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Public Release: 17-Aug-2015
Frequent volcanic eruptions likely cause of long-term ocean cooling
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IMAGE: Results of the global sea surface temperature compilation from Ocean2k: A cooling over the past two millenium was reversed only in the most recent two centuries. Fifty-seven previously published and... view more
Credit: Modified version of Fig 2a in McGregor et al. Nature Geoscience 2015.
An international team of researchers found an 1800 year-long cooling trend in the surface layer of the Earth's oceans, and that volcanic eruptions were the likely cause of the cooling from 801 to 1800 AD. The coolest temperatures were during the Little Ice Age - that was before man-made global warming erased the cooling trend in the 1800s.
The research reported today by the Past Global Changes' (PAGES) Ocean2K Working Group in Nature Geoscience indicated that it was likely an increase in the number and size of these eruptions in recent centuries that was the prime cause of the cooling.
"Volcanic eruptions have a short-term cooling effect on the atmosphere, but our results showed that when volcanic eruptions occurred more frequently, there was long term ocean cooling," said lead author from the University of Wollongong, Australia, Dr Helen McGregor.
The ocean cooling signal highlights how Earth's oceans act like a giant flywheel. Compared to the atmosphere, the oceans can absorb much more heat and trap it for longer periods of time. Thus the ocean can buffer short-term changes in global temperature. But when events such as volcanic eruptions cluster together in a relatively short period of time, the temperature changes can become prolonged.
"It's very important to understand how the oceans have mediated natural forced variations. because compared with the atmosphere, they can absorb an incredible amount of heat. With this research, we now have new insight into the century-scale global sea surface temperature variations that came before man-made greenhouse gas forcing. " McGregor continued.
In an additional finding the researchers discovered that a period of cooling reported on land around the 16th to 18th centuries, known as the Little Ice Age, coincided with ocean cooling, suggesting that this event was a global phenomenon.
The scientists reached their conclusions by combining, for the first time, 57 previously published and publicly available marine surface temperature reconstructions from across all of the world's oceans, from near-polar to tropical regions. Data were compiled within 200-year brackets to observe long-term trends.
When they compared the findings to land-based temperature reconstructions and model simulations, Ocean2k independently found a similar cooling to that reported recently by other PAGES groups (PAGES 2k Consortium 2013).
"No matter how we divided the dataset the cooling trend stands out as a robust signal", says Dr McGregor.
To uncover the cause of the cooling, the researchers turned to climate models. They examined how sea surface temperatures were affected by 'forcing' factors, such as changes in solar output, Earth's orbit, land use, volcanic activity and greenhouse gases. Only volcanic events showed a cooling trend that matched the observations.
According to co-author Associate Professor Michael Evans of the University of Maryland, USA understanding how past forcing factors changed ocean temperatures in the past also opens a window into future climate change.
"Model simulations by others have shown us that the oceans can impart a substantial delay in the warming of the surface climate. With much of the heat from global warming entering our oceans, recent surface ocean warming may foreshadow additional future warming, in the same way as ocean cooling appeared as a long term response to large and frequent volcanic events in recent centuries," Associate Professor Evans said.
"We are still learning how the oceans mediate climate variations. Further work combining both observations and simulations of ocean climate will refine our understanding of the ocean's role in climate change."
PAGES, currently sponsored by Future Earth and the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, was established in 1991 to facilitate international paleoenvironmental research and inform strategies for sustainability. It is primarily funded by the Swiss and US national science foundations.
The Ocean2k Working Group was formed in 2011 and has a distributed leadership structure which values transparency, inclusion, and open communication. From the outset this group has broken new ground, even in the way they work, preferring to collaborate virtually across the globe using teleconferencing software and other means of electronic communication. This coming October, after more than four years, many group members will finally meet each other in person at their first workshop in Barcelona, Spain, where they will discuss the next phases of their work.
This paper is the result of more than four years of virtual collaboration by the group, and provides the missing ocean component to the continental-scale temperature reconstructions produced by the PAGES 2k Consortium and published in Nature Geoscience in 2013.
Reference: "Robust global ocean cooling trend for the pre-industrial Common Era", McGregor et al., Nature Geoscience, to be published online 17 August 2015, DOI: 10.1038/NGEO2510
URL when published: http://nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/ngeo2510
Lead Author: Dr Helen McGregor
Email: jrs_mcgregor@ship.iodp.tamu.edu and mcgregor@uow.edu.au
Phone (ship): +1 979 845 3725 (Australia AWST)
Video teleconferencing: Using Zoom, a web-based application. Send Helen an email to arrange an appointment. Not necessary to install special software.
Twitter: @drhelenmcgregor http://www.helenmcgregor.net
Interview availability: Currently on International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) cruise off NW Australia; happy to give phone or video teleconferencing interviews from the ship.
Co-author: Associate Prof. Michael Evans
Email: mnevans@umd.edu
Phone (Switzerland): +41 31 631 5063
US cell phone: +1 301 276 1473. Note: Author is 6 hours ahead of US EST.
Skype: skype.mnevans
Interview availability: Mon-Thurs 9am-5pm Swiss time (+6h US EST). Unavailable 23 to 26 Aug, 29 Aug to 2 Sept, and 3 Sept.
Nature Geoscience paper requests and press enquiries: press@nature.com
More information about the paper, Ocean2k, as well as responses to FAQs, data links, a figure, and photos from Dr McGregor's IODP cruise available at: http://www.pages-igbp.org/ini/wg/ocean2k/faq-pre
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National Science Foundation, NOAA, Swiss National Science Foundation via the PAGES Project
Results of the Global Sea Surface Temperature Compilation from Ocean2K (IMAGE)

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Panelists unpack protests against confederate monuments
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Abdul Kalumbi, BSU President Panelists from left to right: Nancy Cannon, W. Paul Reeve, Travis Skene, and Danny Davis
Photo by Michelle Rivas
It's not a debate over history, according to Paul Reeve, professor of history at the University of Utah. The statues are manifestations of a reassertion of white supremacy, he said. The Black Student Union and University College organized a panel where they talked about the controversy surrounding the statue of Robert E. Lee Sept. 27 in the Classroom Building. As part of UVU's Ethics Awareness Week, the four panelists were asked for their perspectives on what historical monuments symbolize to different people and the racial tensions in Charlottesville, VA.
"Historians have documented when these statues have been erected. They're erected at moments when whites are attempting to reassert white supremacy," he said. Reeves also said that local communities can vote to remove these statues. "If we're really concerned about history, then let's move them to a monuments graveyard where they can be properly interpreted."
We should be very mindful, thoughtful and respectful of the monument when deciding to remove it or not according to Nancy Cannon, a counselor for TRIO. Cannon said that she thinks the locals should have the right to decide in a peaceful manner whether or not they want the confederate statue removed. Cannon also said that when she has visited battleground sites from the Civil War, it made her want to learn more about history.
To some people, the statues mean history, they mean "my ancestors". But to many African American people they mean something else said Danny Davis, a political science major, who said that the core issues are simply racism. Davis said that race became on the public's forefront with Obama's election in 2008. "To Nancy Cannon, the monuments might not represent racism but to some groups they do," Davis said.
Abdul Kalumbi, president of the BSU, said that there are 718 statues which are inspired by confederate history, and since Charlottesville there have been efforts to take down more. He also said that 54% of people in the United States don't agree with the removal of monuments.
Reeves said that he's heard a lot of slippery-slope arguments that if one statue is removed then they won't stop. In response to Trump, Reeves said "Well, it will end when the monuments of the confederacy are taken down."
We can't just take down our history according to Travis Skene, a computer science major. Skene said that he didn't think the removal of these statues would be a huge issue, but that we should show these monuments as educational opportunities which discuss the mistakes we've historically made.
Stormey Nielsen, the vice president of the BSU, said that she has mixed feelings because it's just a statue, but in its historical context it was also racism. Nielsen, a social work major, said that she agrees with Reeves on how we have books for history and how racism can be intangible. "Regardless of whether the statue is there or not, there could still be that hatred," she said. Nielsen said that even though she is compassionate for the uncomfortability the confederate statues bring, it would be productive to educate and talk about topics of diversity as well as self-reflection.
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Transportation Futures Alaskan Way Viaduct Replacement: Keep Tunnel Option Alive
Matt Rosenberg
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Since the recommendation came Thursday Dec. 11 from Washington State Department of Transportation, King County and Seattle officials that the wobbly Alaskan Way Viaduct through downtown Seattle on State Route 99 should be replaced with either a surface boulevard system and more transit, or another elevated roadway, the reaction has been remarkable.
Remarkable because of how much support is being voiced for an option planners have essentially rejected for now, a deep-bored tunnel. Let's survey some of the blowback, which is only likely to grow. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's editorial board today writes:
…several troubling questions have arisen. Does a new, elevated structure really deserve to be one of just two finalists, with its massive commitment to autos and prospect of sealing the city off from its waterfront for perhaps the entire 21st century? For the surface option's waterfront boulevards, why do planners envision stoplights at virtually every block? Can even the most technologically advanced traffic signal synchronization system keep traffic flowing through all those intersections?
Most important, why have government officials tried to eliminate any longer-range option for eventually drilling a deep-bore tunnel should the surface plan wind up quickly overwhelmed by traffic growth? With boring technology advancing significantly, costs may be less than anticipated. And financing mechanisms, such as a regional tolling system, may change the feasibility of a tunnel for the better in the not-too-distant future, if not immediately.
A year-long review of ultimately eight semi-finalist options – conducted with advice of a special Stakeholders Advisory Committee (SAC) – preceded Thursday's winnowing. Next comes a recommendation from Governor Chris Gregoire, King County Executive Ron Sims and Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, before the legislature makes the final choice in its Winter 2009 session.
Last Thursday after project consultants unveiled their two finalist choices, the SAC held its own discussion and 24 or 25 members either supported the deep-bore option being built or further examined. SAC member Vlad Oustimovich wrote a guest essay in the West Seattle Blog, stating:
The rebuilt viaduct option has been deemed unacceptable by both downtown and environmental interests, and the surface solution is unacceptable to both the business community as well as all of the commuters that depend on the Viaduct to get to their jobs….Neither of the two options offer a solution that will garner support from a broad base of constituents, and will undoubtedly once again lead us into acrimonious debate, dividing the region and stalemating the process.
…we all recognize that the most important thing is to maintain our ability to get around….We need to maintain our transportation capacity. The bored tunnel, although slightly more costly than a rebuild is a good investment.
Another SAC member, Pete Spalding, also penned a reaction for West Seattle Blog. Spalding wrote:
Under the (surface-transit option) if you leave West Seattle and drive through downtown going to north Seattle you will encounter 28 stop lights, a 90 degree turn to proceed through the Battery Street tunnel and a 30 mile per hour speed limit…I am not convinced that another elevated option will solve our transportation needs 50-plus years into the future. This is our opportunity to make Seattle a world class city with a world class waterfront. Building another elevated structure running along the waterfront does not help to accomplish that.
I lean toward the hybrid (tunnel and surface-transit) solution that has been brought forward by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce…I also encouraged the Executives to give a much stronger look at the deep bored tunnel option…..I am not convinced that the cost estimates have been thoroughly vetted and are somewhat exaggerated in materials that we were presented.
The West Seattle Chamber of Commerce has also written to the three execs, in support of the deep-bored tunnel option.
Writing in Crosscut is Bruce Chapman, president of our parent organization, Discovery Institute, and a former Seattle City Council member.
..a new Viaduct would represent the worst throwback to poor design in the history of the city and qualify Seattle for architectural booby-prizes for years to come. Such short sighted, single-purpose transportation thinking would consign the harborfront to blight and economic stagnation. After literally three decades of criticism of the present Viaduct, the region would inexcusably replicate the error for our posterity….the all-surface option will fare little better….As mitigation, there are some good ways proposed to improve traffic flow on downtown streets and expand transit use. A new lane squeezed out of I-5 would help, and is needed anyhow. But there is no reason to think such mitigation would begin to suffice in soaking up the existing (SR) 99 traffic flow. It would be an ironic environmental "improvement" that resulted in more clogged, polluting traffic tie-ups on the waterfront.
Even before an all-surface outcome is tested in practice, City, County and State will have agitated the already restive business, trade, and labor communities that consider politicians to be insensitive to what is required to make trade and commerce work on a waterfront. And – just to rev up the lawsuit and initiative process with real passion – the many Seattle area people who merely want to get through the downtown bottleneck as quickly as possible are going to be indignant over the prospect of start and stop, cheek by jowl traffic along Alaska Way.
Richard Carter of Seattle also highlights the importance of an SR 99 downtown bypass, in today's Seattle Times letters to the editor. More grave doubts about the two proposed finalist options, and endorsements of the tunnel, in the comment string at the end of this post at the blog, My Ballard.
The fallout is clear. Leading business and labor organizations, as well as international tunneling experts based in Puget Sound and neighborhood leaders, are voicing support for the deep-bore tunnel option, coupled with deep concerns that last Thursday's recommendations are inimical to mobility, commerce and quality of life.
A sentiment to "just do something soon" does not alone make for good public policy. Especially not when a region's economy and the usability of a city's downtown waterfront are at stake. The sooner that business and the neighborhoods can be made to feel that their interests are truly being addressed, the sooner a replacement for the Viaduct can actually be built.
UPDATE: The P-I's "Strange Bedfellows" local politics blog reports that the Port of Seattle passed a motion late this afternoon supporting retention of the bored-tunnel alternative.
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Viaduct A Key Thru Traffic Route; Tunnel Best Replacement
Advocates of the deep-bored tunnel option to replace the seismically vulnerable Alaskan Way Viaduct on State Route 99 along downtown Seattle's waterfront, including business and neighborhood interests, rightly stress that the Viaduct serves some 110,000 daily vehicle trips and that the …


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The annual community Christmas Eve service will be December 24th at 5pm. All are welcome to join in the fellowship, singing and scriptures. Enjoy the beautiful Christmas tree. Start out Christmas with a beautiful hour of song and scripture.
From Medieval music on a lute to the hottest Jazz, Steve Davidowski and friends presented a great concert to raise funds for Neighbors in Need food pantry and crisis fund. Thank you to everyone who shared their time and talents.
The large Christmas tree is up, the greens adorn the woodwork. The sanctuary is ready for advent worship and the 5pm Christmas Eve service.
Marshall Presbyterians are busy getting ready for Christmas! The community choir practices Tuesday evenings in November, Thursday evenings in December - come join the jubilant music led by Kenny Cheek.
Start the season with a delightful evening of music: the Steve Davidowski and Friends Neighbors in Need concert will be December 4th, 7pm.
The float will be built December 10th for the December 13th Christmas parade. Come join the fun! Children are welcome to ride on the float.
The greening of the church will be December 6th, 9am. This is your opportunity to gather around and decorate a beautiful big Christmas tree.
Joining area churches to provide a Thanksgiving meal, providing a Santa party and gifts for area children, and sending boxes of gifts to children overseas through Samaritan's Purse are some of the Christmas ministries folks are welcome to share.
Folks are welcome to join in on any of the activities and all are invited to the Christmas Eve service of music, 5pm Christmas Eve.
And be sure to enjoy shopping for great gifts and enjoying the beautiful windows at Penland's! The Penland family has been decorating!
Marshall Presbyterian Church folks will be serving pancakes 7am-10am on March 4 to mark Shrove Tuesday and start of Marshall Gras. Cost is $5 at the door.
Shrove Tuesday, which is also known as Shrovetide Tuesday, Pancake Tuesday and Pancake Day, is the day before Ash Wednesday, the first day of the 40-day penitential season of Lent.
"Shrove Tuesday" comes from the word "shrive," meaning "confess." The term "Mardi Gras" is French for "Fat Tuesday," which refers to the practice of the last night of eating richer, fatty foods before the ritual fasting of the Lenten season begins.
Back in the day, pancakes were eaten because they were a way to use up rich foods such as eggs, milk, and sugar. Lenten fasting emphasizes eating plainer food and refraining from the good stuff.


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The Big Sur Writing Workshop for children and young adult authors is coming up, March 1st to 3rd, on the legendary Monterey, CA coast. Co-hosted by the Andrea Brown Literary Agency and the Henry Miller Memorial Library, this is the big time without the big attitude of larger conferences.
Last year, after four years writing drafts, absorbing critiques from family, friends, and fellow writers at home, I decided it was time to leave my safe chair. Time to brave, first hand, the rapidly changing world of agents and publishing. To my delight and relief I discovered the client/agent relationship is rarely Toto vs Miss Gulch.
The large group lectures served up valuable insights about today's publishing world — hello, reality checks — what goes into choosing cover designs, and what to expect when your hot book property heads to Hollywood. The small group workshops (5-6 people) sent me back to my room after dinner with good ideas to fine-tune my manuscript for the next day. Social events before and during meals gave me a chance to talk to other authors and several Andrea Brown agents, one-on-one, in a welcoming, relaxed atmosphere. I came home renewed and more confident in the future of my writing and my first novel.
My workshop leaders were Andrea Brown Senior Agent Laura Joy Rennert, and wide-ranging and prolific author, Catherine Ryan Hyde.
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One of my favorite Catherine Ryan Hyde books is BECOMING CHLOE.
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Check out Catherine's website for a slew of great YA and adult books, including her latest U.S. release, WHEN YOU WERE OLDER.
Her international best-seller, PAY IT FORWARD, spawned a movement and a touching movie. But read the book first! The Pay It Forward Experience website documents how people, including some astounding kids, are daily re-imagining and energizing the book's (Catherine's) core idea of transforming lives and the world.
Thanks to Laura, Catherine, and my fellow workshop authors (talented writers, all) for their generous and supportive feedback.
The Big Sur Writing Workshop: Children to Young Adult, is now taking registrations for March 2013. This year's faculty of agents, editors, and author presenters is here. It fills quickly. If you write for kids, give yourself a gift and go.


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Firstly, purrrlease forgive the delay in writing this. I have had the pleasure of two sets of loved ones visiting recently and so my attention had rightly been engrossed in sapping them dry of pearls of wisdom, basking in British banter and other such associated mirth. Wonderfully, time spent with friends and family always brings Personal Finance related revelation to throw into the mix. More on that below!
My little Mum and Bro made the massive trip from Wales to Australia to see me recently. As the first family to visit me here since I emigrated, the trip was a roller coaster of good times, laughs and tears, not to mention deep and meaningful chats. When people have known you through thick and thin, they have an invaluable insight into why you operate the way you do. Sometimes better than any coach, counsellor or psychologist depending on what you're after. (Though, those guys definitely have a place too believe me!).
Despite money being on the forbidden chat list for any Polite Dinner Party, it touches so many areas of your life and such is likely to come up in one way or another, especially with the #fambam – be it in arguing who should be allowed to pay for food or, tearfully, discussing our own journeys with debt, assets and providing for the family. Mum's journey for example, has been laiden with sacrifice in order to make the best life for her three kids. Poor decisions, no matter how well intentioned, have sometimes laiden us with years of debt to turf out of too, not to mention the attached emotional fall out. It would be naive to think that seeing these positive and negative examples has not had a huge impact on the decisions I, now a strong independent Man About Town, might make around money. For example, seeing Mum put her life on hold to nurture us has shaped my long term vision to be able to provide for and educate my family financially. A less positive example is that I was reminded how I have always been prone binge when I am stressed – as a child it was any food item within arm's reach, as an adult it's likely to be splashing the cash.
So how is this family induced, painful navel gazing helpful? Well, in any battle, you have to know your opponent and when it comes to financial freedom your worst enemy is looking back at you from the mirror. Understand how he/she works and you'll find your self on the winning side.
Who do you have that can help you understand why you work the way you do? Family? Partner? Trusted professional like a Counsellor/Coach?
Getting that perspective was invaluable for me and I believe it can be for you too.
Another win has been following some of the Barefoot Steps from our friend Scott Pape (introduced in last month's post). The same ING Direct account I mentioned to you has paid me a healthy $100 simply for deciding to deposit my salary with them. Now there are lots of banks that would offer you little sweeteners for the $$$$$s of business you bring, but doing a bit of research can really pay dividends – interest rates, no bank charges and incentives like this being just some of what I am loving about these guys. I have so often been led by a convoluted sense of loyalty to the big name institutions in the past, behaving as such however leaving me naive to odd banking charges, confusing credit offerings and quite unfavourable rates.
The flip of having family here is that I spent more than I would normally. It's a happy trade off however, especially to indulge in some epic, life giving, memories, like the one below. Seemingly silly but they fill your soul up plenty!
So even though I paid less off my liabilities this month, I had planned ahead so any extra funds needed came from my savings and not a credit card. Small victory but significant when I consider the behaviour change this implies around not relying on Mr Cred's Redi-Money Farce.
Another, far more painful, spin this month was getting whacked with a hefty fine. On a slightly stressful journey around Sydney's many one-way streets I ended up running a red light. I bumped over the line when it turned red, panicked when I realised where I was and so sped forward to leave the crossing. Stupid call on my part and cost me three demerit points on the license and a whopping $433 fine. Adding to my guilt, self-flagellation and disappointment was that this money would have otherwise gone to my new savings fund. One step forward, one step back in this Personal Finance cha cha. But life is thus. Saving Grace? Again, I could pay from my emergency fund/savings. If you see a hairy Welshman driving like an extremely cautious Nanna from this point forward, flick me a wave and trust that I am learning my lesson/s!
Sometimes it is really disconcerting looking at large numbers when you know you can only assign a comparatively small amount to debt every month. My natural instinct is always to be all or nothing which in this instance could means moving out of my paid accommodation and living off salt and vinegar on toast for 10 months to cover all the costs OR sodding it all and buying my self a cruise around the Pacific Islands. Can you see the thinly veiled closet extremist within me?
One of the key things in turfing your self out of debt, aside from realising how intensely emotional and multi-faceted Personal Finance is, is knowing how you operate. Because I know I have this all or nothing fiery little Welshman within me I ensure I take a few moments when I look at my budget to celebrate some successes, no matter how minor. Like the $4 in banking charges I saved my self through banking with ING – seems insignificant but I have to remind my self that this marathon will be won through a series of daily habits, choices and decisions. Not, as epic as the story would be, packing it all in and living on a Kibbutz with only Meer Kats for company. True Fact.
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RedHawks cool off Express bats
Randy Riggs
Jun 28, 2011 at 12:01 AM Dec 12, 2018 at 8:53 AM
In Saturday's opening game of their series with Oklahoma City, the Round Rock Express pounded out 15 hits.
In Game 2 on Sunday, they amassed 15 more.
Monday night? Not so much.
The Express came up a bit short of 15 in the third game of the series. To be precise, they came up nine hits short in a 4-1 loss to the RedHawks before 10,886 fans on Veterans Appreciation Night at Dell Diamond that snapped Round Rock's three-game winning streak.
Four Oklahoma City pitchers limited the Express to six hits. Two came in the ninth when Round Rock had the tying run at the plate, but Matt Kata, who had a marvelous defensive night at second base with eight assists, struck out to end the game.
"You've got to tip your hat to their pitchers," Round Rock manager Bobby Jones said after the Express fell to 44-34. "Tonight, we couldn't do anything."
Five Express pitchers actually limited the RedHawks (34-45) to only five hits.
But starter Seth McClung, who took the loss to fall to 2-3, walked five batters in the first three innings that directly led to Oklahoma's first two runs.
McClung, who entered the game having walked 27 batters in 69 innings, walked four in the second inning when Oklahoma City got its first run.
After one out, McClung walked the bases loaded and then Koby Clemens brought in Anderson Hernandez with a sacrifice fly to right.
In the third, McClung walked leadoff batter Collin DeLome, who eventually scored from third on a grounder to second by Robinson Cancel.
"He just couldn't find the plate," Jones said of McClung. "He was all over the place. We still should have come back, though. When he left the game (after four innings), we were only down 2-1."
Cancel accounted for the RedHawks' third run with a home run just inside the left-field foul pole to open the sixth inning.


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Interview with Dita Von Teese
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In honor of Women's History Month, and inspired by the #5WomenArtists project led by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, we are asking burlesque artists to share with us their thoughts on their art form. We're closing out the series with an interview with burlesque superstar Dita Von Teese. Since starting burlesque in the early 1990s, Dita has gone on to be easily the most recognizable burlesque performer in the world. She has appeared on CSI, America's Next Top Model, and Project: Runway; published two books, Burlesque and the Art of the Teese and Your Beauty Mark; appeared in videos for Green Day, Thirty Seconds to Mars, and Marilyn Manson; modeled for Jean Paul Gauthier, Vivienne Westwood, and Moschino; released an album; and launched her own fashion lines – all while touring around the world. In 2012, she was awarded BHoF's Sassy Lassy award for her contribution to the perpetuation of the art of burlesque.
If you missed them, be sure to check out our previous interviews with burlesque legend Judith Stein, 2006 Miss Exotic World Julie Atlas Muz, and 2004 Miss Exotic World Dirty Martini.
Photo by Franz Szony
BHoF: Why did you choose burlesque as your art form?
I grew up in a very small town, a dishwater blonde, not very glamorous… my mother loved watching movies from the 1940s, so the image of the glamorous Hollywood icon of glamour was embedded in my mind from a very young age. When I was old enough to wear makeup, I started with red lipstick, and by the time I was 19, I was styling myself like the ladies I was obsessed with as a girl, and recreating 1940s and 50s style pin-ups. I became famous for this in the early 90s as a fetish model and then with Playboy, and decided to try to create burlesque acts, starting with a feather fan dance. I chose burlesque because, historically, many of the women that posed for pinup magazines were also burlesque dancers, plus I was an aspiring ballerina…but not very talented at that, so it was a great way to parlay my desire to be on stage into something unique. I headlined fetish parties and upscale strip clubs in the 90s, and eventually produced my own shows around LA, and started touring with Strip, Strip, Hooray!, then with The Art of the Teese, and this fall and 2020 with a brand new production.
BHoF: What do you want to get across with your work?
Originally, I set out to become the modern answer to Bettie Page with the pin-up images, and then Gypsy Rose Lee with burlesque shows; my first mission was to fill a void in the glamour modeling world… but it wasn't until around 2002 that I saw a distinctive shift. My audience was originally predominantly straight men and more couples, but then it began to change to a female and LGBTQ audience. I think this happened after the release of my first book, Burlesque and the Art of the Teese, where I intertwine burlesque history with my own personal story of finding confidence through glamour. I think that the idea of creating one's own myth and using glamour as a transformative power resonated with others that were also looking for a way to feel confident and glamorous in their own lives.
In all of my work, I try to convey everyday glamour as a path to confidence and I also try to showcase diversity in beauty by casting performers for my shows and models for my lingerie campaigns and touring shows that I think represent sensuality and femininity in various forms. My personal work is about fantasy and glamour, but in a way that reveals my secrets and shows people they can use the tricks of the trade in real life. (My 400-page book Your Beauty Mark, The Ultimate Guide to Eccentric Glamour is an example of that)
My aim has always been to evolve classic burlesque into something new and relevant, hopefully paving the way for other striptease dancers to be accepted in mainstream media. It was very difficult for me to explain to others why burlesque could be considered a legitimate form of entertainment when I was first starting out, so I think that's begun to change and it's one of the things I feel accomplished having a role in.
BHoF: What is your process for putting an act together?
Many of the acts that I do are created in collaboration with Catherine D'Lish, who was famously titled Miss Exotic World twice. Our process together has changed over the years, each act from the martini and champagne glasses to the carousel horse and the birdcage, each has its own story. I always remember where we thought of the idea and fleshed out the concept. The thing is, we never duplicated anything that was already done in past; we always wanted to think of ways to evolve burlesque acts to a place they were never done before, each act more extravagant than the last project. And with every new act, I create a new soundtrack, with charts made for every instrument. I don't use synthesized or vintage music, it's all done with real players and real instruments.
I also created a few acts utilizing state-of-the-art video mapping technology in Paris in collaboration with Ali Mahdavi and the Crazy Horse Paris, and then again for a hologram striptease with Christian Louboutin.
All in all, the ideas come from many different places and the desire to my own mark on the history of burlesque. When I first started out, most of the inspiration came from vintage pictures, and ideas of what I thought burlesque might be like. I didn't have YouTube – there was no Google to study actual burlesque dancers. I didn't have much reference at all, except for a few VHS tapes with videos of Sally Rand.
BHoF: How do you know if an act is "working"?
There are always different phases of creating an act… there's also the fear of throwing a ton of money at an idea and not loving it in the end. That is always a risk. There have been times when I've made an act that just didn't seem to suit my personality in the end. There is often much trial and error; I have props and even costumes that didn't really function the way I wanted them to. It's one of the frustrating things about being copied, sometimes others just see the end result, and they don't really realize or care how much trial and error went into the creation of something, and just attempt to adapt it as their own, rarely giving credit to the origins.
Sometimes it takes me some time before I know if it's working. I've spent YEARS working on an act. Sometimes there's a glitch or I'll have a block of what to do to solve a problem to create the "climax." I can be full of self-doubt; that's the thing with totally new ideas… it's hard to know what will resonate with other people. There was one act I created that I didn't have any confidence in until I toured with it. I was doing it occasionally at fancy VIP events and it was lost on that kind of audience, but a major hit on my tour amongst burlesque fans.
BHoF: What makes you feel best about being a burlesque performer?
For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a ballet dancer. When I was a little girl, I had this 1950s-era vinyl record, and on it, there was a photograph of a ballerina with dramatic winged eyeliner, red lipstick, and she was wearing a pale blue tutu, flesh toned fishnet tights and blue satin pointe shoes. I wanted to be her! I took ballet classes all my life, even cleaning the studio bathrooms in exchange for lessons. By the time I was a teenager, I realized I was never going to be a good enough dancer to be a professional ballerina, no matter how badly I wanted it, or how much I practiced. My ballet teachers thought that I had great presence, elegance of carriage, nice feet and I was strong en pointe…but I just couldn't remember choreography, and I couldn't jump or do perfect turns in certain directions.
When I was 19, I started wearing that 1950s style winged eyeliner and red lipstick, and dressing in vintage style. It wasn't long after that I began creating vintage style burlesque shows. A few years ago, someone asked me if there was a dream that I knew I would never realize, and so I mentioned my childhood dreams of being a ballerina. I suddenly realized that, in a way, I had been given everything that I REALLY wanted… I wanted to be that woman on the album cover. Truthfully, I never really LOVED dancing per se; I loved what ballet stood for. I loved the glamour, the femininity, the elegance, the drama…not to mention the sparkling costumes and pink spotlights. Showbiz. That's what I wanted.
If I hadn't been a lousy ballet dancer, I doubt that I would have pursued the obscure idea of being a 1940s style burlesque dancer. I believe that sometimes, our shortcomings can lead to greatness, because those of us that have intense desire but lack natural God-given talent sometimes find round-about ways of realizing dreams. I never expected to become famous for doing my little feather fans dances and for bathing in a giant champagne glass, but I strongly feel that with integrity and a real love for showbiz and burlesque, I've made my mark in a more significant way than I might have if I had just been a good ballet dancer.
BHoF: What has been your greatest challenge as a burlesque artist?
There have always been obstacles; starting off, it wasn't easy because I had no real living examples of what I wanted to do. I had to try to explain to my family what I was doing, and so it wasn't easy without other examples of burlesque dancers as legitimate performers, and then even when I became famous for burlesque, there were people trying to get me to move on and become an actress — as if all my work as a burlesque dancer was merely a stepping stone to something bigger. And then proving myself isn't always easy. In big showbiz meetings, I'm met with some kind of selling power doubt, and I tell them I sold out five nights at the London Palladium, I'm met with disbelief that I play these big revered stages to sold out crowds. I'm always trying to prove that there's an audience for this.
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What was it I wanted here?
What did you want to see?
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Do you have anything to show me?
of do you wanna know how I take my coffee?
Razor wire memories, they know just where to cut.
Oh and bucked me to the side eight seconds later.
And ooh, do you see that light?
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Interior Development Rate – Historic expansion fees are also important at adding benefit. If the company management can navigate by way of current market cycles and exhibit the capacity to consistently include new business as a result of new items, carriers and distribution, this provides significant price to the enterprise. Trending is extremely vital and if an agency can temperature the storms of the industry, they experience the added price.
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Enterprise Construction – Believe it or not, this is also a crucial element. Sub Chapter S corporations, partnerships and confined partnerships current bigger financial profit to the obtaining market place. Conventional C businesses, for the reason that of tax implications of a inventory invest in, may perhaps adversely influence the sector value of an company. In essence, acquirers ordinarily have to forego the deduction of amortization on a C corporation so that they seller can attain money gains treatment. There are numerous tax procedures that encompass this problem which can be much better identified by a tax expert.
Item Variety or Market – Though this might appear to be contradictory, economic benefit is additional if an company is residing solidly inside of a particular area of interest. Specifically if there are proprietary merchandise offerings or they have a type of special proper to sure distribution channels or carriers. Also, an agency that has a broad product or service presenting may demonstrate the ability to be counter-cyclical or at least be ready to journey out market downturns because of to their diversity. This enables them to spread market hazard all through quite a few items and provider interactions. Organizations that are completely commodity-primarily based and reside in effortlessly accessed markets typically hold the the very least benefit.
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Focus of Generation – This is normally a significant value deflator and also is dependent on the sizing of the agency. Value is discounted when agency generation is heavily weighted toward a person individual carrier or will come from a few resources. This presents a hazard whereby the agency could sustain important economic injury as a result of departure of a person production supply or by means of the cancellation of a carrier contract. A single manufacturing or manufacturing supply really should by no means stand for extra than twenty five % of an agency's internet operating profits.
Manufacturer Identify Recognition – An company who has an industry title offers a excellent deal of goodwill worth. If the agency is conveniently determined in the marketplace based mostly on its name or that of its principals, this genuinely solidifies its presence as a stalwart. Company house owners or management that is seen as field luminaries and is acknowledged throughout the market more bolsters goodwill value.
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Double J is counting down the Hottest 100 of 2001 on Sunday 23 January from 10AM. Hear it on the triple j App!
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Hottest 100 of 2001
Lost Albums: Sibylle Baier – Colour Green
Jimi Kritzler
Wednesday 7 January 2015 11:28am
Few musical stories are as steeped in folklore as Sibylle Baier's rise from obscurity.
Sibylle Baier, a housewife and mother, recorded Colour Green at her German home on a reel to reel tape machine between 1970 and 1973. Upon finishing the recording, she gave out a few copies and retired the master tapes to the attic of her home.
The tapes remained forgotten for 30 years until her son discovered them. He sent out cassettes of the recording, which led to the release of the album (in part courtesy of J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr).
Colour Green is an album never intended for wider public consumption. Listening to it is akin to eves dropping on a private performance or album by a talent equal to Leonard Cohen, Bridget St John or Karen Dalton.
Colour Green is one of the purest distillations of classic folk songwriting ever recorded. Aside from Baier's brittle vocalizing and timeless song craft, the lyrics are what is so affecting about the album. They traverse the spectrum of the everyday as heartbreak and insecurity remain buoyed by hope and an uncertain optimism.
Colour Green remains Sibylle Baier's only album so fans and critics commonly romanticize and mythologize it as the work of a reclusive savant. But this album is the work of a mother, a wife and a friend. This is perhaps why this album resonates with so many people.
The album is a remarkably intimate portrait of the songwriter. Although now recognized as an accidental classic, Colour Green remained critically unheralded – or more accurately, unheard – for its first 35 years of existence. It is only now finding an audience and, with the benefit of hindsight, is being acclaimed as one of the vital records of the 1970s folk underground.
While critics have sought to draw parallels between Baier and outsider folk artists of the era like Vashti Bunyan, there is something in her songcraft and story which suggests she is without contemporary.
Baier was a songwriter who sought only to write and record songs to satisfy her own creative wont.
Devoid of ego and thirst for recognition, Baier wrote and recorded an album on par with Nick Drake's Bryter Layter or Leonard Cohen's Songs of Love and Hate and then filed it away in her attic after giving a copy only to a few close friends (including filmmaker Wim Wenders).
There is a purity and innocence to Colour Green which, over the course of the album, is slowly eroded as one gets an insight into Baier's mindset. She, perhaps for the sake of song, clings to a very brittle version of happiness.
One of the few things we know about Baier is that, after a period of intense depression, friends forced her out of her bed to take a road trip to Strasbourg.
Upon returning from the trip, which took in the Alps, Sibylle wrote her first song, 'Remember the Day'. It was an ode to being alive. The story of Baier's inspiration to write her first song attests to her ability to capture the beauty that lurks behind our most despondent moments.
Colour Green is a rare album that serves as a soundtrack for those in the midst of heartbreak, or in love, in ecstasy, or in depression. It is a feat few songwriters are capable of.
We know little about Sibylle Baier. Interviews are scarce and the outside world has been privy only to snippets of information.
We know she now lives in America where she emigrated with her family from Germany. We also know she featured in one scene of Wim Wenders 1974 German road film Alice In The Cities, in which she sings on a boat to her then small children.
Aside from this, we have only Colour Green. But it's a record that reveals more about Sibylle Baier than any interview could.
Few albums truly uncover the psyche of the songwriter at the helm quite so intimately. One can't help but feel that, in one album recorded 35 years ago, Baier revealed more about herself than most artists do over a traditional career.
Colour Green truly bares Sibylle Baier for the whole world to see. Its unreserved honesty, longing, desperation and stewing sadness perhaps stand to reason why it might be the only album we ever hear from the reticent Baier .
In an age that places narcissism, ambition and celebrity above actual art, Sibylle Baier is a reminder that timeless art and beautiful songcraft can emerge from the most unexpected places.
Hear Sibylle Baier's Colour Green in full from 9am AEDT Sunday 11 January on Double J.
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The Riptides – Tombs Of Gold by Andrew Stafford
Black Francis – Svn Fngrs by Sarah Smith
The Cannanes and Steward – Communicating At An Unknown Rate by Megan Spencer
Reverend Charlie Jackson – God's Got It by Dan Condon
Bluetile Lounge – lowercase by Andy Hazel
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Q: Can I develop ASMX web services in Visual Studio 2008 Standard Edition? I need to know if I can develop ASMX web services using VS 2008 Standard Edition, or if I need Professional Edition?
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Conversations take off in an instant as one tweet sparks Twitter users to weigh in on every side of an issue, whether it's music, sports, news or even the weather. While the topic begins in one place, the users takes it in unexpected directions over the course of the story, peppering in pop culture and opinion throughout.