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The Kingdom Of Darkness
North America, after suffering through a lingering cold, wet spring, is now experiencing a bout of record setting summer heat. Once again, the sizzling summer temperatures are being blamed on global warming. The prophets of climate catastrophe claim to be exposing mankind's folly by shining the light of science on humanity's sins against nature. Perhaps it is time to recall the words of Thomas Hobbs who described the Kingdom of Darkness as "nothing else but a confederacy of deceivers that, to obtain dominion over men in this present world, endeavour, by dark and erroneous doctrines, to extinguish in them the light." With sweltering weather as their cover, minions of the ecological Kingdom of Darkness are again on the march.
As anyone living in the eastern half of the United States can tell you, North America has been suffering a prolong heatwave caused by a nearly stationary dome of high pressure. This has caused many areas to abruptly transition from a soggy spring to a parched summer. As reported on July 22, by Dr. Jeff Masters of the Weather Underground, numerous records have fallen as far north as Maine:
There were plenty of daily records to talk about, but here are some of the noteworthy all-time record high temperatures:
- Newark, NJ: 108° (old record was 105° set in 2001)
- Washington Dulles, DC: 105° (old record was 104° on multiple dates)
- Bridgeport, CT: 103° (ties the old record set in 1957)
- Hartford, CT: 103° (old record was 102° set on multiple dates)
- New Haven, CT: 102° (old record was 101° set in 1926)
Baltimore hit 106°, one degree shy of their all-time high record which was set in 1936. New York City (Central Park) set a daily record of 104°, which was 2 degrees shy of their 106° all-time high record, which was also set in 1936.
So far this summer, seven long held high temperature records have broken or tied. The last summer to set more all-time high records than this year was 2002, which set nine. And the US is not alone. The Hong Kong Observatory reports June as hotter and wetter than usual.
But even across the continental US, conditions have been inconsistent. According to NOAA, while the South had its second warmest and the Southeast its third warmest April-June, the Northwest Region had its coolest such period on record. Meanwhile the UK has been having cool to moderate weather. Here is how the Met Office reported the month of June:
The month began on a fine, warm note, but the weather gradually became more unsettled, with showers and some longer spells of rain. These eased the very dry conditions across parts of eastern England. A short-lived warm spell in the last week gave the highest temperatures of the year so far. Temperatures overall were close to the 1971-2000 average, although somewhat above in East Anglia and other eastern counties of England and somewhat below in Northern Ireland and western Scotland. It was the coolest June across the UK since 2001.
So how are we having "global warming" when on the west coast and across the pond they are having the coolest weather in a decade? The simple answer is, we are not. Of course, this is where the climate experts tell us that local conditions vary and one cool month or year (or decade) does not a trend make. They are right about that, and also right to correct those who point to a cold and snowy winter as not evidence disproving global warming. But notice how they do not contradict the airhead media when they start chanting "global warming" as the mercury rises.
The hand of global warming at work? No, it's just this thing called weather. Again according to NOAA, a persistent pattern during the spring (March-May) brought the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rockies frequent storm systems and invasions of cold air. In the South, storm systems repeatedly developed in the mid-Mississippi Valley, just a few hundred miles from the drought-stricken Southern Plains, then raced northeastward. Drought intensified in the South, while much of the Northeast, Ohio Valley, and Northwest were subjected to historic or near-historic wetness. Now the same mechanisms are driving the shift to hot, dry conditions:
The equatorial Pacific was in an ENSO-neutral state, which means the La Niña has officially ended even though atmospheric circulation anomalies still reflected some aspects of La Niña. The Pacific/North American (PNA) pattern was also neutral and thus not a significant player in the nation's weather this month. But two other large-scale atmospheric circulation drivers were influential during June 2011. The first was the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) pattern, which was negative for most of the month. A negative NAO this time of year (summer, represented by July on the NAO teleconnection maps) is typically associated with warmer-than-normal temperatures and drier-than-normal conditions in the southern Plains and Southeast, cooler-than-normal weather in the Northwest and northern Plains, and wetter-than-normal conditions in the northern Plains and Midwest.
In Europe, A positive NAO implies westerly winds that bring cool summers, mild winters and frequent rain. If the NAO is negative, temperatures are more extreme in both summer and winter, leading to heatwaves, deep freezes and reduced rainfall. The graph below shows the recent trend in the NAO, as calculated by NOAA.
The daily NAO index for the past 120 days.
A second atmospheric pattern that affects Northern Hemisphere weather is the Arctic Oscillation (AO), which was slightly negative for most of the month of June. A negative AO this time of year (April-June) is typically associated with coolness in the northern Plains and Great Lakes to Northeast, dryness in the Southeast to Northeast and coastal Northwest, and anomalous wetness in northern California and the northern Plains. In Europe, a negative AO compounds the effect of the NAO by driving even more cold air south, contributing to cold winter weather.
In a 2010 paper, "Data Analysis of Recent Warming Pattern in the Arctic", Ohashu and Tanaka stated, "variability of the global atmosphere, it is shown that both of decadal variabilities before and after 1989 in the Arctic can be mostly explained by the natural variability of the AO not by the external response due to the human activity".
The effect of positive AO (left) and negative AO (right).
Note that these patterns have been suspected for over 100 years. Before rising atmospheric CO2 levels were noticed—and well before the current global warming scare was invented—these natural features of Earth's climate system were at work, changing the weather in multi-year and multi-decadal cycles. Yet for some reason, news organizations are once again giving credence to the shrill warnings of the climate catastrophists. Even Al Gore has slithered out from whatever rock he's been hiding under to fire off a broadside at deniers, right wing reactionaries and Fox News.
Legions of climate change true believers are again marching forth, waving the output of bogus computer models and claiming to have divined the future. Truly, the Kingdom of Darkness is again rising. But things may not be as bleak as they seem, for there is some evidence that predictions of ecological doom and destruction may be counter productive.
In an experiment by social psychologists Robb Willer and Matthew Feinberg of the University of California, Berkeley, students were tested for their political attitudes, skepticism about global warming, and level of belief in whether the world is just. Results showed that those who read positive messages were more open to believing in the existence of global warming and had more faith in science's ability to solve the problem, than those exposed to doomsday messages, who became more skeptical about global warming.
In a second experiment, the researchers studied whether increasing belief in a just world also increased skepticism about global warming. "Our study indicates that the potentially devastating consequences of global warming threaten people's fundamental tendency to see the world as safe, stable and fair. As a result, people may respond by discounting evidence for global warming," said Willer in a UC Berkeley press release.
Does ecological doom lie in our future?
"The scarier the message, the more people who are committed to viewing the world as fundamentally stable and fair are motivated to deny it," agreed Matthew Feinberg, a doctoral student in psychology and coauthor of the study. Overall, the study concludes, "Fear-based appeals, especially when not coupled with a clear solution, can backfire and undermine the intended effects of these messages." Of course, those who look askance at psychology might cynically say this is nothing new—most people ignore bombastic bullshit, whatever its source.
So is the Kingdom of Darkness rising? Are the climate catastrophists, after suffering notable setbacks, now resurgent? Only time will tell. But as I have warned before, they will continue to peddle their pseudo-scientific drivel unless countered by solid scientific skepticism. The best way to do this is to drag their shoddy and inconclusive findings into the light.
Be safe, enjoy the interglacial and stay skeptical.
Rasmussen Poll: 69% Say Scientists Have Falsified Data
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of American Adults shows that 69% say it's at least somewhat likely that some scientists have falsified research data in order to support their own theories and beliefs, including 40% who say this is Very Likely. Twenty-two percent (22%) don't think it's likely some scientists have falsified global warming data, including just six percent (6%) say it's Not At All Likely. Another 10% are undecided.
See http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/e...
Hartford, CT
We need to be very careful when we collect data, as its related specifics are very important.
The temperature monitor at Hartford, CT which showed 103oF is at/in an airport.
The 5 sites in the surrounding area did not go above 99oF that day. So, something looks fishy.
Well, daily peaks occur around 2-3 pm, but this airport site showed a steep spike followed by rapid cooling at 11 am! The 2-3 pm peak was quite a bit lower.
Could it be that a jet plane was making a turn at that end of the runway?
Hmmmm. I would think it's a great possibility.
Temperature readings
Or it could be the well documented heat island effect. In fact, the temperature on or near a large expanse of concrete, like an airport runway, is bound to be higher than a nearby area with more natural covering. This is what makes the whole "record high temperature" game a fools pursuit. Last week it hit 118°F in Little Rock (at the airport, naturally), but that doesn't mean a damned thing in terms of climate change.


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The five stages of PD for teachers
It's unavoidable. When you first start working as an ELT teacher, you're given some kind of training and the truth is that it's so well delivered that you blindly follow everything you've been told to do. After a while, though, you realise that the things that you've been told to do are not as wonderful as you were originally told, or maybe you get a new job and you have a different kind of training. All is fine if you're an open-minded person willing to experiment with different things and taking into account that you have already studied at least a tad about teaching and learning. But what if you're talking about professional development with someone who is not willing to change, or who counters every little thing you say simply by saying, "You're wrong! I've never done that and my lessons work perfectly fine," but these people aren't exactly listening to your point. I've once heard that teachers' egos are enormous, and to a certain extent I agree with that – and teachers who are not in the ELT world have already stated the same thing. Anyway, when being told about professional development, I can't help but wonder the stages these people go through. It might be something like the 5 stages of death, I suppose. Let's see if I got this right, shall we?
Stage 1 – Denial
"Listen, what you're saying is a whole bunch of non-sense" or "if this were true, I'd have heard it by now." These are some common utterances you'll hear from teachers who have a vast 3-month experience in the classroom and who believe they already know what it takes to be a teacher. Another characteristic of teachers in this stage is that they refuse to listen to any new idea and call it just a fad.
Stage 2 – Anger
At this stage, these teachers start realising that they've been mistaken and can't help but think they've been fooled by those who initially trained them. It's quite common for them to blame their practices on their trainer and say that their trainer wasn't good enough, and sometimes ridicule them (a big no-no guys, seriously). Another possible characteristic is being angry at the fact that what they had been doing for ages will have to be changed somehow. "Why did they have to write a new edition of Headway when the old one worked so beautifully? These #&$(@ just want to make us by a new edition because of the money… and now I'll have to redesign all my activities" is likely to be heard from these teachers.
Stage 3 – Bargaining
This is when those teachers start, well, bargaining. They might even concede there are certain things they need to improve, but they'll expect you to acknowledge that they aren't wrong. They will usually say, "All right, I'll try this new thing you have told me to, but you'll see it won't work" or "if I try this and it doesn't work in class, will you then let me teach in my old ways without bothering me?"
Stage 4 – Depression
This usually happens when they realise their new teaching practices are actually helping their learners and they come to terms with the fact they'll have to start studying a bit more, and reflecting a lot more on their practices. Some of these teachers feel guilty about so many things they could have done to help their students for so many years but they didn't. This stage might also show itself after a teacher has been made redundant by someone who actually embraces continuing PD and is keen on sharing and experimenting new ideas in the classroom. It's now that those teachers finally see they had stopped in time and need to do something about it.
Stage 5 – Acceptance
Now your trainees are ready to receive your input. It's now the trainer's responsibility to make sure those who have reached this stage actually see it pays off to learn new things and that these things will help them in their professional career. If the trainer does nothing, then we might end up with a teacher simply becoming more resistant to the idea of PD.
In case you still haven't seen the video "The 5 stages of a giraffe's death", it was an inspiration to this post. What I've been thinking is that we sometimes have got to accept that what we so deeply believe in may as well be wrong, and simply trying to adapt it might just postpone the fact that we will have to deal with the problem sooner or later. I don't think there's a right way for us to teach, but there may be certain things which we need to radically change in our teaching. If you don't accept a revolution is necessary, your old practices will always get in the way.
July 17, 2011 at 11:01 pm
Most of the time I've done workshops, teachers have been very welcoming of the "new" ideas, thankfully. You're right though. Occasionally you'll get that teacher who's been around for a while and dismisses what you have to say as rubbish. They're often the ones that love cassettes and VCRs and will argue anything anyways. I dismiss them as quickly as they dismiss me. Move on.
July 18, 2011 at 1:31 am
Hi Henrick, great post – it's important that we see PD as a process, a journey with twists and turns rather than a sudden arrival in the land of good practice (however that's defined)!
I can't help thinking that the public nature of our job means we adopt coping mechanisms pretty much from the start. The shock of 'being the teacher' – actually, finally being that person we spent so many hours and years with at school – means that we quickly need to locate ourselves emotionally as well as professionally. If we feel threatened on some level, it's natural to become defensive.
And it's even more complicated than that. Teaching is public in the sense that we are 'in front of' our students (and being 'in front' can be one coping mechanism!), but private in the sense that we aren't usually observed by our peers. So our coping mechanisms can fossilise. They are unseen by others (because we adopt quite different behaviours for official observed lessons), and unacknowledged by ourselves – because the coping mechanism has to be unconscious to work!
I'm a great fan of peer observation, and maybe building this into school timetables as a reciprocal and non-judgmental learning process, starting from our earliest days teaching, can help with the PD journey. Maybe without filling in any kind of form, just having a coffee afterwards and chatting. Sitting in, like we do when we read each others' blogs.
July 18, 2011 at 7:05 pm
I worry when teachers are referred to as separate from others involved in education. Teachers represent a wide variety of learning styles and educational backgrounds. Teachers like me who have been in the profession for 25 years have seen trends come and go — we've been "trained" by many, some who had really great information to share, and others who seemed more interested in their own ambition than the mission of educating children. Recently, I sat in a room with over 100 educators to listen to a keynote speaker, Ellin Oliver Keene. The response was overwhelmingly "acceptance" because the educators in the room, teachers and administrators, could see that Keene had done her research, understood schools and wanted to work with teachers to educate students to the best of our ability.
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This is a discussion on Ok - explain this... within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Originally Posted by atctimmy It's easy to sell a lawn mower. To sell a gun to a pawn shop you will need to fill out ...
Sometimes in life you have to stand your ground. It's a hard lesson to learn and even most adults don't get it, but in the end only I can be responsible for my life. If faced with any type of adversity, only I can overcome it. Waiting for someone else to take responsibility is a long fruitless wait.
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quick and simple lawn mowers are simpler to pawn, harder to trace and hence prosecute the thief.....
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You are right about that. My neighborhood organization is well aware of him too. He falls off the wagon and gets a little squirrelly sometimes so I have had to tell him to stay away and not to ring my door bell anymore. I have also told him what would happen if I catch him inside my 6' fenced yard. I don't make it as easy for him to get my cans anymore either. We were told that he was banned from the recycling center for bringing them copper guttering. Theft of copper, aluminum and even entire air conditioning units around here is a big problem. The recycling centers are supposed to report people who bring them large quantities of questionable metal.
As much as I want to help someone who is down and out, the neighborhood organization, that I am a member of, has had to discourage him from coming around here anymore.
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Using multitemporal remote sensing data from 1987 to 2012, this study extracted the coastlines along the Bohai Sea and explored the relationship between coastline change and human activity. Our results indicate that the general pattern of coastline change can be divided into two stages: a slow-change stage (1987 to 2002) and a rapid-change stage (2002 to 2012). The total area of the Bohai Sea decreased by 1593.44 km2 from 1987 to 2012, at an average rate of 63.7km2/year. The total length of coastline along the Bohai Sea increased by 633.7 km at an average rate of 25.3 km/year. The length of natural coastline decreased by 836.2 km at an average rate of 33.4 km/year. The length of artificial coastline increased by 1469.9 km, at an average rate of 58.8 km/year. The artificial coastline composed 27.07% and 74.16% of the total coastline lengths in 1987 and 2012, respectively. The natural coastline was the main coastline type in 1987. However, the natural coastline composed only 25.84% of the total coastline in 2012. The maximum progradation in the Bohai Bay occurred in Caofeidian, where the coastline advanced seaward by ∼19630.33 m, at an average rate of 785.23 m/year. The maximum erosion occurred at the head of the abandoned Diaokou promontories, where the coastline retreated landward by ∼4758.01 m, at an average rate of 190.33 m/year. Possible explanations for the coastline changes along the Bohai Sea include natural factors (e.g., riverine sediment supply and hydrodynamic conditions) and human impacts (e.g., reclamation projects), which can be primarily attributed to anthropogenic activities, coastline type, and rapid changes in the Bohai Sea since 2002. The majority of the coastline changes were caused by land reclamation and the construction of embankments. The effects of tides and waves were relatively minimal.
Longhai Zhu ; Jianzheng Wu ; Zhenqiang Xu ; Yongchen Xu ; Jian Lin, et al."Coastline movement and change along the Bohai Sea from 1987 to 2012", J. Appl. Remote Sens. 8(1), 083585 (Jul 24, 2014). ; http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/1.JRS.8.083585
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RVS4000 loses static IP config once or twice a month
Purchased the RVS4000 in 11/2012 to work behind a NVG512 in (pass thru mode). I'm running firmware version V220.127.116.11. For whatever reason once or twice a month I lose access to the internet. Sometimes it's AT&T fault but other times my RVS4000 dosen't behave well. I finally took screen shots of every screen I configured in the RVS4000 to make it work in my environment. Last night we lost internet access again. Before unplugging everything I looked in the RVS4000 and found that my WAN setup had reverted back to a default Automatic Configuration - DHCP instead of the Static IP that I had previously saved.
It seems that my RVS4000 is losing just that WAN setting (port forwarding and Static IP Mapping data and VPN client data is still intact.
Any hints on what to do next?
Walter, it sounds like the unit may be faulty. If the device is completely locking to the point DHCP stops responding and the router UI is not accessible, sounds like a device lock up.
If you want to debug it further, you can set up an external syslog server to see the why. But frankly, sounds like some bad hardware.
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Re: Replacement Rule with Sqrt in denominator
On 12/3/10 at 5:19 AM, fateman at cs.berkeley.edu (Richard Fateman)
>Anyway, I would rather have the CAS do some simple guessing of what
>I mean, as at least a fair trade for me having to guess what secret
>things will happen in FullSimplify or Integrate or Solve, or ...
>especially as versions change.
I definitely do not want Mathematica to do any guessing as to
what I mean. I very strongly dislike software that behaves in
that manner. This leads to unpredictability and often
significant difficulty in stopping the "guessing" to have
exactly what I inputed executed as I want. Word is a good
example of software that implements this "guessing" which is one
reason I very much dislike Word.
I also see a very significant difference between how replacement
rules operate and changes in things like FullSimplify,
Integrate, Solve ... These functions are not "guessing" as to
what I want. Yes, they involve complex algorithms that may
change from version to version and may mean results change from
version to version. Unlike these functions, operation of
replacement rules is truly easy to predict once you realize the
operate on the FullForm of an expression. There is no ambiguity.
And since replacement is a literal replacement, the behavior is
consistent from version to version.
>Basically, explaining a bug does not make it into a feature,
When an aspect of software works as designed it is inappropriate
to refer to that aspect as a bug. The fact replacement rules
operate on the FullForm of an expression but what is displayed
is not the FullForm does mean inexperienced users of Mathematica
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Armenian Genocide reparations
The issue of Armenian Genocide reparations derives from the Armenian Genocide of 1915 committed by the Ottoman Empire. Henry Theriault, writing in the Armenian Weekly, states these might be of financial, estate or territorial nature, and could cover individual or collective claims as well as those by the Republic of Armenia.[1] It is questioned whether the Republic of Turkey, successor state to the Ottoman Empire, will ever enter the debate,[2] or whether Turkey bears any legal responsibility to make reparations for events that occurred under another state.[3]
Although the Turkish government has previously acknowledged "a massacre, even a crime against humanity", the Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink was in the past charged with "insults to Turkishness" for writing about the incident. In 2003, it introduced a law requiring schools not to use the term "genocide" when teaching the subject.[2] In contrast, Former Secretary of the UN Human Rights Committee, Professor Alfred de Zayas, Geneva School of Diplomacy,[4] stated:
Because of the continuing character of the crime of genocide in factual and legal terms, the remedy of restitution has not been foreclosed by the passage of time. Thus the survivors of the genocide against the Armenians, both individually and collectively, have standing to advance a claim for restitution. This has been also the case with the Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, who have successfully claimed restitution against many States where their property had been confiscated. Whenever possible restitutio in integrum (complete restitution, restoration to the previous condition) should be granted, so as to re-establish the situation that existed before the violation occurred. But where restitutio in integrum is not possible, compensation may be substituted as a remedy.[5]
- 1 Historical background
- 2 Reparation proposals
- 3 The issues of "holding responsible"
- 4 Dealing with the reparations
- 5 Armenian organizations demanding reparations
- 6 Recent developments
- 7 See also
- 8 Notes
Historical background[edit]
The aftermath of the Armenian Genocide[edit]
Apart from the one to one and a half million deaths, Armenians lost all their wealth and property and received neither compensation nor reparations.[6] Businesses and farms were lost, and all schools, churches, hospitals, orphanages, monasteries, and graveyards became Turkish state property.[6] In January 1916, the Ottoman Minister of Commerce and Agriculture issued a decree ordering all financial institutions operating within the empire's borders to turn over Armenian assets to the government.[7] It is recorded that as much as 6 million Turkish gold pounds were seized along with real property, cash, bank deposits, and jewelry.[7] The assets were then funneled to European banks, including Deutsche and Dresdner banks.[7]
After the end of World War I, Genocide survivors tried to return and reclaim their former homes and assets, but were driven out by the Turkish National Movement.[6]
Treaty of Sèvres[edit]
The punishment of the crime of the Armenian massacres, as well as the obligation to make restitution to the survivors were envisaged by the victorious Allies of World War I, and were included in the Peace Treaty of Sèvres, signed by the Ottoman Empire alike. The treaty contained not only a commitment to try Turkish officials for war crimes against the Allied Nationals, but also for crimes committed against subjects of the Ottoman Empire of different ethnic origin, in particular the Armenians, concluded in the texts as crime against humanity.[5] Furthermore, the so-called "Just Ruling of Woodrow Wilson (the US President at that time)" by the Treaty of Sèvres recognized an Armenian state much larger than the current Republic of Armenia by determining its Western borders in the Armenian Highlands and Asia Minor. While it was never ratified, there can be found individuals, historians, organisations, or politicians that share the thoughts of Henry C. Theriault (Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts) specializing in social and political philosophy; he thinks:
...some of its elements retain the force of law and the treaty itself is not superseded by the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. In particular, the fixing of the proper borders of an Armenian state was undertaken pursuant to the treaty and determined by a binding arbitral award. Regardless of whether the treaty was ultimately ratified, the committee process determining the arbitral award was agreed to by the parties to the treaty and, according to international law, the resulting determination has legal force regardless of the ultimate fate of the treaty. This means that, under international law, the "Wilsonian boundaries" are the proper boundaries of the Armenian state that should exist in Asia Minor today.[1]
Treaties of Alexandropol and Kars[edit]
The Treaty of Sèvres was superseded by the Turkish–Armenian War of 1920.[8] The following Treaty of Alexandropol stipulated that Armenia renounce the terms of the Treaty of Sèvres and its associated promises of awarding land from the region of "Western Armenia" to the Republic of Armenia, and declared the Treaty of Sèvres to be null and void.[9] Because of the Soviet invasion of Armenia before the signing of the Treaty of Alexandropol, the Armenian parliament never had the chance to ratify it. The Treaty of Kars replaced the Treaty of Alexandropol in 1921; the newly formed Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic affirmed all of the terms of the previous Treaty of Alexandropol in the new treaty. The Treaty of Kars was ratified in Yerevan in fall 1922 by the unrecognized Soviet and Turkish governments.[10]
After World War II, Stalin attempted to annul the Treaty of Kars and regain the lands ceded to Turkey. The Soviet claims were backed by much of the international Armenian diaspora, as well as the Armenian Revolutionary Federation.[11] Armenian leaders attempted to gather British and American support for the reclamation of eastern Anatolia from Turkey, but Winston Churchill objected to the Soviet and Armenian territorial claims. Likewise, the United States State Department backed Turkey as well, saying, as it had since 1934, that its previous support for Wilsonian Armenia had since expired.[12] The Soviet Union dropped its claims against Turkey after Stalin's death in 1953.[13]
Reparation proposals[edit]
According to the current Foreign Minister of Armenia, Eduard Nalbandyan, Armenia has never issued a declaration regarding land claims since its independence. He also argues that there are legal ways for Armenians to reclaim their lost properties, with or without Turkish recognition of the Armenian Genocide.[14] However, various reparations proposals do exist. The view of Rouben Paul Adalian, Director of the Armenian National Institute in Washington is that, although reparations have never been granted by Turkey, the increasing recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the international community and hence its eventual recognition by Turkey can lay a solid basis for the start of the reparation process.[6]
Many Armenians demand a restoration of the Turkish-Armenian border as demarcated by former United States President Woodrow Wilson in the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres, and a hefty amount of cash reparations.[15] Some demand a land corridor between Armenia and the Black Sea in order to ensure the long-term viability of the Armenian state, while others only want the symbolic inclusion of Mount Ararat in Armenia and a formal apology by Turkey.[15] Ümit Kardaş, a retired Turkish military judge, proposes the unconditional opening of the Turkish-Armenian border, as well as an invitation by the Turkish state to all Armenians living in the diaspora to settle in their ancestral lands in Turkey.[16]
According to a study made by the Armenian Genocide Reparations Study Group (AGRSG), reparations should be made according to the detailed reparations estimate made as part of the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, supplemented by additional calculations for elements not sufficiently covered by the conference's estimation of the material financial losses suffered by Armenians.[1] The report also discusses multiple options regarding land return, from a symbolic return of church and other cultural properties in Turkey to full return of lands as designated in the Treaty of Sèvres. The report includes the very innovative option of allowing Turkey to retain political sovereignty over the lands in question but demilitarizing them and allowing Armenians to join present inhabitants with full political protection and business and residency rights.[1]
The issues of "holding responsible"[edit]
In the sense of responsibility for the Genocide the issue can be separated into 2 major concepts: personal and state.
The issue of personal responsibility and "punishment"[edit]
It is an accepted principle of law, that criminal cases may be brought against living people only. In this scope criminal proceedings of this kind are currently impossible as the perpetrators are already dead. In this regard the possibility of involvement by International Criminal Court (ICC) seems impossible not only because of that, but also that by its regulations it has no retroactive jurisdiction.[3]
This kind of proceeding already took place. The perpetrators were found guilty in the Turkish Courts-Martial of 1919–1920 in War Crimes and Crime against humanity, but the main culprits had been helped to escape and the process was halted because there was no international legal framework at that time. From the Malta exiles taken by the Allied forces headed by Britain that included more than 140 people in the aftermath of World War I, several suspected criminals were never tried. In 1921 some were returned in exchange for British POW. Right after that, most of the detainees were released after negotiations between Britain and the newly formed Ankara government of Ataturk. The trials were halted with the emergence of the Turkish National Movement and afterwards the new Kemalist government pardoned those who were serving their sentences in 1923.
The issue of "punishment" of the responsible state[edit]
In the modern International Law, however, the idea of criminal liability of states is affirmed. This way the Article 19 of the initial draft articles on state responsibility adopted by the International Law Commission (ILC) genocide was listed among the international crimes. Such an assertion opens the way for an international "punishment" of the state to which genocidal acts are attributed. This could be the case with Turkey if it is held responsible for the Armenian Genocide.[3] Despite this in the general frames of this draft the mechanisms, the level of responsibility and other factors are quite vague which explains the final deletion of the word "crime" from the draft of ILC and makes mention of an unclear "serious breach of an obligation arising under a pre-emptory norm of general international law".[3]
According to some, there does not exist a proper mechanism to hold Turkey responsible for the damage caused to Armenians by the genocide. In this scope, according to Professor Richard Hovhannisian's, this kind of process is possible by the consent of the parties, and such an agreement or treaty between Armenia and Turkey does not exist. Neither does the exchange of optional clauses of compulsory jurisdiction in accordance with the International Court of Justice (ICJ). And so there is no institution or court, except for the European Court for Human Rights (ECHR), Turkey could be brought before without its own consent. The latter is an international but not an interstate court. It is established to decide the individual claims against the states on issues of European convention on human rights, which is not helpful in the issue of reparations. Turkey has a current offer to establish an international committee of historians to research and make a decision on the events of 1915.[3]
Dealing with the reparations[edit]
Grounds in International Law[edit]
The United Nations Basic Principles and Guidelines on the Right to Reparation for Victims of Gross Violations of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law provide in part:
Reparation may be claimed individually and where appropriate collectively, by the direct victims of violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, the immediate family, dependants or other persons or groups of persons closely connected with the direct victims.[17]
While current members of Turkish society cannot be blamed morally for the destruction of Armenians, the present-day Turkish Republic, as the successor state to the Ottoman Empire and as beneficiary of the wealth and land expropriations brought forth through the genocide, is responsible for reparations.[1] Professor de Zayas states the following:
The lands, buildings, bank accounts and other property of the Armenian communities in Turkey were systematically confiscated. Should there be no restitution for this act of mass theft, accompanying, as it did, the ultimate crime of genocide?
Pr. de Zayas states that the restitution of confiscated Armenian property remains a continuing State responsibility also because of Turkey's current human rights obligations under international treaty law, particularly the corpus of international human rights law.[5]
Particularly important are Principles 9 and 12 that state that civil claims relating to reparations for gross violations of human rights and international humanitarian law shall not be subject to statutes of limitations (article 9), and that restitution shall be provided to re-establish the situation that existed prior to the violations of human rights or international humanitarian law. The restitution requires, inter alia - return to one's place of residence and restoration of property.[17][18]
For reparations of gross violations of human rights, two other general principles are relevant: the principle of ex injuria non oritur jus (translation: from a wrong no right arises), meaning that no State should be allowed to profit from its own violations of law, and the principle of "unjust enrichment". It is a general principle of law that the criminal cannot keep the fruits of the crime.[19][20]
Current legal mechanisms[edit]
Despite the recent large experience and advance in dealing with similar issues, there are ascertains that the existing legal background provides insufficient mechanisms for the resolution of the subject issue unless mutually agreed on one. There is little doubt that Turkey will join any discussion concerning its responsibility towards the victims .[2] This can also be supplemented with facts that Armenia was inexistent as an independent state at the time of the Genocide and that the victims were mainly the subjects of the Ottoman Empire itself .[3]
Armenian organizations demanding reparations[edit]
Armenian Apostolic Church[edit]
- The Armenian Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia was centered in the city of Sis (modern-day Kozan, Adana in Turkey) since 1295. In 1921, the Ottoman government gave two days for Catholicos Sahak II Khabayan and the Armenian clergy to vacate the area. After a period of uncertainty, in 1930 the Catholicosate relocated to Antelias, Lebanon where it is headquartered to this day.[21] On April 28, 2015 Armenian Church leaders launched legal action before Turkey's Constitutional Court to reclaim the historic headquarters of the Church, which includes the Catholicosate, the monastery and cathedral of St. Sophia.[22] If the lawsuit fails, an appeal is planned at the European Court of Human Rights.[23] The Catholicos of All Armenians, Karekin II has voiced his support and said that the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin in Armenia may take similar steps.[24]
Armenian political parties[edit]
- The Armenian Revolutionary Federation is a political party established in 1890 in Tiflis, Georgia. The ARF possesses the largest number of members from the political parties present in the Armenian diaspora, and is also actively present in the political life of the Republic of Armenia by having representatives in the Parliament and by having participated in the ruling coalition.[25] The party advocates the recognition of the Armenian Genocide, as well as reparations. A section of its program called "General Theory" has recently been adapted to current concepts of socialism, democracy, and rights of self-determination.[26] Among its goals are the international condemnation of the Genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenians, the return of occupied lands in accordance with the Sèvres Treaty, and just reparations to the Armenian nation.[27]
- The Social-Democrat Hunchakian Party, another political party with many adherents in the Armenian diaspora, also supports worldwide recognition of the Armenian Genocide and necessary indemnification, essentially based on territorial rights. It supports the right of the Armenian people to return to their historic homeland as well as their right to self-determination.[28]
- The Armenian Democratic Liberal Party, a third traditional Armenian political party, supports worldwide recognition and also the reparation by Turkey for the goods and assets of Armenians that were taken.[29]
Defunct paramilitary organizations[edit]
- The Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA) was a Marxist-Leninist militant organization, that operated from 1975 to 1986.[30][31] The stated intention of ASALA was "to compel the Turkish government to publicly acknowledge its responsibility for the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915, pay reparations, and cede territory for an Armenian homeland".[32] The territory to be ceded would be the area promised to the Armenians at the never-ratified Treaty of Sèvres in 1920 by US President Woodrow Wilson, "Wilsonian Armenia".[33]
- The Justice Commandos Against Armenian Genocide (JCAG) was another paramilitary organization that operated in various Western nations from 1975 to 1983. It sought the recognition of the Armenian Genocide by the Republic of Turkey and the establishment of an independent Armenia. In order to achieve its aims, it conducted a campaign of assassinations targeting Turkish diplomats around the world.[34] JCAG's activities were concentrated in European and North American countries targeting Turkish interests.[35]
- The Armenian Revolutionary Army (ARA) is another defunct Armenian guerrilla organization that had similar aims. It is claimed that the Armenian Revolutionary Army (ARA) that began operating in 1983, was simply JCAG renamed.[36]
Other organizations[edit]
- The Armenian National Committee of South America (CNA) said that "Turkey must return territories to Armenia, according to the terms issued by the President of the United States Woodrow Wilson", despite the superseding Treaties of Alexandropol and Kars signed by Armenia and Turkey confirming the current borders between the two countries.[37]
- Collectif 2015; In France, a Collective of descendants of the survivors of the Armenian Genocide prepared a demand addressed to the Turkish State.The work is published on www.collectif2015.org website.
Recent developments[edit]
Against financial institutions[edit]
California-based lawyers Brian S. Kabateck, Vartkes Yeghiayan, Mark J. Geragos, and William Shernoff filed a series of lawsuits against American and European financial institutions in order to recover Armenian assets and insurance compensations.
- In July 2004, after California Legislature passed the Armenian Genocide Insurance Act, descendants of Armenian Genocide victims settled a case for about 2400 life insurance policies from New York Life written on Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire.[38] Some of the life insurance policies were written as early as 1875, but were not paid after the Genocide. Around 1916-1918, the Turkish government attempted to recover for the people it had killed with the argument that there are no identifiable heirs to the policy holders, but did not succeed.[38][39] The settlement provided 20 million dollars, of which 11 million was for heirs of the Genocide victims.[38]
- In 2005, the French insurance company AXA was also accused of not paying compensations to the descendants of those who perished during the Armenian Genocide. After a class-action lawsuit, it agreed to pay 17 million dollars to descendants and Armenian philanthropic groups.[40] In March 2010, the company provided life insurance premiums to 1,000 families of descendants of Armenians killed in 1915.[41]
- In 2006, descendants of the Armenian Genocide filed a class action lawsuit against Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank which seeks the recovery of millions of dollars of money and property withheld by the two German banks after the Armenian Genocide.[7] The lawsuit asserts that the banks profited from the 1915 atrocities in order to conceal and prevent the recovery of assets belonging to Armenian families.[7] The banks' cooperation has been limited.[7]
Against the Getty museum[edit]
On June 1, 2010, the Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America has sued the J. Paul Getty Museum to demand the return of seven pages ripped from a sacred Armenian Bible dating back to 1256 as well as damages of 35 million dollars.[42] According to the Western Prelacy, the seven pages were ripped from the Armenian Church's Zeyt'un Gospels during the genocide.[43] The Zeyt'un Gospels were illustrated by Toros Roslin, and the rest of the sacred book is located at the Matenadaran in Yerevan, Armenia.[44] According to the Getty, the museum legally acquired the pages, which is known as the Canon Tables, in 1994 from an anonymous private collector "after a thorough review of their provenance."[44] Michael Bazyler, a Chapman University law professor and member of the plaintiff's legal team, believes this is the first case filed in the United States for the return of cultural or religious objects taken around the time of World War I.[44]
Against the Turkish government and two banks[edit]
On July 29, 2010, Armenian-American lawyers filed a federal lawsuit against the Turkish government, the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey and Ziraat Bankası, seeking compensation for the descendants of Armenians whose property was allegedly seized during the Armenian Genocide. The plaintiffs are Garbis Davouyan of Los Angeles and Hrayr Turabian of Queens. The suit - the first directed against the government of the Republic of Turkey - alleges breach of statutory trust, unjust enrichment, human rights violations and violations of international law.[45] It seeks compensation for land, buildings and businesses allegedly seized from Armenians along with bank deposits and property, including priceless religious and other artifacts, some of which are now kept in museums in the Republic of Turkey. The lawsuit claims more than a million Armenians were killed in forced marches, concentration camps and massacres "perpetrated, assisted and condoned" by Turkish officials and armed forces. Lawyers for the plaintiffs think that records of the properties and profits still exist, and they are seeking an accounting that could reach billions of dollars.[45]
Ankara Conference[edit]
Starting April 24, 2010, a two-day conference entitled "The Armenian Issue: What is to be done and how?", organized by the Ankara Freedom of Thought Initiative, took place in Ankara and was held under tight security measures.[46][47] For the first time in Turkey, subjects such as confiscated Armenian property, reparations, and the challenges of confronting the past and moving forward were discussed.[47] 200 people, mostly Genocide recognition supporters attended the conference.[47] Some of those present were Turkish and Western intellectuals such as Sevan Nishanian of the Istanbul-based Armenian newspaper Agos, Welsh writer-activist Eilan Williams, Worcester State University philosopher Henry Theriault, and author Temel Demirer.[46] As the conference quickly turned into a debate on Armenian Genocide reparations, the latter three supported them, while Nishanian did not.[46][47]
Bill in the Armenian parliament[edit]
On April 26, 2010, a draft resolution submitted to the Armenian National Assembly by the ARF criminalizes the denial of the Armenian Genocide and raises the reparations issue. Key parliamentary forces largely supported the bill. Larisa Alaversyan of the opposition Heritage Party says that the adoption of the bill would create further precedent for Armenia's application to an international court on the issue. The head of Prosperous Armenia's parliamentary faction, Aram Safaryan, as well as Hovhannes Margaryan of the Rule of Law faction similarly supported the initiative.[48]
See also[edit]
- Armenian Genocide
- Armenian Genocide denial
- Armenian Genocide in culture
- Armenian Genocide recognition
- Confiscated Armenian Properties in Turkey
- Reparations Agreement between Israel and West Germany
- Reparations for slavery
- World War I reparations
- 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
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- ^ a b c An Ugly Truth, U.S. News and World Report; Oct 29, 2007
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- ^ Ro'i, Yaacov (1974). From Encroachment to Involvement: A Documentary Study of Soviet Policy in the Middle East, 1945–1973. Transaction Publisher. pp. 106–07.
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- ^ a b "Frequently Asked Questions - Land Reparations for the Turkish Genocide of Armenians". Retrieved 2010-05-24.
- ^ Kardaş, Ümit. "Do We Have to Defend the Actions of CUP?". Keghart.com. Retrieved 2010-05-27.
- ^ a b "QUESTION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF ALL PERSONS SUBJECTED TO ANY FORM OF DETENTION OR IMPRISONMENT". Archived from the original on 2013-05-23.
- ^ Commission on Human Rights, fifty-third session, Doc. E/CN.4/1997/104. Compare with the first report by Professor Theo van Boven C/CH.4/Sub.2/1993/8 of 2 July 1993, section IX, and the second report C/CN.4/Sub.2/1996/7 of 24 May 1996
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- ^ W.M. McGovern, "Homicide and Succession to Property" (1969) 68 Michigan Law Review, p. 65
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- ^ "Cilician See files lawsuit to reclaim Sis Catholicosate from Turkey on April 28". ARMENIAN GENOCIDE CENTENNIAL. Retrieved 2015-05-18.
- ^ Gladstone, Rick (2015-04-23). "Armenian Groups Are Increasingly Focused on Reparations for Genocide". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-05-18.
- ^ "Karekin II Says Etchmiadzin May File Lawsuits for Return of Churches". Asbarez. May 12, 2015. Archived from the original on May 15, 2015. Retrieved 2015-05-18.
- ^ "U.S. Embassy releases study on Armenian-Americans". Archived from the original on 2007-10-11. Retrieved 2006-12-27.
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- ^ "Social Democrat Hunchakian Party". Archived from the original on 6 June 2010. Retrieved 2010-05-17.
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- ^ Pitman, Paul M. Turkey: A Country Study. Washington D.C.: The Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress, 283, 354-355 OCLC 17841957
- ^ Starving Armenians: America and the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1930 and After - Page 166 by Merrill D. Peterson
- ^ Geopolitical and Economic Changes in the Balkan Countries - Page 75 by Nicholas V. Gianaris
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June 2015
Joyce Newton has been the most wonderful daycare provider to my son that I could have ever hoped for. My husband and I still can't believe we were so lucky to have found her. Our son, now 2+, has been going to Joyce since he was 9 months. Joyce cares for a small group of 3-4 kids, ranging between 3 months - 3 years at her beautiful home in the Elmwood neighborhood (Berkeley). Every day at drop off, our son runs into Joyce's home, rarely looking back, eager to play with Joyce and his little buddies. The range of activities provided is incredible - music, art, reading, gardening, dancing, the list goes on - and the result is a happy, well-adjusted little boy.
As you will note in previous posts, Joyce has over 20 years of experience in child care. She is truly an expert.
In August (2015) one space will open up at this wonderful daycare. If you are interested, please call Joyce directly at 510-540-8422.
May 2013
I would like to share this wonderful licensed daycare located in Elmwood, very close to College Ave and Rockridge. My daughter now 2, has been going to Joyce since she was 3 months old. My son also attended 4 years ago.
I learned about Joyce at the recommendation of a friend/co-worker who also sent their daughter and son. Knowing her over 6 years now, we consider Joyce a dear part of our family, who we love and trust completely.
Joyce has over 20 years of experience in early child care and development including a degree in this field. With lots of love, guidance and experience, my daughter has a full day of art activities, reading, music, local ''field trips'', healthy home cooked meals and the daily routines that they need.
I think the biggest testament, is that my son, now in first grade, still runs to Joyce and gives her a big hug every time he sees her.
Currently, she has an opening for a lovely family to join her small group of children. She usually cares for 4-6 children at a time, ages ranging from infants to approx 3 years of age, graduating at Pre-school age.
Please contact Joyce directly to set up a time to meet her and her ''kids''. I am also happy to answer any questions about my experience. Jen
April 2013
Hello- we are considering placing our son in Joyce Newton's family daycare home on Benvenue in Berkeley. We found her through Bananas, and there are no reviews posted on BPN (just one mention of her from someone who did not actually have a child there). Any feedback on your experience would be much appreciated!
So funny, my mom was just talking about her when we were driving through the elmwood last night because I was in Joyce Newton's daycare and she could not remember which street it was on. However, as I am 37, I am not sure how first hand or useful my review would be. Mom has good things to say about her though. anon
Nov. 1998
In regards to Joyce Newton's Family Day Care. I have known Joyce for many years and have first hand knowledge of her home and day care. She is a very nurturing person her home is lovely and full of things for children to do. I haven't had a child of my own placed there (I was too young, her daughter and I were best friends from Jr. High thru college). But my aunt placed both of her children with Joyce and she was quite pleased if you'd like to discuss this further or would like references from former parents feel free to e-mail me. If I recall correctly she was a little pricey but that was my opinion before I had kids. Now I realize that day care is just an expensive business. Kimberli


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Stars forward Jamie Benn was almost the last player selected in Thursday night's NHL All-Star Fantasy Draft, but Boston defenseman Zdeno Chara decided that Benn would be the 37th player selected and not the 38th.
Benn and San Jose's Logan Couture were the last two players left in the draft and it was Chara's decision as to which player would be picked next and which player would be the last one left.
"It's never easy to leave one guy standing, to be the last one," Chara said as he made his selection. "But Jamie really deserves to be picked because he had surgery a couple days ago and he still showed up. That's a big credit to him. So I am picking Dallas Star Jamie Benn."
Couture, as the last player to be picked in the draft, received a car.
"It was a little bit of a win-win there. Get picked or get a car," said Benn. "I'm happy I got picked."
Benn said the experience was fun and a little tense.
"Coming down to the wire it was a little nerve-wracking, but fun at the same time. We're here for a good weekend and I am looking forward to it," Benn said. "I don't think [where you get picked] matters. I think just getting the chance to be at an All-Star game is a pretty good honor. For Zdeno to throw out a shout out there was really nice of him."
Chara had the first overall pick in the draft and selected Detroit's Pavel Datsyuk, meaning Benn will be teammates with one of the players he was looking forward to seeing at the All-Star festivities this weekend.
"Maybe Datsyuk, he's pretty cool. He's a player I like to watch," Benn said when asked earlier this week about the players he was looking forward to skating with in Ottawa. "(Claude) Giroux, (Steven) Stamkos, all the top players in this league are pretty exciting to watch and to get a chance to skate with them is pretty cool."
Giroux and Stamkos will skate for Team Alfredsson, which is captained by Ottawa's Daniel Alfredsson. Alfredsson's first pick and the second overall pick of the draft was his Ottawa teammate, defenseman Erik Karlsson.
The All-Star Skills competition is Saturday and the NHL All-Star Game is Sunday. The selections in Thursday's draft are below.
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CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. - Nine men are accused of providing bogus emissions tests for drivers whose cars couldn't pass the inspection.
Douglas County authorities charged eight of the nine suspects with racketeering charges. Michael Knight, Corey Brown, Paul Spicer, Brent Ooten, Roje Harris, Raymond Mitchell, Duane Brooks and Bello Momodu and Meredith Cromartie all went before Douglas County Chief Magistrate Judge Susan Camp to hear the charges Wednesday.
Most told the judge they had done nothing wrong.
"I haven't done no emissions a day in my life," Brown said.
Department of Natural Resources Environmental Protection Division Officer Todd Binnion told the judge that's not true. Binnion said Tavaris Despinosse, who wasn't in court, set up an emission shop on Bankhead Highway in Douglasville, but it wasn't open to the public.
The officer said the defendants would send Despinosse vehicle information for people who couldn't pass emissions inspections. Binnion said Despinosse would then perform an emission test on a car that could pass and send that information in for the failing car. He said the defendants would charge approximately $125 for the fake inspections.
Knight told the judge he was an emissions inspector but his identification information had gotten into the wrong hands.
"My number was stolen, and I told them that when I turned it in," Knight said. "I never did an emissions test in my entire life."
Spicer said he would point people who needed help with their test to other people but said he never profited from that and wasn't trying to do anything wrong.
"I'm not understanding what it is that they really saying I did that was a crime, like he's contending it was some John Gotti or Gambino stuff," Spicer said.
The judge denied bond for most of the men because of their criminal histories.
Prosecutors said Fulton County authorities are also investigating some of the men involved in the case for fraudulent emissions inspections there.


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The UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is considering the ban of inorganic phosphates in domestic laundry cleaning products (DLCPs) and is soliciting comments about it since October 22 up until January 21, 2010.
According to DEFRA, a regulatory ban is needed to reduce phosphorus pollution in the UK's water system as well as reduce the energy and chemicals used by the water industry to remove phosphorus from sewage effluent. Domestic laundry cleaning products are said to contribute 3-4% of phosphorus pollution load to the freshwater environment in the UK and Wales.
The plan is to ban on sales of all DLCPs containing more than 0.4% phosphorus by 2015. Estimated costs of the ban, which will affect manufacturers and their customers who will bear the costs of the change, are around £5-8 million/year ($8-13m/year) within 15-year period and a one time cost of £10-15 million for the transition.
Water companies, however, will be able to save a total cost (in 15-year time frame) of around £59-123 million. There is of course the environmental benefits of not having phosphorus in the water system, according to DEFRA.
The group estimates 41,600 tonnes of phosphorus is discharged to England, Wales and Scotland's water environment each year. DEFRA estimates phosphates from household products account for 61% of the phosphorus discharged; 28% from agriculture; 5% from industry and 6% from other sources.
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Tracking the Evolution of Fenestration
May 1, 2013
COLUMN : Industry Watch | Design & Performance
Today's windows, doors and skylights bear little resemblance to those of yesteryear. Materials technology, designs, standards, testing protocols and installation requirements have continued to evolve, providing consumers with greater performance and aesthetic options at more
price points.
The old double-glazed window pane has moved well beyond a simple unit consisting of two lites of glass with "dead air" space in between. Now, windows incorporate inert gas such as argon or krypton and low-emissivity glass. Today's advanced triple-silver, spectrally-selective
low-E coatings effectively filter out 40 percent to 70 percent of heat normally transmitted through insulated glazing, while still allowing visible light transmission. In addition, warm-edge insulating glass spacers use insulating materials such as PVC foam to increase the inside edge temperature by 10 degrees Fahrenheit or more compared to traditional metal spacers under the same conditions, resulting in less overall heat loss.
In addition to advanced thermal performance, today's windows offer impact resistance for use in hurricane-and tornado-prone areas where wind-borne debris poses a threat; blast resistance for government, financial or military installations; and sound transmission for buildings in
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A key development over the past decade has been the greater attention paid to installation details that preserve the products' thermal performance, and prevent air and water leaks. Such details include the use of materials such as expanding aerosol foams for filling and sealing gaps.
They also include the installation practices themselves. In regards to the latter, AAMA has developed standard practices and training programs to help ensure installations are done properly. The InstallationMasters program, developed by AAMA and endorsed by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institute of Building Sciences—and which addresses the Energy Star program's desire for installer qualification—trains, qualifies and certifies installation contractors as competent in industry-accepted installation practices that include proper anchoring, sealing and flashing.
Performance Labels
Today's homeowners are now more likely to base their buying decisions on products' informational labels, such as the AAMA Gold Label Certification, thermal performance figures or an Energy Star designation. A certification label verifies conformance with standards for the products advertised performance level. The strictly controlled AAMA Gold Label offers visual evidence that the product meets the basic performance-based, material-neutral North American Fenestration Standard for structural capacity, air leakage and water penetration. National Fenestration Rating Council rating labels, recognized by the DOE and the Energy Star program, display the parameters that define thermal performance: U-factor, solar heat gain coefficient and visible transmittance.
Product certification and labeling promotes good production practices for those in the manufacturing industry while rewarding the efforts of the smart consumer. And it's not just the product that has changed. The consumer has changed as well. Today's customers do their homework and ask more informed, detailed questions. Manufacturers should welcome this, as it provides the opportunity to prove their cases to an objective and knowledgeable audience.