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The Allusionist
"ascension islands" Discussed on The Allusionist
"Cut all the crops, they would then when they tell us the crops, they burn the stubble. And so the reference to fire is about the farmers burning, which would obviously kill the lady birds and destroy their homes. And so they needed to get away quickly. Where could they go? The going Ken well, I don't know, it's difficult to knit into the shrubbery that we find. Right, yeah. Just go for the ornamental plants. Yeah, the other rhymes are sort of more romantic. So again, maybe feeding back into this fertility theme that the lady bird flies away towards your true love. In some way and so they call upon the lady bird to fly to their sweetheart. And the word lady bird, obviously, Romeo and Juliet. There's a little quote from Romeo and Juliet, but what lady bird love what lady bird what Juliet exactly. So again, I guess it means sweetheart in that context. Not so romantic although still very evocative is a lady bird ability known as male killing. What's that? Well, it's exactly what it sounds like. Male killing is caused by bacteria that live in the female lady bird and they get into her ovaries and into the eggs that she produces. And somehow, and we don't really know how they kill off the embryos that are destined to become male. So when she lays her clutch of eggs, normally we expect half of those will end up being female lady birds, the other half will be male, lady birds. But a female lady bird that has a male killer will often have a clutch of eggs where only about half of them hatch. And the half a hatch go on to become female. So the males were killed, right at the very beginning of their lifetime. And it works surprisingly, because the female larvae and something which is slightly disgusting, as they emerge from the egg, they need to eat something very quickly or they'll starve to death. They've got male eggs right there that aren't hatching into larvae. Those eggs, so they eat their dead brothers, nasty, little bit of cannibalism. But it's pragmatic, caramelization. Yeah, exactly. They're off to a big advantage compared to females in a clutch where everything hatched and there wasn't anything to eat. So I'm sure this is a metaphor for something. We're just going to take a little break for some ads. This podcast is sponsored by better help online therapy. At this time of year, I find there are many sources of personal contemplation out with the old and in with the new and all that. Festive gatherings with family or friends and the emotional fallout thereof, more COVID happening, more COVID edge lords happening. I am going into 2022 pre exhausted, but the best gift we can give ourselves at any time of year is looking after our mental health. Better help is customized online therapy that offers video, phone and even live chat sessions with your therapist. So you don't have to see anyone on camera if you don't want to. 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I don't think I don't even think we have grandparents. Yeah, no, I'm suddenly like am I wrong? But I don't think we do. I would just say we would just have to say a molar. What we don't have in English is a gender free word for aunt or uncle. So we do have grandparents and parents and siblings, but not that. Yeah, we don't have that either. So we have franca for a female relative. And then or female a bit more distant relative than the cluster, and then we have the. Male more distant relative. We've been trying to, and that's another word we need for non binary people. So we need the third term there as well. People have met some people have been using Frank. Where they take the feminine feminine term and take the ending away. It's nice. Yeah. So that's one way of doing it. But we have so we don't really we don't have a distinction between aunt and uncle and nis nephew and cousin. We don't it's all friendly. So this is a problem for us when we're learn English. We need to figure out all of these relationships and how people are related to each other. No one really understands cousins. But the word friend, that means relative or not really distant, but cousin uncle so on. It's related to friend. Oh, yeah, where is the same word busy? So that's cute. Yeah. Paul of PK Porto, the museum of global communications, came onto the show to talk about SOS, the breakout star of Morse code. What do you think Morse codes became prevalent? It's probably the simplicity really. It's such a simple thing to use and learn that it became the standard way too. Morse code became prevalent before radio when the telegraph was stood on wires. Over at PK, we have loads of systems that people developed in the early days of the telegraph to read the signals at the other end. As things look further and further away, you needed much more sensitive instruments to detect things. So you ended up with a very sensitive galvanometer which measures tiny, tiny electrical currents, and it would go one way or the other, because these other ones move so slowly, the cable code became it was exactly more code except instead of dot and dash it went left and right. That led to all kinds of useful things. So you could get automation. So you attend it to kind of a siphon recorder so paper strip would be pulled through this machine. And a little siphon in a pot of ink will be putting down the patient. As it moves left and right, then the trace on the piece of paper move left and right. And experienced operators could read that. But it gave a permanent record of the signal that we've gone. There have also been similar systems involving holes being punched into paper strips. So the paper will be pulled through the machine and it will punch holes left and right for the dashes and the dots of the Morse code. That could be automated then so somebody could type just on a typewriter keyboard. That will punch the correct holes for the letters, and then the tape will go through a machine, which would send them all straight faster than somebody could tap ahead. And then at the other end, another machine could punch a new tape for somebody to read there. During the second half of the 19th and early 20th centuries, cables were laid under the sea to create a worldwide telegraphy network, allowing words to travel between continents in the same day. But over the really long stretches of cable, the signal would get very weak, so you couldn't send a signal over a long distance in one go, for instance, from Australia to Britain. Therefore, tiny islands in the middle of oceans suddenly became very useful to telegraphy companies, so they could plunk relay stations on them. They were all kinds of stations at places like Ascension island. And so you'd have people there who would read the message coming in write it down and then send it out again. And by the 1920s, with this punch paper tape, they'd invented a system called regen, which regenerated the signal at any human intervention. It's all based on clockwork, clocks for timing, the electromechanical switches and motors to keep everything running. Completely automatic. So the staff of those little cable stations they've got a lot smaller. You just needed someone who could keep everything running. And no one to write their messages down in send them again. So one story we tell the children that come out to PK is that life on those stations changed because instead of playing football and cricket with a team of people, you'd be playing tennis with your whole staff because they weren't enough there. For team sports. Yeah, well just hitting a ball against the wall on your own. Yeah. It's amazing, though. I mean, it still seems extremely impressive. I mean, we still got a signal kind of thing even with fiber optics because even the light signal gets weakened on the way through the cables through the fibers. So underneath the ocean, there are things about the size of a cow, which boosts the light signal, get it bright enough for the next stage of the cable. And now I have a mental image of cows strolling around on the ocean floor, beaming light around. Not complaining is nice. Finally, talking about a different kind of signal is muddy lung of BA concierge in Buenos Aires, who appeared before to tell us about the cake names of Argentina, which arose from protest in 1888, and are still in use today. Here she talks about another form of process. Casserole lazo, which involves banging your pots and pans. Casserole lazo has been used a lot in South American countries, but also across the world. In fact, this very year, people in Myanmar protested the military coup with castle lazo at 8 p.m.. When the protests here started, they actually began everything it does revolve around food. It began with, I believe the conventi shows. These were like these big old mansions that once the rich people moved north to the greener pastors, all the immigrants started moved into these big mansions, so instead of a single-family home, it would be like a hundred family home. And there was maybe one bathroom and the rent was really high, and so these conditions were really bad. And it was actually the grandmas and the moms that would grab their pots and pans and bang, and that's how the protests began. And they called it Casa de laso, basically the big casserole do. And to this day, every once in a while, the city or the social network will plan at Casa de lasso or just before social media was just the neighbors or the newspapers. And if you're if you really care about whatever your protesting against, which is usually the government, you can go to a big street corner and everybody knows the main corners of the city where they do this. Or you just go out on your balcony at 9 p.m. on whatever day, and you bang your pots and pans. And it's, for me, I love it. It's because it's just this real thing that happens without computers without telephones. But it's the pots and pans because these are these basic things you have to make noise. Like with the cake names, you make your point with whatever resources you've got. They lose this is sponsored by Squarespace, your one stop shop to build and run your own website. From choosing the design and your own custom URL all the way to picking the colors in the footer which, does anyone ever even look at it? I'll do it just in case. The biggest project of my life have always started in January's past. 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Everything Everywhere Daily
"ascension islands" Discussed on Everything Everywhere Daily
"Island of saint helena does not get a lot of visitors. It's one of the most remote inhabited islands in the world located in the middle of the south atlantic ocean. The closest bit of dry land to saint helena is ascension island which is in of itself an extremely remote island. The island is approximately five miles by ten miles. The current population on the islands about forty five hundred people and its territory of the united kingdom. The closest landmass is angola twelve hundred miles away on the west coast of africa. The people on the island are known as saints. How do these people get to set a remote island. And why do they live there. Well it's a long story. The first person to discover saint. Helena was portuguese navigator shout inova. He reportedly spotted the island on may twenty first fifteen o to and named it. After saint helena. The mother of the emperor. Constantine other sailors spotted the island on their trips around africa. But there were no recorded landings on the island for decades. That's not to say there were no landings however in fifteen eighty nine a dutch navigator named john hogan von lynch totten landed on the island and seeing carvings on some of the trees from sailors which dated back to fifteen ten. There were no native people who lived on saint helena and there has been nothing found indicate. The island was ever visited by humans until european showed up. The island turned out to be an extremely strategic location for ships that were going around africa. It was the only place where ships could stop in the middle of the atlantic to get fresh food and water. The portuguese and spanish eventually lost interest in the island as they had ports along the coast of africa. The dutch formally annexed the island but then did nothing with it. It was the english who finally set up an actual settlement in sixteen fifty seven oliver cromwell than the leader of england because they had executed their king. Charles i granted the east india company the rights to the island they set up a fortified settlement in a valley on the island that they called jamestown. Jamestown is still the capital and really the only town on the island. Today it's located at the bottom of a very steep valley. The town is extremely long and narrow. Because that's the only place.
Talk Radio 1190 KFXR
"ascension islands" Discussed on Talk Radio 1190 KFXR
"And when I was reading the primary source documents about the way the Pirates There was a deposition from a captured pirate that said that he had been on the ship that had veered off course to go to block Island. So that the pirate captain who was Paul grave, Williams could go and visit his mother and three sisters. So imagine this pirate ship loaded with pirates and stolen booty. Turning off and pulling into the harbor of Block Island in Long Island Sound and getting off to go say hi to Mom and his sister. That doesn't fit the stereotype the image does it. It does not. That kind of leads you to a whole new line of research. It did. I never really thought of pirates as other than what I had read in books and movies as one dimensional characters. But that really opened my eyes to the fact that pirates were not just see monsters that these were men, three dimensional characters who cared about their families. Now. What areas did he raid as a pirate? The Red Sea? Uh, Paul Grave. Williams rated the Caribbean. Okay, Captain Kidd was in the Red Sea and the other two Sam Bellamy were in the West Indies and the Caribbean and Samuel Burgess is a very interesting fellow and Chapter four. He's another one who shed light on the Pirates wives because He was a merchant captain who turned pirate and he worked for a New York merchant named Frederick Phillips running kind of a commuter service between New York and the Madagascar. Wow, which is on the East coast of Africa. And what he did was he brought A cargo full of alien needs that the pirates needed down in Madagascar like combs and thread and needles to mend their sales and shoes and hats and rum and wine and beer. And limes to prevent scurvy and they sold these provisions to the pirates down in Madagascar as a real premium price. But on the way back, he brought back pirates who had had enough of the pirate life and wanted to retire. And so he would bring back a dozen or more of pirates who would pay 100 pieces of eight and provide their own food and drink. And take them back into New York and these pirates was assimilate back into 18th Century society. Wow. But In addition, Samuel Burgess carried the Pirates mailbag and assumed the Pirates mail bag of things like this with Pirates, Retirement accounts mailbags Taxi service. That's incredible, Exactly. And it's in the Pirates mailbag because Samuel Burgess was captured by a British privateer and he has man, his ship and his mailbag or all turned over. To the British authorities in the mail bag was deposited in the Admiralty Records in London. And those records are available and I read them and transcribed 250 of them, and many of them are from the Pirates, wives to their pirates and The pirates to their wives. And what a great identifying record for this as well Right? That's incredible. And so what year was that? That was 16 94 to 16 99. So this is like the golden age. Right, Henry? Every and all those groups that's correct. Wow. It was a very, very organized, sophisticated system and the Pirates mail box. Was on Ascension Island, which was in the Atlantic. It was a tiny little island that Mariners would stop that because it was rich in turtles, and they would collect turtles for food and put them on their decks. But at a little spot in the harbor, there was a rock with a hole in it. And that's where they would leave their letters to go home and no flag and they'll skull and crossbones on the side of it, you know? Nope. Wow. I mean, you're just painting some amazing pictures here, Daphne, and I'm absolutely astounded by it. I'm really looking forward to reading it. And where can people get this book? So this book is on Amazon. And it's also on Barnes and Noble com on their website, Okay, and in the book is the Pirate next door. The Untold story of 18th century pirates, wives, families and communities and Daphne Palmer. Giannakopoulos is our guest today and Daphne. Thank you so much for your time. This is just absolutely amazing, really paints a different picture in my mind about my own ancestor. Well, thank you. Pleasure to speak with you, Scott. Thanks very much. And coming up. Next, we're going to talk to a man named Ray Weiss and Ray has been researching his seafaring ancestors finding out where they went and then traveling to those places and he's just got.
Trivia With Budds
"ascension islands" Discussed on Trivia With Budds
"Thanks for checking out my shell. I am here today with you with a bunch of questions. On icky words all the words have ic- and k in them in that order so he'd be a clue and you try and figure out what words were talking about before we get to. Those words is some other words to read you from a book called. Why dogs eat poop and other useless or gross information about the animal kingdom. This says why do green turtles swim. Fifteen hundred miles debris. So i just wanted to open with this. A great number of the green turtles found in the atlantic all hatched on a remote tiny stretch of land in the middle of the ocean called ascension island turtles breed here in their thousands after which the hatchlings get carried by the ocean currents towards brazil where they live and feed for several years however when they mature and it comes time to breed they begin an extraordinary journey back to the island of their birth journey. Some fifteen hundred miles not only. Is this journey unfathomably long. It is also an incredible feat of navigation. Ascension island is just seven miles long a tiny sliver of land in the south atlantic ocean. Yet the turtles manage to find it. Although we don't know how many turtles even seem to seek out the exact beach where they themselves were hatched. Some believe the turtles can navigate by using the position of the sun while others suggest that they may use earth's magnetic field. Another theory holds that they can somehow taste or smell. Tiny amounts of chemicals in the ocean current leaching from ascension islands volcanic lava scientists have tracked the turtles and found that they followed a remarkably straight line between the senate island and brazil. So there you go a fun fact for you on turtles and breeding and that amazing ascension island. I thought it was interesting. So i wanted to share it with you today. I'm gonna share ten questions with you right now. An iky words so get ready cause here we go. It's achey word trivial. Let's even get all tendencies number one a food. We eat after it's preserved in a brine solution icky words. All of your answers will have i. C k number one number two another name for garbanzo beans number two another name for garbanzo beans number. Two number three. What striking workers do to persuade people to not enter buildings number three. What striking workers do to persuade people to not enter buildings number three and number four to argue frequently about petty things number four to argue frequently about petty things number. Five a disease often characterized by bowed. Legs number five. A disease often characterized by bowed. Legs number six hungary. Why wait grab this number. Six hungary wai wait. Grab a this number seven a very heavy slightly sweet dark rye bread of german origin for seven very heavy slightly sweet dark rye bread of german origin number eight hard woven plant material often made into patio furniture number eight hard woven plant material often made into patio furniture number nine japanese word that translates as human powered vehicle number nine japanese word that translates as human powered vehicle and number ten in oliver twist. This was artful dodgers occupation number. Ten in oliver twist this was. Artful dodgers occupation. Those are all your questions for icky words. We'll be back in a second with the hickey answers. We are back with the answers to nikki. Word trivia number one a food. We eat after it's preserved in a brine solution. I like it on my jersey. Mike's subs pickles. Pickle is the answer to number one pickle never to garbanzo beans another name. Chick peas chickpeas number two number three. What striking workers do to persuade people to not enter buildings. They pick it picket outside the building number four to argue frequently about petty things bicker like an old married couple. Bicker number. Five disease often characterized by bowed. Legs ricketts you. Don't hear about that too often anymore. Ricketts number five and number six hungary. Why wait grab this. That's snickers the world's most popular candy bar snickers number seven very heavy slightly sweet dark rye bread of german origin pumpernickel had some the other day over at outback steakhouse number seven pumpernickel number eight hard woven plant material often made into patio furniture. Wicker wicker furniture number nine japanese word that translates as human powered vehicle. It was a funny episode of seinfeld rickshaw rickshaw and number ten and oliver twist this was artful dodgers occupation. He was a fief otherwise known as a pickpocket number ten pickpocket. And there you have at ten answers to the ten questions on nikki words. They weren't so gross even with that title. How about it. We've got the fact of the day which is ancient mayans force. Their kids heads to look like ears of corn. Google that if you wanna see weird pictures and drawings. Ancient mayans forced their kids heads to look like ears of corn. Now you know thanks for listening. Thanks for telling a friend. Thanks for playing along. And thanks for the itunes reviews. We'll see you next time. For more trivia with me cheers..
Monocle 24: The Monocle Daily
"ascension islands" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Monocle Daily
"Make arrival in britain for asylum seekers more difficult than it already is steve these new laws. How much more difficult will they make arriving in the united kingdom and claiming asylum. I mean the first thing is. I hope this bill never goes into becomes law in the way that the government would like to. It's the most extraordinary set of proposals that they are putting forward speaking infant torch. We work with those who've been through. The worst of the worst is torture survivors. Go through therapy with my colleagues but obviously trying to get the asylum system to work better is one of the most important things that we do it enormously problematic through the home office's fault in many many ways there's a lot of process problems there so instead of addressing those problems. Boris johnson seems to be putting not seems to be is putting all the blame onto the asylum-seekers themselves of vanishingly. Small number of people are allowed in this country through what's called resettlement. Which is if you like. The privilege version is a very very slimming. It's a small number of those. It should be much bigger. But there's no signs is going to be much bigger to be honest. And what they're now doing is criminalizing people who are seeking to our for example across the channel which is the one that gets constantly the front page headlines which is really both offensive and and lacks any common sense to be honest they many of those arriving for example of come from iran which this government would also agree has an appalling record of its human rights record of course people fleeing that are offering torture the un refugee convention which celebrates its seventieth anniversary at the end this month and uk played a really important role in creating it at the very heart of at nine hundred fifty. One convention is the idea. It doesn't matter exactly how you arrive. The most important thing is why you've arrived is a good reason to be here or not. I'm basically what bars sean. Since government is trying to do is to tab that we've commissioned a legal opinion from some of the most senior lawyers in the country the these things who've confirmed what we could easily have guessed that that this is absolutely in breach of the obligations. So we'll see where it goes from here to be honest. Is there any argument that if you approach this issue in total good faith which. i think. It's fairly clear the british government is not. There is an argument that the laws do need to be reformed will the laws and conventions governing asylum. Do need to be reformed. Because they were drawn up and written up were they not for a world which was less fluid in which access to transport was more limited in which there just weren't these kinds of numbers of people in all different kinds of parts of the world looking for asylum. Well they need to be withdrawn redraw in the sense that it's unfair to expect pigs. Expect greece or or italy to take the majority of refugees. Arriving in the eu. But this is really populism re large. I mean i have a sneaking suspicion that this is the kind of legislative legislative proposal which will prove to be impossible to actually pass but it sounds very good assessment constituency and the The priorities the scale of the problem. Are we really going to introduce bone density. Scans to see whether people are are nineteen or seventeen. I mean is this is this the level is the level. We've we've reformed him in the whole idea of described people as illegal is it highly unsavory but pretty patel doesn't even really need to pass this legislation right. They just the government needs to show that it's been strong on this This kind of Diffuse danger of other people trying to get here. I mean you know what's a lot with Asylum-seekers as well and the funny thing. Is you know what what many of them say. Especially people from syria. See well why did you. Why did you try and reaching well. Do the germans have to set up with a really recruit egg. The friends your frankly just really mean to us but the english in noise that kinds is perception like we can. We can make it here. You know that. The you know the british bobby and so on. It makes me very very sad to to to see that this is perhaps not not the case anymore. Steve is there anything. Do you think to the argument which has been raised by this government. And i think they've borrowed at fairly wholesale from my own homeland of australia. That taking a harder line is ultimately a humane proposition because it it stops the boats from coming because people. It's made clear that there is no reason to come by boat and that has obviously knock on effect in wrapping up the people trafficking networks Who no longer have any business. This has been australia's line that fewer people drown And the people trafficking networks and the people who run them who are doubtless ghastly Deprived of income is does that argument. Stand up at all. I think it does. I mean australia's you say has been notorious in what has been doing and also during the offshoring of putting people off to to narrow orange novatell also exactly which which pretty patel jesse going going to the others point just now they come up with these things so they floated with the papers a couple of weeks ago. Oh we'll send them all off to rwandan ran. The said like we don't even know about this. What is this. Un refugee agency. The unhcr's what you talking about. You haven't discussed this before that. They came up with a dot in the ocean ascension island these such random ideas which feels they feed days headline. And then you go if you actually talk to be blocked as this. Oh no it's not really developed but they just feed these things which make headlines australia which which you rightly referred to. It's very much in their minds. It's a really interesting case. Because in fact that was the policy but the has-beens as you probably be aware as well there's been some blowback on that as well and actually we're seeing like actually. This is not the way forward for the country that we want to be. And i would love to think that we can get the same but in slightly faster time to be honest in that process has happened over a number of years australia of society going like actually why. Why are they coming up with these guidelines which are fundamental about cruelty. But it's not portrayed as cruelty as you say both in australia but here also with a goal which to me is absolutely staggering. The british government presents these proposals somehow helpful to asylum seekers. find me. A refugee is in this country already..
Monocle 24: The Globalist
"ascension islands" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Globalist
"A look at today's newspapers. I'm delighted to say that joining me in the studio is charles hacker senior partner at control risks. So good to have you all my pleasure. It's good fun right. Let's have a good look at the papers. Let's begin with the guardian Story about how. The united kingdom wants to change the asylum system. The guardian is warning that this will criminalise thousands. That's right we have a development in the ongoing saga of attempted changes to the uk's asylum system and a little bit of an update to some of the preposterous. Frankly changes that we've heard about in the past and so we now have patel. The home secretary saying that anybody who comes to the uk knowingly without permission and this is a bit of a nod to the notion of people smuggling and people who think that they may have permission but are brought here under false pretenses. But anybody who comes here and knows that they shouldn't be is going to be criminalized. Moreover secretary patel is suggesting that these individuals be stored basically in offshore detention centers. One of these centers is proposed to be on ascension island. Which i had to google and this is a small island in the southern atlantic ocean basically between the coast of brazil and the coast of africa. It's far away. It doesn't look like the kind of place that you really want to spend a lot of time people will also be housed perhaps on disused oil rigs and also on old ferries This is provoked quite a lot of controversy. The red cross in the guardian here comes out and says that. This is inhumane and that something has to change and be done differently. You couldn't make this up in many ways because you've because your criminalising. The people who are fleeing difficult deadly situations are partying with thousands of pounds euros. Whatever to to pay to gangs to get them to the united kingdom. Those aren't the ones who have been criminalized that there is a hugely political element to this isn't the the insistences from the united kingdom government. That actually this is francis problem that this is something that has to be kept within. France is borders because they do not stop the boats once they start coming over the channel and one wonders whether this isn't a a warning against coming against the united kingdom to people who are genuinely trying to get there. This is a warning to france to be a bit stricter us right. It's also a continuation of some of the you of some of the ideas. The more preposterous ideas of how to resolve this problem. You'll recall that Principato once proposed creating wave machines in the english channel. Two turn boats back and suggest them straight back towards france. These would be hostile waves head in the opposite direction of the channel. But you're right to point out that this problem has many sources It you know. Other countries tackle this differently by investing in development projects in countries that are the source of migrants and refugees and trying to make their home countries more hospitable to them The uk taking much Dramatically different approach. it is it's it's actively cutting international aid but at the moment is trying to. There's a lot of pushback from a lot of parliamentarians Okay let's move onto the financial times Japanese officials are having to really rethink. What's going to happen when it comes to allowing fans in not lying funding. That's all right. The poor beleaguered. Tokyo olympics are getting close to starting They'll be held in tokyo from july. Twenty third to august eighth on page six of the f. t. we have on headline that says japan ways fan curbs at olympics and basically this is japanese. Prime minister yoshifusa suge perhaps being forced to reexamine his decision to allow up to ten thousand spectators into japanese stadiums stadia stadiums to watch the olympics but corona virus cases are creeping up in japan. Japan's now at six hundred cases a day and rising pressure is back on from the public and from the medical community to reverse this decision and hold the olympics behind closed doors is getting closer and closer to the to the day and nothing seems to be certain with this. I mean you. You must really pity the people trying to organize it. Well it exactly. I mean the tokyo olympics not only has been postponed but is now being completely reorganized. And i think what this points to is a real conundrum with sport because we're going to have sixty thousand people at wembley For euro twenty twenty The lions rugby team is touring south africa. To closed stadiums. Japan is trying to go somewhere in between so many different variables to juggle here your infection rate your vaccination rate what's going on You know in public health and took you is. It may be forced into a flip flop. And what's interesting. Is that one of the one of the lines in the financial times piece. Is that the the. The former. Prime minister shinzo obey. Who has been very quiet on this in the last few months. has said that if you want to cancel the olympics that is your view that is effectively. An anti-japanese statement. Japan has wanted these games for so long and has prepped. So hard to hold anything you know even a year late Any sort of damage to the games as a damage to national pride. And i think that's what he's going out. Let's move onto the telegraph talking of national pride. The oxford astrazeneca jab had a few bumps in the road when it first started. Well it serious bumps in the road but is now accepted by many as as one of the great standard jobs against ovid it is now using what it learned from that to to trial at jeb against hiv..
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Ascension Island Telescope Tracks Fast-Moving Orbital Space Debris
"Island a tropical paradise halfway between brazil and is the home for a nasa telescope with a special mission. And in this case location is everything is innovation now. The nasa air force research laboratory on ascension island houses a telescope with a very special mission to track fast moving orbital space debris the orbital debris program office at nasa's johnson space center collects the data from this and several other ground based optical and radar telescopes across the world. Reliable software tools are then used to predict the risk debris might pose to spacecraft earth and the international space station with more than seven thousand metric tons and millions of individual pieces of space junk orbiting earth tracking the debris is essential because orbital debris moves much. Faster than a sniper's bullet. Even a small piece can destroy satellites or spacecraft on impact but the ascension island telescope has a unique feature a double horseshoe mount designed to track fast moving objects and the view from this telescope gives scientists is on what had been a global blind spot
Monocle 24: The Globalist
UK mulled sending asylum-seekers to remote Atlantic island
"The British Home Secretary Pretty Patel asked Home Office officials to explore the construction of an asylum processing center. Okay so far it's normal This however was possibly going to be on ascension island, which is a British. Territory more than four thousand miles from the UK in the sound south. Atlantic. And officials also looked at the possibility apparently having an asylum center on Saint Hammer in. Exiles once upon a time sent as the F., T. of Sadhana. observes the idea of transferring asylum seekers to remote volcanic outcrops appears to have been dropped by Miss Patel, and they quote a Home Office sources, allies saying insisting the idea was not going to happen the home secretary would not want something like this. But they confirm that such an idea had been
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The Falklands War Explained
"This episode is on the Falcons will and so we get straight into the Falklands war was a ten week. Undeclared war which we Argentina and the United Kingdom in one thousand nine hundred ninety two over two different territories in the south Atlanta the focus on islands territorial dependency which is south Georgia and South Sandwich Islands. The conflict guy on the second of I pro. When Argentine forces invaded occupied the focus ORLANDS? This was followed by invasion of south Georgia the next day in an attempt to establish the sovereignty claim them over on the fifth of April. The British government dispatched a naval task force to engage each week the Argentine navy and Air Force before making them in February so come the island. This conflict lasted seventy four days and ended with the Argentine surrender on the fourteenth for June. Were turning the islands to British control in total six forty nine auditorium military personnel. It's now on two hundred and fifty richest personnel and three folklore owners died during the hostilities. The conflict was a major episode. In the protracted dispute over the territory's sovereignty Argentina selected our maintains that they were Argentine find territory and Argentine government. That's characterizes military action as the reclamation of its territory the British government regard the action As an invasion of in crime colony since eighteen forty one the folkman islanders who had inhabited the island since the early nineteenth century with predominantly descendants of British cyclists and strongly favored which is shocking Leave estate officially declared war. Although both the government declared the islands of warzone hostilities was almost exclusively limited to the territories UNDIS- disputes and the area South Atlantic where Louis the conflict had a strong effect in both cultures and has been the subject various books articles films on songs uh-huh patriotic sentiment ran high in Argentina. But the outcome prompted large protests against the military government hastened its downfall in the United Kingdom the conservative government boasted by the successful outcome was reelected increased majority the following year the the cultural and political effects of the conflict have been less than the UK done in Argentina where it remains a common topic for discussion. Diplomatic diplomats relations between the United Kingdom and Argentina were restored in one thousand nine hundred nine fallen meeting Madrid a which the two governments issued the joint statement. No change in either country's position regarding the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands were made explicit in Nineteen ninety-four Argentina's in times claim to the territory was added to its constitution in the period leading up to the wall in particular perform transfer of power between the military dictators. General Jorge Raphael Videla and General Roberto Eduardo Viola late in March nineteen eighty see what Argentina have been in the midst of a devastating economic stagnation and large scale civil unrest against the military Giunta that been governor the country since nineteen seventy six in December. One thousand nine hundred what there was a change in the audit time military regime bringing to office. It's a new GENTA headed by General Leopoldo Galtieri Acting President and Averick Adele Lameta an admiral. George Weah was the main architect and supporter of military solution for the long standing claim over the islands calculating and that the United Kingdom would never respond militarily by opt-in for military action the Galateri government hoped to mobilized choice along standard patriotic feelings of Argentines towards the islands. Their star the public attention from the country's current economic problems on the regime's James Ongoing Human rights violations of the dirty war such actions would also boast a dwindling legitimacy the new space last preceding speculated on a step-by-step plan beginning with cutting off supplies to the island and direct actions slate to nine thousand nine hundred two if the UN talks were fruitless ongoing tension between the couteau countries over islands increased the online from March where Military Group of Argentine scrap metal merchants. They actually infiltrated by Argentine Marines raised as the Argentine flag at South Georgia Island. A not that would like to be seen as the first offensive action in the war. The blow navy ice patrol vessel H- H must endure. It was dispatched from standing to South Georgia on the twentieth in response the Argentine Ministry Genta suspect in the UK would reinforce his Atlantic forces ordered the invasion of the fulcrum islands to be brought forward to the second-ranked The UK was initially taken by surprise by the Argentine attack on the South Atlantic islands. Despite repeated wouldn't wooden royal naval captain Nicholas Barker it commanded. They're enjoying anivers- Balka believed that the Defense Secretary John Not Nineteen Nineteen eighty-one review in which knots described plans to rejoin the joins. The Yolk case only naval presence in the in the South Atlantic at center signal not Argentines that UK was unwilling would soon be unable to defend his territories subjects in the Falkland Islands on the Second Night Nineteen eight thousand nine hundred. The Argentine forces mounted on Fabius London's known as Operation Rosario on the Falkland Islands the invasion was met with nominal defense organized by full. Didn't governor Sir. Rex Hunt giving command to Major. Might Norman of the Royal Marines brings the events invasion included end of life. Talent commander Admiral Sanchez supply. Thomas I'm fabulous commanders. Group the attack on Moody Brook Barracks. The engagement between troops of Hugo Santelli on bill trip at Stanley on the final engagement and surrender government. Government has worthy invasion. I reach the U. K.. From auditing solstice. A minister defense operative in London had a short tally tax. Conversation with Governor. Hunt's telex operation confirmed that Argentines on the island and in control later that day BBC journalists Lorrimore Golez spoke with an Orlando at goose green via average rage of who confirmed the presence of a large oftentimes entire fleet and the Argentine forces had taken control of the island richest military operations in the Fulcrum Wolf were given the code thing Operation Culpa and the commander of the Task Force was Melissa. John fieldhouse operations lasted from first of all April nineteen thousand nine hundred to the twentieth of June nineteen ninety two. The British undertook a series of military operations as a means of recapturing the fortunes from Argentine Argentine occupation the British royalty taken prior in second April invasion in response to the events on South Georgia the submarines henchman splendid and H- H Mess Fox and was ordered to South to south on twenty nine March whereas the store ship Royal Flea Cle- exonerate for Austin was dispatched from the western Mediterranean H Messengers North Carrington. I wish to send a third submarine but his decision with deferred due to concerns about the impact on operational commitments coincidentally on the second of March suckering suckering hikmet superb after broke up and it was just seemed was in the press to be heading south that has been since been speculation. The effect effect these reports were panic. The Argentine Genta into invading the Falkland Islands before nuclear powered submarines could be deployed the following day. Join a crisis. Meeting headed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The Chief of Naval Staff at Henry Leach advise that quote written could send Taskforce Skip. The islands were invaded and on the first April sent orders to a royal naval force. CARRINA LENA exercises in the Mediterranean to provide south-south Phony invasion on the second of April after emergency meeting of the cabinet approval was given to form a task force to retake the islands. This was backed in an emergency session of the House of Commons. The next day on the six by the British government set up a war cabinet to provide today political oversight the campaign this was the CRISCO instrument crisis-management to the British with his remittance to keep under review political or military development relating to the South Atlantic and to report as necessary to Defense Overseas Policy Committee. The Wall Cabinet Matt at least daily until it was dissolved on the twelfth of August although Margaret Thatcher is described as dominating the wool cabinet Lawrence Friedman notes in the official history of the Falkland Islands Campaign that she did not know opposition without concern of however wants a decision was reached. She did not look back and quote on the evening of April. The United Kingdom's nation's ambassador possums for a drop. The president of the United Nations Gertie Council the resolution which condemned hostilities in the media. Argentine ritual from the island was adopted by the council the following day as United Nations. WHO's not council resolution five? Oh two which passed with ten votes in simple when against ends up stations. China the Soviet Union potent UK receive fervor political support from members members countries the Commonwealth of Nations and the European Economic Community Australia Canada New Zealand withdrew that diplomats from bodice Ariz the e say also provided economic support by imposing economic sanctions on Argentina. Auden itself was politically literally backed by a majority of countries in Latin America of crucially knocked chilly and also some members of the Non Aligned Movement. The New Zealand government expelled the Argentine ambassador following the invasion Prime Minister Rob Dune was in London. When will grow finding an opinion piece published in science? He said quote the military rulers of Argentina must not be appeased. New Zealand will back Britain all the way and unquote will cost in on BBC World Service. He told the focus islands. This quote this robot mode do we all think Commu Given our full support total to the British government isn't this endeavors to rectify the situation. Get rid of the people invaded your Country Country Unquote on the twenty for May nine hundred eighty two. He announced that New Zealand would make H. M. S.. Concentrate prey lead. The class frigate valuable to use when the British were could fit to release royal. Navy vessels from the Falcons in the House of Commons almonds. Afterwards Margaret Thatcher said quote the New Zealand government and people have absolutely magnificent in support of this country and the Falkland Islanders just for the rule of liberty of law and quote the French president. Francois Mitterrand declared embargo home. Frenchamn sows thousand assistance to Argentina. In addition from allowed UK act craft warships use of his poor field facilities. That car in Senegal Frans provided dismisal aircraft training. So that Harry pilots could be trained against the French aircraft used by Argentina Intelligence also cooperated with Britain to prevent Argentina from containing more exit missiles on the international market. Kim a two thousand two interview in reference to the support John Not then defense secretary at disquiet France. At Britain's quote greatest tally in two thousand twelve. He came to light that wall. This poll was taken place. A French technical team employed by docile and already in Argentina remained death throughout the world. Despite presidential decree the team had provided material support to the Argentines identify and fixing faults in exit missile launchers. John Not set the unknown. The French team was that beset. It's what was thought. Be Not of any the important and advised that French government denied any knowledge the time that the tech teams that in contrast French intelligence officer maintained a team was that it was in intelligence gathering capacity. Joel not that asked if he regretted his surly praised. The French said he's the French. were quote the excess and always have been an quote. The Sierra Leone government allowed task for ships to refuel preterm. BBC Ten transport aircraft landed on Joel in the Gambia Umbria flight between the UK and Ascension Islands. The United States was concerned. A protracted conflict with the Soviet Union Argentina's Argentina's side and initially tried to meet yet then to the conflict through shuttle diplomats however when Argentina refused the US peace over rituals US Secretary of State Alexander. Hey announced that. The United States would prohibit sale arms to Argentina and provide material support richest operations rations both houses the US Congress passed resolutions supporting us. Parchin sided with the United Kingdom. The into and you S. provided United Kingdom with Sidewinder missiles for use by the Harrier jets President Ronald Reagan approved Royal Navy's Request to borrow the sea curry capable amphibious assault ship. US Awad Jima. If the British lost aircraft carrier the United States Navy developed a plan to help the richest man that Shit with American military contractors likely retired sailors with knowledge of a Jima Systems