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State Department Briefing on Global Climate Change and Clean Air Initiative, February 2012
A senior Department of State official gave this telephone briefing on February 16, 2012 regarding an upcoming coalition on climate change and clean air.
MODERATOR:Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining the call. We have with us today, [Senior Administration Official]. The ground rules today is that this call is an embargoed, on background call. And what that means is from here on out our speaker will be referred to as Senior Administration Official. All of the content of this call is embargoed until our announcement is made tomorrow at approximately 9:30 a.m. So without further ado, I'm going to turn it over to our Senior Administration Official. Go ahead.
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Thanks very much, [Moderator]. Hello to everybody on the call. I'm going to make a few remarks at the top, and then happy to take questions.
Tomorrow, Secretary Clinton is going to be announcing a new coalition that's dedicated to taking concrete action to reduce pollutants that are sometimes referred to as short-lived climate pollutants. She will be joined by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, as well as ministers from Bangladesh, Canada, Mexico, and Sweden, and the U.S. – the ambassador to the U.S. from Ghana. So those are the five other founding partners, and then, in addition, the head of UNEP, the UN Environment Program. UNEP's going to be acting as the secretariat for this coalition.
The focus is on reducing methane, black carbon, and HFCs – hydrofluorocarbons, known as HFCs. They're short-lived pollutants and they, together, account for more than a third of current global warming, so they have a much larger impact than people generally recognize. UNEP has put out some very good reports in the past year or so – most recent one was at the end of 2011. And in that one, they listed and discussed a set of 16 major actions that could be taken either on black carbon or methane, which could have quite striking effects with respect to global warming. If we could implement those actions, you could slow global warming by something like a half degree Celsius by 2050. And since – to put that in context, the global goal is – that's been expressed in the climate negotiations is (inaudible) whole global warning to two degrees Celsius by 2050. So that if you could take actions that could reduce – slow global warming by half a degree, that'd be a big deal.
UNEP also projects that taking these actions could prevent at least 2.5 million deaths annually from – I think they're talking about outdoor, but there's actually both outdoor and indoor pollution effect – and avoid at least 30 million, and possibly a lot more than that, tons of lost crop production. So, in other words, there's a big climate impact, but there are very powerful co-benefits, most strikingly in health, but also in agriculture. And in addition, if you capture methane instead of venting it, which means just let it go altogether or flaring it, which is to burn it, you capture an energy source that can be used.
The coalition is going to be aimed at action, at attracting high-level political support, mobilizing resources, catalyzing and helping to drive the implementation of – first I guess the development first, and then the implementation of national action plans, and broadly raising public awareness about the impact of action in these areas.
It's also interesting that there's a significant intellectual foundation for – in all of these areas. Again, I've referenced the UNEP reports, by no means the only ones. But in addition to an awareness of the sciences and an awareness of what to do and also an awareness of the cost – and fully half of the actions that UNEP identifies are in the low-cost category. Some of them are no-cost, negative-cost, even. You can recoup money over the life of a given action.
There are already discreet activities with respect to some of these agents that exist. And we're not seeking to reinvent the wheel or to replace those. There is, for example, a very, I think, dynamic effort going on with respect to cookstoves worldwide under the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, which Secretary Clinton announced at the Clinton Global Initiative in the fall of 2010. That's a very, I think, a good and effective effort. The U.S. Government, by the way, puts $10 million a year into that effort.
So we – so this new coalition is not going to do anything to, in any sense, replace that effort on cookstoves, although it can and I expect would try to bolster it and put the spotlight on it and highlight it. There's also – there's an existing Global Methane Initiative, which is run out of EPA and funded by EPA and State. That's also a good effort. It has over 40 international partners. There are hundreds of projects that it does worldwide. It is a project-by-project based effort, and it gets good reductions, but in the scheme of things, there is a great, great, great deal more to be done.
We will be reaching out to other countries quite rapidly. There are a number of countries we have already heard from that are – that have expressed interest, and I fully anticipate that this small initial group of six will expand quickly. We are starting with about $15 million of funding to get it – to get this effort up and running. Twelve of that will come from the U.S. over two years and three from Canada, and there will be, I am sure, also some funding coming from Sweden, although they are not at a phase of their budget process where they have been able to put an exact number down, but they certainly will be contributing, as will new partners and others.
We will be, inevitably, at the outset spending a fair amount of focus that is organizational and operational. Getting the venue – UNEP will be acting as – not just in an immediate sense but on a permanent basis, UNEP will be acting as the secretariat of this new coalition, so essentially the day-to-day management. UNEP, in consultation with country partners, will be developing an annual work plan, an annual budget, managing the trust fund that will hold resources, organizing and convening meetings and workshops and so forth. So UNEP will have an important role.
And I guess that's – why don't I stop there so I can open the floor to questions. But that's kind of it in a nutshell, and again, we are very much at the front-end of this. We will be developing priorities and goals and so forth as we go forward. But the name of the game is to get up and running and start defining and taking action that can reduce these pollutants.
MODERATOR: Okay. Thank you. Operator, if we can go ahead and take our first question.
OPERATOR: Thank you. At this time, if you would like to ask a question, please press *1. You will be prompted to record your name. Press *1 to ask your question. One moment for the first question.
Our first question comes from Margo McDermott. Please state your affiliation.
QUESTION: Hi, [Senior Administration Official]. I'm with CBC television in Ottawa, Canada, and I'm just trying to get a handle on once this initiative is up and running, what is it actually – how is it actually going to tackle the issue of black carbon and methane? I mean, what will it actually be doing?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Well, there are – again, there are a whole set of actions that have been identified in reports and studies. Methane comes from a whole – just as an example, methane comes from a variety of different sources. It comes from landfills, it comes from the – from coalmines, from the oil and natural gas businesses, and from agriculture, from flooded rice patties, and in various ways that I won't elaborate on from cows. And so there – we know where it comes from.
There has been – I think there's been a lot of work done on actions that could reduce the leakage from gas pipelines, that could recover gas that is typically vented in connection with gas production, and capture gas from municipal landfills and the like with respect to black carbon. Their sources include things like cookstoves, that we were talking about, old and out-of-date brick kilns in industrial settings, from diesel – from dirty diesel vehicles, buses and trucks, and even cars, from burning of biomass.
So there are a number of places where we know the substances – where we know where the problems are; we know what, in essence, what kind of solutions are possible. So I think it's going to be a matter of – first of all, it will certainly be a matter of working these things out as we go.
But I would anticipate that there will be efforts to work with countries to develop national action plans, to provide assistance in developing those plans, and capacity building and carrying the plans out, some financing where needed and where possible. So I think there will be a whole set of actions.
QUESTION: Thank you.
OPERATOR: Thank you. Our next question comes from Valerie Volcovici. And please state your affiliation.
QUESTION: Hi, this is Valerie from Reuters. I just was wondering if you could explain a bit more about how this will help certain countries implement national action plans and how this initiative will influence the UN negotiations and, I guess, the contributions of the countries involved.
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Yeah. Thank you very much for the question. Well, I think that it will – on the national action plan question, I think that – look, this is a coalition of countries who are going to be interested and engaged and desirous of taking action in these areas and we hope that it will grow to encompass certainly the big players. There may be – in that group, I think there will be countries where the national action plans are plans that can be developed within country. There will be other countries that will be more in need of technical assistance, and I would think that that would be – that providing that kind of assistance would be one of the ways that this coalition will be able to be helpful. And I think that there's – I mean, again, we're very much at the front end.
There are, I think it is – it will be important to ramp up the level of funding that is associated with this effort. We have, I think, quite a good amount of funding to – as a start-up matter, to get the thing up and running. But we – I would certainly like to see that funding grow quite significantly and ramp up quite significantly in reasonably short order so that there is more capacity to try to provide some additional marginal funding that can make the difference between country X, Y, Z being able to move forward on a given action.
With respect to the UN, I don't – the UN negotiations will go forward in their own way, I think, quite independent of this effort. And this effort will go forward quite independent of the UN negotiations. I think that there is an overlap in one sense, and it's not an overlap that is in any – that's in any kind of operational – that has any kind of operational connotation to it. But rather, that there is a great deal of interest and focus in the UN negotiation on efforts to increase what, in that setting, is referred to as ambition, which is to say increasing the level of action that can be taken to reduce greenhouse gases and to reduce global warming. And I think that the kind of coalition that we're talking about here has the potential to do that outside of the negotiation process, but whether it's inside or outside, the players in the negotiation process will be, I think, quite pleased if there are efforts that can have a kind of salutary effect with regard to that issue of ambition.
I might make one other comment. I guess it wasn't really directly your – to your question, but it just popped in my head, so I will mention it – I'm not sure that I did before – which is that action on this terrain, as distinguished from what goes on with regard to reducing CO2 – which, after all, is still the main event – we understand that – but action with respect to these agents can have, will have, in many cases, a local or regional impact, so that if you're improving air quality and improving – and by doing that, saving lives, improving health care, reducing the – or increasing agricultural productivity, those are all things that happen locally and regionally, as opposed to just globally, so it's easier for people to kind of see, and in some sense both see and feel.
MODERATOR: Operator, we're ready for the next question.
OPERATOR: All right. Thank you, sir. Our next question comes from Bob Semple. Please state your affiliation.
QUESTION: New York Times. [Senior Administration Official], this is Bob. What --
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Hi, Bob.
QUESTION: Question about the chemistry here, which I don't understand. And I don't mean to ask something that's unnecessarily complicated, but I'm given to understand that for this sort of program to work, a program dealing with short-lived pollutants to really work, we also need to reduce the more familiar C02 emissions at the same time. Is that true or can this operate independently and successfully of a C02 reduction program?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Well, once – as soon as you said the word "chemistry," I knew you were going to be out of my depth, but let me – (laughter) – answer you as best as I can, and if there's actually a more technical element to this question, [name withheld] will find the right person to give you an answer. But my – look, my understanding is that there is nothing – let me at least try to take your question on on the chemistry terms in which it was asked. I don't think there's anything chemically necessary about C02 reductions in order for reductions in methane, black carbon, or HFCs to be meaningful with respect to either global warming or any of the other impacts like healthcare and so forth.
That – so that's at the level of the sort of the chemistry of the equation, as best as I would understand it. It is absolutely true that you cannot tackle the global warming problem through this avenue and then forget about C02. I mean, that would be crazy, and C02 is still by far the most important determinant of global warming. It's probably 60 or 65 percent of the total problem. And again, I don't – I'm not absolutely certain about those numbers, but it is approximately that. And it lasts in the atmosphere a very long time, a hundred or hundreds of years. So you can't do this without fixing – you can't do this, meaning tackle climate change, without tackling C02. But you could have a very important positive impact by tackling these shorter-term agents.
And just to give you – to sort of make this more graphic, perhaps, if you think about the two degree goal and you worry about are we going to be past two degrees by 2050, and you think about action that could potentially shave enough off of that – of warming, slow it down enough so that let's say just notionally – and I – these numbers, I'm just making these numbers up, but just notionally, you would have till 2070 rather than 2050 to hit a trip wire on account of C02. Well, that could be quite important, to give you more time to make the kind of technological breakthroughs and advancements that we need on the C02 front.
QUESTION: All right, thank you.
OPERATOR: Thank you. Our next question comes from Lisa Friedman. Please state your affiliation.
QUESTION: Hi. Lisa Friedman from ClimateWire. Thanks, [Senior Administration Official], for doing this. Hi.
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Hi, Lisa.
QUESTION: So, I'm wondering, is there a specific goal – a numbers goal of this coalition, we want to reduce emissions or reduce these substances in the atmosphere X percent by X year? And going back to what you were saying about ambition regarding the UN process, can you talk about timing? To what extent is this an attempt to maybe fill a void? I mean, even the latest agreement that was reached in Durban calls for a – discussions towards an agreement that will happen by 2020. To what extent is this an attempt to make sure that these next 10 years are not lost years in addressing climate change?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Thanks for the questions. Let me try to give you an answer on both of those. On the question of goals, I think that this is something that we are going to be developing a little bit further as we go. I mean, I think what is certainly true is we are aware of the numbers, the quantitative expression of what is doable, and indeed what is doable even at low cost, as put forward in the UNEP report, and NASA's done a similar assessment of potential action, and so forth. And again, the – in the UNEP work, the – UNEP – the UNEPassessment suggests that if you could carry out those actions – and obviously, that's a big if; you're never going to be able to do everything – but if you can move in that direction, you could reduce methane by about – I think the UNEP report says 38 percent below business as usual by 2030, and there's a slightly different metric on black carbon, but you could reduce black carbon – I think if you carried out these actions, you could – I think what they say is you could do something like 77 percent of the black carbon, the plausible black carbon reductions.
Those aren't our goals per se. I mean, we're not going to have a goal that says – that assumes you could do everything. But on the other hand, we're going to want to take action that moves us as much as possible in those directions. And I think that in the course of the next months, we will probably be developing something that's more actually – a more actual target goal than I'm giving you right now. But that – those kinds of numbers, at least, kind of frame the ballpark that we're in.
With respect to your second question, I wouldn't put it that way, that – are we filling a void, because we – I started focusing on the idea of trying to pull together a coalition like this that knitted all of these pollutants together into a single effort back in the late summer of 2010, so – and started talking with Mexico and Canada and Sweden, who was also interested, and then Bangladesh and so forth. And so I – the – certainly, our interest in this goes back way before there was a Durban result that came out quite the way it did. So that's one thing.
A second thing is that we don't – and I sort of keep saying this over and over, but I guess I'll say it again – I said it a bunch of times in Durban and I've said it since – we don't regard the time between now and 2020 as some kind of a lost period. I mean, what we have are political agreements – fine, they're not legally binding – but they're political decisions reached under the – in the construct of decisions to the legally binding framework convention, under which countries are all – well, not all, but a great number of them, and certainly all the big ones – have made pledges that I think people are quite serious about, and that people are going to be trying to carry out in a whole variety of ways, not to mention setting up the transparency system and the green fund and the technology center, and trying to mobilize large-scale funding that ramps up to the commitments made in the agreements and all the rest.
So there's going to be a ton of work, including work in reducing emissions and mitigating emissions right now in 2012, and '13, and '14, and '15, and so forth, at the same time as negotiations get going toward that agreement that would pick up in the period starting in the 20 – in – from 2020 on. So I don't see this as, like, trying to fill a void, like in the sense that there's, like, some kind of dead zone from now to 2020. But on the other hand, I think this kind of thing could help reduce emissions more than they would be reduced otherwise, and that's a good thing.
QUESTION: Thanks.
OPERATOR: Thank you. Our next question comes from Chris Holly, and please state your affiliation.
QUESTION: Hi, [Senior Administration Official], it's Chris Holly from The Energy Daily.
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Hi, Chris.
QUESTION: I'm trying to figure out how to couch this question. HFCs have been controversial in the broader global negotiations for reasons I can't claim to be – to fully comprehend. Methane here in the U.S. is a very controversial issue because it seems like every other week, studies come out that make wildly disparate claims about the natural gas industry's contribution to global warming through venting of methane. We have a study that says it's not that bad, we have a study two weeks later that says it's twice what we thought it was.
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: It's what?
QUESTION: Twice what we thought it was. There's – there was a study that came out just last week that said emissions from western production are twice what government and industry estimates had stated. So how are you going to resolve the political challenges associated with these three pollutants?
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: So, a very good question, Chris. Let me take them one at a time.
I think that HFCs – so HFCs are substances that were developed in order to replace the ozone-depleting substances that were punching a hole in the stratospheric ozone. And that's part of the Montreal Protocol. So then it turns out that HFCs, they do – they are better with respect to stratospheric ozone, but they're highly, highly potent as global warming agents, and although they are a small part of the total problem now, left uncontrolled, they could become a very large part of the problem 30 or 40 years down the road, and they keep rapidly growing.
So there are different ways to go at them – at the HFC problem. One way – and we have promoted this aggressively independent of this coalition – is to suggest that there ought to be an amendment to the Montreal Protocol to essentially lead to the phasing out – not the elimination right away – but the phasing out over time and gradual phasing out of these substances. If I have the numbers right, I think that there were 108 countries who signed on to a resolution at the last big Montreal Protocol meeting that was sponsored by – and partly by the United States, but also by many countries large and small.
So far, China and India have been quite resistant to that particular way of dealing with the HFC problem. I think this is the kind of thing that is going to continue to evolve and develop over time; that is to say that particular approach which we think would be a good approach. But there's other approaches. You can have a positive impact on HFCs, on developing substitutes that are affordable and effective to HFCs outside of the construct of the Montreal Protocol.
So we'll just have to see about those things. We have not made it any kind of a condition for being part of this coalition that you've got to like or support the – that Montreal Protocol amendment that we favor. That's one way of going about things. And there's a – it's a whole another conversation which we could have separately, but I don't want to take up everybody's time on it right now, as to why China and India have opposed those things, but there are pretty specific answers to that question.
With respect to methane and the issue of shale gas and fracking and different studies and reports about how much methane is leaked, given off, in that process, I think that – I have no special knowledge about that. I think that it's – I think study and understanding of exactly what the leakage is is enormously important because it has a big impact on the degree to which that kind of gas production is a big benefit on the global warming side. Obviously, there's big benefits to natural gas production independent of global warming, but I'm just focused on the global warming issue itself.
But my sense is that even to the extent that one discovered that there was a larger amount of leakage than might have been thought – and again, I am – I claim to no special expertise in this area. But my sense is that there either are or will be technological fixes to that which actually would feed right into what we're talking about here, because if there's too much methane being released, vented from that process, and you could capture that – either better mechanical processes so less gets vented and/or capturing the stuff that does get vented – then again you're doing exactly what part of this initiative is designed to do. So I think it's a very complicated issue and an important one, but I think it's not at all inconsistent with what we're doing. It's actually – the fact that there's that problem is – only underscores the need to do the sorts of things we're talking about here.
STAFF: Hey [Moderator], we don't have – we're out of time. We unfortunately don't have any time for any more questions.
MODERATOR: That's okay. Operator, we'll have to wrap the call. Thank you very much.


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The discussion of Apple's (AAPL) iPad is heating up, as it were.
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Epstein says BGR could not replicate the issue with its units of the new iPad.
Epstein's report follows an article this morning by C|Net's Lance Whitney, who wrote about users postings online describing the same heating up. However, Whitney wrote that the issue "seems to be extremely rare."
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Zeng Li: A rueful look at how censorship works in China
Three days into his retirement, Zeng Li (曾礼) died yesterday at age 61, apparently of intestinal bleeding. Surprisingly, his March 28 farewell letter has spread across China's social media sites and blogs. The letter is an apology, an explanation of sorts, and an admission of regret regarding the latter part of his career. Zeng served in Southern Weekly's internal censorship program--his title there most likely translates best as "news examiner."


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Family: Podicipedidae, Grebes view all from this family
Description ADULT In summer, has gray-brown plumage, palest on flanks and neck. Bill is pale gray with a striking black band. In winter, plumage is more orange-buff, particularly on neck. Throat is pale and bill is uniformly yellowish gray. JUVENILE Has head stripes at first, but after molt acquires plumage like winter adult.
Dimensions Length: 12-15" (30-38 cm)
Habitat Widespread and common. Breeds on well-vegetated ponds and lakes and in winter moves south to ice-free similar freshwater habitats.
Observation Tips Usually indifferent to observers but seldom remains at water surface for long.
Range New England, Rocky Mountains, Southwest, Northwest, Plains, Great Lakes, Alaska, Texas, Western Canada, Florida, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Eastern Canada, California
Voice Utters various clucking and chattering calls.
Similar Species Least Grebe Tachybaptus dominicus (L 9-10 in) recalls a tiny version of Pied-billed Grebe but note the darker plumage overall in summer, beady yellow eyes (dark in Pied-billed), and daintier bill. Locally common only in southern Texas, on well-vegetated ponds and lakes.
Discussion Stocky, plump-bodied grebe. Note the pale "powderpuff" of fluffy feathers at rear end. Bill is proportionately large and thick; black band is absent during winter months. Dives frequently for small fish and aquatic invertebrates. Sexes are similar.


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kcdyer, Tuesday November 1, 2011 - 5:00pm
Hola writing comrades,
Hope all of you who choose to are NaNo-ing up a storm today. What better way to forget the storms of November than to write your way through them? Speaking personally, I've never actually NaNoWriMo'd, though November has always been an excellent writing month for me. [See -- storms, above.]
However, when you need to connect with all those other writers out there to share your pain, what to do? What to do, indeed! Those of you clever sorts who attended our Saturday panel on social media for writers know how -- social media, of course! So for those who attended our slammin' panel, and even for those who missed out, here are links to as many of the topics covered as I can remember. As always, if you have any specific questions, I'm happy to answer -- just ping me on the internets and my ears will all be yours!
To begin -- contact info: [website, email, twitter, facebook, etc]
Moderator kc dyer -- www.kcdyer.com, email@example.com, @kcdyer on twitter, kc dyer on facebook, google plus, linked in and elsewhere.
Rebecca Bolwitt -- aka Miss 604 -- http://www.miss604.com/, @Miss604.com on twitter, Miss604 on Facebook and elsewhere.
Sean Cranbury -- http://seancranbury.com , http://booksontheradio.ca/, http://adventbookblog.com/, firstname.lastname@example.com, @seancranbury on twitter, sean cranbury on facebook and all around the internets
Kathleen Ortiz -- http://kortizzle.blogspot.com, @kortizzle on twitter, Kathleen Ortiz on facebook and elsewhere.
[Two panelists, caught in flagrente social media. Sean was off reading the newspapers...]
Other resources:
Sean Cranbury's slideshare site: http://www.slideshare.net/cranbury
W2, Vancouver's downtown eastside Media Centre: http://www.creativetechnology.org/
Miss 604's Social Media 101 slide show online: http://www.slideshare.net/miss604/social-media-101-surrey-international-writers-conference
Inky Elbow's Twitter guide for writers: http://inkygirl.com/twitter-chats-for-writers/
SiWC's website, blog and online writing community: www.siwc.ca [you're here!]
Need more? Contact me-- kc -- any time.
sweetly tweeting @kcdyer
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Description A muskellunge (Esox masquinongy), also known as a muskelunge, muscallonge, milliganong, or maskinonge (and often abbreviated "muskie" or "musky"), is a large, relatively uncommon freshwater fish of North America. Muskellunge are the largest member of the pike family, Esocidae. The name comes from the Ojibwa word maashkinoozhe, meaning "ugly pike", by way of French masque allongÈ (modified from the Ojibwa word by folk etymology), "elongated face." The French common name is masquinongÈ or maskinongÈ.
Muskellunge are known by a wide variety of trivial names including Ohio muskellunge, Great Lakes muskellunge, barred muskellunge, Ohio River pike, Allegheny River pike, jack pike, unspotted muskellunge and the Wisconsin muskellunge.
Muskellunge closely resemble other Esocids such as the northern pike and American pickerel in both appearance and behavior. Like other pikes, the body plan is typical of ambush predators with an elongate body, flat head and dorsal, pelvic and anal fins set far back on the body. Muskellunge are typically 28–48 inches (0.71–1.2 m) long and weigh 5–36 pounds (2.3–16 kg), though some have reached up to 6 feet (1.8 m) and almost 70 pounds (32 kg). The fish are a light silver, brown or green with dark vertical stripes on the flank, which may tend to break up into spots. In some cases, markings may be absent altogether, especially in fish from turbid waters. This is in contrast to northern pike which have dark bodies with light markings. A reliable method to distinguish the two similar species is by counting the sensory pores on the underside of the mandible. A muskie will have seven or more per side while the northern pike never has more than six. The lobes of the caudal (tail) fin in muskellunge come to a sharper point while those of northern pike are more generally rounded. In addition, unlike pike, muskies have no scales on the lower half of the operculum.
Dimensions Up to 6' (1.8 m); 67 lb (31 kg).
Habitat Lakes & ponds, Rivers & streams.
Range Plains, Great Lakes, New England, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Eastern Canada.


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Governor to speak on Puerto Rico's future, April 11
Posted April 9, 2002; 03:51 p.m.
Sila Maria Calderón, governor of Puerto Rico, will present a public lecture titled "Puerto Rico: Looking Ahead" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11, in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall.
Calderón was inaugurated as the first female governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in January 2001, following a three-year term as the mayor of the capital city of San Juan. She began her career in government in the early 1970s, serving as executive aide to the labor secretary, special aide to the governor of Puerto Rico in charge of economic development and labor, chief of staff for the governor, secretary of government and secretary of state.
Calderón left the public sector in 1990 and served on several corporate and foundation boards. From 1990 to 1995, she was in charge of a community effort that involved the private and public sectors in the social and economic rehabilitation of one of San Juan's poorest areas.
The lecture is co-sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Program in Latin American Studies . It is free and open to the public.
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Demi Moore knew what she was doing when she officially split from Ashton Kutcher last week; no way is Mrs. Kutcher going to pass the potatoes to her husband and pretend everything is hunky dory come Thanksgiving. While the lady can act, why would she want to? The holidays can be hard, sometimes even more so because your relationship is on the rocks or even kaput. While statistics published by eDivorcePapers.com assert that most divorce filings happen in January, splits are often under way before the turkey hits the dinner table.
Moping your way through the mall instead of buying a gift for mom? Incessantly checking his Facebook status updates in lieu of writing out holiday cards? Filled with rage instead of good cheer and eggnog? No matter how you're left feeling after a breakup, give yourself a gift and rebound during the holidays…with a juicy book to match your mood and maybe even ring your jingle bell. Take refuge in the consolation of literature and you might find that the right book comforts if not heals a broken heart. Here are a few books to keep you warm even in the colder months, as you work your way through the many stages of heartbreak.
Longing: "Like Water for Chocolate" by Laura Esquivel (Anchor). While "The Girl with the Pearl Earring" by Tracy Chevalier (Plume) captures longing and restraint pretty darn well, there's no better book about unrequited love than "Like Water for Chocolate." This novel features a lovely bit of magical realism as Tita pines over Pedro in turn-of-the-century Mexico, all the while infusing her sumptuous cooking—recipes included—with her many pent-up emotions. This book may not melt in your mouth but it will melt your heart.
Betrayal: "Heartburn" by Nora Ephron (Vintage): There are loads of tales swirling around about two-timing partners, but Ephron captures the complexities of infidelity with acerbic, anguishing perfection. Rachel's a food writer who's seven months pregnant when she finds out that her journalist husband is cheating on her with a svelte socialite. Based on Ephron's own marriage to Carl Bernstein, you'll eat up this tart tale of a marriage on the skids.
Analysis: "High Fidelity" by Nick Hornby (Riverhead Trade). Can't stop the internal dialogue? Join the club, or at least Rob Fleming, a thirty-something record-shop owner who lives in his head. He can't seem to stop obsessing about his ex-girlfriends or his various "top five" lists. Don't read this unless you're prepared to discover how men really think about relationships and women. It's funny but more than that, it's spot-on. (For the female take on overthinking, check out Dorothy Parker's short story, "A Telephone Call.")
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Downright angry: "War of the Roses" by Warren Adler (Stonehouse Press). You think you're mad as hell at your ex? Chances are you've got nothing on Oliver and Barbara Rose, a couple who, during the course of a nasty divorce, concoct new and cruel ways to hate the one you're with. Don't key her car or shred his favorite sweater; instead, live vicariously through Adler's novel and save yourself from possible criminal proceedings.
Regret: "Atonement" by Ian McEwen (Anchor). McEwen's much-lauded novel is a beautiful moving tale of the persistent upstairs/downstairs love of Cecelia and Robbie set against the harrowing backdrop of World War II. They might not have had to have been so tenacious about their passion if Cecelia's younger sister Briony hadn't falsely singled out Robbie as the one who raped her cousin after a dinner party at the family's estate. How Briony deals with her regret and attempts to atone for her mistake will put your own relationship missteps into perspective.
Randy: "The Year of Yes" by Maria Dahvana Headley (Hyperion). The best way to get over someone is to get under someone else…or at least date everyone and anyone in sight. That's the premise of Headley's frank and funny memoir. She dates absolutely everyone who asks, including a homeless man, a mime, and the guy upstairs. If you're ready to get back in the saddle, "The Year of Yes" is just the zesty motivation to giddyup.
Denial: "Emma" by Jane Austen (Harper Perennial Modern Classics). Poor Emma Woodhouse. Austen's clueless heroine is at the heart of several misguided attempts to match make every single lady and gent in Highbury, all the while in complete denial about her feelings for a certain gentleman. Read on as Emma moves her companions around like pawns on a chessboard to hilarious and pretty much calamitous results. When she finally acknowledges her own feelings, it will be hard to deny your own swooning over the satisfying and altogether right conclusion. (If you are looking to feel a bit more hopeful about your prospects, pick up Austen's "Persuasion" instead.)
Acceptance: "The Giant's House" by Elizabeth McCracken (Dial Press Trade Paperback). Learn to love yourself with all of your flaws and quirks as you read this unlikely love story of an 11-year-old boy afflicted with gigantism (he continues to grow…and grow) and a lonely librarian. With their "Harold and Maude"-like situation, James and Peggy's weird-but-it-works relationship will work its magic on you and soften your heart toward yourself, others, and your current condition in life.
Obsession: There's no shortage of tales of destructive obsessive love, from the olfactory ("Perfume" by Patrick Suskind, Vintage) to the pyromaniacal ("Endless Love" by Scott Spencer, Ecco) to that of the Stockholm syndrome variety ("Forgetting Zoe" by Ray Robinson, Windmill). But it might be worth revisiting "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov (Vintage) and read about Humbert Humbert's ongoing obsession with 12-year-old Delores, who Humbert nicknames Lolita. He becomes wildly possessive of her as they skip around the country as stepfather and stepdaughter. Nabokov's novel is pervy, yes, but it's also a modern masterpiece that just might make you forget about cyberstalking your ex for a while.
It Could Be Worse: "The House of Mirth" by Edith Wharton (Signet Classics). You wish you were dead? Well, read this turn-of-the-century tale of Lily Bart, who is to the manner born but doesn't have a chamber pot to, well, you get the idea. You'll soon feel as if your lot is not quite so desperate as you watch Lily continue to make unfortunate choices, which, in her rigid world, have ruinous consequences. Yes, it could be worse. You could be living in an Edith Wharton novel. Go ahead, nurse your broken heart but realize that you can do it without the constraint of a corset or an unforgiving upper class. And that's something.
Jennifer Worick is the author of more than 25 books and a publishing consultant; she can be found at The Business of Books.
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VERONA - Thomas Allan Gering, age 79, passed away on February 1, 2013 after courageous battles with Leukemia and lung disease. Tom was born November 29, 1933 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Albert and Marie (Steinke) Gering. He graduated in 1952 from North Division High School in Milwaukee and delivered his class graduation speech. His school classmates voted him Prom King and President of the Senior Class, Student Council and Booster Boys. Additionally, Tom served as captain of the football team, playing quarterback, safety and linebacker. Tom earned a Pre-Theology Ministerial Associate Degree from Concordia College and furthered his education with a Psychology Degree from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where he was a student leader at Calvary Lutheran Chapel. He initiated teaching ballroom dance as the first UW-Madison Mini Course which has expanded and is thriving today. Through ballroom dancing at "Young Adult Club" (YAC) in 1960, Tom met his future bride, Joan Argue. They married in Madison on October 21, 1961 and raised three children. Professionally, Tom worked for the Social Security Administration for 30 years before retiring. His career began in the Chicago area, and led to the Lancaster, Wisconsin office where he served as Manager. Later, he relocated his family to Verona, Wisconsin and worked in the Madison office. Throughout his career, he conducted more than 20,000 interviews. After retirement, Tom enjoyed teaching college-level psychology courses for 12 semesters at Herzing College and a retirement planning course at Madison Area Technical College for 15 years. Because of his genuine interest in people, Tom could carry on a meaningful conversation with anyone and encourage them to talk about themselves. He has served in various leadership roles within the community, clubs and church. Tom was known for telling jokes, as well as portraying Benjamin Franklin. As an avid reader, Tom was a frequent patron of libraries. He also had a personal collection of thousands of books. Tom loved spending time with his family and took great pride in the accomplishments of his children and grandchildren. He was a loving husband, devoted father, and cherished grandfather. His passing leaves a void in the lives of many. He will be deeply missed by those whose lives he touched.
Tom is survived by his wife Joan (Argue) Gering; and their children: Dawn (Randy) Dorning; Diana (Les) Howles; and David (Heidi) Gering; and seven grandchildren: Jacob and Caleb Dorning; Karra Howles; and Kailey, Kendra, Keegan and Korbin Gering.
Tom was preceded in death by his parents and four siblings.
The family would like to extend a special thank you to the staff at Agrace HospiceCare and Dean Care for their exemplary care. A memorial service will be held at 11 AM on Saturday, February 9, 2013 at Salem United Church of Christ, 502 Mark Drive, Verona, Wisconsin. Visitation will be held at the church from 9-10:45 AM. A luncheon will follow the service.
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I'm very excited today to announce that Arbor Networks, one of the leading vendors providing DDoS Protection and Network Security world-wide, has added a fingerprint in their Peakflow product family to help Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and companies around the world to mitigate, protect and monitor malicious ZeuS C&C Botnet traffic within their Networks. The fingerprint provided by Arbor is being generated in cooperation with the ZeuS Tracker.
If you are a network administrator and your company is runing Arbor Peakflow you just can activate the fingerprint using Arbor's Active Threat Feed policies (ATF).


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Look upon the phenomenon of war with dispassion and detachment, as if observing the follies of another species on a distant planet: From such an elevated view, war seems a puny enough pastime. Demographically, it hardly matters. War deaths amount to something like 1 percent of all deaths; in many places, more die by suicide, and still more in accidents. If saving human lives is the great desideratum, then there is more to be gained by prevention of drowning and auto wrecks than by the abolition of war.
But no one on this planet sees war from such a height of austere equanimity. Even the gods on Olympus could not keep from meddling in earthly conflicts. Something about the clash of arms has a special power to rouse the stronger emotions—pity and love as well as fear and hatred—and so our response to battlefield killing and dying is out of all proportion to its rank in tables of vital statistics. When war comes, it muscles aside the calmer aspects of life; no one is unmoved. Most of us choose one side or the other, but even among those who merely want to stop the fighting, feelings run high. ("Antiwar militant" is no oxymoron.)
The same inflamed passions that give war its urgent human interest also stand in the way of scholarly or scientific understanding. Reaching impartial judgment about rights and wrongs seems all but impossible. Stepping outside the bounds of one's own culture and ideology is also a challenge—not to mention the bounds of one's time and place. We tend to see all wars through the lens of the current conflict, and we mine history for lessons convenient to the present purpose.
One defense against such distortions is the statistical method of gathering data about many wars from many sources, in the hope that at least some of the biases will balance out and true patterns will emerge. It's a dumb, brute-force approach and not foolproof, but nothing else looks more promising. A pioneer of this quantitative study of war was Lewis Fry Richardson, the British meteorologist whose ambitious but premature foray into numerical weather forecasting I described in this space a year ago. Now seems a good time to consider the other half of Richardson's lifework, on the mathematics of armed conflict.
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Normally I blog about new threats and issues that are popping up in cyberspace, but today I have some good news for you.
On the evening of the 11th of January, a Russian based ISP called Vline Telecom (AS39150) was de-peered from its upstream provider RUNNet.ru. As a result of the disconnect, 9 of the world wide worst Bulletproof Hosters got offline and the number of active Zeus Botnet Command&Control servers dropped from 61 to 41 on 12th of January.
Additionally, in January 2011 I was informed about another takedown of a Ukrainian based ISP called ONLINENET SPD Andreychuk Andrey Alekseevich (AS50722) which resulted in another 5 bulletproof hosters disappearing from the global routing table.
We can say that January 2011 was a very bad start for cybercriminals, as a total of 14 bulletproof hosters have been disconnected from the internet this month.
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It all started in March 2010 when I came across the first few ZeuS C&Cs in the network of VLine Telecom:
2010-03-26 07:46:49 | fooofle.ru | 188.8.131.52 | VLTELECOM-AS VLineTelecom LLC
2010-03-26 11:55:20 | aervrfhu.ru | 220.127.116.11 | VLTELECOM-AS VLineTelecom LLC
2010-03-27 11:10:31 | fooofle.ru | 188.8.131.52 | VLTELECOM-AS VLineTelecom LLC
2010-03-27 14:32:45 | aervrfhu.ru | 22.214.171.124 | VLTELECOM-AS VLineTelecom LLC
2010-03-31 06:54:58 | globaldeliveryinc.com | 126.96.36.199 | VLTELECOM-AS VLineTelecom LLC
2010-04-12 08:20:42 | molniy347.com | 184.108.40.206 | VLTELECOM-AS VLineTelecom LLC
2010-04-13 06:31:17 | winrar392.net | 184.108.40.206 | VLTELECOM-AS VLineTelecom LLC
2010-04-16 11:39:39 | napiwis54353.com | 220.127.116.11 | VLTELECOM-AS VLineTelecom LLC
2010-04-16 11:39:55 | translatespanish.ru | 22.214.171.124 | VLTELECOM-AS VLineTelecom LLC
2010-04-16 11:40:18 | wera2.co.tv | 184.108.40.206 | VLTELECOM-AS VLineTelecom LLC
2010-04-16 11:40:43 | wera1.co.tv | 18.104.22.168 | VLTELECOM-AS VLineTelecom LLC
In 2010, VLine Telecom hosted more than 140 ZeuS Botnet Command&Control Servers. Therefore they managed to get a position in the Worlds Top 10 Bad Hosts:
However, this was just the tip of the iceberg: In June 2010 Vline Telecom started to route a few networks we later came to consider as the worst criminal networks in the world. At the end of 2010 ZeuS Tracker saw a lot of new Command&Control Servers (C&C) popping up in the networks that VLine Telecom provides IP transit for:
AS name: VLAF-AS Vlaf Processing Ltd
Subnet: 18.104.22.168/23
Spamhaus SBL: SBL90627
List of ZeuS C&Cs in this network: show
AS number: AS20564
AS name: INFORMEX-MNT Informex, E-commerce Service Provider
Subnet: 184.108.40.206/24
Spamhaus SBL: SBL97792
List of ZeuS C&Cs in this network: show
AS number: AS31506
AS name: ASN-YS-IX Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Internet eXchange
Subnet: 18.104.22.168/24
Spamhaus SBL: SBL98806
List of ZeuS C&Cs in this network: show
AS number: AS39858
As name: UNINETMD-AS S.C. Uninet S.R.L
Subnet: 220.127.116.11/24
Spamhaus SBL: SBL90650
List of ZeuS C&Cs in this network: show
AS number: AS31682
AS name: DIOSOFT-AS DIOSoft Ltd.
Subnet: 220.127.116.11/22
Spamhaus SBL: SBL90652
List of ZeuS C&Cs in this network: show
AS number: AS31445
AS name: TTC-AS Naukanet (TopNET) UA Aggregation network Autonomous System
Subnet: 22.214.171.124/23
Spamhaus SBL: SBL92406
List of ZeuS C&Cs in this network: show
AS number: AS48280
AS name: IT-OUTSOURCE-AS LLC _Management, informational
Subnet: 18.104.22.168/24
Spamhaus SBL: SBL98806
List of ZeuS C&Cs in this network: show
AS number: AS43181
AS name: K2K-AS Contel 2000 Ltd.
Subnet: 220.127.116.11/23
Spamhaus SBL: SBL96584
List of ZeuS C&Cs in this network: show
AS number: AS31478
AS name: PMN-AS PROMIRANET multihomed network
Subnet: 126.96.36.199/22
Spamhaus SBL: SBL98807
List of ZeuS C&Cs in this network: show
As you can see in the list above, VLine Telecom not only hosted a lot of ZeuS C&C servers, they also provided internet access (IP transit) to a lot of different networks which are obviously controlled by cybercriminals.
However, at this time it was also clear that some movement in the situation was needed so Spamhaus issued two SBLs on VLine Telecom's Upstream provider called GlobalNet Russia (see SBL98570 / SBL96680). As it turned out, this listing was one of the best things Spamhaus did in the last couple of weeks because GlobalNet Russia started to face the problem when nearly every mailserver in the world stopped accepting emails from GlobalNet and their customers.
Additionally, I reached out to GlobalNet on the 15th of December with a immediate de-peering request for VLine Telecom. GlobalNet denied to disconnect VLine Telecom by referring to the Russian Law and the contract that GlobalNet had with VLine Telecom. Fortunately, GlobalNet was very cooperative and my contact there agreed to null route the IP addresses where I had evidence that they actually were bad.
After my chat with GlobalNet the situation improved by the end of 2010. Unfortunately, VLine Telecom still didn't care about any abuse that came from their networks or their IP transit customers. This resulted in new ZeuS C&C servers popped up there pretty quickly. I had to reach out again to GlobalNet on December 27 2010 with another request to de-peer VLine Telecom immediately.
GlobalNet (as the uptream provider) reached out to VLine Telecom with a request to solve these problems immediately. As a result of the pressure made by GlobalNet, VLine Telecom disconnected the first Bulletproof hoster from the internet:
AS name: ASN-YS-IX Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Internet eXchange
Status: NOT Announced
Spamhaus SBL: SBL98806
On January 5th, I was pretty surprised when VLine Telecom suddenly changed their routes and started to route all their traffic over RUNNet.ru, which is the Russian Federal University Network. I guess that VLine Telecom just had enough of GlobalNet null routing all IPs that I reported to them, so they obviously decided to switch to a different upstream provider. At the same time I received an email from VLine Telecom asking me to send any information concerning abuse in their network directly to them instead of to their upstream provider. As VLine contacted me, I decided to give them a chance, so I replied with a long email that contained a list of abuse issues from their networks (you can imagine that the list of current issues was huge). A few minutes later, I received a response from VLine Telecom where they told me that they had blocked the mentioned IP addresses. I was pretty surprised that they had taken action. But unfortunately I made one big mistake: I believed what VLine Telecom told me…
A few hours after the reply from VLine Telecom that they had banned the mentioned IP addresses, I noticed that the hosts were still reachable, but NOT from my IP address. I did some research and I found out that all of the associated networks was blocking traffic which comes from ZeuS Tracker.
You can imagine that I got pretty angry about this, so I decided to reach out to RUNNet.ru with an immediate de-peering request for VLine Telecom. One hour later I got the following message from RUNNet.ru:
IP-transit VLineTelecom ( ^39150_ ) via RUNNet is stopped now.
A short trace route from different locations just confirmed what RUNNet told me in their email: VLine Telecom was no longer being routed through RUNNet! After the disconnect, it took VLine Telecom just 4 minutes to tell RUNNet and me that they had disconnected all IP transit customers.
After some downtime of VLine Telecom (and of course all their customers) GlobalNet decided to start routing of VLine Telecom again through GlobalNet's network. As soon as they were up and running again we checked that the before mentioned networks were no longer being routed by VLine Telecom.
*** Current status ***
As of January 22nd, VLine Telecom is routed through GlobalNet Russia and the mentioned 9 networks above are not being announced in the global routing table. It didn't get so far as to get VLine Telecom permanently disconnected, but I think I made a pretty good arrangement with GlobalNet to monitor the situation of their downstreams for a while.
*** Further takedowns ***
On January 17th, I was informed about another takedown; this time it was an ISP called ONLINENET SPD Andreychuk Andrey Alekseevich (AS50722) which had been disconnected by its upstream provider called ISV4 (AS21379 – intersv.com). Because ONLINENET provided IP transit to another 5 bulletproof hosters, these also were forced offline in January 2011:
AS name: VAKUSHAN-AS Anton Vakushin
Subnet: 184.108.40.206/24
Spamhaus SBL: SBL96354
AS number: AS29106
AS name: VOLGAHOST-AS PE Bondarenko Dmitriy Vladimirovich
Subnet: 126.96.36.199/24
Spamhaus SBL: SBL83028
AS number: AS51554
AS name: LYAHOV-AS Lyahovich Maksim
Subnet: 18.104.22.168/24
Spamhaus SBL: SBL97861
AS number: AS51354
AS name: VPNME-AS Igor Vladimirovich Kanaev
Subnet: 126.96.36.199/24
Spamhaus SBL: SBL97864
AS number: AS51303
AS name: GORBY-AS Alexandr Gorbunov
Subnet: 188.8.131.52/24
Spamhaus SBL: SBL97616
*** What we have learned from the VLine-case ***
While investigating the VLine-case I made a lot of new experiences. The first and most relevant one is: Not every Russian speaking guy is a cybercriminal 🙂
When I started my investigation at GlobalNet and RUNNet I was completely unsure whether I could trust them or not. Today I know that I can trust them and that they have done (and of course are still doing) a very good job to solve the issues within their responsibility.
With the knowledge that I gained in the VLine-case I'm now able to draw the following network map:
The second thing I learned is that there are often language problems. As you see in the chart above I (still) consider VLine as bad. However, I have to say that some times I had the feeling that they just didn't know what they were doing (from a technical perspective) and that they didn't understand what I wanted to tell them (language problem).
Anyway, I still have the opinion that VLine Telecom should be permanently disconnected, but I also know that they now are aware of the situation and that the whole world is now (at least after this blog post) watching their behaviour and actions closely.
Last but not least I would like to thank GlobalNet Russia and RUNNet for all their efforts and their help to get the problem with VLine Telecom solved.
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I just discovered the Utah-GLX project on SourceForge which has hardware accelerated OpenGL for many Matrox, ATI, nVidia, Sis, and S3 chipsets as well as the Intel 810. This is too cool. I now have HW acclerated OpenGL on my notebook which uses an ATI Rage LT chipset. Quake runs really nice now.


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At Target I got the new Clone Wars figures:
Hevy in Training Armor
New Obi-Wan (x 2 I think)
New Cad Bane with Techno Service Droid
Ahsoka's R7 Droid
I missed Hondo Ohnaka if he's shipping. I could use one more - which my SD trading buddy Tony owes me anyway.
I offered most of my new figures to him.
I know I want Hevy, however, I think a BattlePack with all Domino Squad (Hevy, Fives, Echo, and Cut-up - and I think there's one more guy) will come out by 2012.
I may give up Hevy to Tony (or the boards if he doesn't want these figures), and either buy Hevy alone off eBay or an etailer in a year from now, or get him in the probable battle pack. Any duplicate pack-in (Bric, Shaak-Ti, or El-Res) I could use an extra of anyway.
Or maybe I'll just save Hevy and offer him up later when I see if he's duplicated in the battlepack. Hevy has "1" on his chest armor. Echo, Fives, Cut-Up - they have 2, 3, 4 etc. on their armor. That's about the only difference, though Cut-Up might have a goatee. I forget.
Sure you could customize them - but you'll need 4-5 clones of Hevy anyway, and the others are likely coming and will cost the same as buying 4-5 Hevys. So what's the rush?


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Metallica's James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett Talk Guitar Solos and Gear in 1991 Guitar World Interview
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"We've been in the studio so long -- a war has come and gone, and we're still stuck in here!"
A heavy weariness, quite evident behind James Hetfield's steely gaze, underscores the intense pressure that has been Metallica's constant as they labored over the past few months to record Metallica, their first album in over three years, and fifth overall.
"It's pretty amazing when you think about it," offers James with a strained smile.
Here in the comfortable confines of One on One Studios in North Hollywood, it's down to the eleventh hour for the World's Greatest Metal Band. Working exhaustively around the clock with producer Bob Rock, James and Kirk Hammett take turns spit-polishing a guitar solo here, roughing out a vocal there. While this modern recording facility is outfitted with pool tables, weights, a well-stocked kitchen, dart boards, big screen TV's and videos, exercise machines and just about any creature comfort a healthy (or otherwise) rock group could ever want, it has been a veritable Devil's Island for the group.
"We've been in the studio so long," growls James, "we've seen four other bands come through and do their albums. And some of those guys have already gone on tour!"
Outside, a small group of roving Metallica fans, hoping to catch a glimpse of James or Kirk entering (but never, seemingly, leaving) the white, windowless stucco building, maintain a tireless vigil, shuffling up and down the 5200 block of Lankershim Boulevard. Their nervous, darting eyes and untucked Metallica shirts have some local business proprietors double-checking their wares and wallets.
"This has been going on since last October, once them kids found out this heavy metal band was next door," says a leathery-looking taco vendor a block away. "They don't scare me none, though." As if on cue, a few fans wander in and order some burritos, heavy on the grease.
Bob Rock is screaming. His voice penetrates the bank-vault thickness of the studio doors, almost reaching the street outside. The platinum producer is at the hair-pulling stage, after spending the past five-and-a-half hours trying to correct a single, renegade guitar note that, to his million-dollar ears, is a microscopic tone out of whack. "He's not having a good day," suggests Kirk with a sheepish grin. The guitarist is repeatedly called in to try to punch in a note that will allow the visibly stressed Canadian producer to finally wrap up the tedious session. Kirk excuses himself, runs into the studio's main room, shoulders a black ESP and effortlessly runs through the solo for the twentieth time. "I think I got it," he says.
It's no small wonder that Bob Rock -- the career-rescuing hit-maker for artists like Motley Crue, Aerosmith, the Cult and Bon Jovi -- is concerned over something as seemingly trivial as a single guitar note. Taking on the Metallica project was a critical step in his otherwise Top 40-oriented career. "People will be saying Bob made Metallica sound like Bon Jovi," remarks James. "They don't realize that no one screws with us, except us. Bob fit right into the program and the direction we were going."
Certainly, Rock's commercially successful background has raised more than a few eyebrows. The notion of Metallica opting for the producer's trademark approach -- crisp, clear guitars and radio-friendly hooks -- severely traumatized Metallica fans who drink in sledgehammer chords like they are mother's milk.
"We're not really out to justify what we're doing," says James defensively. "We don't give a shit. This is what we want and this is how it is. Bob just helped us get what we want."
What they wanted for Metallica, and what they got were guitars that ring more sharply than ever, leaving a clean trail of resonating destruction. Where ...And Justice For All was weak and flat-sounding in the bass and drum mix, the new album bursts with a deep snare crack and a bass thick and heavy enough to set cement with. The band's whiplash tempo changes and complicated arrangements have been revamped into a lethal and immensely heavy, groove-laden sound and album that should give thrash a sharp kick in its sluggish ass.
"Kirk!" Rock's screams are getting louder.
"Uh, oh," says Hammett, jumping like a dog about to be punished for knocking over the garbage can. "Got to go."
GUITAR WORLD: Your patented "Metalli-crunch" seems bigger and badder on the new album. What did you do to fatten your sound?
KIRK HAMMETT: First, I went through my CD collection and picked out guitar sounds that impressed me, and gave them to Bob Rock as points of reference. It helps to know what kind of tone you're trying to pursue.
What CD's did you give him?
HAMMETT: I was particularly impressed with Gary Moore's sound on his latest album, Still Got The Blues. I used one of the breaks from "Oh Pretty Woman" as a main reference. I also gave Bob UFO's Obsession -- I've always liked Michael Schenker's sound. The third example was something by Carlos Santana. I was shooting for a real up-front sounding guitar.
But wasn't that the problem with ...And Justice For All? The guitar was so up-front that it obscured Jason's bass.
JAMES HETFIELD: The bass was obscured for two reasons. First, on past albums, Jason tended to double my rhythm guitar parts, so it was hard to tell where my guitar started and his bass left off. Also, my tone on Justice was very scooped -- all lows and highs with very little mid-range. When my rhythm parts were placed in the mix, my guitar sound ate up all the lower frequencies. Jason and I were always battling for the same space in the mix.
On this album, Jason approached his parts differently. He's playing more with Lars's kick drum, so his basslines are very distinct from my guitar lines -- we're not getting in each other's way. Bob really helped us with orchestrating and bringing out the low end -- getting the guitar and bass to work together. In fact, when I played the album for a friend, he asked, "What is that weird low-end sound?" I said, "That's something new for us -- it's called bass!"


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