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__label__cc	0.720077	0.279923	Brodeur is a Fraud Moved to contrariangoaltender.blogspot.com Shooting High I am tracking shots based on ESPN's shot charts for the playoffs, but I have also been regularly checking out CBS Sportsline's shot charts because they add another interesting piece of information: Where the shot was targeted on net. For each shot they record one of five target zones: High glove, high blocker, low glove, low blocker, or 5-hole. I haven't compiled any numbers other than for this year's playoffs, but Hockey Numbers did a post a while back that gives the CBS data broken down by shot location for the 2006-07 season. There seemed to be a lot of shots missing in that sample as the average save percentage was much lower than the official NHL numbers, but the results still conclusively prove what all hockey players know: That shooters are much more likely to score if they shoot high. It doesn't seem to matter much where a shot is targeted on net from right to left (e.g. high glove or high blocker are about the same), the key difference is whether the shot is high or low. There are of course some goalies who are better on the blocker side or on the glove side, and all goalies probably have slightly less success on five-hole shots than shots that are low to either side, but those differences are small compared to the difference between top shelf and along the ice. The 2006-07 data has a save percentage difference of .054 between high shots and low shots. This year in the playoffs, there has been a .942 save percentage on low shots and an .872 save percentage on high shots, for an even more extreme gap of .070. Those differences make a pretty good case that shot height should be included in measurements of shot quality. As is unfortunately often the case with real-time stats, however, the CBS reporting system is pretty suspect. They seem to have fixed the earlier problem of missing shots, but there are large variances in high shot frequency from rink to rink. Here are the stats by series: BOS vs. MTL: .917 low, .857 high, 27% high shots WSH vs. NYR: .946 low, .868 high, 19% high shots NJD vs. CAR: .961 low, .907 high, 41% high shots PIT vs. PHI: .961 low, .800 high, 14% high shots SJS vs. ANA: .926 low, .933 high, 19% high shots DET vs. CBJ: .919 low, .840 high, 20% high shots VAN vs. STL: .961 low, .875 high, 16% high shots CHI vs. CGY: .928 low, .845 high, 35% high shots We would expect high shots to be correlated with space on the ice. The more time and space a shooter has, the more likely he is going to be able to shoot high. I wouldn't be surprised that a tight-checking series like Vancouver/St. Louis might have a below-average amount of high shots. However, even in that particular series the number of actual high shots is almost certainly understated. In game 4 in St. Louis every single one of Roberto Luongo's 49 shots against were recorded as being low shots, which is extraordinarily unlikely and seems to be merely a case of an indifferent scorekeeper. I observed several other similar games where all or nearly all of the shots were booked as low shots. The scorers in New Jersey and Carolina appear to be the opposite, booking too many shots as high. The high shot rate in that series is almost double that of all the other series combined, and the save percentage against high shots is much higher than average. The Calgary series also has an abnormal ratio, but the save percentage on high shots is just .845. Either the shooters are really managing to go upstairs that often, or else Kiprusoff and Khabibulin are doing a very poor job of handling high shots. In most series both goalies have faced a pretty similar number of high shots. One series stood out by having a large gap between the teams, Detroit's 4 game sweep of Columbus. Based on shot distances and shot locations, it looks like Columbus allowed easier shot quality against than Detroit. Over half (54%) of the shots against Steve Mason came from the point or were perimeter shots, while the same areas accounted for just 37% of the shots against Chris Osgood. As a result, Detroit's outshooting advantage is counterbalanced by a longer than average shot distance. I have Detroit with an expected goals figure just 0.3 ahead of Columbus for the series. That is similar to the shot quality results at Hockey Numbers (Detroit +0.5). When we consider where the shots were targeted, it becomes a different story. The rate of high shots against Steve Mason was twice as high as the rate against Chris Osgood (26% to 13%). If we adjust only based on the average save percentages for low and high shots, that means we would expect Osgood to have the easier job with a .933 expected save percentage compared to .924 for Mason. If we recalculate the expected goals based on those save percentages, Detroit would have been expected to score 3.4 more goals than Columbus over the 4 game series. What seems possible is that even though Columbus' shooters were getting into good shooting locations, they were mostly shooting under pressure from defenders. In contrast, Detroit was setting up more open shots, which allowed their shooters to snipe up high against Mason. I must confess I wasn't able to catch any of the games of that series, however, so if you did follow that series then feel free to comment on whether you believe the shot quality figures (both based on ice location and target location) seem correct. If we adjust for both where the shots were coming from and where they were targeted, based on playoff averages so far, I estimate that Mason had a .933 expected save percentage while Osgood was at .922. We can use those figures to conclude that the much-maligned Chris Osgood did surprisingly well in round 1, but it wasn't a very good playoff debut for Steve Mason. The stats suggest that the likely Calder Trophy winner had the worst overall performance of any goalie in the playoffs, although at least Jose Theodore ranks below him on a per-game basis. I think it is pretty evident that shot quality would be improved if the target location of the shot was accurately tracked. By combining that information with where the shot was coming from on the ice, it should be possible to get a more accurate scoring probability. Unfortunately CBS Sportsline's tracking system seems to too untrustworthy to be useful at the moment. To evaluate all goalies on a level playing field it is necessary to standardize the reporting to remove or at least drastically reduce rink reporting bias. Posted by The Contrarian Goaltender at 11:00 a.m. hey dude - i probably have a bit too much time on my hand, but i watched every game of the detroit series ... here is a breakdown of the goals, from what i remember. it does seem that an unusual proportion of the goals scored on mason went high, and most of the goals scored on osgood came from the slot/crease area, which is also consistent with your thoughts. by my count, the wings scored 5 times from the point or perimeter, and the BJs not at all. 10:48Jiri Hudler Assists: Valtteri Filppula, Mikael SamuelssonRed Wings 1-0 Rink Location: slot Shot location: low, middle/right side of goaltender Comments: Mason was not in position to make the save – it was a 2 on 1 and filpulla made a nice head fake. Hudler essentiall shot into an empty net 11:40R.J. Umberger Assists: Jakub VoracekTied 1-1 Rink location: crease Shot location: think this went low to the left side of osgood Comments: off of a kronwall turnover, umberger received the pass in the crease and shot it backhanded. Osgood may have been interfered with just a bit by umberger who was in the crease before receiving the pass. 14:21Jonathan Ericsson Assists: Jiri Hudler, Valtteri FilppulaRed Wings 2-1 Rink location: point Shot location: high (not sure which side) Comments: this is the puck that malhotra(?) tried to glove down instead of letting mason play it. The player’s glove may have actually tipped it lower. 15:09Niklas Kronwall (power-play) Assists: Mikael Samuelsson, Johan FranzenRed Wings 3-1 Shot location: unsure (think high though) Comments: another deflection, this time off of the thigh or leg of a BJ 2:54Johan Franzen Assists: Henrik ZetterbergRed Wings 4-1 Shot location: high, right side of mason Comments: a wrap around that beat mason on the short side 13:33Brian Rafalski (power-play) Assists: Nicklas Lidstrom, Tomas HolmstromRed Wings 1-0 Rink location: point/perimenter – really on the far side of the facoff circle Shot location: high, unsure which side Comments: Mason was screened by Holmstrom 7:18Pavel Datsyuk (power-play) Assists: Marian Hossa, Nicklas LidstromRed Wings 2-0 Shot location: low, left side of mason Comments: deflection off of a fake shot/hard pass from hossa 15:30Henrik Zetterberg Assists: Johan Franzen, Daniel ClearyRed Wings 3-0 Comments: franzen draws two guys to the corner, hands off to Z, who has plent of time/space to pick the high, right side 3:38Jiri Hudler (power-play) Assists: Niklas Kronwall, Brad StuartRed Wings 4-0 Rink location: perimeter Shot location: right side of mason, about halfway up the goal Comments: shot from a bad angle in the corner bounced off of mason and into the goal (not mason’s best moment of the series) 1:07Tomas Holmstrom Assists: Marian HossaRed Wings 1-0 Shot location: didn’t matter, it was sitting on the goal line (low I guess) Comments: Hossa beats mason, hits the crossbar, puck is sitting on the goal line for Homer 19:14Daniel Cleary Assists: Johan Franzen, Brian RafalskiRed Wings 2-0 Shot location: low to mason’s left side Comments: Cleary does a 180 and as mason moves left-to-right, clearl puts the puck behind him on the left side. Assists: Daniel Cleary, Johan FranzenRed Wings 3-0 Comments: commodore goes to mug franzen, leaving Z all alone in the slot with plenty of time to pick the high corner. 16:07R.J. Umberger (power-play) Assists: Rick Nash, Jason WilliamsRed Wings 3-1 I forget how he scored this one, but the wings couldn’t clear the puck on a late PP. game was already decided at this point.. I think it was scored from the slot or crease though (definitely not the point) and off of a rebound from a nash shot. Assists: Daniel ClearyRed Wings 4-1 Empty netter 2:58Nicklas Lidstrom (power-play) Assists: Brian RafalskiRed Wings 1-0 Shot location: low, right side of mason Comments: Mason makes a pad save but the rebound bounces off of Tutyin and back into the net 6:12Kristian Huselius (power-play) Assists: Rick Nash, Kris RussellTied 1-1 Rink locatoin: slot Shot location: high, to osgood’s right Comments: good high shot coming off the rush on the PP Assists: Brad Stuart, Pavel DatsyukRed Wings 2-1 Shot location: think he actually chipped this up high from very close in (to mason’s left side) Comments: rebound off of a stuart shot from the point, homer there to pick up the garbage Assists: Tomas Kopecky, Valtteri FilppulaRed Wings 3-1 Comments: wrap around that bounces off of mason’s skate and into the net 1:44Rick Nash Assists: Rostislav Klesla, Kristian HuseliusRed Wings 3-2 Shot location: low to Osgood’s left Comments: a great shot-pass from klesla that nash stretches out to tip in 5:38R.J. Umberger (power-play) Assists: Raffi Torres, Steve MasonTied 3-3 Shot locatoin: low to osgood’s left Comments: another one coming off the rush, great individual effore by umberger, osgood couldn’t cover his left side 6:59Marian Hossa Shot location: high over mason’s right shoulder (mason had gone down) Comments: hossa gets his own rebound 11:26Marian Hossa (power-play) Assists: Tomas Holmstrom, Nicklas LidstromRed Wings 5-3 Shot location: high to mason’s left Comments: no-look pass from behind the net by homer finds Hossa with plenty of time to make his shot 15:45Kris Russell Assists: Raffi TorresRed Wings 5-4 Shot location: osgood’s left, neither high nor low really Comments: 2 on 1 rush, shot beats osgood far-side 18:04Fredrik Modin Assists: Aaron Rome, Jason ChimeraTied 5-5 Shot location: think this was actually five-hole Comments: terrible rebound off of a shot from the point, modin left all alone in the crease 19:13Johan Franzen (power-play) Assists: Jiri Hudler, Niklas KronwallRed Wings 6-5 Rink locatoin: crease Comments: Hudler crashes the net with the puck, franzen comes in late and finds the puck sitting there for him with half of the net wide open. April 25, 2009 at 1:10 p.m. JLikens said... Interesting post, particularly the part about Detroit generating twice the frequency of 'high' shots compared to Columbus. Based on the figures at hockeynumbers, it would appear that the Wings outperformed their expected GF this season. Perhaps generating a large percentage of high shots enabled them to do this. As you said, shot height ought to be factored into any shot quality analysis. April 26, 2009 at 2:20 a.m. Kent W. said... Great stuff. Shot height never even really occurred to me when it comes to SQ. Scott Reynolds said... I'd add my voice to those that agree shot height should definitely be considered when looking at shot quality. This is really fantastic work. I am, however, a bit confused by your conclusions about Mason. Could you clarify these two statements for me: "If we adjust only based on the average save percentages for low and high shots, that means we would expect Osgood to have the easier job with a .933 expected save percentage compared to .924 for Mason." "If we adjust for both where the shots were coming from and where they were targeted, based on playoff averages so far, I estimate that Mason had a .933 expected save percentage while Osgood was at .922." The Contrarian Goaltender said... jl: Thanks for that, that does support the numerical evidence. Scott: I ran three different adjustments based on the shot data. Shot location only (the typical SQ method), shot height only (the first set of numbers you quoted), and both shot location and shot height (the second set of numbers, the .933/.922). Mason faced more high shots, but he also faced more long shots, so his shot distribution was probably a little easier overall than Osgood's. April 26, 2009 at 10:23 p.m. Thanks for clarifying CG. I guess I just figured the expected save percentage to be pretty high at .933. Do you have any idea what would be "normal" for an expected save percentage? I am using the overall averages from this year's playoffs to adjust the numbers, so the numbers might be a bit high because the goaltending has been pretty good so far (.924 league average). Ideally I'd use a multi-year sample but I don't have one, at least not yet. The adjustments will actually be changing as the sample size increases and the overall averages change. The average should put the numbers a bit more into context, though. My estimates have Mason as facing shots that were 12% easier than average, and Osgood facing shots 3% harder than average. You are right that Mason's number is pretty high. By shot location he is tied for the easiest shots against, and by shot location and height combined he has faced the second easiest. the washington nyr series was completely changed once washington started shooting high. games 1-4 they were just throwing everything at the net. games 5-7 they started being more selective with their shots, thus their shots/game dropped significantly, but they were almost exclusively shooting high glove; to the point where the nbc announcers where even commenting on it, and thus lundqvist looked terrible. more proof the butterfly style makes it easier for less talented goalies to occasionally put together solid numbers, especially in the regular season. April 29, 2009 at 12:31 a.m. more proof the butterfly style makes it easier for less talented goalies to occasionally put together solid numbers, especially in the regular season.There you go about less talented again. Lundqvist has occasionally put together solid numbers? Really? Since Henrik entered the league: Lundqvist: 2.31, .917 Brodeur: 2.32, .917 High shots are not some unique weakness of the butterfly style. High shots are simply more likely to go in. That is true for Lundqvist, that's true for whichever goalies you consider to be talented, that was true for Grant Fuhr, that was true for Ken Dryden, that was true for Terry Sawchuk. I bet it was probably true for Georges Vezina, if anyone was even getting the puck off the ice back then. The reason that high shots get focused on so much for someone like Lundqvist is that he is so terrific down low. Goaltending is not just about using your gloves - your legs are very important elements, and Lundqvist's are very good. That's talent, just the same as catching a puck is talent. If someone makes up for a deficit in athleticism through positioning and excellent technique, then I say more power to them. I'm certainly not going to downgrade them because they aren't "skilled". Having said all that, I do actually agree with you that there are more skilled goalies in the league than Henrik Lundqvist. I don't particularly care though, though, because skill does not equal performance. That is something I have been arguing on this blog since the beginning. There are thousands of hockey players all around the world who can skate faster and shoot harder than Tomas Holmstrom. I think it is fair to say they are more skilled than he is. But none of them are putting up 20 goal seasons in the NHL. If all you value is skill, then you can have all the pretty boy AHL scorers you want. I'll take the guy scoring goals at the highest level. In the same way, goaltending is a results business. Speaking of results, you may have noticed a certain highly skilled goalie getting burned last night and in game 6 on a few low shots that a goalie with quick legs and a wide butterfly makes look easy. Someone like Lundqvist does not give up Jokinen's tying goal with 1:20 left. All Brodeur had to do was get his pad down and he would have had it, but he came across like he was paddling down without getting the paddle down, and got beat five-hole. If Brodeur had done a simple butterfly slide, you know, a skill that apparently requires no talent whatsoever, his team would be in the second round of the playoffs. Contrarian, What is your analysis of the Vancouver-St. Louis series? Personally, I do NOT think Luongo stole the series, at least not to the degree that everybody else thinks. Even if St. L outshot the Canucks, (a) the Canucks' shots were of higher quality (meaning Luongo faced easier shots) and (b) the Canucks have a more coherent and reliable defense, as shown by their perfect penalty-killing. As for the other "great" goalies in the first round, I think that by far Jonas Hiller was the best. He faced not only the most, but the best-quality shots against by a considerable margin over any other "hot" goalie. Varlamov was great but he was not seriously tested, facing the worst offensive team in the playoffs in the Rangers. Osgood was not really tested until game 4, and then he was really very mediocre. PS: I don't agree that shot distance is the main factor in evaluating shot quality (in regards to the DET/CBJ series). It is very possible to have a peripheral, weak, or hasty shot from right in the slot or crease (look at San Jose in games 4 and 6) and to have a very good shot from the point area (look at the Getzlaf/Perry goals in that series). Osgood may have faced more close shots but most of the close shots he faced were peripheral, hurried, or weak owing to the great defensive presence in front of him, plus he wasn't screened the way Mase was for much of the series. A good point, or even blue-line shot, especially if screened, counts more than a point-blank shot that the shooter can't get much on. "Speaking of results, you may have noticed a certain highly skilled goalie getting burned last night and in game 6 on a few low shots that a goalie with quick legs and a wide butterfly makes look easy. Someone like Lundqvist does not give up Jokinen's tying goal with 1:20 left. All Brodeur had to do was get his pad down and he would have had it, but he came across like he was paddling down without getting the paddle down, and got beat five-hole. If Brodeur had done a simple butterfly slide, you know, a skill that apparently requires no talent whatsoever, his team would be in the second round of the playoffs." Yes, and if he also had the size 38 goalie pads and the XXL chest protector 3 of the 4 goals scored never happen. You say it makes no difference the size of the equipment, but mere inches, maybe even less, made the difference between all of those goals. So really who cares. You live with what got you there, and New Jersey lost that game far before they gave up the lead, and there are far more things in New jersey to worry about then Brodeur. Such as the 3rd line consistently getting nearly 20:00 of ice time, and then defenseman consistently failing to get pucks out of the zone at the end of games. If Brodeur was in net last night for the Rangers, that top circle glove high wrister from Fedorov is stopped, and same with the 6 mph deflection on the first Capital goal. But who knows, maybe if Brodeur was in there Fedorov throws a pass to Ovechkin for a cross ice one timer. So its fair to say that simply substituting this goalie for that goalie isn't accurate because the game plan obviously changes depending on who is in goal. All I am saying is that there are certain glaring weaknesses with a lot of the so called "elite" butterfly goalies, that in a 7 game series can be targeted, much more so than with a guy like Brodeur because the butterfly style gives away most of the top of the net, and relies on defenseman to keep the puck to areas in which quality shots up high can not be taken. Luongo I'd say is the exception, but outside Luongo, Brodeur, and recently Cam Ward, many of the so called "elite" butterfly goalies have been torched because their defenses can not continue to make them look good, and their overall skill levels are poor... Nabakov, Kiprusoff, Lundqvist. "The reason that high shots get focused on so much for someone like Lundqvist is that he is so terrific down low. Goaltending is not just about using your gloves - your legs are very important elements, and Lundqvist's are very good. That's talent, just the same as catching a puck is talent." Come on. For somebody who supposedly likes the get to the "why" part of goaltending, I think you are selling yourself short here. Why is he terrific down low? A regulation goal is 72x48. When you horizontally stack 2 pads, that are 38 inches long and 11 inches high, not much is going to go in down low. In fact, it would not be that difficult to actually mathematically break down the advantage a goalie wearing 38's has over a goalie wearing 35's when out lets say 3 feet in the butterfly by simply referring to the percentage of the net that is covered. Especially when the goalie stays far back in the net like Lundqvist does. Top that with a strong Rangers defense that is excellent at keeping shots to the outside, and maybe you'll start to see why Lundqvist gets away with dropping to the butterfly so quickly most of the time. Statman said... Bring back the Rogie pads!! haha http://www.legendsofhockey.net:8080/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayerGallery.jsp?player=18724#photo http://www.legendsofhockey.net:8080/LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayerGallery.jsp?player=18724&photo=44#photo "Osgood may have faced more close shots but most of the close shots he faced were peripheral, hurried, or weak owing to the great defensive presence in front of him, plus he wasn't screened the way Mase was for much of the series." Yes, this is what I'm trying to get at with looking at whether shots are high and low. I didn't see much of the Detroit series, but I'm not surprised that this was the case. The numbers don't support your view that distance is unimportant, however. Both Osgood and Mason had much worse save percentages on close shots than on long shots. Overall in the playoffs, goalies have a save percentage of .819 on shots from the crease area and .952 on shots from the point. I do agree that some long shots are very dangerous, and that height should be factored in, but on average the closer the shot the better the scoring chance. "You live with what got you there, and New Jersey lost that game far before they gave up the lead." That's an interesting interpretation of events. In my book New Jersey wouldn't have lost that game if Brodeur never allowed the other team to score on him and take the lead. He didn't let them tie it up while under pressure in game 5, and he's bailed out his teammates at key times before in his career, as have most good goalies. This time Marty simply wasn't able to pull it off, even though I think he probably should have given the scoring chances that beat him at the end of the game. "You say it makes no difference the size of the equipment" I never said that. I said that it is an advantage to be a bigger goalie. I just said I don't really care if a goalie wears huge equipment or not, because as long as it's legal it's simply a matter of choice. "If Brodeur was in net last night for the Rangers, that top circle glove high wrister from Fedorov is stopped, and same with the 6 mph deflection on the first Capital goal." You might be right. Every style has a tradeoff. Unfortunately for both Lundqvist and Brodeur, the other team was able to take advantage of their technical limitations at the most inopportune time. "In fact, it would not be that difficult to actually mathematically break down the advantage a goalie wearing 38's has over a goalie wearing 35's when out lets say 3 feet in the butterfly by simply referring to the percentage of the net that is covered." If the goalie is set and square to the shooter with appropriate depth, there is not much difference in low coverage. I've worn 32s, 34s, and 36s, so I know that from experience. That is because the net is only 6 feet wide, and with top-of-the-crease positioning a goalie makes himself bigger and reduces the shooting angle even further. It is easier to close your five-hole with longer pads, but you can make up for that using your stick and a narrower butterfly. The biggest advantage that I see with longer pads is that is easier to reduce holes when sliding or moving across the net. That's what Lundqvist does particularly well with his long pads, quick legs, and deep stance. In addition, goalies are not set for every shot nor square to every shooter. When I'm talking about Lundqvist's coverage down low, I'm not just talking about him stopping long-range shots that he sees all the way, I'm talking about saves that require lateral movement, extension, sliding, etc. Lundqvist made several toe saves against Washington that required him to react to shots and dekes. We know from his shootout record that he is very tough to deke. And like I said, Jokinen most likely doesn't score that late goal with the same shot against someone like Lundqvist. All styles have strengths and weaknesses. If a shooter is teeing it up from the slot, I'd rather have Brodeur in net. If a guy comes free on a breakaway, I'd rather have Lundqvist. All the different situational and technical factors are difficult to evaluate subjectively, and that's why I prefer to focus mainly on the results. "All the different situational and technical factors are difficult to evaluate subjectively, and that's why I prefer to focus mainly on the results." They are difficult to evaluate period, but the does not mean they are not completely relevant. By your own admission, results are often heavily influenced by team play. For instance in the Carolina NJ series, games 2,4,5,7 ended with New Jersey allowing Carolina to maintain possession in the defensive zone late in the game, for periods of at least 2-4 minutes. 3 of the game winning goals where scored because of botched opportunities to clear the zone. Whereas in the Washington NY series, the games in which Washington won, were because of Washington shooters skating in and taking wrist shots short side glove high, through out the game. A good defense can clear the zone, however, every team over the course of a game is going to the opposing team wrist shots from the circle. The key is being able to adapt, and whereas the team can find ways to clear the zone, having a goalie that has shown he is consistently vulnerable in the same spots is much more detrimental. As I have said this is hardly a Brodeur vs Lundqvist thing, as much as it is a perfect example of the styles they play. As a goalie, I am sure you can confirm that nothing is more fatiguing for a goalie than constant cycling by the attacking team down behind the net. Carolina scored quite a few goals by doing this, which again shows signs of a defensive let down. Again comparing the styles, Brodeur tends to hug the posts, whereas recently goalies have adopted the "slam the skates against each post" method which covers both sides at the same time, and cuts down on scrambling. Both Tim Thomas and Jonas Hiller do this really well, and in this case I'd say it is the better approach. My whole point, which is where we seem to disagree, is that with all things being equal in terms of team variables, it is much harder to play a non butterfly style. While you seem to only look at the results, I do not know how you can evaluate a goalie and not take skill into consideration. There have to be reasons for the results, and if team elements are removed, I do not see why you would want a goalie with a weakness that can so easily be exploited, especially if the results are somewhat similar. This is not saying all butterfly goalie suck, but it is saying that with all things equal, who would not want the guy with the most talent. Just using common sense, a guy who relies on reflexes to stop pucks, will be a lot more consistent regardless of the team he is on, than a guy who relies on team defense to make his style effective. The problem is, when we refer to a standup goalie in todays game, the sample size is pretty limited as they seem to be a dying breed. Thus using Brodeur as the example to compare to other goalies may be unfair, however IMO, whether the goalie relying on relflexes is good, bad, or average, his results will be more consistent than a goalie reliant on outside circumstances. I never said that distance is not important, just that it isn't the only factor. A point-blank shot from Manny Malhotra or Raffi Torres simply isn't going to be as deadly as one from Zetterberg or the Mule even WITHOUT the world-class D in front of Osgood, let alone with. Most of the Getzy/Perry goals against Nabokov were not point-blank (I don't know how much of the series you watched), but obviously they were very good shots. I concede that Osgood handily outplayed Mason (and I was really quite surprised to see Mase play as poorly as he did), but I am not sure that the result of the series would have been that much different had the two goalies switched teams. With Ozzy in goal for Columbus facing a Mason Red Wings, the series might have lasted five games instead of four, but Detroit would still have taken it for all the obvious reasons. FatMan said... My whole point, which is where we seem to disagree, is that with all things being equal in terms of team variables, it is much harder to play a non butterfly style. While you seem to only look at the results, I do not know how you can evaluate a goalie and not take skill into consideration.Simple: All the skill in the world doesn't mean a thing if it doesn't mean anything in terms of on-ice contribution. A weak goal, at least in my book, isn't excusable because they make a "tough" save later-it's a weak goal, and all the tough save later does is somewhat erase the weak goal. Similar to the Homer comment - there are tons of guys more skilled that can't do what he does, and as some teams (like my Sharks) have shown this year, all the talent in the world doesn't mean s*** if there isn't performance. There have to be reasons for the results, and if team elements are removed, I do not see why you would want a goalie with a weakness that can so easily be exploited, especially if the results are somewhat similar.As CG has tried to explain with the "Replacements" posts, teams try to cover up the deficiencies. I think we have to remember here that the Rags were a pretty bad team this year, and realistically this series was close to being absolutely stolen by Henrik. A better team may have been able to cut down on the time of the Caps shooters to go glove-side, which is an important consideration to take into account. This is not saying all butterfly goalie suck, but it is saying that with all things equal, who would not want the guy with the most talent. Just using common sense, a guy who relies on reflexes to stop pucks, will be a lot more consistent regardless of the team he is on, than a guy who relies on team defense to make his style effective.The problem is that this makes it sound like the elite butterfly goalies, like Lundqvist and Luongo as examples, ARE talented. As the post explains, most goalies have trouble with the glove-hand side, and both goalies havemade absolutely amazing saves in the playoffs using there skills and reflexes, such as the Luongo 5v3 PK save in game 1, and the save by Lundqvist yesterday in the 3rd on Semin I believe it was. The problem is, when we refer to a standup goalie in todays game, the sample size is pretty limited as they seem to be a dying breed. Thus using Brodeur as the example to compare to other goalies may be unfair, however IMO, whether the goalie relying on relflexes is good, bad, or average, his results will be more consistent than a goalie reliant on outside circumstances.I would actually think it's the other way around, that a butterfly goalie would be more consistent, considering he doesn't need his skill to be "on" each day to make his saves. Would like to see an argument against that however, as I don't have much personal goaltending experience, so I don't know quite the relative eases/difficulties of the position :) "I would actually think it's the other way around, that a butterfly goalie would be more consistent, considering he doesn't need his skill to be "on" each day to make his saves." The problem with this is that it is reliant on the defense in front of him playing to his strength. Lundqvist relies on the Rangers keeping other teams to the perimeter, from which it is i credibly difficult to get off a decent high shot. Thus as every hockey player is taught, they throw it low at the net, hoping for a rebound of tip in. Contrarily, we have all seen what happens to Lundqvist when the Rangers defense is not stellar. Guys walk in and pick the upper corners at will. What I am saying here, is that over the course of a few seasons or so, you take 2 goalies, one a butterfly goalie, the other a standup goalie, and have them split games for the same team. Then take them both and put both on a another team with a different system. The guy relying on talent, will be more consistent than the guy relying on circumstance, because he is relying on something in his control. Thomas Vokoun is a guy I can think of who is more so a hybrid than a butterfly goalie. His stats when going from Nashville to Florida are relatively consistent. Same with Belfour. Hasek was another guy who relied on reflexes and was consistent where ever he was. Even Osgood has been consistently mediocre. Meanwhile with the modern breed of goalie, a Toskala, or a Huet can be dominant on one team, and then lousy on another. Fluery or Price can be great in one system, and then lousy with another one. Same with Theodore. Same with almost all the so called top tier butterfly goalies outside Luongo who was good in Florida as well as in Vancouver. Thats the theory behind the way Ken Holland runs the Red Wings. Spending money on so called "elite" goalies now is much more of a gamble now then it was decades prior. Anonymous: You are both underrating Lundqvist and overrating the ability of other goalies to make similar saves. If a team gives the opposition time and space to pick corners from the slot, they are going to light up every goalie, not just Lundqvist. You are making one of the league's best goalies sound like a helpless cardboard cutout. Lundqvist does not rely on keeping the other team to the perimeter. When he is playing well, he is a dominant goaltender even if his defence is playing poorly. According to my playoff shot location data, it was actually perimeter shots that were Lundqvist's undoing this year, not close-in chances. He had a higher than average save percentage against shots from the crease, slot, and mid-range areas, although part of that is the MSG arena effect. He also let in 56 of 62 shots (.903) from the point and perimeter areas, way below the average of .966. All NHL goalies are good enough to routinely stop perimeter shots, and they are all going to be reacting to those shots which makes style pretty much irrelevant. A goalie letting in a higher-than-normal share of perimeter shots is usually a sign of a goalie who isn't on his game. To be honest, I don't buy the whole "The Caps were shooting high" thing as a reason for their success. No doubt they were shooting high, and of course shooting high is the advisable tactic against Lundqvist, but he let in some soft goals in games 5 and 6 that he wasn't letting in over the first 4 games. I'd say it's more of a case of a goalie coming back down to earth than a team "solving" a goalie. "Thomas Vokoun is a guy I can think of who is more so a hybrid than a butterfly goalie. His stats when going from Nashville to Florida are relatively consistent. Same with Belfour. Hasek was another guy who relied on reflexes and was consistent where ever he was." You have been consistently mixing up your terms. Butterfly goalie does not mean blocking goalie, and hybrid goalie does not mean reflex goalie. Dominik Hasek relied on his reflexes and used a textbook butterfly to make the first save. The best goalies know when to react and when to block and use both tactics effectively. Lundqvist's problem is not his style, but his glove hand. There are lots of butterfly goalies who are very difficult to beat high glove. For example, Cam Ward made a number of terrific glove saves against the Devils, and the Blues seemed to be shooting blocker side whenever possible against Luongo. On long range shots, everyone reacts, and on close-in chances, everyone blocks. The areas where goalies differ in their tactical responses is the mid- to high slot and on angle shots, depending on their size and their style. I don't know what percentage of shots this represents, but it is certainly the minority. About one-quarter of the shots are from what I call the "mid-range" zone, that might be a fair estimate. If so, that works out to maybe a half-dozen shots per game where we get to see the real tactical difference between a Giguere and a Brodeur. "Meanwhile with the modern breed of goalie, a Toskala, or a Huet can be dominant on one team, and then lousy on another." Toskala was never dominant, he played on a dominant team. Huet was a late-bloomer, and he hasn't been lousy this year in Chicago. I disagree with your assessment of Belfour's consistency, he had some very poor seasons and twice lost his starting job. Down years for butterfly goalies are often because of injuries. Hip injuries are very common for goalies who go down on every shot. That's likely the main reason Toskala was so bad this year, for example. "Thats the theory behind the way Ken Holland runs the Red Wings. Spending money on so called "elite" goalies now is much more of a gamble now then it was decades prior." No, that's not correct. Holland's view is not because of risk, it is because of parity. He's made that clear in the quotes I've seen from him. Goaltending talent is very deep today, there are lots of decent goalies out there, probably more than there are spots available for them to play in. That means that average talent has little marginal value, since you can easily replace it with someone else. There are a few elite goalies in the league today, just like there has always been. The best guys in the league have big paycheques, and that has always been the case because top goaltenders are always valuable. The difference is that there are far fewer bad goalies today. The value of an average goalie is determined by the number of bad goalies - the more bad goalies there are, the more teams don't want to get stuck with one of them and the more value there is in at least having an average guy who won't cost his team games. If you can get 95% of the performance at, say, 20% of the cost, then why wouldn't you? And that is the reasoning behind Holland's position. I still think you are failing to see the point. There are some butterfly goalies who have great blockers, gloves, reflexes, etc. But there are far too many, as I stated, who do not, and simply drop to their knees the second the puck enters the zone. Yes as I said guys like Luongo or Cam Ward are both highly skilled goalies in those regards, but for every Ward or Luongo, there are 10 Hiller's or Lundqvists, guys who show very little else besides the ability to sit on their knees for 60 minutes, and the ones who are fortunate enough to play behind a strong defense often even get confused for good goalies. If I stuffed a statue between the pipes and it posted a .920 save percentage would you being calling it a great goalie? If I stuffed a statue between the pipes and it posted a .920 save percentage would you being calling it a great goalie? Dunno about others, but that would have been fine with me, as it would have represented a substantial upgrade over what my Sharks had in net against Anaheim. And again with the "skill" comments: Every goalie has trouble with stuff up high. The idea behind being a "butterfly" goalie isn't to cover up a lack of skill; it's to cover up the part of the ice where the majority of shots on net go to, and maximize the chance of stopping the puck from entering the net. What you also seem to fail to realize is that the type of goaltending you describe does, in fact, show it's flaws, THROUGH the statistical evidence, as any flaw in a sort of "b-fly and pray" system will show up as GA, and thus a reduction in SV% and GAA. I remember an example earlier in the season in a MIN-SJS game, where Backstrom was doing the style of goaltending you described. Early on it led to some saves, yes, but as SJ's shooters started to pick on the fact that Backstrom was going down early every play, they were able to pick him apart. His stat-line that day: 18/23 for .783 SV%,with a 4.72 GAA "I remember an example earlier in the season in a MIN-SJS game, where Backstrom was doing the style of goaltending you described. Early on it led to some saves, yes, but as SJ's shooters started to pick on the fact that Backstrom was going down early every play, they were able to pick him apart. His stat-line that day: 18/23 for .783 SV%,with a 4.72 GAA That is exactly my point though. Bacstrom still winded up with some pretty good numbers this year. Why? because his team's defense was good enough to keep the majority of teams from consistently doing what the Sharks did. there are a lot of butterfly goalies like that as we saw with Lundqvist and Price in the postseason. These guys rely on a good team defense to cover up their lack of skill. When these goalies then face teams that are good enough to capitalize on their obvious weakness, its like shooting fish in a barrel. It happens from time to time in the regular season, hut a lot more frequently in the postseason, hence the Sharks being bounced early every year, or Lundqvists career .907 save percentage. But again its easy to see what happens with Peter Budaj because Colorado is not a good team. With Backstrom or Nabakov it is harder to see because the team defense is good, and with Lundqvist it is even harder to see because not only is his team defense good, but his home scorekeepers also do an excellent job or padding his stats. overpass said... Anonymous - It sounds like you have a testable hypothesis. If you believe that the performance of butterfly goalies is more sensitive to team quality than the performance of other goalies, why not run the numbers to test it? I'd like to get around to it, however there are 2 big hurdles. The first is how would we define a non butterfly goalie. Obviously there is Brodeur, and Osgood and a few others. But the thing is, every goalie uses the butterfly, its just a matter of how reliant they are on it. One possible way to go would possibly be by identifying which type of pads a goalie wears. If you notice Brodeur's pads, they are traditional goalie pads. When he goes into the butterfly, they stay underneath him, while the pads almost all other goalies use are now the swivel pads that rotate and create a barrier to the sides. From what I have seen though, is that now even the non purely butterfly goalies like Vokoun use the swivel pads because it is an obvious advantage. Why wouldnt Brodeur or Osgood use those then? I have no idea, maybe for the reason old people do not learn to use computers or cell phones. Probably stubbornness to change and a pride in doing things the way they think things should be done. But who knows? The second thing is that because of the popularity of the butterfly, there are not many standup or hybrid type goalies in the league anymore. So even if there was a sample size, there chances that they would have played for similar style teams may be an issue, as would be comparing the overall degree of change in the numbers. It would not be a matter of seeing "who's better" but seeing how much variation you would see from. Chris Osgoods numbers with the Red Wings are pretty consistently average at around 907. His period with a bad Islander team also saw his numbers at around .906. And even with the Blues, his numbers were again close to .905. Meanwhile Manny Legace, who pretty much played for the exact same Detroit team, was at around .919. Then goes to St. Louis and his numbers drastically drop to about .904. So two goalies who pretty much played in the same systems on 2 different teams resulted in a rate of change of maybe .002 for Osgood, while the butterfly goalie Legace, saw his numbers change roughly .015. I would not say that Giguere, at least, was a "pure" butterfly. He is a butterfly goaltender, but is also capable of doing a lot of "flopping" like Hasek (just look at his performance in the 2003 playoffs, esp. Game 1 against Minnesota). He's also one of the very most consistent goaltenders in the league--this was his first bad year, really, and he had a lot of personal problems off-ice to deal with that distracted him. May 1, 2009 at 12:53 a.m. Why Goalie Equipment Didn't Cause Scoring Drop Win Threshold Clutch Play Playing to the Score Value of Rebound Control Goalie Fatigue Save % vs. League Average Playoff Performance The Best Clutch Goalie Team Effects in the Original Six Why Aren't There More Brodeurs? Shot Attempts Against Estimating Brodeur's Shot Prevention Estimating 1970s Save % Hasek/Roy/Brodeur Debate Pat Burns: A Goalie's Best Friend 2008-09 Shot Quality Football, Hockey, and Player Development The Value of Rebound Control Shot Quality The Replacements, Final Comparison How Not To Pick Vezina Winners Steve Mason, Vezina Candidate? Estimating 1970s Save Percentages The Emergence of Cam Ward Hockey Prospectus 2010-11 Puck Prospectus Behind the Net Objective NHL Irreverent Oiler Fans Hockey Analytics Mc79 Hockey Hockey Summary Project Hockey Numbers On the Forecheck Battle of Alberta Battle of California The Contrarian Goaltender I'm Philip Myrland, goalie stats blogger since 2007 and former writer for Hockey Prospectus. I call myself a contrarian because I rely mainly on stats-based analysis, think large sample sizes are more important than "big saves" and prefer to rank goalies based on save percentage rather than team success. In other words, pretty much the mainstream views of the hockey analytics community, but I've grown attached to the handle and plan to keep it as long as broadcasters everywhere keep bringing up GAA and wins. If you have any questions or comments contact me by email (contrariangoaltender@gmail.com). You can also follow me on Twitter (@tcghockey). 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__label__wiki	0.591699	0.591699	Pink Hyena aka Tuck n’ Cover Route Name: Tuck and Cover Rock Formation: Devil’s Advocate Number of Bolts to be Placed: 11 bolts, 2 bolt anchor Proposed Grade: 5.12c/d Route Description: Proposed route, Tuck and Cover (5.12c/d, 25 meters), is an entirely independent line on the south face of the Devil’s Advocate Flatiron. The first 15 meters of the route is 5.9 – 5.10 climbing. The final 10 meters is slightly overhanging sustained 5.11 and 5.12. The rock quality is excellent, the climbing engaging and strenuous. A description of existing routes on the same face of the rock formation, including the number of routes, route names, route grade, type [traditional or bolted], and approximate distance between routes (a photocopy or diagram of the existing route(s) is also required): There is one established route on the south face of Devil’s Advocate, Purple Serpent (5.13b/c), 8 meters east of proposed route. Tuck and Cover shares no common ground with Purple Serpent. A description of the approach (include approximate distance from the designated trail system, existing “social” or undesignated trails leading to the climb and condition of the trail, and state whether there is a durable surface, such as rock. Include photographs of the approach.): Approach as for the PB Boulders, part of Upper Blues bouldering area. From the junction of the South Shanahan Trail and the Mesa Trail walk 100 meters south on the Mesa Trail, then walk west across the mesa and enter a ravine, passing the Mamoonius boulder and continuing to the PB Boulders on a social trail. Head south from the PB Boulders up a densely wooded slope to a cleft through a ridge of rock that connects to Tiny Tower to the west. From the cleft walk south to reach the east side of the Devil’s Advocate. If different from the approach, a description of the descent, (include approximate distance from the designated trail system, existing “social” or undesignated trails, a description of the trail condition and whether there is a durable surface, such as rock. Include photographs of the descent.): Descent same as approach. A description of the area at the base of the climb (include existing levels of soil compaction, existence of a durable surface such as rock, and existing soil erosion. Include photographs of the area at the base of the climb.): Compact pine needles and talus. Has all reconnaissance work that can be reasonably done, short of placing any hardware, been done? Exact line is well established and the best bolt locations have been identified. The route provides no placements for mobile protection. Has the route been top roped? Is there loose rock? Is it extremely overhanging? Climb has had multiple top-rope ascents. Chris Beh says: This route should be approved. I have climbed on The Purple Serpent and this route looks great, too Patrick Pharo says: I vote in favor of bolting this route. Tony Bubb says: New line, independent climbing, unlikely to draw a crowd or create an access issue. Please approve this line! Chris Weidner says: I vote to approve this line, looks great! Owen Silver says: Leave a Reply to Patrick Pharo Cancel reply North Side of the SkyAugust 23, 2021 - 7:16 pm TBDAugust 20, 2021 - 11:11 am Side Door FHRC Public Meeting – Thurs Feb 1 at The Spot, 6:30pm	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line37
__label__cc	0.7452	0.2548	Litter can be harmful to wildlife and pets Environment, Waste Management, Wildlife, Pets Extension Outdoors By James E. “Jim” Miller Professor Emeritus, Department of Wildlife Fisheries and Aquaculture People discard millions of tons of trash daily in recycling containers or garbage cans, but unfortunately, many people leave trash in other places, where it can harm wildlife and pets. Whether it is carelessly tossed out of car windows or off the sides of boats, left on the ground from routine farming or construction activities, or casually dropped while walking down the street, litter is more than an unsightly nuisance. I am continually amazed at the amount of trash I see in my neighborhood, from food wrappers and bottles to packaging straps and cigarette butts. It makes me wonder if these unthinking people litter in their own yards as well. Unfortunately, some of that trash can pose serious threats to wildlife, fish, pets and even people. Occasionally we see dramatic evidence of some animal that has been ensnared, maimed or killed by improperly discarded trash. Photographs of fish or turtles whose bodies are girdled by six-pack plastic rings, raccoons with their heads trapped in metal containers, pelicans dead of starvation from ingesting bottle caps and fishing line, or ospreys entangled in discarded monofilament are all too common. I grew up on a farm and remember baling hay with hemp or sisal twine. At the time, I never thought about the fact that such twine could be a problem to wildlife or domestic livestock. However, my dad taught me to wrap the twine around a stick and save it, because it might come in handy to hastily fasten a gate, temporarily mend a break in a net or hang a tool on a nail in the barn. We never disposed of such twine, rope, or string, as long as it had some potentially useful purpose. Once it lost its usefulness, we burned it. Today, baling twine is made of either sisal, which is biodegradable, or polypropylene, a non-biodegradable plastic. If it is disposed of irresponsibly, the plastic type can ensnare or even kill domestic animals and wildlife alike. A friend recently shared with me a trail camera photograph of a very nice buck, two weeks prior to the bow-hunting season, with several yards of pink polymer hay baling twine entangled around both antlers. He then shared with me a second photo, from the opening day of bow season, when he found a buck -- likely the same one -- ensnared and locked together with another buck by pink polymer twine. They were both dead, probably after much suffering. Admittedly, bucks sometimes get their antlers hooked together while fighting or sparring, but most of them break apart when one dominates the other or before becoming severely impaired. It would be pure speculation to say whether these two bucks might have separated and lived, despite their fighting and sparring, had their antlers and necks not been entangled with this hay baling twine. But I’d venture to guess that the baling twine made their death more likely. I would encourage my fellow hunters to pick up twine or other discarded materials that could be a threat to wildlife and wind it up on a stick or carry it away for disposal or recycling. It won’t take much time or effort, and it could save an animal from a lot of suffering. The bottom line is that improper disposal of trash of any kind is illegal, unattractive and harmful. It can be fatal to both domestic and wild animals. Please dispose of trash and refuse in an appropriate manner by recycling or placing it in an approved trash container. We all appreciate those who make an effort to protect the health and beauty of our treasured wildlife habitats and the neighborhoods and communities we call home. Contact: Dr. Jim Miller, 662-325-2619 Editor’s Note: Extension Outdoors is a column authored by several different experts in the Mississippi State University Extension Service. Photos for publication (click for high resolution image): Dr. Beth Harlander Baker Mr. Bill Hamrick Senior Extension Associate Wildlife & Fisheries Dr. Wes Neal Fisheries Extension Dr. Larry Oldham Soil Health, Soil Fertility, Nutrient Management, Soil Conservation and Management, Certified Cr Dr. Bronson Strickland Rural lands continue to increase in value Flying squirrels require extra efforts to eliminate Cleaning up litter makes every day Earth Day Consider many reasons to teach a child to fish Animals also experience instant communication Ecology & Management of the Northern Bobwhite Natural Resource Enterprises Wildlife and Recreation - A Checklist of Considerations for Landowners Hunting Leases: Considerations and Alternatives for Landowners Natural Resource Enterprises Wildlife and Recreation - Mourning Dove Management for Landowners Catfish-Duck Ponds for the Mississippi Delta http://extension.msstate.edu/news/extension-outdoors/2014/litter-can-be-harmful-wildlife-and-pets	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line40
__label__cc	0.586808	0.413192	Best Science Fiction of the Year 8. ed Terry Carr. 1979 Feb 26, 2004 Leave a Comment on Best Science Fiction of the Year 8. ed Terry Carr. 1979Carr, Reviews, Year's Best Tags Dean Ing, Donald Kingsbury, Fritz Leiber, Gordun Eklund, Gregory Benford and Marc Laidlaw, Harlan Ellison, Hilbert Schenck, Ian Watson, James Patrick Kelly, Joan D. Vinge, John Varley, Thomas M. Disch The Barbie Murders. John Varley. An intriguing tale of a very conformist Luna community. Shunning all individuality, not only are names discarded in the community, but so are all external sexual wibbly bits, leaving members as asexual as a Barbie doll. (No mention of Ken though). A murder takes place in the community, and the cop assigned from the city has trouble making any headway in identifying the victim, or the killer, or any motive. Suffice to say a merkin (a female pubic wig) is a key to this thriller – and there aren’t many thrillers which can make that claim! A Hiss of Dragon. Gregory Benford and Marc Laidlaw. A not altogether succesful collaboration. On a terraformed planet, an action-packed story in which genmod airborne flora and fauna provide the living for humans pedalling above the hostile ground. Narrowly escaping a ponderous, gas-filled dragon whilst out gathering in a crop, Leopold finds himself facing a human, and more dangerous, enemy. Some nicely imagined and well described settings, but the dramatic events of the story are fairly mediocre. Black Glass. Fritz Leiber. A very dark look at the way society in general, NY in particular, is heading. The protagonist sees in his own mind the city being swallowed, submerged by a black detrius, an all-enveloping dreck. He fixates on a young woman in a green cape, and, following her to an ice-rink soons finds himself in an altogether strange, near-future environment. On the observation deck of one of the towers of the World Trade Centre to which he as been transported by some unknown means, he sees the city is ruins with the dreck foam covering all but the tallest skyscrapers. A group of soldiers are firing a cannon at the Empire State Building. Can he and the green caped girl stop them? To Bring in the Steel. Donald Kingsbury. An interesting mixture of space adventure and psychology. Out on a deep space mining operation, Kell hears that his ex-wife is dead, and wants daughter, with whom he has had little contact, to come to stay with him. A very insular, cold and detached personality, his chickens at first threaten to come home to roost as this shipmates object. But he is a man who is used to getting his way, and in this case hiring a notorious prostitute to act as the child’s governess, is successful. Lisa Maria, said prostitute, is lured by the money on offer, and the chance to free herself from her thoroughly unpleasant boyfriend/pimp. The developing relationship between Kell and Lisa Maria is well-handled, although the rescue in space finale is somewhat incongruous. The Very Slow Time Machine. Ian Watson. One of the outstanding time travel stories, IMHO, and compulsory reading for any author who is tempted to write a time travel story. The time machine in question arrives/leaves in 1990, at the point at which is has gathered enough momentum from travelling into the past to launch itself into the future. The story unfolds as the time travel machine and its occupant in effect move backwards towards the moment at which they began their journey, when they once again leave/arrive. The nature of the traveller, and the impact on those observing and trying to interact is expertly done. Devil You Don’t Know. Dean Ing. A most unusual story. Val Clarke was borne with an ‘autosomal dominant inheritance’ which gives her the external appearance of being severely mentally retarded, but intellectually normal. She is working with Dr Chris Maffei who is working to expose abuses in the residential care of people with mental retardation (and planning a best-selling book on same). Maffei is working with/exploiting Val by having her placed in residential homes where she can observe abuses and communicate by a transmitter embedded in her skull. In one home Val finds something very strange going on, but is at first unable to identify exactly what is happening. Whilst observing, Maffei is busy having sex with the receptionist at the institution. Up to this point the story is quite mainstream, with complex characters and interactions. After this things get a little strange. One of the residents is a totally blind girl who appears to have some strange powers. The owners of the hospital turn out to be drug-producers. Once Val’s undercover work is threatened, and the receptionist is about to be, at best injected with drugs, and at worst used, protein-wise, to feed the drug-production, things kick off big time. The blind girl turns out to have major telekinetic powers, and in a scence straight from a horror movie, makes the bad guys kills themselves quite gruesomely. The end sees Val and the blind girl taking control of their lives. Count the Clock that tells the time. Harlan Ellison. Some echoes ‘..and I must scream’ in the nightmare scenario of walking around an alien, grey-shrouded landscape. In this case the landscape is home to people who have largely wasted their lives. Ian Ross finds himself in this most desolate landscape, meeting other sorry mortals. Finally a true relationship appears to offer the opportunity to redeem himself. The story was written, according to the introduction, at the 1978 World Science Fiction Convention in Arizona, by Ellison, sitting at a desk in the foyer. Was he trying to tell us something? View from a Height. Joan D. Vinge. Emmylou is approaching 1,000 astronomical units into her flight. Chosen for the mission due to her being born with no immunity to diseases, the news of a cure for the disease causes her to review the nature of her solitude. Classy stuff. The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck. Hilbert Schenck. A storm is battering a rugged coast-line, and a ship is in distress on the rocks. Out go the coastguard, rugged men led by Keeper Walter Chase. The storm is fierce and the rescuers only barely managed to row out to the wreck. Several times during the rescue events are about to take a disastrous turn, but Walter is, unconsciously, able to tap into a time stream and go back to made adjustments to prevent said disasters (in one case the mast of the wreck is about to break, partly due to being made of faulty timber – Walter goes back to when the tree with the fault was about to be sawn down, and has the lumberjack spot the fault and choose a nearby tree without a flaw). Finally the rescuers and those on the wreck return to land. Vermeer’s Window. Gordun Eklund. A would-be artist, frustrated by his lack of ability, undergoes an operation in eastern Europe, in which he hopes to have the genius of Vermeer overlaid onto his own personality. Moving to Holland, he finds he can in fact reproduce Vermeer’s masterpieces, including some forgotten masterpieces. But is he Vermeer? And can he call his talent his own? The Man Who Had No Idea. Thomas M. Disch. With conversation allowed only by licence, Barry Riordan is frustrated by his attempts to get his licence. Finally he gets a Temporary Licence, and has to seek out three individuals with full licences to endorse him. A cruel satire on modern lives and mores. Death Therapy. James Patrick Kelly. The second published story by Kelly. A radical option in treating psychopathic murderers is proposed – kill them and bring them back to life. Will this taste of death, linked to their desire to murder, prove a sufficiently aversive experience to alter them? Carla Walsh, in the middle of splitting with her partner, reluctantly agrees to work on the program. Unfortunately, the chosen guinea-pig proves to be a bad choice. The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume 6 (ed Neil Clarke, Nightshade Books 2021 The Year’s Best Science Fiction, Vol. 2 (ed Jonathan Strahan, Saga Press 2021) The Best Science Fiction Stories and Novels. Ninth Series. ed T.E. 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__label__cc	0.597124	0.402876	We Think, Therefore We Are’ ed Peter Crowther pub DAW Books 2009 Jan 16, 2009 Leave a Comment on We Think, Therefore We Are’ ed Peter Crowther pub DAW Books 2009Anthologies Tags Adam Roberts, Brian Stableford, Chris Roberson, Eric Brown, Garry Kilworth, Ian Watson, James Lovegrove, Keith Brooke, Marly Youmans, Patrick O'Leary, Paul Di Filippo, Robert Reed, Stephen Baxter, Steven Utley, Tony Ballantyne Peter Crowther’s DAW anthologies are a regular treat, consistently full of top quality stories by top quality short story writers. In recent years each of Moon Shots, Mars Probes, Constellations, and Forbidden Planets has furnished stories for the Year’s Best anthologists. So what, then, of this volume, the theme of which this time is artificial intelligence? Stephen Baxter. Tempest 43. I’ve seen fewer Baxter short stories of late, which is a worry. Here he takes us a few centuries hence, with Earth reaping what we are currently sowing in terms of climate change. An AI-controlled orbiting weather station tasked with preventing hurricanes devastating the US coast (by beaming down microwave energy in such a way as to dissiapte the energy in the hurricane) has notably failed in its task. Baxter cleverly mixes some historical backstory to create a more rounded story as the actions of previous corporations, and invididuals, are part of the mix. There is a human on board, and the ship’s AI has fractured into three parts, one of which is now esconced as a virtual companion to him. A strong start to the collection. Brian Stableford. The Highway Code. A story seen through the eyes (or should that be the headlights?) of an AI which has been birthed to drive long-haul freight on the roads. Stableford has fun with Asimov’s three laws, in having the AI proscribed through the three main principles of the Highway Code. And this very much self-aware AI finds than in acting instantly to an imminent disaster that he may well have broken those principles. However, he is assured that the did indeed act for the greater good, a morally satisfactory action. However, his career is over, and the only saving grace, if that is really the case, is that instead of the breaker’s yard, he is left to ponder matters on the sea bed, whence he ended up as a result of his actions. Eric Brown. Salvage Rites. Ed has been on a lifelong mission. Two in fact : one, to find a resolution to the whereabouts of St. Benedictus, a cathedral of a spaceship crewed by religious zealouts who answered the call from a far distance race; and to find a resolution to the death of his sister in their childhood – is there an afterlife in which she resides? The Gothic interior of St. Benedictus provides the answer – in that those returned monks now do indeed have eternal life, or, perhaps more accurately, eternal (zombified) death. His current relationship (so to speak) with a virtual companion comes to a head as he flees those who his to embrace him into their world. If a sort of Alastair ReynoldsLITE – good if you don’t have the time for the several hundred pages of a Reynolds novel. James Lovegrove. The Kamikaze Code. British military intelligence (no jokes about oxymoron’s please) has a basement full of putative SF authors who are tasked with hammering out a 4,000 word story each day. What earth use could this output be put to? One writer, and the attractive administrator, find out the terrible truth : a basilisk text is being tested out, and their stories are being used as a weapon, with the fatal text being hidden in theirs. Whoever reads the final version of the story will die. But how to prove it? To make one of the stories available, and to have its deathly impact evinced. And what story might that be? As Lovegrove notes, a self-aware story. Adam Roberts. Adam Robots. Roberts notes that at school he was regularly called Adam Robots, and has already had the last laugh (should he wish so to do) in having several parodies published with humorous pseudonyms (such as The Boggit by ARRR Roberts) Here he postulates an Adam without original sin, a virtual construct in a virtual Eden. He is shown the forbidden fruit, but is able to resist the tempation. Adam 2 then joins him, and the pair of virtual siblings between them ponder the fruit that is within reach, and all that is offers. The second robot takes the fruit, and is banished from the Eden. Will Adam #1, a ‘thinking, sentient and alive creature’ be rewarded for being without sin? Reader, I think you can guess the answer. Tony Ballantyne. Seeds The complex and changing relationship between an AI and the man who created him (although this relationship is not quite as clear as you would expect) is explored. The AI is able to review Malcolm’s life, loves and setbacks and the assumption is that the AI has the controlling hand (now having the controlling share of itself). However, human ingenuity and sheer bloody-mindedness enable a very human touch to be made on, or in, Procycon 4 Steven Utley. Lost Places of the Earth. A virtual Paleozoic Earth is used by an aged professorial lothario to get his hands on the much younger body of one of his students. But at least he does impart some knowledge, and gossip about past scientists in so doing. Marly Youmans. The Chinese Room. There will be some of you familiar with John Searle’s ‘Chinese Room’ theory of ‘strong AI’. For others, wikipedia is our friend, and you could usefully read a couple of pages by way of a background prior to reading the story, or as I did, after reading the story. Is there a difference between simulating a mind, and actaully having a mind. The author ponders – are we robots or are we merely humans? (Actually she doesn’t ponder this, but I’m sure as hell not going to get a better chance to make such an awful pun on her name). Are the responses online from the Chinese Room those of an intelligent human, or an AI, or simply a system capable of transmitting Chinese ideograms? Or is this too subtle a distinction? Robert Reed. Three Princesses. Reed’s capacity to draw on the minutiae of real life for inspiration is once again displayed, as standing in a queue in a theme park sparks a very sardonic, bleak look at the near future (if that can be called a future). In amongst the plastic themery, the cosmetic surgery, the awfulness of the ongoing war on turr, a father catches a glimpse in the eyes of an AI embodied in a fairytale princess that gives him pause for thought, and reason for hope. Paul Di Filippo. The New Cyberiad. Another author whom I have read less of in recent years, the lack of which is reinforced by a very entertaining story – almost too entertaining, as you can get to the point where the author’s enjoyment at his cleverness can become too much. Not quite here though, in a story of two very far future AI colossi, who, in a post-human (as in late-human or extinct-human) universe are masters of all they survey and they create. Suffering from an almost terminal case of ennui, this very Odd Couple decide that the answer is to go back in time, to bring some real live humans back to their time to offer something different and unexpected. Whilst a simple time travel device is in hand, the challenge of a much more convoluted process tickles their fancy, as does a hot female-type companion, who threatens to throw a spanner into the works and spoil their friendship. Patrick O’Leary. That Laugh. A somewhat more chilling tale, in which an interview takes place, with the person being interrogated being simply a voice coming from a loudspeaker. Is it an alien? An AI? Is it even the one being interrogated? The psychologist who undertakes the interviews has as little success as those who preceded. Gary Kilworth. Alles in Ordnung. A neat little story, although not really about AIs as such. A journalist takes a phone call from a rural farmer, who is phoning in his concerns about the new owners of the neighbouring farm. The farm is much more organised than before, the the point of geometric precision, and when the cows in the field starts grazing in formation, the farmer decides to make tracks out of there at speed. However, the influence of the geometric precision is evidently far reaching. Keith Brooke. Sweats. Brooke’s ‘The Accord’ was one of the stories which impressed in the Solaris Book of New Science Fiction #1, and was Dozois #25ed. This is in the same milieu, and along with a third story, makes up Brooke’s imminent novel ‘The Accord’. Here a man wakes up in the body of someone who has rented out their body for control by such a third party. Typically young, financially constrained people are happy to spend a couple of days uploaded in a virtual reality, whilst their paying visitor uploads into their brain and makes us of their body. In this case the body is being used by a hitman, who proceeds to carry out his task, but not able to leave the body of the person used to carry out the task. And the person whose body it is, is held by the police, as it would transpire that the person who used his body wasn’t in fact a ‘real’ person, but one created from several persona, of one which was his own. (Not sure if I’m explaining this clearly!) The hitman decided that he needs to upload to the virtual heaven, ‘The Accord’ to confront his victim, perversely someone who was campaigning against its very existence. It’s a clever peice, and raises some complex issues which would benefit from greater exploration. Ian Watson. Some Fast Thinking Needed. Watson has been writing SF for 30 years or more, but you wouldn’t guess from this story (nor his others). As with Di Filippo he has fun whilst remaining very much within core SF tropiary. A Suicide Matrioshka is being investigate – an AI which has utilised all the mass in a solar system to build a series of concentric spheres around a star (in this case, a Black Hole), with each in turn filtering the energy of the sun so that the outer sphere can use the energy for almost infinite processing power. To investigate this Mat, a virtual suicide crew is on an intercept mission. The main protagonist is one Mary Marley, who is also five organic chaos clones, each of whom has their own virtual clone. It is the virtual clones, running in a virtual space on a small vessel, who have limited time to live. But at least one of the five, who are not pure clones, but who had random elements introduced when created, is in fact a male, and capable of providing recreational relief to the female crew. (THis is in fact his sole role on board, and he is able to thus concentrate on scale model car racing). So in terms of the title, Watson also hits the spot, as the multiple variations have to react to the imminent First Contact and Last Moments. Unless there is a way to survive? Chris Roberson. Dragon King of the Eastern Sea. In Roberson’s ‘Celestial Empire’ setting, he also provides a neat alternative to Asimovs Three Laws, as the spaceship AI which has got stuck in an infinite loop has to work within the confines of The Three Governing Virtues of Machine Intelligence. Summoned from slumber, the Chief Operator finds not only the AI not working, the ship thus in imminent danger, but the death of a crewmate. He has to work out what is wrong with the AI, which is simply spouting historical texts, and work out whether the death was an accident as thought. Daw and Crowther provide the goods once again, in a pocket-sized collection that manages to 15 almost invariably top quality stories. Subterfuge. Edited by Ian Whates, Newcon Press. 2008 ‘Fast Forward 1’ ed Lou Anders, pub Pyr 2007 Robert Reed. The Speed of Belief. (Asimovs January/February 2017) Robert Reed. The City of Your Soul. (Fantasy and Science Fiction, Nov/Dec 2015) Robert Reed. Empty. (Asimovs December 2015) Robert Reed. The Algorithms of Value. (Clarkesworld Magazine #112, January 2016)	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line47
__label__cc	0.695988	0.304012	In support of Jeffrey Hollender I don't know Jeffrey Hollender, but I know what he stands for. In fact, lots of people know what he stands for because of the incredible job he has done over the years in propelling the green agenda through Seventh Generation, a small company with a big voice and an even bigger impact. Till now, the voice of Seventh Generation has been heard, and respected. On reading the letter to shareholders and employees by Board Chairman Peter Graham reproduced on Marc Gunther's blog, I couldn't help hearing a different voice, one for which I have far less respect. I can't imagine what it feels like to be pushed out of the Company you founded and worked hard to build. I can imagine even less what sort of people you have to be to take a decision like that. Stephen R. Covey taught me (though he may not know it) years ago that things are not always what they seem, and as an outside observer it is clear that all the details of this unfortunate affair are not apparent to all but an inner circle. However, I just cannot imagine what would prompt Board Members of a successful ethical groundbreaking highly praised business to kick out the founder, apparently, in a hostile and morally questionable way. If Seventh Generation were publicly traded, it is about now that I would expect stock price to plunge. To rub salt into the wound, Seventh Generation published its fifth Sustainability Report (called Corporate Consciousness Report) just recently, following previous award winning reports. The 09 report is fully online.What a hollow ring there is now to the words of the same Peter Graham in his opening remarks: "Jeffrey remains very much a part of the Seventh Generation family in his new role as chief inspired protagonist and executive chairperson. “In the end, I am moving on, yet have no intention of going anywhere at all,” he said in announcing the change. “Indeed my own future echoes Seventh Generation’s: There is no road map for what we’re building here, and the adventure is really just beginning.”" Guess the adventure was somewhat different to the one Jeffrey envisaged. I suspect Jeffrey Hollender is not the sort of guy to be beaten and I doubt he will disappear from the sustainability scene. In fact, I expect he will emerge from this incident stronger, more determined and probably more creative, and will continue to influence public opinion and corporate practices. First, Jeffrey, I wish you good luck! Second, I hope you will turn this to your advantage. To the team at the top of Seventh Generation, I say that the distance between a successful company and a dead one is very short. All eyes will be on Seventh Generation leadership, waiting for another move which offends our sense of justice, respect and morality. If that happens, then we can truly start peparing the Seventh Generation Eulegy. In the meantime, the jury is out. (Thanks to Fabian Pattberg for his post on this subject, and subsequent comments by Christine Arena, who prompted me to weigh in on this issue) elaine cohen, CSR consultant, Sustainabilty Reporter, HR Professional, Ice Cream Addict. Author of CSR for HR: A necessary partnership for advancing responsible business practices Contact me via www.twitter.com/elainecohen on Twitter or via my business website www.b-yond.biz/en (BeyondBusiness, CSR consulting and Sustainability Reporting firm) Labels: csr reports, jeffrey hollender, seventh Generation, sustainability Your article was great, as a person close to the AMAZING Hollender family, I can assure you that you are correct with your statements, one, that Jeff doesn't deserve this and that the people that forced him to leave, were people he created, and that he is not the kind of person to be bested. Jeff will undoubtedly come out of this on top, and Jeff's efforts in sustainable economics has not gone unnoticed, companies are just waiting to get someone like Jeff, the best is yet to come. Carol Sanford said... I echo these sentiments. As a shareholder in Seventh Generation, I was informed after the fact and would have fought for a different approach and outcome. I am hoping everyone will join me in pushing for more transparency which is what SVG has as it core value. Don't stop asking questions. I am not worried about Jeffrey at all. He is resilient, but more importantly he is a person who knows how to grow himself, beyond all else. I have worked closely with him and love he and his family. He is already sharing this as another transformational story in the path of his life. I only hope it can be the same for the Board and current leadership. And that that the company I also love can rise from this and learn. With transparency is has a chance. Hello Zack and Carol, thank you for reading and weighing in with your insights. warm regards, elaine What they said at the CSR conference The New CSR Social Media Index. Essential Reading 12 CSR Reporting Trends for 2011 CSR in six words Is one-way CR reporting dead? Sustainability Reporting - going too far? 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__label__wiki	0.792446	0.792446	National Lottery funding to restore and explore Herefordshire’s Ice Age kettle hole ponds 17th January 2020 newsKate 15 projects across the UK have been awarded a share of £7.4 million from the National Lottery to take action for nature, including a project in north west Herefordshire developed by Herefordshire Wildlife Trust in partnership with Herefordshire Amphibian and Reptile Team and Herefordshire and Worcestershire Earth Heritage Trust. Species and habitats on the verge of extinction have been handed a lifeline as The National Lottery Heritage Fund announces £7.3 million to take action for nature across the UK. The Conserving Herefordshire’s Ice Age Ponds project in Herefordshire has been awarded £252,600 to protect remaining kettle hole ponds in the county which provide a unique and rare habitat for wildlife. The project will officially start in the next couple of months and will open with the launch of the Ice Age Herefordshire exhibition at Hereford Museum on 4 April 2020. The Ice Age Ponds project will have a big section in the exhibition. (Hereford Museum opening times etc. here) Herefordshire’s Ice Age ponds, often referred to as kettle-hole ponds, were created around 20,000 years ago during the last Ice Age, when woolly mammoths were still roaming the area. Herefordshire’s Ice Age Ponds are particularly special, as they can hold an undisturbed record of our climate and wildlife since the time when the glaciers retreated. They are also extremely important today as habitats for some of the county’s most precious pond species, including the highly protected great crested newt, the rare and mysterious medicinal leech and an extremely rare water beetle (Graphoderus cinereus). Sadly, these nationally rare and important ponds are still being damaged and destroyed, thereby losing some of our most irreplaceable natural heritage. Initial National Lottery funding enabled a development phase to take place last year when ponds were mapped and surveyed, allowing the project team to see exactly what was needed to go ahead with restoration. The development phase also provided an opportunity to engage with local communities and an army of enthusiastic volunteers were trained in pond survey techniques, supported by visits to local schools and other community events. Andrew Nixon, Senior Conservation Manager at Herefordshire Wildlife Trust, said: ‘This is a fantastic opportunity to restore ponds which have been key features of Herefordshire’s landscapes for literally thousands of years. Over this time, the ponds have formed an important network across the countryside which many species of wildlife relied upon. Over recent decades, as ponds have ceased to be needed on farms or in villages, ponds have been filled in, or simply become overgrown, and the wildlife associated with this habit is being lost.’ Dr Angela Julian, Coordinator of Amphibian and Reptile Groups of UK, said: ‘As well as preserving our precious local biodiversity, this exciting new project is an important step to prevent us from losing these unique and ancient ponds from our landscape, and by engaging communities in their restoration will ensure that they will persist for future generations to enjoy.’ As the ponds are restored, interpretation will also be created to explain the importance of the ponds. This will include signs and walking and cycling routes but also digital interpretation allowing people a glimpse into the pre-historic past through their smart phones! Since 1994, the National Lottery has invested £829 million into nature and wildlife projects. Drew Bennellick, Head of Land and Nature Policy at The National Lottery Heritage Fund, said: ‘Urgent action is needed to help nature recover. National Lottery funding is creating incredible opportunities for people to take such action for species under threat and, crucially, equipping a new generation with the skills and passions to make a real difference for the future of our natural world.’ Subscriptions for 2020 now due Subscriptions for 2020 are now due. Still a bargain at £5.00 per household!! Thank you to those who have already paid, or kindly pay by standing order. To go to our subscription page please click here Expert unlocks mechanics of how snakes move in a straight line 21st May 2018 newsKate Snakes are known for their iconic S-shaped movements. But they have a less noticeable skill that gives them a unique superpower. Snakes can crawl in a straight line. University of Cincinnati biologist Bruce Jayne studied the mechanics of snake movement to understand exactly how they can propel themselves forward like a train through a tunnel. “It’s a very good way to move in confined spaces,” Jayne said. “A lot of heavy-bodied snakes use this locomotion: vipers, boa constrictors, anacondas and pythons.” Snakes typically swim, climb or crawl by bending their spine into serpentine coils or using the leading edges to push off objects. An extreme example of their diversity of movement gives the sidewinder rattlesnake its name. Jayne already has unlocked the mechanics of three kinds of snake locomotion called concertina, serpentine and sidewinding. But the straightforward movement of snakes, called “rectilinear locomotion,” has got less attention, he said. See the website for more of the article	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line60
__label__cc	0.710385	0.289615	GroundworksConcrete FramesBuilding SlipformPost Tension StructuresWater TreatmentsPower StationsCivil SlipformHighwaysRailEnergy ProjectsTestimonials Job VacanciesMeet The TeamDocuments NewsGalleryContact Norton Street Landmark Gateway Student Village Location: Liverpool, Merseyside Contract Value: £4.5m Contract Duration: 58 Weeks Norton Street is the latest landmark development for the city of Liverpool and will serve as the gateway to the city from the north through one of the historic main routes. Situated in Liverpool's £2bn Knowledge Quarter, Norton Street will provide 738 beds across 220,000 sq. ft. of space for students, bringing with it crucial regeneration to an area much in need of it. Redevelopment of this site will act as a catalyst for further development of the Islington corner due to the 'landmark concept' of the project provides a reference point for the future redevelopment of the area. Given the historic nature of the adjacent roads providing much of the early traffic into the city, the Norton Street development has the potential to act as a gateway into Liverpool - announcing to visitors and residents that they have arrived in the city-centre. The project's architects envisioned a statement high-rise scheme with an eye catching façade including exposed concrete columns. The unique design of angled concrete columns at the entrance to the building presents engineering complexities that Hampsey, together with Create Construction, were comprehensively able to overcome. Hampsey had been contracted by Create Construction of Blackpool to provide reinforced concrete frames using slip-form, pre-cast and inset construction for two of the towers. The faith placed in us by Create for a landmark project shows that Hampsey is more than capable of performing under the pressures of such an important project without letting our high standards slip. Skilled & Experienced With thirty years of experience as a specialist in concrete construction, we are rapidly becoming one of the leading contractors in the country, making a positive impact on the UK’s construction market. Unrivalled Knowledge We are fully committed to the management and the implementation of safe working practices on site and have established an enviable record for successfully undertaking complex and demanding projects. We conduct our business in a manner that minimises adverse effects on the environment. We maintain an awareness of all legislation and codes of practice regarding the environment to ensure compliance. Building A Future We manage all projects closely and communicate clearly with clients and their stakeholders. We aim to be the contractor of choice for all sectors in which we are employed and strive to be the best at what we do. 01246 267 570 07702 285 780 01246 267 569 Dunston Innovation Centre, Dunston Road, Chesterfield, S41 8NG Copyright Hampsey Ltd © 2022 \| Web Design Nottingham By www.getyouonline.co.uk HTML5 CSS3 Sitemap	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line69
__label__cc	0.70118	0.29882	Cheesy Surprise: Canadian Air Traffic Controllers Send Pizza to US Peers Amid Shutdown Canadian air traffic controllers showed support for their American peers who are working during the partial US government shutdown by sending them pizza. The Canadian Air Traffic Control Association units in Newfoundland and New Brunswick ordered 32 boxes of pizza for their counterparts in the New York Air Traffic Control Center in Long Island on Friday (Jan. 11). It was a welcome gesture of cheesy goodwill. The gesture snowballed. As of Monday (Jan. 14), Canadian air traffic controllers have sent pizzas to 35 different units in the US. “It’s nice to see that there’s solidarity out there,” former air traffic controller David Lombardo told the CBC. There’s people out there who are just saying, ‘Hey, I work with you as a friend or a colleague and here’s a nice gesture of friendship.’ “It’s a really good shot in the arm of positive energy,” says Doug Church, a rep for the USA National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA). ‘Hey Canada, Thank You!’ Lombardo shared an image of the notice on Reddit. “Hey Canada, THANK YOU!!!” the note read. Lombardo says aviation workers are a “really tight-knit group,” so the good deed reaffirmed those warm feelings. Moreover, the pizza was awesome. It’s really good pizza. And this is Long Island. Believe me, we are pizza perfectionists. 20 Prior US Government Shutdowns The US air traffic workers enjoyed the pizza, but said they loved the good vibes even more. On behalf of the entire NATCA and air traffic control around this country, we extend our thanks and our gratitude. Importantly, there are 800,000 federal employees who are affected by the shutdown, which began on December 22, 2018. They will receive back pay once the shutdown ends — as happened during the 20 previous shutdowns. Showdown Over Border Wall Notably, the shutdown started after President Donald Trump asked the Democrat-led House of Representatives for $5 billion to build a wall along the US-Mexico border. Trump says the wall is needed to stem the tsunami of illegal immigration, illicit drugs, and human trafficking. For decades, Democrats like former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton insisted that a border fence was necessary to curb illegal immigration. When President Trump took office, the Democrats changed their tune. They now say the wall is unnecessary and too expensive. Meanwhile, illegal immigration costs US taxpayers $113 billion a year, according to the Federation for American Immigration Reform. This is part of the reason why the US national debt now tops $21 trillion. In their State of the Union speeches, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama opposed illegal immigration and proposed the very things @realDonaldTrump is doing now to protect our citizens. Help me with a term for this. #Hypocrites? #TwoFaced? #FlipFloppers? pic.twitter.com/7oe0MIuc6R — John White (@Timeonhands) December 7, 2018 Featured image from Shutterstock. PeersPizza	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line70
__label__cc	0.718274	0.281726	Cleaned and Augmented Logs (including RBN data) for CQ WW CW and SSB Contests, 2005 to 2019 Cleaned and augmented versions of the logs for the CQ WW CW and SSB contests are now available for the period 2005 to 2019. Links to the cleaned and augmented logs may be followed here. The cleaned logs are the result of processing the QSO: lines from the entrants' submitted Cabrillo files to ensure that all fields contain valid values and all the data match the format required in the rules. Any line containing illegal data in a field (for example, a zone number greater than 40, or a date/time stamp that is outside the contest period) has simply been removed. Also, only the QSO: lines are retained, so that each line in the file can be processed easily. All zones are rendered with two digits, so as to further simplify processing by scripts or programs. The augmented logs contain the same information as the cleaned logs, but with the addition of some useful (derived) information on each line. In addition to the actual logs, two additional sources of information are used when appropriate: AD1C has recently made accessible historical cty.dat and associated files. A copy of the cty,dat files is here. These allow us to use callsign-based multiplier lists as they would have existed at the time of each contest. From 2009 onwards, the Reverse Beacon Network (RBN) has been available for the CW contests. This allows us to include the time since a station was last posted by the RBN (see below for details). The information added to each line of the augmented logs comprises: A sequence of four characters that are the same for each entry in a particular log: a. letter "A" or "U" indicating "assisted" or "unassisted" b. letter "Q", "L", "H" or "U", indicating respectively QRP, low power, high power or unknown power level c. letter "S", "M", "C" or "U", indicating respectively a single-operator, multi-operator, checklog or unknown operator category [ the contest organisers have stated that checklogs are not made public, but in fact at least some of them from the early years have been, hence the need for the "C" category ] d. character "1", "2", "+" or "U", indicating respectively that the number of transmitters is one, two, unlimited or unknown A four-digit number representing the time if the contact in minutes measured from the start of the contest. (I realise that this can be calculated from the other information on the line, but it saves subsequent script-based processors of the file considerable time to have the number readily available in the file without having to calculate it for each QSO.) A set of fourteen flags, each -- apart from column k and column n -- encoded as T/F: a. QSO is confirmed by a log from the second party b. QSO is a reverse bust (i.e., the second party appears to have bust the call of the first party) c. QSO is an ordinary bust (i.e., the first party appears to have bust the call of the second party) d. the call of the second party is unique e. QSO appears to be a NIL f. QSO is with a station that did not send in a log, but who did make 20 or more QSOs in the contest g. QSO appears to be a country mult h. QSO appears to be a zone mult i. QSO is a zone bust (i.e., the received zone appears to be a bust) j. QSO is a reverse zone bust (i.e. the second party appears to have bust the zone of the first party) k. This entry has three possible values rather than just T/F: T: QSO appears to be made during a run by the first party F: QSO appears not to be made during a run by the first party U: the run status is unknown because insufficient frequency information is available in the first party's log l. QSO is a dupe m. QSO is a dupe in the second party's log n. RBN information (see below) If the QSO is a reverse bust, the call logged by the second party; otherwise, the placeholder "-" If the QSO is an ordinary bust, the correct call that should have been logged by the first party; otherwise, the placeholder "-" If the QSO is a reverse zone bust, the zone logged by the second party; otherwise, the placeholder "-" If the QSO is an ordinary zone bust, the correct zone that should have been logged by the first party; otherwise, the placeholder "-" RBN Information In the CW contests from 2009 onwards, the RBN was active, automatically spotting the frequency at which any station calling CQ was transmitting. To reflect possible use of RBN information, the augmented files now include a fourteenth flag. For the sake of uniformity, this column is present in all the augmented files, regardless of whether the RBN actually contributed useful information to a particular contest. Each QSO has one of several characters in the fourteenth column of flags. These characters should be interpreted as follows: No useful RBN-derived information is available for this QSO. '0' The worked station (i.e., the second call on the log line) appears to have begun to CQ on this frequency within (roughly) 60 seconds prior to the QSO. 'A' to 'Z' For the nth letter of the alphabet: the worked station appears to have been CQing on this frequency for (roughly) n minutes prior to the QSO. The worked station appears to have been CQing for more than 26 minutes on this frequency. '<' Because the the RBN is distributed, and because each contest entrant station has its own clock, there is generally a skew between the reading of the clock of the station making the QSO and the timestamp from the RBN at which it believes a posting was made (indeed, it's unclear from the RBN's [lack of] documentation exactly how the timestamp on an individual RBN posting is to be interpreted). If the character '<' appears in the the RBN column, it indicates that the raw values of the clocks suggest that the QSO took place up to two minutes before the RBN reported the worked station commencing to CQ at this frequency. When this occurs, the most likely interpretation is that there is non-negligible skew between the two clocks, and the station was actually worked almost as soon as a CQ was posted by the RBN. This character also appears if the RBN erroneously posts the worked station as CQing at this frequency shortly after the QSO. But it might also mean that the entrant was simply lucky and found the CQing station just as it fired up on a new frequency. The encoding of some of the flags requires subjective decisions to be made as to whether the flag should be true or false; consequently, and because CQ has yet to understand the importance of making their scoring code public, the value of a flag for a specific QSO line in some circumstances might not match the value that CQ would assign. (Also, CQ has more data available in the form of check logs, which are generally not made public.) I made no attempt to deduce or infer the run status of a QSO in the second party's log (if such exists), regardless of the status in the first party's log. This allows one cleanly to perform correct statistical analyses anent the number of QSOs made by running stations merely by excluding QSOs marked with a U in column k. No attempt is made to detect the case in which both participants of a QSO bust the other station's call. This is a problematic situation because of the relatively high probability of a false positive unless both stations accurately log the frequency as opposed to merely the band. (Also, on bands on which split-frequency QSOs are common, the absence of both transmit and receive frequency is a problem; I confess that I have never understood why Cabrillo was not designed to report both transmit and receive frequencies -- or even to define clearly which frequency is to be reported. I digress.) Because of the likelihood of false positives, it seems better, given the presumed rarity of double-bust QSOs, that no attempt be made to mark them. The entries for the zones in the case of zone or reverse zone busts are normalised to two-digit values. Continent-Based Analyses from 2019 CQ WW SSB and C... Zone-Based Analyses from 2019 CQ WW SSB and CQ WW ... Statistics from 2019 CQ WW SSB and CQ WW CW logs Evaluating Station Contributions to the Reverse Be... Video Maps of CQ WW CW QSOs, 2005 to 2019 HF Beacons and the Reverse Beacon Network, 2019 Summary File for RBN data, 2009 to 2019 RBN Signals From DXpeditions in 2019 Video Maps of CQ WW SSB QSOs, 2005 to 2019 Reverse Beacon Network Actvity: 2009-2019 2019 RBN data	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line73
__label__wiki	0.642462	0.642462	Jurassic, Tertiary and Quaternary around Great Ayton and Roseberry Topping, Cleveland Hills - an excursion From Earthwise Revision as of 13:26, 5 August 2019 by Scotfot (talk \| contribs) (→‎Locality 4 [NZ 572 118]) A checked version of this page, approved on 5 August 2019, was based on this revision. Scrutton, Colin and Powell, John, Editors. Yorkshire rocks and landscape: a field guide. 2006. 3rd edition. Published by the Yorkshire Geological Society . Copyright Yorkshire Geological Society. Figure 11.1 Geological map of the area around Great Ayton and Roseberry Topping, showing the route. Figure 11.2 Roseberry Topping (Locality 5), viewed from the east. Photo : J. Senior. 1 11 The Jurassic, Tertiary and Quaternary around Great Ayton and Roseberry Topping, Cleveland Hills 5 Geological and geomorphological background 6 Excursion details 6.1 Locality 1 [NZ 563 114], at the junction with the A173. 6.2 Locality 2 [NZ 566 119] 6.3 Locality 3 [NZ 570 118]–[NZ 576 116] 6.5 Locality 5, Roseberry Topping [NZ 579 126] 6.9 Locality 9 [NZ 594 112]-[NZ 594 111] 7 Glossary 11 The Jurassic, Tertiary and Quaternary around Great Ayton and Roseberry Topping, Cleveland Hills By John Senior formerly Durham University and James Rose Royal Holloway, University of London To examine the Lower and Middle Jurassic sedimentary succession and the Tertiary Cleveland Dyke intrusion in the area around Great Ayton and Roseberry Topping; to investigate how this rock sequence, together with the late Quaternary glaciation of the area, controls the form of the landscape. This section was compiled in 2006 when the printed guidebook was published. Before visiting this site please ensure you have up-to-date contact and access information. This is a gentle full-day excursion covering 12.5 km. Numerous recognized paths and bridleways allow the route to be easily altered, shortened, lengthened or taken in reverse order. Park in Great Ayton, near the Tourist Information Office [NZ 563 107], or at the Gribdale Gate car park [NZ 593 110], which is usually used for visits to the Cook Monument. Theft from cars is a serious risk at more remote sites. If travelling by train, Great Ayton station [NZ 575 108] is on the line from Middlesbrough, via Nunthorpe and the Esk valley, to Whitby. There are toilets, cafes and pubs in Great Ayton, but no other facilities en route. O.S. 1:50 000 Sheet 93, Middlesbrough & Darlington; O.S. 1:25 000 Outdoor Leisure Sheet 26, North York Moors, Western Area (preferred); B.G.S. 1:63 360 Sheet 34, Guisborough. Geological and geomorphological background The area is on the western edge of the steep Cleveland Hills escarpment (Cleveland: in the Orkneyinga Saga Klifland or Clifa-land 'district of cliffs'), a classic piece of escarpment country with steep north- and west-facing slopes composed of softer Lower Jurassic rocks (in part Liassic shales) capped by more resistant Middle Jurassic sandstones. Roseberry Topping, a prominent landmark throughout the Cleveland Basin, is an erosional outlier, where the Middle Jurassic sandstone (Ravenscar Group) is detached from the main plateau. This Lower to Middle Jurassic sedimentary succession dips gently towards the south-southeast. Where the sandstones form the parent materials, acid soils characterize the upland plateaux, producing the heather moorland that is so characteristic of the North York Moors. Although the Liassic sediments on the scarp slope are generally softer shales, the Middle Lias does include two more durable rock formations: the Staithes Formation and the Cleveland Ironstone Formation. Both form minor bench-like features and escarpments on the scarp slopes. The intrusion of the Cleveland Dyke some 59 Ma ago has had a strong influence on the local landscape. This hard tholeiitic dyke (part of the dyke swarm from the Mull volcanic centre) forms the core of the west-northwest trending Langbaugh Ridge, visible from Great Ayton and Roseberry Topping. A local source of road metal, this dyke has been extensively quarried in the past too years or so. The dyke is about 25 m wide near Great Ayton and seems to have been regionally injected as a series of en echelon segments. In the Cliff Ridge Quarry near Great Ayton there is some evidence that the dyke was injected in leaves, separated by sediment screens; the Liassic dyke wall rocks have undergone incipient contact metamorphism. Evidence for glaciation in the region takes the form of tills, glaciofluvial sands and gravels and lacustrine silts and clays on the lower slopes and in the valley bottoms. Additionally, glacial meltwater channels, located in anomalous positions without a drainage catchment, have been recognized and used as evidence to determine the slope of the glacier surface and the pattern of ice wastage. This evidence is attributed to the Dimlington Stadial of the Late Devensian Glaciation, when glaciers extended southward in eastern England to the region of the Wash, reaching their maximal extent about 17 000 14C yrs BP. Ice probably melted from the region sometime between about 16–15 000 14C yrs BP (Catt in Ehlers & Rose, 1991) This ice failed to cover the higher parts of the Cleveland Hills, but was responsible for infilling the valley bottoms, reducing the relative relief of the region and significantly changing the valley bottom topography, producing many buried valleys throughout northeast England. Although not glacierized during the Dimlington Stadial it is probable that the higher slopes were overridden by ice at some time earlier in the Quaternary, as resistant erratic pebbles have been recorded from the plateau surfaces of the Cleveland Hills. There is, as yet, no evidence to estimate the age of this earlier glaciation(s). People have had a long-term influence on the landscape in this part of the Cleveland Hills. Mesolithic, Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age peoples settled the region, helping to create the present-day 'grouse moor' landscape of the upland areas by forest clearance. Their presence is evidenced by well-defined ridge routes as well as numerous defensive sites, enclosures, field patterns, clearance cairns and burial tumuli. Monastic sheep farming created grange communities with associated field holdings, and medival iron smelting using local iron ores also added to the wealth of the Abbey or Priory. Sedimentary iron ore extraction (from the Cleveland Ironstone Formation) in the 19th century, by opencast and deep mine methods, has left a visible legacy of industrial archaeology. Large-scale Alum Shale workings have also left their mark on the Cleveland Hills landscape. Jet mining from the Upper Lias Shales (Mulgrave Shale Member) in the i gth century was more localized but the extraction bell pits can still be seen. Excursion details From the Tourist Information Centre, Great Ayton [NZ 563 107], walk northwards along Newton Road. Note that the older properties in the village are built of a fine-quality reddish-brown sandstone with characteristic worked chevron tooling. One of the sources for this Middle Jurassic building stone can be visited at Locality 8. Also note the Tile Yard Pub, an indication that pan tiles were locally manufactured from glacial lake clays. Locality 1 [NZ 563 114], at the junction with the A173. Look north to the very evident Langbaugh Ridge, the core of which is the Tertiary Cleveland Dyke. Differential erosion of the softer Lower Liassic sediments from around this dyke has resulted in this prominent feature which stretches west-northwest into the Tees Basin. Tills mask the bedrock on either side of the ridge. Langbaugh Ridge has been extensively quarried for roadstone [NZ 555 123]–[NZ 564 120]. Continue up the A173 to the summit of the ridge and take the bridle road east-southeast towards Cliff Ridge Wood and Roseberry Topping. Locality 2 [NZ 566 119] Just before crossing the railway bridge, stop to contemplate the magnificent view of Roseberry Topping to the northeast (Figure 11.2). The stepped profile of this Teesside landmark is easy to interpret, with the more resistant parts of the Jurassic succession (chiefly sandstones and ironstones) producing the cap rock and scarp edge bench features. The cliff to the south of the hill with the area of disturbed ground in front results from a spectacular rotational landslide, generated on Liassic shales with the feature accentuated by mining and stone quarrying. Continue into the deep roadstone workings in Cliff Ridge Wood. Locality 3 [NZ 570 118]–[NZ 576 116] The deep ravines through this wooded ridge result from extensive extraction of the dyke rock for road metal. Large blocks of the tholeiite, containing large crystals (phenocrysts) of feldspar set in a fine-grained matrix, can still be seen scattered throughout the workings. In some areas of the south wall minor leaves of the dyke, with associated sediment screens, may still be viewed in situ. All the wall rocks of the dyke show incipient contact metamorphism and these more indurate sediments form the sheer walls and pinnacles. (This locality can be dangerous, with sheer drops masked by trees and shrubs; there is also the danger of falling blocks from the wall areas.) The dyke has been intruded into Lower Jurassic sediments. Approaching from the west the first sediments encountered are the silty shales of the Ironstone Shales (Lower Pliensbachian; Upper Redcar Mudstone Formation). These shales with nodule horizons are characteristic of the upper part of the Lower Lias; they tend to be poorly fossiliferous but occasional bivalves and the characteristic ammonite Androgynoceras (davoei Biozone) may be found. Eastwards, the sediments become more silty and eventually grade imperceptibly into the silts and sandstones of the shallower-water deposits of the Staithes Formation (Middle Lias; Upper Pliensbachian). It is difficult to view these sediments in situ as they often form the upper levels of the quarry ravines. However, numerous fallen blocks show these marine impure sandstones to be richly fossiliferous with common Middle Lias bivalves such as Pseudopecten, Protocardia, Pseudolima, Liostrea and Pholadomya as well as numerous belemnites and the brachiopod Tetrarhynchia. More rarely, the index ammonite Amaltheus might be found (margaritatus Biozone), and brittle stars. The fossils almost always occur as natural moulds as the rock has been decalcified. Return westwards to the start of the ravine area and take a path to the right to join the public right of way through the woods to the north of the quarry area. At the top of the hill are the remains of the winding house and incline for the mineral line from the Roseberry Ironstone Mines. Continue due east towards Airy Holme Farm (Airy = Norse/Irish for 'shieling', i.e. summer pasture residence) where a southeastward-sloping glacial drainage channel formed during the melting of the last ice sheet. Just before the first house, turn north-northwest up the marked right of way along the field boundary towards Roseberry Topping. Note the prominent bench feature between Roseberry Topping and Cliff Ridge Wood, formed by the sandstones of Middle Lias Staithes Formation [NZ 574 121]. Under favourable conditions the continuation of the mineral line may be seen diagonally cutting the field to your left, crossing the path at [NZ 576 119] and continuing to the east in a shallow cutting. Near here, erratic boulders, hand cleared from the fields, may be seen in heaps at the field boundaries. They include the distinctive Shap Granite from Cumbria, indicating ice flow from that region, across the Stainmore gap of the Pennines, to the lower Tees valley and Cleveland. Ultimately the ice moved southwards and across the eastern side of the Cleveland Hills and North York Moors. Continuing northeast towards Roseberry Topping, the path (at about 230 m OD) starts to skirt the eastern edge of the landslip and has been in part stepped using Middle Jurassic flaggy sandstones, some of which have small tridactyl theropod dinosaur prints on the top surfaces. Note the large and jumbled blocks of sandstone on the disturbed ground to the west. To the southeast are areas of vegetated abandoned quarries and isolated pits in the field nearby, where sedimentary ironstones of the Cleveland Ironstone Formation (Middle Lias) have been extracted. The steep path towards the summit of Roseberry Topping crosses the horizon of the Mulgrave Shale Member (Whitby Mudstone Formation, Upper Lias), marked by small bell pits for jet in the heather to the east of the path. Occasionally small pieces of jet may be found in this vicinity. At the head of the landslip the fine cliff formed of trough cross-bedded sandstone (Saltwick Formation; Middle Jurassic) may be examined by traversing westwards from the path. These massive beds, which include slump structures, intraformational conglomerates and ironstone concretions, are underlain in places by Middle Jurassic Roseberry Topping Plant Bed (channel fill deposits) containing the cycads Nilssonia, Ptilophyllum, Thinfeldia and Zamites, and stems of the horsetail Equisetites. These plant beds should not be damaged in any way. Locality 5, Roseberry Topping [NZ 579 126] On a clear day Roseberry Topping, capped by the Middle Jurassic sandstone outlier, affords fine views of the Eston Hills and Teesside to the north, the Cleveland Hills escarpment to the southwest, and Eskdale and the North York Moors to the southeast. The ridge formed by the Cleveland Dyke intrusion can be seen stretching out west-northwest into the Liassic and Triassic lowlands with their cover of glaciogenic sediments. Walking east on the ridge path (Cleveland Way) between Roseberry Topping and Newton Moor you can see to the south uneven grassed terrain, the working areas (with remains of the mineral railway) associated with the Roseberry ironstone workings [NZ 584 124]. Some 2 km to the southeast, at the same geographical and geological level, is the even larger area of disturbed ground of the Ayton Banks Mines. Here the overlying Alum Shale Member (Whitby Mudstone Formation, Upper Lias) was also exploited as feed stock for alum production. The extensive exploitation of the sedimentary iron ores of the Cleveland Ironstone Formation (Middle Lias) in the area is witnessed by many mine adits and opencast workings. Before the Cleveland Way reaches the edge of the escarpment it passes over a series of earthworks. Some of these are of recent origin — sandstone quarries for local walling. However one deeper excavation cutting north–south across the watershed may be a defensive ditch. The route now follows the Cleveland Way southwards along the edge of the escarpment which is capped by deltaic sediments of the Middle Jurassic (Saltwick Formation). These sediments form a prominent feature, now largely masked by conifer plantations. Here views may be had of the escarpment with a spring line at the junction between the sandstones and the underlying Upper Lias shales. A prominent quarry on the escarpment [NZ 589 127] may have provided good quality building sandstone (from a discrete channel fill facies) for local buildings. The bulk of the Middle Jurassic sandstones capping the escarpment and dip slope of Newton and Great Ayton Moors are of poor quality, soft and thin-bedded with interleaves of clay. This is a classic area of modern grouse moor management, with strips of heather cover being burnt off in rotation to provide new heather growth for the grouse to eat. This technique of controlled burning often exposes evidence of occupation of these upland areas and the area to the east of the Cleveland Way along the ridge has numerous examples of burial monuments, field boundaries and enclosures, and cairn fields (piles of stone collected from field areas). At the northern edge of High Intake Plantation the route may be varied. Continue directly to Locality 9 via the conspicuous group of three cist burial chambers with associated enclosures [NZ 595 114], or take one of the many sheep tracks eastwards across the moor towards the quarry complex marked on the O.S. map (Locality 8). A well-trodden path follows the valley side between the Great Ayton Moor and the quarry. The quarry here is large and has been worked as a source of good building sandstone from one of the Middle Jurassic channel infills (Saltwick Formation). The importance of this quarry is in its superb illustration of quarrying methods and stone dressing (possibly 18th and 19th century). Only the thick beds (3–6 m) of best-quality stone have been worked; the overburden of poor-quality, inter-channel, soft, silty sandstones with coal lenses having been ignored or scraped off. The massive sandstones (cross-bedded in places) seem to have been worked without the use of explosives, and many of the remaining working faces show extensive tool marks produced when levering out the blocks. This quarry seems to have been abandoned in production and many half-dressed blocks of ashlar can be seen, with the possible remains of stone-based working tables (bankers). The dressed ashlar blocks have the characteristic chevron finish as seen in Great Ayton and elsewhere in Cleveland and the North York Moors. Fine views of Lonsdale and the Esk valley may be had from the quarry top. Leave the quarry by the rutted trackways that skirt the hill to the southwest. Pass by a very large Iron Age ditched rectangular enclosure and a smaller enclosure nearby [NZ 599 133]. This pathway also passes a smaller sandstone quarry at [NZ 595 112] (other sandstone quarries may be seen above the car park at [NZ 592 111] and [NZ 591 109]. Locality 9 [NZ 594 112]-[NZ 594 111] Where this minor track reaches the well-developed track near a small beck, follow the stream bed downhill. In the stream section thin-bedded sandstones of Middle Jurassic age are underlain by a thick sequence of shales. Some disturbed ground on this junction together with loose blocks of ironstone suggest that the Dogger Formation (Aalenian, Middle Jurassic) may have been worked by opencast methods at this locality. Occasional finds of Dactylioceras commune in the shale sequence at [NZ 594 111] indicate the presence of the Alum Shale Member (Whitby Mudstone Formation; Upper Lias). The track then passes through the col known as Gribdale Gate [NZ 592 110] which is believed to have been used by meltwater drainage during the wastage of the last ice sheet, and may have been formed by meltwater erosion at an earlier time in the Quaternary. Join the road near the car park [NZ 583 110] Note that the tracks from the sandstone quarries head towards Great Ayton. A gentle downhill road leads back to the station or Great Ayton, with views of the Ayton Bank iron mines and Alum Shales workings on your left. At all times follow: Countryside code and Code of conduct for geological field work Retrieved from ‘http://earthwise.bgs.ac.uk/index.php?title=Jurassic,_Tertiary_and_Quaternary_around_Great_Ayton_and_Roseberry_Topping,_Cleveland_Hills_-_an_excursion&oldid=41790’ 9. Eastern England from the Tees to the Wash About Earthwise	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line75
__label__wiki	0.691561	0.691561	Eco-finance Major Power Relations Resident Fellow Non-Resident Senior Fellow ABOUT RDCY Your Present Location ：Home > LATEST INSIGHTS Vijay Prashad: Multinationals and oil companies are imposing their greed on the people of Mozambique By: Vijay Prashad Source: Globetrotter Published:2020-09-11 Three years ago, on October 5, 2017, fighters with the Al Sunnah wa Jama’ah (ASWJ) entered the town of Mocímboa da Praia in northern Mozambique. They attacked three police stations, and then withdrew. Since then, this group—which has since proclaimed its allegiance to the Islamic State—has continued its battle, including capturing the port of Mocímboa da Praia in August 2020. Mozambique’s military has floundered. Under pressure from the International Monetary Fund, Mozambique’s government has cut the salaries of government employees, including the military. It now relies on private security companies hired by multinational corporations to do its fighting; this outsourcing of defense is permitted by the IMF and the wealthy creditors. That is why Mozambique’s Ministry of Interior has hired the South African Dyck Advisory Group (DAG), the Russian Wagner Group, and Erik Prince’s Frontier Services Group. Colonel Lionel Dyck, the head of the Dyck Group, recently told Hannes Wessels that “The Mozambican Defense Forces are unprepared and under-resourced.” Dyck, Wagner, and Frontier Services Group are joined in northern Mozambique by a range of other mercenary security forces (such as Arkhê Risk Solutions and GardaWorld) hired by the French energy company Total and the US energy company ExxonMobil. Both firms have interests in the gas fields in Area 1 and Area 4 of Mozambique’s Rovuma Basin, which increases the country’s natural gas reserves to 100 trillion cubic feet (third only to Nigeria and Algeria in Africa). These firms are to invest more than $55 billion in the extraction of natural gas and in the construction of liquefaction plants. Total, the French firm, and Mozambique’s government signed a deal to create a joint force to provide security to these gas fields. Mozambique’s minister of mineral resources and energy—Max Tonela—said that this deal “reinforces security measures and efforts to create a safe operating environment for partners like Total.” The narrative fed by Total, Mozambique’s government, and the private security firms is that the conflict in northern Mozambique is authored by the Islamists, and that all measures must be taken to thwart this three-year-old insurgency. The Forgotten Cape This area of northern Mozambique—Cabo Delgado—is known colloquially as the “forgotten cape” or Cabo Esquecido. A study of government statistics shows that the people of this part of Mozambique—where the anti-colonial war against the Portuguese broke out on September 25, 1964—experience all the traps of poverty: low income, high illiteracy, and low morale. Lack of opportunities alongside social aspirations led to the emergence of various forms of economic activity, including artisanal mining for rubies and trafficking of Afghan heroin toward South Africa. The arrival of Islamism simply provided another outlet for the deep frustrations of sections of the population. It is called the “forgotten cape” because not much of Mozambique’s social wealth has come into the communities of the region; it is not forgotten by the oil and gas companies. These companies—and their predecessors such as Texas-based Anadarko—as well as the other large multinationals such as Montepuez Ruby Mining (owned by the UK-based Gemfields) have participated in the eviction of thousands of people from their homes and livelihoods. Given permission by the government in Maputo to settle the land to remove the rubies and the natural gas, these firms have returned little to the people of the north. The Phantom of ISIS There’s nothing like the appearance of Islamist groups that fly the flag of ISIS to allow Western firms to set aside their own role in the creation of poverty. Everything becomes about terrorism. In June 2019, two Mozambican scholars—Mohamad Yassine of the Higher Institute of International Relations (ISRI) and Saíde Habibe, who co-authored a 2019 study on Islamic radicalization in northern Mozambique—said that ISIS will not find fertile ground in northern Mozambique; this is largely because the Muslim population in that region is small. These so-called Islamists, Habibe said, are better known for their role in the illicit trades than in the creation of an Islamic State. A French NGO—Les Amis de la Terre France—published a report in June 2020 that made the point that the insurgency “was built on a tangle of social, religious, and political tensions, exacerbated by the explosion of inequalities and human rights violations linked to gas projects.” The militarization of the conflict to protect the gas installations, the NGO argues, “contribute[s] to fuel the tensions.” Indeed, “Human rights violations are on the increase in [these] communities, caught between insurgents, private military and paramilitary forces, multinationals or their subcontractors.” South Africa’s Institute for Security Studies published a report in October 2019 called “The Genesis of Insurgency in Northern Mozambique.” The institute is known to be quite hawkish when it comes to security issues. But reality is too difficult to avoid. This report cautions that “a lasting solution to the extremist violence in Cabo Delgado cannot be brought about by hard power and military might.” Social inequality is the main problem. The introduction of the energy firms, rather than bringing prosperity to the people, says the institute, “appears to have brought discontent.” Just off the coast of Mozambique is the island of Mayotte, which is a French possession with a French military base (and which is facing unrest). The governments of France and Mozambique are considering a maritime cooperation agreement, which could eventually allow direct French intervention to protect Total’s investments. At a briefing on drug trafficking in Africa, US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Heather Merritt said that the issue of the heroin trade is very significant, and that the US is willing to assist the government in Mozambique in any way. South Africa’s intelligence chief Ayanda Diodlo has said that her government is “taking very, very seriously” the threat in northern Mozambique. South Africa is considering a military intervention, despite a warning from ISIS that it would open up a new front inside South Africa if this happens. Such interventions—by France, the United States, and South Africa—will not solve the problem of northern Mozambique. But they will certainly provide a reason for Western countries to create a military foothold on the continent. Meanwhile, for the people of Mocímboa da Praia, it would be business as usual. Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian, editor and journalist. He is a writing fellow and chief correspondent at Globetrotter, a project of the Independent Media Institute. He is the chief editor of LeftWord Books and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China. He has written more than 20 books, including The Darker Nations and The Poorer Nations. His latest book is Washington Bullets, with an introduction by Evo Morales Ayma. Key Words： Multinationals ISIS Vijay Prashad Vijay Prashad: Multinationals and oil companies are imposing their greed on the people of Mozambique2020-09-14 Liu Zhiqin: Views on India's Health Crisis2021-04-28 Zhou Rong: World Insight with Tian Wei2021-03-17 Vijay Prashad: Chile Is at the Political Crossroads: Social Renewal or Decades of Painful Neoliberal Policy2021-12-20 Vijay Prashad: Why our climate isn’t jumping for joy after COP262021-11-22 Wang Wen on Changing World 90: Striving for breaking US discourse hegemony2019-09-04 Wang Wen: Ten Questions for American Democracy2021-12-08 Wang Wen on Changing World 90: Striving for breaking US discourse hegemony2019.09.04 Wang Wen: Ten Questions for American Democracy2021.12.08 A World Reshaped2021.09.10 Vice FM Le Yucheng: Taiwan secessionists will eventually come to an end and be left alone2022.01.19 John Ross: Xi Jinping emphasizes need for global cooperation at virtual Davos Agenda event2022.01.19 He Yafei Zhang Yanling Zhou Li Wang Wen Jia Jinjing Liao Qun Zhao Jinping Djoomart Otorbaev Han Hua Feride Inan Wang Yiwei Cao Yuanzheng Essam Sharaf Tristram Sainsbury Liu Zhiqin Paulo Portas Hisham El-Zimaity Ding Gang Martin Jacques He Weiwen Yuksel Gormez Yury Tavrovsky Liu Yushu Priyanka Pandit Zhou Xiaojing Zhou Rong Huang Renwei Zhao Minghao Chen Dingding Liu Zongyi Wu Sike Hua Liming Liu Ge Wang Yanhang Wei Benhua Jean-Guy Carrier Zhao Suisheng Wang Yongli Lv Bingyang Dong Shaopeng Bruno Maçães Li Wenpei Naima Green Long Xingchun Zhang Shengjun Helga Zepp-LaRouche Zhang Jingwei An Guojun Wen Jiajun Boris Guseletov Peter Koenig Tan Chung Zhai Yongping Chen Zhiheng Ranel Tissa Wijesinha Liu Dian Grzegorz W. Kolodko Ma Yong Li Rong Ma Guangrong Zheng Zhigang Chen Yongjun Zhang Chengsi Li Guoqiang Zhao Xijun Kou Zhiwei Wang Yong Huang Jianhui Huang Zhen Zhu Weiyi Song Ronghua Chen Xin Roger Leeds Mohammed Saqib R. Martin Lees Ali Akbar Velayati Slawomir Majman Antonino Villafranca Yevgeniy Khon Zhenis Kembayev Srikanth Kondapalli 【No to the New Cold War】Vijay Prashad: U.S. anti-China strategy is also playing official stereotypes? On July 25th, an international meeting in Opposition to the US-led New Cold War on China organized by scholars and activists from 48 countries voluntarily was broadcast live on Zoom, Facebook and YouTube simultaneously. The joint statement with 14-language version of "A New Cold War against China is against the interests of humanity" has attracted great attention from the international community. The event brought together 17 well-known scholars and opinion leaders from China, the United States, the United Kingdom, India, Russia, Canada, Venezuela, Brazil and other countries to participate in the speech. Vijay Prashad, Executive Director, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, is one of the initiators of the "No to the New Cold War" initiative. Learning from China Copyright © 2010 Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China (RDCY). 京 ICP 备 15018462 号 -5	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line77
__label__wiki	0.500014	0.500014	Home » Volgograd » Accidents In Volgograd, part of a five-story building collapsed. In Volgograd there was a partial collapse of a five-story dormitory building. No injuries were reported. This was reported in the Southern Regional Emergency Center .. According to the press service of the State Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Volgograd region, today at 15:05 in the Volgograd region Traktorozavodsky collapsed five-story corner building of the hostel down the street Zholudeva 7a. The collapse occurred first through the fifth floor. More than a hundred residents were evacuated on their own, building off of all life support systems. The dead and injured there. «Today at 15:05 on a single control room 01 was reported about the collapse of the outer wall of the building residences at the Ministry of Defence Zholudeva Street, 7a, - said Head of State MOE Russia in Volgograd Region Oleg Grebenyuk. - In place of the operational units arrived, rescue workers carried out an operation to search for possible victims. The brigade commander had decided to place all the people living in a dormitory barracks in the fund. Questions of their future life will be addressed in the prescribed form. " deployed at the scene and the task force is working EMERCOM in Volgograd region, the calculations of the detachment of the sixth FBS, employees of municipal emergency services, two ambulance crews. Administration of the Volgograd decide on the temporary resettlement of residents. collapsed dormitory building belongs to the Ministry of Defence. According to residents, the collapse started from the third floor. In a collapsed block of rooms were bathrooms. Go to the scene was attended by representatives of district administration is working task force under the leadership of Chief State Russian Emergencies Ministry in the region Oleg Grebeniuk. Currently at the scene working dog handlers MOE, which examined the building for the presence of the victims. The arrival of two buses to accommodate the victims. «Since the object is owned by the Ministry of Defence, the Administration of Volgograd can only help transportation for dormitory residents to places of temporary accommodation - said First Deputy Mayor Ruslan Sharifov. - In addition, if the Ministry of Defence is not enough maneuvering housing to accommodate the tenants, the administration of Volgograd is ready to give people places to stay in a hostel MUP "Metroelectrotrans", located in the center of Volgograd. On the basis of the first fire department organized a heating point. ru В Волгограде обрушилась часть пятиэтажного здания de In Wolgograd, zusammengebrochen Teil eines fünfstöckigen Gebäude. es En Volgogrado, que forma parte de un edificio de cinco pisos se derrumbó. fr En Volgograd, qui fait partie d'un immeuble de cinq étages s'est effondré. it In Volgograd, parte di un edificio di cinque piani crollato. Bryan TX Real Estate , а также, Tallulah LA Real Estate	cc/2022-05/en_middle_0079.json.gz/line78

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