For a mid-summers day treat a dozen members of the walking group decided that there could be nothing nicer than to visit the birds on Rathlin Island and savour the famous hospitality provided by the islanders. John made the bookings for ferry and accommodation - at the Manor House and at Coolnagrock B&B.
Dire warnings had been given all week about the foul weather heading our way but undaunted we packed a few extra clothes preparing for what we felt might be the worst and headed for Ballycastle. John and Christina, Jim and Sandi travelled "under their own steam". The remaining eight of us were to meet in the Jethro Centre, initially planning to travel by mini-bus, Paddy Og (the one not old enough for his bus pass) having kindly offered to drive us to Ballycastle. When we arrived at Jethro shortly before 8.45 in the morning there was no mini-bus to be seen so John's last minute executive decision to travel in two cars was vindicated. But worse was to come - a quick head count revealed that one of our party was missing - Paddy Mór (AKA Postman Pat) was nowhere to be seen. Calling into the Jethro Centre, John was lucky enough to find Susan who retrieved the Cedars file from under the stairs and gave us Pat's phone number. He wasn't still in bed as we had feared but he was just seconds away from going out of his front door for a leisurely walk round Lurgan Park before dandering down to the Jethro Centre for the usual 10.00am start. Had he a subconscious premonition that he would be better off staying at home, has he been pre-programmed to turn up at Jethro at 10.00am on Thursdays or was he just his usual carefree self? The mystery was solved when he told us that he didn't read his email every day - tut tut.
Picking Pat up on Lurgan's High Street, we were soon on the M1 and had a trouble-free journey to Ballycastle where we even had enough time to drive past 15th century Bonamargie Friary - Further along the coast road we marvelled at the contortions of the rock which make this area a mecca for geologists.
But other contortions were beckoning as we turned the car round and headed back to the ferry. We arrived at about the same time as the girls in the second of the two "Jethro" cars - they had been held up for 20 minutes getting through Moira so Pat's carefree attitude to time had actually ensured that we arrived first. All was forgiven.
Soon all were assembled and tickets "bought". Paddy Og even had to pay real money reminding us that, for the present at least, free travel to Rathlin is one of the great joys of growing older. But storm clouds were gathering! Because of the worsening forecast, the ferry staff suggested we return on the mid-day ferry the next day rather than the later ferry which John had originally booked; taking his mobile number staff promised faithfully to ring John if anything changed so that Jim and Pat could be sure of getting back for the summer festival of racing at Down Royal.
Arriving on Rathlin our greatest surprise was that it was totally rain free - despite the most horrendous five day forecasts earlier in the week it was dull but perfectly dry. Sandi was kind enough to suggest that I had arranged the good weather but, fearful of what lay ahead, I assured her that it was entirely out of my hands.
As we disembarked from the ferry at Rathlin we all were warmly greeted by Margaret McQuilken owner of Coolnagrock B&B. She assisted her four charges - Editn, Jenny, Joan and Kathleen - to pack their luggage into her boot and within a few minutes she had whisked them all up the hill to deposit their bags and see their rooms which were en suite, slendidly comfortable and tastefully decorated in soft warm colours. From here they could see the Mull of Kintyre and Islay. Margaret's hospitality was most generous - as well as tea and coffee making facilities the girls had access to a ground floor lounge with a library of very interesting books. Edith particularly enjoyed a recent publication by Philip Watson - Rathlin, Nature & Folklore - and also Rathlin, by Bernard Davey a former BBC Weather Man. If one wanted to relax by enjoying music a good library of CDs was also available. The breakfast room looked out over the rugged island terrain and a family of bunnies was observed one morning playing hide and seek. But this wasn't designed to be a holiday for relaxation so the girls soon set off again to meet the others.
But back at the Manor House, and without the benefit of Bernard Davey's wisdom to guide us, some of us were keen to press on with our walk while the favourable weather lasted but a small group was drawn to the dining room of the Manor House like moths to a flame. Somewhat reluctantly (surely not!) John joined them and we were soon tucking into a fine repast from the large tapas menu. Meanwhile the others who had followed John's advice and come prepared with sandwiches and flasks of hot water enjoyed their picnic in Manor House's lounge, little imagining that this room would become the focus of the unfolding drama in the days ahead.
After lunch, we retrieved our luggage from the store room and claimed our bedrooms - there was a brief tussle over the en-suite room which Paddy had initially taken but it only boasted a shower so when Paddy saw the bath in the private bathroom not twenty feet away from John and Christina's room, he was quick to do a swap. Paddy, as we were to learn, likes his bath.
We then rearranged ourselves into two walking groups with six in each. One group, the mutineers, comprising John and Christina, Jim and Sandi, Jenny and Edith sought permission from John to take the Puffin Bus to Bull Rock at the western end of the island. Realising that they were going to go anyway, John acceded to their request, advising them to travel there by bus and walk home so that they capitalised on the dry weather for bird watching although there was just a suspicion that he hoped they might get a good soaking on the way back for breaking rank. The bus driver, passionate about his island, was a font of local knowledge and kept the group well informed of anything of interest on the journey. On the bus the group also met three Dutch ladies and enjoyed learning of their Northern Ireland experiences. The final approach to the sanctuary caused some concern; the bus made some strange noises and struggled to get up the steep incline. Sandi, applying her medical knowledge wondered if perhaps it was called the puffin bus because they would all end up puffin' after shovin' the bloomin' bus up the hill to its destination.
But the bus made it unaided to its cliff top terminus and after a steep walk down ninety or so steps brought the group to the platform where they met the enthusiastic RSPB volunteers who helpfully explained that there would be no penguins to be seen on the island that day (or ever). To a background of noisy chatter from the thousands of guillemots the volunteers also explained that the puffin population has significantly diminished in recent years. The climatic conditions and the change in fishing patterns are among the reasons for the decline. There were plenty of binoculars and telescopes available, to give a clear view of the puffins, kittiwakes, fulmar and various gulls and the volunteers positioned the telescopes so that is was possible to view the puffins in closer detail. These little birds are really beautiful and one could never cease to be amazed at their flight. It is hoped that baby puffins will be seen within the next couple of weeks.
The group our visit had the privilege of speaking with Tom McDonnell a renowned wild life photographer. He shared with them a lovely shot of a puffin in flight. He spotted one on a grassy ledge quite near and everyone attempted to get a picture. For the present I will have to make do with one taken from the web.
Most members of our Cedars Walking Group will by now be familiar with the RSPB observation platform at Bull Rock; if you're not, then you should add it to your list of must-see destinations - but try to plan your visit for a still and sunny day! It's a favourite spot for fanatical bird watchers or twitchers.
Did you know that twitchers have developed their own vocabulary?
Lifer: A first-ever sighting of a bird species by an observer; an addition to one's life list.
Plastic: Adjective used to indicate a bird which has escaped from captivity, rather than a genuinely wild bird.
Reuben: Somebody that knows a lot more about birds than you do.
Remembering who they were and why they had really come, the group decided to walk the return journey, approximately four miles, back to base. This gave an opportunity for them to view and photograph some of the wild orchids, blue scabious and fiery fuchsia. The rambling wild honeysuckle and buttercups added to the rich tapestry of the heathland. A grey heron was also spotted patiently waiting at the edge of the pond hoping for a meal and further along another heron was seen in flight. By the time the group arrived at the harbour they reckoned it was four Irish miles they had journeyed. However, the outing had given them much to savour and many lovely memories to share with family and friends at home.
Meanwhile Kathleen, Joan, Paddy, Pat, John and Ann collectively known as the buccaneers took the more adventurous and less travelled path south on the Roonivoolin Walk . Starting at Church Bay, we climbed up to the crossroads, the only one on the island, and turned right towards Rue Point and the south light house. It really seemed like we were stepping back in time as we walked along the road - to somewhere between 2005 and 2007 judging by the tax discs on cars. And another reminder of times past was the distinctive call of choughs - Rathlin Island has the only breeding pair in Northern Ireland - and corncrakes. However, these were not the calls of living birds but recordings played (by turning handles) on an informative notice board helpfully placed at the roadside by RSPB.
Despite the overcast skies we managed to get some real views of the Mull of Kintyre (just) and sightings of (possibly) hares and (definitely) orchids for which the island is justly famous. Passing some rock formation reminiscent of the Giant's Causeway we eventually came to the end of the surfaced road (about two miles from Church Bay) and caught sight of the Rue Point Light House. Worried that the weather might suddly take a turn for the worse we decided not to go all the way past the disused kelp kiln on the shore line to the light house beyond; when the tarmac road ran out, we took a small gate to the right and followed the RSPB marker posts across the fields of the Roonivoolin Reserve to the entirely safe and well fenced off cliff top walk where we enjoyed spectacular views along the coastline of Rathlin and back to Fair Head (Irish: an Bhinn Mhór), the rocky headland 3 miles east of Ballycastle, and the closest part of the mainland to Rathlin. The fitter among us will know that Fair Head is a very highly-regarded rock-climbing location, and is believed to be the biggest expanse of climbable rock in either Ireland or Britain - but that's for another day.
As we walked back towards the Manor House we passed Ally Lough and Ushet Lough and at one point we almost walked through an unnamed lough which ran alongside the field wall. Having descended back down to sea level we were treated to sightings of the seals in Mill Bay including, for a few of us, the amazing sight of a seal travelling at full speed towards us and leaping right out of the water a number of times like a dolphin or, for that matter, a seal! I was too dumbstruck to get a picture of the seal but here on the right is one from the web.
In the evening we all sat down together at 7.00pm in the dining room of the Manor House for dinner. It arrived shortly after 8.00pm but the lively conversation made time fly. Paddy Og bagged the last "T" bone steak on offer and John got his lobster, freshly landed and laced with wild garlic and herb oil - some suspected that this was his real reason for the Rathlin trip. We were perhaps just a little confused when Paddy started to reminisce about enjoying a bath with Joe Malone - had the chef served magic mushrooms with his steak? But Paddy was quick to clarify that Jo Malone are the purveyors to the quality of fine fragrances and lotions for body and bath - now you don't have to be stuck when picking Paddy's Christmas gift.
Replete and exhausted, we went to bed with hardly a care in the world little knowing what the morrow had in store! With apologies for the split infinitive, Friday 22nd June 2012 on Rathlin was to truly be "The longest day".
Waking up, there was an ominous noise on the west facing roof of our bathroom caused by wind (external) and heavy rain. As we sat down to enjoy our Ulster fries together we were acutely aware of the slow service and the fast rain hurtling past the window. Waves were crashing on the shore but nevertheless we were a little reassured by the sight of the vehicle ferry (resembling a "D" Day landing craft) preparing to set off for Ballycastle. As it lurched out of the harbour into the tossing waves we became concerned that the smaller ferry on which we had been booked to sail, might not be able to cope with the conditions but when we made enquiries of the Manor House staff they reassured us that its engine was running so it would sail. How wrong they were!
Only moments later John received a phone call from Kathleen in the B&B half a mile away. Her landlady had just received a call to say that all further sailings from the island were cancelled that day. For unexplained reasons the ferry company didn't contact John as they had promised the day previous. When John broke the bad news to his fellow diners there was universal disbelief and even a bit of nervous laughter. When the waiter confirmed that the ferry wasn't to run again that day he was congratulated on his fine acting ability and the room was thoroughly reassured that John's story was no more than an elaborate joke. But doubt crept in as frenzied phone conversations were overheard in the hall and when the engine of the smaller ferry was shut down and the crew packed up and left for home the truth, and recognition of John's unimpeachable honesty, finally began to sink in. The expensively acquired tans on more than one face drained away when our plight was confirmed by Manor House management who didn't seem to be excessively worried that we would be staying for a second night; their first question to us was "how many for lobster this evening?" It finally sank in why the service at breakfast had been so slow - we had missed the last ferry and were trapped. Is there a pact on the island (ferry men are all islanders) that they won't take visitors off the island if they can't bring anyone back to fill the empty beds?
As the wind pick up we were temporarily relieved to see that when we looked out of the window there was no rain to be seen, but stepping outside we quickly discovered that this was because the rain was travelling horizontally at such a speed that the eye couldn't follow its trajectory. If it hit a solid object it was with such force that the water atomised, leaving no visible trace apart from the rivers of water we were later to find flowing down the roads. Turning into the wind it felt like a thousand needles being thrust simultaneously into your face. Undaunted, or perhaps just trying to salvage something from our plight, nine of us set off in a northerly direction towards the east light house - the direction of travel is explained by the island's "L" shape, turned clockwise through 90 degrees and then mirrored horizontally - perhaps the view from space will explain it better!
Three of our party (although by this stage it wasn't much of a party) stayed behind, hoping that the wind might abate and the ferries restart or possibly even that a helicopter might be summoned to take them off during a lull in the storm. But their dreams were dashed as the weather worsened through the day.
Of the nine who set out for the lighthouse, barely a mile and a half away, only six managed to make it all the way. The three who didn't make it weren't blown away - they simply turned back once they had become waterlogged. One of them was heard to mutter darkly - these boots were made fer "walkin' - not fer wadin'." The light house site was one end of Marconi's experimental wireless link between Rathlin Island and Ballycastle which was first successfully established on 6th July 1898 at the invitation of Lloyds of London who wanted early reports of safe Atlantic crossings.
"Bruce's Cave" is also sited at and just below the East lighthouse. This is where Robert the Bruce was said to have sought refuge in 1306 after his defeat by the English at Perth in Scotland. As he sat in the cave, he caught sight of a spider that repeatedly tried to reach the cave roof by its thread. When it succeeded he decided "If at first you don't succeed, try, try and try again". He then returned to Scotland and defeated the English at Bannockburn.
But there was going to be no escape from Rathlin for us and history was not uppermost in our minds as we stoppoed at the lighthouse only long enough for a photo opportunity to prove "Cedars waz here". That done, we made the descent, past the tiny primary school and the island's two churches, to Church Bay. If our prayers for less rain were answered it wasn't for very long.
Back in the Manor House, we regrouped in the lounge; Ann brought down a bag of board games, the TV was turned on and in the bar John found a tin containing instructions for a variety of party games. The Manor House is well geared up for bad weather but even John's brave efforts at party games weren't enough to raise our spirits. The TV taunted us with pictures of glorious sunshine at Royal Ascot and the jigsaw kept us engrossed for a while but was found to be deficient in seven key pieces (carefully hidden in photo right). Paddy didn't improve matters by thrashing all-comers at draughts. Money was running out and, despite meeting some fascinating fellow internees in the lounge, cabin fever threatened to engulf us. Some decided they would have to break out for the evening and dine elsewhere so John and Pat volunteered to brave the hurricane force winds to go to Emma's Chip Ahoy - the island's only fish and chip shop to check out the fare and opening hours.
Emma (left) and her father (the man who caught the fish!) were welcoming and helpful, offering to open to suit our requirements. A wall display in Chip Ahoy catalogued famous disasters associated with Rathlin - we wondered would a report of the Cedars Walking Group visit be added anytime soon. We enjoyed our fish and chips and the conversation just as much. Reporting back to the group marooned at Manor House they agreed to brave the weather that evening and "dine out". It turned out to be one of the highlights of our visit. It definitely was fine dining with a difference. The dining area situated across the road from the chip shop was in a wooden shed, tied down with hawsers to stop it blowing away. It most closely resembled the hut occupied by Scott of the Antarctic before his ill-fated trek. Furnished with formica tables and plastic chairs, Last of the Summer Wine came to mind, but the food was good, the view was splendid and the craic was mighty.
Our spirits lifted and any residual frustrations were forgotten. Ten of us met up again round a roaring turf fire at the Manor House. Steam rose from our clothes as they dried and any bad feelings we may still have harboured evaporated with it. We went to bed happy; we had had a "once in a lifetime" adventure and tomorrow we would get home to brag to our friends. The next morning we were up and dressed in plenty of time for the first boat - we weren't going to be caught out again. And despite the tossing waves, oppressive heat and diesel fumes we smiled through gritted teeth as we left Church Bay and headed back over choppy seas to the mainland.
Was it a worthwhile trip? You bet your life it was, and an experience never to be forgotten. Better still, nobody was permanently damaged in the making of this historic trip !!!!
Many thanks to those who went to Rathlin and posed for or took the photographs reproduced here and especially to Sandi and Edith for writing about the RSPB reserve, Coolnagrock B&B and fine dining at Emma's Chip Ahoy.
Here are some more pics from our stay. Note the "faces in the rock" - John's theme for next year.
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I set out on a journey
Imagine my surprise (horror/fascination/wonder) on receiving a photo on my iphone a couple of months ago, displaying the shoulder of a regular at The Promised Land (a charming fellow and good acquaintance: I do not know him well enough to claim him as a friend) who had had tattooed upon himself a short poem of mine, in its entirety. The poem is called 'Restless Geography', and, in case it is difficult to make out the words in the picture, it goes like this:
I set out on a journey, but the geography would not
stay still, and I ended up somewhere I hadn't intended
I wanted to use this as the title of a collection of prose poems, but the publishers said it was too long, and I would have to cut it down, which I didn't want to do. So we called the book Sad Giraffe Café instead.
The night before last, the house having being borrowed by daughters, who were entertaining friends, I put down the book of poems I was reading, and Mrs Blanco and I set off under Scary Bridge, and across the road into the Vue cinema and fitness complex. The long haul up the escalators presented a panorama of the huge gym on the first floor. The place was almost empty, just a few Wednesday night loners pumping iron and a solitary immobile cyclist. All three of them were young men. There was something tragic in this display of righteous pumping and pedalling in the perennial pursuit for a well-toned physique and bulging biceps under the blinding glare of strip-lighting. All I could see, as we glided past them on our upward journey, was a dreadful torpor. All I could see – as Beckett might have said, actually did say – was ashes. This set the tone for the rest of the evening. The chatty girl in the empty ticket hall (a dozen cinemas, no visible customers) told us we were the only people to have bought tickets for Seven Psychopaths, the new film by Martin McDonagh, and starring Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken and Tom Waits (pictured, here, in an empty cinema).
So Mrs Blanco and I chose our seats, two thirds of the way back, next to the aisle, and had the place to ourselves. This is a strange sensation. A private viewing in a full-size cinema. The seats are very comfortable at Vue, and there is plenty of space, but even so it is a luxury to lounge in abandoned fashion, and lounge we did. It is a pleasure to be able to loudly curse the fools who populate the ads and the trailers, as practically every film that Hollywood chucks at places like the Vue franchise are complete tripe. Trivial meaningless drivel circling around a half dozen well-worn and clichéd themes, all of them dire and depressing.
But the empty cinema inspires melancholy, rather than depression. The film is entertaining, even if it adheres to many of the post-modern meta-fictional tropes made fashionable by Tarantino. Nevertheless it made me laugh like a loon, which is never a bad thing. Laughed myself almost into a stupor at various points in the movie, in fact.
We came home around midnight, and the party was breaking up. The young were setting off for Clwb Ifor Bach or some other Cardiff nightspot.
Earlier in the evening, when I had been reading through the Selected Poems of Roger Garfitt, two short lines from his poem 'The Journey' had stood out:
I had to go on
And I realised these lines evoked the precise emotion that had (paradoxically) accompanied me earlier that evening, as I passed the young men pumping iron in the empty gym, on our way up the escalator to the empty cinema. I realised also that if I had not been accompanied by Mrs Blanco, my evening would have been unutterably desolate and solitary (in a bad way). Company helps divert us, temporarily, from our essential and terrifying aloneness, allows us to go on, even if 'without oneself', who is unaccountably absent, then at least sharing the emptiness with a warm and sentient human partner.
Afterwards, I lay awake, and the words of Garfitt's poem stayed with me long into the night.
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This post hurts, Richard. But reading it is also like "sharing the emptiness with a warm and sentient human partner".


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2.1Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision
2.2Presidential Medal of Freedom
2.3Academic career
4.1Collected works
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Roberta Morgan Wohlstetter (August 22, 1912 – January 6, 2007) was an American historian of U.S. military intelligence. She authored Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision, which former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is said to have required his aides read. Indeed, it was brought up during discussions of intelligence failures leading to the successful Al-Qaeda attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.[1]
Wohlstetter was born Roberta Mary Morgan, the daughter of Edmund M. Morgan, Jr., a Harvard Law School professor who helped to simplify the federal rules of civil procedure and to modernize the U.S. code of military justice. Her husband was the late nuclear strategist Albert Wohlstetter.
Wohlstetter received her bachelor's degree from Vassar College and master's degrees from Columbia University and Radcliffe College.[2]
Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision[edit]
President Ronald Reagan presents Wohlstetter with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. in the East Room of the White House, November 1985. (photograph courtesy of Ronald Reagan Presidential Library)
Her book Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision attempts to explain the causes of the U.S. intelligence failures that led to Imperial Japan's 1941 surprise attack. In the years preceding the attack, U.S. code breakers were routinely reading much of the Japanese military and diplomatic traffic. However, a Japanese attack came as both a strategic and a tactical surprise. On the strategic level, U.S. intelligence analysts viewed the attack as unlikely because Japan could not expect to win the subsequent war (as it happens, Japanese planners had never completed a thorough strategic assessment. They were unwilling to abandon their expansion in east Asia and viewed the attack as the best way to start the inevitable confrontation). Furthermore, on several occasions during 1940-41 U.S. forces were put on high alert but no attack came, leading to fatigue. Finally, it was believed that the logical place for a Japanese attack would be in the Philippines. The book argues, in part, that intelligence failures are to be expected because of the difficulty identifying "signals" from the background "noise" of raw facts, regardless of the quantity of the latter.
On a tactical level, the attack came as a surprise because warning mechanisms - radar stations and patrol planes - were not deployed, although senior officers came to believe they were.
The book has been praised for its high degree of scholarship. Military history writer Eugene Rasor wrote in 1998 that the book is "the best and most comprehensive study of the intelligence failure that led to the surprise attack".[3] The book's findings and implications for modern intelligence analysts were updated in 2013 in another volume published by Stanford University Press, Constructing Cassandra, Reframing Intelligence Failure at the CIA, 1947-2001. That volume outlines how the hypotheses that Wohlstetter identifies as the mechanism by which intelligence "signals" are sorted from background "noise" are neither uniform, entirely rational or random, but are instead functions of the culture and identity of the analytic unit.[4]
Presidential Medal of Freedom[edit]
She and her husband were jointly awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Ronald Reagan in 1985. Reagan said:
Roberta Wohlstetter, a generation ahead of her time, asserted her influence in areas dominated by and, in some cases, reserved for men. She rose above all obstacles and has had a profound influence. Her inquiries went to the heart of the system of our society, focusing on essential questions. Her analysis of the problems of terrorism, intelligence, and warning and, with Albert [Wohlstetter], the problem of nuclear deterrence broke new ground and opened new alternatives for policymakers. I daresay that she has blankly enjoyed posing the same penetrating questions to her husband that she has to the intellectual and political leaders of the country. And that is certainly one explanation for the clarity and persuasiveness of his own voluminous words on strategy, politics, and world affairs.
Wohlstetter worked for the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research organization based in Santa Monica, California, from 1948 to 1965, and continued to be a consultant through 2002.
Academic career[edit]
Wohlstetter taught at the University of Chicago, Barnard College, and Howard University.[2]
Wohlstetter died on January 6, 2007, at New York Hospital in New York City at age 94.
Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press (1962). ISBN 0804705984, 978-1503620698. doi:10.1515/9781503620698.
Cuba and Pearl Harbor: Hindsight and Foresight. Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation (Apr. 1965).
International Terrorism: Kidnapping to Win Friends and Influence People (1974).
Collected works[edit]
Zarate, Robert, and Henry D. Sokolski, eds. (Jan. 26, 2009). Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter. Carlisle Barracks, Penn.: Strategic Studies Institute.
With commentary by Henry S. Rowen, Alain C. Enthoven, Richard Perle, Stephen J. Lukasik and Andrew W. Marshall.
^ Woodward, Bob (2002). Bush at War (pbk. ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 20. ISBN 0743204735.
^ a b Sullivan, Patricia (January 10, 2007). "Roberta M. Wohlstetter; Military Intelligence Expert". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 5, 2018.
^ Rasor, Eugene L. (1998). "The Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor". In Loyd E. Lee (ed.). World War Two in Asia and the Pacific and the War's Aftermath, with General Themes. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 45. ISBN 978-0313293269.
^ Jones, Milo L.; Silberzahn, Philippe (2013). Constructing Cassandra, Reframing Intelligence Failure at the CIA, 1947-2001. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0804793360.
Reagan, Ronald (November 7, 1985). "Remarks at the Presentation Ceremony for the Presidential Medal of Freedom". American Presidency Project.
Johnson, James; Zarate, Robert (December 19, 2005). "A Slow Pearl Harbor: Some Foreign Policy Disasters are a Long Time in the Making". The Weekly Standard. Vol. 11, no. 14. Archived from the original on December 29, 2005.
"Roberta Wohlstetter: Pioneering RAND Policy Analyst and Historian of Military Intelligence". RAND Corporation. January 9, 2007. Archived from the original on June 4, 2007.
Pyle, Richard (January 9, 2007). "Intelligence Expert who Analyzed Pearl Harbor Dies in NYC at 94". Newsday. Associated Press.
Miller, Stephen (January 10, 2007). "Roberta Wohlstetter, 94, Defense Analyst". The New York Sun.
Woo, Elaine (January 11, 2007). "Roberta Wohlstetter, 94; Wrote Pearl Harbor Study". Los Angeles Times.
Hevesi, Dennis (January 11, 2007). "Roberta Wohlstetter, 94, Military Policy Analyst Dies". The New York Times.
Zarate, Robert (January 22, 2007). "First Lady of Intelligence: Roberta Wohlstetter, 1912-2007" (PDF). The Weekly Standard. Vol. 12, no. 18 – via NPEC.
Robin, Ron (2016). The Cold World They Made: The Strategic Legacy of Roberta and Albert Wohlstetter. Harvard University Press.
Albert Wohlstetter official website
Roberta Wohlstetter at SourceWatch
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As an employer, you're being watched constantly. Your employees overall attitude about work is a reflection of yours. How they treat their peers is a reflection of how you treat them. And, how they resolve disputes in the workplace is similar to how you treat disputes with them. To lead, inspire and even cultivate a workplace of productivity, conflict resolution is a must. Here's a kick start 411 lesson about this essential skill you need to master.
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Student Housing Costs Compared
How affordable is purpose-built off-campus housing? A new study from NMHC and Axiometrics measures the costs of on-campus and off-campus housing options—and the premiums associated with certain features.
Chris Bruen
Nov 01, 2018
Nmhc
Private, purpose-built student housing properties are known for their luxurious amenities and state-of-the-art finishes. As this reputation has emerged and the cost of earning a college degree continues to rise, some have begun to question the affordability of these amenity-rich housing options. One common response to that criticism has been to argue that students living off campus in purpose-built student housing are getting much more for their money than students living on campus. However, there hasn't been any quantitative evidence to defend this argument—until now.
READ THE DIGEST
The National Multifamily Housing Council recently partnered with Axiometrics, a RealPage Company, to examine the cost differences between different kinds of on-campus and off-campus housing options at 22 universities around the country.
The results show that, despite frequently charging lower rents, on-campus dorms offered less value than off-campus purpose-built student housing, when a variety of housing characteristics and features are factored in. This means that, dollar for dollar, students paid more for the limited set of features and amenities in on-campus dorms than they would have in off-campus purpose-built student housing.
How We Figured It Out
NMHC and Axiometrics started by assembling data on annual per-bed rent levels for floorplans at four different kinds of student housing: traditional campus dorms, on-campus apartments, off-campus purpose-built student housing and student-competitive market-rate apartments. We also collected information about various housing characteristics and features—distance from campus, students per bedroom, square footage, just to name a few—for each floorplan included in the study.
Axiometrics supplied the data for the off-campus housing, while NMHC collected corresponding on-campus housing data from university websites. The resulting combined dataset is likely the first of its kind to include both on- and off-campus housing records. Overall, we collected data for 771 traditional residence hall floorplans, 114 on-campus apartment floorplans, 2,550 purpose-built student housing floorplans and 4,615 student-competitive floorplans.
Because features and amenities varied greatly, we developed a statistical model to estimate, relative to off-campus purpose-built housing, the rent premium or discount corresponding to each housing type, when all other factors were held constant. This then gave us the insight to determine the degree to which various housing features and amenities like in-unit bathrooms or washers and dryers influenced rent levels in each product type.
What We Found
A bed in the average off-campus purpose-built floorplan cost a student $10,965 per year. This compares with average annual rents of $7,717 per bed for on-campus residence halls, $7,056 for on-campus apartment floorplans and $13,093 for off-campus student-competitive floorplans.
While this type of cost comparison suggests that on-campus housing is often less expensive overall than off-campus purpose-built and student-competitive options, it is a limited view of the value of each housing option. Here's why:
On-campus and off-campus housing units rarely have identical features or amenity offerings. For example, on-campus residence halls often house two or more students in one bedroom and have no in-unit bathroom. In contrast, every off-campus floorplan in our dataset came with an in-unit bathroom and only a handful (3 percent) of purpose-built floorplans featured two beds per bedroom. On-campus residence halls in the sample were also much less likely to contain in-building fitness centers or offer units with full, in-unit kitchens equipped with stoves, ovens and dishwashers.
Our analysis controlled for these factors and features, allowing us to do more of an apples-to-apples cost comparison of housing costs and value. On average, a student paid 9 percent more each year to live in an on-campus dorm compared to an identical purpose-built apartment (i.e., same number of students per bedroom, proximity to campus, etc.). The student-competitive apartment came with a similar 9 percent premium.
However, each student paid on average 26 percent less for an on-campus apartment similar to an off-campus purpose-built unit.
Study Highlights
Our analysis, aside from estimating inherent premiums or discounts associated with living in specific housing types, also revealed a number of housing characteristics and features that influenced the pricing of student housing options. Here are four big ones.
Distance from campus. Location is one of the most significant factors in pricing. Every additional mile off campus brought with it a 17 percent discount in annual per-bed rents at purpose-built communities and 10 percent less in per-bed student-competitive annual rents.
Roommates. Students living with more roommates either per room or per unit captured greater rent savings. These discounts were apparent in both the on- and off-campus samples, although the discounts varied across housing types.
On campus, the majority (61 percent) of floorplans had two or more beds per bedroom. Relative to a single, a student paid 14 percent less per year to live in a double room and 22 percent less per year to live in a triple or quad, all else being equal. (See Figure 1.) This is one of the main reasons why overall on-campus rents appeared to be so much cheaper than their off-campus counterparts.
Figure 1. Average Per-Bed Rent by On-Campus Housing Type and Students per Bedroom
Within the off-campus purpose-built sample, double rooms similarly commanded a 15 percent annual per-bed discount over singles, although these types of units were fairly rare. More common was having multiple students in a unit, each with a separate bedroom. Versus living alone, a student could expect to pay 19 percent less per year to live in a purpose-built apartment with one other roommate, 14 percent less with two roommates and 8 percent less with three roommates. (See Figure 2.)
Figure 2. Average Annual Per-Bed Rent by Students per Unit
Students in off-campus student-competitive apartments benefitted from similar roommate rent discounts, of 15 percent per year with one roommate, 14 percent with two roommates and 8 percent with three roommates.
In-unit bathrooms. The location or proximity of a bathroom was an important factor in per-bed rent rates. On-campus floorplans with an in-unit bathroom (either shared or private), relative to those with community bathroom access, were associated with 14 percent more in per-bed annual rent.
In contrast, in-unit bathrooms (either shared or private) were standard in all off-campus floorplans in the sample, whether purpose-built or student-competitive. While this appeared to have no meaningful effect on rents in the purpose-built sample, off-campus student-competitive floorplans with a one-to-one student-to-bathroom ratio commanded a 20 percent premium over rooms with shared in-unit bathrooms.
Internet. An internet connection was a standard feature in the off-campus dataset and included in the rent, so specific premiums couldn't be calculated. However, on-campus floorplans that offered ethernet commanded a 28 percent rent premium.
Factors like these clearly influence annual rental rates. However, we acknowledge that there are limitations to our dataset—a main reason why we look at this study as a first step in developing reliable market data. Going forward, efforts can be made to expand the existing dataset so that rent levels can be more accurately assigned to distinct housing features and amenities.
That said, the study results provide student housing providers with some guideposts to consider when determining operating budgets, making investment decisions and marketing to students. Moreover, it brings good data to any discussion of student affordability.
In fact, the analysis shows that on-campus residence halls, despite frequently charging lower rents, offered less value than off-campus purpose-built student housing. Students get more features and amenities for their money in a purpose-built unit compared with on-campus housing, where a student might have to share a bedroom with one or more other students, share a community hallway bathroom with other rooms or have access to fewer building amenities.
However, the rent savings that roommates can offer is something to consider when discussing affordability. In addition, more data is needed on the financial characteristics of students and their families, which likely influences how students choose their housing.
Chris Bruen is the assistant director of research at the National Multifamily Housing Council in Washington, D.C. He can be reached at cbruen@nmhc.org. The full study is available to read on NMHC's website.
Read the November 2018 issue of MHN.
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December 21st 2012 will bring the start of untold joy | as you have worked constantly to open your hearts more fully to God's Love, which is always calling to you.
Time, as you experience it, has accelerated significantly over the last two years, and December 21st 2012, which is approaching rapidly, will bring the start of untold joy for humanity. As you have been told numerous times "It's a done deal." There are no ifs, ands, or buts. Hold steady on your course by continuing to express and demonstrate love in action in every interaction, no matter what the situation, because that is what you incarnated to do, and you have been doing it with ever-increasing effectiveness as you have worked constantly to open your hearts more fully to God's Love, which is always calling to you.
You, like all humanity, do need to open your hearts, because by agreeing to incarnate and assist the awakening process you also agreed to experience the severe memory loss which is a major aspect of the illusion, and that involved the partial closing of your hearts to the ever-flowing stream of your Father's Love. No hearts are fully closed because to do so would completely shut out Love, the life-force, ending your existence, and that is impossible because you are the children of God — immortal and eternal beings, forever alive and at one with Him.
Humans have starved themselves of Love for eons, because the openings into their hearts have been enormously restricted and reduced while playing their painful games in the depths of the illusion. Many have entered the illusion during those eons to demonstrate Love and to help you to awaken, but because you were so caught up in your unreal environment it has taken a long time for you to become aware enough to notice them and then respond positively to the assistance that they offered you.
As a result, you have had plenty of time to cause much pain to one another and to build up large quantities of resentment and anger which you are now in the final stages of releasing permanently, so that you can disentangle yourselves from the unreality you built. The divine Love field is flushing out the remaining characteristics of humanity that are in any way incompatible with Love, ably assisted by you Lightholders and wayshowers who incarnated for this purpose, as all have chosen to turn towards their spiritual origins as they seek escape from the fear and suffering in which they have been embroiled for so long.
This collective change of heart has been slowly developing over the last one hundred or so years, and has accelerated tremendously over the last two decades, leading you forwards towards your inevitable awakening. It has given us in the spiritual realms unparalleled joy to see you move so positively, and indeed courageously towards this momentous event, because to do so you had to face and release the very realistic-seeming fears that you had invented to form part of your imaginary environment. It involved learning to love and to trust one another again — something that was lost when you engaged in your apparent separation from Reality — and your experiences within the illusion over countless eons made such openness and trust seem extremely counter-intuitive. Nevertheless, some of you started to do just this, and the result has been a rippling outwards of love and trust that has impinged on all and that is leading you towards a most marvelous conclusion to your sojourn within non-reality.
You have made amazing progress over these last few years — progress that even astonished us in the spiritual realms, because the unloving attitudes and behaviors that you had been employing for so long seemed to be very heavily ingrained within you, and, at one stage, it appeared that you could not possibly become ready to awaken as soon as you, in fact, have.
Congratulations are in order for your untiring efforts which have brought you to the very verge of awakening. Completion of that process is at hand.


We had a lot of fun yesterday when everyone aboard got an email on the ship's Intranet from David Forcucci, the Marine Science Coordinator for Healy and a marine biologist by training, saying there would be the opportunity to shoot arrows off Healy's stern at 1630 hours. He looked surprised at how many people showed up from both science and ship's crew. Shoot arrows off the ship? Hell yeah.
We launched 50 arrows yesterday out into the Bering Strait, all handmade from Tonkin bamboo, no plastics of any kind, using traditional bows made by Jay St. Charles of yew and spruce. Each arrow was marked with www.driftarrow.com (check it out). We got to decorate them as we wanted with Sharpie pens.
Rather than a message in a bottle, we're sending messages on arrows. Dave's hoping to track the progress of these floating message-bearers around the Arctic Gyre—the big oceanic circulation circumnavigating the North Pole, maybe all the way to Europe. He's counting on people up here in the far North to take a second look at bamboo—something rarely to never seen up here—pick up an arrow and register it at his website.
Dave's arrow project is more fun than hard science. He's hoping local kids will get involved. He and Jay have already involved five school groups in the Seattle area who have decorated a few hundred drift arrows. Andrey Proshutinsky, an oceanographer from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, will be using his computer model to predict where the drift arrows travel in the Arctic current system. Dave also will be deploying a high tech satellite buoy alongside one quiver of arrows launched from from Healy, which should enable him to get daily positions on their drift.


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Taronga Zoo welcomes baby platypus
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Taronga Zoo is celebrating the arrival of a new baby playtpus, the third to be bred in the zoo's 90-year history.
Taronga's Adam Battaglia says the puggle hatched about four months ago, but has remained in the care of its mother, well away from prying eyes.
Mr Battaglia says the baby, who is yet to be named, has confirmed Taronga's place as the world's leader in platypus breeding.
"Taronga staff are very very excited today and it's a very big milestone for us," he said.
"He's a little bit smaller than his mum, his bill and his tail are quite small. He's very shy and he's very fluffy and he hasn't got a blemish on him and he's very, very cute."
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Guide to content strategy
Peter Zogas
Writer and Editor. Content Strategist at Autodesk. Previously led content for Elevate and taught English at the University of Rochester.
When it comes to adding copy and content to your product, you're doing pretty well if you have a defined style guide. Clear guidelines for style and tone and answers for common questions about mechanics are essential for developing a coherent product. But style guides have their limitations, especially when it comes to nuanced styling for UI elements and patternized components.
That's why it's important to incorporate content strategy when building out your design system. Content and microcopy appear all over design system components. Without an effort to standardize early, you'll end up making decisions about how copy should appear each time you implement a component. A well-defined content strategy even helps facilitate better design decisions because it gives your team clear parameters for exactly when and how copy will be used.
You don't want to scale your product with a shaky foundation. Thankfully, you can head off plenty of problems early by standardizing content styling and copy concerns and determining exactly how you'll document these decisions for your whole team.
How exactly you implement content strategy into your design system will depend on your team and product. So instead of an exhaustive account of everything you could include, let's take a look at some of the common culprits and think through how they can be effectively standardized and documented.
Title and sentence case
Once you start looking for it, the choice between title and sentence case starts to come up pretty much everywhere in your product—modal headers, button copy, table headings, text-entry fields. The list goes on.
But it's not just a matter of picking one and sticking with it. A smart choice about what to use where helps you differentiate UI elements and call attention to text when needed, and it also bears on readability, comprehension, and usability.
What's the difference? With title case, you capitalize every word in a heading (with the exception of pronouns and coordinating conjunctions, like "and"). With sentence case, you only capitalize the first letter. So you get this:
Title case: Folders and Documents
Sentence case: Folders and documents
This comes up often when you're designing for something, say buttons, that mostly contain one word. But later you find instances when you need two. Do you capitalize that second word or not? Without thinking it through beforehand, you'll end up bouncing between the two.
We can draw some broad distinctions between the choices. Title case is more formal and attention-grabbing and can help short strings stand out more. But it tends to look awkward with very long strings. Sentence case is generally a bit easier to read, especially for anything longer than a few words.
My advice: stick to title case when you have a series of short strings appearing near each other, such as with table headings or buttons. Use sentence case when your user's attention will be on a single string at a time, especially if it's likely to be more than a few words long. This is more likely in modal headers or as placeholder copy in a text-entry field.
These decisions might get lost if you tuck them into your overall style guide. Instead, consider documenting them alongside the visual guidelines for your components. That will ensure that the decision to use title or sentence case is top-of-mind for anyone referencing the component when they're implementing it.
There's a caveat here, though, which is that it also makes sense to include in your style guide an overview of title and sentence case and, generally speaking, when to use each. That's because it probably won't be possible to define which choice to use for all situations as you're getting started; you'll find more instances as you keep working. With your overall perspective documented, you'll give people the right tools to make good decisions.
When do you use "delete," "discard," or "remove" in a product? What about "export," "download," and "share?" They all have different meanings, but within each set, there's enough overlap that it's possible to run into conflicts.
The worst-case scenario is to mix terms to such an extent that users think they're being asked to take different actions depending on the scenario. To avoid this, you can either try to map out all terminology before designs begin or audit your product to identify inconsistencies.
Bring a strong viewpoint about the terms to use and make a glossary. Each time you run across terms that are potentially being used interchangeably, take a stance and get your decision in the glossary. The sooner you do this and make a habit of it, the more clarity you'll bring to your product's design.
A glossary is only useful if people actually use it, so keep it where it's likely to be accessed. Whether that means you include it in a style guide or incorporate it in a design system depends on who's going to be using it.
You'll want to clearly lay out how each term should be used along with disambiguation from other related terms. It's also helpful to distinguish between two closely related terms that both need to be used in the product (like when to use "export" and "download"). In these cases, it's helpful to simply list them side-by-side with examples of good and bad uses of each.
Empty states are often afterthoughts, but they don't have to be. In fact, they're a great place for content guidelines to help accomplish a concrete goal. Empty states help users understand features that they haven't encountered before or explain to users that they've hit a part of the product they can't use.
Illustrations are usually the primary concern when it comes to empty states, but that's not necessarily the most important part. This is because the best way to approach empty states is to make clear how a user can become unblocked.
Develop guidelines that specify how copy can be used to unblock the user from whatever they're trying to accomplish or discover about your product. The question to answer is, what does a user need to know in order to make this feature useful or relevant to them?
Copy documentation for empty states can easily live alongside other guidelines for empty states, like those for illustrations. If you don't clarify the goal of copy in empty states, it's likely you'll end up with visually consistent but ultimately less-than-useful states. Your goal is to get the user out of limbo, and the best way to do that is to provide a clear guideline for how your messaging can accomplish that.
It's difficult for style and tone guidelines to be especially useful for microcopy. After all, you're often dealing with very short strings, and in many cases, the link between language and visual presentation is an integral part of how you'll communicate. With a design system, you can provide guidance on language used for common actions to eliminate guesswork.
Tooltips and error messages are major targets here. With both, you'll have to decide how much of the product's voice you want to inject. Maybe you want to be apologetic in error messages. Or you could state the facts of what's happening as clearly as possible. The choice will depend on the feel of your product.
In any case, you can help define some concrete elements of the message. Indicate what pronouns can be used and how the user is going to be addressed. Do you want to use "we" to refer to the voice behind the product, or is that something to avoid entirely?
Confirmation dialogs present some different challenges, and you'll need to go beyond clarifying whether to use "OK" or "Okay." Guidelines here are all about giving the user an extremely clear set of options about how to proceed in your product.
One way to do this is to define the relationship between modal headers and the button copy for confirmation and cancel actions. Anything you can do to clarify how to write for both of these will help designers create consistency throughout the product. You can, for instance, match a leading verb in your header to the confirmation button so that the two mirror each other, making the action clear to a user.
It's unlikely that just one person will be writing the microcopy for your product, so it's easy to end up with clunky messaging that varies wildly. Take the time to lay out the shape of each type of messaging, and you'll go a long way toward making your product feel consistent.
The best comes last—everyone's favorite topic, localization! Your internationalization efforts need to account for a range of differences—date formats, currencies, temperature, address formatting, etc.—but there are areas that have a real effect on UI elements as well. If you treat localization as an afterthought, you'll end up with intractable problems later on.
The first thing to consider is string length. German isn't the only culprit here. You'll run into plenty of instances when translating to another language means upping the length of a string in a way that breaks your design. So you'll need to make sure that your UI elements have a way to scale text down when necessary. This is particularly important in navigation bars or other high-traffic areas of your product.
Avoid text in illustrations, as you'll end up needing to recreate the illustration in every language that you localize into. And be sure to keep an eye out for visual metaphors that could be confusing in other cultures.
Also keep in mind that you can't count on the word order being the same in localized content. So, for example, if you have multiple text-input fields that help to complete a sentence, you'll end up causing UI confusion when the content is translated.
Localization is difficult because you can easily get blindsided by changes in an area you simply didn't consider. I recommend making a separate section in your design system or style guide for localization considerations. This allows designers and content strategists to view all guidelines in one place and think of them holistically. Separate out each guideline into a section and try to provide examples of how poor localization strategy can break your design. The best approach is to keep it top-of-mind and get everyone on your design system used to considering how localization changes will affect any decision they make.
Once you've tackled the concerns I've talked about here, you're just getting started. But it's a great start. You'll encounter plenty of situations that will require you to standardize content. Treat content decisions for your design system just like you would any others—bring up inconsistencies and confusing scenarios with your team, talk them through, and document your decisions. Soon you won't have any guesswork around content for your product's UI elements and patternized components.
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Renewable energy in Australia is "largely undeveloped"
Australian Department of Resources, Energy
Geoscience Australia
The Government of Australia has released its first national Energy Resource Assessment, concluding that wind energy and other renewable energy sources are expected to become increasingly significant.
The Australian Department of Resources, Energy & Tourism commissioned Geoscience Australia and the Australian Bureau of Agricultural & Resource Economics (ABARE) to undertake the scientific and economic assessment of both renewable and non-renewable energy resources.
"Australia has a rich diversity of renewable energy resources (wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, wave, tidal, bioenergy) with low greenhouse gas emissions," it explains. "With the exception of hydro and wind energy (which is growing strongly), many of these resources are largely undeveloped, constrained by the current immaturity of technologies.
"The expected advances in technology by 2030 will allow them to make a growing contribution to Australia's future energy supply," it adds.
Hydro is largest renewable energy in Australia
The assessment found that renewable energy sources now account for modest proportions of primary energy consumption (5%) and electricity (7%), of which the bulk is from hydro dams with total capacity of 7.8 GW.
Australia's wind resources are among the best in the world, and wind energy is the fastest-growing energy source with an installed capacity of 1.7 GW, and wind turbines generated 1.5% of Australia's electricity in 2007-08.
High solar levels over large areas provide some of the best solar resources in the world, yet solar power accounts for only 0.1% of primary energy, mainly in off-grid and residential installations using solar water heating systems.
The assessment reviews the factors that are likely to influence the use of Australia's energy resources to 2030, including the technologies being developed to extract energy more efficiently and cleanly from existing and new energy sources. Australia has abundant resources of coal that underpin exports and low-cost domestic electricity production, one-third of the world's known uranium resources, and substantial gas and coal seam resources.
"Government policies, particularly carbon emissions reduction targets and the Renewable Energy Target (RET), are expected to underpin the future growth of Australia's wind energy industry," it explains. "Wind energy is a proven and mature technology with low operating costs.
"The world outlook for electricity generation from wind energy will be strongly influenced by government climate change policies and the demand for low-emission renewable energy at affordable prices," it adds. In Australia, the share of wind energy in total power generation is projected to increase from 1.5% in 2007-08 to 12.1% in 2029-30.
"Extension and other augmentation of the electricity transmission network may be required to access dispersed (remote) wind energy resources and to integrate the projected increase in wind energy electricity generation," it notes. "Access to Australia's onshore wind resources is likely to be sufficient to meet industry development requirements over the outlook period. There are currently no plans to develop higher cost offshore wind resources."
"Government policies and falling investment costs and risks are projected to be the main factors underpinning future growth in world solar energy use," it explains in the chapter on solar energy. The annual solar radiation falling on Australia is 58 million petajoules (PJ), which is 10,000 times the country's annual consumption of energy.
"Solar thermal technologies can also operate in hybrid systems with fossil fuel power plants, and, with appropriate storage, have the potential to provide base load electricity generation," it continues. "Solar
thermal technologies can also potentially provide electricity to remote townships and mining centres where the cost of alternative electricity sources is high."
"Solar energy is a vast and largely untapped resource. Australia has the highest average solar radiation per square metre of any continent in the world," it states. Solar energy use in Australia is projected to increase by 5.9% per year to 24 PJ in 2029-30.
"The outlook for electricity generation from solar energy depends critically on the commercialisation of large-scale solar energy technologies that will reduce investment costs and risks," it adds. "Government policy settings will continue to be an important factor in the solar energy market outlook."
Bioenergy • Geothermal • Other marine energy and hydropower • Photovoltaics (PV) • Policy, investment and markets • Solar electricity • Solar heating and cooling • Wave and tidal energy • Wind power


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Jessica Camacho Talks Watchmen And Pirate Jenny
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Watchmen isn't Jessica Camacho's first go-round in the world of TV shows based on comic books - you may remember her as Gypsy from The Flash - but it's arguably her buzziest. HBO's take on the classic graphic novel has garnered a ton of critical acclaim since its premiere this fall and just keeps getting better, defying skeptics' expectations and adding new twists to a beloved story. Camacho plays Pirate Jenny, one of the masked cops working in the Tulsa Police Department alongside Sister Night (Regina King) and Looking Glass (Tim Blake Nelson), and though she hasn't logged quite as much screen time as some of the squad's other heroes, she's certainly got one of the best outfits.
If Watchmen 's not your speed, then you can also catch Camacho in Another Life, a Netflix sci-fi show that premiered this summer, or All Rise, a new CBS legal drama. "It's been busy!" the actress tells People CHICA. Which is great. I love to be busy. I love working. Aside from sleeping and hanging out in pajamas in bed watching Golden Girls with my dog, working is my favorite thing to do." Here, the actress talks about what motivates Pirate Jenny and why she doesn't care what the haters think.
She's an interesting one, that one! In the world of Watchmen, the characters that are wearing a mask are wearing a mask for different reasons, but they're all simultaneously hiding something and embracing something. When I saw Pirate Jenny come together in terms of her costume, it really informed me about what kind of a person would put this together as the way that they want to present themselves to the world. What messages are being sent here through this? She's a person who's understood a great deal of darkness in her life, but she embraces that and uses that as her strength. She's not afraid to look different… she does not want to be uniform. I think she likes to disturb people. She likes for the way that she looks to put people off or make them go, "Oh God." … [And] I think she loves her job.She diligently believes in fighting against the wrong in our world and setting things right. I don't want to reveal too much because I hope that we get to learn more bit by bit, but her position on the force allows her to combat in her own way the injustices that she knows are so prevalent in the world. She throws herself into that.
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I actually really loved it. The only thing that was irritating is I'm constantly hungry. It was such a pain to lift that thing up and eat! However, acting was pretty cool because I'd never have something concealing my face. I'm a very expressive actor, I guess, so my facial expressions are a big part of me. Only having your eyes and your voice - I found that very freeing as an actor because it took the vanity away, or rather the insecurity that comes from vanity. It allowed me to just feel free in the moment and focus in on the intention of Pirate Jenny or the circumstances of the situation.
They were like, "You will know nothing." They were really careful to only share the necessary information, which is kind of awesome. So when I got to see the finished project [at] the premiere and I was sitting down with everybody that had worked on it, we all got to see it come together and it was so cool to see all of the different parts finally gel and be like, "Ohhh, my God. That's why this, and this is this!" It kind of blew me away. I liked having the mystery shrouded around it.
I don't even pay it any mind. There are always going to be haters in any venture. We're living in a different time than we were when the book came out. The fear at that time was the threat of the end of the world through war. The bubbling underbelly of ugliness in this country in recent years is the rise of a stifled yet brewing, angry subculture of people who are still clinging to hate and racism. That is very much a part of the fabric of this country, unfortunately, and that's what we're dealing with to this day. If you want to make a relevant story, then we need to talk about what we're actually dealing with. What are we scared of? I love that [the show] was made relevant through that, and I love that [creator] Damon [Lindelof] didn't shy away from that, because it is relevant and we need to talk about it. Item's beautiful that we get to exorcise those demons and in doing so hopefully continue to eradicate the idiocy behind it. I don't focus on the hate. I just focus on the beauty and the magic of the show.
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You always pull from your experiences, your understanding, research. In Another Life, there were two Puerto Rican actors on the cast. It was me and AJ Rivera. We loved that. I love my culture. I love my people. They are just loud - not all of them! But it's boisterous, it's a high-energy, loving culture. I love when I get to work with other Puerto Ricans. So AJ and I had a great time on set, and we would bust out the Puerto Rican slang from time to time because it just made us happy to be around each other. We were like, "Hey, let's throw some Puerto Rican slang words into our characters and make them Puerto Rican." We asked the writers if we could do that and they were like, "Oh yeah, we love it!" So there's one scene where I threw some Puerto Rican slang in there and that made it into the cut, and that made me so happy.Unless you're Puerto Rican, you're not really going to catch that, but it was important to me to put that in there. I want my fellow Puerto Ricans that watch this show to see two Puerto Ricans in space, man!
I mean, it's pushing the needle forward a little bit more. But I'm there, and I'm representing. I have to focus on that. That's why it's important to me to keep working, and to play in these diverse roles and in such varied settings. I love that I'm playing - in the same year - in the world of a graphic novel, in sci-fi, and then a grounded-in-reality legal dramedy. I want to keep being challenged to play in different worlds and to represent different characters, because there's no reason that Latinos should not be widely seen in all of those things. They will be and they are and they are starting to, and I believe that. So I focus on the positive. I'm there.I want other people to see themselves in me and to keep going for it and to keep creating projects and to keep showing up in those rooms and becoming the obvious choice for that character. When I was auditioning heavily and just trying to get on a show, I [didn't] focus on, "Oh, they need a Latina character for the show." No. What is the storyline? What is the character? Let me go tell that story. My team would push me for roles that didn't specify Latina. Just find a great part and get me in that room. I'm going to tell the human story. I just happen to be Latina. It's unfortunate that progress is being made slowly, but progress is being made and it's going to continue to be, and I'm excited to be a part of that. I can't wait to see all the diversity that's about to blow up in our industry, because it is and I 'm here for it.
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