Get ready. Lies originating in the U.K. over the weekend in newspaper stories by Jonathan Leake of the Times and Jonathan Petre of the Mail on Sunday, are about to hit the contrarian echo chamber.
As I write this, Google counts 2.3 million hits for the search with the exact terms "warming since 1995" and "Phil Jones".
Early media outlets onto the bandwagon included the usual suspects, FoxNews and the Wall Street Journal, with the Washington Post's George Will weighing a few days later. Here in Canada, contrarians were almost as quick – the Jones 1995 statement was used by the National Post's Lorne Gunter (explaining the meaning of ClimateGate) and the Globe and Mail's Margaret Wente (demonstrating that the "science isn't settled"). And, as we saw recently, Gunter has been double dipping, recycling the bogus claim to attack the credibility of the instrumental temperature record from HadCRU and NASA.
Indeed, there has been so much media commentary about Jones's supposed "U-turn" that Nigel Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation has reprinted no fewer than four opinion pieces touching on the subject in the last week alone.
The sequence of events from the BBC "online interview" with Jones seemed straightforward enough, as I outlined in my previous post, Morano sends lies from UK Times and Daily Mail around the world.
Phil Jones tells the BBC that the global temperature trend from 1995-2009 is "positive, but not significant at the 95% significance level", although "quite close".
Daily Mail publishes misleading article, with headline "Phil Jones: no warming since 1995".
WattsUpWithThat and Marc Morano point to Daily Mail article.
Media and blog explosion ensues.
But a nagging question remained. The BBC's Roger Harrabin stated that his questions were "gathered from sceptics" and indeed many of them were familiar to me as thinly disguised contrarian talking points. For example, some time ago I wrote about the Ian Plimer's invocation of previous warming periods to argue that modern warming might also have the same natural causes.
Yet I had never come across the particular claim of lack of "statistically significant warming" since 1995. Presumably, though, this particular contrarian talking point was already out in the denialosphere. And, indeed, a quick check of Google turned up the earliest known sighting of this version of the "global warming has slowed down" meme – a short and sweet email from Richard Lindzen to Anthony Watts in March 2008.
We can only say that it is "somewhat more likely than not" that the underlying trend in 1995-2009 was a warming trend rather than a cooling trend. Saying that the warming since 1995 was "very likely" is already way too ambitious a goal that the data don't support.
We'll return to this analysis in an upcoming post. For now, I will note that, once again, Anthony Watts was there to broadcast Motl's analysis in a Boxing Day post. Now it's not clear if Harrabin got this question directly from Motl (via Watts), ensuing blog commentary (it even appeared in one BBC blog comment), or from some other source, say, a willing think tank. (In this connection, it's worth noting that Ian Plimer and Richard Lindzen are both advisors for the aforementioned Global Warming Policy Federation).
The end result is that an irrelevant talking point about lack of warming, hitherto propounded by discredited contrarians, has now become an "admission" from Phil Jones about of lack of warming in HadCRU. That's what happens when confused journalists like Harrabin get their science from blogs, and other even more gullible and biased journalists like Jonathan Petre run with it.
How about since 1994? Cherry-picking much?
That answer rings a little hollow, doesn't it – now that we know the cheerful Lubos likely played a key role in getting the question asked in the first place!
And that's not the end of the story – for it seems that even the misleading, cherrypicked claims of "no statistically significant warming since 1995" are not quite right – at least not for the surface global temperature record. But that's a tale for another time – stay tuned.
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Here is another … interesting example of Motl-logic in that Deltoid thread.
That's the case of the warming since 1995, too. From the viewpoint of statistics, it doesn't exist. Building on a statistically insignificant trend would be exactly as illegitimate as building on a non-existent trend. So the statement that Jones said that there was no global warming since 1995 is not literally accurate, but it is surely more correct than the statement that he didn't say that there was no global warming since 1995.
Not really – all these statements, as misleading as they were, were out in the open. There was gullibility on the part of the BBC, however.
The question was certatinly framed by a contrarian. They chose the earliest year in a particular data set that would result in the trend falling just short of the 95% confidence level, so they can generate the right talking points.
I see Motl admits the same.
So Motl believes (or pretends to) that 5-10% is the equivalent as plausible (>50%) or likely (>66%). There's a reason why these folks aren't taken seriously among scientists. They are good at working the media, however.
Wow, what a lovely post by Motl (sarc). Really? I can't believe the invective and rhetoric.
That analysis applies to the CRU, and probably the UAH data. I am not sure what the stat. sig. is for the warming in GISS or RSS.
Referring to statistical significance is a clever tractic being used by thos ein denial to further confuse the public. First it was, it has been cooling, then that change to there has been no warming, and now they are scarping the barrle with there has been no warming at the 95% confidence level in the coolest of all the four global SAT data sets. The year 1995 is clearly cherry picked. Tamino has posted excellent articles on the matter of how long a record one needs for stat. sig.; for the GISS one has to go back to 1996.
DC, those in denial will be playing this game of cherry picking and shifting the goal posts in 2040.
I love how the denialists in one breath claim (falsely) that CRU fudged the warming trend in HadCRUT temperature record data, and in the next breath claim that the 15-yr warming in said data set is not statistically significant at the 95% confidence level. It is truly absurd.
Talking of which Accuweather's Bastardi is really indulging in some creative (and truly desperate) spinning in trying to explain why global tropospheric temperatures are at record (or near record) highs. He even floated the idea that the satellite might be malfunctioning…well maybe it is, but the GISS, RSS and RATPAC data corroborate its findings, so that is wishful thinking on his part.
What on earth will they do when their beloved (and suspect) UAH MSU data start failing them?
Interesting how this one goes in circles. Starts in the blogs, goes into the news and then the blogs report the "news".
It was obvious from the start that the question was designed to ambush Phil Jones and unfortunately he wasn't on the ball enough to give a better answer.
He could have explained that, in order to distinguish a genuine trend in global temperatures from natural interannual variability, we have to look at more than 15 years of data. As the normal solar cycle lasts around 11 years, any single 15-year span of temperatures could start at a maximum of solar activity and end at a minimum, or vice versa, thus giving us a misleadingly high or low trend in global temperatures. This could easily make the difference between finding a warming trend of 0.1C per decade or 0.3C per decade – a factor of 3 between them. Choosing 22-year trends smooths out some of the effects of the solar cycle and give us a better chance of distinguishing a long-term trend from short-term natural variability. When we do this, we see clear, consistent and statistically significant warming of around 0.18C per decade.
Climate scientists have to try not to be caught out by questions and comments based on such obvious cherry-picking of data.
It will only confirm to them the true breadth of the *conspiracy*; even Roy Spencer can be corrupted! Is nobody immune from the evil spell of the *warmists*??!!
It's only a matter of time before Spencer gets thrown under the bus.
Snap! I just discovered the same thing, with an additional publication in Australian rightwing rag, Quadrant.
Which simply means you don't understand what reviewers are looking for when they review.
I love the way that denialists have become the instant arbitrators of how they think science works, and when they find out they don't know how science works, insists it *should* work the way they previously imagined it worked.
Science has been doing fine without your help for a very long time, Paul S.
Paul S, peer review does not entail re-analyzing the raw data. The important question is whether the data put forth by the author support the conclusions made by the author. The methods are included in the paper and are supposed to be sufficient for someone skilled in the art (sorry – patentspeak) to replicate the results.
Reviewers are supposed to know the field well enough to evaluate whether a given manuscript, including the background, data, data analysis, and conclusions, is worth publishing and whether the paper adds something to the science.
I am not sure how to interpret your post. Scientists do not typically ask other scientists to share code. That is not how we independently verify the validity of others' research. We do it ourselves, and if both party's got it right then we get the same answer. If not, then at that point we might share. There is a move now to publish the code at the same time as the paper as was done by Mann et al. (2009).
As for peer review. I suggest you submit a paper for peer review, it is an exhaustive and sometimes humbling experience.
And papers are required to discuss the data and provide details on the methodology. If a paper is well written others should be able to reproduce the results without the author's help. I don't get your point.
Thanks for posting that link – it's an excellent visual demonstration of the need to consider longer term trends.
"Hey, let's calculate the minimum number of years to give a statistically significant warming trend (let's call it y) and then point out there has been no statistically significant warming for y-1 years. The beauty is we can do this every year – we have abolished global warming for ever.
[DC: It turns out I'm "promoting panic about AGW". Oh well, at least I'm no longer of the same mindset as "an Islamic bigot".
Apart from that, it's a fascinating case study in how to move goal posts.
Equally fascinating is Lumo's take on the dangers posed by AGW "alarmists".
Well, I say that you are dangerous because you are dangerous.
The daughter miraculously survived, swimming in blood and Gore for three days, even though she was shot in the chest. However, the son (and the parents) died. No one asked the children whether they agreed with their parents' beliefs that there is a dangerous global warming underway. They just shot them.
In the very same way, you are attacking me and others just for the very fact that we say the truth and the truth is inconvenient for your wholly irrational cult. You're ready to impose a new tax or decimate the world's economy, or anything like that, in the name of your insane beliefs. It's just a matter of your so-far reduced courage that you don't act as the people in Argentina, or the Islamic terrorists, for that matter.
The logic is surely the same.
The comments/observations that I made about Lindzen also apply to you. Oh, and regarding your rant posted here by DC. Now that is a great example of alarmism and paranoia on your part. I just hope that the truth does not continue to elude you for too much longer. In the meantime, please try and not embark on knowingly using dodgy statistical analysis to support your denialism.
That's one of the most reprehensible efforts to exploit the death of an obviously crazy couple and their innocent child I've ever seen.
In other words, typical for Motl.
That excerpt on the Argentina case is one of the sickest bits of exploitative propaganda I have ever seen anywhere, period. DC, you are quite right to highlight it.
The rumblings have already begun. Since this post: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/02/04/january-uah-global-temperature-warmest/ — and every thread since contains a comment or two about unreliable satellites and so forth.
They won't even break stride. And really, they have a point: if all of the temperature records match up (and they do) then all of them are the product of a single global-spanning, centuries-long conspiracy. Or else they, you know, reflect a common reality in the physical world being measured by different means.
What I neglected to mention the other day, and this is perhaps what really needs to be emphasized, is that Lindzen is not operating in good faith. He has divorced himself with the science and that email to A. Watts is scary, b/c that is not how a reputable scientists in the search for truth thinks.
This is LindzenGate. He is trying to hide the incline while at the same time his ilk are accusing the CRU of fudging the data. Here Lindzen is explaining to Watts how to fudge the data to avoid getting statistically significant warming.
As andrew pointed out above, they can apply this tactic ad infinitum and continue to deceive the masses.
I was dubious of Lindzen before, now I know for sure he is not sincere or impartial, and his work is probably riddled with confirmation bias (e.g., . Lindzen and Choi, 2009).
Yes, I get a tad carried away. I agree that 'cherrypicking' may be more appropriate. Can you imagine the furor that would have erupted by the deniers had Jim Hansen sent such an email?
Perhaps I am wrong, but this simple email message from Lindzen is huge. He is telling someone how to manipulate the data to get the answer they want. That is a big no-no in science. MIT should know that is what he is doing? I demand and investigation (sarc).
I shudder to think what else Lindzen and Watts have talked about by email that they are not willing to share. Perhaps someone now has grounds to FOI Lindzen's email?
Ah yes, peer review too is beyond the capability of mere mortals to comprehend.
Doesn't look like peer reviewers (at least in some segments of climate science) are looking at or for anything.
Obviously you did not read the testimony of Phil Jones. Equally surprising as his testimony is the utter lack of interest by other climate scientists in verifying any of his results through replication.
Please don't try and pass off such nonsense on the public. If I say the answer is "5" but my raw data is "1+3=?", my results are not verified if you come along and say what it the answer to "1+4=?" and answer "5" also. That is nonsense.
[DC: Knowledgeable folks are patiently trying to explain the facts, yet you continue to wilfully misunderstand.
a) Raw station data was being released, subject to providers' agreement (most but not all have agreed). The station data is also available from the original sources.
b) ML is absolutely right that it is the methodology as published, not the particular computer code, that is of interest to scientists.
c) Of course, reviewers are "looking". I will admit in the case of papers by the likes of McLean et al, or Lindzen and Choi, it does appear that the system is being gamed – by the contrarians.
Now, I'm afraid I must accord myself the last word on the subject of release of material by Jones. Thanks!
Paul S, a reviewer does not have the time to get the raw data and recreate the results of a submitted manuscript; the author is expected to be able to do calculations. In the case of the temperature data, verification of the CRU temp means getting similar results from NASA-GISS or satellites. It might mean using the publicly-available data and an algorithm of one's choice to recreate the global temperature record.
What scientists are interested in is the big picture and the big questions, like what are the trends in the temperature record.
If you want to know what is involved in peer review, please ask. Some of us have had the experience of being the reviewer and the reviewee. Peer review is not hard to understand, but the general public may not be privy to the "Instructions for Reviewers" information.
Weilding his own ignorance as evidence is PaulS's usual schtick. He's a troll stuck on a replay loop no matter how many times anything is explained to him. He's best flushed.
Anyhow DC, if you go to the last page of results at you google link, you'll find that there's actually about 600 results. This seems to be a regular glitch with google.
[DC: Bing is a lot worse, although Google may be exaggerating (see the Lawrence Solomon/ClimateGate post).
And it seems like some scientists are only interested in studies that confirm a warming trend. Hence, no desire to see raw data, no curiosity about the methodology, and certainly no attempt at replication.
Considering the importance given to temperature reconstructions done by Phil Jones, I find it incredulous that not once, ever, did a single scientist worldwide ask for any data relating to his work.
Can you explain how or why such important work would never be examined or replicated?
Nobody is saying that replication isn't important, but scientific replication means finding the same result using independent means, not checking to see whether the calculations were done correctly. This is what happens after peer review. This is a very important part of the scientific method.
If you are saying that the CRU temperature record cannot be trusted, then all you have to do is ask yourself whether anyone else shows increasing temperatures over the last few decades (or longer). Answer – GISS and the satellite records confirm the results; therefore, the CRU temperature has been independently confirmed.
The problem with exact confirmation is that researchers ("auditors"?) need to go back to the data originators to get all of the national met data. If the data are not CRU's to give they cannot give it. In fact, you can tell the reliability of sources by whether they concede this point.
Reading that transcript of the S&T committee testimony makes my blood boil.
Nigel Lawson getting yet another platform to state that the "hockey stick" is "largely fraudulent".
Could it be similar to how the Viking Orbiter beamed down "raw" data in 1976 and then it was "cleaned up" so that scientists could then study the Martian features?
If that is what he is saying then it makes perfect sense! I have put an example up to show this. Hopefully some skeptics will understand.
It could be said that what I have made is the "derived product". Now scientists can analyze it as much as they want to without the time consuming task of having to clean it up. The important data is there for all to view.
In UK, almost anything can claim that status, and GWPF is too new to have filed any records. here's teh relevant entry in the database, which is worth reading.
I'm told that in fact, the government does check these things as results come in.
Monckton: SPPI, and I think he learned the technqiues from Ferguson.
Speaking as someone from the UK, I am pretty concerned about the activities of Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF). I have noticed that when Lawson speaks on behalf of the GWPF he is often quick to state that teh GWPF exists to lobby on GW policy, not the science (usually before going on to regurgitate some denialist guff). I wonder if the claim they are focussed on policy is the basis of their charitable status? I can't see how Lawson can appear in front of the S&T committee in his role as Chair of a charity and accuse scientists of fraud. If there any lawyers out there the GWFP charitable status might be worth investigating.
How does that fit in with what a charity is NOT supposed to do, i.e.
it is created for political aims.
That sounds exactly like what the GWPF was deliberately set up to do.
[DC: It will be an uphill battle, although I must say if the GWPF passes, then the bar is even lower than I thought. Still, the list of charitable status think tanks is shocking. Here in Canada, they include such climate contrarian disinformation outfits as the Fraser Institute and the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, both of which are small-c conservative and have links to Canadian PM Stephen Harper's Conservative Party. In my opinion, this needs to become a political issue.
I am planning a post on the GWPF, and I'll be noting parallels with the Canadian situation, where the charitable Calgary Foundation funds the charitable Frontier Centre (and may still be funding Friends of Science through the back door).
When Lawson claims that he receives no funding from energy companies or prominent individuals in that business, it should be well understood he means no *direct* contributions. Sources of funding have simply been put through an extra layer via other charitable foundations. And he can't even make that statement with regard to all direct contributions, since anyone can make an anonymous donation via PayPal (although they might lose the tax deduction that way).
On the surface, their aim reads fine by what the charity commission says. The problem is of course that they are carrying out propaganda rather than sciences, the issue I think would be to demonstrate that, and it is easiest to demonstrate with their track record. So we need to leave them time to build one.
[DC: I fail to see how regurgitating contrarian nespaper opinion pieces can possibly be confused with "presenting research".
I was wondering about this while reading your piece, DC: did you manage to contact Harrabin and ask him about the background of the question?
[DC: Not yet. I need to check exactly what he said about the piece before I contact him. That audio is here.
Listening from 3:55 on, Harrabin seems to misinterpret the nuances of Jones's answers, and refers to Jones's confirmation of "substantial areas of uncertainty". Harrabin's comments about "two previous warming periods" and MWP support the idea that he doesn't understand that his questions are not really valid, but merely rhetorical contrarian talking points disguised as questions.
I want to emphasize that I don't think Harrabin is biased to the contrarian side, let alone in bad faith. But he appears to be misguided and confused about the science. In other words, he has more in common with Fred Pierce than with David Rose.
But could the bloggers and the IPCC be reconciled?
Some bloggers spin facts to make a political point. But some well-informed bloggers claim an impressively broad knowledge of climate science despite their lack of formal credentials.
In your opinion, why are the majority of people, especially those with higher education, either ignorant of the climate change issue. Or more importantly not prepared to accept the facts and actually adapt to future changes?
[DC: That's a big question. But I think the above discussion shows part of the answer – powerful interests have mounted PR disinformation that has bamboozled most of the media.
In the US, among 501(c)3 (nonprofits) are the George Marshall Institute and Singer's SEPP.
"really old, really Tory, pretty wealthy." If someone is in UK, run down the Board and see.
I would conjecture: Lawson and his friends are the likely funders, plus whatever loose change they can pick up.
BTW, DC: do you have a referenceable source for the charitable status of Fraser, FoS, etc?
[DC: Fraser Institute donation page is here. Frontier Centre's is here and states that "Donation over $100 are tax-receiptable." I'd have to dig deeper for the exact designations.
* google's "number of hits" numbers for complex queries like that are notoriously wrong – click through a few pages and you may find only a few hundred, rather than millions.
* I'm sure Monckton was quoted from Copenhagen saying "no statistically significant warming in 15 years" (slight modification of the since 1995 date).
CRA search page tells me hits for FraserInsitute.
I was not aware of this site. "WoUWT" seems to fill an important niche.
Out of idle curiosity, does anyone know what "quite close" is? 90%? 93%?
If not, no worries. When I have a bit of time I'll track down the numbers and run them to find out.
As many here probably know there's nothing magical about 0.05 that suddenly turns a result from "not a real effect" to "a real effect". The 0.05 as a cut-off is a relic of tables in books before computers calculated p-values automatically. It has become so ingrained we still use 0.05 as a cut-off even when there isn't any good reason to do so.
Some statisticians argue doing away with p-values, or reporting other values instead/along with, or just reporting the p-value rather than using a fixed level of significance etc–there are some vigorous debates on various stat threads, and in the literature too that are fun to read.
But how do you summarize all that for someone (like a reporter) whose only knowledge of stats is the 0.05 value = truth, if they even have that? (rhetorical question, btw).
Anyway, I'd certainly regard 0.072 as significant, but I can understand why Dr. Jones didn't say this himself–it would have been easier to explain it the way he did rather than past history and current debates about p-values.
Sorry if this is a bit O/T.
Dan, you make a good point; 0.05 is somewhat arbitrary, but I think we should be cautious. One of the strongest arguments against the "cooling" meme is that the time period chosen is too short for the trend to be significant.
It might be better to note that the 1995 starting date is deliberately picked; it is the earliest starting time that does not give a significant trend at p=0.05 (assuming that's true – I am sure it is, but haven't done the calculations).
It is important to note that 20-30 years of data are needed to know whether a trend is statistically significant. This is at least a consistent argument. In my day job I help design studies in which effects of a given treatment are studied. We would never deliberately underpower a study; by the same token, we should be cautious when choosing how many time points we use to make a conclusion about a trend.
1995 is the earliest year when the statistical significance of the trend from that year to 2009 safely fails.
There must of course be some such year, so by this Motl's logic there are no trends at all, anywhere.
the answer, "Yes, there's been no statistically significant trend for 15 years", shows that even if there's anything such as "global warming", it's not really worth talking about.
But since 15 is just n, where n is the largest value for which there's no statistically significant trend, and there's some n for every phenomenon, nothing is really worth talking about.
Motl is a fascinating example of how ideology produces irrationality and extreme ideology produces extreme irrationality.
Note that you could split up the 1975-2009 period into 1975-1984, 1985-1994, and 1995-2009. And pop goes the high significance for each sub-period. No global warming for 1975-2009. Divide and conquer!
I think Monckton made the 95% claim on video while talking to young protesters the day after his talk was interrupted. I think the link was posted on Desmogblog or Climate Progress.
Tamino has a good post about trends, here.
Note: just to make sure there is no confusion, there is no magic about n=15, or n=30, or any particular n. I.e., this is unrelated to the n=30 that often pops up in statistics.
What matters is, more-or-less, is the ratio of yearly noise to yearly trend, so that a larger ratio requires more years to detect a trend with increasingly significant results. With enough noise (say 5X larger than yearly trend), statistically, one *will* have multiple-year sequences of counter-trend periods.
For example, in comparison with temperature trends, it takes less years to see significant trends in CO2 concentrations.
As illustrations of all this, try graph, including animated one, or slope graph: 5,10,15,30-years.
That graphs the Excel SLOPEs (linear regressions) of N-yer periods by ending-year, so that you can see, year-by year, the trends to that year, looking backward N years. This converts the difficult perceptual problem of comparing diagonal slopes to a much easier one of comparing heights. it is clear that even 10-year slopes haven't been below zero for a while, that 5-year slopes jiggle around, and 30-year ones don't very fast. Of course, that chart didn't show significance levels.
The interests of the environmental movement in acquiring more power and influence are reasonably clear. So too are the interests of bureaucrats for whom control of CO2 is a dream-come-true.
Personally, I don't believe him (why wait nearly 2 years, and why believe anything Monckton says in any case?). Of course, Monckton omits to mention that subsequently warming since 1995 was confirmed as statistically significant by Phil Jones.
The meme originated with Lindzen, Watts and Motl, but how it got to Harrabin is hard to say, as he only referred to "sceptics". I wish I had asked him at the time – he may have forgotten by now.
DC, the usual suspects regularly send emails to legislators and the press. I've been surprised by the diversity contained in a single list of recipients sent the latest tosh, including the British Prime Minister. Fling muck widely and often, and something will stick to someone's clothing.


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Bentivegni stammte aus einer alten Soldatenfamilie. Sein Vater Armand fiel als Oberstleutnant im Ersten Weltkrieg, seine Mutter Else Goltz starb 1952 in Potsdam und stammte aus einer bürgerlichen Gutsbesitzerfamilie aus Ostbrandenburg. Bentivegni trat am 22. Juli 1915 als Fahnenjunker in das 2. Garde-Feldartillerie-Regiment ein und wurde dort am 11. Mai 1916 zum Leutnant befördert. Vom 5. Juli bis 31. August 1916 erfolgte seine Kommandierung an die Feldartillerie-Schule Jüterbog. Im Anschluss daran war Bentivegni mit seinem Regiment an der Westfront im Einsatz. Am 6. April 1918 wurde er verwundet und verbrachte die Folgezeit bis 30. April 1918 im Lazarett in Namur. Nach seiner Genesung wurde er dem Ersatz-Bataillon zugeteilt. Für sein Wirken erhielt er beide Klassen des Eisernen Kreuzes und das Verwundetenabzeichen in Schwarz.

Bentivegni war nach Kriegsende ab 16. Mai 1919 zunächst Adjutant der III. Abteilung seines Stammregiments, wurde in die Reichswehr übernommen und versah kurzzeitig Dienst im Reichswehr-Artillerie-Regiment 26. Es folgte ein Kommandierung zu einem MG-Kursus an der Infanterieschule Wünsdorf sowie ab 24. September 1920 eine Verwendung als Ordonnanz- und Gerichtsoffizier beim Stab des Reichswehr-Artillerie-Regiments 15. Am 1. Januar 1921 versetzte man Bentivegni zum Stab der III. Abteilung des 3. (Preußisches) Artillerie-Regiments nach Jüterbog. Dort diente er ab 1. April 1925 als Adjutant und wurde am 31. Juli 1925 zum Oberleutnant befördert. Zweieinhalb Jahre später setzte man ihn in der 8. Batterie des Regiments ein. Bentivegni absolvierte ab 1. Oktober 1928 die Führergehilfenausbildung beim Stab der 2. Division in Stettin. Zum 1. Oktober 1930 kommandierte man ihn zur Kommandantur Berlin, ein Jahr später in das Reichswehrministerium und am 15. November 1932 wieder zur Kommandantur zurück. Dort erhielt er am 1. Dezember 1932 seine Beförderung zum Hauptmann und hatte einen Tag später auf Anweisung die Uniform der Führungsoffiziere zu tragen. Ab 1. September 1933 versah er Dienst beim Stab der 2. Division, wurde am 1. Juli 1935 zum Artillerie-Regiment Frankfurt/Oder versetzt und ab 15. Oktober 1935 als Batteriechef im Artillerie-Regiment 23 verwendet. Als Major (seit 1. April 1936) kommandierte man ihn ab 1. Juli 1936 zum Generalstab des IX. Armeekorps und versetzte ihn am 6. Oktober 1936 dorthin. Am 1. April 1938 wurde er Erster Generalstabsoffizier der 26. Infanterie-Division.

Bentivegni wechselte am 1. März 1939 als Abteilungschef in das Oberkommando der Wehrmacht und wurde dort mit der Wahrnehmung der Geschäfte der Abteilung III (Spionageabwehr und Gegenspionage) innerhalb der Amtsgruppe Abwehr betraut. Einen Monat später erfolgte unter gleichzeitiger Beförderung zum Oberstleutnant seine Ernennung zum Chef der Abteilung.

Bentivegni leitete am 4. November 1939 eine Konferenz in der Hacketäuer-Kaserne in Köln-Mülheim, wo der Einsatz der Geheimen Feldpolizei (GFP) beim Überfall auf Polen analysiert wurde. In seiner Eröffnungsrede verdeutlichte er den Auftrag der GFP, das Feldheer geheimpolizeilich zu überwachen.

Oberst Bentivegni (seit 1. Juni 1941) wurde vom 15. September 1943 bis 17. Mai 1944 in die Führerreserve versetzt, fungierte zwischenzeitlich zeitweise als Vertretung des Chefs seiner alten Abteilung und absolvierte einen Divisionsführer-Lehrgang. Ab 18. Mai 1944 vertrat er Generalmajor Haß als Kommandeur der 170. Infanterie-Division und übernahm ab 10. Juli die Führung der 81. Infanterie-Division. Am 1. August 1944 wurde er zum Generalmajor befördert, seine Truppen waren in dieser Zeit der 16. Armee unterstellt. Am 30. Januar 1945 zum Generalleutnant befördert, geriet er bei der Kapitulation im Kurlandkessel in sowjetische Kriegsgefangenschaft.

Bentivegni wurde in der UdSSR als Kriegsverbrecher zu 25 Jahren Arbeitslager verurteilt und 1955 als sogenannter Nichtamnestierter in die Bundesrepublik Deutschland entlassen.

Franz Eccard von Bentivegni hatte am 3. September 1929 auf dem pommerschen Rittergut Hoff Hella von Köller geheiratet. Das Ehepaar hatte zwei Töchter und zwei Söhne. Der Schwiegervater war Landrat a. D. und bewirtschaftete den seit 1873 in Familienhand befindlichen Besitz. Franz-Eccard und Hella von Bentivegni waren Mitglied der wenig einflussreichen Deutschen Adelsgenossenschaft, 1940 der Landesabteilung Rheinland, Abteilung 2 (noch nicht abgeschlossene Ahnenforschung). Seine älteste Tochter Leoni ist die Ehefrau des langjährigen Hauptbearbeiters der Genealogischen Handbücher des Adels, dem Genealogen Walter von Hueck.

Auszeichnungen
 Komtur des Ordens des Sterns von Rumänien im Jahre 1941
 Komtur des Ordens der Krone von Italien im Jahre 1941
 Finnischer Orden des Freiheitskreuzes II. Klasse im Jahre 1942
 St. Alexander-Orden III. Klasse mit Schwertern im Jahre 1942

Literatur
 Dermot Bradley: Die Generale des Heeres 1921–1945. Band 1: Abberger–Bitthorn. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1993, S. 309–311. ISBN 978-3-7648-2423-5.
 Klaus Geßner: Geheime Feldpolizei. Zur Funktion und Organisation des geheimpolizeilichen Exekutivorgans der faschistischen Wehrmacht. Militärverlag der DDR, Berlin 1986.
 Julius Mader: Hitlers Spionagegeneräle sagen aus. Ein Dokumentarbericht über Aufbau, Struktur und Operationen des OKW-Geheimdienstamtes Ausland/Abwehr mit einer Chronologie seiner Einsätze von 1933 bis 1944. Verlag der Nation, (Ost-)Berlin 1971.
 Hans Friedrich von Ehrenkrook: Genealogisches Handbuch der Adeligen Häuser, B (Briefadel), Band III, Band 17 der Gesamtreihe GHdA, C. A. Starke, Glücksburg/Ostsee 1958. S. 16–17. .

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Leutnant (Preußen)
Artillerist (Preußen)
Hauptmann (Reichswehr)
Generalleutnant (Heer der Wehrmacht)
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Person im Ersten Weltkrieg (Deutsches Reich)
Person im Zweiten Weltkrieg (Deutsches Reich)
Militärperson (Abwehr)
Träger des Ordens der Krone von Italien (Komtur)
Träger des Sterns von Rumänien (Komtur)
Träger des St. Alexander-Ordens
Träger des Finnischen Ordens des Freiheitskreuzes
Träger des Eisernen Kreuzes I. Klasse
Adliger
Deutscher
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Gestorben 1958
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Q: ArgumentError: quantiles are undefined in presence of NaNs or missing values I would like to create a boxplot that contains some missing values in Julia. Here is some reproducible code:
using DataFrames
using StatsPlots
df = DataFrame(y = [1,2,3,2,1,2,4,NaN,NaN,2,1])

boxplot(df[!, "y"])

Output:
ArgumentError: quantiles are undefined in presence of NaNs or missing values

I know that the error happens because of the NaN values, but is there not an option in boxplot to still plot the values instead of removing the missing values beforehand? I would assume that it might be designed in a way that it works in presence of missing values. In R it will still plot the boxplot, so I was wondering why in Julia you must remove these missing values and what is an appropriate way to do this?

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so I was wondering why in Julia you must remove these missing values

So the general reason is difference in philosophy of design behind R and Julia.
R was designed to be maximally convenient at the risk of doing an incorrect thing sometimes. It tries to guess what you most likely want and does this. In this case - you most likely want NaN values to be ignored.
Julia is designed for safety and production use. If you have NaN in your data it means that data preparation process had some serious issue (like division of 0 by 0). In production scenarios you want your code to error in such cases as otherwise it is hard to identify the root cause of the issue.
Now, seconding what Dan Getz commented - most likely your NaN is actually missing (as you refer to it as missing). These two should not be mixed and have a significantly different interpretation. NaN is a value that is undefined or unrepresentable, especially in floating-point arithmetic (e.g. 0 divided by 0). While missing is a value that is missing (e.g. we have not collected a measurement).
Still - even if your data contained missing you would get an error for the same safety reason.

what is an appropriate way to do this?

NaNs are very rare in practice, so what Dan Getz recommended is a typical way to filter them. Other would be [x for x in df.y if !isnan(x)].
If you had missing values in your data (as this is most likely what you want) you should write boxplot(skipmissing(df.y)).

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Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: Thomas R. Atwood letters
The Thomas R. Atwood letters (dated 1935-1959, undated; 0.35 cubic feet; 1 box) comprise letters that document the military experience of Thomas Atwood in the US Army during World War II.
1935-1959, undated (inclusive)
Atwood, Thomas R., 1925-
War -- Relief of sick and wounded
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care.
Collection is arranged by recipient. The Wade Hall Collection of American Letters has been processed into discrete collections based on provenance.
Finding Aid Author
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2009ms132.0166: [identification of item], Wade Hall Collection of American Letters: Thomas R. Atwood letters, 1935-1959, University of Kentucky Special Collections.
Biography / History
Thomas R. Atwood (b. 1925) was born on a farm in Clermont County, Ohio to Charles M. Atwood (1889-1975) and Erna Atwood (1898-1983). In 1943, he attended Ohio State University as an engineering student, but was drafted into the US Army in January 1944. He was assigned to the 341st Infantry Regiment, 86th Infantry Division. In early 1945, Atwood's division was sent to the East Coast to prepare for the European Theater of Operations, disembarking in France in late February. While engaging in combat in Germany, in late March or early April, Atwood was wounded in the face and nearly lost an eye. After spending time in a hospital in England, he arrived back in the United States for recovery, initially at Halloran General Hospital in Staten Island and then Billings General Hospital at Fort Benjamin in Indiana. In 1947, Atwood married his first wife, Dorothy Virginia Skaggs, whom he ultimately divorced, and in 1977, he married his second wife, Jane Lee Coursey (b. 1935). In the time between these two marriages, Atwood relocated from Ohio to Louisville, Kentucky.
American Letters collector Wade Hall (1934-2015) was a native of Union Springs, Alabama. Starting in 1962, he lived in Louisville, where he taught English and chaired the English and Humanities/Arts programs at Kentucky Southern College and Bellarmine University. He also taught at the University of Illinois and the University of Florida. He held degrees from Troy State University (B.S.), the University of Alabama (M.A.), and the University of Illinois (Ph.D.). He served for two years in the U.S. Army in the mid-fifties. Dr. Hall was the author of books, monographs, articles, plays, and reviews relating to Kentucky, Alabama, and Southern history and literature. His most recent books include A Visit with Harlan Hubbard; High Upon a Hill: A History of Bellarmine College; A Song in Native Pastures: Randy Atcher's Life in Country Music; and Waters of Life from Conecuh Ridge.
The Thomas R. Atwood letters (dated 1935-1959, undated; 0.35 cubic feet; 1 box) comprise letters that document the military experience of Thomas Atwood in the US Army during World War II. The letters are organized by name of recipient; the majority are between Atwood and his parents. The letters to Atwood's parents discuss his movements between camps while in basic training and later specialized training once assigned to a unit, the trip to France, the weather in Europe, and his treatments in hospital after being wounded in combat. The letters sent to Atwood are primarily from his mother, Erna, mostly after the family did not receive any letters from him in early 1945 after he was wounded; there are a few letters from other family members that discuss births and children's activities. His parents discuss how the farm is doing, visiting relatives and having visitors, and later concern over their son's wound. There is one letter to "Uncle John" from Thomas that discusses his classes at Ohio State University, and two other letters that discuss visiting Erna Atwood and inquiring about a position for Thomas. Additionally, Atwood's report cards from sixth, seventh, and eighth grade are included in the collection.
The Thomas R. Atwood letters are part of the Wade Hall Collection of American letters, which includes correspondence and diaries from all over North America covering the time period of the Civil to Korean Wars. The materials were collected by Wade Hall and document everyday men and women.
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Contents of the Collection
Elementary report cards [6th-8th grades], 1935-1938
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Thomas Atwood letters to parents, 1943-1945
Box 244, folder 2-6
Letters to Thomas Atwood, 1943-1945
Box 244, folder 7-10
Thomas Atwood letter to "Uncle John", 1943 October 14
General letters, 1959, undated
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Filing free wifi applications under WiFi4EU starts tomorrow at 2 pm.
Submitting applications for project financing under the European Commission's initiative for free public wifi WiFi4EU starts tomorrow, 15 May 2018, at 2 pm. Some 222 Bulgarian municipalities, which account for 84% of the total number, are expected to participate in the first competition under the initiative.
The Ministry of Transport, information Technology and Communications is in constant connection with representatives of the local authorities to further clarify the application procedure. As a result, the documents of many of the municipalities are uploaded in the online platform and they will only have to submit them on 15 May. This is of paramount importance as the allocation of financing will be based on the "first come, first serve" principle.
For a whole year now MTITC has been carrying out an information campaign to promote the opportunity for free financing of public wifi. The initiative was officially launched in March by the Minister of Transport, Information Technology and Communications Ivaylo Moskovski and the EU Commissionaire for Digital Economy and Society Mariya Gabriel.
At present over 17 270 municipalities from all over Europe have registered online, as around 1000 of them will be financed within the first competition.


The soprano Joan La Barbara above will be joining Meredith Monk and Jessye Norman for a selection of John Cage's Song Books this Saturday evening at Davies Hall as part of the American Mavericks Festival, with a repeat of the performance on Wednesday the 14th. Tomorrow, on Sunday afternoon the 11th, she will be performing in a world premiere of her husband Morton Subotnick's newly reconfigured Jacob's Room opera. In an interview with Dr. Wood Massi, she detailed the long and winding road the piece has taken since the 1980s, which should be a help for musicologists of the future.
Massi: The multimedia piece Jacob's Room, which first premiered in 1985 and which you will be performing as a "Monodrama" this coming Sunday, was performed in 2010 in Austria with four singers (and by the way the YouTube excerpts of this are wonderful, click here to check them out). Would you describe the creative evolution of the piece?
We're doing a new version that Mort is calling "Monodrama" from Jacob's Room. The first version of it was actually commissioned for me and the Kronos Quartet by Betty Freeman. It was commissioned for string quartet and voice and we performed it that way for several years. That would be the 1985 version.
I don't remember exactly at which point, but Morton decided to expand it to an opera. It was essentially a solo-performer opera, so it was myself as the single voice, and there were recordings of Thomas Buckner that was played as part of the score, and there was a single cellist onstage and then the electronic score. So the material that had been in the string quartet was used for the solo cello and electronics. That was version two.
Then we went out to Minnesota and the Minnesota Opera had an experimental workshop. They had a group of singer/actors who spanned the gamut of different kinds of performers/singers. One was more an actor than a singer, and only two real opera singers, with everything in between. So Mort then added characters from the various stories that he had created the material from. We workshopped that for several years and never got to an actual production, so I don't know if there's anything on YouTube that anybody took from those years. Then that got scratched because I think there was more money to be raised to workshop than to actually do the production, so they just kept workshopping.
Then we went back to the single character again and worked with the director Herbert Blau who was very, very active here in San Francisco with The Actor's Workshop in the 1950s and 60s. And then Herb and Mort went to Lincoln Center and they were Artistic Director and Music Director of the Vivian Beaumont Theatre when it first opened in New York City. So Herb and Mort go back many, many years. Then this new production was developed that again was my voice, Thomas Buckner, onstage cellist and that incorporated some video. And so there was that version.
And then the Bregenz Festival in Austria commissioned a new version with four singers and a number of cellists and electronics. We really love the piece so the idea of having all these different versions is not a problem. This is a new version for the Mavericks Festival. My voice has gotten a little bit lower and so there are certain things from the original version that are simply out of my range at this point. It is for string quartet with the electric keyboard and electronics, and then mezzo soprano.


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Testimony on New York City Zoning for Coastal Flood Resiliency Amendment
Thanks for the opportunity to offer this testimony. My name is Rob Freudenberg, and I am the Vice President for Energy & Environment at Regional Plan Association, an organization that for nearly a century has sought to advance and advocate for research-based solutions to long term problems.
As a highly developed, dense waterfront city with 520 miles of shoreline, New York City is centered directly in the crosshairs of the climate crisis. In addition to the other climate impacts of heat and increased precipitation, the slow, steady, and accelerating, rise of sea levels threatens to permanently inundate neighborhoods and infrastructure, while deepening the reach and destruction of more frequent and intense coastal storms.
Put another way, New York City faces a challenging and dubious future: uncomfortable at best, wholly uncertain at worst.
Faced with these worsening impacts, the City must make critical decisions around existing and future development in flood hazard areas, if it is to continue to thrive while safeguarding its residents.
In RPA's own Fourth Regional Plan, we called for a combination of resiliency strategies – including zoning changes, investments in engineered and nature-based solutions, and strategic buyouts, among others – to adequately adapt to our changing coastline.
In that spirit, we join you today to offer our support for the action to amend the Zoning Resolution of the City of New York, to modify its flood resiliency provisions with the proposed Zoning for Coastal Flood Resiliency.
This amendment comes at a tenuous moment: standing in the long wake of Hurricane Sandy and our continued recovery from it, while facing a future of rapidly rising seas and increased flooding, it is clear the City must take action to become more resilient and face the impacts of climate change head-on.
Achieving resiliency means having the ability to look in two directions at once: backward to the disaster we are recovering from, making sure to learn from the difficult lessons it brought; and forward toward future catastrophic impacts – which can look very different from those in the past – doing everything possible to anticipate and reduce risk.
I'm pleased to say that the amendment before you succeeds in doing that, incorporating the lessons learned from Sandy's devastation to bolster support for post-disaster recovery; while also promoting long-term resiliency by allowing precautionary standards and resiliency features for buildings in the current and future flood zone as well as zoning and design rules that factor in sea level rise. Further, prohibiting the construction of new nursing homes in high flood risk areas represents a small but important leap, with strong overtures for future development restrictions.
These are common sense updates that acknowledge the reality that there will be more disasters to recover from across a wider area, and that we must take additional and meaningful steps today to prepare for the worsening impacts that are to come.
While this amendment will help to reduce risk for many, it will fully eliminate long-term risk for none. And in order to have its greatest impact, it will need to be paired with tools that help building owners and developers pay for the modifications it allows. Still, it is a very good, well-thought out and tested next step that should be approved.
Yet, there is still much to be done.
So, while we enthusiastically urge the Planning Commission to adopt this amendment, we also encourage you to advance beyond these measures. Stated simply, there are an awful lot of people in areas that are at high risk of flooding, far too many of whom are particularly vulnerable because of their race, age, or limited wealth. This amendment can help, but we must also acknowledge that there are just some areas for which design solutions have a much shorter shelf life.
The tools of planning and zoning, can be used to do even more, and they must. Adopting this amendment helps to buy some additional time. Let's use that time wisely and advance important, necessary and honest conversations – across City agencies and in City neighborhoods – to plan for the difficult road ahead, using, refining and improving all of the adaptation tools we have at hand.
Robert Freudenberg
Vice President, Energy & Environment
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In the Matter of                )
)       File No. EB-02-PA-105
Amethyst International, Inc.    )
Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey)       NAL/Acct.             No.
)       FRN 0006-8162-01
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
Adopted: June 20, 2003             Released: June 24, 2003
By the Chief, Enforcement Bureau:
I.       INTRODUCTION
1.   In this Memorandum  Opinion and  Order (``Order''),  we
cancel the  proposed monetary  forfeiture in  the amount  of  ten
thousand dollars  ($10,000),  issued to  Amethyst  International,
Inc. (``Amethyst'') for its apparent willful violation of Section
301 of the  Communications Act  of 1934,  as amended  (``Act'').1
However, we  admonish Amethyst  for  the violation  which  caused
harmful interference to the Coast Guard.
2.   On  June  5,   2002,  the  Commission's   Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, Field  Office  (``Philadelphia Office'')  issued  a
Notice  of  Apparent  Liability  for  Forfeiture  (``NAL'')2   to
Amethyst  in  the  amount  of  ten  thousand  dollars  ($10,000).
Amethyst filed a response to the NAL on July 8, 2002.
II.       BACKGROUND
3.   On February  25,  2002,  a Commission  agent  from  the
Philadelphia Office  received a  call from  the  United
States Coast Guard advising him that a constant  signal
was being transmitted on  VHF Marine Channel 16  (156.8
MHz).  The  signal,  which  had been  on  the  air  for
approximately   two   hours,   was   causing    harmful
interference, affecting  the  ability  of  Coast  Guard
Stations Manasquan and Barnegat  Light, New Jersey,  to
monitor channel 16  for transmissions  from vessels  in
distress.
4.   On February 25,  2002 at approximately  8:45 p.m.,  two
agents from the Philadelphia office located the source  of
the  signal transmitting  on  156.8 MHz  by  using  mobile
direction finding techniques.  The agents determined  that
the  signal was  emanating from  the  Beach Motel  at  202
Arnold Avenue, Point  Pleasant Beach, New Jersey.   Inside
the motel  lobby, the agents  discovered a Realistic  MTX-
100 marine  radio and  noted that it  was transmitting  on
Marine Channel 16 (156.8 MHz).  The microphone was  wedged
between the body of  the radio and the counter, causing  a
constant  signal.  At  approximately 9:00  p.m., Mr.  John
Fernicola,  the   owner  of  the   motel,  arrived.    Mr.
Fernicola  disconnected   and  removed  the  radio.    Mr.
Fernicola acknowledged that neither he nor Amethyst had  a
license to operate  a coast station in the Maritime  Radio
5.   On February  26,  2002, the  Philadelphia  Office  sent
Amethyst a warning  letter which explained that  operation
of the unlicensed marine coast station on frequency  156.8
MHz at  the Beach Motel violated  Section 301 of the  Act.
The  letter  also outlined  the  potential  penalties  for
operating the  unlicensed station, which included  seizure
of the  equipment, fines, and  imprisonment.  On March  4,
2002,  Amethyst  submitted  a  response  to  the   warning
6.   On June 5, 2002, the  Philadelphia Office issued a  NAL
to  Amethyst for  its  unlicensed operation  of  a  marine
coast  station on  VHF Marine  Channel 16  (156.8 MHz)  in
violation of  Section 301 of  the Act.  On  July 8,  2002,
Amethyst filed a response to the NAL in which it  requests
cancellation or reduction of the proposed forfeiture.
III.           DISCUSSION
7.   The forfeiture amount in this case was proposed in
accordance with Section 503(b) of  the Act,3 Section 1.80 of  the
Commission's Rules (``Rules''),4 and The Commission's  Forfeiture
Policy Statement and Amendment  of Section 1.80  of the Rules  to
Incorporate the Forfeiture Guidelines,  12 FCC Rcd 17087  (1997),
recon. denied, 15  FCC Rcd 303  (1999).  In examining  Amethyst's
response, Section 503(b) of the Act requires that the  Commission
take into account the  nature, circumstances, extent and  gravity
of the violation and, with respect to the violator, the degree of
culpability, any history of prior  offenses, ability to pay,  and
other such matters as justice may require.5
8.   Section 301 of the Act  sets forth the general  mandate
that no  person  shall  use  or operate  any  apparatus  for  the
transmission of  energy or  communications  or signals  by  radio
within the United States except under and in accordance with  the
Act and  with a  license.  Further,  Section 80.13  of the  Rules
requires that any  land station operating  in the Maritime  Radio
Service be licensed.6  On February 25, 2002, Amethyst operated  a
marine coast  station  on Marine  Channel  16 (156.8  MHz)  which
adversely affected  the  Coast  Guard's ability  to  monitor  for
transmissions from vessels in distress,  and it did so without  a
9.   In its response, Amethyst states that, contrary to what
is stated in the  NAL, it did not admit responsibility  or
guilt in its response  to the warning letter and that  its
response clearly denies any willful intent to violate  the
rules.   In  fact,  Amethyst  posits  that  this  singular
incidence   of  interference   resulted  from   a   purely
accidental  and   inadvertent  activation  of  the   radio
transmitter, that Amethyst  did not install the  equipment
and that it did not even intend its presence at the  Beach
Motel.    Amethyst  also   asserts  that   it  has   never
authorized the  use of the equipment  by any employee  for
any purpose, that the equipment was in existence as  found
when Amethyst assumed operations of the Beach Motel,  that
it  believed  the  power supply  to  the  radio  had  been
disconnected and that  any operation of the equipment  was
impossible.   Amethyst further  asserts that  it  provides
each front desk clerk and manager with a published set  of
rules  specifically   disallowing  the  use  of   cellular
phones, personal  communications equipment, radios or  any
other equipment  other than  the front  desk switch  board
and  reservation system.   Additionally,  Amethyst  points
out that  there is  no allegation that  this was  anything
but a singular  event or that the transmission alleged  to
have emanated from  the Beach Motel contained any  audible
transmissions.   Furthermore,  Amethyst  asserts  that  it
immediately removed  the equipment, that  it has no  prior
history  of  violations   with  the  FCC,  and  that   the
forfeiture amount is excessive.  Finally, Amethyst  states
that it was never its intention to maintain a  transmitter
at  this location  for  any purpose  and  that  Amethyst's
previous statement, that the equipment was for  monitoring
purposes only,  reflected the inferences  made by the  two
field  agents  about  why  the  previous  owner   probably
installed the  equipment and  that the  statement did  not
represent  Amethyst's purpose  or  motive in  leaving  the
equipment as found.
10.  After considering the totality of Amethyst's response
to the NAL, specifically the good faith steps taken by Amethyst
to ensure that the radio was not used, we believe that
cancellation of the forfeiture is appropriate.  Nevertheless, we
find that it is also appropriate to admonish Amethyst for its
violation of Section 301 of the Act, which caused harmful
interference to Coast Guard operations.
IV.       ORDERING CLAUSES
11.  Accordingly, IT IS  ORDERED THAT,  pursuant to  Section
0.111, 0.311, and 1.80(f)(4) of the Rules,7 the forfeiture in the
amount of ten thousand dollars ($10,000) proposed in the June  5,
2002 NAL issued to Amethyst International, Inc. IS CANCELLED.
12.  IT IS FURTHER ORDERED  that Amethyst IS ADMONISHED  for
its unlicensed operation of a marine coast station on VHF  Marine
Channel 16 (156.8  MHz) from  the Beach Motel  in Point  Pleasant
Beach, New  Jersey on  February 25,  2002, which  caused  harmful
interference to the Coast Guard.
13.  IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that  a copy of this Order  shall
be  sent  by  first  class  and  Certified  Mail  Return  Receipt
Requested to  Amethyst International,  Inc., 202  Arnold  Avenue,
Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey 08742.
David H. Solomon
Chief, Enforcement Bureau
1   47 U.S.C. � 301.
2   Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture, NAL/Acct.  No.
200232400002 (Enf. Bur.,  Philadelphia Office,  released June  5,
3   47 U.S.C. � 503(b).
4   47 C.F.R. � 1.80.
5   47 U.S.C. � 503(b)(2)(D).
6   47 C.F.R. � 80.13.
7   47 C.F.R. �� 0.111, 0.311, 1.80(f)(4).


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CDOT Sets Out to Bring More Street Life to Almost 50 Plazas
Rendering of "Game On!" installation at 62nd and Drexel in Woodlawn.
As part of the Make Way for People program, which seeks to create places where residents can relax, socialize, and maybe enjoy some culture, the Chicago Department of Transportation is seeking proposals to activate nearly 50 plazas across the city. "The concept behind the request for proposals is we believe these spaces have a lot of potential but they're currently underutilized," said CDOT Project Director Janet Attarian. "We'd like to see them be better maintained and enlivened with new amenities and programming. It's really about creative ways to promote positive activity in our public spaces."
CDOT already has a number of placemaking success stories. The department has helped install five "People Spots," car parking spaces and loading zones converted into miniature parks, in Bronzeville, Lakeview and Andersonville. The Gateway seating area, the city's first "People Plaza," located on a median at State and Wacker, is getting 40 to 50 visitors per afternoon. This year the Little Village Chamber of Commerce entered a Make Way for People use agreement with the city to program Perez Plaza, 26th and Kolin, with activities like Sunday afternoon mariachi concerts that draw upwards of 100 people.
People Spot at Little Black Pearl arts center in Bronzeville. Photo: CDOT
In addition, the winners of a design competition led by Architecture for Humanity Chicago are using $1,000 mini grants to activate plazas in Woodlawn, East Garfield Park and Old Town, as well as a "People Street" on Laflin between Blue Island and 21st in Pilsen. The Woodlawn People Plaza, located at 62nd and Drexel, was completed two weeks ago with an installation called "Game On!" by Meghan Funk and Kevin Pazik, a series of multicolored board game-like designs painted on the entire concrete floor of the plaza. "That was one of those spaces that didn't have much going on before," Attarian said. "It was just sort of closed right-of-way. The use of color and playfulness is very helpful."
The city-owned plazas and malls that are covered by the current RFP range from 2,000 to 14,000 square feet in size and include spaces like the pedestrian mall at 63rd and Green in Englewood, Joe DiMaggio Plaza in Little Italy, and Mautene Court in Wicker Park. Potential programming could range from music nights to artists in residency programs to winter ice sculpting, plus a myriad of other possibilities, Attarian said. She expects the RFP will probably be most appealing for nonprofit organizations, but it's not limited to them. She noted that while some plaza locations might be more appealing than others to potential contractors, when combined in one package, the high-traffic locations balance out the low-traffic ones, much like the advertising deal for Chicago's bus shelters.
Low-key branding on an Audi-sponsored parklet in San Francisco. Photo: Dwell
The city will be providing $50,000 in seed money to fund cultural programming during the first year of the contract. Additional revenue for the contractor could come from advertising, retail opportunities, sponsorship and grants, Attarian said. "A lot of companies are interested in placemaking nowadays," she said. "Once you get people to come to a space, there's an opportunity for advertising and retail. It's a chicken-and-egg thing." She gave the example of Audi sponsoring parklets in San Francisco, an ironic matchup of a car company with an initiative that removed parking spaces.
There are a several stipulations for the winning bidder. Effective maintenance of the spaces is crucial, and in some cases the contractor will be responsible for capital improvements such as adding electricity or WiFi, or fixing tripping hazards, Attarian said. Candidates need to propose a revenue sharing model with the city, in the event that their enterprise turns a profit. Any existing positive activity at the plazas must be accommodated. For example, if there's already a farmers market at the space on certain days, it can't be displaced.
Attarian emphasized that the most important aspect of the project is partnering with community members and organizations to provide amenities and activities that reflect the unique local culture. "Placemaking is something that doesn't happen as much if a government agency isn't helping," Attarian said. "But it's so much about activation, it's so much about local that it's not something you can do top-down. Hopefully what we'll be doing is enabling people."
Check out the RFP here. Proposals must be received by CDOT no later than Monday, September 30, at 12 p.m. CDOT and the Department of Finance will host a pre-proposal conference meeting next Tuesday, Spetember 10, at 3:00 p.m. at DOF, 33 N. Lasalle, room 700.
Filed Under: Chicago, Chicago Policy, Design, Funding & Finance, Infrastructure, Neighborhoods, News, Policy & Planning, Janet Attarian, Make Way for People, People Plazas, People Spots, placemaking
Don't Knock Woodard: Chicago's Next Great Little Public Space
[This piece also runs in Checkerboard City, John's column in Newcity magazine, which hits the streets on Wednesday evenings.] Surrounded by chainlink fence and blanketed with snow, a new plaza under construction at the northwest corner of Milwaukee/Diversey/Kimball in Avondale, an intersection that appears several times in the movie "Wayne's World," currently looks pretty bleak. […]
Residents Weigh in on CDOT's Latest Logan Square Designs
By Jacob Peters	| Jan 31, 2018
The city's project to redesign Milwaukee Avenue from Logan Boulevard to Belmont has primarily focused on the complicated issues that surround the six-way intersection and traffic circle at Milwaukee, Logan, and Kedzie, the namesake of the Logan Square neighborhood. Last night's hearing on the initiative was similarly focused on the juction, as five of the […]
CDOT's Progressive Remix of the Logan Traffic Circle Is Close to Becoming a Reality
By John Greenfield	| Dec 5, 2018
CDOT's final recommendations include switching the traffic circle to two-way traffic, unifying the two portions of the Logan Square green space, and rerouting Kedzie to create a new plaza.
CDOT May Pedestrianize Streets by the Centennial Monument
By John Greenfield	| Dec 21, 2017
An advocate says, "It's not just about fixing Milwaukee now; it's about doing something awesome and leaving a lasting legacy for our kids."
Downtown Median Becomes Chicago's First People Plaza
By Steven Vance	| Jun 25, 2013
The Gateway, Chicago's first "People Plaza" seating area, recently opened at what Transportation Commissioner Gabe Klein described as an "under-acknowledged public space" in the median of State Street between Wacker Drive and Lake Street. The installation is funded by the Chicago Loop Alliance, one of the downtown chambers of commerce, via a Special Service Area, […]
Active Trans Urges City to Think Big With List of Potential Car-Free Streets
Chicago has a number of innovative projects in the works that reconfigure streets to prioritize walking, transit and cycling and create lively public spaces, but one area where we still lag behind peer cities is the creation of car-free spaces. Today the Active Transportation Alliance called for the city to rectify that, releasing a list […]


Creation and distribution in primary schools, secondary schools and technical colleges of the Cahier de Route Road Safety Kit.
Cahier de Route : working together for the safety of young people !
Groupe Lacroix chairs Cahier de Route, an association created in 2006 that brings together public transport companies (Cars Hourtoule, Cars Lacroix, Céobus, Grisel, PNA-AERIAL, Stavo, STIVO and Timbus), transport and logistics training organisation (AFTRAL) and MAIF Prevention. Its purpose is to raise awareness among young people of road safety issues, give presentations in schools using state-of-the-art media and develop a common policy for transport operators belonging to the association. Cahier de Route is supported by the Val d'Oise Prefecture and the Road Safety and Traffic Directorate.
For Groupe Lacroix, making sure that passengers have a good experience during their journey also means ensuring compliance with the rules of good behaviour.
To this end, Groupe Lacroix is developing via its subsidiaries local actions to combat antisocial behaviour and raise awareness of the rules of good behaviour on board buses and coaches.
The business of transporting people is at the heart of environmental issues and opting to use public transport is a statement in favour of the environment.
But beyond this, Groupe Lacroix wishes to confirm its environmental responsibility by adopting the latest eco-friendly electric motors for its vehicles (100% electric vehicles, GTL, hybrids) as well as by applying the latest environmental standards in the construction or renovation of its warehouses.
Some of its companies have also already started the RSE certification process (Corporate Responsibility Certification) Lucie label certified (which also include ISO 14 001 certification).


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Address: 6712 WESTERN SKY Road
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Seller seeking pilots, Aviation enthusiasts, investors, or developers to help bring his brother's dream to a reality. His brother's dream was an airpark community, an aviator's dream to Fly Home to! He bought the properties & already put a 5000-foot runway and a 10,000 sq ft building with two 1150 sq ft apartments in it along with a septic tank, a well, large generators, 4 RV Spots & solar power in place. But all things come to an end, but we don't want his dream to. He started this & you could be the one or group to bring it to a reality! Build your retreat or full-time residence with runway views so you won't miss any of the take-off and landing action! Or take it as he started with the vision of creating hangar properties available for sale and developing it. SEE ALSO 6495458, 6495461 Seller seeking pilots, Aviation enthusiasts, investors, or developers to help bring his brother's dream to a reality. His brother's dream was an airpark community, an aviator's dream to Fly Home to! He bought the properties & already put a 400 x 5000-foot runway and a 10,000 sq ft building with two 1150 sq ft apartments in it along with a septic tank, a well, large generators, 4 RV spots & solar power in place. But all things come to an end, but we don't want his dream to. He started this & you could be the one or group to bring it to a reality! Build your retreat or full-time residence with runway views so you won't miss any of the take-off & landing action! Or take it as he started with the vision of creating hangar properties available for sale and developing it to be active social and aviation community with BEAUTIFUL custom-built homes in an Airpark. Then others could also Taxi their planes from home to the 400 x 5000' runway & enjoy the AMAZING Sunrises or sunsets overlooking the private runway at this to be wonderful pilots dream community. LZ Angel Solar Airpark was designed to provide a "lifestyle", not just a place to live and park your plane. An airpark can be a great community to start building your dream of an aviation lifestyle. It's just waiting for you!!! Also see MLS # 6495458, 6495461


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Last Chance for White Pants raises nearly $60,000 for VNA Hospice Center
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"We moved her into the VNA, and it was delightful. We had a wonderful corner room in the back, where she could watch the birds outside."
When her mother entered the facility, she was having trouble swallowing and had lost most of her hearing. But, Yogan said, the stay at the VNA Hospice Center completely turned her around, and she ended up leaving the facility with restored hearing and eating functions.
"She did so well that she perked up in ways nobody expected," Yogan said. "It was amazing, and I credit that to the wonderful staff, the opportunity to get the rest she needed, and the joyful place."
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At the VNA's Last Chance for White Pants fundraising gala Saturday evening, many of those families and their extended community came together to return the favor, and to pay it forward for others in the future.
"We think of it not so much as a fundraiser, but really more of a friendraiser. It's a way for us to recognize all of our friends and supporters, families, volunteers and staff. Everybody that contributes to the VNA," said Robert Franko, President and CEO of VNA of Northwest Indiana.
The 2019 gala was the organization's 3rd annual end-of-summer party and auction, held to raise funding for repair and refurbishment of the Arthur B. and Ethel V. Horton VNA Hospice Center. Money raised from previous events enabled the hospice center to update hospital beds, lay new flooring, install new lighting, and repaint. Proceeds from this year will be used to purchase new furnishings for each room and update technology infrastructure.
"Our world has changed a lot in 17 years, and so we really want to bring the center up to speed and make it more comfortable and more welcoming for the families," Franko said.
Gala attendees danced and mingled in the Blue Chip Casino Ballroom while enjoying a gourmet dinner, open bar, and live music provided by The Unit.
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"That got me interested in what do you do when you have a terminal illness, how do you handle that," Krueger explained. "People never know you need hospice until you do."
"I think the reason I've stayed is because of the contacts I've made at the Hospice Center and the knowledge that you gain about death and dying and coping, and being able to share that with other people," she said. "I believe in the mission."
It was clear from the number of Regional sponsors, how much the Northwest Indiana community values the work done at the VNA Hospice Center. Indiana Beverage and the Leetz Family, Presbyterian Resale Shop, and Urschel Laboratories were the Gold Sponsor for this year's event. The Bar Sponsors were Sarah and Rick DeMaris and the Dessert Sponsor was Wells Fargo. Silver Sponsors were La Porte and Porter Hospitals; Chester, Inc.; Good Hospitality Services; The Lukach Family in memory of Avis & Paul Lukach; Mutual of America; and, Donovan CPAs & Advisors.
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After upgrading to today's rawhide, xorg-x11 is unable of starting.
then harddisk activity stops and the machine becomes unresponsive.
not cause activity. The only solution I have found is to power cycle.
provide any log files that might be helpful.
individual file attachments using bugzilla file attach feature.
What hardware are you using, and what driver?
Sep  1 11:50:30 indoffcallacctg gpm: Started gpm successfully.
Sep  1 11:50:30 indoffcallacctg gpm: Could not open /dev/input/mice.
query before any conclusions though.
can be ruled out, a kernel bug report should be filed I suppose.
problems) and am no longer able to reproduce the problem.
otherwise I guess it is okay to close this NOTABUG.
fixed with other system updates.


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Synthon today announced that it has successfully completed multiple decentralized procedures for two formulations of zoledronic acid. Regulatory approval has been obtained for zoledronic acid concentrate solution for infusion (4 mg / 5 ml) and zoledronic acid solution for infusion (5 mg / 100 ml) in 22 European countries.
Synthon's products are fully generic versions of Novartis' Aclasta® (5 mg / 100 ml) and Zometa® (4 mg / 5 ml). Aclasta® is used to treat men and post-menopausal women with osteoporosis or osteoporosis caused by treatment with steroids, and patients with Paget's disease of the bone. Zometa® is indicated to prevent bone complications such as fractures and to reduce high calcium blood levels in adult patients due to the presence of a tumor.
EU sales for zoledronic acid for all these indications amount to EUR 408 million, based on IMS Midas data 2011.
Product launch is scheduled for later this year.
Synthon, with headquarters in Nijmegen, the Netherlands is an international fast-growing pharmaceutical company and a leader in the field of generic medicines. Synthon has been working in biotechnology since 2007 and is developing rapidly into a specialty pharmaceutical company, focusing on the therapeutic areas of auto-immune disease, multiple sclerosis and oncology. Our products are currently approved by regulatory agencies in over 80 countries worldwide and marketed through strategic partnerships and – in dedicated areas – through direct sales. Synthon employs about 1,400 staff at 11 sites worldwide, and in 2011 it recorded a turnover of EUR 260 million. For more information, go to www.synthon.com.
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