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Geoengineering on a Desperate Planet — UN Declares Global Moratorium
25/10/2010 06/02/2012 Stephen 1 Must Read, Biodiversity, CLIMATE CHANGE/GLOBAL WARMING, Forests, global warming, Health, News, OCEAN, Science/Tech, sustainability, waterClive Hamilton, etc group, geoengineering, planktos, royal society
NAGOYA, Japan, Oct 25, 2010 (Tierramérica)
[Update 30 October 2 am. Global moratorium passes.]
Delegates to the world summit on biodiversity here are calling for a moratorium on climate engineering research, like the idea of putting huge mirrors in outer space to reflect some of the sun's heating rays away from the planet.
Climate engineering or geoengineering refers to any large-scale, human- made effort to manipulate the planet to adapt to climate change.
Representatives from Africa and Asia expressed concern about the negative impacts of geoengineering during the opening week of the 10th Conference of Parties (COP 10) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), Oct. 18-29. They were joined by civil society organisations in calling for a moratorium on geoengineering experiments.
The geoengineering proposals include installing giant vertical pipes in the ocean to bring cold water to the surface, pumping vast amounts of sulphates into the stratosphere to block sunlight, or blowing ocean salt spray into clouds to increase their reflectivity.
Broadly speaking, there are two main geoengineering approaches: solar radiation management and carbon sequestration, in other words, absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to reduce the concentration of this greenhouse-effect gas.
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To manage the sun's rays, there are ideas like releasing sulphates into the atmosphere or placing giant mirrors in outer space. For absorbing carbon, the possible approaches include ocean fertilisation, in which iron or nitrogen is added to seawater to stimulate the growth of phytoplankton to sequester the carbon deep in the ocean.
"Some of the proponents of these technologies think it's easier to 'manage the sun' than get people to take a bus" to reduce carbon in the atmosphere, said Pat Mooney, executive director of the ETC Group, an international environmental organisation headquartered in Canada. [etc "Geopiracy" report]
"Politicians in rich countries see geoengineering as 'Plan B' so they don't have to make the hard choices of reducing emissions causing climate change," Mooney told Tierramérica.
No longer the realm of crackpots, geoengineering is fast becoming the subject of serious scientific discussion and commercial interest.
In 2007, Tierramérica broke a story that a U.S. company, Planktos Inc., was going to dump 100 tonnes of iron dust into the ocean near Ecuador's Galápagos Islands — a sanctuary for studying unique species and their evolution — without the consent of the Ecuadorian government.
If it was able to prove that the technique absorbed carbon dioxide, Planktos hoped to sell carbon credits for the carbon it sequestered. The project was stopped and the company soon ended its research in this area.
The following year the CBD agreed to a moratorium on further ocean fertilisation attempts.
Earlier this year, the CBD's scientific body proposed a ban on all climate- related geoengineering activities.
However, given the ongoing failure to reach an international agreement to curb emissions of the gases causing climate change, there has been renewed scientific and political interest in these experiments.
Britain's Royal Society, a highly respected global network that includes the world's most eminent scientists, now defends geoengineering research.
"We oppose a moratorium because we don't want to restrict scientific research into geoengineering," said John Shepherd, a climate scientist at the National Oceanography Centre of the University of Southampton, and Royal Society fellow.
"Climate change could get to the point of 'desperate times requiring desperate measures' and therefore we should be ready with some good research on what might help," said Shepherd, author of the 2009 Royal Society report on geoengineering.
That report concluded that such technologies may well be necessary to cool the planet if efforts to reduce carbon emissions fail.
Research is needed to determine the hazards and effectiveness of any geoengineering idea, he told Tierramérica in an interview.
"Deployment of any geoengineering now would be incredibly premature," he said, and noted that this is the current opinion of the Royal Society as well.
In November, the Royal Society will hold a symposium in London entitled "Geoengineering: Taking Control of Our Planet's Climate."
Injecting sulphates into the atmosphere is attractive to policy-makers because its costs are much lower than reducing carbon emissions, writes Clive Hamilton, of the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at Australian National University.
While acknowledging that no country advocates geoengineering, these schemes "avoid the need to raise petrol taxes, permit yet more unrestrained growth, and pose no threat to consumer lifestyles," stated Hamilton, the author of a new book on climate change titled "Requiem for a Species."
The ETC Group documents progress on various ideas to control the climate in its report, "Geopiracy: The Case Against Geoengineering," presented Oct. 19 in Nagoya. The report asks, "Who has the right to set the global thermostat?"
"Developing countries understand that they can't trust the rich countries that have failed to reduce their emissions to control the global thermostat," said Mooney.
The potential impacts on the global weather system of such attempts to cool the planet are impossible to assess, he added.
In his opinion, what is needed is a moratorium on open-air experiments in geoengineering to allow time for an international discussion about the potential biodiversity, social, and economic impacts.
Delegates in Nagoya are hotly debating the wording of a moratorium. A representative from Brazil told Tierramérica that it has become a big issue for countries like Canada that are firmly opposed to any ban or moratorium on geoengineering experiments.
Stumping for the moratorium is the ETC Group's Silvia Ribeiro, who asserted in a Tierramérica interview: "Geoengineering is not a solution to the problem of climate change. It could only be considered in an emergency and therefore can never be for-profit or part of any carbon market."
via CLIMATE CHANGE: Geoengineering for a Desperate Planet – IPS ipsnews.net.
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3 thoughts on "Geoengineering on a Desperate Planet — UN Declares Global Moratorium"
Lewis Cleverdon says:
While a moratorium on the deployment of Albido Restoration options is plainly essential, (they are mostly under-researched, some are potentially dangerous, and all lack effective global governance)
such a delay on Carbon Recovery options is patently non-sensical.
To the extent that people are planting trees, and ensuring the regrowth of harvested woodlands, and increasing the rotational grazing of livestock, etc, carbon recovery is already under way. Plainly the more rapidly it can, sustainably, be accelerated, the better.
The core issue regarding Geo-E (that is almost entirely ignored in debates thus far) is that even a radical termination of global GHG outputs, of say 98% by 2040, is patently insufficient to avoid the airborne stocks of anthro-GHGs driving the diverse interactive accelerating feedback loops past the point of causing irreversible catastrophic climate destabilization.
In light of this observation, Geo-E is not optional but requisite to maintaining a habitable global climate. And, given the many decades required for Carbon Recovery to cleanse the atmosphere, effective Albido Restoration will be necessary in the interim as a temporary measure.
Thus the fear of corrupt wealthy nations' abuse of Geo-E (as a plan B to avoid the duty of ending GHG outputs) should not be allowed to obstruct the research of both Geo-E approaches, nor the equally urgent development of the global governance capacity that individual technologies' selection and deployment will require.
Until the opponents of Geo-E get their heads around the need for focussed opposition to specific untenable technologies and motivations, they will continue IMHO to be doing at least as much harm as good.
Lewis, the article makes the point that the moratorium allows research into Geo-E to continue. It is not an outright ban but a time-out to have a global discussion to sort out all of the issues, upsides and downsides.
surely that makes good sense. And Geo-E may be needed as you suggest, but only as a last resort one hopes.
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Second Blush Thoughts on the Iran Deal
On Facebook, I noted that I was working hard to not have an opinion on the Iran deal, because I knew nothing about it and shouldn't come to a conclusion simply via rote mimicry of ideological cohorts. It was observed by a friend, though, that one of my God-given rights as an American is to "have an opinion based on nothing and then broadcast it publicly through as many channels as possible". And as a blogger, I try my best to live by that credo.
I should start by saying that I have not read the deal itself. This is because the technical characteristics of the deal probably wouldn't mean that much to me, and in particular they'd mean nothing out of context (specifically, the context of feasible alternatives). The sources I read to educate myself include Tom Friedman's interview with the President, Jeffrey Goldberg, AIPAC, Marc Goldberg, David Adesnik, Max Fisher's interview with arms control expert Jeffrey Lewis (highly recommended), Douglas Murray, and of course the metric ton of commentary folks have been blasting all across Facebook for the past few days. Here, then, is where I'm at now.
(1) Obviously, the deal can't be evaluated against an ideal world where America stands steely-eyed and strong and Iran capitulates to everything our heart's desire. One makes deals with autocratic regimes pursuing nuclear weapons under less-than-ideal circumstances -- that comes with the territory. Likewise, we can't evaluate the deal based on what we could have gotten 10 years ago. Assessing this deal is a comparative exercise -- how does reaching this accord compare to either no deal or another deal that could be realistically obtained now?
(2) This deal clearly has its eye on one thing and one thing only: slowing down Iran getting a nuclear weapon. It doesn't care about ending Iranian terrorism. It doesn't care about liberalizing the country. It doesn't care about rectifying the nation's many, many human rights abuses. All of these things are important, but they're not the subject of this deal (and were not, realistically, going to be improved by any deal). I have heard the argument that lifting the sanctions will nudge Iran in a more conciliatory direction, but I'm highly dubious. I'm also inclined to agree that the cash flow it is about to see stemming from the sanctions relief will redound to the benefit of the various terrorist groups Iran likes to fund.
(3) I am unconvinced that there was a "better deal to be made". As far as I've seen there were essentially two mechanisms America supposedly had for exerting more leverage over Tehran: continuing the current regime of exceptionally tight sanctions, or military strikes. The former doesn't work: The current sanctions regime was unsustainable -- the only way we got countries like Russia and China (and arguably even the EU) onboard with tighter sanctions was in service of getting a deal. If no deal was in sight, most of our international allies would have walked away from the sanctions and we'd be left with nothing. The military option is risky for a host of reasons; it might not work, it definitely will prompt retaliation, it definitely would be a diplomatic catastrophe for the United States in forums far afield from Iran, and it definitely will result in blowback that we really don't need. Robert Farley has long convinced me that the ability of pure airpower to bend other countries to our will is overstated, and the more resources we invest in ensuring that the military operation is successful, the more we risk being mired in yet another intractable Middle Eastern conflict.
(4) Indeed, one thing that Lewis said in his piece -- which, again, is the most informative of all the ones I read -- really stuck out for me. It's that "[e]very six months, the deal we could have gotten six months before looks better. Every time we tried to hold out for a better deal, and every time we got in the position of a worse deal." That dates back to the Bush administration, so this isn't a case of weak Obama being weak and not leading with leadership. The fact is the trendlines haven't been good for awhile now, and experientially speaking trying to get a "better deal" has only made things worse. To quote Lewis again:
I was talking to a colleague who is unhappy [with the deal], and it's kind of fascinating. He's unhappy because, he said, "We spent eight years, and the deal we got is not better than the deal we could have gotten eight years ago." And it's like, oh, no kidding. That's not an indictment of the deal, my friend, it's an indictment of eight years of fucking around. [...]
I would give [this deal] an A....[Now, c]ompared to the deal we could have gotten 10 years ago, if the Bush administration hadn't had their heads up their butts? Not an A! That would have been a great deal!
I remember when they had 164 centrifuges, in one cascade, and I said, "You know what, we should let them keep it in warm standby. No uranium, just gas." And people were like, "You're givin' away the store!"
In short, I think opponents of this deal bear a heavy burden of persuasion as to why this time things will be different. And for me at least, they haven't met that burden. I agree with Jeffrey Goldberg that "The dirty little secret of this whole story is that it is very difficult to stop a large nation that possesses both natural resources and human talent, and a deep desire for power, from getting the bomb."
(5) On the particular metric of "slowing down Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon" -- which again, is clearly the only thing the deal is concerned about -- it seems likely to be a net positive over other feasible alternatives. Lewis certainly seems to think so (including ranking it higher than the alternative of bombing Iran). A lot of the technical details of course mean nothing to me, both on the science side (what are the risks of the technology Iran is allowed to keep) and on the logistical side (is 24 days lead time for inspections a lot or a little?). That said, I don't think the deal's efficacy depends on Iran suddenly not being a power-hungry illiberal reactionary autocracy. The "snapback" provisions seem pretty robust and offer ample opportunities for western states to punish Iran for cheating (or suspected cheating). And notably, these provisions can kick in without assent by China or Russia, who are the players whose commitment is most dodgy.
(6) All of that said, I still have a serious concern, although it's an idiosyncratic one that maybe is only shared by me. One way of thinking about this deal is that it trades reduced Iranian nuclear capabilities (via inspections, etc.) for increased Iranian ability to sponsor terror (because of the cash infusion it will get when the sanctions are lifted). And my quite unique position is that I always thought that Iran getting a nuclear weapon was always exaggerated on the threat scale. Nuclear weapons are and have been easily deterrable via conventional modes of statecraft. Even countries which hate each other (like the US and the USSR) pulled it off for decades. And even if one thinks Iran is so entirely suffused with millennarian impulses with respect to Israel that it would risk itself being wiped off the map via an Israeli nuclear counterstrike, it's difficult to imagine that it would risk harming its own holy sites in Jerusalem. By contrast, Iran's sponsorship of terror organizations like Hezbollah has been a thicket that normal diplomatic statecraft has not been able to satisfactorily resolve. Hence, a trade that reduces the former risk while amplifying the latter strikes me as exactly backwards. This may explain why all major elements of the Israeli polity -- including the liberal opposition -- don't like the deal. It strengthens Iran on pretty much all axes save nuclear weaponry (of course it does -- that's what makes it a deal. Iran gives something -- ability to quickly get a nuclear weapon -- to get something -- increased resource access. Outside fantasies where America Green Lanterns Iran into a total capitulation, that was always going to be the result), and Israel quite reasonably doesn't want to see Iran strengthened. And of course, Israel will bear the brunt of an Iran more capable to fund its proxies in Syria, Lebanon, and around the Middle East.
(7) So if I was to argue against the deal, that would be my point of attack: it weakens Iran along a threat dimension whose danger was overstated at the expense of strengthening Iran along a threat dimension whose danger is understated. Yet ultimately, that argument seems more of a general criticism of misplaced global priorities than it is a specific criticism of this deal. Assuming I'm right that the sanctions would have been unsustainable absent a deal, the choice was never "weakened terror Iran/strengthened nuclear Ian versus strengthened terror Iran/weakened nuclear Iran". The alternative to weakening Iran's nuclear capacities while relieving it of international sanctions was to strengthen Iran's nuclear capacities while relieving it of international sanctions. The lifting of sanctions was baked into the cake -- they knew it, and we knew it, and the only question was whether we could use the leverage we temporarily possessed to get a deal that accomplished the one, solitary goal it set out to accomplish. Based on my read, and what I've seen, I think that it did. The result is, to be sure, an Iran that will in many ways be more powerful and more dangerous in 2020 than it is in 2015. That's a security risk that will need to be dealt with in its own way. But it wasn't an eventuality that this deal, in these circumstances, was capable of forestalling.
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No thoughts on the Constitutional aspects? Like this. Seems surprising to ink a "10 year" deal that quite likely is only good for 18 months (on our side).
An interesting link (Ramsay is an excellent scholar, albeit one more originalist than the current median of American law). I don't typical have constitutional thoughts on foreign affairs issues, for two reasons: (1) Foreign affairs power is far from my speciality and (2) foreign affairs constitutional questions are almost never adjudicated (due to difficulties finding a plaintiff with standing, political question doctrine, and other like tools which let the judiciary avoid dealing with topics they'd rather not deal with). When I teach the topic to my students, I stress this second aspect -- while the constitution seems to divide foreign affairs powers between the legislature and the executive, Congress has effectively acquiesced to a presidential takeover of the field and the Court hasn't been inclined to challenge this (indeed, the most important SCOTUS opinion on this point -- Justice Jackson's concurrence in the Steel Seizure Case -- is expressly predicated on examining the degree of harmony or conflict between the executive action and the expressed legislative will.
This is most evident in the warmaking context, where you'll notice that we keep on attacking places without using the constitutional mechanism to declare war. Congress for the most part hasn't pushed the issue and so the Court has let sleeping dogs lie. The ongoing theater over the War Powers Resolution is similar -- the Executive Branch (since Nixon) thinks its unconstitutional, but plays along with the reporting requirements to keep Congress pacified, and Congress accordingly hasn't pressed its case any further.
It is interesting that while executive military action absent a declaration of war has entirely supplanted the declaration of war process, it still seems like the executive agrees that some international agreements must go through the treaty process. This is odd if only because scholars have been arguing for a similar interchangeability of "treaty" and "executive agreement" since at least the 1940s. Certainly, nobody has ever drawn a clear line between what is and isn't a candidate for an executive agreement -- let alone a standard that is judicially-enforceable (as, for example, one distinguishing between "minor" and "major" agreements almost certainly wouldn't be). Even if we were to import in such a standard, though, this agreement does not seem any more "major", for example, than the Algiers agreements between the US and Iran resolving the Iran hostage crisis and creating an arbitration process for ongoing US/Iran litigation (upheld by the court in Dames & Moore v. Regan -- a case, incidentally, I believe that Ramsay thinks was wrongly decided, but which I think would more or less foreclose any challenge to this agreement under current law).
Long story short: The constitutional doctrine in this area is unsettled and has been for a long time. It will almost certainly continue to be unsettled because the judiciary has shown no interest in intervening in this area and tends to allow the democratic branches to fight it out amongst themselves (which, historically, has meant the executive basically doing what it pleases). Ramsay isn't the first scholar to lament that (frankly, I'm unsure how I feel about it), but it has been the political and legal reality for some time now. Especially given that the political branches did work out a mutually-agreed upon process here (Congress has opportunity to "disapprove", subject to presidential veto), I predict that there is virtually no chance that the Court will disturb the outcome of that process.
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Settlers Impose Sabbath Closure on Palestinian Residents of Silwan; High Court Asks: Why?
Under the "Legal and Administrative Matters Law of 1970," which is being used to evict the Sabbagh family, Jewish owners are afforded a legal avenue to reclaim property that they owned prior to the 1948 war which, as a result of the war, came under Jordanian rule. It should be noted that Palestinian refugees from that same war – who lost property in what became Israel – are not afforded an equivalent right to reclaim their abandoned property, creating a dual legal system in which ethnicity is the sole determinant factor when it comes to rights.
Exploiting the special standing granted to historic Jewish property owners, the settler group "Nahalat Shimon" has undertaken a campaign to track down the Jewish owners of coveted land in East Jerusalem that was under Jordanian rule, in order to purchase from them the property rights and then evict Palestinian tenants, most of whom have lived in these properties for more than 50 years. This is the context against which the 45-member Sabbagh family (who are themselves refugees of the 1948 war, but are not allowed to legally reclaim their family property in Jaffa) is being forced to leave their home of 60+ years. Following the Supreme Court's January 10th decision to refuse the family's request to consider new evidence in the case (based on the argument that it was too late), Israeli authorities delivered an eviction notice telling the family to leave before January 23rd.
A bidding war erupted over a house in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem, pitting the Palestinian family living in the building against Aryeh King, a radical settler impresario behind many settlement schemes across East Jerusalem. When the price hit $3.27 million (12 million shekels), King decided to withdraw his bid – allowing the Palestinian Abdel Razeq family to purchase the home, should they be able to raise the necessary funds.
If the family is able to raise the funds to buy the house, this would be a rare, albeit astronomically expensive, victory for Palestinians fighting to remain in their homes against an ongoing campaign by Israeli settler groups to "reclaim" Jewish property in East Jerusalem that was abandoned during the 1948 war.
As discussed above, under Israeli law, Jewish property owners are entitled to reclaim property in East Jerusalem that was abandoned during the war, while Palestinians who lost property in what became Israel have no similar right. King and other pro-settler activists take advantage of this law by tracking down Jews who owned property in sensitive areas of East Jerusalem prior to 1948 (Sheikh Jarrah being a key target), and convincing the owners (or their heirs) to sign over the property rights – all in order to evict current Palestinian tenants and move in Israeli settlers.
The case involving the Abdel Razeq family's house did not go according to the settlers' script. A dispute broke out between members of the Jewish family who, under Israeli law, are heirs to the property. The case went to a Family Court, which ruled that the house should be sold through a public bidding process, with the proceeds to be split amongst the heirs.
On January 16th, the Israeli High Court of Justice ordered the Israel Nature and Parks Authority (INPA) and the radical Elad settler group to defend its practice of closing parts of the "City of David National Park" – a name that Israel has applied to an area that includes a large Palestinian residential section of Silwan – on the Jewish Sabbath, evenings, and on Jewish holidays. The closures deny Palestinians, including residents of Silwan, access to parts of the neighborhood.
As FMEP has repeatedly covered, the radical Elad settler group has managed the City of David National Park on behalf of the INPA since 2001. This arrangement that gives the settler group authority over not only areas controlled by settlers – whose interests Elad shares and promotes – but also thousands of Palestinians, to whom Elad has no legal responsibility and whose very presence is part of a "demographic balance" Elad is working actively to flip.
Elad and the INPA have previously tried to defend the park closures on security grounds – citing alleged incidents of vandalism on park grounds. That defense was rejected by the Israeli Attorney General, who noted that no formal complaints about vandalism had been filed, and neither the Israeli police nor the Israel Antiquities Authority had be informed about the problem or Elad's decision to close the park on religious occasions. Following the January 19th court order, Elad and the INPA have 60 days to submit a new defense.
In response to petitions filed by Peace Now, on January 7th the State of Israel announced that it will "examine" two specific cases of illegal (under Israeli law) outpost construction: the Kerem Reim case and the Hayovel case, both located in the area controlled by the Binyamin Regional Council (the Israeli government-funded settlement municipal authority in charge of the area located north of Jerusalem stretching to north of Ramallah). The examination will be led by a police anti-fraud unit and the State Prosecutor's Office.
As summarized in a recent report, Peace Now has previously filed numerous complaints and has provided evidence to the State Prosecutor's office regarding the involvement of the Binyamin Regional Council and the Amana settler organization in the illegal construction of outposts and settlement structures.
In addition to Peace Now's documentation, the Israeli State Comptroller's office published a July 2018 report exposing the criminal involvement of the Binyamin Regional Council and the Amana settler organization in illegal settlement construction.
In 2017, Peace Now published a comprehensive report outlining how government and private entities are systematically using Israeli taxpayer money to establish new settlements and outposts.
MK Bezalel Smotrich has been elected to take the reins of the extreme right-wing nationalist political faction, called the National Union Party. With leadership secured, Smotrich aims to next be chosen to lead Habayit Hayehudi – an umbrella group which unites the far-right factions into a single voting bloc – following Naftali Bennett's decision to leave Habayit Hayehudi and form a new political party alongside Ayelet Shaked.
Smotrich currently lives in the Kedumim settlement, but his house is located inside of an enclave of privately owned Palestinian land that is not included in the settlement's Master Plan, making it illegal even under Israeli law.
Smotrich is a co-founder of Regavim, a radical settler group that works to dispossess Palestinians of their land and property in the West Bank by "helping" the Israeli government to enforce planning and building laws. Like Smotrich, many of Regavim's key staff live in illegally built settlement units, but instead of seeking to enforce Israeli law against their own illegal building, Regavim and Smotrich are working to retroactively legalize their own homes through legislation.
Introducing the "Young Settlements Bill," which would direct the government to treat 66 illegal outposts built on privately owned Palestinian land as legal settlements, while giving the government 2 years to find a way to retroactively legalize those outposts. The bill would also freeze any/all legal proceedings against the outposts and requires the government to connect the outposts to state infrastructure including water and electricity; provide garbage removal; and approve budgets for them. The law also allows the finance minister to guarantee mortgages for settlers seeking to buy units in these outposts, even before the legal status of the land is resolved (a remarkable state-directed violation of normal practices in the mortgage industry). The bill received government backing on December 16, 2018, and will next need to be introduced in the Knesset, where it must pass three readings to become law.
Leading the charge for the Knesset to fund a new municipal body for Israeli settlers in Hebron, despite a court injunction freezing government plans to create such a body.
Introducing a bill that would hand over more land in Area C of the West Bank to the World Zionist Organization.
For FMEP reporting on the Givat Eitam/E-2 settlement, see the January 4th edition of the Settlement Report.


A key component for the description of charged particle systems is the screening of the Coulomb interaction between charge carriers. First investigated in the 1920s by Debye and Hückel for electrolytes, charge screening is important for determining the structural and transport properties of matter as diverse as astrophysical and laboratory plasmas, nuclear matter such as quark-gluon plasmas, electrons in solids, planetary cores and charged macromolecules. For systems with negligible dynamics, screening is still mostly described using a Debye–Hückel-type approach. Here, we report the novel observation of a significant departure from the Debye–Hückel-type model in high-energy-density matter by probing laser-driven, shock-compressed plastic with high-energy X-rays. We use spectrally resolved X-ray scattering in a geometry that enables direct investigation of the screening cloud, and demonstrate that the observed elastic scattering amplitude is only well described within a more general approach.
Chapman, D. A., Vorberger, J., Fletcher, L. B., Baggott, R. A., Divol, L., Döppner, T., Falcone, R. W., Glenzer, S. H., Gregori, G., Guymer, T. M., Kritcher, A. L., Landen, O. L., Ma, T., Pak, A. E., and Gericke, D. O.. Observation of finite-wavelength screening in high-energy-density matter. United States: N. p., Web. doi:10.1038/ncomms7839.
Chapman, D. A., Vorberger, J., Fletcher, L. B., Baggott, R. A., Divol, L., Döppner, T., Falcone, R. W., Glenzer, S. H., Gregori, G., Guymer, T. M., Kritcher, A. L., Landen, O. L., Ma, T., Pak, A. E., & Gericke, D. O.. Observation of finite-wavelength screening in high-energy-density matter. United States. doi:10.1038/ncomms7839.
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Alfred Latour
Alfred Latour is a renowned French artist whose paintings are celebrated for their precise composition, vibrant color palette and exquisite attention to detail. His works often capture the beauty of the natural world, as well as the human spirit, with a sophisticated sensibility. His pieces are highly sought after by art collectors and designers alike, often seen as a testament to his skill and dedication as an artist. Among his best pieces are "Morning in the Park", "Before the Rain" and "The Riverbank", all of which display his unique sense of style and his ability to capture atmosphere. Latour is a master of light and shadow, and his works are often characterized by a delicate balance of elements, such as flora and fauna. His art is a celebration of the beauty of nature, and his works often possess a distinct sense of emotion and humanity.
Alfred Latour, French artist, painting, works, nature, beauty, design, composition, color, detail, light, shadow, balance, atmosphere, emotion, humanity.
Alfred Latour is an artist whose works are celebrated for their subtle beauty and intricate details. He often captures the delicate nuances of light and shadow, and his works often feature a captivating sense of atmosphere. His paintings are often characterized by a sense of harmony and balance, as he often combines elements of nature in an aesthetically pleasing composition. Latour's art also possesses a distinct sense of emotion and humanity, often celebrating the beauty of the human spirit and the natural world. He has been widely praised as an artist with a sophisticated sensibility, and his works are highly sought-after by art collectors around the world.
Alfred Latour, French artist, paintings, art, creativity, beauty.
Alfred Latour is a celebrated French artist whose works are renowned for their thoughtful composition, imaginative use of color and intricate details. He often infuses his paintings with a sense of atmosphere and emotion, creating works that capture and celebrate the beauty of the natural world. His art is characterized by a unique attention to detail and his works have been highly sought after by art collectors around the world. He is a master of capturing the subtle nuances of light and shadow, and his works are a testament to his skill and dedication as an artist. Latour's works are often characterized by an exquisite sense of balance and harmony, as he often blends elements of nature, such as flora and fauna, together in a delicate composition.
Alfred Latour, French artist, painting, art, nature, composition.
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Alfred Latour is a renowned French artist whose paintings are celebrated for their meticulous sense of style, vibrant color palette and great attention to detail. Many of his pieces are known for their ability to capture the human spirit and the beauty of nature. He has been widely praised as an artist with a sophisticated sensibility, and his works are highly sought-after by art collectors around the world. Among his best pieces are "Morning in the Park", "Before the Rain" and "The Riverbank".
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by Andrea Liu
The word "queer" has acquired an unnerving over-elasticity whereby it has come to mean so many things that it is almost meaningless. Once a term that connoted a distinctly minoritarian subjectivity, rife with connotations of an abject, persecuted or "tragic" outsiderliness (1970's-80's), it was as if the word "queer" then received an emergency injection of programmatized positivity whereby the LGBT community reclaimed the word, turning it into a source of agency and positive identity ("Queer Nation," 1990's). Upon this foundation then came the hyper-commodification and commercialization of "queer" (i.e. Gay Pride), such that it got to the point where an LGBT protest group "Gay Shame"formed in San Francisco as a show of disgust with the over-commercialization and plethora of corporate sponsorships of Gay Pride weekend. Concurrently was the increasing academicization of "queer", as "queer" became a more rarefied term coming out of Literary Studies, invoking the subversion, evasion, or detournement of hegemonic meanings or the contestation of the taken-for-granted "naturalness" of the structures of heterosexual society.
With the ongoing metastisizing of this word and its referent, one wonders whether the increasing normalization, "celebration" and expansion of the purview of this word has led to the dissolution of its once dissident status? As LGBT people, what do we gain and what do we lose from the increasing acceptance (and integration into society) of the word "queer"? Has "queer" devolved into a catch-all term for any aesthetic or methodology that slightly deviates from a norm? Now that earlier connotations of estrangement and alienation of this word have been pinkwashed into a marketable, upscale, gentrified "queer," has "queer" dissipated into a mere boutique term, a decoration, an ornament people blithely throw around to make themselves sound edgy? Do we no longer "pay a price" or risk anything in declaring ourselves to be "queer"? If not–that is to say if "queer" is so banalized now that it is uncontroversial—is this a good thing or a bad thing?
These thoughts were the point of entry that intrigued me to attend a two day workshop and event called "Publishing Camp: Queering Dissemination" at the Yale School of Art which "sought to engage with publishing as a queer act" (organized by Jonathan Payne and Nate Pyper). I asked myself, "How can dissemination be queered?" and was piqued with curiosity wondering what their conception of "queer" would be.
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The first day's workshop, entitled "Socially Active: Disseminating Your Present Queer History" was led by Yale MFA alumni Asad Pervaiz, part of a year-long initiative at Yale called "Queering Space." The second day's event was a conversation between Rindon Johnson, a text-based visual artist and poet, Nicole Killian, a graphic designer, and Shawné Michaelain Holloway, whose work comes out of "Dirty new media" or glitch art. A movement that began coalescing in the mid-2000's at SAIC (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), dirty new media rejects the impeccable cleanliness of digital art and design, instead embracing the corruption, sabotage or messy perversion of technological "progress" through glitches, short circuits, cyber errors, etc. "Dirty new media" is a refutation of the seamless hyper-realism and slick corporate aesthetic of New Media Art. At the talk, Holloway showed an array of work, including X-Tube (amateur porn site) video-broadcasts of herself doing sex work. Refreshingly not seeking to be elegant, refined, or 'genteel', this work had a frenetic affect around them, with an at times unsettling co-mingling of lurid self-objectification coupled with confrontational discursive thrusts and interrogation of issues of digital intimacy, control, and power/submission. In the online description of her X-tube work, Holloway bluntly asks, "Who or what controls who's arousal? Who gets paid? Are there different kinds of currency used for pay-outs? Who gets what kind of currency—is it all equal?" However, these questions were not wrapped in formalist aesthetics or opaque conceptual legerdemain, but were presented in a raw, unvarnished almost unmediated way. That is to say, she is not creating an art piece in hopes of evoking questions in our mind about XYZ (i.e. digital intimacy, power, submission, etc.). What is remarkable is the X-Tube work is actually enacting these questions directly as she video-broadcasts herself doing sex work and then solicits her real life X-tube digital audience to pay to be spectators—the end result she then presents in galleries as art, a wry twist on achieving the goal of being "paid for your art". One might hesitate to characterize the X-Tube work as "performance" (which I think of as a constellation of forms, often premeditated and staged, to create an effect or a reality or a scene or a dynamic or a narrative). I saw these X-tube porn bursts more as an "action" in that they acted directly on reality, as opposed to being a performance score or a representation of an abstract idea through a constellation of forms
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Weaving through her work one senses a barely perceptible open-wound vulnerability, paradoxically wrapped in a blunt, "Don't Fuck With Me" confrontational approach, such as a piece whose captions says, "Looking in the mirror, the black woman asked, 'Mirror Mirror on the wall, who's the finest of them all?' the Mirror says, 'Snow White you Black Bitch and don't you forget it!'" (a riff on Carrie Mae Weems' piece of a similar caption). In the talk Holloway says that she sees all of her work as of one piece. Indeed, one gets the impression of the conceptual equivalent of Matryoshka dolls (i.e. the wooden Russian dolls of descending size that nest inside one another) when encountering Holloway's work, where questions such as "who controls arousal?", "who gets paid?" "what turns you on? " "what do you think is dirty?" seem to get wrapped in one another throughout the body of Holloway's work. Questions with sub-questions and topics with sub-topics (all of which have a rhizomatic interlocking coherence)—about exploiter/exploited, digital voyeurism/exhibitionism, power/submission, the politics (and political economy) of arousal–become like the conceptual equivalent of Matryoshka dolls nesting inside pockets and sub-pockets of one another in Holloway's work.
Photo courtesy of Nate Pyper, 2017
The discussion began with moderator Rosie Eveleigh asking the three artists about ritual in their practices. It eventually migrated to a discussion about exhibitionism, and Holloway talked about "a comic obsession with sharing" in her online X-Treme Submission series. One of the most exciting aspects of Publishing Camp was a 114 page Reader compiled for the event called "Publishing Camp: Queering Dissemination", which was marked by a delightful eclecticism. Normally in a compilation of art writings, the authors all hail from the same stratosphere or same scene. As an arbitrary example, if you look at any compilation of art writings published by Sternberg Press, usually all the authors are of the same scene, the same "gang," the same stratosphere, all at a similar level of visibility/repute; usually half of them have already had professional associations with each other. There is usually a predictable anodyne homogenity amongst authors in book compilations of art writings. On the contrary, the Publishing Camp Reader mixed authors coming from sprawlingly diverse origins, of varying levels of visibility/recognition, and mixing wildly different types of writing. Yes it did knock off a few "usual suspects" luminaries of Queer Theory (i.e. José Esteban Muňoz, Mimi Thi Ngyuen, Sara Ahmed, Michael Warner), but then it also threw in an unexpected piece about the history of the New York Times Roman font read thru an analysis of the intertwining of bodies, gender and technology. Surprisingly, there was also a collaboratively written experimental text coming out of Litia Perta's Writing Bodies project that created a big splash in NY in 2015 (a project at Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts seeking to seep into interstitial spaces between bodily affect and writing).And though usually I am no fan of bell hooks, the Publishing Camp Reader included an excoriating, withering piece of hers about African-Americans' fraught relationship to images and the perpetuation of racism through photography that incisively complimented the rest of the writings. The reader also included two questionnaires and their answers from over two dozen under-30 New Media artists about racism and the lack of people of color in New Media.
Normally we would only find the José Esteban Muňoz gang in certain type of book on queer studies or performance studies, and the text on New York Times Roman Font would be in a book on typography, and the New Media questionnaires would be in a book on New Media, and the bell hooks essay would be in a book on Critical Race Studies. Usually everything is balkanized and everybody is in their own corner, amongst everybody who already thinks like them, preaching to the converted. But the Publishing Camp Reader broke through this ossified balkanized sectarianism and put eclectic voices into dialogue with one another.
I had the opportunity to ask some questions to one of the organizers of the event Nate Pyper and one of the presenting artists, Shawné Michaelain Holloway.
ANDREA LIU: In the "Publishing Camp: Queering Dissemination" Gallery Reader, I was intrigued by the essay by José Esteban Muňoz where he says, "Queerness has often existed and circulated as a shared structure of feeling encompassing same sex desire and other minoritarian sexualities, but also holds other dissident affective relationships to different aspects of the sex/gender system." He also talks about queerness in relation to the archive, to deciphering, demystification, and even to essay writing.
I was wondering if you could talk a bit, in organizing this symposium, about what was your and Jonathan's thinking about the word "queer"? How can dissemination be "queered"? What does "queer" conjure up for you (i.e. the counterhegemonic, the overlooked, the misplaced, the abject, the deviant, the excluded, or perhaps none of these)?
NATE PYPER: Using the term "queer" to describe our project was both a provocation and a call to action. We wanted to know what utility this term still has or might have for non-normative subjects today who use the internet as a publishing tool in the habitual act of making public. We also wanted to know if "queering" might still be able to produce the same kinds of anti-assimilationist tactics as when it was first reclaimed by people like Queercore progenitors GB Jones and Bruce LaBruce three decades ago. Queer as a refusal, a disidentificatory action in-and-of-itself. Combined with the ways in which "queer" has been instrumentalized in queer theory, various questions arose: what would an anti-social publishing house look like? Can we factor in a non-reproductive futurism into our understanding of publishing, or does the production of reproductions inherently reproduce hegemonic systems of dissemination? The event served as an opportunity where we might be able to engage with these kinds of queries.
ANDREA LIU: I understand you come out of graphic design. Forgive me if this is perhaps a chauvinism or ignorance on my part, but I don't normally think of design as a site (or hotbed) for ideological production, ideological contestation, or politicization in general. (Perhaps I have a more stereotypical notion of design as being allied primarily with commercial and consumer interests). That's why it pricked my interest when I saw one of the organizers of Queering Dissemination came out of Graphic Design—normally I would expect these topics to be broached by those coming out of performance art, site-specific art, social practice (maybe even sculpture).
Do you believe that graphic design can be a site for ideological production, or ideological contestation?
NATE PYPER: Yes! Graphic design is most often associated with the material production of ideology through the setting of type, implementation of images, and the use of color and space, in various forms through which ideology is circulated: books, billboards, websites, moving images, etc. Ideology is as dependent on what it asserts as how it asserts. For this reason, I believe that graphic design is absolutely implicated and caught up in the act of ideological production in that it provides visual articulation to ideas and positions. Form fucks with function. For the designer invested in these questions, graphic design can function as a "trojan horse" in which ideology may be supported, rejected, subverted, annotated, and tested through the ways in which it's expressed and distributed.
ANDREA LIU (Question for Shawné Michaelain Holloway): I recall you describing yourself in your talk as a glitch artist, and you made an amusing comment about how, "There is almost a desperation, and I don't mean that in a pejorative way, in the noise and glitch art community, to constantly produce output." I am intrigued by the frenetic theorization around glitch art because it paradoxically seems to be passionately advocated on behalf of both modernism and postmodernism. Two impulses which I see as diametrically opposed–modernism vs. postmodernism–have somehow both managed to claim glitch art as their progeny or "baby". For instance, Glitch theorist Michael Betancourt invokes Adorno's book Aesthetic Theory in discussing how glitch art sabotages the seamless impeccable surface of digital works, supposedly violating what Adorno calls "bourgeois functionalization". Betancourt stalwartly subsumes glitch art under the modernist tradition of rupture. On the other hand, there are those that claim glitch art firmly under the rubric of postmodernism because it destabilizes the myth of linear progress and the search for the 'perfect technology,' it basks in the post-utopian ruined surface, and it heralds the "death of the author."
I am wondering, as a glitch artist yourself, do you regard this dense theorization around glitch art as irrelevant academic 'mental masturbation'? There seems to be a prolific impetus to theorize and justify glitch art through manifestos, essays, etc. For instance, I find Rosa Menkman to be almost evangelist in her advocating that glitch art is going to save the world (due to its critical subversive potential) in The Glitch Moment(um). She operates on the assumption that glitch art is something new and unprecedented (extremely modernist in her sanguine "can-do" optimism that history is a tabula rasa and we can still invent "new" forms; as opposed to the postmodernist melancholic resignation that it is impossible to do anything new and history is "over"). Do you regard all the theory around glitch art as something that is related to or has a symbiotic relationship to the glitch art community, or do you regard it as something separate and irrelevant to the actual practice of making glitch art?
SHAWNÉ MICHAELAIN HOLLOWAY: First of all, alot of those theories are quite outdated. You have to understand, part of what "glitch art" does is prey upon your lack of ability to anticipate computer errors. Glitch art was trying to run your computer so as to manufacture errors at a set breaking point– which is actually quite poetic. Behind glitch art there is a philosophy of "brokenness" and as you mentioned, a conversation about the "death of the author" both aesthetically and in practice. When you are working within these postmodern confines, these tropes are an extraordinarily important part of how glitch art can be interpreted.
But now we all kind of know what kind of glitches computers might manufacture. When you start manufacturing these errors without the basic structure of those errors being there—for instance when you start making glitch art using photoshop or with an app—that conversation about 'the death of the author' or 'brokenness' is completely undermined. So now, the correlation between glitch art theories and aesthetics don't really make alot of sense. However, they made sense before 2015; the Snow Leopard Mac Update, for example, was one of the last of the updates that allowed you to really get in and easily modify the raw data structures of an image manually. It is this kind of evolution that signaled the death of a connection between glitch theory and what most people are/were producing.
I am pretty anti-manifesto and the Glitch Studies Manifesto is getting older now. However, Rosa's work, expanded, is necessary. Another part of what she did, with A Vernacular of File Formats, was a document of the behaviors of all different kinds of codecs and compressions so that you can produce different kinds of brokeness-es.The distribution and visibility of the manifesto support all of our work. Other artists like Jon Cates have created entirely different geneaologies that function similarly for the field.
Glitch is, and will always be a methodology for me. It is inextricably tied to the theory, however academic. I still really FEEL that brokenness and instability. You have to give in to feeling, instead of just gazing, at Glitch Art new and old to really understand.
It is notable that in Nate Pyper's response to the question about the organizers' conception of "queer", he mentions 'reproductive futurism', an allusion to Lee Edelman's No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. (Edelman argues that because gay people cannot contribute to the manic "reproductive futurism" of the heterosexual regime, they are ostracized. Edelman dismantles the notion of futurity, and time itself, to be coded as "heterosexual"—because heterosexuals can reproduce children and gays cannot). Most startling is that Pyper would think to relate Edelmen's theory on reproductive futurism with reproductions in the context of publishing–the connection between the two would never have occured to me in a million years. It is evidence of a highly original, highly experimental approach to thinking about the marriage of queerness with publishing; a mental agility that was readily apparent already in the choice of texts in the "Publishing Camp: Queering Dissemination" Reader.
— Andrea Liu 2017
Andrea Liu is a New York/Berlin-based visual art & performance critic (and artist) whose research often deals with geneaology, or the epistemic context within which bodies of knowledge become intelligible and authoritative, as a point of departure in art production. She was Curator of Counterhegemony: Art in a Social Context Program, a 6 week theoretical fellowship program for visual and performing artists. Since 2008 she was awarded 15 artist residencies, including Atlantic Center for the Arts (Master Artist: Cornelius Eady), Ox-Bow/Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Fine Arts Houston CORE, Jacob's Pillow, Art & Law Residency Program, ZK/U-Berlin (Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistic), Centrale Fies Liveworks Performance Act Residency Vol. 4, Christiania Researcher-in-Residence, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, and was a Core Participant in Anton Vidokle's New Museum Nightschool Program. She has written for Afterimage, Art US, e-flux (AUP), Social Text, New Museum Social Practice Glossary, Art Margins, Movement Research Journal, Pastelegram, Postmodern Culture, Girls Like Us, and has book chapter contributions to Infinite Instances (Mark Batty Publishers, 2011), Sarai Reader 09: Projections (Raqs Media Collective, 2013), IN Works 931-14209 (Edition Fink, 2014), Migros Museum/Punk is Dada (On-Curating, 2016), Deste Prize: An Anniversary Exhibition 1999-2015 (Deste Foundation, 2017), and Legal Interventions, 2007-2014 [authors: Vincent van Gerven Oei/Jonas Staal] (Utigeveri Press, 2018, forthcoming). She had a solo exhibition at the recent HTMlles Feminist Festival of Digital Art and Media in Montreal. She received her undergraduate education at Yale and thereafter studied literary criticism at Centre Parisien d'Etudes Critiques.
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Thursday Ride Report & Saturday Ride
The sky looked somewhat ominous, radar looked really ominous yet we rode and stayed dry. More to come, including a big Saturday ride and route.
In a move that will likely get me booted from the club and sent to Siberia for retraining, I offer tomorrow's New Albany routes:
https://ridewithgps.com/routes/19046060
Visiting Canal Winchester
Monday, during a short, 21 mile ride, I found a TV sitting in the middle of the road. Don't see that every day.
Pedaling around the parking lot at BrewDogs in Canal Winchester, Tuesday, I heard a loud bang. Someone's tire had exploded.
Very humid evening with a high around 90 degrees. So few people I recognize now when I visit.
Dustin rolled in and it was good to see him for the first time, long time. Doing a lot of running and with his cardio engine, can climb on a bike and ride with almost anyone.
Former Italian Stallion, Kevin Hollingshead. Lots of work, travel, unhealthy eating and now he is barely a Polish Pony. Later, he would punish the B group.
As is usually the case, the A group was really small, pretty good sized B+ and B groups and then a good turnout of C cyclists. Ric Noland of Cyclist Connection has done a good job turning newbies onto this group ride.
I wanted an easier pace so rolled out with the normal B group. During the warm-up, Kevin and 2 others put in a massive gap on our group. They waited for us later so that was good. Never seen such a large gap created in the first mile. It was good getting caught up with Jackie, Susie, Mark V, etc... as the pace kept my breathing low! Finished with 37 miles.
Horses of Misery or the Horsey Hundred
At Georgetown University in Georgetown, KY, a few thousand of us gather on Friday to gather our credentials and visit the expo, prior to participating in the next morning's Horsey Hundred. This visit is my second and I find it to be a good, early season century with 6000'+/- of climbing. As the day winds down, things begin to.....
....wind up at the Mark & Karen Rossi tent. Above, Larry and Lisa approach with a cooler. There was plenty of liquid refreshment for us and others who just happened by. Probably for next year, we should include water as the lack of it made us turn too frequently to the beer and wine as the only alternatives.
Saturday morning arrives and so too do all the cyclists. Ohio was the most represented state, as of Friday. Could have been enough walk-up traffic to push KY to #1. Frank and Lisa above joined many from central Ohio. There is not a mass start so people begin filtering out whenever they want.
The Rossi's, Larry P, Lisa A, Mitch, Flyin Tuna and later, Mike Wrey represent our core group. Strangely, Larry brought a banana even though the multiple food stops are well stocked and present every 20 miles or so. The scenery is fantastic as we.....
....pass many horse farms and well manicured estates.
We paused at the 2nd food stop and refueled. Larry made a point, many times, that we needed to stay hydrated on this hot and humid day. Later, many cyclists were observed off their bikes, sitting and resting. Probably they could have used a dose of Larry's wisdom.
I think at mile 50, Mike joined our group. Some took the 83 mile route so we were down to 4, Larry, FT, Mike and me.
At mile 75, the theme dressed volunteers provide all that we could want, including pickle juice and chicken broth.
Once leaving the aforementioned food stop, a castle is seen in the distance. Throughout the ride, police presence is plentiful as they controlled traffic to make our way much easier then it otherwise could be.
The highlight of the route though is at mile 91 where ice cream floats are served. A popular spot and even though only 9 miles remains, few pass this without stopping for the treat. Finished with a 17.8 average for the 100 miles. Unfortunately, I had to get back so drove the 3 hours back to Ohio while others dined and then rode Sunday morning, doing 50 or 70 miles.
A Beautiful Evening
Check out the sky as 30 of us head north on tonight's flat and fast route. Maybe the various departments could start repaving or pot hole filling projects soon? More to come.
A Long Tuesday
My day began with a fun ride out of Granville, to Bladensburg with Mark Rossi, Jeff S and Flyin Tuna. Exactly 70 miles as we arrived back in G-ville. So, why not attend the Tuesday New Albany ride and bring the day's total to 100? Well, the weather radar indicated one reason why not but it remained dry for our entire ride. Above, Peggy C and a many year old bike that is about to be replaced. Funds have been scraped together and a new bike will be on order soon.
The weather forecast kept our number down to 15 so with so few participants, I began to get desperate for material that you crave. So, I took an image of Doug McConaha's shoe, kind of stylish. Doug and French Climbing Machine are headed to VA to ride "Mountains of Misery" this weekend.
Wow!!! One liter water bottles! Now that is attention worthy.
The Phenom shows off a fashionable pair of sun glasses.
Sokha claims the Phenom is high maintenance as he had to reopen his car and take out a pump so Phenom's tires could be brought back to appropriate pressure.
We head out with some new people, including Ryan, not shown but a recent new member. Needing only 30 miles to make the 100 day total, I hung in there until Alexandria and then peeled off, heading north and west to avoid nasty looking clouds to the south. My route brought me to.....
....Caswell Road where the bridge is almost finished and you can get across but walk only as a 5" curb exists at the ends of this section. I finished with 32 miles and while driving east.....
....the gang was coming in. Apparently they too remained dry while our brothers and sisters to the south, in Canal Winchester, did not. Been a tough weather spring so far. Big ride this Saturday, the Honor Ride. Check it out. I and a few others are headed to KY for the Horsey Hundred.
The Classic Faux Paus
Doug McConaha arrives for today's ride and with him, the French Climbing Machine. Philippe chose to correct my spelling for the title of this post so now that his comment is part of the record, I have to leave the poor spelling or else his comment would not make sense.
The Gus & Peggy show arrived too as we prepare to shove off in what turned out to be a dry ride. Surprising given the forecast.
Dang it! At mile 2 some of us are already off the back, including Gus' friend Norman from WV. We managed to jump back on the train.
Couple of new people, Max and Billy were part of the group and always good to have new people come out for the rides. We arrived in Martinsburg where.....
....Doug parked his bike in front of the only bench. Group ridicule quickly solved the problem so now I had a place to sit too.
Max and Billy patiently wait. This being mile 30, we soon headed south where those intending to ride the 68 mile route turned right on Bell Church while Steve Nelson, Jeff S and me stayed straight and eventually finished with 56 miles and 3100' of climbing.
No Rain, a Crash & Running Into Shannon K
Jared discovers, after pulling his bike from the car, his rear tire is flat. Hate when that happens. Jared is doing a 300k event this weekend.
Wow! Sokha's new bike. He has another set of wheels that have yellow accents to match the frame. The HH guys did well in a series of races in IN last week.
Deniece making a rare appearance. Work and commuting to/from work, prevents her from appearing more often.
A rainy forecast cut into the turnout and only 5 Riveters came out. When I asked the Rivet group to depart, they informed all they were riding with the A group. Ken, Paul, Pete and Ron got a chuckle out of our reaction. Many disbelieved they would ride like A's but in fact they did. I headed out with the A group, looking for a story for the blog.
The pace was moderate and we arrive in Alexandria with a 20.6 average. Then things got toasty as we made a left on Hardscrabble and that long climb but we paused at the top to regroup. Don't think everyone made it on but it was a legit regroup. Then off to Northridge and a right, ugh, for the Stone Quarry event. I hung in to the last climb and then......
....emerged from the pack to attack!!!! Actually, by the time I reached the front of the group with Pete and Paul leading, I was almost out of gas but I kept going while giving Pete a long stare. No doubt reminded everyone of the above image. I had a good gap for 5 seconds....ok, maybe 2 before Pete and all others swept around me. I went from first to last in an instant. We made a right on Louden and then Dry Creek where.....
....I was not feeling all that fine at Burg Street so I went right while the others stayed straight. After the Hardscrabble and Stone Quarry climbs, my average had gone up to 20.9. I stopped at the bottom of Beechwood, in Granville to catch the B group. I waited and....
....waited. After 20 minutes I began to despair. Just then.....
....Shannon K came by on a solo ride and I got caught up with him. Then the A group came through and I jumped on with them. Soon, we caught the B group and all yelled, "On your left!" so proper etiquette was performed and I was witness to it. At the top of the climb on Moots, I bugged out and jumped in with the B group. After crossing 310 on old 161.....
....in front of the construction site, Kim his a clod of dirt or other debris, going down. Kristian and Kristie also went down. Kristie is ok. Kristian had a deep cut in his ankle and subsequently was stitched. I think Kim's injuries are mostly scrapes but with no broken bones. Probably 15 of us lingered with most helpless to do anything but watch. Calls were made, a driver stopped and gave us a First Aid kit then Kristie suggested a get a group together and 8 of us headed to New Albany. Finished with 42 miles and a 20.5 average.
I Gambled and Lost
I passed on an opportunity to ride Tuesday morning. So many forecasts of rain had missed so I thought it would be dry for the evening, New Albany ride. I also thought an earlier storm may have taken energy out of what I saw on weather radar and the storms would dissipate. Alas, it rained hard as I look to the west and the view to....
.....the east is somewhat encouraging but of course, that is where the storms are going, not from where they come. More opportunities in the coming days and I hear of a good ride for Saturday.
Kinda Breezy Out There
What good fortune! I pull into a parking spot, Kristie does too, next to mine. She hops out of her car, opens the trunk and.....I am the proud recipient of one of 18 loaves of bread. Let me tell ya, it is bakery quality good and won't last long around my house.
Kirby on the left, Mike Weber, Don and Chris I, all happy to be out here on a beautiful Saturday morning and...wait.....what's this......
....Geoff from Veloscience pulls in too! Buzz C on the left.
Don gathers us together to describe what he expects from us. Some refer to him as a great leader but I know him as the "Great Leader" because while he may not be separated at birth from......
....Kim Jung=un, clearly they share some DNA, so similar in the facial features and leadership ability. Kim Don-un, our ride leader for today.
We head east with a tail wind. Turning left on Hardscrabble Road, Marty and Ron set a pace that few of us could match, thus violating one of Don's rules of the road. On Battee Road, I admonished them, sternly, They claim they were simply riding easy and chatting the entire time. Isn't that always the excuse? At mile 36 we entered.....
....Centerburg and paused to refuel. All 21 of us had hung together, for the most part, thus far and enjoyed the break.
Kristie pointed out she was wearing unicorn socks so of course, that, coupled with the ruby slippers, requires an image. Kristie was the only woman on the ride and wished others had joined. We fought a combination of head wind and cross wind on the return but it was worth it because....
....at the end, we had bread and cookies to share. Finished with 63 miles and a 19.1 average.
Thursday!
Decent turnout of 50ish as we wait in the shade for the top of the hour.
There ya go! The appropriate reaction when you see me with camera.
I announced that 15% of purchases at Rusty Bucket would go to the Honor Ride and then Jay P modeled a Honor's Ride jersey which someone claimed was a "club" fit rather than a "race" fit.
Steve Hewitt is here to lead out a C/D group but I think only one other came out for the group. We need to do better to recruit the newbie cyclist.
And off we go to the east, headed toward Granville. I rolled out with the A group and after being on the rivet throughout the Stone Quarry rollers......
....waited at the bottom with this group's KOM, Paul Stock and then decided at this point, mile 20.....
....to wait for my many buddies in the B group. Here they come in a long string of cyclists.
We got split up due to a flat tire but a good group of Katherine, Kristian, John, Ric, Flyin Tuna, Kevin, etc... headed back, into the sun to finish with 42 miles and for me, a 19.9 average. The Riveters finished the 48 mile route with an average of 23.5.
The Hills Are Alive, with the Sound of Engines
Wow, good turnout for Tuesday's New Albany ride, 30 of us. I know, you are thinking, "Only 30?" but all 30 are in one large group of B/B+ paced cyclists. It was great! I never had to take a pull!!! I know, you are thinking, "If there had only been two who showed up you still would not have taken a pull." Yeah, you got me there.
Ric preparing to join the group and telling me he took a buy-out offer and officially retires in one month. Great, yet another person who now will ride every day and kick my ass. OK, yes, he already kicks my ass but now it will be worse.
The famous shady spot was filling rapidly as we sought protection from a warm sun. Larry P holding up a tree.
Then Marty rolls in on the rarely seen "White Knight" bike. I kidded him by saying no one has ridden a chariot like that since the days of Ben-Hur. Marty arrived back from a winter in various exotic locales last week. He claims he watched my arrival and then knew it was ok to return.
Time is drawing near to shove off as Kristie takes a selfie. Hey! Wait a sec. Why is Peggy not on her bike?
Alas, she locked her keys in her car. Oh no! Gus kept his distance, not wanting to be drawn into something that would prevent both from riding but Chris I. was there to assist with finding someone who could gain access to the car. All Peggy could do now was watch and wait. Later, she would join us for the return.
We roll out with the eyes......
....of New Albany upon us. Kind of cool to be part of a large group that garners the attention of the restaurant goers who give us a thumbs up.
Out we go as I take an image of the tunnel that exists within our group. What a fabulous evening made special because of the sun, temperature, lack of wind and of course many of my favorite cyclists. Fun time. After Sunday's 83 mile effort, I hoped this would be a true B/B+ pace and so it was. Milt on the left, Larry P on the right.
We arrived at the left turn to 310 when someone just had to go. Got the 4" out of the shorts, took care of business and returned to the peloton, all before the light change. Way to go.
Screaming down Battee Road, we almost ran into the back end of a farm implement but managed to slow down. The fields were filled with tractors plowing or planting. What a nice evening to ride or plow. After the 37 mile ride at a 20.1 average we returned to the parking lot and descended upon Kristie's trunk for fabulous cookies and.....
....Mitchell rolled in from a solo effort, collecting booty from having won the Cat 5 State Championship on Sunday at Lake Hope. Way to go and now you graduate to the Rivet class on Thursdays. That is it for now my many fans!
Sunday in the Hocking Hills
I did not stress myself too much during Saturday's ride so I would be ready for a Sunday ride beginning at Alley Park, south of Lancaster. The route was to be 88 miles and 5000'+ of climbing. Arriving at the start, the ride leader announced the route would be 60 miles and of course different from what I had on my Garmin. This will shock you but I was determined to go long. Lot of new roads so at mile 14, I departed the group of Brent J, Andrew H, Bob S, Ryan, Dirty Dan and Sam. Then....
....(sorry for the out of focus image)....the group had a flat tire and my route crossed theirs and we regrouped in Logan. There, Dan too decided to go long so with my partner towing me around the route, we ended up in.....
....Laurelville. Along the way, encountered several new or seldom ridden roads, for me such as Mirgon, Mann, Nixon, a gravel road named Purcell, Ellis, Union, etc... Some big climbs in there along with Wagner Road and the climb to Thompson Ridge (nasty, that one). After the stop at Subway, we continued to.....
....follow the route. We got onto Bailor Road and say a sign stating it was a dead end. Impossible except, sure enough, it ended at a farm's entry. Dan whipped out his phone and plotted a return to Middlefork Road and back on the route. Once on it, I checked mileage and realized a direct route to Alley Park would give us 80+ miles so we climbed Buean Vista Rad, Revenge and returned to the park with 83 miles and 5100' of climbing. Now a momentous event....
....a child needed air pumped into his tire and with only a slight hesitation, Dan helped the kid out. I had an epiphany. This guy is no longer deserving of the "Dirty" moniker so hence forth, he shall be "Decent Dan."
Saturday COP, Mid Ohio Century Ride
Speculation swirled during the off season that Kenda Janet would abandon the traditional Kenda kit in favor of something more swanky, befitting her elite status but no, the Kenda tradition lives on.
A week ago, I posted an image of a woman's leg that had a mass removed for the purpose of eliminating melanoma. It worked and the leg did not belong to a woman in AZ as some surmised but to Janet. She is building her stamina and today's route of 67 miles would be a challenge.
Tym Tyler was here too and started with us.
Also here was Jeff S, Fred H and many others who were departing at various times. OK, I know, the MOC ride is flat and boring but a couple of years ago, Andrew Clayton created a new route and while it too is flat, it is at least much better.
We headed out and soon Miek Wray and his band of Team Sociale came by and we rode with them for awhile. Some of us tired of the pace so we regrouped and with a river on the left, heading north we saw....
....a large bald eagle's nest in the trees and an attendant eagle just above. I know, can't see it but trust me, it is in there. Very neat. We reached Marion, the northern most point for our journey and stopped at.....
....a Subway! Soon after we arrived, a group from Westerville Bicycle Club showed up, including Ted Miesky. It was good catching up with him. We got back on our bikes and rolled into Waldo where.....
....there were dozens of bikers, including the above rig with an interesting companion.
One of these is a cyclist, the other is a biker. You decide.
I love places like this but it was too crowded and too late to stop in but a unique bar/restaurant that has become an icon in the region. It is known for it's fried baloney but inside I could see the pies too are a draw.
After briefly pausing inside, we went back out and Janet realized she needed to refill a water bottle. Somehow, she struck up a conversation with a biker and got a bottle of water from him. We continued south and finished with 66 miles and get this....800' of climbing. Fun time with good people.
Saturday brings us a flat, flat ride out of Delaware, the COP Mid Ohio Century. Kenda Janet is leading a group which will shove off at 8:30am doing the 65 mile route. I plan to be there. Really hilly ride on Sunday so this B pace with pleasant people is a must for me. The 65 and 100 mile routes are: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/27413290 and https://ridewithgps.com/routes/27413286
Also, Gus and Peggy Cook have organized this route with a 8:30am start from behind Veloscience in New Albany.
Thursday Wonderfulness
Closing a loop, Steve Hewitt, who had been knocked over by a car while kneeling with his bike on Tuesday, was happy to report that his bike is good and so too is he.
Members of Team Audi, the bad boys of the peloton. Just kidding guys. They have embraced the concept of group riding etiquette.
Lot of pairs of white legs at tonight's parking lot. Why is that? Ha, ha, I am such a kidder. Light turnout on what was a windy but beautiful evening. Probably 40ish cyclists.
A tradition like no other, scoping out the contents of Kristie's trunk. Oh yeah, lots of good tasting treats in there. By the way, that is a nice looking cycling kit.
Mike Weber wolfing down a double, Fig Newton. I object to this. Fig Newtons are to be savored, not gulped.
A new face and an able replacement for Luke Russell. LR will be missed. A great guy who moved to MN with Lori Nedescu. The Power Couple have moved on. Ben is from LA so just must refer to him as the Rajin Cajun. He'll be here for a year+ as his girlfriend completes her PHD.
The Riveters head out as we watch and then the A group departs. Later, the Riveters would finish with a 22.8 avg. Having ridden hard, for me, on Tuesday with the Canal A group, I was not overly optimistic about my chances.
We head out, Gus, Mike Weber, Will Paskett, Brandon H, Larry P, Sam S, Paul Stock, Dirty Dan, Joe T,....around 12-14 total. I was ok to mile 25 with an average of 21.4 but began to doubt I would still be ok after the Beechwood Bluff climb so made a left on Morse. Having forgotten the B group made a late switch to the route, I waited for them and then thought, "You idiot. They are not coming this way!" Alas, I soloed in for the next 12 miles, still finishing with a 20mph average. Entering the parking lot I was relieved to find.....
....Kristie had opened the treasure trunk. Kyle on the left, Ben center and Kim Don-un on the right. Recently, someone used hyperbole to describe Don's ride leader qualities, referring to him as a great leader. Hah, I can't allow that to slide so now there are two Great Leaders, Kim Jung-un and Kim Don-un. Dang, the cookies were amazing.
Lake Hope Road Race
This Sunday is the Lake Hope Road Race, a classic event. Click the below link for details and get out there and compete.
https://legacy.usacycling.org/myusac/index.php?pagename=registration&eventid=911&year=2018
Riding Out of Canal Winchester with the A Group
Starting and ending a ride from in front of a brewery...genius! Although, getting out of Canal Winchester from the west side to the open roads to the east and south is not ideal. Good turnout for this evenings.....
....breezy ride. Winds from the southwest would aid us going out and had diminished somewhat for the return as the route went east/west mostly.
Lot of Kenda logos around here. Brent, in full Kenda regalia. Brent began with the A group but having already put in a hard mountain bike ride in the morning, ran out of steam and dropped back. Later, we found him laying in a ditch, resting. We fed him and sent him on a direct way back to the parking lot. He is really good at popping wheelies in the parking lot.
Yet another Kendaista on the right. Kenda Janet and Paul would have felt at home in this parking lot. We were sent out, I choosing to test my luck with the A group. Managed to hang in there to the very end, finishing with a 20mph average for the 43 mile route. Brent Jenkins was in there too, Joe Hall who I remember from years ago but other than that, mostly strangers. Good group of guys and it was a real group ride where we sat up a couple of times to reform.
Then things got weird (other than me finishing with the A group of course). I heard some unusual post ride noise and walking toward the sound, found a black Camaro had backed into a kneeling Steve Hewitt. He was thrown into his van, along with the bike but is ok.


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Altoona Motorcycle Accident Lawyer
Motorcycle accidents are often extremely serious. The impact from another motor vehicle or with a fixed object typically throws the rider from the motorcycle, resulting in painful, debilitating injuries. When the negligence of other drivers has caused a motorcyclist to sustain bodily harm and other losses, an Altoona motorcycle accident lawyer may be able to help.
You may be facing a long road to recovery from broken bones, road rash, head trauma, and internal injuries, and you may suffer permanent impairments as a result. Consulting an Altoona personal injury attorney in this situation may be highly beneficial.
Common Motorcyclist Injuries
Motorcycle wrecks tend to leave riders with catastrophic injuries, especially when these accidents involve a collision with a larger vehicle. Motorcycles offer little protection from impact, and they also carry the risk of a motorcyclist being thrown from the bike to the pavement. These factors can result in devastating injuries in even seemingly minor accidents. Some of the most common injuries in a motorcycle accident include:
Road rash
An experienced local attorney could evaluate a rider's medical records after a crash and advise them of their chances of recovering compensation for these injuries.
What Causes Altoona Motorcycle Crashes?
Many situations that can lead to motor vehicle accidents can also result in motorcycle accidents. Distracted drivers who are focused on their cell phones, talking with their passengers, or mapping their course on a GPS device can cause crashes with motorcycles. This level of distraction may cause drivers to leave their lanes, fail to obey traffic signs and signals, or engage in other reckless driving behaviors.
Impaired drivers also regularly cause motor vehicle collisions, including those involving motorcycles. Whether impaired by drugs or alcohol, those drivers tend to have slowed reaction times, poor judgment, and poor motor skills which can make it impossible to avoid an accident. A second of hesitation could easily lead to disaster.
The size and weight of most motor vehicles, as compared to motorcycles, is also a crucial factor in the severity of the accidents that can result. When combined with the lack of safety features for motorcycle riders, such as seatbelts and airbags, injuries for motorcyclists are often very severe. A motorcycle accident lawyer in Altoona could represent the interests of those motorcyclists who have been injured in car accidents as well as truck accidents.
When motorists are negligent in operating their vehicles, they can be liable for any accidents that cause property damage and personal injuries to others. Drivers have a legal obligation to drive in a way that is reasonably safe for others on the roadway. When they drive recklessly or carelessly, they may be negligent. In this situation, drivers may be responsible for any injuries that occur as a result of their careless behavior.
In some cases, motorcyclists may also be partially negligent in causing the accident that led to their injuries. Under 42 Pa.C.S. §7102, however, if motorcyclists are less at fault for the crash than other negligent parties, they still can pursue compensation from those parties based on principles of comparative negligence. Their recovery of damages, however, decreases proportionately according to their percentage of fault for the accident.
Compensation in a Motorcycle Crash Claim
There is a variety of types of compensation that an injured motorcyclist could recover. Medical bills are the most common expense after a crash. In addition to any emergency medical care or ambulance bills, a claim could also recover the cost of additional surgeries, medical devices, or ongoing physical therapy and follow up visits.
Property damage is also a common part of any motorcycle accident claim. These damages can pay to repair or replace the damaged motorcycle belonging to the plaintiff. Other types of compensation could include:
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There are two ways for a motorcyclist to recover compensation following a motorcycle accident. The first is by negotiating a settlement with the at-fault party. The second is by obtaining a judgment at trial.
Most motorcycle collisions are resolved through settlements. If the at-fault driver and their insurance company acknowledge that he or she was responsible for the motorcycle wreck, then the parties may be able to negotiate a reasonable settlement for the damages.
If they cannot agree on a fair settlement, the case could go to trial. If a plaintiff prevails at trial, he or she will obtain a judgment. While this judgment is valuable, a plaintiff must still collect on it to recover their damages.
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Developing economically vibrant and self-sustaining communities through social economy enterprises is at the heart of an innovative plan the Housing Executive launched on 23rd September 2015.
The Social Housing Enterprise Strategy 2015-2018 sets out the Housing Executive's vision for investing in the creation of vibrant communities by financing and providing resource support to develop the local social economy and create community owned social enterprises. Some £400,000 has been invested by the Housing Executive in the first tranche and invites for investment applications opened on 23rd September. There are five levels of funding available ranging from education grants to established businesses. By identifying opportunities for growth and encouraging more social entrepreneurship, the Housing Executive aims to improve health and well-being in its neighbourhoods and communities.
Applications are now open and there are five levels of awards. These are: Education Grant (up to £500); Business Start-Up Grant (up to £1000); Embryonic Business (up to £10,000); Emerging Business (up to £20,000) and Established Business (up to £50,000).
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