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Archery is an ancient sport that has evolved a number of variations in format. While target archery is the most popular and recognisable modern archery discipline thanks to its inclusion in the Olympic Games, World Archery also recognises a number of other archery disciplines.
Target Archery
Target archery takes place both indoors and outdoors, at distances of up to 90 metres, using the well-known gold, red, blue, black and white target faces. The sport of target archery combines skills of strength, precision and consistency and features in the Olympic Games and the World Games. The World Archery Championships, World Archery Indoor Championships and World Archery Youth Championships are held every two years.
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Para Archery
Para archery competitions, both indoor and outdoor, are target archery events for athletes with impairments that classify them for one of World Archery's para athlete categories: open, W1 and visually impaired. Archery was featured in the first Paralympic Games in 1960 and has been at every one since. The World Archery Para Championships is held every two years.
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Field Archery
Field archery is often compared to golf as athletes shoot a course of targets laid around an open area, often in the countryside, in woods or around mountains and usually at target faces of black and gold. The discipline requires some additional skills, such as the ability to shoot up- and downhill, across slopes and judge distances. Field archery is included in the World Games. The World Archery Field Championships are held every two years.
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3D Archery
Like field archery, 3D archery courses are laid out in open areas, with athletes shooting at different-sized and -shaped foam targets. The World Archery 3D Championships are held every two years.
Flight and Clout Archery
Flight and clout archery are both competed over long distances. In clout archery, athletes shoot at a flag and concentric circles placed in the ground of distances of over 150 metres. Athletes compete in flight archery events to see who can shoot an arrow the furthest. Both disciplines are subject to carefully-applied safety rules.
SkI and run archery
Both ski and run archery combine basic archery with endurance races. Ski archery takes place in similar venues to cross-country skiing while run archery events are held on long-distance running tracks or courses. Athletes stop at stations to shoot at targets, usually at short distance, with basic bows.

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By Bob on Wednesday, October 18, 2017I purchased this 2018 elite odyssey van in late May and I love it. I had been waiting for the 2018 to go on sale for months so I could decide between it, Honda pilot to the Toyota highlander. Boy am I glad I waited. The other vehicles were very nice but the odyssey had so much more room for passengers, golf clubs and luggage on long trips. The ride is great, very quite and handles like a upscale car. My fuel milage has been a combined 23.9 MPG for 6000 miles. Im a senior and the safety features on this Elite makes it a pleasure to drive. My favorite features are the forward collision and blind spot. My only negative is that it takes a while to figure out the infotainment system.
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By Nene on Tuesday, November 19, 2019The transmission doesn't run smooth. It jerks into gear at 11mph and 24 mph. Honda states it is fine no problem.
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By RObert on Tuesday, May 22, 2018Honda has serious quality and reliability issues with this car. Urge any potential buyer to talk to Honda NA about the SW problems. Three months old and 13 trips to the shop. Replaced the Sirius radio antenna, audio mondule, the DVD Player Video Module, and the cargo door controller...all still are not functional. Dealers tell owners that Honda is releasing a SW fix to address all isssues. Has not happended and they cant tell you when it will happen. Honda advised not to use Cabin Watch because it overheats. Display and DVD continue to lock up which requires the dealer to do a hard reset that erases all loaded data. Done three times to date to get the display to come back on. This is a common problem on all 2018 models.
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Chelsea have sacked Roberto Di Matteo just hours after their Champions League defeat to Juventus.
The club have reacted swiftly to the 3-0 loss in Italy which took their hopes of reaching the last 16 out of their hands, and put them at risk of becoming the first holders to fail to reach the subsequent knockout phase. The Blues have also failed to win any of their last four Premier League games, a run which has seen them slip from top to four points behind leaders Manchester City.
"Chelsea Football Club has parted company this morning with manager Roberto Di Matteo," a club statement read. "The team's recent performances and results have not been good enough and the owner and the board felt that a change was necessary now to keep the club moving in the right direction as we head into a vitally important part of the season."
The statement continued: "The club faces a difficult task ahead in qualifying for the knockout stages of the Champions League as well as maintaining a strong challenge for the top of the Premier League while competing in three other cup competitions. Our aim is to remain as competitive as possible and challenge strongly on all fronts.
"The owner and the board would like to thank Roberto for all he has done for the club since taking over in March. Roberto helped guide us to an historic Champions League victory and a seventh FA Cup. We will never forget the huge contribution he has made to this club's history and he will always be welcome at Stamford Bridge.
"The club will be making an announcement shortly regarding a new first team manager."
Immediate attention will turn to whether the club can lure former Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola out of a year-long sabbatical from football.
Guardiola was a reported target for the Blues in the summer despite Di Matteo's Champions League and FA Cup success. He had vowed to take a year's break from the game, but he is likely to be the favourite to succeed Di Matteo on a permanent basis.
Meanwhile, former Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez quickly declared an interest in the vacant position at Stamford Bridge.
When asked by Sport360 if an approach had been made, he said: "You ask directly, I cannot answer directly. In football a lot of people are talking so we will see what happens in the next few days. I am looking for a club that can challenge for trophies and Chelsea is one of these clubs."


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Centerplate: CEO resigns over dog's mistreatment
STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — Sports catering business Centerplate has announced the resignation of its chief executive after video from an elevator security camera posted online shows a man kicking a puppy and yanking its leash.
The Stamford-based company, which caters to several professional sports venues, announced Tuesday the resignation of Desmond Hague, who admitted last week to mistreating the dog. The company said it doesn't condone or overlook animal abuse and the board chairman apologized for any distress caused anyone.
Hague said in a statement that he is "ashamed and deeply embarrassed" by his actions, caught on camera in the elevator of a downtown building in Vancouver, British Columbia. He said he was frustrated at the time. He also apologized.
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The US has unveiled the design of its new embassy in London - a "carbon neutral" glass cube described as a manifestation of the "core beliefs of our democracy - transparency, openness, and equality".
Philadelphia architects KieranTimberlake are at the helm of the £650m project, destined to land in Nine Elms, Wandsworth, in 2017. Embassy staff will up sticks from their current Grosvenor Square abode which is suffering from old age.
Louis Susman, US ambassador to the UK, explained: "We will replace our current embassy, which has become overcrowded, does not meet modern office needs and required security standards - and, after 50 years, is showing signs of wear and tear.
"This effort has special significance in that we are creating a new home and focal point for one of our most cherished and bilateral relationships."
Indeed, KieranTimberlake explains that "visual presence" of the 12-storey diplocube is "that of a beacon that is a respectful icon representing the strength of the US-UK relationship".
Highlights of the visual presence include a landscaped "Embassy Park" surrounding the structure, open to all Londoners. The architects explain that "the embassy grounds will provide the prospect of an open park, a landscape of grasses rising gracefully to the new embassy colonnade, with the required secure boundaries incised into the hillside and out of view".
KieranTimberlake's Strategy Boutique continues: "The spiraling form of the landscape is expressed through grading, walks and plantings in a way that simultaneously opens out to the city beyond and spirals inward as it envelops and then moves up into and through the embassy building. As a choice of form, the spiraling garden is meaningful as it represents connections of site to landscape to building."
Ground-breaking on the site is scheduled for 2013. Adam Namm, acting director of the US government's overseas building operations, said UK sub-contractors would likely benefit from working alongside the main US builder. The UK treasury will not, however, be getting a slice of the action, if the US gets its way.
Namm declared: "We feel we should not be subject to VAT. We've made this view known to Her Majesty's Government."
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Rex W. Tillerson (born March 23, 1952, in Wichita Falls, Texas) is the current Chairman, President, and CEO of Exxon Mobil Corporation, positions previously held by Lee Raymond.
Tillerson graduated from Huntsville (Texas) High School in 1970. He was the recipient of a B.S. from The University of Texas at Austin in civil engineering. During his time at the UT-Austin, he was involved with the Tejas Club, Longhorn Band, and Alpha Phi Omega.. In 2006 he was named a Distinguished Engineering Graduate.
Tillerson joined The Exxon Company, U.S.A., in 1975 as an engineer. He held various positions with Exxon, domestically and internationally. In 1995, he became president of Exxon Yemen Inc. and Esso Exploration and Production Khorat Inc. In 1998, he became a vice president of Exxon Ventures (CIS) and president of Exxon Neftegas Limited with responsibility for Exxon's holdings in Russia and the Caspian Sea. In 1999, with the merger of Exxon and Mobil, he was named Executive Vice President of ExxonMobil Development Company.


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Seeing as how highly prominent Democrats have made it their particular business to persecute proponents of voter ID laws as malicious, racist, and downright stupid — most notably, of course, the Obama Justice Department — they seem strangely less skeptical when they're not the ones benefiting from election fraud. Earlier this year, former Republican Congressman from Michigan Thaddeus McCotter resigned from Congress, citing a "nightmarish" experience and concern for his family, but earlier this month, four of his former staffers were indicted for forging the signatures on petitions to place him on the ballot. The Detroit Free Press now reports that this was apparently a regular thing over the years:
The staff of former U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter evidently had some practice dummying up petitions in order to get their boss on the ballot.
A review of the nominating petitions turned in for McCotter's elections from 2002 through 2012 shows he did not have enough signatures to qualify to run in at least the 2008, 2010 and 2012 elections. The skullduggery wasn't detected until this year, when a part-time staffer for the Secretary of State found that of the more than 1,800 signatures turned in by the McCotter campaign for 2012, only 244 were valid. …
The 2002 and 2004 petitions were relatively clean with few duplicates, but in 2008, at least 67 of the 177 petition pages submitted were either copies or had been doctored by cutting and pasting dates from other documents onto the petitions. …
"It's a real punch in the gut, and I hope that voters out there are really watching and listening," said Natalie Mosher, a Canton Democrat who lost to McCotter in 2010. "I'm angry, because I think the voters of the district got taken for a ride by this guy."
Yes, there is definite reason for outrage here, but as John Fund points out for National Review:
Would that Democrats summoned as much outrage over the long history of voter fraud that has surrounded Michigan elections. In 2005, Detroit city clerk Jackie Currie was removed from office after Detroit mayor Kwame Kirkpatrick won a disputed second term partly on the basis of illegal absentee ballots cast in the names of dead people. Currie's employees were accused of illegally assisting incapacitated people to vote by absentee ballot. Kirkpatrick himself was later forced to resign after being convicted on corruption charges.
This latest debacle is just another reminder that election fraud is a real thing that can take many forms, and that politicians & friends on both sides of the aisle are capable of taking advantage of lax rules. And no, the issue of McCotter's former staff specifically probably isn't something that would have been solved by voter ID laws, but it once again demonstrates the very real possibilities for corruption and deception in our political arena and the need to clamp down on available avenues and opportunities to commit such acts — if it's possible in this capacity, it's not such a stretch that is could be possible in others. This doesn't have to be such a sticking point for partisanship and demagoguery.


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Carpenter makes second Minor League rehab start
ST. LOUIS -- Chris Carpenter threw 74 pitches (49 strikes) over 3 1/3 innings in a rehab start with Triple-A Memphis on Saturday. The outing was Carpenter's second since beginning his maximum 30-day Minor League rehab assignment on Monday.
Oklahoma City, the Triple-A affiliate of the Astros, peppered Carpenter for nine hits and four earned runs. Carpenter walked two and struck out two. He induced only five swing and misses.
The Cardinals, as part of their plan to build Carpenter up to carry the workload of a starter, set a pitch limit of about 75 going into the night. Last Monday, Carpenter threw 54 pitches in a start against Double-A competition.
As long as he has no health setbacks, Carpenter will continue to pitch every five days. With Memphis home through next Thursday, the 38-year-old right-hander will likely make his next rehab start back in Triple-A. He has enough time left on this rehab assignment to make as many as four more starts.
Carpenter began the season sidelined by recurring symptoms from thoracic outlet syndrome. He had to briefly stall his throwing program in June due to a separate back injury, but Carpenter has incurred no setbacks since.


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Dwight Howard is going the be a Laker, and aside from turning the Lakers into serious title contenders, not to mention the kind of superteam that David Stern's moronic lockout was supposed to prevent from ever forming, Howard's arrival in L.A. brings the league to a philosophical crossroads.
We'll get to that in a second. First, let's remember something: David Stern and the owners did everything they could to convince us that their lockout was about restoring competitive balance to the league by restricting player movement and thus the building of superteams. That line of reasoning was always specious and not a little cynical. Superteams come together because of maximum salaries, not despite them. There is a maximum dollar amount that Dwight Howard can make each year, and that dollar amount doesn't approach his value on an open market. If Howard—or any other great player—can't get true value out of his contract, he'll go looking for it in other places: on a great team in a large market, for instance. The max salary limits the very best thing that teams like Orlando have to offer: money.
Los Angeles gamed the system in a way that the Knicks and Clippers weren't able to. Those latter two teams got the unhappy superstars they'd targeted, but there was a hastiness about the transactions that added some semblance of fairness to the deals. The Knicks panicked and gave away far more assets than they needed to in order to acquire Anthony, and the Clippers were eager enough to jump into the L.A. spotlight that they sent Eric Gordon, their second-best player at the time, to the Hornets (who had lost any negotiating leverage they might have had when Stern scotched their first Paul trade, to the Lakers).
Even the formation of the Miami Heat's superteam, with all its premeditation, was not without its share of clumsiness. The Heat are hardly a perfectly constructed NBA team, more the product of certain stars aligning than of cold-eyed longterm calculation.
The Lakers knew better than to panic. They slow-played the Magic into gifting them Dwight Howard. There were any number of times over the course of the offseason that they could have gotten anxious and shipped both Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol out of town to get Howard. But they waited, knowing that the league is tilted in their favor even post-lockout, and eventually got the trade they wanted all along.
The Lakers haven't just constructed a superteam; they've constructed an idealized version of a great NBA ensemble. They have their distributing point guard in Steve Nash; their scoring two-guard in Kobe Bryant; their classic big man in Dwight Howard; and a versatile, do-anything power forward in Pau Gasol. This team may as well have been grown in a lab.
The Lakers now stand athwart everything the Thunder-Heat finals seemed to portend for the NBA: nothing short of a new era, one defined by hybridization and positional flexibility. Guerrilla basketball. Both Oklahoma City and Miami featured players who refused to fit into any particular mold, and yet both teams managed to find ways to unleash the talents of their players by eschewing the conventions of playing style and lineup construction.
That made for great, dynamic basketball, but it wasn't an easy thing to accomplish. The Heat seemed to shrug into and out of different identities every few weeks, and the Thunder spent years carefully and patiently constructing a winning team through the draft and many clever, small-bore acquisitions. The Thunder do not have an ideal roster, but they have one that succeeds because they worked so hard to make it succeed. The future was at hand.
Not anymore. The Lakers have gone and bought themselves a ready-made all-star roster. Dwight Howard will assume his place as fourth-best center in the team's history in L.A., behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (formerly of the Milwaukee Bucks), Wilt Chamberlain (formerly of the Warriors and Sixers), and Shaquille O'Neal (formerly of the Magic). We needed the lockout, according to the NBA, to open the door for more teams like the Thunder. Instead, here come the same old Lakers.


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So, after "AS THE WORLD TURNS Classics" received fantastic reception, we got "GUIDING LIGHT Classics" ready to release ahead of schedule--and even snuck in "Christmas in Oakdale" as a bonus for fans.
We got "The Reva Shayne Collection" ready for release even faster than we had planned, and now, another SoapClassics DVD collection, curated once again by We Love Soaps' Roger Newcomb, is ready to be shared and enjoyed: a 10-episode "CarJack Collection" of AS THE TURNS episodes, featuring the love story of Carly Tenney and Jack Snyder.
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Played by Emmy winners Maura West and Michael Park (currently winning rave reviews in Broadway's "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"), Carly and Jack captured fan's hearts from the very beginning. Their love story has been one of the most requested to be seen again.
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Episode 1: First Kiss. September 19, 1997There are many other exciting things in the works for fans of classic soaps so stay tuned. Keep making your voices heard and showing the world a market exists for this material.
Sexual tension runs high as Carly and Jack share the first of many kisses to come.
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One of the most intense scenes in the history of ATWT as Carly reveals details of her past to Jack.
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Parker is born!
Principal Cast: Maura West, Michael Park, Larry Bryggman and Annie Parisse.
Episode 4: The Compass. July 13, 1999.
At the boathouse, Jack gives Carly a compass so she can always find her way back to him.
Principal Cast: Maura West, Michael Park, Annie Parisse, Kathleen Widdoes, Larry Bryggman, Lesli Kay, Scott DeFreitas, John Loprieno and Keith Coulouris.
Episode 5: The Lie. December 12, 2000
Carly throws Julia's baby stocking into the fire place.
Principal Cast: Maura West, Michael Park, Annie Parisse, Ellen Dolan, Scott Holmes, Martha Byrne, Paul Taylor, Hunt Block, Terri Conn and Paul Leyden.
Episode 6: The Funhouse. April 23, 2002
Carly and Jack are reunited after her return from the spa.
Principal Cast: Maura West, Michael Park, Benjamin Hendrickson, Colleen Zenk, Anthony Herrera, Don Hastings, Tom Eplin, Craig Lawlor, Kristina Sisco and LesliKay.
Episode 7: Worth It All. June 9, 2003
Michael Park sings "Worth It All" in the background and Jack pamper's Carly.
Principal Cast: Maura West, Michael Park, Sara Ramirez, Benjamin Hendrickson, Martha Byrne, Ellen Dolan, Grayson McCouch, Jon Hensley, Jessica Dunphy and Elizabeth Hubbard.
Episode 8: Bringing Back Jack. November 24, 2004
Carly tries to help Jack regain his memory.
Principal Cast: Maura West, Michael Park, Sarah Joy Brown, Jon Hensley, Kathleen Widdoes, Mark Collier, Jennifer Ferrin, Martha Byrne, Jon Hensley and Helen Wagner.
Episode 9: Till Death Us Do Almost Part. September 25, 2007
Jack learns Carly is dying.
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Episode 10: I Really, Really, Do. September 15, 2010
The final wedding.
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After you order a copy of the new DVD at SoapClassics.com, check out a free episode featuring Carly and Jack in the wine cellar from June 1999. We wanted to include this one on the DVD but it was so close in date to the compass episode included (two weeks apart) that it seemed to work better as a teaser. Enjoy!
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Saturday, 31 October 2009
Make Me A Channel of Your Peace
Posted by Amrita at Saturday, October 31, 2009
Labels: Soul Searching/Video
12 Fertilize my soul:
- Felisol said...
Dear amrita,
don't be so hard on yourself.
You certainly are a rare, unselfish Christian Lady.
You are even working for the church and taking care of your mother as well.
When you receive a box of candy, the good God sure think you deserve it.
I'm sure you would have given a needy child a piece if she stood by your side as you ate it.
I think you were so very good to the rickshaw giver, listening to him and sharing money and clothes in the name of Guru Jesus.
You already are a channel of his peace.
From Felisol
- 31 October 2009 at 23:14
- Mel Avila Alarilla said...
A wonderful and great wish for someone to become a channel of peace.
Let us not only pray to become a channel of God's peace but to also become a light of the world and the salt of the so that we can help in the transformation of man through the Gospel message of salvation. Thanks for the post. God bless you always.
- 1 November 2009 at 02:43
- Herrad said...
Hi Amrita,
Came by to say hello and wish you a good weekend.
- 1 November 2009 at 04:52
- Olde Dame Penniwig said...
Good gravy, Amrita!!! Don't be mean to yourself!!! You are so unselfish, and everyone must be take care of the self in order to truly be selfless!!! Yes! Gosh, didn't Jesus himself get mad at a fig tree, because he was hoping for some figs and it had none? And didn't he say something about "the poor we will always have with us," etc etc??? And let expensive ointments be put on his tired dusty feet? Yep. Remember, you cannot find the mouth of the mule that grinds the grain...not calling you a mule, m'dear...but trying to say, Give yourself little treats, don't feel bad, and don't feel bad not heeding your mother, she is expressing things from a very different age and place, and you are not that age nor come from that place! So there!
- 1 November 2009 at 09:10
- Kathryn said...
I so agree with the sentiments already expressed here. And as Penniwig said, God told them not to muzzle the ox (or animal working) so that they would have some of the benefit of their own labor. He doesn't call you to give away everything you have been given.
Your mother's attitude won't be changed, i'm sure. She comes from a generation of Christian folk who seemed to believe they were called to give all they had to others.
But when someone MAKES you do that, then it is just works. You give so much (not a little to all of us who read your blog) from your heart. Don't make it works by making yourself give what your heart is not ready to let go of.
I'm sure God smiles to see you enjoying some of the gifts folks want you to have. I know that it makes me smile to think that you are able to enjoy some of the things David sends you. I know you share much of that, but we like to think you receive some pleasure, too. :)
- 1 November 2009 at 20:57
- Debra said...
I've always thought that it was a beautiful prayer, did not know someone had made it a song as well! Thanks for sharing it!
- 2 November 2009 at 11:56
- Amrita said...
Thank you my dear friends for your kind words. My soul feels rested and I am humbled by your remarks.
Our Heavenly Father is giver of all good gifts.
- 2 November 2009 at 18:43
- Julie said...
What a beautiful prayer. Loved the photos.
- 2 November 2009 at 19:27
- JO said...
You are a kind soul... we are all human... God loves you so :)
- 2 November 2009 at 23:57
- David C Brown said...
We had an old brother who said,"It is more blessed to give than to receive - but it's awfie guid tae receive"! Freely ye have received - freely give!
- 3 November 2009 at 02:59
- Terry said...
another wonderful post amrita.
it reminds me of a hymn we quite often sing in the prayer meeting..thanks for all of your encouragement amrita!...i love you dearly...love terry
How I praise Thee, precious Savior,
That Thy love laid hold of me;
Thou hast saved and cleansed and filled me
That I might Thy channel be.
Channels only, blessèd Master,
But with all Thy wondrous power
Flowing through us, Thou canst use us
Every day and every hour.
Just a channel full of blessing,
To the thirsty hearts around;
To tell out Thy full salvation
All Thy loving message sound.
Emptied that Thou shouldest fill me,
A clean vessel in Thy hand;
With no power but as Thou givest
Graciously with each command.
Witnessing Thy power to save me,
Setting free from self and sin;
Thou who boughtest to possess me,
In Thy fullness, Lord, come in.
Jesus, fill now with Thy Spirit
Hearts that full surrender know;
That the streams of living water
From our inner self may flow
- 4 November 2009 at 06:02
- Crown of Beauty said...
I love this post about Mahatma Gandhi. So humble, such a man of peace. And I love this prayer by St. Francis. It is a prayer very much needed by the world today, my own prayer for my own life.
Lovely post... and of course when you receive a gift, it is meant for you, right, not to be given away. Maybe to be shared. Yes... that's more like it. But keep some or most of it for yourself.
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Tesla stock tumbles after Model S catches fire
SEATTLE (AP) — Shares of electric car company Tesla sank more than 6 percent Wednesday after an Internet video showed flames spewing from one of the company's vehicles near Seattle.
Shares of Tesla Motors Inc. fell $12.05 to $180.95 — the stock's biggest one-day decline since July 16.
The incident happened Tuesday after 8 a.m. as the driver was traveling southbound on state Route 167 through Kent, said Trooper Chris Webb of the Washington State Patrol. The driver stated that he believed he had struck some metal debris on the freeway, so he exited the highway and the vehicle became disabled.
The driver told authorities he began to smell something burning and then the vehicle caught fire. Firefighters needed several attempts to extinguish the flames because the blaze kept reigniting, Webb said. A trooper who responded to the scene was unable to locate any objects on the roadway, but Department of Transportation workers did observe some debris near the scene.
Webb said there was too much damage from the fire to see what damage the debris may have caused.
The automobile website Jalopnik.com posted photos of the blaze that it says were taken by a reader, along with a video. The video shows the front of the Tesla Model S in flames.
Tesla said the flames were contained to the front of the $70,000 vehicle due to its design and construction. Company spokeswoman Liz Jarvis-Shean said there were no indications that the fire was caused by anything other than the crash.
"This was not a spontaneous event," she said. "Every indication we have at this point is that the fire was a result of the collision and the damage sustained through that."
Shares of Palo Alto, Calif.-based Tesla have risen more than 400 percent since the start of the year. But investors likely were alarmed, with some selling their shares, out of fear that the fire could be an indication of a flaw in the company's battery packs.
The company's battery system and the Model S itself have received rave reviews, including a top crash-test score from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and a tie for the highest auto test score ever recorded by Consumer Reports magazine.
After getting the top crash test score, Tesla touted the Model S as being "the safest car in America." The car's liquid-cooled 85 kilowatt-hour battery, mounted below the passenger compartment floor, uses lithium-ion chemistry similar to batteries that power laptop computers and mobile phones. Millions of such rechargeable batteries were recalled in 2006 and 2007 after it was discovered they could overheat and ignite.
Two years ago, battery fires broke out in three Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid cars after crash-testing, but NHTSA investigators determined that the Volt was no more risky than vehicles with conventional gasoline engines.
Officials from General Motors Co. and the government believe the fires were caused by coolant leaking from damaged plastic casing around the batteries after side-impact test crashes. At the time, they said there were no real-world fires in any Volts.
Still, the fires tarnished the Volt's reputation and cut into sales. Recently, though, sales of the car have recovered. Sales are up about 3 percent this year, with GM selling about 17,000 through September.
Earlier this year, Boeing Co.'s worldwide fleet of 787 planes was grounded because lithium-ion batteries overheated or caught fire. Flights resumed four months later after a revamped battery system was installed.
Under normal circumstances, investigators from NHTSA, the government's auto safety watchdog, would travel to Seattle to investigate the Tesla crash. But with the partial government shutdown, NHTSA stopped posting recall information on its website and it was unclear when or if an investigation would begin.
Also contributing to Tesla shares' decline Wednesday was a rare downgrade of the company from an analyst. R.W. Baird analyst Ben Kallo cut his rating on the stock from "Outperform" to "Neutral," telling investors that while he's still bullish on Tesla's long-term prospects, the company has "significant milestones" during the next 18 months that come with risk.
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Savers who take some of their pension pot in cash could be losing out on retirement income, a regulator has warned.
A report by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) found that some drawdown customers could receive 37% more retirement income every year by investing in a mix of assets rather than cash.
Since the introduction of pension freedoms in April 2015, savers have been able to withdraw their pension in cash from the age of 55.
This proved a popular option, with around 1.5 million pots accessed by September 2017.
However, the FCA has warned that more guidance is needed to help consumers understand their options and make the most of their savings.
More than 60% of people who were not taking advice on a drawdown pension were not sure or only had a broad idea of where their money was invested, while 33% were holding funds entirely in cash.
The FCA has proposed that pension providers should send "wake-up" packs to their customers at the age of 50, which would include a clear summary and specific warnings about retirement risks.
Christopher Woolard, executive director of strategy and competition at the FCA, said:
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- Fed to Geithner: Pi$$ Off
- The origin of the U.S. dollar as legal tender and its link to Depression
- Debt Clock (Global)
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- http://biiwii.blogspot.com/2009/09/dow.htm
- Dr. Rand Paul Part 1 (Video, H/T iDoctor)
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- Dr. Rand Paul Part 3 (Video, H/T iDoctor)
- Major Crisis Still Ahead, Past One Was Minor (Video H/T iDoctor)
- Max Keiser Puts and Calls (Video)
HSBC bids farewell to dollar supremacy (H/T SaxPlayer00o1)
The sun is setting on the US dollar as the ultra-loose monetary policy of the US Federal Reserve forces China and the vibrant economies of the emerging world to forge a new global currency order, according to a new report by HSBC.
"Federal Reserve Board has rejected a request by U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner for a public review of the central bank's structure and governance, three people familiar with the matter said.
The Obama administration proposed on June 17 a financial- regulatory overhaul including a "comprehensive review" of the Fed's "ability to accomplish its existing and proposed functions" and the role of its regional banks. The Fed was to lead the study and enlist the Treasury and "a wide range of external experts."
The Fed needs to be VERY concerned with maintaining their independence.
Regardless of your views about Ron Paul (his new book is called End the Fed), its the rest of the crowd of that scares me. Imagine what the dolts who run congress would do if they had access to the Fed's authority.
The origin of the U.S. dollar as legal tender and its link to Depression
The question was: how can a government without the levers of the money printing press use money as an escape-hatch in a depressionary environment? So to answer that question, I wanted to look at the origins of legal tender laws in the U.S.. When the United States was established, the U.S. Constitution outlined the basic framework through which government – both state and federal – could act on behalf of America's citizens. Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution was legal tender mentioned, and this is a bone of contention still amongst those who see the Federal Reserve as an illegitimate institution. Below, I want to outline a brief (and hopefully non-ideological) history of how the greenback became legal tender in the United States. I have some related comments at the end on Depressions and their lasting consequences on politics and history.
The Constitution
The Constitution mentions the word money in three sections, 8, 9 and 10. Below are the individual citations as they pertain to Congress acting on behalf of the federal government:
Section. 8. The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
Section 9 is no longer applicable, but here it is.
Section. 9. The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time.
In Article 1, Section 10 of the Constitution, the authorities regarding money and taxation for individual states are outlined. It states:
Section. 10. No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws; and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
You have probably noticed that nowhere in here was the term 'legal tender' used. Why? The intention was to allow anyone to issue coins and notes backed by gold or silver. In fact, foreign coins backed by gold and silver were accepted in the U.S. because 80 percent of money in circulation in the U.S. pre-1800 was foreign.
Centralisation or de-centralisation?
Episode 21 - The Web of Debt, 2 Beers with Steve
In this episode we talk with author Ellen H. Brown, author of Web of Debt, about the creation of money, public banking, and naked short selling.
Upcoming guests for Two Beers With Steve are:
Richard Heinberg - Author of nine books including The Party's Over, Peak Everything and the newly released Blackout
George Selgin - University of Georgia Proffesor of Economics and authro fo the book The Theory of Free Banking
Also we will speak with the Producer of the Money Masters film w/ Bill Still. [enphasis mine]
As always you can subscribe to get automatic downloads of teh show as soon as they are available.
Show Notes
Money as Debt
Naked Short Selling
Exponential Growth
If the Dow is to follow the 1930s model....(Chart from BiiWii)
Dr. Rand Paul Part 1(Video, H/T iDoctor)
Dr. Rand Paul Part 2 (Video, H/T iDoctor)
Dr. Rand Paul Part 3 (Video, H/T iDoctor)
Major Crisis Still Ahead, Past One Was Minor (Video H/T iDoctor)
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The role of prenatal alcohol exposure in abruptio placentae
M M du ToitI; M SmithI; H J OdendaalII
IMB ChB, MMed, FCOG. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Tygerberg, W Cape
IIMB ChB, FCOG (SA), FRCOG, MD. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Tygerberg, W Cape
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the association between preconception and prenatal alcohol use and abruptio placentae.
METHODS: A case-control study of women with the clinical diagnosis of abruptio placentae, 65 cases and 66 controls, at Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Western Cape, South Africa. Women in whom a retroplacental blood clot, covering at least 15% of the placental surface, was found at delivery at 24 weeks' gestation or later were asked to complete a timeline follow-back questionnaire to determine their alcohol intake 12 and 3 months before and during pregnancy. The same questionnaire was administered to a control group of high-risk women who had no antepartum haemorrhage.
OUTCOME: Women who drank alcohol 12 months before conception were more than 4 times more likely to develop abruptio placentae than the control group (odds ratio (OR) 4.49, p=0.00009). Women who drank alcohol 3 months prior to conception were 3 times more likely to develop abruptio placentae than the control group (OR 3.06, p=0.003). Drinking alcoholic beverages during pregnancy carried a more than 3 times greater risk of developing abruptio placentae (OR 3.52, p=0.0006). In the study group, women consumed a mean of 13.6, 12.0 and 11.2 standard drinks in a typical week at 12 and 3 months before and during pregnancy, respectively. The study group demonstrated a binge-drinking pattern, with two to four sessions per month.
CONCLUSION: An association was found between preconception and prenatal consumption of alcohol and abruptio placentae.
Abruptio placentae is the most common cause of stillbirth in South Africa.1 At Tygerberg Academic Hospital (TBH), a tertiary referral hospital in Cape Town, perinatal mortality data from July 2006 to June 2007 demonstrated that placental abruption was the direct cause of 25.5% of perinatal deaths where the birth weight was 1 000 g or more (unpublished data, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, TBH). Although abruptio placentae is associated with many risk factors, such as cigarette smoking, growth restriction, hypertension and pre-eclampsia,2,3 a local study showed that 60% of 70 multigravidas who had had intrauterine deaths due to placental abruption had unremarkable previous obstetric histories.4 A high prevalence of cigarette smoking5 and consumption of alcohol during pregnancy6 have been noted in the coloured population, in which abruptio placentae is the main cause of stillbirth.
The question therefore arises whether there is an association between excessive exposure to alcohol before conception and during pregnancy and the development of placental abruption. Although epidemiological studies have reported increased rates of abruptio placentae in heavy drinkers during pregnancy,7-10 this association has not been investigated prospectively.
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After approval by the Committee for Human Research of Stellenbosch University, this case-control study was performed between April 2006 and January 2008 to investigate the association between alcohol use during pregnancy and abruptio placentae. All possible cases of placental abruption were identified by the registrars on call in the labour ward by listing the women's names in the registrar's meeting room. Care was taken to include all cases of abruption, and not only the severe ones. One of the first two authors then verified the information on the woman's hospital chart to ensure that the inclusion criteria (a retroplacental blood clot covering >15% of the placental surface, gestational age >24 weeks, coloured population and singleton pregnancy) and exclusion criteria (multiple pregnancy, other causes of antepartum haemorrhage and poor knowledge of Afrikaans or English, the languages in which the interviews were conducted) were applied.
Once the woman was stable in the postnatal ward, one of the first two authors explained the study to her and obtained written informed consent for participation. Care was taken to explain that the study questionnaire did not imply that lifestyle factors were possibly responsible for the placental abruption. The timeline followback approach11 was used to obtain detailed information about daily alcohol use during a typical week a year before pregnancy, 3 months before pregnancy and during pregnancy. The amount of alcohol consumed was accurately quantified by establishing the volume and type of drink, and among how many people these drinks were shared. Illustrations of containers, bottles and glasses were used to help women to identify the specific drink and the volume consumed. For example, if a participant shared 750 ml Amarula liqueur with two drinking partners (250 ml per person, alcohol content 17%), the alcohol used per person was 34 g (250×17/100×0.8, the specific gravity (SG) of alcohol) as well as 2 000 ml wine between the three of them (666.6 ml per person, alcohol concentration 10%), the alcohol used per person was 53.3 g (666.6×10/100×0.8), giving a total of 87.3 g of absolute alcohol. For quantification of alcohol intake, a standard drink was defined as 10 g of absolute alcohol.12 Sections of the alcohol use disorder identification test (AUDIT) were used to assess the complications of heavy drinking.13
Additional information included marital status, level of formal education, preferred language, age at which first exposed to alcohol, presenting complaints, and details of previous deliveries (gestational ages, methods of delivery, birth weights and Apgar scores). For each study group case, a control case was selected at random from the postnatal wards in which the study patients were lying, applying the same inclusion and exclusion criteria. Control cases with placental abruption were not accepted, but other cases were selected from the same ward.
TBH is a tertiary referral hospital and therefore receives complicated cases only, as minor problems are managed by surrounding district hospitals. Both the study and the control groups were therefore selected from complicated obstetric referrals.
For statistical analysis STATA Statistics and Data Analysis Version 10.0, Special Edition, was used. The number and percentage of qualitative variables and the mean and standard deviation (SD) of quantitative data were calculated. Comparisons between the mean values of quantitative variables were calculated using Student's t-test, while the chi-square test was used for qualitative data. A 95% confidence interval (CI) was calculated where applicable. All tests of significance used were at the 5% level of significance.
Initially there were 66 women in both the study and the control groups, but a case was excluded from the study group because the gestational age was just below 24 weeks. Five women in the study group had a history of an abruption in a previous pregnancy, in contrast to one in the control group. Mean parity and gravidity did not differ significantly. Study cases delivered significantly earlier than control cases. Ultrasound was most commonly used to determine the gestational age (Table I). Significantly more participants (76.9%) in the study group were not married compared with the control group (54.5%). Cigarette smoking during pregnancy was reported in 72.3% of the study group and 57.6% of the control group (p=0.0785) (Table I).
In the study group, the most common presenting symptoms were antepartum haemorrhage/abdominal tenderness. In the control group, preterm labour was the most common indication for admission. The frequency of operative deliveries did not differ between the two groups, but birth weights and 5-minute Apgar scores were significantly lower in the study group (Table II). Forty per cent of the study group (26 women) reported alcohol-related problems compared with 5% (2) in the control group (p<0.0001).
Fifty-two women (80%) in the study group reported alcohol use 12 months before pregnancy. In the control group, 31 women (47%) reported the same use (OR 4.49; 95% CI 1.95 -10-62; p=0.00009). Alcohol use 3 months before pregnancy was reported by 49 women (75%) in the study group, but by 33 women (50%) in the control group (OR 3.06; 95% CI 1.458 - 6.435; p=0.003). Alcohol use during pregnancy was reported by 37 women (57%) in the study group and 18 (27%) in the control group (OR 3.52; 95% CI 1.16 -7.85; p=0.0006). Twelve (18%) women in the study group never consumed alcohol, in comparison with 28 (42%) in the control group (OR 3.25; 95% CI 1.39 - 7.8; p=0.003). Table III lists the amount and frequency of drinking in the study and control groups before and during pregnancy. The number of standard drinks taken during a typical week by women in the study group was almost double that of the control group.
Twenty-two women (34%) in the study group had pre-eclampsia, in contrast to 11 (17%) in the control group (OR 2.56; 95% CI 1.04 6.36; p=0.02). In the study group, 47 (72%) smoked cigarettes in contrast to 38 (58%) in the control group (OR 1.92; 95% CI 0.87 -4.82; p=0.08).]]>
Women who had drunk more alcohol 12 months before, 3 months before and during pregnancy had a higher risk of developing abruptio placentae than women who did not use alcohol. Alcohol consumption was also significantly higher in the abruption group than in the control group, ranging from 112 to 136 g per week. Although this could be regarded as moderate drinking, defined as 70 -140 g of alcohol per week,14 most women had a pattern of binge drinking.
It is not clear by what mechanism exposure to heavy alcohol consumption could cause abruptio placentae. However, it is likely that placentation in early pregnancy is affected.15 In addition, poor placental function, reflected by low levels of pregnancy-associated plasma protein A in the first trimester, was associated with more stillbirths, some of which were unexplained and others caused by placental abruption.16 Furthermore, many stillbirths, including unexplained ones, are related to poor placental function.17 It is likely that folate deficiency also plays a role, as heavy drinking has an adverse effect on folate mechanism.18,19 It is therefore possible that certain cases of placental abruption are associated with folate deficiency. It is interesting to note that infants with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders have more atrial and ventricular septal defects than normal controls.20 In addition, the prevalence of these cardiac defects is higher in infants where the pregnancy was complicated by placental abruption.21 It is therefore possible that the development of both the heart and the placenta may be affected by alcohol exposure in early pregnancy. A meta-analysis has shown that the preconception administration of folic acid-containing multivitamins reduced the frequency of many congenital abnormalities, including cardiovascular defects.22 It is possible that some of these prevented defects could have been alcohol-related. Another possible mechanism is oxidative stress caused by exposure to alcohol.23,24
The higher frequency of pre-eclampsia in the control group is surprising, but it may due to selection of preterm labour for the control group. Preterm delivery is common in pre-eclampsia.25 No reports could be found on whether an association exists between heavy drinking in early pregnancy and the later development of pre-eclampsia. Our finding that cigarette smoking did not differ between the two groups was surprising, as smoking is a known risk factor for placental abruption.2,26 However, this was a small series and both groups had a high prevalence of cigarette smoking, with a trend towards more smoking in the abruption group. It is also possible that some of the known adverse effects of cigarette smoking may indeed be due to drinking, as most heavy drinkers also smoke cigarettes (Tygerberg Hospital, unpublished data), and many studies on cigarette smoking did not include drinking as a variable.
The fact that there were 32 intra-uterine deaths in the study group but no deaths in the control group demonstrates the high fetal mortality associated with placental abruption. Unfortunately no autopsies were done and no placentas sent for histological examination, as little is known about the effects of heavy drinking on the human placenta.15 Financial constraints at hospitals in developing countries limit the use of non-essential special investigations.
Limitations of this study include the introduction of selection bias, since the control group was also selected from women referred to a tertiary hospital, as reflected by their high frequency of preterm labour and caesarean section. As exposure to alcohol during pregnancy is also a risk factor for preterm labour,27 selection of the control group from a low-risk population could have resulted in a greater difference in alcohol consumption between the study and control groups. A further study defect is that no information was obtained on maternal nutrition, as this could have played a role in the poor development of placenta or abruption in some cases. Further studies are needed to confirm the association between drinking alcohol during pregnancy and abruption, in order to determine what the mechanism is and whether the prevalence of abruption could be reduced by drinking cessation programmes.
We wish to thank Dr G A Petro for his help with the statistical analyses.
Disclosure of interests. The authors are not aware of any interests to be disclosed.
Contribution to authorship. The first two authors conducted all the research relating to the questionnaires, entered the data and prepared the manuscript. The last author helped with the planning of the study, analyses and finalising the manuscript.]]> Details of ethics approval. The study was approved by the Committee for Human Research of Stellenbosch University. Written informed consent for the study was obtained and strict confidentiality was maintained.
Funding. No funding was needed, as the study formed part of two master's degree dissertations.
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Figure 6-9: Zonal and annual mean radiative
Figure 6-10: Radiative forcing (dotted line), global
In Sections 6.3 and 6.4 we have reported radiative forcing calculations for various aspects of aircraft-induced perturbations to radiatively active substances. One of the basic ideas behind this calculation was the validity of the concept of RF as a quantitative predictor for climate change (see Section 6.2.1). We implicitly assume that contributions from individual perturbations to the change in global mean surface temperature are additive, at least as a first-order approximation. The radiative forcing concept requires a quasi-constant climate sensitivity parameter l within the same model for different types of RF and different magnitudes of RF. This assumption holds for changes in most of the well-mixed greenhouse gases and for variations in solar irradiance (e.g., Hansen et al., 1984b; Shine et al., 1995; Hansen et al., 1997b; Roeckner et al., 1999). As noted in previous IPCC reports (e.g., IPCC, 1996), there are limitations to the applicability of the radiative forcing concept, especially for RFs that are highly variable geographically or seasonally (i.e., typical of aircraft perturbations).
As a clear example of large spatial differences in radiative forcing, the annual mean radiative imbalance as a function of latitude is shown in Figure 6-9 for the big four RFs for subsonic aviation in 1992. Whereas the radiative imbalances from CO2 (positive) and CH4 (negative) are nearly uniform from south pole to north pole, those from O3 (peaking at 0.065 W m-2 at 30�N) and contrails (peaking at 0.10 W m-2 at 40�N) are highly concentrated in northern mid-latitudes. The global means of all four contributions are about equal (see Table 6-1). The NOx-driven perturbations to O3 and CH4 produce RFs (+0.23 and -0.14 W m-2, respectively) that are of similar magnitude and in part cancel. However, the latitudinal distribution of the radiative imbalance from these two perturbations does not cancel: The combined O3+CH4 forcing is positive in the Northern Hemisphere and negative in the Southern Hemisphere. The response of the climate system to such geographically non-homogeneous forcing is unknown. At least regional differences in climate response can be expected, and there may even be differences in the global mean response (see Section 6.5.2).
The limitations and advantages of the radiative forcing concept have recently been demonstrated by Hansen et al. (1997b). A classic test case considers radiative forcing and associated climate change for ozone perturbations occurring at different altitudes. In a series of numerical experiments with a low-resolution GCM (Hansen et al., 1997a), the impact of 100 DU ozone added to the various model layers was investigated. As in the calculations of Lacis et al. (1990), Hauglustaine and Granier (1995), Forster and Shine (1997), and Brasseur et al. (1998), strong variation of radiative forcing with the altitude of ozone perturbation is found: negative forcing for perturbation in the middle stratosphere, and positive forcing for perturbation in the troposphere and lower stratosphere. RF is a maximum for a perturbation close to the tropopause (Figure 6-10, dotted curve).
Without cloud and water vapor feedbacks, the change in global-mean surface air temperature exhibits a similar dependency on the altitude of the ozone perturbation as radiative forcing does (with a maximum close to the tropopause, not shown in figure). However, when all model feedbacks are included, the maximum global-mean surface temperature change in the GISS model occurs for an ozone perturbation in the middle troposphere (Figure 6-10, dashed line). The climate sensitivity parameter l varies widely as a function of the altitude of the ozone perturbation varies widely from the middle stratosphere to the surface layer (Figure 6-10, solid line). Peak sensitivity in this model occurs in the lower troposphere because of feedbacks on clouds. However, for the altitude range at which aircraft O3 perturbations contribute significantly to the total RF (e.g., 2-14 km), the value of l is within a factor of 2 of the climate sensitivity parameter for doubling of CO2 in the same model, 0.92 K/(W m-2) (Hansen et al., 1997b).
In GCM experiments with a similar model that focused on aircraft-like perturbations, the specific feedbacks that minimized the response for aircraft releases were high-level cloud cover (Rind and Lonergan, 1995-considering ozone impacts) and sea ice (Rind et al., 1996-considering water vapor releases). Sensitivity of l to layered perturbations is also found by Ponater et al. (1998) but with opposite sense: The climate sensitivity parameter for aircraft-induced ozone is higher than that for well-mixed greenhouse gases. The difference in these results likely depends on the formulation of clouds within the two models.With our present understanding of climate modeling and critical feedback processes in the troposphere, we can do no better than adopt the tropopause value of RF after stratospheric adjustment. However, for aircraft-induced climate perturbations, the additivity of RFs across all perturbations cannot be taken for granted and adds further uncertainty.
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