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SPORTSCOPE: TO JILTED FANS IN MOUSE WORLD, SHAQ'S A RAT
The Daily Press scopes out news, notes and fun stuff in sports:
The next time you get disgusted because some folks on the Peninsula are too worked up over Allen Iverson, just check out the jilted citizens of Orlando. Listen to the Orlando Sentinel's David Whitley tell it:
"The next time you're stuck for a dinner conversation topic in Orlando, just mention two words: Shaquille O'Neal. Some people will raise a toast. Others will choke on their iceberg lettuce. Either way, there will not be a moment of silence until the bill arrives. The Lakers' victory party Monday was painful, and not just because we had to watch Mark Madsen try to dance. It was tough because it could have been Orlando's party, only the Magic let Shaq slip through their fingers. ... That was Tuesday's lesson, though the tale of Shaq's departure could hardly be detailed in one column. Today's lesson is much simpler. Five years after the great escape, that story of Shaq will always be a 7-foot-1, 360-pound throbbing nerve around here. ... Love him or hate him, everybody seems to have a very sincere opinion about him. Not just him, but all he represents. Like the blown dynasty. Obscene salaries. The fight for a new Magic arena. The Kennedy assassination.
THE FOUR (RICH) AMIGOS
Tiger Woods hangs out with Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley and Ahmad Rashad. Woods talks to the self-named "Brothers" almost every day (calling Jordan and Barkley every morning to make sure they're up for their workout), and vacations with them often. "Our bond is that we're black, famous and rich, and living in a fishbowl," Barkley told Newsweek.
BOBBLEHEAD AND WEAVE DEPT.
If you're a baby boomer, your mother might have thrown one out with your old baseball cards. The kitschy bobblehead doll is back. Not the papier-mache springy head that had its heyday in the '60s, but the new version, built to last and with far more detail than the old nodder. How detailed? The Barry Bonds model has stubble around the Giants' star's mustache. The Jason Giambi doll perfectly captures the A's star's arm musculature. And the bobblehead likeness of Orlando Magic guard Darrell Armstrong has the same small facial scars as the real deal. The 6- or 7-inch bobbleheads have been around since the '60s, but the latest boom is only a few years old. Like most collectibles, demand is created because a limited number of dolls is reproduced, and the distribution is restricted to one day. And, of course, the craze puts fans in seats in stadiums and arenas.
At least 20 major-league baseball teams have had or plan to have giveaways this year, and a number of NBA and NHL teams are on board as well. As many as 43 college football teams have given away the dolls or have plans to do so. In some cases fan demand for the dolls has been so intense that ticket-holders arrive at the ballpark or arena hours in advance to make sure they get their bobblehead.
The resale market for bobbleheads blows hot and cold. Certain bobbleheads, such as a Willie Mays bobblehead that was given out in 1999, sells for $132 on eBay.com. A complete set of the 2001 Twins bobblehead set is going for $204 on the same site. Others don't generate much interest at all on online auction sites. Tim Hunter, who buys and sells the old bobbleheads as a full-time occupation in Reno, Nev., isn't buying the hype of the new bobbleheads as prized collectibles. He doesn't believe there is a long-lasting market for the dolls, despite the prices he sees on the online auction sites. The Allen Iverson bobblehead, he said, initially sold for $100 apiece. Six months later, one can be had for $25. He says the bobbleheads will soon go the way of the Beanie Babies in terms of value.
DEION: LEMONADE OR LEMON?
It was the perfect summer job. The Taj Mahal of lemonade stands. The work was mostly outdoors. The pay was outstanding. There were plenty of perks to be had, like first-class travel and all the pine tar you can smear. All Deion Sanders had to do was hit a baseball. Not even repeatedly. Just occasionally. Enough so that he looked useful in a useless lineup. Instead, the Cincinnati Reds told Sanders to take his ball, bat and .173 batting average and go home.
This is the problem with summer. It never seems to last. Whether you are 13 years old and hoping to delay the start of another school year or 33 years old and angling to get out of an NFL training camp, the best days seem to fly right by.
The Reds designated Sanders for assignment last week, meaning they have the rest of this week to either trade or release him. Odds are, he never again will be allowed to misplay a fly ball.
The hidden beauty in Sanders' return to the majors after a three-year hiatus was that his contract with the Washington Redskins allowed him to miss the entire preseason, as long he was playing in the majors. Eager to walk away from Washington after one season -- and an $8-million signing bonus -- Sanders was hoping the baseball threat would persuade the Redskins to release him for salary-cap reasons on June 1. Except, as it turns out, Washington coach Marty Schottenheimer knows how to read box scores.
If continuity is the hallmark of a great champion, then Los Angeles stands to be robbed of building upon its legacy.
Imagine if in the middle of the Michael Jordan era, the NBA had announced a zero-tolerance policy on palming and traveling. Imagine if in the midst of the Bill Russell era, the NBA had adopted today's no- contact standards in the post.
Imagine if Shaq, Kobe and the Lakers were to win two titles under one set of rules and then be forced to continue under a sweeping set of revisions. Next season, that will be the reality, when illegal-defense guidelines will be out and the use of any defense will be permitted, the type of box-and-ones Jordan never had to face during his six title runs.
BUENAS DIAS, DUENAS
So what's the story on Roberto Duenas, the 7-foot-3, 300-pound Spanish League standout? "He kind of reminds you of Gheorghe Muresan with his size and offensive skills," Charlotte Hornets coach Paul Silas said of the 1997 second-round pick. Duenas is not expected to play in the NBA for another year or two, obviously first taking time to complete the Spanish version of "My Giant."
WILL IT GET RAVES?
The Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens will be the subject of a sports-based reality series that will air on HBO this summer. The cable network said Wednesday the one-hour show, produced in conjunction with NFL films, is a football version of "Survivor." The show, called "Hard Knocks: Training Camp With The Baltimore Ravens," will air at 11 p.m. on six consecutive Wednesdays, beginning Aug. 1 and ending Sept. 5. "Hard Knocks" will show how veterans such as tight end Shannon Sharpe, middle linebacker Ray Lewis and defensive tackle Tony Siragusa work to hold on to their jobs, while rookies such as tight end Todd Heap struggle to land a spot on the roster. If the show is successful, will we see Siragusa on the third season of "The Sopranos"?
AND FINALLY ...
From Scott Ostler of the San Francisco Chronicle:
* "You want to show kids a role model, tell 'em to watch Allen Iverson without the ball. He plays the entire game like it's the last two minutes of the last game ever. If Iverson were a mailman, he'd do his entire route in 20 minutes, stopping only to bite several dogs.''
* "At Staples Center, they play a burst of music over the PA system every time a Laker makes a basket. Example: For Rick Fox, it's a Bob Marley tune. Which shows why L.A. is the world leader in creative entertainment. That high school kid Alan Webb who ran the 3:53 mile? Amazing! He not only broke Jim Ryun's 36-year-old record, Webb was also two seconds faster than Barry Bonds' home-run trot."
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\section{Introduction} \label{sec:intro}

Solar flares are explosive events occurring in the solar corona
that release extremely large quantities ($10^{28}$--$10^{32}$~erg)
in radiative, kinetic, thermal and non-thermal form.
They are considered to be one of the most attractive scientific objects in solar physics, with
emissions across the electromagnetic spectrum originating from atmospheric layers extending
from the chromosphere, in extreme cases the photosphere, to the outer regions of the solar corona.
Solar flares can also produce high-speed coronal mass ejections (CMEs)
that travel through interplanetary space with occasional serious impacts on the solar-terrestrial
environment.

A filament, relatively cool, dens plasma supported by magnetic field and floated
in the corona, sometimes erupts and cause or be part of a CME.
Therefore, the relations among filament eruptions, flares and CMEs have been earnestly studied (e.g., \cite{Schmieder2013,Schmieder2015,Schmieder2020}).
\citet{Munro1979} reported that more than 70~\% of CMEs are associated with eruptive
prominences of filament disappearance, both with and without large soft X-ray (SXR)
enhancement, that are accordingly recognized as flares.
\citet{Gopal2003} also reported that 72~\% of prominence eruptions observed in microwaves
are associated with CMEs.
Filaments eruptions are thought to be caused by loss of equilibrium and/or magnetohydrodynamic instability \citep{Demoulin2010,Kliem2006,Mackay2010}.

Finding the origin of a CME in the solar lower atmosphere and following its evolution to be a CME
are, however, sometimes difficult owing to a gap between the coronagraphic observational field-of-view
of the CME and that for flares and filament eruptions on the solar surface.
The flare-CME connection is a controversial topic and of great interest
to the scientific community, which has not yet found an established relationship
between these phenomena.
Some flares, referred to as confined flares, are not eruptive and not associated with CMEs
\citep{Moore2001,Mackay2010}.
Some CMEs are not related with flares, which are defined as strong X-ray emission, but related
with eruption of quiet region filaments and/or giant arcade formation seen in X-rays \citep{McAllister}.
Therefore, the connection between a CME and the related phenomena on the solar surface should be
cleared more by focusing on the temporal evolution of the flare and its relation to the CME.
Accordingly, in this study we investigate the initial phases of CME-related filament eruptions
by using H$\alpha$ data with the goal of detecting signatures preceding the launch of CMEs.
Recently, a three-dimensional (3D) prominence reconstruction was done by using IRIS data \citep{Schmieder2017}.
The authors succeeded to demonstrate that an helical structure of the prominence seen
in the IRIS images consists in fact of horizontal field lines parallel to the solar surface.
Spectroscopic observations of eruptive filaments have become more important
to reveal the relation between CMEs and filament eruptions.

To this end, we examined a set of solar phenomena that occurred on 2011 March 8,
in Active Region (AR) NOAA 11165.
We examined the erupted prominence in detail and followed its 3D temporal evolution and relation
to the overlying coronal magnetic field.
The remainder of this paper is organized as follows.
We describe the observations in Section~2 and
present analysis and results on the prominence eruption and coronal loops prior to the appearance
of the CMEs in Sections~3 and 4, respectively.
Finally, a summary and discussion are given in Section~5.

\section{Observations}

On 2011 March 8, an M4.4 solar flare with a soft X-ray (SXR) classification was recorded at AR
NOAA 11165, which is located near the southwest solar limb (S17$^{\circ}$, W88$^{\circ}$),
by the {\it Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite} ({\it GOES}).
Figure~\ref{fig1} shows the SXR light curves taken by {\it GOES}.
The flare began at 18:08~UT and peaked at 18:28~UT (shown in the figure with arrow 2),
with light curves featuring several small humps and subpeaks.
This flare was followed by another gradual M1.5 flare that began and peaked at 19:35 and 20:16~UT
(arrow 3), respectively.

\begin{figure}
 \begin{center}
  \includegraphics[width=12cm]{fig1.eps}
 \end{center}
\caption{{\it GOES} X-ray emission at 1.0 -- 8.0 {\AA} (red) and 0.5 -- 4.0 {\AA} (blue) channels
of the 2011 March 8 flare.
Arrow 2 indicates the peak of the M4.4 flare at 18:28~UT.
The peak at 20:16~UT corresponds to an M1.5 flare that occurred in the same AR NOAA~11165
(shown with arrow 3).}
\label{fig1}
\end{figure}

A filament/prominence eruption associated with the flare can be seen in H$\alpha$
images obtained by the Flare Monitoring Telescope (FMT; \cite{Kurokawa}),
which was originally installed at Hida Observatory, Kyoto University, Japan, and
relocated to Ica University, Peru in 2010 under the international collaboration
of the Continuous H-Alpha Imaging Network (CHAIN) Project \citep{UeNo2007}.
FMT provides full-disk images in five wavelengths:
H$\alpha$ line center (6562.8~{\AA}); wings at $+0.8$~{\AA} and $-0.8$~{\AA};
continuum (6100~{\AA}) images; and another H$\alpha$ line center image
to detect limb prominences.
The spatial and temporal samplings of FMT are about $2^{\prime\prime}.0$,
and 20~s, respectively.
In this paper, we will use the term `FMT-Peru' to clarify that the data we used in this study
were obtained following the relocation.

The telescope is capable of measuring the 3D velocity fields of
active filaments/prominences \citep{Morimoto2003a,Morimoto2003b,Denis2017},
and Moreton waves \citep{Eto2002,Narukage2002,Narukage2008,Asai2012,Denis2019}.
Figure~\ref{fig2} shows a full-disk H$\alpha$ center image of the flare taken by FMT-Peru,
with the erupting feature visible in the region marked with the white box on the southwest limb.

\begin{figure}
 \begin{center}
  \includegraphics[width=14cm]{fig2.eps}
 \end{center}
\caption{Full-disk solar image (solar north is up and west is to the right) of the flare
in H$\alpha$ center taken at 18:14~UT by FMT-Peru.
The white box shows the flaring region of AR NOAA~11165.}
\label{fig2}
\end{figure}

To view the spatial distribution of prominence gases irrespective to line-of-sight motion,
we created `combined' images of three wavelengths (center and $\pm0.8$~{\AA}).
Prominences/filaments moving rapidly in the line-of-sight direction are often invisible
with images of only one wavelength due to the Doppler shift of the H$\alpha$ line.
The images of three wavelengths were, therefore, combined into time series to enable tracking
of the evolution of overall prominence gas.
At each wavelength, a specific intensity level was set and the brighter regions above that level
were extracted to reveal the prominences involved in the selected region.
Finally, we superimposed the images extracted at the three wavelengths
at each time step to produce a time sequence of combined H$\alpha$ images,
as shown in the leftmost column of Figure~\ref{fig3}.
See also the supplementary movie 1 for the temporal evolution of the H$\alpha$ images.
It shows images at H$\alpha$ $-0.8$~{\AA} (top left), center (top right), $+0.8$~{\AA} (bottom left),
respectively.
The bottom right panel is the combined images.

\begin{figure}
 \begin{center}
  \includegraphics[width=12cm]{fig3.eps}
 \end{center}
\caption{Multiwavelength time sequences of the 2011 March 8 flare.
Columns from left to right are FMT-Peru H$\alpha$ combined, and
{\it SDO}/AIA at 304, 171, 193, and 94~{\AA} images, respectively.
The red solid line in the bottom left panel indicates the slit position used in Figure~\ref{fig7}.}
\label{fig3}
\end{figure}

Flare and eruption features were also captured in extreme ultraviolet (EUV)
images taken by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA; \cite{Lemen2012})
onboard the {\it Solar Dynamics Observatory} ({\it SDO}; \cite{Pesnell2012}).
AIA takes full-disk solar images with a temporal resolution of 12~s,
while the images of filters 1600 and 1700~{\AA} are taken every 24~s.
The pixel size of the images is $0^{\prime\prime}.6$.
In this study, we used images taken with 304, 171, 193, and 94~{\AA} filter,
which are mainly attributable to the He~{\sc ii} (80,000K), Fe~{\sc ix} (0.6MK),
Fe~{\sc xii} (1.2MK),  and Fe~{\sc xviii} lines (6.3MK), respectively.
The second to fifth columns from the left in Figure~\ref{fig3} show the temporal evolution
of the flare and the prominence eruption at 304, 171, 193, and 94~{\AA}, respectively.

The prominence eruption associated with the flare is seen as a bright feature
in the H$\alpha$ images that moves to the southwest from the flare site.
It is also seen as bright features (moving blobs) in the AIA 304 and 171~{\AA} images.
In particular, common features are seen on the erupting blobs in the H$\alpha$,
EUV 304 and 171~{\AA} images.
By contrast,in the AIA 193 and 94~{\AA} images outer coronal loops with higher temperature
are predominant.
As is often observed \citep{Chifor2006}, the erupting filament suffers heating
at the outer edge and is therefore visible even in EUV bands such as 171 and 193~{\AA},
which are sensitive to higher temperatures.
Here, we have to note that the AIA channels have broad temperature response.
It is often difficult to know whether a structure is really hot or cool.
After 18:16~UT, the prominence becomes unclear in both H$\alpha$ and 304~{\AA},
while the coronal loops visible in 193 and 94~{\AA} are still evolving and brightening.

The Extreme-Ultraviolet Imager (EUVI; \cite{Wuelser}), part of the Sun-Earth
Connection Corona and Heliospheric Investigation (SECCHI; \cite{Howard2008})
onboard the {\it Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory - Ahead}
({\it STEREO-A}; \cite{Kaiser2008}), also observed the flare and prominence
eruption (filament eruption in the view of {\it STEREO-A}) in the EUV bands.
At the time of observation, {\it STEREO-A} was located $87.^{\circ}6$ ahead of the Earth
on a heliocentric elliptical orbit in the ecliptic plane and, therefore,
was able to capture a top view of the flaring region (NOAA 11165).
We used 171~{\AA} EUVI images in which the emission line of Fe~{\sc ix} (0.6MK) was
dominant to compare the temporal evolution of the erupting blobs.

The flare and prominence eruption were followed by a CME, which was first seen
at 19:00 UT in the field of view of coronagraph C2 on the Large Angle and Spectrometric
COronagraph (LASCO; \cite{Brueckner}) onboard {\it SOHO}.
We will discuss this CME further in Section~4.

To examine the temporal evolution and dynamics of the flare and prominence eruption,
we used hard X-ray (HXR) data obtained by the {\it Reuven Ramaty
High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager} ({\it RHESSI}; \cite{Lin}) and
microwave data taken at the Sagamore Hill Solar Observatory under
the Radio Solar Telescope Network (RSTN; \cite{Guidice}).
We focused in particular on 25 -- 50 and 50 -- 100~keV HXR emissions measured by
{\it RHESSI} and microwave emissions at the 4.99, 8.8, and 15.4~GHz channels
measured by RSTN.
At these wavelengths (in this case given, respectively, as energy bands and frequencies)
it is possible to observe nonthermal Bremsstrahlung and gyrosynchrotron emissions
associated with accelerated electrons, allowing for the examination of the energetic features
of accelerated electrons in the flare.

\section{3D Velocity Field of the Prominence Eruption}

There have been some reports on the derivation of the Doppler (line-of-sight) velocities
of H$\alpha$ disk filaments observed using FMT \citep{Morimoto2003a,Morimoto2003b,Denis2017}.
The methods used in these studies are based on the `cloud model', which was originally
suggested by \citet{Beckers} and \citet{Mein} and modified for FMT data.
By contrast, in this study we observed an off-limb bright prominence with a dark background,
which meant that we could not use the cloud-model-based methods.

Instead, to derive Doppler velocities we assumed that the observed profiles were emitted
from a slab with a uniform and constant source function.
Based on the three wavelength data points (H$\alpha$ center and $\pm0.8$~{\AA})
and an additional assumption that the H$\alpha$ intensities at the $\pm4.0$~{\AA}
wings are equal to zero, profile fitting produced four unknown parameters
(i.e., the source function, optical depth, Doppler velocity, and Doppler width) with an error
of about $\pm10$~km~s$^{-1}$.
Owing to misalignment of the wavelengths of Peru-FMT filters from their nominal values,
the actual error in determined Doppler velocity was potentially worse at roughly $\pm15$~km~s$^{-1}$.
Furthermore, FMT-Peru cannot detect blobs with velocities greater than 50~km~s$^{-1}$.
We, in this paper, fitted the erupting filament only with images of the H$\alpha$ center
and the wings with the band position of $\pm$~0.8~{\AA} and with the passband width of about 0.5~{\AA}.
Profiles of prominences observed with spectrographs often show a narrow H$\alpha$ line
with a maximum FWHM between 0.6 and 0.8~{\AA} \citep{Ruan}.
In our case the wide bandpass of the filters around 0.5~{\AA} allows us to integrate
the prominence emission from the inflexion point of the line profile (0.45~{\AA}) to the far wing.
Therefore, the prominences are visible in our three filters, while there is a large uncertainty
in the Doppler shift values.

The left panels of Figure~\ref{fig4} show temporal evolution maps of Doppler velocity
with blue and red colors indicating blue- and red-shifted Doppler velocities, respectively.
The erupting blob initially has a red-shift with a velocity of about 25~km~s$^{-1}$
that changes at around 18:14~UT to a blue-shift with a velocity of about 30~km~s$^{-1}$.
This timing (18:14~UT) corresponds to arrow 1 in Figure~\ref{fig1}.

By assuming that the observed H$\alpha$ prominence is optically thin,
it is possible to combine the optical thickness and the source function into one unknown parameter
-- the emissivity -- and reduce the number of unknown physical parameters to three.
We derived the Doppler velocities by fitting the data  under this assumption and then
confirmed that the resulting velocities were consistent with those derived with the former method.
The Doppler velocities in the remainder of the study were therefore derive using the
former method.

\begin{figure}
 \begin{center}
  \includegraphics[width=10cm]{fig4.eps}
 \end{center}
\caption{Temporal evolution of 3D velocity of erupting prominence.
{\it Left}: Doppler velocity shown with blue- and red-shifted features colored
blue and red, respectively.
{\it Right}: Tangential velocity with direction and magnitude indicated with green arrows.
The background images are FMT-Peru H$\alpha$ combined images.
The sign of the Doppler shift changes from red to blue at around 18:14~UT;
at the same time, the direction of the tangential velocity changes
from southwest to slightly northwest.}
\label{fig4}
\end{figure}

We derived the tangential velocity of the ejected filament
(i.e., the velocity of the filament in the plane of the sky) by applying the local
correlation tracking (LCT) method to the H$\alpha$ combined image sequence.
The right panels of Figure~\ref{fig4} show the temporal evolution maps of the
tangential velocity, with the green arrows showing the direction and amplitude of the tangential velocity.
The tangential velocity of the erupting filament is roughly 80~km~s$^{-1}$ and rapidly decelerating.
The direction of the tangential velocity changes from southwest to slightly northwest
at around 18:14~UT, corresponding temporally to the sudden direction change of the Doppler velocity.

Because the flare site was nearly on the solar limb (W88$^{\circ}$),
{\it STEREO-A}, which was located $87.^{\circ}6$ ahead of the Earth at the time of
observation, was able to capture a top view of the flare and the filament eruption.
As discussed above, the erupting H$\alpha$ prominence was co-spatial
with a bright blob seen in the AIA 171~{\AA} images (see Figure~\ref{fig3}), and
therefore we investigated the temporal evolution of the filament eruption
in the {\it STEREO-A}/SECCHI/EUVI 171~{\AA} images.
Figure~\ref{fig5} shows the temporal evolution of the erupting filament
in the EUVI 171~{\AA} images.
The contours outline a bright feature (bright blob) associated with
the erupting filament, with different colors indicating different times.
It is seen that the filament predominantly moves southward, with a slight
westward motion before 18:14~UT, followed by eastward motion afterwards.
These motions correspond to motion away from and toward the Earth, respectively.
The centroid of the contoured region moves at roughly 40~km~s$^{-1}$ between 18:12:15~UT (red) and
18:13:30~UT (yellow) and at 40~km~s$^{-1}$ between 18:14:45~UT (green) and 18:16:00~UT (blue).

\begin{figure}
 \begin{center}
  \includegraphics[width=8cm]{fig5.eps}
 \end{center}
\caption{Temporal evolution of filament eruption seen in the
{\it STEREO-A}/SECCHI/EUVI 171~{\AA} images.
The contours show the bright feature associated with the erupting filament, with
different colors indicating different times.
The background is an EUVI 171~{\AA} image taken at 18:11~UT}.
\label{fig5}
\end{figure}

Analysis of the blob dynamics in the prominence eruption reveal an interesting behavior
in which the blobs are deflected at specific heights within the corona, indicating an interaction
between the blobs and the coronal environment.
In the next section, we examine the reactions consequential to this interaction.

\section{EUV Flux Rope Expansion and CME}

Following the disappearance of the cool H$\alpha$ prominence at around 18:18~UT,
further activity commences in the higher corona, in the form of expansion of the
outer coronal loops seen in the SDO/AIA 94~{\AA} band.
This activity appears to lead to a CME.
Figure~\ref{fig6} shows the temporal evolution of the expanding loops.
From 18:10~UT onward, the expansion of a coronal loop is seen (Loop1).
After 18:19~UT, another loop (Loop2) begins to expand from just south of Loop1.
Loop1 remains in place or expand very slowly, and disappears at 18:35~UT.
On the other hand, Loop2 rapidly expands until it eventually leaves the field of view.

\begin{figure}
 \begin{center}
  \includegraphics[width=14cm]{fig6.eps}
 \end{center}
\caption{Temporal evolution of expanding loops seen in the
{\it SDO}/AIA 94~{\AA} images.
Note that the field of view of panels (g) to (i) is wider that from (a) to (f).
The gray solid line in panel (i) indicates the slit position used in Figure~\ref{fig7}.}
\label{fig6}
\end{figure}

To study the temporal evolution of the vertical motion of these activities
in more detail, we constructed the time slice diagrams (time-sequenced images along
slit lines) shown in the bottom panels of Figure~\ref{fig7}.
Panels (c) and (d) show time slice diagrams for the coronal loops of
AIA 94~{\AA} (negative images) and the H$\alpha$ prominence, respectively.
The zero of the vertical axis on each panel corresponds to the lower edge of the slit line
(i.e., the edge closer to the solar limb).
The positions of the slits are also shown in Figure~\ref{fig6}(i) and in the bottom left panel
of Figure~\ref{fig3}.
As described in Section~3, the H$\alpha$ prominence erupts and decelerates
after 18:14~UT prior to fading out at around 18:18~UT.
The vertical motion of the EUV 94~{\AA} loop (Loop1) is seen to be associated with the
H$\alpha$ prominence eruption.
Loop1 also shows rapid acceleration and sudden deceleration corresponding to motions
in the H$\alpha$ prominence eruption.
The Loop1 and H$\alpha$\ prominence ascending velocities of about 130 and 100~km~s$^{-1}$,
respectively.
After 18:19~UT, another vertical motion associated with Loop2 is seen
in the time slice diagram of the EUV 94~{\AA} images.
The ascending velocity in this case is about 120~km~$^{-1}$.

Figures~\ref{fig7}(a) and (b) show the light curves at SXRs (1.0 -- 8.0 and
0.5 -- 4.0~{\AA}) taken by {\it GOES},
HXRs (25 -- 50 and 50 -- 100~keV) taken by {\it RHESSI}, and
microwaves (4.99, 8.8, and 15.4~GHz) taken by RSTN.
In the HXR and microwave light curves two bursts, with peaks
at 18:12 -- 18:14 and at 18:19 -- 18:20~UT, are seen.
The short-lived nature of these features and the simultaneity of the emissions
suggest that both the microwave and HXR emissions are of nonthermal origin.
The timings of these nonthermal bursts are associated with the rapid eruptions
of H$\alpha$ prominence and EUV coronal loops.
The temporal association between the vertical motion (i.e., outward rapid acceleration)
and the nonthermal emissions indicates that plasmoids are being ejected with the release of
high amounts of magnetic energy as has previously been reported
(e.g., \cite{Kahler1988,Ohyama1998,Asai2004,Asai2006,Nishizuka2010,Takasao2016}).
These results support the so-called `plasmoid-induced-reconnection' model
\citep{Shibata1999,Shibata2001}.

\begin{figure}
 \begin{center}
  \includegraphics[width=11cm]{fig7.eps}
 \end{center}
\caption{
(a) Soft X-ray light curves in the {\it GOES} 1.0 -- 8.0 (red) and 0.5 -- 4.0~{\AA}
(blue) channels.
(b) Hard X-ray light curves measured with {\it RHESSI} at
25 -- 50 (green) and 50 -- 100~keV (purple) and microwave flux taken with
RSTN in the 4.99 (orange), 8.8 (blue), and 15.4 (red) channels.
(c) Time-sequenced EUV (94~{\AA}) image (time slice diagram) obtained with
{\it SDO}/AIA along the slit line shown in Figure~6(i).
(d) Time slice diagram of H$\alpha$ combined image obtained with FMT-Peru
along the slit line shown in the bottom left panel of Figure~3.
The zeros of the vertical axis for both time-slice diagrams correspond to the lower
edges of the slit lines.}
\label{fig7}
\end{figure}

Figure~\ref{fig8} shows spatial distributions of emission sources in HXR for
the nonthermal bursts around at 18:13~UR (Fig.~\ref{fig8}a)  and 18:19~UT (Fig.~\ref{fig8}b).
The backgrounds are AIA 94~{\AA} images are taken at 18:13:02 and 18:19:02~UT, respectively.
We overlaid HXR contour images observed with {\it RHESSI} in 12 -- 25 ~keV (red)
and 40 -- 80~keV (yellow).
The levels of the contours are 40\%, 60\%, 80\%, and 95\% of the peak intensity.
We synthesized the HXR images by using grids 3 -– 8 and integrating
over 40 seconds for the first peak and 80 seconds for the second peak.
We recognize a HXR emission source in the low energy band (12 -- 25~keV)
appear above the flare loops seen in the 94~{\AA} images in the both times.
These emission sources extend in the vertical direction, i.e. along the current sheet.
The HXR emission in the high energy band (40 -- 80~keV), on the other hand, mainly comes from
the footpoint of the flare loops.
These are consistent with the previous study \citep{Su}.
We can also see a ``loop-top'' HXR emission source \citep{Masuda} or an extension of the contour line
in the high energy HXR band.
These loop-top HXR emission sources are located just above the top of the bright flare loops
seen in the 94~{\AA}, and are probably associated with the interaction between the
reconnection outflow jet and/or plasmoid ejected from the reconnection region and the flare loops
\citep{Takasao2016}.

\begin{figure}
 \begin{center}
  \includegraphics[width=12cm]{fig8.eps}
 \end{center}
\caption{
Spatial distribution of the emission sources.
The backgrounds are AIA 94~{\AA} images taken at 18:13:02 (a) and 18:19:02~UT (b).
The contours show the {\it RHESSI} 12 -- 25~keV intensity (red), and the 40 -– 60~keV
intensity (yellow), respectively.
The contour levels are 40, 60, 80, and 95\% of the peak intensity.}
\label{fig8}
\end{figure}

The {\it SOHO}/LASCO C2 coronagraph detected the appearance of a faint and slow CME
at 19:06~UT with a linear velocity of 280~km~s$^{-1}$
(see the {\it SOHO}/LASCO CME online catalog, http://cdaw.gsfc.nasa.gov/CME\_list/)
\citep{Yashiro2004}.
From the timing and direction of expansion, this CME appears to be associated with
the flare occurring at 18:30~UT at AR NOAA~11165.
Figures~\ref{fig9}(a--f) show LASCO C2 running difference images of the evolution
of the CME, which is referred to hereafter as CME1.
After 20:12~UT, another, faster CME (CME2) with a velocity of 700~km~s$^{-1}$
appears and follows nearly the same traveling path as that of CME1.
From Figures~\ref{fig9}(d--f), which show CME2, it is seen that it catches up to and
interacts with CME1 in an act of `cannibalism' \citep{Gopal2001}).
Figure~\ref{fig9}(g) shows a time-distance diagram of both CMEs and
the EUV coronal loop (Loop2).
CME2 appears to be associated with the flare starting at 19:45~UT on
the same AR.

\begin{figure}
 \begin{center}
  \includegraphics[width=14cm]{fig9.eps}
 \end{center}
\caption{
(a -- f) Time sequences of {\it SOHO}/LASCO C2 running difference images.
Each image is overlaid with a corresponding EUV 193~{\AA} running difference image obtained
from {\it SDO}/AIA.
(g) Time-distance diagram of CMEs and EUV coronal loops.
The distance is measured from the solar limb.
The CME front distances for CME1 (CME2) at a given time are represented by black (gray)
plus $+$ signs, while the circles $\bigcirc$ mark the position of the EUV coronal loop (Loop2).
R$_s$ is the solar radius, ($\approx$ 695,800~km.
For comparison, we also plot the SXR flux in the {\it GOES} 1.0 -- 8.0~{\AA} channel.}
\label{fig9}
\end{figure}

\section{Summary and Discussion}

In this study, our goal was to investigate the initial phases of CME-related filament eruptions and
to detect signatures preceding the launch of a CME.
We performed multi-wavelength analyses of the temporal behaviors of the prominence eruption,
coronal loop expansion, and CME associated with the M4.4 flare that occurred on
2011 March 8 in AR NOAA 11165.
The 3D velocity field of the erupted prominence was derived using the H$\alpha$ data taken
by FMT-Peru.
The H$\alpha$ prominence accelerated when high amounts of magnetic energy were released,
and nonthermal bursts were seen in the microwave (RSTN) and HXR ({\it RHESSI}) from 18:12
to 18:14~UT, after which the prominence rapidly decelerated in the vertical direction and
changed its Doppler velocity direction.
Finally, the prominence faded out.
This temporal evolution indicates that the cool material seen in the H$\alpha$ line interacted
with the overlying magnetic environment and failed to eject into space.
In AIA 304~{\AA} images we can see material falling from there.
Therefore, the disappearance of the H$\alpha$ prominence is caused due to decrease of plasma density.
The change of direction of the erupted prominence was also captured as a deflection of
bright blobs in {\it STEREO-A}/EUVI 171~{\AA} images, which represents another feature
of a confined energy release.

Another energy release associated with the nonthermal emissions occurred just
after the confined event (from 18:19 to 18:20~UT).
This energy release caused an expansion of coronal loops seen in the {\it SDO}/AIA 94~{\AA}
images (Loop2) and led to a faint CME (CME1).
Hours later, another gradual flare and CME (CME2) occurred.
Using {\it SDO}/AIA images, \citet{Su} investigated in detail the temporal evolution of
the EUV coronal loops associated with the flare in question (i.e., the flare at around 18:10~UT)
and the ones associated with another energy release at around 19:45~UT, and interpret
the two flares as two stages of a single associated event.

By contrast, we found that the first flare comprised further two-stage energy releases and furthermore,
that the initial energy release represented by the H$\alpha$ prominence eruption appears to be
confined.
Despite this confinement, the energy release triggered another magnetic reconnection followed by
the coronal loop expansion and the CME.
As \citet{Kliem2020} and \citet{Gou2019} reported, even a confined flare can cause the eruption of an unstable flux rope.
In our case, we could not confirm the formation of a flux rope as we were observing a limb flare.
Nevertheless, it is possible that dynamic disturbances of the plasmoids and magnetic field triggered
further energy release during the course of the event, resulting in multi-stage behavior.
On the other hand, as some authors have reported, erupting filaments are often split into sections
\citep{Morimoto2003b,Tripathi2006,Guo2010,Cheng2018}.
The blob we observed in H$\alpha$ may be a part of such split filaments and may not be involved
at all with the flux rope involved in the CME.

\begin{ack}
The authors acknowledge anonymous referees for their comments and suggestions.
The authors are very grateful with all the staff members of the Kwasan and Hida Observatories,
Kyoto University of Japan, for all the supports and discussions during the FMT-workshops
and working-group meetings conducted in Japan and in Peru.
They thank Dr. A. Hillier for his contribution to the FMT-workshops.
They also are grateful to {\it SDO}/AIA and {\it STEREO}/EUVI teams for providing
high quality data used in this study.
This work was also supported by the international program ``Climate And Weather of
the Sun-Earth System - II (CAWSES-II) : Towards Solar Maximum'' sponsored by SCOSTEP.
This work was also supported by the ``UCHUGAKU'' project of the Unit of Synergetic Studies
for Space, Kyoto University.
This work was also supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers 25287039, 26400235,
15K17772, and 16H03955.
A.A. was supported by a Shiseido Female Researcher Science Grant.
The authors would like to thank Enago for the English language review.
\end{ack}

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Powell River Mill and townsite area of Powell River. The river runs from Powell Lake (background) to the mill.
Powell River is a city on the northern Sunshine Coast of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Most of its population lives near the eastern shores of Salish Sea, which is part of the larger Georgia Strait between Vancouver Island and the Mainland. With two intervening long, steep sided fjords inhibiting the construction of a contiguous road connection with Vancouver to the south, geographical surroundings explain Powell River's remoteness as a community, despite a relative proximity to Vancouver and other populous areas of the BC Coast. The city is the location of the head office of the Powell River Regional District.
Prior to the establishment of European settlement in the area, the area was inhabited by Coast Salish peoples, and was used as a landing spot for gold prospectors coming from Vancouver Island who were treading their way to the Fraser River to find quick fortune prior to the creation of the Cariboo Road.
The Powell River was named for Israel Wood Powell, who was at that time superintendent of Indian Affairs for BC. He was travelling up the coast of BC in the 1880s and the river and lake were named after him.
The pulp mill was started in 1908, with a corresponding townsite company town commenced in 1910: the first roll of paper was produced at Powell River Mill in 1912. Similarly, large logging companies had earlier moved in to take advantage of the huge timber. Brooks, Scanlon & Obrien; Bloedel, Stewart and Welch; and Theodosia Logging were but a few logging companies, with the Brooks brothers and M.J. Scanlon forming the Powell River Company, western Canada's first pulp and paper mill. The Historic Townsite was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1995, recognizing the exceptionally well preserved early 20th Century planned community, rooted firmly in the Garden City Design Movement and the Arts and Crafts philosophy.
When the British Columbia Credit Unions Act was passed in 1939, a study club organized by local millworkers secured the first charter with a deposit of $48.30. The mill provided a small office space at very low rent in the early years. By 1955, when the Powell River Credit Union (now 'First Credit Union') moved into a permanent office, it had over 3,000 members and $1 million in assets.
The mill in Powell River was at one time the largest pulp and paper mill in the world. In its prime, one in every 25 newspapers in the world was printed on paper from the Powell River mill. However, since then it has significantly cut back on production and now produces newsprint and specialty papers for Catalyst Paper. The mill is down-sizing, and only three paper machines (#9, #10 and #11) remain in production, thus laying off hundreds of employees. The subsequent diversification of the local economy led to an increased focus on ecotourism and the arts, in addition to more traditional resources like mining, fishing, and general forestry. In recognition of its strong arts and cultural programs, Powell River was named a "Cultural Capital of Canada" in 2004.
The Powell River area is the traditional home to the Tla A'min Nation of the Mainland Comox branch of the Coast Salish peoples, who still reside there to this day, although having been forced to relocate from their original village site at the mouth of Powell River to make way for the construction of a power dam and paper mill. Their village is commonly referred to as Sliammon (the usual English adaptation of Tla'Amin).
Powell River is host to the Powell River Kings, a member team of the British Columbia Hockey League, and Powell River Villa, who play in the Vancouver Island Soccer League. Powell River also has many youth sports teams and associations. PRYHA is the youth hockey associations with house & rep teams. Powell River's gymnastics association has produced many reputable gymnasts.
Powell River's youth baseball league is called the P.R.M.B.A. It consists of six different age groups known as T-Ball, Tadpole, Mosquito, Pee Wee, Bantam, and Midget/Junior.
The Patricia Theatre is Canada's oldest continuously operating theatre. The theatre was built in 1913 and then rebuilt in 1928. The theatre was built in a Spanish renaissance-style which gave it good acoustics. Powell River Historical Museum depicts the interactions between the pioneers and First Nations as well as showing the tools and items that would have been used by those groups.
Powell River hosts a number of festivals that highlight local interest and culture, including the Blackberry Festival, Pacific Region International Summer Music Academy (PRISMA) Festival, Townsite Jazz Festival, International Choral Kathaumixw, and the Sunshine Music Festival.
Powell River is home to the Sunshine Coast Trail, Canada's longest hut-to-hut hiking trail. The free-access 180 kilometre back-country trail meanders through a wide variety of landscapes, including coastal shorelines, old-growth forest, panoramic mountaintops, pristine creeks and lakes and salmon streams.
While not on an island, it is a community isolated by ocean and mountains. Powell River is accessible to vehicles only by ferry—from most of the rest of the continent, a sequence of ferries. The surrounding inlets (fjords) banked by mountainous terrain have made roads to other areas of the BC mainland thus far unfeasible. BC Ferries serves Powell River (Westview Ferry Terminal) from Comox on Vancouver Island to the west, and from the Sunshine Coast to the south east, via a route from Earl's Cove near Skookumchuck Narrows. Since the Sunshine Coast is similarly isolated from the rest of the BC mainland, vehicles from Vancouver must take two ferries to reach Powell River (across Howe Sound and the Jervis Inlet, if travelling via Sechelt; and across Georgia Strait twice if going via Nanaimo). Powell River is also accessible by air—via private plane, or by Pacific Coastal Airlines, which offers 20- to 25-minute flights between Powell River Airport and the South Terminal of Vancouver's International Airport.
The City of Powell River includes the original Townsite, which became designated a National Historic District in 1995, one of only 7 in Canada. There is also the more populous Westview, and the Cranberry and Wildwood areas. On October 15, 2005, coinciding with its 50th anniversary of incorporation, Powell River was officially designated a city.
Townsite and Cranberry are connected by three roads by the names of Lombardy Ave, Timberlane Ave, and Hemlock Street.
The city has an exceptional Mediterranean climate of the warm-summer type (Köppen: Csb), resulting in the most northerly location in the homonym hemisphere, being that in Europe it is 5° further south. Although the hot season is dry, the vegetation reflects its location west of the mid-latitudes and who can describe the climate differently being situated within a temperate rainforest, Coastal Western Hemlock biogeoclimatic zone the mild winters and high humidity (although it has a defined dry season) it owns a wide zone of growth with firs, cedars and conifers. On average, the CWH is the rainiest biogeoclimatic zone in British Columbia. The zone typically has a cool mesothermal climate: cool summers (although hot dry spells can be frequent) and mild winters. Mean annual temperature is about 8 °C (46.4 °F) and ranges from 5.2 to 10.5 °C (41.4 to 50.9 °F) among the CWH subzones. The mean monthly temperature is above 10 °C (50 °F) for 4–6 months of the year. The mean temperature of the coldest month is 0.2 °C (32.4 °F) and ranges from −6.6 to 4.7 °C (20.1 to 40.5 °F) among the subzones. Mean annual precipitation for the zone as a whole is 2,228 mm (87.7 in), and ranges from 1,000 to 4,400 mm (39.4 to 173.2 in) (and probably more in some areas). Less than 15% of total precipitation occurs as snowfall in the south, but as much as 40-50% in the northern parts of the zone.
A regional campus of Vancouver Island University is located in Powell River.
The Powell River School Board (School District 47 Powell River) operates eight schools which includes Brooks Secondary School (high school), James Thomson, Henderson, Edgehill, Grief Point (now the location of Powell River Christian School), Kelly Creek, and Texada (elementaries) as well as Westview Learning Centre. In 2013, A brand new $15.6 million Elementary school named Westview Elementary was opened. It is the replacement of the old Grief Point School.
The Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique operates two Francophone schools: école Côte-du-soleil (primary and junior high school) and école secondaire Brooks.
Private Other elementary schools in the region include Assumption Catholic School (K-9) and Powell River Christian School (Pre-School, K-9).
East of Saltery Bay, a powerline crosses Jervis Inlet on a span of 3.1 kilometres (1.9 mi).
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^ Powell River Townsite Historic District. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 28 January 2012.
^ "Powell River Minor Baseball Association". Powell River Minor Baseball Association.
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^ Mundy, Jane (2016-05-25). "From the trails to the food, everything's fresher on B.C.'s Sunshine Coast". National Post. Postmedia News. Retrieved 2016-08-09.
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Welcome to Reading Museum's Access Page. We hope you'll find everything here to support your visit.
Covid Access Update
All of our galleries are accessible, however there is a new one-way route in place.
This can be viewed here in advance of your visit.
We have limited toilet facilities available, the accessible toilet in use can be found on the ground floor lift lobby.
For all of the latest information and changes please see our Welcome Back pages.
Our family-friendly galleries are accessible to all.
Access for all visitors is via the main entrance of the Town Hall on Blagrave Street (through automatic opening glass doors). Please be aware there is a gentle slope down to the reception and the museum shop. The Museum entrance is then accessed via a short flight of stairs or by a ramp (with handrails). A lift on the ground floor takes you up to first and second floors.
The galleries are accessible for wheelchair users and those with mobility issues.
You will find the lift located on your right as you enter the ground floor of the Museum. The lift takes visitors up to the first and second floors. There is also the main staircase which has handrails on both sides.
You will find seating throughout the Museum. We also have portable wooden stools available; please ask Museum staff if you wish to use these.
You can download a Sensory Map of the Museum, to help our visitors on the autism spectrum at the bottom of this page.
Travel to Reading Museum, The Abbey Quarter & The Riverside Museum at Blake's Lock
The Museum is located in the town centre within the Town Hall, a short walk from Reading station.
There are several bus stop routes located near the Museum, including Blagrave street and Market Place.
There are parking bays for blue badge holders in the town centre, including two on Blagrave Street directly outside the building and four on the Forbury Road (please be aware that these are often in use). Find out more here about blue badge parking in Reading
There are a limited number of pay and display parking spaces on Valpy Street.
Find out more about how to get here
Around the Abbey Quarter
The Abbey Ruins are accessible for wheelchair users and those with mobility issue via a footpath. Please note there is step free access but no hand rail.
The Abbey Gateway is only available for organised visits. The Gateway has no step access and there are uneven steps and floors because this is a heritage site. Buggies and pushchairs can be stored on the ground floor if you are taking part in an activity.
Around the Riverside Museum at Blake's Lock
The Riverside Museum display and the Turbine House are accessible for wheelchair users and those with mobility issues. There is step free access to the Riverside Museum and a small ramp with handrail to access the Turbine House. Please note you may need to ask for assistance opening the Turbine House door prior to entering. One of the Bel & Dragon staff or a resident artist should be available to help.
Please be aware that the approach to the Riverside Museum from the car park has an uneven cobbled surface. The flooring in the Turbine House also has uneven wooden flooring.
All groups (10 or more people), or visitors with special requirements should contact us in advance using the form below. This will allow us to discuss any difficulties you might encounter, and to offer you the best service possible.
If you need help please talk to the member of staff at the reception desk, located opposite the entrance. There are also staff in the Museum galleries who are very happy to help in any way. We welcome feedback which will help us to improve our services.
If you would like to contact us in advance of your visit please call us on the tel information line at the bottom of this page.
You will find a fully accessible toilet directly behind the reception at the Museum & Town Hall. Please ask the member of staff on duty at Reception for the code to access. A staff member can enter this code for you if required. There are also a number of larger toilets located throughout the building including on the second floor of the Museum (no code required). Baby changing facilities are also available.
You will find an accessible toilet in the Forbury Gardens, in the Abbey Quarter.
You will find the nearest Changing Places toilets here.
Around the Reading Museum and the Town Hall
If you are attending a function, concert or viewing the Museum objects on display in the Town Hall you can access the first and second floors via the Town Hall lift. The majority of our function rooms are accessible for wheelchair users.
There is a staircase in the Town Hall which leads you from reception up to the first floor (with handrails). Please note that the Concert Hall balcony can only be accessed via a short flight of stairs (however there is alternative seating in the main Concert Hall).
An induction loop is provided in the Concert Hall. There is also an induction loop available in our Victoria Hall (please contact us in advance as a technician will be required). A portable induction loop is available for meetings and talks in other areas of the building (again, please contact us in advance using the form below).
Additional access information
Guide Dogs, Hearing Dogs and Assistance Dogs are welcome in the Museum & Town Hall and at the Riverside Museum. All dogs are welcome in the Abbey Ruins.
Our Museum is relaxed and informal. Staff are very happy to help those with additional needs to discover more about our displays.
The galleries are general quieter after 2.30pm on weekdays. You can download a Sensory Map of the Museum at the bottom of this page.
We have a lot of school groups using our galleries in term-time weekdays between 10am and 2.15pm, so if you wish to see a particularly gallery it may be advisable to visit outside these times or contact us in advance.
Magnifying glasses and torches are available for loan, please ask a member of staff.
Large print information sheets are available in our temporary exhibitions. We can also run off further gallery information in large print where possible, please just ask.
Thermoform bats of the Bayeux Tapestry are available, please ask a member of staff. Key scenes of the Tapestry have been recreated as a raised image on each bat. The inner handrail around each section of the Tapestry has a raised circle to let visitors know when they reached one of the key scenes. Staff can help you carry these up to the first floor for use with the Tapestry.
Audio Guides of the Bayeux Tapestry can be used alone or alongside the thermoform bats. Key scenes of the Tapestry are explained. Please ask a member of staff
There are objects to handle or touch in some of our galleries. Please ask a member of staff if you would like to explore one of our Loans boxes. These contain items of the collection that go out to schools to be handled in the classroom. In our Green Space gallery you will also find a series of small carved wooden 'pictures' - designed to be touched. You will also find a tactile geographical map on display in this gallery.
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Spread of Breast Cancer Linked to Compound in Asparagus and Other Foods
Breast cancer patients could be encouraged to cut asparagus and other foods from their diets in the future to reduce the risk of the disease spreading, scientists say.
Researchers are investigating whether a change in diet could help patients with breast tumours after studies in mice showed that asparagine, a compound first identified in asparagus but present in many other foods, drives the spread of the disease to other organs.
When scientists reduced asparagine in animals with breast cancer, they found that the number of secondary tumours in other tissues fell dramatically.
The spread of malignant cells, often to the bones, lungs and brain, is the main cause of death among patients who are diagnosed with breast cancer.
"This is a very promising lead and one of the very few instances where there is a scientific rationale for a dietary modification influencing cancer," said lead scientist Prof Greg Hannon, director of the Cancer Research UK Cancer Institute in Cambridge.
Asparagine is an amino acid that is made naturally in the body as a building block for proteins. But it is also found in the diet, and in high levels in certain meats, vegetables and dairy products.
The international team of cancer specialists from Britain, the US, and Canada studied mice with an aggressive form of breast cancer. The mice develop secondary tumours in a matter of weeks and tend to die from the disease within months.
Writing in the journal Nature, the researchers describe how they reduced the ability of breast cancer to spread in the animals by blocking asparagine with a drug called L-asparaginase. To a lesser extent, by putting the animals on a low-asparagine diet worked too. Inspired by the results, the scientists examined records from human cancers and found that breast tumours that churned out the most asparagine were most likely to spread, leading patients to die sooner. The same was seen in cancers of the head, neck and kidney.
Asparagine appears to help cancer cells change into a form that easily spreads from the breast, through the bloodstream, to other organs where they grow into secondary tumours, Hannon said. While suppressing levels of asparagine reduced the spread of breast cancer around the body, it did nothing to prevent breast tumours forming in the first place.
If the findings hold in humans, breast cancer patients may be put on low asparagine diets while they have conventional treatments, such as chemotherapy, for the disease. But because asparagine is so ubiquitous in food, drugs that target the amino acid may be more effective. L-asparagine breaks the amino acid down in the bloodstream, but more targeted drugs could block its production altogether.
"This is one case where we can show at a deep biochemical level how a change in diet can impact properties of cells that are relevant to the progression of lethal disease," said Hannon. "But of course, until human studies are done, this isn't a DIY method to prevent cancer."
Prof Keqiang Ye, a cancer researcher at Emory University in Atlanta, said that lowering asparagine levels, either with drugs or dietary restriction, would help prevent cancer cells from spreading. But for patients, he said that drug treatments held more promise than changes to their diets.
"Asparagine is frequently found in various animal sources including beef, poultry, eggs, fish and seafood. It is also found in many vegetables including asparagus, potatoes, nuts, legumes and soy. Since these foods are so common, it seems that diet restriction may not be the ideal approach," Ye said.
Baroness Baroness Delyth Morgan, chief executive of Breast Cancer Now, said: "This early discovery could offer a long-awaited new way to help stop breast cancer spreading – but we first need to understand the true role of this nutrient in patients. With nearly 11,500 women still dying from breast cancer each year in the UK, we urgently need to stop the disease spreading around the body, where it becomes incurable.
"On current evidence, we don't recommend patients totally exclude any specific food group from their diet without speaking to their doctors. We'd also encourage all patients to follow a healthy and varied diet – rich in fruit, vegetables and pulses, and limited in processed meat and high fat or sugar foods – to help give them the best chance of survival."
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"Playing footsies with white supremacists": The story of a councillor's Facebook post
Jordan Heath-Rawlings
When a Barrie, Ontario city councillor wrote a long post criticizing two local MPs for "playing footsies with white supremacists" he might have been expecting some pushback. But nobody thought it would end in two defamation suits, an official reprimand and a long and passionate council meeting.
Keenan Aylwin's story is one that's probably going to happen elsewhere as election rhetoric heats up. With white supremacists becoming increasingly unafraid to voice their opinions in public, what duty do politicians have to disavow their support? And if they don't, what can those politicians' opponents do about it?
GUEST: Fatima Syed, National Observer
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Jordan: Keenan Aylwin is a city councillor in the town of Barrie, Ontario, and 99% of this country has no reason to know his name. But last month he made history, maybe not in the way he would have chosen, but the end result worked.
News Clip: Shame! Why are we surprised?
Jordan: He managed to raise a question that politicians across Canada are grappling with at the moment, and he did it in a very public way. When you see your colleagues failing to denounce, or even tacitly signalling that they welcome the support of groups associated with white nationalism, what do you do as a politician? You have to speak up but how? And what happens when you do? And as these hate groups proliferate, and the protests get angrier, and like it or not, these people bring their hateful views to the ballot box. What responsibilities do the people they are voting for have to disavow them? How should Canada's politicians refuse the votes of white supremacists?
Jordan: I'm Jordan Heath Rawlings, and this is a big story out of a small Ontario city. It is probably coming to a political body near you before October. Fatima Syed is an investigative reporter with the National Observer, one of our favourite guests. Hey, Fatima.
Fatima: Hi, Jordan.
Jordan: I'm gonna start from the very beginning with the main character. Who is Keenan Aylwin? And what did he do to start this story you're gonna tell us today?
Fatima: So Keenan is a first time councillor in the city of Barrie, in the province of Ontario. Barrie is a small town in central Ontario and it has a population of, I want to say, over 100,000 people. Small knit community, Keenan is one of the youngest councillors serving, he's 26 years old. He made a Facebook post on March 21 which was a couple of days after the shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, on those two mosques. It was also the International Day for the elimination of racial discrimination, which I didn't know was a thing, but it is. He made a Facebook post that called out two conservative members of Parliament from Barrie for their silence on the Conservative Party's apparent links to white supremacists. The post is actually very long, but I will read the relevant part. So Keenan starts by acknowledging that it's the International Day for the elimination of racial discrimination, he talks about how he hasn't yet commented publicly about the Christ church attacks, he says that he's been reflecting and listening, he says he's heartbroken, angry, but he's not surprised. And then he says, I'm not surprised because there are people in positions of power that are using racist and white supremacists rhetoric for political gain across the world and right here in Canada. We have to make the connection between the rhetoric and the violence that is perpetrated against Muslims and other vulnerable communities here in Canada and abroad. We have two Conservative MPs in Barrie that have been silent on their leaders appearance on the same stage as a neo-Nazi sympathizer, Faith Goldy at a United we roll rally. This is unacceptable and it is dangerous, they are playing footsies with white supremacists who have inspired violence through yellow vest Canada, social media channels and elsewhere. That's a pretty powerful post.
Jordan: So what happened immediately after he did that?
Fatima: Two days later, Keenen received two lawsuits from the two conservative MPs that he called out in the Facebook post, worth $100,000 seeking damages for defamation and then the community exploded. Very suddenly, couldn't talk about anything else, it was what was in the post, it was the lawsuits that he delivered, and then within the same day of the loss, it's being delivered one of the MPs also asked the integrity commissioner at Barrie City Council to investigate the post and to determine whether it satisfied the City Council's code of conduct. And this happened within 48 hours of the post going up on Facebook.
Jordan: So this story seems kind of nuts to me because politicians speak out on stuff like this all the time, it's kind of what they do. So why did this post in particular get this kind of blowback, I guess, from the politicians that mentioned but just take over the discussion in the town?
Fatima: There's a couple of reasons. Number one I think the word choices were very poignant. The fact that he called them out for playing footsies with white supremacist seemed egregious. It suggested that they have links to white supremacists which they deny. Number two Barrie is a very small knit community, everyone knows everyone. There are people who go to the same restaurants every day, they gather together often, they know their neighbors, and I think to have one of their own called out in the way that he did really just put the issue on the map, but also put the divisions on the map, like which side to people take? Do they agree with him, or did they disagree with him? Was it right for him to call it one of their own so publicly for everyone to see? Those two were the main factors that I think really helped the explosion that happened afterwards.
Jordan: It's not as if, though these things don't get said about politicians all the time. I mean, even the language of playing footsie, and the rhetoric around appearing with a white supremacist, referring to Faith Goldie, these are criticisms that many people non elected officials have made about conservative leadership. So why would these two MP's go so far as to sue him? He's not the only person saying this, I guess, is what I'm saying.
Fatima: I think the difference in this case was those put down in words, and that it was put in a public post. I think most often when you hear cases like this it's verbal, it's, you know, in a press conference or in a speech. But this was in a post on Facebook for everyone to see, and it was there, and every time, like, you know, if you Googled their names, it would come up, if you googled Barrie white supremacy, it could come up, like there were just many ways that this post could follow those two MPs, and I think that's what made it agree, just that it was in writing. But I also think that while Barrie is a small knit community and in Ontario, it has wider implications, right? We are seeing a very heated discussion happen across the country when it comes to racism and white supremacy, and at the center of that is, unfortunately, the Conservative Party, and members of the Conservative Party, and the way that they have reacted to or spoken about, or presented themselves in relation to these movements that seem to be growing online and offline, whether it is the yellow vest movement or, you know, their sister and brother groups, and I think Barrie just became a microcosm for how that entire situation is playing out. How what happens when you call out a political leader for their silence, or their inaction on these issues, whether that's right or wrong, it also, you know, you could broaden the topic to say what happens if you ignore the issue completely? And, you know, you have nothing to do with it, but people around you in your party, or in the immediate circle that you work with do, do you then have to say something? Do you just still have to deny it? And if you don't deny it, can you be called out for it? And if you are called out for it, how do you respond to that?
Jordan: So March 21st he makes this post, within 48 hours the entire town's talking about it. He's been sued and the integrity commissioner is involved. Where did it go from there?
Fatima: So a lot has happened. The integrity commissioner released a report that found that Keenan was in the wrong.
Jordan: How so?
Fatima: So in a 23 page report the integrity commissioner whose name is Suzanne Craig, determined that Keenan's post denigrated the two conservative MPs and failed to treat them with, and I'm quoting now, dignity, understanding, and respect. So the point he's trying to make that there is a code of conduct that city councillors are held to a higher standard, and when you're in that position, you shouldn't call out your colleagues on any level of the government the way that he did. So you can have a conversation with them, you can talk to them about it, but you shouldn't publicly denigrate them because that is, as she said, disrespectful. The other thing that she noted in her report was that Keenan has the right to post things on social media because we live in an age of politics where most politicians speak through social media, whether it's to the public, or with their colleagues, or to the rest of the world. She even cited a Supreme Court decision that said that elected municipal officials are quite free to discuss matters of public interest on public platforms, but they have to do so in a reasonable manner. So the question then became, was it reasonable for Keenan to call out these two conservative MPs for quote playing footsies quote with white supremacy movements? Susanne Craig, the integrity commissioner, believes it wasn't reasonable, and she urged City Council to deliver a reprimand, the first reprimand in the Barrie City Council's history, and also come up with a stringent guideline for how municipal councillors should behave online. She said, and I'm quoting now that Keenan went much further than stating his opinion "I'm in no way saying a member doesn't have the right to free speech, I'm just saying it's not unlimited." Now I spoke to the mayor of the city of Barrie afterwards, and he said that the issue isn't whether Barrie supports or denies white supremacy, and the mayor was in very strong terms, said that no one should support white supremacy, obviously. But he said this discussion is about what you say and how you say it, and he said that what Keenan said wasn't appropriate for an elected official to say to another elected official. Having said that, the weird part is that we're talking about a movement much bigger than just Barrie City Council. We're talking about white supremacy, which is a global movement, and if a city councillor can't call out a colleague for alleged action, inaction relations, or no relations, or silence to these movements, who can?
Jordan: The question of condemning white supremacy has sadly become one that we have to talk about when we talk about who we're voting for now. So why shouldn't a councillor, or a candidate, or an elected official be able to sort of state his position on it? Which is that I don't think these politicians are doing enough to condemn it.
Fatima: Having spoken to Keenan, having spoken to Barrie's mayor, having spoken to residents in Barrie, what I can say is that people are now fearful that calling out white supremacy puts them at risk. In fact, Keenan Cole said that it was a great risk to call out white supremacy in this country just based on the experience that he had, because he felt he was silenced. Residents of Barrie felt that he was silenced either through the lawsuits or through the Integrity Commissioners report, or through the reprimand, which again was the first reprimand the City Council delivered to one of its own in its entire history.
Jordan: So tell me about that reprimand? Because that happened at a council meeting.
Fatima: It did. It happened at a very emotionally charged council meeting. Now I wasn't there, but I've seen the videos, and I have heard; I've spoken to people who were there, and if you look at the videos of this meeting, which happened on June 12th, first of all it was packed, like I could see people standing at the back because there were not enough seats. The second thing that was of note is that Keenan wasn't sitting at his councilor seat. He recused himself from the discussion because it would have been a conflict of interest for him to be part of it. So you could see Keenan sitting in the crowd with this audience that was very emotional like, You know, I'm talking mouths open, gasping, yelling, you know, hand over mouth, people texting people who couldn't be there, whispering to each other.
News Clip: Shame! Shame! Shame!
Fatima: So Keenan's sitting in the audience, and then you have a panel of councillors debating whether or not to deliver a reprimand to one of their own colleagues. There was one instance where one of the councillors even turned to the audience and said that they're not behaving properly, and that wasn't received very well. So this was a very emotionally charged council meeting, and at the end of it, Keenan Alywin was the first Barrie city councillor to be reprimanded. What that means is that in the city record, it says that Keenan Alywin did something wrong. He's not hindered in any way from performing his councillor duties, but there is a record that says that Keenan Alywin was in the wrong for posting what he did on Facebook.
Jordan: Do he take it down?
Fatima: That's the other part of the reprimand, that he was asked to take that Facebook post down, which he did, but he told me he did so thinking that he had the right to put up that post and he didn't agree with the decision but he respected City Council's decision, and he wanted to serve the people of Barrie, and that's why he took it down.
Jordan: Did either of the two MPs who sued him, talk publicly about why and how they felt, and if they really were refusing to condemn white supremacy, which I'm sure they don't think they are.
Fatima: I haven't spoken to either of them extensively, I've spoken to one of the staffers for one of the MPs who said that the lawsuit was a personal decision, that it was being paid out of pocket. Both MPs have noted that they have denounced racism at several occasions, one of them has even shared his statement after the Christchurch mosque shooting attack as evidence I suppose that he is not at all linked to white supremacy or, you know that he denounces white supremacy. I haven't heard the words I denounce white supremacy from either of them. I haven't seen that anywhere they might have.
Jordan: It's just such an interesting question to where the line is.
Fatima: It's very interesting, like as residents of Ontario, or as residents of Canada do we want our leaders to go in the public record and say explicitly I denounce white supremacy for us to believe that they do denounce white supremacy?
Jordan: I think we want a world where we don't have to do that.
Fatima: I think we want a world where we don't have white supremacy at all, let's take it one step further.
Jordan: But where is the line and did you and Keenan talk about that? About if there was a way he could have been more gentle and still gotten his point across, or if there was a way that the MPs he was calling out could have made it clear that they don't support the yellow vest movement without going as far as he would want them to go? Like it's just such a such a tricky language when it shouldn't have to be.
Fatima: I think, yeah, I think there's a lot of moving parts. You know, as a councilor he has a right to social media, he can say what he wants on social media, and he can use that public forum to speak to colleagues through it. Should he have done so privately? Now that's the question that a lot of people are asking, right? Like the city of various mayors said to me that he would have preferred if Keenan and the two conservative MPs could have gotten together in the room and spoken about it, instead of the Facebook post happening. But then the question becomes, this was a counselor making a statement on the International Day of the Elimination of Racism, also commenting on an attack that gripped the world, that he hadn't said anything on because he was sorting out his thoughts. Did he have a right to connect it to Canada in that way?
Jordan: Well also do we want our politicians talking to each other about these things behind the scenes, or do we want them in front of us on the record about what they're saying to one another about their conduct?
Fatima: Yeah, and I think Keenan said to me that he had requested a public dialogue, after the fact of course, after the post he asked for public dialogue, he even suggested a mediated discussion with the integrity commissioner in the room or anyone else that the two Tory MPs would have seen fit, to have this out in the open. He said that he was of the belief that it had to be a public dialogue because of the state of affairs in Canada and around the world when it comes to racism and white supremacy. I'm going to read out a quote, he said, because it was very powerful to me, he said "I think there's a time and place for calling things out publicly and having a public dialogue, and I think this is one of those instances where we have an important public discussion on racism, but also a private conversation about working through these issues as well." So we want to have; If it's gonna happen in private we also want to happen in public, because how can you effect change if it's just happening between two elected officials in a room? I don't think the City of Barrie would have been having this discussion that is happening now about how to handle racism or how to react to white supremacy and how to curb it if this Facebook post hadn't been written.
Jordan: I'm gonna ask you another question from the other side of this argument, and that is should politicians be expected to denounce individually every person that might be connected to a nasty movement who might support them? Because this is not an easy thing to do because, as we've seen, they're sadly more of these people. But more than that, does it risk it becoming a boilerplate statement that goes out every time and means nothing?
Fatima: I can only speak personally when responding to this question based on what I've seen, and what I've read, and what I've covered, and I think that if you're an elected official who is going to face questions from your constituents about your links to a certain movement, or a certain group, or a certain person, then you should be in a position to clarify what your stance is, and what your relationship is to those things.
Jordan: Their point though would have been that they don't have links.
Fatima: My argument to that is that you are members of the Conservative Party, and the Conservative Party right now is facing hit after hit when it comes to their stands on racism and white supremacy. You know, a couple of weeks ago we had a conservative MP who read out the manifesto, or part of the manifesto that the shooter from the Christ church mosque attacks put on the internet just before the attacks happened, which has been banned in New Zealand. That same conservative MP is now threatening to sue The Hill Times for defamation, for publishing an opinion column that strongly criticized the remarks that he made to Justice Committee, where he read out that part of the manifesto. Conservative leader Andrew Sheer still hasn't really addressed the issue of him being at a rally in Ottawa where people like Faith Goldie who's a notorious white supremacist, was also present. He published as we've spoken out before, a very vague comment after the Christchurch mosque attack. I think because every party has made headlines after headlines about these issues, and I think at a certain point it's gonna reach all of its members, and affect them individually through their constituents, because people are paying attention, whether they like it or not, and people want answers. So even if these two conservative MPs from Barrie have nothing to do with white supremacy, and it's very… and, you know, they say that they don't I think they need to make their stance clear, that we have nothing to do with so and so, we have nothing to do with these headlines, we have nothing to do with these groups, and I think those are the kind of answers people want. It's a case by case thing Jordan. I think it depends on the issue and the connection, and right now, though, the Conservative Party as a whole is producing headlines after headlines about Islamophobia, and racism, and white supremacy, and so forth.
Jordan: And how are they responding to those outside of this Barrie case? Because Keenan is not the only person to make that allegation.
Fatima: He's not, no. He might be the first person to do so in writing, but he's not. The fact that there continues to be headlines about this related to them, specifically or broadly, means that they're not addressing it properly. And to be honest, there is, you know, let's call it what it is, there is a problem in this country where when you call out white supremacy, you face a lawsuit or, you know, some kind of thing related to a lawsuit, you know. There's a journalist in Alberta whose name is Bashir Mohamed, who called out conservative MP Kerry Diotte for posting pictures with Faith Goldie, and he received a lawsuit which has now been dropped. Keenan's lawsuits have also been dropped, but he did receive them. There's a group called Yellow Vest Canada Exposed, which really highlights the links to white supremacy people have, whether they're elected officials, or just the general public, or what these groups are doing in Canada and how they're spreading their message, and they tell me they're facing tons of legal action and sort of dealing with that. So you see example after example where every time there's an attempt to call out white supremacy in this country, they have to sort of roll back a little bit.
Jordan: Tell me about how this story ends in Barrie. He's reprimanded at this incredibly emotional meeting. What happens to the city and the council especially after that? What did this do to the council and the people in that room?
Fatima: So there was a huge movement among the residents of Barrie, there was a hashtag called #IStandWithKeenan that was trending for days whenever a council meeting came up. So there's huge support for Keenan, and a couple of things have happened because of that. One the public has become super engaged. Keenan said this, the city of Barrie's mayor said this to me, that the public is now really involved in municipal politics, realizing perhaps that they have a role to play when it comes to holding power to account, realizing that they have voices, that it can't just be a councillor's job to do it. The other thing that's happened is that it started a discussion. You know, I also spoke to Keenan's dad, who's lived in Barrie for some 23 years, and he said that community is very white, and while the demographics are changing, they're grappling with this issue of racism and white supremacy, but they're not talking about it enough. And he said that Keenan's case was about waking up the community to that, and those were his words. So that engagement, that sort of wake up call is definitely something that Barrie's experiencing. It'll be interesting to see how that community deals with the aftermath of this case, because while the reprimand has been delivered, the Facebook post has been taken down. The issue still continues, right? It's always going to be underlying until someone resolves that, you know, the mayor said to me that he has a tough job now where he has to prove that this wasn't about Barrie being racist, because, frankly, the mayor of Barrie has also faced attacks from white supremacists online by a newspaper called Your Ward News by Kevin J. Johnston, whose a white supremacist from Mississauga. The mayor of Barrie has personally experienced, you know, the worst parts of the white supremacy movement, and his point is that it's not about whether or not Barrie is racist, which he says it isn't. It's about how do we talk about it? And that's an answer no one has yet. I don't have it, he doesn't have it, I don't think Keenan has it, and the City of Barrie is trying to figure that out and, hopefully, Canada's paying attention.
Jordan: Thanks Fatima.
Fatima: Thank you, Jordan.
Jordan: Fatima Syed, investigative reporter for The National Observer, and that was The Big Story. If you want more of them were at thebigstorypodcast.ca, and @thebigstoryfpn on Twitter. You can find more podcasts from our wonderful network at frequencypodcastnetwork.com. And of course, you can listen to any of those podcasts on your favourite player, whether that's Apple, or Google, or Stitcher, or Spotify, or Podkicker, or Beyondpod, but only on Android. Thanks for listening. I'm Jordan Heath Rawlings, we'll talk tomorrow.


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SYDNEY AIRPORT'S FLYING START TO THE YEAR
Written on the 18 March 2016 by Nick Nichols
SYDNEY Airport (ASX:SYD) has made a flying start to 2016 with passenger numbers hitting close to seven million in the first two months of the year.
The figures are up 8 per cent from a year earlier, driven by double-digit growth in international passenger movements.
The latest figures released by the airport show that 3.29 million passed through Mascot Airport in February, which is up 10 per cent in the past year.
International tourists surged 12.7 per cent, aided by Chinese New Year, while domestic passenger numbers were up 8.5 per cent.
The biggest growth market during February was Korea, up 27.7 per cent, followed by Japan, up 25.7 per cent.
China's inbound numbers were up 19.6 per cent, while the US rose19.1 per cent.
"This strong result was driven by seat capacity growth, earlier Lunar New Year celebrations and the leap year," says Sydney Airport Managing Director and CEO Kerrie Mather.
"The international 12-month rolling performance is now 6.1 per cent and significantly above our historical long-term trend.
"We welcomed nearly 3.3 million passengers in February, continuing the very strong start to 2016.
"Pleasingly the domestic market experienced an exceptional 8.7 per cent seat capacity growth."
Mather says the new Qatar Airways service, which first touched down in Sydney on March 2, will add an extra 245,000 seats per year.
"The service will provide passengers with connectivity to more than 150 destinations via Doha in addition to providing greater air cargo capacity.
"Qatar Airways will provide passengers with more choice on one of the fastest growing airlines and youngest fleets in the world."
Author: Nick Nichols