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|Posted: February 26 2010 at 07:28
"Progressive" can be a catch-all to mean "different", but makes it sound more impressive, as if the musicians had lofty goals of creating a new and higher form of music.
I would think (after a single hearing, to be fair) that Magazine sit at the bottom of the "sliding scale of progressive".
It sounded to me as if creating a higher form of music was the opposite of their intentions - an "attitude" which has more in common with the original goals of Punk Rock ("Punk" meaning "useless", as the punks were first to announce).
The end result, noise as music, may have much in common with certain goals of progressive music - but not many. It was, after all, the antithesis of Prog (supposedly)!
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|Posted: February 28 2010 at 01:21
Maybe it would be easier to make a list of music that does not encorporate progressiveness?
Seriously though, I'm sure we've all raged at our friend's music, saying, 'It all sounds the same!'
Maybe it would be easier to draw the line from the other side?
Possibly Muse and likewise moody pop bands could be seen as a recurrence of Proto-Prog, that is to say progressive music gathering speed in culture. I think we will see the same kind of receptiveness for more artistic musicality that was foremost in the 70's, as I still feel that every new wave of music eventually gets bored accepting other people's standards and starts finding it's own musical feet. Who knows, maybe 2011 will hold a double concept album by Kanye?
Lemming - Isn't it good that progression of the noughties will not resemble progression of the seventies?
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|Posted: February 28 2010 at 06:07
On "Piper at the Gates of Dawn"?
Don't forget I was breaking down a single album - and roughly, because a full analysis would take ages.
Probably, but that's not what's happening here - I'm analysing the music for "Progressiveness" - and it's a given that "Progressiveness" is hard to define, so in this thread, I've put forward a model which seems to work quite well.
This is not about some arbitrary opinion - that would be a fruitless argument.
It's more about finding something concrete that we can agree on.
If you read this thread through fully, you'll note that I explored that approach, and I do not believe it can be done - I don't think there is actually a "starting point" for progressive music - It rather seems that there is an ultimate goal instead, represented by the model.
Whether it's universally shared is another part of this discussion entirely
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|Posted: March 05 2010 at 11:08
Is there such a thing? I don't think so.
Prog is more used to set different trends of progressive musics (prog-metal, prog-hardcore, symphonic prog, prog-esterone, etc.)
Progressive is the term used by the early fans of this music, but basicallly, prog and progressive mean the same stream, with its different branches.
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|Posted: March 05 2010 at 22:57
Possibly Muse and likewise moody pop bands could be seen as a recurrence of Proto-Prog, that is to say progressive music gathering speed in culture. I think we will see the same kind of receptiveness for more artistic musicality that was foremost in the 70's, as I still feel that every new wave of music eventually gets bored accepting other people's standards and starts finding it's own musical feet. Who knows, maybe 2011 will hold a double concept album by Kanye?
Lemming - Isn't it good that progression of the noughties will not resemble progression of the seventies?
Yes, it would be hard to be at the cutting edge while looking over your shoulder. I meant this as a good thing.
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|Posted: March 10 2010 at 11:23
I didn't read the thread, so I gdon't whether what I xil say had already been said
PROG seems nowadays be reserved for néo-retro-symphonic and encompasses a wide part of progmetal. But it's been years since Prog (THAT lind of "prog") has been progressive.
There might be exceptions to the rule
BTW: is "progressive" == to innovation or experimental??
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|Posted: March 10 2010 at 12:55
My personal view of music is something like this, using a "box" as a way of explaining:
Popular/conventional music (not the same thing as pop) = music inside the box and follows presets, going in a "straight line"
Progressive music = music going it's own way, can be in/outside the box but coming from inside the box
Experimental music = music going it's own way, can be in/outside the box but coming from a more rational perspective with no "presets", from outside the box
This may be completely out of subject and weird to some but this is just my personal view
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|Posted: March 10 2010 at 15:56
Well I'm not sure how easy to understand the model is that I posted much earlier in this Blog, but it kinda covers all bases - and probably provokes confusion into the bargain...
The thing with the term "Progressive Music" is that it could actually describe any music, if you wanted it to - hence I took the viewpoint of a kind of sliding scale with an ultimate goal, but no discernable start point.
This merely re-interprets the model - but if both are used, then sensible deductions can be made - but really it's hard to escape hardcore musical theory, which I am trying to do, and easier to cite examples.
Without having been there (and remember, "there" was different depending on WHO and WHERE you were!), it's impossible to state with certainty what the goals of the original progressive rockers were - so it's only by applying theory that we see any concrete similarities between Pink Floyd, Genesis, Gentle Giant and Frank Zappa - although, as was stated earlier, we can hear similarities in early Floyd and Zappa...
So let's *guess* from data that's a bit more vague, but no less verifiable;
The main goal of the progressive musicians appeared to be to create new music (whether rock or not).
Progressive "Rock" is a nice term, because it effectively binds the music to the Rock idiom - and if you apply the above goal, you understand that the Rock should be new sounding - ie, not sound like Rock has traditionally sounded.
The Mellotron was, of course, a key player - you could add various textures and hey presto! A standard rock song suddenly has that Proggy vibe.
Then there was the huge jazz aspect - play rock as if it was jazz music, and you get kudos for playing "hard" jazz music, whilst appealing to rock fans at the same time as creating something new sounding. The unsung Scottish band Clouds did a lot of this - check out "Up Above Their Heads".
Why stop at jazz? The Nice most certainly didn't (and neither did Clouds, but The Nice were better at it). Merge Classical into the mix, and this must be the ultimate - the big 3 genres of music all mixed up together.
Mixing it all up - now there's a key element, surely?
Why stop at mixing different musical styles or genres together? Why not mix up the music until you can hardly tell you're listening to music any more?
...and you wonder why I don't consider standard songs to have very much to do with Prog?
Of course, that was then and this is now - but surely the whole mixing it up thing is core to progressive music?
...and I don't mean at a "timid" level, like Muse adding a trumpet to a song and making it sound somewhat Western - I mean at a cutting-edge level. Hell, the cutters don't have to be particularly sharp.
So where is that starting point again?
/makes note not to post after partaking of the amber nectar - this probably won't make sense tomorrow...
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|Posted: March 10 2010 at 17:13
I'm (still) unconvinced by this, though I will begrudgingly accept that some (not all) bands incorporated jazz into their music (or rocked-up the jazz they were playing), I don't for classical.
Bands of the late 60s took two things from classical - some nicked melodies wholesale, and some wanted that "orchestral" sound - few (if any) actually tried to create classical/rock fusions, or used classical structures, formats, techniques and applied them to rock music. While we can look back and see patterns in some of the more epic pieces and say "there - classical structure" I think we are seeing animal shapes in the clouds or the Madonna image burnt into a slice of toast.
The use of "classical" music sound is a product of the studio system of the 60s and 70s, that is a throw-back to the 30s, 40s and 50s where all "pop" vocalists were recorded with an orchestral backing, so all major studios had a studio orchestra, or access to one. While in the 50s and 60s skiffle groups and Beat combos became popular, the studio orchestra was still used to fill-out the sparse sound of badly played electrified instruments. The Hammond organ, the Synthesiser and the Melotron where all developed as cheap replacements for these studio orchestras - there were not intended as lead instruments, but as musical putty to fill-in the gaps (in the 70s Godley and Creme developed the Gizmo for exactly that reason). Baroque pop, Days Of Future Passed, Whiter Shade Of Pale and Sgt Pepper took that a little further and brought the orchestral element to the fore a little more, but they were still essentially orchestrated pop, not classical influenced. The early Progressive Rock was no different really - while The Nice Put a rock edge to classical pieces, and extrapolated that into noise-jams, and Deep Purple created a classical sounding concerto with Rock interludes, the rest just created an orchestral sound to rock music - Renaissance probably came closest but then it was more chamber music than symphonic. If Prog Rock is so closely tied to classical in its roots then I'd expect to see more crossovers from one genre to the other (and aside from Karl Jenkins...) it just hasn't happened.
Edited by Dean - March 10 2010 at 17:20
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|Posted: March 11 2010 at 06:13
A few early attempts at classical/rock fusion did succeed I think, such as Procol Harum (Repent Walpurgis), Spirit (Veruska), Vanilla Fudge (The Sky Cried when...). Many other early examples of a classical/rock mix exist but they are not shaken/mixed as well as these three.
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|Posted: March 11 2010 at 06:37
Maybe "merge" was a bit strong, as Dean is right - this did not happen to the same extent as Jazz.
The bands who did try were few and far between - there's The Nice (in whose context I brought the subject up), Ekseption, Sky, The Enid and Andrew Lloyd Webber...
I'll have to revisit that - as I noted at the end of the post, I really should avoid posting after a snifter or two...
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|Posted: March 11 2010 at 07:05
^ there is also the question (Sword of Damocles stylee) on just how "prog" any of those bands mentioned (Procol, Nice, Spirit, Fudge, Ekseption, Sky, ALW etc), really are/were.
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|Posted: March 11 2010 at 09:12
Indeed - and this could be a good area to explore further.
IMO, the order of those you listed as examples would be (least "prog" first) - but this list is only as a guess, because I am not familiar with the entire catalogue of any of these bands, only with the most representative material;
Vanilla Fudge
Procol Harum
Andrew Lloyd Webber (I'm thinking specifically of "Variations" here, of course - none of the rest of his output comes close. This is also a cheating way of getting Colosseum II above Spirit, as really, I think they're about equal).
The Nice (by an extremely long way).
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|Posted: March 11 2010 at 09:33
Very good post Hugues. That is the exact same reason why I don't use the word "prog" when discussing related topics, as for most people "prog" has come to represent only a part of the whole of progressive rock, namely that which is based on instrumental interplay, rich sound (synths and organs), and has the "classic" sound. No wonder we have threads like "Is Pink Floyd/Zappa/Krautrock/post-rock/avant-rock/electronic/modern-prog/etc prog?". By the standards of "prog purists", all those aren't prog - and I'm willing to live with it and accept they aren't "prog", but are "progressive rock".
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|Posted: March 11 2010 at 12:38
The approach you are applying to reach this conclusion is way - WAY - too simplistic.
I'm not surprised you're reaching all the wrong conclusions; you are averaging out all the innovative songs in these acts' output and this explains your generic presentation. It was from the beginning - unfortunately still remains - a major drawback of your analysis.
By using this "first order approximation" you neglect all the innovators of the proto-prog movement, who - by implication - gave us a little progressive music here and there.
Instead of continuing this generic approach I suggest you are more specific and present evidence/data in support of your claims. Please provide the documentaion by means of individual songs as this would prove that your list can be turned upside down. I won't bother listing the songs to verify my statement as this thread obviously is the wrong place to do this.
At least you openly admit your ignorance by saying you're only vaguely familiar with the output of these bands. I would have preferred this statement in your opening post.
Edited by earlyprog - March 11 2010 at 12:39
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Dear sir,
I'm the keyboardplayer from Lethe (former romantic progressive band of the early nineties in italy) and during a lot of interviews I was almost obliged to give an explanation regarding my idea of "Progressive Music"...but of course it's a question of labels...with the term "prog (in the sense of progressive attitude)/prog related, usually you mean a different music genre like AOR or Pompous music melodic rock (listen to SUPERTRAMP, Kansas or Asia, or even Toto and Queen), whose music is more accessible, but it can contains some virtuosic elements or other features that you can find usually within the pure progressive music (even though here in a more extended manner)... instead the "pure progressive", sometimes under the language of symphonic rock or symphonic jazz, is actually a mix of several styles, where you can find elements of polyphonic and medieval music or even the music of F. Zappa (listen to After Crying for instance), and the common elements are represented by the extended or long interplays between the instruments, as well as the strong presence of the virtuosic elements and long solos too. Besides here you can find the development of a complex music plot, like the chapters of a novel linked together under a "light-motiv", then growing along with the inspiration of the musician (according to a "work in progress"), which let him gain his own "magic" experience of "plot developer"... but naturally it's more difficult to be understood by the common listener (above all if it's an avant-gard music like that one by Henry Cow for example), in comparison to a more accessible music genre such as the prog related music...nevertheless the progressive rock by early Genesis, Yes and ELP can be easier sometimes and enriched by means of melodic ballads as well...ok I prefer to give you my idea, by indicating all the sub-genres under the label "PROG" in the following lines:
Starting with the explanation concerning the difference among THE ROMANTIC CLASSIC PROG MAIN GENRE (Yes, early Genesis,ELP, Renaissance and Camel), the seminal PROTO-PROG/ART ROCK SUB-GENRE, by Titus Groan,High Tide,Quatermass,King Crimson,Jade Warrior,etc.)going to the modern version of ART ROCK nowadays (Don Caballero,Djam Karet or modern King Crimson- as from Larks Tongue in aspic 2nd era till the 3rd era of Discipline, Beat and 3 of perfect pair-), and the most ambitious and difficult sub-genre called NEO CLASSICAL/EXP.SYMPHONIC SUB-GENRE(After Crying,Univers Zero,Solaris,etc.), I remark all that following:
<PROTO-PROG>: it's the seminal prog style, very close to the art rock style, but under the major influence of psichedelic elements (listen for example to Second Hand's "Death may be your Santa Claus"), this genre representing the oldest attempt to bring elements of different styles,which aren't necessarily linked to rock blues and classic rock/hard rock (listen for example to the experimental band -a bit "Led Zeppelin" oriented- High Tide, which adds the violin and some hard pshichedelic colors too) ",trying anyway to perform a new kind of harmonic solutions, sometimes connected to the experimental jazz field (listen for example to Affinity or Audience, while Nice and Quatermass are very poor from this point of view, remaining linked to the classic rock;even though Quatermass stands in this place hardly, because they are much closer to the hard rock style of Deep Purple, by adding only some organ riffs and solos);instead the majority of the classic mellow pop bands of the 70's,these ones sometimes being "light classical music oriented", is often characterized by their reprise of "airs" from J.S.Bach or simple themes from classical music (e.g. Procol Harum,Moody Blues+the already mentioned Nice, and -in some circumstances only- Kayak and Ekseption as well, but avoiding the jazz style !!)
<ART ROCK>: It's the first attempt(late Sixties/Early 70'S)to bring the rock style of the sixties into 70s music and a new field of exploration as well, trying to create a mix with other styles (Jazz, Electronic, Classic music and the dissonant hard rock as well),often in a very raw manner, in other moments in the pop mellow way of Procul Harum,Moody Blues,Barclay James Harvest,maintaining anyway the typical proto-prog structure of the sixties, where the simple form of rockblues is not erased yet:early King Crimson fits into it!
<ROMANTIC PROG MAIN GENRE>:its the first of the "genealogic" list and more accessible as well; it can be sometimes very complex(YES, early GENESIS,ELP, Renaissance in the symphonic vein, with light or complex symphonic elements, also in the traditional folk structure and often in a "theatre-musical" vein , like in the style of ANGE and The Enid):It's the first complete settlement of Prog rock,it can be complex but also captivating and suitable for common people (often the classical suite-structure is dominant-like the Yes symphonies or that one of Renaissances Scheherazade;besides in some albums by Camel,who covered also the light canterburian style in "MoonMadness",you can not see many classical structures,apart from The snow Goose and Harbour of tears,but rather great guitar excursus in a lot of different styles, in the vein of the old Genesis;instead in the case of the band Renaissance,there are also some contaminations between the traditional english folk and the classic music as well, not in the manner- that experimental one - of Gryphon)- Sagrado coracao da terra is inthe middle between the Camel style and the classic prog of YES/ELP (listen to the fugue of the second symphonic side of Fletcha)
At last,in this field, there are a couple of diverse sub-genres,those are:
<The Gentle Giant style and thatone by Frank Zappa>
The first one is characterized by the continued contamination between complex vocal renaissance poliphony, medioeval style and experimental Jazz,in a incredible cocktail, which sometimes can be closer to Art rock, in other moments is near chamber music, but avoiding the experimental Canterbury fusion prog of neoclassical/symphonic style(Myrthrandir, Yezda Urfa plus Echolyn of Suffocating the bloom and As the world are fine examples, sometimes in a more modern fusion vein, instead Hamadryad are closer to modern prog-metal,but without forgetting the elements of renaissance poliphony).
The second one is characterized by a cocktail of rock, blues, experimental jazz/fusion and theatrical "musicals" as well (see ensembles like that one of Isildur's Bane or sometimes that one already mentioned of After Crying.)
<NEO-CLASSICAL/EXP.SYMPHONIC>: This sub-genre is a step beyond, being more complex and characterized by the contamination of Classic prog, either with chamber music(sometimes with excerpts of medioeval music and renaissance polyphony as well) or classic/jazz fusion style (even with acoustic instrumentation only),without any precise direction or any particular preclusion. It can be sometimes very dark and experimental, in the experimental/symphonic Canterbury vein (Magma and Dun for the experimental side,Minimum Vital and J. Pascal Boffo for the fusion symphonic one, are fine examples,but without forgetting also great bands such as After Crying and Isildurs Bane)"picking" all the tones and colors of musical harmony: for this reason this sub-genre is the most ambitious style
<OTHER STYLES AND THE MODERN ONES>:FUSION PROG, EXPERIMENTAL FOLK PROG, LIGHT FOLK PROG,LIGHT CANTERBURY, CLASSIC EXPERIMENTAL CANTERBURY, DARK PROG, NEW PROGRESSIVE WAVE, PROGRESSIVE POP/POMP, PROGRESSIVE STEEL, AMBIENT, NEW AGE,etc.
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|Posted: March 29 2010 at 02:48
Ready for part II now.
Give us the goods on what makes a piece progressive!!
I'd like to put for'ard a cupla pieces which epitomise the progressive nature for me:
There's the mostly uncomposed type which DOES include jamming, but jamming that is exceedingly sensitive: namely Anonymus II by Focus, which can stretch to 40 minutes or more, which has set changes and stages but can include unplanned changes of meter, chord structure and theme (before returning to the agreed parts) in other words it's a piece of music which is alive rather than a monotonously revolving turnaround. This takes extreme musicianship because not many musos are sensitive enough to hear an unplanned change in direction coming "in the air" and follow it. It takes almost some supernatural thing for a whole band to have this kind of communication going, its almost "esp"!
That kind of changeableness is certainly progressive... It's about exploring and experimenting, which is certainly a hallmark of progress.
Then there's the kind which is definitely mostly composed but always takes you on a journey in the heart and mind... to some other world or place. At the risk of being called a boob for bringing up a non prog band for my example: Telegraph Road by Dire Straits. That certainly unfolds and progresses like a journey. Certainly a ride of hope and despair.
I may be wrong, but I reckon a Rock Opera or a Concept album could hardly be far from qualifying as progressive since they generally explore pithy ideas. The hallmark of a progger is to be a thinker... a deep questioner... might that then mean Chris Rea's "Road to Hell" might qualify?
I'm certain Iona's "Beyond these Shores" is prog.
Like Oldfield's Tubular Bells I think some sort of story is always being told even if it's too abstract to pick out... being a story told in musical ideas in moods if not in words.
So in that respect I wonder if storytelling is an important factor in defining prog.
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|Posted: March 29 2010 at 03:03
Which conclusions are wrong - all of them?
Wow - can you be specific rather than throwing this blunt implement at me?
If you're referring only to that specific post, then I admit, I did generalise hugely, but in my defence, the rest of this blog is much more specific.
I fail to see how it makes a difference to this discussion, and particularly to my analysis, let alone constituting a "major drawback".
This is a specific topic - there is simply no way we can look at each and every band's ouput, so it must be "averaged out".
However, if certain pieces contributed hugely, then we could examine them in terms of how far they reach the "goals" of progressive music, both contemporary and in a wider sense.
Actually you would need to specify the exact songs - or how could documentation be provided?
I rather feel from your challenge, that you should be not only providing the songs, but the analysis that "proves me wrong" (not sure how you can possibly prove me" wrong" when this entire blog is an exploration rather than a series of specific claims).
By "not bothering" to provide any evidence (this thread is obviously exactly the right place for this) I can only assume that you don't really know of any, and that you're placing the entire burden on me to resolve your challenge - which is less "specific" than nit-picky, IMHO.
Those bands were entirely irrelevant to my opening post.
I must also point out that my "vaguely familiar" may be different to someone else's... it means that I have not sat down and transcribed the music in my mind, figuring out the technical goodies and weeding out the wheat from the chaff - the scientific analysis, not the romantic poetic ideals presented by the music.
I freely admit my ignorance levels - why not - it's how I learn. What's the point of pretending you know everything? Especially when you don't
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|Posted: March 29 2010 at 03:24
I think you're getting into the "elements" side of things a bit too much, and drawing conclusions from a limited evidence base - ie you hear a certain trait in a couple of "Prog" albums, then fit those to "non-Prog" and hear "Prog" - a natural tendency.
Of course, it's just possible I'm doing that too, even though I am consciously trying to avoid it - which is why being overly-specific can lead to false conclusions.
I certainly don't think you're a "boob" for mentioning "Telegraph Road" - and you could have mentioned "Private Investigations" too - many "non-Prog" bands have written progressive pieces, and herein lies the core of the whole Prog vs Progressive issue - and the main part I have been chewing over is where does "Progressive" actually begin, and at what point does it enter into the hallowed realms of "Prog".
Obviously, there are no "lines", so I decided upon a sliding scale approach combined with a model which represents an ideal. Obviously, the model has limitations - it doesn't mention Rodney Matthews, the Mellotron or triple album sets, for example, but there's plenty we can extrapolate.
This "band ESP" thing you mention is interesting - but I think that any decent band has it to some extent. I recently jammed with a band I'd never played with before, and within the first half hour I discovered just this kind of synergy between myself and the drummer (I was playing bass).
That said, it is a core part of what I look for in the "Prog" I enjoy most - where the music takes on this kind of mind-reading quality (I've heard it a lot in really good jazz bands) so you are no longer conscious of listening to "Rock" music per se, that is, the notion of a "song" goes out the window - and you simply go with the flow.
Without being familiar with all of Focus' music, I would say that they were a great example, from the limited number of their pieces I know, and I'd say that "Anonymous II" is a good call.
Story-telling is not confined to Prog, however - much folk and C&W draws heavily on a story-telling tradition, for example.
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Jeff possesses considerable experience at dealing with professional negligence claims against Solicitors and other professionals and is a member of the Professional Negligence Lawyers Association ("PNLA"). In recent years, he has dealt with a number of professional negligence claims that include:
- Missed court deadlines that have caused loss to an injured claimant;
- Failure to commence court proceedings within the appropriate limitation period;
- The High Court case of Snowdon v Thurstan Hoskins & Partners and others 2002, where Jeff successfully argued that a medical condition that was only discovered many years after a notional trial could be taking into account in assessing damages for a breach of a duty of care on the part of a Solicitor;
- Under-settling a personal injury claim, where the solicitors failed to include a substantial pension loss;
- In a recent action, against a leading trade union, a successful claim was made when the union's representative failed to bring an employment claim with the strict time limits imposed by the Employment tribunal;
- Numerous Claims against doctors who have failed to exercise the requisite care and skill
Employment Litigation and Pensions Litigation
- Jeff has dealt with a wide range of contentious and non-contentious employment claims, ranging from simple unfair dismissal claims to complex discrimination actions. He also advises both employees and employers on settlement agreements.
- He has also been retained nationally by various Police Federation Joint branch boards to deal with a series of group actions involving pension/tax liabilities. This has recently culminated in a landmark decision of the Mr Justice Morgan in the case of Corsham & Others v Essex Police [2019], where the court dealt with an appeal against the Pension's Ombudsman arising out of negligent misstatements regarding the pension entitlement of former police officers who were subsequently employed as civilian workers.
- Jeff's professional approach is personable and conscientious to ensure clients are not forgotten in big systems or teams. Jeff operates an approach that if he takes a claim on, he will deal with it himself with the support of his experienced team and fight for the client's best interests.
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|Sword of Omens, give me sight beyond sight!
|~ Lion-O
Lion-O is the son of Claudus, and is the leader and hereditary "Lord of the ThunderCats". His adventures are shown from childhood to adulthood on Third Earth and New Thundera, together with his friends and followers, the ThunderCats.
At the beginning of the series, Lion-O is a boy of mere twelve years old. He was among the group of Thunderian nobles to make the trip to Third Earth in the flagship of the Thundercats when their planet Thundera was destroyed. During this journey, he aged physically until he became an adult of age twenty-four; this was due to the suspension capsule diminishing but not altogether preventing aging ("Exodus"). Coincidentally, such a malfunction did not occur with Wilykat and Wilykit, who were around the same age as himself, though as Lion-O recalls in the series' first episode, his mentor Jaga had mentioned that some aging does take place while in the Suspension Capsules in which he and the other ThunderCats were placed when their flagship was damaged.
The now grown-up Lion-O assumed that this was the reason for his aging to adulthood, though he did not express any confusion regarding why WilyKat and WilyKit had not also aged as he had, which seems to indicate that he simply accepted it as a quirk of the capsules. Although cunning and skillful, he is truly a child in a man's body, and throughout the series, must learn what it takes to become a true leader and gain true maturity.
Powers and Stats
Tier: High 8-C physically, possibly higher. 5-B with Sword of Omens
Name: Lion-O
Origin: Thundercats
Gender: Male
Age: 23 physically, 13 mentally
Classification: Lord of the Thundercats, Sword of Omens Wielder
Powers and Abilities Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant, Can amplify his sense of sight to vastly superhuman levels, Has command over all cats
Powers and Abilities Clairvoyance (He is able to see extremely far distances in the past, present, future, through dimensions and through magical illusions), Telekinesis (Can retrieve his sword just by calling it, even from inside a black hole), Autonomous Fighting, Is automatically alerted of danger, Energy Projection (He can shoot blasts of energy), Statistics Amplification (Can drastically increase his stats), Attack Reflection (He can reflect energy blasts), Forcefield Creation (He can create force-fields), Elemental Control, Fire Manipulation (He can shoot fire), Flight, Energy Manipulation (He can create energy constructs), Power Nullification (Negates invisibility), Transmutation, Statistics Reduction (He can depower opponents), Teleportation, Status Effect Inducement (He can shoot paralysis beams), Technology Manipulation (He can control machines), Create artificial eclipses with Thundercats Symbol, Healing (He can heal wounds and poison), Life Manipulation (Can inanimate living creatures), Summoning (He can summon others), Repair large constructs, Resistance to Mind Manipulation and Illusion Creation
Attack Potency: Large Building level physically (Slashed through 20 feet boulders with relative ease), possibly higher. Planet level with Sword of Omens power (Its power held a broken planet together as well as easily able to blast through it with the Eye of Thundera)
Speed: Subsonic (Faster than Cheetara who can run at 120MPH casually) with Massively Hypersonic reactions & combat speed (Reacted to lasers and lightning)
Lifting Strength: Class 100+, likely higher (Overpowered Panthro who could lift a tank with ease. Pulled a Large ship down mid-air)
Striking Strength: Large Building Class
Durability: Unknown (Survived inside the planet's core, survived the vacuum of space)
Stamina: Extremely High
Range: Standard Melee Range, Several hundred meters with projectiles, Cross-Dimensional with Sight Beyond Sight
Standard Equipment: Sword of Omens, The Eye of Thundera, Claw Shield
Intelligence: Highly intelligent battle strategist however low otherwise
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Sword of Omens: The Sword of Omens is the legendary sword of the ThunderCats wielded by the ThunderCats Lord. Its blade can extend or retract, being in the form of a dagger when resting, and a full-length broadsword form when at full strength and power. The blade itself is near indestructible, shown to be extremely strong, durable, and laser-sharp. It is able to slice through hardened materials such as steel and solid stone with relative ease. The blade is also highly reflective and has reflected Mumm-Ra's own reflection back upon him on numerous occasions.
It can shoot blasts of energy with varying abilities and degrees of strength, capable of stunning, electrocuting, melting through materials such as titanium and solid rock, blasting through and apart targets/structures with explosive force, and vaporizing various targets. It has also released enough power to overload the energy absorption defense mechanism of the Plundarian War-Bot and repel and overpower the full firepower of Ratar-O's starship, the Ratstar. Its power stems from the Eye of Thundera, which is embedded in its hilt.
The Eye of Thundera is a ruby-red stone containing an all-seeing, galactic/universal energy force that is sentient in nature. It takes the form of a closed cat's eye pupil when dormant, and opens to become a black cat's head when fully awake. The Eye of Thundera is the source of the ThunderCats' power, and possesses a level of sentience/consciousness that has lead to it being described as "alive". As the Eye of Thundera and the Sword of Omens exist as one in a symbiotic relationship, this has lead to the Sword being described as being "alive" also. When in danger, the wielder can summon the other ThunderCats by shooting the symbol of the Eye of Thundera into the sky, by shouting the battle cry, "Thunder, Thunder, Thunder...ThunderCats - HO!". Upon saying this incantation, the Sword also transforms; the cross-bars of the hilt curl upwards, the blade grows from dagger form to fully-sized sword form, and the Eye opens from its dormant state to awakened and full powered state, releasing the Eye of Thundera symbol into the sky.
Since the Eye is the ThunderCats' source of power, releasing the Eye of Thundera's signal will give the ThunderCats a great surge of power upon eye contact with the signal. The Eye of Thundera's signal, which is an extension of the Eye of Thundera itself, has many other abilities apart from summoning ThunderCats, such as being able to blast through the full thickness of the planet from its core to the surface in a matter of seconds. Aside from its most powerful attack - the signal - the Eye can also produce extremely powerful ruby red energy blasts, powerful enough to repel and overcome the full firepower of Rataro's starship, the Ratstar, thus destroying it. It has also been shown to be able to heal as well, and possesses regenerative capabilities; spells cast by Mumm-Ra or others are broken, and if the ThunderCats have been put under any form of trance, mind control, or spells, summoning them with the Sword will break the magic holding them.
The Eye contains such immense power that, in many episodes, releasing the Eye of Thundera signal against the enemy or opposing force often results in them being swiftly defeated/destroyed. The sword possesses many other abilities, such as generating force fields, manipulating temperature to create intense heat or flames, freezing targets in ice, and manipulating the energy it emits to be utilized by the wielder, such as creating bridges of energy and even pole vaults.
The sword can levitate and fly, and grants the wielder the ability to fly by holding onto the sword as it travels through the air. The sword has also been seen to transport Lion-O from one place to another, as referenced in the episode Return to Thundera, Part 5. The sword generally grants its wielder any command they give, such as when Lion-O tries to overload the energy absorption defense mechanism of the Plundarian Warbot by commanding the sword with, "Sword of Omens, give me power beyond power...HO!" as seen in the episode Return to Thundera.Perhaps the most phenomenal feat of power the Sword has demonstrated was in the episode 'Return to Thundera - part 5', whereby the Sword, after being thrown into the eruption of energies escaping from the planets core as a result of the planet tearing apart, managed to hold together those energies, control them, and use its own power to restrain them and revert them back to their normal state, thus holding the entire planet together and saving New Thundera. The sword can be recalled by its wielder, and will return to their hand no matter how far away it is or what is in its way. It can warn its wielder of danger by emitting a loud growl from the Eye of Thundera.
The Sword of Omens also allows its wielder to see across great distances, find hidden things, and spot impending danger or allies that are in trouble with its iconic ability "Sight Beyond Sight", by saying the command, "Sword of Omens, give me Sight Beyond Sight!" The sword has passed down through Thunderian rule from generation to generation, only ever being wielded by the Lord of The ThunderCats. Its current wielder is the current Lord, Lion-O. The Sword of Omens is widely regarded and acknowledged as one of, if not the, most powerful weapon in existence. The only weapon to ever truly match it in strength and power is Excalibur, managing to pierce its source of power, the Eye of Thundera, thus defeating it and rendering it useless until Merlin re-energized it with his ancient and powerful magic, fixing it and returning it to its original state. Mumm-Ra's weapon, the Sword of Plun-Darr was able to crack the Eye of Thundera on one occasion, but it was easily repaired by Jaga's magic and in turn, the Sword of Omens has defeated and overpowered the Sword of Plun-Darr on numerous occasions.
Hachiman's sword, the Thunder-Cutter, was once described as being as powerful as the Sword of Omens itself, yet since the two have never properly faced off against one another, it is difficult to formulate an informed conclusion. However, in the episode "Excalibur", when Mumm-Ra is desperate to find a power strong enough to destroy the sword, the only weapon that the Ancient Spirits of Evil deem powerful enough to truly challenge the Sword of Omens is that of Excalibur. The sword's power is so great that Mumm-Ra himself is obsessed with possessing it so that he may control the power of the Eye of Thundera and become more powerful than the Ancient Spirits of Evil could ever make him, to rule Third Earth unchallenged. However, one of the most iconic characteristics of the sword is that it does not respond to an evil command, as well as preventing anyone trying to use it for an evil deed from doing so. The Sword only comes to life to combat evil and, as such, is useless to Mumm-Ra or anyone else that tries to use its power for anything but good. Mumm-Ra is therefore jumping from trying to possess it and manipulate it to his will and trying to destroy it throughout the series.
When the Eye is covered with something strong enough, like black tar, the Sword can be completely disabled, as referenced in the episode The Unholy Alliance. However, in the episode Sword in a Hole, this is not a problem, as the Eye of Thundera simply disintegrates its bindings upon being summoned by Lion-O. If used to attack a fellow ThunderCat, it initiates the Curse of Balthas, breaking the sword and causing it to lose its power; the only way it can regain its power is to be reforged in star fire. However there does not seem to be any difficulty in reforging the sword if broken by other means. In fact, reforging the Sword has been shown to make it more powerful than ever before, as seen in the episode Return to Thundera, Part 2.
Whilst usually the Sword is only ever wielded by the Lord of the Thundercats, it has been used by other characters of 'pure spirit' on occasion; Willa of the warrior maidens once used 'Sight Beyond Sight' in the episode 'Garden of Delights', and the Sword has also responded to Lynx-O in 'Ravage Island'. In the episode Tight Squeeze, Snarf used the Sword of Omens with no problem, and the sword in some other episodes have let Snarf contact.
Claw Shield: The Claw Shield is primarily a defensive, shield like gauntlet Lion-O wears on his left hand, covering the entire arm up to his elbow. It is also a scabbard for the Sword of Omens when in dagger form. It was given to Lion-O along with the Sword of Omens. It is made of an extremely hard and durable substance, withstanding numerous prolonged energy blasts, fire and varying bladed/melee blows. It also possesses a highly reflective surface, being used against Mumm-ra on multiple occasions. Whilst it is mainly used as a shield, it has other applications such as firing grappling hooks from both the claws and the knuckles, giving Lion-O the ability to grapple, rappel and swing to and from different terrains and locations.
It also houses a chain of unknown, yet apparently extremely long, length which allow the wearer to throw the Claw Shield like a lasso, fire it from their hand as a grappling hook or (as seen in the episode "The Mountain") a secure climbing aid. Its claws are also very sharp, allowing it to aid in grabbing onto a wall or surface, as well as provide use as a weapon; punches and blows are more damaging whilst Lion-O wears it. It also contains smoke green gas which can be fired from the knuckles, blinding enemies. When not being worn it is seen attached to Lion-O's left thigh, providing a scabbard for the Sword of Omens when (and only when) in dagger form. The Claw Shield has come to be a very useful tool for Lion-O for the simple fact that it has gotten him out of many sticky situations.
The Eye of Thundera: Eye of Thundera is a red orb that has a cat-eye image in its center, which can change to the head of a cat. According to Tygra, it was believed that the Eye was only from myths and legends as it has been kept secret from other thunderians as a precaution from anyone who wants to steal the eye. It has been passed down to the rulers of Thundera and currently It is mounted on the legendary Sword of Omens. As of now, Lion-O is the keeper of the Eye and of the Sword of Omens. Its special powers are to summon the ThunderCats, Sight beyond sight (a type of remote viewing), healing abilities and Source of all Thunderan life
Weaknesses: Thundrainium, Reliant on Eye of Thundera, If the Eye is destroyed, so is Lion-O, along with the rest of his race, Sword of Omens can be broken
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Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019
LANSING, MICH. With the continuation of the historic emergency weather conditions impacting the state of Michigan, all state government offices will remain closed through Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019, until 10 p.m. Specified essential services will remain operational during the emergency.
"The National Weather Service continues to predict dangerously cold sub-zero temperatures and the priority must continue to be on keeping people safe," said Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. "While keeping people safe, essential staff at state agencies will continue to make sure important government work gets done though office buildings are closed. Again, for your safety and the safety of our first responders, I urge all Michiganders not to take any unnecessary risks during this extreme weather."
State employees that are deemed nonessential should not report to work on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. Any employee with questions about whether their work functions are deemed essential should contact their supervisor. All state employees with shifts that begin on or after 10:00 p.m., on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019, should report to work during their normal hours on Friday, Feb. 1.
The State Emergency Operations Center will remain open to monitor weather conditions.
Employees and residents should check www.michigan.gov for updates.
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Thursday, August 20, 2015
Lots of Down Time is Making This Complicated.... #BB17
Apparently Johnny Mac lost the battle on this heat.
This is as good a time as any for the quid view... the girls start cheering to the tune of "Mickey You're So Fine" and we get FISH again. We have had less than five minutes of live feed time since the live show ended 51 minutes ago...
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- AnonymousAugust 20, 2015 at 11:14 PM
Lame week. Lame lame lame HOH - unless Austin has balls to take out Vanessa, I'm not interested. Total waste.ReplyDelete
Ideally, if he does, and she leaves on Thursday - yet comes back ( I will then resume watching with glee! *Fingers Crossed*)
I would love to swap JMac with RachelReplyDelete
and Meg with Amanda. That would bring some fireworks. These hgs seem to be like lame ducks biding their time until jury. There aren't enough strategists to keep everyone on the edge of their seat--which is why I fell in love with BB in the first place.
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DUO Marketing + Communications (DUO) was tasked with launching Vox's IoT solutions to the media and achieved a 100% media turnout.
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The client wanted to launch its IoT (Internet of Things) solutions to media, but was well aware that media was saturated with IoT news.
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It was suggested that a staggered media relations drive be initiated, starting two months prior with a series of one-on-one media engagements with the CEO of Vox, who was driving the move from theoretical IoT discussions, to a tangible, solutions driven approach.
The one-on-one engagements provided an opportunity for the client to share its plans for the year and targeted projects and solutions that will be rolled out in 2018. The investment of time with key media prior to the launch briefing meant that when it was time to invite media a foundation had been laid and there was already an interest in the client's news.
Technology, business and agriculture media were the primary targets for this briefing.
A tailored invite was sent to each media which were sent via email, and were followed up by a telephonic discussion. Every email sent out was followed up with a phone call to ensure all information was communicated and clear to the media.
Aside from pre-event briefings, one-on-one time was available to the attending media, to get more detail and information from the CEO.
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Intended to be a small, targeted event, DUO secured eight media for the briefing and reported a 100% turnout. Media from print, online and broadcast attended.
To date, in excess of 25 pieces of coverage have been secured as a direct result of the briefing, and broader press release distribution.
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Developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory researchers, the synthetic, tubular "Fish drone" has been programmed to tell scientists what salmon experience when passing through dams. At Washington's Ice Harbor dam on the Snake River, the fake fish was sent through the turbine chambers and swirling waters real salmon must navigate to get from upriver to downstream of the dam. In nature, most fish make it through the chambers unscathed - a survival rate of 90% is typical at United States dams. The new model takes more accurate readings of turbine and chamber pressure effects found in a variety of hydroelectric dams around the world. White said the idea is to deploy the Sensor Fish to test effects of new turbine designs at retrofitted dams. "Each individual dam is unique and can have many different factors that contribute to fish survival and injuries," White said. "One can't make a blanket statement that any one turbine type or any one dam type is more dangerous to fish than another. Experts need to carefully study the unique characteristics of each individual dam to fully understand which specific areas of that dam could be more dangerous for fish." After successful testing runs in Washington, Deng has deemed the new Sensor Fish ready for testing abroad. On the schedule so far are three small hydroelectric projects in the U.S., multiple dams in Australia and a dam on the Mekong River in Southeast Asia.


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Maryland Senate Committee Supports Franchise Law Reform
Franchise law reform is closer to reality in Maryland without the help of Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot. The Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee voted unanimously last week to loosen the state's franchise laws that lock brewers into contracts with their wholesalers, according to The Daily Record.
Under the proposed changes, beer companies making fewer than 30,000 barrels annually would be allowed to exit their existing distribution agreements by giving 45 days notice and paying fair market value. Brewers making 12,500 barrels or less would be required to pay fair market value for the product remaining in a wholesaler's warehouse, while companies making between 12,500 and 30,000 barrels would be required to pay the fee as well as the wholesaler's marketing costs.
Currently, brewers are required to give 180-days notice and show "good cause."
Brewers Association of Maryland executive director Kevin Atticks told The Daily Record that the bill is the "transformative change" that craft brewers had been seeking.
Additionally, Maryland's craft brewers and the state's Licensed Beverage Association are close to a deal that would raise the cap on direct-to-consumer taproom sales — from 3,000 barrels annually to 5,000 barrels — and lift a provision requiring beer companies to sell and repurchase 1,000 of those barrels from a wholesaler, according to The Daily Record. As a compromise, the state's brewers would maintain their current taproom hours and agree to a moratorium on seeking further law changes until 2023. The Maryland Legislature would still need to pass those reforms.
Both issues had been championed by Franchot in his "Reform on Tap" legislation. However, that measure never gained traction, as the Legislature refused to consider it. Lawmakers are attempting to strip Franchot of his regulatory powers over the alcohol industry, and the House of Delegates last week passed H.B. 1052, which would place enforcement under the newly created Alcohol and Tobacco Commission.
In an op-ed published in Sunday's Capital Gazette, Franchot called attempts to take away his office's regulatory powers "nothing more than political retribution."
Texas Flow Meter Bill Misses Deadline
The Wholesale Beer Distributors of Texas' (WBDT) attempt to introduce a bill requiring the state's craft breweries to install pricey flow meters on their brite tanks appears to have been thwarted — for now.
The Austin Chronicle reported that the WBDT — which refused to endorse a "stakeholder agreement" between the Texas Craft Brewers Guild and distributor lobbying group the Beer Alliance of Texas that would allow manufacturing breweries to begin selling beer to-go from their taprooms — had planned to file the bill prior to last Friday's deadline. The bill would have required that beer makers install so-called flow meters to ensure they are properly reporting and paying excise taxes. However, brewers already report those numbers to the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) through "Tax Determination Tanks."
Although that bill didn't get submitted, another bill was introduced to close a loophole exempting brewpubs from filing sales and use tax reports with Texas' comptroller's office. That bill, House Bill 4542, could wind up being used to revive the flow meter bill prior to the end of the session on May 27, Austin Beerworks co-founder Adam DeBower told Brewbound.
In a statement to Brewbound, the Texas Craft Brewers Guild said it will "remain vigilant in case" the bill is resurrected as a committee substitute or amendment.
Connecticut Brewers Seek To-Go Sales Increase
Connecticut lawmakers are considering an increase to the 9-liter-a-day, per-person limit (or one case of 12 oz. cans) on to-go sales. The proposal would allow for the direct sale of 23 liters (more than two cases), according to the Hartford Courant.
In testimony before lawmakers, Connecticut Craft Brewers Guild executive director Phil Pappas said increasing to-go sales limits and extending the existing excise tax exemption on beer sold directly to consumers would help grow the state's brewing industry, which ranks 48th in direct-to-consumer sales.
"Our Connecticut breweries lose sales, and the state of Connecticut lose taxes, every single day due to this low limit because we are forced to tell our customers they legally can't buy more," he said.
According to Hartford Business, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont has also proposed slashing the state's alcohol excise tax in half as part of his $43 million budget plan. Currently, breweries pay $7.20 per barrel, but Lamont's proposal would reduce it to $3.60 per barrel.
Utah Full-Strength Beer Bill Dead
A Utah House committee last week rejected a bill to increase the alcohol by weight of beer sold in grocery and convenience stores from 3.2 percent to 4.8 percent, the Desert News reported. The committee instead supported a substitute bill to study the issue.
"The substitute is basically the land of no decision," Sen. Jerry Stevenson (R-Layton), Senate Bill 132 sponsor, told the outlet. His measure ran into opposition from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Nevertheless, the issue could wind up on the 2020 ballot, with support from retailers such as Walmart.
West Virginia Legislature Passes Higher ABV Bill
West Virginia lawmakers paved the way for Gov. Jim Justice to increase the alcohol by volume limit on beer sold in the state from 12 percent to 15 percent, The Charleston Gazette-Mail reported.
In addition to increasing the ABV cap, Senate Bill 529 would also allow craft brewers to give a 1 oz. sample to customers and apply for one-day permits to sell beer at charitable events, West Virginia Public Broadcasting reported.
Tennessee Self-Distribution Law Fails
A bill that would have allowed Tennessee beer manufacturers to self-distribute within a 100-mile radius of their brewery failed in the Senate State and Local Government Committee.
Senate Bill 0217 would have applied to small beer companies making 50,000 gallons or fewer. Tennessee currently allows beer companies to self-distribute in the county in which they operate, the Nashville Post reported.


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J. Phys. IV France
Volume 01, Numéro C7, Décembre 19912nd International Conference
Laser M2P
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J. Phys. IV France 01 (1991) C7-183-C7-186
DOI: 10.1051/jp4:1991748
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE LASER INDUCED PLASMA IN WELDING CONDITIONS WITH CONTINUOUS HIGH POWER CO2 LASERSA. POUEYO1, L. SABATIER1, G. DESHORS1, R. FABBRO1, A.M. de FRUTOS2, D. BERMEJO3 and J.M. ORZA3
1 Laboratoire d'Applications des Lasers de Puissance (Unité Mixte E.T.C.A./C.N.R.S.), 16 bis avenue Prieur de la Côte d'Or, F-94114 Arcueil cedex, France
2 Universidad de Valladolid, Dpto. de Fisica Aplicada III, Spain
3 Instituto de la Estructura de la Materia, C.S.I.C. Madrid, Spain
It is well known that the metallic plasmas observed in laser welding play an important role in energy transfert during laser materials processing. They are critical to understanding energy transport to the workpiece. This paper reports an experimental investigation characterizing the plasma using visible emission -spectroscopy. These experiments provided the electron density and temperature distributions (~1017 cm-3 and 6000-7000 °K). The experimental data are then used to determine laser attenuation and refraction as the beam propagate through the plasma column. These results are compared with direct absorption measurements where an integrating spere has been used, and with a numerical simulation. It was observed that the absorption coefficient is closely correlated to the spatial and temporal behaviour of the plasma and the effect of refraction is of primary importance for laser processing when using other gases than helium at high laser intensity.
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