US & allies hit Russia with coordinated avalanche of hacking accusations. Here are the allegations.
the west is unable to provide substance to any of their accusations.. instead they are relying on the idea if 'they say' something, that is good enough… fortunately for them, for many who skim headlines – it is good enough.. for anyone who pays any time looking for substance – they are going to be at a loss, as their isn't any.. slandering a country (russia) is all they have at this point..
It has been pretty unsavoury watching this unfold over the past day. They are wrapping up various stories dating from around 2012 (athletics doping scandal), including the ridiculous election "hacking" tripe, the Western inspired Ukraine coup, the Skripal fiasco – where are the Skripals now?
All of this has happened since the attempts by the US/UK/France to topple Assad in Syria. Russia already had military installations in Syria (Tartus navy base – 1971), as of course it did in Crimea.
The doping scandal started, after the Russian ex head of anti doping, was arrested in Russia for doping athletes. He then defected to the US and decided to provide "information" on state sponsored doping in Russia. The Fancy Bears hacking group, then hacked WADA's database and found all the Western athletes who were allowed to dope by using a TUE – therapeutic use exemption. This of course upset Western athletes, because they obviously now know that the whole world is aware of the obvious double standards.
The doomsday clock is well and truly ticking once more.
The West is in meltdown. It is addled with debt-fuelled anaemic growth where it takes $1.50 input to generate $1.00 output and is only staving off inflation by importing cheap goods from Asia and suppressing wages domestically.
Germany with the world's largest trade surplus built on undervalued currency (for Germany) and on the export of motor vehicles which now are shown to have outdated technology and false design specs……has most of the EU manufacturing capacity. China has already creamed off high-speed railways making Alsthom and Siemens seek to merge their train business to survive rather than being technology leaders.
The only way to sustain the momentum and the Thucydides Trap is to prepare war against Russia and China which is the Mahan Strategy of UK and USA but to block France and Germany from joining Eurasia which they may well do when BreXit frees them in the west.
Ukraine was Brzezhinski's strategy to force Russia from Europe and Syria was Israel/US/UK/France strategy to block Gazprom just as Afghanistan was the hope of a Concoco gas pipeline from Caspian to Indian Ocean. Israel wants WATER and needs goyim soldiers to ensure it.
The Cold War was a boondoggle for the Military with children at private schools, conferences, war games, backsides in corporate armchairs……..it ended suddenly without warning and showed how ignorant MI6, CIA, DGSE, BND really were………so Credit Boom became the answer to Western failure to invest in infrastructure, education, training, technology (outside weaponry) and Asia popped up against just as they thought Japan had been boxed.
They will get their war because people are just as dopey as ever and cannot believe the insane will conduct affairs insanely……..
A little knowledge really is a dangerous thing. Everything you say about economics here is simplistic nonsense. The German economy is as vibrant as it was 100 years ago and within the confines of the EU has almost no competition at all.
The whole world is dependent on cheap Chinese imports in certain areas — nick nacks, basically. The Chinese economy is extremely weak in many respects. Most of the high end stuff, iPhones, etc. is produced in factories that the Chinese don't own. They could leave today. And everybody knows that their export boom has always hinged on strictly and artificially controlling currency value.
You say a few things about Eurasia and war that frankly I'd be too embarrassed to comment on. I guess you read The Economist or something which has a reputation for far-fetched hysterics when it comes to the big picture and history.
On the Thuycidides Trap, you actually contradict yourself by mentioning the Soviet Union which serves as a good example of a power that came and went quietly without getting embroiled in a major war. But this is another example of the sort of theories and paradigms that I find it embarassing to discuss. You wade through stuff like this in political science without stopping, if you have any sense.
Everything you say about economics here is simplistic nonsense.
Coming from your depths of ignorance I feel I can safely ignore your comments. China dominates high-speed rail and has 66% global track network with CRRC now supplanting Alsthom, Siemens and Kawasaki though I see they are bidding to connect LA to SF.
China is going to dominate car production and already has two of the major battery producers while Tesla has to use Panasonic technology. China's big advantage is lots of engineers in the production process.
As for USSR it was 1983 Able Archer when it almost came crashing down due to NATO miscalculation – thanks to Stanislav Petrov the launch command was aborted.
It takes a stubborn mind and ignorance to slag off someone else's economic assessment while answering with a much poorer grasp of international economics. Well done.
Why all the feux outrage and surprise ?. One assumes that all sides have been doing this sort of thing for decades and would expect them to use the highest tech methods available. Sniffing wifi is hardly rocket science though, ask any wardriver. What this really illustrates is the pathetic state of internet and systems security awareness in the organisations concerned. Many it specialists have been warning about the risks, especially to infrastructure, for decades, but go ahead, blame Russia again, for our own stupidity..
The Claim of Rights. Scotland is not Catalan, the constitutional arrangements are different. Legally the uk government cannot prevent a poll of the Scottish people, and a section 30 is not required, and the poll is the final decision, which should rightly be a majority decision. Ministers cannot say they would block a referendum, they can't, whatever the lower echelons seem to think is a good idea, it is not in the power of the U.K. Government to do that. Of course, once emergency powers are exercised, the Scottish government then dissolved and martial law imposed, things might get awkward.
I believe there was a very good reason the SNP had the Claim of Rights, already legal internationally and in the uk, ratified again in the House of Commons earlier this year.
Was not the referendum of 2014 the final, majority decision, or does it not count?
Thank you MJ, the legal security for a poll in Scotland could be expunged as a consequence of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill now progressing through the UK parliament. There is a very good proposition by Sionaidh Douglas-Scott in LRB 24 May 2018 that explores the avenues of deceit open to the tories should they desire.
Thank you Craig for yet another piece.
A *week* is a long time in politics.
Whether it is politically (or financially) expedient to do any of these things is another question altogether, I just make the point that legally there is nothing to stop a poll on anything, at any time, in Scotland. And I say poll specifically to include elections as well as referendums.
Opinion polls (not real polls) have not varied by much since just after the last independence referendum, and show support for the union at a slim majority, so why the Tories and other British Nationalist parties keep ranting on about not having another referendum is a mystery. They have the backing of all the news media, and the BBC, have huge swathes of money backing them, and likely they can keep screwing the system to spend much more than their share – so why on earth are they so scared of just asking the question? Because any decision resulting from the poll is legally binding? Maybe, but it doesn't seem a strong argument, so why is the establishment running so scared about the whole thing, you can't wash away centuries of indoctrination in a decade, so it really is a mystery where the fear comes from. And why scared of a positive result when Scotland is advertised to be such a burden on the Union? Why make such a big deal of it?
Once you step back, and look at the situation dispassionately, you see behaviour and rhetoric that are at odds. And it is actually the normal condition to want your country to be independent, rather than run by a very disinterested regime, so why would they want to convince us otherwise?
I believe it was Salmond who said the 2014 referendum was a "once in a lifetime" vote. Perhaps that's the British Nationalist propaganda to which you refer. Basically you seem to be arguing the case for continual referenda until you get the result you want.
*sigh* you are repeating British nationalist propaganda verbatim, MJ, and your reply is not related to what I was commenting on – the Scottish people can LEGALLY have continual polls – legally, regardless of what Westminster wants, legally regardless of what anyone else wants. My point is; if the decision is made to hold a poll, it cannot be blocked LEGALLY. The LAW has been passed internationally, in Scottish law and in UK law. LEGALLY, it is possible.
I am not arguing what SHOULD be done, I am saying what CAN be done. Saying the Scottish people CAN'T do this is scaremongering. That is my point, to Craig and to James Kelly's opinions on the matter – I don't want to criticise those opinions but just bring to their attention that maybe we are not quite in the same situation as other countries yet.
'Once in a lifetime OPPORTUNITY' is a phrase often used.
The result I want : I want the Scottish people to know they have choice, I want the Scottish people to understand they are not second class citizens, I want the Scottish people to have self-esteem, belief in themselves, to know they are capable, more than capable, of doing anything they want as a collective group, I want the Scottish people to understand that allowing their country to be asset stripped continually by England makes them a laughing stock of the world, I want the Scottish people to realise that Westminster influence is insidious and not working in their best interests, I want the Scottish people to throw off the shackles of indoctrination —- THEN I would like to know what result there is from any poll. It is a catch 22, we cannot have a poll free of outside influence, but to be relieved of that outside influence we need to have the poll.
Anyway, thank you for your irrelevant reply MJ, it just gave me further opportunity to ramble on. But I would have been more interested in people's opinion on the LEGAL situation. In fact, an actual real opinion would have been nice, but hey we rarely get what we want.
Since there has already been one referendum, and you apparently want another, how many referenda should there be on the same (or closely related) question?
Two? What if the outcome is one-call – then a playoff would be needed. But why stop after three?
There is an inherent assymetry here: once Scotland leaves the UK (or the UK leaves Europe) there can be no further referendum, as the matter will be a fait accompli.
So shoulds referenda continue until at last "the right result" crops up once – and then stop?
The SNP have had a Blairite take over, tories ruling a ten year ban on a ref lets their sorry, Kissinger supporting butts off the hook for 10 years, I bet they're secretly jumping for joy.
I have suggested widely to various other members that our Labour Party and a reformed Scottish Labour Party should wholly support a second indie ref, and indeed an independent Scotland, hopefully after which we can negotiate a new deal that will benefit us all and mend these awful rifts.
You clearly don't understand the economics of the relationship.
I won't spell it out, it bores me. But, basically, without Scotland's exports and resources, England would have very little going for it outside of its illegal "City" activities.
I find that amusing…….without the Bank of England and a Currency Scotland would be back where it was in the 18th Century……..
Since 64% Scotland's "exports" go to rest of UK and total a mere £76 billion and their next biggest export market is USA although it is possible some of those £48 billion are included in the UK "exports" of £547 billion.
Paul, I can see it eludes you. I said the subject bores me and one of the reasons it bores me is because the data available are inadequate. Take Scottish exports to the UK which you mention. Can you tell me what percentage of those are in transit to the continent or elsewhere? No, didn't think so.
UK exports are equally flawed. From memory the highest proportion is cars to Europe. But all those cars are owned by foreign companies. Car exports represent nothing, then, in any meaningful sense. Basically it's passing Japanese cars on to Europe.
And UK exports typically include things like Scottish whisky and oil, amongst other things.
Even in its vassal role now, Scotland would be an extremely wealthy country. That's clear. If it was independent, you'd expect it to flourish and hear its economy towards development rather than wealth extraction which is basically what it's set up for now.
None, or they wouldn't count as exports to England!
Car companies may be foreign owned but their presence generates employment and tax revenue and that relies heavily on them being able to export.
If you hadn't noticed the UK became a net importer of oil and gas in 2004 and 2005 respectively.
The Daily Heil reports that a young woman was kicked off an arts course for being "too right wing". They describe her as saying she liked Tommy Robinson and they print a photograph of her reading Robinson's book, Enemy of the State.
Didn't they start off reporting Oswald Mosley's fascists in the same "give them a fair hearing" kind of way, before they went full-on "Hurrah for the Blackshirts"?
Oswald Mosley was Chancellor of Duchy of Lancaster and laid his plans to tackle Unemployment before the Labour Conference which oddly backed Ramsay MacDonald instead and the Gordon Brown prototype Philip Snowden (the man who abolished Austen Chamberlain's Corporation Tax) instead. The result was the May Committee, the Means Test, and all because Labour stuck to the Gold Standard until the National Government was able to ditch it in 1931 after a Naval Mutiny and the Clarence Hatry Fraud………..
That he had to swing to the prevailing extremes in Europe to find an outlet for some interesting approaches to Mass Unemployment reflects the total inflexibility of the British political system at a time when men marching from Jarrow were shunned by TUC and Labour Party and their Petition to the House of Commons was not even debated !
Frankly the stupidity of the Labour Party and Ramsay MacDonald's corrupt relationship with the Huntley & Palmer's biscuit company was reason enough for Oswald Mosley to flip to what was unquestionable "the dark side" in abject frustration. Had it not been for Adolf Hitler however neither the UK nor USA would ever have emerged from Secular Stagnation as FDR trying to emulate Mussolini was headed nowhere until Britain and France started trading gold for guns and reflating the US economy.
That is the reason Western Capitalism survived as a "Guns and Butter" economy until 1973 Oil Crash and then needed huge Credit Splurges to keep going since. Without another major war the US/UK Financial Model will implode as Eurasia takes the mantle of growth and technological change.
There are some biographies of Mosley, and each of them is controversial in its own way, like one of Tolstoy's unhappy families, each of which is unhappy in its own way, while happy families are all alike. Crowley biographies are similar in their range of tone, from hopeless adulation to abject detestation. I have four of those.
If Sinn Fein could do it, Scotland can do it.
I'm cured of breaking up nation states. Been there and seen it. Violence murder refugees broken familes intergenerational trauma. The inevitable propaganda based on race religion and history make it exponentially worse. Corbyn supports breaking up the nation state of Indonesia. Mad. Just mad.
I have often thought Belgium should be partitioned between France and Netherlands. The EU was a perfect opportunity to rid Europe of these inefficient little principalities. Malmedy and Eupen could return to Germany.
You are Iysias so keen on moving borders, and no doubt you would be prepared to die in that cause. After all, isn't it time to return Smyrna to Greece and Tirol to Austria ?
Quite why you think "Ulster Protestants" should be shunted like cattle from one status to another eludes me, but perhaps you are an admirer of Stalin who did so much of that, or Churchill who so readily acquiesced in expelling 12 million Germans from their homes in 1945.
"Ulster Protestants" made more than their fair share of attempts to "shunt" Ulster Catholics from Northern Ireland altogether, and not so very long ago either. Armed loyalist Protestant mobs – with the open collaboration of the B Specials and the RUC – sought to burn Catholics out of their homes in East Belfast and other areas of Northern Ireland in the late 1960s and early 70s. Funny how Ian Paisley Sr's role in all of this was never a source of contention when he glad-handed with establishment big wigs – in marked contrast to the endless phoney outrage over McGuinness and Adams (neither of whom I was ever remotely a fan of) getting (oh the thrill of it!) to meet the Queen.
Many of those Ulster Protestants were refugees from the Irish Republic after 1920. Anyway let me use your logic to justify the way Israel treats Palestinians or even how they "mow the grass" in Gaza and West Bank.
Where exactly does your mania for turning people's lives upside down stop ? Libya ? Syria ? Ukraine ? Iraq ? Serbia ? South Africa ? Zimbabwe ? Afghanistan ?
Do you meet Ukrainians looking for work – anywhere – so they can eat ? Do you know how many are subsisting in Poland ? or inside Russia ? Or seek work in Turkey for its "hard currency" ?
Go look at how many people have been "internally displaced" in England through mass immigration or property prices or de-industrialisation !
Paul Greenwood:You may be answering someone, but you sure ain't answering me – apart from the bit about many of the Ulster Protestants who tried to drive Catholics out of northern Ireland, being "refugees" from the Irish Republic in 1920. (a) there was no Irish Republic in 1920 – it didn't come about til almost 30 years later. (b) in spite of many Unionist revisionist claims to the contrary, there is no evidence at all of most of those Protestants who left the Republic after the War of Independence being "refugees" – most of them left the south of Ireland because they had no desire to live in a country that was no longer under the full control of Anglo-Protestants. Many of them, for example, objected to the increased status of the Irish language in the new state (or statelet). Of course the other point worth making is that there were many refugees from Orange terrorist mobs during the period before, during and after the partition of Ireland. And the Ulster Protestant leadership had no objection to "shunting" the whole of Ireland out of a Home Rule settlement passed by the British parliament, when they formed a huge illegal revolutionary army – the Ulster Volunteeer Force – with the aid of powerful elements of the British establishment.
As for the rest of your reply, I have absolutely no desire to shunt Ulster Protestants anywhere. I'm a firm believer in the immortal line from the old 1970s song, The Boys Are Back In Town: "If that chick don't wanna know forget her." If northern Irish Protestants don't want to be Irish I have no desire to force them to feel differently – or even to coax or cajole them into feeling differently. Such grovelling demeans Irish nationhood and inevitably saps the morale of the country. But that doesn't mean I believe northern Orangeists have the right to impose their Masonic parades and Masonic imperialist outlook on those who don't share them (and btw just as there are Catholics who do share this outook, there are Protestants who don't). All of which is a roundabout way of saying I believe the most equitable solution to the northern Irish conflict is a Swiss canton style form of local government where those who identify as primarily Irish and those who identify as primarily British govern their own localities according to their own lights.
Incidentally given the truly staggering (though largely unremarked) scale of immigration to the Republic of Ireland over the last 20 years, the whole issue of North South relations is increasingly a Ruritanian preoccupation – certainly as far as people in the Republic are concerned.
If Sinn Fein could do what?
What is Mr.Murray's take on the latest 'hacking' story?
is still vaguely, possibly true, or completely false, maybe.
The comments section is a good guide to the likely nature and trajectory of this story.
Glees of the (private) university of Buckingham says that there 80,000 GRU operatives. It's just more of the 'Reds Under the Beds' theme. In the tabloid rag, the Daily Express, today.
Yes the CIA had laser printers hacked many years ago. You just have to accept all the technology is hacked and live with it.
Setting aside for a moment the question of how to resolve UK's lack of energy security, I have been marginally involved in a campaign against fracking plans at an AONB in the South of England. The developer and !ocal authority have lied and made continual misleading statements about the extent of the proposed site, and even more depressingly, the local authority has tried to smuggle through approvals in an underhand way. This has all enraged the locals just as much as actual fracking itself. Why can't they tell the truth?
Nor is it the case, as some here might like to think, to be on orders from Whitehall. The austerity squeeze did not just hit Labour councils. In a true blue Tory area, the Tory local authority has run out of money to balance its budget and is publicly in confrontation with the government over this Money talks. The need to balance the books could be behind the unsavoury collusion between developer and local authority.
For me the increase in the State's barbaric tyranny became painfully obvious shortly after the tory scum regained office in 2010.
After the Croydon situation in 2011, Theresa May – then in the Home Office – announced that future such incidents could be met with rubber bullets and even live rounds.
So the tory scum will mow people down on the streets of the United Kingdom for daring to speak out of turn!
Does anyone remember Roy Jenkins or Merlyn Rees?
Has anybody got information on food stockpiling by the British 'state'? Nothing from a Google search since August.
'At the end of July, Brexit secretary Dominic Raab told parliament that the government was making plans to stockpile food in case negotiations with the EU over a post-Brexit trade deal failed. The task, he said, would be overseen by industry rather than Whitehall.
Increasing amounts of fresh food in my local Sainsbury is being sourced from outside the EU.
Fenland farmers producing some 25% of our fresh food and since the referendum for'local people' only, they have made it clear that food will be left to rot if they cant access migrant labour.
Operations postponed, waiting times for Gp surgery appointments increased, nurses have left….all indications that nurses, doctors and surgeons have already left blighty.
Sharp rears beat me to linking to wired.co.uk so here is the bma site…doctors are leaving.
Yes but it is paperwork that causes GP problems and the fact that so many female doctors work part-time and middle-aged male doctors pay up their pension and quit to come back as locums. No-one wants to be a Partner any more because it is easier to be salaried as a Locum and lock in the pension.
Why everyone conflates GP practices with BreXit is surreal. There are 3000 German doctors in NHS and that is the largest single group of EU Doctors and they stay in UK for better pay, better training, better career path, and a far more interesting working environment. There are no Royal Colleges handling training in Germany, no GMC and no BMA with anything like the importance.
"Fenland farmers producing some 25% of our fresh food and since the referendum for'local people' only, they have made it clear that food will be left to rot if they cant access migrant labour".
While many, many "native" British people are unemployed. Can you explain why farmers would no longer be able to pay the market wage for the labour they need? Economists want to know.
The biggest cost in your EU sourced food is diesel + ferry charges. the cost of moving a truck from Spain to UK is very significant when you add French tolls and diesel costs plus ferry traffic.
BREAKINGNEWS!!! A judge hasjustputa block on any fracking at Preston New Road until a comprehensive safety plan has beenmadeby the emergency services.
In Germany the Superior Administrative Court in Munster issued a Stay Order against RWE preventing the destruction of any trees in the Hambacher Forest pending a full hearing months down the road. Protection of Bats is the basis for the Stay. It also appears RWE does not need all this area for its lignite extraction anyway.
Interesting how Courts are enforcing EU Clean Air Legislation from 2010 ignored by Governments and now are blocking extraction of lignite in a country supposedly committing to Greenery (ROFL) with Diesel and excessive consumption of plastic packaging and water pollution with nitrates.
More of the propaganda for war industry. On the poppies theme. Our Glorious Dead.
Round here on the verges and roundabouts black metal silhouettes (half lifesize) of Tommies have been placed by the British Legion. 'We shall remember them'. Can't find out who is funding it.
In Guildford there is a Poppy 'installation' with a light show and musak. Tickets – £5.00. Coaches are rolling in.
It's mawkish and an insult to the likes of Harry Patch and to his friends who were killed in their hundreds of thousands. We do not need this show business stuff.
Harry said war was 'legalized mass murder'.
He did not want a state funeral but it was militarized all the same. The Croc Wife attended.
(2) PROMOTING THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH BY THE MAKING OF GRANTS TO CHARITIES PROVIDING SUPPORT FOR THE PHYSICAL AND / OR MENTAL WELL-BEING OF FORMER OR EXISTING MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH ARMED FORCES INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, BY MAKING GRANTS TO THE CHARITIES COMBAT STRESS, HELP FOR HEROES AND WALKING WITH THE WOUNDED.
The latter (2) should be the responsibility of the state and of the politicians who make the wars and not charity.
Don't agree with the symbolism of a Poppy? Dont wear one.
'The Croc Wife attended.' Always with the personal insults and juvenile humour, yet you have the temerity to criticise others on here. What is the word for that?
Get off my back. I can say what I like on here, Craig and the moderators permitting. It is not YOUR blog.
Mohammed al Fayed named Camilla thus. She had ousted Diana from the very beginning of that marriage. I think it's rather good name. Crocodiles smile but the smile is meaningless.
Al-Fayed ? You mean "Hero from Zero" using funds stolen from Sultan of Brunei and conning Thatcher through Kleinwort Benson ?
Not sure if the funds of the Sultan were not already stolen. I think the deal is protectionism and the return is the Sultan doesn't complain when the royal corgis wee into his wife's handbag. Apparently it also serves some wonky idea of islam by which God selects wealth for the people he loves, which is why the prophets were all billionaires, peace be upon them all.
Hypocrisy was the word you are looking for.
Why do you do this? Have you sought professional help for your disorders?
Mayfeatures has a lot to dance about.
1/ The morning after Barzani the USUKIS stooge in Kurdistan won power by closing the polling stations one hour early, removing existing ballot papers and flooding the ballot boxes with votes for himself, she, if she is a she, told the british electorate they has won the bonus ball, the Blair dividend, of cheap Iraqi oil and they wouldn't be a petrol tax hike.
2/ Thirty years of destruction of Muslim countries by proxy jihadists has in effect been as long as the period between the end of the war against Hitler1948 and the start of neo-conservatives in 1978 when another questionable female got elected. This country was absolutely in shock at the blowback from centuries of colonial oppression, and next time it gets blowback the British tory establishment will have to be deleted.
3/ In spite of having faced opposition from Russia and China in the proxy war against Syria , the british establishment actually don't give a toss if Russia exterminates their jihadists. Lithium is cheap , and there are plenty of sadistic tyrannies in the Middle East who are scared of having to live a medieval exitence after being subjected to USUKIS nukes. It's win win for the likes of Hubris Johnson. The Tories recruit the Muslims who like licking chocolate. And Russia gets the blame for stopping their little bum feast.
The BBC report on the Cuadrilla fracking site in Lancashire.
Energy firm Cuadrilla says it plans to start extracting shale gas from a well in Lancashire next week.
They have just carried a report on the Six O'clock News. Egan of Cuadrilla is determined t to proceed. An outrage.
AJ Lucas Group Limited provides directional drilling and pipeline services in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. The Company's activities include pipeline construction, hydrostatic testing of pipelines, degasification of coal mines and well head monitoring, gas exploration, building and civil engineering services, infrastructure projects and maintenance of utility networks.
Riverstone Holdings is a multinational private equity firm based in New York City focused on leveraged buyout, growth capital, and credit investments in the Energy industry and Electrical power industry sectors. The firm focuses on oil and gas exploration, midstream pipeline, electric generation, energy and power services as well as energy and power technology and also invests in renewable energy infrastructure and technology. Riverstone has raised approximately $34 billion since the firm's inception in 2000.
Riverstone was founded by Pierre F. Lapeyre, Jr. and David M. Leuschen, who had been instrumental in the formation of the Goldman Sachs Global Energy & Power Group in the mid 1980s.
Cuadrilla Employees (8%) Mr Egan et al?
Cuadrilla have been defeated before, at Balcombe in Sussex. Hope this one goes belly up.
They do not appear to be making any money. Large amounts have been laid out on machinery and equipment. Hoping for a bonanza no doubt.
O/T. More death and injury at the Gaza border yesterday.
'At least three people, including a 12-year-old, were killed by Israeli troops as some 20,000 Palestinians rallied at the Gaza border. Amid the clashes, the IAF struck 'terrorist targets' in retaliation for border breach attempts.
A good man who stood up above the parapet.


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Ratcatcher Case Study
James Clarke | Thursday July 10, 2014
Categories: GCSE, WJEC GCSE, Analysis, Film Analysis, Films & Case Studies, Non-Hollywood Films, Ratcatcher, Genres & Case Studies, Drama, Hot Entries, Key Concepts, Audience, Film Language, Representation
Lynne Ramsay's film Ratcatcher is a key British production of the late 1990s and is notable for its thoughtful and sensitive focus on the representation of a young person. The film explores the representation of childhood, guilt and atonement in a dysfunctional environment. Although on the paper 2, GCSE list of films, Vicky LeBeau's analysis of the narrative and ideological function that children typically embody in movies can apply when she writes that:
"Closer to the state of infancy, an infans (literally, without language) the small child tends to be discovered at the limit of what words can be called upon to tell, or to mean – a limit that then generates the questions of how to convey the child's experience in language, of what in that experience, of what in the image, falls outside of, and so resists, the world of words. By contrast, when it comes to the representative of the child, cinema, with its privileged access to the perceptual, its visual and aural richness, would seem to have the advantage: closer to perception, it can come closer to the child.'…? (1)
In this resource we will explore the film Ratcatcher as a text and we will also consider some of its contexts and the reception to it upon its original release. Cinema then, has a rich tradition of representing the always resonant experiences of childhood and we might argue that whilst the tendency has been to often sentimentalise this profound experience that we all share there are a range of films that dramatise childhood in such a way as to remind us of how its various difficulties are anchored very much in the 'real world'. As such, childhood is not necessarily a time of innocence but rather an intense moment when the 'tabula rasa' of a childhood is flooded and pounded by experience and the understandings that come with it. Just think of the contemporary fairytale thriller Hanna (2011) in this context....

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Did a Gun Control Cultist INTENTIONALLY Leave A Pistol In A Target Store for Children to Find?
Posted at 9:50 am on June 6, 2014 by Bob Owens
One unyielding characteristic in the citizen control movement is a "the ends justify the means" mindset. They will say or do nearly anything to get their way, and don't let small things like morality, decency, or honestly ruin their plans.
From the early days of Handgun Control Inc. (which is now the Brady Campaign) up to today's Bloomberg-paid duplicitous demanding moms, the citizen control movement has always relied upon hyperbole, hypocrisy, smears, rigged research, and outright lies to advance their cause.
We're hoping, however, that even they have their limits.
Surveillance camera photo of the individual suspected of leaving the gun in the toy aisle of a Myrtle Beach, SC Target retail store.
A man in South Carolina was recently captured (only on camera so far) leaving a loaded firearm in the toy section of a Target retail store.
It is illogical to think that a man would enter a brightly lit retail store known for having both interior and exterior security cameras simply to ditch a weapon. There are countless swamps, brackish creeks, and bodies of salt water in the area that would be far easier to access without being observed, all of which would conceal the handgun, and some of which would begin destroying the gun itself and any evidence on it via abrasion, corrosion, and other natural processes.
Hi-Point C9 9mm pistol left in the toy section of the Myrtle Beach, SC, Target retail store.
No, the only reason for an evil monster to bring a loaded firearm and dump it in the toy section of a large retail store is the hope of causing injury or death to children.
The question, is, of course, "why he would commit such a depraved act?"
Some immediately found it interesting that the incident occurred as the chain came under attack from the most virulent of today's gun control groups, Moms Demand Action/Everytown for Gun Safety:
After a string of victories at fast food chains in recent weeks, gun control activists are renewing pressure on discount giant Target +0.54% to ban firearms in its stores.
Michael Bloomberg-backed Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America has launched a campaign asking Target to ban the open carrying of guns in its stores just as news emerges out of South Carolina adding urgency to their mission.
A loss prevention officer found a real, loaded gun in the toy aisle of a Myrtle Beach branch of Target last Friday night. Says the local NBC affiliate:
The gun was in plain view on top of a superhero Playskool toy box when the worker found it; he thought it was a toy. He realized it was real after seeing it was loaded with live ammo.
The fact that it was found in an aisle geared toward children makes some shoppers feel this was no accident.
"I don't think someone would accidentally drop off a gun. I think he purposely left it there for a child to pick up and think, 'Oh it's a toy gun,' and accidentally point it at somebody and it goes off," says Kennedy McClain.
Fletcher Armstrong III, a Concealed Weapons Permit instructor with the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, explains it is never to early to start talking gun safety with children.
He narrows it down into four easy-to-understand steps: "If a child comes across a gun they should follow four steps: Stop. Don't touch. Leave the area, and tell an adult."
The police report mentions there was a suspicious male walking up and down each toy aisle, including the aisle the gun was found.
Target will be releasing that surveillance video to police.
While they are mercenary, cut-throat, paranoid and have gaping personality flaws, we don't want to believe that gun control cultists are so morally deprived that they would intentionally place children in danger by putting a loaded weapon where they would expect a child to find it.
We hope that someone in will recognize the individual in this photo suspected of leaving the weapon in the store on May 30, 2014 at 5:45 PM. Anyone with relevant information is asked to contact Detective H. Jones of the Myrtle Beach Police Department at 843-918-1911.
Once he is captured, perhaps he will explain why he was attempting to endanger children.
Update: The handgun was purchased by a woman whom the authorities are attempting to locate for questioning.
Captain David Knipes with the Myrtle Beach Police Department says at this time the man is only wanted for questioning and there have been no charges filed in the incident.
Knipes says the weapon has not been reported stolen; however the last known person the gun was registered to is a woman. He would not release the identity of the woman.
Knipes says they are also looking to question the owner of the gun, but as of Thursday police have not been able to locate her.
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\section{Introduction}
The use of very high magnetic fields (H) for experimental studies of strongly correlated electron systems has proven to be a fertile area of condensed matter physics research in the last few decades. Part of the reason is that routine non-destructive magnetic fields produced in the laboratory can reach nowadays megagauss energy scales, namely around 100T. These fields, comparable to an energy scale of 10meV and a temperature scale of 100K, effectively compete with correlations existing between electronic, magnetic, and crystal lattice excitations in a large number of systems of current topical interest. The applied magnetic field is, hence, an external parameter that can be used to shift the balance between competing interactions and tune states that are otherwise difficult to observe \cite{jaime2000, jaime2002, zapf2014}, to overcome the effects of geometrical frustration in magnetic insulators \cite{jaime2012}, reversibly and continuously $focus$ experimental studies on phase transitions that are suppressed down to temperature (T) regimes where quantum fluctuations dominate over thermal fluctuations, alter electron/hole cyclotron orbits and facilitate fermiology studies \cite{harrisonXX} in real materials that exhibit a finite mean free path, and test predictions in topological matter such as massless Dirac fermions \cite{liu2017}, in addition to the traditional and highly valued mapping out of complex field-temperature (H,T) phase diagrams. Simultaneously, experimental probes for studies in high magnetic fields have reached a state where virtually all techniques that have once been used in any magnetic field at all are currently been developed or adapted for use in all magnetic fields available. Two prototypical examples of materials that have attracted the curiosity and intellect of the condensed matter physics community are UO$_2$ and CeRhIn$_5$.

\begin{figure}[h]
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{MGXVI_Fig1.jpg}}
\caption{\bf{A}\rm. The thermal expansion of UO$_2$ $\Delta$L/L vs. temperature along the [111] crystallographic direction, measured in zero applied magnetic field. An abrupt drop reminiscent of a first order phase transition is seen at T$_N$=30.3K \bf{B}\rm. The axial magnetostriction $\Delta$L/L vs magnetic field applied along the [111] direction, measured at temperatures indicated between 1.4K and 35K. A linear term is evident in the otherwise simpler quadratic field dependence when the temperature is reduced below T$_N$. An anomaly is visible for fields under 20T on curves measured on zero field cooling (zfc) conditions, indicated by a vertical arrow. Dashed lines are fits with linear and quadratic terms on H.}
\label{fig1}
\end{figure}

UO$_2$ is a Mott insulator, known for more than seven decades to date and a core component of fuel cells used in power plants producing 20$\%$ of all human-made energy. It orders below T$_N$ = 30.3K in a 3k-type antiferromagnetic (AFM) structure where magnetic moments, at U-atoms occupying the nodes of an $fcc$ crystal lattice, point along the cubic body diagonals. Interestingly, the UO$_2$ solid resembles an organized collection of linear O-U-O molecules, and the orientation of magnetic moments in the 3k structure coincides with the orientation of their chemical bonds. The $fcc$ symmetry is, hence, preserved across the AFM first-order phase transition. Among the several outstanding puzzles presented by UO$_2$ stand its poor thermal properties, with a thermal conductivity $\kappa$(T=T$_N$) more than a hundred times smaller than isostructural non-magnetic ThO$_2$. The coincidence of this local minimum in $\kappa$(T) with the AFM ordering temperature is suggestive of a phonon mean free path that is dramatically reduced by some kind of magnetically correlated crystal bond disorder and/or soft-phonon phenomenon. The first order nature of the phase transition at T$_N$ makes this puzzle especially intriguing, and it has been proposed that magnetic fields could be a relevant tuning parameter \cite{gofryk2015, jaime2017}.

CeRhIn$_5$ is an anisotropic AFM metal that orders in a helix state below T$_N$ = 3.85K with a small ordered moment of 0.5~$\mu_B$ due to the Kondo effect and becomes a superconductor under an applied pressure p $>$ 1GPa, when the AFM ordering temperature is driven to zero. The AFM order, incommensurate helical along the tetragonal $c$-axis, can also be suppressed with external magnetic fields. Application of field in the basal plane suppresses the helix state at H$_M$ = 2.2T, giving place to a commensurate collinear square-wave AFM state. Surprisingly, magnetic fields in excess of 50T are required to completely remove the magnetic order, disregarding of the direction in which it is applied \cite{jiao2015}. While superconductivity does not survive such fields in CeRhIn$_5$, a puzzling Fermi surface reconstruction was observed when a field of H$_{en}\sim$30 T is applied along the crystallographic $c$-axis, accompanied by a rapid change in electrical properties \cite{moll2015}. Moreover, recent experiments show that the electrical properties become strongly anisotropic and correlated to the field orientation, pointing to a possible electronic nematic state \cite{ronning2017}. A few attempts have been made since to pinpoint this novel state \cite{rosa2018}, and more are needed to reach a satisfactory understanding.

Thermal expansion and magnetostriction are fundamental thermodynamic quantities that are directly derived from the Gibbs free energy G(p,T,H) of materials. Changes in G caused by varying external parameters such as pressure, temperature, or magnetic field can be studied by the thermal expansion coefficient $\alpha = \partial^2G/\partial{p}\partial{T}$ or the magnetostriction coefficient $\lambda = \partial^2G/\partial{p}\partial{H}$, respectively. Therefore, dilatometry techniques belong to the basic set of experimental probes present in materials science laboratories. These techniques are used alongside other fundamental magnetic, electric, and thermal capabilities to identify states of matter, to detect classical and quantum phase transitions between different ground states, and to understand the characteristics and nature of such transitions and transformations \cite{jaime2017b, rosa2017}. Here we use a recently developed optical fiber Bragg grating technique, in continuous and pulsed magnetic fields exceeding 90T, to study magnetoelastic correlations by means of high sensitivity dilatometry at cryogenic temperatures in UO$_2$ and CeRhIn$_5$ to better understand their zero field and field-induced low-temperature states.

\section{Experimental}

A single mode SiO$_2$ fiber Bragg grating technique is used for dilatometry studies of small single-crystalline samples of UO$_2$ and CeRhIn$_5$, which was developed for use in the extreme environments of very high, continuous, and pulsed magnetic fields of up to 150 T, at cryogenic temperatures down to 500mK in a $^3$He cryostat. In this technique Bragg gratings (FBG) are inscribed over a length of a 125$\mu$m optical fiber, normally tuned to reflect a particular wavelength of infrared light used in telecommunication. As strain sensors, the Bragg-reflected wavelength monitors the spacing of the grating and hence provides a measure of strain along the length of the sensitive region with $\Delta$L/L $\sim 10^{−8}$ precision. By attaching small FBGs to millimeter-size samples, one is able to detect small changes in sample length that are induced by magnetic fields (magnetostriction), or by changes in temperature (thermal expansion).

A commercial Hyperion\textsuperscript{\textregistered} swept wavelength laser system based on a tunable laser source was used in the 1500 - 1600 nm range to interrogate FBGs at frequencies up to 5 kHz, suitable for the sample environment in the bore of resistive magnets at the NHMFL DC Field Facility in Tallahassee, Florida. The swept wavelength nature of the light source in this type of application implies extremely low power (60 $\mu$W), making this instrument an ideal companion in cryogenic temperatures. In our 46 kHz interrogation scheme, suitable for sample environment in the bore of pulsed magnets at the NHMFL Pulsed Field Facility, the FBG is illuminated by a broadband white light source in similar infrared telecom spectrum using a commercial superluminescent light-emitting diode (SLED). A light polarization scrambler is used to minimize polarization rotation artifacts originated in the fringe field of pulsed magnets. The narrow spectral band around 1550 nm that is reflected by the FBG is diverted via a circulator to a 0.5 m spectrometer, where it is spectrally dispersed and detected by an InGaAs line scan camera. The strain sensitivity achieved with this approach is close to one part in 10 million (10$^{−7}$) \cite{jaime2017b}.

\section{Results and Discussion}

\subsection{UO$_2$}\label{UO2}

The thermal expansion $\Delta$L/L(T) in zero mafieldgnetic , and axial magnetostriction $\Delta$L/L(H) in pulsed magnetic fields to 92.5T were measured at cryogenic temperatures on aligned single crystals of UO$_2$, cut along the $fcc$ body diagonal direction [111]. Fig.~\ref{fig1} shows the thermal expansion, where a clear anomaly is present at T$_N$, and magnetostriction data that follow a dominant quadratic field dependence in the high-temperature paramagnetic state. This simple behavior changes below the ordering temperature, where a linear-in-H term suddenly appears in magnetic fields in the 10-20 T range (see Fig.~\ref{fig1}\bf{A}\rm). Dashed grey lines show polynomial fits with only linear and quadratic terms. The first order nature of the AFM transition leads to an abrupt change of behavior at T$_N$ that is evident in the magnetostriction data. The linear term has been attributed to piezomagnetism in UO$_2$, a property characteristic of some non-collinear AFM systems where time-reversal symmetry is broken in a nontrivial way \cite{jaime2017}. Once the linear term is established by sweeping the magnetic field beyond the switching field H$_{pz}$, attributed to flipping of AFM domains connected by time reversal, subsequent magnetic field sweeps in opposite directions result in much sharper anomalies, as displayed in Fig.~\ref{fig2}\bf{A}\rm.

\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{MGXVI_Fig2.jpg}}
\caption{\bf{A}\rm. Axial magnetostriction $\Delta$L/L for fields along the [111] crystallographic direction, measured at different temperatures. A rapid increase at H$_{pz}$(T) indicates the abrupt flip of magnetic domains. No domain switch is observed in the paramagnetic state at T = 32K. \bf{B}\rm. Polynomial fits of the magnetostriction data in Fig.~\ref{fig1}\bf{B}\rm~ are used to extract the temperature dependence of the linear coefficient of magnetostriction $\lambda$(T) (green circles). The switching fields H$_{pz}$ defined at the local maximum of magnetostriction when sweeping the field in different directions (cyan rhombs are zfc, red stars are fc) increase with decreasing temperature.}
\label{fig2}
\end{figure}

The linear-in-field coefficient displayed in Fig.~\ref{fig2}\bf{B}\rm~ (green circles) follows a temperature dependence that resembles an order parameter, reinforcing the notion of a piezomagnetism directly linked to the 3k AFM state. The magnetic point group symmetry of this state, [space group Pa$\overline{3}$, point group m$\overline{3}$] allows for the presence of a linear term in the magnetostriction \cite{jaime2017}. The axial magnetostriction observed, hence, amounts to experimental support for the known magnetic symmetry in UO$_2$. This is unusual for bulk probes, as scattering probes are usually required to test symmetry. The switching fields H$_{pz}$ (both zfc and fc) display an abrupt increase at T$_N$, followed by a linear increase as the temperature is further reduced. Magnetic field and temperature appear to cooperate in aligning pinned AFM domains, which are more easily flipped as T $\rightarrow$ T$_N$. The process, \it{i.e.}\rm~ the 'handle', by which AFM domains are flipped by a magnetic field in UO$_2$ remains so far unexplained. Also unexplained is the fact that extreme magnetic fields to 92.5T appear to be no match for the unusually robust AFM state, which remains unaffected to 60T even at fractions of a degree away from the ordering temperature.

\subsection{CeRhIn$_5$}\label{CeRhIn5}

The thermal expansion of CeRhIn$_5$ was measured in zero applied magnetic fields at cryogenic temperatures. A sharp lambda-like anomaly in the coefficient of thermal expansion $\alpha$(T) (see Fig.~\ref{fig3}\bf{A}\rm) marks the onset of AFM order at T$_N$ = 3.86K, a hallmark of a second order type phase transition. The angle magnetostriction, $\Delta$L/L(H) measured in the AFM state along the crystallographic $c$-axis when the magnetic field is applied 11$^o$ off the $c$-axis, in pulsed fields to 45 T is shown in Fig.~\ref{fig3}\bf{B}\rm. Pronounced negative magnetostriction, quadratic in the field, is observed consistent with a magnetic point group that does not (as opposed to the case of UO$_2$ discussed above) break time-reversal symmetry in a nontrivial way. Subtraction of a polynomial background, however, reveals a rather interesting structure. A positive MS anomaly in the 10-12T range is likely associated with the low field helix to collinear AFM transition. A negative anomaly at H~$\times\cos$(11$^o$) = 29T agrees well with the proposed electronic nematic state \cite{ronning2017}. Only data collected during field down sweep is presented, as magnet/probe mechanical vibrations precluded clear observation of this anomaly during field up sweep. A full discussion of data taken in a continuous magnetic field to 45T, confirming this anomaly as well as quantum magnetoelastic oscillations only hinted here, is presented elsewhere \cite{rosa2018}.

\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{MGXVI_Fig3.jpg}}
\caption{\bf{A}\rm. The linear coefficient of thermal expansion $\alpha$(T) for CeRhIn$_5$, measured along the tetragonal $c$-axis in zero field. The lambda-type anomaly at T$_N$ = 3.86K marks the onset to the low-temperature AFM state. \bf{B}\rm. Angle magnetostriction $\Delta$L/L // $c$-axis, with magnetic field applied 11$^o$ off the $c$-axis, towards a tetragonal principal axis measured at 510 mK. \bf{C}\rm. Angle magnetostriction after subtraction of a smooth polynomial background. Two anomalies are evident. One at lower fields corresponding to the helix to collinear order transition at 10-12T, another at 29T. The latter agrees well with a proposed electronic nematic state \cite{ronning2017}.}
\label{fig3}
\end{figure}

The Fermi surface effects uncovered by Jiao et al. \cite{jiao2015} and the electrical transport anomalies observed by Ronning et al. in CeRhIn$_5$ at H$_{en}$ are only present when the magnetic field is applied close to the tetragonal $c$-axis \cite{ronning2017}. In order to confirm that the magnetostriction anomaly is indeed associated to this novel high field electronic nematic state, we performed additional angle magnetostriction measurements with the magnetic field applied 17$^o$ off one of the tetragonal $a$-axis. Fig.~\ref{fig4}\bf{A}\rm~ displays the angle magnetostriction $\Delta$L/L // $a$-axis, when the magnetic field is applied 18$^o$ off the tetragonal $a$-axis, after subtraction of a smooth polynomial background, for various temperatures between 1.35K and 5.01K. While the magnetic transition at H$_M$ = 2.2T is sharp and clearly visible, the anomaly associated with H$_{en} \simeq$ 30T is completely lost. These results confirm our expectations. Meanwhile, the improved sensitivity of the FBG dilatometry technique in continuous magnetic fields reveal quite a nice quantum magnetoelastic oscillations in CeRhIn$_5$. These magnetoelastic oscillations, recently reported for fields close to the $c$-axis \cite{rosa2018}, are a serendipitous finding that attests to the high quality of the single crystal samples at hand.

\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centerline{\includegraphics[width=0.5\textwidth]{MGXVI_Fig4.jpg}}
\caption{\bf{A}\rm. Angle magnetostriction $\Delta$L/L // $a$-axis for fields applied 18$^o$ off a tetragonal $a$-axis [100] in CeRhIn$_5$, after subtraction of a smooth polynomial background, measured at different temperatures. The anomaly at H$_M$ = 2.2T corresponds to the helix to collinear AFM structure transition. Quantum magnetoelastic oscillations are evident in the lowest temperature data sets. \bf{B}\rm. Fast Fourier transforms to the magnetostriction data where performed and plotted as amplitude vs frequency, for all measured temperatures. clear peaks are observed at various frequencies listed in Table \ref{tab1}. \bf{Inset}\rm. A Lifschitz-Kontsevich-type plot for the 457 T peak, showing good agreement for an effective electronic mass m$^*$ = 0.75m$_0$.}
\label{fig4}
\end{figure}

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\caption{FFT analysis of magnetoelastic oscilations}
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\begin{tabular}{|c|ccc|}
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\textbf{peak} & \textbf{ref. \cite{cornelius2000}$^*$}& \textbf{ref. \cite{hall2001}} &\textbf{\textit{This work}} \\

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F$_1$& 105&  106 & 100 \\
F$_2$& 219& 212  & 214 \\
F$_3$& 295&  324 & 314 \\
F$_4$& 492&  446 & 457 \\
F$_5$& 714&  722 & 728  \\
F$_6$& 861& 874 & -  \\
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Fig.~\ref{fig4}\bf{B}\rm~ shows the results of computing fast Fourier transformations (FFT) to the quantum magnetoelastic oscillations in CeRhIn$_5$. Peaks in the FFT are observed at frequencies that agree very well with de Hass-van Alphen oscillations \cite{cornelius2000,hall2001} (see Table~\ref{tab1}). Frequency changes due to magnetic fields applied 18$^o$ off [100] are not significant \cite{hall2001}. Our effective mass estimate for the FFT peak labeled F$_4$ is m$^*$ = 0.75 m$_0$, in agreement with Cornelius et al. Quite different are, however, the relative FFT amplitudes, indicating that electronic orbits involved in crystal bonding impacting quantum magnetoelastic oscillations are different than electronic orbits responsible for magnetism and impacting de Hass-van Alphen oscillations. One dramatic example is the almost complete suppression of F$_6$ in the quantum magnetoelastic oscillations reported here.

\section{Conclusions}

An optical fiber Bragg grating dilatometry technique was utilized to study oriented single crystal samples of insulating UO$_2$ and metallic CeRhIn$_5$, two very different antiferromagnetic systems, in the extreme sample environments of very high continuous and pulsed magnetic fields. A robust piezomagnetic state is explored in UO$_2$ and its switching fields H$_{pz}$, where the magnetic field applied along the $fcc$ [111] crystallographic direction induces flipping of AFM domains connected by time reversal, were mapped as a function of the temperature. We find that the field needed to switch AFM domains decreases with increasing temperature, and conclude that temperature and field must work together in this endeavor. These results show that some structure-sensitive probes, such as elastic neutron scattering where available practical magnetic fields are limited, could be utilized at temperatures close to T$_N$ = 30.3K where the required switch fields are in the $\sim$10T range. Such studies would be extraordinary tools to uncover the mechanisms behind the AFM domain pinning, as well as to explain the extraordinary resilience of the AFM state to external magnetic fields. The ability to bend the optical fibers used in the FBG dilatometry technique was exploited to study angle magnetostriction in CeRhIn$_5$ both along the tetragonal $a$- and $c$-axis. We find that an anomaly in the magnetostriction observed at H$_{en}$ when the magnetic field is applied close to the $c$-axis is absent when the field is applied close to the tetragonal $a$-axis. While the dilatometry measurements $\Delta$L/L are performed along specific axes, we know that all axes in a relatively simple structure such as tetragonal must be correlated by Poisson's rule. We then conclude that the anomaly found in the magnetostriction must be caused by the field-induced electronic nematic state. Moreover, we analyze quantum magnetoelastic oscillations for $\Delta$L/L // $a$-axis, H close to $a$-axis, and find excellent agreement with de Hass-van Alphen data in the literature attesting to the high quality of the samples at hand. These two seemingly unrelated systems, UO$_2$ and CeRhIn$_5$, serve as examples of how dilatometry studies can be of help to better understand underlying symmetries in magnetic systems. Plans for future work include the development of a modified dilatometer that allows for the simultaneous observation of two orthogonal crystallographic directions in the extreme environments of very high magnetic fields.

\section*{Acknowledgment}

We are indebted to our collaborators in this project M.B. Salamon, A. Saul, J. Lashley, J. Smith, T. Durakiewicz, A. Anderson, and C. Stanek. The most recent motivation to study high field dilatometry in CeRhIn$_5$ is owed to  P. Moll, while other contributors in the team include P.F.S Rosa, F. Balakirev, S. M. Thomas, J. Thompson, and F. Ronning.

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1st Dec 2022, 6:00am - 1 min read
The midfielder had a spell at Hartlepool United last season, and the 20-year-old was watched by Keith Curle, the League Two club's manager, playing for the Under-21s against Sheffield United on Monday.
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HomeAs #drought strikes region, decades of aggressive #water development keep #Aurora in the swim — The Aurora Sentinel
As #drought strikes region, decades of aggressive #water development keep #Aurora in the swim — The Aurora Sentinel
January 12, 2022 Coyote Gulch Arkansas Basin, Aurora, Climate Change, Colorado River Basin, Colorado Water, Eagle River Watershed, Homestake Reservoir, Infrastructure, Prairie Waters, South Platte Basin, Transmountain/transbasin diversions, Water Law
From The Aurora Sentinel (Philip Poston):
To say that Aurora has a prolific portfolio of water rights and reservoirs is apt. Spanning across three water basins, Aurora water is transported 180 miles through a vast and complicated system.
But it hasn't always been that way…
Aurora was wholly served by the City and County of Denver until 1954, when Denver put into place a "blue line" no longer granting permits for new taps in the ever-growing metropolitan area, leaving parts of Aurora out of Denver's service region.
In 1957, Aurora purchased the water rights to the Last Chance Ditch and diverted the water that ran through it to be stored near the Cherry Creek Dam.
The completion of phase one of the Homestake Reservoir, which the city shares with Colorado Springs, was in 1967 and with that, Aurora was able to become completely self-reliant when it came to supplying the wet stuff to its residents.
The next 20 years saw rapid growth of Aurora's water rights acquisitions, including rights in the three major basins being Colorado, Arkansas and South Platte. The city has continued to purchase water rights in areas spanning from Park to Eagle counties.
While the water rights are large in number for Aurora, 95% of the municipality's water comes from reusable water…
Prairie Waters schematic via Aurora Water.
This is where the Prairie Waters filtration system plays its vital role in supply for the city. Meeting approximately 10% of the demands of the city's water, the system begins at the South Platte River in southern Weld County, and through a system of 23 wells, water is ushered through hundreds of feet of sand and gravel which serves as a filter to clean out impurities in the water. It is then pumped into basins where it goes through another level of filtration removing even more contaminants. The water is then sent to one of three different pump stations and finally to a purification facility.
UV pretreatment Peter D. Binney Purification Facility.
The Peter D. Binney Purification Facility uses what are some of the most advanced processes of purification in the country, through ultraviolet oxidation, water officials say. With the ability to treat 50 million gallons a day, it's the largest facility in the nation to use this technology…
With Aurora's acquired water rights and the Prairie Waters System, Aurora looks to be prepared for the city's growth.
Aurora Water serves more than 91,000 accounts in a city of more than 386,000 people and that number is rapidly increasing. The population is expected to double in the next 30 to 40 years.
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With 12 current reservoirs along the front range and throughout the mountains, Aurora has plans for three more reservoirs throughout the next 50 years.
One such reservoir has a litany of hurdles to jump, and might even require an act of Congress.
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Wild Horse Reservoir, which looks to be the next reservoir completed, hopefully by decades end, was planned with the purpose of not only providing adequate and better storage, but work in providing better management of exchanged water.
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