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The Sony Xperia Z3 Compact is a handset that takes its petite dimensions seriously - despite having a relatively small 4.6-inch display, it packs some of Android's latest and most powerful silicon. Coincidentally, it's smaller than most Android flagships in size, and that puts it in direct competition with another top-shelf device - Apple's 4.7-inch iPhone 6.
Despite being somewhat similar in size, the two are vastly different on the inside: the Z3 Compact coming with Android 4.4 KitKat, while the iPhone 6 running iOS 8. Then, come the hardware differences: Qualcomm's quad-core Snapdragon 801 versus Apple's A8, the 20-megapixel camera on the Z3 Compact versus the 8-megapixel shooter on the iPhone 6, and the list goes on and on.
How does this all work out in the two and is one better than the other? Let's compare them in more detail to find out.
Both are very good looking phones: the Z3 Compact with its body sandwiched between two pieces of glass and surrounded with translucent plastic, while the iPhone 6 features an even more premium feeling metal...
Sony and Apple are two companies that have long stood out with their impressive and innovative designs. The Z3 Compact and iPhone 6 fit right in that tradition.
The Z3 Compact builds on the legacy of last year's Z1 Compact, but ups the ante when it comes to materials - its internals are sandwiched between two pieces of glass (rather than plastic), and encircled with translucent plastic that contributes to the phone's character. It's also practical - each of the four edges of the _phone_ has an additional patch of plastic that is there for better protection in case the _phone_ falls to the ground. The iPhone 6, on its part, is made of good old 'aluminium' that gives the phone a very sturdy, yet premium feel.
Apple has also made it remarkably thin - the iPhone 6 measures in at just 0.27 inches (6.9mm), while the Z3 Compact comes in at the thicker 0.34 inches (8.6mm). In terms of overall size and dimensions, though, Sony's handsets does live up to its compact name and it's the smaller one, easier to use with a single hand. It's worth pointing out that Sony has managed to up the screen size in the Z3 Compact to 4.6 inches while keeping the same overall size as the 4.3" Z1 Compact, which is an impressive achievement.
In terms of buttons, the Z3 Compact has none up front where it relies on on-screen navigation keys, while all of its physical buttons are on the right side - a power/lock key in the middle that is a bit too small for our taste, but otherwise fine, a volume rocker that is also on the small side, and a dedicated camera shutter key. The iPhone 6 introduces the first change in iPhone button layout since the beginning of the lineup in 2007. The round home key, home to the fingerprint scanner (a fingerprint reader is missing on the Z3 Compact) is still right below the screen, but the power/lock key is now conveniently positioned on the side rather than on top, a change dictated by the larger size of the phone. You also have two separate volume keys on the left, and all buttons are very clicky and comfortable to press.
The Z3 Compact, however, has one neat feature that the iPhone 6 does not have: it is water- and dust-proof, carrying an IP68 certification rating. What this means is that the device is protected against dust and can withstand immersion in fresh water up to 5 feet deep for as long as 30 minutes.
The Z3 Compact comes with a 4.6" 720p display with noticeably bluish colors, while the iPhone 6's 4.7" display with a resolution of 750 x 1334 is very well calibrated...
The Sony Xperia Z3 Compact features a 4.6-inch IPS LCD display with a resolution of 720 x 1280 pixels, while the Apple iPhone 6 sports a slightly larger, 4.7-inch screen of a similar IPS LCD kind, and a resolution of 750 x 1334 pixels. Both are nearly equally sharp - pixel density comes in at 319ppi on the Z3 Compact, while the one on the iPhone 6 stands at 326ppi. Both those scores are below the standards for sharpness set by other flagships, and you can see some slight pixelization (especially in tiny text) if you look at the displays up close.
Speaking of color accuracy, Sony has gone way off with the screen of the Z3 Compact. The most glaring issue with it is its bluish cast. Indeed, measurements confirm that the white point is way on the cold side at a color temperature of nearly 10000K (while the reference, neutral value stands at 6500K). This is accompanied with gamma of 2.67, way above the reference 2.2 value, which translates into an appearance of a darker display with overly boosted (and inaccurate) contrast. Admittedly, Sony does include a color control option, so that color purists can compensate for the bluishness of the screen and achieve more accurate (but still not perfect) colors (we tweaked it to the following values: red ~ 250, green ~ 190, blue ~ 0). Finally, it's worth mentioning that Sony's X-Reality screen mode only further boosts colors, making them more eye popping than the default mode, but not contributing much to accuracy.
The iPhone 6, on the other hand, does very well when it comes to color accuracy. Color temperature is just a bit on the cold side, and there is a slight imbalance towards the blue in greyscale, but it's minimal, and overall, colors are calibrated well. Gamma at 2.23 is excellent, very close to the reference 2.2 value.
For outdoor viewing, the iPhone 6 has also got the upper hand as its brightness shoots up to a peak of 606 nits, way above the 436 peak of the Z3 Compact. The iPhone is definitely the easier of the two to read outdoors on a bright sunny day.
The Z3 Compact builds on the legacy of last year's Z1 Compact, but ups the ante when it comes to materials - its internals are sandwiched between two pieces of glass (rather than plastic), and encircled with translucent plastic that contributes to the phone's character. It's also practical - each of the four edges of the phone has an additional patch of plastic that is there for better protection in case the phone falls to the ground. The iPhone 6, on its part, is made of good old 'aluminium' that gives the phone a very sturdy, yet premium feel.
The Z3 Compact comes with Android 4.4 KitKat and Sony's custom UI on top is clean of clutter and zippy, while the iPhone with iOS 8 retains its looks and simplicity of use...
The Sony Xperia Z3 Compact with its Android 4.4 KitKat on board and the Apple iPhone 6 with iOS 8 are members of two very different, competing platforms. You can tell the difference in the looks right away.
Sony's custom user interface on top of Android is a fairly clean and clutter-free skin. It boasts nice zippy animations that add a bit of extra flare, and a selection of well-made Sony first-party apps that act as replacement to stock Google ones. The Xperia skin features rich customization options and you can add or delete panels easily, as well as re-arrange applications in alphabetical order or by most used ones.
UI of the Sony Xperia Z3 Compact
Apple's iOS, on the other hand, has traditionally had user-friendliness as its forte. iOS 8 stands firmly in this route, with icons and style that have not changed much from iOS 7, but functionality does improve with a couple of nice additions. First, you have the much talked about widgets arrive in the Notification Center on iOS 8, then Apple adds actionable notifications (so you can for instance reply to messages straight from the notification), and a new Health app that aggregates data from your phone and other fitness bands and health accessories. There is also the new handoff feature that makes for a seamless experience between phone, tablet, and traditional computer (all in Apple's ecosystem, though).
The Health app
Default keyboard
iOS 8 supports third-party keyboards
The iOS 8 UI of the Apple iPhone 6
The fingerprint scanner is a neat functionality that Apple has expanded to now work with Apple Pay (via NFC). Google's ecosystem has Wallet (which also works via NFC), but it's not as rich and wide-spread as Apple Pay, and the Z3 Compact in particular lacks a fingerprint scanner for security.
Basic functionality is equally well covered on both: the phone apps on both are quick to open and have simple, utilitarian looks. Messaging is a similar straightforward experience, and with the addition of custom keyboards on iOS, Android and iOS are now on par. iOS 8 does add a few features that the Z3 Compact does not have like instantly sending videos and images, as well as sharing your location continuously via messages.
Sony, on its part, has a couple of stand out features on its own. First, the option to record your screen on video (just hold the power/lock key and select record video) is nice. Remote Play is another big new features on the Xperia Z3 Compact. It allows you to hook up a PlayStation 4 via Wi-Fi and stream games to your phone, so you can connect a DualShock 4 controller, and use your phone as your main screen (rather than using that family TV everyone wants to use).
The Apple A8 on the iPhone 6 is a very powerful chip and it outperforms the Z3 Compact's Snapdragon 801...
The iPhone 6 comes with the latest of Apple silicon, the A8 chip. The Xperia Z3 Compact, on the other hand, uses Qualcomm's Snapdragon 801 system-on-a-chip.
In daily usage, both deliver a fairly smooth experience, but while you can still notice that ever-present slight stutter on Android, iOS manages to feel a bit more fluid with its animations and uninterrupted, lag-free performance.
Looking at pure specifications, the Apple A8 comes with a dual-core Cyclone version 2.0 processor clocked at up to 1.4GHz, while the Z3 Compact's quad-core Krait 450 setup runs at up to 2.5GHz. The iPhone 6 also features 1GB of RAM (which is a bit limiting for multitasking), while the Z3 Compact sports 2 gigs of RAM.
Going deeper in the technicalities, we see that the A8 is one of the first mobile chips manufactured on the 20nm process, while the Snapdragon 801 is made on the 28nm node.
Benchmarks show that the iPhone 6 has a clear advantage over the Z3 Compact when it comes to CPU performance. Most notably, its single-core performance is nearly double that of the Sony handset. In terms of graphics, the iPhone 6's PowerVR GX6450 has only a slight advantage over the Adreno 330 GPU in Z3 Compact. In fact, gaming is the biggest benefactor from the comparatively low resolutions on both devices, as the load on the processors is not as intensive, and even most demanding games run at their best, with smooth framerates.
The Xperia Z3 Compact comes with 16GB of internal storage (of which around 12GB are available to the end user), but luckily you can expand that via microSD cards of up to 128 gigs. Apple, on the other hand, traditionally does not include the option to expand memory via external cards, leaving you with the internal storage where you have a 16GB, 64GB, and 128GB iPhone 6 models.
Apple iPhone 6 353.4
Sony Xperia Z3 Compact 906.6
Sony Xperia Z3 Compact 41.5
Sony Xperia Z3 Compact 1126
The Sony Xperia Z3 Compact comes with Google's mobile Chrome as the default browser, and it's a quick and efficient solution, with a card-based interface that is tailor made for touchscreen mobile devices. The iPhone 6, on the other hand, comes with Apple's Mobile Safari, a quick browser that makes full use of gestures for comfortable navigation - swipe right from the left edge to go back a page, or the other way around to go forward. In terms of surfing speeds, both browsers and handsets perform very well, but the iPhone 6 has the upper hand in both quickness, as well as scrolling and zooming around.
In terms of connectivity, Apple has jam-packed the iPhone 6 with 4G LTE bands, so you can use the device easily internationally, and LTE speeds on it reach up to 150Mbps for downloads. The Z3 Compact also supports 4G LTE with identical speeds (both have Category 4 LTE modem). Other connectivity options include Bluetooth 4.0, dual-channel Wi-Fi, GPS, and NFC on both. It's worth noting that NFC on the iPhone 6 is limited to Apple Pay, and you cannot use it for say, faster pairing of accessories like you can on Android.
The Z3 Compact's 20-megapixel camera captures good, but not great images, as it sometimes misjudges colors and can be a bit too slow, while the iPhone 6's 8-megapixel shooter is consistently great and fast...
The Sony Xperia Z3 Compact features a 20-megapixel rear camera with a single LED flash, while Apple's iPhone 6 comes with an 8-megapixel main shooter with dual LED flash (both handsets lack optical stabilization).
On the technical side, Sony's Z3 Compact features a 20-megapixel 1/2.3" camera sensor, the largest of any Android device, with pixel size of 1.1 micron. In terms of optics, the Z3 Compact sports a very fast f/2.0 wide-angle 25mm lens. The Apple iPhone 6 uses a smaller, 8-megapixel, 1/3" sensor by Sony that goes with larger, 1.5 micron pixels. In use here is a 29mm f/2.2 lens that is protected with sapphire glass.
The camera app experience is often times crucial for getting a shot right. In Sony's case, it is a bit too complex. You have the Superior Auto mode that shoots 8-megapixel images that are made by pixel processing the original 20-megapixel output from the camera, and that's pretty straightforward. However, all settings outside of that are confusingly spread in non-intuitive places in the app - for instance, trying to do a simple thing like manually shoot an HDR image requires you to change into manual mode (where by default you shoot in 20MP) and switch to 8-megapixel resolution. Camera speed is also not among the Z3 Compact's strengths. The iPhone 6 on the other hand has a very simple yet capable camera app. It loads up very fast and is also very snappy to capture images. The new finger slide to adjust exposure option is also a very nice and intuitive addition.
Camera interface of the Apple iPhone 6
Camera interface of the Sony Xperia Z3 Compact
When it comes to image quality, the Z3 Compact captures very good images with sufficient detail and lively color, but occasionally the camera misjudges white balance, producing images with a weird color cast. The iPhone 6, on the other hand, is among the very best cameras out there that stands out with consistently good pictures in various conditions - images on it turn out with pleasingly vibrant colors (there is a very slight warm tone to some images), great dynamics and good detail.
Indoors, in lower-lit scenes, the iPhone 6 has an even larger lead as it is capable of capturing sharper images with less noise, and still preserve pleasing colors. The Z3 Compact, on the other hand, captures noisier images with a bit muted colors. The dual-tone LED flash on the iPhone 6 does a good job with lighting up a scene amply, and it also flashes with light adjusted to the scene, so you have virtually no of the typical blue cast of flash light. The Z3 Compact also features a decently powerful flash, and while there is a very slight, colder, tone, flash performance is among the better ones we've seen.
The front camera on the Z3 Compact is a 2.2-megapixel one, while the iPhone 6 shoots selfies with 1.2-megapixel resolution. In reality, the iPhone 6 captures better looking selfies with more dynamics and live, rich colors, while the Sony front cam struggles with dynamic scenes and detail does not look as sharp.
In terms of video, the petite Sony handset can record 4K at 30 frames per second (fps), or 1080p at either 60 fps or 30 fps, while the iPhone 6's 8-megapixel camera is not physically capable of recoring 4K (the sensor has slightly less pixels), and instead it records in 1080p at 60 or 30 fps. 4K is a nice extra but it comes with some limitations on the Z3 Compact - you can record only 5-minute long clips, for example. In terms of the more common 1080p recording, both do a good job, with pleasing colors, but the Sony tends to hunt for focus more, and it does worse with noise.
Sony's own media apps look great and add some nice functionality, but the iPhone 6's stock apps also do the job well, and the iPhone has the much better sounding speaker...
Both devices do a good job when it comes to media consumption. Sony in particular has a suite of media apps that look great and offer rich functionality. Sony's Album app is a nice gallery replacement that supports pinching to zoom in and out in, and you have some basic photo editing options bundled in as well. The iPhone 6, on its part, uses the simpler looking, but still very functional gallery application, and with iOS 8, you have some of the best in-gallery image editing options allowing you to quickly do some image fixing (lighting up an image, lens correction for crooked lines, etc).
For music, Sony brings its Walkman app that categorizes your tunes by albums, artists, songs, and so on, plus it allows you to view your songs per folder. It also has an equalizer to tweak the sound and some new and notable features include support for the Digital Sound Enhancement Engine (DSEE) HX codec. This codec allows you to play compatible files at close to high-resolution audio quality. The iPhone 6 with iTunes and the stock Music app also does well with organizing your music, plus it has some of the best amplifiers on mobile.
When it comes to speakers, Sony has dual, front-firing, stereo speakers, but - contrary to expectations - they come with a bit muffled sound (likely because of the waterproofing), lacking clarity and depth. The iPhone 6's single speaker on the bottom of the phone is a bit louder, but most importantly, produces cleaner, more pleasing sound.
Sony's video player plays back clips with a bit of extra flare as you get to see a short sequence of every video as a live thumbnail, so you get an idea about its contents. The iPhone 6 video player does not have such intricacies, but does the job just as well.
The Xperia Z3 Compact offers good but not great sound quality, with the biggest issue being clarity (or lack thereof) in the earpiece. Otherwise, the earpiece is loud enough, and on the other end of the line, call quality is sufficiently good.
The iPhone 6, on the other hand, is a great performer in terms of call quality: it can get very loud for noisier environments, and sound on both ends of the line is pleasingly clear.
A nice extra the iPhone 6 has is support for Wi-Fi calling, a carrier-dependent feature (currently, sadly, only working on T-Mobile) that improves call quality vastly.
When it comes to battery, we have some surprises in these otherwise smaller than most flagships devices.
The Sony Xperia Z3 Compact, in particular, with its 2600mAh battery comes with one big promise: two-day battery life. Luckily, that's not an empty promise: in our own battery life test where we simulate average smartphone use (with the phone running non-stop, with no screen off time) on devices pre-calibrated to 200 nits, the Z3 Compact scored remarkably good (and better than any other smartphone with non-phablet size): 10 hours and 2 minutes.
The iPhone 6, on the other hand, features an 1810mAh battery and that does not look very promising. Unfortunately, that's what our own battery test confirms: the iPhone 6 managed to score a decidedly mediocre 5 hours and 22 minutes, nearly half the score of the Z3 Compact. With the iPhone 6 under heavier use, you might find yourselves going for the charger even before the day has ended, and even average use does not give you more than a full day. We should also note that neither the Sony handset, nor the Apple one come with user-replaceable battery.
Sony has also joined the ultra power saving mode Android trend, with Ultra STAMINA on the Z3 Compact, and it's a welcome addition. In this mode, the phone turns black and white, kills all but essential processes, and caps processor clock speed, to squeeze the most out of the battery. Yes, it does turn your phone in somewhat of a feature phone while in Ultra STAMINA, but keeps it alive if you're waiting for an important call or message, and don't have access to a charge. The iPhone 6 does not have such an option.
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The Sony Xperia Z3 Compact and the Apple iPhone 6 are two of the best smartphones for people looking for a reasonably sized mobile sidekick.The Sony Xperia Z3 Compact has little competition in the Android market where most flagships are larger, but when comparing it to the iPhone 6, it goes short of breath in a couple of areas.
The iPhone 6 for instance is the more powerful device, as the Apple A8 outperforms the Snapdragon 801. The Apple smartphone also captures the better images, and still feels a bit more premium.
The Z3 Compact, on its part, has its forte in the remarkably long-lasting battery that can go for a full 2 days even with more intense use. That's quite the achievement, and the contrast with the rather mediocre iPhone 6 battery is definitely noticeable.
Those differences seem to even out when you consider price - the Z3 Compact is the more affordable one, selling at an off-contract price of around $500, while the iPhone 6 starts at $650. Now that you know about the pros and cons of each, just make the choice that would better fit your usage.
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New Noise: Adia Victoria
Meet Adia Victoria, the Southern Gothic musician casting a spell with her haunting sound.
After a lifetime of introspection and silent observations, American musician Adia Victoria is an almost mythical being. Intertwining elements of punk, blues, rock and country (what genre she fits in is up to you), Adia Victoria creates an eerie, haunting and beautiful Southern Gothic sound. Her lyrics, the essence of which are in a similar vein to the prose of Eudora Welty and Tennessee Williams, are sung through a blood-born howl, shining a light on the unseen, messy side of the female experience, in all it's imperfection. With a love of singing stemming from her time in the local choir of her Seventh Day Adventist Church as a child, Adia Victoria is a natural performer – commanding the stage and her audience, drawing them in and casting a spell.
Her album "Beyond The Bloodhounds" is a memorial to her twenties – the ups, the downs, the beautiful moments, and the messy descents. Produced by Roger Moutenot at Haptown Studios, the album is an exploration of the mental and emotional state of a young black woman growing up under the poverty line in the Deep South. Sounds like a heavy topic? Adia Victoria breaks it down and relates it to issues we can all understand, showing that there is a special beauty that lies in the imperfect. Her lyrics are like poetry crafted to be sung – they are lonely, vicious and haunting, but it's these gothic elements that set her apartment from other blues artists.
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Where did you begin singing – were you in a choir when you were younger?
Yes, I was in the choir as a little girl. I began singing when I was about five, we had Easter concerts, Christmas concerts, stuff like that. I loved to sing and so I was the soloist, and I would get up there in front of all the grown ups and sing these hymns. It wasn't so much that I believed in the words of the songs, but when I sang I wanted other people to believe in what I was singing.
You've lived in South Carolina, New York, Atlanta, Paris and Germany and now Nashville.
I spent a lot of time in Paris, and London too, I have family in Europe. So I spent months on end over here, for a few years, just coming in and being in a place where no one knew me. Hanging out, learning new languages. My whole family lives in Nashville, my mum, my brothers and sisters, my grandparents, uncles, cousins, everyone. My mum called me and said "I think you need to come and be in Nashville with your family." So that led me there. I was never trying to move to Nashville to make it, I thought I guess I'll go and be with my family now. I'd been alone in Atlanta for three years. So I got my cats and my guitar and my brothers came and picked me up and I went to Nashville.
What genre would you pin your sound in?
It's whatever you feel like it is for you, that's your job and that's your duty as a listen to dissect the art and figure out what it means to you. That's why I do it. You can go as a listener and you get lost in that world. I'm interested in the blues more as an expression of your life, and what that means, the messaging of the blues. I don't pin any genre on myself, that's how you go crazy as an artist.
What was the starting point for your album?
I realised I'd never really had the chance to express any of this, I don't really get to talk about this. Music for me was a way for me to make sense of my life. When I went to Nashville I started going out and playing these songs and met Roger Moutenot, who was my producer, he happened to hear me sing. He asked me if I'd be interested in coming into his studio and working together and record some songs. I said yes, and so for the next three years I would go in whenever I had a new song and say hey, let's try and record this. I was never looking at a finished product, I was enjoying going in a learning how to work in a studio, playing music with my band. I started going out on the road and playing and performing these songs. It was a totally different side of my art to recording and writing them. My record label came to one show I was performing at in Washington DC and they said that they'd like to release this album.
You recorded it at Haptown Studios – what was it like there and how was working with Roger Moutenot?
Working with Roger was really interesting, he's recorded a lot of things I love like Sleater-Kinney. I was allowed to take time to live my life and to have the experiences and the emotional moments and then go into the studio and do a song. He was the person who challenged me to consider the listener when I'm writing. He said that I should consider the people that are going to be listening to it – what's their relationship going to be like with these songs? What moments do you want to create for them? He taught me how to open up my music to allow other people to enjoy it.
Had you already written the songs, and then adapted them for the listener?
He never said, "I'm going to change your music and do this to it", but he was like, what do you think about this? He would always ask me what the songs were about, what did you feel when you wrote this song? We would sit down and try and find ways to sonically represent what it felt like to be lonely, what it felt like to be angry.
How do you work with your band?
What we do is come together, I've already written my guitar parts, and I'll tell them what the song is about and what feel I'm going for. Then I allow them to explore that emotion and what it feels like to you, as a drummer, to be anxious, to be scared. If they're playing something that's terrible, I'll say let's try this… They're able to express themselves as well and then I guide them, to where I need them to go. That way is better for them than if I told them what to do. There are some parts where I say play this, do this with your guitar, but for the most part I let them explore and then I guide them.
Your album title "Beyond The Bloodhounds" references a book by Harriet Jacobs, Incidents In The Life Of A Slave girl – what was it about the book that inspired you?
I thought about myself as a young black girl, all the experiences I'd gone through growing up in the south where I felt like everything in nature was set out to get me. All I wanted to do was get past these things that wanted to rip me apart and get to the other side. I feel like it's something anybody can relate to. It doesn't matter you age, your race or your gender, you know what it's like to be under duress, under attack, by forces bigger than you. I wanted to pay homage to this brilliant black woman, and keep her story alive and to introduce other people to her in that way.
What's your live performance like?
I think it's more of a theatrical performance than just a rock show. My background is in the performing arts, so I have a certain reverence for the stage. I tell my story, I go back to where I was emotionally when I play these songs because that's the only way to keep it fresh and honest for people is to relive these experiences on stage. It's like I'm playing a part. That's just the kind of performer I am, I would never just get up there and play the songs, I use my body, I use my expressions, I go out into the crowd, I bring people in. My goal is for you to be able to look at what I'm going through and for you to feel more comfortable with your own humanity.
Your album based around your twenties – was it specific events that triggered songs?
Yeah, I think that's why it took three years for me to write the album, because I had to go through life. There's songs on there about drinking too much whisky when you're 21 and you're out running around in New York City, that's what "Dead Eyes" is about. There's songs I wrote after my aunt died, there's songs that deal with depression, there's songs I wrote after dealing with a guy that was a fuck boy. It's all over the place. I want young girls and young women to look at it and think hey, I don't always have to be pretty and Instagram-ready. I am big, messy, neurotic, messy person and that's okay. You are human, make really cool art out of it.
Adia Victoria's debut album "Beyond The Bloodhounds" is out now.
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I haven't written a Nigel update for a while now. I felt like I wanted to take some time to write something really thoughtful, but find that as I live through all of this, it is impossible to get my head in the right space. So here is an update, maybe not as thoughtful as I had hoped.
Late last year, they put Nigel on the last available treatment for his cancer. It is a new drug therapy that works with the body's immune system; similar to the drug he had tried, which didn't work. Nigel went through two rounds of chemo at UCSF back in October and November to get his cancer load low enough to start the new drug. We found out in January, this newest drug was not working.
Currently, there are no more drug options for us. The chemo works, but it is a temporary fix. On the horizon is a new therapy "Car T Cell". UCSF hopes to have trials by November or December, so our only option is to keep Nigel alive long enough to get him into the trial. Thank all the powers that be, he is finally eating, and eating like crazy! It had been almost a year of basically raw milk and yogurt as his main diet. I can tell you his strength is greatly improved with the additional food. I am trying to support his health with herbs, diet and exercise.
For now our routine is chemo at UCSF every 4 weeks for about a week stay. When he is back home we have to make trips down for labs and transfusions at least 3 times a week. For about two weeks his immune system is either going down to 0 or is going to be working its way back up from 0. You can imagine our schedule is really crazy here. BUT his spirits are amazing and he has been working on upgrading all of the computers, and we are brainstorming on how to make the farm more efficient. I picked him up yesterday and I can tell you right now he is walking laps around the kitchen.
While he was in UCSF last week, friends brought meals to him. I think having really good food made a big difference, he is much stronger than he has been in the past. Also, one of our long time members, Heidi, is a physical therapist at UCSF and she gives Nigel very extra special attention. She came up with a new routine for him, which seems to have catapulted him into a very positive direction! So tough times around here, but we keep fighting the fight and moving forward.


Fleenor Paper is a leading manufacturer of environmentally friendly packaging. Although we work with many industries, servicing the moving and storage industry is what gave us our start and continues to be a large part of our business. One of our specialties is manufacturing paper blankets for international relocations. With manufacturing plants nationwide and a network of distributors, Fleenor has the ability to design and deliver custom products in pallet quantities anywhere in North America. Due to this footprint, we can efficiently ship out of any US port to better service our overseas customers.
The company was established in 1962 by LeRoy Fleenor. While working as a typesetter and printer for a local newspaper company, he noticed a salvaging opportunity to utilize "waste paper" bring thrown daily into dumpsters. Reminiscent of other entrepreneurs, LeRoy started his business in his garage where he converted this scrap paper into sheeted newsprint using a homemade sheeter that used his wife's carving knife as the blade! Soon he sold his first pallet of paper, founding Fleenor Paper Company. By the late 1970′s, LeRoy had acquired or constructed several other machines to service the moving, printing and packaging industries throughout Northern California.
Over the last 50 years, in addition to our Northern California location Fleenor has added manufacturing facilities in Southern California, Texas, Georgia and New Jersey and has established a distribution network throughout North America including Alaska and Hawaii. Today Rebecca Fleenor and John Rochex, the second generation, run the company with the same spirit and innovation that shaped the company in its beginning.
Fleenor Paper Company's green company logo is far from a meaningless symbol. Starting with LeRoy, it has been Fleenor's priority to create packaging solutions utilizing paper that would otherwisebe disposed of as waste or as a recycling element. Our goal is to find another function for the paper BEFORE it gets re-pulped and recycled.
We are happy to report that over 90% of everything Fleenor produces is made with some type of recycled or reused material. Additionally, many of our products can be used more than once, and then, when it is finally time for them to be disposed of they can easily go into the recycling stream. Fleenor Paper Company has always worked hard to purchase its raw materials from secondary or "cull" markets. All of the dunnage products we sell at Fleenor (sheeted paper and newsprint used for packaging) are made from paper that that was originally intended to be used in the printing industry but was rejected for various reasons such as basis weight or color variations to roll damage. These reasons cause the paper to be unsuitable for use on high-speed printing presses but do not cause problems for use in the packaging industry once the paper is converted.
This "reuse" philosophy is actually better for the environment than if we were to use new recycled paper to produce our product. Our method needs no energy or chemicals to re-pulp the rejected paper to make new paper. We only use paper cutting and converting equipment to remove non-viable paper. This unused paper is then baled and sold to waste dealers for recycling.
At Fleenor we are constantly looking for ways to reduce our carbon footprint in our facilities. For example, by having multiple manufacturing plants located across the country, we shortened the distance our trucks travel to distributors and ports. Additionally, Fleenor facilities have installed special energy efficient lighting and skylights as well as having begun the process of phasing out our propane forklifts with electric lifts.
For our customers, our products are some of the most economical and environmentally friendly packaging solutions out there. The range of materials that we use to manufacture our product gives customers a multitude of options – without having to compromise consistency. By using our network of distributors, a client with multiple locations can get the same product in all of their locations while cutting down on fuel cost and emissions. In addition, those distributors that are in the Fleenor network also contribute to the reuse and recycling stream and do their part to be "green" organizations as well.
As the current owners honor and emulate the entrepreneurial roots of LeRoy Fleenor, we continue to purchase scrap paper and develop processes to better utilize this paper supply. However, we never forget what really made our company special and enduring: our people. Most of our managerial staff has been with the company for more than twenty years, and are key contributors to Fleenor's success and growth. At Fleenor Paper Company we take pride in our devoted employees. Their loyalty and hard work speaks volumes to the vision and values of the company.


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Climate action: a doddle or deep adaptation?
Again, this post started as an edition of Climate clippings.
Where I ended up after a series of happenings as described below, is concluding that we need a paradigm shift in our climate change aspirations. Instead of trying to limit warming to a point where we can avoid dangerous climate change, we need to recognize that we've already gone too far, that the climate is already dangerous, so we should aim to ratchet down GHG concentrations in the atmosphere to attain a safe climate.
1. Germans look to 7.4 trillion tons of fake snow to save the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
James Hansen once said you can't sling a rope around an ice sheet if it starts to decay. Very sober German scientists at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), one of the world's leading climate research institutes, are thinking of installing around 12,000 wind turbines (I think it may be more, perhaps up to 850,000?) to pump snow onto Pine Island Glacier and the Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica. Those glaciers are melting 10 times faster than other glaciers in Antarctica.
Their worry is that simply reducing CO2 emissions will not stop the glaciers tipping, and if they go other glaciers will follow.
It is perhaps worth mentioning that last time there was 400 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere, over 3 million years ago, there were trees growing near the South Pole. The article reads as though this is new, but I knew over 10 years ago of at least one fossilised birch tree there, and you would not expect it to be alone.
Such an intervention would be enormously disruptive, but bold choices may have to be made that are not altogether palatable.
Here's the PIK media release, from which you can link to the article.
Phys Org also carries the story. The red rectangle marks the spot:
This image shows the most vulnerable spots:
The latest estimates indicate that 25 percent of the West Antarctic ice sheet is now unstable, and that Antarctic ice loss has increased five-fold over the past 25 years.
I've done a screenshot of the graphic showing progressive ice loss form 1992-2019:
Now it's only a few millimetres, but the graph is leaping off the page.
The red spot on the eastern side is the Tottenham Glacier, which alone threatens several metres of sea level rise.
2. Climate apartheid
Professor Philip Alston was in town the other day, urging action on climate change:
Professor Alston said pursuing ambitious reform now offered an unprecedented opportunity to make systems inherently fairer.
"Economic prosperity, decent work, and environmental sustainability are fully compatible," Professor Alston said.
More than 20 countries had already uncoupled their economies from fossil fuels without slowing them down, he found in a recent report. Not only did they create new green jobs, they reduced poverty at a faster rate than elsewhere.
He urges action by everyone, including individuals and corporates. One corporate has, namely BHP, which is going to spend $US500 million on helping its customers reduce their emissions.
3. Defence authorities warn about climate change
Defence authorities have long been alert to the dangers of climate change, in terms of climate refugees, direct danger to defence facilities, many of which are a metre or two above sea level, and civil unrest, even state failure from the impact of climate change. The US has 1700 facilities threatened.
Australia's Defence Force chief, Angus Campbell, has used a private speech to warn that China could take advantage of climate change to occupy abandoned islands in the Pacific.
This issue was unpacked by Gwynne Dyer in 2008, when he found for example that Russian defence authorities were war-gaming 100 million Chinese moving into Siberia in his book Climate Wars (available online). Here's a list of recent articles:
Defence Chief Sounds Warning On Surge Of Climate Change Refugees
Defence Lacks 'Overarching Strategy' To Deal With Climate Change Conflict, Internal Notes Warn
Defence Chief Sounds Climate Warning
What Happens When Parts Of South Asia Become Unlivable? The Climate Crisis Is Already Displacing Millions
4. Murray-Darling Basin in 'most severe' two-to-three year drought conditions in 120 years of records
Dr David Jones, climatologist from BOM, said that the Federation drought (1891-1903) and the World War II drought were similar to this one.
"The general picture across the Murray-Darling Basin, for droughts lasting two to three years, this is the most severe we've now seen in terms of the rainfall totals and probably also in terms of the general runoff into dams," he said.
This is what it looks like:
The picture for the last two decades is also ugly:
That looks ominous. The article asks What is making this drought so bad? Dr Jones outlined three main reasons:
Warm conditions in the far Indian and Pacific Oceans resulting in reduced rainfall
Underlying reduction in southern wet season rainfall
Underlying temperature increase.
Both the Pacific and Indian Oceans have been unhelpful to our rainfall, according to Dr Jones.
We need above average rain to break the drought, but the prospects are not good.
The official outlook for ENSO is Inactive.
Meanwhile ten towns in northern NSW and the Southern Downs in Qld are at high risk of running out of water. Indeed news.com reports that Stanthorpe could be dry by Christmas, with nearby Warwick at risk of running out in 17 months' time:
5. June temperature is a record
The globe has just had the hottest June on record with talk about how the climate crisis is creating 'a new normal'.
Piers Forster, professor of climate physics at the Priestley International Centre for Climate at the University of Leeds, says:
temperatures are expected to increase globally even if greenhouse gases are reduced. "So to prevent them from going up, we have to reduce our emission of greenhouse gases all the way to zero."
He says he's personally quite optimistic because "humanity always rises to these challenges".
Good for him, but what exactly are "these challenges"? I don't think we've had one like this before.
James Hansen's site has a handy graph:
He says the El Niño effects temperatures with a 4½ months delay. June is still benefitting from a fizzling weak El Niño. He expects 2019 to be the second hottest year behind 2016.
6. Warming is 100% human-made
New research on temperatures over the last 2000 years shows that variations prior to the industrial era were mostly due to aerosol changes associated with volcanoes rather than changes in the sun's radiation.
In statistical terms, rates of warming during all 51-year periods from the 1950s onwards exceed the 99th percentile of reconstructed pre-industrial 51 yr trends. If we look at timescales longer than 20 years, the probability that the largest warming trend occurred after 1850 greatly exceeds the values expected from chance alone. And, for trend lengths over 50 years, that probability swiftly approaches 100%.
Petr Hannan's SMH article Human-Caused Global Heating Breaks Clear From Nature, Studies Find published at Lethal Heating is worth a look. Here's the new hockey stick:
Please note, it's warming rate, not temperature.
7. The fierce urgency of now
The phrase comes from a meeting of held in May 2009 at the St James's Palace Nobel Laureate Symposium, where some of the best minds on the planet addressed the issue of climate change, in the run up to what was to be the Copenhagen 2009 meeting of the Conference of parties to the UNFCCC.
In January 2011 I re-posted a post I had done in November 2009 – Climate crunch: the fierce urgency of now. It began:
Back in 2003 James Hansen was saying that we had about 10 years to get ourselves organised to tackle global warming and climate change. You ignore him at your peril.
The St James meeting was based on a similar one held two years earlier. Seem thry were initiated by those earnest Germans at the Potsdam Institute (PIK). Two of the participants were Dr Malte Meinhausen and Prof Hans Joachim Schellnhuber. Also Lord Anthony Giddens and Sir Nicholas Stern, in a cast of scientific glitterati!
The PIK Germans came up with the idea of a 'climate budget approach' – the idea that there was a permissible amount of CO2 that could be emitted before 2050 for an x% chance of keeping warming to 2°C. "x" varied from 50 to 75% depending on who was doing the the calcs. The big message was that the longer you left it before you started to ratchet emissions down, the harder you would have to go, and you would have to reach zero sooner, plus go into overshoot:
Figure 3: Meinshausen's emissions reduction options
Peaking at 2010 would have mean 2% reductions pa, by 2020 that becomes 6%, and by 2030 it becomes 22%.
Moreover, some countries, especially Australia and the USA, start from a higher level and developing countries will need to increase emissions before we can expect them to reduce. Hans Joachim (John) Schellnhuber, then head of PIK made this helpful graph to indicate a fair sharing of the burden:
Figure 6: Stabilisation scenarios using the 'carbon budget' approach
However, back then some scientists were worrying that 2°C was not safe.
By May 2014 David Spratt pointed out that if we wanted better odds than the 67% offered by the IPCC, say 90%, then there simply was no burnable carbon budget left at all.
Would you get on a plane if there was a 10% chance of it crashing?
8. The road to perdition
Meanwhile Gwynne Dyer, who was a newspaper columnist syndicated in 175 papers at the time, had penned an entertaining article Last exit for the Holocene era, beginning:
"Damn! I think we just passed the last exit for the Holocene!"
"I'm sorry, honey, I wasn't looking."
"We have to get off this highway. What's the next exit?"
"It's a long way ahead. Goes to somewhere called Perdition." (Ragged chorus from the back seat) "Are we there yet, Daddy?"
That was in 2008, when he'd just finished researching and writing Climate Wars. He tells how James Hansen had also assumed that 2°C was a fair enough target, and if we kept emissions to 450ppm we should be OK. Bill McKibbin wanted to start an organisation 450.org to promote climate action, so he asked Hansen's opinion to make sure.
Hansen thought about it for three months, and made his famous 350 ppm statement in December 2007 at the American Geophysical Union annual conference.
Dyer says, it might just work, so there was one turnoff left.
We took no notice, stuck with the IPCC and the UNFCCC, so we may have missed the turnoff.
9. Mission 2020
Mary Robinson's book Climate Justice quotes Christiana Figueres as saying that emissions must peak by 2020 if we are to put the ship right.
Figueres was appointed Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 2010 after the disastrous Copenhagen conference in 2009, and stayed to see the success of Paris 2015. So she had a personal stake in the Paris Agreement. However, she says there is no urgency built into the Paris Agreement. So she has mounted Mission 2020 (M2020) citing a string of scientist who say that emissions must peak by then.
Hansen made clear that 350 ppm meant CO2 equivalent. CO2e is the CO equivalence after including the all of 'Kyoto 6', that is methane, nitrous oxide etc. Roughly it means that you have to add an extra 25% to the CO2 number. The total is seldom cited, but this graph from the CSIRO/BOM State of the Climate 2018 shows how we are going:
10. Gavin Schmidt's response
Gavin Schmidt, Hansen's successor at NASA GISS, in commenting on the IPCC Special Report on 1.5ºC, addressed directly the question of Can we avoid going through 1.5ºC? He says the IPCC has used "a few circumlocutions to avoid giving a direct answer to this question (for reasonable and understandable reasons)." He was not quite so constrained, and his answer was a simple "no". He says:
near-term reductions in carbon emissions by ~70% are required to even stabilize CO2, and to stabilize temperature, even further (net) reductions are required. And worse still to stabilize sea level, eventual temperature drops would be required.
It's a marathon effort which will need to be sustained over many decades. Naturally we will need to turn to carbon capture and storage and geo-engineering.
Paraphrasing Eliud Kipchoge, the recent winner of the Berlin marathon, Schmidt says:
The best time to start [reducing emissions] was 25 years ago. The second best time is today.
Remember, the IPCC Special Report only offered a 50% chance of achieving 1.5°C. David Spratt and Ian Dunlop's report What Lies Beneath: The scientific understatement of climate risks, with a foreword by Prof Schellnhuber, tells of the deformation professionelle (French) or German Betriebsblindheit that has beset much of climate research.
11. Deep adaptation
Jem Bendel, Professor of Sustainability at the University of Cumbria, believes that social breakdown from climate change is now inevitable. He says that even if you don't believe that, the risk is so high that we need to think about how we would cope under those circumstances. Certainly we should mitigate, indeed flat out. He has suggested spraying huge quantities of water into the atmosphere to brighten clouds to save the Arctic ice from melting, which he sees as a tipping point.
He has established an Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS), and has come up with the concept of Deep Adaptation. Last year a paper by him appeared online Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy (IFLAS Occasional Paper 2), which he could not get published in existing journals, because the concept was too new.
So he has launched a campaign The Deep Adaptation Forum:
an international space to connect and collaborate with other professionals who are exploring implications of a near-term societal collapse due to climate change.
In May this year he explained his ideas at a meeting arranged by the EU, see YouTube Because this is NOT a drill.
Nearby on YouTube was Dr. Peter Wadhams: Methane Hydrates and Arctic Research. Bendell says the release of Arctic methane represents an existential threat. I'd have to say that when I've examined the issue, it has come up short of that, but last week the New Scientist told us that dozens of wildfires of an unprecedented intensity have been burning across the Arctic circle for the past few weeks, releasing as much CO2 in just one month as Sweden's total annual emissions.
Fires of this kind are not unknown, but this week NS tells us that more CO2 has been emitted this year from the fires than the record year of 2004, and they are still burning.
12. What to do?
I'm not qualified to make a judgement on whether Bendell is right or not. However, I am disposed to take notice of James Hansen and Gavin Schmidt. Also the Germans at PIK are not a frivolous lot, and what they are doing and saying tells me that urgent action is required.
At the last election we were faced with an option from the LNP government that willfully avoided climate action by tomfoolery with accounting numbers, against a Labor climate action plan that said it would follow the science, and would institute a process of discovering the latest science through re-vamping the Climate Change Authority who would oversee the first triennial Australian Climate Assessment. This, I think, was their principal policy position, albeit to my knowledge, never mentioned during the campaign.
I believe Labor should embrace the aim of returning emissions to 330 ppm as soon as possible, and take a comprehensive approach to transitioning the economy and society to a sustainable future. We can no longer be technology neutral. Emissions must stop and we'll need to remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
This would mean putting some distance between their position and that of the UNFCCC, where, it should be noted, Saudi Arabia has put the kybosh on formal consideration of 1.5°C. Australia should fully participate in international forums, indeed use them to promote pivoting away from targets that involve more warming than already besets the planet. We should join Hansen in turning down the dial to achieve a safe climate.
Climate mitigation is not a doddle, as our elected leaders would have us believe. There is indeed a tangible risk that Jem Bendell might be right. Here and now is not the best place to start, but really, we have no choice.
Update: See also climate scientist Joëlle Gergis in The Terrible Truth Of Climate Change.
It seems to me some scientists have just about caught up to where James Hansen was 10 years ago, or more. See Reconciling estimates of climate sensitivity for what he said about earth system equilibrium in 2011.
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I swear this one will be the last of my blockbusters, at least for a while. It was really the alarm set off by so many drastic events in the news recently.
The notion of the Germans planning to repair Antarctica with fake snow is seriously alarming. I think it was Doug Hynd who sent me a link about Jem Bendell's 'deep adaptation' concept last year. Then he popped up again next to a YouTube of Peter Wadhams in methane leakage sent by BilB.
I'm also going to ratchet down on stories of gloom, just regard them as background noise from here on unless something exceptional comes along.
John Davidson says:
It is a shame too few Australian leaders have played Go. Go can be all about creating small outposts that make it to link up later with larger, defendable forces.
This particular Go strategy suggest that it would be smart for example to encourage Pacific Islands to sell their Islands to Aus or its allies with part of the deal being the right to move to Aus when they choose plus jobs associated with building and operating Aus/Allie bases on their Is.
What China is doing with reef reclamation in the South China Sea comes across as textbook Go to me.
Ambigulous says:
I had a go at professionelle Betriebsblindheit and got something along the lines of
"professional blinkered-blindness"
The persistence or habit by professionals/scientists of taking a blinkered view of reality ??
Vielen Danken,
Herr Brian
Ambi: Professional scientists can help their careers by brilliantly articulating the coming orthodoxy. Get too far in front and they are toast.
Quill Science has been languishing here in Victoria.
Even though genetic engineering has prospects of assisting in producing the Ultimate Quill!
And Proceedings of the Royal Society for Quill Research has sadly closed down.
Apparently those new-fangled pencils and Texta Colours are the coming fashion???
Ambi:
Nah. Can't happen mate. It is like saying that we won't need drays.
zoot says:
Keep supplying the quills and the demand will follow. I'm told it's an ironclad law of the universe.
On Drays.
One of the nippers misheard your mention, Brother John, of "high drays".
He thought you said "hide rays" and he's been trying to get rays out of bullock hides. Ridiculous of course. His little mate started rambling on about getting rays out of bits of rock. Always was a bit strange that Curey lad. He reckons he could get a "death ray" sorted out, whatever that might be. Off to the funny farm for him.
The Quill Combine and Devices Corporation has been making great strides.
One of their young engineers reckons you could get folk interested in sort of blankets for beds, stuffed full of quills. He reckons the brand name "Quillt" is a goer. Lad by the name of Dooner, you might have seen him down the pub.
Another engineer reckons if you could get the feathers off and trim the quill, some folk might like to sip their drink through it. He calls it a "drinking quill". Strange, eh?
And don't get me started on that other cove who reckons we could sell WATER in bottles. Plain water!! No fizz, no hops, no cordial flavours. Yes, he says, "at a profit"!! Words fail.
Anyway, we're all working away at it, and the new generation of geese are thriving. So no worries at all.
I've just done an update to the post:
See also climate scientist Joëlle Gergis in The Terrible Truth Of Climate Change.
Ambi: Any Eskimo could tell you that furs and a warm wife are what's best for keeping warm in winter. But quilts?
Any Aborigine could tell you that dogs are what you need on a cold night. Haven't you realized what they are talking about when they talk about a four dog night? The dogs are also useful as a hunting aid. (Can't use quilts for hunting can you?)
If the climate change that Brian keeps rabbiting on about happens we wont have to worry about keeping warm in winter.
indeed not, John, but a warm wife (or husband) will always be good to have nearby.
You wouldn't be the first to suggest I give the Product Development game away…..
Must hurry back to the porch now, there's a very generous Nigerian at the front door, asking me to solve a small banking difficulty for him. Banking: that has to be the future!
Q**** Enterprises
The latest it that the energy regulator AER is sueing four wind farm companies over the South Australian blackout.
This seems like a highly vexatious action. We know that the wind farms did not have 'ride through' settings turned on, as they should have according to the letter of the law. So guilty as charged.
My impression is that the two biggest causes of the blackout were that a dirty big storm blew down 22 pylons, and that at the other end of the SA network, the market operator had let the Heywood Interconnector run flat chat at 595GW/h when 600 would cause it to trip.
The net effect was that the blackout in Adelaide happened a few seconds earlier than it otherwise would have.
But I'm not an electricity engineer, so what would I know?
If they are found liable, it will encourage affected consumers to sue for negligence. It all amounts to a disincentive to invest in renewable electricity generation in Australia.
AER are not supposed to be influenced by the Commonwealth government, but you have to wonder.
And are the pylon owners to be sued for not having dirty-big-storm-proof pylons?
(At least this action is based on engineering aspects. Some improvement on the Joe Hockey/ Mr Abbott "wind turbines are so ugly, I don't like seeing them when I drive from Sydney to Canberra" dummy-spits?)
Jumpy says:
Well least now a Court of Law can pass judgement rather than the media.
From what I hear around these parts the defendant has nothing to worry about.
It'd be good to have it settled properly.
Giles Parkinson asks, Is regulator's parting power play against wind farms just a political stunt?
The whole thing has everyone in a funk. The notion that Angus Taylor, the Murdock mafia at the Oz and Chris Uhlmann think the legal action is a good idea is a strong signal that it isn't.
Speaking of the Murdoch media I see from Loon Pond that Chris Mitchell still claims there is/was a pause in global warming.
He wrote
Readers today can find out for themselves online the truth about sea level rises, sinking islands, the pause in temperature rises, the backlash against renewables in Europe and Canada, the many prominent senior scientists who disagree with the IPCC about the role of CO2.
He's right of course. As Brian has demonstrated, readers today who bother to check will find ample online evidence that Mitchell is lying to them.
Labor's always calling for " independent regulators " for everything, until……
Thanks for that link to Giles Parkinson, Brian. He talks about some of the technical points and the regulatory ambience, very clearly.
I still think your "dirty big storm" is a very welcome addition to the jargon of power generation.


I was doing some research on the internet on Chicago neighborhoods at the Encyclopedia of Chicago, and I was reading an article on the far south side neighborhood of Calumet Heights. In this article they mentioned a book by a former resident Louis Rosen. The title is The South Side: The Racial Transformation of an American Neighborhood.
This the story of racial change and turnover. How a community fell apart in the face of unfounded fears and how the community actually looks after the racial turnover. Racial turnover occured all over Chicago's south side.
This area is bounded from about the Chicago Skyway running diagonally on the east, to Stony Island on the west, and then the Illinois Central Railroad on the south. The racial transformation that began west of Stony Island started to seep east of Stony Island. East of Stony Island was the Jewish community which fell apart by 1970-71.
No doubt a white person who have though that blacks were poor, dirty, theives, violent, etc. would be surprised at how the old neighborhood looks if they visited today. Most of the blacks that moved into this neighborhood were middle class. The message could have been this didn't have to happen the Jews and the blacks could have been neighbors but it wasn't meant to be.
Of course this community wasn't entirely Jewish. There were whites of other ethnicities there too but this story revolves around the originally indigenous Jewish community and the migrating blacks who were moving in. These groups seem to have a similar history which hopefully could translate into friendship. They've both experienced horrible treatment of some kind, but that came for naught during a brief period in the 60s and early 70s.
This neighborhood east of Stony Island is still middle class today and mostly black. Also this area contains a neighborhood known as Pill Hill so named because that was where health care professionals had once lived. It is also home to Cook County Board President John Stroger. The people who left this place years ago would see that it hasn't changed much. Their synagogue and community center is now property of the Chicago Public Schools, but the houses are taken care of and the lawns are well groomed. The black residents have taken care of what the original inhabitants have left them.
It's interesting how in history we blame minority's for our problems. We never seem to take responsible for are own problems. That's just to difficult for us most of the time.


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How can I treat buff as an array in MPLab debugger, say to read the first 10 bytes of buff as an array so I do not have to type *buf+1,*buf+2 and so on.
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In celebration of International Women's Day 2022, the UK's Manchester City Football Club painted the #BreakTheBias campaign theme onto a training pitch at the City Football Academy.
Using 80 cans of white paint, a programmed robot emblazoned the powerful tagline onto Pitch 14 over the course of four hours.
Manchester City's trailblazing women's team then trained upon the grass to create an iconic image in which their professional female athletes play the sport they love within the state-of-the-art facilities, upon IWD's key messaging, and with the backdrop of the Academy and Etihad Stadiums.
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Manchester City hosted a range of IWD activity
Manchester City also hosted a wide range of further International Women's Day activity.
Catch the #BreakTheBias podcast with Manchester City footballers Karen Bardsley and Esme Morgan and Head Coach of Manchester City Women, Gareth Tailor.
Manchester City player Steph Houghton penned an International Women's Day letter to future budding footballers.
Students from across Manchester joined Manchester City for a unique event at the City Football Academy. The Club's official charity welcomed 90 young women to the indoor pitch for a multi-sports festival, followed by a speed-networking event with female senior leaders from Manchester City Football Club, City in the Community and external organisations at the Etihad stadium. The event's multi-sports festival included football games, street dancing and team-building workshops. As part of the activities, Club sponsor PUMA donated sports bras to all participants during a breast health education session.
Manchester City midfielder, Ilkay Gundogan, spoke with Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini to discuss female role models in sport.
Additionally, the 2022 Continental Cup winners joined to narrate a poem: #BreakTheBias: Fighting for our goals which was written by the Club's Women's Football Editor Caroline Oatway. The poem highlights the challenges faced by female footballers, the stereotypes associated with the game and the importance of togetherness and diversity in the fight for equality and equity.
Karen Bardsley and Jess Park spent time with footballers from the first ever Manchester City Women's team, as part of City in the Community's (CITC) International Women's Day celebrations. Speaking at the IWD session, Karen commented on how the women had paved the way for her own career. "They've had to go through a lot without many opportunities like what we have now, so it makes me feel really grateful," she said.
Furthermore, Belgian professional footballer and Manchester City midfielder, Kevin De Bruyne, who is widely regarded as one of the best players in the world reinforced that everyone has a role to play in helping create a more equal and inclusive world. He spoke about the women in his life and the role his family and friends play to ensure he stays at the top of his game, and his hopes for their happiness and increasing opportunities. As a father, Kevin says he strives for a better world for his daughter and sons, and - as one of the world's best players - recognises the importance of allies and positive role models in the fight for equality and equity.
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