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By Michael Collins on June 19, 2012 in Blog, ER Blog, Fukushima Meltdowns, Radiation Station, Top Story
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Fukushima Unit 4's spent fuel pool teeters on the brink of collapse threatening a never-ending nuclear fire
NEWS, ANALYSIS AND COMMENTARY
Japan courts a potential country-killing catastrophe as it literally puts the lid on any chance of saving a nuclear reactor's spent fuel pool before further disaster strikes.
In the process, the situation has gravely worsened and is far more likely to precipitate the very calamity the Japanese government and Fukushima-Daiichi owners purport to be trying to stop – an uncontrollable and never-ending nuclear fire which could take over a hundred years to burn through over 3 million pounds of hot goo.
But not just any nuclear fire, an unquenchable fission-fed fire water can't cure. It would release so much gamma radiation that Fukushima would have to be abandoned – those flimsy white suits seen in photos of Fukushima workers provide minimal protection only against alpha and beta radiation.
Abandoned, the entire site's spent fuel pools would eventually dry up and ignite with an uncontrollable nuclear conflagration that would burn for hundreds of years. Just Unit 4's spent fuel pool alone would release more than 85 times the amount of cesium-137 let loose by the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown.
The possibility of a total failure of Unit 4, which would take the pool with it, was hugely increased recently according to a June 15 press release by Fukushima-Daiichi owner Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). Photos in it show a so-called "Protection Platform Installation on Unit 4 Spent Fuel Pool" being lifted off the ground and lowered into place over the pool.
The photos also show that no new shoring to the destroyed reactor building had been built, indicating that the weakened structure now had to support 60 more tons. The heavy 36-foot by 45-foot lid also takes away the only way to extricate the spent fuel rods from the pool – from the top.
TEPCO claimed that the lid was "to prevent rubble from falling into the pool" yet photos released by the company show nothing above the pool now that could fall into it – it had already been carefully removed without any apparent chunks of Unit 4 blown apart superstructure falling into it.
Now, according to TEPCO, the spent fuel pool needed a 60-ton lid to keep out what wasn't there in the first place because it had already been taken away without wrecking the rods.
Indeed, the reason TEPCO's brave but most likely doomed workers could lower the plate down on top of the spent fuel pool in the first place was because nothing was over it.
If TEPCO felt issuing misleading information about the weighty lid was its only option, the actual reasons for covering the spent fuel pool could be that they already know that it is beyond salvage and better to have it covered than open for any satellite to peer into.
Like most of TEPCO's inept and hazardous handling of this disaster, even a 60-ton slab of steel may not cover-up the truth of the spent fuel pond for very long; the April 26, 1986 Chernobyl meltdown blew a much heavier 1,000-ton concrete lid off of that reactor.
The Japanese government has signed off on Hell's hot plate either oblivious to the potential consequences or inured to them. Motive can be gleaned, however, when looking at a pattern. Apathy or recklessness do not account for the nation-wide deliberate burning of millions of tons of irradiated rubble, which likely impacts millions of Japanese.
That inexplicable process, which has been demonstrated against in Japan by people angry at getting exposed to additional radiation, volatilizes and mobilizes Fukushima fallout trapped in all manner of material. These radioactive-infused gases travel into the atmosphere impacting Japan and beyond.
Even the incineration of millions of tons of Fukushima debris, debris that would be better left in place as the land is unusable for now anyway, does not present the apocalyptic scenario spelled out if Unit 4's spent fuel pool fails.
The American and Canadian governments' response is no response at all. The occasional reply to concerned citizens (who have shared them with EnviroReporter.com) indicates an official response usually long on dismissive rhetoric and short on facts.
All the while the Pacific Ocean is being poisoned with 1,000 tons of highly irradiated water dumping into it from the melted down reactors in a desperate bid to keep them from erupting into their own uncontrollable infernos.
DANGEROUS GROUND
On June 17, an earthquake measuring 6.4 hit off the coast of the prefecture next to Fukushima. All the while a storm with 93 mph winds bore down on the coastal nuclear complex.
Numerous earthquakes have rattled Fukushima since "3/11" including a magnitude 6.8 quake in Fukushima last August. There were reports of cracks in the ground with steam venting from the fractured earth leading to speculation that the nuclear fuel from the reactors was in the groundwater, one of the worst "melt-out" scenarios.
Fear that Unit 4's heavy spent fuel pool might collapse causing untold misery is based on the inventory of what's in that pool, which TEPCO has braced from beneath where it spotted a leak in the containment vessel.
There is a reason for this – Unit 4's spent fuel pond contains enough uranium and plutonium-based fuel rods, which are far more radioactive than fuel assemblies in use in reactor cores, to destroy most if not all of Japan if the rickety pool should collapse to the ground or leak from losing its cooling water.
Such a scenario could cause the 460 tons of irradiated fuel to explode in fire and fission, an inferno that cannot be extinguished by all the water in the world, an inferno that would lead to the mandatory evacuation of the Fukushima-Daiichi site which would then leave an even larger common spent fuel pool untended which would in turn erupt into an inferno of goo that could change civilization as we know it.
The destroyed Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear reactor Unit 4 didn't fully melt down like Units 1, 2 and 3 did during the March 11, 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Unit 4 exploded four days later leaving its nuclear reactor spent fuel pool hanging suspended 100 feet in air. Then the building started to lean under the weight of the pool, weakened by its blown out walls.
Instead of rushing to brace this structure, however, the Japanese government has slowly removed the superstructure above and around three quarters of the spent fuel pond. Other than cosmetic changes to the site, such as flimsy coverings for the melted reactors, Japanese officials have proven inept at controlling the calamity and have excelled only at misleading the Japanese people and the rest of the world about how precarious and out of control the debacle is.
The government and TEPCO have not only failed to control this worsening disaster, which both claimed was in "cold shutdown" last December, they have embarked on a series of actions that threaten to bring down the pool even faster than if nothing were done at all.
For over a year, citizens and anti-nuclear activists have repeatedly called for this incredibly unstable structure to be stabilized lest the pool crash to the ground in another earthquake, tsunami or typhoon.
Dale Ramicone, a Glendale resident who operates an online streaming Radiation Station, has advocated reinforcement of Unit 4 with a steel super structure or even hundreds of thousands of sandbags — a convenient option since the super-irradiated site sits on a beach — to brace up the wrecked structure against falling over in an inevitable earthquake.
"I think it is hanging by a thread," Ramicone says. "Adding more weight to it without strengthening the building's support structure seems to be a big gamble. Any additional earthquake shocks or even a typhoon might be the the final blow that unleashes a radioactive firestorm."
The steel lid does none of this and weakens the structure especially in a significant earthquake as it sways back and forth high in the building right over the spent fuel pond, protecting it from nothing except rain when those hot rods need all the water they can get. All the while, the unreinforced and cracked skeleton of the building now has this immense weight it wasn't designed to support even if it weren't blown to smithereens.
Japan's handling of this disaster and its willful and wanton disregard for the well-being of its citizens may destroy the country. Much of it relies on the vagaries of which fault cuts loose with the shaker that brings down the burning pool and which way the wind blows when the fountain of fissioning goo catches fire never to go out.
Tags: fission fire Fukushima meltdowns Japanese boycott Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda spent fuel pool TEPCO
myau
After reading most of the news here especially the unforgettable fire, I have come to an absolute final conclusion to save Japan and the rest of us the planet world, just as a lay person who wants life not death , is to have Japan declare Fukushima a national sacrifice zone after evacuating all population. Once the whole plant sinks under the ground or partly in the ocean which is already contaminated anyway beyond repair, then start pouring from the air tons and tons of Boron and cement etc. day and night until the crater is completely filled. Just maybe we can save our breathing air this way and people simply don't eat any more seafood. Any better solution and I urgently want to know! Thanks.
Marilyn Gjerdrum
As a species, we seem to be the only one foolish enough to invent things beyond our abilities to control them….This disaster, and the subsequent denial of the truth by all media is amazing. If this isn't fixed, a good part of the planet will be uninhabitable. Our food chain has already been destroyed by the radiation of fish, soil, crops and air.
I am a historian, and have often wondered if illness, disease, war, plague, etc. is what destroyed the ancient civilizations causing them to vanish overnight. Perhaps it is this same insane denial of the truth (whatever it might have been) that caused it.
We seem to be able to progress only so far before our progress destroys us. I think our demise started with the splitting of the atom. It was a technology that should never have been revealed. If we could have stopped somewhere before WW I in development, we might have been able to go on for centuries. From 1800-1920 We went from candlelight to electric lighting, horse and buggy to autos and aeroplanes. We developed the telephone, telegraph, railroad….so many things that will be remembered as as golden era. Now, we face disaster, and our leaders deny it as if by pretending it doesn't exist, it won't hurt us.
We may well be experiencing our own extinction.
Thanks for a great article not seen elsewhere.
@nateobie: We included your nitwiticism as another glaring example of the anonymous 'experts' that like to goo up the works by insulting folks here. We don't explain how "fission works" rather use the word twice in this long piece to refer to the unfortunate process of uncontrolled radioactive goo going critical once again achieving fission outside the (semi) controlled space of an intact and functioning reactor. Professor nateobie here ought to stick to looking at the neat photos.
@nateoble – Could you please educate all of us "uneducated" on how fission really works? If you know something we don't it would be great to know. I, for one, would love to know that we really don't have a problem here. Then I could go back to my old easy life and stop worrying.
nateobie
p.s. great pics tho.
Wow…This author is seriously uneducated on how fission actually works. Go back to school buddy. Stop freaking people out because you are ignorant. All you readers, try getting a second opinion before you believe any one man's claims. Wow…you must be one of those believers in dihydrogen monoxide.
Margery Brown
We will all be dead men walking if reactor #4 becomes the cause of a world-wide nuclear catastrophe. And, if it were not for your amazing articles, Michael, it really would be almost a totally dead silence….with emphasis on "dead".
Why are not ALL of the major newspapers putting articles like this on their front page, and in the headlines? This is surely denial on steroids!
I thank you again and again, Michael, for your knowledge, your writing and for having the strength and bravery to keep at it, no matter what. If any lives get saved here, it will be thanks to you!
Randall Hanstead
IRRESPONSIBLE, TREASON TO HUMANITY, INCOMPETENCY,TOTAL NEGLECT. THE WORLD IS IN DIRE STRAIT.EVEN YOU THAT PUT THE HEALTH OFF THE PEOPLE OF JAPAN CANNOT ESCAPE THIS DISASTER THAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. GET WITH IT PICK IT UP GOVERNMENTS OF THE WORLD BEFORE ITS TO LATE.
cant they just nuke the thang?
Exactly! Excellent article.
"We are on our own. But we are not helpless…"
– Michael Collins
"I want to live free, free of contaminated air, water and food." – Chase
Why and how, did this basic right of existence get corrupted, stolen and forever changed and possibly destroyed?
Does it matter now?
Do the masses really care?
Do most people really understand?
I cannot answer these questions directly, because none of this makes any real sense to me. Corporations and militaristic governments playing God I guess.
from a comment elsewhere:
"The reactor that is my soul has reached criticality."
– user johnnyo enenews
Dina Dixon Davis
"Judging by the pollution content of the atmosphere, I believe we have arrived at the late twentieth century."
–Spock in 'The Voyage Home'
Sub in 'radioisotope pollution' for 'pollution' and 'early twenty-first century' for 'late twentieth century', and I think he'll have it about right.
Those with huge IQ's in the industry, or remotely tied with the industry knows these things, yet nothing is done to prevent this outcome? Have we overstepped technology? The powers of magical thinking have brought us to this point. It says a lot about how our psyche's choose to perceive ultimate destruction. If we could only step out collectively of our current illusion and be adult enough to face and tend to reality. Has television corrupted our minds to this extent? Or is it the brains attempt to calm our unsteady nerves?
Michael in Japan
The 60 ton lid placed on #4 SRP is protecting it from the structure to be built that will facilitate the eventual removal of the rods for dry cask storage. This cover will ensure any construction debris that could fall, will not hurt the remaining condition of the rods.
Funny how unit 4 exploded when it was out of service for refueling – you even have a picture of its containment lid sittting in its holder. So do tell how did the reactor explode? Also how come no mention of reactor 3 the real story it did explode and it was full of plutonium mox fuel? You know the most toxic substance known to man.
Alien Control
The world leaders are sociopaths! They always end up in control inevitably causing death, misery and suffering. We sheeple just follow along like the blind fools that we all really are.
Greed and stupidity do not make answers for why we are being continually poisoned and tortured in just so many ways. Look all around you and ask why are we continually be subjected to out and out negative scenarios in every way shape and form as we go along here?
The time is now to wake up people! Wake up from the dream they are creating for you, or shall i say nightmare! This is our only chance to change what awaits or future. I will assure you that it will not be pleasant unless we wake up now!!
The people of Japan are "Dead Men Walking" thanks to TEPCO and Government politics….Lies Lies Lies… and soon they might take down the whole world.
Concrete man
Here's my article that analyzes the likelihood of another big quake, the topic of the last section of your dynamite article:
Humanity at the Height of Folly
Nuclear Power and Earthquake Zones
http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/05/humanity-at-the-height-of-folly/
Michael, Great article. I had not kept up on the lid issue. That is very freaking weird to be sure. Arnie Gunderson keeps telling them to get the fuel rods out of there as soon as possible, but since their logic is so opaque at best we cannot know what Tepco thinks and at worst your speculation may be correct: THESE PEOPLE ARE COMPLETELY BONKERS.
I live in Japan and have written a number of articles about this (see below). Most people here are in complete ingnorance/denial of the seriousness of it all. A professor I know even said an article by Mr. Muramatsu, the diplomat who has done so much to expose the Unit 4 crisis, as "tabloid journalism"! And I am afraid this is typical of the silly pride/stupidity of people in general. Thanks for your great work Michael, we love you, Concrete man
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4Yahshua
6~20~5993
We are fighting the radiation by taking Iodine drops in water, Boron, Green Tea Extract, VitC, D3, Magnesium, and other liquids, capsules. Replaced cows milk with Almond milk because Almonds help kill cancer. Please keep informed!
We are also sealed in the Names of the Father and Son (Yahweh and Yahshua), Revelation 14:1. Now we know WHY!
Yahshua returns SOON!
Pahl Dixon
Please, people, make a positive difference in this worst tragedy ever…
TheHolyCrow
Where is Superman when you really need him ????
Me thinks the nationwide burning of rad debris is to purposely raise the overall background in the country, the same old modus operandi of the Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission witnessed here stateside. After all, this Fukushima is an American-esque Chernobyl: created, engineered, and continually educated by American professors — whether we yanks like it or not. Higher background measurements equals less money spent on cleaning up radionuclide contamination as we have learned from your marvelous coverage of the Rocketdyne mess. Higher background also lulls one into a sense of complacency in mistakingly believing food tested on an Inspector device near background is safe to consume; the news is in, IT IS MOST DEFINITELY N-O-T!
'GENERAL ELECTRIC' does not have any Japanese in the name. What is going on in Japan today was gleaned from their allies, the Americans — plain and simple. Investigate the authoring of the Japanese Constitution, see for yourself just how postwar Japan came to be…
Next they will declare National Sacrifice Zones in Japan, just like guess where? The good ol' USA. Gee, thanks so much DOE!
If you are a responsible male, I implore you: get a genetic test before going about creating any new life (ie., baby making). Cesium-137 concentrates in the testes. FYI, UCLA has the capability to run this test. Write Planned Parenthood and teach them the problem please, then maybe free testing for couples will become the norm.
http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-massey/news/article.cfm?mnarticle_uuid=7B5D3A49-96BF-57FE-A849-E369E6196A27
Boycotting General Electric though? Yes, by all means. Let's start today. Ostracizing Jeffrey Immelt? The President already has, FWIW. Nailing idiots who pursue nuclear anything? As long as we start with the fat cats with deep pockets first (USA, France, Russia, China, UK, Israel, India, Pakistan, Koreas, and et al.)


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Seeking Liberation Among The Stars
Meet Izel, a homeless youth poet from Boyle Heights who builds a telescope and shares his fascination with the universe.
Wil' Prada March 8, 2017
We made this film to remind the world that the troubled single-parent Mayan kid wandering the streets whose ancestor calculated the solar eclipse this year could be the next great scientist. And we need to build a world that allows them to be.
Izel is not your typical sky gazer. He is a homeless brown teenager bound by his socioeconomic realities, yet his curiosity leads him to peace and wonder through a telescope he builds. He shares this fascination with his peers.
The realities of our marginalized youth of color are harsh. Izel is outwardly strong because he has to be. At 16 he's already faced all sorts of obstacles. In the eyes of the average colonized mind he is seen as a criminal. Short hair, large clothing, and heavy melanin. The school doesn't speak to him, it speaks of "great" white founders, and other concepts that don't relate to his struggles at all. Curriculums don't speak to him about how to deal with the drug abuse he witnesses or how to have hope in the abyss of poverty. For a person like him, the capitalistic mentality is dangerous because it could easily lead to the prison pipeline. To sell drugs or be a rapper often seem to be the only options. He lacks more privileged networks.
The universe is a safe haven for Izel's imagination, dreams, and aspirations. To become an astronaut and find new life forms. To visit star systems his ancestors used to study. He could engineer a portal to another universe. The possibilities are literally endless. The universe frees him of his mundane reality. He realizes he's part of something bigger. Being built from stars means he's more than his current conditions and temporal form.
Yet the "intelligent" life on this planet has stacked up so much against him already. It's not that "this world was not meant for him", as he writes in his poem, but that we are not building this world for him. Generations of bright minds continue to wane out insignificantly rather than reaching their potential to shine with supernovae proportions.
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Rolando (Rolly) Wilson is een Caribisch Nederlands politicus op Saba. In 2007 werd hij lijsttrekker van de Windward Islands People's Movement (WIPM). In 2019 werd hij gekozen tot eilandgedeputeerde.

Biografie
Wilson is geboren en getogen op Saba. Hij ging naar de Sacred Heart Elementary School in St. Johns en leerde vervolgens bouwkunde op Aruba. Zijn opvoeding kreeg hij voor een groot deel van zijn grootouders. Zijn grootvader Samuel Wilson was lid van de Eilandsraad en zijn grootmoeder Millicent Loraine was een activiste.

Na zijn schooltijd werkte hij eerst voor de woningbouwcorporatie FCCA op Aruba. Terug op Saba, werkte hij vanaf 1984 voor het planbureau van de regering en daarna voor de woningcorporatie op het eiland. Rond 1989 deed hij voor het eerst mee aan verkiezingen maar behaalde toen te weinig stemmen. In 2003 had hij meer succes en werd hij voor de WIPM gekozen in de Eilandsraad.

In 2007 werd hij lijsttrekker van de WIPM. Dat jaar was ook de opkomst van Chris Johnson en Bruce Zagers die meer stemmen behaalden en daardoor elk de functie van eilandgedeputeerde opeisten. Bij de verkiezingen van 2019 kreeg Wilson op Zagers na de meeste stemmen, en werd daardoor gekozen als gedeputeerde. De WIPM behaalde alle vijf zetels, waardoor de Saba Labour Party uit de Raad verdween.

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Your Friday Briefing: U.S. Vaccine Mandate Blocked
We're covering a ruling on Biden's vaccine mandate and a landmark Syrian war crimes conviction.
Anti-vaccine protesters in Albany, N.Y., this month.Credit…Cindy Schultz for The New York Times
Top court blocks Biden's employer vaccine mandate
The U.S. Supreme Court blocked the Biden administration from enforcing a vaccine-or-testing mandate for large employers, dealing a blow to a key element of the White House's plan to tame the pandemic.
The court allowed a narrower mandate requiring health care workers at facilities receiving federal money to be vaccinated.
It came as the president was ramping up virus containment efforts: Biden said on Thursday that he was directing his staff to purchase an additional 500 million coronavirus tests for distribution to Americans, doubling the government's previous purchase and bringing the total number of promised tests to one billion.
The president also announced on Thursday that the administration was sending military medical personnel to six states to help hospitals deal with Covid-19 surges.
Data: For Biden, the roaring resurgence of the virus has helped drag down approval ratings as he enters his second year in office. The daily U.S. average reported on Wednesday was over 780,000 new cases, according to a Times database.
Trends: Hospitalizations are rising. It will be weeks before the toll of the Omicron surge in the country is known, experts caution, but it may be peaking in parts of the Northeast.
Donald Trump endorsed booster shots and said politicians who hid their vaccination statuses were "gutless."
Unvaccinated women with Covid are more likely to lose fetuses and infants, Scottish data show.
Nearly 40 percent of elementary-school teachers and nearly a quarter of secondary-school teachers went on strike on Thursday in France over lax Covid rules in schools.
The police in China detained a testing lab official on suspicion of helping spread the virus.
Anwar Raslan, right, in the courtroom before the verdict in Koblenz, Germany, on Thursday.Credit…Pool photo by Thomas Frey
Syrian officer convicted in landmark trial
A court in Germany found Anwar Raslan, a former Syrian security officer, guilty on Thursday of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to life in prison. Here are the latest updates.
The highest-ranking Syrian official to be held accountable for abuses during the country's civil war, Raslan was accused of overseeing a detention center where prosecutors said at least 4,000 people were tortured and nearly 60 were killed.
An international network of lawyers, activists and war survivors have struggled for years to bring officials involved in the violence to justice. President Bashar al-Assad remains in power, and he and his senior advisers and military commanders avoid traveling to places where they might be arrested. It's unlikely that they will stand trial soon.
Raslan entered Germany on a visa in 2014 and lived there legally until German authorities arrested him in 2019.
Context: Prosecutors indicted Raslan using "universal jurisdiction," a legal principle stipulating that in the case of crimes against humanity and genocide, normal territorial restraints on prosecutions do not apply.
Russian tanks took part in the Rostov region, near the border with Ukraine, on Wednesday.Credit…Associated Press
Russia and the West at an impasse
A third round of talks on military security in Eastern Europe failed to yield a breakthrough.
Russian officials did not close the door on diplomacy but sounded an increasingly pessimistic note. In Moscow, Sergei Ryabkov, a deputy foreign minister, said that it was premature to convene more negotiations until the West abandoned what he called a "dead end" approach.
The U.S. representative to Thursday's meeting in Vienna, Michael Carpenter, also depicted the two sides as engaged in a standoff with no clear resolution. Ukraine, participating for the first time in this week's discussions, said Russia's massing of troops needed to be reversed.
The exchanges left tensions high and the implicit threat of further Russian military intervention in Ukraine on the table. It was far from clear whether Russia would be willing to proceed with diplomacy.
Related: A Russian-led military alliance began withdrawing troops from Kazakhstan on Thursday, Moscow said. President Vladimir Putin's recent actions there, in Belarus and in Ukraine show that he is straining to maintain a sphere of influence.
Khyal Mohammad Ghayoor, center, fled Kabul, Afghanistan, 20 years ago when U.S. troops swept the country. Now he has returned from Pakistan. Credit…Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times
The Taliban, having trouble filling government roles, are reaching into Pakistan to recruit ex-Taliban fighters quietly living there.
The U.S. ordered sanctions against North Korean officials in response to the country's latest missile test.
Three decades after the crime, an Australian man has been convicted of killing a gay American, Scott Johnson. An inquest found that Johnson was the victim of an anti-gay hate crime, and the authorities are reviewing dozens of similar cases.
MI5, Britain's domestic security agency, sent an alert on Thursday to lawmakers warning that an agent of the Chinese government was working to subvert political processes.
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Prince Andrew relinquished his military titles and royal charities, a stinging rebuke by the British royal family as a sexual abuse case against him proceeds.
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Kevin McCarthy, the top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives, said he would not cooperate with the House committee investigating the Capitol riot.
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Members of the Dartmouth Asian American Student Collective. Dartmouth's fight for Asian-American studies dates back several decades.Credit…Lauren O'Neil for The New York Times
After a year that put a spotlight on anti-Asian racism in the U.S., students have been pushing for Asian American studies programs. "What happens in the academy often follows what happens on the streets," said Diane Fujino, a professor of Asian American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Meet the 'Nasal Ranger'
Chuck McGinley with his Nasal Ranger, a design inspired by the shape of the Haleakala volcano in Hawaii.Credit…Caroline Yang for The New York Times
Chuck McGinley, a chemical engineer, has returned again and again to society's stinkiest sites for the past half-century. His goal: to measure, describe and demystify smell.
The Nasal Ranger is one of his inventions, a 14-inch-long smell-measuring device, which looks like a cross between a radar gun and a bugle and measures the strength of an odor. To use it, you take a big sniff and turn a dial until you can no longer smell a particular smell. One psychologist called the device "quantum leaps" better than previous technology.
McGinley often applies his expertise in the gray area of recognizing odor as a pollutant. Despite having the power to sicken, there are few laws in the U.S. to regulate odor. The system is patchy, and it has left disputes to be dealt with in the courts. Part of McGinley's work has been to empower communities near smelly places to find a vocabulary for their complaints and a way to measure what their noses are telling them.
But his work doesn't completely stink. McGinley's lab, which is run by his son, does testing for food companies and concocts recipes for immersive theater troupes and museums. One recent job: developing 22 smells for a theater production, including a "perfume and old-cedar smell" to mimic an old woman's apartment.
Credit…David Malosh for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.
This nutty grain bowl stands out because of a sauce made of "nooch," or nutritional yeast.
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Paul Simpson has written another book about ships, life and voyages in the great days of sail. (The last was Around Cape Horn Once More, previously reviewed). This time he has told the story of the clipper Neptune's Car, built at Gosport, now part of Portsmouth, Virginia not far from Norfolk and completed in 1853. She was ordered by the New York firm of Page and Allen to a design by the famous builder Donald MacKay and when the hull was complete it was towed to New York for fitting out. Her figurehead of the sea god in his "car" made of a giant scallop shell drawn by sea-horses sailed the seven seas for sixteen years, about par for a softwood clipper. She was eventually abandoned, worn out, in Hong Kong harbour in 1869.
The new clipper's first captain was the notorious "Bully" Forbes, the most ruthless of hard-case American shipmasters. He took her to San Francisco, across the Pacific to Hong Kong, then, as no tea cargo was on offer, to Calcutta for Jute and back to New York. He was replaced for her second voyage by the capable and respected Joshua Patten who took his wife Mary Ann Patten along, but it was on the third voyage that Neptune's Car became famous when Captain Patten fell seriously ill. With a mutinous and treacherous first mate locked in his cabin, the young and pregnant Mrs. Patten took command and, with the aid of an illiterate second mate, brought the ship round Cape Horn and onward to San Francisco. She became quite a celebrity at the time but the Pattens were treated rather shabbily by the owners.
Between 1853 and 1862 the clipper made six very long voyages under various captains. Forbes came back again at one point, his mates ruling with belaying pins and brass knuckles, which provoked a mutiny in Singapore. In 1862 came the Civil War. Neptune's Car was in San Francisco but made it back to New York without encountering any of the Confederate commerce raiders which were literally, destroying, by burning, the fleet of beautiful clippers that flew the Union flag. Then, like many other Union merchant ships, she was sent to England and sold. She was not a financial success for her British owners as she was deteriorating and needed frequent repairs. She made only one successful voyage; then, in the midst of the second, she was abandoned as a hulk in Hong Kong in 1869.
Mr. Simpson has done a valuable service with his spirited descriptions of gales encountered, battles against headwinds trying to round Cape Horn, and the clipper's speed in favourable winds. My generation was brought up on these tales but today our population is woefully ignorant of our maritime heritage. The research that went into the descriptions of voyages is remarkable: the names of shipping agents, cargoes and their value, repairs needed, are all specified. One might think the author had access to the original logbooks and ledgers but that information was probably gleaned from the Shipping News pages of contemporary newspapers. (There are twelve pages of bibliography). The numerous illustrations – photographs and reproductions of contemporary engravings and lithographs – are very clear, and well chosen. They do a lot to evoke the flavour of the times.
However, there are problems. Some of his descriptions become rather repetitive: the ship is often rocketing along – well, she was fast. Some slangy terms grate a bit from overuse: Cape Horn is 'Cape Stiff' the anchor is the 'mudhook', the pilot boat is 'farewelled'. After introduction the ship's masters are referred to by their first names rather than their last. (I find it difficult to think of Bully Forbes as David). And there are the typos and minor nautical errors, lots of them: about one every six pages or so. And numerical errors – a lot of zeros seem to have spontaneously arisen. San Francisco is not 24000 from the equator but 2400 and the given value of the cargoes often seem to have gathered extra zeros as well. These problems were not so apparent in Around Cape Horn Once More. What this otherwise wonderful book needed, before it went to print, was a knowledgeable editor.
© 2014 Charles D. Maginley.


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disclaimer: this is probably not the best way to go about things, but it's the way i do it. if i've made any mistakes, or something isn't clear, please do correct me or ask questions.
i divided this walkthrough into the traditional work and the digital work. this is the digital part.
May I ask what font you use? Its a good font. And your work is always so beautiful~ Truly amazing.
you mean the font in hemlock speech bubbles? it's called webletterer BB thank you so much!
when I do that bit-thing it gets all spotted.
what do you mean by "spotted"? or maybe you could take a screenshot and show me?
spotted would be the word, yes.
I can't show a screenshot, I'm afraid.
ohh, that's just on my scanner program, not on photoshop or anything.
it will be different for every scanner, probably. basically you just need to find the options on whatever you're using and change the dpi to 600. you can change it to black and white later on.
this is very helpful! thanks for posting it!
I love that middle panel. Your work is so pro!
This is a really cool walkthrough man! It seems pretty thorough and gives a nice glimpse into your process.
aww, thanks man! haha i was worried it was too brief, but i'm glad you think it's thorough.
No no, it seems quite concise.


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Post-fact post-truth world
By Kristof Decoster
Last week, at the global conference on health promotion in Shanghai, Margaret Chan used, as far as I know at least, for the first time the (increasingly familiar) term "post-fact, post-truth" world to describe the world in which 'health for all/UHC/…' as well as scientific knowledge now have to be defended. We all have our work cut out. A week before, at the Health Systems Research conference in Vancouver, sardonic jokes on the shock Trump victory were fairly common, but the issue (and its vast ramifications for global health and global solidarity in general) weren't really tackled head on in sessions or plenaries. Probably the news still had to sink in a bit.
As mentioned before on this blog, I was less surprised about Brexit than about Trump's victory, probably because I have less illusions left on the European Union myself as an agent of progressive change. Still don't really understand how so many Americans could vote for a narcissist "groper-in-chief", though, to incarnate change.
But the ultra-short cause I'd want to make here is not a political one. Yes, many people have become very cynical about the establishment & elites in recent years, sometimes for good (political and economic) reasons, and that's no doubt been a huge factor in the rise of populism all over the western world. After the victory of Trump, I'll try to refrain from doing this, as it's now clearly become counterproductive. As the legitimacy of elites is going further down the drain, the alternative world that is emerging is even less enticing, to put it mildly.
But disillusion can have many origins. Adam Curtis' documentary "Hypernormalisation" captured some of them, among others the feeling of many that increasingly we live in a "fake world", in politics, our jobs, …
I'd like to add another element. At least for older (white? / male?) voters (with whom I increasingly empathize as I get balder and only a bit wiser 🙂 ), I also feel there's always a danger of becoming a tad cynical if you've made just a few too many compromises in your life, haven't stayed "true" to what you deep down think should've been the core mission of your life. Even if such an overarching goal of one's life is largely an illusion, it's an illusion many of us cherish. That sort of 'Post-Truth' life is probably the hardest one to deal with. And it's not one politicians or even the well-intentioned global health community can address. To be sure, there are always heaps of excuses available to make certain compromises, many even good ones, certainly in the neoliberal and insecure world we've all had to adjust to over the last decades.
Compromises are increasingly being ridiculed now in politics in the West, certainly in 'post-fact post-truth' times in which opponents are being branded 'un-American' before they even know it. That's a shame. Even if you are of different views, you should be able to at least listen to your opponent and try to find common ground. The same is true for one's professional & personal life, by and large. Also there, compromises tend to be ok, more often than not. But you can't make too many. That's one "fact" you'd be wise not to ignore. It's a balancing act not all of us get right.
Wonder how many Trump voters belonged to the latter category.
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The responses we received from a girl as young as 5, to grandparents in their 60s – turned out to be as insightful, heart-warming, truthful and encouraging, as it is at times poignant and funny.
"They say you did not start that business because you did not have the guts.
They say you did not work hard to get a promotion because you were lazy.
They say you didn't buy that house because you were not savvy.
But I knew you did what you did so that: we had enough money for my education; you could spend more time at home with us; we had a proper home to grow up in.
We Asians tend to be a rather shy and reserved lot when it comes to communicating our emotions and thoughts to our elders. We tend to refrain from "telling it as it is" and bury them deep in our hearts. But we carry it within us all the time, consciously or otherwise, the immense and indelible impact that our Dads have had on our lives.
And we are deeply grateful to them.
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Public Lands Council > Blog and Press > Press Releases > Secretary Zinke Headlines Public Lands Council Legislative Fly-in
Secretary Zinke Headlines Public Lands Council Legislative Fly-in
WASHINGTON (March 28, 2017) – U.S. Department of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke addressed the livestock grazing industry today during the annual Public Lands Council's legislative fly-in, in Washington D.C. Secretary Zinke said the agency hasn't been the best neighbor, but he will be holding the agency accountable and will restore trust in the department.
"We're going to manage our properties just like you (ranchers) would manage your private lands," said Zinke. " Washington D.C. needs to understand that we work for the people, not the other way around."
The Public Lands Council represents the 22,000 ranchers that utilize grazing permits on federal lands. PLC President Dave Eliason said Zinke was a welcomed addition to the conference and that the ranchers are looking forward to his tenure with the Interior Department.
"Secretary Zinke has consistently been an advocate for western communities that depend on the ranching industry," said Eliason. "Ranchers have been marginalized and overlooked during planning processes for far too long. We believe Secretary Zinke will bring stakeholders back to table and stand up for those that have invested their time and livelihoods into the management and improvement of our federal lands. We look forward to working with him in his new role and restoring balance to the management of our Western Lands."


At the end of the protest, a Petition was handed over to the Pakistan High Commission who promised to relay it to the Government of Pakistan while conveying the retrospective response of its government to the Organisers soon.
Please click on the following links to read the news coverage of the protest.
The perpetual killings of the Shia community in Pakistan has caused anger, and sparked protest outside the Pakistani High Commission in London this week.
The number of Shia Muslims killed in Pakistan has been rising. A recent attack took place during Friday prayers at a mosque in Peshawar that saw the deaths of at least 20 people and those here today are saying enough is enough.
Those in attendance were calling for the international community to take action.
Central to the protest was the anger placed on the Pakistani Government. A petition handed to the countries High Commissioner Syed Ibne Abbas concluded the complicity of government officials could not be ruled out. Especially when the intelligence and security agencies in Pakistan are larger than the nations army itself thus making it unlikely they would completely fail to stop such attacks happening.
The protest organizers said they will continue to fight until the bloodshed of innocent people in Pakistan ends.
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Please participate in large numbers to express solidarity with the oppressed people of Pakistan.
Incessant attacks on Pakistani Shias speak volumes of government's complicity.
Hazara United Movement (HUM), United Kingdom is particularly saddened at this crucial time when the Pakistani Government is using delaying tactics in implementing the National Action Plan which could, otherwise, minimize such attacks. The recent attacks on Shia worshippers in Friday congregations display the sheer negligence and apathy of the federal and provincial governments in thwarting such heinous crimes. It seems that the Pakistani government is siding with religious extremists and terrorists who can successfully execute such actions at will.
The Pakistani religious schools and seminaries, which are mostly funded by Arab countries; have become the epicentre of spreading hatred, harbouring and producing religious fanatics and defaming Islam. The government must take stern action against those madrasas which are involved in carrying out such terrorist attacks. After thorough investigation, the Saudi-funded seminaries, glorifying and promoting terrorism, on the pretext of Jihad, should be closed down permanently while their proprietors should be prosecuted. The Pakistani seminaries, which only promote the orthodox and wayward Wahabi views; must be taken into task for creating such chaotic law and order situation in the country.
Pakistan's all-time powerful cadre, in the corridors of powers, must decide as to how long more they intend to burn the country and justify the killings of innocent people just due to the difference of opinion, creed, race, faith and religious belief. This is the fundamental responsibility of the government to ensure all citizens are protected from such menaces.
The government should implement the National Action Plan without any further delay and those responsible for harbouring, promoting and financing terrorist activities, should be prosecuted in order to rid the country of bigots and religious extremists.
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Another major and mysterious incident of bomb explosion in Lakhi Dur Imam Bargah at Shikarpur, Sindh echoes high volumes of complicity of the law enforcement agencies in Pakistan for facilitating such explosions at a religious congregation which could have been avoided provided the Government of Pakistan had made sincere efforts to thwart it.
The incident, which engulfed the lives of 62 innocent worshippers and leaving scores other injured, took place on the day when the Pakistani Prime Minister was already in Karachi to offer his condolences to the Muthahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) for its slain leader, Suhail Ahmed whose body was discovered earlier in the day from Maaripur area of Karachi city. The Pakistani Premier, instead of visiting the incident scene at Shikarpur; contended in releasing a rote condemnation statement which merely depicts non-serious attitude of the Pakistani Government in dealing with extremism including religious extremism unequivocally.
Earlier last month, the mainstream political parties of Pakistan and the federal government expressed their firm resolute in dealing with terrorism across Pakistan, however, the banned religious and extremist outfits are still executing their activities while their statements are being published in the electronic and print media with sheer impunity to the 21st constitutional amendment.
This is high time that the mainstream political parties of Pakistan and the federal government drew its explicit strategy in rooting out the menace of terrorism and religious extremism from the country without marginalization of the minority communities.


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Pac-Man Lamp
Power Up Your Lighting
Officially licensed Pac-Man Lamp
12 iconic Pac-Man game sound effects
Remote control dimmer
The most iconic video game character ever
If you really love them why not buy 2Pac-Man
You need this Pac-Man Lamp.
A few things you may or may not know about Pac-Man, which will help you agree.
Within 15 months of its U.S. release, Namco/Bandai sold more than 100,000 arcade units and fans spent more than $1 billion in quarters to spark the pop-culture phenomenon.
He's the most recognised video character in history.
The game is a metaphor for life. This is because the game is essentially unwinnable. It just gets harder and faster until you die. Just like life.
He was originally called 'Puck-Man' in Japanese but people were worried scamps would graffiti up the games machines by replacing the P with an F so they changed his name. The spoilsports.
He looks like he may have jaundice, he's pursued by supernatural forces, he craves 'power' pills and clearly has an eating disorder.
See, told you you'd agree. Go 'insert coins now please' (At the Firebox checkout. Not actually into the Pac-Man lamp, he's not a money box).
Comes with a UK mains 240V 3 pin adaptor but because the lamp is low voltage, it will work in other territories with a simple travel adaptor.
Comes with a sticker set for the eyes and mouth
12 Iconic Pac-Man sounds
Waka, Waka, Waka, Waka
Aphex Twin once recorded a rave version of Pac-Man under the alias of Powerpill. It's a great record.
Measures approximately 21cm(W) x 21cm(H) x 21cm(D)


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The Hooters Casino Hotel was formerly known as the Hotel San Remo Casino Resort.


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Detroit Lions 2018 NFL Draft
2018 NFL Draft: Top remaining Day 3 players for Detroit Lions
Hoo boy draft time, baby.
By Alex Reno@alex_reno Apr 28, 2018, 9:45am EDT
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Bob Quinn has proven that his board doesn't reflect any of our boards, and that's why we don't work for an NFL team. Now that the Detroit Lions have drafted an offensive lineman, a running back and a safety, they will have only two more picks (unless they add more) for Day 3. Let's take a look at some prospects available at the Lions' top needs moving forward.
1. Josh Sweat
2. Marquis Haynes
3. Duke Ejiofor
4. Ogbonnia Okoronkwo
Many of us thought that the Lions would address the defensive line early in the draft, but that has yet to happen. If, for some miracle, Josh Sweat were to be available in the fifth round for the Lions, this would be a fantastic pick for them despite the injury concerns there. Haynes is another pass rushing specialist that could be available for the Lions, but there aren't many other options now that the Lions have missed out on an edge rusher in the first three rounds. They'll likely have to rely on what they've already got for at least this year.
1. Maurice Hurst
2. R.J. McIntosh
3. Trenton Thompson
4. Andrew Brown
Something is obviously up with Hurst or else he wouldn't still be available on Day 3. I can't say that I'm a doctor or a GM, so I don't know exactly what's going on there, but I feel like the risk might be worth it later in the draft. Hurst's talent is hard to pass up. McIntosh has the versatility to play inside and out, though he is still extremely raw. Thompson, another 3-tech option, could probably be had in the fifth round as well.
1. Ian Thomas
2. Jaylen Samuels
3. Chris Herndon
4. Tyler Conklin
Thomas was actually expected to go a little earlier in the draft according to some draftniks, but it's not completely surprising that this athletic tight end is still available in the later rounds due to his raw ability. Samuels, a favorite of our own Mike Payton, is known as an "all-around" or "hybrid" talent. I think he can find a role Detroit with his ability to gain yards after contact and with Tate likely gone in a year, he could be that guy that the offense looks to when they need to find a player in space.
1. Daesean Hamilton
2. Deon Cain
3. Equanimeous St. Brown
4. Keke Coutee
5. Richie James
Wide receiver isn't a huge position of need, but the Lions need to start thinking about a potential future without Golden Tate. There are plenty of options here for the Lions, but the one that I like the most (and the one that is most likely to be there in the fifth round) is Richie James, who could be a perfect eventual replacement for Tate.
1. Parry Nickerson
2. Anthony Averett
3. Holton Hill
4. Davontae Harris
Cornerback wasn't the biggest need on my radar, but the poor play at the position last year convinced me that drafting a late-round corner wouldn't be a bad decision in the slightest. Holton Hill is a nice developmental player that they could possibly stash on the practice squad for a year.


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Morris, Union, Essex, Somerset County NJ > Our Towns > Roseland, New Jersey
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Roseland is a borough in western Essex County, New Jersey, United States. Roseland is located about 20 miles west of New York City. Roseland is part of the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT Metropolitan Area.
New Jersey Monthly magazine ranked Roseland as its 7th best place to live in its 2015 rankings of the "Best Places To Live" in New Jersey. The borough was ranked 14th best place to live in the magazine's 2008 rankings.
The Roseland School District serves public school students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade at Lester C. Noecker Elementary School. Students in public school for seventh through twelfth grades attend the West Essex Regional School District, a regional school district serving students from four municipalities in western Essex County. Communities served by the district's schools are Essex Fells, Fairfield, North Caldwell and Roseland.
Interstate 280 passes through the borough, connecting East Hanover Township and Livingston.
NJ Transit offers bus service to Newark on the 71 route. The Whippany Line of the Morristown & Erie Railway, a small freight line, traverses the township. Established in 1895, the line runs from Morristown and runs through East Hanover Township and Hanover Township to Roseland.
Official Town Website: http://www.roselandnj.org/


Implementing this in the application code would also mean that any new features that modified the show house status would require someone to remember to add business essential hooks to update the audit table. In the end it seemed simpler to create a trigger in the DB which watched the show house table and updated an audit table accordingly.
Triggers trigger functions. In order to have a trigger you must first have an existing function to trigger.
PostgreSQL functions can be written in a number of languages, including Python, but I found PL/pgSQL worked fine for me.
Functions are created using the CREATE FUNCTION command. I recommend using CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION as this will handily update the function when initially mucking about with it.
Examples of functions can be found in the CREATE FUNCTION page as well as the Trigger Procedures page. At the top of the Trigger Procedures page is also a list of special variables you can use in a trigger function. NEW and OLD are especially helpful.
In my experience I have found it prudent to ensure your trigger function always culminates on a RETURN statement of some sort. Otherwise triggers reguritate error codes at you. In my case making the last line of the function code RETURN NEW sufficed.
NB running the above statement with CASCADE will cause any associated triggers to be dropped as well.
A statement trigger will always be triggered, but only once for each statement. A row trigger will be triggered only for each row that is affected by the statement.


Construction output contracted by 0.8% in the three month on three month series in August 2017 but remains at relatively high levels.
The three month on three month decline in output was due to decreases in both repair and maintenance, which fell 0.6% and all new work, which fell 0.9%.
Construction output grew 0.6% month-on-month in August 2017, predominantly driven by a 1.7% rise in all new work.
The month-on-month rise in all new work stemmed from growth in private housing, which grew 2.3% and infrastructure, which increased by 3.6%.
Estimates in this bulletin are consistent with the Quarterly National Accounts: April to June 2017 publication released on 29 September 2017 and will feed into the annual national accounts Blue Book 2017 publication, due to be released on 31 October 2017.
As a result of the improvements that have been implemented to construction output, revisions can be seen from Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2010.
The survey's results are used to produce seasonally adjusted monthly, quarterly and annual estimates of output in the construction industry at current price and at chained volume measures (removing the effect of inflation). The estimates are widely used by private and public sector institutions, particularly by the Bank of England and Her Majesty's Treasury, to assist in informed decision-making and policy-making. Construction output is an important economic indicator and is also therefore used in the compilation of the output measure of gross domestic product.
On 11 December 2014, the UK Statistics Authority announced its decision to suspend the designation of Construction output and new orders as National Statistics due to concerns about the quality of the Construction Price and Cost Indices used to remove the effects of inflation from the statistics.
We took responsibility for the publication of the Construction Price and Cost indices from the then Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) on 1 April 2015, introducing an interim solution for measuring output prices in June 2015 for all periods from January 2014 onwards.
The Quarterly National Accounts publication for April to June 2017 was released on 29 September 2017, which included improvements to Construction statistics. The Impact of improvements to construction statistics article explains and highlights the effect of these changes. The improvements affect the nominal data series, output price indices and seasonal adjustment, and have led to revisions back to January 2010.
As a result of the changes to the output price indices, although further improvements are still planned, we no longer consider these indices to be an interim method.
It is also worth nothing that the chained volume measures have been re-referenced to 2015. Our indices are therefore now presented in the 2015 equals 100 format.
Construction output fell 0.8% during the three month on three month period to August 2017. The rolling three month time series provides a more comprehensive picture of underlying trends in the industry, while the month-on-month series, shown in Figure 1, shows how volatile construction output can be.
Construction output fell for the fourth consecutive month in the three month on three month time series in August 2017. This fall has occurred despite a rise in the month-on-month time series, with construction output rising 0.6% after two consecutive months of decline. However, Figure 1 shows that despite these recent consecutive declines, construction output still remains at a relatively high level. Construction output peaked in January 2017, reaching a level that was 29% higher than the lowest point of the last five years, in January 2013. Despite the three month on three month series falling in August 2017, construction output remains 27.3% above this level.
Construction output can be broken down by different types of work; these are categorised into all new work, and repair and maintenance, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2 shows that through to mid-2014, all new work, and repair and maintenance followed a similar pattern but since reaching a level peak in August 2014, repair and maintenance has remained relatively stable. Over the same period, all new work has continued to increase steadily, largely down to a rise in new housing work. Throughout the majority of 2017, both all new work, and repair and maintenance are continuing to show a similar trend.
All new work grew 1.7% month-on-month in August 2017, recovering from a contraction of 1.5% in July 2017. In contrast, repair and maintenance decreased month-on-month by 1.4% in August 2017, following broadly flat month-on-month growth in the previous three months. It is worth noting that all new work accounts for approximately two-thirds of all work, while repair and maintenance accounts for approximately one-third.
Figure 3 shows the difference in three month on three month volume from the different sectors in terms of real value growth, taken from our seasonally adjusted chained volume measure series.
All work fell by £312 million in August 2017, the fourth consecutive three month on three month decline in construction output. This fall stems from a £220 million decrease in private commercial work, as well as a fall of £167 million from public other new work. Elsewhere, the strongest positive contributions to three month on three month output came from private housing, which increased by £140 million and private industrial work, which grew by £79 million.
Figure 4 shows the difference in month-on-month volume from the different sectors in terms of real value growth, taken from our seasonally adjusted chained volume measure series.
All work increased by £75 million in August 2017 compared with the previous month. As seen in Figure 4, the increase was mainly driven by rises in private housing and infrastructure, which grew by £61 million and £54 million respectively.
In contrast, non-housing repair and maintenance provided the most notable negative month-on-month contribution to all work in August 2017, decreasing by £48 million compared with July 2017. Elsewhere, total housing repair and maintenance fell for the third consecutive month, falling by £16 million in August 2017.
Total all work increased to £12,787 million in August 2017. This rise stems from an increase in all new work, which rose to £8,294 million, while total repair and maintenance fell to £4,493 million.
Construction output fell 0.8% on a three month on three month basis in August 2017. The most notable downward pressure on the three month on three month growth came from private commercial work, which fell 2.9% in August 2017. In addition, both public other new work and infrastructure fell for the fifth consecutive month on a three month on three month basis, falling by 6.3% and 1.4% respectively. Elsewhere, private housing applied the main upward pressure on output, increasing by 1.8%.
Compared with August 2016, construction output grew 3.5%. As in the three month rolling time series, housing growth was strong, with public housing up 14.9% and private housing up 7.5%. Month-on-year growth was seen across all types of work in August 2017, with the exception of public other new work, which experienced its fifth consecutive period of month-on-year contraction, decreasing by 7.4%.
The Impact of improvements to construction statistics article was released on 29 September 2017, alongside the Quarterly National Accounts publication for April to June 2017. This was the first release of the data that will be found in the annual national accounts Blue Book 2017 publication, due to be released on 31 October 2017. There are revisions back to January 2010, resulting from improvements to nominal data; the output price indices used to deflate the chained volume measure series; and seasonal adjustment.
Figure 5 shows the index volume series for all construction work. For comparative purposes, both series are indexed to 2013 equals 100; however, the published construction series has now been re-referenced to the base year of 2015.
The annual growth rate for 2016 has been revised from 2.4% to 3.8% and the leading contribution to this increase is infrastructure, which itself has been revised from negative 9.2% to negative 3.2%. The size band adjustments, detailed in the article, affected only infrastructure and saw negative revisions to 12 months in 2015 compared with six months in 2016, hence the increase of growth rate when comparing 2016 with 2015.
The processing of late returns has contributed to increases in 2016 and 2017, spread across all sectors, with the largest upward month-on-month revisions coming in November 2016, December 2016 and February 2017. These month-on-month growth rates are also affected by the changes in seasonal parameters.
Output in the construction industry follows the Eurostat Short-Term Statistics (STS) regulation for production in construction. Before any comparisons are made with the Euro area or EU28, it is worth noting that the UK is the only member state to follow the A method for compiling production in construction statistics.
The latest release of Production in Construction, published by Eurostat on 19 September 2017 for July 2017, showed the seasonally adjusted production in the construction sector increased by 0.2% in the Euro area (EA19) and increased by 0.5% in the EU28 when compared with June 2017. It should be noted that an accurate comparison cannot be made, as Eurostat data are calculated on a 2010 equals 100 basis, while Great Britain data are calculated on a 2015 equals 100 basis.
Outside the EU, the US Census Bureau release Value of construction put in place was published on 2 October 2017. This includes the total dollar value of construction work done in the US.
The latest Value Added Tax (VAT) turnover research article was published on 1 June 2017, which outlined our plans to use VAT turnover in the compilation of Quarterly National Accounts July to September 2017 and the Index of Services October 2017 bulletins, which are both due for publication on 22 December 2017. In November 2017 a further article will be published, which will review the methodological improvements and provide further detail on implementation plans.


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