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The Rolex Yacht-Master II is a sport watch made by Rolex, unveiled in 2007 and first introduced in March 2010 with the models 116688 and 116689. One year later, in 2011, Rolex introduced the model 116681 which was made from steel and everose gold. At Baselworld 2013, the watch was available for the first time in 904L steel, the model 116680, fitted with a Cerachrom bezel insert in blue ceramic. Originally, the Yacht-Master II used Rolex's 4160 movement but with the introduction of the model 116680 in 2013, the movement was updated to the 4161 movement specifically designed for the Yacht-Master II. All Yacht-Master II watches have a case size of 44mm. Many Rolex watches are available with the now-legendary combination of yellow, white or Everose gold and steel known as Rolesor, but Rolesium is a creation specific to the Yacht-Master. While the case and bracelet are in rugged Oystersteel, the bezel of the Rolesium versions is made of 950 platinum, imparting a silvery whiteness and vibrant luminosity for an unmistakable sense of luxury.
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The Rolex Yacht Master is a sports watch which was first introduced in 1992. Now, as you might be aware that Rolex very rarely introduces the all-new model, so the last Rolex model which was introduced before the Yacht Master was the model named Daytona which was released in 1964, thus we can see that the Rolex took about 28 years to introduce us with Rolex new model.
The Oyster Perpetual Yacht-Master 42 in 18 ct white gold with an Oysterflex bracelet. This model features a bidirectional rotatable 60-minute graduated bezel with a matt black Cerachrom insert in ceramic, as well as polished raised numerals and graduations, perfectly complementing its black dial.
Rolex has built a reputation on their classic and timeless designs. They're not one to release a new model every other year. In fact, after the launch of the Daytona in 1963, it would be nearly another 30 years before they'd debut an entirely new model. That model was the Rolex Yacht-Master. Here, we'll provide a Rolex Yacht-Master review, including key features of the Rolex Yacht-Master, the history of the Rolex Yacht-Master through the years, and notable wearers.
The very first Rolex Yacht-Master was the Reference 16628. The brand only offered the model in a 40mm, 18-karat yellow gold case with a white dial. The Ref. 16628 also came equipped with a screw-down, Triplock crown and boasted 100 meters of water resistance. Inside, it housed the Caliber 3135 movement.
For the first several years, Rolex only made minor changes to the Yacht-Master line. In 1994, they released a slightly different iteration of the Yacht-Master: the Reference 68628. This variation was smaller, with a 35mm case. That same year, they also added a women's version of the Yacht-Master: the Reference 69628. It showcased an even more modest case size, measuring just 29mm.
In 1999, Rolex introduced the first major update to the Yacht-Master collection. That year, they debuted an all-new, patented combination of metals created specifically for the Yacht-Master. They called this two-tone combination of stainless steel and platinum, Rolesium. At the annual Basel World Fair, Rolex launched the material in three different sizes. These included the 40mm Reference 16622, 35mm Reference 168622, and the 29mm Reference 169622.
The next update to the Rolex Yacht-Master collection came in 2005. That year, Rolex added another two-tone variation to the line, this time in stainless steel and 18-karat yellow gold. They offered the new colorway in the 40mm Reference 16623. Two years later, Rolex made the most significant change to the Yacht-Master line with the addition of the Yacht-Master II. However, the lineage of the original Yacht-Master has continued.
In 2012, Rolex released the next notable upgrade for the Yacht-Master with the Reference 116622. While the model retained its 40mm sizing, it featured an all-new "super case" with different styling. In addition, it boasted an all-platinum bezel as opposed to a combination of platinum and stainless steel. Last but not least, it came equipped with a refined version of the Oyster bracelet featuring an upgraded clasp.
Three years later, Rolex debuted another first for the brand in the Yacht-Master collection's Reference 116655. This time, instead of a new metal, they introduced their own rigorously designed and tested variation of the rubber strap. The Oysterflex bracelet marked the first-ever rubber strap for the brand. Ever since, it's become a staple of the Yacht-Master collection.
In the past several years, Rolex has continued to make subtle updated and additions to the Yacht-Master line. One of the latest releases is the Yacht-Master 40 with a multi-color, gem-set bezel. More recently in 2019, Rolex introduced the first 42mm time-and-date Yacht Master Reference 226659.
The Yacht-Master is a popular choice among many of today's top entertainers, athletes, and chefs. Some of the Yacht-Master's famous wearers include TV personality Ellen DeGeneres and film icons like Brad Pitt and Bruce Willis. Athletes across an array of modalities also appreciate the Yacht-Master. You can find it on the wrist of star players like former pro-footballer David Beckham, Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan, and former World Number One golfer Justin Thomas. Last but certainly not least, the legendary chef Emeril Lagasse is among the Yacht-Master's celebrity fans.
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Svante Pääbo is the founder of the field of ancient DNA and is the director of the department of genetics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. In Neanderthal Man he tells the story of his mission to answer the question of what we can learn from the genes of our closest evolutionary relative, culminating in his sequencing of the Neanderthal genome in 2009. We learn that Neanderthal genes offer a unique window into the lives of our hominin relatives and may hold the key to unlocking the mystery of why humans survived while Neanderthals went extinct. Drawing on genetic and fossil clues, Pääbo explores what is known about the origin of modern humans and their relationship to the Neanderthals and describes the fierce debate surrounding the nature of the two species' interactions. Order Neanderthal Man from Amazon.
This week on Skepticality, Derek has a conversation with Jason Silva. Jason is known for his work as the host of the Emmy Nominated National Geographic channel television show, Brain Games. Jason is a self-proclaimed "wonder junkie" who has been pushing the ideas of inspiration, science, technology, and imagination not only through television but also via new media, TED Talks and anywhere else he can. Find out more about what made Jason set out to inspire others with such passionate intesity.
Last week, the James Randi Educational Foundation's "The Amazing Meeting 2014" conference in Las Vegas brought together many of the most engaging voices in science and skepticism for a challenging and joyful celebration of ideas. The Skeptics Society was in the spotlight, with Michael Shermer, Donald Prothero, and Junior Skeptic's Daniel Loxton taking the stage for feature presentations.
In this week's eSkeptic, we share the text of Loxton's well-received speech on skeptical history, titled "A Rare and Beautiful Thing." Although designed as a live multimedia presentation, we hope this distilled format will give a sense of the passion behind this unusual piece.
I work for Michael Shermer and Pat Linse at the Skeptics Society, where I've done the Junior Skeptic section of Skeptic magazine for about 12 years, writing on everything from alien abduction to crystal skulls to the Curse of King Tut.
Generally, I spend my time making things, mostly for kids. I make pictures, often with my friend Jim Smith; I write stories; I do research.
Tell the public what we have learned.
As a footnote to doing scientific skepticism, I also do some writing about this kind of work. I do a little blogging, and I've written op-eds (PDF) and historical explorations (PDF) about the principles and ethics and craft of what we do.
My inward-looking discussions in articles and tweets and interviews often have to do with the challenges and "scope" of traditional, scientific skepticism—describing the uniqueness of the skeptical project; exploring its contested boundaries with other parallel rationalist movements; and identifying areas for clarification, development, and improvement.
But today I want to see this strange, rare jewel, with all its flaws and inclusions, in a different kind of light. Rather than talking about what makes skepticism difficult, I want to argue that skepticism is beautiful.
I love the comparison with trash collecting, because it emphasizes the unending labor, unsavory subject matter and practical usefulness of the skeptical project. It's a comparison many have made.
There may seem little beauty in this image… but as an artist, it's my job to look for it!
Now, it's one thing to find beauty in a flower.
But I believe it is also there to be seen in skepticism's noble tradition of necessary service.
When I talk about "beauty" I'm obviously stepping outside of the empirical framework of scientific skepticism. I'm speaking about that work as a person who comes to my job with personal values, moral intuitions, and sources of meaning and purpose.
These are what motivate me to do this work.
And you know that I've never heard someone who's really passionate about comic books…even if they're obsessed with comic books—I've never heard anyone refer to their love of comic books as "a calling." I hear skeptics, honest, use that term frequently. … The passion I feel for magic is unlike the passion I feel for skepticism. It lacks a component that my love of skepticism has. Why is that? I submit that you are here today…and that my passion for advancing skepticism in society is different than my love of comic books or maybe playing video games on my Xbox 360…because skepticism is more than just a hobby, I'll argue. And it's more than just a club…. I'll argue today that you're involved in skepticism—here it is—because skepticism is a humanism.
I happen to identify personally as a secular humanist. But I know, and Grothe knows, that the skeptical community is broader than that. The people in this audience identify with a diversity of faith traditions and schools of thought.
People from all backgrounds feel moved by goodness—and some people see goodness in skepticism.
I'd go even further: we feel that straight-to-the-spine sense of Elevation when we see someone choose to try to do something good.
For me the movies are like a machine that generates empathy. It lets you understand hopes, aspirations, dreams, and fears. It helps us to identify with the people who are sharing this journey with us.
Stories do that. True stories do that.
When I saw this trailer, I was struck strongly by this phrase—"a machine that generates empathy"—because I remembered saying something similar.
What does one say to strangers about the loss of their close friend? …I don't know. But I'm struck by the importance…of what Perry built with you. I'm one of those who believes wholeheartedly in skepticism as a project to reduce harm to real people.
Something like the SGU is a fair sort of thing to leave behind: not a hobby, not an entertainment, but a machine for helping people.
I realize I'm late to the party (by nearly 2000 years) but iconoclastic rascal Lucian of Samosata may be my new favorite skeptic.
Cover of Junior Skeptic 45, bound inside Skeptic 17.4.
Lucian was a second-century Roman writer and debunker. I published a Junior Skeptic in 2012 about Lucian and his James Randi-like battle against a celebrity psychic, Alexander of Abonoteichus, who founded a snake-god cult.
It's a case which is not well known in these forgetful days, but which has been a touchstone for skeptics for centuries.
In understanding, resource, acuteness," Lucian recalled, "he was far above other men; curiosity, receptiveness, memory…— all these were his in overflowing measure. But he used them for the worst purposes.
Establishing himself as a prophet, Alexander spread rumours in Abonoteichus about an imminent miracle—about the advent of a god on Earth. When he had stoked up a fever of public interest, he ran out one morning into the city marketplace wearing only a loin-cloth. He climbed up onto a high altar— wild-eyed, raving at the crowd. He cried out that the time had come! A god was coming to Abonoteichus right now!
He ran to a temple construction site, followed by an amazed throng of men, women and children. Singing hymns, Alexander splashed into the mud and water of the excavation for the foundation for the temple. He plunged a bowl into the mud, and in triumph, lifted out a miracle.
It was a goose egg.
When Alexander broke open the egg into his hollowed palm, it was seen to contain a live snake. It was, he said, the newborn god.
[T]he crowd could see it stirring and winding about his fingers," Lucian wrote, and "they raised a shout, hailed the God, blessed the city, and every mouth was full of prayers — for treasure and wealth and health and all the other good things that he might give.
Well, this bit with the egg was a magic trick. Lucian explained how it was done. The egg was blown out in advance, resealed with a small snake inside, and planted at the construction site to be found on cue.
But here's the thing—this exact same effect is used to devastating impact by psychic scammers today. In the modern Boojoo or "egg curse" scam, fortunetellers hatch snakes, worms, hair or blood from an apparently ordinary egg or tomato, revealing that the mark—or her money—is cursed, and must be cleansed by the fortuneteller.
Every year, countless people lose their savings to a scam that goes back to days of the Roman Empire!
A few days later Alexander opened shop in a dimly-lit audience chamber. Miraculously, the snake god was now fully grown—its writhing body played by a large python, and its human-like head by a handcrafted prop. The wonderstruck crowd was hustled past this special effect before they could look too closely.
Which Alexander was happy to sell.
Alexander took these sealed questions into an inner chamber. There, in communion with the god, he wrote an answer on the outside of each scroll, and returned it "with the seal upon it, just as it was"—apparently unopened.
Well, this is a trick too, and psychics still perform it today.
Today, skeptical investigators such as Joe Nickell often seek to trap psychics who perform readings of sealed messages. They may provide false information for the psychic to incorporate into their reading, or attempt to mark the message in a way that would reveal substitution, or to make the message difficult to open without leaving a sign.
Eighteen hundred years ago, Lucian did the exact same thing.
"Many such traps, in fact, were set for him by me and by others," Lucian wrote.
In some instances it was detected. Like other psychics, Alexander was ultimately making it up—and he was frequently, sometimes horrifically, wrong.
But the young man was alive. He'd been traveling.
When this was discovered, another skeptic stood up in a large crowd and bravely confronted Alexander about the blood on his hands. Alexander's response? He ordered his audience to stone the skeptic to death — which they attempted to do.
Despite opposition from skeptics, Alexander's influence only grew. He bound wealthy clients into unshakable loyalty. He advised military planners. He sold invented cures, and spells of protection from plague.
The authorities refused to take action. Alexander's psychic career continued until he died wealthy and powerful at almost 70 years old—which we know because Lucian told us about it.
Why did Lucian do that?
What made him study and record and critique Alexander's career of paranormal deception?
When unfounded claims burn out of control, people get hurt.
Alexander was dangerous. He preyed on people. His lies sent innocent people to their annihilation. He sold deadly false confidence in times of plague, sent soldiers into disaster when they might have been kept from harm's way.
There was a clear need for someone to do something—and it fell on skeptics like Lucian to try.
Lucian continued this work of skeptical scholarship even after Alexander's death.
Because Lucian was not alone in that work. His book on Alexander was written at the request of his friend Celsus, who had written debunking books of his own, exposing the fakery of sorcerers.
I confess to being a little ashamed both on your account and my own. There are you asking that the memory of an arch-scoundrel should be perpetuated in writing; here am I going seriously into an investigation of this sort.
But Lucian told himself that there was value in this work—that there were constructive lessons to learn and teach in the study of scam artists and occult beliefs.
We may be glad that he did.
We are all students in that same school of the weird and the wild and the wicked. And for centuries, students of skepticism have turned back to learn from older texts.
Carl Sagan explicitly linked the practices of modern psychics, including those described in Lamar Keene's The Psychic Mafia, to the criminal practices of Alexander. Sagan also linked the "useful work" of the modern skeptical movement to Lucian and his colleagues.
Philosopher David Hume retold the story of Lucian and Alexander in 1748 in his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. In doing so, Hume wrote what may be the single most important sentence ever written about why skepticism exists as a movement.
For as long as there have been claims that sound too good to be true, there have been people who felt drawn to the task of finding out. And always, throughout history, at all times, those people have been too scattered, and too few.
But the dawn of an organized skeptical movement brought light to a shared horizon. It unified what had been scattered. It drew together people—very different in many ways—who found they were talking about the same things.
Scientific skepticism recognized a literature of common insights, connected the people who studied the fringe, and showed that their investigations collectively comprised a distinct field of study.
There are people in this room with us today who have fought for skepticism for forty, fifty, even sixty years.
How many careers were spent, how many lives were lived in service of skepticism before even those people were born?
Few people begin to realize the depth or the breadth or the scale of the skeptical efforts which have taken place in previous generations.
The man (above) with the chalkboard is Joseph Rinn, demonstrating mediumistic trickery for a press syndicate in 1920. For decades, Rinn was in the thick of every important occult battle in America. He formed a New York-based skeptics group in 1905.
Rinn was present for confessions by the Fox sisters, the founders of Spiritualism.
He took Harry Houdini to his first séance.
He went to Congress to fight for tougher laws against fraudulent fortunetellers in the nation's capital. He fought with passion, and gravity of purpose.
Houdini's mission continued even after his death in 1926.
Rose Mackenberg, the head of Houdini's team of undercover agents, continued to pursue psychic scam artists as a private investigator, lecturer, and consulting expert for decades. Having investigated crimes of all types, Mackenberg believed "the most vicious criminals in America are the charlatans who betray and plunder their heartsick victims in the name of the dear, departed dead"—especially those who work in organized gangs.
She called them "conscienceless scoundrels devoid of even the most elementary feelings of decency and pity," and was proud to have helped put many behind bars.
It was her life's work.
In 1931, inspired by Houdini's example, the Society of American Magicians joined forces with the NYPD to try to rid New York City of its burden of paranormal scammers.
For more on the lives and skeptical careers of Rose Mackenberg and Mary Sullivan, see Junior Skeptic 46, bound inside Skeptic 18.1.
The officer in charge was the head of the Policewomen's Bureau, Detective Mary Sullivan, a pioneer who joined the force in 1911. She was the second woman in the NYPD ever to be raised to Detective, First Grade, and the first to have served on the Homicide Squad.
I had a personal reason for finding the fortuneteller hunt attractive," she wrote. "When I was a child my five-year-old brother wandered out of the house after mass one Sunday and was never seen again. Tortured by uncertainty as to whether he was alive or dead, my mother turned to fortunetellers for guidance. For years they led her on from one false hope to another, telling her that he would be brought home by shipboard the following spring; that a dark woman was holding him prisoner in a basement; that we would see him on the street when he was fifteen years old. The repeated disappointments my mother suffered caused her as much pain as if the boy had been lost to her many times instead of only once. My recollection of all this made it doubly pleasant to me to flash my badge before an astonished seeress and tell her that she and her paraphernalia were about to depart for a ride.
Reducing this intimate kind of harm matters. Seeking justice for victims matters—especially when few people care.
How can you say psychic fraud doesn't matter when there is a steady stream of news stories about victims who give up life savings to psychic con artists? Do you think it mattered to the victims?
There is much more to skeptical history than we can talk about today. There is more than I will learn in my lifetime.
Skepticism is a bright, shining thread that runs through the whole of the human tapestry. We can follow that thread of curiosity and conscience—in places with difficulty—through the entire length of the history of civilization.
Skepticism is part of who we are. It is part of who we always have been. It is a deep and essential part of our better nature.
And it is beautiful to me.
Scientific skepticism connects us with lives lived, struggles undertaken by men and women who lived and fought and questioned and challenged—and sometimes risked everything—decades, even centuries ago. We are brothers and sisters to those who have—for millennia—chosen this particular way to help.
We are connected to those who refused to accept the deceitful cruelties of their times— connected to the people who felt called to light candles…because they cursed the darkness!
There is beauty in this choice in life—beauty in the attempt to push back the night.
But candles do more than hold back the darkness. That small, warm light also allows us to take our children by the hand and show them how big and how wonderful the universe really is.
Every child deserves to see from those great heights. It's a view that belongs to everyone.
And the moral calling to share that view is beautiful.
Skepticism is lifted up by the belief that knowledge can help people, that truth is better than falsehood—that there is more to the world than cynicism and deceit.


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This antenna is similar in construction to the 2-meter OFC sleeve dipole I built over 8 years ago, but it is a simple center-fed dipole. I used 1″ thin-wall PVC pipe, aluminum tape, and RG-8X coax. The goal here is to put up a cheap, easy, and quick 2-meter antenna that is simple and unobtrusive, but works quite well.
Cut 6 or 7 feet of 1″ thin-wall PVC.
Cut two 38″ lengths of aluminum tape.
Put one edge of the first tape on the pipe, nice and straight.
Slide fingers along the tape, rotating the pipe slightly with each slide.
Try to make no wrinkles.
Apply the second tape, starting with about a 1/8th″ overlap.
Find the exact center of the tapes and cut away ¼″.
the feed-point will handle more power than a single layer.
I used 16½ feet of RG-8X, which is 3 waves at 147MHz and VF .82.
Strip out 1½ inches of the coax like this.
Dip the conductors in synthetic grease to help avoid corrosion.
Use a high-quality tape like 33+, tightly wrap the conductors down against the pipe.
Be careful to not spread grease around while taping.
Tape down the shield, as tightly as you can stretch the tape.
without breaking them. This is to further mash the conductors into the elements.
Now bring the coax down and add a couple of ties to it, as a strain-relief.
with cheap vinyl tape — you need something that will stretch and seal.
Apply a tie-wrap to the tape's tail, so it won't unravel.
Now notice that you have these two little gaps, where the coax comes out.
Dab a little silicone caulk there to keep out spiders and moisture.
sch-40, slit it, spread it, and slip it over the pipe for reinforcement.
You can protect the elements from corrosion with paint, or better, outdoor polyurethane varnish.
If installing near a metal roof like I did, you'll need to find the right height above the metal before the SWR will come down. In my case, I ended up with it about ½-wave above the roof, then the SWR went nearly flat across the band. With it lower, as shown above, the SWR was around 2.
For the elements, 38 inches (total, including the gap) should give you a low SWR across the band. If it doesn't, try changing the antenna's environment before altering the antenna.
You can also adjust the SWR somewhat by changing the dangle-angle of the coax. In my case, it ended up being best about 1" from the lower element, while bringing it out perpendicular didn't work worth a darn! That's a lucky thing, I guess, since a perpendicular feed-line would side-load the PVC.
If you wanna put it up on a metal pole, I'd suggest leaving ½-wave (about 40") of bare PVC between the lower element and the metal pole.
Please feel free to drop me an email if you build one and let me know how it works or how it could be better!
So there you have it—I told you it was easy!
It's possible to use 1-inch ladder line on 2 meters but you also need a 1:1 choke balun and a tuner, both designed for VHF.
I think RG-8X would be OK at 40 feet, though the larger low-loss cable like 9913 or LMR400 would be better. However there's 2 problems with that. (1) it's gonna be too heavy for the antenna described on this page, and (2) it's unwieldy to connect to an HT, so you'd need to add a short pigtail of RG-174 or RG-316, with the appropriate connectors and adapter.
I am looking to build this in the next few days to be paired with a raspberry pi w/ RTL-SDR dongle for APRS decoding/display in Xastir. As I am really only worried about using this antenna for APRS, what sort of adjustment to the length of tape would I need to make to center on the APRS freq?
If you mean 144.390, 39″ would center it around there, though the antenna is broadband enough to work well across the 2-meter band cut at 38″ as shown.
Do you think that wrapping aluminum tape over PVC pipe would work on a home brew 20 meter ground mounted vertical? I was thinking that this might increase the bandwidth as opposed to just running a wire through the PVC pole. Your thoughts?
Yes, that could work, if you guy the top with nylon strings to control the flexing of the pole and cracking of the tape. But a much better, long-lasting solution is to just buy 3-4 pieces of .058″ wall 6063 aluminum tubing. Like, 2, 1-7/8, 1-3/4-inch. Elevate the base 8+ feet and use 4 quarter-wave radials of #17 aluminum electric fence wire. Or build a 20 meter vertical dipole like this: http://kv5r.com/ham-radio/a-big-vertical-antenna-project/ .
I'm a fairly new ham and ive been out of it for about three years and I'm old. First, do you wrap one side of the pvc with with the aluminum strips and overlap 1/8inch, or both ends and over lap in the middle. I'm asking because the aluminum doesn't look wide enough to circle the pipe and ovetlap 1/8 inch. If I get the answer, I think I could get the rest.
Well, the tape is 2″ wide, so two tapes is 4″, or 3-3/4″ with two 1/8th" overlaps. The 1″ thinwall PVC I used is about 3-3/4″ circumfrence, so two 2″ tapes will encircle it.
Is it at all possible to mount the antenna with a piece of string in a tree or would the set be to high?
Yes, you can hang it from a tree but use a long branch so it isn't too close to the tree.
I have everything to build the antenna. I'm also in the middle of building a new radio desk. Covering it with Wilsonart antique white. And while I'm here, I have a Airborne Instruments Laboratory RF Attenuator type 137. It was given to me with the manual. Being a new Ham I'm not quite sure what to do with it. Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. Mark KG5TTE.
Yes, the center conductor is taped to the upper element and the shield to the lower. Then the whole connection is taped a couple inches to keep water out of the connections and coax.
Your length overall will be for resonance in the center of the VHF maritime band; the factor you will need to look up considering both the center frequency and length to diameter ratio of the elements — something like 457 / f(MHz) = L(feet), but I donno exactly what it is.
It's best to bring the coax away perpendicular to the antenna for a few feet if possible.
Would it hurt to use breeze clamps instead of all of the zip ties?
Yes you can use hose clamps but it would be very hard to seal the connection with tape over the worm gear. That's why I used zip ties; easy to tape and seal.
IS THIS CONCEIVABLE TO DO WITH ALUMINUM TUBING, SEPARATED WITH THE WHITE COUPLING FOR BLACK PLASTIC WATERPIPE?
Nice article – I am going to give it a try.
i built one very similar to your specs. although instead of the coax running up the outside. i had it run through the middle of the PVC then drilled a hole just large enough for the coax to fit through in the middle of the length of the pipe. looks a bit cleaner and runs great. i have it roughly 50ft in the air near the top of my mast. i can hit everything within about 60 miles. works great! thanks for the overall idea!
Yes, I did the sleeve dipole before this one. See: Sleeve Dipole the feed needs to be offset a little to compensate for the interaction of the lower element with the coax shield.
Would it work Horizontal or does it need to be vertical?
Well, all the repeaters and mobiles and most bases on 2-meters are vertical polarization. Horizontal is only used (on 2m) for ssb/cw on the low end of the band, very little activity there (virtually none). You'll lose a lot of signal if you run a 2 meter antenna horizontal.
On HF it doesn't matter so much but on 2-meters it does. Stay vertical if you wanna hear repeaters and such.
I take it that the adhesive on the aluminum tape has a low enough resistance as to not cause problems.
Correct. There's plenty of overlap for capacitive coupling. Note also that the coax wires are pressed against the metal side, not under the adhesive.
I like the simple 2 meter antenna and will build it in the next couple of week ends.
No, as long as the SWR at the feedpoint is pretty low, the length of the coax shouldn't matter. But you do need enough to come away perpendicular for at least a half-wave, then come down to the radio.


Summary: SQL 2014 is available on April 1. What's new? Hekaton for one - AKA In-Memory OLTP. I'll spend a lot of time talking about Hekaton as it is one of the most key new features in 2014, but we'll also take a look at the updatable columnstore, cloud integration, backup encryption, delayed durability and partition indexing. SQL 2014 is a huge step forward in taking the SQL platform to the Enterprise level. Come see it firsthand in this fun and demo-intensive session.
Summary: Mike Diehl, the practice lead for Databases and Business Intelligence at Imaginet, will demonstrate some of the capabilities of Power BI and how to gain insights into your data using Excel and the new Power BI features that are built on Excel, like Power Query, Power Pivot, Power View, and Power Map. This enables users to perform data discovery, analysis, and visualization using the tools they are already familiar with. Power BI is also part of Office 365, which provides a platform for collaboration through SharePoint Online. Power BI sites also have a natural language query interface, which will be demonstrated, and support mobile access through HTML5 and touch optimized apps.


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Track 12: Who Let the Dogs Out?
April 22, 2015 March 14, 2016 t4nky Story Post, Year OneEric the Entertainer, Hell Semester, Nathan Jacobs, NIU, Salim
So, yeah, this was a fucking awful place to be. Not only was I in a room full of rotting meat, not only was I probably infected with some horrible disease due to the sludge I had swallowed, but now dogs were after me. I turned back to the pile of meat. I was going to have to climb it again.
I tried to run, but the goop around my feet was slowing me down. The dogs were getting closer. It seemed like they were having as much trouble navigating the slush as I was, but they were still gaining. "They are quite large," I heard The Monk say in a conversational tone of voice. "I did not know dogs could get this big."
"Those are wolves!" Someone yelled. "Holy shit, they're fucking wolves!" I tried to run faster.
When I got to the meat mountain Eric and his gang were on, I suddenly realized that the bone I had pulled out had been a key structural support. Not only was the meat mountain now much closer to being vertical, but the animal parts were now loose and shifting. I realized this the hard way when I grabbed for a hand hold, only to cause the mountain to crumble a bit. It took me a bit, but I finally found a good place. I started climbing, still holding my club. After all this bullshit I just went to get it, there was no fucking way I'd be letting it go.
Then I heard someone scream. I looked and saw that in a nearby meat mountain, a large dog had grabbed someone by the leg and was beginning to pull him down. His friends were moving in to help, and the wolf knew it. My guess was its plan was to drag the guy down to where the rest of the pack could rip him to shreds. Before I turned away, I made eye contact with the wolf. I wasn't well-versed in dog body language, but I could swear it was thinking, "shit, that guy was probably a much easier target!" Then the wolf's victim kicked it in the face. The wolf let go and whimpered. I got back to climbing.
"Come on, Killer!" Doc said, a shank made out of a toothbrush in his hand. "Move your butt!" I noticed that he was looking not at me, but at something moving at a rapid pace on the floor. I heard barking and splashing. I continued moving as fast as I felt safe, as the meat mountain kept moving under my hands.
"Hurry up!" Ray-Gun yelled at me. I was about to say something about the precarious state of the "ground" I was climbing up when I heard a snarl. I rolled to my left.
Instantly, I was thankful for my decision. If I hadn't, a wolf would have landed on my chest. It turned to face me, but I lashed out with my club, hitting the wolf on the noggin. It slid down the meat mountain, a slightly concussed look in its eyes.
"Fuck off, Balto," I said. I couldn't help it. I was feeling like a complete bad ass. I watched as the dog slid down the meat mountain…
…To where the rest of his or her pack was looking up at me. I noticed two things. First, they were all very pissed-off looking doggies. Second, they were enormous. Standing on all fours, they'd come up above my waist. I no longer felt like a badass.
"Fuck me," I said. Then I began climbing like my life depended on it, mostly because it did. I was terrified.
One of the wolves growled. I heard a thrashing sound, then the meat mountain began to collapse underneath me. I sped up, but took a quick look over my shoulder. One of the wolves was charging up after me, but despite how fast its legs were, it wasn't getting very far.
What it was doing was causing the mountain to collapse. I'm not sure, but one of the other five was looking thoughtfully at its pack mate. I didn't stop climbing, but slowed down a bit, seeing as they were changing tactics.
When I finally got to where Eric's group was, Doc and Ray-Gun dragged me up. "Don't scare us like that, Killer," Ray-Gun said. "We thought you were dog food."
Doc shrugged. "He may still be dog food. He's pretty new at this." Ray-Gun slapped him upside the head. "It's true!" Doc protested. "This fight is nowhere near done! He could probably end up dying!"
I wasn't really paying attention. What was happening on the ground and the other meat mountains was more interesting. There seemed to be two other wolf packs versus us humans, who were spread out across five meat mountains. The smallest pack (there were only four) had decided to go after a person occupying a meat mountain alone. He screamed as a huge wolf grabbed him by the throat and shook, but it quickly died off. When he stopped struggling and screaming, the other three moved in and began to eat.
On another mountain, a group of seven wolves had surrounded a similarly sized group of humans and were making runs at them. Most of the humans there had knives and toothbrush shanks, and both sides were taking heavy casualties. A few of the humans were in really bad shape, and their friends were trying their best to protect them.
Back on the ground, the wolf trying to climb the pile was starting to give up. Most of the others in his pack were circling to make sure none of us escaped.
However, another wolf was just standing there. It was a huge wolf, possibly the largest one in the entire room and definitely the largest in his pack. His coat was jet black with a white underside and he seemed to be observing the situation very carefully. Due to his size and intelligence, I guessed it was the alpha.
Eventually, the other wolf ceased its attempts to try and scramble up. At first, I was glad because the various animal parts I was balanced on were starting to shift in a most disturbing manner. Then the alpha moved in. I wondered for a moment if the alpha was going to start trying to climb up. That would be bad. He could accidentally bring down the entire meat mountain.
It turns out what he was planning was worse. He was digging. I could tell because he was making no effort to gain ground. A little while later, I noticed he was also being very selective about what places he would dig, and that over time the tremors would get more frequent.
I tapped Eric on the shoulder. "We've got a problem. Have you been noticing that our mountain is dissolving?"
Eric nodded. "Yes. Do you know why?" I pointed at the wolf digging away. Eric's eyes widened. "Is that what is causing our position to crumble?"
I nodded. "Pretty sure." To underscore my point, the mountain crumbled again. "Also, it's probably my fault."
"We can point fingers in hell," Doc said. "Right now, we need a plan."
"I have one." Eric had become very grim. "We counter-attack, catch them by surprise, then make our way to the next mountain, and pray to whatever god we want we don't die."
"Good plan," I said. The others seemed surprised that I had agreed. "Just… can they be surprised?"
They ceased to be surprised and laughed. "Killer," The Monk said in his calm voice, "Animals think of things in term of predator and prey. They do not think of things in terms of soldier versus soldier."
I was about to ask what that meant, then said, "Ok. Got it. We go down there and kick their canine asses?"
"You are learning, Killer!" Eric said, clapping me on my shoulder. He then drew the knife he had acquired. "On three, ok?"
"Yeah!" Ray-Gun said. "Let's do this!"
"Ok," Eric said, "On three!" He paused for us to get ready, then began. "Three, two, one…" He took a deep breath, then yelled, "CHAAAAAAARGEEEE!"
We ran down at our inhuman opponents, yelling at the top of our lungs. The alpha looked up just in time for Eric to kick him in the snout. He then used the opportunity to charge in and stab at the wolf.
Balto, the wolf who had been the first to charge at me, then leaped at Eric. I swung my bone like a baseball bat, hitting him in the stomach while he was in mid-leap. The dog fell backward but the bone also flew out of my hand.
I quickly grabbed for the bone, just in time to see another wolf slam into Eric. Doc and The Monk quickly moved in to stab at the wolf with their toothbrush shanks. By the time I had gotten my bone club again, Doc was helping Eric up. I didn't see what had happened to the wolf, but both Doc and The Monk's hands and arms were covered in blood. Then something hit me from behind.
My mouth was open so I got a big chunk of green slime in my mouth, causing me to gag. I was also drowning in it, so that was fun. Claws ripped into my shoulders and I could literally hear nothing and I could feel paws pressing me down into the awfulness.
Before I could panic, the paws moved off me, and a hand pulled me up by the shoulder. "You ok, Killer?" MC Disaster asked.
"Yeah," I said. Then I threw up and sneezed at once. I opened my eyes, which I hadn't realized were closed. My vision was blurry. "Shit," I said, "where are my glasses?"
"Is that really important?" a blur that sounded like Doc said. What I could see made it look like the team had surrounded me. Beyond them, blobs on four legs were standing between us and the next meat mountain.
"I honestly can't see your face from here without them," I said.
"I'm not facing you," Doc said. He sounded scared, which is exactly how I felt.
"Well, there you go," I said. "My eyesight's complete shit."
A black stick (probably an arm) reached out and fished something out of the muck. "These yours?" MC Disaster asked. The arm moved the object towards my face. I could kind of tell they were glasses. I wiped off the green slime, then put them on. My eyesight was restored, except for some residual slime. I immediately wished it wasn't.
We were still on the ground. The three remaining wolves in the pack were circling us, blocking us from climbing the nearest, non-dissolving meat mountain. They were also preventing us from moving to the sides, and could easily run us down if we tried to go back up our original meat mountain. The one who had tried to drown me had been gouged in the eye, part of it had actually fallen out of its socket, but the others were all fine.
We weren't. I was still catching my breath from the second time I had almost drowned and Eric had a few cuts. We weren't in terrible shape, but the reason we had won the previous battle was surprise. Also, our situation was getting worse.
"Looks like our opponents are getting reinforcements," I said. The pack of four was getting curious in what was going on and heading over.
"This may not be so bad," Eric said. "Watch."
One of the wolves from the new pack came near. Balto turned around and growled at it. The newcomer backed off, but only a tiny bit. Another wolf from the second pack tried to use the distraction to move forward. Soon the two groups were hissing and snarling at each other. I noticed that the third pack was also taking an interest. There were only two of them left, as the humans on their meat mountain had done a wonderful job defending.
Sensing the threat, one of the first pack turned around to face them. That's when everything went crazy. First, we heard a yell. The wolves on our left turned around just in time for a force of humans lead by Salim to crash into them. Then, to our right, the group still on the meat mountain charged, taking the pack that had pinned them by surprise. Eric, Doc and Ray-Gun pounced on the wolf that was walking by them. MC Disaster, The Monk, and I turned to where Salim's group was fighting.
Balto tried to get past us and escape, but I slammed my bone club onto his head again. This time I managed to draw blood. The remaining wolf in the first pack then tackled Doc. Eric, Ray-Gun and MC Disaster turned to help. I didn't because I was concerned I'd just get in the way. Besides, The Monk had just gotten knocked over by a wolf, and another was dragging a person away.
I helped The Monk first. I ran towards the wolf chomping at him and with a shout of "FUUUCK YOOOOOOUUUU!" hit the bastard's head like it was a baseball. There was a cracking sound as I connected. The Monk used the distraction to stab his opponent with his toothbrush shank. It hit a vein, spraying blood.
I turned my attention back to the wolf dragging the person away. Most of the other wolves were busy holding off Salim's group, but one was turning towards me. I charged forwards, yelling. The wolf froze, unsure what to do. I bopped him on the head and he fell down. I probably should have checked to make sure the wolf was actually out, but the person being dragged away was out of reach of everyone else, so I charged.
The wolf was too busy savaging its prey to notice me until I brought my club down on its shoulder. There was a crack as it finally broke. The wolf let go of its prey and growled.
In response, I jabbed at it with my club. "Back off!" I said. "I've had a really bad day, and I'm ready to take it out on you. Back off."
It began to back away. I glanced down quickly. I had just saved Salim. Oh well.
"You ok?" I asked. I could see he wasn't. His arm was bleeding, having been torn at by the wolf.
"I'm fine," he said. He stood up unsteadily. "Or I will be after we're done with this. By the way, I don't owe you anything."
"Hey," I said, "you saved my life as much as I saved yours." He nodded. I then asked, "Think we're going to have to kill all of them?"
"Of course," Salim said. "Doing distasteful things is the point of this exercise."
"Ok…" I said, "…let's just hope this works and doesn't get more distasteful." Before Salim could answer, the wolf jumped. I raised what was left of my bone club and it bit on it. I fell on my butt. The wolf tried to push me down further, but there was no way in hell I'd be dunked in that fucking goop again. The wolf, however, had over ideas. It seemed to get heavier and started to push me into the diseased slime.
Before it could succeed, Salim did a running kick into it. The good news was no longer putting pressure on me. The bad news is that it was still holding onto my bone. It had also managed to slash Salim's face in the burned side. He staggered back, and I got to my feet.
The wolf was getting to its feet as well. It got to all fours, but it wasn't facing me, so I took a chance. I ran towards it, and fell on from behind, wrapping a hand around its neck. It began to thrash, but I held on. That was a bad idea as it rolled over, dunking me once again into the awful muck.
At this point I thought something along the lines of Oh my God, I am going to drown in unidentified, disgusting muck and the video recording will make it look like I'm sodomizing a wolf. That's around the time someone began to kick wildly. It had to be Salim. Judging by his fight with Eliza, the only person that could be that wild and insane, yet still non-lethal, with their kicks was Salim. Eliza would be using her bone claws, and Ulfric… Well, with Ulfric I'd look like a pancake covered in marinara sauce.
One kick hit my head. I opened my mouth to protest. I was reminded of where I was by a foul-tasting slurry entering my mouth. I loosened my grip. The wolf tried to break free, accidentally helping me by raising my head above the goop. In the few seconds my head was above the unnamed goop, I gasped, I coughed, I wretched. Then Salim kicked me in the back.
"SALIM, YOU FUCKING MOglrbrlbrblbl," I yelled as the wolf rolled on its back again. This time was even more fun! Now I not only had to deal with Salim's kicks, being crushed by God-knows-how-many tons of thrashing canine, and lack of oxygen, but also the fucking slime. It was both burning my mouth and making me gag. My only comfort was my foul mouth and sarcasm.
I didn't notice the fact that the wolf had stopped struggling for a moment because my brain cells were starting to die due to lack of oxygen. Then, both me and the wolf were lifted out of the water.
"Let go, let go, man," someone said. Other people began trying to drag me off.
"But we have t-to kill it…" I said, then burst into a gagging and coughing fit.
"The wolf is dead," someone said. It took me a moment to realize it was Eric. "It is dead. Let go." He was speaking softly, trying to reassure me.
I looked at him. "A-are you sh-sh-sure?" I wheezed. The stuttering was bad. To make matters worse, I was beginning to shake.
"Yes," Eric said. "It's ok, it's ok… You can let go of the wolf now."
I did. It fell to the floor with a splat. "I-i-it's not over," I said. The fucking stutter was still going on! And I was still shaking! This was on top of my various injuries, my soreness from standing up for an entire day, and my extreme hunger. I felt weak and vulnerable, like there was something coming, and the only thing I knew about it was that it would kill me and I couldn't stop it. "I-i-it's not over…" Here I began to break down and cry. "…And I kuh-kuh-can't give anymore!"
Eric leaned in. "Hey," he said jovially, "you can go on, Killer! You just wrestled an angry, oversized dog and won! Do you have any idea how amazing that was?"
Then Professor Blunt's voice came in over a loudspeaker. "CONGRATULATIONS!" his voice boomed. "YOU'VE LIVED THROUGH YOUR FIRST COMBAT! In a few minutes, the door will open, and you will be decontaminated. In the meantime, get your shit together. It's over."
There was a pause. "He's lying," I muttered. "It's not over. There's always something."
I was going to repeat it, but before I could begin Salim said, "You're right. We need to move the bodies. We cannot let these corpses just fester. It is unholy."
"You're right." I said. "You're right. You're right. Judaism and, well, c-common decency frowns upon leaving bodies here as well as Islam."
"You know that part of the Qur'an?" someone asked in surprise.
"Yeah," I said, standing up. "I read it in some book. Let's do this. People don't deserve to… to rot here, anyway. Everyone sh-should…" I gulped, then continued, "grab a body."
We moved out, gathering bodies and arranging them into piles near the door. I recognized a few. They were the worst. When we had dragged about fifty corpses towards the door, it began to swing open.
I turned to Eric. "Wuh-where's Salim?" Eric shrugged.
When the door was fully opened, two Campus Security carrying SCAR-Hs with strange underbarrel attachments came in. I recognized them immediately. "Officer Gupta! Officer Mendez! It's great to see you guys again!"
"Good to see you again," Mendez said. "Time for you guys to get the fuck out of here!"
"Not quite," I said. "We're bringing out the bodies." The two guards glanced at each other. I kind of wished they weren't wearing sunglasses so I could see what they were thinking about. "What is it?" I asked, instantly suspicious.
"The hazmat team usually takes care of that," Gupta said. Something was off in her voice. She was lying. "They'll come in later today."
"Will they?" We turned around. There was Salim dragging a body. He lifted it up to show us all. "If that is the case, then why is this body mummified? Why is its uniform different from our own?" He wasn't lying. The body was mummified, and its uniform was olive green instead of camo.
I turned back to Mendez and Gupta. "Thanks," I said, "but I'm not entirely convinced a hazmat team's coming. We'll take these ourselves." I was right. I had been convinced it wasn't over, that they'd make us kill the wolves' puppies. This was worse.
"Policy is to leave bodies in here," Mendez said. Instantly, there was dissent. "I'm sorry," he said above the shouts, "but I'm just following orders."
"You are desecrating bodies!" Salim shouted. "My religion demands that I give a certain amount of respect to the dead. Leaving a body here does not satisfy that commandment!" People shouted in agreement.
"I can't believe I'm saying this," I said, "but the Al-Qaeda guy has the moral high ground here."
People also shouted in agreement. "You tell them, Killer!" MC Disaster yelled.
I continued. "I mean, seriously, look at how fucked up this is! How many years has that guy Salim's holding been here, huh? And you're not taking people out because of orders?" For some reason, I was getting a bit light-headed. "This is… I can't even begin to describe how utterly, horribly wrong this is!" I paused. "Why am I slurring?"
"It's because of the gas," Gupta said guiltily.
"Gas?" I asked dumbly. Then I blacked out.
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10 thoughts on "Track 12: Who Let the Dogs Out?"
t4nky says:
So, I've been hearing complaints that certain characters are too one-dimensional, one of them being Salim. I'm hoping this makes him seem a bit more human.
IC says:
Do you have a link to topwebfiction guide?
If you hover over the "Support Nowhere Island" menu option, there's a link to vote for it on TWF.
Hydrargentium says:
You hit the nail on the head with adding depth to Salim. This whole interaction was great, and I loved the ending.
Thank you. Character depth is always something I try to add in. Sometimes I do it better than others.
Edward Kmett says:
"…let's just hope this and hope it doesn't get more distasteful."
…let's just hope this works… perhaps?
You're right. Fixing.
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Every Dog has its Day Qassem Soleimani
Though the mills of G-d grind slowly,
Yet they grind exceeding small
Though with patience he stands waiting,
With exactness grinds he all.
Finally earth has vomited you,
An AGM Hellfire was your farewell
Good riddance once and for all,
For eternity may you spend in hell!
Image 1: Many rings of terror, numerous rings of violence, dozen rings of hostage takers, and one master ring to rule them all and bind them
Ring Verse – J.R.R. Tolkien
Retribution – Henry Wadsworth Longellow, p. 616
AGM-114 Hellfire Qassem Soleimani
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The Jihad News Network
In the past few years there has been a surge in the quality and quantity of jihadi media, evident from the wealth of texts, films, and other multimedia content that is distributed by Islamist websites on a daily basis. What started as a handful of jihadi media organizations in the early 2000s has within just a few years mushroomed into a vast network of regional and international media branches throughout the Middle East, Asia, the Americas, and Europe. Surprisingly, these news outlets which claim to operate independently from each other and autonomously from a global umbrella organization, exhibited only a modest learning curve. The professional quality of their news productions is indistinguishable from that of most Middle Eastern mainstream broadcast channels such as Al-Jazeera. Moreover, the product that they purportedly create independently across multiple theaters of operation is uniform in both style and content and conforms to commercial media standards.
In this post we will examine these implicit and explicit claims of independence and try to determine if the jihadi media outlets—whether global or local—are operating under a centralized organization with a coordinated media network (which more resembles a large news cooperation) rather than local grassroots cells.
The Jihadi Media Network
In 2010, the following four media organizations generated the bulk of the original jihadist internet content:
Al-Furqan "The Criterion"
Al-Fajr "The Dawn"
Al-Sahab "The Cloud"
Figure 1: The four primary jihadi media producers
Aside from these four organizations which monopolized the mainstream jihadi media landscape, there was a multitude of smaller outlets that ostensibly acted as independent distributers of jihadi material (Figure 2). Over the next six years, many of these previously unknown entities began producing regional content specializing mostly in low visibility conflict areas. The content generated by these secondary media organizations encompassed multiple subjects such as battlefield operations, news releases, and political commentary. The content was multilingual, carefully scripted, and edited to reasonable broadcast standards, and targeted both domestic and international audiences.
Shield of Islam Brigades
Al-Ansar
The Jihad Media Battalion
Al-Malahim
Hizb Al-Islam of Turkistan Media Center
Leemedia Network
Al-Yaqeen Media
Manba' Al-Jihad
Islamic Party of Turkistan
Nida Al-Jihad Center for Media Production
Jaysh Al-Islam
Taifetul Mansura
Abdullah Azzam Brigades
Jama'at Al-Tawhid wa'l-Jihad
Kataib Siham Al-Haqq
Figure 2: Secondary jihadi media producers and distributors
Figure 3: A snapshot from Al-Fallujah jihadist forum
Traditional Media Distribution Channels
Though the secondary jihadi news outlets (SJNO) appeared to brand the media as their own, the evidence raises doubts regarding the actual independence of these outlets. As autonomous local media producers and distributors with a limited budget, we would expect SJNO to utilize only low cost and free Web 2.0-3.0 publication platforms such as video-sharing sites (e.g. YouTube and LiveLeak), third-party websites, forums, and blogs to distribute their own material independently.[1] Yet, often SJNO have their films and texts distributed simultaneously by multiple mainstream news outlets using expensive broadcast TV and satellite channels. In terms of scope and outreach, these organizations successfully emulated the broadcast models of large news networks such as the BBC and France 2.
Figure 4: Al-Rai TV broadcast of Al-Ansar Figure 5: Al-Zawraa TV broadcast
A case in point is Zawraa TV, which later became Al-Rai TV.[2][3] This Syrian-based channel, owned by Mish'an Al-Jabouri, transmitted looped satellite programming focusing mainly on pro-Sunni, anti-Shi'ite propaganda, and broadcasted 24/7 footage including violent attacks by local jihad organizations against U.S. forces.[4] The channel made no effort to hide its affiliation with the jihadi groups as logos of the Islamic Army of Iraq (IAI) and other jihadi organizations periodically appeared in its footage and films.[5] As can be seen from Figures 4-5, in this dual mode, the host of the show would periodically assume the role of a pistolero by shedding his tailored suit and slip into army fatigues, bullet proof vest, and a keffiyeh. Clearly, the relations between Al-Rai and the SJNO whose products the channel broadcasted were not the typical business relations one would expect to find between a commercial TV station and an advertising client. If Al-Rai TV was true commercial for profit television, broadcasting through it would not have been economically feasible for the SJNO. The fact that the channel mostly devoted itself to broadcasting SJNO video and commentary suggests that the relationship between the two was more political/ideological than commercial.
Presence and Significance of Metadata in Jihadi Archives
The presence of metadata in the jihadi film footage is another indication that the videos are intended for broadcast and not merely for online circulation. Metadata, which is attached to films, consist of digital information intended to describe and identify the media, similar to information a library would attach to a book in its catalogue to describe and identify it. In the case of jihadi films, the metadata usually consist of the media title, a short abstract, the name of the organization, the date of the event, the film's duration, the logo of the producing organization, and other catalog details.
Adding such data in post production is a time-consuming undertaking, considering the hundreds of films jihadists produce annually. Such an effort would only make sense in the context of a well-established archival and content managed system as is typical of a larger media organization. For large digital archives, metadata is crucial, as it allows fast indexed access to the content and enables fast retrieval so that there would be no need to view each film. For local media branches, creating all of this metadata would be time consuming and would require editor and librarian resources, just as creating a full library book cataloging system would be impractical for the private individual with a few hundred books in their library.
Formatting and Packaging of the Jihadi Movies
Evidence of how these films are packaged and produced further supports the argument that these videos are designed for commercial broadcasting and thus are most likely created by large media organizations. Videos of IED attacks, for example, have all the necessary "ingredients" for primetime viewing. They are high quality; they are short (up to 90 seconds) and include all the crucial background information about the organization carrying out the attack as well as about the attack itself. In a sense, they are created as self-contained infomercials made to fit a rigid television programming schedule. Such a format would be unnecessary if the films were intended for random distribution on the internet, where video clips can be uploaded and viewed in many formats, lengths, and qualities.
Another feature which makes it unlikely that the videos are produced by local media branches is the fact that their content is produced in multiple languages (i.e. Arabic, English, French, German, etc.), packaged in varying formats (i.e. Windows Media Player, Quick Time, RealPlayer, etc.) and recorded for diverse narrowcasting and audiences (in a wide range of formats and sizes, for high-speed Internet, dialup connections, embedded use, and mobile devices).[6] Such complex, professional, and very expensive production would be prohibitive for field outlets. Moreover, for local groups which simply wish to publicize their successes, such complex production would be overkill as they could achieve their goal by relying on video-sharing sites or jihad forums for posting their films.
Uniformity of the Jihadi Films' Media Structure
The uniformity of the various media elements such as titles, credits, transitions, and duration, also indicates that the material is produced under the auspices of one or more large, centralized, and standard-conscious organizations. The following video clips presenting IED attacks illustrate some of these canonized formats:
Media Outlet: Al-Furqan Media Production
Clip Number:
Clip Title:
Destroying a US Hummer in Ramadi
IED vs. 2 Iraqi Army Humvees – Baghdad
IEDs on American Foot Patrol – Anbar
Media Outlet: Al-Ansar Media Foundation
IED US Tank – Ninawa Province – Mosul
IED on an Army Hammer – Mosul
IED vs. US Minesweeper – Ninawa Mosul
Media Outlet: As-Sahab Media Production
IED on Afghan Army Car- Metshedad
Powerful IED Strike Destroys US Humvee
Media Outlet: Al-Andalus Media Production
Three IEDs on the Algerian Army
08:04 (3 movies 1.15 minutes each)
S. Effects
Figure 6: Video clip matrix
As can be seen in Figure 7, a comparison of films of similar genre (attacks using IEDs) produced by three ostensibly distinct and geographically remote jihadi media outlets reveals a high level of similarity. The films' length in all cases is approximately 90 seconds. All clips open with high impact logos and special effects animation. Each frame's duration prior to the transition is carefully timed, with the initial intro followed by special effect screens and the clip title.
Figure 7: The complete video editing, production and structure (click image to see full size)
The message after the title usually shows a Quranic verse or other religious text followed by the feature movie with the targets of interest usually tracked by either an arrow or a circle. The moment of the attack is replayed three times and then, finally, the film ends with credits and organizational logos. Needless to say, such a definable formulaic pattern cannot be accidental.
Preparation of Jihadi Films for a Pre-Set Viewing Schedule
The distribution of jihadi film content is almost never done ad hoc; rather, it is done according to a pre-planned schedule. Analysis of the main jihadi media archives as far back as 2006 reveals a steady flow of postings to fileshare sites such as Archive.org, Adrive, Zshare, FDCupload, and gettyfile. How they are organized and classified is more easily seen at websites such as As-sahab.blog.com and the jihad archive http://www.jarchive.info.
An examination of new online jihadist films and stills indicates that a great deal of the material was scheduled in advance for distribution and publication. This was done as part of the ongoing effort to keep the war effort on the front burner by taking advantage of the mainstream media's gullibility and willingness to broadcast these materials whenever they become available. The release of these materials indicates that there is a significant amount of regional field coordination of insurgency activity and there is a planned broadcasting schedule. It also indicates that media is maintained in some form of global archival infrastructure.
A vivid illustration of this throttling method of opportunistically posting content can be seen in a video clip titled "IED Completely Destroys a US Minesweeper – Ninawa Province – Mosul," documenting a November 14, 2006 attack that was released over six months later, on May 22, 2007. Another example is a clip titled "Shooting a F16 US Plane," an incident documented as having taken place on November 27, 2006, while the clip was released nearly a year later, on September 13, 2007.
IED on an American Hummer
Shooting a F16 US Plane
Mario D. Gonzalez
Troy Gilbert
Figure 8: Event date vs. media publication timeline
Is There a Global Jihadi Media Policy?
Evidence suggests that jihadi media follows a global policy. For example, a "Media Exuberance" document released by the Al-Boraq media group on September 21, 2006 indicates that jihad media production must abide by legal mandates and guidelines regarding plagiarism, alteration of content, source crediting, and media usage. This strongly implies the existence of an umbrella organization which sets rules and professional standards aimed at better message control, brand building, and further reinforces the trans-regional media production theory.
The Al-Boraq policy paper for example defines "media exuberance" as media publication activity undertaken "without official authority or prior study", which apparently refers to any individual postings of jihadi materials without the sanction of a recognized publisher. The paper notes that while some individuals engage in this activity out of a genuine desire to support the struggle, others have "lost the sense of the importance of distribution rights and the authority to conduct work." The intellectual property violations enumerated include: "distribution of jihadist audio and video products without official sanction or permission from the producer, the distribution of statements by jihadist groups under personal names and user IDs, [and] the release of personal products and works under the names of jihad groups." The author concluded that these type of practices undermine the "credibility" of jihadist media and distract attention from "official sources."[7]
Centralized or Independent Media Production?
The frequent adherence to traditional content distribution of jihadi media, as opposed to reliance on low cost or free Web 2.0-3.0 publication platforms such as wikis, blogs and mashups, as well as the creation of metadata, the expensive and sophisticated contents packaging, the uniform appearance of the various media elements, the staged publication schedule, and the apparent global jihad media policy all suggest that what is ostensibly a production by local and independent jihad media entities could in fact mask a spoke and hub centralized organizational structure.
In this scenario, a patchwork of regional field offices and cells maintain territorial presence in various parts of the world, (Iraq, Afghanistan, Algeria, Somalia, Gaza), collecting raw footage. They upload/deliver the content to centralized media studios—either state-sponsored or private—which process and brand it accordingly and distribute it to the appropriate regional media outlets. The production and branding, however, is virtual, and is carried out remotely in well-equipped studios with professional video editors and in safe locations away from the conflict zone.
The 2007 arrest of members of the Al-Furqan media organization by U.S. intelligence may help shed some light on this process. According to the case details, regional Al-Furqan teams gathered the raw material from various provinces in Iraq and passed it on to a larger Iraqi Al-Furqan media hub for processing. Surprisingly, this hub, which had a large amount of media storage devices (65 hard drives containing terabytes of electronic files, 18 thumb drives, over 500 CDs, and 12 standalone computers), did not have the proper editing equipment that one would expect to find in a media center that creates films on the advanced level of the Al-Furqan videos.[8]
Figure 9: Structure of Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AIQ) media organizations
The captured equipment, appeared to be more for field packaging and distribution of copies of existing product rather than for creating the master itself. This equipment could not have independently produced the Al-Furqan films which contain blue-screen editing, multi-frame overlays, spliced third-party archival material, usage of multiple soundtracks, and the ability to perform blurring facial features, tracking objects—post processing and editing features and techniques which require sophisticated equipment and software usually only found in larger production studios.
The case of Said Namouh, a Moroccan-born Canadian citizen arrested and convicted as a member of the Global Islamic Media Front (GIMF), offers important insight into how local jihadi news is produced in more of a global fashion.[9] According to the court documents, Namouh spent countless hours translating, mixing, repackaging, and distributing numerous videos from diverse geographical locations that included images of attacks against coalition soldiers and of suicide bombings.[10] After his arrest, investigators found videos and other propaganda materials on his computer. It emerged that he had been in charge of publishing video and materials related to Iraqi, Austrian, German, and Gaza terror activities (such as the kidnapping of BBC journalist Alan Johnston by a Palestinian group known as the Army of Islam).[11][12]
The question, however, remains: who are the state(s) sponsors or large commercial news organizations behind these global media productions? The data at hand does not provide a specific answer. Nevertheless, the cases of Al-Zawraa TV and Al-Rai TV provide important hints of how international media and news outlets that utilize multinational satellite broadcasting networks are operating in the service of jihadi organizations, undoubtedly with the full approval and the active sponsorship of sympathetic nation states.
This paper was co authored with Dr. Alshech and was originally published by MEMRI.
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[1] Wikis, blogs, forums, and mashups
[2] Al-Zawraa TV, the pro-Sunni satellite television channel owned by former Iraqi MP Mish'an Al-Jabouri, broadcased via satellites operated by the Riyadh-based Arabsat.
[3] Al-Rai TV broadcasted from Syria via the Eurobird 2 satellite, which belongs to the European Eutelsat company, as well as via the Atlantic Bird 4 satellite, which also belonged to Eutelsat, but was leased in September 2005 to the Egyptian Nilesat company, and is now called Nilesat 103.
[4] Channel owner Mish'an Al-Jabouri is known to have close operational and financial links to insurgency groups in Iraq.
[5] See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 2054, "In the Footsteps of Al-Zawraa TV, a Channel. Affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the Saddam Regime Broadcasts Anti-U.S. Terror Attacks – This Time from Syria," September 17, 2008.
[6] Dissemination of information to a narrow audience, not to the general public.
[7] September 21, 2006 study by the Al-Buraq media group titled "Media Exuberance"
[8] US targets al Qaeda's al Furqan media wing in Iraq
[9] Moroccan terrorist fights to stay in Canada on humanitarian grounds
[10] Defense attacks the credibility of the terrorism expert
[11] Video Released Of BBC Reporter Kidnapped In Gaza
[12] The abduction of British journalist Alan Johnston
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Exiled former lawmaker calls for probe into London attacks on Hong Kong protesters
The attacks came after the group challenged an 'anti-racism' rally organized by supporters of Beijing.
By Lu Xi
Pro-Beijing protesters confront Hong Kong exiles in a rally in London's Chinatown, Nov. 27, 2021.
A former Hong Kong lawmaker has called for measures to counter foreign infiltration by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), after dozens of organizers of a pro-China "anti-racism" rally attacked counter-protesters from Hong Kong in London's Chinatown at the weekend.
"Yesterday, there was a crowd of pro-Beijing thugs ferociously attacked Hongkongers who countered their propaganda campaign in Chinatown," former pro-democracy lawmaker Nathan Law said via his Twitter account on Sunday, accusing the CCP of "trying to erode our democratic tradition to silence dissent."
Law called on the U.K. authorities to investigate the organizers of the "Stop Anti-Asian Racism and Reject the New Cold War" rally for links to Beijing, and to bring those who attacked the counter-protesters to justice.
"Of course, it's indispensable to address the problems of racial-based hate crime. But the speakers kept equating criticism on China to stirring hate to Chinese people," Law wrote.
A witness to the clashes who gave only the name Natalie said more than a dozen people from the organizing group suddenly attacked Hong Kong protesters at the scene, punching and kicking them. Some had makeshift weapons, she said.
The police were called and eventually separated the two sides, but some of the Hong Kong protesters were sent to hospital for treatment, as metal and wooden poles were left in trash cans after the crowd dispersed.
At least one person was taken away in handcuffs, while someone from the organizing group took several photos of RFA's reporter at the scene at close range.
The London-based group Hongkongers in Britain expressed "strong indignation" over the attacks in a statement on its Facebook page, and called for a full police investigation.
"This violence by a totalitarian system against people here in the U.K. ... is a de-facto extension of the repressive Hong Kong national security law over vulnerable groups in exile, trampling all over British judicial sovereignty," the group said.
Among the rally organizers was the Fujian Overseas Chinese Association, which took out advertisements earlier this year in pro-CCP newspapers supporting recent changes to Hong Kong's electoral system which ensure that only those deemed "patriots" by a Beijing-backed selection committee may take part in elections in the city.
Co-organizers the U.K.-based Monitoring Group told RFA that none of the speakers had any connection to the CCP.
The group said in a written response to RFA that the rally was planned as a response to ethnic violence and hate crimes against East Asians.
Taking advantage
Hongkongers in Britain founder Simon Cheng said there is insufficient awareness of the infiltration carried out by groups under the CCP's United Front Work Department overseas.
"[The CCP] is taking advantage of the rise in discrimination against people of Chinese descent since the pandemic began, not just cultural prejudice, but political bias of the Western media against the Chinese government," Cheng.
"This is how they are continuing to mobilize people overseas; it's CCP nationalism, which expresses itself as the CCP's overseas propaganda effort."
The clashes came as Law set up a new organization to help Hongkongers in exile, the Umbrella Community, in a reference to the symbol of the 2014 Occupy Central movement and the 2019 protests against the city's diminishing freedoms.
British MPs are expected to vote in the House of Commons in December over the proposed extension of the U.K.'s British National Overseas (BNO) passport eligibility to younger Hongkongers, many of whom are veterans of the 2019 protest movement.
Some 90,000 BNO passport holders out of a potential three million eligible Hongkongers are believed to have applied for the BNO visa, but many of those at risk of reprisals for taking part in recent protests are currently too young to qualify for the "safe haven" route to the U.K.
Under the scheme, holders of the passport can apply for a visa to live, work and study in the UK for five years, after which they will be allowed to register for settled status and eventual citizenship.
The scheme was announced in response to China's imposition of a draconian national security law on Hong Kong, which criminalizes public criticism of the authorities, including pro-democracy writings and slogans deemed "secessionist" by China, as well as contact with overseas political groups and governments, or access to overseas funding.
Translated and edited by Luisetta Mudie.
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Not supprised as in AMERICA,BRITAIN,CANADA and AUSTRALIA chinese students have ignored the law of their host country and attacked HK students as they legally protested. why has BEIJING or the foreign affairs minister not called out these law breaking students as a disgrace to the motherland? Or do we deduct they are not supported by the silence.