This content was originally published in 2014 by Pitmans LLP.
BDB Pitmans Defendant Insurance Department acts on behalf of UK and foreign insurers and businesses advising on issues including; Regulatory Compliance (eg with Essential Health and Safety Requirements 'EHSR' of Supply of Machinery Regulations), defence of civil claims and advice and representation in respect of investigations carried out by the HSE and other prosecuting authorities.
We have advised manufacturers, retailers and distributors (and their insurers) on issues concerning numerous different categories of products from car crushing equipment to bicycles, pushchairs to industrial ovens, motor bikes to white goods, plumbing to electrical items.
It is important for businesses to carefully consider if their products present a safety risk and whether or not to issue a product recall as there are serious implications both for the business and management in civil and criminal liability.
In cases where the consumer has been injured by a defective product they had purchased then they could seek redress against the retailers from whom they had purchased the item in contract and under the Sale of Goods legislation. However in so far as injured third parties are concerned since the times of Donaghue v Stevenson 1932 most cases involving a claim for damages arising from defective products have been brought in negligence.
These claims have been brought upon the basis that the manufacturer owes a duty of care to all those who can reasonably be expected to make use of its product. In the case of 'dangerous' products such as those which, if defective, could cause extensive harm, this duty may be owed to anybody who may reasonably be affected by a defect in the product. This means that a claim in negligence is not limited by privity of contract, which states that only a party to a contract can sue under it. So a claim may be brought by a consumer-purchaser of the product, a person who uses the product, or an innocent third party injured by the product.
a failure to recall a product, or to issue appropriate warnings if a danger becomes apparent after the product has been put into circulation.
Note that liability is not limited to the manufacturer of the product as other parties who supplied components or rebranded and distributed the product may be held liable if they can be shown to have been negligent.
The CPA introduced statutory liability for defective products. Liability under the CPA exists alongside liability in negligence.
The CPA applies to both products used by consumers, and products used in a place of work. It imposes strict liability on manufacturers of defective products for harm caused by those products. This means that people who are injured by defective products can sue for compensation without having to prove that the manufacturer was negligent. It is merely necessary to prove that the product was defective, and that any injury or damage was most likely caused by the product.
The Act applies to all consumer products and products used at a place of work. Inclusion of the phrase 'products used at a place of work' extends the scope of the law to include sales of products between businesses, and not just sales to consumers, if such products are used in a place of work.
Under the Act, a claim may be brought by any person who is injured by a 'defective product', regardless of whether that person purchased the product. A claim may be brought for death, personal injury or damage to private property in excess of £275.
What is a 'defective product'?
A 'product' can include goods, electricity and the component parts of any product. Where a component of or raw material incorporated into a finished product is defective, both the manufacturer of the component and the manufacturer of the finished product are potentially liable.
A product is defective for the purposes of the CPA if its safety, including not only the risk of personal injury but also the risk of damage to property, is 'not such as persons generally are entitled to expect'. A product will not generally be considered defective just because a safer version is later put on the market.
Further, the Court will also take account of the 'state of the art' at the time of supply.
Under the CPA, the 'producer' of a product is liable for any defects. The term can be quite wide as it includes the manufacturer of the finished product or of a component of the finished product, or any person responsible for an industrial or other process to which any essential characteristic of the product is attributable.
Further, liability may also be imposed on any party who holds itself out to be the producer through the use of a name or trade mark (re-branding the product), and any person who imported the product into the European Community.
So there may be more than one party liable under the CPA in respect of the same damage. Liability is joint and several meaning that the injured party may sue any or all of these people. Liability cannot be excluded or limited.
if the party is being sued because it manufactured a component – that the defect is a defect within the finished product, and came about because of the way the finished product was designed or because of instructions given by the manufacturer of the finished product.
The CPA also includes a 'development risks' defence, which creates a defence if the 'scientific and technical knowledge' at the time the product was manufactured was not such that the producer of a similar product might have been expected to discover the defect. This could be particularly important in relation to innovative and high-tech products.
Note: Upon receipt of any claim, or knowledge of any circumstance which may give rise to a claim under an insurance policy, the retailer, manufacturer or producer must immediately notify insurers. Failure to notify within a reasonable period of time may affect the indemnity afforded under the terms of the policy. In addition to providing an indemnity in respect of civil liability for a claim and costs there may also be cover under the company's insurance policy that may extend to provide legal advice during criminal investigations. Check the policy and contact the broker.
HSE's product safety enforcement powers are similar to those given by the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. Accordingly all warranted HSE staff may exercise these powers in accordance with the law and HSE's own procedures.
HSE can investigate product safety issues, requiring co-operation and information from those who may be involved. HSE inspectors can require that a product is left undisturbed or take possession of dangerous products. They can direct often through formal Enforcement and Prohibition Notices that activities such as the supply of a product presenting serious risk of injury is stopped immediately, or that improvements are made by a specified date. Those who are served these Notices may appeal to the Employment Tribunal. HSE can apply to the courts to request the forfeiture of certain products, subject to the court's ruling following judicial consideration of the facts.
In cases of serious breach or if Notices have not been complied with the HSE may instigate proceedings in the magistrates' court. Costs may be awarded by the court to HSE. Most offences under UK product safety law are triable either way (for hearing in either The Magistrates' or Crown court) and unlimited fines may be imposed on those found guilty (by Crown courts).
The powers of the HSE are well known and documented but the work and powers of the Trading Standard officers are less well known.
Trading standards officers enforce consumer protection legislation in order to create a safe trading environment. They carry out inspections on business premises to establish whether Trading Standards legislation has been complied with.
An inspection may take place as part of a routine inspection programme, or because the officer suspects that an offence has been committed.
powers of seizure: if an officer has reasonable cause to believe an offence has been committed, he may seize and detain any goods in order to ascertain whether an offence has been committed.
if the Officer finds more serious contraventions of safety legislation, he may consider legal proceedings.
Powers are given to local authorities to investigate criminal offences under the Local Government Act 1972 (LGA 1972). Local Authority Environmental Health officers can undertake investigations and have wide ranging powers. They can be involved in assessing evidential issues and can enter premises and conduct interviews.
The officers can be involved in determining how evidence is gathered, the taking and the format of witness statements, interviewing suspects, and interviewing representatives of companies, limited liability partnerships, partnerships unincorporated associations and sole traders.
The decision to prosecute for an offence will be made by the prosecution division within the local authority.
In serious cases where there has been death, serious injury or large scale property damage the Police can become involved investigations into the cause. By way of example if a defective product is suspected by being implicated in a fatality where a number of other similar incidents have been reported the Police may be called upon by the Coroner to act as his agent and undertake enquiries of the retailers, distributors and/or manufacturers.
The line of enquiry may be to ascertain their knowledge of the safety risks and what steps were taken to understand the nature and extent of the risk and if serious to remedy it promptly.
The Police may undertake their investigations in conjunction with other authorities.
Section 3 of HSWA imposes a duty on an employer to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health safety and welfare of persons not in its employment (ie the public).
A company is guilty of an offence if it fails to comply with the duty imposed by section 3.
A company would be liable to an unlimited fine in the event of conviction.
Section 37 of HSWA states that where an offence has been committed by a company (see section 3 HSWA above) is proved to have been committed with the consent, connivance or neglect of an individual director, manager, secretary or other similar officer who was purporting to act in such capacity he too shall be guilty of an offence.
that director must have consented to that offence or wilfully ignored it or negligently allowed it to occur.
A director guilty of such an offence faces up to two years in prison and an unlimited fine.
Under Regulation 5, there is a 'general safety requirement' that producers will only place a product on the market if it is a 'safe product'. A 'safe product' is one which presents no risk, or the minimum risk compatible with its use and which provides a high level of protection for consumers. If an unsafe product is placed on the market the manufacturer must notify the relevant enforcement authority (see Regulation 9(3) on notification).
Regulation 20(1) of GPSR creates an offence for a person to place an unsafe product on the market. A company faces a maximum fine of £20,000. An individual prosecuted for this offence can be imprisoned for up to 12 months and a fine.
Regulation 20(2) of GPSR creates an offence if a person fails to notify an enforcing authority that a product it has placed on the market is not safe. A company faces a maximum fine of £5,000. An individual prosecuted for this offence can be imprisoned for up to 3 months and a fine.
Regulation 20(3) of GPSR creates an offence if a producer does not give notice to an enforcing authority that its product is unsafe and it is proved that the producer ought to have known that the product was unsafe. A company faces a maximum fine is £5,000. An individual prosecuted for this offence can be imprisoned for up to three months and a fine.
Regulation 24 creates offences where a person obstructs an officer of an enforcing authority. A company or person faces a maximum fine is £5,000.
Under GPSR 2005, Regulation 9: Obligations of producers and distributors.
details of action taken to prevent risk to the consumer.
This means that producers should monitor their products for potential risks. Such monitoring would give producers advance warning of product safety risks, so that they can take action before the authorities take the step of ordering a product recall. In addition, the GPSR 2005 require producers to keep a record of consumer complaints about the safety of their products (see regulation 7(4)(b)(ii)), and to notify the safety regulators if they find that the product is unsafe (see regulation 9 on notification).
Issue 1: Whether to notify?
Producers must quickly assess the seriousness of the risk in order to decide whether the product is unsafe. The European Commission's 'Guidelines for the notification of dangerous consumer products to the competent authorities of the Member states by producers and distributors in accordance with article 5(3) of Directive 2001/95/EC' states that producers and distributors should take into account the severity of the possible damage and the factors which affect the level of the risk, such as the type of user and obviousness of the hazard, in deciding whether a product is unsafe and should be notified.
Issue 2: When to notify?
If the product is unsafe, then the European Commission's Guidelines state that a company must inform the authorities: 'without delay, as soon as the relevant information has become available, and in any case within 10 days since it has reportable information, even while investigations are continuing, indicating the existence of a dangerous product. When there is a serious risk, companies are required to inform the authority and in no case later than 3 days after they have obtained notifiable information. In an emergency situation, such as when immediate action is taken by a company, the company should inform the authorities immediately and by the fastest means'. The Company should also keep their product liability insurers advised.
Once notified, the regulator will decide whether to send the information onto the European Commission and the other member states through the RAPEX system (the rapid alert system for non-food consumer products).
under GPSR 2005 producers now have a legal obligation to withdraw unsafe products from the distribution chain and/or recall them from consumers.
The GPSR 2005 regulation 15 gives national authorities the power to issue product recall notices. The authority can order the producer or distributor to take steps to protect consumers, including ordering a product recall.
Under regulation 10(5), while voluntary action on the part of producers and distributors is to be encouraged, an enforcement authority has the power take action 'urgently and without first encouraging and promoting voluntary action if a product poses a serious risk'. The enforcement authorities must act proportionately to the seriousness of harm and take account of the precautionary principle. Acting on a precautionary basis means that regulators must take action even when they lack conclusive scientific evidence of the existence of the risk, as long as there is a likelihood of real harm.
the authority has given no less than seven days' notice of intention to serve the recall notice and, where the person served has required the authority to seek advice from a person appointed by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) to determine whether the product is dangerous or whether a recall notice is proportional to the seriousness of the risk, the authority has in fact sought and taken account of such advice.
Under regulation 15(5), the second and third requirements of regulation 15(4) do not apply for products which pose a serious risk and which require urgent action.
Note that there is a right of appeal against recall notices. Under regulation 19(2)(d), a recall notice will be set aside if the product is not dangerous, or if the enforcement authority has not used recall as a last resort and the other requirements of regulation 15(4) have not been met.
See 'Product Safety in Europe: A Guide to Corrective Action Including Recalls' .
The Guide aims to give producers and distributors of consumer products general advice about what they should do if they have evidence that one of their products may be unsafe.
assemble documents about the product's design and Safety and preferably create a spreadsheet for ease of reference.
evaluate acceptability of overall risk.
products in the hands of consumers.
Decide what corrective action needs to be carried out.
set up a communications programme to contact consumers.
If the overall level of risk is judged to be moderate, the corrective action may be limited to products in the distribution chain, and it may be enough to withdraw those and give the authorities details of what is begin done.
If the overall level of risk is judged to be low, corrective action may be limited to consideration of changes affecting products in design and production.
recalling products from consumers for replacement or refund.
Agree responsibilities and actions with distributors.
Inform the market surveillance authorities.
The Trading Standards Institute website provides useful guidance and provides that any trader wishing to display their recall / safety notice should email it to publications@tsi.org.uk.
Also consider notification to RAPEX the European rapid alert system for dangerous consumer products. It allows information about dangerous products to be given to other national authorities and the European Commission, in order to prevent the sale of these products. All the EU countries participate in the system. Under Article 12 of the GPSD, national authorities have a duty to notify the Commission, via the RAPEX system, of action taken to prevent the marketing and use of dangerous consumer products. The European Commission published its revised Guidelines for the operation of 'RAPEX' in January 2010.
Manufacturers of consumer products marketed in Europe should be aware of the importance of the RAPEX Guidelines, which give guidance on how the risk posed by consumer products should be assessed. This risk assessment process is relevant when a manufacturer has marketed an unsafe product. Regulators will follow this risk assessment process to decide whether the producer or distributor needs to notify regulators about the problem; what corrective action, up to and including recall, needs to be taken; and whether the issue will be communicated across Europe. The Guidelines and the risk assessment process have significantly changed the way in which national authorities handle product recalls, and therefore the producer needs to understand the process.
repeat in order to identify other injury scenarios and the risk posed by the product. Classify the risk as 'low', 'medium', 'high' or 'serious'.
Depending on the nature of the products in question notices may have to be issued to other authorities so for food hygiene issues notice will need to given to The Food Standards Agency (FSA).
For vehicle defects notice will need to be issued to The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA).
Take professional advice from the outset – get it right from the outset because you could be under scrutiny not only from the media but investigating authorities and it will be wise to ensure a consistent message is issued on the situation and the steps being taken to remedy it. A nominated spokes person is likely to have to face the media spotlight and there could be invitations to attend interview by the investigating authorities under PACE. Therefore get the facts clear, state the issues and processes put in place and make it easy for the innocent consumers to safeguard their safety, their families and property.
The GPSR regime means that producers must respond quickly to a product crisis so heed the Guidelines and get prepared. Producers should prepare a crisis plan in preparation for an unexpected event in order to manage a potential product crisis. Producers should decide on an internal recall team, external advisors to deal with the risk assessment process, and detail procedures for employees.
Ensure comprehensive records are kept relating to design, safety assessments, product accreditation, supplies received from component manufacturers, issue of serial numbers, batch testing and details of your suppliers/customers. Ensure that, where appropriate, your customers also keep records of the end users.
There are differences between how the General Product Safety regime has been implemented in different member states, and how each member state approaches risk management. Producers should be aware of these differences and address both national and international issues in their crisis management plans.
Manufacturing and producers may consider extending their existing product liability insurance to include product recall insurance which will cover some of the costs of a product recall.
This note is not intended to be comprehensive.


I am so overwhelmed by God's love, I don't know about you but He loves us so much and so deep that He asked His own Son to lay down His life for us.
Our lives are full of testimonies, we are alive now because He wants us to be alive…and there is a reason for that.
There comes a time in our lives, when we can't let the worldly things stop us from proclaiming Christ's good news and living out God's glory each day.
No more barriers, no more separation. You and I have the authority to heal and do good works through our Lord, Jesus Christ.
There are no more limitations.
The early Christians stood apart from the culture and suffer social stigmas and physical persecution at times.
Peter challenged the Christian of old to remain faithful to Jesus who also suffered for not conforming. Today, I am also challenging you to stand for God in spite of any trouble you might be facing.
God has the power to make Himself known to all nations and tribes but yet He sent Jesus and now He is sending you. He has given you this power too. What a privilege!
The number one way to be pleasing to God and approved by man is to be the servant of all.
Our servant assignment from God is to give honour and preference to one another.
Regarding others as more important than yourself gives you the mind and manner of Christ.
You and I are to move our focus away from self and outward to others. We are to become others-oriented.
To do this, as mundane as it sounds, we have to train ourselves to, for instance, stop talking about ourselves and instead ask about the other person. We may also have to learn some good manners because love has good manners.
1 Corinthians 13:5 says " Love is not rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable".
Remember, as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them.
Stop feeling sorry for yourself and instead REFOCUS.
God knows all about our weaknesses and we need to stop making it all about us but instead, we need to focus on our Helper!


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Jim Jordan Say's "Big Tech Companies Need to be Reclassified as Publishers, or Broken Up"
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Jim Jordan (R-OH) appeared on Breitbart News Radio with Breitbart's Alex Marlow where they talked about the leaked Google video after the 2016 election. Jordan responded,
"It underscores and highlights what we all sort of expected. These are no longer, as they claim, neutral social media platforms, but in fact they have a bias, and a bias that they're actively trying to exploit for political gain."
"That's what it looks like to me, and I'm someone who personally experienced it, because it wasn't conservatives who said this, it was a media outlet — not a conservative media outlet — who said four members of Congress were being shadowbanned by Twitter," he continued. "The four members were Gaetz, Nunes, Meadows, and Jordan… Just so happened to be four conservative members who were also involved with the FBI DOJ investigation, so when you think about 435 members of the House, also 100 members of the Senate, only four get shadowbanned, and Twitter's response was 'a glitch in our algorithm.' To which I responded and said, 'Well a glitch in your algorithm, what did you put in the algorithm? The names Gaetz, Meadows, Nunes, and Jordan?' Come on."
"This is what we now see, so first thing is hearings to highlight what in fact is going on. That has begun," expressed Jordan. "Second is, if this is where it's gonna be, then they are no longer social media platforms, they are in fact a newspaper, and there are different laws applied to a newspaper, and we may have to look at frankly taking away this monopoly position that they now have and say, 'Look we're going to have to break you up like it's been done in American history before.'"
Marlow asked what else needs to be done to hold Big Tech accountable, Jordan responded, "I think we still need to highlight this, accent this more, there needs to be a lot more hearings on this issue on Capitol Hill. I think that has to happen, and then, I think we need to start looking at which way we're gonna go."
"Are we gonna say, 'Okay, you're now a newspaper. You are subjected to a different set of laws,' and everyone understands that from the get-go? Or like we say, you may have to break them up," Jordan concluded. "But, in spite of this, conservatives still win. That shows you the character of the American people, that they see through this, that they made Donald Trump president of the United States, that they put Republicans in control, so the other thing we frankly need to do that will help with the whole situation is when we're in office, do what we said. You mentioned earlier, we haven't got the border security wall. Let's get that done. There are other things we promised American people. The president's keeping his word, Congress needs to do a better job at that, but I think all that has to play out."
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Report: Samsung Reduces Galaxy S7 Sales Target By 10-20%
By Kishalaya Kundu
With the smartphone market reaching saturation point in most regions around the world, leading smartphone manufacturers are now reportedly cutting back on their sales projections for this year. Just last week, Chinese telecom equipment and consumer electronics major, Huawei, was reported to have lowered its smartphone shipment target from 140 million units to 120 million units for this year, after having sold 108 million devices last year to become the third-largest vendor worldwide. Having said that though, managing to hit the 120 million mark will still signify a double-digit growth this year for Huawei's smartphone business, so its not all doom and gloom for one of China's largest multinationals.
Meanwhile, with mid-range smartphones becoming increasingly more capable, many smartphone buyers are starting to move away from high-priced flagships to more pocket-friendly handsets that are capable of most things top-tier devices can do, but at only a fraction of the cost. That evolution of the mid-rangers may be happening over the past few years, but now that it is truly gathering momentum with devices from companies like OnePlus, Xiaomi, Asus, Motorola and others, market leader Samsung Electronics is now also believed to be taking a re-look at its earlier sales projections. According to latest reports coming out of supply chain sources in Taiwan, Samsung is believed to have informed its suppliers that it is cutting its sales target for Q3, 2016 by 10 – 20%, having originally projected sales of 28 – 30 million units of its Galaxy S7 flagships during the period.
Meanwhile, as mentioned already, Huawei, too, has reduced its shipment target for the next quarter (and for the year as a whole) amidst reports of the company failing to match its internal targets with its P9 and P9 Plus smartphones that were launched in London last April with a whole lot of fanfare. Even though sales have been impressive by all accounts, the company, it seems, was expecting more from its flagship range for this year. It remains to be seen whether the global smartphone market keeps growing or if the gravy train will finally come to a grinding halt will all the geo-political uncertainties facing some of the key global markets right now.
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Q: React / Redux Component get unused params I have container, for example, Home:
function mapStateToProps (state) {
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function mapDispatchToProps(dispatch){
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}
class Home extends React.Component {

    constructor (props, context) {
        super(props, context);
    }

    render(){

        return (

                <HeaderHome {...this.props.header}/>
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        )
    }

}

Home.contextTypes = {
    router: PropTypes.object
}

export default connect(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps)(Home);

Pay attention on  component it is very simple:
class Header extends React.Component {
    render(){

        return (

                    <Menu />
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        )
    }
}

export default Header;

At the header i can use {this.props} which transferred from Home, also in Header a have Menu component to which I am not transferring some props!
Menu component:
function mapStateToProps (state) {
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}

function mapDispatchToProps(dispatch){
    return ...
}

class Menu extends React.Component {
    constructor(props, context){
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    render(){
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    }
}

Menu.contextTypes = {
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}

export default connect(mapStateToProps, mapDispatchToProps)(Menu);

Despite that i don't transferred props to this component, after console.log i see all props from  component and all props which transform from state to props. Why?
I want see only props which transform to props from state (store)

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LBC has been called to another meeting at Ofcom to discuss its approach to compliance and impartiality.
The meeting for the Global station comes after three complaints were made about the James O'Brien Show, in which Sadiq Khan guest-hosted and conducted a 30-minute conversation with Jeremy Corbyn on 27th October 2017.
LBC insisted the range of views featured within each programme and across the day are balanced within individual shows and in linked programmes.
Iain Dale programmes and a programme trail for Shelagh Fogarty's show had been included within the presenter handover from Mr Khan.
of preserving due impartiality in relation to the matters of political or industrial controversy and matters relating to current public policy discussed in the Programme.
And whilst the regulator has not found the station in breach, it has requested that LBC attends a meeting to discuss its approach to compliance in this area when using guest presenters to conduct phone-ins standing in for professional radio hosts.
Ofcom is also reminding other broadcasters that in circumstances where the interviewee and the chair are from the same political party, it is important that the Licensee takes particular care to ensure that other viewpoints are appropriately represented within the programme.
Earlier this year, Ofcom requested a meeting with LBC managers to discuss its compliance processes after it rejected a complaint about Nigel Farage and his 'up-to-date, Brexit business briefings'.
Unbelievable. The station that provides a platform for farage and Rees mogg and employs Ferrari, swarbrick and Ian Dale is criticized for being left-biased! You really couldn't make it up.
I could not agree with you more. This is a Joke O'Brien is supposedly their left-leaning presenter and even he is only about as left wing as the most right-wing Labour supporters.
We really have entered post-truth times haven't we?
Too many presenters air THEIR views on that station and most are Tory of Right leaning.
It's not called London's Biggest Conservatives for nothing.
That's it we have hit lala land here..
A couple of hours with Khan and Corbyn would surely only balance out the other 99.9% Tory loving output of LBC? That station leans so far to the right it's a wonder it doesn't topple Leicester Square over.


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Possible evidence for biblical earthquake found in City of David
By Owen Jarus
The 2,800-year-old temblor is described in the Hebrew Bible.
The 2,800-year-old earthquake was so severe that it was mentioned in the bible, archaeologists say. (Image credit: Eliyahu Yanai, City of David)
Archaeologists have found evidence of an earthquake that hit the City of David in Jerusalem about 2,800 years ago and that could be a major event described in the Hebrew Bible.
During their excavations, the archaeological team, from the Israel Antiquities Authority, discovered a layer of destruction dating to that time in the City of David National Park. Inside the layer was "a row of shattered vessels, including bowls, lamps, cooking utensils, storage and storage jars, which were smashed as [a] building's walls collapsed," the archaeological team said in a statement from the IAA. Archaeologists also found no signs of a fire, and they are doubtful that the city was attacked by an invading force.
Other sites in the region had similar destruction around 2,800 years ago, the researchers found, adding that the signs of destruction from several sites in the southern Levant could be evidence for a biblical earthquake. The books of Amos and Zechariah both mention an earthquake that happened around this time, when Jerusalem was the capital of the kingdom of Judah and was ruled by a king called Uzziah. "You will flee as you fled from the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah," Zechariah 14:5 reads.
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Shown here, part of the area in Jerusalem that the team is excavating. Their finds reveal that the area was hit by an earthquake 2,800 years ago. (Image credit: Ortal Chalaf/Israel Antiquities Authority)
More destruction possibly from the ancient earthquake can be seen here. (Image credit: Eliyahu Yanai, City of David)
This pottery was likely smashed when a building fell on top of it during an earthquake 2,800 years ago, archaeologists say. (Image credit: Eliyahu Yanai, City of David)
"It seems likely that although Jerusalem was not the epicenter [of the earthquake], it was significantly affected," Joe Uziel, an archaeologist with the Israel Antiquities Authority who is one of the team leaders, told Live Science. The observation that Jerusalem was likely not the epicenter of the earthquake is based on the damage found in Jerusalem and other sites in the region.
Excavations reveal that after the destruction, people rebuilt the destroyed buildings and walls, Uziel said. The fact that the earthquake is mentioned in the bible is "a sign that [the earthquake] was likely quite traumatic," Uziel said.
Scholars not involved with the team's research were cautiously supportive of the team's conclusions. "The interpretation of the archaeologists sounds possible," said Israel Finkelstein, a professor emeritus of archaeology at Tel Aviv University in Israel. The team's study, including the interpretation of the pottery, has not been published in a peer-reviewed journal, Finkelstein cautioned; the team used that pottery to help date the earthquake. Finkelstein also said that the area in Jerusalem that was excavated needs to be studied by seismologists to firm up the case for a past earthquake.
Finkelstein noted that evidence for a large eighth-century B.C. earthquake can also be found at other sites in the region, including at Megiddo — a spot investigated by Finkelstein. About 15 years ago, a team of seismologists and archaeologists documented evidence for the earthquake at Megiddo, which "included tilted and fractured walls," said Finkelstein.
"I haven't seen the excavations, but it was quite expected that some damage triggered by the mid-eighth century [B.C.] earthquake would be found in Jerusalem," said Shmuel Marco, a professor of geophysics at Tel Aviv University who took part in the Megiddo earthquake study 15 years ago. "We found it in the ruins of the same age at Megiddo, and others reported it in other excavations and in the deep Dead Sea drilling." which suggests that the earthquake impacted a wide area.
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The Jerusalem team's "interpretation seems reasonable to me," said Jason Radine, who is chair of the Department of Global Religions at Moravian University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He noted that the Hebrew Bible mentions that Jerusalem was attacked around the 790s or 780s B.C. by Israel (which at the time was a separate kingdom from Judah). However, "such an attack might leave a burn layer, which the excavators point out is not present in their find,"suggesting that an earthquake is the more likely cause of the destruction, Radine said.
Thomas Levy, who is a distinguished professor of Archaeology at the University of California, San Diego, also thought the damage was likely caused by an earthquake and that a strong case can be made that this earthquake is the same one mentioned in the bible. "When the biblical data is coupled with the archaeological and paleo-seismic data from the southern Levant, a strong correlation is clearly seen between the Book of Amos, a prophet in the Hebrew Bible, and the archaeological record," Levy told Live Science.
The team's research will be presented in September at the "City of David Research" conference.
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Owen Jarus is a regular contributor to Live Science who writes about archaeology and humans' past. He has also written for The Independent (UK), The Canadian Press (CP) and The Associated Press (AP), among others. Owen has a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Toronto and a journalism degree from Ryerson University.
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As you can see, it shows a bit of activity across eastern Colorado... but not much. I suspect most areas don't see anything, and those that do just enough to make things wet/coat the ground with a burst of light snow.
On Weather5280 Insider we've been talking quite a bit about the upcoming pattern. We'll have another update there soon discussing the system following this one for next week (which could be a bit stronger) and continued discussion on where this pattern goes for the remainder of January and on into February.


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Girl, 8, who opened lemonade stand for St. Jude while battling leukemia is now cancer free
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A mother from Virginia can rest easy knowing her 8-year-old daughter triumphed over cancer, all while raising $5,807.15 on her own for St. Jude from a lemonade stand she opened.
ABINGDON, Va. - A mother from Virginia can rest easy knowing her 8-year-old daughter triumphed over cancer, all while raising $5,807.15 on her own for St. Jude from a lemonade stand she opened.
Ellee Large's mother posted frequent updates on the status of her daughter's battle with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which she was diagnosed with in January 2017.
Ellee's mom posted her latest update Sept. 18, sharing that her daughter was officially cancer free.
"The sweetest words my ears have heard!! MRD negative!! (no cancer) God is so good and to Him we give all glory and praise for Ellee's health!!" wrote Ellee's mom, Shauna Large.
Ellee had gone though her last six months of chemo in July, but her journey quickly captured hearts when she originally received her diagnosis, helping raise thousands for St. Jude by people they call "Ellee's Army."
"Last year, through the giant faith of a special little girl and the very generous donations of so many of you, Ellee's Army was able to raise over $20,000 for St Jude!!" Ellee's mom wrote on Facebook.
In a video on St. Jude's website highlighting Ellee's story, her mom said they would get mail from people all over sending love and support throughout Ellee's treatment. A trip to the mail room quickly became a tradition for Ellee, which helped her pass the time in between treatments so that she could practice her reading while in the hospital, according to St. Jude.
Ellee wanted to give back, so she decided to set up a lemonade stand to raise money for the organization nearly a month before getting the news that she was cancer free.
With so many thousands of people already following Ellee's journey to recovery, it was no surprise that so many strangers, along with local businesses in her community, came to support the small pop-up to help raise money for others that share Ellee's journey.
"The outpouring of support and generosity from friends, family, and the entire community was overwhelming!!" Wrote Ellee's mom. "Strangers became friends and the selfless giving of so many was inspiring. Raising $5,807.15 for St. Jude was absolutely amazing, and when the total was announced we were all moved to tears."
Ellee's mom had nothing but praise and gratitude to share with all the people who supported her daughter through a battle that lasted nearly two years and 10 months.
"God is so good and to Him we give all glory and praise for Ellee's health!! God has blessed us with supportive family and friends and access to the best hospital in the world for our Ellee bean," she wrote.
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Billie Eilish is hoping to make a new album 'in the next year' – Music News
Billie Eilish is hoping to make a new album "in the next year."
The 20-year-old pop star has already worked with her brother FINNEAS on the smash hit records 'When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?' and 'Happier Than Ever' – both of which topped the charts around the globe – and remains hopeful that the pair will create a third album in 2023 but in the meantime has created the surprise EP 'Guitar Songs.'
She said: "We're going to hopefully make another album in the next year. I mean, it's crazy. I hate to say this because I know it's a disappointment to people that think, 'Oh my God, they're making an album. It's going to come out soon.' TV and The 30th are the only songs that we have. We don't have any other songs. These songs are really current for me, and they're songs that I want to have said right now. I was talking to FINNEAS and I was like, "You know what, man? I don't want to wait until the next album cycle to put these songs on an album and then it's like, 'Wow, we have these two guitar songs that are two years old.'"
The 'bad guy' hitmaker – who has been on a world tour since February – went on to explain that it can be "really tough" to write new music while on the road because of a grueling schedule.
Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, she added: "FINNEAS and I had talked about we want to be making music and we just haven't had any time to make music and we're on tour and it's busy and this and that. So we made a little schedule. We were like, "Okay, well, let's see if we make anything if we work today." But when you're on the road and especially the schedule that we had, it was really tough. But we tried, and we ended up writing the, I think, first verse and the chorus … We wrote the first verse a couple months ago, many months ago now, and it was … Should I just say it? I'm actually with [my personal assistant] Laura right now. Laura's sitting here. We come into my green room, and I'm like, "Laura, listen to this song we just wrote," and it was just the verse. It was just the first verse. I play it, and Laura literally is sitting there like this, and I was like, 'But it's fictional. It's just fictional. It's not anything real. Don't worry about it.'Then a couple months went by, and things changed, and then we wrote the rest of the song."
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Q: Python | Concatenate two differently sized string arrays and preserve matching I am trying to concatenate the following two arrays of the following format (strings only):
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Bjork Announces New Album 'Vulnicura' Is Coming This March
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The reigning sovereign of strange, Bjork, has revealed that her new album, Vulnicura, the follow-up to 2011's multimedia record Biophilia, is due to drop this March. The Icelandic alternative singer-songwriter's ninth studio LP will also mark her sixth in collaboration with renowned producer Arca (a.k.a. Alejandro Ghersi), whose recent work also includes tracks on Kanye West's Yeezus and FKA twigs' debut LP.
Bjork announced the disc's imminent release today with trademark eccentricity, posting a handwritten note on Facebook this afternoon detailing the album's name and track listing (below).
The statement reads: "Ladies and Gentlemen, I am very proud to announce my new album is coming out in March. It is called: Vulnicura… I do hope you will enjoy it!! Warmthness, Bjork."
The 9-song disc features six songs written by Bjork herself, two co-written with Arca and one co-penned by songwriter John Flynn. The album also features production from young UK producer/performer The Haxan Cloak. The songstress has already announced one performance trailing the release of the LP, with a spot booked on the lineup of the 2015 New York Governors Ball in June.
Bjork's most recent musical offering came in the form of a collaboration with US experimental hip hop act Death Grips when they released surprise album Niggas On The Moon last June.
Vulnicura Tracklist:
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02. Lionsong
03. History of Touches
04. Black Lake
05. Family
06. Notget
07. Atom Dance
08. Mouth Mantra
09. Quicksand
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615 Dead Dolphins on Beach in Peru
Posted on March 28, 2012 by Kirsten Massebeau
Picture taken by Hardy Jones March 28, 2012 Peru
HORRIFIC DOLPHIN MORTALITY NORTH COAST OF PERU
"I arrived here yesterday, Tuesday 3/28. In that one day we found 615 dead dolphins on 135 kilometers of beach north of San Jose, Peru. This tragedy is unspeakable. BlueVoice is working with Dr. Carlos Yaipen Llanos of ORCA Peru. Tissue samples have been obtained and will be analyzed. Never heard of this level of UME. This must be investigated. We have video and stills for the media. If you have media contacts have them email me at hardyjones@bluevoice.org."(Hardy Jones)
This action alert is via Hardy Jones of Blue Voice.org. At this time there is no evidence as to why this Unusual Mortality event has occurred. Help is needed to get to the cause of why 615 dolphins have died on the coast near San Jose, Peru. If you are media, or can shed any light on this tragic event please email Hardy Jones at hardyjones@bluevoice.org.
Hardy Jones has updated his blog on this EMU in Peru http://bluevoice.org/blog.php
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Cape Cod Dolphin Stranding Coincides with Atlantic Naval Warfare Exercises in 10 years
Posted on March 7, 2012 by Kirsten Massebeau
Picture by Sandy Sullivan taken at Jeremy Point, Wellfleet
By Kirsten Massebeau and Edward Johnson
January 12, 2012 will always be remembered as the day the mass stranding of common dolphins began on Cape Cod's Wellfleet. Dolphins began to strand that afternoon and continued into the month of February. Government funded non profit IFAW strand network and NOAA have continued to contend there is no connection to sonar despite the largest Naval Warfare exercises in 10 years. But the carcasses of dolphins decomposing on the Cape Cod Coastline are screaming out for an investigation into what really happened by an unbiased, independent team of scientists who are not funded by the U.S. government. It is no surprise that each and every "expert"interviewed is government funded. They want the world to believe this was a "natural" occurrence yet how can we when all the information related to the stranding is being handled by government funded agencies and scientists, a truly biased group. Dolphin conservationists are challenging the Navy to release locations of the sonar carrying vessels during these training exercises and the sonar pings and anthropogenic noise created by by underwater detonations. In addition, some of the foreign participants may have been using sonar that is not described in the Naval permit in any other way than classified:
"Active sonar Systems to be deployed along US Atlantic Coast and Gulf"
"Disturbance The presence and movement of vessels represent a source of acute and chronic disturbance for marine mammals and sea turtles. The underwater noise generated by vessels may disturb animals when the animal perceives that an approach has started and during the course of the interaction. 6.1.2 High-frequency active sonar Several of the torpedoes and the AN/BQS-15 sonar system, which Navy submarines use for under-ice navigation and mine-hunting, produce high-frequency sounds (see Table 7). In addition, two of the active sonar systems the U.S. Navy employs as part of its mine warfare scenarios – AN/AQS-14, which is an active-controlled, helicoptertowed mine-hunting active sonar and AN/AQS-24 which is an upgraded version of AN/AQS-14 – operate at frequencies higher than 200 kHz.
6.1.3 Mid-frequency active sonar
Naval sonars operate on the same basic principle as fish-finders (which are also a kind of sonar): brief pulses of sound, or "pings," are projected into the ocean and an accompanying hydrophone system in the sonar device listens for echoes from targets such as ships, mines or submarines. Several sonar systems are likely to be employed during the active sonar training activities the U.S. Navy plans to conduct along the Atlantic Coast of the United States andin the Gulf of Mexico, but several systems pose potential risks to listed resources (we should note that other navies that might be involved in some of the active sonar training exercises, such as Joint Task Force Exercises, employ similar active sonar systems as well, but we do not have the information necessary to describe those systems". http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/consultations/biop_navy_afast_loa2012.pdf
Based on Table 7, pg. 139 under disturbances which indicate that the use of these systems will be the source of acute and chronic disturbance for marine mammals and sea turtles, this permit allows ten different systems to be considered classified. These classified systems are indicated as such for two reasons 1) Apparently at the request of the US Navy or 2) Systems that belong to a foreign government participating in some form of joint task force operation. NOAA and NMFS in others words by allowing the use of these damaging to lethal systems has basically agreed to circumvent the Marine Mammal Protection Act. The following is a list of those systems:
AN/SQS-53 and AN/SQS-56 MF Classified, AN/BQQ-5 or 10 MF Classified, MK-48 Torpedo HF Classified, MK-46 or 54 Torpedo HF Classified, IEER (AN/SSQ-110A) Impulsive -Broadband Classified, AN/SLQ-25 (NIXIE) MF Classified, AN/SQQ-32 HF Classified, AN/BQS-15 HF Classified, ADC MK-1, MK-2, MK-3, and MK-4 ADCs MF Classified, & Noise Acoustic Emitters (NAE) MF Classified
Conservationists are asking how such and extensive Naval operation using sonar could be be ruled out as the cause to the Atlantic cetacean strandings during January and February 2012 on the Atlantic Ocean. Government funded Katie Moore of IFAW in her article "Putting conspiracy to bed for Cape Cod's stranded dolphins, it wasn't U.S. Navy Sonar", goes to great lengths to convince the reader that sonar is not the cause of the Cape Cod stranding's. "The Navy has not conducted a major training exercise in the Northeast US within the last 24 months. Currently there is only one active area of the Mid-Atlantic coast and according to both parties; Operation Bold Alligator 12, did not involve active sonar". http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/consultations/biop_navy_afast_loa2012.pdf.
Here is an excellent response by an anonymous commenter to Katie Moore's article:
"Please don't blithely dismiss people's concerns about the Navy's use of active sonar by using the word "conspiracy". Although I respect the fact that you were a leader in this recent stranding case and I admire the work of your organization, the fact is that the effects of LFAS and MFAS on most species of cetaceans are largely unknown. What we do know is that small cetaceans will react to active sonar (Haro Strait 2003), but the Navy has a long history of not being forthright with the public, and NOAA is arm in arm with the Navy. Thanks to the work of a few brave and knowledgeable individuals and organizations, the public would not only continue to be in the dark about the Navy's use of active sonar in its training ranges (dating back at least 60 years), but would continue to be left out of the legal and public commenting process. Let them question without being ridiculed". http://www.ifaw.org/us/news/putting-conspiracy-bed-cape-cods-stranded-dolphins-it-wasn%E2%80%99t-us-navy-sonar#comment-51136
NOAA also made a point to dispel any questions about Sonar being involved, "Could military activities (e.g., Navy sonar or exercises) be causing these strandings? The Navy has not conducted a major training exercise off the coast of Massachusetts or anywhere in the Northeast in the last 24 months. Some animal welfare organizations have inquired about "Operation Bold Alligator, which was a combined Navy and Marine Corps training exercise recently conducted off the coast of North Carolina and southern Virginia. No hull mounted active sonar was used during "Operation Bold Alligator 12." Activities conducted during that exercise could not possibly have affected dolphins in the Gulf of Maine and Cape Cod Bay". http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/health/commondolphins_massachusetts2012.ht
In fact, there were not one but two Naval Exercises conducted in the "Atlantic" during January and February. It began with Comptuex JTFEX and went on to include Operation Bold Alligator. The magnitude of the Naval training exercises that took place in the Atlantic ocean during these months are mind boggling. The U.S. Navy began Comptuex (Composite Training Exercise, JTFEX (Joint Task Fleet Exercise) on January 11, 2012 in the Atlantic ocean."USS Enterprise (CVN 65) departed its homeport of Norfolk, Va., Jan. 11 to participate in a Composite Unit Training Exercise (COMPTUEX) and Joint Task Force Exercise (JTFEX)"The Enterprise Carrier Strike Group includes USS Enterprise (CVN 65), Carrier Air Wing 1, Destroyer Squadron 2, guided-missile cruiser USS Vicksburg (CG 69), guided-missile destroyers USS Porter (DDG 78), USS James E. Williams (DDG 95) and USS Nitze (DDG 94)">http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2012-01-13T06:45:00-05:00&max-results=2 The USS James E. Williams a sonar laden guided missile destroyer is pictured above in the "Atlantic" performing a live fire exercise on January 12, 2012. Exact locations in the "Atlantic" are undisclosed.
Comptuex JTFEX Crew Certification January 18th 2012
"The goal of the exercise is to integrate and assess the staff and individual units within the Enterprise Carrier Strike Group, and to grant the strike group major operations certification upon completion.http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=64784
"The JTFEX will test the ship's ability, as well as that of its strike group, to operate in a complex, hostile environment with other U.S. and coalition forces". http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=64784
"COMPTUEX is the last major battle group exercise that the James E. Williams will have before we deploy with the Enterprise Strike Group this spring," said Cmdr. Christopher M. Senenko, the commanding officer of James E. Williams". http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=64784
"It's a last opportunity for the battle group to integrate, demonstrate all the mission sets we possibly may encounter on deployment, and get certification from the operational chain-of-command," said Senenko"http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=6478
"Hudson and Crosby also act as evaluators who are responsible for tactically employing SONAR to find threats. When a threat is found they place the ship or ships in their control into the most opportune environment to prosecute the threat". http://navaltoday.com/2012/01/31/usa-arleigh-burke-class-guided-missile-destroyer-flexes-undersea-warfare-capabilities/
Comptuex/JTFEX and Operation Bold Alligator Underway February 8th 2012
Operation Bold Alligator took place from January 30-February 12, 2012
"Thousands of Marines storm U.S. beaches as Operation Bold Alligator sees biggest amphibious landing for a decade"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2097624/Thousands-Marines-storm-U-S-beaches-Operation-Bold-Alligator-simulates-international-invasion.html#ixzz1npyQiDCP
"Bold Alligator is a large-scale, multinational Navy-Marine Corps amphibious exercise conducted by U.S. Fleet Forces and Marine Forces Command. It will be the Atlantic Fleet's largest amphibious exercise in 10 years. The 2012 exercise is centralizing planning and execution of a brigade-sized amphibious assault from a seabase in a medium threat environment. Following a decade of ground war, this event is intended to revitalize, refine and strengthen core amphibious competencies of the Navy and Marine Corps". http://www.globenewswire.com/newsroom/news.html?d=244896
Interestingly an article published by PBS, "Just Ask: Could Sonar Be Responsible for Cap Cod Dolphin Strandings?" PBS interviews again interviews government funded and government funded Katie Moore of IFAW and then adds the voice of government funded Darlene Ketten of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute famous for their use of air guns, blasts of sound that map the ocean floor,
"Katie Moore, manager of the marine mammal rescue effort for theInternational Fund for Animal Welfare says she's seen no evidence of any of these symptoms in the dolphins she and her team have tried to rescue.Darlene Ketten of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who has been studying the stranded dolphins in her lab, agrees. Research is still ongoing, she says, but lab analyses show no indication of animals suffering from issues related to acoustics". http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/02/just-ask-could-sonar-be-responsible-for-cape-cod-dolphin-strandings.html Lastly, PBS brings in the Navy, "The United States Navy has operated one marine training exercise on the East Coast this year, according to U.S. Navy spokesman Lt. Matt Allen. The exercise, Operation Bold Alligator, occurred between Jan. 30 and Feb. 12 in and around the coasts of southern Virginia and North Carolina. High frequency active sonar may have been used in this operation, Allen said. "This type of sonar is used for depth finding and mine location purposes, and is similar to fathometers, which are used by fisherman," he said. "But it's short range and has never been associated with marine mammal strandings."http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2012/02/just-ask-could-sonar-be-responsible-for-cape-cod-dolphin-strandings.html
So why the smoke screen? Where is any mention of Comptuex JTFEX? Why is it unreasonable for United States Taxpayers to question Naval activities in relation to Cape Cod or any other stranding? In reality the Navy has a permit to "take" many more common dolphins annually on the Atlantic Ocean than the nearly 180 that stranded on Cape Cod.
"The Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command, 1562 Mitscher Ave., Ste 250,
Norfolk, VA 23551-2457 and persons operating under his authority (i.e., Navy), are authorized
to take marine mammals incidental to Navy activities conducted as part of the Atlantic Fleet
Active Sonar Training (AF AST) in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico in accordance with
50 CFR Part 216, Subpart V– Taking and Importing Marine Mammals; U.S. Navy' s Atlantic
Fleet Active Sonar Training (AF AST) subject to the provisions of the Marine Mamma l
Protection Ac t (16 U.S.C. 1361 e t seq.; MMPA) and the following conditions"
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/permits/2011_afast_loa_coverletter.pdf
This Authorization is valid for the period February 7, 2011, through January 21, 2012
(i) Mysticetes:
(A) North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) – 733
(B) Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) – 4622
(C) Minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) – 457
(D) Sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis) 1163
(E) Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) – 970
(F) Bryde's whale (Balaenoptera edeni) 40
(G) Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) 881
(ii) Odontocetes:
2 (A) Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) 10734
(B) Pygmy or dwa r f sperm whales (Kogia breviceps or Kogia sima)
(C) Beaked Whales (Cuvier's, True's, Gervais', Sowerby's, Blainville's,
Northern bottlenose whale) (Ziphius cavirostris, Mesoplodon mirus, M.
europaeus, M. bidens, M. densirostris, Hyperoodon ampullatus) 5398
(D) Rough-toothed dolphin (Steno bredanensis) – 2979
(E) Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) 667482
(F) Pan-tropical dolphin (Stenella attenuata) – 153237
G) Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis) – 413917
(H) Spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris) – 23271
(I) Clymene dolphin (Stenella clymene) 51082
(1) Striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) 192196
(K) Common dolphin (Delphinus spp.) 106106
(L) Fraser's dolphin (Lagenodelphis hosei) – 381
(M) Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus) 103483
(N) Atlantic white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus acutus) – 22716
(0) White-beaked dophin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris) – 3795
(P) Melon-headed whale (Peponocephala electra) – 1819
(Q) Pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata) 308
(R) False killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) 592
(S) Killer whale (Orcinus orca) – 553
(T) Pilot whales (Short-finned pilot or long-finned) (Globicephala
macrorynchus or G. melas) 140132
4. (a) The taking of marine mammals by the Navy is only authorized if it occurs
incidental to the use of the following mid-frequency active sonar (MFAS) sources, high
frequency active sonar (HF AS) sources, or explosive sonobuoys for U.S. Navy anti-submarine
warfare (ASW), mine warfare (MIW) training, maintenance, or research, development, testing,
and evaluation (RDT &E) in the amounts indicated below:
(i) AN/SQS-53 (hull-mounted sonar) – 3214 hours
(ii) AN/SQS-56 (hull-mounted sonar) – 1684 hours
(iii) AN/SQS-56 or 53 (hull-mounted sonar in object detection mode) – 216
(iv) ANIBQQ-10 or 5 (submarine sonar) – 9976 pings (v) ANI AQS-22 or 13 (helicopter dipping sonar) – 2952 dips
(vi) SSQ-62 (Directional Command Activated Sonobuoy System (DICASS)
sonobuoys) – 5853 sonobuoys
(vii) MK-48 (heavyweight torpedoes) 32 torpedoes
(viii) MK-46 or 54 (lightweight torpedoes) 24 torpedoes
(ix) AN/SSQ- l l OA (lEER explosive sonobuoy) – 1725 sonobuoys
(x) AN/SSQ-125 (AEER) sonar sonobuoy) – 1550
(xi) AN/SLQ-25 (NIXIE – towed countermeasure) – 2500 hours
(xii) ANIBQS-15 (submarine navigation) 450 hours
(xiii) MK-1 or 2 or 3 or 4 (Submarine-fired Acoustic Device Countermeasure
(ADC» – 225 ADCs
(xiv) Noise Acoustic Emitters (NAE – Sub-fired countermeasure) – 127 NAEs
(b) l i the number of sonar hours, dips, torpedoes, and sonobuoys indicated in Condition
4(a) are exceeded by more than 10 percent, subsequent LOAs issued under the AF AST final rule will ensure that the total activities over five years do not result in exceeding the amount of authorized marine mammal takes indicated in 50 CFR 216.242(c).
"This Authorization is valid for the period January 22, 2012, through January 22,2014
2 (A) North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) 1466
(D) Sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis) – 2326
(E) Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) – 1940
(F) Bryde ' s whale (Balaenoptera edeni) – 80
(G) Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) – 1762
(A) Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) – 21468
(B) Pygmy or dwa r f sperm whales (Kogia breviceps or Kogia s ima ) –
europaeus, M. bidens, M. densirostris, Hyperoodon ampullatus) – 10796
(D) Rough-toothed dolphin (Steno bredanensis) 5958
(E) Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) – 1334964
G) Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis) 827824
(I) Clymene dolphin (Stenella clymene) – 102164
(J) Striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) – 384392
(K) Common dolphin (Delphinus spp.) – 212212
(L) Fr a s e r ' s dolphin (Lagenodelphis hosei) – 762
(M) Risso' s dolphin (Grampus griseus) – 206966
(0) White-beaked dophin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris) -7590
(P) Melon-headed whale (Peponocephala electra) 3638
(Q) Pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata) – 616
(R) False killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) – 1194
(S) Killer whale (Orcinus orca) 1106
(U) Harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) – 337658
The taking of marine mamma l s by the Navy is only authorized if it occurs
incidental to the us e of the following mid-frequency active sonar (MF AS) sources, high
frequency active sonar (HFAS) sources, or similar sources, for U.S. Navy anti-submarine
and evaluation (ROT &E) in the amounts indicated below:
(i) . AN/SQS-53 (hull-mounted sonar) – 6428 hours (an average of 3214 hours annually)
(ii) AN/SQS-56 (hull-mounted sonar) – 3368 hours (an average of 1684 hours annually)
(iii) AN/SQS-56 or 53 (hull-mounted sona r in object detection mode) – 432 hours (an
average of216 hours annually) (iv) ANIBQQ- I0 or 5 (submarine sonar) – 19952 pings (an average of9976 pings
annually)
(v) AN/AQS-22 or 13 (helicopter dipping sonar) – 5904 dips (an average of2952 dips
(vi) SSQ-62 (Directional Command Activated Sonobuoy System (DICASS) sonobuoys)
11706 sonobuoys (an average of 5853 sonobuoys annually)
(vii) MK-48 (heavyweight torpedoes) – 64 torpedoes (an average of 32 torpedoes
(viii) MK-46 or 54 (lightweight torpedoes) – 48 torpedoes (an average of24 torpedoes
(ix) AN/SSQ- l i OA (IEER explosive sonobuoy) – 3450 sonobuoys (an average of 1725
sonobuoys annually)
(x) AN/SSQ-125 (AEER) sonar sonobuoy) 3100 sonobuoys (an average of 1550
(xi) AN/SLQ-25 (NIXIE – towed countermeasure) 5000 hours (an average of2500
hours annually)
(xii) ANIBQS-15 (submarine navigation) 900 hours (an average of 450 hours annually)
(xiii) MK-I or 2 or 3 or 4 (Submarine-fired Acoustic Device Countermeasure (ADC»-
450 ADCs (an average of225 ADCs annually)
(xiv) Noise Acoustic Emitters (NAE – Sub-fired countermeasure) – 254 NAEs (an
average of 127 NAEs annually)
(b) I f the number of sonar hours, dips, torpedoes, and sonobuoys indicated in Condition 4(a) are exceeded by more than 10 percent, subsequent LOAs issued under the AF AST final rule will ensure that the total activities over five years do not result in exceeding the amount of authorized marine mammal takes indicated in 50 CFR 216.242(c)."
http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/permits/afast_loa2012.pdf
So what does all this mean for dolphins and whales. The numbers of cetaceans that may be "taken" or "harassed" by sonar is huge. In addition, today's new sonar is more powerful than ever before traveling further and covering even greater distances than ever before yet how does the Navy determine if cetaceans will be effected? By visually looking for whales and dolphins, "Lookouts shall be trained in the most effective means to ensure quick and effective communication within the command structure in order to facilitate implementation of mitigation measures i f marine mammals are spotted". http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/pdfs/permits/2011_afast_loa_coverletter.pdf In other words any whale or dolphin diving deep that is not visually detected becomes a casualty.
A video made long ago in 2003 by Ken Balcomb cetacean scientist, demonstrates the painful and devastating effects of sonar. The viewer can only imagine how much stronger sonar and other sounds produced by live Naval warfare games are today and the effect they have on our ocean friends.
It is time to take action. Non government funded organizations and people worldwide are demanding the Navy silence their deadly sonar. The trade off is too great. It is time for the world to open their eyes to the deadly sounds being introduced into the world of dolphins and whales. The ocean is their habitat not mans. Isn't it time we start putting the ocean and her creatures first.
1) Don't just take the word of government funded organizations that continue to spread propaganda about sonar. Sonar is very real and it is deadly to whales and dolphins!
Contact the Freedom of Information Act and request location of ships involved in Comptuex JTFEX and Bold Alligator. In addition, request sonar emissions and underwater charges. In addition request necropsy level C data.
Join us on as we continue to fight the people of the sea. We agree national security is important but at what cost to dolphins whales and all the sea creatures that call the ocean home.
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I now debut a new site contributor as Rich Lane takes my tired and decrepit old site and gives it a much-needed facelift to mark the 10-year anniversary of it's launch in 2000. A full-time web creator and designer by profession, he has owned Webbed Feats Web Design for over a decade and he has also taught high school English by day for over fifteen years. I met him at the Pittsburgh Comic Con (photo above, 4/08) and he subsequently and generously offered to overhaul my website. He acted as voluntary website maintenance assistant until 2014 when he resigned.
Chris Griffen
If it weren't for Craig Rousseau or Christopher Griffen I simply would not even have a website up and running. Even though I now generally have all of this on-going site construction and maintenance figured out, I'm eternally grateful for their expertise and patience. Click the images to check their sites out!
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Mike Fichera
It was thanks to Mike Fichera that I was added to the world of Wikipedia. A professional environmental engineer by day and freelance writer by night, I 'met' mike through email correspondence with Jeff ("Snood") Christiansen, creator of the Marvel Universe Appendix site (of which we're all fellow 'masters of the obscure') for either the site or in regard to a marvel handbook. I had been waiting to get a wiki page posted but never seemed to find the time. I contacted fellow "Jarvishead" Danny Wall, who I read writes for Marvel.com's wiki section, but he was too busy to fill that slot, so he put the word out to his fellow contributors and thankfully Mike came a callin' to the rescue. Posted as of January '08, Mike will be updating my entry as time goes on. You can click the related logos for their respective links and Mike's photo to visit his own website.
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I'd like to thank the following for their usually uncredited, invaluable assistance over various lengths of time
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