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Deathstroke Volume 1: Gods Of War (The New 52) Paperback
by Tony Daniel
The DCU's deadliest assassin stars in his own ongoing series bywriter/artist Tony S.
Daniel! See him as never before in this explosive newseries, with one surprise after another as we see Slade Wilson in the fight ofhis life!
Collects issues #1-6 of Deathstroke.
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272 pages
- Publisher: DC Comics
- Publication Date: 23/06/2015
- Category: Superheroes
- ISBN: 9781401254711
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Review by DanieXJ
Slade Wilson. He’s always been an interesting character to me. On the one hand he’s definitely a killer, but he also seems to have part of a heart, and he has a family as well. And this TPB actually revolved around that family.There were lots of characters in the TPB as well. Some on Deathstroke’s side and some against him (not to mention the few that, well, who knows which side they’re on). He also meets up with his daughter Rose, (I’d love to see more of her character) and son Jericho.Deathstrooke’s also changed during the TPB, changed a lot, and I’d love to see more explanation re: that part of the story in the future too.Oh, and then there was the awesome Harley Quinn. I’m always a fan of Harley in any DC book, and so seeing her in this one was cool.I got this advanced galley through Netgalley on behalf of DC Entertainment


Office Rents on Fifth Avenue Rank No. 2 For Most Expensive
Wall Street Journal, Dec. 11, 2017--Keiko Morris (subscription)
Fifth Avenue came in second behind California's Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, recording an average asking rent of $116.04 a square foot, and top asking rents as high as $185 a square foot, according to JLL's 2017 Most Expensive Streets. Sand Hill Road's average asking rent reached $119.38 a square foot.


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The spectral responsivity of two cryogenically cooled InSb detectors was observed to drift slowly with time. The origin of these drifts was investigated and was shown to occur due to a water-ice thin film that was deposited onto the active areas of the cold detectors. The presence of the ice film (which is itself a dielectric film) modifies the transmission characteristics of the antireflection coatings deposited on the active areas of the detectors, thus giving rise to the observed drifts. The magnitude of the drifts was drastically reduced by evacuating the detector dewars while baking them at 50 °C for approximately 48 h. All InSb detectors have antireflection coatings to reduce the Fresnel reflections and therefore enhance their spectral responsivity. This work demonstrates that InSb infrared detectors should be evacuated and baked at least annually and in some cases (depending on the quality of the dewar and the measurement uncertainty required) more frequently. These observations are particularly relevant to InSb detectors mounted in dewars that use rubber O rings since the ingress of moisture was found to be particularly serious in this type of dewar.
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Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Feist and the Lingering Moment of Experience
In The Record Effect, a recent New Yorker article on the dehumanization of music through advances in recording technology, Alex Ross states, "Twenty years ago, the American composer Benjamin Boretz wrote, “In music, as in everything, the disappearing moment of experience is the firmest reality.” The paradox of recording is that it can preserve forever those disappearing moments of sound but never the spark of humanity that generates them."
Also, "Modern urban environments are often so chaotic, soulless, or ugly that I’m grateful for the humanizing touch of electronics. But I want to be aware of technology’s effects, positive and negative. For music to remain vital, recordings have to exist in balance with live performance, and, these days, live performance is by far the smaller part of the equation..."
KEXP and KCRW (see sidebar) are two stations who are helping to balance that equation, broadcasting live in-studio performances over the internet. KCRW even lets us watch the performances as they occur.
Yesterday KCRW entreated us with the live, breathing dimension of the Canadian artist that is Feist. Her performance shone with that spark of humanity that can be lacking in those perfect studio recordings that are often lauded for their "stellar production." It was as close to being in the room with her as you can get. (Listen, Watch)
From that show, here's her opening song, her version of Ron Sexsmith's Secret Heart (mp3), from Let it Die.
Too bad KCRW is in danger of extinction.

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Worried over the worsening insecurity in the land, stakeholders have called for the devolution of power to local governments after a security summit in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, for effective security of lives and property in the state.
The stakeholders condemned in strong terms the attacks on security formations in the State and commiserated with the Nigerian Police, other security agencies, and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) who have lost personnel and assets.
They emphatically stated that such dastardly acts are not healthy for the state and the southeast region.
In a communique issued to newsmen at the end of the Abia State Security Roundtable hosted by Governor Okezie Ikpeazu and chaired by former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Azubuike Ihejirika (Rtd), they noted the existence of Anti-Open Grazing Law of Abia State and recommended its full enforcement by relevant security agencies to forestall herders and farmers clashes across the state.
According to the communique, the Summit recommended a new security architecture by the state government that will incorporate a community based vigilante services, Homeland Security, and Abia State Safety Alert System (ABSAS), all of which will work in conjunction with the statutory security agencies to enhance the security and safety of the State.
The stakeholders commended the state government for its untiring efforts so far in tackling the headlong security situation in the State through credible support to security agencies in the State, constant interface and interactions as well as launching of a number of home-grown solutions to the problem of insecurity.
They urged security agencies to effectively manage information given to them by informants to avoid backlash against the informant. They also called for the establishment of an effective incentive system to encourage more people to come forward with information on the activities of criminal elements in the State.
The Stakeholders further called on the citizenry to continue to work with the security agencies in Abia State in the area of providing information, noting that perpetrators of these nefarious acts are from amongst the people and with a robust information management system, it will be easy to apprehend them.
Parts of the communique stated, “the Abia State Government conscious of its primary constitutional responsibility of safeguarding the lives and property of its citizens and visitors, convened a Three-Day Stakeholders Summit on Security to brainstorm with experts on the subject and proffer solutions on how to sustain a peaceful and safe Abia State.
“The Summit commended law enforcement officers serving in Abia State for their professionalism and dedication to their duty even in the face of obvious targeted attacks and urged them to remain steadfast in their primary responsibility of securing the state and its citizens.
“The Summit urged traditional rulers in Abia State to continue to play active roles in securing their domains noting that they are very important in the security equation because of their proximity to the people and knowledge of people resident in their domains.
“The Summit urged greater inter-agency collaboration among security agencies in Abia State. It called for the creation of a robust central information sharing system that will enable other security agencies to be abreast of efforts of other agencies.
The Summit urged the Abia State Government to, apart from the Abia State Security Council, constitute an Abia State Security Advisory Committee made up of serving and retired senior security officers from the State to continue to advise the State Government on security issues based on their experiences.

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(WXYZ) - Americans will eat more than 1.23 billion chicken wings during the 2013 Super Bowl weekend, according to the National Chicken Council.
The council says there is an all-time high demand for the staple food as the second biggest eating day of the year nears.
But despite the all-time high demand, the consumption is actually down one percent this year due to high corn and feed prices.
"Chicken companies produced about one percent fewer birds last year, due in large part to record high corn and feed prices," Roenigk said in a news release. "Corn makes up more than two-thirds of chicken feed and corn prices hit an all-time high in 2012, due to two reasons: last summer's drought and pressure from a federal government requirement that mandates 40 percent of our corn crop be turned into fuel in the form of ethanol. Simply put, less corn equals higher feed costs, which means fewer birds produced."
The National Council said in a news release that wings are $2.11 a pound, the highest on record at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, up 26 cents from last year.
For more information on chicken wings, go here: http://www.nationalchickencouncil.org/americans-to-eat-1-23-billion-chicken-wings-super-bowl-weekend/


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Aboard a cargo ship steaming from Los Angeles to Honolulu, his radars spinning 70 feet above a dark sea, Ernie Lewis filled another latex balloon with a whoosh of helium and let it fly.
The balloon rose 15 miles, swelling in thin air, a fat white disc disappearing against the Milky Way. And then, as always, it popped.
An atmospheric scientist at Brookhaven National Lab, Lewis had joined the Spirit early in October for its regular shipment of 900 food-stuffed containers to Hawaii. And he had brought cargo of his own: three white shipping containers, given pride of place on the bridge deck, each carrying stimulus-funded tools aimed at a mysterious sky.
Lewis and his techs were testing every part of what will be a yearlong mission. For the first time, they will measure the sustained behavior of the lumpy pancake of clouds over the northeast Pacific Ocean. They had dozens of instruments to calibrate and balloons to launch every six hours. It led to an irregular schedule, but not a bad one.
"If it's inconvenient for us to get up at 3 in the morning, that's just too bad," Lewis said on the phone from Honolulu's Sand Island, halfway into his round-trip voyage aboard the Spirit. "It's what the science needs."
And -- more importantly -- it's what climate models demand.
For decades, scientists have known that clouds, and their response to humanity's carbon dioxide emissions, would be a roadblock to estimating the speed of global warming. Would feedbacks from higher temperatures cause more clouds, or fewer -- and where? Even without considering human pollution, it's been uncertain. Computers lacked horsepower to model turbulence that drives clouds beyond a small scale, and so climate models have done their best to approximate these nuances at the global level.
It hasn't always gone well.
Time and again, clouds have provided the most intractable disagreement among models. Over simulated decades, sometimes the clouds accelerated warming; sometimes they were unchanged; and rarely, they dampened the heat. But most of all, they told their creators that they had failed to solve the problem in a convincing way. And the biggest point of disagreement has been low clouds like those off California's coast.
"This really is the fundamental problem in climate models," said Joao Teixeira, deputy director of climate science at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and a collaborator on Lewis' Spirit project. "How do you represent the clouds?"
There are ways the models do agree. All project that the wispy ice clouds in the upper atmosphere will rise in height, causing more warming, a result seen not just in silicon, but in the real world. But without an accurate handle on low clouds, Teixeira added, it's impossible to fix on the planet's exact climate sensitivity, a shorthand used by scientists to test Earth's warming under instantly doubled CO2 emissions.
"It's a completely unsolved problem," he said. "It could easily be by 4 degrees [Celsius], or 2."
Even the primary mechanism of this cloud feedback is in doubt: The change could come from higher surface temperatures, which increase in a laggy, variable way due to the ocean's heat retention and natural variability, or it could be governed by fast feedbacks, CO2 emissions changing the clouds even before they warm the Earth. Even more likely, both dynamics play together in an irreducibly complex double Dutch.
Still, cloud scientists are game. Using historical records, ground radar, satellite data and advanced supercomputers, these researchers are improving the models and probing for any sign of past change in the clouds. And although this work has not led to a decreased spread in the climate sensitivity, which will remain about the same in next year's U.N. climate science report, it has been far from for naught.
"The uncertainty in cloud feedbacks hasn't gone down. It's sort of stayed the same," said Chris Bretherton, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Washington. But that's not the same as stalled progress, he added. "We're taking what was before uncertainty that lay outside of the models, and putting it into the models."
These questions pivot especially on marine stratocumulus clouds, sheets of bulbous gray gruel that rest low above a fifth of the Earth's surface, reflecting the sun. And there are few better examples of those clouds than the transect between Los Angeles and Hawaii, where a remote, eerily stable stretch of stratocumuli slowly dissolves, on approach to coconut trees, into cotton-puff cumulus and open sky.
For decades, scientists have known they'd need to take their cloud tools off the shore and into the ocean, but until last month, those efforts had stalled. Instead, work funded by the Energy Department has been earthbound, based in Oklahoma, or at best on remote islands, where clouds remain shaped by even the dullest contours of the land.
"There are very few measurements over the ocean for any period of time," Lewis said.
There is an enormous pent-up demand for the data Lewis and his team will find along the Spirit's path. The project, nicknamed MAGIC, will provide evidence for teams of climate scientists and modelers waiting to test their theories against reality. A successful, stable voyage is crucial. It is one of the best hopes left to help resolve the cloud enigma.
So far, scientists have found no other shortcuts to solve the problem.
But, of course, that doesn't mean they've stopped trying to find one.
'A lot of noise'
A couple of years ago, at a sleepy hotel outside Norfolk, Va., Andrew Dessler, a climate scientist and data wonk at Texas A&M University, was absently reading Watts Up With That, a climate contrarian website, as he did from time to time.
On this night, though, the site didn't just rile him up. It provided inspiration.
As part of its antagonism to climate science, one of the site's writers singled out the world's sharp temperature drop in January 2008. Dessler knew the fall was largely due to natural variation in the Pacific. But one contrarian's evidence, it turned out, was another scientist's eureka. This was an opportunity, Dessler realized. He had wanted to study global cloud feedbacks but lacked the recent warming needed to do the work.
"For years I had been waiting for a big El Niño," Dessler said in a recent interview. "Suddenly, I realized that a big drop could work as well as a big rise."
From year to year, much of the planet's temperature shifts are controlled by the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, a somewhat predictable pattern of circulations in the Pacific Ocean. During El Niño, temperatures run high, while La Niña, its sister phase, cools things down. It's a dynamic Dessler had previously used to study how much more water vapor increased emissions will allow in the atmosphere, causing additional warming.
From that moment of clarity in his hotel, Dessler eventually published a study that attempted to gauge, with a decade of light and heat observing records from NASA's Terra satellite, whether the Pacific could do for clouds what it had done for water vapor.
And, he found, it could. Well, kind of.
Published to much notice in Science in late 2010, Dessler's study found that the cloud feedback would likely make warming worse -- or, more importantly, he found it unlikely that cloud changes would push temperatures down. Without such a response, the clouds could not cancel the heat stemming from increased greenhouse gases. The world, resilient as it is, would not make up for this particular human insult.
The error bars attached to Dessler's estimate were large: His results pointed positive, but it still was possible for clouds to have a slight negative feedback, too. And he was quick to admit a deeper problem: El Niño may be a poor proxy for long-term warming. After all, those same circulation shifts in the Pacific could change clouds in a way that the steady accumulation of carbon emissions would not.
Since his big news splash, Dessler has been taking deeper dives into the data. And what he's found has exposed the limits of short-term satellite studies and called his past results at least somewhat into doubt.
Using precomputed cloud tables, Dessler has a study submitted to the Journal of Climate that parses the climate response of various cloud types over a decade of satellite data. It's rigorous work but mostly shows a decade can't say much about clouds.
Unlike his 2010 paper, the new study finds an overall cloud response that is slightly cooling, but statistically indistinguishable from zero. (For the climate-fluent, that's a net feedback of -0.12 W/m2/K, with an error of 0.78.) And as most models point out, the response is dominated by those clouds hovering over the Spirit's path.
"It really is low clouds that are driving the cloud feedback over the last decade," he said.
Dessler believes the net zero result is due to a bias in the cloud tables more than anything else. His 2010 study remains the better estimate of the feedback, he said. But the work goes to show just how tricky it is to get at clouds from only satellites.
It's a 1 percent problem. Compared with greenhouse gases, clouds reflect and absorb a huge amount of solar energy. Small statistical shifts loom large. That can make it seem as if clouds aren't tied to global temperatures -- even if they are, as his new study shows.
"The scatter comes from the fact that the net impact of clouds is a small difference of two really big numbers," Dessler said. It's easy for random events to skew it all. "If you change any of those big numbers by a very small amount, you get a lot of noise."
Other scientists have also remained skeptical of El Niño's usefulness as a proxy. The University of California, Los Angeles' Troy Masters, for one, published a study critiquing Dessler's 2010 paper. And scientists more deeply involved in the nitty-gritty of cloud theory find it doubtful that Dessler's methods could ever give any real certainty on the feedback problem.
Dessler himself admits that the way he's attacked the problem, it may be impossible to refine his estimates further. But his work is enough to rule out the extreme low estimate that the world will warm only 1 degree Celsius under doubled emissions, he said. The notion of clouds as warming's savior is out the window.
"You can exclude with high confidence some of the claims made by skeptics," he said.
But to get a handle on past cloud change, a much longer record is needed.
Fortunately, one exists.
'Not a lot of agreement'
There's nothing glamorous about the daily grind of weather station work.
Each day, trained observers stare into the sky and write down what they find. From Siberia to Africa, the work is similar, following standards that have remained nearly identical for decades: Determine the percentage of cover and then flag one of nine cloud types at three altitudes. It's an anecdote of the sky. And since the 1950s, there have been almost 300 million anecdotes.
For the past three decades, a group of scientists have tried to harness the potential power of this human record to search for changes in cloud cover. Based out of the University of Washington, they have painstakingly assembled what amounts to a cloud atlas: a record of observations made from 5,388 weather stations since 1971, and ships since 1954.
The work isn't easy. Humans are far from perfect, and spurious trends appear all the time, said Ryan Eastman, a staff scientist at UW. Eastman has spent much of his early career, since he was an undergrad, taming this mongrel record.
The best example of bad data comes from North America. A line of stations in the Arctic boundary appeared suddenly shrouded in clouds, a bunch of San Franciscos sprouting among the polar bears, their cover growing by 20 percent in one decade. It couldn't be real, Eastman thought. And it wasn't. Every station showing a cloud spike was part of a Cold War system scouting for Soviet nuclear bombers. Someone decided the stations should only record stormy weather, and that was that. Human error strikes again.
"It was a procedural change that drove a fake trend," Eastman said.
All this quality control done -- Eastman killed off similar quirks in Russia, though their cause remains mysteriously Cyrillic -- the UW group does have a modest result, reported this summer: Over the past four decades, the world's total cloud cover has declined about 0.4 percent a decade.
It's not a huge trend. And that's part of the point.
"There hasn't been a huge change in cloud cover over the last 40 to 50 years," Eastman said. "We're kind of the null hypothesis. Satellite records have shown a bigger trend."
Here it gets confusing. Satellites have shown a bigger change in the opposite direction, typically finding more clouds forming over the eastern oceans today than in the mid-1980s. The two records fundamentally disagree. The atlas supports fewer clouds forming under warming, and the satellites support more. Or they could both be wrong.
"There's still something weird about the satellite and surface record," said Bretherton, the UW climate modeler. "They don't naturally agree with each other at all. And so it makes us worry about both of them."
Composed of several different eras of instruments, satellite records are by nature fickle creatures. There's an art to cleaning them up and stitching them together, just like the atlas. It's a talent held by Joel Norris, a climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, who is regularly pestered to publish more about his arcane methods as he tries to put together a calibrated record longer than a decade.
"There's not a lot of agreement on what the atmospheric changes have been," he said.
A better satellite record could solve those disagreements, but it's not easy to do.
Norris rattled off some of the common problems.
Take one long-term record, he said. It's based off a changing number of stationary satellites. The more there are in orbit, the more each looks straight down -- and it's harder to see clouds at a dead-on angle. Fix that. Other satellites are notorious drifters: What's seen at noon one year appears at 2:30 p.m. in a couple of years. Because clouds wax and wane daily, that rhythm can be mistaken for a trend. Tweak it. And some satellites will, inexplicably, see a huge uptick in clouds everywhere. But it's not nuclear winter or a super-volcano eruption. It's just a calibration error.
There is one area where the weather stations and satellites may be starting to agree. Eastman's study found that over the past 40 years, the jet stream has nudged toward the poles, expanding the tropics and pushing storm tracks northward, a result predicted by climate models. The intrusion of the subtropics into the midlatitudes could be driving, in turn, the drop in cloud cover.
"Our changes are significant, but small," Eastman said.
Those results are echoed by a satellite study being prepared by researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, who found that over the past 30 years, there has been a decrease in cloudiness between the 30th and 40th parallels -- in the north, the latitudes from Florida to New England. There's debate whether this expansion is due to global warming or changes in ozone, but the former is likely a player.
Still, there are limits to how far climate scientists will go in trusting either report. They suffer from the same flaw: They are weather systems pressed into double duty as climate monitors. As an engineer would say, they are a "kludge."
Not only that, for the atlas, it's kludge that may not last.
Eastman isn't quite sure how the cloud atlas will survive when its guiding light -- Stephen Warren, who began the project decades ago -- moves toward retirement. Certainly, it will have to get more automated. But automation may also kill it. When the United States moved to computerized weather stations, they had to kick that less descriptive, laser-based data out of the atlas. It's a trend that will only spread.
Maybe if a rigorous climate observing system appears -- something the world does not have right now -- and runs for another 30 years, while global warming continues, it might begin to tell a clear story about the cloud response, said Ray Pierrehumbert, a climate scientist at the University of Chicago.
"But it's just not a viable option to wait 30 years," he said.
And if scientists can't look to the past, or wait for the future, it's up to the present.
That means, right now, it's up to an aging cargo ship en route to Hawaii.
Aboard the Spirit, a day out of Los Angeles, the clouds did not disappoint.
Strung between the turbulent boundary layer and the free air above, long stretches of marine stratocumuli coated the sky, hanging above Lewis' bald head. But not as many as he expected, and far from a uniform sheet: The ship sailed under closed cells to open blue, and back again. It was so variable, in fact, that Lewis planned to shoot photos of the sky every 10 minutes or so on the journey back, to show his fellow investigators.
Just looking at the lumpy stratocumuli begins to reveal their nature. There's more to them than formless stratus, that glorified, elevated fog. Stratocumuli are driven by the weak currents of convection, pinned at the boundary of the ocean's turbulent influence by stable dry air and drastic cooling of its own creation, due to its reflectivity. Viewed from the surface, each cell runs the size of a fist extended toward the sky.
There are no semi-stable sheets like these over land, which is why government scientists had long desired to put their mobile lab at sea. Once stimulus funds paid for a second clutch of containers explicitly designed for ocean work, all they needed was a ship. And the 32-year-old Spirit, operated by Horizon Lines and near its final appointment with a dry dock, was the perfect candidate. Unlike modern vessels, which leave no open deck space not flagged for commerce, the Spirit had a generous bridge deck, perfect for science.
It also provides quite a view.
"I tried to get out there by 6 to watch the sunrise," Lewis said.
The trip wasn't all cloud watching, though. There were problems to fix.
Three scientific containers, lined with railings on top to hold radar and lasers, were a snug fit on the bridge deck. A tool chest latch snapped one day, spraying drawers on the ship's rolls. A pump broke. Some instruments, their recordings corrected by an 8-square-inch box measuring the ship's jerks, proved recalcitrant. And that wasn't even including the microwave radar mounted on a hydraulically balanced table meant to keep it level no matter the waves' strength. The stable table would wait till later.
Then, there were the weather balloons, needed to describe the wind, heat and humidity of the air above. Original plans had called for launching them from the ship's stern, some 800 feet behind the bridge, but logistics had restricted them to the bow, where high winds threatened to bang the balloons into the big bank of containers, stuffed with perishables and cattle feed, trailing behind. But they got the technique down.
"When we had a first balloon launch that worked," Lewis said, "it was very exciting."
It was an easy cruise, Lewis added. Over calm waters, they saw few ships, or signs of life -- a couple of dolphins, some seabirds. The ship's 23-member crew was curious, the captain supportive and the meals hearty: flank steak one night, Cornish game hen the next.
"Our biggest problems are which entrees to get for dinner," he said.
Soon enough, after a couple of days of balloon launches and sunrises, they came to the point of mystery. Puffy cumuli began to form under the stratocumulus pile, then the closed fists started to disperse, like a protest crowd in a police state. The cloud pattern migrated from closed to open, letting the dark ocean absorb the sun's rays. By the time the Spirit had reached Hawaii, only rare trade wind cotton balls floated in the sky.
No one understands why this transition happens or how it could change in the future.
"This may be the key question for the cloud-climate feedback," said JPL's Teixeira. Under warming, it could well be that this zone of change could move closer to Hawaii, or closer to California, he said. "Trying to understand this transition is really important."
There are a few ways of getting at it, Teixeira said. First, the microphysics: What are those puffballs doing to the stratocumulus sheet above? They are feeding water upward, but also drawing air down from above the cloud tops; one could grow the clouds, the other could kill them. Which is it? And then there's the climate angle. Do the marine stratocumuli simply form in regions with cold water, and dry air above? And if either is true, how does it change under increased greenhouse gases?
For this reason, some of the most important data captured by MAGIC will not solely be its records of the clouds. It will be the habitat they live in. Like an ecologist measuring a forest's humidity and soil fertility, cloud scientists need a statistical baseline for the Los Angeles-Hawaii transect: sea temperatures, surface water fluxes, atmospheric humidity -- anything to help define the atmosphere's state.
Scientists, above all, need data. Lewis and company will feed them soon.
Then, perhaps, they can start being certain their models aren't always wrong.
If only the world had infinite computing power, there wouldn't be a cloud problem.
When it comes to clouds, there are two types of computer models, and it's easy to get them mixed up. There are the global climate models familiar to most, which chop the Earth into 100-square-kilometer grids, simulating the planet for years on end. Much less known, however, are the small-scale cloud models that divide the atmosphere down into boxes of 10 meters square, where the computer can begin to capture the chaotic atmospheric turbulence that rules the clouds.
Those cloud models are so demanding, however, that no computer can run them on anywhere close to a global scale. It's a dream, but not one to be realized soon.
"If I could run a [cloud-resolving] model globally, or even over a huge area, I might be able to get a result I at least didn't know was wrong," said Joyce Penner, a longtime modeling expert at the University of Michigan. "But we can't do that yet."
That's not to say the climate models get it all wrong.
Over at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Stephen Klein, a research scientist, puts the Energy Department's brute computing power to good use, operating a test bed where he takes climate models and runs them like weather forecasts, probing their rendering of clouds. Except for the time involved, the two models are similar; most errors in climate models become visible after two to three days of simulation.
Klein recently finished putting all the models going into the next U.N. climate science report through their paces. They disagreed on the low clouds, of course, but they were unanimous in predicting that the thin ice clouds at the atmosphere's top, which act like greenhouse gases, will rise in response to warming, causing a positive warming feedback.
"That's something all the models robustly predict," Klein said. Indeed, he added, "the high clouds rising is ... the thing we're most confident about climate change [and clouds]."
(At first blush, that may seem to run against a study published earlier this year, to some media notice, that found high clouds to be falling in height. But Norris, the savant of satellite correction, took a close look at that data and disagreed. NASA's Terra satellite had known syncing problems with its cameras that caused it to ignore low elevation points. Correcting for that bias revealed that cloud tops were in fact rising.)
Klein also compared these climate models with their decade-old code, using his test bed to get at how well each re-created observed clouds from the satellite record. For a long time, models have been notorious for having sparse clouds, with the ones they did create reflecting far more light than they do in reality. It's known as the "too few, too bright" bias. And it's a problem that's quietly slipping away.
"Clouds are not as bright as they used to be, and they're getting more of them," Klein said.
Indeed, his work has hopeful news for modelers: They're getting better.
"This is clear evidence that work into clouds has gotten better over time," he said. They still don't agree on all the feedbacks, but it's progress. "Even if we're not fully reducing the uncertainty, we're certainly making the clouds we have today better."
At this point, Klein can only speculate why they've improved. He doesn't write the code. He only tests it. Maybe it's a better representation of the clouds' microphysics, the fine-scale process of how vapor becomes a cloud, and back again. The models have also refined their vertical resolution -- perhaps fewer clouds are rendered 500 meters thick, when they're really only 100 meters tall. And it could be they've better represented how to get at the uncertainty inherent in grids often half covered by clouds.
Despite these improvements, and the vast political pressure created by the U.N. reports to increase their accuracy every five years, the models, including those tested by Klein, have far to go. They don't even reflect much current science, Teixeira said.
"While we know much more than we did, we haven't been able to implement that into models in a way that's satisfactory," he said. "That's as much an engineering problem."
Teixeira talked with his peers about the problem at a recent workshop, and there were no obvious solutions. Around the world, there are maybe 150 people working on serious climate modeling, to be generous, with 20 or 30 of those doing cloud work. Teixeira compares that with one of JPL's other projects, the most recent Mars rover, which took hundreds of engineers to create, none of whom was under pressure to publish or perish.
"These people are not spending their time trying to write a paper," he said.
Would a similar corps of engineers help the cloud watch? Maybe. Maybe not.
All is not lost, though. There could be another way of improving the models, one that can finally stitch together the short-term measures of those clouds over the Spirit with the silicon future of supercomputers. It's a technique that goes to the roots of science.
To understand the marine clouds, scientists will first have to tear them apart.
Understanding why there's so much uncertainty
Until two years ago, Bretherton had no hope of doing the work he does now.
The University of Washington modeler has long used intense mathematical models called large-eddy simulations to get at the chaotic fluid movement of the atmosphere. There's so much math, however, that no supercomputer could run a detailed version long enough to get at the cloud problem -- until a couple of years ago. Now he can run an eddy model out to 10 days, long enough to make things interesting.
They're not re-creating all the world's turbulence. They don't need to.
"We're just trying to simulate a postage-stamp region off the coast of California," he said.
And comparing these models, Bretherton can, at least, see the end of the beginning.
"One of the most important things we learned from doing this work," he said, "is that I think we understand the reasons there's a lot of uncertainty. ... Basically, there are processes that work both ways -- ones increasing clouds and ones decreasing clouds."
For instance, in a warmer climate, the middle and upper atmosphere heat more than the surface. That will strengthen the "lid" on marine clouds, making mixing harder and increasing cloud cover. On the other hand, increased CO2, even before it warms the surface, will trap more heat in the clouds, weakening the process that drives their formation. Any battle like that makes it difficult for models to get it right, though notably all the simulations agreed that there would be no negative feedback.
If that's all Bretherton did, it'd be notable. But it goes further. It goes back to MAGIC.
Rather than designing a model and letting it run to see what happens, Bretherton and his peers -- all part of the massive CIGLS project -- took advantage of their direct physics to change the habitat of those marine stratocumulus clouds. One run, they tweaked sea temperature; another, humidity; or subsidence; or wind speed. Carving each variable out could, at last, connect the work back to the real world, Bretherton said.
"If we break the problem down, it might be easier to test in the present day," he said.
And, as it happens, out in the Pacific, such measurements are happening right now.
Another old hand with turbulence math, Teixeira plans to use all those statistics Lewis and his technicians on the Spirit are collecting to compare how the clouds changed during the seasons with what the eddy models show. And what they learn, they can then build back into the global climate models.
A native of Portugal, a culture well-known for its naval exploration, Teixeira plans to join the Spirit for one of its Hawaii voyages himself. He and Lewis want to have modelers and theorists on board as often as possible, so they can understand how MAGIC made its measurements. In a 1 percent problem, every detail will be important.
And until then, give models a break, Teixeira added.
"They're not perfect," he said. "But they are the only solution to the problem."
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|Contributions||Houtman, Alberdina., Poorthuis, Marcel, 1955-, Schwartz, Joshua.|
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In a book, aptly titled Antimoderne, Maritain attacked “liberalism, Americanism, modernism,” and the “dogmas of necessary progress and humanitarian optimism.” He attributed. Sanctity of Time and Space in Tradition and Modernity, Leiden [etc.]edited by A. Houtman, M. Poorthuis & J. Schwartz A Bilingual Concordance to the Targum of the Prophets: The Twelve, 3 vols.
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Houtman, M. Poorthuis, and J. Schwartz, pp. – Leiden, Eliade, Mircea. Sanctity of time and space in tradition and modernity book Myth of the Eternal Return. New York. The entire time I was reading The Book of Separation, one particular question kept haunting a particularly nice or charitable question, admittedly, but it haunted me nonetheless.
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Therefore, the abrek who arises from the discourse of transgressive sanctity is an invented tradition in the sense articulated by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger.
(3) He is a latter-day hodgepodge of traditional customs that derive from adat, with the requirements for cultural self-preservation necessitated by Russian colonization.
A Truant Proximity: Presence and Absence in the Space of Modernity Article (PDF Available) in Environment and Planning D Society and Space 10(2) April with Reads. Thus one logic of modernity – the struggle between capitalism and democracy in the West – led to a movement from organized modernity to a post-modernity that was still within the confines of modernity, and another, carried forward by the state, which had suppressed both democracy and capitalism, led to totalitarianism, which must be seen as.
Post-modern pilgrimage: Christian ritual between liturgy and 'topolatry' () Pagina-navigatie: Main; Export to Mendeley; Save as EndNote; Export to RefWorks; Title: Post-modern pilgrimage: Christian ritual between liturgy and 'topolatry' Published in: Sanctity of time and space in tradition and modernity, - Series: Jewish and Cited by: 1.
Elegant, passionate, and filled with the love of God's creation, Abraham Joshua Heschel's The Sabbath has been hailed as a classic of Jewish spirituality ever since its original publication-and has been read by thousands of people seeking meaning in modern life.
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A: There has been a tremendous change in the culture from modernity to post-modernity. Post. Sanctity of Time and Space in Tradition and Modernity Volume 1 Editor(s): Alberdina Houtman, Joshua J. Schwartz and Marcel Poorthuis. Another famous Reclusian image, the one reproduced on the cover of this book, contains no such ambiguity.
In this image, we see Nature herself contemplating or watching over the earth, which this time is clearly held in her hands.
The contemplating and holding seem to be inseparable parts of one process. It is easy to understand why this is the case. Sanctity of time, Shabbat, precedes historically any sanctified space, the Land of Israel, the Temple Mount, or the Mishkan. It also directs one away from the physical.
Time is not a physical entity, space is. Physicality and sanctity can sometimes be a dangerous mix; it could lead to idolatry. Pre modern society's relationship w/ time & space was different than modernity's relationship or understanding of time & space & was not affected by technology: EP Thompson chronicles how early workers had to be socialized to punch the clock: In the past, - time was always linked w/ space - time measurement was imprecise.
The term 'tradition' which is used here was re-discovered by René Guénon (Shaykh Abd Al Wahid Yahya) a term which “implies both the Sacred as revealed to humanity through revelation and the unfolding and development of that sacred message in the history of the particular human community for which it was destined.” With the onslaught of modernism and more recently the.
Gender and the Rhetoric of Modernity in Spanish America, – Skinner, Lee Published by University Press of Florida Public Space/Private Discourse The division between the private and the public spheres has tradition-ally been seen as a.
Both the Kafkan and Cervantean renditions of their hero's incarcerated space bear comparison with Weber's concept of the "iron cage" (stahlhartes Gehause) as the habitation of modernity.
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Scholarship addressing responses to modernity has focused on urban space and fears about the effects of city life; few studies have considered the 'rural' to he as critical as the 'urban' in understanding modernity.
This book argues that the rural is just as significant a reference point as the urban in discourses about modernity. The sanctity of the time came first, the sanctity of man came second, and the sanctity of space last.
Time was hallowed by God; space, the Tabernacle, was consecrated by Moses’, 1 we are astonished by the realisation that space occupies a far more prominent place in our theology than we were, heretofore, prone to : Chaim Seidler-Feller.
It was a time when progressive literature was grappling with the Gordian knot of maintaining structural sanctity. No matter what Dev and I wrote, we were hemmed in by catcalls and howls of outrage. We couldn’t even whisper a protest.
Dev was unable to even sleep in his house in Pudupally. They wouldn’t let him. En Français With technological advances and breaking news hurtling towards us at hyperspeed, we are confronted with an onslaught of profoundly ethical questions. From the impact of economic policies on local communities to the parameters of freedom of speech and down to the inception and sanctity of human life, we look on as politicians put.
At age 45 I officially departed from my tradition of birth and began an exploration of what I thought at the time a more vital way of experiencing Christ. In the ensuring space of the next years I saw happen exactly what Fr.
Freeman expressed–especially so among people in their 20’s and 30’s. A s a way of dividing up history into discrete, manageable wholes, the habit of clustering events according to centuries is probably no more (or less) superficial than any other.
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Since the 18th century the word “reason” was employed to discredit the Christian dogma, and “rationalist” in common parlance came to mean “unbeliever” in the cultural space of. Modernism & Mass Culture In our past sessions, we have explored different transformations that historians have designated as marking Europe’s transition into the modern era.
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While Microsoft released its emoji in Windows 11 last year and 3D versions in Microsoft Teams in February, the company hadn’t originally planned to open source its work. “Initially we were focused on building the body of work,” says Jon Friedman, Microsoft’s CVP of design and research, in an interview with The Verge. “The idea kinda just started popping around, and it aligned with our belief and perspective that the more open source we are internally and externally, the more product excellence we can build, and the more relevant we can be for all of humanity.”
Microsoft spent a lot of time on inclusive design and the varied needs of emoji that span across different people, religions, and countries. The result was more than 1,500 emoji that include custom skin tones, with bright and saturated colors and a focus on fun in the workplace. Even Clippy was introduced as a replacement for the paper clip emoji, but that’s one of a few that won’t be open sourced simply because of legal requirements around Microsoft’s trademarks.
Microsoft now wants creators to explore new ways to build upon its emoji. “Internally at Microsoft we’re one design community that can only do so much or see so much,” explains Friedman. “We have a desire to engage the community and help us see and do more that’s globally relevant, that reaches people in unique ways.”
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There is a global change underway in the regulation of the radio frequency spectrum, a vital resource for wireless communication. Regulators set aside critical frequencies for shared use instead of allocating or auctioning them off for the exclusive use of any player. Part of this change is because the higher frequencies support massive data speeds at close range and less interference further afield. The downgrading of the 6 GHz and V bands for new generations of Wi-Fi is part of this trend. With limited Wi-Fi access and vastly underutilized 6 GHz and V bands, India has good reason to cut these bands, as its peers have done.
The 6 GHz band includes the frequencies from 5.925 to 7.125 GHz and the V band from 57 to 71 GHz. The bands support newer Wi-Fi versions, Wi-Fi 6E and WiGig respectively, which offer much higher data speeds and shorter range than previous versions of Wi-Fi. The latter operates in band 2. , 4 GHz and 5 GHz with specific frequencies criminalized in most countries, including India. Licensed frequencies are free to use, within prescribed standards, by anyone, without charge or permissions. Regulators do the same for the 6 GHz and V bands to support new generations of Wi-Fi.
Wi-Fi 6E will be essential to avoid data congestion due to the massive increase in user devices around the world. Likewise, with the rollout of 5G, users will need Wi-Fi 6E in their premises to take advantage of its features, such as enhanced mobile broadband, ultra-low latency, and extended support for Wi-Fi. IoT. Immersive technologies like augmented reality and virtual reality, which are currently transforming industries like learning, entertainment, healthcare, etc., need Wi-Fi 6E. Studies show that the technology can coexist with existing users.
WiGig, in V-band, offers ‘wireless fiber’, that is, data speeds similar to those of optical fiber, without the expense and time required to install it. Its features include support for fixed wireless and enhanced broadband. Fortunately, since atmospheric oxygen absorbs V-band frequencies, signals cannot travel far enough to cause interference!
Countries like the United States, Canada, Brazil, Chile, South Korea, Mexico and Saudi Arabia have removed the two bands. Almost 80 countries, including Australia, Japan and the 27 members of the EU, have unlicensed the V band. The downgrading of the 6 GHz band continues. A decision is pending in several countries while the EU has indicted the lower part (5.925-6.425 GHz). An August 2021 report from the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance – which counts global tech majors among its members – suggests that countries that have phased out the 6 GHz band account for more than half of global GDP.
Companies like Qualcomm, Samsung and Cisco are developing technologies to exploit unlicensed spectrum. Network players like Broadcom, Linksys and Netgear have demonstrated devices, of which around 300 million will be deployed in 2021.
India has high stakes in Wi-Fi connectivity. Users rely on Wi-Fi hotspots in airports, homes and elsewhere. Mobile operators use it to offload traffic from 2G, 3G and 4G networks. Rural users of BharatNet, the national fiber optic network, need good Wi-Fi to exploit its capacity.
However, India has too few Wi-Fi hotspots. TRAI recommended important corrective measures. The government PM-WANI initiative aims to help local rural entrepreneurs expand Wi-Fi access. The 2018 National Digital Communication Policy targeted 5 million public Wi-Fi hotspots in India by 2020 and 10 million by 2022. Unfortunately, there are only 400,000 today.
India needs a nuanced approach to strengthening Wi-Fi hotspots. Deployment of advanced Wi-Fi technology could add value to users, improve demand and make supply commercially attractive. However, newer generations of Wi-Fi versions require unlicensed 6 GHz and V bands.
The NDCP does not explicitly refer to spectrum delicacy, but contains critically important text. He speaks of “recognizing the mid-band spectrum, in particular the 3 GHz to 43 GHz range, as being at the heart of India’s strategy for next generation networks”. He also invokes âinternational good practicesâ in the context of the V-band, which has been criminalized in more than 80 countries.
There are some concerns about spectrum crime. There are concerns that failure to auction the spectrum would hurt government revenues, violate the rights of existing licensed operators or Supreme Court rulings. I contend that the concerns are misplaced.
For starters, the auction experience makes it a dubious way to find out the price of spectrum in the market. There has been little competition for spectrum since 2016, when seven private players came out, leaving just three candidates for spectrum. Since then, of all the frequencies auctioned, barely half have been sold, and that too at a reserve price (minimum admissible offer) administratively decided by the government.
This could force higher bids by auctioning less spectrum, but it would leave even more spectrum idle! The government’s legitimate aim to prevent unearned gains from undervalued spectrum is causing serious distortions. It is better to face it by taxing windfall profits than by current untenable auctions.
The GSMA and the COAI, representing the mobile operators in the world and in India respectively, advocate the auctioning of the 6 GHz and V bands for the exclusive use of the winners. The argument runs counter to seriously skewed auctions and more and more countries are phasing out both bands.
TRAI recently opposed the granting of additional licenses. It indicates that the already decommissioned license (in the 2.4 and 5 GHz bands) is underutilized. Unfortunately, it lacks that the currently unlicensed spectrum does not support critical applications such as AR / VR or âvirtual fiberâ that operate in the unlicensed 6 GHz and V bands.
Some argue that removing spectrum licenses violates the 2012 Supreme Court ruling in the infamous 2G case, forcing the government to auction spectrum in the future. But the court clarified its position in its response to a subsequent government referral. He said the auction of natural resources was not a constitutional principle but a matter of policy. Indeed, the government licensed spectrum in the 5 GHz band in 2015 and is still not auctioning backhaul spectrum.
The fact that the licensing spectrum could deprive the government of potentially significant auction revenue is misleading. A modeling study by Rekha Jain for the Broadband India Forum estimates the total economic value of unlicensed Wi-Fi spectrum at Rs.180,284 crore ($ 25 billion).
Global regulators recognize the vast untapped potential of unlicensed spectrum for existing and new players, entrepreneurs, start-ups and even end users. Can India afford to ignore it?


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CSA: Top Threats to Cloud Computing: Deep Dive
Case study that attempts to connect the dots when it comes to risk management and cloud computing by providing a more technical detail dealing with architecture, compliance, risk and mitigation for each of the cloud computing threats and vulnerabilities identified.
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), the world's leading organization dedicated to defining standards, certifications and best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, released a case study "Top Threats to Cloud Computing: Deep Dive" in an attempt to provide more technical details dealing with the architecture, compliance, risk, and mitigations for each threats and vulnerabilities identified in the Treacherous 12: Top Threats to Cloud Computing (2016).
Each of the examples are presented as both a reference chart and detailed narrative. The reference chart’s format offers an attack-style synopsis of the actor, spanning from threats and vulnerabilities to associated controls and mitigations. The longer-form narratives provide additional context (such as how an incident came to pass or how it should be dealt with). For cases where details—such as impacts or mitigations—were not discussed publicly, the working group extrapolated to include expected outcomes and possibilities.
The paper goes on to outline recommended Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) domains, sorted according to how often controls within the domains are relevant as a mitigating control. [Mitigations and controls applicable to the nine case studies cover 13 of the 16 Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) domains.]


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This post deals with sexual assault and domestic violence and may be triggering for some readers.
"I will never un-see what I saw in there. I will never view the world the same."
The 32-year-old spent eight months in prison after being found guilty of a string of fraud and deception convictions in September last year.
"The thing that surprised me the most is the grief in there. You can't have put pen to paper about what you've seen and heard in there about people's lives. Like people's parents that shot them up with heroin at 10 years old, been molested, you name it, it has happened," she shared.
"And these women know nothing better. Or they're in there with their mum or their grandma. You know there are generations in prison."
"You see so much loss in there."
Annabel was one of the eight per cent of women that make up the total prison population here in Australia.
While that might not seem a large percentage, more women and girls are finding themselves locked up in prison than ever before.
Between 2009 and 2019, the rate at which women and girls were imprisoned increased by 64 percent. For men it was just 45 percent.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders currently make up 33 percent of the female prison population.
So why are more women and girls going to jail now? Well, research has found that many female prisoners are victims of violence and abuse at the hands of their partners.
In fact, in 2016, a conference held by the National Judicial College of Australia and the ANU College of Law heard that the majority of women in Australia and around the world, have committed minor non-violent offences. Of the women who have committed serious violent crimes, they are almost always against violent partners rather than strangers.
A history of trauma.
According to Silke Meyer, Associate Professor in Criminology and the Deputy Director of the Gender and Family Violence Prevention Centre at Monash University, a lot of crimes against violent partners can be linked to a history of trauma.
"When we look at the female prison population, there's a much greater level of violence against women or violence against girls that often starts in childhood, and is primarily male perpetrated violence," she tells The Quicky, Mamamia's daily news podcast.

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Welcome back to B-Movie Enema’s Andy Sidaris Month!
You know what was part of my decision to kick 2022 off with this theme? It’s January, it’s cold. It’s gray and nighttime comes way too soon in the day. Andy Sidaris is a perfect thing to watch during these cold, dark, and lonely days. He takes us to sunny, beautiful, and sexy Hawaii in most of his films. That’s certainly what we have in line for this fourth film in his Bullets, Bombs, and Babes series – Savage Beach.
This time around, our favorite agents, Donna and Taryn, are transporting an important vaccine when they are forced to land on a remote island full of sandy beaches and tall palm trees. Nearby, there is a sunken World War II era Japanese ship that is just loaded to the balls with treasure. Our blonde bombshells are not alone on the island either. There are deadly bad guys looking for the sunken treasure too!
Welcome to yet another new year and a new slate of B-Movie Enema goodness. I decided I’d kick off 2022 with a whole month dedicated to our dearest friend, Andy Sidaris. To be fair, this is a little bit of a makeup for how much I’ve neglected poor Andy. Sidaris should be covered as much as possible at a website called B-Movie Enema, and, thus far, I’ve only done so twice. Once for Malibu Express waaaay back in 2016. Then, a second time for the world renown Hard Ticket to Hawaii last year.
So the fuck am I doin’ around here? Where’s the Andy? Where’s the beefcake, the cheesecake, the fun, and the explosions?
January 2022 will be Andy Sidaris Month, goddammit! We’re just going to keep ripping through his boobtacular action series picking right up with the third film in the BBB (Bullets, Bombs, and Babes) Series with Picasso Trigger. This movie sees the return of the incredibly lovely duo of Dona Spier, as the appropriately named Donna, and Hope Marie Carlton (one of my faves from this series), as Taryn. It also introduces yet another Abilene, Travis, played by Steve Bond (cool name, can’t be real).
So we’ve come the end of 2021. Was it better? Did you have a good time in 2021? I mean, 2020 was pretty shit. 2021 started real rough. I think we corrected course just in time to get back in the muck again. Sure there were deltas and omicrons and probably even persei 8s. But did you take care of yourselves? I mean it, my dear Enemaniacs, I hope you took care of yourselves. I hope if you had to recover from 2020, you did so. I hope if you tried to do something to better yourself in 2021 you were able.
We’re closing out the 22nd year of the 21st century with a film from the 20th.
This week’s film, Ghostkeeper, is a somewhat appreciated moody spirit movie from Canada with some traces of The Shining. Now, I know we’ve had a sketchy history with Canadian horror, but I’m promised that this is an atmospheric movie. It also at least starts on New Year’s Eve. That’s kind of awesome because there aren’t too many movies I can cover that run congruent to the day.
Alright, we’re through the muck of the first 300 editions of B-Movie Enema. It’s time to roll that odometer over and get going on a new batch of 300. To get this batch started, I need to cover a movie from 80s/90s B-movie maestro Fred Olen Ray. To be honest, I think there are only about five or six movies of his that I could choose from to cover… and not want to gauge my eyes out. So, I went with the classic 1988 black comedy horror, Hollywood Chainsaw Massacre.
It’s kind of hard to believe I’ve never covered a Fred Olen Ray movie before on this site. One could argue that the man made stuff that is ripe for the pickin’ by yours truly. And don’t think that this movie hasn’t come across my desk and been considered before. The same goes for his other classics like Cyclone, Alienator, Evil Toons, and Dinosaur Island. Pretty much every single one of those movies, as well as Sorceress, which he produced, has been sought out and vetted to be slotted in one of these Friday mornings, but always kept getting pushed back.
Considering I do have enough of his films, I probably can just go ahead and do a whole theme month. Maybe I’ll have to consider that down the line.
We’re goin’ to a land down under where John Jarrat and crocs rumble. Can’t you hear Arch Nicholson tell Nikki Coghill cut? You better run, I better get started.
Oh yes, it’s time to return to Australia for one of the most well liked Ozploitation horror adventures! This week, I’m talking about Arch Nicholson’s 1987 giant crocodile flick Dark Age. Now, check it out, this was part of a two-picture deal with the recently resurrected RKO Pictures. RKO was a golden age of cinema studio. Their biggest claim to fame? Motherfuckin’ King Kong, of course. RKO dissolved at the very end of the 50s and returned in 1981 and collaborated with some of the major studios.
I’m gonna guess this and the partner movie in the deal with RKO, The Lighthorseman, were products of the post-Crocodile Dundee Australia hysteria that not only gave us a bunch of Paul Hogan stuff and Yahoo Serious. I think we know who won in that deal. Also, we had lots of Mel Gibson stuff in the late 80s, as he was one of the biggest stars in Hollywood at that time too. So, yeah, I can see RKO wanting in on that action.
That’s right, guys, gals, and enby pals. It’s my favorite time of the year. There’s something to that time of the year in which things get a little grayer, a little colder, a little more rainy, and the smell of decomposing leaves filling the air. It just makes everything a little creepier and a little more fun. It all culminates with today, the spookiest day of the year – Halloween!
Unless you’re in the Southern Hemisphere. It may still be Halloween for you, but it’s also spring and things are coming to life instead of dying off.
But, hey! That actually kind of fits today’s featured movie, 1986’s Night of the Creeps! I’ll come back around to that in just a moment. First, let’s talk about Halloween as a tradition in these parts. Way back in the very early days of B-Movie Enema, the final Friday of 2014 was Halloween and that saw the release of the bottom of the barrel Jess Franco Oasis of the Zombies article. Then, in 2016, I did an impromptu Halloween special article after watching the infuriating Halloween: Resurrection. In 2017, it was another trip to the Halloween franchise with Halloween III: Season of the Witch. I cheated a bit in 2018 and gave Halloween day to Film Seizure was covered the new Halloween movie that came out that year, so on the 30th, I did the remake of Night of the Demons just days after doing the original. In 2019, it was the rock and roll horror Trick or Treat. Last year, it was the conclusion of of a very personal set of movies when I covered The Slumber Party Massacre.


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Ailing man held over wife’s forgotten’ case – 498A
Mukti, a resident of Birati’s Sarat Bose Lane, had lodged a complaint under Section 498A against Asim, after he allegedly tortured her physically and pressured her to sell off their property. After he was arrested, Mukti an employee of the state health department’s District Family Welfare Bureau herself took the initiative to ensure that he got released.
According to Mukti, the following year, she had filed an affidavit before the Barrackpore court saying she had no grudge against her husband anymore. “It is my mistake that I did not follow up on the case, and thought it got disposed of. Neither did I keep any track of whether I was to appear for the case subsequently,” a tearful Mukti said on Monday.
In the first week of March, officials from Airport police station knocked on her door and mentioned the pending case which, they said, made her husband an “absconder”. A shocked Mukti went to the police station two days later, on March 9, but to no avail.
At 2.30 am that very day, a bus full of central forces and local police eager to present an impressive figure before the Election Commission of the number of non-bailable arrest warrants it has disposed of arrested 58-year-old Asim.
In the past six years, things have changed for the better for the couple. “My husband has a severe heart ailment, and I am worried of what he is going through now,” Mukti said, knocking on the doors of chief electoral officer Sunil Kumar Gupta on Monday.
Asim met with an accident three years ago, which made him almost invalid. He is slated to undergo an open heart surgery in Andhra Pradesh in the first week of April. While Gupta was not in office at the time, Mukti was advised to submit a written complaint.
Mukti, in fact, fears that some people could have used police to get Asim arrested she says she has been harassed for complaining against police in the case involving her husband’s accident and another involving a property dispute.
Dhrubajyoti De, additional SP of North 24-Parganas (Barrackpore) said anyone recorded as an absconder in police records is being arrested. “That is a strong message coming to every police station. However, anyone who is unwell is medically checked, and the court takes everything into consideration,” De argued.
Chief secretary Samar Ghosh said there were “all kinds of cases” among the pending non-bailable arrest warrants. “It would be good if the ones of a more serious nature are segregated and disposed of with priority,” he said.
It is ironic that someone like Majid Master a CPM strongman booked under the Arms Act and in hiding since 2009 publicly appeared at the party’s headquarters on Alimuddin Street last week, but no police officer dared to touch him. On pointing this out, Ghosh said that the CEO had asked the home secretary to submit a report on the incident.


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Purpose: To evaluate the impact of esketamine (ESK) nasal spray in patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD) and comorbid anxiety.
Methods: This post-hoc pooled analysis included two 4-week, phase 3 studies that involved treatment with ESK plus a newly initiated antidepressant (ESK+AD) or placebo nasal spray plus a new antidepressant (AD+PBO). Patients with TRD with baseline comorbid anxiety were identified according to: presence of (1) anxious depression (total score ≥8 on Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology anxiety subscale); (2) comorbid anxiety disorder (Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview); or (3) anxious distress (DSM-5 major depressive disorder specifier). Response rates (≥50% reduction in Montgomery–Åsberg Depression Rating Scale total score) at Week 4 between ESK+AD and AD+PBO were compared using the Cochran-Mantel-Haenzsel (CMH) test. Logistic regression models were fit to examine whether observed treatment differences at Week 4 were dependent on presence/absence of comorbid anxiety.
Results: At baseline, 22.3% (126/564), 14.2% (80/565), and 72.9% (412/565) of patients had anxious depression, comorbid anxiety disorder, or anxious distress, respectively. At Day 28, 58.7% (182/310) of patients in the ESK+AD group achieved response in depression symptoms compared with 45.1% (94/208) of patients in AD+PBO group, with a statistically significant difference between treatment groups (p<0.001). A treatment-by-subgroup interaction terms analysis examined whether response differed between treatment groups based on presence of comorbid anxiety. No interaction terms met the a priori p<0.05 definition.
Conclusion: In patients with TRD, esketamine nasal spray plus a newly initiated antidepressant was generally an efficacious treatment regardless of whether patients had comorbid anxiety present at baseline.
This poster was presented at the 32nd annual Psych Congress, held Oct. 3-6, 2019, in San Diego, California.

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This year (back in early October) the Diversity Coalition put on a salsa dancing class. Actually, it was this event that convinced me to join the Diversity Coalition! The class was in Eddie's lounge on a Friday night and I went with Alex! A professional dance instructor came to teach us some basic salsa dance moves. I had a blast and I hope that we can have another dance class soon!!


Sarah Geronimo’s much – awaited 2019 track “Ang Tangi Kong Pangarap” for movie “Unforgettable”, out now!
Thank God its Friday because we have new music from the Asia’s Pop Star Royalty, Sarah Geronimo!
Sarah G’s much-awaited track of 2019, “Ang Tangi Kong Pangarap”, has just been released! The song is originally by Rico Blanco and and was sung a beautifully rendered cover by Sarah which gave the track a sincere and emotional rendition.
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S U R P R I S E N E W M U S I C ✨ Asia's Pop Star Royalty Sarah Geronimo's much-awaited new track for 2019 comes in the form of a beautifully rendered cover of “Ang Tangi Kong Pangarap" — one of the much-awaited music highlights in her upcoming film “Unforgettable." Now available on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2mXxO65. #Unforgettable
The Sarah G music treat does not end there, as the official lyric video of “Ang Tangi Kong Pangarap” has also been released!
Check it out below and sing along to this new, heartfelt music from the one and only Asia’s Popstar Royalty:
The track is one of the much-awaited music highlights and soundtracks from Sarah’s upcoming film “Unforgettable”, which will soon hit cinemas!
Mark your calendars for Sarah Geronimo’s upcoming film “Unforgettable”, showing this October 23 in cinemas nationwide! Watch the trailer below:
UNFORGETTABLE Teaser [Coming soon]
Take the journey with Sarah Geronimo and Happy to experience an Unforgettable love.UNFORGETTABLE. Coming soon in cinemas nationwide.#UnforgettableTeaserPosted by VIVA Films on Saturday, August 31, 2019


Ban on Retail Pet Stores Public Hearing Set for Tonight
The Montgomery County Council is holding a public hearing tonight at 7:30 p.m. to discuss a ban on retail pet stores that sell dogs or cats in the county.
Montgomery County Council President George Leventhal is the chief sponsor of the bill and he said the idea behind it is to ban pet stores from selling dogs or cats bred at puppy mills.
Just Puppies on Veirs Mill Road is the only pet store in Montgomery County but because it is in the city of Rockville it would not be subject to county laws, such as this proposed one.
The executive vice president of the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council said that is one reason his organization is opposed to this bill.
“It’s a solution looking for a problem,” Mike Bober said. “Montgomery County doesn’t have any such pet stores currently in operation.”
Leventhal said this bill is a proactive one to prevent stores from doing so. According to Leventhal, no bill he has proposed in his more than 12 years on the Council has attracted as much public reaction as this one.
A Public Safety Committee work session on the bill is tentatively scheduled for Feb. 5 at 3:30 p.m.


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In accordance with section 157(6)(b) of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism Act 2009 (“Act”), the Associate Minister of Justice hereby gives notice that he has granted the following exemption from the Act:
Ministerial Exemption: Foodstuffs North Island Limited
1. As the Associate Minister of Justice, and pursuant to section 157 of the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Act 2009 (“Act”), I exempt Foodstuffs North Island Limited (FSNI) from the following provisions of the Act:
- sections 1–39 (customer due diligence);
- sections 48A–48C (prescribed transaction reports);
- sections 49–51 (transaction, identity verification, and other record keeping); and
- sections 56–71 (AML/CFT compliance programme, codes of practice, and cross-border transportation of cash).
2. For the avoidance of doubt, this exemption only applies in relation to the following activities:
- lending of money to members for the purchase of Foodstuffs Franchise business;
- giving guarantees in respect of a member’s borrowing from New Zealand registered banks for that purpose; and
- operating trading accounts for members.
3. This exemption is made subject to the following conditions:
- FSNI must continue to retain an in-depth knowledge of, and monitor, its members; and
- FSNI must inform the Ministry of Justice of any changes that may affect the exemption and/or conditions imposed by this written instrument within 10 working days from which the change affecting the exemption occurs.
4. The exemption has been granted for the following reasons:
- it has a limited, well known customer base for captured activities. FSNI’s captured activities are limited to its members;
- it has in-depth knowledge of its customers;
- there is a limited scope of services offered. FSNI undertakes regular reviews and robust monitoring of its members; and
- there is ongoing due diligence and monitoring. FSNI undertakes regular reviews and robust monitoring of its members.
5. This exemption comes into force on 9 March 2021.
6. This exemption will expire on 9 March 2026.
Any person wishing to provide comment on this notice should contact the Criminal Law Team at the Ministry of Justice by emailing firstname.lastname@example.org.


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Rugby Lake Lodge & Campground located on the shores of beautiful Rugby Lake. A small campground offering serviced and unserviced sites. There is a central showerhouse with flush toilets and laundry facilities.
We also have HK Cabins available. Aside from its spectacular scenery and semi remote tranquility Rugby offers choice fishing for Walleye, Northern Pike, and Smallmouth Bass.
A MUST SEE - THE RUGBY LAKE WATERFALLS, only a short hike from camp. It is truly a beautiful place to sit, relax and picnic or just sit in solitude and reflect.
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I remember bringing home One Hundred Years of Solitude after reading it for my Realism in Literature class for university. I remember feeling fundamentally changed after journeying through Marquez’s fictional Columbia, enchanted by the words on the page, my heart pounding and my imagination running wild. And, as I often do in this case, I remember handing the book off to my mother for her enjoyment.
Her response was: “It’s too weird”.
And it happens sometimes that I fail to see the weirdness of some novels, that my obsession with fantastical fiction has blurred the line of what is acceptable and not, what is progressive and experimental, what is strange or bizzare or uncomfortable. There are a lot of topics in literature that no longer bother me – sex, violence, supernatural, you name it. Doesn’t bother me at all.
The Man Who Spoke Snakish is weird.
It really is fantastically weird, everything from bear fucking to giant insects to limbless grandfathers with razor-sharp teeth, The Man Who Spoke Snakish hits the ground running, weaving the story of Leemet, a boy raised in the forest of Estonia, who becomes the symbol and protector of The Old Ways. I say “The Old Ways” because we all know what that means – at some point in all cultures, modernity swoops in and begins to erase everything that was once held dear, everything that people know and cherish. Some embrace change, and in this case, move into a village and change their names to fit the new standards. However, some cling to The Old Ways, finding themselves keepers of tradition, and often, watching the world change around them with distaste and uncertainty. Lemeet is one such person, who is staunch in his fight against the oncoming wave of newness. He is proud of his heritage, proud of the simplicity of forest life, and especially proud of his ability to speak Snakish – a quickly dying language that allows him to communicate and have mastery over animals.
But among the weirdness and the violence of the story, there is a clear and culturally relevant narrative. The majority of the book deals with impending change and how we deal with inevitability. Do we give up The Old Ways, pack up, and move to the village? Do we change our names, and with that, change the people we are? Or do we hold tight to our principals, to the things we know, and cement our identity in them? There are consequences in either decision, and a struggle that results in a palpable cultural tension. The meat of this book is the discussion of old versus new, and the weight of being the last of your kind.
The Man Who Spoke Snakish reads like folklore, reads like a story that has been passed down from generation to generation. It is complex and epic, wonderful and yes, weird. But at the center of all that weirdness is a tale of morality, humanity, and our relationship with nature. And blood. Lots of blood.


Gossen Labosix Enlarger Exposure Meter
The Gossen Labosix is an exposure meter to be used in the darkroom for enlarging purposes. The sensor contains a CdS light sensitive device with a small hole and is very useful for spot measurement. On the left side you will find the on/off switch and also the scale illumination control. With the meter comes a special test negative used for calibrating the meter. The test negative is a step wedge, devided into six squares with different density and about 0.15 D step. On top of the meter is a knob which can be turned and also a scale. This scale functions as a film speed index.


Today we started building our frame that will support the pneumatics for this project. Here is a photo of what we have built so far:
It is kinda like a table, we will put all the electronics on top. We are doing this because if any liquids spill, they won't touch any electronics. We didn't do much in chemistry, just making sure the pH probe works properly.