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Whether you feel that Season 6 of American Horror Story was a return to form or whether you think Roanoke jumped the shark completely, it's hard to deny that people are talking about the show more than ever.
Despite all of this attention though, there's still plenty that fans of American Horror Story have been kept in the dark — or mist — about, including these 18 little-known facts that will forever change the way you look at Roanoke.
Kind of like this messed up video of American Horror Story then:
1. Six Machine
Among all of the misdirects Murphy threw our way before the theme of Season 6 was finally revealed, one thing that remained constant was his use of the number six in the marketing campaign. It may come as no surprise, then, that precisely six weeks, six days and six hours before Roanoke premiered, American Horror Story's marketing team released six promos.
- 'American Horror Story' Season 6 Theme Has Finally Been Revealed, But Which Teaser Was The Genuine One?
2. Croatoan!
While everyone was busy trying to decipher which teaser contained the genuine theme for Season 6, TMZ leaked set pictures of a tree that had the word 'Croatoan' carved into its side, revealing the Roanoke theme months earlier than was planned.
3. Roanoke House Is Basically Murder House?
The word 'Croatoan' has appeared previously on the show, way back in Season 1, when Billie Dean Howard recounted the story of the Roanoke people. This link is not accidental, as Murphy has since revealed that the premise for Season 6 was proposed as an idea before Murder House was eventually chosen.
4. Shorter Seasons Mean More Seasons
While fans may have been disappointed to learn that Roanoke would only last for ten episodes, instead of the usual twelve or thirteen, it turns out that Murphy made this decision so that he could produce two seasons this year, one of which could develop into the highly anticipated Murder House/Coven crossover.
5. Changing Of The Guard
Airing a month earlier than usual, Chapter 1 of Roanoke was the first season premiere directed by someone other than Ryan Murphy. Instead, the show's co-creator wrote the episode in conjunction with Brad Fulchuk, while the directorial reigns were handed over to Bradley Buecker.
6. Favoritism?
Despite only appearing in two or three episodes, Evan Peters, Cheyenne Jackson and Wes Bentley are credited as part of the main cast in Roanoke, while Adina Porter is only listed as a guest — even though she plays one of the most important characters.
7. Old School
Out of the shows many recurring cast members, only three actors have appeared in all six seasons of American Horror Story so far; Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson, and Lily Rabe. What's even more impressive is that Peters is the only one of the three to be credited as a main cast member in every appearance.
8. Paulson's Out Of Luck
For the first four seasons of American Horror Story, Sarah Paulson's characters always survived to the bitter end. That all changed when Hypodermic Sally died in Hotel, although she technically lived on as a ghost. Paulson's character Audrey came excruciatingly close to being our final girl on Roanoke, before being killed moments before the credits rolled in 'Chapter Nine'.
- Shelby Just Did A 'Negan'! So Why's Everyone Mad At 'The Walking Dead' And Not 'American Horror Story'?
9. Girl Power
Despite all of the impressive female talent showcased in front of the camera, Chapter 3 of Roanoke was the first American Horror Story episode with a female director behind the lens. Before Roanoke, Jennifer Chambers Lynch also directed episodes of Quantico and Teen Wolf, although it's safe to say that neither would prepare her for the gruesome nature of American Horror Story.
10. Girl Power x2
Not only does Angela Bassett kick ass as Monet Tumusiime in Roanoke, but she also took a hand at directing this season, helming the mind-bending Chapter Six. While this marks Bassett's directorial debut on the show, the award-winning actress previously directed the Whitney Houston biopic, Whitney, and also helmed a segment for a National Geographic docu-series too.
11. Think American Horror Story Was Strange Before?
Angela Bassett played Cuba Gooding, Jr.'s sister in Roanoke, but did you know that twenty-five years earlier, she played his mother in Boyz N The Hood? The real question is whether Bassett is using Marie Laveau's voodoo potions to retain her youth, or whether she's just using an impressive amount of moisturiser. That's something that we may never know the answer to.
12. Acting Royalty
When one thinks of Charlie Chaplin's acting legacy, American Horror Story probably isn't the first show that comes to mind, but it turns out that one of the hillbillys, Cain Polk, is actually played by the legends grandson, Orson Chaplin.
Check out some of the real life serial killers that inspired American Horror Story in the clip below:
13. This Little Piggy Went To Roanoke...
Roanoke's Piggy Man may look familiar to die-hard fans who first saw the creepy killer way back in Season 1. While no explicit link was made to Roanoke at the time, psychiatrist Ben Harmon dealt with a patient called Derrick who was terrified by the folktale of the Piggy Man.
14. Always Pay For Health Insurance
The scariest thing about Roanoke's killer nurses is that they're based on actual people. Their real-life counterparts, Gwendolyn Graham and Cathy Wood, were convicted for the murder of 5 elderly patients at the Alpine Manor Nursing Home back in the 1980s. While some of the details were changed, these killers used their victims initials to spell out M-U-R-D-E, just like the spirits trapped in the Roanoke house.
15. Lady Gaga Is Supreme
While many fans know by now that Lady Gaga's Scáthach is the original Supreme, pre-dating the Salem coven from Season 3 by a century, what you may not realize is that her name is uncannily similar to another character from Asylum. In Season 2, Frances Conroy played another entity that possessed dark powers who just so happened to be called Shachath, suggesting that there may be some unseen connection between the two.
16. Family Ties
Direct links between Freak Show and Roanoke became apparent when Evan Peters finally arrived in Season 6. The recurring cast member played a man called Edward Philippe Mott, who turns out to be a direct ancestor of the fan-favorite character, Dandy. Finn Wittrock's most iconic character was also directly mentioned by the historical curator when she mentions that the last Mott died in 1952, referring explicitly to the events of Season 4.
17. Even The Actors Were Confused In Roanoke
Sarah Paulson may have won an Emmy this year for her outstanding work in American Crime Story, but even performers of her caliber can have the occasional off day. At one point in Season 6, Paulson's character, Audrey, accidentally calls Shelby by her real name, "Lily", while bandaging her shoulder.
- Sarah Paulson Finally Won An Emmy For Her Sixth Nomination — Here's Why She Should Have Won The Other Five Too
18. Gone, But Not Forgotten
After we meet the 'real-life' actress behind Kathy Bates' Butcher, Agnes reveals that one of her favorite roles was Mary Tyrone in Long Day's Journey Into Night, which just so happened to be the same part that Jessica Lange took on earlier in 2016.
See also:
- 'American Horror Story' Cast: The Evolution Of Every Recurring Actor & Their Best Role To Date
- 'American Horror Story' Season 6: Where Does The Teeth Rain Come From, And Could This Happen In Real Life?
- 25 'American Horror Story' Halloween Costumes That Will Literally Slay You
By memorizing each of these 18 facts, you'll be the envy of all your friends and will win every American Horror Story pub quiz with ease, decimating the competition with your encyclopaedic knowledge of all things Roanoke. That's right, guys. You're welcome.


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At the risk of what some of these self-regarding leaders might consider lese majeste, I'll say that I'm pretty skeptical of these kinds of orders, which should really only apply to people above a certain pay grade, who have extremely sensitive information and whose capture might lead to the loss of tens of thousands of lives. I have in mind people like Ike himself.
I get what you are trying to say.
There was no expectation to take the pill (take your own life).
None, regardless of religious affiliation.
About the 80's. . .post-Vietnam the code of conduct was revised to allow you to resist to the best of your ability. . .that is all. Too many guys suffered horribly during Vietnam as they resisted to the point of death or crippling. The US changed the code so that honorable men would not be placed in that situation, to allow them to walk the resistance path but yet, not die and if broken, not be considered a failure. You were trained to resist until you could resist no more.
No one was expected to die.
Even in the 1980s there were units that felt that some missions might call for it, for instance certain deep penetration LRS operations during the Cold War could call for it if the mission was important enough, such as a last ditch eyes on mission to determine if NATO needed to go nuclear.
It was a constant subject of discussion of what to do with a team member if he couldn't be left behind alive and the mission had to be completed regardless of the cost.
Another constant subject of the two that dominated discussions in units like that, is what do you do if a cute little East German child stumbles across your team and the mission is just beginning, and must be completed (which is normally the case if you are already 300 miles inside the Soviet Union knowing that the GRU and KGB has hunter/killer teams that look for people like you and Army command or even the President is waiting for your information).
Exposure kills the mission and the team, a team member being taken alive kills the mission and the team because he will be turned over to professionals who need the information he has to immediately kill the team and their mission, it probably wouldn't be a long term imprisonment that he is facing, but a concentrated effort of interrogation focused on information of immediate need and urgency, it is doubtful that POW rules would apply in such a case.

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text: Overview -- Standard & Poor's Ratings Services assigned its 'A-' ratings to Israel-based generic drug giant Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.'s (A-/Stable/--) proposed issue of senior unsecured notes through subsidiaries Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Company B.V. (notes due 2022) and Teva Pharmaceutical Finance IV, LLC (2020). These issues will be unconditionally guaranteed by parent Teva. Proceeds will be used to refinance near-term maturities and general corporate purposes. -- The refinancing does not affect credit protection measures and lengthens maturities, prompting a revision in our liquidity assessment to "strong". -- We affirmed our 'A-' corporate credit rating on the company. -- Our stable rating outlook reflects Teva's renewed focus on margin enhancement and commitment to a financial policy consistent with a 'modest' financial risk profile. Rating Action On Dec. 13, 2012, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services affirmed its 'A-' corporate credit rating on Israel-based Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Inc., and assigned its 'A-' ratings to the proposed issue of senior unsecured notes through subsidiaries Teva Pharmaceutical Finance Company B.V. (notes due 2022) and Teva Pharmaceutical Finance IV, LLC (2020). These issues will be unconditionally guaranteed by parent Teva. We also affirmed the preliminary 'A-' senior and 'BBB+' subordinated ratings on Teva's shelf registration securities. Rationale The ratings on Israel-based Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. reflect Standard & Poor's Ratings Services' view that Teva's leading position in the fast-growing global market for generic drugs supports a "strong" business risk profile. Our "modest" financial risk profile incorporates the expectation that Teva will continue to use its considerable cash flow to maintain credit measures consistent with a modest financial risk profile. Teva is the world's largest generic pharmaceutical company, and has a significant presence in branded drugs. However, we now expect Teva's revenues will reach a plateau in 2012 and 2013, based upon a slackening of sales. Organic growth in the company's generic drug business is becoming more sluggish on the large sales base; the year-to-year increase in generic drug revenues in the latest quarter was only 0.2%. In the branded segment, Teva's Copaxone treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) faces new competition that dims its prospects, and comparisons early in 2013 will be handicapped by the loss of patent protection for Provigil last April. Margins may benefit from efforts over the next five years to gain up to $2 billion in operating economies, and we expect gross margins of around 60% that compare favorably to those of other generic companies due to Teva's proprietary drug portfolio. We do not expect any significant near-term debt-financed acquisitions. Key factors we consider in our view of Teva's strong business risk profile include a diverse generic portfolio complemented by sizable proprietary drug offerings, an industry-leading product pipeline, and, on the negative side, potential competition to its high-margin proprietary multiple sclerosis (MS) drug Copaxone. The company's relatively profitable proprietary pharmaceutical franchises also benefit, but to a much lesser extent, from its offering of oncology, respiratory and women's health products. The company's active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) business provides significant vertical integration to its pharmaceutical production. We believe Teva will focus on building the profitability of its current portfolio rather than emphasizing rapid growth. As highlighted by the 2011 $6.8 billion all-cash acquisition of Cephalon Inc., Teva has used sizable acquisitions to more than double revenues over the past five years. Teva continues to be very profitable, with adjusted EBITDA margins of 30%, but expects that by focusing on improving purchasing, inventory management, and other efficiencies, it can gain up to $2 billion in savings within five years. While there will be costs in achieving this goal, we expect a net benefit within a few years. Despite the frequent use of debt financing for acquisitions, Teva uses its sizable discretionary cash flows to rapidly repay debt and support a modest financial risk profile. With the acquisition of Cephalon, leverage rose to 2.7x from 1.6x as of Dec. 31, 2011; nine months later, it has fallen to 2.1x on a mixture of EBITDA growth and more than $700 million in debt repayment. Discretionarycash flow (after capital spending and dividends) of some $2.5 billion provides the capacity to further repay debt. Even with our estimate of flat growth and margins, we expect Teva to reduce leverage to about 2x by year-end 2013. Liquidity The most recent refinancing of near term maturities has prompted a revision of our liquidity assessment to "strong" from "adequate". We expect sources of cash to exceed mandatory uses of cash over the next two to three years. Relevant aspects of Teva's liquidity are: -- We expect liquidity sources to exceed uses by at least 1.5x over the next two years. -- Even if EBITDA declines by 30%, we expect liquidity sources to continue exceeding uses. -- Teva has well-established, solid relationships with banks, and a generally high standing in the credit markets. -- With ample cash balance and solid relationships with banks, we believe Teva can absorb, without refinancing, any high-impact, low-probability events. -- Sources of liquidity as of Sept. 30, 2012, included cash and short-term investments of $1.4 billion. Additional sources of funding include a syndicated revolving credit agreement of $2.5 billion. -- Capital spending needs are small relative to operating cash flow as are dividends. -- The new debt issuance will repay existing debt and eliminate most maturities through 2014. Outlook Our rating outlook on Teva is stable. Its moderating revenue growth and renewed focus on margin enhancement are consistent with our strong business risk assessment, and Teva's commitment to a modest financial risk profile is an important support for the rating. Significant operational setbacks and debt-financed acquisitions, share repurchases or dividends that sustain leverage over 2.5x for more than one year could lead to a downgrade. A rating upgrade is unlikely given the prevalence of threats to Copaxone. 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Recent estimates indicate that the Antarctic sea ice cover is expanding at a statistically significant rate with a magnitude one-third as large as the rapid rate of sea ice retreat in the Arctic. However, during the mid-2000s, with several fewer years in the observational record, the trend in Antarctic sea ice extent was reported to be considerably smaller and statistically indistinguishable from zero. Here, we show that much of the increase in the reported trend occurred due to the previously undocumented effect of a change in the way the satellite sea ice observations are processed for the widely used Bootstrap algorithm data set, rather than a physical increase in the rate of ice advance. Specifically, we find that a change in the intercalibration across a 1991 sensor transition when the data set was reprocessed in 2007 caused a substantial change in the long-term trend. Although our analysis does not definitively identify whether this change introduced an error or removed one, the resulting difference in the trends suggests that a substantial error exists in either the current data set or the version that was used prior to the mid-2000s, and numerous studies that have relied on these observations should be reexamined to determine the sensitivity of their results to this change in the data set. Furthermore, a number of recent studies have investigated physical mechanisms for the observed expansion of the Antarctic sea ice cover. The results of this analysis raise the possibility that much of this expansion may be a spurious artifact of an error in the processing of the satellite observations.
Intense glaciation during the end of Cryogenian time (similar to 635 million years ago) marks the coldest climate state in Earth history - a time when glacial deposits accumulated at low, tropical paleolatitudes. The leading idea to explain these deposits, the snowball Earth hypothesis, predicts globally frozen surface conditions and subfreezing temperatures, with global climate models placing surface temperatures in the tropics between -20 degrees C and -60 degrees C. However, precise paleosurface temperatures based upon geologic constraints have remained elusive and the global severity of the glaciation undetermined. Here we make new geologic observations of tropical periglacial, aeolian and fluvial sedimentary structures formed during the end-Cryogenian, Marinoan glaciation in South Australia; these observations allow us to constrain ancient surface temperatures. We find periglacial sand wedges and associated deformation suggest that ground temperatures were sufficiently warm to allow for ductile deformation of a sandy regolith. The wide range of deformation structures likely indicate the presence of a paleoactive layer that penetrated 2-4 m below the ground surface. These observations, paired with a model of ground temperature forced by solar insolation, constrain the local mean annual surface temperature to within a few degrees of freezing. This temperature constraint matches well with our observations of fluvial deposits, which require temperatures sufficiently warm for surface runoff. Although this estimate coincides with one of the coldest near sea-level tropical temperatures in Earth history, if these structures represent peak Marinaon glacial conditions, they do not support the persistent deep freeze of the snowball Earth hypothesis. Rather, surface temperatures near 0 degrees C allow for regions of seasonal surface melting, atmosphere-ocean coupling and possible tropical refugia for early metazoans. If instead these structures formed during glacial onset or deglaciation, then they have implications for the timescale and character for the transition into or out of a snowball state. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Understanding the causes of recent climatic trends and variability in the high-latitude Southern Hemisphere is hampered by a short instrumental record. Here, we analyse recent atmosphere, surface ocean and sea-ice observations in this region and assess their trends in the context of palaeoclimate records and climate model simulations. Over the 36-year satellite era, significant linear trends in annual mean sea-ice extent, surface temperature and sea-level pressure are superimposed on large interannual to decadal variability. Most observed trends, however, are not unusual when compared with Antarctic palaeoclimate records of the past two centuries. With the exception of the positive trend in the Southern Annular Mode, climate model simulations that include anthropogenic forcing are not compatible with the observed trends. This suggests that natural variability overwhelms the forced response in the observations, but the models may not fully represent this natural variability or may overestimate the magnitude of the forced response.
The seasonal cycle of sea ice variability in the Bering Sea, together with the thermodynamic and dynamic processes that control it, are examined in a fine resolution (1/10°) global coupled ocean/sea-ice model configured in the Community Earth System Model (CESM) framework. The ocean/sea-ice model consists of the Los Alamos National Laboratory Parallel Ocean Program (POP) and the Los Alamos Sea Ice Model (CICE). The model was forced with time-varying reanalysis atmospheric forcing for the time period 1970–1989. This study focuses on the time period 1980–1989. The simulated seasonal-mean fields of sea ice concentration strongly resemble satellite-derived observations, as quantified by root-mean-square errors and pattern correlation coefficients. The sea ice energy budget reveals that the seasonal thermodynamic ice volume changes are dominated by the surface energy flux between the atmosphere and the ice in the northern region and by heat flux from the ocean to the ice along the southern ice edge, especially on the western side. The sea ice force balance analysis shows that sea ice motion is largely associated with wind stress. The force due to divergence of the internal ice stress tensor is large near the land boundaries in the north, and it is small in the central and southern ice-covered region. During winter, which dominates the annual mean, it is found that the simulated sea ice was mainly formed in the northern Bering Sea, with the maximum ice growth rate occurring along the coast due to cold air from northerly winds and ice motion away from the coast. South of St Lawrence Island, winds drive the model sea ice southwestward from the north to the southwestern part of the ice-covered region. Along the ice edge in the western Bering Sea, model sea ice is melted by warm ocean water, which is carried by the simulated Bering Slope Current flowing to the northwest, resulting in the S-shaped asymmetric ice edge. In spring and fall, similar thermodynamic and dynamic patterns occur in the model, but with typically smaller magnitudes and with season-specific geographical and directional differences.
A fine-resolution (1/10°) ocean/sea ice model configured in the Community Earth System Model framework is compared with observations and studied to determine the basin-scale and local balances controlling the variability of sea ice anomalies from the mean seasonal cycle in the Bering Sea for the time period 1980–1989. The model produces variations in total Bering Sea ice area anomalies that are highly correlated with observations. Surface air temperature, which is specified from reanalysis atmospheric forcing, strongly controls the ice volume variability in this simulation. The thermodynamic ice volume change is dominated by surface energy flux via atmosphere-ice sensible heat flux, except near the southern ice edge where it is largely controlled by ocean-ice heat flux. While thermodynamic processes dominate the variations in ice volume in the Bering Sea on the large scale, dynamic processes are important on the local scale near ice margins (both oceanic and land), where dynamic and thermodynamic ice volume changes have opposite signs and nearly cancel each other. Ice motion is generally consistent with winds driving the flow, except near certain straits in the north where ice motion largely follows ocean currents. Two key climate events, strong ice growth with cold air temperature and northerly wind anomalies in February 1984 and weak ice growth with warm air temperature and southerly wind anomalies in February 1989, are studied here in detail. While the processes controlling the ice changes are generally similar to those in other years, these large events help reveal the characteristic spatial patterns of ice growth/melt and transport anomalies.
The response of the monsoonal and annual-mean Hadley circulation to orbital precession is examined in an idealized atmospheric general circulation model with a simplified representation of land surface processes in subtropical latitudes. When perihelion occurs in the summer of a hemisphere with a subtropical continent, changes in the top-of-atmosphere energy balance, together with a poleward shift of the monsoonal circulation boundary, lead to a strengthening of the monsoonal circulation. Spatial variations in surface heat capacity determine whether radiative perturbations are balanced by energy storage or by atmospheric energy fluxes. Although orbital precession does not affect annual-mean insolation, the annual-mean Hadley circulation does respond to orbital precession because its sensitivity to radiative changes varies over the course of the year: the monsoonal circulation in summer is near the angular momentum-conserving limit and responds directly to radiative changes; whereas in winter, the circulation is affected by the momentum fluxes of extratropical eddies and is less sensitive to radiative changes.
The response of the monsoonal and annual-mean Hadley circulation to orbital precession is examined in an idealized atmospheric general circulation model with an aquaplanet slab-ocean lower boundary. Contrary to expectations, the simulated monsoonal Hadley circulation is weaker when perihelion occurs at the summer solstice than when aphelion occurs at the summer solstice. The angular momentum balance and energy balance are examined to understand the mechanisms that produce this result. That the summer with stronger insolation has a weaker circulation is the result of an increase in the atmosphere's energetic stratification, the gross moist stability, which increases more than the amount required to balance the change in atmospheric energy flux divergence necessitated by the change in top-of-atmosphere net radiation. The solstice-season changes result in annual-mean Hadley circulation changes (e.g., changes in circulation strength).
Orbital precession changes the seasonal distribution of insolation at a given latitude but not the annual mean. Hence, the correlation of paleoclimate proxies of annual-mean precipitation with orbital precession implies a nonlinear rectification in the precipitation response to seasonal solar forcing. It has previously been suggested that the relevant nonlinearity is that of the Clausius-Clapeyron relationship. Here it is argued that a different nonlinearity related to moisture advection by the atmospheric circulation is more important. When perihelion changes from one hemisphere's summer solstice to the other's in an idealized aquaplanet atmospheric general circulation model, annual-mean precipitation increases in the hemisphere with the brighter, warmer summer and decreases in the other hemisphere, in qualitative agreement with paleoclimate proxies that indicate such hemispherically antisymmetric climate variations. The rectification mechanism that gives rise to the precipitation changes is identified by decomposing the perturbation water vapor budget into "thermodynamic" and "dynamic" components. Thermodynamic changes (caused by changes in humidity with unchanged winds) dominate the hemispherically antisymmetric annual-mean precipitation response to precession in the absence of land-sea contrasts. The nonlinearity that enables the thermodynamic changes to affect annual-mean precipitation is a nonlinearity of moisture advection that arises because precession-induced seasonal humidity changes correlate with the seasonal cycle in low-level convergence. This interpretation is confirmed using simulations in which the Clausius-Clapeyron relationship is explicitly linearized. The thermodynamic mechanism also operates in simulations with an idealized representation of land, although in these simulations the dynamic component of the precipitation changes is also important, adding to the thermodynamic precipitation changes in some latitudes and offsetting it in others.
The decline of Arctic sea ice has been documented in over 30 y of satellite passive microwave observations. The resulting darkening of the Arctic and its amplification of global warming was hypothesized almost 50 y ago but has yet to be verified with direct observations. This study uses satellite radiation budget measurements along with satellite microwave sea ice data to document the Arctic-wide decrease in planetary albedo and its amplifying effect on the warming. The analysis reveals a striking relationship between planetary albedo and sea ice cover, quantities inferred from two independent satellite instruments. We find that the Arctic planetary albedo has decreased from 0.52 to 0.48 between 1979 and 2011, corresponding to an additional 6.4 +/- 0.9 W/m(2) of solar energy input into the Arctic Ocean region since 1979. Averaged over the globe, this albedo decrease corresponds to a forcing that is 25% as large as that due to the change in CO2 during this period, considerably larger than expectations from models and other less direct recent estimates. Changes in cloudiness appear to play a negligible role in observed Arctic darkening, thus reducing the possibility of Arctic cloud albedo feedbacks mitigating future Arctic warming.
The downward trend in Arctic sea ice extent is one of the most dramatic signals of climate change during recent decades. Comprehensive climate models have struggled to reproduce this trend, typically simulating a slower rate of sea ice retreat than has been observed. However, this bias has been widely noted to have decreased in models participating in phase 5 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) compared with the previous generation of models (CMIP3). Here simulations are examined from both CMIP3 and CMIP5. It is found that simulated historical sea ice trends are influenced by volcanic forcing, which was included in all of the CMIP5 models but in only about half of the CMIP3 models. The volcanic forcing causes temporary simulated cooling in the 1980s and 1990s, which contributes to raising the simulated 1979-2013 global-mean surface temperature trends to values substantially larger than observed. It is shown that this warming bias is accompanied by an enhanced rate of Arctic sea ice retreat and hence a simulated sea ice trend that is closer to the observed value, which is consistent with previous findings of an approximately linear relationship between sea ice extent and global-mean surface temperature. Both generations of climate models are found to simulate Arctic sea ice that is substantially less sensitive to global warming than has been observed. The results imply that much of the difference in Arctic sea ice trends between CMIP3 and CMIP5 occurred because of the inclusion of volcanic forcing, rather than improved sea ice physics or model resolution.
Previous studies have suggested that the global ocean density stratification below approximate to 3000m is approximately set by its direct connection to the Southern Ocean surface density, which in turn is constrained by the atmosphere. Here the role of Southern Ocean surface forcing in glacial-interglacial stratification changes is investigated using a comprehensive climate model and an idealized conceptual model. Southern Ocean surface forcing is found to control the global deep ocean stratification up to approximate to 2000m, which is much shallower than previously thought and contrary to the expectation that the North Atlantic surface forcing should strongly influence the ocean at intermediate depths. We show that this is due to the approximately fixed surface freshwater fluxes, rather than a fixed surface density distribution in the Southern Ocean as was previously assumed. These results suggest that Southern Ocean surface freshwater forcing controls glacial-interglacial stratification changes in much of the deep ocean.
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The biggest name cut was actually Deon Butler, but he was brought in by the new regime and just didn't fit in with the squad at receiver. As for the distancing from the previous era, however, players like tackle/guard Brandyn Dombrowski, center Colin Baxter, and running back Edwin Baker were all shown the door on Monday. Dombrowski actually started some games at left tackle when the team was in a pinch a few years ago, but he never showed much more than capable reserve potential. Baxter was mainly a depth guy at center, but he was moved around last year when the offensive line was ravaged by injuries. Baker was a former 7th round draft choice who never really impressed much at running back and was a surprise to hang on this long.
Regardless of their potential or lack thereof, these players were all mainstays during A.J. Smith's reign as GM of the Bolts. This purge signifies a real turning of the page for the Chargers as an organization as the attempt to forge a new identity under their new front office. Current GM Tom Telesco has made some savvy moves already in his tenure with the team, and hopefully the cleansing continues as the team whittles its roster down to 53 by 6:00 p.m. ET on Saturday.
Guys like fullback Le'Ron McClain along with guards Johnnie Troutman and Steve Schilling are likely to be among the next wave of cuts. Schilling was a former A.J. pick that never really developed, and Troutman just hasn't look good after returning from injury last season. He doesn't really fit in the zone-blocking scheme either as a mauling style of guard. McClain is a veteran in a dying position at fullback that is way overpaid with a $2.5 million cap in 2014. He won't see much action with Ryan Mathews, Danny Woodhead, and Ronnie Brown figuring to carry the load in the backfield and Mike McCoy's offense doesn't figure to feature a fullback much with the Denver Broncos using one less than 10 percent of the time last year.
Cutting the cord with many of A.J.'s former acquisitions will give the locker room a fresh feel for the Chargers as the approach the upcoming season. The Bolts need to get rid of the dead weight on the roster and sort through the youth and potential they have waiting in the wings. Hopefully the first round of cuts is just a sign of things to come as teams narrow their rosters down to 53 this weekend.
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By 1895, Frank Jacob Brown and Thomas Hadley Lewis must have felt that Paris Cox (see Part One here) had steered them down the wrong path when he encouraged fellow Quakers to come and settle on the "staked plains" of West Texas (Llano Estacado) in the late 1870's. This especially after Cox died in 1888 of throat cancer and the disagreements with other non-Quaker settlers in the area – plus the harsh conditions they faced such as grasshoppers and drought.
It's little wonder then that Brown, a buffalo hunter, and Lewis, a college-educated man, felt they were directed by God to settle an area near the Texas coast in Galveston County. Instead of the treeless plains of West Texas they found over fifteen hundred acres of prairie, supplied with plenty of water from nearby Clear, Coward, Mary and Chigger Creeks, and surrounded by dense woods. They called it their "Promised Land".
After striking a deal with a Galveston bank on July 15, 1895, their colony's name, Friendswood, was recorded in the Galveston County courthouse. With the attraction of plenty of water and a more hospitable climate and environment, word soon spread to other Quaker colonies in the northern and midwestern parts of the United States. Soon afterwards almost a dozen additional families had joined the Brown and Lewis families.
In 1900 the coast of Texas was battered with a massive hurricane in September of 1900, and although there was massive destruction and loss of life along the coast, the Friendswood colony survived with no loss of life. Perhaps in an attempt to make "lemonade out of lemons" they turned the downed trees into lumber to construct a building they would use as a church, school and community meeting place.
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In the early 1930's families impacted by the Great Depression came looking for a better life. By the end of the 1930's oil fields were being developed in the area, although until about 1945 the town of Friendswood consisted only of a handful of buildings – a church, school, post office and grocery store – no doctor, bank, police or newspaper. Today the city runs on a multi-million dollar annual budget.
With the passing of more time, the Quaker way of life faded into the background as Houston spread out and families moved into the "burbs". In 1949 a new Friends (Quaker) Church was built to replace the original building that was constructed following the 1900 storm. Today there is very little left of that historic time, save perhaps a few historical markers. Nevertheless, the citizens of Friendswood are proud of their city's heritage and its Quaker foundations.
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Scots enjoy all-night drinking session as voters await referendum result
SCOTLAND woke up to a huge hangover today after both sides in the referendum enjoyed an all-night booze bender.
Pubs stayed open through the early hours in the nerve-jangling build-up to the final result on independence.
Packed bars across Scotland reported a 20% surge in profits.
Many voters held street parties or danced the conga in busy city squares, with bagpipes of course.
Stuart McCluskey, owner of the Devil's Advocate bar in Edinburgh, said: "The referendum has definitely been a spark for more business."
SNP leader Alex Salmond, 59, and Better Together chiefs Gordon Brown, 63, and Alistair Darling, 60, all partied into the early hours.
The turnout was remarkably high with 89% casting their votes in one area. Counting was continuing through the night with the final result expected this morning.
The whole of the UK held its breath ahead of the historic decision.
The Queen watched the nail-biting drama unfold on TV at Balmoral.
She was faced with witnessing a Yes vote breaking-up of her kingdom in the 63rd year of her reign.
She was following the night's events "very, very closely" and would make a statement later today – whatever the result, said her aides.
But in the early hours, it was the No supporters who appeared to be making the most noise.
"After two-and-a-half years of campaigning, four million Scots had their say"
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But the real result was still far from certain. After two-and-a-half years of campaigning, four million Scots had their say.
The final hours were marred by complaints of intimidation.
Tennis star Andy Murray, 27, received death threats after breaking his silence to back Salmond. He tweeted: "Huge day for Scotland today! No campaign negativity last few days totally swayed my view on it. Excited to see the outcome, let's do this."
But one troll, calling himself Sporting Harry, raged: "You f***ing c***. After all the support you got at Wimbledon from the British people, and then you turn around and spew this s***."
Elsewhere, two yobs attacked blind man, 75, as he handed out Better Together campaign leaflets in Glasgow.
Yes supporters daubed "Vote Yes or else" graffiti on a polling station in Balloch, West Dumbartonshire.
A German duke was backed to become the next King of Scotland if the country goes solo. Franz Duke of Bavaria, 81, is descended from James I, who united the thrones in 1603.


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Arrow marks the second time in two albums that Erika Wennerstrom has reinvented her band the Heartless Bastards; after the breakup of the lineup that cut Stairs and Elevators and All This Time, Wennerstrom put together a provisional version of the Bastards to record 2009's The Mountain, a relatively introspective set that found her exploring her country and folk influences. It was after The Mountain was released that a proper new Heartless Bastards came together, and Arrow sounds noticeably different than both previous editions of the group. Arrow is a rock & roll album that hits harder and straighter than The Mountain, but this bunch of Bastards -- Wennerstrom on vocals and guitar, Mark Nathan on guitar, Jesse Ebaugh on bass, and Dave Colvin on drums -- summons a more refined racket than the rough, primal roar of the Bastards Mk. 1. This music is a long way from funky, but Ebaugh and Colvin give this band a sinewy groove that was absent in earlier incarnations, and with Nathan on hand there's a level of guitar heroism that was previously unknown to this band. This group of musicians offers a new range of possibilities to Wennerstrom, and she certainly takes advantage of them, writing lean, Stones-style R&B on "Late in the Night" and "Parted Ways," making with some T. Rex-influenced boogie on "Got to Have Rock and Roll," kicking out some stoner jams on "Down in the Canyon," and letting the band's richer palette of dynamics take the lead on "Marathon" and "The Arrow Killed the Beast." From a musical standpoint, this is the most accomplished, ambitious, and well-crafted music the Heartless Bastards have created to date, but while this album sounds more polished than their previous work (it's still far from slick), the heart and the soul of this music still lies in Wennerstrom's powerful vocals and evocative songwriting. Without ever overplaying, Wennerstrom's vocals encompass a wide range of emotions, from joy to resignation to a determined vigor, and she tells stories about recognizable characters with the care and sense of detail you'd expect from a good short story. Arrow finds the Heartless Bastards working on a broader and more colorful canvas than they have in the past, but the images are still as honest and haunting as ever, and Arrow is a brave and powerful work from an artist who isn't about to give up on her vision, regardless of where it takes her. ~ Mark Deming
Release Date: 26 November 2012
Artist: Heartless Bastards
- 1. Marathon
- 2. Parted Ways
- 3. Got To Have Rock And Roll
- 4. Only For You
- 5. Simple Feeling
- 6. Skin And Bone
- 7. The Arrow And The Beast
- 8. Late In The Night
- 9. Low Low Low
- 10. Down In The Canyon
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