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Halkin Hotel - London - United Kingdom
Halkin Hotel - LondonHalkin Hotel
Address: Halkin Street
Phone Number: +442073331000
Geolocation: 51.500881, -0.151870
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Halkin Hotel average rating
9.3 out of 10 based on 25 user reviews.
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Halkin Hotel - London Description
Halkin Hotel is a popular choice amongst travelers in London, whether exploring or just passing through. Offering a variety of facilities and services, the hotel provides all you need for a good night's sleep. Take advantage of the hotel's airport transfer, elevator, valet parking, babysitting, tours. Each guestroom is elegantly furnished and equipped with handy amenities. Enjoy the hotel's recreational facilities, including massage, fitness center, before retiring to your room for a well-deserved rest. Halkin Hotel is an excellent choice from which to explore London or to simply relax and rejuvenate.
Halkin Hotel - London classifies itself as a 5 star hotel.
N.B. Please note that the star ratings are interpreted generously by the hotels in many countries.
N.B. Please note that the star ratings are interpreted generously by the hotels in many countries.
Halkin Hotel - London Facilities
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Halkin Hotel Hotel Facilities
- Airport Transfer
- Babysitting
- Bar
- Business Center
- Concierge
- Elevator
- Laundry Service
- Meeting Facilities
- Restaurant
- Room Service
- Safety Deposit Boxes
- Tours
- 24-Hour Room Service
- Valet Parking
- Wi-Fi in Public Areas
Halkin Hotel Room Facilities
- Air Conditioning
- Bathrobes
- Bathtub
- Complimentary Bottled Water
- Daily Newspaper
- Desk
- DVD / CD Player
- Fan
- Hair Dryer
- In Room Safe
- Inhouse Movies
- Internet Access - Lan (Complimentary)
- Ironing Facilities
- Mini Bar
- Non Smoking Rooms
- Satellite / Cable TV
- Shower
- Television
- Television LCD / Plasma Screen
Halkin Hotel Sports and Recreation
- Fitness Center
- Massage
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My backdrop came today. Still waiting for the annoying creases to fall out but it's pretty awesome It's HUGE though! Next on my list is some proper studio lighting
What is the back drop like? and when or what are you going to use it for?
I made my son a green screen for his stop motion which he is really pleased with.
Is this for you take pictures of your lovely niece?
Are you starting a side business?
Can't wait to see some photos with you using your new back drop.
Your be a right pro before long.
Mainly, yes Not starting a side business, Don't think I'm quite good enough yet but I have some friends who are into acting so I suppose I could do headshots for them tooOriginally Posted by foreverducky, post: 177597
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GULF SHORES, Ala. – The final day of the 2015 NAIA Outdoor National Championships brought one of the most grueling events of the meet as Travis Mabe (SR/Deford, Mich.) pulled the curtain on the Cornerstone men's track & field season with a fifth place showing in the Marathon. The All-American honor is the second in as many days for the senior distance runner. The men finished 23rd in the final team standings.
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GULF SHORES, Ala. – Day two of the 2015 NAIA Outdoor National Championships opened with an All-American mark in the 10,000 from Travis Mabe (SR/Deford, Mich.) and closed with a second one for the Golden Eagles as Brent Dunn (FR/Hobart, Ind.) finished fifth in the 5,000m Race Walk. The men's team will have one more competitor on the final day as Mabe runs in the marathon starting at 7 a.m. EDT.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – The 2014-15 Capital One Academic All-District® Track & Field/Cross Country Teams, selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America, have been released to recognize the nation's top student-athletes for their combined performances athletically and in the classroom. Cornerstone placed nine on the pair of teams with three on the men's side and six on the women's. They all now move on to the national ballot for Academic All-American status.
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GULF SHORES, Ala. – Weather owned the story on day one of the NAIA Outdoor National Championships as the last eight running events and last four field events were postponed due to a severe thunderstorm. It marks the first time since 2004 at the outdoor national meet that weather has forced events to be postponed until the following day. In the events that were completed, Brittany Murray (SR/Monclova, Ohio.) will enter day two of the Heptathlon in second place.
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96 is a long life. RIP
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96 is a long life. RIP
Horse Hockey!
He had a tough role, replacing Maclean Stevenson, but did so admirably. However, I always thought his best role on MASH was when he played the nutjob general.
I'm old. I still think of him as Bill Gannon on Dragnet. He played a ton of supporting roles as well in movies such as "Support Your Local Sheriff".
I always enjoyed him.
I remember him in many older westerns from the 40s. I just watched him the The Ox-Bow Incident a couple weeks ago.
I thought his Sherman Potter character was very well played.
RIP Sherm
He was a great character actor. He was really good at replacing McLean Stevenson in MASH. You wouldn't have thought that possible but he pulled it off very well. I remember him first in Dragnet so that makes me old.
R.I.P Colonel Potter
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The show focus became much deeper and more nuanced, as opposed to just being about ways to make the jerk look bad.


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Why pick this fun plush treat bag? It's all the better to carry candy in, my dear! Polyester. Imported.
Where the most infamous villain in the galaxy stores those Halloween goodies. Who knew he had a sweet tooth? Plastic; 7". Imported.
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006
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SUGAR HILL - A new Gwinnett County Fire Station in Sugar Hill will shorten the emergency response times for residents in that area and decrease insurance rates, fire officials said.A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held Monday to mark the official opening of Station 26 at 6075 Suwanee Dam Road. The new location will shave several minutes off the previous average emergency response time of nine minutes for the Sugar Hill area. It will also reduce fire insurance costs for local homeowners and businesses, said Lt. Thomas Rutledge, spokesman for the Gwinnett County Fire Department. "Homeowners need to make sure their insurance carrier is aware that now there is a fire station operating in their community," Rutledge said. Previously, fire and emergency services calls in the Sugar Hill area were handled by Station 14 in Buford or Station 13 in Suwanee. Station 26 is a two-bay facility which will be staffed by a crew of 12 firefighters - four firefighters per 24-hour shift. It will serve an area of roughly 20 square miles in Sugar Hill, including portions of Buford Dam, Lanier Harbor and East Bank Park on Lake Lanier, said Rutledge. The building includes office space, a workout room, kitchen, bunk room, apparatus bay and storage area. "We're excited. It's a special day in the history of the Fire Department to be able to expand our services and open new fire stations," Rutledge said. Two more groundbreakings will be scheduled soon for Station 27 at Old Fountain Road and Jim Moore Road in Dacula and for the relocation of Station 8 directly behind its current spot on Ga. Highway 20 in Grayson. Station 8 is being moved due to the widening of Ga. 20.
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Winter 2008 – A month after turning 17, Donivan Berube, Florida native, disassociates himself from the church of Jehovah's Witnesses (and therefore his entire family, forever), packs his life into a tiny car, and drives 36 hours north into a Wisconsin blizzard. Things are a little intense.
Spring 2009 – Jacquelyn Beaupre' meets Donivan at a restaurant and asks him to help her record some songs. Blessed Feathers is thus, "a thing."
Summer 2010 – They talk their way into shows at small Wisconsin clubs, with bands like Peter Wolf Crier, Youth Lagoon, Phosphorescent, and dozens of others. This is sort of a dream come true.
Fall 2011 – Their collection of bedroom laptop recordings culminates into a limited vinyl release by Listening Party Records, a boutique label from Wisconsin, co-owned by Nick Sanborn of Sylvan Esso. They tour the country, and do other things.
Summer 2012 – Blessed Feathers spend two weeks living in a shifty barn in upstate New York to record their first studio session, culminating in the 'Peaceful Beasts in an Ocean of Weeds' EP, on which Jacquelyn plays everything, and Donivan plays everything else. While there, they somehow manage to ruin Robert De Niro's Saturday morning breakfast.
Winter 2012 – Donivan proposes to Jacquelyn onstage in front of 600 people at Milwaukee's Turner Hall Ballroom. People think this is sort of cute. Video of the proposal is uploaded to the internet before they're even done playing. She says yes.
Spring 2013 – After quitting their jobs and shoving their apartment into a tiny storage unit, Blessed Feathers take off on a four-week US/Canada tour with Mount Moriah and the Cave Singers. They are homeless, and kind of excited.
Summer 2013 – Returning to the Catskills of upstate New York, they record their first studio LP with Producer Kevin McMahon (Real Estate, The Walkmen, Titus Andronicus). Doug Keith, who also plays with Sharon Van Etten, plays guitar on the LP. Aiming to capture the polyrhythmic influences of 1960's African funk & blues and South American guitar patterns, but with Bruce Springsteen's 'Nebraska' lyrics, they finished in two weeks. After wrapping the album, they spend the rest of the year traveling the continent and living out of their tent. The photos are unreal.
Spring 2014 – After spending his winter volunteering as an English teacher in Huaycán, Peru, a shanty-town on the outskirts of Lima, Donivan comes home and together they record 'Huaycán Song # 2.' It is released as part of the Honeytone Records 'Singles Series,' just in time for their tour with Saintseneca. On August 7th, he leaves for a solo two-month bicycle trip across America to Big Sur, California. He's a little bit afraid of dying, but then again, not really. They spend the fall in Big Sur, volunteering at the Henry Miller Memorial Library, still in the tent, and still loving it.
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22-year-old Filipina, a case that has thrown U.S. military
relations with a former colony into the spotlight, appeared in
court on Friday but did not enter a plea.
The Marines, being held in the custody of the U.S. embassy
in the capital, deny the charges filed in December, saying only
one of them had sex with the woman and that it was consensual.
But Judge Benjamin Pozon threw out an earlier
recommendation by the justice department to reduce the charges
against three of the accused to mere accessories to rape,
cheering anti-U.S. protesters outside the court.
Lance Corporals Dominic Duplantis, Keith Silkwood, Daniel
Smith and Staff Sergeant Chad Carpentier said nothing when the
court asked them to enter a plea.
The rape case has prompted small protests outside the U.S.
embassy in Manila and calls by some politicians for the 1998
Visiting Forces Agreement, which allows the presence of U.S.
troops in the Philippines, to be amended or scrapped.
Some politicians and groups have called for a review of the
agreement, saying it gives too much protection to U.S. troops
accused of committing crimes.
But analysts see little long-term damage to ties between
the United States and a former U.S. colony and Washington's
closest security partner in Southeast Asia.
Pozon entered a "not guilty" plea for the Marines, but
turned down a prosecution call to issue a warrant of arrest to
force the U.S. embassy in Manila to turn them over to a local
Defense lawyer Jose Justiniano said they would appeal
against the judge's decision to charge the four with rape.
But about 50 members of a left-wing women's group, who
staged a noisy rally outside a high-rise building housing the
court, carrying placards and shouting "jail the Yankees," said
they were happy with the judge's decision.
"We rejoice, we celebrate the decision not to downgrade the
charges against the three Marines," Joms Salvador, one of the
rally organizers, told Reuters.
"We will still be watching developments."
Pozon set the next hearing for May 12.
(With reporting by Anna Margarita Pambid and Jesus Llanto)


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Isner, Raonic continue on path to final in Regions Morgan Keegan Championships
Top seed John Isner and 2011 runner-up Milos Raonic continued on an overpowering path to meet in Sunday's Regions Morgan Keegan Championships final, with Isner advancing to today's quarterfinals behind 22 aces and Raonic winning 94 percent of his first serve points.
Isner, ranked a career-best 13th in the world, defeated fellow American Donald Young 7-6 (3), 6-4 on Thursday at The Racquet Club of Memphis and Raonic, a 21-year-old Canadian who is emerging as one of the sport's dominant servers, knocked of Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine, 6-4, 6-4.
In his victory over Young, Isner overcame a sluggish start in which he was broken to fall behind, 4-2. But he overcame a rash of unforced errors and sloppy footwork to force the first-set tiebreaker before settling into a much more familiar rhythm and pace in the second set.
''I just wasn't quite myself in the early goings of that match,'' Isner said. ''I was pretty much missing everything. One thing I did do, I compete pretty well and as the match went on I started to play better. That was encouraging.''
So were the 22 aces and his play in the tiebreaker. Isner, 6-9 and 245 pounds, improved to 8-0 in tiebreakers this season. He won his eighth by getting an early minibreak to go up 3-2, smashing a backhand return winner to take a 6-3 lead and winning on a return error by Young.
''When I was up a break in the first, I really would have liked to have held and seen where it would have gone from there,'' Young said. ''I didn't. So we don't know.
''Other than that, the last forehand I missed on match point, if would have made that to deuce it would have been ongoing.''
Had the 22-year-old Young, who had a breakthrough season in 2011 by moving into the top 20 in the world, survived a break, he might have forced a second-set tiebreaker and earned a chance to play a third set.
''But he did what he does well and it was enough to beat me,'' Young said. ''I wish I'd held on there in the first-set tiebreaker, but I didn't. He's rough in a tiebreaker because one loose point from you and he just serves it out.''
In today's quarterfinals, Isner will play a left-hander -- Austria's Jurgen Melzer -- for the third straight match.
''He's got a lot of variety; he's another lefty -- I think I've played every lefty in the draw,'' Isner said. ''He has a deceiving game. He's got a good backhand drop shot and it's really hard to read. He serves well, his groundstrokes are solid. He was top 10 in the world just last year.''
Among those joining Isner and Raonic in the quarterfinals are No. 3 seed Radek Stepanek, who outlasted American Ryan Sweeting, 4-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4), and 2010 RMKC runner-up Sam Querrey.
Querrey, a wild card, advanced to the RMKC quarterfinals for the fifth time in six years with a 7-6(4), 6-4 victory over No. 7 seed Kevin Anderson of South Africa. The hard-serving Querrey, coming back from right elbow surgery last summer, managed only three aces but won 85 percent of his first-serve points.
''Kevin has a huge serve, so on his serve I was just trying to get the ball in play, work the point and see what I could do,'' Querrey said. ''On my serve I was trying to be aggressive. I played a solid tiebreaker and kept my foot on the gas pedal in the second set. I feel real good. It's the best I've played in a while.''
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The cancellations of 'All My Children' and 'One Life to Live' signal the end of an era. A talk show all about food, hosted by Mario Batali and others, will fill the void.
Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 01:48 PM
When I was in high school, ABC's soap lineup ruled my summers. Even when I scored the world's easiest summer babysitting job for an 8-year-old girl who had her best friend over every day, I was able to watch my soaps every day. It was the 1980s, and Luke and Laura, Clint and Vicki, and Jesse and Angie were like close personal friends.
It's been more than 15 years since I've watched any of those shows, so I was shocked when I heard that ABC had cancelled both "All My Children" and "One Life to Live." I didn't know things had gotten so bad in soap land.
But one of the shows slated to replace them has captured my interest. It's called "The Chew." Mario Batali, TLC's "What Not to Wear" co-host Clinton Kelly, Carla Hall from "Top Chef" and Michael Symon of "Iron Chef America" will be some of the revolving hosts on the show that will look at food from every angle.
Go to any soap opera forum, and you'll find that fans are upset, outraged and generally inflamed about the cancelation of all this love in the afternoon — and that they will be replaced with another talk show. They are threatening boycotts and saying not-so-nice things about Batali. (I assume he's getting the brunt of it because he's the most recognizable to non-food show-watching TV viewers.)
I don't watch any daytime TV because I'm working most of the day, but if I can watch "The Chew" in the evening on Hulu or some other online format, I'll be checking it out.
According to The Independent, the show will cover food from every angle, "from health, family rituals, friendship, breaking news, dating, fitness, weight loss, travel and life moments." I'm most interested in seeing how they handle the health, family rituals and friendship areas. I hope they focus on the importance of family dinners.
I'm curious to know what you think about the soaps' cancellation and about this show that will be a replacement.
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AUSTIN, Texas — The Career Services Office at The University of Texas School of Law will host its eighth annual mentor reception, Cocktails & Conversation, on Thursday, Oct. 27, at Austin's Shoreline Grill at 6 p.m. It is an opportunity for law students to network and seek advice from alumni and friends of the Law School about being a practitioner.
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After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, mass hysteria breaks out in Southern California, while the bumbling crew of a Japanese sub searches for Hollywood and an "honorable" target to destroy.
For more about 1941 and the 1941 Blu-ray release, see 1941 Blu-ray Review published by Michael Reuben on October 23, 2014 where this Blu-ray release scored 4.0 out of 5.
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1941 Blu-ray Review
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Reviewed by Michael Reuben, October 23, 2014
1941 is unique in Steven Spielberg's filmography and possibly in the history of movies. Spielberg directed the film, but it isn't really "his". It's like the ball gown in Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty that becomes the object of two stubborn fairies fighting over the color ("Pink!" "Blue!") until their competing spells create something that's a hodgepodge. In the 1996 documentary, "The Making of 1941", co-writer Robert Zemeckis, who was known at the time as one half of "the Two Bobs" for his partnership with Bob Gale, observes that, if he had directed the film, it would have been a dark satire, but that Spielberg wanted to make a screwball comedy. Spielberg himself says that he took on the script because he had nothing else planned after Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and he liked its crazy spirit, even after his friend John Wayne refused a part in the movie and told Spielberg it was "un-American". Meanwhile, co-writer and executive producer John Milius, who was shepherding the project with his new-found clout after the success of The Wind and the Lion, sprinkled his personal brand of anarchic gunpowder over the project wherever he could. The result of these various temperaments who made each other laugh, but didn't necessarily mesh creatively, was a film all of them loved, but the executives at Universal and Columbia (who were co-producing) hated. So did U.S. audiences. In Europe, though, viewers seemed to share the filmmakers' point of viewa point that Spielberg cites with pride in "The Making of 1941", thereby inadvertently sounding like the punchline to a comedy routine. (Maybe that's where Woody Allen got the idea for the conclusion to Hollywood Ending, his film about a director suffering from a psychosomatic case of blindness.) This is not to say that 1941 is a bad movie. It exists in its own self-created world where questions of good and bad no longer apply. When I first saw the film in 1979, I was one of those audience members that Spielberg describes in the documentary, who sat in the theater with their hands covering their ears (and wondering to myself, "Is this a different guy named Spielberg?"). But 1941 has grown on me in the decades since that first encounter, in part because it is so unapologetically juvenile. If you can dial into its wavelength, it's an experience like no other.
(Note: 1941 is included on Blu-ray in both its 119-minute theatrical version and the 146-minute extended cut that first appeared on Universal's 1996 Signature Laserdisc. The longer version restores many individual scenes that are both good in themselves and help connect the film's "plot", to the extent it has one. But the basic story and the major sequences are identical in both versions and the discussion below applies to both.) An opening text crawl informs the viewer that 1941 is set immediately following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, when citizens of the California coast feared (legitimately so) that their cities might be the next target. Now, if that doesn't immediately alert you that this is a film with no respect for the most sacred of cows, Spielberg provides another warning by parodying his own famous opening of Jaws, using the very same actress (Susan Backlinie) who played the shark's first victim. From that point forward, anything goes (a phrase, and Cole Porter song, that Spielberg says in the documentary kept running through his head during production, many years before he used it to open Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom). 1941 switches among several comic focal points that gradually converge. One of them is a stray Japanese submarine that surfaces off the coast of San Francisco and is determined to destroy a major target so that it can return home with honor. Its commander, Mitamura, is played by the legendary Toshiro Mifune, sending up every samurai he's ever portrayed as he barks orders at his fumbling crew and bickers with his condescending Nazi "observer", Capt. von Kleinschmidt, who is played by Christopher Lee speaking fluent German. Deciding that Hollywood would be a suitable target but unsure of the way, Mitamura sends a landing party to kidnap a civilian for directions. When they bring back a farmer named "Hollis Wood" (can you hear the setup?) played by Slim Pickens, Spielberg can't resist a reference to Dr. Strangelove. In their beachfront home in Santa Monica, the Douglas family, Ward and Joan (Ned Beatty and Lorraine Gary, who played Roy Scheider's wife in Jaws), prepare for both Christmas and civil defense. Daughter Betty (Dianne Kay) and her friend Maxine (Wendie Jo Sperber) are attending a USO dance that evening, despite the objections of Betty's boyfriend, Wally (Bobby Di Cicco), who has been practicing his dance steps for months in anticipation of this night. But the dance is now closed to all but servicemen, a development of great satisfaction to a certain Cpl. Sitarski, nicknamed "Stretch" (Treat Williams), who set his sights on Betty when he participated in a crew stowing heavy ordinance at the Douglas home. The rivalry between Wally and the hot-tempered Stretch runs throughout the film, and it is complicated by the fact that Maxine, who is a bulldog in pursuing what she wants, has decided that she wants Stretch for herself. Their four-way chase transforms the USO's jitterbug contest into a carnival of acrobatics, followed by a brawl among servicemen, during which the harried M.C. (Joe Flaherty) provides live radio commentary of increasing desperation. Stretch's unit is commanded by Sgt. Frank Tree (Dan Ackroyd), who hasn't much experience with heavy weaponry, but can recite manuals from memory with machine gun speed. (His real experience is in the motor pool.) Sgt. Tree appears in downtown L.A. commanding a tank, but when he ends up incapacitated by a blow to the head, someone less military takes over, and the tank goes on a wild ride. (I remember realizing, when I first saw the tank burst through the walls of a paint factory and plow through one brightly colored vat after another, that Spielberg was staging these crazy slapstick scenes simply because he could.) Sgt. Tree's unit also contains a racist white private played by John Candy and a won't-take-no-nonsense black private played by Frank McCrae, thereby upping the film's political incorrectness quotient even further. A relative voice of sanity is provided by the commander of the armed forces for Southern California, Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell (Robert Stack), a real historical figure, though not as he's portrayed here. Gen. Stilwell thinks everyone should calm down, especially Col. "Madman" Maddox, who keeps sending in wild reports from his desert base in Barstow about secret Japanese installations in the surrounding hills. The general would rather relax by taking in a show of Walt Disney's Dumbo (it literally brings tears to his eyes), but his assistant, Capt. Loomis Birkhead (Tim Matheson), volunteers to visit Maddox in the desert, mostly because he wants to get the general's comely assistant, Donna Stratton (Nancy Allen), airborne in one of Maddox's planes. Ms. Stratton's particular quirk is that she only gets aroused while flying, and Loomis's plan almost succeeds, except that their flight isn't officially logged, so that the Interceptor Commander for Los Angeles (a cameo by director Sam Fuller) declares it a hostile target. Perhaps the single most memorable character in all of 1941 is John Belushi's Capt. Wild Bill Kelso, called by Gen. Stilwell "the craziest son of a bitch I've ever seen". Swooping in and out of the film, Kelso claims to be tracking a squadron of Japanese "zeros" that always seem to elude himthat is, until he spots the primitive "trainer" in which Loomis Birkhead is desperately trying to seduce Donna Stratton. The result is an aerial battle over the streets of Los Angeles that is one of the finest examples of pre-CGI special effects ever put on film. (The process is discussed at length in the extras.) Its only equal is the sequence immediately following, where Capt. Mitamura's sub finally surfaces near Hollywood and mistakes the ferris wheel near Santa Monica for an "industrial structure", on which it immediately commences firing. The two hapless observers sitting at the top (Murray Hamilton and Eddie Deezen)or three, if you count the ventrilouqist's dummycan only watch in horror. And why roll the ferris wheel down the Santa Monica pier, wrecking both in the process? Because they could.
1941 Blu-ray, Video Quality
1941 was shot by veteran cinematographer William A. Fraker, who discusses the technical challenges of the massive shoot in "The Making of 1941". Probably the single biggest challenge for the film's cinematography was blending live-action footage with miniatures in a manner that looked convincing, a process that Spielberg also addresses in discussing the explosions intended to simulate the impact of the Japanese submarine's artillery shells. Smoke was a critical element in many of the miniature shots, which is one of the reasons why many of 1941's nighttime scenes are filled with fog, smoke and diffusion, all of which creates a challenge for any transfer to video. Previous versions of 1941 have suffered from poorly resolved grain and a variety of artifacts. Universal's 1080p, AVC-encoded Blu-ray of 1941 offers a massive improvement over previous home video presentations, though not without some digital tinkering. The graininess is largely gone. Although grain is certainly visible, more so in some scenes than others, it has been largely tamed by what appears to my eye to be the application of sophisticated de-graining software of the kind now commonly used in digital intermediate suites. Note that I am not talking about the kind of detail stripping that is typically meant by "DNR". The image remains detailed and sharp, except in scenes where it shouldn't be (e.g., the many scenes on the deck of the surfaced Japanese sub, which are shrouded in fog). I did not detect any effort to simulate detail with artificial sharpening, which would most likely have coarsened the grain. Overall, Universal appears to have reined in their past tendency to transform film into video, while still managing to clean up a challenging film for modern tastes. Purists (including myself) may have wished for a more authentically grainy presentation, but this one isn't bad. The colors are superb, ranging from the dingy interiors of the Japanese sub to the eye-popping primaries of the USO dance hall (and everything in between). Solid blacks are essential to the effective presentation of effects man A.D. Flowers' wonderful miniatures, and the disc provides them. Measured by the longer extended cut, Universal has mastered 1941 with an average bitrate of 27.18 Mbps, and it needs all of it. It should be noted that the extended cut has retained the opening disclaimer from the Signature Laserdisc stating that frame jumps may be observed where scenes were reinserted. That was true on the laserdisc, but those jumps appear to have been digitally mended for Blu-ray. Either that, or I was too absorbed in the film. (If anyone spots these, please send me a time mark, and I will update the review.)
1941 Blu-ray, Audio Quality
1941 was released in both stereo and a six-track mix for a 70mm blow-up. The Signature Laserdisc used the stereo mix, but the DVD had a 5.1 mix in Dolby Digital, which is encoded here in lossless DTS-HD MA. I cannot be certain whether this mix was derived from the 70mm version or represents a remix of the stereo, but I suspect the latter, because the additional footage in the extended version would have required a new 5.1 track in any case. The extended version still carries the disclaimer from the Signature Laserdisc cautioning that some lines of dialogue were distorted in the original recording and that sound effects have been "enhanced to take advantage of the improved dynamic range of today's home theater technology". However, the soundtrack of 1941 is so perpetually busy that I doubt that anyone except the original sound team could pick out the differences. Times have changed, though. Viewers accustomed to the sonic assault of, say, a Transformers film will wonder why anyone complained about 1941 when it was released in 1979. The film's 5.1 remix is sufficiently conservative not to attempt to re-route sound effects all around the listening space, where they would no doubt be placed if the film were made today. Nevertheless, the aerial sequences, cannon fire and machine gun used by Sgt. Tree have sufficient punch and bass extension to make themselves felt, especially with contemporary home theater equipment. The dialogue can be slightly hollow and tinny at times, but it's always intelligible. John Williams' score, which has a great martial theme that could almost be taken seriously, has been reproduced with fine fidelity, and it is a critical element in lassoing the onscreen chaos and keeping it from running wild.
1941 Blu-ray, Special Features and Extras
The extras for 1941 were first created for Universal's 1996 "Signature Laserdisc" edition, which was the studio's premium LD series. I do not own the "Collector's Edition" DVD released by Universal in 1999, but it appears from the cover art to have contained nearly all of the extras from the Signature LD. Most of these extras have been ported over to Blu-ray, with several key omissions, notably the isolated music track and substantial portions of what the Signature LD called "The 1941 Archives". As compensation, though, one receives the theatrical cut of the film in addition to its extended cut. The DVD and Signature LD offered only the extended cut.
1941 Blu-ray, Overall Score and Recommendation
How does one score a cult classic like 1941? It's not great art, and it may not even be a great movie, but it marches to the beat of its own crazy drummer in a way that you can't help but admire, even if you decide not to follow it. Universal and Columbia didn't lose money on the project; they just didn't make the bundle they expected from a Steven Spielberg picture. Meanwhile, 1941 lives on. There's something about it, but you never know how people will react. My wife left our screening room after twenty minutes, while I laughed more at the Blu-ray than at any prior viewing. Decide for yourself.
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The Black and Gold faithful have not seen that in a while.
Boston broke its power play funk at 14:08 into the game with its first chance on the man-advantage. The penalty was set up by Mark Recchi who had a point-blank chance on Flames' goaltender Miikka Kiprusoff and was hooked to the ground in the process by Craig Conroy. On the ensuing power play the Bruins cycled from the corner to the blue line where the double Dennis tandem of Seidenberg and Wideman exchanged the puck with Wideman turning it back to Seidenberg in the high slot for a one-time slap shot that had eyes all the way to the back of the net at 14:08.
The strike breaks the Bruins scoreless power play streak at 0-for-22. Their last man-advantage goal was a Marco Sturm second period strike on March 9 against the Maple Leafs.
Tim Thomas got the nod for the Bruins and was solid in the first period in shutting down the Flames 12 shots on goal. The Bruins have the edge in the shot department heading into the second with 14 total on Kiprusoff.
Defenseman Mark Stuart sustained some type of injury to his face in the final minute of the period and skated off the ice straight into the tunnel and the dressing room.
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Obama calls South Africa's president. Was it to talk Zimbabwe?
- By Elizabeth DickinsonElizabeth Dickinson is a Gulf-based Deca journalist. Follow her on Twitter: @dickinsonbeth.
This morning's Times (London) reported that the Obama administration is planning a tougher stance against Zimbabwe's self-ordained president-for-all-time, Robert Mugabe. Then at the White House Daily Press Briefing today, we learned that Obama made a call to the president of South Africa, Kaglema Motlanthe.
Is Obama calling to talk Zimbabwe? Now would be good timing. Just today at a summit in South Africa, Mugabe and the opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai look to have agreed to form their long-awaited unity government.
South Africa — reciever of Zimbabwean refugees and primary economic partner — is really the only country that can put enough pressure on Zimbabwe's Mugabe to make the deal work. So far, the signs haven't been promising. South Africa's former President Thabo Mbeki has muddled through moderating talks since September, favoring his fellow former-anticolonial comrade Mugabe.
Since Mbeki resigned as president and interim leader Motlanthe took over, the odds of South Africa putting on the pressure are even lower. South African elections are pending in just weeks time, and a split within the ruling party has raised the stakes for the first time in that country's history. As Human Rights Watch analyst Tiseke Kasambala recently told me, "there are domestic goings on in South Africa now that will likely take South Africa's eye off the ball."
None of the rumored Africa people from the new administration have returned e-mail messages about Obama-Zimbabwe policy. But my hope is that Mugabe's name came up in the phone call. I would bet more money on that than I would the Zimbabwean currency.
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Exploring the changing reality of our urban and semi-urban household units.
All over the world, the basic unit of society — the family —has undergone tremendous change. The dynamics between family members, the nature of relationships and the problems surrounding the unit have all been transformed. Naturally, such changed situations bring along new, exciting, whacky, even sinister repercussions, which make for an intriguing study in socio-familial dynamics.
Osage County, the Pulitzer and Tony-award winning play by Tracy Letts, explores these aspects in the most engaging way. Lillette Dubey's The Primetime Theatre Company has brought the play to India to showcase the changing reality of our urban and semi-urban family units. Lillette, who has also directed the play, says, "Osage County showcases the pain of every family member in the Weston family, after the patriarch presumably commits suicide. A sinister and devious matriarch, one girl having an affair with her cousin, another trying to fight through a dying marriage, the third one wanting to marry a man old enough to be her father, and a warrior-angel housekeeper... the story flows between these characters to make a searing statement on the degeneration of the modern family system."
Lillette stresses, "While we 'imply' that the setting has been changed from Oklahoma to Goa, the play we have got here is not an adaptation of the original. It is the same play that has been showcased abroad. We have only implied a change in setting to strike a chord with the Indian audience. Nevertheless, irrespective of the setting, the issues surrounding dysfunctional families are the same all over the world. So it is that our play strikes a chord with even audiences from semi-urban belts. I have had people telling me they couldn't sleep for days after seeing the play; that is how much they could identify with the issues showcased. "
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An electrochemical test sensor adapted to assist in determining the concentration of analyte in a fluid sample is disclosed. The sensor comprises a base that assists in forming an opening for introducing the fluid sample, a working electrode being coupled to the base, and a counter electrode being coupled to the base, the counter electrode and the working electrode being adapted to be in electrical communication with a detector of electrical current, and a sub-element being coupled to the base. A major portion of the counter electrode is located downstream relative to the opening and at least a portion of the working electrode. The sub-element is located upstream relative to the working electrode such that when electrical communication occurs between only the sub-element and the working electrode there is insufficient flow of electrical current through the detector to determine the concentration of the analyte in the fluid sample.
1. An electrochemical test sensor adapted to assist in determining the concentration of an analyte in a fluid test sample, the sensor comprising:
a base that assists in forming an opening for introducing the fluid test sample;
a working electrode being coupled to the base;
a counter electrode being coupled to the base, the counter electrode and the working electrode being adapted to be in electrical communication with a detector of electrical current; and
a sub-element being coupled to the base, a major portion of the counter electrode being located downstream relative to the opening and at least a portion of the working electrode, the sub-element being located upstream relative to the working electrode such that when electrical communication occurs between only the sub-element and the working electrode there is insufficient flow of electrical current through the detector to determine the concentration of the analyte in the fluid test sample.
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7. A method of determining whether a sufficient quantity of a fluid test sample has been introduced to an electrochemical test sensor, the method comprising the acts of:
providing the electrochemical test sensor adapted to assist in determining the concentration of an analyte in a fluid test sample, the sensor comprising a base that assists in forming an opening for introducing the fluid test sample, a working electrode being coupled to the base, a counter electrode being coupled to the base, and a sub-element being coupled to the base, a major portion of the counter electrode being located downstream relative to the opening and at least a portion of the working electrode, the sub-element being located upstream relative to the working electrode;
introducing the fluid test sample to the test sensor; and
determining whether a sufficient quantity of the fluid test sample has been introduced to the electrochemical test sensor and, if not, notifying a user that an insufficient quantity of the fluid test sample has been introduced.
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converting the plurality of current measurements into a plurality of error checking parameters; and
comparing the plurality of error checking parameters with their corresponding tolerance ranges.
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This is a Divisional application of co-pending application Ser. No. 09/861,437 filed May 21, 2001, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,841,052 which in turn is a Continuation-In-Part of application Ser. No. 09/731,943 filed Dec. 8, 2000, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,531,040 B2, which is in turn a Continuation-In-Part of application Ser. No. 09/366,269, filed on Aug. 2, 1999, now abandoned.
The present invention relates to an electrochemical biosensor that can be used for the quantitation of a specific component (analyte) in a liquid sample. Electrochemical biosensors of the type under consideration are disclosed in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,120,420 and 5,264,103. These devices have an insulating base upon which carbon electrodes are printed with the electrodes being covered with a reagent layer comprising a hydrophilic polymer in combination with an oxidoreductase specific for the analyte. These patents typically involve a spacer element, a generally U shaped piece and a cover piece, so that when the base, spacer element and cover piece are laminated together, there is created a capillary space containing the electrodes covered by the reagent layer. In addition to the oxidoreductase, there is included an electron acceptor on the reagent layer or in another layer within the capillary space. A hydrophilic polymer, e.g. carboxymethylcellulose, is used to facilitate the drawing of the aqueous test fluid into the capillary space.
In U.S. Pat. No. 5,141,868 there is disclosed another sensor in which the electrodes are contained within a capillary space. This reference describes the method of preparing a sensor by mating the base and cover plates which are adhered to the base to form a capillary space into which a fluid test sample such as blood is drawn. An alternative to this design is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,798,031 in which the sensor is comprised of two pieces, a base and a concave lid which, when fused together, form the capillary space. In either embodiment, working and counter electrodes are screen printed onto the base so that an electrochemically created current can flow when these electrodes are electrically connected and a potential created between them.
These devices have a base plate and lid which are laminated together with the U shaped spacer element in between so that the U shaped portion is open to provide a capillary space between the base and the cover. Touching the opening in the side of the sensor to a drop of test fluid such as blood results in the blood being drawn into the capillary space, so that it covers the reaction layer on the surface of the working electrode. An enzymatic reaction between the oxidoreductase creates a flow of electrons which are carried by a mediator such as ferricyanide to the working electrode and flow through the working electrode to a meter which measures the magnitude of the current flow. The counter electrode serves several purposes. First, it provides a fixed potential against which the working electrode is controlled. Second, for a two electrode system, such as that depicted in
A problem which is sometimes associated with this sort of sensor occurs when an insufficient amount of blood is applied to the opening so that the counter and working electrodes are not completely covered with the sample, resulting in an incomplete current flowing across the electrodes. Since the amount of analyte such as glucose detected by the sensor is directly portional to the current flowing through the detection meter, failure to completely cover the sensor's electrodes can result in an artificially low reading of the blood sample's analyte, e.g., glucose concentration. One technique for dealing with this under filling problem is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,628,890 which involves a mechanism for preventing any response from being detected when the sample volume is too low to provide an accurate reading. This device involves a strip comprising an elongated electrode support defining a sample transfer path for directional flow of the sample from a sample application point. There is placed a working electrode in the sample transfer path and a counter or reference electrode down stream from the working electrode in the sample transfer path. Failure of the blood sample to totally cover the working electrode will result in no response from the reading mechanism due to the absence of a closed circuit through which current can flow. Another technique for detecting short fills is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,582,697 where there is described a third electrode located downstream from the working and counter electrode, so that the circuit between the three electrodes will not be completed in the event of a short fill.
It would be desirable and it is an object of the present invention to provide an electrochemical sensor which affirmatively notifies the user when insufficient sample has contacted the electrodes. Upon receiving such a notice the user knows that an accurate reading cannot be obtained and that the sensor should be discarded in favor of a new one.
The present invention is an electrochemical sensor for detecting the concentration of an analyte, e.g. glucose, in a fluid test sample, such as blood. The sensor comprises:
The construction of the electrochemical sensor with which the present invention is concerned is illustrated by
The two parts 39 and 40 of the printed electrode provide the working and counter electrodes necessary for the electrochemical determination of analyte. The electrode ink, which is about 14μ (0.00055″) thick, typically contains electrochemically active carbon. Components of the conductor ink are a mixture of carbon and silver which is chosen to provide a low chemical resistance path between the electrodes and the meter with which they are in operative connection via contact with the conductive pattern at the fish-tail end of the sensor 45. The counter electrode can be comprised of silver/silver chloride although carbon is preferred. The function of the dielectric pattern is to insulate the electrodes from the fluid test sample except in a defined area near the center of the electrode pattern to enhance the reproducibility of the meter reading. A defined area is important in this type of electrochemical determination because the measured current is dependent both on the concentration of the analyte and the area of the reaction layer which is exposed to the analyte containing test sample. A typical dielectric layer 42 comprises a UV cured acrylate modified polymethane which is about 10μ (0.0004″) thick. The lid 46 which provides a concave space 48, and which is typically formed by embossing a flat sheet of deformable material, is punctured to provide air vent 50 and joined to the base 36 in a sealing operation. The lid and base can be sealed together by sonic welding in which the base and lid are first aligned and then pressed together between a vibratory heat sealing member or horn and a stationary jaw. The horn is shaped such that contact is made only with the flat, non-embossed regions of the lid. Ultrasonic energy from a crystal or other transducer is used to excite vibrations in the metal horn. This mechanical energy is dissipated as heat in the plastic joint allowing the bonding of the thermoplastic materials. The embossed lid and base can also be joined by use of an adhesive material on the underside of the lid. The method of joining the lid and base are more fully described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,798,031 which is incorporated herein by reference.
Suitable materials for the insulating base include polycarbonate, polyethylene terephthalate and dimensionally stable vinyl and acrylic polymers as well as polymer blends such as polycarbonate/polyethylene terephthalate and metal foil structures such as a nylon/aluminum/polyvinyl chloride laminate. The lid is typically fabricated from a deformable polymeric sheet material such as polycarbonate or an embossable grade of polyethylene terephthalate, glycol modified polyethylene terephthalate or a metal foil composition such as an aluminum foil structure. The dielectric layer can be fabricated from an acrylate modified polyurethane which is curable by UV light or moisture or a vinyl polymer which is heat curable.
The construction of a sensor according to the present invention is accomplished according to the following example:
The base stock, typically of polycarbonate, is printed with various inks to form the electrodes 39 and 40 and then overcoated with a dielectric layer 42 in a predetermined pattern designed to leave a desired surface of the electrode exposed to contact by the fluid test sample as it enters the space formed by the mating of lid 46 and base 36. The particular configuration of the dielectric layer 42 as depicted in
A large number of sensors according to the present invention are fabricated from a rolled sheet of polycarbonate which has been unrolled to provide a flat surface. This sheet is referred to as the lid stock since it serves as the source for a multiplicity of lids. There is typically placed a layer of thermoplastic adhesive on the underside of the lidstock after which concave areas 48 (
The present invention introduces the advantage of providing an electrochemical sensor in which the counter and working electrodes can be configured so that in the event of a short fill, the result will be affirmative as opposed to a neutral response, i.e. a failure of the detector to give any signal. Thus, when the amount of test fluid which enters the capillary space is sufficient to cover the sub-element of the counter electrode 40 a, or 40 b in the preferred embodiment, and that portion of the working electrode 39 a which lies upstream from the main portion of the counter electrode 40, the detector will sense the values of error checking parameters derived from multiple current measurements exceeding their tolerance limits if the working electrode is not completely covered with the test fluid. The detector can be connected with the reading means to provide an error signal which will alert the user to the occurrence of a sort fill. The means of error checking are accomplished by algorithmically programming the meter to detect the short fill by measuring the current at a definite time period after the test fluid has electrically connected the sub-element of the counter electrode with the working electrode. The ratio of the currents for the measurements is used to determine if the sensor has filled properly. Thus, a short fill is determined by employing the following steps:
For example, in a sensor system which applied a 0.4 V potential for 10 seconds after a blood sample is applied (known as the burn-off period), opens the circuit (OV potential) for 10 seconds (known as the wait period) and then applies a 0.4 V potential during the 10 second read period; the steps are carried out as follows:
Referring to Step A in the above paragraph, three current measurements are made during the test sequence: 1) at the end of the burn-off period denoted as Ir10; 2) at the 5 second during the read period denoted as Ir5; and 3) at the end of the read period denoted as Ir10.
Then in Step B, two parameters are determined from the three current measurements. These two parameters are used to determine if the sensor's capillary space has filled properly. The first parameter is the Decay factor, which describes the shape of current time course. The second parameter is the Read-to-Burn ratio that characterizes the magnitude of initial current in relation to the final current. The decay factor, k, is defined as:
In Step C, the values of these two parameters are checked against their tolerance limits to determine if a short fill occurred. The tolerance limits are not constant. They change as glucose level changes. The tolerance-limit checking is described as Conditions 1 and 2 below. The criteria for a short fill are either Condition 1 or Condition 2 is true.
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WASHINGTON (AFP) - The FBI and National Security Agency monitored the emails of prominent Muslim-American activists, academics and a political candidate, according to a report co-authored by journalist Glenn Greenwald.
The report appearing in the online news site The Intercept said the surveillance was authorised by a secret intelligence court under procedures intended to locate spies and terrorist suspects. The report, citing documents in an NSA spreadsheet leaked by former contractor Edward Snowden, showed the emails of the individuals, but not their names.
The Intercept said it identified at least five persons, all American citizens, based on their email addresses. They were Faisal Gill, a longtime Republican Party operative and one-time candidate for public office; Asim Ghafoor, an attorney who has represented clients in terrorism-related cases; Hooshang Amirahmadi, an Iranian-American professor at Rutgers University; Agha Saeed, a civil liberties activist and former professor at California State University; and Nihad Awad, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
According to the report by Mr Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain, the spreadsheet shows 7,485 email addresses listed as monitored between 2002 and 2008. Many of the emails appeared to belong to persons suspected of being linked to Al-Qaeda, including Anwar al-Awlaki, the Yemeni-American cleric killed in a 2011 drone strike.
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About 50 miles underground, there is a deep connection between two of Earth's most notable volcanoes, Hawaii's Mauna Loa and Kilauea, that could explain some of their enigmatic behavior.
A new study, led by Rice University, is the first to model paired volcano interactions. It explains how a link in Earth's upper mantle could account for the competition between Kiluea and Mauna Loa for the same deep magma supply. The results of this study, published in the November issue of Nature Geoscience, could also account for their simultaneous "inflation," or bulging upward, during the past decade.
The study, which included scientists from the University of Hawaii, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, is the first to offer a plausible model to explain the opposing long-term eruptive patterns (when one volcano is active the other is quiet). It might also explain the 2003-2007 episode when GPS records show that each bulged notably due to the pressure of rising magma.
"We know both volcanoes are fed by the same hot spot, and over the past decade we've observed simultaneous inflation, which we interpret to be the consequence of increased pressure of the magma source that feeds them," said Helge Gonnermann, assistant professor of Earth science at Rice University. "We also know there are subtle chemical differences in the lava that each erupts, which means each has its own plumbing that draws magma from different locations of this deep source."
"In the GPS records, we first see inflation at Kilauea and then about a half a year later at Mauna Loa," he said. "Our hypothesis is that the pressure is transmitted slowly through a partially molten and thereby porous region of the asthenosphere, which would account for the simultaneous inflation and the lag time in inflation. Because changes in pore pressure are transmitted between both volcanoes at a faster rate than the rate of magma flow within the porous region, this can also explain how both volcanoes are dynamically coupled, while being supplied by different parts of the same source region."
The transmission of pressure through the permeable rock in the asthenosphere, according to Gonnermann, is akin to the processes that cause water and oil to flow through permeable layers of rock in shallower regions of Earth's crust.
"When we fitted the deformation, which tells us how much a volcano inflates and deflates, and the lava eruption rate at Kilauea, we found that our model could simultaneously match the deformation signal recorded over on Mauna Loa," said James Foster, co-author and assistant researcher at the University of Hawaii School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology. "The model also required an increase in the magma supply rate to the deep system that matched very nicely with our interpretations and the increased magma supply suggested by the jump in CO2 emissions that occurred in late 2003."
Located about 22 miles apart in the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the island of Hawaii, Mauna Loa and Kilauea are Earth's largest and most active volcanoes, respectively. They have been actively monitored by scientists at USGS's Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO) since 1912, and are among the most-studied and best-instrumented volcanoes on the planet. Since HVO started observations in 1923, Kilauea has erupted 48 times, with a nearly continuous flank eruption since 1983. In that same time, Mauna Loa has erupted 12 times, most recently in 1984.
"To continue this research, we submitted a proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) earlier this summer to extend our study back in time to cover the last 50 years," Foster said. "We plan to refine the model to include further details of the magma transport within each volcano and also explore how some known prehistoric events and some hypothetical events at one volcano might impact the other. This work should help improve our understanding of volcanic activity of each volcano."
Earth scientists have disagreed about potential links between adjacent volcanoes, according to Gonnermann. He is hopeful, however, that the new model could be useful in studying other volcano pairs like those in Iceland or the Galapagos Islands.
"At this point it is unclear whether Hawaii is unique or whether similar volcano coupling may exist at other locations," Gonnermann said. "Given time and ongoing advances in volcano monitoring, we can test if similar coupling between adjacent volcanoes exists elsewhere."