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2016-05-20 02:52:04
Why is accuracy in trademark search so important?
Trademark practitioners of course know the answer but often have a hard time explaining it to their clients or to their organizations.
"Because without that accuracy you do not know, if it is safe to launch the new brand. And a future conflict is not something you want to risk."
Even if that should be rather easy to understand for trademark owners, there are a lot of premium trademarks launched without accurate clearance work done. It is our objective to change that with four unique Markify properties:
1. Find All Potential Conflicts
The Markify technology is the world's only statistically proven trademark search algorithm. Built on more than 12.000 actual cases where a government official in the US or the EU have concluded that two mark names are confusingly similar.
So we know we find the potential conflicts (+99%). We are not guessing. See the independent research study.
2. Less Noise
Our statistical method also let's us reduce the "noise" in reports and rank all results according to their statistical risk.
3. Fast and Easy Work-Flow
This full availability search just takes one minute. And the available tools to get the clearance work done are both powerful and easy.
4. Best Price and Free Trial
Taking a risk with a less accurate trademark search report is something very few companies can afford. We at Markify believe you should be able to combine top quality in a comprehensive report with a low price, so you never have to take that risk.
Visit the Markify exhibition booth (#1316) in Orlando for a demo and get your free trial.
If you are not there, send me an email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Full Common Law Coverage Now Included in the US Full Trademark Search Report from Markify
2016-05-02 10:05:36
For the first time you can now get an automated, full common law search included in your US trademark clearance report. And still not pay more than $129 for the whole report.
On demand from our US clients we have expanded our common law coverage with some of today's most important content. The US Full search report's common law part now includes six different sections:
> Web search - New
> Image search - New
> Social media search - New
> Social name search - New
> US company names
> Domain names
It is hard to imagine a relevant result that could not be found within these groups today. Ten years ago there were still a number of printed sources, like telephone books and magazines, with "trademark" names that did not show up anywhere else. But that is not the case anymore.
So we think this makes the common law section for the US Full truly full/comprehensive.
The trademark results section was already full, with both federal and state trademarks, all processed with the best similarity algorithm in the world.
Same low price
And we decided to add these new sources without changing the price - $129 - which is by far the best price in the industry for a comparable comprehensive - full availability - US trademark clearance report. Other providers are charging more than $600 for such a report.
In order to keep the search fast and not drive extra costs, our search is fully automated, with the below described settings for the US Full trademark search report:
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> Web search - New
Scope of search: An automated, "intelligent" web search where known biases as region and personal search history have been eliminated. The search combines the trademark name with important keywords provided during the order.
The top 30 results are included as links and short descriptions. Optional: You can add screen captures of the relevant pages where also the keywords have been highlighted.
Note: The web/social media is so big that even the best keyword search may retrieve a million search results. This means that no search report, automated or human, can guarantee that there are no potential common law conflicts out there. All we can do is minimize the risk.
> Images - New
Scope of search: The same search settings as the Web search. The top 30 results are included.
> Social media search - New
Scope of search: A search of the use of the trademark name in the world's largest social networks: Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Instagram, Google+ and Pinterest. The top 20 results from each social network are included.
> Social names - New
Scope of search: A search if the trademark name is registered as a user name in any of 80 social networks.
> US company names
Scope of search: A search among more than 20 million secretary of state business records from all US states and Washington DC. Identical and very similar results.
> Domain names
Scope of search: Identical and very similar results from more than 1000 TLD's, covering both gTLD', ccTLD's and New gTLD's. See full list.
> Federal trademarks (USPTO)
Scope of search: The world's best similarity algorithm, finding more than 99% of potential conflicts. Official data updated daily from the USPTO .
> US state trademarks
Scope of search: A search among all the 50 US states' trademark records. (Same similarity algorithm as the federal search.)
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The average turn-around time: 5 min. And you can choose to include or exclude any of the above sections in your report.
If you have not yet tried our full availability report, send me an email and I will set you up for a free trial.
If this is not the best US full availability report, please tell me what is missing or what should be changed? The best suggestions will be rewarded.
The World's First Statistical Risk Analysis of Full Trademark Search Reports
2016-01-25 11:01:18
Since we started Markify six years ago our aim has been to build and improve the world's best trademark search algorithm. Finding all potential conflicts but with as little noise as possible.
Now we are releasing our next step in that work - our statistical Risk analysis.
The ranking of our results is based on a statistical analysis of more than 10.000 official cases of confusingly similar trademarks in the EU or the US. These come from OHIM decision and from USPTO 2(d) citations and TTAB decisions.
The main difference between these two sources are the number of languages they handle. While the USPTO largely concentrate on English, and Spanish to some extent, the OHIM/CTM decisions handles 28 countries, all with a mix of languages.
Instead of showing the individual risk level for every result, we have gouped the results in four "Risk level" groups. Each level indicate statistically how big risk there is that you will find a potential conflict in this group.
Level 1 - Very high risk.
Of all conflicts in Europe or the US, 20% have these types of similarities.
This group of results typically stands for less than 1% of the total amount of results.
Level 2 - High risk.
Of all conflicts in Europe or the US, 40% have these types of similarities.
This group of results typically stands for only 5% of the total amount of results.
Level 3 - Medium risk.
Of all conflicts in Europe or the US, 25% have these types of similarities.
This group of results typically stand for 20% of the total amount of results.
Level 4 - Low risk.
Of all conflicts in Europe or the US, 15% have these types of similarities.
This group of results typically stands for 75% of the total amount of results.
As you can see above, the lower the risk, the longer the result list. The last group of results contain 75% of all results, but with only 15% of the potential conflicts.
This is frustrating for us developing the algorithm and for our clients, who have to analyze all results. Just think how much easier trademark clearance work would be if you could just skip Level 4. But unfortunately there are so many conflict cases in this group that you cannot neglect it.
However, in some cases I know that the attorney does skip the lower part of the results list. This is often the case when he wants to save time and money for the client and maybe when the client feel that an opposition is not the end of the world.
For other clients, with a marketing start in the near future, that would not be an option. They would not want to risk the first six months of marketing investments...
Risk levels are currently not included in downloaded reports. Our thinking is that most of our clients' clients will not understand the meaning of "risk". It is just there in the online report to make your job faster and easier.
Please send me your feedback at email@example.com.
The "signal-to-noise ratio" - the scientific name for measuring accuracy - is tested as the best in the trademark search industry (see independent Benchmark Report).
The Markify Comprehensive Search Algorithm finds more than 99% of potential conflicts, but does it with a total number of results that on average is 50% lower than comparable reports (Full /Comprehensive reports) done by other providers.
Design Upgrade to Make Trademark Clearance Workflow Easier and Faster
2016-01-25 10:51:03
Today we are launching an upgraded design of our logged in pages. Our two main objectives with the new design have been to:
- make the site easier to access for first time users.
- make the work with large reports easier and faster.
You will find most things where they used to be but there are some important news:
1. Foldable left navigation bar to save valuable space.
Since many of our trademark search reports are quite broad, we decided to let the left navigation bar fold when it was not used. This way you can see more of the result table without having to scroll left-right.
Note that the navigation bar can be locked in it's open position by clicking on the top arrow.
2. Larger type face to increase readability.
When you work with large amounts of data, the readability is extremely important. Our former typeface was generally a bit to small to be easily read in all conditions. So we have made it a bit larger.
3. A more informative "head" for online reports.
Above each full search and watch report there is head with four blocks of information. These are:
- Ordered search details
- Results meta data and access to file dates
- Risk analysis - See below.
- Customized and created reports
This way you get a quick and good overview of all relevant data concerning your report.
4. Risk analysis of trademark search results
We have always ranked our trademark search results statistically, from top to bottom, according to their risk level. But we have not explicitly shown the borders between different groups. Now we have added a "Risk level" to every result row, so you can easy and fast see the risk level.
Every mark has it's own risk level but we have decided to bundle them in four groups:
- Risk level 1 - Very high risk
- Risk level 2 - High risk
- Risk level 3 - Medium risk
- Risk level 4 - Low risk
This way you can easier see when a set of results is becoming less relevant.
This Risk analysis will be presented in detail in a coming blog post.
5. Downloaded reports get a Table of contents for easy navigation.
New PDF reports, and other formats, now have a clickable Table of contents. This way you can fast and accurately navigate in a large report.
Please send me your personal feed-back to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Markify adds Canada to its trademark searching and watching services
2014-11-23 15:33:02
We have now added the Canadian trademark database (CIPO) to our searching and monitoring services. We have made some adjustments to our system to handle that Canada not yet fully use the Nice classification system.
The price for a Comprehensive Search, or a Full Availability Search, as some providers call it, is set at USD 81 (or 59 EUR). For that you get our best-in-class similarity search algorithm that finds 99% of all confusingly similar trademarks – and with less "noise". It is actually the best trademark similarity search in the world (see search report here).
Do you want to try one Comprehensive Search Report for free? Send me an email and I will send you the promotion code (benoit at markify.com).
We also offer our Knockout Plus Search for Canada for only USD 40. This is "broad" knockout, finding both identical, phonetically identical and other very similar results. Approx. 60% of all potential conflicts but with only 10% of the list length. This is the professional choice for any name screening project or for an application on a tight budget.
To order, you just sign up here: http://www.markify.com/services/comprehensive-search.html
You find the watching service here and the yearly price is only USD 34. Every week you get one report per client. And you get the same strong similirity algorithm so you will not miss any potential conflicts. Combine it with US watch if you need.
Questions? Contact me at benoit at markify.com.
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Abstract Highly resolved spectra of transition metal ions in II–VI compounds show extremely narrow zero-phonon lines to that isotope effects can be observed. An adequate description of the observed fine structures requires the inclusion of an intermediate Jahn-Teller effect using local vibrational T 2 modes. The observation of different isotope splittings at Ni impurities in CdS leads to the assumption that different local vibrational modes are coupled to the electronic states of that system and that the local vibrational modes have different dependencies on the mass of the impurity. The calculated energy shifts are in agreement with the observed isotope shifts of natural and enriched Ni and Cu doped II–VI compounds. The influence of uniaxial stress, magnetic field and temperature on the isotope shifts is also investigated.


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Kate SheppardJun. 8, 2011 12:37 PM
Remember how Congressional Republicans tried to defund Planned Parenthood at the federal level, making a big deal about how they didn't want tax-payer dollars subsidizing abortions and whatnot? And how Indiana passed a bill cutting all funds for the organization, before the feds stepped in to block them, saying that the measure was discriminatory and illegal. Anyway, with all the Planned Parenthood bashing going on, it's worth noting that the organization also does a lot of work to help women have babies.
Of course, they're most well known for services like providing contraception, education, and yes, abortions, to help women (and men!) avoid unwanted pregnancies. But Planned Parenthood's critics never seem to mention everything that the organization does to help women have healthy babies, like a new program near Salinas, Calif. where PP's staff is helping farmworkers who want to have children protect themselves from exposure to harmful pesticides.
Jessica Dieseldorff, a nurse practitioner with PP, is leading the pilot education program, which the Bay Citizen recently reported on:
Dieseldorff and her co-workers have identified 40 patients who work in the fields and want to become pregnant in the next year. In addition to the usual advice—stop smoking, limit alcohol consumption and load up on prenatal vitamins—clinic staffers offer common-sense pointers on limiting pesticide exposure: Don't eat the fruit you harvest before washing it. Wash hands before eating. Wash work clothes separately. Change clothes before getting in your car, entering your home, or hugging your kids.
Planned Parenthood staffers use brightly colored comic books, produced by the Texas-based Migrant Clinicians Network to drive the message home.
The US uses billions of pounds of pesticides on fruits, vegetables, and flowers, and the women who work in the fields are exposed more than anyone to these toxic chemicals. And as a recent University of California Berkeley School of Public Health study found, prenatal exposure to some of these pesticides is linked to lower IQ in children and other developmental delays. The study, which focused specifically on children living in Salinas, found that those with the highest levels of prenatal exposure to pesticides scored an average of seven points lower on standardized intelligence tests compared to children that had the lowest exposure levels.
And as the lead researcher points out, this exposure comes at a society-wide cost:
"These associations are substantial, especially when viewing this at a population-wide level," said study principal investigator Brenda Eskenazi, UC Berkeley professor of epidemiology and of maternal and child health. "That difference could mean, on average, more kids being shifted into the lower end of the spectrum of learning, and more kids needing special services in school."
Many of the workers that Planned Parenthood is reaching out to are likely immigrants who speak limited English and don't have access to medical services and advice, so the work to avoid exposure in this population is especially important. It's also not the kind of PP work you hear its critics citing very often.
Julia WhittyJun. 7, 2011 7:26 PM
Japan's nuclear agency reported to the IAEA today that the nuclear fuel in three reactors at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant likely melted through the inner containment vessels and not just their cores in the aftermath of the March 11th earthquake and tsunami.
As MoJo's Kate Sheppard reported earlier today, Japan also more than doubled the estimate of the amount of radioactive materials released from Fukushima—from 370,000 to 770,000 terabecquerels.
Which makes the work of a research cruise just now underway to measure radioactivity in the ocean off Japan even more important.
This 15-day cruise is led by chief scientist Ken Buesseler of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and members of his lab, Café Thorium. They're joined by researchers and technicians from around the world.
R/V Ka`imikai-o-Kanaloa. Credit: NOAA.
The science crew of 17 is sailing aboard the research vessel Ka`imikai-o-Kanaloa—the Hawaiian name means Heavenly Searcher of the Sea—a vessel of the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory. You can check out some of their onboard toolkit here.
Japan's damaged nuclear power plants in relation to the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Credit: Maximilian Dörrbecker / Chumwa via Wikimedia Commons.
The failures of engineering at Fukushima, combined with Japan's spectacular disaster unpreparedeness, resulted in the largest ever accidental release of radiation to the environment. Much of that contamination washed into the Pacific. Additional airborne radioactivity likely further contaminated the ocean.
The team's mission statement:
The need to understand the amount, type, and fate of radioactive materials released prompted a group of scientists from the U.S., Japan, and Europe to organize the first multi-disciplinary, multi-institutional research cruise in the northwestern Pacific since the events of March and April. [We'll] spend two weeks... examining many of the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of the ocean that either determine the fate of radioactivity in the water or that are potentially affected by radiation in the marine environment.
They'll be sampling well out into the mighty Kuroshio Current, a rich highway for the marine life of the North Pacific. The isotopes/elements they're looking for are: iodine-131, cesium-137, plutonium, strontium, and tritium. For a map of their sampling stations, see my blog Deep Blue Home.
Krill. Credit:Øystein Paulsen via Wikimedia Commons.
Science Insider reports that marine biologist Nicholas Fisher from the State University of New York at Stony Brook is leading the effort to study how radioactivity wends its way through the marine foodweb:
Because 3 months have passed and most isotopes, particularly the short-lived iodine-131 with an 8-day half-life, have decayed considerably, he doesn't expect to see any toxicity. However, there will still be detectable levels in organisms such as brown seaweed, which can store iodine at 10,000 times the concentration in the water. Such a measure might help researchers understand how the isotopes move through the food chain, even up to seafood-eating humans.
Meanwhile Geoff Brumfiel & David Cyranoski at Nature News provide a great roundup of the ongoing challenges at Fukushima, including the ongoing grave reservations held by some researchers about the methods used.
[S]ome experts in Japan have expressed reservations about the decontamination process. Radioactive water will continue to flow from the cores into basements and trenches, and damage to the site means there will probably be further leaks. Ming Zhang, who studies environmental pollution risks at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba, fears that contaminated water will end up in the ocean.
From the sounds of things, the Ka`imikai-o-Kanaloa has just made it to the first sampling stations. You can read bloglike updates from the cruise here.
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Kate SheppardJun. 7, 2011 3:18 PM
The Japanese nuclear agency has doubled its previous estimate of the amount of radiation released from the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Even with the increased estimate, the amount of radiation released since the disaster began on March 11 is only about 15 percent of the radiation leaked at Chernobyl, but the plant is still leaking, and officials said the damage from meltdowns at three different reactors is more extensive than they had previously reported.
In a 750-page report to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Japanese officials acknowledged that they were "unprepared" to deal with a disaster of this magnitude. The report also includes a number of notable admissions. From the BBC:
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano says more evacuations are being considered. Monitoring shows the lie of the land and wind patterns may be causing a build-up of radiation in other areas.
And from Bloomberg:
Many workers at Japan's crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant were without personal dosimeters to measure radiation exposure for weeks after the March 11 earthquake because the tsunami soaked their devices in seawater, making them unusable.
So while the nuclear crisis may have faded from headlines in the US, the latest news is a reminder that residents and officials in the country will be dealing with this for some time. The disaster has also caused political stirrings in the country. Last week, after an unsuccessful "no confidence" vote in the lower house of the parliament, Prime Minister Naoto Kan said he may resign over the Fukushima situation once they reach "a certain stage in tackling the disaster and I've fulfilled my role."
Kiera ButlerJun. 7, 2011 1:35 PM
Greenpeace says Ken doesn't date girls who live in packaging from the rainforest.
A few weeks ago, Mattel announced that Barbie wants a green dream house. Perhaps it's because she's spent so much time in environmentally deplorable digs.
According to a Greenpeace investigation, Barbie dolls are among the many toys on the market whose packaging contains fibers that originated in the ecologically fragile (and mightily abused) Indonesian rainforest, which is home to a vast array of creatures including tigers, rhinos, and orangutans. Greenpeace sent samples of Barbie packaging to IPS Testing, a paper analysis lab, which confirmed that the sample contained fibers of mixed tropical hardwood. According to Greenpeace, this particular wood blend is a telltale sign that the paper originated in Indonesia, since that's the only place that produces it in large volumes. Greenpeace also dug up several certificates (PDF) that show that Mattel has purchased paper from a middleman for Asia Pulp & Paper, a gargantuan paper supply company whose many misdeeds in Indonesia have prompted American retail chains (including Staples, Office Depot, and Target) to quit buying from APP for good. I wrote about APP's weird ties with the tea party here.
Although Mattel hasn't yet responded to Greenpeace's accusations, there's been some back and forth between the two groups. In March, Greenpeace wrote to Mattel, asking the company about its paper sourcing policies. Two months later, Mattel responded:
We specify that our catalogs are printed on paper containing at least 10 percent post‐consumer waste, and we encourage consumers to share and recycle them. For other printed materials, we generally work with paper suppliers and the printers that can make recommendations on latest FSC‐approved paper stocks that meet the needs of our specific project. In addition, we have reduced our use of paper through socializing conservation measures with our employees and reducing the size and number of corporate reports we print by moving to digital solutions.
So yeah, the elephant in the living room is, uh, the packaging.
More bad news: Even if you've banished Barbie from your house, it's likely at least a few of your toys are made by companies on Greenpeace's list of rainforest-unfriendly manufacturers: Some Disney, Hasbro, and LEGO packages were all found to contain Indonesian fibers. LEGOs! And here I thought they could do no wrong!
Kate SheppardJun. 7, 2011 11:59 AM
Foes of the Environmental Protection Agency's greenhouse gas regulations have dominated the TV news circuit in the past year and a half, according to the liberal watchdog group Media Matters. The group's survey of news shows found that 76 percent of the guests appearing on television news—or 152 out of 199—were opposed to the regulations and only 18 percent spoke in favor of them.
The group notes that three channels—Fox News, Fox Business, and CNBC—were largely responsible for the skewed representation. The other major news shows barely talked about the subject, which raises its own set of concerns.
The split was also along partisan lines—of the 35 lawmakers who appeared on cable shows to discuss the EPA's regulation of greenhouse gases, 30 were Republicans. The only cable network bucking that trend was, not surprisingly, MSNBC.
This is perhaps the most disturbing statistic to me, though: only one guest in the 17 months of programmging that Media Matters studied was a certified climate scientist. That was Patrick Michaels, a fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute who does in fact hold a Ph.D. in ecological climatology. But his funding from the fossil fuels industry has made him a less-than-reliable source on the subject—funding that he's sought to hide or dismiss as "irrelevant" over the years. Still, he was the only climate scientist featured in more than a year and a half across nine news outlets. Pitiful.
Kate SheppardJun. 3, 2011 5:51 PM
TransCanada has grand dreams of building a gigantic pipeline that would traverse the United States and ship oil from Canada's tar sands to Texas refineries. But the branch of the Keystone pipeline that the company is already operating in the US has created a considerable problem—causing a dozen spills in just its first year of operation.
The pipeline has been shut down since it sprung yet another leak on May 29. On Friday, the federal agency that oversees pipelines ordered the company to keep the pipeline, which runs from North Dakota to Illinois and then on to Oklahoma, shut down until they prove that the problems are fixed.
In an order issued to the company on Friday, associate administrator for pipeline safety at the Department of Transportation Jeffrey Wiese wrote:
… I find that the continued operation of the pipeline without corrective measures would be hazardous to life, property and the environment. Additionally, after considering the circumstances surrounding the May 7 and May 29, 2011 failures, the proximity of the pipeline to populated areas, water bodies, public roadways and high consequence areas, the hazardous nature of the product the pipeline transports, the ongoing investigation to determine the cause of the failures, and the potential for the conditions causing the failures to be present elsewhere on the pipeline, I find that a failure to issue this Order expeditiously to require immediate corrective action would result in likely serious harm to life, property, and the environment.
The entire situation does not bode particularly well for the proposed Keystone XL extension, which the State Department is expected to make a decision on very soon. Earlier this week, a group of 34 Democratic lawmakers wrote to the State Department and the Environmental Protection Agency expressing concerns about the proposed line. The latest news isn't exactly encouraging.
Jaeah LeeJun. 3, 2011 5:16 PM
A new study puts a hefty price tag on climate change by linking it to the air you breathe. The report, published yesterday by the Union of Concerned Scientists, concludes that CO2-induced temperature increases will worsen ground-level ozone concentrations (the kind coming from power plants and exhaust pipes, not the kind that shields the Earth from UV rays). Higher concentrations of ground-level ozone threaten the health of millions of Americans, an impact that could cost the US $5.4 billion in 2020. If that's not compelling enough, here's what the study's findings mean for you:
If you're an athlete, work outdoors, or live in a low-income community or in any of the 322 counties that do not meet the current national ozone standard, then you're also at high risk. And if you're a farmer, ozone pollution in rural areas may also lower your crop yields.
So what to do? There's the obvious, like riding a bike or taking mass transit instead of driving. Also, you could avoid mowing your lawn on bad ozone days. In late July, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce a stronger ozone standard as well as new proposed rules to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. But the EPA has already delayed tightening its ozone standards three times, and now the coal power plant industry and related labor unions are lobbying Congress to delay the air pollution rules. Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Kent.), and Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), who have previously tried to reverse the EPA's ability to regulate air pollution under the Clean Air Act, have asked the EPA to delay or abandon the rules.
In any case, it might all be too little, too late. The majority of states in the US consistently violate the EPA's existing limit on ozone concentration. And there is virtually no entity that sets standards these issues at the county and state levels, report co-author Jerome Paulson said in a press conference call. He adds that "there are essentially no national level recommendations," either, because none of the federal agencies have the authority to legally mandate them.
This summer, says UCS public health expert Liz Perera, nearly 50 percent of Americans will breathe air with unsafe ozone levels. The figure will probably increase with time, since hotter temperatures could easily mean higher demand for air conditioners and more demand for electricity during summer months, thus resulting in more emissions from fossil-fueled power plants.
Karmah ElmusaJun. 3, 2011 1:15 PM
Yesterday, I filtered through a deluge of articles about the evils of everyday life—according to some recent media, commuting, sitting at a desk, and even pickles, can damage your health. As promised, I talked to a pro about how we process this kind of information. Social psychologist Kevin Binning, who studies human response as a post-doc at UC-Santa Barbara, thinks that this cautionary info won't resonate with people…unless the subject at hand never really mattered to them in the first place.
Mother Jones: Are we receptive to messages about potential danger in daily life? If so, do they change our behavior?
Kevin Binning: Say I'm an avid pickle fan, and I eat them all the time. I'm not going to be swayed by the information that they could be bad for me at all. I'm not in a mental place where I'm going to be receptive. But, if I'm in a place where pickles aren't central to my identity, then next time I see a pickle I'll think, "Hm, should I be eating that?" The people who these articles are targeting are the ones who aren't going to listen.
MJ: What if it's something we don't have a choice about, like commuting?
KB: You'll normally say, "This is just another in a long line of things that are bad to me," and then you kind of go about your daily life. It's just another thing to add onto the pressure that we face every day. We can't possibly cope with all these threats all the time; there's no way. We will probably selectively respond to the ones that we can do something about.
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Jen QuraishiJun. 3, 2011 7:01 AM
In this blog post I highlight an illuminating or groundbreaking news article or report on the environment or health from the past 5 days. This week's gem goes to... the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine for revealing deep weaknesses in the way Medicare determines how much to pay doctors and hospitals for covered expenses. The report also outlined ways to fix these weaknesses.
For example, as found in the NAS report, Medicare uses geographical market areas to help determine how much a kidney transplant will cost a hospital to perform. However, Medicare divides the US into only 89 geographic markets, and some of those markets are an entire state or a large city. So even though an independent hospital in rural Nebraska incurs more costs to provide an organ transplant, it would be reimbursed the same as a better-funded, corporate-owned hospital in downtown Omaha. The authors recommend revising how these geographical areas are determined, and integrating them other parts of the Medicare payment model.
Another large flaw the report found was the wage index Medicare uses to help determine how much it should pay doctors and staff for procedures. Instead of using survey data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the report's authors recommend using the Bureau of Labor Statistics's data because it's independent and more accurate.
The report is just phase I in a two-part investigation: the final report will be released in 2012. Amid discussions of cutting Medicare entitlements and aging Baby Boomers, the report's recommendations are vital information. Currently Medicare covers 47 million seniors and 8 million people with permanent disabilities. With so many subscribers, making payments more accurate could go a long way toward cutting waste (where it occurs), and making sure all hospitals and staff are fairly compensated Medicare services.
Kate SheppardJun. 3, 2011 6:00 AM
There's been much to-do this week over the announcement from the World Health Organization that the group now believes radiation from cell phone is a possible carcinogen. As my colleague Kiera Butler pointed out, there's not really much news there; we're basically at the same point we've been for a while now—although a few studies have suggested a connection between cell phones and brain tumors, there's not enough proof to firm up a direct link. But have federal regulators been complicit in downplaying the reasons we might want to be concerned?
The consumer watchdogs at Environmental Working Group believe that the Federal Communications Commission, the agency charged with regulating cell phones, may be deliberately shielding information from the public about possible concerns related to cell phone radiation in response to pressure from the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA), the industry group representing wireless telecom companies. On its website, the FCC says that there is "no scientific evidence that proves that wireless phone usage can lead to cancer." That's true, but the FCC site also does not include much in the way of references to the studies that do suggest there may be some reasons for concern. And, as EWG has documented, the FCC last year deleted information from its website that advised consumers on how to avoid exposure to radiation.
The public battle heated up last June, when the city of San Francisco passed a "Cell Phone Right to Know" ordinance requiring cell phone retailers to prominently display information about the amount of electromagnetic radiation—also known as the "specific absorption rate" or SAR—that each phone releases. (The FCC has a database on its website that lists the amount of radiation emitted from each type of cell phone, but it's nearly impossible to navigate.) The CTIA retaliated, first barring San Francisco from hosting future trade shows and then suing the city, claiming that the ordinance oversteps FCC's regulatory oversight on the issue. Earlier this month, San Francisco backed off the new law in response to the suit.
In the heat of the debate over SF's ordinance, the FCC held several meetings with the CTIA and individual telecom companies. Not long after, the FCC removed information from its website that noted that some parties have suggested buying phones with lower emission levels or taking precautions to limit exposure. EWG submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the FCC seeking details about those meetings and all contact between the FCC and CTIA regarding the San Francisco ordinance.
The documents released in response to the FOIA request last September revealed that changing the website was one of the requests that the industry group had made of the agency in one of those meetings—though the FCC maintains that they made the change of their own volition to minimize "public confusion" on the issue and because the agency doesn't think that the SAR level is a particularly useful way of measuring radiation exposure. Among the lines removed from the FCC website was one suggesting that consumers should "Buy a wireless device with lower SAR." The FCC also added a line noting that the agency "does not endorse the need" to reduce exposure to these emissions.
While EWG can't say decisively that it was the industry pressure that led the FCC to adjust the website, "the change that took place was very favorable for the industry," says EWG senior scientist Olga Naidenko.
Naidenko says she hopes that the latest news on cell phones from the WHO this week will galvanize new concern about what we do and don't know about the potential problems related to radiation exposure from cell phones. She also pointed to the fact that neither the FCC nor the Food and Drug Administration, which is also charged with oversight on this issue, has conducted their own studies to determine whether and how much we should be concerned about exposure. The FCC's FAQ site notes, in response to the question "Is there any evidence that cell phones cause cancer?" that the agency is keeping an eye on research on the subject. It also says that the FDA is "participating in an industry-funded research project to further investigate possible biological effects"—which doesn't necessarily make one feel all that much safer.
In the meantime, EWG has published its own rankings of how much radiation specific cell phone models emit and other advice for reducing exposure. And while the latest WHO news does not bring us any closer to knowing whether our cell phones cause cancer, I'm sure I'm not alone in preferring to limit exposure where possible.
Hat tip: SEJ Watchdog.
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Sunday 31 January, 2010, 09:39 - Amateur Radio
Posted by Administrator
Sometimes Wireless Waffle can be rather frivolous and irreverent but today is not one of those days. On many previous occasions, Wireless Waffle has gone on about the threat to short-wave radio caused by power line telecoms (PLT), power line adaptors (PLA), broadband over power-line (BPL) and blaufunk zür electrische Breitband über bezahlen (BLZEBUB as it is known in the Germany) yet they continue to proliferate. But in the UK at least, it seems that there is going to be a properly monunted challenge to the blatant flouting of the law that these devices do on a daily basis. Posted by Administrator
Having thought that the UK spectrum regulator, Ofcom, would respond to the concerns of UK radio users, the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB), the body which represents radio amateurs, has played a very professional deck of cards to date; demonstrating that the equipment concerned does not conform to the necessary standards and using existing legislation and regulation to request that Ofcom take action. Ofcom's response, however, has been very disappointing, and seems to be acting on the basis that few complaints equals few problems. Presumably very few people complain when a vehicle knocks them down and kills them, so perhaps we should cease to be concerned about enforcing speed limits?
Ofcom seems to be following a circular argument that, on one hand, radio regulations don't apply because the devices which cause the problem are not intentionally generating radio transmissions; and on the other, that electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) regulations don't apply to the radiation they do cause, as EMC is not about controlling radiation from devices - as any such radiations are meant to be covered by radio regulations. It even turned down a sensible proposal from the German regulator, the Bundes Netz Argentur (BNetzA) for a purpose-designed specification for these types of device to ensure they didn't fall down the tiny pothole that might just exist between the two sets of regulations.
Several petitions have even been raised with Number 10 Downing Street (the Prime Minister's office as opposed to the Farnham Healing Centre) to which Ofcom's response has been equally lacklustre. 'No biggy...' seems to paraphrase their attitude.
So kudos then to the RSGB for putting down their playing cards and taking up arms against the problem (whether you class the problem as the devices or as Ofcom) and establishing a Spectrum Defence Fund (SDF). The RSGB claim that to challenge Ofcom through the relevant legal channels will cost in the region of £75,000. The RSGB are asking anyone and everyone who has an interest in short-wave listening, either for pleasure or professionally, to put their hands in their pockets or break open their piggy banks and donate some money to the cause. They point out that if every radio amateur in the UK donated just £5, they would soon reach their target. On the other hand, if only a couple of thousand people donate the same amount, they will miss the target by a large margin.
Some may question whether or not it is right for the RSGB to become so overtly political in its outlook given the fact that it has only really used its deck of cards to play snap in the past and has never ventured into more risky territory (such as whist for example), let alone expose itself to the dangers of games such as poker. For the past century, or thereabouts, it has been a forum for sharing news and information for the amateur community in the UK and although it has responded to many Ofcom consultations, it has done this in the role of a semi-passive observer: a (card playing) grandfather who passes down occasional nuggets of experience to the go-getting upstart grandchildren who now inhabit the spectrum. And rightly so. The RSGB should be a centre of expertise; a wise old sage to whom its members, and the wider UK radio community can turn to answer those difficult questions. But the threat from PLT/PLA/BPL/BLZEBUB is very real and it's time for granddad to stand up and batter the kids around the ears with a solid oak walking stick until they sit down and stop acting like spoilt brats.
The threat to the radio frequencies used by radio amateurs, however, comes from more than just BLZEBUB. Radio spectrum is becoming a very valuable commodity and amateurs sit on real-estate which in the UK alone would be valued at several million pounds if it were open to the markets to purchase. There is no evidence of an immediate threat in this regard, and no queues have formed to offer granddad an especially large pension in return for his deck, but if the amateur community does not keep its eyes open, someone is likely to creep up on granddad whilst he is out for a walk and take his wallet and keys, and his solid oak walking stick.
So the time has come for radio amateurs and short-wave listeners of all kinds across the United Kingdom to unite and support granddad. Why not have a night listening to the radio and remind yourself of what it's all about. Not Danny DJ spinning the same old tunes on Radio Local FM, but tune around the short-wave bands and see what you can hear. With sunspots beginning to acne the face of the sun again, you might just be surprised at what you can hear. And when you have rekindled your love of radio, pop along to the RSGB web-site and donate a few quid. Imagine what life would be like without your other favourite pass-times, whether beer, wine, fags or whatever. In fact, go without for a week. Then think how it would feel if you couldn't use your short-wave radio again and give the money you saved that week to the RSGB spectrum fund. In return, Wireless Waffle intends to donate all the money made from the various advertisements which are scattered around the site to the RSGB Spectrum Defence Fund. We'll let you know how much this is in a couple of months time...
Friday 1 January, 2010, 00:14 - Pirate/Clandestine
Posted by Administrator
Regulars to the pages of Wireless Waffle will realise that we have an inate (or should that be 'inert') fascination with short wave radio. And nothing is more mysterious and intriguing on short wave than the many spy broadcasts which usually take the form of a string of numbers or letters read out in a mechanical fashion by a pre-recorded male or female voice. A bit like the speaking clock for spooks.Posted by Administrator
One of the most famous spy stations, the Lincolnshire Poacher (which was allegedly broadcast from Cyprus), ceased transmissions in 2008 and it rumour has it that its sister station, Cherry Ripe (latterly broadcast from Australia) also ceased transmissions towards the end of 2009. Which leaves fans of these funky but furtive broadcasts with a big hole in their social calendar (not that such fans had much of a social calendar to begin with).
But all is not lost. Thanks to the Conet project and web designer Kevan Davis fans can now enjoy:
* Number Station Bingo
This excellent game will keep you occupied (but not in the same way as the US forces in Iraq) for literally minutes. If you win, it is customary to shout 'Badabingo, green stick in the green hole' though for security reasons we obviously cannot explain why this is so.
Tuesday 1 December, 2009, 01:21 - Spectrum Management
Posted by Administrator
Some of the biggest brains in Europe, as well as hundreds of millions of Euros of public money are being poured into a concept which has the catchy name of the 'Internet of Things'. The concept in itself is a fairly straightforward one - that as well as people being connected together via the Internet, machines and sensors and all sorts of other electrical and mechanical devices will be connected together as well. So it would be possible for your fridge to talk to your lawnmower, and your kettle to have a chat with your central heating system. Posted by Administrator
Actually, this is nowhere near as silly as it sounds. From the perspective of saving energy and hence carbon, one of the main problems facing electricity generators is dealing with the peak load. In the USA this occurs on the hottest day of the year when air conditioning units are working overtime, and in the UK typically occurs mid-winter when heating units and lots of TVs are turned on, especially during commercial breaks when everyone gets up to make a cup of tea and turns their kettle on. So at these moments, if the kettle could chat with your freezer, for example, and tell it to stop freezing for a few minutes whilst it boils, no-one would be any the wiser and the net result would be a reduction in peak electricity consumption.
This is all fine and dandy and there are plans for 'smart cities' where lots of devices communicate with each other to the benefit of energy consumption, safety and for lots of other good reasons. But there is a limit to how effective such communication can be. Imagine the following discussion:
Kettle to Fridge Please stop freezing for a bit as I need to boil the water to make a cup of tea.
Fridge to Kettle Sorry, no can do. I've already put freezing on hold for a bit to help the tumble dryer out. Perhaps you could speak with it.
Kettle to Tumble Dryer Please could you stop drying for a bit as I need to boil the water to make a cup of tea?
Tumble Dryer to Kettle You must be joking! I've already had to stop 4 times to let the floodlights come on outside and if I don't get these clothes dry soon, there'll be trouble.
Kettle to TV Hey, TV. Any chance you could turn yourself off for a few minutes whilst I boil some water to make a cup of tea?
TV to Fridge Can you believe it? The Kettle has asked ME, ME the TV to turn off so that it can boil some water, who does it think it is?
Fridge to TV I know. Always trying to steal all the power. Nearly as bad as the iron which is on and off like a faulty switch.
TV to Fridge You are so right. I just pretend Eastenders is on when the iron asks me to turn of, it knows that I couldn't possibly interrupt that programme.
Microwave oven to Fridge and TV Can you two pipe down a bit, I'm waiting for an important message from the vacuum cleaner about who is sharing the power tomorrow morning.
And so on...
So there you have it. Several billion Euros of investment brought down by a neurotic TV and an overly chatty fridge. Not to mention the fruit bowl and the salt pot who block the airwaves with their inane chatter about whether sweet or savoury is best. And therein lies the problem: all this communication needs bandwidth, and given the nature of the devices, they will need wireless bandwidth. A European Commission white-paper on the subject addresses the issue several times in statements such as:
[the internet of things] requires truly ubiquitous wireless capacity that can handle several magnitudes more data.
Communication infrastructure should provide ubiquitous connectivity in the presence of significantly increased traffic load and should be very efficient so as to reduce the cost per bit... Many of the local connections are naturally wireless.It goes on to state
Spectrum must be valued: Radio spectrum is one of the most valuable resources of the digital age. As more and more devices and objects become wireless enabled ... spectrum is becoming a key bottleneck. We have to find ways to manage the spectrum more efficiently so as to maximise data throughput and minimise interference.
The report suggests that one possible solution would be to develop a real-time local market in radio spectrum. What does this mean? It means that when you go to make a call from your mobile (or you fridge wants to open a discussion with the vacuum cleaner) it first interrogates the 'spectrum stock market' and chooses the piece of spectrum which offers the right level of connectivity at the appropriate price. Of course the question remains as to how it does this without, in the process, also using a wireless connection.
What is certain, however, is that we have only started to see the beginning of the squeeze on the radio spectrum and that if it seems congested now, compared to the future it is still a wide open space of nothingness. And like oil as it begins to become rare, it is likely we shall see an increase in the value of spectrum too. We here at Wireless Waffle wonder whether there will eventually be unit trusts and other investment wagons on the stock market that invest in spectrum for a profitable return in the same way as they do in gold, silver, oil, crops and other limited resources. If there are, then as prices spiral, it might just shut the fridge up for a bit.
Tuesday 20 October, 2009, 14:29 - Pirate/Clandestine
Posted by Administrator
A previous article on Wireless Waffle talked about the chances of a pirate radio station being caught focussing on VHF FM pirates. A later one focussed on short-wave pirates and discussed which frequencies to avoid in order to minimise getting the authorities' collective danders up.Posted by Administrator
Over the past 12 months, both Premier Radio (who used 6265 kHz) and Laser Hot Hits (who used 4025 kHz) have had their transmitter sites raided. Bringing together the ethos of the two previous articles, it would make sense that in order for a raid to be worthwhile, even at short-wave, there would have likely been a complaint raised against the station concerned.
So we might, therefore, ask, "Who raised these complaints?" It seems unlikely that major international broadcasters such as the BBC World Service or China Radio International would be at all threatened by pirate operators taking their audience away or causing interference, especially as the frequencies being used by the pirates are not ones being used by an international broadcaster at the time, so there must be another source of complaints.
Across Europe (and indeed the world) there are a series of short-wave (HF) monitoring stations operated by the various national regulatory administrations who produce quarterly reports on their monitoring activities. The purpose of the monitoring and the associated reports is, on the one hand, to check on legitimate users of the HF spectrum, and on the other to identify use which is in contravention to the ITU's rules on spectrum usage. Where an administration identifies contravening transmissions, it can flag these in the reports and, according to the ITU document describing the reports, these will then be forwarded to the administration which is the source of the transmission.
Looking through these reports for the past 12 months (eg from October 2008 to September 2009), there are a number which relate to various short wave pirates. Specifically:
Date | Time (UTC) | Freq (kHz) | Monitoring Station | Transmitter Location | Station* | Complaint |
24 Oct 08 | 1700-2359 | 4024.57 | Rambouillet, France | UK | Laser Hot Hits | Illegal use of frequency |
25 Oct 08 | 0000-0600 | 4024.57 | Rambouillet, France | UK | Laser Hot Hits | Illegal use of frequency |
11 Nov 08 | 0000-0645 | 4024.58 | Berlin, Germany | UK | Laser Hot Hits | None |
5 Dec 08 | 0204-0400 | 4024.60 | Tarnok, Hungary | Not Identified | Laser Hot Hits | Broadcast in non broadcast band |
4 Apr 09 | 1715-2400 | 4025.00 | Berlin, Germany | UK | Laser Hot Hits | Broadcast in non broadcast band |
7 Nov 08 | 1837-2359 | 5800.00 | Rambouillet, France | 8E54 45N29 (Milan, Italy) | PLAYBACK INTL | Broadcast in non broadcast band |
12 Jul 09 | 0855-1000 | 5751.51 | Rambouillet, France | 1W31 51N15 (Andover, UK) | Best of British Radio | Illegal use of frequency |
8 Nov 08 | 0000-0200 | 5800.00 | Rambouillet, France | 8E49 45N23 (Milan, Italy) | PLAYBACK INTL | Broadcast in non broadcast band |
10 Nov 08 | 2020-2100 | 5800.00 | Tarnok, Hungary | Not Identified | Playback International | Broadcast in non broadcast band |
4 Jan 09 | 1249-1300 | 5801.00 | Vienna, Austria | Italy | MILANO (Playback International) | Broadcast in non broadcast band |
24 Oct 08 | 2215-0000 | 5803.00 | Baldock, UK | 8E7 45N56 (Milan, Italy) | Playback International | None |
12 Oct 08 | 0700-0830 | 5805.03 | Tarnok, Hungary | Not Identified | Orion Radio | Broadcast in non broadcast band |
2 Dec 08 | 1642 | 6210.00 | Baldock, UK | Belgium | RADIO BORDERHUNTER | SW Pirate |
12 Apr 09 | 1345 | 6202.00 | Baldock, UK | 8E48 50N15 (Frankfurt, Germany) | Crazy Wave Radio | Non-Conformity RR.5 |
15 Feb 09 | 0949-1120 | 6219.99 | Vienna, Austria | Italy | MYSTERY RADIO | Broadcast in non broadcast band |
15 Feb 09 | 1356-1429 | 6219.99 | Vienna, Austria | Italy | PLAYBACK | Broadcast in non broadcast band |
12 Apr 09 | 1815 | 6220.00 | Baldock, UK | 10E0 43N50 (Italy) | MYSTERY RADIO | Non-Conformity RR.5 |
9 May 09 | 1855-1921 | 6220.00 | Vienna, Austria | Italy | MYSTERY RADIO | Broadcast in non broadcast band |
11 Jul 09 | 1935-2300 | 6220.00 | El Casar, Egypt | 11E24 44N27 (Bologna, Italy) | Mystery Radio | None |
31 Jul 09 | 0000-0030 | 6220.00 | Klagenfurt, Austria | Pisa, Italy | Mystery Radio | Broadcast in non broadcast band |
6 Jan 09 | 0105 | 6240.00 | Baldock, UK | Netherlands | UNDERGROUND RADIO | Illicit |
17 Feb 09 | 1654 | 6240.00 | Baldock, UK | Netherlands | UNDERGROUND RADIO | Illicit |
5 Jun 09 | 2340 | 6420.25 | Baldock, UK | 4E46 51N38 (Breda, Netherlands) | Casanova or Dutchwing? | Pirate Station |
7 Feb 09 | 1657 | 6870.00 | Baldock, UK | 12E20 42N41 (Terni, Italy) | Playback International | Non-Conformity RR.5 |
30 Apr 09 | 1639 | 6870.00 | Baldock, UK | 12E20 42N41 (Terni, Italy) | Playback International | Non-Conformity RR.5 |
8 Feb 09 | 0857-0933 | 6870.00 | Vienna, Austria | 9E38 45N41 (Bergamo, Italy) | PLAYBACK | Broadcast in non broadcast band |
22 Mar 09 | 0956-1429 | 6870.00 | Vienna, Austria | Italy | PLAYBACK | Broadcast in non broadcast band |
3 May 09 | 0845-0940 | 6870.00 | Vienna, Austria | Italy | PLAYBACK | Broadcast in non broadcast band |
4 July 09 | 2001-2017 | 6870.00 | Vienna, Austria | Italy | PLAYBACK | Broadcast in non broadcast band |
12 Jul 09 | 0430-2200 | 6870.00 | Tarnok, Hungary | USA (!) | PLAYBACK INT. RADIO | Broadcast in non broadcast band |
14 Feb 09 | 1425-1443 | 6878.00 | Vienna, Austria | Italy | PLAYBACK | Broadcast in non broadcast band |
21 Feb 09 | 0700-2040 | 6880.00 | Rambouillet, France | 9E54 44N42 (Genova, Italy) | Playback International | Illegal use of frequency |
22 Feb 09 | 0630-0700 | 6880.00 | Rambouillet, France | 11E33 44N21 (Bologna, Italy) | Playback International | Illegal use of frequency |
4 Oct 08 | 2000-2100 | 6925.00 | Rambouillet, France | 20E32 39N4 (Greece) | Spider Radio | Illegal use of frequency |
26 Jul 09 | 0000-1700 | 7550.00 | Tarnok, Hungary | Italy | Radio Amica | Broadcast in non broadcast band |
29 Aug 09 | 0620-0700 | 7550.00 | El Casar, Egypt | Italy | Radio Amica | None |
29 Aug 09 | 0600-0630 | 7550.00 | Klagenfurt, Austria | Italy | Radio Amica | Broadcast in non broadcast band |
18 Feb 09 | 1218-1220 | 9385.00 | CRMO, South Korea | Ireland | LASER HOT HITS | Illegal use of frequency |
19 Feb 09 | 1606-1607 | 9385.00 | CRMO, South Korea | Not Identified | Laser Hot Hits | Illegal use of frequency |
28 Feb 09 | 1130-1300 | 9385.00 | Tarnok, Hungary | Not Identified | Laser Hot Hits | Broadcast in non broadcast band |
* Where the station was identified in the monitoring report, it is shown in CAPITALS.
Where no name was given, it has been identified and added in by searching through various on-line logs from the date concerned.
In addition to the above there are one or two other unidentified broadcasts on typical pirate frequencies (eg 6447 kHz on 21 August 2009) but there does not seem to be any indication of who they might be (nor do logs help with this).
Clearly there has been a lot of monitoring of Laser Hot Hits going on by various administrations (Laser may be impressed that they were heard in South Korea!) Similarly Mystery Radio and Playback International have also been heavily monitored though the grid references given for their locations seems to vary quite a lot. These stations operate over long periods, usually at weekends but outside these times too, so it is perhaps not surprising that they have been 'caught'. A more interesting question might be why other stations have been monitored. Was it a chance happening by the administration concerned, or are the frequencies they are using of particular interest to that country?
There are many more questions that these logs raise: How many 'complaints' are necessary before action is taken? Are the locations produced sufficiently accurate to find the transmitters or are other methods necessary? Do the various monitoring stations co-operate to improve the accuracy of locations? Is there a competition between stations and administrations to show how 'bad' their neighbours are being (eg UK complaining about France and France complaining about UK). And perhaps, most importantly, how come Mystery and Playback are still on air?!


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Quoting NCHurricane2009: I saw the same contradiction..not bashing the NHC of course but I think they are covering their behinds in putting in that "however" |
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 12:03 AM GMT on August 21, 2011
Tropical Storm Irene roared into life this evening, transitioning from a tropical wave to a 50 mph tropical storm in just a few short hours. An Air Force hurricane hunter aircraft in the storm was finishing up its mission when it suddenly came across a region with intense thunderstorms and surface winds of 50 mph. The aircraft found that a center of circulation had barely closed off on the southwest edge of this region, though the plane found almost no winds from the west around the circulation center. The 6:10pm EDT center fix found a central pressure of 1007mb, which is quite high for the observed 50 mph winds. Dry air to the north and west is slowing development, as well as moderate wind shear of 10 - 20 knots, as analyzed by the University of Wisconsin CIMSS group. Infrared satellite loops and radar out of Martinique show the storm is poorly organized, with no evidence of spiral bands. The center of Irene is expected to cross over the Caribbean island of Dominica early Sunday morning, but the heaviest thunderstorms lie to the north of the center, and will affect Guadeloupe, Antigua, and St. Kitts and Nevis.
Figure 1. Evening satellite image of Irene.
The computer models have shifted southwards since yesterday, and now take Irene south of Puerto Rico on Monday, and along the south shore of the Dominican Republic on Tuesday. On Wednesday, Irene should pass near or over southern Haiti, Eastern Cuba, and Jamaica. On Wednesday and Thursday, the models agree that a trough of low pressure will dip down over the Eastern U.S., which is likely to turn Irene to the north. The exact timing and strength of this trough varies considerably from model to model, and will be critical in determining where and when Irene will turn to the north. We can expect that Irene will impact Central Cuba, the Bahamas, and the Florida Keys on Thursday, but it is uncertain whether Irene's turn to the north will take the storm into the Gulf of Mexico or not. Irene most reminds me of Tropical Storm Fay of 2008. Fay formed just off the coast of Puerto Rico, and was never quite able to get organized enough to become a hurricane, due to passage over Hispaniola and Cuba. Fay topped out as a strong tropical storm with 70 mph winds, and did over $500 million in damage in the U.S., mostly due to flooding rains in Florida that accumulated to over 25 inches in a few areas. Fay also dumped heavy rains on Hispaniola, triggering flooding that claimed eight lives.
Figure 2. Track of Tropical Storm Fay of 2008.
Irene will be battling dry air and moderate wind shear of 10 - 20 knots through Sunday, and it will take the storm 1 - 3 days to build up an eyewall and intensify into a hurricane. Irene is more of a threat than Tropical Storm Emily of early August was, since Irene has closed off a center farther east than Emily did and has more time to organize before encountering Hispaniola. I don't think passage over Hispaniola will destroy Irene, since it is a fairly large storm, and is likely to be a hurricane by then. However, if Irene follows the NHC forecast, it will have an extended encounter with Hispaniola and Cuba on Tuesday through Wednesday that will probably weaken the storm below hurricane force. Keep in mind that the average error for an official 5-day forecast from NHC for a developed storm is 200 - 250 miles. Irene could easily miss Florida and move up the East Coast and hit North or South Carolina, or pass through the Florida Keys and into Gulf of Mexico, ending up who knows where. Given the uncertainties, this weekend would be a good time to go over your hurricane preparedness if you live anywhere in the Caribbean, Bahamas, or U.S. coast, since Irene could well be paying you a visit as a tropical storm or hurricane sometime in the next week.
Harvey hits Belize
Tropical Storm Harvey made landfall at 2pm EDT on Saturday near Dangriga Town, Belize, as a tropical storm with 60 mph winds. Harvey continues to dump very heavy rains on northern Guatemala, Belize, and portions of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula as the storm tracks westwards at 12 mph. Dissipation is expected Sunday as the storm pushes inland. Harvey was a small storm, and the strongest winds were confined to a short stretch of coast near where the center came ashore. Winds at Belize City, Belize on Saturday topped out at 15 mph.
Figure 3. Radar image of Harvey taken at 11:30am EDT on Saturday, August 20, 2011, a few hours before landfall in Belize. A small closed eye is visible just south of the offshore islands of Belize. Image credit: Belize National Meteorological Service.
An exceptionally active early part of hurricane season
It's been a strangely hyperactive season for weak storms in the Atlantic so far this year. Tropical Storm Irene is the 9th named storm this year, and its formation date of August 20 ties 2011 with 1936 as the 2nd earliest date for formation of the season's 9th storm. Only 2005 had an earlier date. The first eight storms this year have stayed below hurricane strength, making 2011 the first hurricane season since record keeping began in 1851 to have more than six consecutive tropical storms that did not reach hurricane strength. As I discussed in Friday's post, a major reason for this is the lack of vertical instability over the tropical Atlantic so far this year. We've had a large amount of dry, sinking air over the tropical Atlantic, and the usual amount of dry, dusty air from the Sahara, both helping to keep the atmosphere stable and stop this year's storms from intensifying into hurricanes. Hurricane activity typically ramps up big-time by August 20, with more than 80% of all the hurricanes and 65% of all the tropical storms occurring after that date. At our current pace, 2011 will become the second busiest Atlantic hurricane season on record, with 24 - 27 named storms. There are only 21 names in the list of names for a hurricane season, so we may have to break out the Greek alphabet again in late October this year, as occurred in 2005. Ironically, this was the last time the current set of names was used in the Atlantic, so 16 of this year's 21 names are repeats of 2005. I'm not too happy about seeing another hurricane season challenge the Hurricane Season of 2005 in any way, and let's hope we don't retire another five names this year, like occurred in 2005! With vertical instability much lower this year than in 2005, and that year having already seen one storm (Dennis) retired by this point in the season, I doubt that will happen, though.
Figure 2. The annual cycle of average hurricane frequency in the Atlantic. Historically, about 35% of all the tropical storms and 15% of all the hurricanes will have occurred by August 20.
Invest 98L near the Cape Verde Islands
A tropical wave near Cape Verde Islands off the coast of Africa, Invest 98L, is spreading heavy rains and strong gusty winds to those islands today. So far this morning, top sustained winds measured in the Cape Verde Islands were 23 mph at Mindelo. 98L has a long stretch of ocean to cross before it could affect any land areas. Approximately 70 - 80% of all tropical cyclones that pass this close to the Cape Verde Islands end up curving out to sea and not affecting any other land areas, according to Dr. Bob Hart's excellent historical probability of landfall charts. The latest set of long-range model runs go along with this idea, and I'd be surprised if 98L threatens any land areas.
Jeff Masters
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Quoting NCHurricane2009: I saw the same contradiction..not bashing the NHC of course but I think they are covering their behinds in putting in that "however" |
Quoting TampaFLUSA:Hurricane Alma 1966 came close, pretty much paralleled the coast. But yeah that's a long time ago. 2004 was a bad year for us, but could've been a lot worse had Charley not taken that early right hand turn. I'm looking at some of the latest models and it's not looking too good for us. |
Quoting GoWVU: For the record, SC hasn't been hit in the past 21 years. The East Coast hasn't been hit in the past five years... things that make you go hmm... |
I've seen it time and time again. Storms that are loaded to one side tend to have a bias towards that direction. NHC was smart to mention the risk to PR, it could verify. |
Quoting hunkerdown:LMAO!! Sorry...that made me spit out my soda. |
Look, Irene kinda looks like a roulette wheel. Round and round she goes where she stops, nobody knows! |
HWRF is suggusting 160 mph Category 5 hurricane? I am not buying this AT ALL. |
Quoting GTcooliebai: I'm hooked. I've been a member here for going on 6 years. There are times I can't tear myself from the screen. My latest obsession is the damn gfs model runs. I have to stay up to at least watch the late night screening lol . . . and certainly when it looks like a decent shot at affecting my neck of the woods. |
Quoting Grothar:Thats how perfect conditions are. But i dont think it takes in account of landmasses. |
Quoting MiamiHurricanes09:Sorry, I just can't...unless they brought in the former met Bill Kamal (it would just be comical, you know where ever he is he is dying to take the lead for this storm...) |
Quoting BahaHurican: sorry could not help it lol |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfVQ2C5_hfI&feature= youtube_gdata_player |
Deja vu?? not track wise exactly, but anyone remember hurricane irene of 1999, this was the first storm i can remember, i was 9 years old. (very sorry if this pic comes out too big, will remove if needed) |
Complete Update Nothing like that warm fuzzy feeling you get looking at the 4's & 5's on the Model tracks. TS BUSTED FORECAST ALIBI |
Quoting TheMom: YES! We need a poll: Where will Cantore be stationed in the US? |
Quoting WeatherNerdPR: I see it now.... LOL...is it just me....or is the NHC contradicting themselves at the 11 PM discussion?....first they lean more west with their cone...yet make this statement about a further north reformation and Puerto Rico maybe needing a hurricane watch...this isn't making sense.... |
Quoting presslord: Good information to know,thanks for sharing. I am Rob Fowler guy, I know diffrent station but that is the station I watch. |
what is that churnning by the yucatan just in the gom? |
Quoting hurricane23: What's your reasoning? |
Quoting PcolaDan: LOL - that is good. |
Quoting dfwstormwatch:I thought twc was only mentioned here in mocking and of course tracking of the hot bald guy... |
Quoting Tazmanian:Let's not go replaying Wilma, now.... |
The HH'ers are based in St Croix. If at take off time at 8am, and the wind is blowing a gale. Would they cancel the flight and send another plane into Irene from Biloxi?? |
Quoting 7544:You don't even want to know... it's suggusting a major hurricane toward Florida, but don't buy any of models for hurricane strength just yet. EDIT: 141 knots according HWRF... don't buy this yet. |
Quoting Grothar: No way thats coming to pass... I expect futher westward shifts in the globals later tonight i.e; GFS and EURO. |
Quoting HoustonTxGal: And even more useless trivia. A raisin dropped in a fresh glass of soda will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top. |
Hey all, it's 11pm here in St. Martin, it was raining for a while but its calm now. We are on alerted orange, when do you all think we will see the worst, during the night or tomorrow, I want to enjoy a little of the storm! :) |
Quoting MiamiHurricanes09: Awesome studio. |
Quoting GoWVU: 'Chucktown' here on Jeff's blog is one of our TV mets...he's at ch5...not sure he'd want me to say his name here... |
Good night everyone, join in on the Tropics talk, Tropicalanalystwx and caneswatch are on there, along with me, and if you want to join in(THERE's LIMITED AMOUNT OF TROLLS)... lol thats a good advertisement, anyway gnite |
Quoting GTcooliebai:The last direct hit was before we were born. I tried looking up the last time we had 90 plus winds...all I got was hurricane Easy in 1950 and Donna in 1960. |
Quoting barotropic: how strong is that hwrf please tia |
Quoting PcolaDan:I have a feeling there is going to be some looong sleepless nights for some folks. |
Quoting CaneAddict: Ditto. |
Quoting FLweather: My opinion is right in alignment with your opinion too...... |
Quoting NCHurricane2009: Look at the bottom of the discussion. |
Quoting CosmicEvents: Took someone long enough. :) |
Quoting P451: HWRF intensity coming off cuba and approaching florida is nuts. |
Well the local weather here in Charleston is talking about Irene for next weekend. I know lots can change but they are talking about her just to keep an eye on her. |
Quoting presslord: I went thru Ike in TX , Katrina in MS and others over the years and thank you for ytour efforts to help after the storms :o) |
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This is really great - I like the dialogue, and I love that the writer clearly has a really good handle on the history of all the Fantastic Four characters in this universe. Plus he's apparently retconning Doom's terribly-written part in Ultimatum in exactly the way I always thought it ought to be done, which wins him points in my book.
On the other hand, the art is definitely not working for me (though I did think it got a bit better towards the end of this issue, admittedly). Some of the panels look good individually, but the inconsistent faces really spoil it IMO, so I'm glad to hear there's apparently an artist change coming up.
I'm so glad Fialkov went the route of retconning the Doom in Ultimates 3 and Ultimatum to be an impostor, just like how I thought it should be.
Anyway, apparently Sue is not aware of Ben killing the fake Doom in Ultimatum. Imagine what would happen when she finally finds out from Namor, and how that would affect her relationship with Ben? Oh and wait till we find out who the impostor was!
I'm loving this!
You aren't alone dude (or dudette)
I really dug this issue and I really liked the art. Doom was awesome in this issue.
The only thing that bothers me is Susan being the leader of the team, wasn't she a teenager when Tony was already an established middle aged hero?
I always assumed that Ben, Sue and Reed were in their early 20's when the teleportation accident happened, and that Tony was in his early 30's when Fury recruited him.
Taking that into account , and assuming 5 years happened since, Tony could be 35 and Sue 27. I think that works.
Though In Ultimates Disassembled, Reed stated he was 5 years younger than Tony, so, yeah, age in comics never makes sense.
Great story!
The art is bad but not as bad as #1. The backgrounds are good but too many of the faces are just weird. I am really looking forward to #3. How will Sue react to Ben killing "fake doom"? What has Namor done to the other world? is it all just a GIANT misunderstanding?
She was ~20 at the beginning and 22 by the end of the original UFF run. Then Bendis (naturally) mentioned her age as 18 in the Doomsday Trilogy. How long has it been since DoSM now... 2 years? So she's 24-25 at the oldest, and 20 at the youngest (the former making so much more sense).
Reed was 21 at the time of the accident, but became 19 later on, and then 18 (both mistakes by... BENDIS!). Ben is the same age as Reed, and Johnny is a couple years younger.
Here's a taste of Andre Lima Araujo. From Avengers A.I The new artist for UFF.
Looks great!
Issue sounds interesting. It's great to see a writer recognize the history of the UU. I do have one question for anyone who might know. Is Ben/The Thing, and his possible marriage to Sue mentioned at all? I thought that relationship was one of the more interesting UU changes, and Ben was a great character in the original FF run. I look forward to the art shift as the art is the only thing that is keeping me from buying these issues and not waiting for the TPB.
The 'next time' tagline at the end of the issue refers to "more people who think they're Sue's boyfriend" (there's a running gag this issue about everyone thinking Namor is) so I'm wondering if that refers to Ben and/or Reed popping up. It looks like Fialkov has a really good handle on everything that's been happening to these characters, so I'd assume he's going to address this stuff at some point. It does seem like he's setting up a confrontation between Ben and Sue about Ben killing 'Doom' - it's clear from when Namor starts to explain what he witnessed that Sue doesn't know anything about it, though Namor's interrupted before he can tell the whole story. I'm guessing they might be heading for some rocks in the road over Sue not being able to handle another boyfriend turning out to have a murderous side.
Another good issue so good to see Doom again, I liked the setup of Sue finding out Ben killed imposter doom, and super powered atlanteans.
Well in Ben's defense it was probably a good thing that he killed that imposter doom gods know how much damage he could have done if left unchecked. Ben killed one guy,Reed mass murdered millions of people and Sue has tried to kill Reed a few times so it I think she will find a way to forgive Ben. That being said I still want to see Doom and Ben's first meeting might be a little awkward.Also I can see that wet weasel Namor trying to use that to his advantage to try and bed Sue again.


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