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Thoughts from Galicia, Spain: 20.4.18
I'm travelling this morning so this post will be both brief and early. And indebted to yesterday's edition of Lenox Napier's Business Over Tapas.
Spain v Cataluña
Says The Local: The speaker of the Catalan parliament said Wednesday that new elections were not in the region's "interest" while Spain persists in blocking a new president from taking office. So, will they take place?
El País report here on 'surprising' developments among the parties of Spain's Left.
As for the PP government, it's still hamstrung in its attempts to push through what one paper sees as a 'high risk' budget
Talking of the Left . . . Andalucia is a by word for corruption. So, it's not very surprising to read that the EU regards its government as the worst in Spain. Though I'm not clear on the criteria. So, I should probably read the EuropeanQuality of Government Index 2017.
HT to Lenox Napier for the news that:- The radical actor Willy Toledo is called to explain himself in court for insults made against God on his Facebook page. God forbid.
The university of King Juan Carlos in Madrid appears to have become something of degree factory. On the heels of the Cifuentes affair comes the news that many senior police officers would not be in their current positions without their degrees in Criminology, bought for €3,000 each.
M Macron has been goading Frau Merkel and challenging her over whether she wants to form a new Franco-German double act on a par with those which drove The Project forwards in the past. The article below suggests he might be vaingloriously wasting his time.
The USA/Russia/The World
In a thoughtful article below Peter Hitchins – the well-known 'right-wing' brother of Christopher Hitchens – expresses the fear that the drums of WW3 are being resoundly beaten. One rather hopes not.
Galicia/Pontevedra
An unexpected consequence of the new law compelling microchipping of one's dog is a record number of dogs being abandoned to their fate in the region. The dog region's kennels will be even fuller than usual. And there's talk of the law being applied to cats too.
There've been a lot of very funny things circulating about Sra Cifuentes and the university of King Juan Carlos. The one I liked most yesterday was a claim that, if you buy a gym membership there, you can lose weight without ever attending. Still time for a laugh before we're all nuked to perdition.
© David Colin Davies, Pontevedra: 20.4.18
1. Macron recalls giants of history to taunt Merkel
President Macron appeared to taunt Angela Merkel today by invoking the successful partnerships of former French and German leaders as he tried to persuade her to back his ambitious plans for EU reform.
In promoting the "strength" of their predecessors such as Konrad Adenauer and Charles de Gaulle, the French president was claiming a similar leadership role in Europe.
His comments were interpreted as a challenge to Mrs Merkel over whether she wanted to form a new double act.
Alongside Mr Macron at their joint press conference, the German chancellor emerged as hesitant and cautious. The former "Queen of Europe" appeared to have been put on the spot by the new prince.
Mrs Merkel, 63, who was never keen on greater EU integration, has been hamstrung by the loss of seats in the German election and faces resistance in her own party to the French president's more audacious ideas.
Mr Macron, 40, arrived in Berlin after an impassioned speech to the European Parliament on Tuesday when he warned of "civil war" in the continent unless radical reform measures were taken.
Senior German politicians have been warning that his plans for a minister and budget for the eurozone and for a European Monetary Fund were expensive distractions when the real challenge was controlling immigration and asylum.
"We need to come together," Mr Macron said. "This is a moment that is decisive for the future of Europe." He outlined threats to European democracy from external forces such as trade wars and internal pressures, such as the rise of populism.
"In the past we had predecessors who had the strength to resist bad tendencies and even counter them. This is something expected from us," Mr Macron said, standing next to Mrs Merkel ahead of their talks today.
Mrs Merkel wore her best blank expression as he said this but the reference to predecessors recalled champions of EU advancement such as Adenauer and de Gaulle, who founded the project in the 1950s, as well as François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl who saw through the creation of the euro.
Mr Macron also made numerous calls for greater "solidarity", a word interpreted in Berlin as demands for more German taxpayer money.
"You have certainly understood that there is a lot of work ahead of us," Mr Macron said to the chancellor in concluding his opening remarks.
"Even though these challenges seem to be daunting they will certainly be worthwhile and we can succeed," he added by way of reassurance.
In stark contrast Mrs Merkel stressed the need for compromise and pragmatism.
"There are of course always different starting points when it comes to the opinions of Germany and France. We need open debates — and in the end we need the ability to compromise," she said.
"One issue that we will be working through very quickly now and that I am very optimistic about is how to complete the Banking Union. We are also willing to set up a joint bank deposit insurance system in a more distant future," she said.
"However, we want to make sure that liability and risks go together. I believe we also agree that solidarity is needed in Europe but that competitiveness is also necessary."
Mrs Merkel's idea of a banking union without a common bailout fund is at odds with Paris, however. Her emphasis on competitiveness means more of the painful austerity measures and economic liberalisation that her former finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble insisted upon to reform the Greek economy.
She pledged to work with Mr Macron to bring forward compromise proposals for the EU summit in June. Mrs Merkel has also proposed an enhanced committee for overseeing the euro which includes economy ministers as well as finance ministers. It is seen in Paris as a distraction motivated by German domestic political reasons – Mrs Merkel's finance minister comes from the Social Democratic Party while the economy minister is from her own Christian Democratic Union.
In an example of the domestic pressure facing Mrs Merkel her coalition partners from the Christian Social Union, the Bavarian conservatives, urged her to resist Mr Macron's reforms.
"A new beginning for Europe cannot not just mean new money," said Markus Blume, secretary general of the CSU.
"Europe must become more efficient and better not more expensive. One thing is clear we must stay the course of the stability union. That means no transfer union, no European finance minister, no new funds and no European unemployment insurance. We have to be careful. Macron speaks of more Europe but he also thinks of France first."
2. The Guns of April : Are we in a pre-War era, right now? Peter Hitchins.
A pre-war era My feeling that we are in a pre-war era, and are being prepared for that war almost every day, grows. I am not feeling especially well at the moment, and my days are tinged with a certain darkness anyway, despite the arrival of spring, but I cannot at any point in my life ever recall being gripped by such a feeling of impending, unavoidable disaster.
It began early on Sunday morning with claims of a gas attack in the suburbs of Damascus. Although the BBC were careful to state that the reports were unverified, my heart sank. The prominence being given to the story suggested that it didn't much matter that they were not verified. Why lead a news bulletin on a main national material with unverified material, if you think verification matters a lot? Surely the old rule was 'verify first', then publish'?
Is it 1914 again? I wearily resigned myself to the fact that at some point I would have to write what I am now writing, a warning that these claims have not been proven, may not be proven, and serve the end of those who desire to draw this country into a war. What sort of war? Well, I am horribly reminded of the summer of 1914.
Two major powers, Saudi Arabia and Iran, are irreconcilably hostile to each other. One of them, by aggressive diplomacy in proxy states, has created a state of grave tension between them which, if it goes much further, threatens to draw the great powers into open conflict. A single incident, by providing the basis for aggressive diplomacy, unacceptable demands and perhaps actual warlike violence, could trigger that war. If so, it will not be confined to the Middle East, because of the involvement of Russia in the dispute. Indeed, it may be Russia's involvement in Syria, where it has frustrated Saudi Arabian designs and those of Saudi Arabia's allies, such as the USA, this country and France, which triggered the considerable increase in tension in Ukraine which began to heat up in 2013.
A single incident could trigger war Given the nature of the controversy about Ghouta today, even the events in Salisbury have a relevance to this, as does the mass expulsion of diplomats which followed that outrage, even though it has never actually been linked by indisputable evidence to the direct action of the Russian state.
War fever means the death of honest debate Careful readers will also have noticed that the Labour leader has been facing increasing accusations from the Tory party of being a Russian stooge, in my view a breach of the moral code which allows freedom to live. If the Leader of the Opposition cannot oppose the government without being accused of some sort of fealty to a foreign power, then we are not free. I have no doubt something similar will soon be said of me. I find this worrying not because it is bone-headed and childish (though it is) but because it is a symptom of something very serious – the death of open, honest debate.This is an invariable symptom of a country whose elite is bent on war.
Idiot-proofing So before I began, I knew I was going to have to idiot-proof it by showing (before they were made) that claims that I am some sort of stooge of the Damascus Government are false. Here is the proof of that, a catalogue of my long record of severe criticism of the Assad state (such that I have never even sought a visa for Syria, on the assumption that it might be refused or, worse, that it might be granted and some sort of revenge taken on me once I arrived).
By the way, my fear of such accusations is not unfounded, as you may read here in an account of my dispute with the former Tory MP Brooks Newmark, during an earlier attempt to drag this country into intervening in Syria.
Mr Newmark, who has subsequently come to grief through his own folly in other matters, accused me of acting 'in support of the Assadregime'.
I contacted him and politely asked him to withdraw, but he would not, and eventually my own then MP, the excellent Andrew Smith (a proper old-fashioned Honourable Gentleman who treated his constituents without fear or favour) was kind enough to make my rebuttal for me in the Commons, so ensuring that it was recorded in Hansard. But Mr Newmark never retracted.
No, not a Putin Patsy either Now, despite my equally long record of criticism of Vladimir Putin, going back to 2004, see here. I have no doubt that some semi-literate will accuse me of being a 'useful idiot'.This hackneyed and ill-understood Cold War term was never actually used by Lenin, as claimed. In any case it applies specifically to the dim fellow-travellers of Communism, who defended the USSR's misdeeds because of ideological sympathy. This is an accusation that simply cannot be made against me. Russia has no ideology. And I am not a defender of, or a friend of, the Russian state.
I also knew I would have to republish this posting. Iin my view a pretty arduous and definitive demonstration that the previous accusation of poison gas use by Assad's forces had never been proven, though it had been made to look as if it had been. It is also, though I say it myself, fascinating in many ways, if you are interested in evidence at all.
That done, I was going to have to examine, patiently and dispassionately, the accounts of the latest alleged atrocities, and apply the same treatment to them. I cannot, alas, analyse them all. So I have chosen two left-wing papers. But I must also remind readers of the difficulty of sources for reports in these areas, where in general western journalists cannot safely go. This article (please note the interesting background of the doctor quoted) may help you understand just how difficult it is to get straight information under these circumstances
It is very hard to get straight facts outof war zones.
Some coverage of the Syria crisis examined
The Financial Times prominently quotes the words of others who *have* assumed the case is proven, such as President Trump and, apparently, the EU, both of whom are said to be calling for action. 'Sentence first, verdict later', as the King of Hearts says in 'Alice in Wonderland'. But it is careful to say in its headline that it is an 'alleged chemical attack'. And it uses the qualifying phrase 'if confirmed' , before saying it would then be the most serious since sarin gas *was* dropped in Khan Sheikhoun a year ago.
See what you think It seems oddly unaware that this allegation remains in question, or that no independent observer ever investigated the site. Time does not turn an allegation into a proven fact, and the truth about this should not be forgotten. The FT's story is datelined 'Rebecca Collard in Beirut'. Beirut is 70 miles from the alleged attack, and in a separate country, even assuming she could have got to the scene in time or entered the very dangerous conflict zone involved, and also to 'Courtney Weaver in Washington', which is even further away from Ghouta than I am. The report cites as a source a body called the Syrian American Medical Society, whose website here https://www.sams-usa.net/who-we-are/ gives some indication that it may not be wholly neutral in Syrian matters. Click on 'Our Advocacy' and then on 'Campaigns' and see what you think.
The Guardian's Page One story is from Martin Chulov, likewise 70 miles from the scene, in Beirut.
Moving It is illustrated by a moving photograph of a child, eyes closed, with an oxygen mask over his face. The caption says he is 'struggling to breathe after the attack". No qualification is visible in this caption , in the headline (Outcry over chemical attack in Syria'), or in the opening paragraph, which uses the phrase 'chemical strike' and the word 'atrocity' without the word 'alleged' or 'suspected'.
The picture is credited to Mouneb Taim, who I think must be the same person as the author of this Twitter feed.
Why Verify if you've already made Your Mind up, and vice versa? Interestingly, Mr Chulov's story noted '[President] Trump demanded that access be opened to Douma, which is the last of three besieged districts in the Ghouta area of Damascus to remain under opposition control. Trump said access was necessary to verify what had happened and treat remaining victims.' If he is so keen to verify, as indeed he should be, why is he calling President Assad an 'animal' and warning of a 'big price to pay'? Surely such things should wait for the verification? Or does he know in advance what its verdict will be? By the way, it is worth noting that the Islamist group based in Douma is Jaysh-al-Islam, the 'Army of Islam' (which is not very nice, see here.
I believe Jaysh (or Jaish) al Islam has had significant Saudi support. But the US administration in the past has been pretty unkeen about it. See these remarks by John Kerry.
On page nine, the Guardian has a longer account from Kareem Shaheen – in Istanbul, 900 miles from Damascus. It attributes to 'aid workers and medics' descriptions of 'apocalyptic scenes', and does use the word 'alleged'. But I could not see a single named person quoted, just unidentified doctors, paramedics and a local journalist.
The Guardian Becomes the Warmonger's Gazette Remember, this is the Guardian, a newspaper which for decades was the house journal of ban-the-bombers and protestors against the Suez adventure and the Vietnam war, with very high proportions of Quakers, moth-eaten liberals and vegans among its readers. Yet now it has become a trumpet for armed intervention. Under the pious slogan 'Comment is free…but facts are sacred' first stated by its greatest editor C.P.Scott, the paper's opinion column declares (again without the slightest qualification): 'Syria's renewed use of chemical weapons against its own people at the weekend is shameless and barbaric. Dozens of people in the remaining rebel-held suburbs of Damascus were suffocated by Saturday's chemical attack on the Douma district. This is not the first time this has happened. Since the use of sarin at Khan al-Assal in 2013 there have been dozens of chemical attacks by the regime. These deliberate attacks on civilians show callous contempt for humanity and disregard for the laws of war. Official Syrian claims that the latest killings have been fabricated are beneath contempt.'
But if facts are sacred, how can the Guardian be so sure, given that it is relying on a report from one correspondent 70 miles away, and another one 900 miles away, however good they are at their jobs, and some anonymous quotes from people whose stories it has no way of checking?
Long-distance Psychiatry? A Breakthrough! It recognises the problem that any such action by President Assad would be raving mad. Assad is on the verge of a highly significant victory in Ghouta, and a gas attack would provide the only realistic opportunity for an American intervention against him, about the only thing that could once again put his position in doubt. The Guardian isn't troubled by that. It argues: 'Some may ask why, since the slow throttling of Damascus's eastern Ghouta suburbs seems to be approaching a grisly climax, the government feels any need to breach one of the oldest taboos in warfare once more. To answer that adequately it is necessary to delve into the darkest places of the psychology of a regime that celebrates the overwhelming use of force, the need to terrorise civilians and the right to punish opponents indiscriminately as a weapon of policy.' In other words, yes, President Assad is mad. Well it is a point of view, but even if reporting of atrocities can be done accurately from a distance of 900 miles, I have heard of no attested experiments showing that psychiatry can be done at such distances.
Posted by Colin Davies at 8:56 am
Scrooge said...
Quality of Government (QoG) - taken from the "Index":
"QoG has become a broad concept in the social sciences and, when quantified, it has
generally been dis-aggregated into categories/concepts such as:
1) 'corruption',
2) 'rule of law',
3) 'bureaucratic effectiveness'
4) 'government voice and accountability'/ or 'strength of democratic and electoral
institutions"
Three groups are delineated - in order of "quality". 1 being best.
"Cluster analysis reveals the following three broad groups:
Group 1: Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria,
U.K. and Ireland
Group 2: France, Spain, Belgium, Malta, Portugal, Cyprus, Estonia and Slovenia
Group 3: Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Latvia, Greece, Italy,
Bulgaria and Romania."
Sierra said...
Interesting development:
https://murciatoday.com/murcia-hoteliers-accused-of-bribery-over-free-holidays-for-police-officers-serving-in-catalunya_426005-a.html#top
@ Scrooge and @ Sierra. Many thanks for these.
Bit suprised to see France in the second group . . .
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A flag, a flower, and football...How college football influenced a state election
Maddie Robertson
The people of the state of Mississippi voted to change the state flag in yesterday's election. The state flag was the last of any in the nation that still had a confederate symbol. It had been flying since 1894.
So what do a flag, a flower and football have to do with each other?
This summer during the turmoil of COVID and the looming threat of not having a football season, the country saw a wave of activism. None were more interesting than the social uprising in Mississippi in opposition of the state flag.
Within just 3 days of each other the SEC and the NCAA said that there would be no postseason events held in the state because of the flag.
Just a few days later Mississippi State running back Kylin Hill made a splash as he took to social media to express the need for change and to announce that he would not wear a jersey representing any institution in the state of Mississippi while that flag continued to fly. Hill found immense support in his teammates and head coach Mike Leach. So much support in fact that over 40 coaches made their way to the state capitol to express not only support, but the NEED, for the state to get rid of the current flag.
In June legislators voted to remove the old flag. At the end of August the legislature voted for the new design that would be presented to the people of the state. They chose the New Magnolia Flag which ended not only on the ballot, but officially passing.
The desire to get rid of the flag was not new and hadn't been created by Hill or any other athlete, however the importance of football in the deep south played a HUGE role in giving life to the movement.
The state of Mississippi has a new flag. A flag with a large flower instead of a confederate logo. One that is said to represent forward progress and hope for the future.
Today we learned that when football speaks, people listen. Football can be so much more than just a game.
As always, stay tuned to The Scoop for more.
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Still at the head of the game today, this Puerto Rican artists page layouts and covers always go the extra mile in terms of design and conveying emotion. His trademark, having a separate smaller panels for every characters reaction to key events, came in handy when he pencilled the ultimate DC/Marvel crossover JLA/AVENGERS.
IF I WAS E.I.C HE WOULD WORK ON: THE VISION One of the most overlooked and interesting Marvel characters, no one has nailed The Vision artistically like George Perez. Add in the his dysfunctional family, Ultron, Giant-Man, and the Scarlet Witch and you've got one hit self-titled series ready and wired to go.
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The possible reduction in fuel consumption would also lead to a significant decline in CO2 emissions. Those decade-old cars which meet Euro 4 emissions limits would be replaced by newer diesel vehicles in the Euro 6 category.
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Power List 2010: DC Family Dynasties
A selective list of top families whose wealth, political clout, and philanthropy allow them to make a major difference in the life of the nation's capital
Mitchell and Steven Rales
1. Rales
Brothers Mitchell and Steven Rales earned billions by buying and selling dozens of small companies. Mitchell is currently one of the world's top collectors of abstract impressionist art and is one day expected to transfer much of what he now displays in his private museum in Potomac, Md., to the public domain.
2. Allbritton
Patriarch Joe Allbritton is 85 and semi-retired from the business and social scene. His son, Robert, continues to develop a communications empire that includes local TV stations WJLA and NewsChannel 8, the Politico website, and the soon-to-launch tbd.com.
Bill and Bob Bennett
3. Bennett
Former "Drug Czar" Bill Bennett writes books while streaming his conservative Internet show, "Morning in America" to radio stations across the land; super lawyer brother Bob has represented Bill Clinton and John McCain in sex-related scandals and most recently reported to the D.C. City Council on some of the more recent transgressions of former Mayor Marion Barry.
4. Biden
The Vice President is on official travel much of the time; his wife, Jill, who has a Ph.D. in Education, works to raise awareness of the value of community colleges. Their son Beau Biden, a Yale-trained lawyer, is a partner at the Rosemont Seneca law firm in Washington.
Margaret and Marvin Bush
5. Bush
Former First Brother Marvin Bush is a businessman with interests in insurance companies; his spunky wife Margaret ("Margo") occasionally appears in local theater productions; sister Doro Bush Koch lives quietly in Bethesda where she supports various charities and non-profit groups.
6. Cafritz
Calvin and Jane Cafritz's contributions to the city's cultural and philanthropic scene are as many and myriad as the real estate projects the clan has developed over most of the last century. Calvin's younger brothers, Conrad and Carter, are behind-the- scenes players in many business and charitable ventures players. Conrad's ex-wife, former D.C. School Board Chairwoman Peggy Cooper Cafritz, recently resurfaced after her art-filled home was destroyed in a fire last year. Cousin William "Bill" Cafritz and his wife, Buffy, are mainstays of the Washington social scene.
Mario Diaz-Balart
7. Diaz-Balart
The indomitably anti-Castro Cuban-American political dynasty will lose half of its congressional power in January when Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R.-Fla.) retires from his Miami-based seat after nine terms. His more conservative sibling, Mario, who now represents Ft. Lauderdale, has announced plans to seek election from his brother's even more solidly Republican district.
Katharine Weymouth
8. Graham
Donald Graham presides from the corporate chairman's seat after handing over the publishing reins of The Washington Post to his niece, Katharine Weymouth, who continues to battle declining circulation and revenue. Her indomitable mother, Lally Weymouth, surfaces at the odd A-List party and keeps au courant by contributing occasional Q&A's with world political figures.
9. Jackson
Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. retains firm control of his strongly Democratic Chicago congressional district after 14 years, although his popularity and family connections weren't enough to make him a contender for the Illinois U.S. Senate seat up for grabs in November. To his credit, the younger Jackson is no clone of his famous dad. In 2008, when Jesse Jackson Sr. made derogatory remarks about then-presidential-candidate Barack Obama, his son quickly rebuked him with a sharply worded defense.
10. Kennedy
The retirement of Rep. Patrick Kennedy at the end of his current term will mark the first time in 64 years that the famed American political dynasty will have no seat in Congress. He will be leaving Washington, perhaps for good, although his widowed step-mother, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, maintains a discreet profile here. Kara Kennedy, Patrick's older sister, lives quietly with her children in the District and supports favored causes from time to time.
11. Lerner
Ted Lerner came up the big winner when his giant family real estate company, Lerner Enterprises, won the city's baseball franchise in 2006; now his quest is to keep the team on top as well. Along with his son, Mark Lerner, and sons-in-law, Edward Cohen and Robert Tanenbaum, he is also a minority partner in Lincoln Holdings, which owns the Washington Capitals and the Washington Mystics. Daughter Marla Lerner Tanenbaum directs philanthropic outreach as president of the Lerner Family Foundation and chairman of the Washington Nationals Dream Foundation.
12. Mars
At $11 billion and counting, the notoriously press-shy Mars candy clan is, according to the latest (2010) installment of Forbes magazine's "Billionaires List," by far the wealthiest family in the Washington region. It certainly doesn't hurt that the company's main products (Snickers, M&M's, Uncle Ben's rice, pet food, chewing gum) are largely "recession proof." Brothers Forrest and John Mars are now retired; their sister, Jacqueline, is an active and extremely generous supporter of the Washington National Opera.
13. Mellon
Rachel "Bunny" Mellon, the art-collecting widow of oil, banking and steel heir Paul Mellon, recently emerged from the shadows at the age of 99 when it was revealed she had quietly helped pay some personal bills of Rielle Hunter, the mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards. Catherine Conover, Paul Mellon's environmentally conscious daughter from a previous marriage, is rarely seen in public; her daughter, Virginia Warner (daughter of former Sen. John Warner), maintains a quiet existence in the Virginia hunt country as do cousins Lavinia and Andrea Currier, the enormously wealthy granddaughters of Paul's sister, the late Ailsa Mellon Bruce.
John and Tony Podesta
14. Podesta
John Podesta, Bill Clinton's fourth and final White House chief of staff, serves as president of the liberal think tank, the Center for American Progress, and teaches law at Georgetown University. He directed operations for the Obama Administration's transition team but declined any offers of a position for himself. Big brother Tony Podesta heads one of the most successful bi-partisan lobbying firms in Washington and is a noted collector of contemporary modern art.
Sharon and John D. Rockefeller
15. Rockefeller
Sen. John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV, usually a reliable partyline trooper, made news in February when he suggested there was a disconnect between the Obama administration's rhetoric on coal mining and coal-driven power and the president's actual policies. Coal is, after all, the "state rock" of West Virginia, which he has represented in the U.S. Senate since 1985. His wife, Sharon Percy Rockefeller, has been battling cancer but maintains a high profile as president and CEO of WETA, Washington's public television station. Two of the couple's four children live in the area. Charles Rockefeller is studying for a Business degree at Georgetown. John D. "Jamie" Rockefeller V teaches Literature at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Jill and Tom Udall
16. Udall
Two cousinly colleagues currently represent the fourth generation of one of the American West's most prominent political families in the U.S. Senate. Mark Udall, son of former Rep. Morris Udall, served in the House for ten years before winning a senate seat from Colorado in 2008. Thomas Udall, son of former congressman and Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, was in Congress for the same ten-year period from New Mexico before winning his own Senate race there in 2008.
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Gaps In Return Planes – Bad News for EMI
January 26, 2017 Kenneth Wyatt Articles, Blog, Cable & Connectors, Design, Design, Featured
Currently, there is an ongoing discussion among SI and EMC engineers on the fine points of PC board design for best signal integrity and EMI performance. Among the topics it seems designing in gaps or slits in ground return planes always comes up.
Gaps can also occur mistakenly due to the addition of some connectors or other object that creates gaps in the copper. In fact, one of the first things I look for during design reviews is to inspect the ground return planes for inadvertent gaps. This is such an important concept when designing PC boards that I recorded a short video demonstration showing the EMI consequences.
Of course, there are valid reasons for partitioning the return (and/or power) plane in cases where digital and sensitive analog circuits need to be isolated. But for most cases a solid return plane is a better practice. The problem occurs when a high frequency clock trace or other fast digital signal crosses one of these gaps. There are numerous other papers on this issue (refer to the References at the end for more information). In this posting, I'd like to illustrate why it's bad from an EMI viewpoint.
Besides the obvious reflections noted by both Smith and Bogatin, there is also a differential to common "mode conversion" that occurs, which causes two bad things:
Common-mode currents are generated, which create harmonic noise currents, leading to board and cable resonance and related radiated emissions.
The gap forces the electromagnetic field normally confined in the dielectric between the clock trace and underlying return plane to "wrap around" the entire PC board, coupling to other nearby traces and causing cross-coupled noise (or crosstalk).
A simple experiment was set up based on the experimental PC board Smith devised. The board consists of two wires taped down to a copper clad board. These represent (near 50 ohm) circuit traces, one end of which is terminated to a 49.9-Ohm resistive load and the other end connected to the center pin of a BNC connector attached to the board. One trace has a 4 cm gap in the return plane – the other trace has a solid return path (Figure 1).
Figure 1 – A graphic drawing of the test board and test setup for measuring common mode currents on a simulated I/O cable.
The experiment consists of three parts:
Tracing and observing the path of the electromagnetic wave in the return path (both gapped and untapped traces).
Observing crosstalk in the non-driven trace when the gapped
Observing harmonic currents in a clip lead (simulating an I/O cable) attached to the board plane when the gapped trace is driven.
The board is driven with a USB-powered harmonic comb generator from Applied Electromagnetic Technology (AET), which is essentially a fast-edged pulse generator. The pulse generator is connected to each BNC connector in turn and an Beehive Electronics H-field probe is used to trace the path of HF current.
Figure 2 – Tracing the return path of the gapped trace. The electromagnetic wave current can be measured all around the gap (lower trace in the screen).
Figure 3 – Driving the gapped trace and measuring the harmonic currents with a current probe in a simulated I/O cable attached to the return plane. As you can see in the bottom trace, the harmonics are maximized at the resonant frequencies of the board/cable combination.
In summary, routing high speed fast-edged traces over gaps in return planes causes both radiated emissions and cross-coupled noise. If gaps must be used the return path can be controlled by adding stitching capacitors across the gap and near the high speed trace (really best added on both sides of the trace). I recently produced a short video demonstrating the effects noted above. The experiment is easily set up if you'd like to duplicate it for your colleagues.
Eric Bogatin, Impact of Return Path Discontinuities in High Speed Serial Links.
Doug Smith, Crossing the River: The hazards of crossing a split-plane gap with a high speed signal, 2008.
André and Wyatt, EMI Troubleshooting Cookbook for Product Designers, SciTech Publishing, 2014, page 31.
Kenneth Wyatt
Kenneth Wyatt is principal consultant of Wyatt Technical Services LLC and served as the senior technical editor for Interference Technology Magazine from 2016 to 2018. He has worked in the field of EMC engineering for over 30 years and specializes in product design for EMC compliance, EMI troubleshooting and pre-compliance testing. He is a co-author of the popular EMC Pocket Guide and RFI Radio Frequency Interference Pocket Guide. He also coauthored the book with Patrick André, EMI Troubleshooting Cookbook for Product Designers, with forward by Henry Ott. He is widely published and speaks internationally. Kenneth is a senior member of the IEEE and a long time member of the EMC Society. Check out his web site for more technical information, training schedules, and contact information: http://www.emc-seminars.com.
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Media Quotes of the Week: From anger at Rees-Mogg 'knave or fool' attack on HuffPost journalist to fears BBC London exodus could hit local press
NUJ general secretary Michelle Stanistreet in a statement after Jacob Rees-Mogg accused HuffPost UK's deputy political editor Arj Singh of being "either a knave or a fool" over an exclusive story about Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab based on a leaked video call: "It's not acceptable to dismiss reporting you don't like as fake news. It's completely unacceptable to resort to insults and personal smears of journalists simply trying to get on with their job. Our elected politicians should be committed to improving the parlous level of public discourse, not further polluting it."
Rees-Mogg repeated a Foreign Office statement which claimed the audio containing Raab's remarks had been "deliberately and selectively clipped to distort". He told MPs: "If the journalist didn't clip it himself, he ought to have known it was clipped. He is either a knave or a fool." Huff Post claims Raab later confirmed its story that the government didn't want to exclude countries from trade deals solely because they fell below European Convention on Human Rights standards.
Huff Post political editor Paul Waugh: "Exposing both his snobbery (he claimed The Times would never report what HuffPost UK did) and his ignorance (the Times used the exact same quote on its front page), Rees-Mogg showed that beneath all the fake politesse of his concocted young fogey persona there lurks a man scared to death of scrutiny. In that, maybe he's just following his boss's lead. Yet we'll probably wait in vain for Rees-Mogg to condemn a former journalist who literally made up a quote and was sacked from The Times as a result: Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. There's no distorting that fact, not the most salient one of all: the 125,000 deaths and counting from Covid on their watch."
Jane Martinson in the Guardian: "Those in power have often denied news stories, of course. What seems different now is the ad hominem attacks on the journalists themselves when the evidence is hard to argue with...Allowing ministers to call journalists names for doing their job is not just a matter for HuffPost, it should be a matter for us all."
HoldtheFrontPage reports: "Reach plc has told most of its journalists they will permanently work from home in future, prompting office closures across the country. Reach says it will instead maintain hub offices filled with meeting rooms in Belfast, Bristol, Birmingham, Dublin, Cardiff, Glasgow, Newcastle, Hull, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Greater Manchester, Nottingham, Plymouth and an office in the South-East of England. This means daily titles including the Cambridge News, Derby Telegraph, Huddersfield Daily Examiner, Leicester Mercury, North Wales Daily Post and Stoke-on-Trent daily The Sentinel will no longer have an office on patch – along with many of its 'Live' network of more than 70 regional news websites and other newspapers in its 110-strong portfolio of titles."
Iliffe editorial director Ian Carter on Twitter: "Very mixed feelings on this. We know we can all work remotely, we know investing in editorial is more important than office space. But never being in the newsroom for a breaking story? Missing out on trainees learning from seniors - and seniors learning from trainees? Not so sure."
Ray Snoddy on Mediatel on Covid-19: "If there is a pressing need for an inquiry into the action of the Government, some newspapers also need to think long and hard about what they have been doing. Could they too have caused unnecessary deaths by misleading their readers on the true scale of the Covid-19 threat, mocking scientists and spurring on Boris Johnson to new levels of irresponsibility?"
Jed Mercurio in a GQ interview: "You get a certain cohort of prominent journalists who don't know any science, but feel that they're libertarians and contrarians and they practise disinformation... These people are fundamentally a bunch of c***s."
England rugby manager Eddie Jones tackles rugby journalists, quoted by the Guardian: "I don't think there is any such thing as confidence, you either think rightly or you think wrongly, and the wrong time you start to listen to the poison that's written in the media, that rat poison gets into players' heads. We try to keep it out of their head. We try to spray all that rat poison that you try to put in and get it out of their head, so we are always working hard to keep it out of their heads. It keeps me busy, mate."
BBC News reports: "A US private investigator has told BBC News he was paid by the Sun newspaper to obtain personal information about the Duchess of Sussex in the early days of her relationship with Prince Harry. But Daniel Hanks says he unlawfully accessed detailed information including Meghan's social security number. The Sun's publisher said it requested legitimate research and instructed Mr Hanks he must act lawfully."
A spokesman for Harry and Meghan said: "The Duke and Duchess of Sussex feel that today is an important moment of reflection for the media industry and society at large, as this investigative report shows that the predatory practices of days past are still ongoing, reaping irreversible damage for families and relationships. They are grateful to those working in media who stand for upholding the values of journalism, which are needed now more than ever before."
BBC director general Tim Davie on plans to move staff and departments out of London: "People must feel we are closer to them. This shift will create a much more distributed model that moves not just people, but power and decision-making to the UK's Nations and regions."
The plans include: "A new generation of 100 new reporters to be based in towns and areas that have never had a regional TV presence."
News Media Association chairman HenryFaure Walker, responding to BBC's plans for a network of digital community journalists, said in a statement: "Through the Local News Partnership - which includes the widely-praised Local Democracy Reporting Service - the BBC and the local news media sector have successfully forged a partnership which has provided a shot in the arm for local public interest journalism. Crucially, this has been achieved without state competition distorting the marketplace. Any new investment in local journalism by the BBC should be channelled through the existing LNP and most certainly not through this ill-advised new venture which will hurt independent local news providers at a time when they are needed by the public more than ever."
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Media Quotes of the Week: From 65 journalists and media staff killed in 2020 to the Mail on why the Society of Editors lost its head in Royal row
International Federation of Journalists general secretary Anthony Bellanger, after the IFJ's 30th report on journalists and media staff killed worldwide during 2020 revealed 65 killings during targeted attacks, bomb attacks and cross–fire incidents in 16 countries: "The ruthless reign of crime barons in Mexico, the violence of extremists in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Somalia, as well as the intolerance of hardliners in India and the Philippines have contributed to the continued bloodshed in the media"
The figure of 65 killings in 2020 is 17 more killed than in 2019 (49), and bring the total to 2,680 journalists and media workers who lost their lives to violence in the world since 1990
Telegraph editor Chris Evans, in an email seen by the Guardian, on a proposal to link journalists pay to the popularity of articles: "It seems only right that those who attract and retain the most subscribers should be the most handsomely paid."
NUJ general secretary Michelle Stanistreet told the Guardian: "The Telegraph's plan to introduce clickbait scoring to pay and reward journalists is crass and shows scant regard for the importance of diverse quality journalism."
Telegraph head of digital news Catherine Bentley on Twitter: "Our strategy is to offer subscribers the same high-quality journalism every time they visit us, by thinking ambitiously on digital publishing, by increasing engagement and decreasing churn. It's the antithesis of clickbait journalism."
Simon Kelner in the I: "Piers Morgan is a journalist at heart. Yes, he loves the greasepaint and the celebrity status, but his qualities are those of journalist. His flaws, too. His shouty, editorialised style is clearly not to everyone's taste, but he is an original presence, and one that ITV will find difficult, if not impossible, to replace."
Jon Allsop in the Columbia Journalism Review: "If anything is true of the British media industry, it is that rich, white motormouths with tedious views about free speech and the royal family will never want for a professional home."
David Olusoga in the Observer: "Part of the problem is that in the Venn diagram that includes those two groups – black people and tabloid journalists – the circles barely overlap. The press, like many of Britain's institutions, has an appalling record on diversity and inclusion. Black people make up 3% of the UK population yet account for just 0.2% of journalists. This failure means that black Britons simply aren't in the tabloid newsrooms to point racism out; they certainly aren't in the editor's chair to weed it out."
David Aaronovitch on Twitter: "It seems to me that journalism awards ceremonies now only exist to give people something to pull out of. Maybe time to try some other way of recognising excellence?"
Mark Duell on MailOnline after Ian Murray resigned as executive director of the Society of Editors in the wake of the row of his defence of the British press against claims in the Harry and Meghan interview it was racist: "The Society of Editors was facing the gravest crisis in its 24-year history this week after left-wing newspaper editors drove the society's executive director out of his job for standing up against Meghan Markle's claims that the British press is systematically racist."
A senior tabloid executive, quoted but not named by MailOnline: "Harry and Meghan are trying to shut down their press critics by smearing them as racist. And it seems some misguided left-wing editors agree with them. A racism accusation trumps free speech every time. That is truly frightening. If the Society of Editors won't even defend free speech, what is the point of it? Apart from some rather pointless awards which are just an ego-trip for editors and journalists anyway."
Dr Paul Lashmar, head of the department of journalism at City University also on MailOnline: "I think Ian Murray's comments were tone deaf, they're not in touch with the world as it is now, and particularly for young people. And I think what Ian Murray's resignation allows for is perhaps someone younger who is more in touch with what's happening across journalism and diversity of views and being more sensitive to how people of diversity feel about the way things are framed."
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Media Quotes of the Week: From backlash over Society of Editors response to Harry and Meghan interview prompts director to quit and awards boycott to UK action plan for journalists' safety
Prince Harry in his television interview with Oprah Winfrey: "The UK is not bigoted, the UK press is bigoted, specifically the tabloids. But unfortunately if the source of information is inherently corrupt or racist or biased, then that filters out to the rest of society."
Society of Editors executive director Ian Murray in a statement: "If it is simply the case the Sussexes feel that the press by questioning their actions and commenting on their roles when working as Royals funded by the taxpayer were being racist then they are mistaken. In the case of Meghan Markle and her engagement and marriage to Prince Harry there was universal supporting coverage in the UK media which reflected the warmth shown to the couple by the British people...The UK media has never shied away from holding a spotlight up to those in positions of power, celebrity or influence. If sometimes the questions asked are awkward and embarrassing, then so be it, but the press is most certainly not racist."
On Wednesday Murray resigned, as reported by BBC News, stating: "Since the statement was issued the SoE has been heavily criticised. While I do not agree that the Society's statement was in any way intended to defend racism, I accept it could have been much clearer in its condemnation of bigotry and has clearly caused upset. As executive director I lead the Society and as such must take the blame and so I have decided it is best for the board and membership that I step aside so that the organisation can start to rebuild its reputation."
In a clarification to its first statement on the Harry and Meghan interview, the SoE said: "The Society of Editors has a proud history of campaigning for freedom of speech and the vital work that journalists do in a democracy to hold power to account. Our statement on Meghan and Harry was made in that spirit but did not reflect what we all know: that there is a lot of work to be done in the media to improve diversity and inclusion. We will reflect on the reaction our statement prompted and work towards being part of the solution."
Those reactions included:
Paul Wiltshire on Twitter: "The @EditorsUK does an amazing job in defending media freedom. But to pretend that bigotry and racism isn't alive and well on the front pages of too many of our news titles does a huge disservice to journalism and the majority of journalists."
Huff Post UK editor-in-chief Jess Brammar on Twitter: "I considered not saying anything about this because I'm aware I won't make myself popular with my peers but i'm just going to stand up and say it: I don't agree with statement from my industry body that it is 'untrue that sections of UK press were bigoted'."
Guardian Media editor-in-chief Kath Viner in a statement: "Every institution in the United Kingdom is currently examining its own position on vital issues of race and the treatment of people of colour. As I have said before, the media must do the same. It must be much more representative and more self-aware."
Financial Times editor Roula Khalaf in a statement: "There is work to be done across all sectors in the UK to call out and challenge racism," she said. "The media has a critical role to play, and editors must ensure that our newsrooms and coverage reflect the societies we live in."
I News editor-in-chief Olly Duff on Twitter: "It was ludicrous for SoE to issue blanket defence of all media coverage. No wonder so many editors, journalists (and board members- given no knowledge of statement pre-publication) furious."
Open letter to Society of Editors signed by journalists of colour: "The Society of Editors should have used the comments by the Sussexes to start an open and constructive discussion about the best way to prevent racist coverage in future, including through addressing lack of representation in the UK media, particularly at a senior level. The blanket refusal to accept there is any bigotry in the British press is laughable, does a disservice to journalists of colour and shows an institution and an industry in denial."
Huff Post UK reports: "Charlene White has pulled out of hosting the Society of Editors' National Press Awards in a statement sent to the SoE's executive director Ian Murray, White said: 'Perhaps it's best for you to look elsewhere for a host for your awards this year. Perhaps someone whose views align with yours: that the UK press is the one institution in the entire country who has a perfect record on race'."
Huff Post UK North of England correspondent Aasma Day on Twitter: "Earlier this month, I tweeted my delight at being shortlisted in the Reporting Diversity category of #PressAwards. However, the statement by @EditorsUK denying the press is racist made me deeply uncomfortable & I have withdrawn my entry as it makes a total mockery of this award."
The Bureau for Investigative Journalism on Twitter: "This year the Bureau team has been shortlisted for two Society of Editors awards. Having reflected on the @EditorsUK statement this week and subsequent response, in light of our mission and values, we have withdrawn our nominations."
Yorkshire Post editor James Mitchinson in a letter to readers: "It is with regret but absolute conviction that in light of recent events I will not be entering The Yorkshire Post into the Society of Editors' awards for regional journalism this year...As the editor of the reigning best-in-class regional daily in the country, an accolade that each and every one of the people I am proud to lead merits, I believe it is in the best interests of my team, my title and our wider trade to step aside and allow the Society the space it needs to reflect on what has happened."
Piers Morgan on Twitter after his departure from ITV's Good Morning Britain: "On Monday, I said I didn't believe Meghan Markle in her Oprah interview. I've had time to reflect on this opinion, and I still don't. If you did, OK. Freedom of speech is a hill I'm happy to die on. Thanks for all the love, and hate. I'm off to spend more time with my opinions."
Kelvin MacKenzie on Twitter: "There will be a long queue to hire Piers as he has the unique ability in the news business to bring an audience with him. Rupert Murdoch is 90 tomorrow. He should sign Piers before he snuffs it."
Alan Rusbridger in the Guardian: "I am not alone among his former editors and colleagues in feeling let down by Greenslade for leaving it until his retirement to place on public record his sympathies for the armed struggle. Those beliefs were irrelevant to the vast majority of his output at the Guardian. But he did very occasionally write about Ireland and media coverage. Given what he has now shared, I believe he should have avoided those topics – or, at the very least, have been consistent in letting readers know more about where he was coming from – especially as the Guardian's own guidelines have long been explicit about declaring interests."
Roy Greenslade, quoted by Sunday Life: "I categorically deny passing any information to the IRA at any time. I didn't have any information to pass on. I was an intellectual supporter, not a practical one. I was not privy to any classified information. I was an office-bound executive with no contact personally or by phone with any person from the security services. So, it follows that I didn't pass any such information to anyone."
Objective of the new National Action Plan for the Safety of Journalists announced by the UK Government: "Our aim is to ensure that journalists operating in the UK are as safe as possible, reducing the number of attacks on and threats issued to journalists and ensuring those that are responsible for such are brought to justice. In order to support this goal, we are taking steps to":
Increase our understanding of the problem;
Enhance the criminal justice system response in tackling crimes against journalists;
Support journalists and their employers to build the resources they need to protect personal safety;
Help online platforms to tackle the wider issue of abuse online;
Improve public recognition of the value of journalists.
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Media Quotes of the Week: From Professor Greenslade's ethics lesson: If you want a Fleet Street career hide your support for the IRA - to online abuse reduced sports reporter to tears
Roy Greenslade in an article for the British Journalism Review republished by the Sunday Times [£] on his support for the IRA while working for national newspapers: "I knew that to own up to supporting Irish republicans would result in me losing my job. I could have taken that step myself by walking out on principle. But the idea of forsaking a Fleet Street career — indeed, a career of any kind in journalism — was unthinkable. I couldn't conceive of doing anything else. Join an agitprop publication? I couldn't see a future there. Become a librarian, a schoolboy dream? It wasn't really a feasible alternative. Anyway, I needed a wage because I was on the verge of taking on a mortgage. Better, then, to button my lip and carry on."
Michael Crick on Greenslade's subsequent resignation from City University where he lecturered in journalism ethics: "Roy Greenslade tells me his decision was: 'Purely mine. No pressure. Just the reverse.' So City University wanted him to stay, it seems. It has to be said that since 2018 his work at City University was no longer very substantial."
A City University spokesman said: "While acknowledging Professor Greenslade's contribution and his right to express his views, the university has accepted his resignation."
Roy Greenslade in Press Gazette: "The furore underlines the main point of my article: to have come clean in the 1970s with my beliefs would have rendered me unemployable. I did nothing more than the scores of journalists who keep their political views to themselves. My opinions did not affect my journalistic work, nor did they affect my university teaching. As many of my more attentive students would surely recall, I was open about being a republican."
Ex-Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie on Twitter: "I always knew Roy Greenslade was a shit. I didn't know he was a pro violence IRA supporting shit. In the Sunday Times he reveals that while working for me at The Sun, editing the Mirror and being a media critic he backed IRA scum killing our people. A complete c***. So while trying to attract readers as editor of the Daily Mirror Roy Greenslade didnt care that the IRA would kill a few. What a vile duplicitous scumbag he is."
Peter Wilby in the New Statesman: "Greenslade, in high-minded columns for the Guardian, instructed journalists on how to conduct themselves. Those columns now look shabby and hypocritical."
The Times [£] reports: "The Guardian has launched a review of Roy Greenslade's articles after it was accused of allowing him to question the credibility of a woman who accused an IRA member of raping her...The newspaper's investigation follows a complaint from Máiría Cahill, a politician and member of a prominent republican family who waived anonymity to allege that she was raped by a senior IRA figure as a teenager. Greenslade wrote several articles on the Cahill case for The Guardian while employed as its media commentator."
Ex-International Federation of Journalists general secretary Aidan White on Twitter: "I wonder, Roy, whether you think a word of apology is due to those thousands of journalism students at City University who you schooled in the importance of ethical journalism?"
Journalist Mic Wright on his blog: "If there's any moral to Greenslade's story it's that the British media was and remains a place where most people hide their real beliefs in return for a salary. The rest? Well, they just ratchet up their worst thoughts, put them down on the page, and get jobs for life as columnists."
Report by the office of the US director of national intelligence: "We assess that Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman approved an operation in Istanbul, Turkey to capture or kill Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi."
Prince Harry to James Corden, as reported by BBC News: "It was a really difficult environment as a lot of people saw. We all know what the British press can be like. And it was destroying my mental health. I was like, this is toxic. So I did what any husband and what any father would do - I need to get my family out of here."
Jan Moir in the Daily Mail on the James Corden interview with Prince Harry: "Clearly, the Prince is much more comfortable with the kind of media coverage that only friends and wedding guests can provide. Throughout the fun, 17-minute clip, Corden came across like a clammy flunkey oozing obsequiousness and throbbing with a desire to make his royal guest look good, even if that meant flagellating himself."
Society of Editors executive director Ian Murray in a tribute to the first SoE executive director Bob Satchwell, who has died aged 73: "Bob was one life's great communicators and this gift made him superbly able to fight his many battles on behalf of the press. From Leveson to the creation of IPSO, from threats to Freedom of Information, to the countless other attempts to stifle free speech, Bob was always there in the fight."
Gulnoza Said, the Committee to Protect Journalists' Europe and Central Asia program coordinator, in response to the sentencing of one of the suspects in Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia's murder, as well as new indictments for additional suspects: "We welcome the first sentencing in Daphne Caruana Galizia's case as a long-awaited step towards justice in one of Europe's most prominent journalist killings. Maltese authorities should take all measures to ensure that all the perpetrators of this crime, including its masterminds, are brought to justice."
Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb in October 2017. On February 23, one of the defendants, Vincent Muscat, plead guilty of murder and other crimes related to the killing, and was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
A Writing Chance, a new initiative supported by the Mirror and New Statesman, looking for new and aspiring writers from working-class and lower income backgrounds, says: "It's not right that a London-centric industry; unpaid and low-paid internships; the casualisation of jobs; and a reliance on personal contacts make finding work in the media far more difficult for people from working-class and lower income backgrounds."
BBC sports reporter Sonja McLaughlan on Twitter after her post match interviews following the Wales vs England rugby match attracted online abuse: "Toxic, embarrassing, disgraceful, appalling. Just some of the feedback I've had. Thanks for using @ sign so it's all hit home. Now imagine getting inundated with abuse for doing your job. In my car crying. Hope you're happy."
KayBurley on Twitter: "Head up, shoulders back, Sonja. You did a great job."
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Affiliations: 1 Department of Biochemistry, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
First Published: 01 March 1986 https://doi.org/10.1099/00221287-132-3-797
SUMMARY: During growth of Escherichia coli on acetate, isocitrate dehydrogenase (ICDH) is partially inactivated by phosphorylation and is thus rendered rate-limiting in the Krebs cycle so that the intracellular concentration of isocitrate rises which, in turn, permits an increased flux of carbon through the anaplerotic sequence of the glyoxylate bypass. A large number of metabolites stimulate ICDH phosphatase and inhibit ICDH kinase in the wild-type (E. coli ML 308) and thus regulate the utilization of isocitrate by the two competing enzymes, ICDH and isocitrate lyase. Addition of pyruvate to acetate grown cultures triggers a rapid dephosphorylation and threefold activation of ICDH, both in the wild-type (ML308) and in mutants lacking pyruvate dehydrogenase (ML308/Pdh-), PEP synthase (ML308/Pps-) or both enzymes (ML308/Pdh- Pps-). Pyruvate stimulates the growth on acetate of those strains with an active PEP synthase but inhibits the growth of those strains that lack this enzyme. When pyruvate is exhausted, ICDH is again inactivated and the growth rate reverts to that characteristic of growth on acetate. Because pyruvate stimulates dephosphorylation of ICDH in strains with differing capabilities for pyruvate metabolism, it seems likely that pyruvate itself is a sufficient signal to activate the dephosphorylation mechanism, but this does not discount the importance of other signals under other circumstances.
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