected a request from the Sri Lankan government for the movement of natural person (mode 4) be completely opened under the Free Trade Agreement.
Sri Lanka-Singapore FTA comes with govt’s ‘Look East’ policy: What does it mean?
29-Jan-2018 Daily Mirror
So what does the government mean by ‘Looking East?’ Is it simply a buzz-word thrown in for good measure, in the process of marketing the Singapore FTA to the public? Does it point to some confusion at a policy level? Or is it terminology advised by external forces guiding policy?
Sri Lanka eyes FTA with Indonesia, in continued engagement with ASEAN
25-Jan-2018 Economic Next
Sri Lanka and Indonesia had agreed to study a free trade agreement during a state visit of President Joko Widodo to Colombo.
Singapore and Sri Lanka sign free trade agreement
23-Jan-2018 Colombo Page
Sri Lanka and Singapore signed a Free Trade Agreement deepening the economic ties and facilitating greater trade flows between the two countries.
Serious malpractices in the negotiation process of the free trade agreements
23-Jan-2018 Professional National Front
Professional National Front, an alliance of the professional associations and trade unions have observed serious violations of the law, best practices and hence the good governance in the negotiation process of the free trade Agreement. They took steps to inform all ministers of the cabinet including the president, in writing but their plea has not been heard.
Don’t sign FTA with Singapore: Professionals tell Govt.
Ahead of the Sri Lankan government’s move to sign a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with Singapore, a collective of professional movements have expressed grave concerns and stated that there were serious violations of the law, best practices and good governance in the negotiation process of the agreement.
Singapore to sign free trade agreement with Sri Lanka
22-Jan-2018 The Straits Times
Singapore will sign a free trade agreement (FTA) with Sri Lanka this week - its 13th bilateral deal and, significantly, its first since the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) faced a setback last year when the United States withdrew from it.
Cabinet approves proposed FTA with Singapore
17-Jan-2018 Colombo Gazette
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* Alizyme Ltd., of London, appointed Brian Richards as non-executive chairman and Stewart Siddall and Alan Goodman as non-executive directors.
* Applied Imaging Corp., of Santa Clara, Calif., said G. Kirk Raabjoined the board of directors. He is former CEO at Genentech Inc.and current chairman at Shaman Pharmaceutical, ConnectiveTherapeutics, Oxford GlycoSystems and Sinogen International.
* Aprogenex Inc., of Houston, appointed David Leech as actingpresident and CEO, and a member of the board. Leech previouslyhad been president and CEO at Argus Pharmaceuticals and atHouston Biotechnology Inc.
* Biomatrix Inc., of Ridgefield, N.J., appointed Rory Riggs aspresident. He has been a company director since 1990.
* Cell Therapeutics Inc., of Seattle, appointed Robert Lewis asexecutive vice president and chief scientific officer, and JackAnthony as vice president of marketing and business development.
* CellPro Inc., of Seattle, promoted Larry Culver to executive vicepresident and chief operating officer and Cindy Jacobs to vicepresident of clinical research.
* Corvas International Inc., of San Diego, said David Kabakoff willresign as president and CEO, positions he held since 1989. He willremain as chairman. Subsequent to that announcement DuraPharmaceuticals Inc., of San Diego, said Kabakoff will join thecompany by mid-year as executive vice president.
* Cubist Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., appointed NealFarber to vice president, corporate development.
* Digital Gene Technologies Inc., of La Jolla, Calif., appointed PhilipMiller as director of bioinformatics and Brian Hilbush as molecularbiology group leader. The company also appointed Karl Hasel as vicepresident for scientific affairs and Thomas Griffin as vice presidentof finance.
* Enzon Inc., of Piscataway, N.J., said Randy Thurman will beelected as chairman of the board. He has been a company directorsince 1993, and will replace Abraham Abuchowski.
* Gliatech Inc., of Cleveland, promoted Raymond Silkaitis to vicepresident, medical and regulatory affairs.
* Hybridon Inc., of Worcester, Mass., appointed Jose Gonzalez asvice president, manufacturing.
* IMRE Corp., of San Diego, said Frank Jones, one of the company'sfounders, resigned his positions as chairman and chief scientificofficer. Richard Crooks, an IMRE director and director of Allen &Co., IMRE's principal investor, will be acting chairman. Vicechairman and CEO Jay Kranzler also will be chief scientific officer.
* Inflazyme Pharmaceuticals Ltd., of Vancouver, British Columbia,appointed Harvey Kellman and Walter Lovenberg to its board ofdirectors, and Franco Quagliata to chair its international medicaladvisory board. Kellman, who founded several biotechnologycompanies, most recently was vice chairman and president ofSheffield Medical Technologies Inc. Lovenberg is immediate pastpresident of Marion Merrell Dow Research and Development..Quagliata was a research and development physician at Ciba-GeigyLtd.
* Maxim Pharmaceuticals, of San Diego, elected two new membersto its board, G. Steven Burrill and Per-Olof Martensson. Burrill isfounder and CEO at the private merchant bank, Burrill & Craves, andMartensson has served for a number of pharmaceutical companiesover the past 28 years.
* Medarex Inc., of Annandale, N.J., said W. Leigh Thompson joinedthe board of directors. He recently retired as chief scientific officer atEli Lilly & Co.
* NaPro BioTherapeutics Inc., of Boulder, Colo., appointed VaughnBryson, Mark Hacken and Arthur Hull Hayes Jr. to its board ofdirectors. Bryson is chairman of Vector Securities International Inc.,Hacken is president of the health care consulting company MBHInternational, and Hayes is president and chief operating officer ofthe pharmaceutical consulting firm MediScience Associates Inc.
* Oceanix Biosciences, of Hanover, Md., appointed Bruce Glaeser aschief technical officer.
* Ostex International Inc., of Seattle, said Robert Glaser joined thecompany as president and chief operating officer, as well as adirector. Most recently he was senior vice president, marketing, forMerck & Co.'s Human Health division.
* Panax Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., of New York, appointed RobertKrell as senior vice president, research and development.
* The Immune Response Corp., of Carlsbad, Calif., appointed MelvinPerelman to its board. He held a number of executive positions at EliLilly & Co. before retiring in 1993.
* The Liposome Co. Inc., of Princeton, N.J., named BrooksBoveroux as vice president, investor relations. He was vice presidentand chief financial officer, positions that will be assumed by BrianGeiger.
* Trimeris Inc., of Durham, N.C., named M. Ross Johnson aspresident and CEO. He has been chief scientific officer at thecompany since January 1995. Before that he was president and CEOof Parnassus Pharmaceuticals.
* Versicor Inc., of Marlborough, Mass., said Eric Gordon joined thecompany as president and chief scientific officer. He was vicepresident of research and director at Affymax Research Institute.
* Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., appointed BartHenderson to the new position of director of marketing.
* VIMRx Pharmaceuticals Inc., of Stamford, Conn., appointedRichard Dunning as president and CEO. He was executive vicepresident and chief financial officer at DuPont Merck PharmaceuticalCo.
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Ten songs that ultimately changed the world. Ten songs pulled from precedent-establishing albums recorded between 1963 and 1966. More than 5 million copies sold. In every way, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits is a fundamental collection for every music lover, and the perfect choice for those seeking an introduction into the legend's vast career. For this is a collection so prized, even the cover photo won a Grammy.
Greatest-hits volumes are often hit-and-miss propositions not because of what they contain, but because of what's missing. Filtering the top selections from the six formative, life-altering albums Dylan made between 1963 and 1966 is an arbitrary process but one performed impeccably on this set. Home to his biggest chart successes as well as his most influential songs, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits is a veritable template for any aspiring singer-songwriter, an American history lesson, and a seminal release for anyone new to his work — as well as for audiences that find some of his deeper cuts an acquired taste. Every signature facet of Dylan is represented, and done so authoritatively.
Serious, protest folk anthems ("Blowin' in the Wind," "The Times Are A-Changin'") sit alongside defiant rock statements ("Positively Fourth Street"), landscape-changing epics ("Like a Rolling Stone"), beautiful blues-inspired odes ("I Want You"), and surrealist dreamscapes ("Subterranean Homesick Blues"). Infused with literary poetry, impassioned emotion, and career-making performances, this material doubles as a definitive account of American culture and society, and functions as a soundtrack to the era's social movements.
Gathered in one place, it's no wonder the songs here gave Dylan what remains the biggest-selling album of his career. Accept nothing less than the best version in existence.
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