Recovered history: Preparing the queen to declare war on Soviet Union

Guardian - It is the Queen's speech that nobody ever wants to hear. In 1983 senior civil servants drafted a message they envisaged the monarch might have to deliver to the nation on the eve of all-out nuclear war with Russia.

The message, rousing and bleak in equal measure, was prepared during a secret Whitehall exercise designed to test Britain's reaction to international developments that tilted the world to the brink of a third world war. In it, the Queen would describe the "madness of war" and "the deadly power of abused technology" and call on Britain to summon the spirit of two world wars in its battle to survive.

The extraordinary speech forms part of a chilling 320-page war games scenario ? codenamed Wintex-Cimex 83 ? which was drawn up by top intelligence, defence and Home Office staff. It is revealed in a cache of secret documents released on Thursday by the National Archives, which evokes the shadow of nuclear armageddon that hung over Britain 30 years ago.

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94% The Hunt

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The Hunt offers a powerful, provocative study of mob mentality and the fabric of trust.

Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen delivers an astonishingly restrained and expressive central performance in The Hunt, an engrossing psycho-social drama by Thomas Vinterberg.

An intense, hard to watch drama, of a man's life torn apart by his fellow citizens. The performance is skilled enough that it won the top acting award at last year's Cannesfestival.

Mikkelsen's performance is what makes a good movie even better.

[A] harrowing but flawed study of an innocent man accused of pedophilia.

It leaves us not only with an unforgettable final image, but also the troubling thought that witch hunts, like war, will always be with us - all the more so in the modern era of instant communication.

Actor Mads Mikkelsen excels in this tense drama.

The cornerstone to The Hunt is the mesmerizing performance by Mikkelsen, whose portrayal of a Danish everyman's shattered descent into a horrifying nightmare is one of the most powerful performances I've seen in recent memory.

Mikkelsen makes you empathize with Lucas every step of the way and helps make The Hunt a real moral nail-biter.

It's a powerful and thought-provoking movie.

Mikkelsen is one of Europe's most respected actors, yet he's best known in the United States for playing evil characters... So it's interesting -- and rewarding -- to see what Mikkelsen can do as an innocent, well-meaning leading man.

"The Hunt" is a fantastic showcase for Mikkelsen, who shows he can play a cannibalistic serial killer on TV and a persecuted kindergarten teacher in the movies, and be just as believable as both.

The Hunt will have you balling up a fist and shedding a few tears as the tale unfolds, providing an exquisitely unpleasant conflict that's simply riveting to study.

Fittingly for a film that deals with actions that can't be undone, The Hunt leaves you with a sickening feeling that's almost impossible to shake.

Although the scenario is exaggerated for dramatic effect and it stumbles somewhat in the final act, the unsettling film is a provocative and timely examination of persecution and the perils of public perception.

An uncommonly thoughtful, and thought-provoking, entry in the social-issue drama subgenre, anchored by Mikkelsen's gripping performance.

A subtle piece of moral drama crowned by a truly beautiful performance from Mikkelsen, The Hunt puts every one of us in the crosshairs.

Child molestation is indeed horrific. Sometimes, the response to same can be equally disconcerting. The Hunt argues that all too well.

Mads Mikkelsen displays remarkable range as a subdued kindergarten teacher confronting sex-abuse charges in a small Danish town.

Mikkelsen and a terrific ensemble navigate complex emotions and moral quandaries in a terrain where a satisfying resolution is as hard to come by as a child who never tells a lie.

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Cheryl Boone Isaacs + Kerry Washington = the Obama Effect hits Hollywood

By Sharon Waxman

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Something is in the air in Hollywood. Call it the Obama Effect.

Can it be coincidence that Cheryl Boone Isaacs, an African-American woman, has been voted president of an organization that is 94 percent white and 77 percent male?

Doesn't it feel unusual - or more accurately, of the moment - that Kerry Washington scored the first best actress Emmy nomination for an African-American in 18 years, catapulting her to the cover of magazines like Vanity Fair?

"It's major," acknowledged Boone Isaacs in an interview with TheWrap's Steve Pond on Wednesday. "I know that, and you know that. To be given this trust is quite a big deal. It's an honor, it's a privilege, and I hope it's inspirational for people the way others have been an inspiration for me.

Something seems to have budged in the uber-liberal conscience of the industry, and it's hard to believe that five years of an African-American family in the White House hasn't helped. Seeing a black First Lady and a dark-skinned POTUS seems to have spread a quiet, normalizing effect on Hollywood culture.

It was high time. A 2012 L.A. Times study found that nearly 94% of Academy voters are white and 77% are male. Blacks make up about 2% of the Academy and Latinos less than 2%.

This year, not only has Cheryl Boone Isaacs been elected president, but in the Actors branch, fully half of the 22 new members are minorities, including Lucy Liu, Jennifer Lopez, Sandra Oh, Michael Pena, Danny Trejo and Chris Tucker.

Coincidence? Certainly not.

Yesterday I was sitting in a meeting where celebrity names were being tossed about for hotness and relevance, and who was tossed out first? Washington, who plays the savvy, kind and drop-dead beautiful political fixer Olivia Pope on "Scandal," and Rashida Jones, the Harvard-educated, writer-producer-actress with the piercing blue eyes and mixed race parentage.

Washington talked to TheWrap's Jethro Nededog in recent days about her Emmy nomination, and is well aware of the connection her fictional character has to real-life figures in Washington and the shift in public perception.

"I'm really proud to live in world where a show that has a woman of color as its lead character can be a success," she said. "I'm proud to be in a show that really champions inclusivity, because our show values diversity not just in terms of race but in terms of ethnicity, in terms of sexual orientation, in terms of age in terms of gender."

The funny thing about Hollywood is despite being at its heart is a liberal place, its power structure has remained overwhelmingly white and male (and Jewish and/or gay - but who's looking?). Everyone professes to be color-blind and racism-free, yet when you walk around the entertainment industry you almost never see any other color but white. In fact you'd never know - except by watching television and movies - how diverse the country has become.

But it looks like that may be starting to change, along with people's consciousness about the imbalance.

No, this is not any coincidence. Kerry Washington, who had a central, gruelling role in Quentin Tarantino's slave epic, "Django Unchained," is certainly one of the boldest actors going. It makes sense to celebrate her work. It makes sense to place Boone Isaacs at the head of the Academy.

And if it isn't the New Normal yet, perhaps it will be sooner than we think.

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TransCanada to build pipeline to Atlantic Canada

TORONTO (AP) ? Pipeline company TransCanada said Thursday it will proceed with a $12 billion plan to pipe 1.1 million barrels of oil per day from Western Canada to the country?s Atlantic coast ? moving enough oil to replace all imports in Eastern Canada and still have enough left for exporting crude overseas.

The announcement of the Energy East pipeline comes as TransCanada faces stiff environmental opposition to its proposed Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to refineries in Texas. President Barack Obama?s initial rejection of Keystone XL went over badly in Canada, which relies on the U.S. for 97 percent of its energy exports.

The pipeline, the most expensive in TransCanada?s history, would run from Hardisty, Alberta, to Saint John, New Brunswick, ending where a new deep-water marine terminal will be built to handle the world?s largest crude-carrying vessels.

TransCanada CEO Russ Girling said Canadian producers want access to international markets but said the primary purpose of the Energy East pipeline will be to supply refineries in Eastern Canada which imports 750,000 barrels of foreign oil a day. The Canadian government said 83 percent of crude oil deliveries to Atlantic Canadian refineries and 92 percent of oil deliveries to refineries in Quebec in 2012 were imported, primarily from the Middle East, Nigeria and Angola.

Girling called it an historic opportunity to connect the oil resources of Canada?s west to eastern consumers and noted that Canadian oil could be shipped to the U.S. Eastern seaboard, Asia, including China and India, and Europe.

??It?s a bit farther to get to Asia from the East Coast than the West Coast but it can be competitive in certain circumstances,?? Girling said. ??This provides them with the option and opportunity to do that.??

Canada has stepped up efforts to diversify its energy exports, but a proposal by Enbridge to build a pipeline from Alberta to Canada?s Pacific Coast that would allow for exports to Asia faces stiff environmental and aboriginal opposition.

TransCanada?s Energy East pipeline has broad political support in Canada, however, and is far more likely to be approved than Enbridge?s proposed pipeline to Canada?s Pacific Coast, where the fear of oil spills is especially acute in British Columbia, with its snowcapped mountains and deep-ocean inlets.

All three pipelines require approval. The $7 billion Keystone XL pipeline has become a contentious issue in the United States. Project supporters, including unions and lawmakers from both parties, tout the jobs it would create and demand its approval, while environmentalists urge the president to reject it, saying it would carry dirty, carbon-intensive oil.

The State Department expects to issue a final report on Keystone XL later this year on whether the project should move forward. The department has authority over the pipeline because it crosses a U.S. border.

New pipelines are critical to Canada, which needs infrastructure in place to export its growing oil sands production from northern Alberta. The region has the world?s third largest oil reserves, with 170 billion barrels of proven reserves. Daily production of 1.5 million barrels from the oil sands is expected to increase to 3.7 million in 2025. Only Saudi Arabia and Venezuela have more reserves.

A lack of pipelines and a bottleneck of oil in the U.S. Midwest reduced the price of Canadian crude in recent years and led to a boom in transporting oil by train. A fiery train derailment that killed 47 in Quebec last month highlighted the danger of moving oil by rail.

Shares of TransCanada rose 1.4 percent, or 66 cents to $46.38, in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

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August 2013 story tips from Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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ENERGY Green battery . . .

By substituting lignin for highly engineered, expensive graphite to make battery electrodes, researchers have developed a process that requires fewer steps and offers better performance. Renewable Electrodes from Wood Products, or ReNEW-PRO, is a low-cost lithium-ion battery anode made inexpensively from lignin, a renewable resource and byproduct of the pulp and paper industry. ReNEW-PRO was developed in collaboration with GrafTech International Holdings. The ORNL team was led by Orlando Rios of the Materials Science and Technology Division. [Contact: Ron Walli, (865) 576-0226; wallira@ornl.gov]

PROSTHETICS Better fit, function . . .

The Mobile Gait Analysis System improves prosthesis fit and performance for soldiers who have lost a leg, helping them to maintain an active physical lifestyle. The team's device allows a prosthetic limb to be properly fitted to patients by measuring and analyzing the motions and forces exerted while they walk. The portable, inexpensive system helps clinicians teach patients how to use the prosthetic limb most effectively and avoid overuse injuries or chronic problems such as arthritis. The system was developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Otto Bock Healthcare Products and the Center for the Intrepid at Brooke Army Medical Center. [Contact: Morgan McCorkle, (865) 574-7308; mccorkleml@ornl.gov]

MATERIALS Best of both worlds . . .

With Vari-k-Graphmet, a combination of highly conductive graphite foam and ductile metal powders, Oak Ridge National Laboratory has created an entirely new family of metal matrix composites that broadens the use of graphite foam. Vari-k-Graphmet offers high-strength, low-mass titanium-graphite foam composites with thermal conductivities up to 20 times higher than pure titanium. Using this approach, scientists can marry materials with dissimilar properties for example high strength on one surface and high thermal conductivity on the other creating a product with the best qualities of each individually. These can be tailored to varied applications and can potentially be applied to electronics, automobile exhaust systems, brakes, LED lighting, refrigeration, power converters, heat sinks and heat exchangers. Vari-k-Graphmet was developed by Paul Menchofer and James Klett. [Contact: Ron Walli, (865) 576-0226; wallira@ornl.gov]

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Contact: Ron Walli
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ENERGY Green battery . . .

By substituting lignin for highly engineered, expensive graphite to make battery electrodes, researchers have developed a process that requires fewer steps and offers better performance. Renewable Electrodes from Wood Products, or ReNEW-PRO, is a low-cost lithium-ion battery anode made inexpensively from lignin, a renewable resource and byproduct of the pulp and paper industry. ReNEW-PRO was developed in collaboration with GrafTech International Holdings. The ORNL team was led by Orlando Rios of the Materials Science and Technology Division. [Contact: Ron Walli, (865) 576-0226; wallira@ornl.gov]

PROSTHETICS Better fit, function . . .

The Mobile Gait Analysis System improves prosthesis fit and performance for soldiers who have lost a leg, helping them to maintain an active physical lifestyle. The team's device allows a prosthetic limb to be properly fitted to patients by measuring and analyzing the motions and forces exerted while they walk. The portable, inexpensive system helps clinicians teach patients how to use the prosthetic limb most effectively and avoid overuse injuries or chronic problems such as arthritis. The system was developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Otto Bock Healthcare Products and the Center for the Intrepid at Brooke Army Medical Center. [Contact: Morgan McCorkle, (865) 574-7308; mccorkleml@ornl.gov]

MATERIALS Best of both worlds . . .

With Vari-k-Graphmet, a combination of highly conductive graphite foam and ductile metal powders, Oak Ridge National Laboratory has created an entirely new family of metal matrix composites that broadens the use of graphite foam. Vari-k-Graphmet offers high-strength, low-mass titanium-graphite foam composites with thermal conductivities up to 20 times higher than pure titanium. Using this approach, scientists can marry materials with dissimilar properties for example high strength on one surface and high thermal conductivity on the other creating a product with the best qualities of each individually. These can be tailored to varied applications and can potentially be applied to electronics, automobile exhaust systems, brakes, LED lighting, refrigeration, power converters, heat sinks and heat exchangers. Vari-k-Graphmet was developed by Paul Menchofer and James Klett. [Contact: Ron Walli, (865) 576-0226; wallira@ornl.gov]

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Coral reef 'unharmed' by oil slick

Coral reef in the sea off Ao Phrao on Koh Samet has not been harmed by the oil slick, according to the Eastern Marine Fisheries Research and Development Centre.

Centre director Bumrungsak Chatananwet said two scuba divers had been sent on Tuesday to inspect the coral reef lying about seven metres below the surface and about 100 metres from Ao Phrao beach on Samet island, after PTT Global Chemical Plc (PTTGC), Thailand's largest petrochemical producer, admitted that about 50,000 litres of crude oil leaked from an offshore pipeline feeding a refinery in the Map Ta Phut industrial estate, in Rayong, on Saturday.

A clean-up vessel fires a double stream of dispersant into a solid black sea just off Ao Prao beach on Wednesday. (Photo by Thiti Wannamontha)

Part of the slick polluted Ao Phrao bay, a popular tourist destination on the west of the island, and washed up on the sandy beach. The largest part of the slick is still in the area and threatens beaches on the mainland.

"The oil slick has not damaged the coral reef. As for marine animals, the divers found only sea urchins," Mr Bumrungsak said.

He said the centre will later examine whether the area remains habitable for marine life.

Anond Snidvongs na Ayutthaya, director of the Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (Gistda), said the thin crude oil film started to spread to other areas on Tuesday morning.

Most of the oil spill is located between Ao Noina and the north of Samet island.

"The crude oil film on the water surface might not be seen with our naked eyes but satellite photos can show it," Mr Anond said. "It might not have significant impact in the short run but in the long run it can harm the ecosystem and affect the food chain."

He said the film could spread to other provinces in the future if it is not contained.

A recent satellite photo showed a large amount of the oil slick had been removed. Clean-up agencies needed to contain the oil rather than using chemicals to dissolve it, Mr Anond said.

A satellite photo of the oil slick in the sea off the eastern province of Rayong as of 6.09am Wednesday. (Gistda photo)

Chairat Trirattanajarasporn, chairman of the Rayong Tourist Association, said there are other beaches on Samet island that have not been affected by the oil slick.

He said the tourism sector in the eastern coastal province has been heaviliy hit as a result of the cancellations of hotel and resort bookings by Thai and foreign tourists and tour groups.?

"Ao Phrao is just one of the beaches on Samet island. Don't take it for granted that the entire island has been affected by the oil slick," Mr Chairat said.

He said that if relevant agencies fail to clean up the oil slick quickly enough it will hurt the whole tourism industry throughout the year.

Verapong Chaiperm, governor of the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand (IEAT), expressed confidence the oil spill will not affect investor confidence, as people would realise it was an accident.

"The only thing people are concerned about is the time it takes to solve the problem, which is demonstrated by the dedication of all participating in the clean-up, so it should not take a long time," said Mr Verapong.

He said the IEAT has helped since day one?by sending boats and equipment to the area.

Energy Minister Pongsak Raktapongpaisarn said some of the oil leakage from the containment booms may have been be caused by heavy rain and storms. The?refiner responsible, PTTGC, had already set up a panel to investigate the situation.

Mr Pongsak said the company will compensate businesses that have suffered as a result of the spill, through the Rayong Administration Office.

The minister said he told PTTGC executives they must take full responsibility for the oil spill and the pollution and damage it?causes.

He said a third party will examine and investigate damage to the environment, probably experts from universities and the Petroleum Institute of Thailand.

PTTGC chief executive officer Anon Siriseangtaksin said after the cleanup is complete, restoration of the area and payment for the damage will begin?immediately before any claims are made on insurance. If the compensation amounts to more than the insured level of US$50 million (1.6 billion baht), PTTGC would not refuse to pay.

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