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July 17, 2019 marks the 5th anniversary of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 by a Russian BUK, killing 298 passengers and crew on-board. Dutch officials have confirmed 3 Russians and 1 Ukraine face murder charges in connection to MH17 with the trial expected to begin 5 months from now in December 2019.
Never in a million years did I ever expect that I would be writing another article about a Boeing 777 airplane falling out of the sky. Ridiculous, right?
Photo Credit: Taken on July 28, 2013, at Shanghai Pudong Airport, by Steven Richardson, aviation analyst at FlyersPulse.com, of Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200, Registration Number 9M-MRD, which is reported by Malaysia Airlines as the crashed aircraft of Flight 17 on July 17, 2014.
All contact with Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was lost on the early morning of July 17th at 13:20 Zulu (9:20 ET), when the transponder radar data became unreliable at 13:18 Zulu (9:18 ET) into what was supposedly was a routine flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
MH17 was cruising along at 33,000 feet (10,000 meters) in the safest phase of flight with 298 souls aboard. Suddenly, the aircraft exploded. An advanced computerized Russian Buk-M2 SAM missile slammed into the cabin of the Boeing 777-200ER and blew the airliner right out of the sky.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a vehicle-mounted advanced computerized Russian-built Buk missile system, say defense experts.
MH17 crashed immediately over eastern Ukraine near the Russian border on Thursday, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board. The Boeing 777-200ER, which was carrying 298 passengers, was on route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when it crashed on Thursday.
Emergency workers have found 196 bodies at the site, where Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER airliner operating as flight MH17 crashed on Thursday, according to the most recent reports from Breaking Travel News (BTN).
It fell between Krasni Luch in Luhansk region and Shakhtarsk in the neighboring region of Donetsk, after being reportedly hit by a missile over the rebel-held territory, says BTN
The use of an advanced computerized Russian-built Buk missile to shoot down a passenger airliner is a criminal act of liability and terror to the international flying public, all commercial airlines, and The Boeing Company.
Both sides in the Ukrainian civil conflict have accused each other of shooting down the jet with a missile, BTN said.
Something MUST be done to stop this immediately from ever happening again. Period.
This is endangering and imperiling commercial passenger air travel. It poses to the public an international aviation stability breach. This incident is absolutely intolerable to public safety and security of world travelers and those whom benefit from international trade alike.
- In addition, the world's thoughts and prayers go out to the MH370 crew, passengers, and their families and friends, now united with those families and friends of the passengers and crew on board MH17, undergoing their deepest grief in facing this international aviation disaster and tragedy. May peace be with you, as we all continue to move forward in getting to the bottom of this MH17 incident, just as we are about to re-launch our international search for MH370 in August.
As I said on March 15 to The Washington Post and on Fox News Hannity on March 14, "There are two things missing here: the plane and patience."
We are now missing two planes, MH370 and MH17. Sadly, patience has run out among us, as it rightly should.
Collectively, we all believe this MH17 aviation disaster, so soon in the wake of the MH370 aviation tragedy, is outrageous and preposterous.
Given both the MH17 disaster and MH370 tragedy hitting us in over four months, it is incomprehensible we should have to also deal with this MH17 apprehensible nuisance to common law. It undermines the public trust in and integrity of international aviation safety and security.
Where has the implicit promise of safety and security to the flying public gone at this point? Something must be done to end such aviation safety and security breaches for now onward.
The loss of 537 lives on MH17 and MH370 in four months has now reached into the realm of absurdity.
I believe this senseless loss, specifically of 239 souls on board MH370, and now a horrible loss of 298 souls on board MH17, is a ludicrously extreme event. The flying public should not have to endure this type of military ballistic weaponry risk and unsafe commercial passenger airliner mishaps in our digital-age of aviation safety and security.
State of international commercial passenger air travel faces a crisis of integrity and trust.
What has happened to our previously stellar world of commercial passenger flight safety?
Will this nonsense of safety breaches cause the flying public to seriously question, "Why We Love and Loathe Flying?" (see my article featured on LinkedIn Pulse Airlines & Aviation and Customer Experience Channels)
As an aviation enthusiasts, I am appalled, dismayed, horrified, and outraged by the destroyed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17's Boeing 777-200ER, Registration Number 9M-MRD on July 17, 2014, and the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, also a Boeing 777-200ER, which disappeared on March 8, 2014.
Photo Credit: Donetsk (Ukraine) Wreckage of Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200, Registration Number 9M-MRD is reported by Malaysia Airlines as the crashed aircraft of Flight 17. Source: Agence France-Presse (AFP) is an international news agency, headquartered in Paris. AFP is the oldest news agency in the world and one of the largest.
Just as much, it is unfortunate such a superb aircraft from The Boeing Company should be faced with such a nuisance of an extreme accident of no fault of their own on such a fine engineering marvel as the Boeing 777-200ER that regularly travels the globe.
The Boeing 777 program represents 20 years of proven technology with a stellar safety record. The safety record of the Boeing 777 has been exemplary without incident for two decades until the Asiana Airlines crash landing in San Francisco on July 6, 2013. The Asiana incident was a result of pilot error, human factors historically being the cause of 9 out of 10 aviation safety mishaps, including the Asiana Airlines flight 214 crash, according to the final report by the United States National Transportation Safety Board. Remarkably, all passengers were able to escape the burning aircraft within seconds, largely due to United States federally-mandated "16-G-force" bolted seating that allowed safe avenues of exit for the passengers on board Asiana 214.
I reported on Fox News then that "Boeing teaches us not only how planes fly, but also how planes should crash in saving hundreds of lives" in the Asiana Airlines flight 214 San Francisco Airport crash landing.
Remarkably, exactly 18 years ago from Thursday on July 17, 1996, a similar international aviation safety breach happened with the downing of Trans World Airlines flight TWA 800, due to an explosion of the Boeing 747-200 center fuel tanks, shortly after takeoff over Long Island Sound, off the coast of New York.
From Seattle, The Boeing Company issued a statement on July 17, 2014 on Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 saying, "Our thoughts and prayers are with those on board the Malaysia Airlines airplane lost over Ukrainian airspace, as well as their families and loved ones. Boeing stands ready to provide whatever assistance is requested by authorities."
"Borat with a Buk?"
Any airliner cruising at 33,000 feet is now vulnerable. Thursday's aviation safety breach of a Boeing 777-200ER is ridiculous for the public's flying security in the 21st century. This video below shows What Can We Do With a Buk? – an advanced computerized Russian missile launcher.
When one looks at this video and also looks at the aftermath of the MH17 unsecured crash site, one cannot help but to think about Borat with a complex piece of machinery that he does not really understand how to use, as he is trying to take down a small fighter jet.
"Borat with a Buk" immediately and suddenly realizes he has made a huge catastrophic blunder using the Russian military launcher. When he looks over and sees a piece of wreckage that says Malaysia Airlines and another piece of wreckage that says 9M-MRD (as indicated in the above wreckage photo), "Borat with a Buk" now comprehends he has mistakenly taken down a commercial Boeing 777-200ER airliner with a Buk!
If "Borat with a Buk" sounds like a Hollywood trailer of a comedy movie, it would be humorous at this point, if we were observing this inside a movie theater.
Except "Borat with a Buk" is not our Hollywood imagination in the aftermath of the MH17 disaster on Thursday, July 17. This is because Borat alone cannot operate a Buk. It takes a number of people skilled in advanced computerized ballistic weaponry (as the above video clearly reveals to us, as we take a closer look inside a Buk).
On the contrary, nonetheless, we all observed Thursday the ridiculous and ludicrous comic strip was actually happening, right before our eyes in completeness of a horribly real aviation disaster of an engineering marvel, like a Boeing 777-200ER, being shot down out of the sky.
What is most troubling is this aviation safety incident may have been an accidental misfire, as Russian-backed rebel and separatist groups, or Russian forces based in eastern Ukraine, or some other hidden national interests with an agenda in the region, allegedly may have been performing practice runs with the Buk missile launcher, shooting at fighter planes or helicopters in the sky.
Earlier in the week, Russian forces may have been allegedly responsible for shooting down a Ukrainian jet.
The Buk, which Ukrainian interior minister Anton Gerashenko has blamed for the attack, has a range of up to 25,000 meters, and can easily down an Boeing 777-200ER airliner cruising by at 10,000 meters, says The Guardian (U.K.). Defense experts believe this may have allegedly happened on Thursday afternoon, as Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 flew her route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
Igor Sutyagin, a Russian military specialist at the London-based Royal United Services Institute, said he believed that either Russians or Russian-supported groups in eastern Ukraine were responsible. He said they had been shooting at Ukrainian aircraft over the last week, reports The Guardian (U.K.).
The Guardian further suggests, Kalashnikov-carrying Russian sympathizers in Ukraine would not have had the expertise to use the Buk system and would have needed either specialist, who had "volunteered" their services from Russia or locally recruited experts. Russia is alleged to have infiltrated special forces into Ukraine in the guise of rebels.
Sutyagin, who monitors social media in Ukraine, said a Ukrainian rebel force had been spotted just hours earlier with a Buk system at Torez, a village close to the site where the plane came down.
He added that a Ukrainian transport plane had been flying overhead close to the time that the missile was fired at the Malaysia Airlines plane, suggesting that may have been the original target. The transport plane had been trying to relieve a beleaguered Ukraine garrison, says The Guardian (U.K.).
Like for the MH370 aviation tragedy, who really knows anything for sure at this point with Thursday's MH17 aviation disaster?
To save fuel, but not lives?
Why then was the Ukraine airspace even open for commercial passenger airline use in the first place? Are we kidding? These are very dangerous air travel routes, as these maps below chart out for us.
First and foremost, in this digital-age of aviation, what in the world was MH17 or any commercial airliner doing flying over a war zone? These quite revealing New York Times (Europe) pictures speak a thousand words.
The Associated Press reports, "the Malaysian jetliner that went down in war-torn Ukraine did not make any distress call," Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Friday, July 18, adding that "its flight route had been declared safe by the global civil aviation body."
MH17 was taking the shortest most economic route, for what? To save gas, but not lives, ludicrous!
MH17 was traveling on routes that were closed at lower elevations. Referring to the New York Times, "Flight MH17 was flying on a route that had remained open and active at higher elevations throughout the conflict in Ukraine. It had been closed up to 32,000 feet, but the Boeing 777-200ER airliner was traveling 1,000 feet above that. Hours before the crash, Russia had announced its own airspace restrictions near eastern Ukraine, closing below 32,000 feet the route Flight MH17 would have taken through Russia."
Path of Flight MH17. The plane was on Airway L980 (shown below in red), which has remained open at elevations above 32,000 during the conflict in Ukraine. Before Flight MH17 took off, Russia closed more than a dozen airways at various elevations. The A87 route (shown below in black) that Flight MH17 would have followed was only open above 32,000 feet. The MH17 crash site location near the Russian-Ukraine border is shown below.
Sources: Eurocontrol, Federal Aviation Administration, Restricted flight areas before the July 17, 2014 crash by the United States Federal Aviation Administration (shown directly above in red) and Eurocontrol (shown directly above in blue).
Before MH17, some airlines avoided Ukraine. "A survey of flights to Asia from Europe in the last week found that some airlines had been flying over eastern Ukraine and some had been avoiding the area," reports the New York Times.
Source: Flight path data near Ukraine (shown as indicated in white in the middle of each figure) from flightradar24.com, Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 to Kuala Lumpur (top left – flew over Ukraine), Air France Flight 166 to Bangkok (top right – avoided the area), British Airways Flight 9 to Bangkok (middle left – avoided the area), KLM Flight 809 to Kuala Lumpur (middle right – flew over Ukraine), Lufthansa Flight 772 to Bangkok (bottom left – flew over Ukraine), Thai Airways Flight 931 to Bangkok (bottom right – largely flew over Ukraine).
Where the MH17 wreckage fell. "Witnesses reported that Flight 17 broke up in the air near the village of Grabovo, Ukraine. The wreckage from the crash was strewn across farmland in an area as large as six square miles," the New York Times shows.
Source: Satellite image by DigitalGlobe via Google
Crash site and missile launch within area of rebel activity. "Eastern Ukraine has been roiled for months by a violent pro-Russian separatist uprising. A United States official said the missile that shot down the plane was launched from a region near the towns of Torez and Snizhne," said the New York Times.
Source: Ukrainian Council of National Security and Defense. Show the approximate area (in red square) of the advanced computerized Buk missile launch.
Path of MH17. The plane was headed from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when radar trackers lost it. The last know location of MH17 was at 4:21 pm local time.
Source: Flight-path data from flightradar24.com
Many more lives could have been lost, if for example, this was a full Airbus A380 operated by Malaysia Airlines from London Heathrow Airport to Kuala Lumpur, or any other such carriers that could possibly be flying an Airbus A380 or Boeing 777 aircraft over the same Ukraine airspace, including operators, such as KLM, Thai Airways, Lufthansa Airlines or Singapore Airlines (although this writer does not know, if Singapore Airlines either flies over Ukraine or avoids the area).
This horrible MH17 safety incident was completely avoidable.
CNN International on Saturday, July 19 said the MH17 crash site is "the largest crime scene in the world."
This is absolutely an international call-for-action for the commercial passenger airline's trade group, International Air Transportation Association (IATA), and the United Nation's commercial passenger airline's policy group, International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to counsel, to advise, and to warn sovereign states to establish clearer commercial passenger risk management policies and guidelines, like those of British Airways, for restricted flight paths over known war zones by commercial passenger aircraft.
Sadly, Eurocontrol had the Ukrainian war zone open to commercial air travel at the time MH17 was tragically thrown out of the sky. Malaysian officials said ICAO had approved the route the doomed MH17 airliner took. However, this appears to be a misreading of what exactly the ICAO does. ICAO issues advisory only, based on civil airline business decisions taken by delegates, rather than mandating to its members what to do in commercial passenger airline travel.
What we don't know much about as of July 19, 2014 is three alarming concerns: (1) commercial airlines flying over war zones, (2) an unsecured MH17 crash site, and once again, at the risk of sounding like a red-herring, (3) "It's Time to Put the 'Black-Box in The Cloud.'
How can we secure the flight data recorders (known as the 'black-boxes') not only in remote oceanic regions, as we have seen with the MH370 disappearance. But also now, as we see with the MH17 safety disaster and chaotic unsecured crash site, the black-boxes are misplaced once again. Now, this time somewhere inside a war zone.
We just do not know right now whether the precious flight recorder data inside black-boxes are being tampered with or being compromised to destroy the chain of evidence of what was happening on board moments before a Russian Buk exploded next to the Boeing 777-200ER cabin sending shrapnel through it. Remarkably right now, the black-boxes may be allegedly up for grabs among rebels or separatists in an unsecured crash site inside a known war zone.
Avoiding Russian-Ukraine War Zone Anarchy with a Buk!
The Telegraph (U.K.) reports, "A rebel leader in Ukraine has this morning said that the pro-Russian fighters will guarantee the safety of international monitors at the Malaysian jet's crash site, if Kiev agrees to a truce."
"We declare that we will guarantee the safety of international experts on the scene, as soon as, Kiev concludes a ceasefire agreement," the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic's deputy premier Andrei Purgin said in a statement.
It is very hard to get the whole truth about what exactly is going on inside the Russian-Ukraine War Zone. It is an anarchistic "black-hole" nowadays. Any facts held onto firmly too long are probably not correct.
Three major questions of international security now have a direct bearing on aviation safety and security:
First and foremost, what is happening in the Russia-Ukraine region? Revolution? It is a revolution that is now the most important revolution of our lifetime! United States and United Nations national security community and NATO think-tanks are trying to find its bearings after Thursday's MH17 aviation disaster, including the ongoing MH370 aviation tragedy.
International security interests are also re-thinking their approach in the region, as a result of the world changing so fundamentally in such a short time of four months. These extreme events are happening so fast that we do not have time to be astonished nowadays.
The Russian-Ukraine revolution is analogous with the 18th Century French Revolution. Only now the actors and players are armed with an advanced computerized missile called a Buk! In such revolutionary situations, radically different things can happen, like the downing of a Boeing 777-200ER packed with 298 civilians, cruising at 33,000 feet from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. Such revolutionary disaster events cause discontinuous and radically different change.
Above all, the MH17 loss should NOT have happened. The human story irrevocably tied to this newest aviation disaster is how to bring closure to the grieving families for lost loved ones aboard MH17, as well as, for the lost loved ones disappeared aboard MH370.
- Let me tell you how I felt, as an airlines and aviation enthusiast about this aviation tragedy yesterday. First of all, like everyone watching the extreme outrageous nature of this MH17 incident unfold, I felt just awful for the 298 people lost on board. Also, I just have not forgetten the 239 people that vanished on board MH370.
- Yesterday, as a caring human being, I, along with many others around the world, grieved for all 537 of their souls.
- Finally, I thought about the dozens of AIDS researchers who perished, and what the world has been denied in scientific contribution and medical knowledge. We probably lost a potential cure for AIDS on MH17, as dozens, perhaps a hundred top AIDS scientists and attendees to an international AIDS conference were on-board that Boeing 777-200ER.
*Correction, July 20, 2014: This article originally misstated that about 100 passengers killed on MH17 were flying to the International AIDS Conference, an estimate that was widely reported before the release of the passenger manifest. After more information was released, the International AIDS Society reported that six delegates were among those killed.
Video Credit: The Telegraph (U.K.). Leading members of the AIDS research community pay tribute to colleagues who were traveling on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, when it crashed in Ukraine.
In this October 2008 photo provided by AMC Amsterdam on Friday, July 18, 2014, former president of the International AIDS Society Joep Lange is seen. A large number of world-renowned AIDS researchers and activists heading to an international AIDS conference in Australia were on board a Malaysian jetliner that was shot down over Ukraine, officials said Friday, as news of their deaths sparked an outpouring of grief across the global scientific community. Among them was Joep Lange, a well-known researcher from the Netherlands (AP Photo/Peter Lowie/AMC).
Next, what will happen inside the Russian-Ukraine nations? Alternative Futures? Thursday's downing of a Boeing 777-200ER airliner by an advanced computerized Russian-built Buk is the most serious threat to the international security community. The Russian-Ukraine conflict is not a 'black-box' rather a 'black-hole' that has suddenly blown-back and exploded into our faces much to our astonishment.
The actor and players with an interest in this conflict had two choices: (1) they could make a Buk for billions of dollars, or (2) they could buy it. The Russian-Ukraine region is now the "Home Depot" for buying a Buk!
We all must now be interested in any sovereign state that proliferates these advanced computerized weaponry (including nuclear, biological, and chemical weaponry of mass destruction). The downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 is clear and irrevocable evidence of how a Buk can be a weapon of mass destruction in a moment of five minutes.
When we now think of the Russian-Ukraine region, we must think of three main aspects of alternative courses of action going forward.
- First, a reformist Russian-Ukraine resolution, as a result of the stunning shock of the MH17 aviation disaster. Here, Russia-Ukraine muddles along in a discontinuous fashion with potential to reach a flash-point of firing all over again, including downing a Boeing 777-200ER. Remember, the Russian-Ukraine governments are facing deficits, hyperinflation (well over 100%), high unemployment, and slow GDP growth.
- Second, a revisionist Russian-Ukraine, under extreme revision of nationalist politics, faces a significant drop in quality of life for its people, a substantial constraint on the Russian-Ukraine economy, and globally-observable anarchy within its military-industrial complex. Thursday's MH17 extreme event disaster undermines the region's authority and control of its advanced computerized military ballistic weaponry.
- Third, a collapsed Russian-Ukraine state is a highly-likely scenario for a regional conflict that has fallen into a 'black-hole' that has erupted into the downing of a Boeing 777-200ER near Donetsk (Ukraine). "Borat with a Buk" is incapable of performing minimum state functions. It has no borders, no law and order, no economic stability, or no legitimate commerce or trade. Most of all, "Borat with a Buk" brings about military anarchy and unrest to civilians and international aviation safety and security.
Finally, why should we care about the Russian-Ukraine conflict? Loose Buks? After Thursday's downing of MH17, it is all about international interests in safer and secure skies.
We witnessed "What can we do with a Buk?"
What we learned on Thursday was how a Buk can ruin your whole afternoon. It sure ruined mine.
What matters most now is everything matters in the Russian-Ukraine region going forward.
We also learned that some things matter more relative to others – like a five minute launch of a Buk!
We also must focus on what matters most. That is, how we globally aviate, navigate and communicate across safer and secure skies of international aviation. That is, safer skies over Asia, safer skies over Australia, safer skies over Africa, safer skies over Europe, safer skies over The Americas, and most of all, safer skies over the Russian-Ukraine region.
Consequences are extraordinary in the aftermath of the MH17 disaster and MH370 tragedy.
The Boeing 777-200ER airliner debris field is massive along the 15 kilometer spread along the Ukrainian-Russian boarder.
A "black-box" once again needs to be recovered to establish any chain of evidence and facts in this latest MH17 aviation disaster on July 17, much as in the ongoing MH370 aviation tragedy on March 8.
Like in the Hollywood movie "Ground Hog Day," the MH17 Déjà vu aviation disaster is analogous to the June 1, 2014 "Five-Year Anniversary of AF447: MH370 Déjà vu" aviation tragedy.
The international watchdogs, safety experts, and aviation trade organizations (IATA and ICAO) as well as, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)need to be placed front and center in order to now step up and vigorously perform their essential tasks of determining the forensic circumstances and a cause of what happened. Most of all, these essential groups must ensure that we have no more MH17 Déjà vu aviation disaster, as well as, no more "Five-Year Anniversary of AF447: MH370 Déjà vu" aviation tragedy.
Human lives are at stake. Henceforward, patience in stating, speculating and storytelling of the truths is prudent now more than ever. Why? Because international aviation safety and security community is now working in crisis mode to recover public confidence, I firmly believe.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, in which 298 souls have been bombed out of the sky, and Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, in which 239 souls have vanished out of the sky, now ranks as the largest air disaster in total lives lost at 537 souls, in aviation history, since American Airlines 587 crashed into a New York suburb back on November 12, 2001, where 260 souls perished.
Malaysia Airlines is now in the fog of the greatest dual-crisis in international aviation safety and security history," I said recently on Reuters.
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Half of Illinois residents would move to another state if they could — the highest percentage for any state, according to a poll released by Gallup this week. Nearly half of those polled in Connecticut and Maryland said they would move.
Some 19 percent of Illinoisans surveyed said they plan to move in the next 12 months, a rate that trailed only Nevada.
The New Jersey-based polling firm conducted interviews of 600 residents in each state, asking "Regardless of whether you will move, if you had the opportunity, would you like to move to another state, or would you rather remain in your current state?"
On average, 33 percent of those polled would leave their state. Montana, Hawaii and Maine had the lowest percentage of residents expressing a desire to move.
The top reason for wanting to move from Illinois, given by 26 percent of those polled, was "work/business-related." Weather was the next most-cited reason for wanting to move, though the poll was conducted from June to December 2013, meaning pollsters contacted respondents at latest midway through this year's frigid, snowy winter.
A release from Gallup points out that Illinois has ranked at the bottom of recent polls gauging residents satisfaction with state taxes, state government and "overall perceptions of how their state compares to others as a place to live."
On the positive side, since the poll has a margin of error of plus/minus 5 percent, Illinois could be tied or faring better than the other states in the top three, Connecticut (49) and Maryland (47), said Brian Gaines, a political scientist at University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.
The responses likely point to a general disaffection with state leadership, which has been scandal-plagued for decades and more recently has seemed unable to deal with lingering budget and pension crises, Gaines said. But he noted that it often is hard to say why people want to move.
"It is sort of noisy data. There are a lot of reasons why people want to move, and it could be that they have a problem with their city or local area more than their state," he said. Despite the polling responses, it is unlikely that 20 percent of current residents are likely to move in the next 12 months, Gaines said.
The poll can be viewed here.
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Designer Jinesh Shah comes up with his interpretation of what Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie should look like. Check out the impressive key points and concept renders after the break.
Here are some really interesting concept renders for Android's next major iteration, Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie by designer Jinesh Shah. The designer goes for a very minimalistic approach, something which majority of people prefer these days. Besides, thanks to the easy customization options available on Play Store, building on a simple and clean interface is both easy and can lead to some really good-looking results.
Here are the salient features of the concept design:
- Widgets can be hidden using gestures
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Organized by the Guangdong University of Finance & Economic (GDUFE), the colloquium will have 14 high-profile scholars from the Greater Bay Area, US, UK and Australia to present on topics closely related to the GBA development and post-pandemic economy.
Yu Haifeng, President of?GDUFE, said this is the fourth year for the university to organize the colloquium but the first year to hold it online due to the ongoing global pandemic. "The colloquium has already attracted great attention in academia because countries are seeking effective strategies to revitalize the economy while the development of Greater Bay Area, a major engine of China's economy, is gradually coming back on track."
According to Yu, the participants are either representative scholars involving in global bay area research or entrepreneurs with working experience in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. "I believe our brainstorming will actively contribute to regional development and our global partnership," said Yu.
Shen Minghao, Director of Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Research Institute of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies said he would discuss about the possibilities to build the Greater Bay Area an engine to drive the fourth industrial revolution at the colloquium. "I will focus on how to make good use of the resources in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao and attract the world's top-notch designers, researchers and producers of the intelligence industry."
Shen Minghao considered this as a prospective topic as the fourth industrial revolution is about to come and the intelligence industry has been a global trend. "The Greater Bay Area is a major manufacturing center for intelligent hardware. If we look at the cellphone industry, the output in the Greater Bay Area takes up 60 percent of the total production in China and 40 percent around the globe. The area has also fostered a series of global brands such as Huawei, Tencent and DJI."
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I just read a snippet from an old article in Essence Magazine indicating that researchers have uncovered new information suggesting that Cleopatra may not have been Black.
The article brought back to mind a piece I read by Earl Ofari Hutchinson many years ago entitled, "Whose Black History To Believe?" In that very insightful article Hutchinson points out that Black history tends to be given either short shrift by traditional historians, or is exaggerated beyond all recognition by historians of a more Afrocentric persuasion.
His premise is that both approaches do a disservice to African American history. His analysis shows that African Americans would be better served by a more balanced interweaving of African American history into the fabric of American history as a whole.
While I'm in total agreement with both his premise and analysis, I think it's important to take this issue one step farther. We need to explore why so many of us feel the need to exaggerate our history in the first place. We also need to understand how this game we find ourselves involved in distracts us from the bigger picture.
The importance of cultural history is that it contributes to the collective self-esteem of a people. It brings cohesion by giving the members of a given group something in common to rally around as their own.
A culture, much like an individual, is so much in need of a feeling of self-esteem that it invariably manufactures its own history, which often bears little or no resemblance to reality. For those very reasons, therefore, much of history is a lie. In fact, history itself has been defined as "A lie agreed upon."
A concrete example of that process at work can be seen by looking back at the Viet Nam War. Having never lost a war at that time, upon entering the Viet Nam War the United States had already geared up for manufacturing a history to justify its presence in Viet Nam, much like we're struggling with today in Iraq.
The U.S. Finally came up with what was called "The Domino Theory". According to this theory, the North Vietnamese were merely fronting for Communist China, and if the United States allowed South Viet Nam to fall to the North Vietnamese, people in that part of the world would be slaughtered, and all the rest of the countries in the area would fall like "dominoes" to Chinese communism.
If the United States had won the Viet Nam war that lie would have become an official part of world history. Young children all over the world would have read it as gospel for eons. But since the United States didn't win, this would-be "historical fact" has been left without a home, and now, 35 years later, the lie stands as a glaring example of how nations manufacture lies to justify their conduct.
The United States is not unique in fabricating history, however. All nations and all cultures do it. If Germany had won WWII the history of that war would have been written from an entirely different perspective; if Great Britain had won The Revolutionary War, the esteemed forefathers of the United States would have been remembered as a group similar to the way the United States currently view The Black Panther Party, or Cinque and the Symbionese Liberation Army.
An example of this principle at work on a cultural level can be found in the White culture's touting of Benny Goodman as "The King of Swing", or Elvis Presley as "The King of Rock n Roll."
We know that's not true today, but as time passes, and there's no one left to attest to the inaccuracy of such claims, eventually it'll become a "historical fact"-- or factoid; something repeated so often that it is seen as a fact.
So it is clear that the history game is just that--a game. But it's a game that Black Americans should only play quite sparingly if at all, since due to the unique position of the African American in legitimate modern history, we come to this game with a decided disadvantage.
The African American culture is a relatively new culture, thus, our history is verifiable. Therefore, African Americans don't have the machinery in place to effectively promote the hype necessary to fully participate in the history game. But since, in any event, the game only serves to divert our attention from what is really important--getting on with the business of building true viability as a people--Black participation in the game is nothing more than an exercise in me-too-ism.
But it seems that whenever I hear a discussion on Black pride, someone always brings up the issue of Egypt, and whether or not Cleopatra was Black. Black people have got to understand that the issue is not important–in fact, it's academic.
While it is always good to stay in touch with one's roots, the fact is, the African American culture has long since ceased being purely African--even though the continent of Africa will always define the core of our being--and any connection that we may, or may not have had with Egypt and or Cleopatra is remote at best, at least, in a strictly cultural sense.
It's as though we're going around, hat in hand, desperately searching for a piece of history to call our own. We shouldn't place ourselves in that position–it's undignified, pathetic, and wholly unnecessary.
We must begin to understand that we are a new culture. We ceased being Africans when it became necessary to adapt to the fields and ghettos of America. Neither are we simply Americans--we became something more than simply Americans when it became necessary to become more than simple Americans for our very survival.
We are a brand new culture--a culture conceived in pain, delivered into turmoil, baptized in deprivation, and weaned on injustice. And since adversity is experience, and experience translates into knowledge, we don't have a thing to be ashamed of.
The uniquely pointed adversity that we have experienced makes us more, rather than less. Thus, we are a culture that is only now in the infancy of its development. For that reason, we cannot hope to compete, lie-for-lie, with ancient cultures relative to history, since our history is only now being written. But for that very same reason, we don't have to try to compete.
The fact that we are a new culture doesn't mean that we are anything less than the older cultures, it simply means that our greatest contribution to man lies before us. We don't have to look back to antiquity to find a source of pride, all we have to do is study the life and times of our parents, our grandparents, and that generation of Black people born between the turn of the century and WWII.
In less than 50 years, the Black people of that generation went from housekeepers and flunkies to the boardrooms of multinational corporations. In less than 50 years, they went from playing washboards and tin cans on the side of the road, to becoming some of the greatest musicians the world has ever known.
In less than 50 years these people have gone from the defenseless and nameless victims of public lynchings, to laying a foundation, along with their White supporters --who must not be forgotten-- that led directly to Barack Obama becoming the leader of the most powerful nation on Earth--and that is a chapter in history that is verifiable.
The most cursory glance demonstrates that there is something unusually unique about this new culture. While social scientists have postulated that all minority cultures must assimilate, dilute, and subordinate themselves to the dominant cultural soup, there is clear evidence that the African American culture has had a much greater impact on the dominant culture than is the reverse.
Members of the dominant cultural group under 50 years of age have more in common with the African-American culture in terms of attitudes, style, and personal taste, than they have with their own grandparents.
Black music--Jazz, Blues, Rap, and, yes, Rock n Roll--is the predominate music, not only in the United States, but in the entire world. Every time a Rock group goes on stage, they sing a tribute to nameless slaves moanin' in the fields--and just to turn on a radio or television set anywhere in the Western world, is to pay a tribute to Duke, Bird, Miles, and Diz.
In addition, the United States of America has honored only four men in history by declaring the day of their birth a national day of celebration--Jesus Christ of Nazareth, widely accepted by many as the father of all mankind; President George Washington, the father of this nation; Christopher Columbus, the man credited with discovering the Americas (along with the native Americans who were already a part thereof); and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a man whose forebears were brought to these shores in chains.
That says a lot about that humble Black man—and it says just as much about his people. In spite of the fact that Dr. King began his life burdened by the inherent disadvantages of being blessed with Black skin in a Jim Crow environment, his words, his intellect, and his deeds so inspired the heart and soul of humanity that America saw fit to set aside a day for this nation--this world--to thank God that he was allowed to walk among us.
His was a soul with such strength that it served to lift the rest of mankind to a higher level of humanity. That's not only a testament to one Black man's ability to pull himself from the dust of his humble beginnings, it's also a testament to the capacity of his people to meet the test of greatness--and that's a history that is verifiable.
So, we must take pride in our own personal journeys, and realize that in our own journey through life history is also being made.
You don't have to be a world conqueror to have an impact on the history of mankind, you simply have to make decisions in your personal life that helps to enhance and move your people forward towards their appointment with destiny.
And every time you face life's obstacles with courage and perseverance you meet that challenge. After all, you don't make decisions in a vacuum-- every decision that you make in life becomes a public decision. People are watching, your children are watching, and if you nurture your children properly, they will make the character of your decisions an indelible part of the public record.
Thus, the character that you reflect in your daily conduct carries the seed that your children will carry with them for generations. For that reason, I don't regret one moment of my youth that I spent stumblin' through Watts on whatever drug happened to be convenient. Those years were part of a personal journey that stands as a monument to who I am today.
Of course, I related those struggles to my children as stumbling blocks to be avoided at all costs, but they were also related as examples of perseverance, and the determination to overcome the obstacles in my life, and by overcoming those setbacks, it allowed me to relate those experiences with just as much pride as the White culture relates the experiences of General Patton to their children.
Gen. Patton fought his battles, and I fought mine, and as far as my children are concerned--as far as I'm concern--one was no less heroic than the other.
Neither scholar nor the head of state,
The most common of men seems to be my fate;
A life blistered with struggle and constant need,
As my legacy to man I bequeath my seed.
More fertile, more sturdy these ones than I,
This withered old vine left fallow and dry;
The nectar of their roots lie dormant still,
But through their fruit I'll be revealed.
And that, is verifiable.
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DEAR ANNIE: I have a 24-year-old daughter by an ex-girlfriend. When "Tiffany" was a child, her mother made it very difficult for me to see her. At one point, her attorney sent me a letter saying I would not have to pay child support if I gave up all parental rights. I refused. When Tiffany was 9 years old, my ex moved to another state without telling me. I found her through her former neighbors. Consequently, I was only able to see Tiffany for a couple of weeks in the summer.
Considering all of her mother's obstructions, I think Tiffany and I have a good relationship. I attended her high school and college graduations, and she comes to visit me once a year. I call her every month to see how she's doing.
Tiffany is getting married next year and just told me that although she doesn't want to hurt me, she wants her mother to walk her down the aisle. She said her mom has always been there for her. Tiffany did suggest that I could wait at the front pew of the church and actually give her away to her fiance.
I am very hurt by this, and I think Tiffany is being unfair to me. Do you have any suggestions? — HEARTBROKEN
DEAR HEARTBROKEN: We know your ex made it difficult for you to be a more involved parent, and you did what you could, but regardless, your relationship is not as close as the one she has with Mom, and it serves no purpose to point fingers now. Tiffany wants Mom to walk her down the aisle, and she has asked you to have the honor of "giving her away." This is actually a decent compromise and not the snub you seem to think. It is simply one moment of one day of the rest of your lives. If you want to continue your good relationship with Tiffany, please tell her you would be thrilled to wait at the front of the church and escort her to her fiance.
DEAR ANNIE: Before my wife and I were married eight years ago, sex was a frequent occurrence. She seemed to enjoy it. But on our honeymoon night, she said, "Let's get this over with."
A couple of years later, when the frequency had significantly decreased, she told me that sex makes her feel "all yucky." A few years after that, she said, "It always hurts." When I suggested she talk to her physician, she sidestepped the issue and wouldn't go. Now she tells me she "needs time to heal." From what?
Sex is nonexistent. She has headaches, is too tired or pretends to be asleep so often that although she is quite attractive, I no longer see her as an intimate partner. We tried counseling, but all she would talk about was the lamp I had installed at the wrong location. The psychologist indicated that we are not ready for meaningful sessions. Any suggestions? — BEWILDERED HUSBAND
DEAR HUSBAND: Your wife has never enjoyed sex. Most women who experience painful intercourse would seek medical attention. We think her most honest assessment was when she said sex felt "yucky." That would indicate a psychological hang-up that she has no intention of working on.
Please go back to your counselor – on your own – and discuss these issues. Decide how important sex is in relation to the other qualities your wife brings to the marriage, because she may never be more interested than she is right now.
DEAR ANNIE: I disagree with your advice to transfer photos to your computer and discard the originals. Computer programs change, and the photos are not always accessible. If photographs are kept on good paper (acid-free) in a cool, dry place in acid-free boxes or albums, they will last a long time. Ask any museum for help. — HOOSIER HISTORIAN
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Jifeng Liu
Associate Professor of Engineering
Associate Professor of Engineering1-603-646-9885
- BS/MS, Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, China 2001
- PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2006
Research Interests
Optoelectronic materials and devices; integrated nanophotonics for energy-efficient Information Technologies (Green IT); Nanomaterials and nanostructures for solar cells and thermophotovoltaic cells; Infrared and ultraviolet optical sensors
Active Research
- Band-engineered semiconductors and phosphor materials for efficient solid-state lighting
- Environmental-benign Group IV (Si, Ge, Sn) nanomaterials for solar cells, thermophotovoltaic (TPV) cells, and infrared photodetectors
- High-strength, high-ductility, high entropy alloys with high-efficiency native oxide solar absorbers for concentrated solar power systems
- High-temperature solar absorbers for solar thermal systems
- Integrated nanophotonics devices for high-bandwidth, ultra-low energy photonic data links
- Porous thermoelectric cells (TECs) for waste heat recovery
- Rare-earth selective emitters for high efficiency TPV systems
- Self-assembled nanophotonic structures for light trapping in solar cells
- Visible-blind and solar-blind ultraviolet detectors for flame and oil spill detection
Selected Publications
- Xiaobai Yu, Xiaoxin Wang, Qinglin Zhang, Juchuan Li, and Jifeng Liu, "Oxidation-resistant, solution-processed plasmonic Ni nanochain-SiOx (x < 2) selective solar thermal absorbers," Journal of Applied Physics 116, 073508 (2014)
- Jifeng Liu, "Monolithically Integrated Ge-on-Si Active Photonics," Photonics 1, 162-197 (2014) (Invited Paper)
- Haofeng Li, Jeremy Brouillet, Alan Salas, Xiaoxin Wang, and Jifeng Liu, "Low temperature growth of high crystallinity GeSn on amorphous layers for advanced optoelectronics," Optical Materials Express 3, 1385–1396 (2013)
- X.X. Wang, L.C. Kimerling, J. Michel, and J.F. Liu "Large inherent optical gain from the direct gap transition of Ge thin films," Applied Physics Letters 102, 131116 (2013)
- X.X. Wang, H. Li, Y. Cai, R. Camacho-Aguilera, L.C. Kimerling, J. Michel, and J.F. Liu, "Infrared absorption of n-type tensile-strained Ge-on-Si," Optics Letters 38, 652 (2013)
- X.X. Wang, H. Li, X. Yu, X. Shi, and J.F. Liu, "High-performance solution-processed plasmonic Ni nanochain-Al2O3 selective solar thermal absorbers," Applied Physics Letters 101, 203109 (2012)
- J.F. Liu, L. C. Kimerling, and J. Michel, "Monolithic Ge-on-Si lasers for large-scale electronic-photonic integration," Semiconductor Science and Technology 27, 094006 (2012) (Editor's Choice for 2012 Highlights Collection)
- J.F. Liu, R. Camacho-Aguilera, J.T. Bessette, X. Sun, X.X. Wang, Y. Cai, L.C. Kimerling and J. Michel, "Ge-on-Si Optoelectronics," Thin Solid Films 520, 3354 (2012)
- J. Michel, J.F. Liu, and L.C. Kimerling. "High performance Ge-on-Si photodetectors," Nature Photonics 4, 527 (2010)
- J.F. Liu, X.C. Sun, L.C. Kimerling and J. Michel, "A Ge-on-Si laser operating at room temperature", Optics Letters 35, 679 (2010)
- NSF CAREER Award, 2012
- Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Gold Award, 2004 MRS Fall Meeting
Selected Patents
- Method of Forming Single-Crystal Semiconductor Layers and Photovoltaic Cell Thereon (9,356,171)
- Systems and methods using metal nanostructures in spectrally selective absorbers (Application 14/340,608)
- Engineering emission wavelengths in laser and light emitting devices (8,242,480)
- High speed and low loss GeSi/Si electro-absorption light modulator and method of fabrication using selective growth (8,160,404)
- Ultrafast Ge/Si resonator-based modulators for optical data communications in silicon photonics (7,840,099)
- Method of fabricating Ge or SiGe/Si waveguide or photonic crystal structures by selective growth (7,801,406)
- Method and structure of germanium laser on silicon (7,596,158)
- Vertically-integrated waveguide photodetector apparatus and related coupling methods (7,305,157)
- Integrated waveguide photodetector apparatus with matching propagation constants and related coupling methods (7,266,263)
- Method of forming Ge photodetectors (6,946,318)
- Ge photodetectors (6,812,495)
Professional Activities
- Co-chair, sub-committee of Electronic-Photonic Synergy on Si, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics
- Review Editor and Topical Editor in Silicon Photonics, Frontiers in Materials
- Organization Committee, The Electrochemical Society (ECS) SiGe, Ge and Related Compounds Symposium
- Session Chair in silicon photonics and solar materials at ECS, IEEE Photonics Society and OSA conferences
- Vice Chair, Photonic Devices and Optoelectronic Integration Sub-Committee, 2012 (43rd) International Conference on Solid State Device and Materials
- Technical Program Committee Member, 2012 International SiGe Technology and Device Meeting
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Dartmouth Engineers Combine Materials Science Expertise to Develop Concentrated Solar Power System
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Dartmouth Engineering Research Funded by DoD to Improve Night-Vision Systems
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Thayer team redesigns solar tech.
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Solar-Tectic LLC gets exclusive license for manufacturing single c-Si thin-films on ordinary glass
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January 27, 2012
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September 13, 2011
Germanium-on-silicon laser for 21st century data links
IEEE Technology News
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Power, speed, and highlights of IEDM 2010
Semiconductor Today
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Photonics Spectra
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NOVELTIES: An Express Lane From Camera to Computer
The New York Times
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Germanium Lines up Bands for Laser Action
Semiconductor Today
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New Germanium Laser Better for Computing
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Germanium Laser Breakthrough Brings Optical Computer Closer
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MIT researchers build first germanium laser
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Graham Readfearn | September 12, 2012
By Graham Readfearn • Wednesday, September 12, 2012 - 17:00
JAMES Delingpole is a UK columnist waging a long personal jihad against wind farms, environmentalists and climate science.
A resident blogger and columnist at The Daily Telegraph, Delingpole is probably best known for being among the first mainstream columnists to declare, wrongly as it turned out, that emails illegally hacked from an influential climate research unit showed scientists were trying to con the public.
So he is the perfect person to be appealing for people to donate their cash to the Melbourne-based Institute of Public Affairs, a free market think tank which has been working for about 20 years on a campaign to mislead the public about climate science and the impact of carbon pricing.
In the appeal, Delingpole lauds the IPA's campaign against climate science and action on climate change. Readers of the appeal might be forgiven for thinking the IPA is struggling for cash. Says Delingpole: "Their budget is always stretched. If you don't give them money they'll go broke."
Yet the IPA's most recent financial returns to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission suggest that rather than scrambling around for spare change, the think-tank is in fact in rude financial health.
For the year ending June 2011, the ASIC documents show the IPA declared a before-tax profit of $217,000 with an income of $2.42 million. In 2010, the IPA's income was $1.72 million, with before-tax profit of $203,000.
The IPA's executive director John Roskam refuses to declare where the IPA's money comes from. In a story I wrote for the Brisbane Times about think-tank funding, Roskam told me that "the reason we don't reveal our donors is because unfortunately our donors - and people who were believed to be our donors - have been intimidated because of their supposed support for us".
A similar excuse is given by the UK's Global Warming Policy Foundation, a climate skeptic group founded by its chairman Lord Lawson, a former chancellor in the Thatcher government.
Professor Bob Carter, the IPA's science policy advisor, is also an advisor to the GWPF (as well as at least seven other climate sceptic groups), alongside fellow Australian "sceptic" Professor Ian Plimer, who has also made personal appeals for people to hand over cash to the IPA.
As I revealed in a story for The Guardian in March, the only known funder of the GWPF is Michael Hintze, a UK-based Australian-born hedge fund manager, donor to the UK Tory Party, and a man with a personal fortune of $1.4 billion, according to Forbes.
The IPA also has close ties to the billionaire set in the form of Gina Rinehart, the coal and iron ore mining magnate and world's richest woman. In an address to "IPA members and friends", Rinehart recently declared her concern that Australia was becoming too expensive, given that "Africans want to work, and its workers are willing to work for less than $2 per day". The comments prompted a Ugandan television personality to declare Rinehart was "removed from reality".
The IPA is currently working in partnership with Rinehart's lobby group Australians for Northern Development & Economic Vision, which wants a separate low-tax economic zone for the north of Australia to make it cheaper to run major mining projects. Roskam writes a regular "Ideas for a New North" bulletin on the ANDEV website.
James Delingpole is also a Rinehart fan. When on Twitter recently someone mischievously asked Delingpole if he was being paid by Gina Rinehart, Delingpole responded: "I totally LOVE Gina. She is a heroine of our age. Bludging scuzzballs like you are not worthy of her!"
The IPA paid for Delingpole to tour Australia in April and May to promote his book "Killing The Earth To Save It", published by Connor Court, which has John Roskam on its editorial board.
Now back in wind swept England, Delingpole has announced he will run as an independent anti-wind farm candidate in a November by-election for the seat of Corby, which the New Statesman pointed out doesn't actually have any wind turbines.
The Daily Mail, one of the UK's best selling conservative newspapers, saw fit to run a hopelessly one-sided story written by Delingpole on the suggested evils of wind farms a few days after he had announced his decision to run.
In the story, Delingpole described a visit to Waterloo, near Adelaide, which he said resembled a scene from a "horror movie" with the turbines cast in the role as evil baddie. Delingpole is convinced that turbines make people ill, despite there being no credible evidence. Delingpole didn't declare in the story that he had been in Australia on the dime of the IPA or that he was currently running as an anti-wind farm candidate in a by-election.
Australian Federal MP Craig Kelly, the Liberal member for the New South Wales seat of Hughes, was nevertheless impressed by Delingpole's article, given that he cut and pasted chunks of it onto his Facebook page under the heading "MORE ON THE MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR WIND FARM SCANDAL".
Kelly also declared on his Facebook page that wind energy was "useless" and "Liked" a comment declaring coal to be the "safest and cheapest" form of energy, and how increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere "accelerates crop growth and improves crop yields, as does warming".
Perhaps some advice to Mr Kelly. Best not to repeat that "CO2 is plant food" myth to drought-stricken farmers in the US. Don't mention either, the Harvard-led study showing how that "cheap" coal was costing the US economy half a trillion dollars a year.
Also not advisable, it seems, is to politely decline Delingpole's request for cash for the IPA, unless you don't mind a return-serve of foul abuse. The University of Sydney's Professor Christopher Wright said "no thanks" to Delingpole. Here's how the IPA fundraiser responded.
Phil M replied on Permalink
Delingpole is a prize wanker.
Delingpole is a prize wanker. An "interpreter of interpreations" as he has described himself.
In other words, take other peoples words, twists them and paraphrases them until their actual meaning is lost in Delingpoles mad paranoid worldview.
And Gina Rhinehart is living in such a deluded spoon fed world of which she has never known anything else, has the gall to tell other people to work hard instead of being lazy, when she inherited all her wealth off her father. She is not self made. Few people would be reduced to $0 an amount to nothing if they inherited a few billion $$.
She hasn't had to work hard for anything except trying to make the public swallow her bloated bullshit.
And the IPA is the closest thing we have here in Australia to the Heartland Institute & Cato. Liars and deniers for hire.
AnOilMan replied on Permalink
"interpreter of interpreations"
Interesting… In court that is called 'hear say', and not admissible. You either get it from the person's mouth or you got nothing. I guess that means that deniers as usual got nothing.
Here's a great link that never gets old; Gina Rinehard being instructed in how to do exactly what she's doing to manipulate the news by none other than Monkcton.
Phil M replied on Permalink
Apologies for my appalling
Apologies for my appalling spelling there. Should have been "interpretations". In that video, Delingpole really angles for the usual industry memes used ever since the smoking wars to attempt to dilute the power or importance of consensus and comes out with the ol strawman "science has never been about consensus". Then goes on with a dog whistle statement and red herring by saying "this is one of the most despicable things I find about Al Gores consensus". He cleverly inserts Al Gore into it, which flags the statement to attract the attention of right wingers watching, to draw allegience against not just a consensus…..but Al Gores consensus.
Consensus then becomes the anathema of the right because "it's Al Gores", it's political. Somehow, scientists would never have come to any sort of agreement if not for Al Gore. Al Gore is from the left, so therefore, any "consensus" is not actually science ( no one said it was anyway, it's just an agreement) ….it's a political construct to "control us and intrude into our lives". Right wing and libertarian hot button key words.
"Here's a great link that never gets old; Gina Rinehard being instructed in how to do exactly what she's doing to manipulate the news by none other than Monkcton."
Luck our bird brain mate never saw that story, he would believe the following line hook line and sinker.
"spread his conspiracy theories that human-caused climate change is a left-wing plot to bring down the West."
Lloyd Flack replied on Permalink
To be fair to Rhinehart she
To be fair to Rhinehart she inherited a fortune and through hard work and ability turned it into a considerably larger fortune. She is probably better at project development than her father was.
But while ability and effort are always necessary to build a fortune they are they are never sufficient. You have to be in the right place at the right time and have the necessary support. But if you prize self reliance you are likely to blind youself to the role that good fortune and the help of others played in your success. Rhinehart has done this.
Phil M replied on Permalink
"To be fair to Rhinehart she
"To be fair to Rhinehart she inherited a fortune and through hard work and ability turned it into a considerably larger fortune. She is probably better at project development than her father was."
Hmmm, whats the chances of someone growing up in the mining industry, making dozens of mining contacts, inheriting dozens of mines and billions of $$ in a country like Australia full of ore……and not making more money?
I would have more respect for her or accept that, if she made it from nothing, or even inherited money from say a parent in manufacturing or retail and then made it big in the mining industry. But she was already in the industry all her life. It wasn't like she was starting from nothing.
As much as I don't like the man. I have far more respect for people like Clive Palmer (Australia's richest coal mine owner) , as he is self made. He made his billions from nothing. Now that is business acumen, not Rhinehart who was handed it all and just improved on it.
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A dangerous AGW denier
Delingpole may come across as a buffoon, but he's very effective in his attacks against every aspect of renewable energy in his Telegraph blog - with the support of the moderators and a round-the-clock team of astroturfers. The methodical way he's going about it, suggests he's following a strategy developed by his mates at the Heartland Institute and the GWPF. Of course, the latter's Nigel Lawson has high level government contacts and the effects of his lobbying can be seen in the recent reshuffle by David Cameron, when the last supporters of renewable energy were neutered.
Phil M replied on Permalink
"Delingpole may come across
"Delingpole may come across as a buffoon, but he's very effective in his attacks against every aspect of renewable energy in his Telegraph blog"
And now he is hoping to enter into politics campaigning against wind farms?! As it says in the story, there are no wind farms where he is hoping to win a seat, so he can heroically claim, whichever way it goes, that he stopped the wind farms.
Reminds me of the story of the guy who has a fear of elephants and clicks his fingers every few minutes to ward off the elephants. When asked by a bystander what is he doing? He says "It's a trick I learned to ward off elephants". The bystander says, "but there are no elephants for hundreds of miles!". The clicker says "yeah, it works well doesn't it?!"
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The thing is, the majority of people in the UK have grown extremely tired fo the wind farms expansions and downright hostile in many cases. The feed-in tarrifs have been slashed because peoples' electric bills have gone way up. Politicians are scrambling to back away from the overly green stance they've been pushing for many years in face of the continuing poor economic outlook and an angry public.
Dellingpole should go far on an anti-wind platform. If you don't believe it, read some of the angry comments at the popular online newspapers whenever they print 'environmental' columns.
Keith MacDonald replied on Permalink
Dellingpole should go far on an anti-wind platform. If you don't believe it, read some of the angry comments at the popular online newspapers whenever they print 'environmental' columns.
That's the whole point of astroturfing!
Phil M replied on Permalink
"The thing is, the majority
"The thing is, the majority of people in the UK have grown extremely tired fo the wind farms expansions and downright hostile in many cases. "
Really Hank? You have some sort of study that shows this, or is it just opinion? Because it seems 66% over there favour it.
"The feed-in tarrifs have been slashed because peoples' electric bills have gone way up."
They are going up in every country Hank and have been doing so long before renewables entered the scene. Inefficient old methods of electricity generation over long distances, means they have to constantly upgrade the transmission grid to cope with demand for all those plasma's and air conds. Distributed electricty generation makes far more sense, as it can produce energy onsite or close to where it is needed.
"Dellingpole should go far on an anti-wind platform. If you don't believe it, read some of the angry comments at the popular online newspapers whenever they print 'environmental' columns."
I have. I don't know what you are talking about. There just seems to be support ;)
Hank_ replied on Permalink
Read about it!
"The U.K. government granted tax relief for natural gas drillers and cut subsidies for renewable energy, signaling more reductions in the months ahead as it balances demand for cheaper power against a goal to lower pollution from fossil fuels.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change cut subsidies for onshore wind 10 percent, offered less financial support than expected for biomass and said it may cut solar further. Drax Group Plc (DRX), owner of the U.K.'s largest power station and biomass consumer, fell by a record. Gas drillers get a tax credit worth 500 million pounds ($776 million)."
Phil, if you would expand your reading list of true "news" websites you'll see that the 'push back' on expensive (and often useless) green energy schemes is growing in the EU. Both Germany and the UK are enacting new policies that are much more sensible in today's economy. It's happening whether you want to believe it or not.
AnOilMan replied on Permalink
Oil Gas, and Shift to Nuclear
"Energy Secretary Ed Davey said on BBC 1's Sunday Politics programme: 'The real thing that's driving energy bills for households is the cost of global gas and global oil and we need to try to make sure that our economy is better insulated.
'We're having to import more and more gas as the North Sea oil gas supplies run down, that's going to leave our economy more exposed.'"
Soo… The UK is a net importer of oil and gas, and they are trying to kick the coal habit by taxing the hell out of it. That's why.
Phil M replied on Permalink
"Phil, if you would expand
"Phil, if you would expand your reading list of true "news" websites you'll see that the 'push back' on expensive (and often useless) green energy"
Oh, you mean right wing or Murdoch owned press? Got it.


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I've had 6 posts about Scott Walker since last Friday — mainly on 2 subjects: his declining to answer the question whether he feels "comfortable with the idea of evolution" and his lack of a college degree.
I'm experiencing active pushback from commenters who seem anxious to get me to stop monitoring the journalism and commentary that's so suddenly raining down on Scott Walker. I get accused of being a "spokesperson" for Walker or a "big fan." The truth is, I have an aversion to politics, but I read the news and I vote. And I blog. I blog about Walker because he's a long-entrenched topic here and has been ever since my city became Ground Zero for Walker-hating 4 years ago.
At this point, it's very hard to deal with every Walker topic that comes up as it comes up, especially since I don't want to be an all-Walker-all-the-time blog. But after 4+ years of following Scott Walker, it feels as though I'm doing something wrong if there's a significant Walker topic that non-Wisconsinites are blogging and I haven't even acknowledged its existence.
So here I am at 4:48 in the morning, driven by a weird sense of obligation to pay attention to that foolish Gail Collins column The New York Times published on Friday the 13th: "Scott Walker Needs an Eraser."
You'd think columnists who want to wield influence would be more careful about letting their murderous intentions glare. But Collins stupidly overreached, perhaps fed by the Wisconsin Walker-haters who've been chewing over a set of stock topics for years and now pass along the gooey pulp of their contempt.
Collins built her column on the story of a young teacher who won an award for excellence but then got fired due to budget cuts. Walker's name is associated with budget austerity, so Walker must be to blame for her job loss. This was a gross error, the teacher having lost her job the year before Walker became governor. It took 2 days for the Times to edit out the mistaken assertion (which left the column not making much sense). Walker's reforms were aimed at saving money at the school-district level and making it possible to keep excellent new teachers.
Yesterday, Politico latched onto the screwup with a piece that begins with a sentence that seemed to write itself: "In hindsight, perhaps the headline 'Scott Walker Needs An Eraser' wasn't the best idea." I was settling in to read an article with some substance, but it's just a little pile of fluff:
Whoops.The New York Times gets caught in a bad factual error and one of its main columnists — did you know Collins is a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board? — exposes herself as a Walker-hater, and Politico casts the incident as an occasion for conservatives to have "a field day." Like it's all just a big militarized operation, and one side got an occasion for a grand, showy triumphing.
Conservative news sites had a field day with the error over the weekend, with The Weekly Standard's John McCormack calling out the (since deleted and corrected, but archived) mistaken section in question.
Oh, how I loathe all the politicos out there — those who are labeled "Politico" and, worse, those who are labeled "New York Times." But I'm sticking with this little enterprise of mine. It's 5:44 a.m. now, and I'm as dedicated as ever to monitoring these politicos, even though in my heart, I'm an artist. My real inclination — as I've been toiling over this post in the pre-dawn — has been to go off on a tangent about the meaning of the term "field day" (originally, a day when military troops are assembled for some sort of review or exercise) or to go into a reverie about erasers I have known and loved, like the rubbery pink Pink Pet (not to be confused with the upstart Pink Pearl) and the mystifyingly fragrant Art Gum, which, when I was a schoolgirl, I used to like to rub into an inch-deep pile of dust which I'd invite my classmates to palpate.
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